Threats and Secrets
By: Unknownred
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Summary: Tohru Honda goes from being a good-nature girl to a quiet, pessimistic person while living in the Sohma's household. There's something different about her. What has happened to Tohru for her to be like this? Will the three Sohma's including her two friends find out what's wrong? Find out for yourself.
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Chapter 3 – Answers
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The trio gathered around, piecing together what Saki had just heard from her earlier trance. Yuki sat on the bench, his elbows planted on his knees while propping his chin on the palms of his hands. "But what actually happened? There were two people involved."
Arisa crossed her arms over her chest and nodded in agreement, "Yeah, and it seemed one of the two had done something pretty awful… but what?"
Saki had told the two that she was going to the restroom to freshen up before coming back to check up on what they had gathered upon her information. Kyo paced back and forth in front of the two.
"Well, she did say one of the two mentioned 'bloodlust'?" Kyo muttered aloud, looking up from his thoughts, "Perhaps they committed murder?"
"Oh, for once, the cat has a brain." Yuki muttered, rolling his eyes at the obvious.
Kyo stopped his pacing; his ears perked at Yuki's retort and turned swiftly to Yuki. Stomping his foot, and glaring dangerously at his cousin, "Watch it, rat boy!"
Arisa was too deep in thought to even notice the two boy's death glares. Saki had fallen pretty fast once she stepped into the middle of the courtyard— could it be that the hidden case behind the voices were taken in this courtyard? And if it was, did these voices connect to Tohru's mysterious case as well?
Pouting, Arisa felt slightly disappointed that Tohru didn't tell her or Saki, her problem. If she needed help, they would help her out— if only she had asked or told them about it.
"There were two voices overlapping each other. I couldn't hear if the voices were either sex." Saki let out a shaky breath. She sat up, brushing a strand of her black hair behind her ear. "No other voices entered; it was just the two voices. It didn't sound anything important except some of their words were blunt and clear."
Could the two people have been alone or was meeting in secret? Saki did say that they sounded like they were in a difficult situation as if one of the two voices didn't want any of whatever happened happen. Could it have been a threat?
"Hey guys?" Arisa looked up from her thoughts and finally focused on the two who were busy glaring at each other. "Hey guys!"
"What?" Kyo looked away, spitting on the ground. He kicked the ground, making a wave of dust hover over from where he had spat and watch it disappear his saliva.
"Quit foolin' around! This is not the time to be playing your stupid games." Arisa rolled her eyes, aiming her stern voice at Kyo.
Kyo shrugged, getting even more irate when Yuki turned away, probably laughing at Kyo's red-handed spotlight. Grumbling, Kyo muttered a string of foul words. "Whatever."
"I agree," Yuki sat straight up, and crossed his arms and legs. He looked up and watched as a cloud hovered in front of the sun, sending a shadow across his features. "This means something at least. But what's the story behind it and how does it connect to Honda san?"
"If it connects to Tohru." Kyo walked forward. "Maybe it doesn't even have to do with Tohru. Maybe she fainted out of exhaustion or something."
Yuki shook his head, "Are you stupid, cat?"
"What'd you say?" Kyo shouted, without thinking.
"Stop guys!" Arisa came over, standing between the two boys. She placed a hand on Kyo's chest and looked back at Yuki, "Think of Tohru. We really need to find out what's going on."
"Well what facts do we have?"
"Let's say the voices were secretly meeting, and if so, why?" Arisa took a few steps back, placing a finger to her chin. She looked between the two, giving them something to think about.
"What do you suppose the meeting was about?" Yuki wondered aloud, staring at the place where Saki had swayed earlier.
"Saki did mention there was bloodlust."
Kyo remained silent.
"Okay, well that could link to something scandalous, don't you think?" Yuki nodded absentminded.
"I agree."
"Well, it seems that what Miss Hanajima heard were voices, meaning… this could be supernatural. She was in a trance of some like."
"You're right!" Arisa snapped attention, pointing aimlessly. "Meaning, whatever happened was unsolved because it could still be happening!"
Yuki looked at Arisa as she looked back. They both had similar thoughts to what could have happened. Piecing together what they thought up, Kyo stood there silently— a thought blaring at him until he finally spoke up. "Hey, where's your friend?"
The two looked up at him, finally realizing that he was still there.
"Girls sure do take long when they head to the bathroom," Kyo inhaled an annoying breath and strung his fingers through his hair. "Huh?"
After digesting who Kyo was referring to, Arisa rushed forward and entered the open corridors of the school with Yuki following not far behind. They fast paced until they reared a corner and the sign of the girl's bathroom was facing their direction. Arisa brushed past, slamming the door open and walked in. It didn't take long for her to come back out, disbelief written across her face.
