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Ok, the answer was henbane. Henbane is a type of herb that grows in the costal areas of Europe. Its Latin name is Hyoscyamus Niger. Its common names are Hog's bean or Devil's eye. Every part of the plant is poisonous. The ancient Greeks thought it could make one prophetic. Can cause delirium and death.
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Kyo looked up from his paper, eyes round with excitement. He had been trying to solve it for the last two hours, in which Tohru had gotten steadily worse.
This first clue is simple, and I mean it is so
The second letter in that and the beginning of end
Not the last in this sentence, the very first, my friend
The beginning of buts and of aim and of name
Then finish this off with a spin and some flare
The very last clue is at the end of there
"It's Henbane!" Yuki whispered, and Kyo looked up from his paper.
"What?" he asked, a hand digging into his orange hair.
"Henbane!" he said. Yuki frantically flipped through the pages and found the herb.
"And it can be cured." He said. They both looked over at Tohru's still figure. She wasn't breathing very slowly, and her breath was rattling and wispy. They both rushed to go make the antidote.
Gray eyes looked up from the wood floor. And a menacing smile played over the cold lips of the person who was watching with great care the two teens trying to make an antidote. They had gotten it right, and she would live, for now.
He turned and left, an envelope where he was standing was the only proof that he had been there at all. He would have more fun than he thought. Not to mention something sweet, something like revenge.
Tohru's eyes blearily opened, and Yuki and Kyo gave a sigh of relief. She tried to sit up, but then Kyo pushed her down gently.
"Rest, and sleep." He whispered. She slowly nodded her head, and then was at once asleep. Yuki shook his head, and let out another sigh.
"That was too close." Yuki muttered.
"Way too close." Kyo agreed
"I need to shake the blanket out, I will be right back." Kyo said, picking up the blanket.
He walked out, and his eyes beheld another envelope.
"Yuki!" he said.
"Hmmm?" he asked
"I don't think the game is over."
"What do you mean?" he asked, coming out. He saw the envelope, and then ripped it open. He read it aloud as they walked into the kitchen.
Good job and well done, you have me impressed
She didn't die, and the riddle you guessed
So now, I had fun, let's play another.
Same rules as before
But this will be tougher.
"There is nothing else." Yuki said
"Well, I'll be cursed if he plays with Tohru anymore!" Kyo growled. Yuki nodded
"We can't play this game, we absolutely won't!" Yuki added
Kyo nodded, and Yuki handed him the paper. Kyo looked at where Yuki had placed his thumb.
"Crap!" he yelled, and then Yuki looked at the letter. When his thumb had been, a word had appeared.
"It must be heat sensitive." Yuki commented
" No really! Stupid rat! That means that the game is still on!" he said
"Watch your tongue, you lazy cat!" Yuki warned
Tohru moaned in the next room, and both froze, looking into the room.
Kyo looked at the letter, then breathed on it. Words appeared, their elegant scrawl vexing Kyo.
Now I know you don't want to, and I really don't care,
But Wednesday at noon, there's a theatre play
I want to see how she's doing, so she will be there
She'll be alone, with no guards or she won't live the whole day
And not a word will you tell her, don't show her this note
It won't matter at all, as it is something to burn
It won't matter what's on this, or what has been wrote
Making mistakes is a life costly way to learn
If you choose not to play, then the main role will be filled
Yuki knows the play, and he knows what I mean
When I tell him she comes, or she'll be in it, as killed
Antigone is the play and I mean the end scene.
"This is just the rambling of an insane madman!" Kyo said
"No, it makes sense." Yuki said, calmly
"What do you mean?"
"Antigone is a play that was written by a Greek play writer. It is a Greek tragedy." He said
"So! The only tragedy is that it was ever written, she's not going!" Kyo exclaimed
"The ending scene, Antigone, the main character, hangs herself." Yuki said. Kyo froze.
"So she goes with no protection, nothing, to see a play, not to mention with a psycho madman, and if we tell her to watch her back, and she goes, she will be hanged?" he asked.
"I believe that's what he means." Yuki replied, controlling his voice under and iron vice and trying to keep his face from boiling with anger.
" No. She is not going." Kyo stated.
" I agree." Yuki concluded
With that, they took out blankets and just to be safe, they put them next to where she was sleeping. He wasn't going to get her tonight.
Or so they thought.
The next morning they woke up, and both of them looked at the bed. It was empty. Yuki looked to the kitchens, and saw her tripping around. She looked drunk.
"Miss Honda, what are you doing?" Yuki asked
"M-making breakfast." She stuttered, leaning heavily on the wall.
"No, bedtime for you!" Kyo said, walking over and grabbing her wrist.
"But, your breakfast?" she asked, and sat down onto her bed. She laid down, and then she seemed less dizzy. Yuki pulled the covers up around her, and she smiled
"We have two hands, Miss Honda." Yuki said, and Kyo nodded.
"Where is Shigure?" She mumbled, and Yuki and Kyo looked at each other. Where was he?
"Oh, I remember. He had someone deliver a note, late last night, while you two were asleep." She muttered.
"Oh?" Kyo asked
"Yeah, it was saying that he was going to be gone the next few weeks, on tour, for his books." She said, her voice dying as she slept
"Did the messenger give anything else to you?" Yuki asked her.
