Title: Secrets
Authors note: I do not own Lord of the Rings. This is the longest chapter I have written before! Im so happy.
Yoko made it to her room with Hissyfit on her heels…literally. Yoko sighed and grabbed her backpack to change. On the way to the room her mood changed so now she knew not of what color to wear.
"I have lots of energy for some reason today so Orange it is!" Yoko said cheerfully as she took out an orange shirt with orange shorts since she had no orange pants. Just as she put on her shorts someone knocked on her door.
"Who may it be who happens to be knockings upon my elvish made door? Whoever it is may come in as soon as they state there names." Yoko said and the door opened slightly.
"Elladan. Ada has asked me to escort you to the feast, we have a few visitors." Elladan said as he walked in. Then stared when he saw that she was wearing short shorts. Yoko blinked, then found out what he was looking for and laughed, to her it was embarrassed laughing, to others it sounded like she was caught doing something wrong.
"I guess I should change again. Im still going to wear orange though. I wonder if I have any dresses." Yoko said and took out an orange dress she went into the closet and changed. When she came out she had the orange dress on it reached up to her knees which she was pleased because she really didn't like the long one that reached the ground, they got dirty faster. She went to the mirror and started to fix her hair quickly, once she was done she looked quite lovely, her hair was in a pony tail, she had pink blush the only kind of makeup she wore on and it was barely noticeable.
"Shall I escort you to the feast? And might I add that you look very lovely madam?" Elladan said joking around.
"Yes you shall and thank you." Yoko said happily, but then something clicked.
"Umm, did you say feast?" Yoko said uneasily.
"Yes, why, do you feel uneasy around others? You shouldn't worry about that you are a guest of my father so you shall be treated with respect." Elladan said encouragingly.
"No it's not that…But I guess I will go anyway, it would be rude not to attend." Yoko said sighing.
"Alright then let us be going we do not want to be late." Elladan said though he was worried of why she got a glint of fear in her eye when she realized that it was a feast that they were going to. They went through the halls and turning left, right, left, left, right, forward, left. It all just ended up confusing Yoko so she just let Elladan take her; finally they made it to where the feast was being held. Yoko held back a wince when she saw all the food and Elladan led her to the table where Lord Elrond and some others sat.
"Hello Yoko. I hope you are well." Elrond greeted her and she just nodded trying to avoid looking at the food.
"Do not worry, you won't have to eat anything I will get the cook to warm you some milk." Elrond said smiling at her while everybody else at the table looked at her in confusion. Yoko looked at everyone at the table and found the twins, Legolas, two humans, a wizard, four hobbits and a dwarf, along with Elrond and a few others. Yoko smiled at the twins and Legolas and went to sit next to them. She sat down next to Legolas and in front of a hobbit.
"Why is it that you are only drinking milk and not gonna eat? By the way my name is Pippin." The hobbit said once she sat down, Yoko blushed and started to drink her milk to avoid answering the question. She put the milk down she didn't really drink much.
"Because." Yoko simply said.
"Because why?" Pippin asked.
"Because because."
"Because, because why?"
"Because, because, because."
"Yoko just answer the question in everyone's mind." Elladan and Ellrohir said at the same time. Yoko glanced at Elrond who nodded at her and she sighed.
"I just can't. Just looking at food makes me sick, that's why ive been doing my best to not look at the food. I…My body just can't handle having anything in it that once had life." Yoko said looking at her milk to avoid looking at the food. She could feel everyone who was at the table staring at her.
"So why don't you just eat fruits and vegetables?" The hobbit with brown hair and blue eyes asked.
"I said that I can't eat anything that once had life, that means both plants and animals." Yoko said.
"Then what can you eat?" Legolas asked.
"Just milk, with maybe a little honey but that's all. Then again, it isnt really neccesary because all I really need is fresh air and sun shine." Yoko said sighing. She didn't like people knowing about her. Behind her she heard a meow and turned around to see Hissyfit.
