Mai HiME

Lost & Found

Chapter XX

By afternoon, things between Mikoto and her parents seemed to heat up intensely. The group was in the living room watching some boring movie on the TV when an earth shattering noise come from the study room just a bit away from the living room echoed through the first floor of the mansion, everyone rushed for it with Yukino in the front. She and Nao feared something like this would happened, and what's worst was that Mikoto really isn't looking forward to ever dealing with her parents ever again since she left them at the age of five. She had been in boarding school by her Jiji's wish, and spent her summer with Jiji and never once set foot into her parents' home.

They pushed the door opened, and witnessed Mikoto's mother sitting on the floor trembling with fear as her father holding onto his wife to calm her down. "You don't know me, so don't you dare tell me what to do." Mikoto growled standing behind the completely broken red oak desk. "I took the time to talk to you, but all you ever spew of are purely garbage. I give you respect and what did you two do to it? Still treating me like a useless person that isn't your child," she said looking extremely pissed. Mai hasn't seen the girl this mad even when she was fighting with Tate, so she could only assumed that her parents must really did something to make her this upset.

"I've said it once and I'll say it again, if you two ever dare to mention that you're my parents and so I am obliged to obey your wishes…" Mikoto paused and composed herself. "I will make sure that the remaining days of your lives will be so unpleasant that you wished you're dead. Am I clear, Miki and Mira-san? Just talking to you two give me unpleasant taste in my mouth," Mikoto said with a disgusted look on her face. "How dare you treat your mother that way?" Miki raised his voice to assert his authority when he noticed the others at the door. His intentions were to break Mikoto and Mai up, if not then at least baiting the busty woman to think that Mikoto is just a disrespecting child. The man had always been greed driven; he was nothing like a Minagi should be.

But before Mikoto could say anything more, Reito appeared with his wife pushing the others into the room. "She treat her mother what way? I think she have every rights to treat you two anyway she damn well pleased," Reito spat out at them giving them his stern and yet amazingly scary look. The normally calm and serene looking Reito now looked furious and probably ready to kill, not that anyone could blame him for standing up for his only cousin. "Kanzaki, what are you doing here?" Miki hissed at Reito. "I'm here with my wife for the party; it's a family affair once a year after all." Reito said flatly as he could be.

Reito's father is Mikoto's grandmother's nephew, thus make Reito and Mikoto cousins. Of course, Mikoto and Reito had always been close to each other since they met after Jiji brought her home with him, Reito always loved to spend his times at Jiji's house because his parents rarely home due to expanding their business. With Mikoto, he got someone that he can confided to when he had a tough day, and her parents visited her once in a while trying to take her back always result in Jiji kicking them out. Reito come to despised them because of the way they were treating his cousin, and he vowed to never let money blinded him and he will be happy with whatever that was given to him.

"Ara, ara… it is rare to see Reito-san so angry," Shizuru said as Natsuki stood by here glaring at Mikoto's parents. "You did not tell them about us, did you?" Mikoto eyed Natsuki causing the wolf to flinch slightly. "Ara, ara… I run into them during our trip to Stockholm, so I thought telling them that Mikoto-san is happy would hint them to stop trying to get on your good side by doing unnecessary things. I guess I should be more direct?" Shizuru explained with a soft smile danced across her lovely face. As usual, there's no way to win against the woman, and Mikoto understand her good intention but the outcome of it doesn't looked like one.

That was that, no one dares to say another word as Mikoto left the room and the rest followed behind her. The maids entered the room and helped Mikoto's parents back to their room, before they went back and clean up the broken table. People working at the mansion usually doesn't mind pulling in extra time to keep the place neat and clean, Mikoto treated them well and those without a place to stay live here. The girl treated them no different than she's treating her friends, but the weird thing was that she doesn't hired men and even the security guards here are women.

"Mikoto, can I talk to you for a minute?" Mai asked already dragging her girlfriend up the stairs without waiting for an answer. Leaving practically everyone in awe, Nao smirking devilishly as Shizuru and Reito got an amused smile plastered on their face while the rest wore a confused expression. Kinky, I can't believe she gets turned on at the sight of an angry Mikoto. Nao snickered at her own bizarre thought, and this earned her a few raised brows.

"Don't you think you're being a bit hard on them? I know that they're not good parents, but they're still your parents…" Mai trailed off as Mikoto stared at her with intense look in those golden eyes. "You have no idea what they did to me," Mikoto said calmly as she turned around and removed her shirts to show Mai her back. The million of scars imprinted on her back like unknown map, the drugs that was tested on her usually caused her skin to tore and bleed. Most of the scars on her body disappeared, but the ones on her back remained as a reminder of how cruel people can be toward their own child. Mai gasped at the sight as she put her hands over her mouth, an overwhelming emotions washed over her and tears just rushed down her cheeks feeling her heart breaking at the sight of all the scars on her lover's back.

"Because they're my parents that they have a large home and enough money to last them until the day they past away, I don't mistreat them but I hate it when they wanted to run my life for me. People like them should never have kids," Mikoto said coldly as she pulled her shirt back on and buttoned it up before turning around to face Mai. "Don't say that, if they didn't have you then I would never meet you. Then I would never meet the nice and caring Mikoto, the person that stole my heart on the day I graduate from Fuuka High." Mai said hugging onto Mikoto tightly resting her head on the other girl's shoulder. "You know, I'm colorblind because I can't tell any shade of yellow from gray. But on the day of my graduation, I saw this beautiful set of golden eyes and I feel like rays of morning sunlight lit up my world. I was so stressed planning for the graduation that my acute blindness caused everything to look so blurry, but those eyes stared at me wit great intensity that it's the only thing that isn't blurry to my eyes." Mai giggled as she pulled away and looked into Mikoto's shimmering golden eyes.

"I'm glad I'm not the only one that's head over heels in love that day," Mikoto smiled warmly at the strawberry orange top. "I love you Mai, so much that I'm willing to kill and die for you." Mikoto said seriously and Mai could feel the honesty in those simple words. "Shh… don't say things like that, I want Mikoto to be around with me until eternity. I got something for Mikoto, it's a bit early but I don't think I will be able to give it to her tomorrow. Well, not with everyone here and your parents…" Mai trailed off when Mikoto cringed at the mention of her parents.

Author's Notes: Actually, Haruka's aim was off because it's pitch black in a certain part of the high ceiling. Anywho, I have to wonder what Mai's trying to give Mikoto… hopefully it not something likes: Mikoto, I'm pregnant… That would be sh-shocking!!! 'laughs' Hope y'all enjoy! (Then constant changing of the site is driving me batty).