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Chapter 3- What life is Like

"Hello?" Someone said as they opened the door. Tohru was glad to see Kunimitsu, Kazuma's friend and assistant.

"Hello! I'm Tohru Honda! I'm very sorry for not phoning before I came…but is it possible to talk to Kazuma?" Tohru asked politely and desperately. She felt bad for intruding and not phoning before she came, but she made her decision to come to sudden she forgot.

Kunimitsu stepped aside and let Tohru in. "Please wait a moment, I will go and get him." Kunimitsu said politely. Tohru waited as Kunimitsu left to get Kazuma. Tohru looked around the room she had been in not all that long ago. Everything seemed the same yet something was missing, what was missing Tohru wasn't sure.

"Hello, how may I help you?" Kazuma said as he came over to Tohru. His hair was in the long pony tail that it had been in the first time Tohru had met him.

"Oh! Hello, I'm Tohru Honda!" Tohru began and bowed her head in respect.
"Um…I was wondering if I could talk to you…" She said softly.

Tohru and Kazuma sat in the living room, tea cups in both their hands. It was silent for a little while. Tohru remembered another time she had sat with Kazuma like this, when she had wanted to know of a way to brake the Sohma curse.

"This may sound really strange.." Tohru began. She couldn't look at Kazuma yet. "But not long ago I used to know you and the Sohma family. We all used to live together and laugh together. But then…I'm not sure. My mom had died a year and a half ago and my father died a few years previous from a sickness. I had been wondering lately, 'what if', what if they didn't die? What if live had been different for me and others?"

She stopped talking for a moment, wondering if Kazuma were going to ask her to please leave. She felt foolish for putting such crazy words out loud, for interrupting him. He nodded for her to continue. Tohru took a deep breath and finished what she needed to say,

"I'm not sure what might have happened. I had been talking to Kyo after coming from your house and as I listened to him talk of how he might come to the dojo more, I kept thinking why don't I have someone in my family that I'm so close to as you and Kyo? I'm sorry, I must sound foolish to you." Tohru bowed her head low and began to get up.

"Please, do not leave." Kazuma said calmly and she sat back down. Kazuma waited a few moments before responding.

"Miss Honda, if what you say is true then you must know a great deal about the Sohma family."

Tohru nodded and he continued on. "What you said about Kyo…I have not seen him in a few years. He had stopped coming to see me after his mother had gotten sick and his father no longer wanted him out of the house. I had wanted him to live with me but his father would not allow it. You mentioned your mother, is she alive now?" Kazuma asked.

Tohru nodded again, "Yes, I woke up to find her and my dad alive and well. I wasn't sure how to react. Was everything with the Sohma's a dream?"

Kazuma took a long sip of tea and answered, "What do you know of the Sohma?"

Tohru took in a deep breath, "The day I found out bout the Sohma curse, I had been living in a tent in the woods. It wasn't long after moms death, I didn't want to inconvenience anyone in my family. Yuki and Shigure found me there and offered me a place to stay in their home. After my first night there I met Kyo, who came in crashing through the roof. I slipped and feel on him trying to stop him and Yuki from starting a fight." Tohru smiled as she remembered the memory. A sweet memory.

"You know of the curse. What you lived was not a dream." Kazuma said. Tohru wasn't sure if he was troubled or only thinking quietly. "Do you know everyone in the family?" Kazuma asked. Tohru gave a huge smile.

"Yes! I'm so glad to have met all of them. But…now they all don't remember me…I'm not sure what happened, why this all came to be."

"I don't know as well, I am sorry. I wish I could be of more help." Kazuma said sadly. He didn't know what he could do to help her.

Tohru bowed her head, "Thank you very much for seeing me. I'm very sorry for troubling you!" She said and got up.

"Please, it was no trouble. Come and visit me anytime you would like." Kazuma said and walked her to the door. "I hope you stop by again." He said and smiled.

Tohru left with an unsure feeling. She had finally gotten what she'd always wanted, her family back. But at what price?

Kyo stepped in the door and took off his shoes. "Mom, I'm home." he said and shut the door. They lived in a small house not very far from the Sohma main house. The furniture was old and the air was stale. Bad memories haunted the rooms for Kyo. Kyo's mom came into the living room and rested on the side of the door, "Why were you late." She said in a hard tone.

"I got held up at school, I'm sorry." He said. His mom put her hand on her head and sighed, "Your father isn't happy. You know what your in for."

Kyo stood there as his father entered the room. Kyo rubbed his shoulder, the bruise hadn't gone away as didn't the one on his lower abdomen. "Welcome home….son."

"Yuki welcome home." Shigure said from his usual stop at the dinning table. Yuki set his bag down and sat opposite him.

"Something on your mind?" Shigure asked.
"Sort of. There was a girl in my class who came up to me today as if she knew me and asked how I slept."
"She asked how you slept? That's a bit unusual."
"She did the same to Kyo to, it was like we've all known each other for a long time.
"Does this trouble you?" Shigure asked mockingly.

Yuki got up from the table and went to his room where he laid on his bed and wondered. Something was going to happen soon, but what he wasn't sure.