"Momiji! Hatsuharu!" A young girl with waist length brown hair chirped when
she saw the two boys. Haru and Momiji looked at her with a smile before
Momiji ran over and hugged her tightly.
"Panther! Hi!" Momiji greeted in his usual sweet voice. Hatsuharu walked over with the same smile and hugged the young girl making her blush, which made Momiji laugh.
"Blushing!" He pointed at the 5yr old girl. The three kids were in the Sohma's mansion being watched by two pairs of eyes, none knowing that the other was watching as well. One of the pairs belonged to Yuki Sohma, and the other belonged to Akito Sohma.
"Where's Shigure, Hatori, and Ayame?"
"They're at school right now." Hatsuharu looked at her calmly.
"Hey, maybe you can come and meet Akito? He's the head of the family." Momiji suggested and Panther instantly frowned at the mention of the name.
"Akito? Akito Sohma? He's my enemy; he killed most of my family! I don't ever want to see HIM!" Panther glared but soften and felt herself being pulled into another hug by Hatsuharu.
"Don't worry, Panther. Akito...he doesn't quite know how to control himself at times, we're sorry about what he did to your family, but if you don't want to see him, we understand." Panther returned the hug but was immediately removed from the comfort. Akito ran out of his house when he heard about her family and threw her to the ground with a crazy grin.
"If you don't want to die, I suggest you leave now. Next time you come back, I'll make you suffer the same thing we do." Akito's eyes held that of a crazed guy. Panther looked at him fearfully and left stumbling over her feet. Momiji and Hatsuharu were about to go after her when Akito said something that kept them.
"Do you really think she likes you? She hates you, the only reason why she pretends to be your friend is because she wants to try and manipulate you. Trust me, she won't return to you." From his window, Yuki watched with curiosity about the girl. Nine years past as dark clouds gathered over the city and poured little drops of water. A 14yr old girl stood as she watched the ambulance take the last of her family away to the city morgue. She felt alone now, and she didn't have a Momiji or Hatsuharu to run to and receive comfort from. She was alone. Running away to wherever her feet carried her, Panther ended up on a train going to who knows where. At the first stop, she hopped off and just started walking off not knowing where she was going.
After walking for a long time, Panther decided that it was about time she'd look for somewhere to stay. She found an abandoned building that still had some good-conditioned furnishings, bathrooms, abandoned clothes, and other stuff. She found the bathroom and found the waters still working so she took a shower before going back out to buy herself some dinner. She went back to eat her dinner at the two-story brick walled building she was going to call home for a while. After she ate, she went to sleep and waited for the next day when she would go look for a school she can attend for the while.
The next morning came as Panther woke up under the morning light. Looking at her watch, she started getting into some clothes she found lying around the place. She wore her wavy hair down and left for the school wearing a pair of black jean pants and a black long sleeved shirt with a long leather trench coat over that and some black 2" high heels. Her brown eyes carried sadness but to the people that looked in them, showed nothing. Once she reached the school, it was still early and she had time to sign up for it.
"Hello, may I help you?" A lady behind the office counter asked tilting her head.
"I'd like to sign up for this school, please? And might I be able to attend today?" Panther asked in a soft voice as the lady started digging through a desk drawer.
"Yes, you may. Of course, ma'am, here you are. Sign these and just give them to me right after you're done." The lady handed over a couple of forms for Panther to fill out. Taking the forms and sitting down, Panther filled out the sheets skipping where it said to put her address. After filling the rest out, she went back to where it said address, nearly panicked.
"Oh yes, I'm sorry I forgot to ask, are you new here? Because if you are, then the school can get someone you could stay with if you like." Panther's face brightened and she gave a single nod.
"Ok then. If you're done filling out those papers, excluding your address, I can take them and help you with where you'll be staying," Panther gave her the papers, "for now, these will be the classes you'll be taking; I'll take care of these forms while you're in class."
"Thank you." The lady gave Panther a sheet of papers showing what her classes would be. 'Nice, like a free trial... Hope the family's nice...' Her thoughts trailed off as she read her periods.
Class Schedule:
Period 1: Math – Mr. Danes
Period 2: Reading/Writing – Mr. Jo
Period 3: Gym – Ms. Rick
Lunch
Period 4: Science – Ms. Janie
Period 5: Homeroom – Mr. Cho
Today's schedule was periods: 2--3--Lunch--5. Panther walked into her first class of the day and saw a few people in there along with the teacher. The teacher looked at her and smiled before greeting her.
