Disclaimer

I, Shirogami, would like to state here, that I don't own any character of Mai-HiME Animation I used in this latest fan-fiction of mine. However, I do own this storyline and some original characters.
Okay, this is the last one! Please enjoy this story and R&R. NO FLAME IS WELCOMED HERE. In the mean time, I am not a good English writer, so please be tolerate if there are (?) many grammar mistakes. Thank you very much.

P.R.I.N.C.E
By Shirogami

Sunday (Epilogue)

"So, you also do not have any news about him?"
"Nope, even after the place was being taken care by 'First District', I still hearing nothing about the boy you referred." Sakomizu answers when he is checking on the flowers he planted.

"Do you think he's dead after such a fight?"
"I… I don't know." Natsuki holds the long sleeves of her shirt. "I will go to that place again, I still have many questions to ask him." Then Natsuki goes for her bike.

It's been two days since Keiji's disappearance. Everyone of the class, including the teacher, was told that he ended his study earlier and went back to his hometown. No one is trying to ask for more since Director Kazahana Mashiro personally gave the news.

"So how do you feel today?" Nagi is standing inside a hospital ward. He is talking to a patient who Natsuki ignored once when she sent Takumi to the emergency treatment.
"Nothing better than I can get out from here, this place smells sucks." Nao answers.
"Not so fast, you shall rest more since you just recovered your CHILD and you ability." Nagi swings his index finger to warn Nao.

"Thanks for you useless concern and leave here at once, will you? It pisses me every time I see you." Nao materializes her claw ELEMENT and continues with a smirk. "because the more I see your white skin, the more I want to see the flesh below them." She finishes with licking her ELEMENT.

"Whatever you say, I am just doing my job by giving back what belongs to you." Then Nagi disappears in the shadow slowly.
After Nagi is away, Nao lies on the bed, she suddenly smiles.
"Just who is that idiot able to beat that woman to get my JULIA back?"

On the other hand, the room next to Nao is filled with joy and laugh.
"Mai… thank god you are okay, I thought you're died…" Mikoto sobs and hugs the orange-haired patient.
"My, my, Mikoto. Stop doing this. You are embarrassing me." Mai tries to stop her when Mikoto is rubbing her face on her breast.
"Let her be, she just too happy to see you again. After all, you'd been fell unconscious and under emergency period for two days." Chie explains her situation, while Aoi's cheek blushes while she is seeing Mikoto's act and comparing her breast size.

"Is it so? Sorry for making you guys worrying about me." Mai bows for her friends' caring.
"Come on, skip the formalities, will you? That's what friends are for." Chie acts cool when she is saying this. Her act just made Mai forced herself a smile and sweat flows behind her head.

All of the sudden, someone knocks the ward door and Mai answers it by letting in.
"Sorry for interrupting." Natsuki opens the door and comes to the scene.
Chie and Aoi greets with her each other, and then leave because they have other things to catch up around.

"Natsuki, thanks for coming." Mai says.
"It's okay. First of all, are you feeling well?" Natsuki finds herself a seat around the patient bed.
"Better. Thanks for sending me here, the doctor even shocked when he found out I can stay alive." Mai touches her stomach and answers. That is the place Kurohime's attack stabbed through with the lance.

"I shall find no surprise for his reaction, especially when he found out that a girl could survive from a fatal stab like this. But what surprised me is you healing ability, the wound was almost covered automatically without a scar after the emergency treatment." Natsuki suddenly remembers the same scene she saw earlier and continues, "Is this because of Keiji?"

"I'm not sure. By the time I was impaled, all I felt is I am dying. I had a feeling that I kept falling into a bottomless darkness on that time. And then suddenly, someone hugged me from behind, kept whispering Stay alive, Mai, Please stay alive…"
Suddenly Mai holds her hands together tightly and continues, "It felt so warm, Natsuki. I never felt such way after my parents' death. It kept reminding me that I had to keep on living and stay with those who I care, those who I treasure. By the time I realized that, I was already on this bed and been told that I was lucky for able to survive." Mai smiles after she finishes.

