Chapter 1: Breakfast and Terror
Tohru was busy in the kitchen, fixing up breakfast, when Kyo came down the stairs.
"Oh?!...Morning, Kyo!" Tohru cheerfully, sang.
"Ya, ya!" Kyo grunted, sitting down at the table, in the dining room.
"I hope you like Pancakes!" Tohru asked, in the same singing voice.
"Sounds fine to me...," Kyo told her, looking out the open side door.
After 15 minutes, just as Tohru was finishing with the breakfast preparations, Yuki and Shigure,
came down at the same time.
"Something smells good...why it's breakfast! Made possible by our lovely Tohru Honda!" Shigure
sang, merrily.
"Do you even have a normal side?" Yuki asked him, scowling, as he sat down, opposite Kyo.
"What has out Darling, little Tohru, made for us this happy morning?" Shigure asked, putting his
hands together, and praying to the ceiling.
"I made some of my Mom's famous, Big Berry Pancakes!" Tohru told them, coming out, as she
began to dish out the food, "it has every possible berry, put in the batter! I loved them as a kid!"
"Your mother must have really loved making them for you!" Shigure pointed out.
"Yeah...," Tohru agreed, as her expression, suddenly turning sad, "and it's strange, you
know...the last time my mom, made them for me...was the day before her accident..."
Everyone stopped eating and stared at Tohru. Tohru stood there, hung over the table, still in
the middle of serving, with tears, slowing forming in her eyes. She looked away, and brushed her
face, before the tears formed on her face.
"I'm sure your mother would be proud, that you're continuing her love of Pancakes, Miss
Honda," Yuki, praised her, smiling, "I'm sure you make them, just as good."
"Oh, I don't know about that...," Tohru mumbled, trying to hide her sadness, "I could never be
as great as my mom, was!"
"Well, let's taste and find out," Shigure announced, sticking his fork in the food, and taking a
bite.
Everybody looked at him.
"Well...how are they?" Tohru asked, shyly.
"They taste like...," Shigure began, slowly munching them, savoring them on his tongue.
"Yes...," Tohru, nervously prodded.
"They taste like a rainbow of pure sunshine from heaven! Tada!" Shigure sang, jumping to his
feet, putting one foot up on the table, and raising his fork above his head.
"It's official," Yuki sighed, taking a bite of Pancake, "you have no normal side."
"I'm glad you like them!" Tohru cheered, putting her hands together, in happiness.
"Yo, dog?!" Kyo snarled, "would you mind getting your foot, out of my breakfast?"
"Ohhh!!! I'm so sorry, Kyo!" Shigure yelled, finding out what he had done, and immediately took
his foot away, "I just ruined such a beautiful breakfast, that you can no longer enjoy, because of
my foolish behavior! I'm sorry Kyo! Please, forgive me!"
Shigure hugged Kyo around the head, in order to comfort him.
"Errr...Get off me, you dumb dog!" Kyo yelled, flinging Shigure across the room.
"Ohhh...what a beautiful day!" Shigure sang, eating Pancakes, as he flew.
"Am I really related to you two?" Yuki wondered, out loud, finishing the last bite on his plate, "I
better get to school!"
"Oh, yes! I almost forgot!" Tohru gasped, turning towards the kitchen, still with pancakes in her
frying pan, "today is the first day of school, of the new semester!"
"Um, Miss Honda?" Yuki asked her, looking at the plate that she had set out for herself, "aren't
you going to have any pancakes? They are your mother's, after all!"
"Oh, that's ok!" Tohru smiled, looking back at Yuki, "I can wait until Lunch at school! I'm sure my
mom, will understand! We'll be late, if I eat anything!"
"Um...," Yuki wondered, watching Tohru, as she went about cleaning up the mess she made, in
the kitchen.
"That girl can't take a hint, can she?" Kyo scolded, finishing his last bite.
"Oh, Kyo!" Shigure sang, in a baby-like voice, "don't pick on poor Tohru, after she made such a
wonderful breakfast, for us!"
Again, Shigure hugged Kyo, around the head.
"How about you take a hint, you dumb dog! Go away!" Kyo yelled, throwing Shigure, even
farther, this time.
"Ooooh, beautiful day!" Shigure sang.
That day, at school, Tohru parted ways with Yuki, and met up with Uo and Hana.
"Hey, Tohru!" Uo smiled, as she met up with Tohru in the hall.
"Hi, Uo!" Tohru greeted her.
"Hi, Tohru!" Hana greeted, as well.
"Hi, Hana!" Tohru, sang to her.
"Did you have fun, while we were away?" Uo asked.
"Yes, I did thanks!" Tohru smiled, "how about you? Did you like your vacation?"
