Here, it is, chapter two!!! This'll probably take a bit longer than the last chapter though, so please bear with me!!
Italics-dreams
''- ending a flashback
...- notes for the end of the chapter
LAST TIME: Akito asked a man for a favor and Kyou and Yuki hear on the news that there's a rapist loose from jail!! They make plans to watch out for their beloved Tohru, but she was let off work early, and as she walked home alone, someone attacked her!!
DAMAGED
Chapter two: Attacked!
It was about ten thirty when Yuki and Kyou decided to leave the house. They were silent on the walk there, and they reached the building at ten till. They waited in a tense quiet. Yuki checked his watch anxiously, and Kyou peered around, his cat-keen eyes looking to pick up anything in the surrounding darkness. Five minutes passed, and they waited. Eleven o' clock came, and they waited, perked up at the thought of her walking out the door in a few minutes. Another five minutes went by.
"Could she be busy and forgotten?" Kyou wondered aloud.
Yuki shrugged.
Five more minutes.
"Arg! She's probably in there still cleaning, the baka." Kyou said. "Let's go in and get her."
They opened the door and looked around the semi-lit lobby. Then Tanigawa appeared.
"Hey! What are you two doing in here?" she asked.
"Suminasen," Yuki said, bowing. "But is Honda Tohru-san here?"
"Honda-kun? No, I let her go a little more than an hour ago. Poor thing was overdoing it again." she laughed. "Are you her brothers?"
But they didn't answer her. Instead they looked at each other, their stomachs filling with dread. And without another word, they bolted out the door, leaving a dazed Tanigawa in their wake.
"Kuso!!" Kyou cursed. "She was let off an hour ago!! Anything could've happend!!"
Well aware of that, Yuki remained silent. A mouse skittered in front of him, followed by an alley cat. They stopped their chase and looked at the two boys.
"Please," Yuki said to the little rat. "We need your help."
"We need you to help us find someone, a girl." Kyou told the cat.
The cat meowed loudly, and several other cats appeared from the surrounding alleyways. The tiny rat stuck its head in the storm drain and squeaked repeatedly, and swarms of rats began surge up from the sewers. With the animal army assembled, the cats and rats looked expectantly up at the two teens. Yuki described Tohru to them, and Kyou explained the escaped prisoner, and the tiny militia was off.
"Hopefully they'll find something." Kyou said as the continued running.
A block or two away, Yuki spotted a pay phone and an idea came to him.
"Call Hanajima-san and Uotani-san. Maybe they've seen her."
"She could be at one of their houses and forgot to call!" Kyou thundered incrediously. He dug fifty cents out of his pocket and slipped it into the coin slot, and dialed Uotani's house. "Hello? Oi, Yankee, have you seen Tohru?" he was quiet for a few moments. "No? Ok thanks...Huh? Oh, no reason. I was going to pick her up from work, and she wasn't there. That damn Yuki must've gotten here first. Thanks anyway." he hung up and shook his head at the grey-topped teen.
"I'll try Hanajima-san." Yuki said, but without much hope in his voice. If two of them were together, they were all together. Finding two quarters in his pocket, he put them in and dialed Hanajima's home. "Ah, hello? Hanajima-san, I was wondering if maybe you'd seen Honda-san? Ah, that's ok. That baka Kyou must've came to pick her up before me. Thank you. Goodnight." he hung up and looked to Kyou, fear and resolve clashing in his violet eyes. "Call Shigure, have him ask the dogs for help, they communicate faster."
Kyou fished around for another fifty cents and quickly dialed the house. "Oi, Shigure, listen we haven't much time. Call a dog to the house, Tohru's missing, and we need to find her...I don't know!! The lady at the building said she let her off an hour early...No don't call the main house, she could just be lost or something...ok. Bye." Kyou slammed the phone into the reciever. "Dammit." he cursed silently.
Yuki looked down the darkened street. Tohru...he thought. Where are you?
The kitchen. One of her favorite spots in the entire house, next to the Secret Base and the dinning room. Something about the kitchen felt homey and comforting, like a warm blanket. She loved the kitchen. She was washing some dishes before preparing dinner when the smell of something sweet filled her senses. Looking behind her, she saw Yuki holding a large basket of strawberries.
