Chapter 7- Zodiac Research
The two days later, Sasuke wakes up earlier than Kyo and wakes him up also.
AN: The day before was just a normal day. I said that they had school the next day last chapter, but this chapter has to take place when there's no school.
"Ohayo Sasuke, how are you doing?" Kyo asks, rubbing his eyes.
"I had a weird dream. It was about you guys and the curse. Kyo, what exactly is the curse?" he asks seriously.
AN: If you don't know what the curse exactly is, like I mean what will happen to them if it doesn't get broken, then review me and I'll happily explain, but I really don't feel like explaining it right now, please understand. I'm very tired and I have nothing better to do. My brother who just returned from California (I live in Germany, and in August, I'm moving) won't let me play his games.
After a few minutes of giving Sasuke the best explanation of the Zodiac curse, Tohru calls them both down for breakfast. Since there's no school today, they had the whole day to themselves. "(Hmm, it seems that if the Zodiacs don't break the curse in a certain amount of time, terrible things will happen to them. I have to find a way to break it. It won't be easy, but I'll find a way)" Sasuke tells himself.
After a delicious meal that Tohru worked so hard on to prepare for the others, in Shigure's words, Sasuke gathers Yuki, Tohru, and Kyo so he can request something of them. "Uh, Tohru, Yuki, Kyo, can you take me to the library. There's some research I want to do. It'll take about an hour or two." Sasuke politely requests.
"Well, if it's for research, then okay!" Tohru answers happily.
"Would you need us for anything?" Yuki asks.
"No, that's okay. I can manage. You can just drop me off then pick me up in two hours." Sasuke plans.
"What if you finish early?" Kyo adds.
"There's other things I can do in the library. It's okay. Can we go now?" Sasuke asks, getting a little impatient.
Tohru smiles at Sasuke. "Sure. Ika zo." All three of them walk Sasuke to the library so he can do his research.
"(They think it's for school, but it's really for the Zodiac curse.)" Sasuke thinks to himself.
After about twenty minutes, they reach the library, Yuki and Kyo wait outside for Tohru.
"Why'd you want to come in?" Sasuke asks his older cousin.
"Because I've never been to a library before. AN: Don't ask." She tells him while looking around the entire building. Suddenly, out of no where.
"Tohru!! Sasuke!" Momiji jumps out and attempts to hug Tohru. Sasuke gets in the way and stops him.
"Uh, I don't think it's a good idea to try and hug Tohru." Sasuke informs Momiji.
"Aww!"
Sasuke goes up and gives him a pat on the back. "It's okay, Tohru still likes you just as much even if you don't hug her."
Momiji smiles and opens his eyes wider. "Hai!"
"Momiji, what are you doing here?" Tohru wonders.
"I brought him here." Hatori answers then appears.
"Oh, of course." Tohru replies.
"Checking out a book or something?" Sasuke asks him.
"A book for me, plus I dropped off Hiro and Kisa here. They're on the computers." Hatori informs the two.
"I'm here to do some research. Tohru, Yuki, and Kyo are here to drop me off also. Yuki and Kyo are outside waiting for Tohru." Sasuke explains.
"I see, well, I'm going to be off now. Come on Momiji. I'm going to be back in an hour to pick up Hiro and Kisa. Bye Tohru and Sasuke." Hatori tells them.
"Bye, bye Tohru! Bye, bye Sasuke!" Momiji waves to both of them.
"See you later." Sasuke waves back.
"Nice seeing you again." Tohru smiles. Hatori and Momiji leave afterwards.
"Okay Sasuke. When do you want us to pick you up?" Tohru asks before leaving.
"Well, it's twelve o'clock now, so you can pick me up at two." Sasuke answers.
"Then two it is. We'll be back by then. Have fun!" Tohru leaves shortly after.
