A/N: I know, I know, it's been over a week, but I was out of town, and
therefore, out of
computer accessibility. Now I'm back, ( I was suffering from non-fic
sickness the whole
week ), and I have ideas, lots of ideas........heh heh........O.o *this is
the non-typo
version*
Okay, enough with my petty excuses. Thanks to Sailor-Knight Shadowstar, the people in the corner, Gen, Miko, and Park Ji Jun, for translating that l33t thingy for me. I finally get it! ^-^ I am forever in your debt! Another special thanks to Olera14, who reviewed every chapter. (THANX!!) And thanks to everyone else who reviewed, it encourages me to write more!
One more thing, about Tohru's hair controversy: At the time, I sincerely thought that Tohru's hair was grey. Keep in mind that I haven't even seen the whole series yet. I simply thought it was grey. Anyway, now that I look at it, her hair really DOES look dark brown. I must've been color blind.(T-T) Thanks to all who pointed it out, and I'm sorry if I caused any confusion. Besides, it's my fic, so I can make Tohru's hair green and make her dance like a monkey, for all I know. Whatever.......
Disclaimer: FB is not mine. If it was, I'd at least know Tohru's real hair color...........
~Forgotten Memories~
By Burnt Rice
Chapter 4: Thunder
"Mom, do I hafta go to school today?" Tohru wriggled under the covers of her bed. She yawned, and rubbed the sleep from her eyes.
"Well, why not?", replied her Mother.
"Um....I don't feel so good."
Her Mom didn't believe that for a second. "What's really buggin you?", she put her arm around Tohru.
"Why does everybody hate me?"
"No one hates you!"
"Yes, they do."
"Why would they?"
"I....I dunno....."
"Look, I know that something's buggin you. Just learn to trust your instincts. Everyone just has to get to know you better. Give them a chance, and eventually they'll open up to you. Trust me on this."
Tohru looked up into her Mother's ever-so-confident eyes. There she found motivation. She stood atop her bed, her fist high up in the air. "Y'know, Mom, you're right! I can't let this get me down! I'm gonna....I'm gonna....well, I don't know what I'm going to do yet, but when I know, I'm gonna do my best!"
"That's the spirit, kiddo! Now get ready for school."
~~
"Kyo?...Kyo, get up, we're going to be late for school!" Yuki prodded Kyo, who had spent the night sleeping feet up, head down. Drool was dripping off the young boy's mouth. Yuki stood over him, already fully dressed for school. "What an idiot", he muttered. He took a deep breath. "HEY! WAKE UP! WE'RE RUNNING LATE!"
Kyo responded by sneezing, then turning over to face the side opposite of Yuki.
Yuki had had it. This time, he didn't yell.
*BAM*
He pushed Kyo off the bed.
"HEY! What was that for?!"
"You wouldn't get up."
"Did you have to push me?!!"
"Yes."
"That hurt!!"
"It shouldn't. You have such a hard head anyway..."
"WHAT?!!"
Yuki and Kyo went off at each other for awhile. Not quite soon enough, Shigure, their older-though-not-that-much-more-mature cousin, lightly stepped into the room and intercepted. "Um, guuuuuuuuys", he said in a sing-song voice. "You still need to get to school. Preferably, sometime before valentine's day....."
"FINE!", retorted Kyo. He stormed into the hallway, and the bathroom door
slammed.
"Whatever.", replied Yuki. He cooly walked out of the room, but Shigure could tell
that Yuki was little more than flustered......
~~
The grey clouds that had seemed so far off yesterday afternoon had finally gathered upon Tohru's elementary school. Tohru was walking towards the front entrance when she felt the first lone raindrop fall on her shoulders. She could feel it's damp coolness penetrate her sweater. She looked up. "Hmm...I guess it's going to rain..." The girl stood there, looking up for the next few moments, as if mesmorized by the furling thunder clouds. More drops fell. "Mmph!"
A firm hand smothered her mouth and Tohru was roughly dragged away from the entrance. She struggled hard, but whoever had taken her easily dampened her resistance. More falling torrents of rain. It swirled around Tohru and her captor, blinding their surroundings. She tried to yell, but the hand that was clamped down on her mouth muffled her cries. To sum it up, Tohru was utterly and completely helpless.