"Wai!!" she clapped excitedly. "Yuki-kun, you didn't tell me the strawberries were ready!!"
He smiled. "I know."
"Arigatou gozaimasu Yuki-kun, demo, I could have helped you to pick them. Look, there are so many!! It must have taken you forever!!" she fretted.
He held up a hand to calm her. "Daijobu, Honda-san. I wanted to surprise you. Did it work?" He stared at her, tenderness flashing in his eyes.
She blushed heavily under his gaze. "H-hai...I'm very surprised. And very happy. Yuki-kun is too kind to me..."
He smiled, pleased that she was happy.
"Would you like to help me rinse them? There are too many to do myself." she asked.
He flushed. "Ok."
They stood in front of the sink, hands full of red berries, in silence for awhile, until Kyou came in.
"Oooi, what's going on in here?" the orange-haired boy asked as he entered the kitchen
She turned to face him, her eyes bright and her smile wide."Ah, Kyou-kun, mite, mite, Yuki-kun got us strawberries!!" she cried happily.
His first reaction was to shrug it off, dismiss the Nezumi and his stupid strawberries, but the look of excitement in her eyes caught him, and he found himself unable to say anything at all.
"Would you like to help too Kyou-kun?
As if I could ever say no to you, he thought. "I-I guess..."
She brightened several degrees and looked the the Rat, who melted under her warm smile.
Kyou stood at her other side, and after a moment of hesitation and an encouraging look from the aurburn-haired girl, he began rinsing some of the berries.
It seemed an opprotune time for one of the two to slip up and a fight to begin, but with Tohru there between them, they couldn't focus on much else, just her smile, her gentle humming, the scent of her hair, it was intoxicating to be standing as close to her as they were, dangerous as it was. After awhile, they were finished.
"Ah, done!" she said happily.
"That was a lot." Kyou said.
Tohru picked two strawberries from their bowl, the redest ones she could find, and offered one to each of them. "Try!" she said beaming.
The two males stared at her as she held out one ripened berry in each hand. Then slowly, they took a bite, staring at her all the while, then licked the sweet juices from their lips.
"Well?" she asked.
"Delicious..." Yuki answered, but he was so caught up in the texture of her hair and the smoothness of her pale skin that he was unsure if he meant the berry or her scent.
"Kyou-kun?"
He wasn't sure what to say. He couldn't think straight. He was hypnotized by the brown eyes staring expectantly at him. He blushed. "I-it was alright..."
She beamed. "I'm so glad!"
"But you know Honda-san..." Yuki's voice was soft and husky. "It's only fair you get one too."
Kyou caught on and leaned in close to her ear. "It would be rude of us to not offer you a strawberry too, ne?"
"Eh?" Tohru's face turned red as they each slid an arm carefully around her waist.
Yuki plucked one of the strawberries from the bowl in the sink and brought it to her lips, and with a senual innocence, she took a bite out of the offered berry. She closed her eyes as warmth flowed through andbetween them and their strawberry-scented breaths tickled her neck.
But when she opened her eyes again, she found herself in the man's arms as he carried her into the woods. Her head throbbed painfully. The man flung her to the ground, her body bouncing dangerously in the dirt. She looked up through hazy eyes at the shadowy figure above her; Those hazy eyes widened in fear as he stepped over her, planting his feet on both sides of her tiny body.
"Who are you?" she cried rasply. "What do you want?!"
He laughed throatily. "Well little Honda Tohru, I think it's pretty obvious I want you!!"
She crawled backwards. "H-how do you know my name??" she asked.
"Oh I know many, many things about you, girl. I know your mother died and you have no real family. You live in a house with Sohma Yuki and Sohma Kyou. You attend Kaibara high school, grade 10, class 1-D. Your best friends are Uotani Arisa and Hanajima Saki..."
As he continued on, telling every bit of her life, her eyes widened. "H-how do yu know these things??"
He laughed. "Himitsu." he replied, closing in on her again. As his shadow fell over her, she screamed.
Ara ara??? Sugoooi that was intense for me there lol. I like the dream though. I put a lot of thought into that. -laughs- But anyway, I hope you enjoy the chapter and stay tuned for number three!!! Ha Ha Tamair-chan!!! Its the second chapter!!!!
