A/N: Looks like this will be a multi-chapter after all…

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Yaya: The following is a non-profit fiction written for…

Samuko: Well, we don't even know for who we are writing thins…maybe just for ourself.

Yaya: Also, this will contains lot of violence and blood starting to this point.

Samuko: And few character death as well. You were warned.

Yaya: Also, in this universe, Umi and Kotori are blood-related sisters and so are Honoka-Niko, Hanayo-Rin and Nozomi-Eri…just to make things clear. And we are not in the mood of writing incest so there will be no NozoEri romance (but there will be sisterly fluff though).

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Blood! That was covering Maki's hands. She has taken the life of the women who stole her Mothers away from her. Her eyes were glued to the horrifying sign of the six bodies lying on the floor, a kitchen knife covered in blood in the middle of the puddle of blood.

The young 15-years old girl was stunned and shocked. "I… I killed them… S-so…why do I feel so empty…?" True enough, she got her revenge, but for odd reason felt more like she lost than anything else.

The other girls were out fishing when the Mothers were supposed to be cleaning and cooking in their house. Maki thought it was the perfect time to execute the plan she has planed for months now. She didn't let it appear but deep inside, she never found the strength to forgive the pirates for what they did. They might have regretted it and did their best to apologize, but the red-head still felt the urge to avenge what she lost.

"Mama, we're ho-…" Niko was the first to walk inside the room in which the murder was held few seconds prior. She stopped dead in her track, her eyes widening and she quickly ran to where Kousaka's body was. "Mama! Mama!" She shook her, but got no response.

"Niko…?" Umi and Honoka were the next to enter and got the same reaction as the older girl when stepping in. The bluenette quickly turned back and dragged Kotori and the two younger sisters away so they won't see the massacre. The ginger however saw Maki who was covered in blood and ran by her side. "Maki; are you all right? What happened? Are you hurt?"

The red-head was shocked from Honoka's action. She thought that the ginger would have reacted in other way like yelling at her or attempting to kill her, but yet. The taller girl started to sniff. "Why? Why are you acting like that, Honoka? I killed your Mothers, so why are you worried about me first?"

Just as Honoka was about to reply, her older sister stood up, her bangs covering her eyes and rushed at the red-head, the kitchen knife used to kill their Mothers in hand. "I won't forgive you, you damn spoiled brat!" She almost stabbed Maki if it wasn't for the ginger that got in the middle and in response got the hit that was supposed to be her crush's. "Honoka!"

The younger of the two sisters fell on her knees and coughed blood. Niko quickly took the knife out, only provoking more blood to come out of the ginger's newly-made wound. Silence followed as the ginger just placed her hand as to stop the blood but in vain. "Maki…" She turned to the red-head. "Are you…all right?"

Maki looked down until her bangs hit her eyes. "Idiot! Why did you protect me? I killed…and yet why?"

Honoka smiled at her as a response. "That's because we made a promise!"

By that time, the older of the two siblings was kneeling down as well and looked at her sister's wound. "Honoka! Idiot!" She tore part of her own pink cloth shirt and attempted to bandage Honoka's waist with it.

"Bad news!" Umi ran inside the room once again, alone this time. The bluenette however couldn't help but to feel a chill deep inside her as she saw the horrible sign of the six bodies covered in blood on the floor…but she had more important things to do first. "There are sign of several Navy ships coming this way!"

"Say what?!" Niko stood up and faced the younger girl. "How could they find the location of this island?" She took one second of pause before turning to the red-head. "YOU!"

"Niko…" The ravenette turned back to the bluenette whose voice was reflecting panic. "I already told Kotori to bring Hanayo and Rin 'there'! We have to hurry as well until these Navy ships arrive."

Niko gritted her teeth. She still wanted to get proper explanation from the red-head and properly burry their Mothers but the situation was unfavorable to them. They might not have been pirates yet, but they already got bounties on their head. "Fine! Honoka!" She moved by her sister's side and placed the ginger's arm above her shoulder before standing up. The younger sister turned to Maki—who was still looking down, paralyzed—and couldn't help but to worry. Realizing that, Niko decided to speak as she started walking toward the door, following Umi and bringing Honoka. "She will be fine! She does not have wanted poster so I am sure they will just bring her with them on the main land and put her in an orphanage or something."