Sasuke now by himself, but before he begins his research, "(I think I'll go say hi to Hiro and Kisa.)" Sasuke walks over to the computers and sees the two sixth graders surfing the web. He taps both of them on the shoulder and says "Boo." They both flinch backwards and see Sasuke.
"Oh, it's just you. How are you doing?" Kisa asks.
"I'm fine. What are you two doing?" Sasuke then asks.
"Nothing really. Just looking at whatever." Hiro answers. "What are you here for?"
"Doing a little research, that's all."
"Hope you find what you need." Kisa says.
"Yeah, what she said." Hiro adds.
"Arigato. Hope you do, whatever you're trying to do." Sasuke takes off and starts looking around the books. Kisa then looks at Hiro and sees him smiling really big.
"Hiro, why are you so happy?" Kisa asks him.
Hiro, not wanting to tell Kisa why, quickly thinks of a bizarre answer. "Uh, oh yeah. I thought Sasuke would never leave. Thank goodness!" Hiro sighs, not for real.
Kisa knows Hiro too well to know when he's lying. "Yes Hiro, you really hate Sasuke. Let me go find him so I can tell him." She gets up and pretends to leave.
"Wait, just kidding. It's because we haven't seen him in a while, and it's nice to see him again." Hiro admits, stopping Kisa.
"You really like Sasuke, do you?" Kisa asks.
"Ever since that day we spent together, I felt like that we're best friends. You know how we don't have that many friends. He's like, the first person to like us and stick with us, apart from Tohru." Hiro explains.
"It's the way he is Hiro. He'd probably consider you his best friend also, but it's also his nature to be nice to everyone, before finding out who they really are. I know, I've known him for three years. So you're lucky to meet someone as nice and also forgiving as him." Kisa tells him.
"Forgiving?" Hiro gets confused.
"In the time you've known Sasuke, how many times have you ever seen him mad, I mean mad? Not annoyed or bugged, I mean angry." Kisa asks him, sitting back down.
"Never, I don't remember him getting mad at anyone at all." Hiro answers.
"And even if he does get mad, he's very fast to forgive, that's another thing about him. I don't know very much people like him. Maybe Sissy, but that's it." Kisa explains.
"Yeah. I guess you're right. We're lucky to be friends with Sasuke and with Tohru." Kisa smiles at him and they continue their, whatever they were doing on the computer.
Back at Sasuke, he's looking around the books for one on the Zodiac curse.
"Hmm, Zodiac curse. Where can I find a book on that?"
Sasuke keeps on searching around for the name "The Zodiac Curse". He keeps on moving sideways until he knocks into another person by accident. "Oh man! I'm so sorry..." He then sees the person and it's Megumi on the ground, "Oh, it's just you, that's okay then."
"You're very kind." Megumi sarcastically says rubbing his head.
"Just kidding." He helps up Megumi. "So what are you doing here? Wait, let me guess, you're doing research on curses. Am I right?" Sasuke guesses.
"Dead on. What are you doing here? Let me guess, hmm (What would Sasuke be doing in a library anyway? He only goes here so he could get on the computer.)" Megumi thinks hard, not being able to find an answer.
"Well, what would I be here for?" Sasuke asks, wanting an answer from his weird friend.
"You got me. I wouldn't know why you're here." Megumi says in a nearly defeated voice.
"You'd better believe it. I'm here doing research on curses, well one particular curse to be exact." Sasuke responds.
"What would that curse be?" He asks.
"The Zodiac Curse. Tohru seems to be interested in it and I wanted to find out more about it." Sasuke explains.
"I think I saw a book saying something about Zodiacs, but I'm not sure. Why don't you go check it out for yourself." Megumi informs.
"Really? Where can I find it?" Sasuke asks with hope of a good answer.
"Uh, I don't remember." Sasuke nearly falls down anime style.
"You're such a weirdo Megumi! Whatever! I'll just go search for it on the computers. Nice seeing again." Sasuke leaves Megumi and moves quickly to one of the search computers.
