AN: here it is! Chapter 4. its nothing much really. Just an ordinary House
scene with the Soumas! Hope you'll enjoy reading it!
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The rest of the day had been uneventful. After that incident in the classroom and the cafeteria, no more surprising events had happened. And so we find our trio walking home.
"Tadaima!" Tohru hollered cheerfully when they reached the house.
"Tadaima" Yuki said, a bit more calmly.
Kyou just kept silent. (^_^')
"Ah! Tohru-kun! You're back!!! Okaeri!" a whiny voice called from Shigure's office. And sure enough, when they looked ahead, they found the author's head poking out of the door. "I was beginning to get lonely without Tohru- kun around! Would Tohru-kun like to keep me company later tonight? Its so cold in my bed, there's a lot of space available. It would certainly make this old man's heart happy." Shigure said in his singsong voice.
*WHACK!!!!*
*BANG!!!!!*
"PERVERT!!!!" Yuki and Kyou walked away, dusting their hands off from what they considered as "Shigure's perversion". They were afraid that it might be contagious.
Tohru merely sweatdropped. She never got used to them whacking Shigure senseless. But seeing how its been done already, she just proceeded to the kitchen to prepare dinner.
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She was stirring her pot of beef stew, while waiting for the tea to finish boiling, when.. Akamatsu-san is really nice. He's been so courteous, if not a bit too flattering. She suddenly blushed as she remembered all the nice things Ryu said to her earlier that day. She wasn't used to compliments. Sure, Yuki, Kyou, Uo-chan, Hana-chan and the other Juunishi gave her enough compliments, but they're just being nice, and besides, they were her friends. She barely knew Akamatsu-san. he's really handsome too. I'm sure he's really popular with girls. Tohru proceeded with her thoughts of all of Ryu's "assets".
She was so engrossed with her thoughts (more like a daydream) that she wasn't paying any attention to the food she was cooking. Until the stew started to emit steam in huge amounts from too much heat. The hot steam hit her hand, and she pulled it away, grimacing at the pain, dropping her ladle to the floor with the a loud "THUNK".
Immediately, Yuki, Kyou and Shigure appeared into the kitchen as they heard the commotion.
"Tohru-kun, what happened?" Shigure came to her side, with Yuki and Kyou at his heels. "Honda-san!" Yuki cried out in concern as he saw the beginning of what promised to be a huge blister on her right hand.
"Baka! What did you do now?" Kyou's tone was a bit harsh, but you could hear the underlying tones of worry in his voice.
"Ahh. Betsuni!!!! I just spaced out for a bit. Its nothing really." Tohru tried to be brave. She didn't want to bother them. After all, it really was her fault in the first place, dreaming when she should have been concentrating on cooking.
"I'll call Hatori" was all that Shigure said, before he went out of the kitchen, leaving the two boys hovering over Tohru with concern.
"This is serious Honda-san. Your hand is already very red." Yuki was frowning as he said this. She must really be in pain. His face was creased with worry as he gently inspected Tohru's hand, trying to determine how serious the injury really was.
Kyou was much in the same state, although he was more "ineloquent" about it. "Damn it Baka, didn't anyone ever teach you to pay attention when you're cooking?! You could have burned the house down!" was the yell that came out of the cat.
Yuki glared at Kyou for being what he thought was too harsh. "Oi baka neko! Quit yelling at Honda-san. She doesn't need the added worry. She's got enough problems as it is!"
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING BAKA, KUSO NEEZUMI!" was the angry reply. The cat was no good at handling his emotions, he was very short tempered, especially when he was tense. And right now, with Tohru badly burned, he was VERY tense. Concern was etched on his features, but only if you knew him well enough to be able to interpret his expression as one of concern. Most would just call it a "glower".