Understanding the difficulty of the situation, the ginger nodded and turned one last time to her childhood lover. "Maki… Someday… Yes, someday; we will meet again! We might face lot of difficulties, but I will do everything in my power to bring us together again. Together, we will leave this life behind and start everything anew."

These were the last words that Maki heard coming from her 16-years old friend. She moved her hand to her chest and gritted her teeth. "Why…?"

As the trio was out of the building, they could have seen that three ships have already anchored at the coast and the women member of its crew were already jumping out of their navires. "This is bad!" Niko quickly led the two others toward a small path leading into the forest at the other side of the beach.

Unfortunately, few of the women clad in sleeveless white sailor fuku and blue shorts has spotted them and started running after them. "You three there! Surrender now or we will use force!"

Umi was scared. Sure, they were prepared to anything by their Mothers, from possible raid or bounty hunters running after them…but it was still scary when living them in real time. "What are we going to do?"

Niko just continued to run, her younger sister held close to her body and moved her hand to grab the bluenette's arm, motioning her to continue running deeper into the forest. "We can't afford to be captured here! If we surrender, they will bring us at the capital and we will get judged for the crime our Mothers did. Also…" She took a second of pause. "We can't leave these three alone. Goddess knows what might happen to them without us."

Umi nodded as they continue running in between threes, jumping roots and taking several turns. They were used to run inside the forest and easily fled the older women. After being sure that no one was following them anymore, the trio continued into another path that led toward a cliff at the rear part of the island. Near the cliff was the entrance to a cave. That was their next stop.

As they got inside, the trio was greeted by Kotori and a pair of crying teenagers. The ash-haired girl smiled at the newcomer and ran to her sister. "Umi… You're fine! Where are Mothers and Maki? Why are there ships coming to our island."

The bluenette didn't know how to respond to these questions. Her sister and the two other older girls didn't see the massacre inside the room fortunately, but yet, she herself didn't know what to say.

"What happened to Honoka?" Everyone's attention was brought toward the ginger as Hanayo saw the blood on the bandage that Niko placed on her sister's waist. Said ginger had a pained expression on her face.

"Rin is scared…" The youngest of the group said, shaking. Her sister and Kotori hugged her as to comfort her.

There was a brief moment of silence until Honoka was the one who broke it. "We have to leave the island." Everyone's attention turned to her. "We lost our Mothers and Maki…and the Navy will soon take control of µ's island so we have to go away…" She then moved her arms away from Niko and pointed at the side of the cliff where a huge ship was hidden by trees and rocks. "We will operate the Otonokizaka ship and flee for now."

Niko nodded. "We have no other choice left so let us do so. We might face difficulties during our first and second sailing, but we will lean on each others and see the end of this dark tunnel."

"But we are only 6 people, how could we operate such large ship?" Kotori pointed out. "We might be able to follow the current, but again doing so have risk of leading us to unknown regions."

Umi placed a hand on her chin as to thing an instant before speaking her conclusion. "In that case, we have no other choice but to recruit more members. I heard that the other women former crew of Otonokizaka has daughters as well, so we should look after them and recruit them before the Navy or the bounty hunters find them."

"Agreed!" Niko nodded. "According to the wind, the current will lead us South, in the direction on island 15. I heard that island 13 got raided few days prior and the survivors have moved there. That's our chance to find candidates."

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A pair of amethyst eyes slowly opened as the sunlight brought its owner out of her slumber. The red-haired girl in her 18s pushed her back so she was in a sitting position and scanned the surrounding. She was inside a large room in which a large bed was placed at the middle, few chairs and closets at the side.

"A dream?"

