Tohru

"Sorry about that, I know I can trust you guys," I say, not really knowing if what I said is true, but willing to believe it is.

"It's fine, we understand," said Bella, who sits in the back of the car with me.

After that there was a small patch of silence, and then Alice started talking on and on about decorations, food, and a new dress she had apparently gotten me.

Of course, I protest quite a lot about this, but Alice doesn't budge, and apparently she had quite a good time finding it for me, so, I don't mind as much. Still, it sounds like it is something expensive, I hope she didn't use too much money on it.

Before long, I realized we were parked in front of a house. It was magnificent. Glass windows everywhere, and it was huge. I was even more impressed when we got inside. These people really lived in luxury.

Inside, Alice ran off to go get all the decorations from where ever they were kept, so Bella, Edward and I sat down in a sitting area and talked for a bit.

"So, who is Haru?" Edward asked.

"Haru? He's Kyo and Yuki's cousin. Actually, he was supposed to start at Forks High too, but he decided to be homeschooled with Momiji and Rin. None of their English is the greatest, maybe even worse than mine!"

"I didn't realize that there were more of you at school age!" Bella exclaimed. "I figured the rest of the Sohmas were adults of different ages."

"Most are. Of school aged, there are only the ones I just mentioned, and two others that are not high school aged yet."

Bella and Edward exchanged a glance. I wondered if I had said too much, somehow given them some advantage, but I couldn't see how. Maybe they were just surprised at how many young people were with us.

Either way, Alice was back with a lady I had never met before. She introduced her as Esme, their mother. I greeted her, and she guided me to their kitchen, where we showed each other our own recipes.

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I continued to listen to Tohru's thoughts while she talked to Esme in the kitchen, but her mind was focused on her work.

None of us had expected that their might be kids in the Sohma family, and for some reason, that unnerved us. If these people were dangerous, we might have to bring ourselves to attack them. If that happened, would we have to destroy the children? How young were the kids not in high school yet? If these people were like us, would the children be like immortal children? Ruthless, and uncontrollable? Either way, it somehow seemed more like murder than anything else we had ever done.

So, I tried not to think about it. Until, someone elses mind popped up in my radar. It was one of them! The Sohmas, and I could hear their thoughts loud and clear, same as anyone else. And I had no idea why.

"Kisa, calm down, we are NOT lost. I will get us out of here," a boy said. If she hadn't had this idea to rescue that idiot girl, we wouldn't be here in the first place - but what else could I do? I couldn't let her go alone.

"I know you will, eventually, Hiro, but we won't be able to help Tohru if we don't get there soon!" I guess we shouldn't have gone alone. I don't have a plan of what to do once we find her anyway - we might just as easily get captured. And, I dragged Hiro into this when he didn't even want to come. I'm so horrible!

"What?! What did I do? Why are you crying?"

I could see in my mind the two had stopped. They must be the ones not old enough for high school. The boy, Hiro, looked into Kisa's face and sighed. He had no idea why she was crying, or how to get them out of the forest. So, being the nice guy that I am, I decided to help them. They had good intentions, and didn't seem to be able to fight well, from what Kisa's thoughts said.

It only took me a minute to get to where they were standing, and my quick arrival startled them. Kisa gasped and tripped on a dead branch behind her. Hiro's eyes became pools of hatred, instead of love, as I had seen through Kisa's mind only seconds ago.

"You can't hurt us," Hiro spoke while posed in a position to defend himself and Kisa. "If you did, our whole family would be after you. And the police. And all our friends from back home."

I took a step forwards.

"STAY BACK!" Hiro thrust his hands out, as if to force me back with an invisible force. I waited for something to happen, but nothing did. He was just a scared kid, trying to scare me off.

"I know the way out, to my house," I tell them. "You were looking for Tohru, right? She's fine. She's been teaching us to cook meals the way you did back home.

Kisa stepped towards me, and Hiro hissed quietly for her to stop. But she didn't. She came right up to me and asked me to lead the way, but warning me if we had done anything to Tohru, we would pay for it.

I smiled. "Come on then."

I started walking at a normal human pace, and gradually quickened. The two children could still keep up easily, although they asked for me to slow down out of habit. They never walked this fast in front of outsiders. Eventually, I had them up to their full speed. I wasn't running anywhere near my full speed, but it was still more than any normal human could do for longer than a sprint.

By that point we were at the house, and although neither Kisa nor Hiro said anything, I knew they were impressed.

"What do you need this place for? And why so many windows, don't you guys need privacy, ever? And why is everything the same color, don't you people ever do anything creative around here?" Hiro said.

"Don't listen to him, he's always like that. I'm sure he really actually likes your house. I do," Kisa said right after him.

"Thank you. Would you like to come inside, or wait here? I think Tohru was going to leave in a couple minutes, and we could take you home with her.

"We'll just wait here, thanks," Hiro said.