"Maa, maa. You shouldn't fight." Tohru said quickly, before the two got into one of their constant battles. "Its okay Yuki-kun, it really was my fault. Kyou-kun was right. I really should have paid attention to what I was doing. I could have badly damaged Shigure-san's house." The last part was said with a slight tremble in her voice. I'm such an idiot. They take care of me, place a roof on my head, and I can't even spare enough effort to pay attention to my job! Tohru reprimanded herself.
"Honda-san, is it that painful?" Yuki asked, mistaking the tremble in her voice as one caused by pain due to her injury.
"Iya. I'm fine Yuki-kun. Why don't you two go ahead. I'm sure you both have a lot to do aside from wasting your time on me."
"Of course not! And we are not wasting our time. After all the things that Honda-san has done for us, the least we could do is take care of her when she's hurt." Yuki patted her hand out of habit, and of course Tohru winced at the pain. Yuki's eyes widened at his folly. "Gomen Honda-san!"
"Tch. Kuso neezumi! Watch what you're doing! Who's the baka now?!"
Yuki sent the cat a deathglare. "Why don't you make yourself useful and finish what Honda-san was cooking instead of just wasting our time and hurtling insults at us! Baka!!"
Kyou's hackles raised, but after sending Yuki a few glares of his own, he went to the stove. There really wasn't much left to do. Tohru was almost finished when the accident had occurred. All he had to do was just let the stew simmer for awhile.
"Hatori's coming over in a few minutes. Momiji and Haru are coming too." Shigure had just entered the kitchen. "Eh? Kyou's cooking dinner? I won't get to eat Tohru-kun's delicious food!!!!" he whined.
"Ahou! If you don't like it, then don't eat!! And it's Tohru's cooking by the way. I'm just reheating it!" Kyou glared at the whiny dog (who was still whining at the moment. T_T)
"Eh!!! Momiji-kun and the others are coming?! I didn't prepare that much food! They'll have nothing to eat." Tohru was beginning to panic. She would have started wringing her hands if Yuki wasn't holding one of them.
"Don't worry Honda-san. I'm sure they'll have eaten already. You can just serve them cake, we still have some in the fridge." Yuki assured the worried girl. "And if that isn't enough, we can have baka neko over here to cook more food. At least that way, he'll be of some use."
Kyou whirled around to face Yuki and yelled "AT LEAST I CAN COOK!!!!!"
"Urusai! And pay attention to what you're cooking! Or we won't have any dinner! Baka neko!!" Yuki began to lead Tohru to the dining room, where he had her sit down. "Just sit Honda-san. Hatori should be here any moment." Shigure, having followed them, sat across from Tohru. "Does it still hurt Tohru-kun? Here, let me kiss it to make the pain go away!" the dog cheerfully stated. "Shiigguuureee." Yuki said menacingly, already raising his fist, ready to punch the dog.
Shigure's eyes widened, and he sweated nervously. "Uh. on second thought, we'd better wait for Ha-san to arrive. He'll be able to treat much it better." He said quickly, already moving out of the way, just in case the rat decided to punch him anyway.
The door then opened, "TO-RU!!!!! DAIJOUBU?!!!" a bundle of energy suddenly hurtled itself towards the shocked Tohru, grabbing her at the waist. And then.. PYON! A cloud of dust later, the girl was already holding a cuddly bunny in her arms. A bunny who currently had a very worried look on his face.
"is To-ru alright? I heard from Hari that Tohru got hurt." Momiji said, his voice tinged with concern.
"Aa. I'm fine Momiji-kun. I just got burned a little." Tohru tried to placate the rabbit. She didn't want him to worry himself over it.
"Let me be the judge of that Tohru-kun." The quiet voice came from the doorway. And sure enough, Hatori came in, followed by Haru. The latter just gave a nod as a sign of greeting.
