Test Subject: Fujino

Summary: 10 years ago Natsuki Kuga visited her mother's lab after falling sick and not going to school. There she found a mysterious door labeled 'Fujino'. The name sounded somewhat enchanting to her, and so curiosity got the better of her. Inside the room, she was shocked to find a naked woman no older than 24, with blood red eyes, locked up inside a cell. The woman smiled at her and revealed two very pointed fangs. 10 years later, Natsuki at the age of 20, gets offered a job at the lab, just to find out that her first assignment, is to be the caretaker of that very cell. She was to be the cell attendant for test subject Shizuru Fujino. Shiznat obviously, with a little Naonat in it.

10 years ago…

"Mama, are we there yet?" The little girl's voice was filled with impatience and excitement. She had fallen ill today, and it was not advisable for her to go to school. Her mother was a busy woman, a head researcher and the founder of the Kuga laboratory. Staying home and looking after her beloved daughter is impossible as expected. Seeing no other way, Saeko Kuga brought Natsuki along with her to work.

"We're almost there Nat-chan." The mother informed her child. She pointed over to a white building from inside the car, that looked a little like a hospital, as if to prove her point. "Can you see that white building there?"

"MHM!" Natsuki acknowledged in an excited squeal.

The car backed up into the parking lot, followed by the slamming of car doors. The little girl with navy blue hair ran over to her mother, and grabbed her hands. "Now Nat-chan, if you want to enter the lab, you have to be good. Do you remember the agreement we had before coming out here?"

"Mhm." The 10 year old let out a cheesy grin. "No wandering off by myself, No touching any equipment, and most importantly, no going into any rooms with a no entry sign on it." She ruled out one by one.

The older woman simply laughed at her little girl and patted her with much affection, giving Natsuki a teasing wink. "Good girl. It seems like you've remembered them all ne?"

"Hai!"

4 hours later

Chibi Natsuki had waited in the room her mother put her in, for about 4 hours ever since her mama's meeting started, remembering being told she was to stay in there until her mother came for her. She was getting all fidgety and her butt just refused to remain seated any longer. 4 hours was way beyond the capability of a 10 year old child's patience, and so in the end, she decided to go looking for her mother instead. After all, she had become heated from waiting and her stomach was grumbling quite violently too.

The pig tailed girl walked around the maze-like building for quite some time, but still found no luck in locating her mother's meeting room. She sighed and puffed her cheeks out adorably as a display of irritation. "I-I'm lost…Mou, Watashi wa, baka mitai? (Man, I'm an idiot aren't I?) Mama is going to be mad at me now, I broke our agreement." Natsuki let out another sigh of disappointment in herself. Just as she was about to give up and try to find her way back to the boring waiting room, she came across a huge silver door about 3 times her height. The blue haired girl spun on her heels and took a step towards it. Somehow she found the door very intriguing, it gave off a vibe of secretiveness and mysteriousness. Obviously a door this big, was hiding something, preventing people from getting to what's inside, or rather, preventing what's inside from breaking out. It was eerie, but interesting at the same time to the adventure-seeking, excitement-lacking girl who stood before what's inside, and the door between them. A large rectangular plastic coated sign, clearly read 'No entry, staff only' in bold capital red blocks. Something like that was obviously a warning right? To alert people of the dangers behind it right? Wrong! To little Nat-chan here who loved adventure, it was an invitation to go right in. A part of her really wanted to open the door and step right in, but another part of her chose to respect her mother's and her agreement. She was about to turn around and go, until something else caught her attention. This time, it was a metal plate right underneath the plastic one which had the words 'Test Subject: Fujino' imprinted in black on it. Fujino… 'Fujino…' thought Natsuki. 'That name, its so, elegant, beautiful, enchanting almost. I wonder what's inside… Fujino is a human name right? Could there be a fairy inside? A goddess maybe? Heh… whoever or whatever is inside, should be an absolute beauty ne?' At that moment, the agreement between mother and daughter was completely forgotten.

