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Chapter 4: What is Akito doing?

Haru ran up and pushed the girl right before she could shoot. As soon as he hit her she pulled the trigger.
"BANG!" the gunfire echoed though out the whole back of the mall.
"NO!" he yelled as he watched May fall to the ground. Haru felt tears fall down his face as he became Black Haru.
All three girls saw him as he ran up to them like a mad man. On of them pointed her gun at Him.
"You are a fool." She said. Before she knew it Haru was up in her face and punched her. She fell back holding her nose. She looked for her gun and saw Haru holding it to her face.
"Call your girls off or I'll shoot! God knows that you'll be dead before they even get the chance to shoot me." He yelled. The girl looked at the others and they put down the guns. "Who sent you?"
"Akito Sohma. He's the on that ordered us to kill her." she looked at Haru closely. "Who are you?"
Haru glared at her. "My name is Hatsuharu Sohma. No leave now and leave your guns before I kill you."
The girl got up and ran. He herd something drop as the others ran also. He looked over and saw a group of cops run up to see what was going on. Black Haru glared at the cops as they looked at May.
"Sir are you the one that did this to her?"
Haru glared at the cops. He was about to hurt the cops for saying something like that to him. Right before he could say anything May started to move.
"No he didn't do it. Haru's my friend. It was my stupidity. We thought these were fake. It never came to thought that they where real."
The cops looked at both of them. "Okay... what ever you say." And they left.
Haru ran over to his friend, who was still on the ground. "What happened? I thought you where dead!"
She glared at him. "Where you hoping?" she slowly got up holding her arm, witch was bleeding. "Damn it they got my arm. Anyway, what was up with that Haru? I've never seen you like that before."
He grabbed Mays arm. "That's not funny May! Your bleeding, and you have a bullet in your arm!"
She smiled weakly at him. "Hey I've gotten much worse. I was wondering if they had stop coming for me, I guess not." She said before fainting.
Haru shook her. "Hey May, wake up! Damn it, she fainted." He said picking her up, one arm supporting her back, and the other holding her legs. "I should bring you home."

Hatori looked at Mays shot arm. "Don't worry, it'll talk time to heal, but she'll be fine."
Momiji jumped for joy. "That's good. Haru looked like he was going to go nuts if something went wrong. I'll go tell him right now!" he said before running off.
Shigure looked over at Hatori. "Do you think what Hatsuharu said was true? That the people who tried to kill May hear was sent by Akito?"
Hatori looked up. "I don't doubt it for a second. But my question is, is why did he send us to get her..."
"Because he hates me."
Both Shigure and Hatori looked down at May who slowly got up. "Ow..." she said. "I feel like I was just shot."
"You where. And if it weren't for Hatsuharu you would be dead." Hatori explained. "He carried you home all the way from the mall. You should thank him when you see him again."
May looked at the ground. She had just realized that she was now in her living room. "Tell me what going on. You know who the Akito guy is don't you?"

Haru sat outside watching the sun go down when he heard Momiji walk up behind him.
"I heard what happened."
Haru didn't say anything. He was still trying to figure out how he got back without getting lost. That and how May could have been a member of the Zodiac. "How could it be? She's just like Hatori, but an actual dragon..." he whispered.
"Haru, they're something I wanna show you." he took out the scroll. "I found this in her living room. I read it while you went to go find her."
Haru grabbed the scroll and opened it and started to read it out loud.
"It was my fault once again. Not only did I release the curse on the Sohma family, but now I have released another dragon. I had thought that I had a solution to the curse, but once again I have failed. The new dragon of the zodiac has all the personalities of all the other zodiac members, even the cat. One day this other dragon shall be born and hopefully release them from the curse, for the dragon can do so. If this other dragon is killed, then the curse will be lifted from the Sohma's. I can only hope some one will find this and take my advice. If the other dragon is killed, and the curse is lifted, the person who killed that dragon will suffer knowing that they killed someone for their selfish needs."
Haru put down the scroll pale as the moon. "No... it can't be..." he whispered. Before he could say anything else there was a scream thought the house. Both Hatsuharu and Momiji ran inside to see what was wrong.

"May calm down!" yelled Shigure.
"YOU'RE ASKING ME TO CALM DOWN!" she screamed. "I HAD A FAMILY THE WHOLE TIME?! I HAD BEEN HANGHING OUT WITH MY COUSINS AND HAD NOT REAIZED IT! AND YOU ASKING MY TO CALM DOWN!"
Haru and Momiji ran in to see what was the matter. May turned and looked at them both with big eyes.
"Did you know? Did you both know this whole time?" she said, while tears started to fall down her face. "Haru? Momiji?"
Momiji looked at Shigure and Hatori and Haru looked over at May shocked. None of them knew at all.
"Why didn't you tell me? WHY?" she cried, running out of the room.
"Well that could have been better." Shigure replied.
"I'm going to find her room and talk to her. Haru why don't you tell Shigure and Hari what we found out." Said Momiji running out of the room.

May lie on her bed crying. All her life she wanted to have a family to be with. Both her parents where dead, and the family she knew, at that time, didn't want anything to do with her. She then decided to move in her mother's house and make a living.
Ever sense she could remember, May had been running for her life, from the Sohma's. she was in shocked when two of them transferred in her school. At first she was cold to Momiji and Haru, but after a wile she had thought of a plan. May would get close to them, and find out as much as possible, about Akito. Slowly she soon found herself being best friends with them, she even had a crush on Haru. May would have never had guess that they where her cousins.
May turned around as soon as she heard a knock at her door. "What?" she sobbed.
"Its me Momiji, please let me in."
May quickly wiped her face clean and unlocked her door seeing Momiji standing at her doorway. "Come on in." she said.
Momiji walked in and took a seat on the floor. He could tell that she had been crying. It was all over her face. "May," he started. "I want to tell you something about all this."
"I'm listening."
"Nether me or Haru knew we where related to you. We never had guessed it. But I think, sense your our cousins, that you should know something about us." He took a deep breath. "As a family we have a curse. When we our body is under some kind or stress, or if where hugged by the opposite sex, we become an animal of the zodiac. I become a rabbit, Haru's a cow, Shigure is a dog, and Hatori is a dragon. Sorry for keeping this from you."
May walked over and put her hand on his shoulder. "You don't need to apologize to me, you see I'm cursed like you. I become a dragon. Like your friend Hatori I also become a dragon. But when a boy hugs me. Oh and I already know that Haru turns into a cow. Found out in the mall. Don't worry I made sure that no one saw him, I told them that it was a magic show."
Momiji started to laugh. "Did they believe you?"
"Sure May you tell him how Jesse came to the mall following you all the way from home."
Both of them turned around to see Haru standing in the doorway. "Momiji we have to leave tomorrow."
"Home? You mean..."
"Yep, Akito wants us back home, in Japan."