"Give me your hand." Tohru disentangled her injured hand from Momiji's "hug" (more like clinging) and gave it to the doctor, who turned it around gently. "Hmm. it isn't very serious. But its not to be taken lightly either." As he said this, he rummaged through his bag, and came up with a medicine (or is it called salve? Gomen. I don't know what it's called. just something for burns! ^_^'). "This should do it." He expertly applied it to the reddened hand, and immediately, a soothing numbness enveloped it. Hatori then wrapped her hand in bandages, "There. You shouldn't do much work on it. Later, when the medicine wears off, you might begin to feel the burns again. So when that time comes, take these." He handed her a bottle of pills. "They're pain killers. Just take one before each meal." (I don't know if that's really the correct prescription. Bear with me minna-san.). Tohru nodded obediently and whispered "Arigatou. Hatori-san is always there to take care of me. I truly appreciate it." She took a peek at the doctor, and she could swear that the corners of his mouth crinkled just a bit.
"its nothing. Just take better care of yourself ok? These oafs would become a disaster area without you to take care of them." Hatori said, clearly indicating his cousins.
"Ha-san is so mean!!!! Hidoi yo!!!!" Shigure whined.
"Ne To-ru is ok now right? Pain has gone away right?" Tohru looked down at her lap to see the rabbit insistently tugging her skirt.
"Hai. Hatori-san fixed it up real nicely." She smiled at the bunny, who squealed excitedly. "Wai!!!! Then To-ru will be able to make it on our date!!!"
"DATE?" Yuki and Kyou both exclaimed simultaneously. Kyou having just entered the room, was greeted by this shocking statement.
The rabbit scampered off to the side, and just in time too, for just as he made it to the corner PYON!, he transformed. He came back after a minute or so, fully dressed. "Hai! To-ru and I have a date tomorrow! It's my White's day gift to her!!!"
"Of course I'll make it Momiji-kun. I wouldn't miss it for anything. It's Momiji-kun's gift to me, I'll surely treasure it. I'm excited already!" Tohru said hoping to reassure the rabbit.
"Wai! It's a good thing I acted fast and asked To-ru out immediately. That guy looked like he was about to take my To-ru away from me on White's day!!!" Momiji exclaimed, pouting his lips cutely.
"Eh?! Guy? What guy?!" Again, Kyou and Yuki both shouted simultaneously.
"The guy having lunch with Tohru at the cafeteria. Akamatsu." The statement from Haru drew everyone's gaze. They had quite forgotten that he was there with him having been so quiet.
"Hai! Him. He looked really mean. Haru and I stayed there with them to guard To-ru! Akamatsu-san had a really scary looking scowl on his face! Kowaii!!!!" Momiji had once again sat beside Tohru, and was now clinging to her arm as he said this.
"You stayed there with them?!!!!" this was from Kyou. "And he let you?!!" this came from Yuki.
"He really didn't have a choice. Usagi-chan here kind of forced himself on them." Haru made the statement calmly.
"But I was only guarding To-ru! That guy spoke too freely!" Momiji protested. "He was making To-ru red in the face!" Momiji said, innocently misinterpreting Tohru's blushes earlier that day for one of embarrassment.
Now this statement produced a variety of reactions. Yuki and Kyou's eyebrows shot to their hairline. Hatori merely looked on with his usual deadpan expression. Shigure looked like he was delighted with this little tidbit. Haru just sat there. Clearly everyone had no trouble interpreting Tohru's earlier reactions correctly.
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Next chapter : what I would call, "the Meeting!" Yuki, Kyou and the others try to find out what happened during lunch! What are they to do?!!!! Dinner's going to be eaten in the next chapter too. Heh heh. incase all of you are wondering what happened to the offending pot of stew. -_-"
AN: this chapter is a bit longer than my usual. Hope you enjoyed it!!!!! Thanks so much for the reviews. It really inspires me to write more!!!! Arigatou! Hontou ni arigatou gozaimsu!!!! Oh! And don't ask me why Momiji suddenly decided to scamper off to the side before he transformed. I just didn't want him to transform right in front of them, it would have been awkward. Gomen.!!!!