~~
"C'mon, Kyo!" Yuki stood waiting by the door, umbrella in hand.
"Hymm Cohoming!" Kyo ran towards the door, his jacket hanging off one arm, a half piece of uneaten toast being chewed in his mouth.
Yuki sighed as he and his cousin made their way out the door. With the rain pouring down, they couldn't even walk seperately like they usually did. Instead, they were stuck at a slow pace, huddling close together to avoid the rain. 'Granted, its not like I really hate him so much to hurt him....maybe more like he's annoying or something....', Yuki thought. The fact that they were facing the hostility of all the kids together made Yuki feel like they had a common goal. But he was too ashamed to face Tohru again. Together, the two cousins made their way towards school, already 15 minutes late.
~~
Tohru could feel the itchy ground moving beneath her. She was dragged behind a bush to the side of the building, and she still couldn't see her kidnapper. Her mind wasn't even filled with chaos and panic, as many other girls of her age would've reacted. Mostly, she felt regret that her Mom (and maybe Yuki, with his sad eyes) would never know what would happen to her, and pity for her captor, who must be lonely. A wet rag tied around her eyes was used to blindfold her. She also couldn't help but notice that whoever was tying her up had shaky hands, almost like he or she was nervous.
"Okay, Squirt, now shut up and be quiet or else."
'It's a boy voice! Squirt? Where have I heard that before?' Tohru thought for a moment. Her eyes widened in suprise. "Keisuke-san?!"
"I TOLD you to shut UP!"
Tohru still couldn't see Keisuke, as he was behind her. She couldn't be too sure about who he was, but no one else called her after a tasty snack! (She still thought that 'Squirt' was a flavor of chips) By this time, she was drenched in water. The rain kept pouring.
"N-now, I want you to sit still while I..."
"Are you scared?"
"No, why would I be..."
"Your voice and hands are shaky."
"Shut up!! Now stay put...." Keisuke reached for the ropes that he planned to use to bind her wrists together. 'Why isn't she crying or something?", he thought angrily.
A sudden flash of lightnng lit up the cloudy sky. With startling silence, it clawed it's way across the sky, as if Zeus himself were striving to rip the surrounding trees out of the ground. Keisuke shrugged it off, and proceeded to make for the ropes. *RUMBLE............. ......................CRACK!!!!!*
Thunder.
"AGH!" Keisuke couldn't take the pressure anymore. He abrubtly dropped the ropes, and scampered to the school's entrance, leaving Tohru to her own devices.
"Hello?" At that, she took off her blindfold. She blinked, and realized that she was only a few meters from her school. She made her way towards the building.
~~
"So, Keisuke Monoe, Tohru Honda, and Yuki and Kyo Souma are all absent.", said Mrs. Daisuke. School had started half an hour ago. "Does anyone know where any of them are?" The class of first graders shook their heads. "All right then, let's start by...."
The door opened, and there stood Keisuke, dripping wet, with a face filled with
panic.
"Keisuke!", cried the teacher. "What happened?"
"Nothin. The rain.", he mumbled, and plopped down onto his seat. His face was
now masked with a look of indifference.
"Do you know where Honda or the Soumas are?"
Keisuke stared long and hard. "Nope."
~~
The storm outside continued to rage. Ten minutes had passed. The class was in the middle of a reading when the door slowly and silently opened. But not silently enough. All heads turned around only to see Tohru Honda, damp, looking slightly bewildered.
"Tohru!", exclaimed Mrs. Daisuke. "Where have you been?"
"I was-", she stopped. Keisuke had locked eyes with her, a hardened glare that chilled her to the core. 'It might not've been him. I could have tripped and dreamed it up. Yeah, that's probably what happened.'
"Um...I woke up late, and um...tripped."
"Very well. Use this towel to dry off."
"Thank you.", replied Tohru, and she took it to her desk, carefully avoiding looking
at Keisuke.
~~
Class went on as usual. More minutes passed. Keisuke glanced out the window, and saw none other than Yuki and Kyo bound for the entrance to school.
He raised his hand. "Mrs. Daisuke?"
