A/N: important: Yay! Some of my dear reviewers have returned! I missed you all so much! I knew you couldn't hate me! I must speak with everyone privately! find your name don't read it all you'll get a headache I know I did. b-chan77: You review me all the time, you've become one of my most frequent reviewers, It's always so nice to see someone familiar every time, and you're never mean to me ever. If you keep spoiling me like this I might start thinking you like me. nightfall2525: Oh I know what you mean sweetie, I have the same problem, I try and try and try like 5 times and I have to keep re-typing it too, then I just give up, this also happens when I add in my authors note to the story, because I add this stuff in after I upload, then once I do get it posted it's usually half as long and not as funny as the original. thank you for reviewing this time, and actually you can e-mail your review to me if it wont post darkness Sweetheart2000:Welcome to my loyal reviewers panel, please take a seat on my right, next to b-chan77. I'm glad you like the story enough to become a loyal reviewer please note this means you must agonize every second of the day over the following: My personal news, My most recent chapter, and the next chapter I'm going to post and weather or not I'll post early. In addition you must solemnly swear that you will check the site at least twice a day to see if I have updated. Do you swear? krenya-alenak: Yes he has to say it's out of character I had to lighten the mood to prevent reviewer suicide rates from going up. I love the Yuki/notes dilemma too I think it may be the only foreshadowing I intentionally put into the story. Also you've reminded me to mention this to everyone I'm not really trying to foreshadow anything and I'm not trying to confuse you guys, I'm just letting things unfold as they want to unfold in the story, I'm trying to confuse Tohru and her own confusion is what causes her thoughts to jump erratically. celarania: I hope you're feeling better now, Please don't strain yourself I don't want to lose one of my best reviewers, when you feel better there's a place at the loyal reviewers table just for you! Thank you for the well-wishes I had a happy time even though it was spent with strangers, there's a story extra on my jury duty immediately following this chapter, which I'll be writing tomorrow before I post this chapter, just after I get back home from deliberation. In case it changes you should all know I'm voting guilty as of now. juri14: It's okay that you haven't reviewed in awhile it my own fault for telling you-know-who to tell you when I post instead of telling you myself. I glad you plan on keeping up now I'll call you and tell you when I post things so you don't have to check as much, and hey you still get a seat at the loyal fan table after all you're practically family. sailorchix: thank you for reviewing me you're right about the twist and turns to come even I don't know what I may do next. I talked a lot to all the other reviewers so I feel like I need to say more to you...Hey what was that NO about at the beginning of your review? Was that about something you didn't like or was it in response to something I wrote in my authors note? Nobody's ever said I'd captivated my audience that makes me happy, I really hope you plan on reviewing more. kagura tora-san: I'm glad you're a kyoru fan although I suspect that you are much like me in that it doesn't matter as long as our dear sweet kyou is happy, don't get me wrong in that sentence I may have said our...kyou but he's 98 mine and 1 yours and the rest belongs to these other nice people. daine-wildmage: I'm glad you finally settled on a name you kept changing it and I was getting confused. Oh! I'm your idol! That's soooo sweet! I love you! I just noticed you updated your bio. You can have a seat right on my left side at the loyal reviewers table! Order whatever you like I'm paying, anything for my biggest fan! I love you almost as much as my Kyou plushy...well almost half as much...nothing comes close to the love I feel for my Kyou plushy. silversteel228: Here's your answer there is indeed more than 9 chapters I'll even go as far to tell you that there's more than ten. I hope to be seeing you review again soon. You seem really nice and I like nice reviewers. I'm sure this chapter is as good as the others so I'm sure you'll enjoy it. lhuntathraeil: even if you only said kawaii! you still took the time to tell me what you thought of the chapter which is more than some people ever do so I appreciate it very much. And you do usually say more so I know you just didn't have anything else to add so even if you just write yay! update I'll be happy just to know you're still there. anonymous reviewers: I usually don't respond to anonymous reviews because they usually don't come back but I will this one time although I urge you all to get an account it'll help you return to your favorite stories and keep track of the reviews you post and stuff. If you guys already have an account tell me who you are so I can thank you properly. midori-chan: Here's the more you requested, KYORU FOREVER! Yuki's creepy any way so who cares if he's