A/N: here is chapter 1. this is slightly suspenseful, send me a message if you are confused.

Disclaimer: i do not own Momo.

Chapter 1

It was light outside, the sun had finally risen. I sat on a rock facing the sun, letting it warm my skin with its rays. My name is Momo, I am not very old, no more than sixteen, though I'm not quite sure, but I've lived through as much as anyone twice my age. The sun shone on my face lighting it up after it had been in the shadows. I sighed. It was times like this that I miss it. It had always been there for me in the mornings, the time I was the most upset.

"Where are you?" I whispered into the dawn, like it would answer even if it were there. It never talked, it was silent, but I could still understand it somehow. Come back, I murmured in my head. I sighed again and stood up.

I looked down, I had sat on the edge of a cliff, one that lead down to a river far below. I kicked a nearby stone over the edge and watched as it plummeted to the water rushing along. I suppressed a grimace. That pebble was like my life. It had started so high and happy up here on that cliff edge, and then BAM it was over the edge and was falling slowly in a downward spiral not knowing when it was going to stop. I sighed again and listened to the river flow.

As the sun steadily rose in the sky, the forest behind me woke. It's time to go, I've stayed too long. I glanced one more time at the river thinking about what would happen if I jumped. Turning on my heel, I walked slowly into the forest, letting its crispness refresh me.

It was quiet. It is always quiet around me, nothing likes to be around me except it. I even scare away my own people. That doesn't bother me like it used to. When I was younger I was scared of the silence, I ran away from the deafness to any noise I could find even if the noise could kill me. It was around that time that I finally found it. I knew it had always been there, but I never wanted it, I never needed it. Anyway, I learned to love the peace with it teaching me to accept it. I have no fear of the quiet anymore, it is my home now, my fate.

I continued walking in the woods, watching the shadows, keeping my eyes open for it. What was that?

I turned my head, looking for the source of the noise that had broken the constant silence. No, it can't be, they couldn't have found me, I left no trail, I was as silent as it. There it was again, the noise, the sound of a horse's breath a ways off. I broke out in a sweat, they can't find me. After looking around once more I broke out in a flat sprint, heading into the deepness of the shadows, my comfort.

Horses were running behind me, catching up. I muttered a curse under my breath. Without it I was a goner, I was dead. I pushed ahead faster, trying to put distance between my pursuers and me.

They were on the side of me now, slowly surrounding me. I cursed again, I knew I had stayed to long, I never look at the sunrise without it with me. I stopped, there was no point in running anymore. I learned to accept what Fate had given me, she had made me the way I am, you cannot run away from Fate.

The horses slowly came out from the trees. I stepped into the shadows, the least I could do was make it look like I could protect myself.

Their bows pointed at me, at my heart mainly. I breathed again and flashed them a smile trying to at least scare them a bit, a worthless attempt though.

They had found me and the blackness, well the blackness…it had deserted me.

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A/N: well, what do you think...? no reviews for the prologue really made me sad...this chapter is a little better and toshiro will show up soon n_n. please read and review...

~shortliketoshiro

PS. the wedding will get an update soon!