"Hissyfit? What are you doing here you silly cat?" Yoko asked glad that she wasn't talking about food anymore. Hissyfit meowed again and jumped on her head and settled there.
"Hey who said you could sleep in my head?" Yoko asked putting him down.
"You can sleep in my head when I go to my room so I can rest." Yoko whispered as she shooed the cat away. All the elves at the table grinned at her while the others looked clueless. Yoko smiled and noticed the Ell twins and Legolas smiling and she blushed realizing that they overheard her.
"Why did you call that thing Hissyfit?" The hobbit next to Pippin a.k.a. Merry asked.
"1. HE is not a THING! 2. that is the name I gave him and 3. HE is a cat and don't you ever call my Hissyfit a thing again!" Yoko said standing up; she was upset at the thought that someone dared call her Hissyfit a thing.
"He meant no offence my lady. And my name is Sam if you are wondering." Sam said not wanting to get her upset. Yoko sighed and sat back down when she noticed everyone looking at her, she blushed and hid her face pretending to drink her milk.
"That is alright Sam, I tend to over react when my best friend is called a 'thing' or an 'it'. Oh, by the way what's your name?" Yoko asked when she realized that she didn't know al the hobbits names. Merry was too scared because he was afraid to say something that would get Yoko upset again.
"I'm Frodo, you already know Sam and Pippin, and the one that got you mad was Merry." Frodo said politely.
Back in Yoko's room
Authors note: Time for the surprise! Tell me if you did or didn't expect this.
Hissyfit walked in to find to other cats on Yoko's bed. The smaller cat was female and had blue eyes with black around them she had black paws with white on the tips of her toes her tale was black and a black line on her back, her fur was longer than Hissyfit's and the other cat with her.
The cat next to her was male, had green eyes, black spots around one eye and on his back. Just like the female he also had a black tail, his fur was shortest out of all the three of them and he looked the least nicest.
"What are you two doing here? I don't recall Mistress Yoko bringing you here." Hissyfit said in the language Westron surprisingly, his voice was gentle and strong at the same time; it seemed to hold confidence at all times.
"We are here because we do not think it is fair that you should be the only one to enjoy this lovely place Hissyfit." The male said also in Westron, with a mean voice, which was normal for him.
"Fry, don't be mean. I mean he is our brother after all." The female said, her voice was soothing to the ear and you could hear her purr as she spoke.
"Blondie he is not being mean, he can't help it if his voice is annoyingly mean, even Mistress Yoko agrees with me." Hissyfit said smirking slightly.
"Very funny Hissyfit. At least I don't let Yoko rule my life, and Blondie is starting to warm up to that shame on you two, cats should not let humans rule them so easily." Fry said angrily. Blondie and Hissyfit spoke up immediately.
"Don't you there speak about OUR mistress that way Fry!" They both growled at him.
"She is weak and does not deserve to be respected from someone of our standards!" Fry growled back. Little did they know that the Ell twins and Legolas had decided to escort Yoko to her room and were listening to the conversation. Yoko closest to the door seeing that it was her room.
"How can you say she doesn't deserve our respect? She took care of us when she found us three weeks after we were born and fed us without complaining even after we mistreated her and attacked her! Hissyfit would bite her, you would always growl at her and I always ran away when she got to close. And yet after how much we were mean to her she still had the patience to take care of us. It took her 5 months to get Hissyfit to trust her and 1 year for me to start trusting her. I think someone with so much patience deserves our respect. She even gave us names!" Blondie argued angry at Fry and the purr in her voice almost gone but still there.
"She will abandon us and abuse us once she gains everyone's trust!" Fry said and that was when Yoko decided to stop hiding, the Ell twins and Legolas came behind her angry at the cat to say that Yoko couldn't be trusted. Yoko had a hurt look in her eyes as she gazed at Fry.
"Mistress Yoko!" Blondie and Hissyfit shouted as she walked in.
"Ugh, I always hated being called Mistress it always made me feel superior, and I hate feeling superior. Fry, do you really think that way about me?" Yoko asked, the elves heard a hurt in her voice but it was barely detectable that it might have been there imagination. Fry hissed at her in response.