"Yes, Monoe?"
"The rain outside is making me and some of the other kids kinda sad. Can I close
the curtains?"
"How thoughful. Of course you can."
"And I just remembered. I think Yuki and Kyo are sick. I think they can't come to
school today."
"Thank you for the information, Keisuke."
The boy proceeded to shut the curtains, so all you could hear was the rain pounding on the roof, and the deep clash of thunder every few seconds.
~~
Yuki tried the door of the main entrance to the school. "It's locked.", he told Kyo.
"Locked? Lemme try." It was true. But the door wasn't even supposed to be locked
until the school afterhours. "Let's try Mrs. Daisuke's windows."
To their dismay, they couldn't even see inside the classroom, . Yuki pounded his fists against the windows, but the torrent of the storm drowned their attempt out.
"What do we now?", asked Kyo. "We're stuck."
~~
Tohru stayed silent. She had no idea what had happened this morning, and wasn't even too sure that it actually happened. But she couldn't bring herself to look Keisuke's way. What did he have against her? What did she do? She heard pounding on the other side of the classroom. 'It's the rain.', she thought. But she heard it again. This time she was sure it was outside, on the other side of the window. And again.
"Mrs. Daisuke, I think that there's something outside the window."
"Really?"
"No, there isn't!", yelled Keisuke. The other children looked at him strangely. "I
mean, it's gotta be the rain, the thunder! Yeah, that's it!"
"But I really think that there' something there-"
"Don't be such a baby! It's just the storm!"
The teacher speculated for a moment. "You know, Tohru, Monoe's probably right. It's probably just the rain. I mean, what would be out there, especially in this weather?" She left it at that, and continued to teach the class about addition.
Tohru looked at Keisuke. He smirked.
~~
"ACHOO!" Yuki's pale face told Kyo all. 'Yuki's sick again, and we're stuck in
this rain.', Kyo thought. Yuki, clothes wet, started a series of hoarse coughs.
'What am I going to do?'
~~End Ch. 4
A/N: What do you think? (I know what's going to happen, lalala.....) Is it good
enough for my reparation for not updating in a while? That's all I have to say
for now. (How boring) So, go on and do what you do best, and REVIEW!!!!
~Hasta
Okay, enough with my petty excuses. Thanks to Sailor-Knight Shadowstar, the people in the corner, Gen, Miko, and Park Ji Jun, for translating that l33t thingy for me. I finally get it! ^-^ I am forever in your debt! Another special thanks to Olera14, who reviewed every chapter. (THANX!!) And thanks to everyone else who reviewed, it encourages me to write more!
One more thing, about Tohru's hair controversy: At the time, I sincerely thought that Tohru's hair was grey. Keep in mind that I haven't even seen the whole series yet. I simply thought it was grey. Anyway, now that I look at it, her hair really DOES look dark brown. I must've been color blind.(T-T) Thanks to all who pointed it out, and I'm sorry if I caused any confusion. Besides, it's my fic, so I can make Tohru's hair green and make her dance like a monkey, for all I know. Whatever.......
Disclaimer: FB is not mine. If it was, I'd at least know Tohru's real hair color...........
~Forgotten Memories~
By Burnt Rice
Chapter 4: Thunder
"Mom, do I hafta go to school today?" Tohru wriggled under the covers of her bed. She yawned, and rubbed the sleep from her eyes.
"Well, why not?", replied her Mother.
"Um....I don't feel so good."
Her Mom didn't believe that for a second. "What's really buggin you?", she put her arm around Tohru.
"Why does everybody hate me?"
"No one hates you!"
"Yes, they do."
"Why would they?"
"I....I dunno....."
"Look, I know that something's buggin you. Just learn to trust your instincts. Everyone just has to get to know you better. Give them a chance, and eventually they'll open up to you. Trust me on this."
Tohru looked up into her Mother's ever-so-confident eyes. There she found motivation. She stood atop her bed, her fist high up in the air. "Y'know, Mom, you're right! I can't let this get me down! I'm gonna....I'm gonna....well, I don't know what I'm going to do yet, but when I know, I'm gonna do my best!"
"That's the spirit, kiddo! Now get ready for school."