"Hello, I'm Mr. Jo. The office called in and told me that you'd be coming, you must be Panther?" the two shook hands.
Panther's POV
"Yes, I am." I said and he led me over to my assigned seat telling me about what I'd be doing in the class.
"Got it?" I gave a slight nod and he left to finish whatever he was doing. I forgot I didn't bring a bag, oh well. I walked out of the class and went to explore. Down the hallways, I bumped into a cute looking girl, childishly I mean. Even though she looked to be about my age or little over, she looked childishly cute, like a little girl. Her light brown hair was down with a braid on the side and she had green eyes that made her look so adorable.
"I'm sorry! I wasn't looking, please forgive me..." She continued on with a bow and I just stared with a blank face. I put a hand on her shoulder and she looked up at me quieting.
"Don't worry, you don't need to apologize so much." She gave me a puzzled look before knocking herself on the head with a smile.
"Oh I'm so-," she laughed nervously and held out her hand, "I'm Tohru Honda." Smiling, I shook her hand and let go when a couple of girls walked up. One of them was blond, and the other had black hair that looked like green.
"Hey Tohru! Who's this?" the blond eyed me suspiciously, yet calmly.
"Panther, I'm new here." I introduced myself.
"Panther? That's a strange- ah, I mean- I don't mean it like that- oh boy oh boy I'm sorry!" I laughed and patted her head while the other two girls looked at me strangely.
"Don't worry, for the last time, stop apologizing!" We laughed.
"Oh! I'm sorry, this is Arista Uotani," she gestured to the blond, "and Saki Hanajima." The black haired girl looked at me calmly but I could sense her trying to look into my head.
"Are you a psychic?" I looked towards the black haired girl, Hana, and she gave a surprised look.
"How did you know that?" Hana stared suspiciously and tried to get into my mind. Gasping, Saki Hanajima wasn't able to get through my mind barriers, in other words she couldn't see in my head.
"I have my ways," I grinned mischievously and looked at my watch, "Well, I better be going. Class starts in a few you know." I left the three girls to watch me leave suspiciously. The last thing I heard from them before turning the corner was,
"Tohru, I think you should be careful around that girl. I couldn't get into her mind; that means she knows how to create mind barriers and possibly be able to get into other people's thoughts or maybe even shock them, like I do. I also sense strange electric waves coming from her. She is not our ordinary high school student."
'Oh wait. I don't really have that much things...Oh why did I run away from home? Why? Let's see, the only things I found at that place was about: five outfits that actually fit me, some unused bath items...why would someone leave that behind? A brush, and a pair of sandals along with the sheets that still need washing. I really do need a place to stay. What will they think when I come over and they find that I hardly have anything? Oh why is life so cruel?' I sighed deciding that I'd just tell them the truth of what happened to me. 'But that's not like me at all! I don't know...' I was snapped out of my thoughts when Mr. Jo dropped a heavy dictionary on top of my desk.
"Ms. Panther, although you may be a new student, I will not treat you any different than I do the rest of my students. Now pay attention!" I stared at the dictionary as if it were something from a horror movie and started paying attention. In my next class, Gym, Ms. Rick was the same when I let my thoughts get the better of me. I can't believe I did that, though.
"Ms. Panther, the consequence for spacing out in my class results to 10 laps on the track. Start running." I did as told and let the wind move freely around me. That's when I saw a boy with grey hair and purple eyes; 'Prince' Yuki Sohma is what his fan club called him. Then I saw another boy with orange hair and dark maroon eyes; the cousin of Yuki Sohma, Kyo Sohma.
I took a glance at them and noticed the one known as Kyo catching up to me. It's only been 2 ½ minutes and I was already on my third lap, even though the track was nearly a mile long. He caught up to me and we both passed the checkpoint making it lap four; I picked up the pace and he did too. This was becoming a race; even after the amount of laps instructed to me I still raced him. We glanced at each other giving smirks that were glued on our determined faces.
"You're pretty fast," I spoke loud enough for him to hear. All the students in our gym class were now watching us in amazement.
"Don't think you'll win, you can't beat me!" He yelled picking up the pace as I did too. After a couple more laps we both collapsed to the ground and lied on the ground panting.
"It's...a tie." I stammered and stared up at the sky after receiving a nod from Kyo Sohma. My thoughts drifted off to the last name of the prince and Kyo, Sohma. Those were the last names of Momiji and Hatsuharu...I can never forget them, ever.
