Hello people! I'm sorry if I made you wait but I couldn't bring myself to write this chapter, but finally here it is! Hope you enojoy it and forgive me if I have any grammar errors.

Disclaimer: nop, I don't own Mai-Hime, sunrise does.

Chapter 3: Lost

"Ugh, It hurts" Natsuki said to no one in particular as she lifted her upper part of the body from the ground, she was about to stand when she realized that on her lap was the girl she had met no long ago "Hey, wake up" she said shaking Shizuru. The other one groaned but her eyes started to open very slowly.

"What happened?" Shizuru asked.

"It seems that we fell, I can't believe I forgot there was a cliff there… can you stand up?" Natsuki asked.

"I think so" as she said, she thought so because when she tried to stand up she felt a shot of pain go through her right leg and almost fell if it wasn't for Natsuki, who was quick enough to catch her, Natsuki placed her on the floor and crouched next to her leg, taking off some snow she said "God, I think you're bleeding"

"What, are you serious?" Shizuru asked taking a glimpse of her leg, it was true indeed, she was bleeding. "What are we going to do?" she asked, Natsuki thought about it for a moment and then reach to grab her own scarf, pulling it off she said "Stay still, I'll try to do something about it" Shizuru only nodded in response. Natsuki cut some parts of her pants, mainly the ones that were covered in blood, then she took some snow and tried to use it as water to wash the wound, it helped, after that she started wrapping the scarf around Shizuru's leg as carefully and tightly as she could trying not to cause pain to her, finally she tied the two ends of the scarf. "That should be ok, at least for a while" Natsuki said standing up, she extended her hand for Shizuru to take it and she did so. "Thanks"

"You're welcome" Natsuki was deep in thought. She was watching her surroundings trying to figure out where they were, but she had no luck, even if she knew the mountains of Fuuka like the palm of her hand, it was already dark and it was very difficult to determine their location, much less go back. She tried to grab her snow board but didn't find it, what she did find where Shizuru's skies, but the two of them were completely broken. She sighed, probably they would have to stay the night out. It was impossible to go back if they didn't even knew where they were and with a pair of broken skies, there was no chance they could go back, they would have to wait for a rescue team.

"We should look for a place to sleep" she finally said to her companion.

"Why?" Shizuru asked

"I don't think the rescue team will be able to locate us at this time, besides we can't go back, you're wounded"

"What do you suggest?"

"Wait here I'll see if there is a cave or something" Shizuru nodded. Natsuki started searching the area, after a few minutes she was able to spot a cave that seem uninhabited, usually around that area you could find bears or wolfs. Worried about the safety of her companion she went back and told Shizuru she had found a place. With Natsuki's help Shizuru was able to walk to the cave without hurting anymore her feet.

"Wait here I'll go and see if I can find something to do a fire" Shizuru just nodded and Natsuki was off to look for something that would help them warm up. After an hour she was back with nothing in hands. "No luck I needed some dry branches to start a fire but since it has been snowing I wasn't able to find any"

"It's ok we'll just have to bare with it one night"

"I hope so… hey are you hungry?"

"A little…"

"Here" Natsuki said taking a chocolate bar from her right pocket.

"Thanks but… is it the only one?"

"Yes I ate the other one this morning, before the race"

"Then I can't accept it, it's yours, you should eat it"

"Yeah sure and leave you to die because of hunger"

"I'm not that hungry" In that moment Shizuru's stomach did a sound that obviously proved that she was really hungry.

"See? Eat it…I'm used to not eat for very long periods of time"

"Why's that?"

"I'm too lazy to cook" Natsuki said blushing a little and scratching the back of her neck 'how cute' Shizuru thought smiling.

"Is that so? Well then I'm going to cook Kuga-han something when we're back as gratitude present"

"Call me Natsuki, I'm not very fond of formalities"

"Then call me Shizuru, Na-tsu-ki" The way that Shizuru had said her name sent shivers down her spine and tinted her cheeks with pink. Suddenly Natsuki stood up and started searching in all her pockets, Shizuru was a little puzzled but when she saw what Natsuki had in her hand she immediately understood. What Natsuki had in her hand was her cell phone, when she opened it she let out a frustrated groan. "It's broken" she finally said "Maybe it broke when we fell…do you have yours?" Natsuki asked.

"No, it was in my coat" the blunette sat again and directed her gaze towards her left hand where her clock was.

"Wow! We've been asleep for a long time"

"What time is it?" Shizuru asked.

"Eleven o' clock and we woke up around an hour ago" they both fell silent each of them pondering their own thoughts and Shizuru eating her chocolate bar, finally Natsuki broke the silence. "We should go to sleep, tomorrow I'll try to locate us using the sun as reference" Shizuru just nodded, the both of them tried to find a comfortable position, Natsuki was the first one to fall asleep, or at least that was what Shizuru thought, after tossing around as much as her leg allowed her she finally found the right position to sleep but she wasn't able to, she was freezing since she had left her jacket with Yukino, she started to shiver. She started to move around trying to make her body hot but it was pointless, when she thought she couldn't bare it any longer she felt something on her shoulders. She looked back and saw Natsuki behind her wearing only her hoodie, then she realized that the girl had given her, her own jacket. "Natsuki what are you doing? You're going to freeze"

"I think is the other way around, do you think is enough or you need my hoodie too?"

"What? No of course not, here take your jacket" Shizuru said extending the jacket towards Natsuki.

"Sorry girl but I'm not taking it"

"What ? why not?"

"Look…you are from Kyoto right?"

"Yes… but why does it matter?"

"Well, obviously you are not used to the extremely cold temperatures of Fuuka, on the other side I am so I do not need the jacket as much as you do"

"But…"

"Don't try to protest, I'm not taking it… now put it on or you are going to freeze, besides you've lost a lot of blood so…" Shizuru complied after all this was a lost battle and Natsuki was right, even if in winter Kyoto was cold it didn't compare to the cold of Fuuka.

Finally the Kyoto girl was able to fall asleep. The next morning she woke up and found no Natsuki.

"Natsuki?" she called. The only answer she receive was a low growl, she turned quickly and saw five wolfs staring. The wolfs were approaching slowly. She was frozen on her spot, she couldn't move a muscle, then a wolf jumped and she closed her eyes shouting "Natsuki!"

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Mary