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Narrator POV

"Shigure. Shigure. SHIGURE", Hatori was trying to get through the haze of his companion's mind. Torhu placed an ice cube on her guardian's forehead. Shigure shot up and got the cube of ice off his forehead. "Thank you, Torhu. Shigure, why did you faint?, I have told you to pay attention."

"Oh, Tori, it was horrible. The pained, laughing mountain lion had an injured leg," Shigure whined, acting like a baby as always.

"What injured mountain lion? You just said Shigure fainted of heat," The docter asked, confused.

"It was Rain. She's a dear friend of mine. Yuki lied to get you over here, to help Shigure and Rain. Give me a second. RAIN!," shouted Torhu as she walked to the door. There was a thud and a faint "Oh there you are. Come on in", and Torhu walked in with a highly limping Rain.

"What's he doing here?", she asked when she saw Hatori, who grew wide-eyed. "Yeah,yeah, Be shocked at the talking Lion, I've already been through that, doc. If you want to check this, those four get out," Rain said, tired of everyone being surprised, and nodded to Shigure, Torhu, Kyo, and Yuki. They got out, but looked through a crack in the screen.

Rain had turned back, still in her usual shirt, but was wearing shorts. Hatori looked at the leg in shock, which wasn't surprising. The leg was as swollen as a watermelon and the colors of blue, black, purple,green, gray, and a few others.

"How long has this been broken?"

"About 3 days, broken in about 2-4 places."

"I'll get a cast on as soon as I can. Akito is has another fever."

"Ok, I'll find you. Just call my name and I'll come." She turned and walked out the door. Everyone saw her grab a branch, swing onto it, and said, "Every, you four, get your faces out of the screen," Rain called with her hands to her mouth,and lowered her hands. She smiled and waved, and as graceful and a trapeze artist, swung into the forest and disappeared again.

The door opened, and the 3 teens had tears in their eyes, but Torhu was sobbing her eyes out. "Why didn't she tell us? But she does have all those teas. I remember she has one for fever, cold, pain relief, pink-eye, even allergies." There were little foot steps and Rain with a string around her neck.

"Hatori, here's some tea for Akito, fever and cold are labeled," she said. She turned to the other 4, "You can come to my house tomorrow. Torhu, remember the riddle I said:

'Follow to where my name collects

Stop at where the path to where it connects

At the side, look for my house all neat and correct.'"

The cat turned around and left.


"Hmmm, follow the river to where another stream joins it," Shigure recited. Torhu had told them the answer after she made a small dish for Rain. Kyo had almost eaten the leek dish, but she stopped him, and, after yelling at her, went to the roof. "Torhu, can you go get Kyo and tell him it's time to go?," asked Shigure. Torhu nodded.

She went around to the ladder and climbed up. "Um, Kyo? It's time to leave." She said, peeking her head over the roof. A gust of wind suddenly blew, blowing the ladder off the side of the house and Torhu was blown with it.

Kyo POV

There was a gust of wind that nearly made me fall off the roof. I tried to get to Torhu, but the gust was fast, and I slipped. She started to fall, but the mountain lion I tried to locate suddenly sprung from the trees near Torhu, grabbed the back of her shirt, and leapt, still using her momentum and used the ladder, and sprang to the roof. I grabbed Torhu, nodded to the lion, who depoisted her with me, and jumped off the roof. I heard the ladder clang as it went back next to the roof.

Narrator POV

It all lasted less than a minute. There was a poof and Rain climbed up to the roof. "Never mind. I'll guide you all there," Rain jumped and flipped landing on her hands, then moved to her good foot. Torhu noticed, with relief, that the swelling had gone down, and the color had turned purple and black. She walked to the front of the house. She walked in, scaring Yuki and Shigure. "Come on, I'm guiding. Only because Toe nearly fell off the roof."