"Great job you two! You just made the track team," Ms. Rick chuckled before tossing us some towels and saying, "Go take a shower, you two look beat." Oh goody, that must mean that lunch was nearing. All of the gym students for this period left to go inside and take their relieving showers.
After the showers, the other students and I met in the indoor gym with Ms. Rick I sat on the floor and listened to her lecture about being healthier and what we'd be doing the next day we have her for class. It seemed like forever that she kept us in that room; after class I went off looking for Kyo and Yuki Sohma.
I found them both walking off campus with Tohru Honda; a kiddy-cute looking blond boy run up to the group and hugged Tohru. How cute...he looked just like Momiji! I felt a hand on my shoulder and was quickly spun around.
"Spying on our dear little Tohru?" My face met with Uotani's murderous one. I shook my head no and tried to look at the group again, but they were gone. I gasped and released Uo's grip on my shoulder and she tried to grab hold of me again, but I had already started running. I ran for a couple seconds coming to a halt when I was in front of the Sohma's and Tohru Honda.
"Wait," I looked at the boy a bit more carefully this time and tilted my head slightly, "Um...I need to know something." The four looked at me quizzically and I was about to answer, but Uo and Hana ran up to all of us.
"Alright. What's going on and what do you want with Tohru?" Uo glared grabbing me by the collar.
"No-
"Drop her." We all turned to Saki Hanajima who only gave a blank face.
"But-
"She's not here to cause any trouble." Uo let go of me, "I'm sorry. We just thought you were a threat, but what was it that you were going to say?" I looked at them and smiled kindly.
"Never mind." I walked away back to the school bumping into Ms. Rick. She smiled at me like she was relieved.
"There you are! I've been looking all over for you, here's where you'll be staying. You're going to be staying with Yuki and Kyo Sohma. If you have any questions just ask those two, okay." I nodded taking the papers she held that had info on the Sohmas.
The papers had a map to get to where they lived, the name of the house host, and other things as well. After school, I didn't even bother looking for prince Yuki or Kyo; I just followed the map and left for their house. I ended up in a beautiful forest and at a really nice looking house. I was about to knock on the door when it slid open, startling me. A man that looked to in his 20s looked at me with a smile. A man that looked all too familiar.
"Shi-Shigure?!" I yelled in surprise and he started to look me down before smiling too.
"PANTHER," He immediately pulled me into a tight hug. I returned the embracement and laughed a bit. "Yuki and Kyo don't know that you're staying with us, but they shouldn't mind. Oh, Panther..."
"I missed you so much Shigure..." I looked at him with tear filled eyes and he clasped my hands together and we stood there. None of us really noticed the three teens walking up to the area and watching us, well I didn't notice anyways.
"Why did you leave?" He gave me one of his childish voices I've heard from when we were younger.
"I had to," I leaned onto him putting my head on his shoulder still keeping our hands clasped together, "I didn't want to. It's true I didn't!" I heard voices from a very small distance.
"What's going on?" I looked up to see Yuki, Kyo, and Tohru standing right there looked very confused.
"Panther don't ever leave us like that again. Please don't!" Yuki's eyes went wide when Shigure said my name. I don't know why though.
"I won't Shigure." I smiled at him while wiping away my tears. Shigure looked at the three other occupants in the area and smiled before explaining.
"You see Panther here was a dear close friend of mine. Momiji and Hotsuharu's too. Even Hatori and Ayame. And well, Akito killed most of her family-
"All of them actually..." They all looked at me with shock and Shigure pulled me into another hug while continuing his explanation.
"He did that, but you see from what Momiji and Hatsuharu told me, she didn't know Akito was apart of our family and well, she went to school with and knew Momiji and Hatsuharu for a while, but then she just left. I didn't know why but then Momiji told me that Akito threatened her to leave..." Silence grew. I got out of Shigure's comforting arms and stood up straight.
"Where's my room?" The other three teens looked befuddled as Shigure told me where it was. I left hearing him laughing nervously and saying to them, "Oh yeah, she's staying with us. Heh heh"
~*End Of Chapter*~
It isn't confusing is it? By the way for those who haven't seen Fruits Basket before, Uo and Uotani and Arista are the same person, Arista is her first name, Uo is what Tohru calls her, and Uotani is her last name. Arista "Uo" Uotani.