"I see. Well I can't expect everyone to like me for being myself! Thank you Blondie!" Yoko said trying to sound cheerful but there was a small note of sadness in her voice which made Legolas, Ellrohir and Elladan to look at her concerned.
"Why are you thanking me mistress?" Blondie asked confused.
"Because you tried to defend me and don't call me mistress it makes me feel like im in control." Yoko said rubbing Blondie's chin.
"Yoko, what just happened?" Ellrohir asked confused and still a little angry at Fry.
"To put it simple, you three just found out that my cats can talk, please don't tell anyone because this isn't something all cats can do and it would put me in a very awkward position." Yoko said hoping that they would keep this a secret.
"We would never dream of putting you in an awkward position." Elladan said and Yoko smiled sweetly at him.
"Thanks. Anyway im not exactly comfortable wearing a dress so imp going to change and then I am going to take a walk outside…Alone." Yoko said before they could ask to accompany her. They were about to protest about a girl being alone at night outside but Hissyfit and Blondie interjected them before they could say something.
"Mistress Yoko deserves her privacy and if you do not respect that then your pretty faces will be covered in scratches." Both cats said as they hissed.
"No need for threats kitties. And stop calling me Mistress, I told you that 'Yoko' is just fine." Yoko said and both of them grew quiet, they knew that when Yoko called them kitties that meant that she was in a trying to mask something mood.
"Yes Yoko." They both said and jumped on the bed where Fry was sleeping. Before they left the room Yoko started to look in her backpack for clothes, she grabbed a black t shirt and pink short shorts that reached her knees. Just as they walked out the door the three of them hid behind the corner seeing that her room was by the corner of the hall. They stayed there for 1 minute when they saw Yoko come out and walk toward the opposite direction lost in thought with Blondie at her side. They followed her silently and being elves neither Blondie nor Yoko noticed them. Yoko told something to Hissyfit who came up to them in a language that the three of them didn't know. Hissyfit nodded and ran off with Blondie and Fry behind him. Yoko sighed and went to sit by the lake. Yoko smiled.
"Peace and quiet. But it would be fun if I could pull a prank on somebody, back at my aunt and uncles house I would put a bucket of something gross on top of there door and then a rope on the floor, where the second they step on it they would be hanging upside down. Hee hee." Yoko said remembering all the pranks she would pull on them.
"Well, cant say that I didn't deserve getting punished for those pranks, but the punishment didn't have to involve me being tied by the ankles upside down for an entire week in my own room." Yoko laughed bitterly at that memory; she got up and started to walk on the water without disturbing it. The three elves gasped making Yoko turn toward them in surprise but due to lack of light she could only see there outlines.
"Who is there? Show yourselves!" Yoko said and the three of them walked into view.
"Didn't I tell you all that I wanted to be alone?" Yoko asked still in the water.
"We were just worried about you." Elladan said.
"Why is it that you keep trying to hide stuff?" Ellrohir asked.
"Do you not trust us with you secrets?" Legolas asked.
"I am afraid you will not accept me for my differences just like everyone else that has ever found out about me, sometimes I am forced to suppress the memories of my friends because they do not accept me for who I am. I do not like when my friends are willing to forget who I am…" Yoko said looking at the water then walking back toward the shore to sit down in the grass and stare at the stars.
"Suppress memories? You can do that?" Legolas asked.
"Yes unfortunately…" Yoko said looking as if she would rather die fighting an orc than having the ability to suppress memories.
"So you have to suppress your friends memories often, what exactly do you suppress?" Elladan asked curious.
"There memories of me because if they are able to remember me then they will have an easier time remembering my secrets. If you do not mind then I would like to go to bed, I think I have given you enough information for the time being." Yoko said and walked off to her room before they could say anything. As soon as she couldn't see them she started to cry softly then started to run instead of walk. She made it to her room and ran to her bed where she jumped and started to cry in her pillow. She grabbed the blue rabbit on her bed and hugged it tightly.
