Hana looked out the window from the classroom, her mind elsewhere, which wasn't like her at all. Normally she would pay attention in class, but a nagging feeling mixed with an all too familar vibe brought her usually focused mind to a halt and set itself to a different task.Truth: Chapter 3- Recognise
That vibe I picked up recently....It was very familiar...Demo....It couldn't be..... It felt just like Kyoko's vibe....Maybe Arisa was right...Maybe Kyoko did dissapear....Yet...Why would she leave Tohru by herself...and for so long....Was her funeral just a dream....Was our recent vist just also a dream?....But if Kyoko's alive...It will be good to see Tohru not burdened by so many things.....If only that vibe was stronger I would be able to pinpoint it...
"Hana-chan!"
Hana looked up from her thoughts to see Tohru looking at her worriedly. "Hana-chan...Daijoubu???" "Hai Tohru...." Tohru gave the denpa a small smile before turing around to face the blackboard.
After school Hana slowly walked behind Tohru and Arisa, with Kyo in the lead. Her mind was still on the vibe she felt and was oblivious to the things happneing around her. She didn't even hear Arisa's heated argument the Kyo.
"Ano...Uo-chan..Is Hana-chan okay?" Arisa shrugged her shoulders and cast a concerned glance at the denpa.
"I don't know...She's been like that since History class..Whatever she's thinking about it must be pretty big...."
Momiji and Haru walked down the crowded streets on their way home. Haru glanced at the rabbit with a small smile, as Momiji explained to Haru an extremely detailed story of how Yuki beat Kyo into a bloody pulp last night. Momiji immediately stopped talking when he noticed the calender's date.
"Ano...Haru..what day is it?"
"April 5th..." Haru mentally kicked himself when Momiji's shoulder's slumped slightly. "Momiji..don't worry...I'm sure it'll be okay..."
"Today's mama's birthday...Demo..I've always gotten her a birthday present..." Said Momiji who looked at the ground depressed.
Haru placed a hand on the rabbit's shoulder. "If it makes you feel better..I'll help you look for a present for her..."
Momiji's eye's lit up excitedly as he gave the ox a huge smile. "Honto? Arigato Haru! Comon! I know a bunch of places that mama likes to shop at!"
With that Momiji grabbed Haru's hand and ran down the sidewalk and towards the shopping district.
Yuki absent mindedly looked at the clock. The meeting was going longer then expected, but then again, he really wasn't paying attention. The thought that his cousin was hiding something from him was sort of bothering. Usually he didn't care what kind of things Shigure was hiding, but this had to do with Tohru, he was sure of it.
"Yuki-kun?"
"YUKI-KUN!"
Yuki snapped out of his daze and looked around the room to see that everybody had left and that Takei and one of the girls on the student council was looking at him in concern.
"Yuki-kun...Daijoubu? You barely said anything during the meeting?"
Yuki put on a small smile. "Sorry...I had something on my mind..."
Before the girl could ask what it was he stood up, gathered his note book and bag and left the room. He walked down the hallways and looked behind his shoulder, with the feeling of someone or somebodies watching him. Yuki ignored the feeling and continued down the hall.
"This is tanooki to ichigo..I repeat tanooki to ichigo..Do you copy?" Said Minami code name tanooki into the walkie talkie. Silence and crackling noises follwed.
"I repeat tanooki to ichigo do you read?! NUMBER TWO ARE YOU THERE OR NOT?!!"
"Huh? Minami is that you? Who's tanooki and ichigo?" Minami smacked herself on the forehead angrily.
"We're undercover baka! I'm tanooki and you're ichigo remember? We've gotten special promission from Minagawa-sempai to follow Yuki-kun around, but we have to go unnoticed. Got it?!
"Hai!"
"Good. Sakura do you read me? I repeat sakura do you read me? This is tanooki."
Number one who was hiding in the bushes by the school entrance nodded her head.
"I read you tanooki...Oh wait! He's heading out of the school building and towards the gates."
"Okay...ichigo, sakura, we met me at the school entrance in five minutes and we'll continue from there." Said Minami who was running down the hallway toward's the building entrance.
Shigure, Hatori and Ayame sat on the porch at Hatori's house. Shigure studied the file on Hikaru Tamiguchi, carefully. She did look a lot like Kyoko, infact, if she didn't have a different name, she would have been Kyoko's twin. Then something hit him. His stomach lurched unpleasently as he put down the file.
"Hatori...I told you about Tohru-kun's reletives right?"
Hatori rasied an eyebrow and looked at Shigure slightly shocked. The tone his cousin was using, he never heard before.
"Hai..You told me how they did a background check on us, because of Tohru's mom's reputation."
"What about Tohru's mom's reputation?" Said Ayame who had his tea cup halfway to his mouth.
"That's right...We didn't tell you...Apparenlty Kyoko-san was part of a gang a while back...I'm guessing that since Kyoko-san didn't get along well with her side of the family, didn't really introduce Tohru-kun to them..The same goes for Tohru's father's side..."
Shigure quietly took a sip from his tea before continuing.
