A/N: This is the complex reason thatthe boys didn'tchange. I did exhaustive research on this, I'm so proud, I was never like this with school-work. I tried to make it more fun with Shigure being an idiot in there, but it's a bit scientific, although I think I may have mastered Hatori, he seems so real, at least to me, in this chapter.
Hatori breathed an impatient sigh. "Will you please quit looking over my shoulder. I find It very hard to concentrate with you doing that, Shigure."
"I wanna see it, I wanna see. You seem so facinated by it, what are you looking at?" shigure whined.
"Blood slides. Fine I'll show you, though I doubt you'll be all that interested." Hatori flipped through his file, and pulled out two slabs. "This is a sample of Kagura's blood." He focused in on the slide for Shigure and then let him look. "This one you'll notice is very similar, this is boars blood." Heswitched focus to the other slide. "Boars blood is a bit different than a humans, boars have trouble prossesing glucose, this is due to the inabulity of their Glucose 6-phosphates and orthophosphates to prosses them correctly." Shigure looked at his cousin, and blinked informatively. "You don't have to understand any of that though, my next slide will help to explain." He pulled out another slide and put the other two away. "This is Tohru's blood sample from before the accident." He again placed the slide and adjusted the lens. "Even you should be able to notice the differance between her blood and Kagura's and the boars"
Shigure nodded, "These ones are rounder, those other ones had a differant shape to them." He said like a smart second grader who'd just announced that 2 and 2 equals 6.
"Yes, and the color is slightly different as well. Now. This is Ayame's blood sample." He slid it in next to Tohru's. "You may notice in Ayame's blood there is an added nucleus to his cells, it is the same as in a snakes blood sample. Shigure, each member of the zodiac, carries the blood of the animal he or she changes into, you carry the blood of a dog, Kyou the blood of a cat, Momiji the blood of a rabbit, and so on. Theoretically," He placed a new slide under the lens, and showed the slide to Shigure. "Theoretically, one of two things should have happened. Tohru's body should have rejected the blood as foriegn, even though the types are a match, because technically Kagura and Ayame are of a differant breed than her. Or Miss Honda's cells could have been taken over by the zodiac cells, and either caused her to transform as we do, into either a boar a snake, or a very interesting hybrid of the two, or to change completely never able to return to human form, perhaps."
"What is it that they are doing exactly?" Shigure asked confused by the technical talk and the nature of the situation.
"That's just it, they aren't doing anything,Tohru's cells and the zodiac cells areco-existing within Tohru's body. Neither one has taken over, and appearantly they are both multiplying within her. On average the body makes enough blood to sustain a body that's suffered some blood-loss after 16 weeks, but that's generally a pint, Tohru lost 2 quarts of blood, I believe this is roughly what it might have been she recieved one pint from Kagura, and an hour later at the hospital I gave her two pints of Ayame's blood." He looked at his cousin to see if he even vaguely understood, since he was nodding and still awake Hatori continued. "A zodiac, has a quicker blood production abuility than the average human. On the way to the hospital Kagura's blood was in Tohru the entire time multiplying, and healing her, in the time it took to get to the hospital there was already a pint and a half of Kagura's blood in Tohru. This literally saved her life, if an average human had supplied the blood she would not have been able to sustain life the whole way to the hospital." He risked another glance, and tried to put it into simle terms for his cousin. "Tohru had lost nearly half of her blood, no one would survive the trip to the hospital, even with an emergency transfusion, but Kagura, gave some of her blood which, being a zodiac member, reproduces at a speed 3 times faster than a normal persons, this saved Tohru."
"Wow, so she saved her life?" Shigure asked, finally catching up.
"Yes, and when she got to the hospital I gave her 2 pints of Ayames blood, because unlike the ambulence crew I knew of the zodiac's abulity to recoup from giving that ammount of blood, so she was completely healed after one night when the average person would have taken a week, if the survived at all. But looking at a sample of Tohru's blood now, the zodiac cells have slowed to an average human cells speed of reproduction. It's hard to say what's going on inside Tohru, or how long it'll take either her own cells or the zodiac cells to take over. In about a month I'll take another sample, until then it seems she can't cause anyone to accidentally transform, any more, although please warn her to remain careful in public, because there's no telling whether this is a temporary fluke or not"
"In that case I'm going to go home now and test it out." Shigure said, recieving a glare. "What it's in the nature of science I swear!"
"I'm sure it is, but I insist that you take Momiji along with you instead to test that theory, he's been very worried about Tohru"
Shigure stopped grinning, "Fine, but I'm still going to hug her, the poor thing been through a lot recently, she needs a bit fatherly comfort"
"I doubt you could ever do anything fatherly, Shigure."
A/N: All the stuff about boars blood and snakes blood is true, I did my research, and it was near impossible to understand that stuff, about boars blood, they used technical terms for everything. I know this chapter was more informative than fun and exciting, but now you understand why nobody changed, and in the future if I have them doing blood research, I'll make it shorter and put some other scenes in it. Please review this particular chapter was difficult for me to write, since I hate science.