She quickly brushed these thoughts away and stood up from the bed before walking to the nearest closed and got changed. She took her baggy shirt and short off and changed into another white short-sleeved sailor fuku shirt and navy blue skirt. She then walked toward the nearest chair where an oversized navy blue coat was placed in. The emblem of the Navy force was printed on the back of the coat.

After grabbing the coat, Maki walked out of the room and soon found herself in a huge hallway. Just as she was about to resume her walk though, a familiar voice called for her and she turned around to see two girls in their 20s walking in her direction. The taller of the two had blonde hair attached in a ponytail, her attire being literally the same as Maki's. The second one however had purple hair attached in a braid and instead of wearing the white shirt was wearing a navy blue bust dress. The two of them were wearing the oversized coat as well as a proof of being Admirals.

"Hey, Maki!" The purple-haired girl walked behind the red-head and placed her hands on Maki's chest. The response came into the taller yet younger girl to elbow her in the guts. "I see that you're energetic from morning…" She however didn't even flinch as if she didn't even feel pain from the impact.

"Mff… And I see that you're as annoying as ever, Nozomi."

The blonde just giggled at the scene. "Well… Now that the greetings are done, how about we move on now? I heard that the head Admiral was looking for us; especially you, Maki."

No more words were spoken as the trio started walking the hall, direction the head Admiral's office. The hallways of their private quarters were quiet, especially compared to the busy area in the main building. The red-head took the opportunity to thing about few things that she needed to do. It was not an easy job to get into her actual rank. After all, when brought back into the main continent, no one could believe that she was the daughter of Nishikino since an imposter has already bribed the court, forcing her to be sent into an orphanage. There, she had to struggle day and night to become what she was now, starting from an average recruit, but then quickly climbed the ranks since her superiors found her great abilities in studies, tactics, navigation and battle.

"By the way," Nozomi decided to break the silence as they walked a stair leading down, "I heard that the Otonokizaka ship has raided the port town of UTX." That caught Maki's attention as her eyebrows furrowed. She had to hide her curiosity though. After all, she hasn't told her co-Admirals about the fact that she spent 7 years of her life surrounded by pirates and their daughters.

"Really?" The blonde turned to her sister, curious to hear the detail. "They attacked another town? I hope no one was hurt during the assault." The Admiral Eri was very caring and honorable person who cared a lot about her soldiers and folk. She understood the fact that the government was ruled by corruption and so was the Navy but she had joined them to "change it from the inside" as she told Maki.

"Well… No civilian was hurt…but I heard a fight broke between the militia who were patrolling around and the pirates." The purplenette continued. "Apparently, a storm broke in though and drifted both ships away. The militia ship was found in a nearby island, but their three commanders missing. Other than that, we have no clue about the Otonokizaka."

Eri placed a finger on her chin and closed her eyes as the trio still continued to walk. "I have a bad feeling about it…" Sure, the three of them were personally assigned to track the Otonokizaka ships—namely the µ's pirates like they preferred to call them in the Navy. She however felt doubtful when the superiors has ordered them to make it their first priority. "It's not as if they made that much of bad things. We had never received report of that much violence from them. I just heard that they rarely raid towns and then leave behind enough money for the townspeople. What makes them dangerous if their power. They are chasing other pirates who abuse the weak and sometimes raid battle ships of the Navy transporting prisoners or dangerous weapons."

The blonde's train of thought was cut thought as the trio arrived in front of a large door leading to the main Admiral's office. They knocked and a voice ordered them to get it. They did so and entered the new room in which a woman was sitting behind a desk at the other side of the room. Said woman had long blond hair and judging by her appearance was a foreigner. Standing beside her was another woman with shoulder-length purple hair and clad in a dark blue working suit. "So, the three of you are here?" The trio nodded. "I've called you, the elite today to assign you to a special mission ranked SS."

Eri gasped at the information. SS rank mission was the highest level possible, only reserved for the best units and were held secret. Only few people knew about them. "Rank SS?"

"Yes!" The woman clad in white shirt and skirt with an oversized coat over them nodded and placed her elbows on her desk. "Our source reported rebellion in the capital of the semi-aquatic nation of Uranohoshi. A group of girl naming themselves Aqours are causing lot of trouble and your mission is to put an end to this bringer of hope. Therefore, you will make this mission your first priority."

