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The queen had he guards searching Lefenia like crazy for her youngest daughter. She couldn't have gotten too far with an injury.

The guards reported back, Mamoru was nowhere to be found. And there were no traces of blood in the garden. But there was something in the courtyard, the found Mamoru's necklace, a little rose pendant.

All of the girls had one to match their element. It was a gift to them when they were born,Wendy's was a tornado, Hibiki's was a music note, Haya's was a sun, Ryo's was a small flame, Yuki's was an icy blue diamond and Kairi's was a diamond shaped like a tear drop.

She was going crazy, where had Mamoru been taken?

In the Garden:

With Mamoru gone, the others figured Hibiki must be searching too. Wendy was nowhere to be seen, that left Haya, Ryo, Yuki, and Kairi to search.

"She's not in any of the pools or ponds…" Kairi told Haya. Kairi was soaking wet and shook off some of the water. "I even looked under the water to make sure she didn't drown."

"Did you check the garden pond, or the koi pond?" Haya asked, Kairi shook her head. "Look there."

Kairi ran off, still dripping water to search the last two ponds.

Haya checked the kitchen. Mamoru liked to play there while cookies were baking.

Ryo checked the laundry room. Mamoru liked to pull out freshly dried blankets and wrap up in them.

Yuki checked the Library. Mamoru liked to look at the books, even the ones she was too young to understand.

Kairi searched the garden pond. Nothing. She searched the koi pond, knowing Mamoru liked to catch the fish and drop them back in.

Mamoru was in none of the places her sisters checked, none of them dared to go back into the bloody bedroom.

Haya took a deep breath and with shaking hands, opened the oven. There was nothing but muffins, no tiny body hidden inside. She sighed in relief and closed it before turning around. She bumped into someone and screamed.

"Haya!" Kei yelled covering her mouth. "It's just me…now breathe." She nodded slowly and he moved his hand away, she was crying a little. "I came to see if you needed any help."

"What for?!" she asked, her voice shaking. "She's not in the palace. She's not in the gardens, she's not in her playground…and her blood is all over her room! It's obvious what happened!" she covered her face and cried.

Kei wrapped his arms around her, trying to calm her, "She's tougher than you think." He assured her, remembering that once she had punched him hard, where it hurts, and her fists were small, but strong. "I'm sure she's okay."

"No!" Haya sobbed. "She's dead! I know it, her and Hibiki too!"

"What makes you think Hibiki is dead?" Kei asked her.

"Without Mamoru, Hibiki has no reason to live…it's not true, but it's how she feels." Haya rubbed her eyes, her voice trembling as she spoke. "If Mamoru's dead, Hibiki would kill herself, so Mamoru wouldn't be alone."

Kei was surprised at how well they all seemed to know each other.

"I can't loose them both." Haya said, hiding her tear stained face it Kei's shirt. "Please find her, and Mamoru's body…even if she is dead, we can't leave her, we have to bury her properly…" she started to sob again. "Please…" she begged. "My sisters are all I have…please."

"I'll find them." Kei promised, although he wasn't sure. She was almost sure that neither girl was dead, just missing, but he wasn't sure he could find them before it was too late.

Elsewhere:

Yuki was getting frustrated; she growled angrily and tossed a book at the door, unaware that someone was entering the bathroom. "Woah!" Mannen yelled and caught the book. "Be careful."

Yuki looked at him. "Sorry." She mumbled and looked down. Mannen was shocked to hear an apology from the stubborn girl. "I hope you had better luck looking than I did."

"None at all." He told her. "But I did find Kairi face down in a few ponds."

"What?!" Yuki gasped.

"She's okay." He told her. "She was looking for Mamoru."

"Under water?" Yuki asked confused.

"Maybe she was looking for her…" Mannen stopped himself, but Yuki glared at him.

"Say it." She dared. "I dare you to say 'body'." She moved closer and was in his face now. "I'm only going to say this once, so you better listen. Mamoru is not dead. There is no body and that blood in her room meant nothing." She shoved him out of her way and stormed off to look more.

Mannen sighed, even when he wasn't trying, he seemed to piss her off. He was hoping he could make her feel better, but the only thing that she was feeling now was pure rage, he'd talk to her once she'd cooled down and apologize for upsetting her and offer to help her look more for her little sister.

Elsewhere:

Mamoru looked up at her captor, her now chin length, hair swaying slightly. It was also no longer chocolate brown, but silver, her eyebrows had been carefully dyed to match her hair and makeup was carefully applied to hide her injury.

"You look cute." said the woman who kidnapped her. "Your hair will grow back fast, don't be sad."

Mamoru nodded and let her Captor but her back in the car, after carefully cleaning up the chunks of thick brown hair, not leaving a single strand. "Where are we going now?" Mamoru asked.

"We're gonna get a place to stay." was the answer. "Are you hungry?"

Mamoru didn't have to answer, with a growl, her stomach answered for her. "Maybe a little." She mumbled.

