Things always take a turn for the worst

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Chapter 4

To her house…

They broke away from their kiss. "Haru when is your curfew?"

That's an odd question, was the first thing that ran through Haru's mind. "Umm I don't have one as long as my family knows where I am. Why?" Haru looked at her smirking with one eyebrow raised.

"Come to my home with me?" Haru nodded. "Here is my cell phone."

Haru took it and dialed Shigure's house.

"Hello?" It was Kyo.

"Hey, Kyo it is Haru, tonight I'm staying over at my friend's house tonight, I seem to have gotten lost."

"Again? What the hell is wrong with you? Okay, yea sure whatever, how did your session go?"

"Good, but I got to go; I'll be back over some time tomorrow."

"Yea whatever, bye"

"Bye." Haru hung up the phone and gave it back to Hatsumi. "I'm good to go, but when we get there I need to tell you something." Haru's face was now serious.

"Of course, follow me now!" She sprang up out of her seat on the bench, Haru's hand in her own and started out towards the train station.

When they arrived at the train station Hatsumi paid for his train ticket. Haru followed her onto the train. "Haru-kun, are you okay, you've had a serious face since we left the park. What's up?" She looked worried.

"Nah, I'm fine." Haru said, half of him there and the other half was deep in thought.

"Come on now, I am psychiatrist, I can tell when there is something bothering you." She paused thinking for a few minutes. "I've got it, whatcha thinking about?" Haru didn't respond he was so into what he was thinking about he didn't even know she was talking to him. "Haru," Hatsumi pleaded. "Sigh, earth to Hatsuharu Sohma!"

"Huh, what?" Haru looked over at her. "Did you say something Hatsumi?" Haru looked at her, "what's wrong, what happened?" Haru saw her banging her head into the side of the train.

"Big Sigh! Haru, I was talking to you!" Hatsumi looked at him pained "Haru-kun when I talk I expect you to listen, like I listen to you, well not exactly like me because I went to school for it."

"I'm sorry, I was just thinking about how I was going to tell you what I was gonna tell you when we got there." Haru's face was looking like he was baffled.

"Is it about your curse," Hatsumi mumbled.

"What did you say?!?" Haru turned to look her directly in the eyes, but as soon as their eyes met, she quickly turned to look at the ground.

"Hatsuharu, maybe we should wait until we get off the train so its not so crowded when we talk about it." She said solemnly.

"Yea maybe you're right." The rest of the train ride neither of them spoke.

After about twenty minutes, the train had stopped, "Haru this is our stop."

"Okay, coming" Haru said. When they got off the train they walked side by side out of the station, and came out onto an empty street.

"We can talk now." Dr. Awayuki said turning to look up at him.

"So you know about my curse?" Haru pronounced astonished.

"You could say that, but its not because of you I know."

"Was it Kureno?" Haru asked.

"No, actually it wasn't, it was someone else who got my attention. She reminds me an awful lot of a boar." Hatsumi hinted

"Kagura?!?"

"I can't tell you names, but do you want to hear the story?"

Haru looked at her wanting to understand. "Yes, I would like to know."

"I went to a course, about a year ago, with this girl and she told me all about this Kyo fellow and well she also seemed to be attached to the Chinese zodiac so, one day I looked up your last name in a special search engine. I found some astonishing information, so I went to the Sohma complex. I went to go see the head of the family, he was a little younger then me, and he was also very sick. I invited him to come to some of my sessions, hoping it would make him feel better. He was very kind to me and picked his words carefully. He never wanted to tell too much about his family.

One day though he was enraged with anger, his personal assistant warned me but I was still willing to see him. We got talking and he started to tell me a story, which he said he had heard as a child, he said that it was like a nightmare, he described a cat which was also a monster. A rat that was always close to god and a snake that was too blunt. A dragon that was smart yet quiet and reserved the dragon had a special power, to erase memories. The dog was a pervert. A horse, that didn't know when to keep her nose out of other people's business, a rabbit that was tremendously obnoxious. A rooster that had mysterious ways and a boar that didn't know when it was the right time to stop infatuating over that cat. A monkey that didn't know when to stop saying I'm sorry. A tiger that was always made fun of. Also a smart mouthed sheep. And last but not least a two-sided, baka ox.

By the time he had finished his story the session was up for that day and he went home. A couple of weeks of not hearing from him or his assistant, I received a phone call from his assistant, requesting a session. I gladly complied and we started our weekly sessions. I learned of other things including the curse which I was to never speak of to anyone. But yet here I am telling you of how I know. Please Haru don't tell anyone that I told you this. There are some pieces I left out, but they are for your own good, and well they are the person's own business who and what it is about." Hatsumi took a gigantic sigh.

"So you spoke with Kagura and Akito. And that is why you have sessions with Kureno." Haru was mainly speaking to himself.

"Uh huh," Hatsumi said, trying to act sanguine.

"Okay then I guess that saves me from telling you about the curse, so I have a little quiz for you," Haru teased.

"Okay, what is the quiz?" Hatsumi smiled glad that Haru was happy again.

"Who am I? In the zodiac, what is my animal?

"Hmm let me see….. the ox?" Hatsumi questioned.

"Correct!" Haru smirked.

They walked for a little while hand in hand, until they got to an apartment complex. There was a gate surrounding it and at the guarded entrance was a sign with big bold lettering that read 'Aristocratic Mansion.'

"Haru?" Hatsumi looked up at him with big eyes observing him.

"Yea, this is where you live?" Haru asked still in shock of this apartment mansion.

Omigosh!!!! this took forever sorry, been busy w/ lots of stuff, I hope you enjoy this chapter!! have any idea wat happens next??

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