Upon reaching one, he quickly types in the Zodiac Curse. The results appear out of 384, and most of them are not even what he wants. Some of them say Zodiac Animals, Zodi's Curse, Curse the Zodiacs, and Knights of the Zodiac. Sasuke skips all of these and scrolls down, examining all the names and their descriptions carefully.
After over ten minutes, he comes across a name of a book called The Curse of the Zodiacs, number 384 in the list, the very last one. The description reads: The Zodiac Curse. A curse in which thirteen members of a family are cursed and will turn into their Zodiac animal if they come in direct contact with the opposite sex or under great deals of stress. "(PERFECT!! This is the one.)"
He writes down the book number, and where it can be found. Shortly after, he starts going down each aisle of books until he reaches the shelf that has the book numbers where The Curse of the Zodiacs can be found. After finding the right shelf, he starts looking for the book itself.
It's been thirty minutes since he started looking for the book and Hiro and Kisa are about to leave, but before they do, they go to say goodbye to Sasuke. In a few minutes, they find him looking around one of the shelves.
"Hey Sasuke, we about to leave and we just want to say goodbye to you before we go." Kisa says.
"Oh, thanks. See ya later. Nice seeing you again." Sasuke responds.
"Yeah, nice seeing you again." Hiro is about to walk off and Sasuke returns to looking for the book.
Kisa watches the two and counts down in her head, "(3, 2, 1)"
Suddenly, Hiro gets grabbed from behind by his head. "That's all you're going to say to before you leave! What kind of friend are you?" Sasuke give Hiro a noogie.
"Hey! Get off of me. Or else.."
"Or else what Hiro? Huh? What are you going to do?" Sasuke grips a little harder.
"I'll yell out and we'll get kicked out of here." Hiro threatens. Sasuke puts on a face of defeat and lets go.
"(Oh darn, if I get kicked out I can't look for the book anymore.) Whatever. Crybaby." Sasuke sticks his tongue out at Hiro.
"Bully." Hiro fights back.
"You want me to?" Sasuke threatens.
Hiro gets a little scared. "No, that's okay. Come on Kisa, we have to get going. See ya buddy."
"See you around Hiro and Kisa." He gives them both a pat on the back. They leave him shortly after. "They're going to be the first people I see once the curse gets broken." He continues searching around for The Curse of the Zodiac. "(How does anyone expect to find any books in this castle of shelves?)"
He then gets to a shelf that's in front of a wall and begins looking. He finally finds the category where the book's supposed to be. He carefully examines every letter and number of every book, making sure both matches the book. The letters of the book are RIV, number 35.23. He passes through RIV 35.22, then RIV 35.24. He puts on a confused face, "(What the? Where's RIV 35.23?)"
He then starts moving around books, removing some and moving others. "(Where can it be?! The computer said that it's checked in!)" In the area where the book's supposed to be, he pulls out three books from there and then finds a very dusty book all the way in the back. He removes it from the shelf and brushes off the dust.
Upon removing the dust, the cover reads: The Curse of the Zodiac by Tetsuo Sohma. "(YES!!! Found it! The author's even a Sohma, that's enough proof that this person knows what they wrote about.)" He quickly puts back all the books he removed and runs to the nearest table to start reading it.
He sets the small book on the table and immediately starts reading. "Hmm, the Zodiac curse consists of thirteen animals, the thirteenth being the cat. Well, I know that already, but what will happen if it doesn't get broken?" He flips through the pages. He stops to look at the animals and reads their description, to see how well they match each of the Zodiacs.
He laughs a little at how correct it is with each of them. He then gets a little more serious and flips faster until he sees a page that says 'breaking the curse'. He instantly begins reading the detailed page.
