Chapter 22: Weekend

Princess Sango

Tohru smiled as she picked Kazuki up into her arms as Hatori, Yuki, and Tomiko boarded the train and waved at Shigure, Kyo, and Kagura who was there to see them off. Finding their seats on the train Kazuki pulled out his coloring book and started to color as Tomiko started studying for this test that she had to pass. Yuki and Tohru started to talk with Hatori, about what would be best to do with the house Tohru owned in Kyoto.

"So you think we should give it over to you Hatori-san?" Tohru answered, trying to get her facts straight.

"Yes, so just in case anyone wants to go over there, we like to keep our options of travel open. You can sell it to me and I'll handle that from there," Hatori replied back as Yuki remained quiet, it wasn't exactly his house to give away.

"Okay then, but why don't you see the house first, since some people actually come in and out of it. Maybe one person now, but she's still my family," Tohru whispered slightly, thinking about shy little Yoshiko back at home, waiting for her friend.

"Oh yeah, that's right Yoshiko-chan! Poor her, she'll start school out here without me!" Tomiko said suddenly.

"I'm sure you'll be okay, why don't she come with us?" Yuki suggested.

"I don't know dad, but maybe I'll ask her." Tomiko said and looked at her book.

The rest of the ride there was quiet, and besides Kazuki showing off some pictures that he had colored in, nothing much happened. When they exited the train Tomiko turned to her mother, "Mom, I'm going out to the place I hung out, is that okay? I'll meet you back at the house at the end of the day okay?"

"Okay, be careful, and if you see Yoshiko-chan, she can come over for dinner," Tohru answered her daughter as Tomiko ran off.

Tohru, Kazuki, Hatori, and Yuki headed home and entered the apartment and Yuki gasped, "How could you ever afford this place? Six rooms, god Tohru-chan!"

"Really it wasn't as expensive as you think, so don't worry about it. Here, let me show you around, Kazuki-chan why don't you go to your room and see if it's even clean?" Tohru asked him as he ran down the hall.

Walking into the main floor she showed them the kitchen, bathroom, living room, then they walked down the hallway where Kazuki was. "This is room one, which is Tomiko's room, mind the mess, we were in a hurry that day." The room revealed a bed that wasn't made, clothes on the floor and a dresser full of items.

Walking away from Tomiko's room she opened the door to her room, "This is my room, and the master." The room revealed a walk-in closet, a dresser, a made bed, and a bathroom. Yuki nodded as she closed the door and walked straight down the hall to the next one.

"This is the picture room, I keep pictures in here. Go ahead, look," Tohru said as they walked into the room and saw pictures of Tomiko, Kazuki, Tohru, Kyoko, Hana, Arisa, Kyo, and all the other Sohmas. One picture though, was the picture of him and Tohru together, taken right before she left. Tohru somehow got hold of it and place it right next to Tomiko's school picture and Kazuki's baby pictures.

"I kept those pictures together, so I knew the complete family. It pained me sometimes to come in here, to see the smiling faces and know I was there too," Tohru whispered softly in his ear, and Yuki's arm methodically wrapped around her waist.

"I'm glad you didn't torture yourself, but now we're together, it won't happen again right?"

"Hai, and we won't be separated again," Tohru whispered and leaned into his embrace when Hatori made a coughing noise and they jumped apart suddenly, blushes on their faces.

"Oh, why don't I show you the other places? Come on, onto Kazuki's room. Walking out of the picture room they opened it to see Kazuki sitting there coloring in his book and drawing in a sketchpad as the small radio played songs. "Hi mom, dad this is my room!"

Yuki smiled at his son as he started to show him everything placed in the room. Kazuki stopped, "That's it dad, but moms said soon enough I was going to be able to remodel. Guess I'll be doing that in the new room, hm?"

"Hai, it's going to be okay though," Yuki answered, picking Kazuki up and placing him on his shoulder.

Kazuki laughed and started coughing then, when he placed him down and held out his inhaler, "Take a deep breath in and take a deep breath out."

Kazuki when he was better smiled at his dad and wanted to be lifted up again, and Yuki picked him up carefully. Kazuki smiled and watched as his mom shut the radio off and walked out of the room and walked into a room with two beds, "Taru and Takeshi's room!"

"My sons live here?" Hatori asked him.

"They do when they feel like coming by. After all, every kid is welcome at this house."

Hatori nodded and Tohru walked out of the room and into the next room, "This is Yoshiko's room daddy! See, she loves the color blue."

Yuki noticed, all different shades and some pastel colors that matched with it. That's when Tomiko came inside with Yoshiko, "Hey mom, Yoshiko-chan says she's coming back to Tokyo with us!"

Tohru smiled at the two confused people, "Come meet Yoshiko, since you'll be seeing her a lot."

Walking outside to the living room, it revealed two girls. Tomiko smiled at her dad, "Hey dad this is Yoshiko, my friend from preschool!"

Yuki smiled, "Nice to meet you!"

"You too," Yoshiko answered sweetly and bowed, her black pigtails falling in her brown eyes.

"So…you live with Tohru-kun, and you're coming to live with us back in Tokyo?" Yuki asked her.

"Hai, is that okay with you?" Yoshiko asked shyly.

"It's fine, don't get me wrong, I just am meeting new people everyday."

Tohru smiled at Yuki and nodded, "Why don't you go hang out with Yoshiko Tomiko, Kazuki can go to his room and we adults came go into the kitchen?"

Yuki nodded and Hatori entered the kitchen without a word, while Tohru made sure Kazuki was in his room before returning to the kitchen. Once there you could see the two of them making themselves at home in the kotatsu and Tohru began cooking up a meal. While doing that Hatori started talking about the house, "You've really done wonders on it Tohru-kun, really you have. The rooms are really warm and welcoming, yet it's a wonder you were able to pay for this house."

"I told you it wasn't really that expensive, and plus, this house was open to anyone," Tohru answered as she started up some soup, miso soup to be exact, along with some rice. Yuki tried to get up to help her once through one of the conversations but Tohru insisted she needed no help at all. "Hatori, I have many people coming in and out of this house, and it would be great if we could just keep it open. So do you want this house, but please mind the attitude, not everyone stopping by will be Sohmas."

"No it's perfectly fine, Tohru-kun, we think it's about time the Sohmas started talking to other people, even though that isn't always possible," Hatori answered as he watched Tohru stir the steaming pot and play around with a few knobs on the stove.

Tohru smiled at Hatori and nodded to him and turned back and continued what she was doing when you heard a yell from Yoshiko. Everyone stood up and walked over to Tomiko's room where she sat there staring at Kazuki in his dragon form, yup, so much for not transforming…

TBC…