Same with Saki Hanajima: Saki is her first name, Hana is what Tohru calls her, and Hanajima is her last name. Saki "Hana" Hanajima.
"Panther! Hi!" Momiji greeted in his usual sweet voice. Hatsuharu walked over with the same smile and hugged the young girl making her blush, which made Momiji laugh.
"Blushing!" He pointed at the 5yr old girl. The three kids were in the Sohma's mansion being watched by two pairs of eyes, none knowing that the other was watching as well. One of the pairs belonged to Yuki Sohma, and the other belonged to Akito Sohma.
"Where's Shigure, Hatori, and Ayame?"
"They're at school right now." Hatsuharu looked at her calmly.
"Hey, maybe you can come and meet Akito? He's the head of the family." Momiji suggested and Panther instantly frowned at the mention of the name.
"Akito? Akito Sohma? He's my enemy; he killed most of my family! I don't ever want to see HIM!" Panther glared but soften and felt herself being pulled into another hug by Hatsuharu.
"Don't worry, Panther. Akito...he doesn't quite know how to control himself at times, we're sorry about what he did to your family, but if you don't want to see him, we understand." Panther returned the hug but was immediately removed from the comfort. Akito ran out of his house when he heard about her family and threw her to the ground with a crazy grin.
"If you don't want to die, I suggest you leave now. Next time you come back, I'll make you suffer the same thing we do." Akito's eyes held that of a crazed guy. Panther looked at him fearfully and left stumbling over her feet. Momiji and Hatsuharu were about to go after her when Akito said something that kept them.
"Do you really think she likes you? She hates you, the only reason why she pretends to be your friend is because she wants to try and manipulate you. Trust me, she won't return to you." From his window, Yuki watched with curiosity about the girl. Nine years past as dark clouds gathered over the city and poured little drops of water. A 14yr old girl stood as she watched the ambulance take the last of her family away to the city morgue. She felt alone now, and she didn't have a Momiji or Hatsuharu to run to and receive comfort from. She was alone. Running away to wherever her feet carried her, Panther ended up on a train going to who knows where. At the first stop, she hopped off and just started walking off not knowing where she was going.
After walking for a long time, Panther decided that it was about time she'd look for somewhere to stay. She found an abandoned building that still had some good-conditioned furnishings, bathrooms, abandoned clothes, and other stuff. She found the bathroom and found the waters still working so she took a shower before going back out to buy herself some dinner. She went back to eat her dinner at the two-story brick walled building she was going to call home for a while. After she ate, she went to sleep and waited for the next day when she would go look for a school she can attend for the while.
The next morning came as Panther woke up under the morning light. Looking at her watch, she started getting into some clothes she found lying around the place. She wore her wavy hair down and left for the school wearing a pair of black jean pants and a black long sleeved shirt with a long leather trench coat over that and some black 2" high heels. Her brown eyes carried sadness but to the people that looked in them, showed nothing. Once she reached the school, it was still early and she had time to sign up for it.
"Hello, may I help you?" A lady behind the office counter asked tilting her head.
"I'd like to sign up for this school, please? And might I be able to attend today?" Panther asked in a soft voice as the lady started digging through a desk drawer.
"Yes, you may. Of course, ma'am, here you are. Sign these and just give them to me right after you're done." The lady handed over a couple of forms for Panther to fill out. Taking the forms and sitting down, Panther filled out the sheets skipping where it said to put her address. After filling the rest out, she went back to where it said address, nearly panicked.
"Oh yes, I'm sorry I forgot to ask, are you new here? Because if you are, then the school can get someone you could stay with if you like." Panther's face brightened and she gave a single nod.
"Ok then. If you're done filling out those papers, excluding your address, I can take them and help you with where you'll be staying," Panther gave her the papers, "for now, these will be the classes you'll be taking; I'll take care of these forms while you're in class."
"Thank you." The lady gave Panther a sheet of papers showing what her classes would be. 'Nice, like a free trial... Hope the family's nice...' Her thoughts trailed off as she read her periods.
Class Schedule:
Period 1: Math – Mr. Danes
Period 2: Reading/Writing – Mr. Jo
Period 3: Gym – Ms. Rick
Lunch
Period 4: Science – Ms. Janie
Period 5: Homeroom – Mr. Cho
Today's schedule was periods: 2--3--Lunch--5. Panther walked into her first class of the day and saw a few people in there along with the teacher. The teacher looked at her and smiled before greeting her.