crushed. MwaHaHaHa! moonstar: you mean it so I'm really your first, they say it hurts the most the first time but after that you start to crave it...sorry sometimes I think a dirty old man lives inside my brain. It was a good review though. HaHaHa! I just realized that I reviewed your review...update soon okay? Ha! LOL! estefani: I'm glad you like it and think I should keep writing I hope to see you review again your review keeps making me think of that song "Keep on truckin" Which makes me think "ChugaChugaChugaChooChoo." Which makes me think of chitty chitty bang bang which makes my think of ...well you get the idea, I'm easily distracted. sodasgirl678: Thank you for reviewing and wishing me a happy birthday. and I'm glad someone's impressed, now I'm not alone. I'm glad you really like the story and most of all i'm glad you said HOWDY! antoinette: I here-by solemnly swear never to torture Kyou in this fic again. why do bad things happen to good anime characters? You can't have the good with out the bad though so just imagine how good it will now get. Faye-child: Tohru will never love Yuki, even in the show it is clear through my crazy eyes that she finds him creepy, Momiji doesn't fall for Tohru he will never be a sexual being in my eyes, I hate Kagura so I don't plan on putting in her reaction. I think Haru just really respects Tohru more at this point, oh pretty rose petals! No body likes Yuki (Although I must admit that in rat form he's as cute as can be!) and I answer stupid questions all the time, Even ones people don't ask me. I'm finally done with this long note! I can't believe it's longer than the story! I really must have a lot of fans huh? You like me you really like me! (Edited on 08/07/05)
Tohru sighed /It's been three days since I wrote the note to him. Even though I'm going to dinner with him next week, I wanted him to know how his notes made me feel before then./ She had checked between every class yesterday. Today she remembered Mom always said a watched pot never boils. So she hadn't looked since lunch-time. It was now the end of the day. She opened the locker, her eyes squeezed closed. Slowly she opened one eye, then the other. It's gone. Another note was laying down in the locker. She looked at it and was shocked to discover it had been hand written.
"I couldn't sit by and let you slip away. I'm not who you think I am. I will step aside for now, if you knew me, I fear you would not love me"
She clutched the note to her chest, a tear formed in her eye. Then this, this must mean it isn't Yuki, that explains why I couldn't love him. But whoever it is doesn't know yet...just how much...I love him. She whipped away the tear.
"Hi Tohru!" A young blonde boy greeted her.
She jumped and turned around "Momiji? Hi!" /...Blonde hair, Brown eyes...German.../ "What are you still doing here"
"I was waiting for you silly, I thought I could walk you home." He smiled up at her under golden locks. "What was that note you just put in your pocket? Is it a love note? Is it from the same person who wrote the other one."
"Momiji, what do you know about that note!" Tohru said instantly. "I Need you to tell me everything you know about it."
"Well, I was going to visit my dad, when I saw a note on the floor, it had your name on it, so I asked the two nice ladies where you were, you were cleaning so I put it on the pillow."
"You didn't see anybody put it there or drop it?" she asked her hope diminishing.
Momiji shook his head sorrowfully, "No." He knew his answer was not the one she had been pressing for.
"I'm sorry Momiji, I have some things to think about, I'm afraid I wouldn't be very good company right now. Do you mind if I just walk home alone."
"No, that's okay." He said with false cheer. "I can walk you home some other time."
"Hey, Momiji." She called after him suddenly remembering something.
"Yes." He turned around.
"We're all going on a picnic tomorrow, would you like to come."
"Sure! YAY, I get to go on a picnic with Tohru!" He skipped down the hallway no longer faking his joy.
Tohru smiled after him. /That, really didn't help me at all though. Yuki most likely isn't the admirer, and that's all I do know. It could be anyone, even Momiji could be hiding behind a secret admirer identity. But if it isn't Yuki maybe.../ she shook her head. /Get a grip Tohru, that kind of thing does only happen in fairy tales. The prince isn't always perfect, and the girl doesn't always love him instantly, whomever it is might not be the man of your dreams./ She scolded herself, because while she is indeed naive not knowing who her admirer is, was beginning to make her worry he might not even exist.
Tohru began to walk herself home. /With every new answer I have two new questions, if Yuki definitely isn't the admirer then how do I explain to him...how do I even begin to make up for leading him on, when my heart belongs to someone else/
As she approached the house she noticed Kyou up on the roof again, he seemed unhappy. /Maybe I should go talk to him. I not in my most cheerful mood right now, but making him feel better might make me feel better/
SPECIAL JURY DUTY EXTRA:
We'll start when I arrived on my birthday August 2nd.
