28 days to live.
Tohru woke up on her bed that morning and smelled the sweet scent of breakfast. She was about to get up but she saw someone right next to her carrying a tray. "Huh? What?" Tohru rubbed her eyes and pinched herself. She's not dreaming.
"Good morning." Yuki greeted her as he placed a tray full of food on her lap. He smiled at her. "Are you hungry?"
"Wait! I'm suppose to cook and…" she stopped. "What time is it?"
"Quarter past ten?"
"I'M LATE!!!" She almost knocked the tray out of her lap when Yuki grabbed her shoulders and steadied it.
"Hey, calm down!" he said. "It's Saturday, remember?"
"Oh…" Tohru thought and laughed. "I'm sorry, I must have thought I need to work today to finish those papers."
Yuki sat on the bedside and arranged the tray again. "What papers?"
"Some will from your clan." She helped herself with a slice of apple. "Do you happen to know anyone in the name of Akito Sohma?"
Yuki stopped for a moment. Will? From Akito? He stared at her curiously. "I never knew that Akito had a will."
"SO you do know him!" she said. "What's your connection to him?"
This is going on a wrong track. "H-How did get those papers?"
"Well it was passed to me. I think it would be better if I would handle the papers rather than somebody else. You know, now I had a connection with a Sohma." She giggled. "Oh yes, I need to buy some things today and--"
"It's all done." Yuki nodded. "Kagura and Kisa went to the grocery this morning for breakfast."
"Laundry?"
"Done yesterday."
"House chores!"
"Hired a cleaner." Yuki smiled.
"… need another cleaner?" Tohru smiled sweetly which made him laugh.
"Tohru, you don't need to do house chores today. For once, everyone is acting as though they're adults."
Tohru stared at him. "We are adults."
"Yes, that's why we are doing the chores on our own." Yuki explained. "You've been working and doing house chores ever since highschool---"
"I DID?!" she asked him.
Oops, I slipped. Me and my big tongue. "Y-Yes, you did." He replied.
"But I was a rich mistress of some company and I survived a lot of assassination attempts. And because of that, my dad placed me here so that I'll be safe." She told him.
Oh yes, the made up story for her to remember. "Yeah… that's true and you were so helpful back at home that you were made to do house chores for your family."
"I DID?!" she wondered. "Maybe the maid is out or something." She thought for a moment. "How come I couldn't remember?" she asked herself.
Yuki sighed softly and smiled. "It's because you're hungry." He teased while taking a sliced apple and popped it on his mouth.
"Hey, that's my apple." She grumbled.
"I made it for you." He smiled.
At that moment, Tohru felt something that she hadn't felt before. How come I feel so connected to him? Like I've known him before… maybe he's one of my dad's workers. But… impossible… it's like we've been friends…
"Hey, NEZUMI?!" Kyou called from outside. "I'm warning you. If won't come out know, I'm going inside!!!"
Yuki groaned and shook his head. "I'll be right back." Then he left the room.
She just asked me who is Akito. It's a good thing she's didn't ask again who he was. But then again…
Akito's will?
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"Ahh, sunny day today, ain't it, Tori-san?" Ayame cheered while gaping at the doctor next to him, who was seriously reading a medical book.
"Move away." Hatori warned.
"Leave him alone, Aya-san." Shigure said while writing something down on his notebook. "I've heard from his assistants that he had been reading that book since last night."
"Assistants?"
"Yeah." Shigure stared at Aya from his classes. "Female assistants."
"Female?" Aya said excitingly.
"College freshies, partime, female assistants." Shigure nodded.
Ayame gaped at Hatori once more. "Virgin?"
Hatori stared at his cousin next to him and the inu in front of him. Both of them were nearly drooling for the answer. "You got to be kidding me. The last time you did that with my former assistants you were jailed. I need to bail you out for crying out loud!"
"But we ditched her because she's a lesbian." The novelist explained. "We want someone who's not."
"Yeah, just give us one and Gure and I will share it."
Hatori stared at Aya. "SHARE? How exactly are you going to share? I mean, I think one is not enough for you."
"Tori, Tori, Tori. It's obvious you haven't read a porn magazine before." Ayame shook his head.
"Yeah, men in the magazine can share as long as you know where to grab." Shigure nodded suspiciously.
"Grab?" Hatori repeated.
"Can you believe it that 4 guys can share with one woman?"
"We've seen a picture of it in the latest issue." Ayame smiled. "There's a step by step guide on how to do it---"
"That's it." Hatori got up and grabbed his coat. "I won't let you in inside my office anymore."
"But---" Ayame grabbed his arm.
"Don't do that to us!" Shigure grabbed the other arm. "You know we can't survive without women. Men and women coexist with each other!"
"That's right. We do our part. They do their part!" Ayame begged while Hatori tried to struggle away. "There's no way you can separate us from… them!"
Hatori sighed. "Find another woman to torture. They're college students. At least you would understand." He stared at them. "Imagine they were Tohru. Would you do that to her?"
Both cousins stopped and let Hatori go. "All of them?" Ayame asked.
"All of them." Hatori repeated. "Now use your head."
"Gosh that would be…" Ayame thought. "Awful."
"Good." He turned to leave. "That's why I won't let in my office."
Shigure yelled. "At least can we get their phone number?"
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Kyou landed hard on the ground. He winced in pain and Yuki stood next to him.
"I thought you were taking extra classes with sensei?" Yuki yelled at him.
"I did." Kyou slowly got up. "Let's get this over with."
Yuki gave him the you've-got-no-chance-to-beat-me look. "I am certainly wasting all my precious life to battle you. Why can't we just get this over with?"
"I have a better idea." Kyou grunted and raised his fists. "Could you could just move a little to the left, blindfold yourself and don't move?"
The nezumi laughed. "That would certainly be very wrong for me."
"Ok, now stop negotiating and let's fight---"
"Aah!!!" someone yelled from the main house.
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Tohru woke up from her bed. She must have slept again after she ate the breakfast Yuki prepared for her. She shivered and almost cried. She didn't know why.
She just did. Her body just responded at her dream so violently.
Who are they?
It was raining hard outside.
She slowly stepped back. The man in kimono smiled at her. "That was a good kiss."
She was breathing heavily. He heart was pumping harder than the usual. The grin that she caught from his mouth gave her the chill. This is so wrong.
Who is he? How come I felt different and scared in my dream?
"At least for now, you should have noticed." The man said in a coarse voice. "I welcomed you in my home… and for once, I let you do everything… but I think you've gone too far."
Then she felt an uneasy pain on her stomach. Crimson liquid touched her feet. She saw herself bleeding after the man stabbed her.
"Goodbye." He whispered. "Tohru Sohma…"
Then somebody yelled from the door. She glanced at it.
It was Yuki… with tears on his eyes.
"Yuki?" She asked herself. A tear fell from her eye. Why was Yuki crying? Why was I stabbed? Who was that guy?
And my name… Tohru Sohma…
AM I connected that to them?
The next thing Tohru knew is that people went inside her room and started to flood her with questions she couldn't hear… because she didn't know who they really are… and who she really was.
Author's notes: Yes, I'm cured from writer's block! Hehe. Remember that I was going to make a sort of "countdown chapter", so that means 30 chapters all in all. Unfortunately, I think I wouldn't do that. It's sort of impossible. For example, this chapter ended in the morning. Then if I make another chapter for another day, then what happens in the afternoon of this chapter?
…I hope you understood me. Review please!
Oh yes, I changed the title temporarily. I might think of a better title soon. Gosh, I'm the author and I don't know what the title is. WHAT KIND OF PERSON AM I?!