Mayorie ^_^'
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The rest of the day had been uneventful. After that incident in the classroom and the cafeteria, no more surprising events had happened. And so we find our trio walking home.
"Tadaima!" Tohru hollered cheerfully when they reached the house.
"Tadaima" Yuki said, a bit more calmly.
Kyou just kept silent. (^_^')
"Ah! Tohru-kun! You're back!!! Okaeri!" a whiny voice called from Shigure's office. And sure enough, when they looked ahead, they found the author's head poking out of the door. "I was beginning to get lonely without Tohru- kun around! Would Tohru-kun like to keep me company later tonight? Its so cold in my bed, there's a lot of space available. It would certainly make this old man's heart happy." Shigure said in his singsong voice.
*WHACK!!!!*
*BANG!!!!!*
"PERVERT!!!!" Yuki and Kyou walked away, dusting their hands off from what they considered as "Shigure's perversion". They were afraid that it might be contagious.
Tohru merely sweatdropped. She never got used to them whacking Shigure senseless. But seeing how its been done already, she just proceeded to the kitchen to prepare dinner.
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She was stirring her pot of beef stew, while waiting for the tea to finish boiling, when.. Akamatsu-san is really nice. He's been so courteous, if not a bit too flattering. She suddenly blushed as she remembered all the nice things Ryu said to her earlier that day. She wasn't used to compliments. Sure, Yuki, Kyou, Uo-chan, Hana-chan and the other Juunishi gave her enough compliments, but they're just being nice, and besides, they were her friends. She barely knew Akamatsu-san. he's really handsome too. I'm sure he's really popular with girls. Tohru proceeded with her thoughts of all of Ryu's "assets".
She was so engrossed with her thoughts (more like a daydream) that she wasn't paying any attention to the food she was cooking. Until the stew started to emit steam in huge amounts from too much heat. The hot steam hit her hand, and she pulled it away, grimacing at the pain, dropping her ladle to the floor with the a loud "THUNK".
Immediately, Yuki, Kyou and Shigure appeared into the kitchen as they heard the commotion.
"Tohru-kun, what happened?" Shigure came to her side, with Yuki and Kyou at his heels. "Honda-san!" Yuki cried out in concern as he saw the beginning of what promised to be a huge blister on her right hand.
"Baka! What did you do now?" Kyou's tone was a bit harsh, but you could hear the underlying tones of worry in his voice.
"Ahh. Betsuni!!!! I just spaced out for a bit. Its nothing really." Tohru tried to be brave. She didn't want to bother them. After all, it really was her fault in the first place, dreaming when she should have been concentrating on cooking.
"I'll call Hatori" was all that Shigure said, before he went out of the kitchen, leaving the two boys hovering over Tohru with concern.
"This is serious Honda-san. Your hand is already very red." Yuki was frowning as he said this. She must really be in pain. His face was creased with worry as he gently inspected Tohru's hand, trying to determine how serious the injury really was.
Kyou was much in the same state, although he was more "ineloquent" about it. "Damn it Baka, didn't anyone ever teach you to pay attention when you're cooking?! You could have burned the house down!" was the yell that came out of the cat.
Yuki glared at Kyou for being what he thought was too harsh. "Oi baka neko! Quit yelling at Honda-san. She doesn't need the added worry. She's got enough problems as it is!"
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING BAKA, KUSO NEEZUMI!" was the angry reply. The cat was no good at handling his emotions, he was very short tempered, especially when he was tense. And right now, with Tohru badly burned, he was VERY tense. Concern was etched on his features, but only if you knew him well enough to be able to interpret his expression as one of concern. Most would just call it a "glower".