The younger blonde was in shock from these words. She was actually witnessing a high-rang form of corruption. "But doing so will…" She looked down. "That will only cause more harm for the people…"

The head Admiral folded her arms, the stern look never leaving her face. "These orders came from the queen herself! Our job is to execute order, not give our opinions about them. I understand your fear, but this is for the sake of our government. Worry not though; you will be largely paid for such mission."

Eri gritted her teeth while tightening her fist. "Why does it always have to be rank for you, Mother?" She couldn't contain her yells anymore. "You never cared about us, always finding excuse to leave the house and serve whoever 'superior' you always put before your own daughters. And on top of that, why are you always following such selfish orders? The folks are suffering. We soldiers should have the mission to protect them and yet we are the ones that add more into their grief. Why aren't you doing anything?"

"Eri!" The purple-haired woman, the secretary of the Admiral Ayase spoke sternly. "We already discussed about that. Our family has served in the Navy for generation and has followed the direct orders from the worldwide government. We already abused our authority to promote the two of you as fast as possible, so do your damn share of the contract."

Nozomi placed a hand on her sister's shoulder as to calm her. Eri was still not willing to give up…but in the end decided to relax slightly, opting that it was not time yet to rebel against orders from her superiors. "Yes, ma'am!"

"Eri chi…"

"Now that it's settled…" Ayase cleared her throat. "We will now make the briefing for your mission. First off, you will be assigned with our elite assassins and will lead them toward the town of Uranohoshi. Your objective is to end their rebellion by killing their leader Chika alongside her first mate You and Riko. Another treat you should be aware of is mostly the young heiress of a powerful weaponry industry, Mari. She is the one who is supporting the revolution regarding funds and weapons. Her assassination should be as careful as possible. Make it pass as if the rebels have betrayed her." The three younger Admiral nodded despite the fact of being disgusted at the thought. "In addition to that, sources are saying that the two daughters of a well-known merchant, namely Dia and Ruby have joined the rebellion alongside the only children of the leader of the local church Hanamaru. Killing them will not cause us any benefit so we are counting on you to capture them alive, make them prisoners so we can wash their memories and have them act under the queen herself."

At this point, Maki's right hand has formed a fist. When she left the pirates, she has thought that life would be better with less violence and less corruption, but she was soon wronged. "And these people still call themselves 'humans'…" She then slightly looked down before eying at her blonde friend. "Eri… I hope your plan to reform the system will work. I wish to change things as well, but I can't do anything right now…" She finally turned back to the head Admiral and her secretary. "Honoka… I know that you are also fighting out there…but until we will be able to execute our plan, you will still be an enemy. If our paths ever meet before we get enough support, it will be as enemy…and as an enemy, I shall not show any mercy to your mates and you. Our mission goes above everything."

"Also," Ayase continued, "two elite commanders of our assault division in the Navy, namely Kanan and Yoshiko has betrayed us and joined the rebel forces. Capture them alive if possible so their execution shall be made public at the capital of Live as an example for these who dare to oppose our beloved queen."

Feeling disgusted, but with no other choice but to execute the orders now, the three girls brought their feet together, stood straight and saluted. "Yes, ma'am!" And with that, they excused themselves and left the room to meet up with the elite that they are going to command during that mission.

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"D'aww…" A girl with past-ear ginger hair let go of a yawn as she walked on the docks. She was on guard duty that night and felt slightly sleepy. "Rin wants ramen…" She sighed.

"Oh, greeting, Rin." She turned to see a girl with waist-length orange hair walking in her direction. Said girl was clad in a navy blue short-sleeve, knee-length battle dress. A long barrel gun was attached in her back and a pair of holster containing knives was on the side of her thighs. "So, you are on guard duty as well?"

"Yes!" The energetic girl replied with a smile. "It was supposed to be Kayo's turn but I didn't want her to push her body since she caught a cold. Rin didn't expect to see Miss Anju though."

