Chapter 7: Hot springs

Calti (Lauren) pov:

We finally arrived at the hot springs, people came out to get our bags and take them to our room, "Wow, it's big" Tohru said looking at the building, even the Sohma's was surprised at how big the building was "Once you've done some sight see of the building's outside how about we go inside" I said laughing at them, they all stopped looking and nodded their heads and followed me inside the building, "Right the springs are split up right side is the girl's, the left side is the boy's and the middle is for family use only, each section has hot springs and gaming area is for all" Sky said as he explained the layout of the springs, we all nodded our heads and split up but Tex wanted to come with me and only me so when Sky told him he had to go with him he throw a tantrum at him, I just stood there and smiled at Sky, he looked at me for help and I just said "You know what he's like when I'm around, so you brought it on to yourself there" and then I picked up Tex who was crying at that moment and asked Tohru "You don't mind if Tex comes with us do you?" Tohru just shook her head and we started walking to our room.

Me, Tohru and Tex entered our room and saw our bags already there, even Tex's bag was there "I see that they know" I said looking down at Tex who was clinging onto my leg and then ran to his bag and pulled out a toy that he brought with him "Can I going and play outside, please" he asked looking towards me toy at the ready "Yeah sure but not too far" I said sitting down in the room "Yes and ok" after he said that he opened the door and went outside to play, Tohru watched him play and then joined me in the room and said "So Lauren" "Calti" I said looking at her, she looked at me confused so I signed and said "Call me Calti while I'm here, it's my real name, the one the family named me" "Oh I see, why did you change it?" she asked while grabbing her bag and looking through it "Because I don't really like my friends calling me by a dragon word for cat" I said laying down on the floor "What really, it stands for cat in dragon language" Tohru asked shocked as she looked up at me, I nodded my head and then shut my eyes.

"That sounds great" Tohru said as she placed things away and then Tex came running in to us all panicked, "What's wrong, Tex" I said opening one eye as I watched him full next to me and then started point outside where we saw some members of staff, "It's the boys, they're fighting again" Tex said and the staff members nodded their heads, I signed and looked over at Tohru and said "Tex stay with Tohru, I'll be back soon" Tex got up and went over to Tohru, I stood up and left the room and asked one of the staff members to show me were their room was.

Kyo's pov:

When we went down the boys hall I could tell that they started to not like each other, now that they are not of Lauren eye sight, I looked around between them all and could see how they stood to one side of the hall from each other and then me stood in the middle, we stopped walking and that was when Sky said "Right listen, we are only here because Lauren thought it would be nice to come and bring Tohru with us, we don't care about you Sohma lot, so let get this thing over with and go back to our normal lives, agreed" Yuki just looked at him and nodded his head and then Sky pointed to a room behind Yuki and said that was our room and that they have a different room down the hall, I just shook my head and went into the room and ignored them, that is when they said something to each other that I didn't quite catch but I did catch Hatsuharu and Yuki being thrown into the room and then the next minute running back out to react back at them, I walked to the so called door that is now broken and looked out to see that Moiji and Rob was standing there saying not to fight each other.

I tried to think of away to stop them but if I was to pull Yuki and Hatsuharu away, then Skyand Ryan would provoke them but if I was to pull Sky and Ryan away then they would say something that would provoke me, so my best option would be to get Moiji and Rob out of the way and wait for Lauren because I saw a member of staff seeing the fight and ran off to get help.

Once I managed to get Moiji and Rob into a room safely I went back to the fight, as I got to the fight Lauren was there not looking impressed, I shook my head and walked up next to her and she turned to me and said "What happened here?" I looked at her and then looked at the fight and said "Sky said something about not really liking this idea with us Sohma's being here, Yuki agreed so it was left at that and then I walked into the room, then something was said I don't know what, then the next minute their fighting, I got Moiji and Rob away from the fight, for they was shouting at them to stop, then I came here and saw you with them still fighting" "So my brother is the one who started it and the others followed" she said then walked over to the fight and grab the nearest two which was Yuki and Sky, I did the same but with Hatsuharu and Ryan but Hatsuharu was being black Hatsuharu at this minute, no would the fight started "WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?" Lauren shouted at them, Hatsuharu was about to say something stupid so I let go of him and then hit him around the head hard and he was back to white Hatsuharu "He started it" Ryan said pointing to Hatsuharu, Lauren looked at me and then to Hatsuharu I just signed and said "Hatsuharu just went black and he can be a jerk sometimes but the down fall of it happening is that once he turns back in to white Haru he doesn't remember most of what happened" "Right ok, so what your two excuse" Lauren said looking at Yuki and Sky who she still had hold of "Does it matter" Sky said looking away, Lauren didn't like Sky's answer and so she let go of Yuki and then turned fully to Sky and said "You better give an answer to me now, you stupid filthy rat" Lauren had lost her patients and Sky could tell so he just walked away and said "It's a stupid idea to invite the Sohma's, what would happen if Ian found out" "Who cares what Ian thinks, besides I'm not scared of Ian unlike some people I know" Lauren said and then ran up to Sky and hit him around the head at full force.