"Maa, maa. You shouldn't fight." Tohru said quickly, before the two got into one of their constant battles. "Its okay Yuki-kun, it really was my fault. Kyou-kun was right. I really should have paid attention to what I was doing. I could have badly damaged Shigure-san's house." The last part was said with a slight tremble in her voice. I'm such an idiot. They take care of me, place a roof on my head, and I can't even spare enough effort to pay attention to my job! Tohru reprimanded herself.
"Honda-san, is it that painful?" Yuki asked, mistaking the tremble in her voice as one caused by pain due to her injury.
"Iya. I'm fine Yuki-kun. Why don't you two go ahead. I'm sure you both have a lot to do aside from wasting your time on me."
"Of course not! And we are not wasting our time. After all the things that Honda-san has done for us, the least we could do is take care of her when she's hurt." Yuki patted her hand out of habit, and of course Tohru winced at the pain. Yuki's eyes widened at his folly. "Gomen Honda-san!"
"Tch. Kuso neezumi! Watch what you're doing! Who's the baka now?!"
Yuki sent the cat a deathglare. "Why don't you make yourself useful and finish what Honda-san was cooking instead of just wasting our time and hurtling insults at us! Baka!!"
Kyou's hackles raised, but after sending Yuki a few glares of his own, he went to the stove. There really wasn't much left to do. Tohru was almost finished when the accident had occurred. All he had to do was just let the stew simmer for awhile.
"Hatori's coming over in a few minutes. Momiji and Haru are coming too." Shigure had just entered the kitchen. "Eh? Kyou's cooking dinner? I won't get to eat Tohru-kun's delicious food!!!!" he whined.
"Ahou! If you don't like it, then don't eat!! And it's Tohru's cooking by the way. I'm just reheating it!" Kyou glared at the whiny dog (who was still whining at the moment. T_T)
"Eh!!! Momiji-kun and the others are coming?! I didn't prepare that much food! They'll have nothing to eat." Tohru was beginning to panic. She would have started wringing her hands if Yuki wasn't holding one of them.
"Don't worry Honda-san. I'm sure they'll have eaten already. You can just serve them cake, we still have some in the fridge." Yuki assured the worried girl. "And if that isn't enough, we can have baka neko over here to cook more food. At least that way, he'll be of some use."
Kyou whirled around to face Yuki and yelled "AT LEAST I CAN COOK!!!!!"
"Urusai! And pay attention to what you're cooking! Or we won't have any dinner! Baka neko!!" Yuki began to lead Tohru to the dining room, where he had her sit down. "Just sit Honda-san. Hatori should be here any moment." Shigure, having followed them, sat across from Tohru. "Does it still hurt Tohru-kun? Here, let me kiss it to make the pain go away!" the dog cheerfully stated. "Shiigguuureee." Yuki said menacingly, already raising his fist, ready to punch the dog.
Shigure's eyes widened, and he sweated nervously. "Uh. on second thought, we'd better wait for Ha-san to arrive. He'll be able to treat much it better." He said quickly, already moving out of the way, just in case the rat decided to punch him anyway.
The door then opened, "TO-RU!!!!! DAIJOUBU?!!!" a bundle of energy suddenly hurtled itself towards the shocked Tohru, grabbing her at the waist. And then.. PYON! A cloud of dust later, the girl was already holding a cuddly bunny in her arms. A bunny who currently had a very worried look on his face.
"is To-ru alright? I heard from Hari that Tohru got hurt." Momiji said, his voice tinged with concern.
"Aa. I'm fine Momiji-kun. I just got burned a little." Tohru tried to placate the rabbit. She didn't want him to worry himself over it.
"Let me be the judge of that Tohru-kun." The quiet voice came from the doorway. And sure enough, Hatori came in, followed by Haru. The latter just gave a nod as a sign of greeting.