"Hello, I'm Mr. Jo. The office called in and told me that you'd be coming, you must be Panther?" the two shook hands.
Panther's POV
"Yes, I am." I said and he led me over to my assigned seat telling me about what I'd be doing in the class.
"Got it?" I gave a slight nod and he left to finish whatever he was doing. I forgot I didn't bring a bag, oh well. I walked out of the class and went to explore. Down the hallways, I bumped into a cute looking girl, childishly I mean. Even though she looked to be about my age or little over, she looked childishly cute, like a little girl. Her light brown hair was down with a braid on the side and she had green eyes that made her look so adorable.
"I'm sorry! I wasn't looking, please forgive me..." She continued on with a bow and I just stared with a blank face. I put a hand on her shoulder and she looked up at me quieting.
"Don't worry, you don't need to apologize so much." She gave me a puzzled look before knocking herself on the head with a smile.
"Oh I'm so-," she laughed nervously and held out her hand, "I'm Tohru Honda." Smiling, I shook her hand and let go when a couple of girls walked up. One of them was blond, and the other had black hair that looked like green.
"Hey Tohru! Who's this?" the blond eyed me suspiciously, yet calmly.
"Panther, I'm new here." I introduced myself.
"Panther? That's a strange- ah, I mean- I don't mean it like that- oh boy oh boy I'm sorry!" I laughed and patted her head while the other two girls looked at me strangely.
"Don't worry, for the last time, stop apologizing!" We laughed.
"Oh! I'm sorry, this is Arista Uotani," she gestured to the blond, "and Saki Hanajima." The black haired girl looked at me calmly but I could sense her trying to look into my head.
"Are you a psychic?" I looked towards the black haired girl, Hana, and she gave a surprised look.
"How did you know that?" Hana stared suspiciously and tried to get into my mind. Gasping, Saki Hanajima wasn't able to get through my mind barriers, in other words she couldn't see in my head.
"I have my ways," I grinned mischievously and looked at my watch, "Well, I better be going. Class starts in a few you know." I left the three girls to watch me leave suspiciously. The last thing I heard from them before turning the corner was,
"Tohru, I think you should be careful around that girl. I couldn't get into her mind; that means she knows how to create mind barriers and possibly be able to get into other people's thoughts or maybe even shock them, like I do. I also sense strange electric waves coming from her. She is not our ordinary high school student."
'Oh wait. I don't really have that much things...Oh why did I run away from home? Why? Let's see, the only things I found at that place was about: five outfits that actually fit me, some unused bath items...why would someone leave that behind? A brush, and a pair of sandals along with the sheets that still need washing. I really do need a place to stay. What will they think when I come over and they find that I hardly have anything? Oh why is life so cruel?' I sighed deciding that I'd just tell them the truth of what happened to me. 'But that's not like me at all! I don't know...' I was snapped out of my thoughts when Mr. Jo dropped a heavy dictionary on top of my desk.
"Ms. Panther, although you may be a new student, I will not treat you any different than I do the rest of my students. Now pay attention!" I stared at the dictionary as if it were something from a horror movie and started paying attention. In my next class, Gym, Ms. Rick was the same when I let my thoughts get the better of me. I can't believe I did that, though.
"Ms. Panther, the consequence for spacing out in my class results to 10 laps on the track. Start running." I did as told and let the wind move freely around me. That's when I saw a boy with grey hair and purple eyes; 'Prince' Yuki Sohma is what his fan club called him. Then I saw another boy with orange hair and dark maroon eyes; the cousin of Yuki Sohma, Kyo Sohma.
I took a glance at them and noticed the one known as Kyo catching up to me. It's only been 2 ½ minutes and I was already on my third lap, even though the track was nearly a mile long. He caught up to me and we both passed the checkpoint making it lap four; I picked up the pace and he did too. This was becoming a race; even after the amount of laps instructed to me I still raced him. We glanced at each other giving smirks that were glued on our determined faces.
"You're pretty fast," I spoke loud enough for him to hear. All the students in our gym class were now watching us in amazement.
"Don't think you'll win, you can't beat me!" He yelled picking up the pace as I did too. After a couple more laps we both collapsed to the ground and lied on the ground panting.
"It's...a tie." I stammered and stared up at the sky after receiving a nod from Kyo Sohma. My thoughts drifted off to the last name of the prince and Kyo, Sohma. Those were the last names of Momiji and Hatsuharu...I can never forget them, ever.