My mom had to drop me off because my cars getting inspected, and as we're sitting in the car outside the court house place thing I asked her where I'm supposed to go so she starts broadly pointing and looks completely foolish to everyone outside the car, who of course was a cop and the only cute bailiff in the Rhode Island court house history! So I got out of the car sheepishly and walked past the cop and cute bailiff (who nodded at me.) and I walked towards the entrance which led to the first floor, I then walked through a metal detector being guarded by a man who has some serious hesitation problems, because literally I had left that area and was waiting for the elevator when I heard him call to me "Jury lounge 4th floor, elevator on the right"
The elevator...I tell you no lie it was like the Hollywood tower of terror ride in slow motion, it made me seasick, that's a feeling you never get used to. when it stopped 2 seconds later at the fourth floor I stepped out uncertainly and walked straight, there didn't seem to be any better direction to go in, at the end of the hallway there was a guard who I gave the most frightened look to and he pointed the way to a desk I was to check in at. At the desk area I handed them my summons and they asked for my I.D. As I got out my I.D I said "It's my birthday!" And they both said happy birthday and the older on handed me my juror badge and pointed towards the room to his left (my right) and said "there's a room to the left and to the right if that ones too full." so I went to the room on the right which was near empty. I sat against the wall there was about ten people in there all together. I had brought two mangas to read (Fruits basket#4 and D.N.Angel#3)but I felt uncomfortable reading in front of strangers so I left them in my purse. The T,V was on anyway so I kinda watched that and looked at the other people called to jury duty some of them were creepy looking.
After about a half an hour to forty five minutes, they came and brought everyone to another room where they swore us in as jurors and then brought us back to the same room. After that I sat in the main room against a different wall in between two women. One of them left to smoke when the guard called out a smoking break, she left the woman on her other side in charge of guarding her crossword puzzle so no one else would do it, so i immediately pretended to grab it and fill it out we all laughed I'm so funny!
After a few minutes I went to the vending machine, to get some cheetoes, they were reasonably priced too (50 cents!) So I put in a dollar and then punched the numbers and the machine started pushing them forward, but then stopped suddenly! I popped my head back into the other room which was 2 feet away and asked my new friends "Is it wrong to kick a vending machine when you're on jury duty?" they all said no and then assisted me in beating up the stupid machine until it released the cheetoes. When I say they assisted me I just mean they told me to hit it harder none of them touched the machine. And at last I got my cheetoes! They were the best cheetoes ever too.
A few moments after I finished the cheetoes an announcement came on calling our numbers if we were to go to a court room to possibly be selected for a case. About 35-45 people were called and I was one of them. But my five new friends were called too. We filed into a court room where they made us swear again to uphold blah blah blah... Then we sat and immediately had to stand again when the judge came in. They asked all these questions to make sure we didn't know anyone involved, then they called 14 names and I was one of them I was juror #8 which is the best one it's the first seat on the top row so you're right near the action. They had us give our name and occupation and any spouses name and occupation and any grown children's name and occupation so when it was my turn I said "FruitsBasketcase (You didn't think I'd give my real name did ya?) I'm a photographer in Mass.(I can't spell it) and I don't have any husband or children." and after everyone said who they were and what they did they asked us other questions pertaining to our ability to stay impartial due to the nature of the case. The case was a criminal trial so we're lucky it didn't take longer than 4 days(The judge was too, his vacation starts Friday he was close to missing it.) It was a second degree sexual assault case so they were very careful in selecting. For a bout an hour and a half they asked questions, someone would have a problem and they would side-bar with the person and that person would leave, then they'd call someone new and ask them all the questions and they'd more often the not right off the back have a problem and side-bar and leave. One really hot guy that worked at Shaw's side-bar'd and left I wanted to go with him (if you catch my drift). When it hit twelve we adjourned for lunch and me and my new friends went to the cafe la France at the arcade and then we came back. We all talked in the deliberation room before we went back in and one guy I remember who had side-bar'd three times already but hadn't left, said "I wonder which one of you is going next." And I said "Which one of us? It's gotta be you, you've side-bar'd so much you're practically a lawyer!" And sure enough he was the next to go, and I couldn't help myself I whispered to the people around me "See, I told ya!" He was one of the last three or four to go I was glad because the lawyers kept looking at me, I was sure they were thinking of dropping me too. I'm glad they didn't though. If you guys want the rest of this super jury extra I'll continue next time but it was getting too long this time.