He quietly begins reading to himself. 'Of the thirteen Zodiacs, there is a leader, one representing God. "(That must be Akito.)" The Zodiacs share a special bond with this person. But upon becoming the leader and representing God, the chosen person also receives the full impact of the curse, shortening his or her life.' "(Poor guy, even if he's a bastard.") 'If the curse isn't broken, the Zodiacs will suffer a horrible fate, especially the cat.' "(Oh no! That sucks! I can't let that happen. Okay book, don't disappoint me, how do you break the curse?)"
He continues reading the passage and finally discovers what he wants. 'In order to break the curse is to break the bond with the leader. Destroy all connection any of the Zodiacs have with the leader. The curse will then be broken and the Zodiacs will be set free and not turn into their Zodiac animals anymore. In history, only one generation of the family cursed has broken it. There has been no other generation to break the curse.'
Finally getting what he came for, he checks the time to see how much time he has left before Tohru, Kyo , and Yuki come to pick him up. Finding that he still has over half an hour left, he decides to read about Tetsuo Sohma. He flips to the about the author section and begins reading.
'Tetsuo Sohma, birthdate: April 23, 1937, Zodiac animal: Cat.'
"No wonder, he was the cat."
'I wrote this book to let all other Zodiacs know how to break the curse. I am the only person to ever find out how to break it. This is the only copy of the book. I never got it published, it was so all generations of Sohmas wouldn't suffer the same fate my mother did when the curse wasn't broken her generation.'
"I have to tell Tohru and the others. Once they know, it shouldn't be hard breaking a bond with someone like Akito. (Thirty minutes left, I think I'll just use the computer to kill the remaining time until Tohru, Kyo, and Yuki come.)"
He closes the book and hides it away in its shelf. He then gets permission from a librarian to go on the computer and begins surfing the web.
"(I'll check my mail first, then check my fanfics and the others'. See how they're doing.)" He checks his mail and finds loads of messages from his friends. It takes ten minutes to reply to all of them. He then goes to (See Fanfics of the Zodiac) and checks on his fanfictions, plus Tohru's and the others to see how they're going.
He finds that so far, Tohru has received the most reviews for her story. Kyo still last out of Tohru, Yuki, Haru, Momiji, Hiro, Ayame, Uo, Hana, Shigure, and Kagura. "(Tsk, tsk, poor Kyo. It's his fault that he wrote a stupid story. He could've came up something more believable. But, that's Kyo. Always wanting to defeat Yuki, but I might have changed that.)"
He then starts reading other fanfics. He comes across an interesting sounding one called Rise of the Midnight Sun AN: This fanfics real, under CCS. He begins reading it. The story and everything seems pretty interesting. He gets to this one weird part where this girl's about to tell her best friend that she loves her.
When she tells her, the best friend tells her that she understands, making the girl happy, because she already knows that her best friend is already an item with another friend of hers, a boy who she and many others girls think is cute. At the end of the first chapter, the author put an alternate plot, just for laughs, and Sasuke, being one who loves to laugh, reads it.
It's the part where the girl tells her best friend that she loves her. But when it got to that part, instead of her saying that she loves her, she says that she ate the nachos she put in her bag yesterday. The friend puts on a face of pure disbelief and says "That's what you wanted to tell me?"
The girl responds by saying, "So we're okay with that?" Her best friends than edges away cautiously. After reading this, Sasuke starts cracking up. The person gets mad at him for being a little too loud, Sasuke quiets down quickly after. He finishes the rest of the story that's been submitted and, with five minutes left, sends his review.
The review reads AN: This is basically what I wrote to the person, I actually don't remember completely but it's what I thought of it.
It was a good story. Good plot and everything, but the thing I liked this most was the alternate plots. The one where the girl said 'I ate those nachos you put in your bag yesterday!' just cracked me up! The other where the two were pushing through the screaming crowd just to see what was happening and finds Barney hugging everyone made me laugh also. Hey, I'd scream if I say Barney also. The other alternate plots were pretty stupid, but overall, good job. Please update soon!
After sending the review, Sasuke logs off the computer and waits patiently for Tohru to come. He begins planning what he wants to do after the curse it broken, and what the guys might probably do with Tohru when it's all over.