"Letter, on the table." She said
Kyo ran over to it, and then sighed as it turned out to be a letter from his "girlfriend"
"Who is it from?" Yuki asked, taking a pot from the sink and washing it out. He then filled it with water, and put it on the stove to heat it.
"Kagura." He said.
There was a knock on the door, and Yuki brought in the paper that the paperboy had left. "You know, I wonder why this Simon person chose Wednesday." He said, stirring the tea. He went to close the door, then put the paper on the table. "The theater was playing Antigone all this week, and part of last week."
"Well, she will be better by tomorrow, but she still isn't going. She is under house arrest." Kyo said.
Yuki nodded, " but still why did he choose tomorrow?" he asked
"I could care less." Kyo said.
The day went onward from there. Kyo and Yuki tended to Tohru, while one of them would make tea or some food every now and again, although Kyo cooked for Yuki only because Yuki could burn a salad.
When night came. Tohru woke up once again, and she could walk around.
They all sat down after she had made dinner, and after she had finished eating, they began to ask her questions.
"Did you see the person, Miss Honda?" Yuki asked.
"No, I was struck in the back of the head." She said, and rubbed the back of her head. Her brown curls had lost a little of their gloss, but a good brushing would return it.
"Hey, why do you get to ask the questions?" Kyo asked.
"Because, I have a brain."
"You stupid rat!" he exclaimed.
Their banter soon faded away as Tohru went to bed, she had recovered a little, but she was still weak.
As night fell, they all went to bed; Yuki explaining that he was going to sleep outside her door to make sure the man that had hit her didn't do anything to her.
The next morning came up; and Tohru was up first, accidentally waking up Yuki. She apologized, and then went to go cook breakfast. They saw Kyo practicing kicks and punches in the sunlight
Yuki and Kyo tried to lessen Tohru's uncomfortable-ness by arguing with each other.
They continued to exchange insults through out the day, maybe to lessen the nervousness of the approaching noon dead line, until they heard the doorbell ring. Tohru got up to get it.
It was after noon, and both of them became worried. They both leapt after her, thinking about bombs exploding when she opened the letter, or someone throwing a sack over her head. She came back into the room, handed Kyo a letter, who was on the floor, and then went to close the door
It was the same scrawl as the last two notes.
He opened it while Yuki distracted Tohru, who had become at once intrigued, once she had come back into the kitchen.
The paper boy had been working extra hard, usually news would wait till the next day, but there must have been something very dreadful for an afternoon paper to be put out. The last time, a little girl had gotten lost and her body had been found, and that was why the paper had been delivered the time the body had been found, and had not been posponed until the morning paper.
You aren't very smart, as it shows by the day
Miss Honda hasn't come yet
And there is death in the play
But really, don't forget.
This was delivered with a newspaper, so look at the front page
Now will you send her, or do you wish to enrage.
Tomorrow is closed off, as the actors have died
So Miss Honda will go on a bike for a ride
She will go to the park and sit on the first bench
She will do as I say, or my anger I'll vent
Tomorrow at noon, I'll be waiting there
And only miss Honda will come,
So play fair!
"Tohru," Kyo said, and he beckoned to the paper.
She gave it to him. On the front page was an article about Emma Jones, who was the main character in the school play, Antigone, and how she hung herself during the play.
"Yuki, Tohru might want to go to the park tomorrow." He said, his anger making his hand tremble as he handed Yuki the note.
Tohru looked from Kyo to Yuki.
"I could stay here." She said, and then wilted when Kyo shook his head
"I'm sorry, if I did anything to upset you!" she said, bowing and looking at the floor.
"No, miss Honda, it isn't you, but," he said, reading the paper Kyo handed him. His voice was strained, and Tohru looked at him, shock etched into her face. He almost never sounded strained "A walk in the park will do you good."
"No, really, I have to get caught up here!" she insisted, they shook their heads.
"Ok." She said, and then looked at the sink. She stood up from the table, and she must have decided that she wasn't goin to press them, taking their dishes and setting them into the sink as she began to clean them.
" You guys, really, you know you can talk to me, right?" they nodded. She decided to leave it at that.
She didn't hear Kyo slam his fist on the table, as she had dropped a dish at that exact moment. It shattered, and she stammered apologies while cleaning it up. When the floor was clean and she was washing the dishes again, Kyo turned to Yuki,
"But she isn't going alone," Kyo said, and Yuki looked undecided. Then he nodded.
"She isn't. One of us should stay here, to make sure no one bombs the house."
" Yuki, you have to stay here." Kyo said, and Yuki shook his head
"Fine, we both can go, but we have to be discreet." They both said.
Little did they know that the "rambling madman" had his own plans, which he had prepared for them to do what they were about to. He was a smart man, and he smiled as blue eyes and blonde hair glinted in the light.
The person who delivered him the happy news smiled a cold smile, sharing the master's happiness. They would get what they want, and no one would catch them. No one. Besides, dead men tell no tales.
Hey, I think that was good… maybe. But you know, there is a little box down there… Please tell me if I am ooc, or if I misspelled the names wrong. My spell check doesn't like the name Tohru. Who lurnd mi spel chek to spel?
oh yeah, another authors note, i don't swear, and i don't write profanity, so Kyo is not going to curse, and i know that it is a little out of charecter, but if you really have a problem, maybe you should not read this story. i am putting my feet down. lols thanks for reading! also i would like to thank my lovely Beta, Randomfandom100!!!
Lol not really a riddle this time, but there will be one next time., i promise.