"Great job you two! You just made the track team," Ms. Rick chuckled before tossing us some towels and saying, "Go take a shower, you two look beat." Oh goody, that must mean that lunch was nearing. All of the gym students for this period left to go inside and take their relieving showers.
After the showers, the other students and I met in the indoor gym with Ms. Rick I sat on the floor and listened to her lecture about being healthier and what we'd be doing the next day we have her for class. It seemed like forever that she kept us in that room; after class I went off looking for Kyo and Yuki Sohma.
I found them both walking off campus with Tohru Honda; a kiddy-cute looking blond boy run up to the group and hugged Tohru. How cute...he looked just like Momiji! I felt a hand on my shoulder and was quickly spun around.
"Spying on our dear little Tohru?" My face met with Uotani's murderous one. I shook my head no and tried to look at the group again, but they were gone. I gasped and released Uo's grip on my shoulder and she tried to grab hold of me again, but I had already started running. I ran for a couple seconds coming to a halt when I was in front of the Sohma's and Tohru Honda.
"Wait," I looked at the boy a bit more carefully this time and tilted my head slightly, "Um...I need to know something." The four looked at me quizzically and I was about to answer, but Uo and Hana ran up to all of us.
"Alright. What's going on and what do you want with Tohru?" Uo glared grabbing me by the collar.
"No-
"Drop her." We all turned to Saki Hanajima who only gave a blank face.
"But-
"She's not here to cause any trouble." Uo let go of me, "I'm sorry. We just thought you were a threat, but what was it that you were going to say?" I looked at them and smiled kindly.
"Never mind." I walked away back to the school bumping into Ms. Rick. She smiled at me like she was relieved.
"There you are! I've been looking all over for you, here's where you'll be staying. You're going to be staying with Yuki and Kyo Sohma. If you have any questions just ask those two, okay." I nodded taking the papers she held that had info on the Sohmas.
The papers had a map to get to where they lived, the name of the house host, and other things as well. After school, I didn't even bother looking for prince Yuki or Kyo; I just followed the map and left for their house. I ended up in a beautiful forest and at a really nice looking house. I was about to knock on the door when it slid open, startling me. A man that looked to in his 20s looked at me with a smile. A man that looked all too familiar.
"Shi-Shigure?!" I yelled in surprise and he started to look me down before smiling too.
"PANTHER," He immediately pulled me into a tight hug. I returned the embracement and laughed a bit. "Yuki and Kyo don't know that you're staying with us, but they shouldn't mind. Oh, Panther..."
"I missed you so much Shigure..." I looked at him with tear filled eyes and he clasped my hands together and we stood there. None of us really noticed the three teens walking up to the area and watching us, well I didn't notice anyways.
"Why did you leave?" He gave me one of his childish voices I've heard from when we were younger.
"I had to," I leaned onto him putting my head on his shoulder still keeping our hands clasped together, "I didn't want to. It's true I didn't!" I heard voices from a very small distance.
"What's going on?" I looked up to see Yuki, Kyo, and Tohru standing right there looked very confused.
"Panther don't ever leave us like that again. Please don't!" Yuki's eyes went wide when Shigure said my name. I don't know why though.
"I won't Shigure." I smiled at him while wiping away my tears. Shigure looked at the three other occupants in the area and smiled before explaining.
"You see Panther here was a dear close friend of mine. Momiji and Hotsuharu's too. Even Hatori and Ayame. And well, Akito killed most of her family-
"All of them actually..." They all looked at me with shock and Shigure pulled me into another hug while continuing his explanation.
"He did that, but you see from what Momiji and Hatsuharu told me, she didn't know Akito was apart of our family and well, she went to school with and knew Momiji and Hatsuharu for a while, but then she just left. I didn't know why but then Momiji told me that Akito threatened her to leave..." Silence grew. I got out of Shigure's comforting arms and stood up straight.
"Where's my room?" The other three teens looked befuddled as Shigure told me where it was. I left hearing him laughing nervously and saying to them, "Oh yeah, she's staying with us. Heh heh"
~*End Of Chapter*~
It isn't confusing is it? By the way for those who haven't seen Fruits Basket before, Uo and Uotani and Arista are the same person, Arista is her first name, Uo is what Tohru calls her, and Uotani is her last name. Arista "Uo" Uotani.
Same with Saki Hanajima: Saki is her first name, Hana is what Tohru calls her, and Hanajima is her last name. Saki "Hana" Hanajima.