(NOTE: I do not own Fushigiboshi no Futagohime!)

The Beginning, To the End

Chapter 1

Fine sits up from bed and yawns, then stretches. She gets up from bed and walks to the window curtain while wiping her eyes. She opens the curtains. The field with so much green and flowers. The trees give shade and shelter. The pond, a place for the fish to swim. The animals running and playing.
Fine opens the window and the breeze comes in. "Never gets old." She said to herself.

"Fine! Get dressed and be here in 5 minutes!" Camelot, the nun, said.

"Yes, Miss Camelot! I'm coming!" Fine quickly closes the window and gets dress. She takes off her pajamas. Her puts on a white gown, puts a black dress over it, gets a white ribbon and ties it around her waist. She puts on long white socks and puts on black shoes. She looks in at the mirror. Her pinkish-rid mid-long hair was down and straight. She braids them, so that they could look shorter and gets two black ribbons and ties her hair into two ponytails. "Ok!" She said. She opens her drawer and takes out and necklace. There was a key hanging. She puts it on and hides it under her clothing. She runs out her room. She runs down stairs and opens the dining room. Boys and girls sitting down, talking to one an another. Fine sighs and gets her breakfast. She sits down by herself. She eats it all in one bite. "Finish…." She gets up and puts it in the dirty pin. She looks back at the other kids and walks away.

"Fine! Come child it's time for lessons!" Camelot said.

"But Camelot-" Fine gets cut off.

"Listen, Fine, you're 13. And if you're not adopted by the time you reach 13 you have no choice but to work hard and become a nun."

"I know….."

"Now! Let's be off!"

"Yes ma'am." Fine follows Camelot. "Um….Camelot…."

"It's Miss Camelot!"

"Right! Sorry! Miss Camelot I have a question."

"If it's about you're REAL parents you know the answer."

"I-I know." They begin to walk silently. 'I hate lessons.' She thought. She looks out the window and sees three unfamiliar kids her age with 3 older men. One of the children is a girl with long blue hair. 'Pretty….' She looks at Fine. Her aquamarine eyes looked at Fine's pinkish-ruby eyes. She looked like Fine!

"Fine! It's not right to stare!" Fine looks at Camelot who was glaring at her.

Fine gulps and bows. "I'm sorry! I won't do it again!"

"Good." They continue to walk. A woman with the same outfit as Camelot walked up to them. She looks down at Fine and smiles. Then she looks back at Camelot.

"Ms. Camelot. There's people here. They're here for adoption. Shall I get the children ready?" She said.

"Yes please." The woman walks away and Camelot turns to Fine. "This is your first job to get children adopted!"

"Yes ma'am." They walk towards the couple. Or men and children... Fine tugs Camelots sleeve. Camelot kneels down to listen what she has to say. "They already have kids..."

Camelot sighs and says,"You didn't pay attention to what I told you..."

Fine freezes and chuckles awkwardly. Camelot walks up to them.

"Hello there, I'm Camelot. What brings you all here? Are you all here for adoption?" Camelot asks nicely.

"Only me." Said the man with blue hair and aquamarine eyes. "My name is Truth." The man with dark violet hair and dark violet-blue eyes stepped up. "My name is Solar." He said. The man with brown hair and blue eyes stepped up. "My name is Aaron."

"Nice to meet you all. And are these your children?"

"Yes. My daughter's name is Rein." Truth said. (I already described her.)

"This is my son, Shade." Solar said. His son has the same hair and eye color, but a little lighter.

"This is my son named Bright." Aaron said. His son has dirty blonde hair a ruby eyes.

"Hello." They all said.

"Rein's my only daughter and I'd like to adopt since she's lonely and my wife and I always wanted two kids. But she can't get pregnant again so we decided to adopted." Truth said.

"Is that so? I hate to ask, but why are you here?" Camelot asks the two men.

"We love children so we decided to take a look." They said.

"I see. Follow us. Fine can you check if the children are ready?"

"Yes ma'am!" Fine nods and runs inside.

"She isn't a child?" Solar asks.

"She is, but she's 13 now and it's already too late for her to be adopted." Camelot said.

"Why?"

"Because no family would want to adopted a teen."

"Well I was hoping if I could adopted her." Truth said.

"Then you should've came last year. Poor child, all her friends were adopted that day."

"What day?"

"The final day for adoptions for those who are ages 10-12."

The children looked at each other.

"So why didn't anybody adopted her. She's so adorable that you'd want to protect just like Truth's daughter." Solar said.

"That's true. That's what we all questioned. She did have interviews and they all end up good, but nobody accepted her. It's probably because of her necklace."

"Necklace?" They all said.

"Yup her necklace! It's shape is like an actual key! It's like those classic keys back from the past. It's gold with symbols on it that she can only read. And there's a red stone on it. It's really neat and well made!"

This time the adults looked at each other.

"Miss Camelot they're ready!" Fine runs up to Camelot. "They're-" She trips. They all sweatdrop. Fine gets up while looking down. She dusts off the dirt on her clothing. She looks up with a big smile. "They're ready Miss Camelot!"

"That's good. Now please escort these people to the kids room." Camelot said.

"Ok!" Fine said cheerfully. She looks at the men and children with a big smile. "Follow me!" They all follow her.

"Are you alright?" Rein asks as she walks next to Fine. "When you fell?"

Fine blinks and smiles. "I'm Fine! That's my name after all!" Rein gives Fine an uneasy smile then walks back with her father.

"Fine. Camelot said that you had a key shaped necklace. May we see it?" Truth asks.

Fine looks back at Truth with a questioning look. "Why?" She said.

"She made it sound interesting so I got curious how it looks like in person."

"Okay...I guess." Fine turns around and takes out her necklace.

"Amazing! It's so pretty!" Rein said.

"That old woman was right!" Shade said.

"Sh-Shade..." Bright and Rein said while narrowing their eyes at him.

Fine gives a gentle smile while looking at the necklace. "Camelot said when I came here I had this with me...clinging onto them with my tiny hands."

"Really? How old were you?" Bright asks.

"I was still a baby. She said I looked around 3-5 months." Fine answers.

"It must be really special." Solar said. Aaron agreed.

"Can I hold it?" Truth asks. Fine holds the key close to her.

"Why?" She said.

"If you don't want to I understand."

Fine feels terrible. "I'm sorry it's just that when I hold this key it makes me feel safe, happy, loved, and needed." All their eyes widened when she said the last part. Fine looks at them with a smile. "Let's go. The children are waiting!"

"But aren't you a child?" Shade said.

"Not really. Part of me is a child, but as soon as you turn 13...they treat you like an adult!"

They all walked to the children room. Fine opens the door and they see all the children lined up.

"A-Amazing..." Truth said in surprise.

"They're in a straight line being patient..." Aaron said in surprise as well.

"Why can't our kids be like this?" Solar said. They men agreed.

Their kids glared at them. "What's that suppose to mean?!"

"Well please interview any child we have all the files here on the table!" Lulu, Camelot's apprentice, said.

"No need for that I already decided." Truth said.

"EH?! WHO!" The children all said in the same time, including Fine.

"That's obvious. I would love to adopt...Fine!" He pointed at Fine.

"Wha?" Fine stood there confuse. "WHAT?!"