The clam and the onigiri
By: Kisu
Chapter 7: Hatori
A/N: o_O;; I felt I didn't do the last chapter justice…and my writer's block is momentarily cleared! Totoro! Totoro! Hansen's Energy island blast smoothie is yummy!
Disclaimer: Furuba doesn't belong to me…but if it did…I would make a movie! Wouldn't that be weird? Fruits Basket: The movie! Titled: A fruit among fruits! XD…..mmm…Hansen's.
Don't you have any friends?
Do you want to be my friend?
He tried to block her voice out as it echoed in his head. He heard her giggles and saw her run toward him.
"I-" He stared with wide eyes at her figure. "I-"
Do you want to be my friend?
Her brown curls billowed around her face as she reached him and he reached out to touch her fingers.
Come play with me.
He jerked upright in bed and violently threw his blanket across the room. He stared at his pillows and violently threw that after the blanket. "Hatori!" He yelled, angrily. "HATORI!" The doctor's light footsteps rushed down the hall to his quarters and Hatori entered the dark room.
"What is it, Akito?" He asked as he scanned the room, silently observing the room.
"She's back! Get her out of my head!" Akito roared.
"What?" Hatori stared, dumbly at the clan head.
"I don't want to remember her! She's stupid!" Akito ranted. "Erase her from my memory!"
"I don't think I can." Hatori said, quietly.
"What?" Akito gaped as he stared sharply at the doctor.
"It cannot be done to the clan head. The clan head must see all and remember all. Judgment will come with experience." Hatori said.
"What are you babbling about, Hatori?" Akito yelled. He stormed over to the doctor and knelt down to his level. "Does your eye still hurt, Hatori?" He asked, quietly. "Did it burn? Kana didn't care about you. Kana is gone." Hatori remained behind his blank mask and Akito sat back with a small smirk. "Do you dare disobey me, Hatori?" The doctor's only response was to place a hand over Akito's eyes. He felt himself entering the clan head's mind and shuddered inwardly.
He slowly walked into his childhood and found himself in the front yard of the main house. A little girl was brown curls stood in the pathway. The cherry blossoms on the trees came loose in a soft shower, dancing around the little girl as they fell. Suddenly the girl turned and Hatori froze. It had been the same girl from almost 10 years ago. The one who had followed Yuki home. He noticed the hint of red in her jacket pocket and recognized it as Yuki's hat. That hat that Yuki had claimed he had lost.
"I will erase you from his memory." Hatori told her. She cocked her head to the side and stared at him with bright blue eyes.
"You can make him forget. But his heart can't forget." She giggled. "I am only here because of his conscience." She giggled again and placed a finger to her lips. "His heart remembers." Hatori frowned and the sky rippled. The girl smiled and clapped her hands together. "You can't fight his heart. The clam has to find his pearl." She turned back around and Hatori found himself being pushed backwards.
"NO!" He yelled.
Are you afraid?
Hatori's eyes widened.
Don't be. You know who I am.
He saw her smile and watched as she turned away from him.
Do you want to be my friend?
Then the world went white.
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Hatori was blasted backwards with a surge of energy and hit the wall. Akito opened his eyes. "Hatori?" He asked. The doctor stirred and rubbed his aching head. "Hatori! Why didn't you erase her?"
Hatori got up and straightened his suit. "The clam has to find his pearl." He repeated and walked out of the room.
"Hatori! How dare you turn your back on me!" Akito raged. "HATORI!"
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"HATORI!"
The doctor turned his ears off as he walked away from the clan head's wing of the house. He walked slowly, trying to clear his thoughts.
You known who I am.
"I do?" Hatori muttered. "I was there when her memory got erased. She seemed so happy."
"Close your eyes." The man dressed in a lab coat said, softly.
"Why?" She asked, curiously.
"Just do it, onegai?" The man pleaded in the same gentle tone.
"All right." She said as she closed her eyes. The man placed his hand on top of her eyes. "The boy dressed in dark blue with black hair. He seems lonely." She said. "What's his name? I want to be friends with him." Then she fell backwards and the man quickly caught her. He lowered her down onto the bed and his eyes met his.
"Hatori, come here." He said. Hatori nodded and walked toward his great-uncle. "You are cursed with the dragon jyunnishi, however I have not. Although I do have the ability to erase minds."
"I know that, uncle." Hatori said, solemnly. His great-uncle nodded.
"The curse hurts people within the family and hurts people outside of it. That is why all people who know the secret must not be trusted. What I did was not wrong."
"Oji-san. What about those who can be trusted?" Hatori asked.
"It is better for no one to know." His uncle replied, firmly.
"No, it is not better for no one to know." Hatori said to himself. "Honda Tohru might just save us all. Honda Tohru might save Akito."
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The story ends here becuz I found the perfect ending..now I have to….write the chapters that lead up to it…
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