"Not there."
The trio rushed forward again, this time heading towards the nurses off, wondering if Saki went to see if Tohru was awake. When they got to the nurses off, the door automatically slid open with a BAM! Saki was thrown to the ground, the breath knocked out of her. She laid there emotionless.
"Saki!" Arisa ran forward, and knelt to her friend. Picking up her head and resting it on her lap, she asked feverishly, "You okay! What happened?"
Saki opened her eyes; half dazed at the impact and saw Arisa staring down at her. She turned her head to see Yuki and Kyo rushing to her side. "….I figured it out."
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Chapter 4 – Saving
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Arisa stayed with Saki outside the infirmary as the two cousins ran in to find the infirmary bed where they had previously left Tohru on, empty—with Tohru no where to be found. "TOHRU!" Kyo yelled, his head whipping around.
Then something snapped in the next room. Yuki cautiously walked forward and saw the nurse on the ground, unconscious— his clipboard broken in half and papers scattered across the floor.
Suddenly out of nowhere, and too fast for the two boys to notice, a vase whizzed past their heads and shattered against the wall. The two boys jumped back, their heads snapping to the shooter. What shocked them more was Tohru standing there, blood dripping from her chin and her eyes, dark with hatred.
She breathed unevenly as she stared ahead. She reached sideways, grabbing another vase. Horrified, the two boys stepped forward, their hands reached up, an gentle gesture for Tohru to put down the object.
"Tohru, what's going on?" Kyo asked aloud.
Yuki stepped forward a few steps more where he could reach her without frightening her. It seemed Tohru was in some sort of trance or if he was correct, she might've been possessed.
"Put the vase down, Honda san." Yuki's voice was steadied with reassurance.
Tohru lifted the vase, drawing it back and with a lurch, she threw the vase once again and it flew past them, hitting the wall again. Kyo watched the scene with wide eyes. "What's wrong with you, Tohru?"
Tohru reached her hand again to grab another object but this time she came empty-handed. The two boys rushed forward but Tohru, startled and with great speed, flew back to the opposite wall. The boys paused, astonished and bewildered.
Tohru's baffled expression turned into a dark sign of danger and a chuckled had turned into a heavy tone of laughter.
Yuki's predicament was indeed correct, Tohru Honda is definitely possessed.
Craning her head, blood dripped from her chin to the glassy floor.
Oh, the heroes are here! How delightful!
Yuki gasped as Kyo snapped his head to the voice, "What the?"
Tohru laughed, and then what seemed like forever, paused, giving the two boys a scare— tilted her head as if it was going to snap off, "What's wrong? Hehehe."
Indeed, it was Tohru, but the words she spoke was not of hers— instead was a deep, hoarse-moaned slithering past your skin that made the two boys shiver, inside their bones and down their spines.
"What's your name demon?" Yuki spat, stepping forward, cautiously.
Kyo glared, this time at Tohru. After hearing 'demon', Kyo knew Tohru wasn't really her, but someone had consumed her naïve body and replaced her with venomous traits.
Tohru frowned, glowering up at Yuki through her bangs. "Why must you be so clever?"
She slid her tongue out and licked her bloody lips, smearing it on the sides of her mouth. She was a mess. There was static in the air, and it didn't affect Tohru. A growl made its way past her lips, as she darted across the room. Yuki and Kyo, surprised and yet their eyes followed as she whooshed by, crossing the room to the exit of the infirmary.
"Don't let her out of the room!" Kyo yelled, making a run for the exit.
When Yuki and Kyo reached the other side, there blocking the exit wasn't Tohru but Saki and Arisa on the other side. Saki's hands were clasped together, close to her chest as she mumbled to herself. Frozen to the spot, Tohru watched fascinated.
Yuki, being the sly one, snuck behind Tohru and quickly tackled Tohru, making no decision whether he was going to transform. Kyo reacted with a gasp and stepped forward, his hands out-stretched as if he was going to catch his cousin.
Yuki and Tohru stooped forward and fell down to the floor. Tohru made an unbelievable roar of being disturbed by the chant. Yuki, stunned from not changing, held down Tohru by her shoulders and straddled her back so that she couldn't get up.
Get off, you rat! You will be cursed, I will curse you!
Yuki chuckled, rolling his eyes as the demon's words crept into his mind. Like it hasn't happened, he thought.
Kyo, on the other hand, watched as Saki crept forward, her hand now clasped in a form of a gun sign, shooting up towards the ceiling. Arisa stood behind her, spell-bound by the situation and yet seemed to be guarding the exit.
"仰せられた悪魔" Saki chanted. "あなたが来たから自分の行動に注意を払われ."
