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Akitosohma: I'm sorry I got you lost. Maybe this chapter will clear up a few things.
Darkness Sweetheart2000: Thanx! I'm glad you liked that part. I highly recommend Kyo's idea of a show, because there are upcoming chapter's for that that are going to be like that. Oh yeah! It really was raining. In fact, after writing that I had to shut down my computer because it was a thunder storm!
B-chan77: This is Kyoru, but it may take a while for the Kyoru to pop up. Keep reading and you'll see how it all fits in!
Chapter Four of What If...
FLASHBACK
Yuki was walking down the tree lined street when he saw a young girl playing with her mother in the front yard of one of the houses. She was about his age. Deep inside him, he wished maybe she could be his friend, but an old fear came back to haunt him. It was the fear he had held onto since Akito told him he was different. He knew that little girl would probably never accept him, but he memorized her face, just in case.
END OF FLASHBACK
Yuki woke up in the middle of the night. He had a dream about a young girl who had lived on the tree lined street that lead up to the Sohma Estate. Why did he suddenly remember that girl. He didn't even know who she was, although he did remember watching the day she moved out of that house. He missed watching her because she was his one connection to the real world, the world he never dreamed of seeing. He wished he could meet her again.
FLASHBACK
Tohru walked up to a huge door. She was very young and still didn't know how to read. There was a name written on the side of the huge door. The house was at the end of her street and had always been there, but she had never noticed it until today. For some reason, she felt as though someone was watching her from that house. Who would want to watch her? She had to wonder. Then she turned around and headed back down the street, to her house, and to where her mother was still packing boxes. They were moving away. Three years after her father died, and her mother couldn't take it anymore.
END OF FLASHBACK
Tohru awoke out of her dream and sat straight up. Her old house was on a tree lined street by a huge house. Tohru tried to remember the symbols on the door, but they wouldn't come to her. Could she at one time, have lived on the same street as the Sohma Estate? Shigure had talked about the street it was on before. So, if someone had really been watching her, who would it have been? Tohru hated mysteries, but for her, they tended to be a fact of life.
Finally deciding to look around her room, she spotted her clock. It was midnight.
'I need to get some sleep!' she thought to her self.
FLASHBACK
'Why is there a random girl in this alley?' Kyo thought to himself. A small girl no older than he was was lying on her side in a ball as if she were cold and was trying to hide from something. Not knowing what else to do, he sat down next to her, taking off the red baseball cap he had been wearing all day. He sat next to her for the longest time.
When dawn approached, he saw Yuki standing there at the entrance to the alley. As Kyo watched, recognition dawned on Yuki's face. 'Maybe the damn rat knows who she is,' Kyo thought. Not wanting to be in the alley any longer he ran, leaving the red hat behind.
END OF FLASHBACK
Kyo woke up and checked his clock. It was midnight. 'No one else in this entire house is probably even awake,' he thought. What was it about that dream that had woke him up? The fact that he had run from Yuki at that age, or the fact that he had left the girl with that damn rat. Kyo couldn't figure it out and wanted desperately to go back to sleep so that he wouldn't have to deal with it until morning, but he was now wide awake. To try and get himself back to sleep by going downstairs. He wouldn't know that that was the worst mistake of the night he had to make.
.
Tohru tried and tried to get to sleep, but couldn't. Cooking could help sometimes to calm her nerves and that's what she needed. As softly as she could, she slipped out of her room, and down the stairs.
Yuki couldn't sleep. The little girl's image just would not leave his head. He had to get some water or something to try and clear his head. Suddenly he could smell something cooking. Little did he know that by going downstairs to see what the smell was, he was headed for disaster.
Tohru was humming an old song her mother had taught her when she was little about the zodiac animals. She was cooking up everything she could think of, from soba noodles to rice balls. She was surprised to hear foot steps on the stairs, and not just one set of feet, but two. She turned around. The first set of feet seemed to belong to Yuki.
"What time is it?" he asked her. Tohru looked at the clock in the kitchen.
"It's 5 after midnight."
"It's that early? Why are you cooking?"
"It's calming, in a weird way."
"There are people up?" Kyo asked from the other side of the room.
"Yeah, stupid cat, did you think that our voices were ghosts or something," Yuki retorted.
"Looks like none of us could sleep," Tohru remarked, trying to side track the conversation from the potential fight. But for some reason, no one responded to the remark.
"I smell food. Who would be cooking at this ungodly hour?" they heard a voice from upstairs. Yuki and Kyo stood on either side of Tohru, suddenly looking alert. Tohru was not concerned at all. She thought it was Shigure. Until she heard another voice.
"Who ever it is, we can take them back to our layer. The food smells good, and as far as I'm concerned, if it smells good, it tastes good."
"I like the way you think."
Tohru was about to gasp when Kyo reached over and covered her mouth. Yuki was turning off all the apliances while Kyo was quickly bringing Tohru upstairs. Yuki soon followed. The three of them huddled in Tohru's room, side by side, with Tohru in the middle. It wasn't long before they heard people walking around downstairs.
"Hey! There's no one here. There's just food. Oh, well. Now we won't know which of the residents did the cooking. Well at least there's plenty of food here. We'll just take it."
Shigure was woken from his sleep by a loud bang, like pots falling over. Was it morning already? No, it was 12:15. So what was going on? As silently as he could he slipped down the hall. There was no one in either Yuki or Kyo's room. That was strange. Kyo was normally in bed by this time, and Yuki didn't wake up until much later. He continued down the hall to Tohru's room. Yuki and Kyo would kill him if they ever saw him peeking in here, but if Kyo and Yuki were missing, or causing the noise downstairs, there was a possibility that she was missing to and he just wanted to make sure. But waiting behind Tohru's door, was Yuki and Kyo. They had heard footsteps coming down the hall and thought it might be the people downstairs. Luckily they noticed who it was before they had beat him up because that would have caused far too much noise. They let Shigure into the room and filled him in on everything the knew a silently as possible. What none of the Sohma's knew was that Tohru was sure she knew what was going on, and it was something she would have to sacrifice herself for.
A/N: Review! Reviews keep me going, and I know for the most part you have liked it so far. I know, this seems to be going off track, but don't worry, I know exactly where this is going and you'll have answers before the end of the story.