"Give me your hand." Tohru disentangled her injured hand from Momiji's "hug" (more like clinging) and gave it to the doctor, who turned it around gently. "Hmm. it isn't very serious. But its not to be taken lightly either." As he said this, he rummaged through his bag, and came up with a medicine (or is it called salve? Gomen. I don't know what it's called. just something for burns! ^_^'). "This should do it." He expertly applied it to the reddened hand, and immediately, a soothing numbness enveloped it. Hatori then wrapped her hand in bandages, "There. You shouldn't do much work on it. Later, when the medicine wears off, you might begin to feel the burns again. So when that time comes, take these." He handed her a bottle of pills. "They're pain killers. Just take one before each meal." (I don't know if that's really the correct prescription. Bear with me minna-san.). Tohru nodded obediently and whispered "Arigatou. Hatori-san is always there to take care of me. I truly appreciate it." She took a peek at the doctor, and she could swear that the corners of his mouth crinkled just a bit.
"its nothing. Just take better care of yourself ok? These oafs would become a disaster area without you to take care of them." Hatori said, clearly indicating his cousins.
"Ha-san is so mean!!!! Hidoi yo!!!!" Shigure whined.
"Ne To-ru is ok now right? Pain has gone away right?" Tohru looked down at her lap to see the rabbit insistently tugging her skirt.
"Hai. Hatori-san fixed it up real nicely." She smiled at the bunny, who squealed excitedly. "Wai!!!! Then To-ru will be able to make it on our date!!!"
"DATE?" Yuki and Kyou both exclaimed simultaneously. Kyou having just entered the room, was greeted by this shocking statement.
The rabbit scampered off to the side, and just in time too, for just as he made it to the corner PYON!, he transformed. He came back after a minute or so, fully dressed. "Hai! To-ru and I have a date tomorrow! It's my White's day gift to her!!!"
"Of course I'll make it Momiji-kun. I wouldn't miss it for anything. It's Momiji-kun's gift to me, I'll surely treasure it. I'm excited already!" Tohru said hoping to reassure the rabbit.
"Wai! It's a good thing I acted fast and asked To-ru out immediately. That guy looked like he was about to take my To-ru away from me on White's day!!!" Momiji exclaimed, pouting his lips cutely.
"Eh?! Guy? What guy?!" Again, Kyou and Yuki both shouted simultaneously.
"The guy having lunch with Tohru at the cafeteria. Akamatsu." The statement from Haru drew everyone's gaze. They had quite forgotten that he was there with him having been so quiet.
"Hai! Him. He looked really mean. Haru and I stayed there with them to guard To-ru! Akamatsu-san had a really scary looking scowl on his face! Kowaii!!!!" Momiji had once again sat beside Tohru, and was now clinging to her arm as he said this.
"You stayed there with them?!!!!" this was from Kyou. "And he let you?!!" this came from Yuki.
"He really didn't have a choice. Usagi-chan here kind of forced himself on them." Haru made the statement calmly.
"But I was only guarding To-ru! That guy spoke too freely!" Momiji protested. "He was making To-ru red in the face!" Momiji said, innocently misinterpreting Tohru's blushes earlier that day for one of embarrassment.
Now this statement produced a variety of reactions. Yuki and Kyou's eyebrows shot to their hairline. Hatori merely looked on with his usual deadpan expression. Shigure looked like he was delighted with this little tidbit. Haru just sat there. Clearly everyone had no trouble interpreting Tohru's earlier reactions correctly.
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Next chapter : what I would call, "the Meeting!" Yuki, Kyou and the others try to find out what happened during lunch! What are they to do?!!!! Dinner's going to be eaten in the next chapter too. Heh heh. incase all of you are wondering what happened to the offending pot of stew. -_-"
AN: this chapter is a bit longer than my usual. Hope you enjoyed it!!!!! Thanks so much for the reviews. It really inspires me to write more!!!! Arigatou! Hontou ni arigatou gozaimsu!!!! Oh! And don't ask me why Momiji suddenly decided to scamper off to the side before he transformed. I just didn't want him to transform right in front of them, it would have been awkward. Gomen.!!!!
Mayorie ^_^'