Chapter Four
Tohru arrived in the general area, the part of the Sohma private property as she told the driver to drop her off there. He opened the door for her as she stepped out of the car. "Thank you Koju-san, please sent my thank to Isuzu too."
"Yes Miss Honda." He said as he went back in his car and drove away. Tohru walked the familiar path as she made from the field to Shigure's house. She wondered if everyone was worried by now and if they were mad at her for not calling. She went through the sliding door and saw another pair of shoes on the floor.
That's strange. But then it was confirmed when she heard a familiar crying from a depressed editor screaming the inu's name. "SHIGURE-SENSEI!!!!!!!"
Well Mi-chan's here. I better see if she's all right. She went up and over to Shigure's office where Shigure sat in his comfortable chair while a frantic teary editor was pulling on the hem of his yukata sleeve.
"Shigure you bastard, I can't believe you were about to leave and go without telling me!!!" Shigure laughed hardly as he teased her, "But Mii-chan, I was about to go pick Tohru up from a museum which she was staying so late at this time, and speaking of time, shouldn't you be going home?" He then looked up and saw Tohru. "Oh Tohru, back already? I'm surprised how time flies. I ordered some takeout for the boys and they were really agitated when you didn't showed up until I told them later that you were busy and knock me out for ten minutes." He then pointed to his left side where he had a black eye and bruise cheek to prove it. She bowed her head in apologize. "Sorry for the trouble Shigure-san, I mean all this stuff happening in one night, weird feelings and dreams."
"Weird dreams?" But he was interrupted by Mii-chan's wailing as she clutched to his robe again. "Sensei!"
"Oh Mii-chan, I forgot about you and oh before I forget another thing, Kyo's on the roof and Yuki's probably in his gardens, so I think they'll want to see you too all right."
"Hai thank you." And she exited the room before hearing another screech from Mii-chan as she first head outside and up the ladder.
Kyo was laying on his backside staring up at the sky when he heard the familiar creaking of the ladder going up and turning to see Tohru's head pop up. He smiled inside, relief to see her safe but he was showing off anger and annoyance instead of the opposite. "Oy where've you been? Me and rat boy were worried when you didn't show until that baka inu told us you were out after work."
"Gomen nasai Kyo, I just kinda got sidetrack and forgot the time that's all." She didn't want to make any mention about being almost hit by a car, the getting lost and trap in museum or having a weird dream happening at the same time. The last thing she want Kyo to be is having a total fit over something like that. He would have too if he had learned of it. He turned his back aside as she climb on the roof and sat down beside him. "Kyo-kun I'm sorry to not calling you and Sohma-kun up when I was going to be coming home late. I sorry."
He turned around and sat up. "Stop saying you're sorry alright. You just forgot that's all sheesh it's nothing to cry about. Just be careful next time, if something were to happened to you, I-I….nevermind, just don't do it again ok."
"Hai promise. Goodnight Kyo-kun." She said and went to go down the ladder and go find Yuki. When Kyo was alone again, he contently sighed to himself. She didn't know how much she meant to him. She was everything that made him feel free from this whole 'shitty' life he had before, the curse, the rejection from the Sohma family, she had even seen his true form and accepted him and realized he wouldn't be able to bear it if he was to anyway have lost her if something were to happen to come and take her away.
Tohru, I have feelings for you and that I love you, always. He wanted to say them to her but every time he would try and say them, they just die right in his mouth and instead go say something else or go into a shouting rage of the Nezumi boy and challenge him. Hopefully he would tell her, before Yuki could or someone else before taking his chance to tell and if that were to happen, if she were gone, he was too. He closed his eyes and stared up at the stars shining and the moon glowing. The sky remained him of Tohru's eyes with the brightness of it all shining on him. He smiled before falling asleep.
Tohru walked upstairs to her room after finally confronted Yuki and having been given the same talk of telling them so as to not worry. I knew that they would worry, but that much over, she yawned while covering her mouth, "So tired and such a tiring day…" She went in her room, closed the door behind and went to put her pjs on. Just as she was taking her school shirt off, the cuff of her sleeve caught on something and she had to untangle it until she saw the culprit. Oh the bracelet from before. She had forgotten all about it. But something seem different. She saw two of the twelve beads on the bracelet glowing and something swirling inside like firefly trapped inside.
Ok this was definitely weird. She wanted to take the bracelet off pronto. Just as she was trying to slip it off, she heard a voice shout, DON'T! It was loud and it didn't seem happy on the idea of Tohru taking the bracelet off. She stopped and pulled her hand away. The voice was very familiar but she heard it different before but this voice, it sound like…not happy, sounded dark. Ok, she would leave the bracelet on. She carefully put the pajamas on and slipped under the covers of her bed and fell right to sleep.
Her dream was not something she had expected. Tohru was in a hall walking, walking until she saw two doors, one that was her own. She knew it was her because this was a dream, the other door however was different. It had the Egyptian eye on the door. Ok, where did that come from? She wondered. When she went towards it and opened it, she saw that this room was beyond anything she was capable of ever dreaming. Everything was dark, having forbidden on it all over and had weird symbol, ancient written on the walls. Tohru looked around her and saw everything around her a massive construction of stairs after stairs, leading up, down, side to side, under, over, this was too much. Bizarre, very bizarre.
She heard footsteps on one of the stairs, leading to who knows. Who was here? Somebody else? She suddenly hear something, something of ancient calling out.
'Forever she sleeps, trap inside a innocent body, to lay in wait for the one to bring her froth…' The floor started to shake and then gave in as everything fell apart and went falling down below like pieces of a puzzle with Tohru for the ride. She was falling as well as hearing the words coming in, '…only to walk the earth once again as chaos and terrors is rend in the earth and fire is sparked, but only may another like one herself who see eye to eye may they use such power for their own use…' And when Tohru fell to the ground she saw in shadow, twelve glowing lights surrounding her. Each showed a different being and seem to know her as only they swath around her like moths to a flame.
Purple, blue, brown, yellow, green, silver, all colors that were surrounding her, caressing her with their gentle touch. And she heard voice, sweet bell-like voice calling out to her. Who are you? She asked. When it seem she was to be answer, white light filled the room, then orange as it seem a fire was burning around her. As she tried to shield her eyes from the burning light, a figure emerged from it as if untouched by the flames. The figure, taller and having an aura that she was recognizing as he approach her. Before she had time to react, he touched her with both arms and pulled her in an embrace towards it. 'Be strong Tohruka' that what it said. And then disappeared.
Tohru woke with a gasp as she pant up in bed from the weird dream she just had. That was very weird. But that person, that man, who was he and why did she feel that she know him. God, she looked at the clock on the side of her bed. It was six thirty. She had been asleep for five and an half hours. That dream, the touch, the embrace. So much she had to get into gear. She went to the shower and went to take a light shower and dress.
