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Recap: After a long and agonizing flight for Kyo, the Sohma's land in Florida, where they are greeted by an old lady.
Chapter II
"Welcome to Florida" The little old lady gave a bow. She was no taller then four feet and her gray hair was tied up in a messy bun. Her frumpy gray dress, that covered a majority of her wrinkled frame, was long enough to cover her shoes, but not drag on the floor.
"Um, yeah, thanks." Kyo said as he backed away from her.
"Ah, Mrs. Hope, so kind of you to meet us here." Hatori shook the old woman's hand.
"It was no problem. Seeing as how there was nothing better to do at home; I figured you all could use a warm welcome to the county. And it has been forever since I last saw you Hatori." The old woman rambled on. Kyo started to fidget.
"Um… we should move away from here, shouldn't we?" Kyo interrupted. Hatori looked up at him, his face unreadable, before returning his attention to the Mrs. Hope.
"That is Kyo Sohma, and over there is his father Kazuma Sohma, next to him is Shigure Sohma, and the one with the long hair is Ayame Sohma. On his left is his younger brother Yuki Sohma and the one with the black and white hair is Hatsuharu Sohma. In front of him is Momiji Sohma and next to him, the little girl, is Kisa Sohma. The one holding her hand is Hiro Sohma. Isuzu Sohma is the girl with the long black hair behind him. The red head over her is Kureno Sohma and at his side is the head of our family Akito Sohma." Hatori calmly went through introductions.
"You know Hatori?" Akito asked after introductions were done and they had retrieved the luggage.
"Oh yes, he would stay at the inn when in town, or at least stop by before he'd leave the country. My grand daughter was purely infatuated with him when she was little." She laughed "She will be very excited to see you again; it's been a few years though."
"It has, hasn't it?" Hatori's mask of calm slipped into a dazed look for a few seconds, and then he returned to his stern in-control self.
"This is our bus." The old lady stopped in front of a dark blue charter bus and proceeded to order around Kyo and Yuki. After everything was stored and everyone was settled in the buss the bossy old lady continued to boss around the driver.
The inn was in the center of a clearing, facing its own private beach and surrounded by trees. Only one road came into it and went out. The building the same deep blue as the bus with clean white door and window panes, complete with a screened in porch and flowerbeds that hung from the first story windows and framed the base of the inn. In the screened in porch sat a floral couch and a swinging wooden bench. It looked like a cottage in a fairy tale, except larger, much larger.
"Get out of the way, you stupid cat." Yuki snapped. It took a minute for Kyo to understand what Yuki had been asking for the last two minutes, and by now Yuki was pissed.
"Don't call me stupid, ya damn rat!" Kyo retorted.
"I will stop calling you stupid when you stop acting stupid." Yuki shot back.
"Damn it, you really don't want to mess with me right now!"
"Why; are you still scared from the flight," Yuki chuckled, and swiftly ducked Kyo's fist. His punch hit Kyo in the right side, hard enough to knock the wind out of him; but Kyo didn't back down. Yuki ducked the next hit aimed at him, and kicked him hard enough to knock him back a few feet. Yuki reached out to grab Kyo wrist last moment, before they seriously dented the bus. His hand latched onto Kyo's left wrist, but the momentum of the kick was too much and he ended up pulling off Kyo's special beads. Yuki stared at the beads for a moment only to look up and find Kyo gone.
Kyo ran into the tress near the road, he couldn't let the little old lady see him like this. Running along the road Kyo saw a clearing ahead of him, he turned slightly, it looked like a good enough place to rest. It wasn't until the last moment he noticed someone sitting on a boulder in the middle of the clearing, and it was too late to change his destination.
Ok, so this short chapter is just a way to get to the good stuff, hope it wasn't too bad, tell me what ya think.