Uo had gone to Hawaii with her parents, and Hana had gone away, to a special camp, for gifted
kids.
"Looks like we have first class, with each other!" Hana announced, looking at her paper.
"Isn't that a coincidence?" Tohru cheered.
"Not really...," Hana said, going into Psychic Mode, "I told the person making the schedules, to
put all 3 of us in the same classes, otherwise I couldn't help for what might happen next!"
"Eh?" Tohru gasped, getting a scared and awed look on her face, "...you...you didn't hurt
anybody did you?"
"No...but I did spark a small flame, and his hair caught fire a little...," Hana said, still in Psychic
Mode.
"Riiiight, anyways...," Uo burst out of nowhere, "how about we get to class?"
The girls opened the door, and went to their class.
After school, Tohru met up with Kyo and Yuki, outside the school, fighting in the street.
"You are dead today, rat boy!" Kyo screamed, taking a swipe at Yuki.
"What a pathetic punch!" Yuki insulted, easily dodging the punch, "did you learn anything useful
up in the mountains, while you were there?"
"Damn Yuki!" Kyo yelled, trying again to hit him.
"Hey, Kiyo! Yuki!" Tohru smiled, waving to them. The two stopped attacking each other, and
looked up.
"Miss Honda?" Yuki said, standing up off the ground and dusting himself off, "how was your first
day of school?"
"It was great!" Tohru sang, smiling, "how about you?"
"I had a good time as well," Yuki agreed.
"All was fine, until rat boy, decided on upstaging me in science class!" Kyo barked.
"I was only doing my experiments, that's all," Yuki explained to Kyo, with a scowl.
"Yeah, right!" Kyo yelled, louder, "you had to finish your experiments first, and leave me in the
dust!"
"You just can't understand that stuff, as well as I can!" Yuki explained, some more.
"Oh, yeah? Prove it!" Kyo growled.
"You blew up the classroom!" Yuki told him, giving him the evil eye, "is that enough proof, for
you?"
"Ugh...," Kyo growled, again, storming off towards home.
The three walked home, not speaking a word. Kyo and Yuki stood on either side of Tohru, while
she boar the brunt, of the two warring animals stares, in between them.
Once at home, Yuki got a bad feeling in his gut.
"Kyo?! Did you feel that, too?" Yuki asked him, forgetting about their little argument.
"Yeah!" Kyo agreed, getting an angry look on his face, "I felt it!"
The two guys ran forward, and hurried to the house. They flung open the door, and looked
inside. There on the floor, under an overturned table, was Shigure, unconscious. The two guys,
rushed over to him, and lifted off the table. Coming late to the event, was Tohru. She looked
inside, and gasped.
"Shigure...," Tohru, barely got out.
"Miss Honda, call Hatori!" Yuki ordered, still trying to keep his composure.
Tohru, still in shock, did as he said, and ran for the phone. She dialed the numbers, and waited
for Hatori to answer.
"I'll be right there!" Hatori said, sounding unnaturally panicky.
After about 20 minutes, Hatori arrived at the house, and was greeted by Tohru, who had waited
for him, outside the house. Inside, Hatori pulled out some supplies from his bag, and looked
Shigure over. He listened to his heart, and to his breathing.
"So, what's wrong with him?" Kyo asked Hatori, as he was still checking him over.
"I don't know for certain," Hatori said, "but from my guess, and his strange readings, someone
injected an unknown substance, into his blood stream!"
"Huh?!" everyone gasped. They all looked down at Shigure, sweating heavily.
A few hours later, and Hatori asked to take Shigure back with him, and keep him the night. After
he left, the group went inside, and started to clean up.
"Who do you think could have done this?!" Kyo asked, picking up the table, and putting it back,
in it's right place.
"I don't know," Yuki admitted, getting a sad look on his face, "but whoever it was, must have
targeted him specifically!"
"Why do you say that?" Kyo asked, not sure what he could mean.
"Think about it, you dumb cat!" Yuki scolded, thinking Kyo should have been smart enough to
figure it out, "this house is in the middle of the forest. Nobody, but us, comes this way to go
home! So, only someone who knows Shigure and the rest of us, did something like this!"
"Do you think one of the other Sohma's, could have done it?" Kyo asked, with shock in his voice.
"It's possible...," Yuki admitted, looking down at the table, "Hmm?!"
Yuki spotted a piece of paper that was taped to the top of the table. Yuki bent down and
ripped it off.
"What is it, Yuki?" Kyo asked, impatiently.
Yuki read it, and shivered all over.
"Yuki?!" Kyo yelled, snapping him out of his shock, "what does it say?!"
"It...it says...," Yuki stuttered, "it says..."The Girl's next!"