Natsuki reached out to grab the cold metal handle, pushing it downwards to no avail. Now it is confirmed even more so, that whatever was inside, was truly dangerous. The eager girl wasn't afraid though, in fact, she had never been more intrigued than this in her whole 10 years of living. This wouldn't do, pushing down some more would just cause the handle to break off. Of course that wouldn't be possible for a girl her strength, but it felt that way to Natsuki anyway. She hastily looked around for a key of some sort, or another way to get in and noticed a white box nested just beside the door. It had nothing on it, but a strip of infra red light across it. She immediately recognized what it was as she remembered seeing her mother do this at the entrance of the lab. It was an identification scanner, which scanned a person's irises to confirm entry. Realisation struck Natsuki. 'I have mother's eyes, it may not be exactly the same, but lets just hope that it is similar enough to fool the scanner. No harm in trying right?' The little girl tip toed to try to reach the white box, but as she feared, she was a little too short. She was short of an inch apparently. If she could just find something to stand on… Her eyes scanned the area for anything to use as a stool, and the emerald green orbs landed on what appears to be a wooden crate.

She dashed over to the half lidded crate, deciding to slide the lid back in place and use it to reach the required height, she got hold of the lid and began to push. As she was doing that task, she managed to peer inside the crate, making out what seemed to be a syringe and a few bottles containing maroon coloured liquid. 'Blood?' Natsuki thought at the back of her mind. However, she didn't bother too much about that, since her mind's too busy being occupied by something else. Placing the crate up against the white walls, she climbed onto the box and bent down a little so her green eyes were leveled with the infra red scanner. 'Scanning in process' appeared on the screen. A while later, a voice sounded from the speakers of the white box. "Iris identification confirmed. Saeko Kuga, access granted." And with that the huge door slid open sideways to the right. Stepping down from the crate, Natsuki let her forest green eyes glance around the dark room for a while, before she held her breath and took a step in. As soon as she entered the first few centimeters of the room, the lights automatically flickered on, revealing a few experimental tables filled with all sorts of scientific equipment around the corners of the room, a single metallic table/bed positioned in the center, and right at the back of the room, there was a cell. A cage maybe.

Natsuki had always been the type to like animals. Wolfs and dogs preferably, but that didn't stop her from liking or being interested in other animals as well. For a not so developed mind of a 10 year old, the first thing that came to her mind when she saw the metal bars of the cell, was 'An animal!' Placing all thoughts of 'safety first' to the side, she happily ran all the way to the back of the room, only to stop dead in her tracks, and loose all the excitement she previously felt. The huge smile on her face, had been replaced by a small frown, a slight tilting of her blue head, and a look of confusion. The shocked child felt her face burn up at the sight before her. Never before had she witnessed something so beautiful, something so breathtakingly explicit, something that made her heart skip a beat.

There in the center of the cell laid a sleeping figure, fully nude, smooth hip-length chestnut hair parted and covered every perfect curve of her pale body. Natsuki hadn't noticed that she had actually been holding her breath for quite some time now, and when she let it out, it came out quite loudly. "[Sighs] Kirei…(beautiful)" The blunette couldn't help but say that last line, and both her hands were immediately smacked against her mouth as she realized how loudly she just said that, hoping hands against her mouth could've stopped her voice from reaching the naked beauty's ears, but as expected, that didn't happen. The slender figure stirred on the floor letting out a soft moan. Every single movement made by the goddess in front of her, made her heart beat like crazy. 'How could someone like that possibly be dangerous?' Natsuki mused.

The woman who had her back facing the blushing girl slowly got up on all fours letting her honey coloured hair cascade around her face from her neck and back, entrapping her body with locks of smooth hair. At hearing the sound of Natsuki's flabbergasted gasp, the woman crawled very provocatively towards the frozen figure, with hair still covering the side of her face, and a neat fringe hovering just above her eyes. The woman brought her head up and found flashing green eyes that seemed to glow, staring back at her, accompanied by an extremely cute blush. She chuckled and dragged her hands backwards from her crawling position, placing them on her laps, as she tucked her feet under her, in the form of traditional Japanese sitting position. Natsuki couldn't help but to let her eyes wander from those mezmerising inhuman red eyes down to those swollen chests and smooth pale thighs. The woman noticed this, and giggled. "Like what you see?" She teased.

"E-eh?" Natsuki's eyes shot back up to meet the woman's crimson gaze again. Those crimson orbs, the speechless blushing girl couldn't quite put a finger on it, but they just didn't seem human. No human she ever met, had red eyes that looked like this, not ones that could hypnotize you and draw you to their owner. "I-I-I… you can talk? A-are you human? Why are you locked up like a wild animal?" The younger girl couldn't help blurt out those questions, wondering why such a beautiful woman was locked up in a cell like this. It was cold, dark, and she had obviously been experimented on. She felt pity for the caged woman.