Her captor laughed. "I'll take you to eat now." She said ruffling Mamoru's freshly dyed hair. "How does pizza sound?"

Mamoru smiled and clung to the woman's hand "Sounds good Hibiki." She chimed. Hibiki looked at her and raised an eyebrow. "I mean… sounds good mommy."

"That's a girl." Hibiki said driving away with her "Daughter" taking Mamoru was easy; she had simply convinced the child they were playing a game. Mamoru loved games, so Hibiki told her they were playing a different version of hide and go seek.

Mamoru was in no way stupid; her age had nothing to do with it. She knew no one had to cut their hair to play a game. That Hibiki was never supposed to take her from her room last night. But she also knew that Hibiki would never hurt her or do something like this, if she didn't have a good reason too.

She was not upset about the injury to her forehead, it was an honest-to-goodness accident. Hibiki had been trying to help her get a few clothes so they could leave quickly and whiles trying to run in the darkness bumped into Mamoru sending her headfirst into the mirror.

Honestly, she had no trouble calling her sister mommy, she always felt like Hibiki was her mother anyways, she looked in the mirror at her hair and smiled, she looked nice, more and more like Hibiki, so she liked it. She'd go along with the so-called game as long as "Mommy" wanted her to. The only thought going through her head now was how and when Hibiki learned to drive a car.

Back with the search:

Himeno and Hayate found Kairi crying and dripping, covered in pond water. Himeno placed a hand on the child's head and Kairi wrapped her arms around her waist tightly, sobbing.

Hayate kneeled beside the red headed princess. "What's wrong Kairi? Why are you wet?"

Kairi didn't answer but coughed a little from being wet and out in the air. One hand covered her mouth and the other held out an elastic hair tie with a pink sunflower attached to it, needless to say it belonged to Mamoru. "She's dead!" Kairi screamed, hysterically. "The blood stops here! Someone killed her and took her body!"

Himeno watched and listened, shocked at poor Kairi's words, but was shocked her even more was what happened next.

Kairi broke free from Himeno and started punching Hayate, cursing him loudly. "You bastard!" she screamed. Hayate knew she must have learned the word from either Hibiki or Haya. "All of you were supposed to be watching us!" she kept punching and Hayate let her, holding her at arms length by the waist so she couldn't kick him. "Three of my sisters are gone because of you! Leave! Leave! Leave!"

Once she stopped screaming she was gasping for air. "It's not fair!" she cried out and clung to Hayate, crying her eyes out. Hayate hugged her, which was improper because even at her young age she outranked him.

It was improper for her to take her anger out on him, to use words no six year old should know, it was even more improper for her to cry in front of either of them and hug them. It was improper for him to touch her at all because he was not the one training her, it was bad of him to hold her away from him and let her behave to violently, but he understood she was mad and scared and needed someone to take it out on.

Propriety didn't matter now, Kairi was just a little girl and needed to be soothed, which was something Hayate knew her mother would never do for her or any of the others.

Kairi's crying gave way to coughs but the tears still ran down her face. "Who would kill Mamoru?" Kairi choked out. "What did she do that was so bad someone would want to kill her? It makes no sense! She was a little kid!"

Suddenly, Himeno got a feeling she had not felt in a very long time. "Hayate…" she said softly and he looked at her. He knew that look, but he didn't understand, how could it be happening now?"

With Mamoru:

Mamoru smiled as she ate her pizza and watches as Hibiki took a napkin and reach other the table to wipe sauce from her face. "We have to talk…"

"I thought so." Hibiki said and looked at the girl. "So, where do you wanna start?"

"I wanna know how you were able to pull all of this off…how you managed to leave home and…where is all of this money coming from…and the car."

Hibiki took another slive of the pizza and took a bite. "Where to start?" she looked over and Mamoru and just decided to tell it all. "Remember when I said I hated being a princes a few years ago."

"I was two when you said that, of course I don't remember. Yuki told me you said it though."

Hibiki nodded. "I was getting sick of it all, so I left you with Haya for a while and ran, and then I found the portal into the human world."

Mamoru sipped her coke and listened as her sister spoke. "Everything seemed so exciting and I wanted to be part of it all, everyone seemed happy. So I starting coming by everyday and observing the way things worked, it wasn't a big deal, to everyone else I looked like a normal teenager taking a walk and doing a little window-shopping."

"That isn't helping Hibiki, the money; tell me what you did to get it." Mamoru urged.

Hibiki grinned. "I forged a birth certificate saying I was older than I really was so I could get a job here…it's easy and it pays well, plus it gets me out of our world. I opened a bank account, had enough to get a car that I've just parked in random places, I'll find somewhere for us to stay and do some online schooling then we'll be fine…are you mad?"

Mamoru shook her head. "No, I'm glad you did it."

"Good, let's get out of here." Hibiki got Mamoru another coke and a cookie for later. As they went back to the car, Hibiki got a strange feeling and suddenly heard screaming, she looked towards it and her eyes widened…she couldn't believe what she was seeing…

Demon Larva.

A/N: R&R please