Sorry for backtracking a little, but I wanted to write about the same morning earlier at Shigure's house, so we get to see poor feverish Tohru :P Anyway, again, thanks for the reviews, favorites, and all that stuff, it means a ton and hopefully this chapter can return the favor to you all :) Enjoy!
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Tohru hadn't come downstairs like she usually did to make the other Sohma's their breakfast, so Shigure knocked quietly on her bedroom door to see if she was awake. When he didn't hear any sounds, he silently opened the door and peeked inside. She was still fast asleep in her bed and looked restless under her covers. Not wanting to wake her, he tip-toed across her room to get a better look at her. He could tell she was dreaming, but her face was flushed. He raised his hand to her face and indeed she felt warm to the touch.
"Mmmnn.." The sound escaped from Tohru's lips as she started to stir. Shigure's touch had started to wake her.
"Shhh, keep sleeping Tohru…" Shigure said quietly, "You've got a fever."
"Uuhg.. what?" She said stretching her arms and wiping the sleep from her eyes. "I need to get ready for…" Tohru stopped mid-sentence as the memories from her dream came back to her. She had been kissing Haru. Again. And though it was only a dream this time, she had really been enjoying it. She gasped and brought her hands to her face to hide her embarrassment.
"Are you okay? You're not going to throw up, are you Tohru?" Shigure asked concerned. Somehow, it seemed her face had gone even more red.
She shook her face quickly and managed to let out a little squeal that sounded as close to a 'no' as she could manage.
"Okay, good. Lay back down and go back to sleep," Shigure said, tucking her back into bed. "I'll go in later to pick up your homework," he told her as he was leaving her room.
As soon as the door closed she let out a big sigh and buried her head in her pillow. 'I need to tell him I'm not sick… but I can't tell him it's because I was dreaming of Hatsuharu! Oh Mom, what am I going to do? I'm a liar!" She continued wrestling with the thoughts in her mind until Shigure came back with a cold towel to rest on her forehead. For the rest of the morning she lied there flustered about how she was going to keep her secret but not keep lying to the Sohmas.
Meanwhile, Shigure informed the others about Tohru's 'illness' and waited for the boys to leave for school before bouncing out the front door singing, "High school girls! I get to see high school girls!"
When Shigure got to the school, he noticed his cousin Hatori pulling into the parking lot nearby.
"Ha'ri!" he called out with a big smile on his face.
Despite wanting to pull a U-Turn and leaving his cousin to do whatever mischief it was he was planning, he knew he had come to the school to see Hatsuharu, so he couldn't very well just leave now. 'Great,' he thought to himself. 'Now I have to babysit Shigure too.' Without smiling, he stepped out of his car and asked flat out what Shigure was doing at the school.
"Our young flower Tohru seems to have caught a cold, so of course I told her to stay at home and leave the rest up…"
Hatori cut him off. "I see." He really wasn't in the mood for his cousin's blabbering, so he just left it at that.
"And what are you here for then Ha'ri? Come to see the fresh, young high school girls have we?" Shigure teased.
"No, unlike you, I actually spend my days working."
"Working on the young high school girls? Oh you naughty, naughty, man!"
Hatori was speechless. Once again, Shigure had managed to say something so completely absurd that he couldn't find his words. He groaned and watched as Momiji came bouncing out the front door dragging Hatsuharu by the arm behind him.
"Ha'ri, Ha'ri! Thank goodness you're here! Hatsuharu's sick!"
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Okay, that gets us caught back up to the present time again, so I'll leave it there for now. Hope you liked it!