"Be gone demon," Saki chanted. "You will heed your own actions from which you came."
Tohru's body seemed to pulse, shaking the ground, the ceiling, the window panes, basically the whole room. She convulsed, writing underneath Yuki, screaming curses aloud, coughing up blood vigorously and clawing the ground— her finger nails making an eerie sound of a chalk on a board.
Silence followed afterwards.
"Tohru?" Arisa ran and knelt at her friend's side, as Yuki got off Tohru and turned her over but still handling her for safe measures. She brushed aside Tohru's bangs and muttered aloud, "So she was possessed after all."
Yuki looked around, nodding sadly and glanced back at Kyo and Saki who were standing behind them. Kyo had a bizarre look of disbelief as Saki came forward, lifting a brow. Suddenly Kyo buckled to the ground, his hand lifting to his forehead, "So it's over?"
Hehehe…
As if on instinct, Tohru's eyes shot open, and a gurgle of noise rumbled in her throat. She stared up at the ceiling, her eyes wandering hazily around her surroundings. Yuki looked back, feeling a tiny static shock his hands which were pressed on Tohru's shoulders.
A humming sound of a children's rhyme filled the air, repeating its chorus and made everyone on edge. "What is this?" Arisa announced, "Feels like we're being watch, or at least like in a horror film?"
"Ring around the rosy, a pocket filled with money," sang Tohru, her lips moving and her eyes dancing with mischief. "If you leave, I will scream and this girl will die—"
By me!
Tohru sat up and laughed with a dead tone. She craned her neck to Arisa, her bones cracking, mockingly. "You got to do better than that. I don't die easily."
"Then how?"
Hehe, kill me and your friend dies.
Saki stepped forward, kneeling adjacent from Yuki, and pressed her index finger to Tohru's forehead, "We don't want to kill you. We just want our friend back to normal."
She was never normal in the first place! I like her, she's mine!
Kyo growled, crawling forward, and pushed the trio away. He grabbed a hold of Tohru's uniform collar and yanked her up, "Shut up, you ungrateful demon!"
Tohru grinned; her teeth bloody as she locked eyes with Kyo and this time, her own voice came out, shallow. "Why do you hate me, Kyo kun?"
Taken aback, Kyo swallowed, his eyes softening at her voice, "Tohru…"
"I don't need saving. I am saved."
Saki, pushed forward, her finger poking Tohru's head again, and started mumbling foreign words under her breath. The air started to thicken, and everyone seemed to waver, feeling the quick and supernatural aura around them selves.
Kyo let go of Tohru as she plopped back down to the ground with a thump and laughed.
"Don't be stupid, you're not our Tohru!" Arisa pushed forward, also yanking Tohru to a sitting position and slapped her across the face with her leftover strength. Tohru continued to laugh and as everyone tried to stop Arisa from continuously her slapping their friend. "Give us back our Tohru!"
Hit me again, you're only hitting your friend!
Arisa gasped, obviously forgetting about Tohru and dropped her once more. Yuki watched, devastated and quite sadden at the fact that they almost got through to Tohru but to no prevail, had gotten worst.
Saki glowered at Tohru, her eyes closing at an image forming into her mind. A silhouette flutter around the absence of her mind, words spurred out of its mind, and little whispers coherent to the ear and yet getting louder in her mind.
Tohru gasped, her eyes widening as she stared into Saki's eyes. Saki, please…
A dark and deadly aura loomed above the heads of the students, their hair flying in different directions and the absence of possession seemed to be sucked into the chest of the gothic witch.
A loud bang of doors slamming and glass shattering in the small room was unheard outside the infirmary of the school and outside the windows, the sky was still the same color of white and blue— nothing out of the ordinary of a sign that it was the end for Tohru. Tohru fell backwards, limp from exhaustion, her eyes half lit in curiosity and confusion and then closed as she fell unconscious. Arisa was the one to react, catching Tohru's head before it impacted the hard floor. Yuki, on the other hand glanced at Kyo who was looking worriedly between Tohru and Saki.
Opening her eyes slowly, Saki saw everything in a different view; hazy and bloody. The walls dripped, melting of its coats of paint, like tears. Her friend's voices calling out Tohru's name were strange to her ears, as if they were talking a different language. But then there was something other than just the five of them in the room; there were a pair eyes staring back at them, a sign of greed and lust.
This is what happens when you mess with witchcraft, you stupid human, hehe.
Saki nodded absentminded and began to narrow her eyes but found that she was directing it at Tohru instead; feeling the hatred within her heart that wasn't there before.
This is the end; you have made a grave mistake!
I don't think so.Saki laughed inwardly, her inner self portraying the powers she inherited, and casted a very old ritual of a demonic spell onto the silhouette.
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