"And on top of that, may be it is his blood what saved you by giving you the same healing ability he had." Natsuki figures the reason.
"By the way, Natsuki, have you found Keiji yet?"
Natsuki swings her head, "I'd been searching everywhere I can. But still has no sign of him."
"Is it so? I wished if he is fine."

"Hey, hey, is the wound hurting you?" Natsuki notices the tears and asks.
"No, not at all. It's just…" Mai tries to holds her tears but failed.

"You sure this is fine, leaving without seeing them?" Mashiro talks to the figure who is standing in front of the rock of Kagutsuchi's seal. His waving ponytail makes him easy to be recognized.
"This will be the best way. I might want to stay here forever once I saw them." Keiji turns around and looks at Mashiro.
His forehead and left arm are bandaged. He is wearing the same clothes he wore as a jogger.

"Besides, I don't belong here, Director Kazahana. You know it well, right?"
"May be you're right." Mashiro smiles for his strong will of making decision.
"Anyway, Director Kazahana, can you help me for the last time?" Keiji bows and requests, "Please dispose the letter I gave you on the first day I came, I cannot leave a trace about my true identity here."
"Don't worry, I will handle it." Mashiro understands his mean and agrees.
"Thank you."

Just when Keiji finished, Nagi shows up from nowhere and interrupts their conversation.
"Leave so soon, Keiji-kun?" Nagi fans himself with a book in his hands.
"I have to." Keiji insists.
"Man, Natsuki and Mai will be sad if they knew about this." Nagi bends up his arms and wonders.

"They will be fine without me. But before that, have you returned the CHILD to their HiMEs?" Keiji stares at Nagi and questions.
"Of course I did, they still need their ability after all." Nagi moves backward when he looks at Keiji's eyes.
"And stop looking me like that!"

"Is it so? Sorry about that." Keiji holds his armor device and facing the rock, then an azure warp portal appears slowly.
"Wait! Take this with you, just to kill the boredom." Nagi hands over the book to Keiji.
"An evening with Tomokazu Seki, what is this?" Keiji wonders.
"Don't you know, he is a famous actor and I found out your voice just sounds like him." Nagi explains.
"Hmm… well, a book won't hurt much, thank you." Keiji took the souvenir and prepares to leave.

Before Keiji steps into the warp, he rethinks of everything happened here and especially when he thought he was dead back then. But he did not realize, that he had overused his armor energy to kill Kurohime until it deactivated itself by turning into green particles.
He turns around again bows at the white haired duo, "Thank you very much, for everything, and Goodbye."
Then Keiji leaps into the portal and then disappears without a trace.

"There he goes." Nagi holds his hand behind his head and continues, "But I just cannot get it. How could he able to defeat that girl's attack? It is the power of two CHILD!"
"Nagi, you may treat CHILD as a tool or a servant, but they are also emotional when it involves HiME's life, and it is Keiji's passion that synchronized with Kagutsuchi's empowers himself, rather like Kurohime who just simply using the CHILD's ability without putting feeling within it." Mashiro explains while Nagi is pushing her back to the mansion.
"You may be right, but it does not explain why he is able to synchronize with Kagutsuchi easily, you know that beast is furious and wild."

"You know Anagram?" Mashiro smiles and asks.
"You mean a game of forming a word by changing the order of the letter of the same word?" Nagi replies.
"Try it with 'Akitoh', then you will know your answer." Mashiro chuckles while Nagi is wondering.

Mashiro looks upon the clear blues sky and remembers her conversation with Keiji at his arrival.

"Keiji, just why are you willing to help the HiMEs so desperately?"
"It's because, Director Kazahana, I am also a CHILD - a Son of a HiME."

The End

Author's word:

Here it is, the end for my other story. How do you feel about it? Hope you guys enjoy this fiction this far, I really appreciate it if you do, after all, that's what an author hopes most.
As you can see, I left some clues for you to play with, hope you enjoy the concept. If you do, plz kindly review or PM me if you want to know some trivia about this fiction, may be I will consider an extra page for those things, but it depends on the quantity of the reviews or PMs.
By here, I would like to thank all the staff which giving us this great Mai-Hime the Animation. This fiction wouldn't be figured without that good work.

It may be a long time from now, but yet if I got another inspiration to write a story again, we might able to see again in the future.
Until then, be well my dear readers.