Tohru's Problem- A glass Half Empty
Yuki departed from the house in a rush, racing as quickly as he could to get to where Tohru's work place was. He hadn't believed what Hana had said, but now he was beginning to get worried. What if something had really had happened? He increased his already fast pace. The world was blurring around him, all that mattered was getting to Tohru, and he noticed nothing else in the surrounding vicinity. He had to hurry.
When he got to her work the last of the night janitors was locking up and preparing to depart for home. Yuki, out of breath, approached her before falling to his knees.
"What's wrong dearie?" she asked in a sweet old lady tone. He looked up at her and noticed that she was old, too old for this kind of job, or these kind of hours. He could see the age on her face, and he could tell she was a nice old lady because she had the kind of wrinkles left behind were from smiling.
"Tohru," he breathed, "Tohru Honda, where is she?"
"Well, sweetie, she left about two hours ago, around ten." She looked into his face with a genuine look of concern.
"Thanks," Yuki said before taking off. He started off for home, but this time slower. He checked every dark alley for her, and once he got closer to the house, he checked all of the bushes. His efforts were in vain, however, as Tohru had already made her way home.
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About ten minutes after Yuki had set off Tohru had arrived home. Her clothes looked like they had been taken off, rolled around in the dirt, then thrown back on very quickly. Her hair seemed matter with dirt and looked as if she had just got out of bed. She looked like she had been crying and she was also sporting a few bruises. Lucky for her, Aaya and Shigure were in the other room laughing merrily about something.
"I'm home and I'm getting in the shower," she said in her normally cheerful voice.
"Okay," they said in unison.
She rushed up to the shower and quickly ripped off all her clothes. She turned the water on and with out bothering to adjust the heat she bolted in. For an hour she scrubbed, rubbed, washed and rinsed, but she still felt dirty. It was as if she was never going to be clean again. After that hour in the shower she realized that she wasn't going to get clean, and besides, she was out of soap. She sat down in the bottom of the tub and cried. The tears didn't stop and the feeling welling up inside of her was horrible. She felt as if every organ was choking with grief. She leaned her head into her lap to relax and she felt that her legs were a bit prickly so she grabbed the razor to shave them. It took her about 3 minutes to shave the first leg, but then when she came to the second leg she accidentally pressed to hard and cut her leg. It was on the left leg, about three inches above the ankles. As soon as she saw the blood she felt the feelings melt out of her with it.
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"CALL THE POLICE!" Yuki yelled, "Tohru is missing!" He frantically ran into the office where Aaya and Shigure were calmly drinking some tea.
"WELL!" he demanded, "WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!"
They looked at each other with a smirk on their faces and then burst out laughing.
"Well, well, it seems someone is quite attached to my little house wife," he choked out between laughs.
"She's missing! Do you even know what could happen to her!" Their 'so-what' attitude was outraging Yuki. He hit both of their heads with a sharp blow to their foreheads.
"Ow! We're just kidding! She's upstairs in the shower. She arrived home about ten minutes after you left. She's been in there for an awfully long time, I wonder what she is doing?" Shigure looked thoughtful as he said this.
"Perv." Yuki stated, hitting him once more on the head as he left to go and make sure she was all right.
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As Tohru was raping up her shower she heard a knock on the door.
"Yes?" she said as pleasantly as she could.
"Hey, are you okay? I got worried when you didn't get home from work on time, and even more so when I couldn't find you," at this Tohru started crying again, but she didn't let Yuki hear.
"Yuki," she said in her sweetest tone, striking Yuki, "thank you for worrying about me, but there is no cause for you to worry."
"Okay, see you later."
Tohru then realized that she, in her rush, had forgotten to get clothes for after her shower. What's worse was that now there were several deep cuts on the bottom on her left leg. While drying, she contemplated on what she was going to do. She finally decided to put on her socks and pull them up kinda like how they wore them at school, and wrap the towel around her body and quickly run to her room and get dressed.
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Yuki was hungry, as he hadn't eaten since lunch, so after his talk with Tohru through the bathroom door he went to the kitchen to find something to eat. Suddenly, as he was browsing the fridge he felt a hand on his shoulder.
"Yuki, please don't cook, I don't want my house to burn down," said Shigure, "None of us have had dinner, why don't we wait for Tohru to cook us something?"
"Um…" Yuki started, but at that moment Tohru came into the kitchen and said that she would be glad to.
Aaya had also recently the kitchen, although unnoticed until now, and said, "why don't you look lovely? But why the long face? And why did you arrive home so long after your normal time?"
"Oh I had to… stay late for work…and… well, I guess I'm just a bit tired. But I'd still be glad to fix dinner."
She fixed up a quick meal, and it wasn't as good as her normal meals. She was exceedingly quite during the meal.
"Tohru?" Yuki said, "is that a new skirt? It looks nice." Her skirt was one she never thought that she would wear, but this time she had no choice. It was a long frilly black skirt that Hana had given her for Christmas.
"Yes, and thank you." That was all she said during the meal. She quickly went up to her room after cleaning up. Yuki followed, he wanted to have a chat with her. She had seemed a bit depressed since she had gotten home.