"Ara, are you my new cell attendant?" The sitting brunette started to speak again, in a very thick Kyoto accent, completely ignoring the questions. "Well I'll have to thank them for assigning me such a cute little girl ne?" The test subject teased and winked causing Natsuki to deepen her blush. "My name is Fujino Shizuru. Or as you people here call me 'Subject Fujino.' What's yours?" Fujino seemed really polite and totally harmless to the still speechless girl, helping her calm down a little. But Natsuki was still prepared to run if anything happened. Although the person in the cell seemed friendly enough, Natsuki couldn't shake off the nonhuman aura being omitted around her.

"N-Natsuki… Kuga." Maybe it was her imagination, but Natsuki could've sworn she saw Shizuru's eyes narrow at hearing 'Kuga'. The tawny haired woman's smile grew wider. It grew so wide, that the raven haired girl spotted 2 pointed teeth at the top corners of Shizuru's mouth. Confusion coursed through every part of Natsuki's body, making her shiver. 'Pointed? Why are her teeth pointed? I-is she even human? She looks human though… But what kind of human can possibly so charming?' Thoughts were flooding the little girl's mind, until Shizuru's voice snapped her back to reality.

"So Nat-su-ki, how's your mother?" The woman smirked revealing more of her pointed fangs.

Natsuki started to panic a little. 'My mother? How does she know my mother? Could it be that she's one of the test subjects assigned to mother's division?' "S-she's okay…" Shizuru noticed Natsuki's fear and changed her smirk into a sweet smile.

"I see. That's good then." Fujino's expression seemed to soften to comfort the frightened girl. "You look just like her…" There was a hint of sorrow in her voice that Natsuki just barely missed. "Won't you come here so I can see you a little clearer?" The crimson eyed subject beckoned the little girl over with her index raven haired girl really didn't want to go near the sitting woman, but found herself drawn to her for some reason. Her voice. Her expression. Her body. Her eyes. Everything drew Natsuki to her. The girl nodded and took a few steps closer to the cell, she got as close as she could get. Shizuru smiled again and got up from the floor, towering over the shorter child. Natsuki's face was leveled with the older woman's chest making her change shades of pink. She suddenly felt a cold hand touch her cheek through the gaps in the metal bars and nearly jumped, but was soon soothed by the gentle continuous strokes she was receiving from those ice cold fingers. "You really are like her… Kawaii." She heard Shizuru whisper. By now she was so engrossed in that gentle touch, she didn't care less about what the mysterious woman did to her anymore. Shizuru reached out to grab the other side of Natsuki's face with her other hand, and held her head in place. The Kyoto born brought Natsuki's face as close to her own as possible and bent down, she leaned in hoping her lips would still connect with the other girl's, even through the gaps of the bars. Their lips were about to touch, until another blue haired woman charged towards them.

"FUJINO! Get away from her!" The worried voice screamed. Just as Shizuru's eye's shot open, Natsuki was snatched away from her grasp. Saeko Kuga had retrieved her daughter and backed up at least a few feet away from the cell. She anxiously shook her daughter out of the trance she was under, and fortunately it worked. "M-mama?"

"Oh my god, I'm so sorry Natsuki. It was my fault, I shouldn't have left you alone like that." Saeko let her tears fall onto Natsuki's cheeks.

"N-no mother." The girl shook her head. "I should have stuck to our agreement shouldn't I?"

"Baka, that doesn't matter at the moment! I don't know what I'd do if you were bitten by her…" With that being said, she pulled Natsuki into a tight hug.

"Bitten?" Natsuki asked, confused. Saeko didn't answer, but turned her head to glare at Fujino.

Shizuru's face had become emotionless, but the sadness and grief was evident in her red eyes. "Saeko…" She cooed. "I missed you. You haven't come to see me in such a long time…"

"I will never forgive you if you lay a finger on Natsuki." Saeko hissed.

"N-no mama, this woman wasn't doing anything to harm me, she is kind, why did you lock her up like that…" The girl was completely being ignored.

Shizuru let a mask slide over her half psychotic state, and her smirk returned. "Ara, I was doing nothing but embracing my lover's daughter am I not? I don't find anything wrong with that."