"Tohru-kun's father's side also didn't like Kyoko, cause of her reputation. So when Tohru left, because of our deal that when her grandfather's house on her father's side was done with renevation she'd leave my house...But from what I heard from Yuki and Kyo...Her aunt and uncle did a background check on us using a private detective, since they don't want their son's chance of being a police officer tarnished." Said Shigure with a bit of disgust in his voice.
"Anyway..I'm just wondering if they had something to do with Kyoko-san's death...I mean for all we know Kyoko really did have a twin and who got married and was in the same car accident..." Hatori extinguish his cigarrette and looked at the inu in mild surprise.
"So...what your hunch is saying is that...Tohru's father's family minus her grandfather had a hand in Kyoko's death? Just so their son could be in the police?"
"That's what I'm mostly saying...Because I've heard that they really didn't like Tohru-kun that much. Sad ne? They judge our sweet, innocent Tohru-kun just because of her mother's past..."
"Ne...Gure-san why didn't you tell me earlier?" Said Ayame who was slightly pouting. Shigure waved a hand in appology.
"Gomen Aya...At that time you were busy with the tradeshow and you didn't have time to talk, remember?"
"Oh...That's right..How could I forget."Said a embarassed Ayame.
Shigure stood up and walked back into the house, waving at Hatori and Ayame.
"I better get back, Yuki and Kyo is going to get home soon, and I don't want to find my house a wreak again. Ja ne Ha-san, Aya!"
The three main girls of the Yuki fanclub followed their beloved "prince", around town; and received many weird stares from people passing by.
"Ne Minami...How long are we going to stay out?" Said number 1 who was leaning against a mail box.
"Until he goes home." Said Minami with determination. "And if we need to we'll follow him there too!"
Number two who was off in her own fantasy land, snapped out of it when she saw Haru and a animatedly talking Momiji come towards them.
"Ne ne Haru, do you think mama will like these pair of earrings I got her?" Asked the rabbit who looked up at the ox with excited eyes.
"Mmhmm...She'll love them...Huh?" Haru looked to his left and swore he saw the three girls who usually stalked Yuki. He quickly shrugged off the thought and continued to hear Momiji tell him about this fight that broke out in the cafeteria.
Minami, number one and two let out a sight of relief when the two passed by without noticing them.
"That was close...Ah! There's Tohru Honda!! What is she doing there?" Said Minami who gave the onigiri a look of loathing.
"Maybe her reletive works in that building?"
"Hmm...But why is Yuki with her?" Pondered Minami. Before number 1 could answer they noticed that their beloved Yuki was walking away with their nemesis.
"That...Where the heck does she think she's going! She's walking with him!!" Minami glared at the couple and started to follow.
"Honda-san...Do you think Shigure is hiding something?"
Tohru looked at him confused. "I don't know Sohma-kun. But I'm sure it's nothing bad."
"You're right...I shouldn't misjudge Shigure..Even though his perverted mind has many thing I don't want to know about...." Said Yuki, who scowled slightly at the thought. Tohru sweatdropped.
"Demo...I can't shake this feeling...That whatever Hatori told Shigure, that it must have been really important..and that it has something to do with you..."
"Me? Now that you mention it...Hana-chan was acting a bit odd today...She seemed...kind of distant...as if she was deeply thinking about something."
Yuki pondered slightly over the answer. "It would be bad to confront Shigure, I'll just have to trust him to tell me. Though he's hardly ever serious about anything...It really annoys me. I can't tell if he's serious or messing with my head..."
Tohru laughed quietly.
The two reached the forest and entered.
Meanwhile The 'Yuki' fanclub froze when they saw the couple enter.
"She's leading him into the woods....Comon we have to save Yuki from that witch's spell before it's too late!"
Number 2 looked at the forest in fear. "Ne, Minami....The woods are kind of creepy...why can't we just call the police?"
Number 1 whacked the other on the head. "Baka. Do you want to save Yuki or not?!"
"Demo!"
Minami glared at Number 2. "No buts! We've been given a life chance opportunity to follow Yuki and we're going to take it to the full extent!!"
The two members half hauled and have dragged a tearful numer 2 into the darkened woods.
A/N: I'm going to give you a list of some of the japanese words I might be using....
Daijoubu: meaning Are you okay?, it's okay, I'm okay, are you alright.
Baka: stupid, idiot
Hai: Yes, okay, alright, yep, etc
Demo: But
Kun: Honorific at the end of a name, usually a boys
Chan: Usually used for girls (or possibly little boys) of the same age or younger, or girls who are close to you. It's another honorific.
San: Honorific for people, usually the term Mr. or Ms.
Sama: High honorific. Usually means master like Shigure-sama meaning master Shigure. Sama has a high importance, just to let you know
Iie: meaning no
kuso: meaning ##%!!! (lol)
Honto: Really?
Arigato: Thank you
Arigato gozaimasu: Thank you very much
Doushite: why?
Tanooki: Racoon
Sempai: Honorific. meaning elder classmate.
Hopefully that's all the words I might use...If not I'll add more as I go along....but I know it's good if I say what the words mean....but....It's kinda hard to break the habit of writing the words without the meanings...oh well....