Sky was knocked cold on the floor and Ryan seemed to have stopped protesting so much, then Lauren turned around and said "Right now that's over would you please go to your room and Ryan, take Sky with you" Ryan nodded and picked up Sky then said "I'm sorry" and ran off, Lauren then turned to us and said "I'm sorry for my siblings, but please try not to make Tohru worry, she was about to come see the fighting, luckily I stopped her, oh and Kyo thank you for trying to stop the fighting as much as possible" I just turned to her and then turned away saying "I didn't do much"

Calti (Lauren):

I watched as Kyo walked away and then turned to see Yuki and Hatsuharu enter their room, I just nodded my head and decided to go back to my room and see Tohru and Tex, I entered the room and Tex came running up to me and gave me a hug, "Is everything all right now?" Tohru asked as she walked over to us, I looked up to her and said "Yeah, everything's fine" she nodded her head and went back to sit down on her bed, I joined her sitting next to her on my bed with Tex sitting in my lap and slowly falling asleep, "Calti, could you explain the real reason why your family and the Sohma's are fighting, please" Tohru asked as she watched Tex in my arms, I looked up at her and signed then turned my head away by looking at Tex too, then said "It's a really long story Tohru" "I don't mind, we have all night" Tohru said looking up to me, I nodded my head and picked up Tex then placed him into his bed before sitting in front of Tohru to fully explain the reason why the fighting all started between the Hemsley and the Sohma families.

"Well the first thing you need to know is, that the Hemsley only knew of the Sohma's through me, I was the first member of my family to meet a Sohma" I said looking straight at her, she just nodded her head in understand of collecting the information so I carried on "Well it all began, when I was young I met up with some friends from school in the neighbourhood I lived in at the time and they asked if I would like to join them behind someone house to play tag, I decided to go and when I got there they introduced me to a young boy, that young boy was Yuki, he was wearing a kimono at the time so when it was his turn to catch people and tag them it was hard for him to run about, but then on him last round he tripped into a girl and then the next minute there was a puff of smoke, when the smoke was cleared all we saw was his clothes and a rat, everyone started to talk about how wired and strange it was but I didn't I felt excited that there was other people like me, anyway everyone asked to line up to talk to a guy a doctor of the Sohma family, I could catch his name but I knew from the way they was talking what they was thinking of doing erasing their memories of the event that happened so I stayed hidden behind a tree, once all the children were gone I stepped out of my hiding place and started to walk back home, but on my way home I bumped into someone, I looked up and saw a young boy he looked pale and he too was wearing a kimono the boy looked at me and then asked "What's your name girl?" I just stared at him and then said "Calti..I mean Lauren" the boy looked at me confused for a second and then smiled and said "Well Calti-Lauren my name is Akito" he held out his hand and helped me up and I nodded my head and then said "Thank you"

"So Calti-Lauren, was you apart of that group playing with little Yuki?" Akito said letting go on my hand and then placing it on my face, I flinched at the sudden movement by him and said "Yes I was" "And I see you remember it, I gave the order to have every child's memory to be gone" Akito said as he started to sound angry I was scared what he might do but out of nowhere I just said "So you're the head of this family?" I didn't know what I was thinking at the time but it seemed to shock him as well and then he lead me into the house" I took a deep breath from telling the first part of my story and could see Tohru trying to keep up with the information I was giving her and then she asked "So you met Yuki and Akito due the event with Yuki and some kids, does Yuki remember you from then" "No he doesn't thanks to Akito, which I'll explain in a minute, do you want a drink?" I said standing up and head towards the door "Yes please" Tohru said as she watched me leave the room.

I walked down the hall to a vender to get some drinks for me and Tohru, when I see Kyo at the other end doing the same, I decided to walk over to him and my guess that he saw me for he just stood there looking my way, "Hey, how's everyone doing?" I asked as I got near to him, he looked at me for a second before answering "Everyone's asleep now, so I guess all right for now" "I see, Tohru asked me to tell her the truth about how our families started fighting" I said looking away from him as I saw his face changed to a surprising looking "And your telling her" he asked still looking at me, I just nodded my head and heard him carry on saying "Listen Lauren, I know Tohru is your friend and all bu there are some secret you must keep from her, to keep her safe. What would happen if Ian and Akito found out" "I don't care what those two think, it's their fault this fighting started as well as mine" I said turning away from him and started walking away but he stopped me by grabbing my arm "What do you mean by 'As well as mine"? What part of this fight did you start?" he asked turning me around so that I faced him but before he could say anything else he saw me crying the one thing I didn't want people to see.