~~
"Kyo?...Kyo, get up, we're going to be late for school!" Yuki prodded Kyo, who had spent the night sleeping feet up, head down. Drool was dripping off the young boy's mouth. Yuki stood over him, already fully dressed for school. "What an idiot", he muttered. He took a deep breath. "HEY! WAKE UP! WE'RE RUNNING LATE!"
Kyo responded by sneezing, then turning over to face the side opposite of Yuki.
Yuki had had it. This time, he didn't yell.
*BAM*
He pushed Kyo off the bed.
"HEY! What was that for?!"
"You wouldn't get up."
"Did you have to push me?!!"
"Yes."
"That hurt!!"
"It shouldn't. You have such a hard head anyway..."
"WHAT?!!"
Yuki and Kyo went off at each other for awhile. Not quite soon enough, Shigure, their older-though-not-that-much-more-mature cousin, lightly stepped into the room and intercepted. "Um, guuuuuuuuys", he said in a sing-song voice. "You still need to get to school. Preferably, sometime before valentine's day....."
"FINE!", retorted Kyo. He stormed into the hallway, and the bathroom door
slammed.
"Whatever.", replied Yuki. He cooly walked out of the room, but Shigure could tell
that Yuki was little more than flustered......
~~
The grey clouds that had seemed so far off yesterday afternoon had finally gathered upon Tohru's elementary school. Tohru was walking towards the front entrance when she felt the first lone raindrop fall on her shoulders. She could feel it's damp coolness penetrate her sweater. She looked up. "Hmm...I guess it's going to rain..." The girl stood there, looking up for the next few moments, as if mesmorized by the furling thunder clouds. More drops fell. "Mmph!"
A firm hand smothered her mouth and Tohru was roughly dragged away from the entrance. She struggled hard, but whoever had taken her easily dampened her resistance. More falling torrents of rain. It swirled around Tohru and her captor, blinding their surroundings. She tried to yell, but the hand that was clamped down on her mouth muffled her cries. To sum it up, Tohru was utterly and completely helpless.
~~
"C'mon, Kyo!" Yuki stood waiting by the door, umbrella in hand.
"Hymm Cohoming!" Kyo ran towards the door, his jacket hanging off one arm, a half piece of uneaten toast being chewed in his mouth.
Yuki sighed as he and his cousin made their way out the door. With the rain pouring down, they couldn't even walk seperately like they usually did. Instead, they were stuck at a slow pace, huddling close together to avoid the rain. 'Granted, its not like I really hate him so much to hurt him....maybe more like he's annoying or something....', Yuki thought. The fact that they were facing the hostility of all the kids together made Yuki feel like they had a common goal. But he was too ashamed to face Tohru again. Together, the two cousins made their way towards school, already 15 minutes late.
~~
Tohru could feel the itchy ground moving beneath her. She was dragged behind a bush to the side of the building, and she still couldn't see her kidnapper. Her mind wasn't even filled with chaos and panic, as many other girls of her age would've reacted. Mostly, she felt regret that her Mom (and maybe Yuki, with his sad eyes) would never know what would happen to her, and pity for her captor, who must be lonely. A wet rag tied around her eyes was used to blindfold her. She also couldn't help but notice that whoever was tying her up had shaky hands, almost like he or she was nervous.
"Okay, Squirt, now shut up and be quiet or else."
'It's a boy voice! Squirt? Where have I heard that before?' Tohru thought for a moment. Her eyes widened in suprise. "Keisuke-san?!"
"I TOLD you to shut UP!"
Tohru still couldn't see Keisuke, as he was behind her. She couldn't be too sure about who he was, but no one else called her after a tasty snack! (She still thought that 'Squirt' was a flavor of chips) By this time, she was drenched in water. The rain kept pouring.
"N-now, I want you to sit still while I..."
"Are you scared?"
"No, why would I be..."
"Your voice and hands are shaky."
"Shut up!! Now stay put...." Keisuke reached for the ropes that he planned to use to bind her wrists together. 'Why isn't she crying or something?", he thought angrily.