"(I'd probably go and give Kisa a big hug, then push her on Hiro and say 'Aww, how cute!' The guys, especially Shigure and Momiji, would probably all start hugging Tohru to death. I think I'll help her out if that happens. What a celebration the Sohmas would have. Everyone will be so happy. They'll all finally get to live the normal lives they all probably always wanted. And with Akito out of the way, the family can probably do whatever they want. And it's all going to be because of me! Oh what a genius I am! I'm such a loser! I can't wait to tell Tohru and the others!)" Sasuke tells himself completely.
Back with Tohru, Yuki, and Kyo. They've all returned to the house and resumed all of their normal activities. Kyo trains a little outside, Yuki does nothing really AN: You know, what does Yuki usually do?, and Tohru prepares a little snack for everyone for after they pick up Sasuke.
Two hours later, Tohru checks the time and discovers that it's time already to pick up her little cousin. She goes out in the living room to call out the other two.
"Yuki, Kyo! It's two hours now. We have to go pick up Sasuke. When we get back we can have a little snack and maybe play some games. Come on! He's probably waiting for us now." Tohru calls out to both of them. They both appear shortly afterwards and they all head out to pick up Sasuke.
On their way there, they decide to chat a little. "You were talking about playing a game after picking up Sasuke, right? What game do you have in mind Miss Honda?" Yuki politely asks.
"Well, I remember having so much fun playing card games with Sasuke. Wasn't that fun?" They both nod. "I was thinking that we do that again." Tohru answers. She then brings up a different subject. "You know Kyo, I think Sasuke's little stay with us has changed you quite a bit." Tohru informs him.
"Really? How can you tell?" Kyo asks, completely oblivious to how he's changed.
"Well, first of all, you're more polite and gracious. Have you realized that you say 'thank you' to us now. And also, when's the last time you've challenged Yuki to a fight?" Tohru tells him.
"Maybe I have been nicer, but the part with Yuki, that hasn't changed. Just being with Sasuke keeps me calm. When I'm with him, I don't want to fight, that's why. But when he leaves, it starts again." Kyo tells Yuki.
"(And here I thought that he's changed.)" Yuki tells himself.
"Don't fight, not now at least. We're almost there." Tohru informs the two Zodiacs. Once they reach the library, Kyo and Yuki decide to wait outside again and let Tohru pick him up. "I'm going in to pick him up. Be good out here!"
"Yeah sure." Kyo answers.
"Of course we will. Don't worry about us, just get him so we can go home." Yuki says. Tohru enters the library and searches for Sasuke. To her luck, he's right where she can see him immediately.
"Tohru, you're here! Just in time, I was finished with everything I was doing." Sasuke says as he approached her.
"Come on, let's go home now!" Tohru turns away and starts walking towards the exit. Sasuke, still about three meters away calls out to stop her.
"Wait, there's something I need to tell you." Sasuke tells her.
"What is it?" Tohru asks, after stopping.
"I just found out how to...."
POW One of the windows crack in the middle. Tohru draws her attention away from Sasuke and instantly turns her head towards the window.
"What was that?" She then slowly turns her head to Sasuke. "Did you see that Sasu...ke?" She looks at him directly in the eyes.
A tear suddenly rolls down his face. "Tohru."
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AB-Angel: SUSPENSE!!! Sorry to leave you hanging! The chapter wouldn't have ended like this if I finished the story before submitting it. But seeing is how I'm not doing that. I need your reviews 'if' you want to find out what happens in the next and final chapter of this story. REVIEW if you want it to be submitted faster. I really don't need that much persuading, but the more reviews I get the faster I'll finish. I know this chapter was shorter than my others, but chapter eight will definitely make up for that. I know exactly how that chapter will go, but it won't go as fast if I don't get reviews, so REVIEW!!! Please! I want this story done! Bye and see you next time in chapter eight.