"Kayo? You mean your sister Hanayo?" Anju walked beside the younger girl and placed her elbows on the rail. "You don't have to talk so formerly, you know. We are in the same team now. We might still have thoughts that don't match, but we have the same objectives."

Rin rested her elbows as well and looked at the horizon. "Is that so?" The cold night wind was blowing in their hair as the two enjoyed the calm atmosphere under the starry night. "Then, Anju…?"

"Yes… What is it, Rin?" The taller girl turned to her newly made friend with a smile on her face.

"I was just thinking about few things…" Rin's gaze was glued to the horizons, her eyes reflecting melancholy. "You know, we didn't have the chance to say goodbye to Mommy and Mama. After we had to leave our island, Kayo and Rin felt despair as we always had to struggle everyday to survive. Honoka, Niko and Umi were the ones who suffered the most though. Kotori and us were just following them around when they were always giving their best. There are times when I wonder if Mama might be disappointed with Rin…"

Anju's smile dropped from hearing that. She knew that the pirates had to go through lot of hardship, but she never imagined that much. Talking about that made the taller girl have a sad smile on her face as she turned at the horizon as well. "Well… I guess I can't really be of much help since I myself have lot of regrets in my life." She let go of a soft sigh. "You see, I was a total brat back when I was still a child. I always caused trouble to my Mothers Yuuki and Toudou as well as my sister Erena and our childhood friend Tsubasa. I was a total jerk… I remember that day when I got in a fight with Mom for a reason I don't remember anymore. I ran away that night and they had to go look after me. In the end, it was Tsubasa and Erena who found me. When we came home though, our Mothers never did. The next morning, we heard rumors about two women's body found dead near the cliff and went to investigate." She started to sniff, her voice slightly breaking, catching Rin's attention as the younger ginger turned to her. "We heard that they were unlucky enough to be passing by when a band of pirate was hiding. I never forgave myself…I was the one who killed our Mothers…"

She felt Rin's hand placed on her own. Anju refused to look at the younger girl, her cheeks soaked with tears. "Anju…"

"Erena might not look like it, but their death really affected her. I think that she still hasn't forgiven me…"

Rin reached her hand to wipe the older girl's tears. "Rin can't do much to help Anju right away…but I do think that Erena doesn't hate you." The taller ginger turned to her at these words, her pair of big violet eyes soaked in tears. "I believe that she does care a lot about Anju. Sure, you did mistakes, but we all learn from them. You've changed since then, right? Then, I do believe you are a good person now. I myself always used to be a bother for Kotori and Niko when we first started sailing, but everyone comforted me and I eventually started to gain confidence." She caught Anju's hands with her own and gave her a smile. "That's why… You should never give up! There are always chances."

"Rin…" The taller girl whipped the remaining tears in her eyes while sniffing. "You're a weird one… but thank you!" She smiled after a while, her violet eyes meeting with chartreuse ones. "Let us promise to both see the end of this dark time…" Her cheek turned slightly pink. "And when the time will come… will you please still be my friend."

The response came into an energetic smile. "Of course! Also, we should learn to know more about each others." Rin brought her attention back toward the horizon. "First off, Rin really likes ramen and-…" She stopped dead in her words, surprising the older ginger. "Sound the alarm! There are Navy ships in 3 hours."

Anju quickly turned to said direction to see three gigantic ships with the Navy flag swaying atop them going in the North-East. As soon as she saw that, the two gingers ran to different side and rang the alarm. It didn't take long for the crew to gather at the dock and got ready for a fight.

"It looks like they saw us as well." Umi commented as she stood by their commander's side. True enough, the three Navy ships was now sailing in their direction, canons ready to shoot anytime. The bluenette raised her arm, ordering the gunners and canon to get in post. Honoka placed a hand on her shoulder and she turned to her friend to see an uneasy and sad look on her face. "What is wrong, Honoka?"

There was a couple of second of silence before Honoka spoke the words that neither Umi nor Niko wanted to hear at that time. "Maki is commanding one of these ships."