"Cut the crap Fujino. I told you, it's over." 'Lover? Mama's…?' Natsuki was seriously having troubles thinking straight now. 'What about papa?'

"Fujino you say…" Shizuru let out a sad smile. "Won't you call me by my first name like you used to?" No reply. The smirking turned into a small sad frown. "It may be over for us Saeko, But my my… Natsuki… she's so much like you." She said this with grimace.

"NOT A CHANCE." The older blunette deadpanned. "My daughter isn't yours to take." Saeko grabbed Natsuki's hand and proceeded to walk out the door.

"I loved you Saeko." Shizuru whispered, then focused her gaze on the child who had her back facing her. "And very soon, you will love me too Nat-su-ki."

As if on cue Natsuki turned her head back to take one last look at her brown haired friend. "Good bye Shizuru, I'll see you soon." The little girl said out loud. Shizuru smiled as a response, and as soon as the two were out of the room, and the door slammed shut, the brunette broke down.

In the car

"Mama, what did you mean by 'bitten'?" Asked a still very confused Natsuki.

"Natsuki… [Sigh] There's no use hiding it from you anymore. Did you see that woman's sharp teeth?"

"Yes." Natsuki confirmed.

"Well, our lab is doing research on her species, and she is the only specimen. Others of her kind are still in hiding. Natsuki, she is a Hematophian."

"Hematophian?" Natsuki repeated.

"Yes. Beings who survive by feeding on blood."

The younger girl's eyes grew wide. "You mean, like a VAMPIRE?"

Saeko noticed the excitement in her daughter's eyes and her seriousness faded a little. Natsuki was just too cute to stay completely serious around. She chuckled slightly. "Haha, well, I guess you can put it in that way. But vampires are fiction. Vampire is the mythical name for these beings, and the legends about them aren't true. They are really called hematophians. It comes from the term 'Hematophagy' meaning an animal's habbit of feeding on blood. If you weren't careful, she could've bitten you, and if the hematophian virus she carries, came in contact with any of your blood cells, you'll turn into one too." Saeko is always happy to educate her daughter on scientific things, since Natsuki would be her successor in the future.

"EH?! Mama, you mean I could have been turned into a blood sucking monster too?" Natsuki sounded oddly curious about this.

"Ehem, well yes."

"Heh… But she looked so harmless, so sad, so lonely." The girl's tone softened a little. Saeko frowned a bit at hearing her daughter's observations. She felt something tug at her heart. "Mama, what did she mean when she…" Natsuki trailed off. "When she said lover?"

Saeko was caught totally off guard by this question. "N-Nat-chan, I will tell you about this, but not now okay?" 'I will tell you my daughter, when you're mature enough to handle it.'

"Um… okay, and-and will I ever see that woman again?" Natsuki hung her head a little. "I-I know she's a dangerous hematop…hematoph…hematop-something, and all, and she did scare me a little…but I really want to see her again…"

Saeko sighed. There was no stopping her daughter when she was like this. But she had to make sure Natsuki would be old enough to take care of herself before letting her see Shizuru again. "Okay I'll let you see her soon. So for now, make sure you pass all your science tests, so you can work at the lab in the future and see her everyday ne?"

"Hai!" Came the girl's enthusiastic reply, earning her a pat from her mother.

"Oh, and mum, how did you find me?"

"My meeting room was just around the corner, and when I turned I found the door to Fujino's cell opened. I suddenly thought of you and panicked." Came the straightforward answer.

"Oh."

"How did you open the door anyway?"

"Teehee… That's a secret!."

"Hai, hai…"

The 2 drove home in silence after that. 'Soon' never came for Natsuki. She never got to see Shizuru Fujino again after that day. And so she studied hard, remembering her mother's promise. She aced every test, and completed college with a science degree in America.

10 years later

A certain cobalt haired woman stopped her bike with a screech just outside the lab. The cute pig tailed little girl was long gone, and replaced with a tough hot biker. Natsuki Kuga, aged 20.

She tore of her leathers and threw them on her bike, grabbed her bag and walked in the front entrance after doing an iris recognition. Stepping into the office, she was greeted by a 48 year old split image of herself. She greeted the woman back with a subtle smile. "Mama." Her voice was now low and husky as compared to squeaky and adorable 10 years ago.