A sudden flash of lightnng lit up the cloudy sky. With startling silence, it clawed it's way across the sky, as if Zeus himself were striving to rip the surrounding trees out of the ground. Keisuke shrugged it off, and proceeded to make for the ropes. *RUMBLE............. ......................CRACK!!!!!*
Thunder.
"AGH!" Keisuke couldn't take the pressure anymore. He abrubtly dropped the ropes, and scampered to the school's entrance, leaving Tohru to her own devices.
"Hello?" At that, she took off her blindfold. She blinked, and realized that she was only a few meters from her school. She made her way towards the building.
~~
"So, Keisuke Monoe, Tohru Honda, and Yuki and Kyo Souma are all absent.", said Mrs. Daisuke. School had started half an hour ago. "Does anyone know where any of them are?" The class of first graders shook their heads. "All right then, let's start by...."
The door opened, and there stood Keisuke, dripping wet, with a face filled with
panic.
"Keisuke!", cried the teacher. "What happened?"
"Nothin. The rain.", he mumbled, and plopped down onto his seat. His face was
now masked with a look of indifference.
"Do you know where Honda or the Soumas are?"
Keisuke stared long and hard. "Nope."
~~
The storm outside continued to rage. Ten minutes had passed. The class was in the middle of a reading when the door slowly and silently opened. But not silently enough. All heads turned around only to see Tohru Honda, damp, looking slightly bewildered.
"Tohru!", exclaimed Mrs. Daisuke. "Where have you been?"
"I was-", she stopped. Keisuke had locked eyes with her, a hardened glare that chilled her to the core. 'It might not've been him. I could have tripped and dreamed it up. Yeah, that's probably what happened.'
"Um...I woke up late, and um...tripped."
"Very well. Use this towel to dry off."
"Thank you.", replied Tohru, and she took it to her desk, carefully avoiding looking
at Keisuke.
~~
Class went on as usual. More minutes passed. Keisuke glanced out the window, and saw none other than Yuki and Kyo bound for the entrance to school.
He raised his hand. "Mrs. Daisuke?"
"Yes, Monoe?"
"The rain outside is making me and some of the other kids kinda sad. Can I close
the curtains?"
"How thoughful. Of course you can."
"And I just remembered. I think Yuki and Kyo are sick. I think they can't come to
school today."
"Thank you for the information, Keisuke."
The boy proceeded to shut the curtains, so all you could hear was the rain pounding on the roof, and the deep clash of thunder every few seconds.
~~
Yuki tried the door of the main entrance to the school. "It's locked.", he told Kyo.
"Locked? Lemme try." It was true. But the door wasn't even supposed to be locked
until the school afterhours. "Let's try Mrs. Daisuke's windows."
To their dismay, they couldn't even see inside the classroom, . Yuki pounded his fists against the windows, but the torrent of the storm drowned their attempt out.
"What do we now?", asked Kyo. "We're stuck."
~~
Tohru stayed silent. She had no idea what had happened this morning, and wasn't even too sure that it actually happened. But she couldn't bring herself to look Keisuke's way. What did he have against her? What did she do? She heard pounding on the other side of the classroom. 'It's the rain.', she thought. But she heard it again. This time she was sure it was outside, on the other side of the window. And again.
"Mrs. Daisuke, I think that there's something outside the window."
"Really?"
"No, there isn't!", yelled Keisuke. The other children looked at him strangely. "I
mean, it's gotta be the rain, the thunder! Yeah, that's it!"
"But I really think that there' something there-"
"Don't be such a baby! It's just the storm!"
The teacher speculated for a moment. "You know, Tohru, Monoe's probably right. It's probably just the rain. I mean, what would be out there, especially in this weather?" She left it at that, and continued to teach the class about addition.
Tohru looked at Keisuke. He smirked.
~~
"ACHOO!" Yuki's pale face told Kyo all. 'Yuki's sick again, and we're stuck in
this rain.', Kyo thought. Yuki, clothes wet, started a series of hoarse coughs.
'What am I going to do?'
~~End Ch. 4
A/N: What do you think? (I know what's going to happen, lalala.....) Is it good
enough for my reparation for not updating in a while? That's all I have to say
for now. (How boring) So, go on and do what you do best, and REVIEW!!!!
~Hasta