CHAPTER 4 The Night

"Where were you?" Ansa asked when Tohru returned to their table.

"I kinda got something spilled on my clothes and had to change," Tohru replied sitting down in the girl's booth.

"Oh," Ansa said nodding. "That would do it."

Saki was staring at the passengers on the train thoughfully. "Have you noticed that all the passengers seem to be avoiding the purple haired guy or giving him a cold stare?" she asked her friends.

The other two girls looked over at her. "Not really," Ansa told her. "I wasn't paying any attention."

"Well it's true," Saki went on glancing around again. "They all are sending out the same signal. I feel very sinister waves in this dining car..."

"You always sense sinister waves," Ansa said rolling her eyes. She looked at Tohru. "While you were gone she said she felt "sinister waves" coming from the man behind the bar. All he was doing was looking at her."

"He wasn't "looking" at me," Saki reminded her. "He was staring at me."

"Maybe he thought you were cute," Tohru suggested, glancing over at the bar. "See he's still staring at you. Maybe he wants to ask you out."

"Or," Saki's head slowly turned back toward the bar. "He thinks I'm weird."

The man noticed her staring and hid under the bar.

"There he goes again," she said looking back at her friends. "He's hiding from me and trying to make me think he's not looking at me when I know he is..."

Tohru looked over at the bar again. "Well... maybe he's shy."

"Maybe..." Saki said as a black aura surrounded her. "Or he's some kind of stalker..."

"I don't think he's some kind of stalker," Ansa said.

Just then the strange man with the cold eyes came into the dining car. When he did all conversation seemed to stop and everyone seemed to stare coldly at the man as he and his bodyguard walked by. He glared at the girls as he walked by their table. The bodyguard stared at them too and gave Ansa a strange love stuck look.

"See what I mean?" Saki asked after the man was seated and no longer glaring at them. "There is something about that man that causes everyone in here to suddenly go tense."

"Maybe he's the leader of the Japanese Mafia or something," Ansa suggested. "Or everyone here owes him something."

"Maybe," Tohru said staring at the man who was talking to his bodyguard who seemed to be preoccupied. What is it about him that makes everyone go tense anyway?

Later that night as Tohru was getting ready for bed she stared out the window in her room and noticed the blizzard had gotten worse. I hope it doesn't get too bad, she thought as she slipped into her night clothes. If it does and we get stranded we won't be able to get the the ski slopes on time to get our rooms...

The girl yawned and stretched. "Maybe it will clear up later on," she said to herself as she climbed into her bed. "Most storms don't last very long do they?"

The girl turned off the light and instantly fell asleep.

Sometime in the middle of the night a noise woke her back up. "Huh?" the girl said getting up. "What was that noise?"

Tohru got out of bed and opened the door. She saw that kid Hiro Sohma coming back from the bathroom but nothing else. Shrugging she went back into her room and flopped down onto her bed. She fell back to sleep.

The next morning when Tohru woke up again she saw sunlight streaming in from her window and she no longer felt the movement of the train. It stopped? she thought as she got up and looked out the window. Are we there already? That's when she noticed they weren't at the station. They were in the middle of nowhere. What in the world? What's going on? Why did we stop here?

"Tohru," a voice behind her said.

The girl turned around. She saw Saki and Ansa standing behind her. "Girls," she said. She noticed they had serious looks on their faces. "What's wrong? Did something happen?"

"I think you'd better come with us," Ansa said.

"Why?" the girl said as she stepped out of her room. "What is it?"

Saki pointed down the hall. "That," she said.

Tohru saw some people peeking into an open cabin. "What's wrong?" she asked again.

"You know that guy who was giving everyone a cold stare yesterday?" Ansa asked.

"Yes, what about him?"

"Someone got into his cabin last night," the blond replied. "Akito Sohma has been murdered."

A/N

Sorry it took so long to update. I've been busy. Hope you're not mad.