"I do not want to loose anymore friends Mom, I don't think I could handle suppressing anymore memories, it is too painful. I'm tired of loosing friends because they did not accept me, which is why I left before Isamu could reject me. But it hurts just as much by being away from him as suppressing his memories. I'm tired of this, I wish I had never gotten these stupid abilities I hate them!" Yoko stopped for a bit trying to calm down once again she did not notice a figure in the doorway listening to her every word.
"I'm scared Mom, I am really scared, I don't think I have ever been so afraid in my life. I wish I weren't so scared… I feel weak and useless, Mom what can I do? You told me that my abilities are a gift, but I can't help but look at them as a curse. I mean every time I have to suppress a friends memory of me, I can never stay in one place for too long, I mean I have only been here 2 days and someone has already found out my secret which means I will be forced to run away if they do not accept me for me. Well that's all for today Mom I will talk to you tomorrow." Yoko said and finally noticed the figure in the door way. Yoko wipes here tears and looks at the figure in the door, giving him an innocent child like look. Yoko grabbed the rabbit and hugged it covering her face on the soft blue fur.
"May I help you?" Yoko asked when she was sure that she would stop crying.
"Who was it that you were talking too?" The figure said taking a step closer.
"First tell me who you are, you are not from here seeing that you came in without stating your name." Yoko said not answering the question.
"Strider. Now will you answer?" Strider asked after he answered the question.
"My mother. She is always there so I can talk to, even if she is not visible. I always talk to her when I am faced with a problem or just to tell her how my day went. She will always listen to me and never once tell me to be quiet." Yoko said looking at her rabbit.
"Was your mother a nice person?" Strider asked hoping that she will stop crying. She jumped up and was standing in the bed like a 6 year old.
"Of course, I can't think of anybody who could ever replace my mother she was so kind to me even when I did something wrong. And she was the only one that accepted me! While my father rejected me completely and chose to act as if I didn't exist my mother gave me twice as much love than an average mother would! And I am eternally grateful to her for that!" Yoko said then covered her mouth when she realized what she had told this complete stranger.
"Do not worry, I will not tell anyone what you have told me. Though I am curious of what your abilities are I will not press the matter." Strider said sitting on the edge of her bed. Yoko smiled softly at him.
"If you do not mind, I would like to change so I can sleep more comfortably…" Yoko said once she realized how tired she was.
"Of course. Sleep well Milady." Strider said and walked out of the room but before he left he thought he heard a faint. 'Good night Strider.'
Fk306: Well can't say that wasn't informative…
Alan: It's your own fault I mean you were the one that wrote the story.
Fk306: Oh yeah.
Patricia: You forgot?
Fk306: Yeah…
Everyone: …
Doris: Let's just start answering reviews…
Fluffy: Good idea.
Shaula: Why am I even here? Im leaving walks off
Patricia: That was random…
Fk306: First reviewer… Michael Jackson Fan… I take it you're a MJ fan?
Patricia: Yup!
Fk306: Well that tells me who the first person to review my story was… Anyway, I think you are over reacting MJF, I don't think this story is good enough to be written in a book. And you are just saying that stuff because you are one of my closest friends!
Patricia: Actually what I said was what I really thought.
Brittany: How come I didn't get to read your story?
Fk306: Because you would be complaining at the fact that you aren't in the story. A'mael Eledhwn I'm sorry that I keep misspelling Elven I promise I will try to make sure it doesn't happen again. Oh, and the fact that I keep switching to present to past tense is sorta a habit of mine. I hope you can accept the fact that that is just the way I write my stories… I know that it is an overused plot. But I like these kinds of plots I find them fun to read.
Fluffy: Everyone is a critic.
Fk306: Fluffy be nice… pqhal6 thanks for the review…I'm afraid that the site you tried to send me, didn't come out…again… Anyway besides Michael Jackson Fan yours is the nicest review I have gotten for chapter 2. Thanks it made me feel erm…good, to know that someone thinks my story is…erm…cute. Lol anyway please don't stop reviewing I like reviews.
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