"Natsuki!" The woman glomped her. Look at you! You're all grown up now! My little Nat-chan is gone!" Saeko hugged her daughter and Natsuki chuckled.

"Yeah. And I'm back with a science degree waiting for you to offer me a part time job." The biker winked and hugged back.

"OF COURSE! You can get started right away. It has always been my dream to work side by side with my daughter. So how was America?"

"Meh, It was cool." Natsuki laughed.

"Oh goodie. Okay let me introduce you to Mai Tokiha. She will be the one who is in charge of your division, and assign you your duties" A lady with flaming orange hair got up from the couch. 'Oh god, I didn't notice her at all… My bad.' The now grown up Natsuki scolded herself.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Natsuki-chan." The orange headed woman smile warmly.

"Same here." The blue headed girl smiled back, and Mai blushed. "Well we should get started shouldn't we?" Mai nodded, and lead the new comer out of the office. "See you later mama."

"Ah! Good luck!" Saeko cheered.

Inside a laboratory.

"Okay Natsuki-chan, this is your key and lab coat, please keep the key with you at all times and put on your lab coat whenever you're at work." Mai instructed.

"Key?"

"Yes, Key."

"Wait, don't doors here use recognition? Why would I need a key?"

Mai looked at Natsuki for a while before coming up with an answer. She knocked her knuckle on her forehead and stuck out her tongue, as if to symbolize her apology for her sudden speechlessness there. "Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you, since you're new here, we'll start you off with something easy. All you'll need to do for a period of a few months, is to be the cell attendant of a test subject we just moved over here from the other division. She's dangerous though, so you'll need to be careful, but I'm sure a tough girl like you can handle a simple task like this ne?" Mai playfully punched Natsuki on the arm.

"A-ah…"

"Sorry Natsuki, but you're the only one available for this task in this division at the moment, until we find someone new." The orange-head smiled sheepishly.

"Haha, it's no problem. So they key is for the cell am I right?"

"Yes." Mai grinned. "You figured that out ne? You sure are smart." The head of the division stuck out her tongue. "Oh I must warn you though, you have to make sure you activate security entry when you open the cell door, so the subject can't escape. I'll show you what it does later on, but for now lets just introduce you to your test subject okay?"

They came to a huge silver door, which was only about a few inches taller than Natsuki now. It felt Nostalgic to her, and she seemed to remember a similar situation where the door was a lot bigger. 'Mai tokiha, access granted.' Came the all too familiar computerized voice. As the door slid open, Natsuki's dark green eyes went wide. A thousand emotions flooded into her at once as soon as her gaze came in contact with those crimson eyes. Those red inhuman eyes, the ones she could never forget. She stood frozen to the spot again, and the next thing made all her memories pierce her mind at once. She always knew she had a reason to come back to the lab, but she forgot what that reason was. Until now…

"Ara ara, what do we have here? I wake up from my nap and the first thing my eyes are greeted by, is this delightful sight. Nat-chan, my cute little cell attendant all those years ago grew up to become such a handsome girl ne…"

Shocked, Natsuki said the only words that were able to come out of her dry throat. "S-Shizuru Fujino… Hematophian…"

The red eyed goddess smirked flirtatiously revealing her pearl-white pointed canines.

[Yawns] Well I'm glad I'm done with this first chapter :P I did it in secret, since I wasn't allowed to stay up late during school days -.-' Writing fanfiction in the bathroom gave me a backache ^^"

But yes, this is my very fist mai hime VAMPIRE FIC! :D I've been seeing a lot of hime vampy fics, and I really enjoy them, so might as well write one of my own :3 As you can see, I put in a little of my own ideas there to make it more original. For example, instead of vampire, I used hematophian. Okay okay, I know what you're thinking, 'WHAT IN THE WORLD IS A HEMATOPHIAN?!' well there isn't such a word. I made it up. However, there is a word called hematophagy. You can search it up on google XD I basically made up my own word from that term.

I don't think I did a good job at this chapter, honestly lol. Cuz I was half asleep while I wrote it O.o So, if there's anything you don't understand, of confused about, you can always ask me X3 in the reviews section, or you can pm me.

Any flames, (Which I think I'm gonna get a lot of lol), suggestions, comments, ideas, what so ever, goes to the reviews section or pm :DD

Thank you for reading, and I hope you've enjoyed it! ^_^

Ashley.