After dinner Tohru cleaned her dishes and walked outside to take out a ladder and climb up to the roof where she met Kyou, just lying there and staring at the sapphire sky, to the horizon was still painted pink and purple and orange and yellow..
"What happened earlier, I apologize..I didn't want Yuki to think I softened up. He would have made fun of me for starting to feel something for a normal human. I'm so sorry, Tohru." Kyou turned to Tohru, hearing her come up without her having to tell him she arrived. Since she always met him on the roof he was used to her not being able to sneak up on him anymore.
"Don't be sorry, Kyou-kun." Tohru said as she took a seat next to him. He could only smile at her.
"You're so caring, you know that?" He just placed his fist on her head like he was pounding her into the roof like a nail on wood. She giggled and tilted her head, causing his arm to slip and fall around her shoulder. They both blushed madly as Kyou quickly let his arm go back to his side.
"I-I'm so s-sorry...K-Kyou-kun.." Tohru stammered as she places her hands onto her cheeks and shakes her head wildly, her hair and ribbons hitting Kyou's cheeks.
He laughed as his red face turns normal.
"Tohru..I really should tell you something..Tomorrow could we meet at the Sohma Fountain?" He looked Tohru in the eyes. Tohru tilted her head in confusion, wondering what Kyou wanted to tell her. "S-Sure, Kyou-kun..I'll be there!" Tohru smiled widely.
So they went to bed..Tohru had that same dream, only instead of the figure picking her up, he slashed at her face and sent her into a wall. P-Please! Don't hurt me..Please.. Tohru thought. Almost as if the figure read her mind and heard her pleads he stopped..But it didn't last long. The creature was large and demonic like. He slashed Tohru across the face again as she hit the wall hard, hitting her head. Please..Stop it! She yelled in her mind. The creature's laugh became maniacly. He kept trying to hit at her so she stood up in the light-filled room and ran past the creature out the door into what it seemed to be a flower-filled meadow. Tohru looked around, still running. She tripped over a log, or what seemed to be. Tohru looked behind her only to see the creature that had been beating her before had been lying in the tall flower stalks and his legs were straight out. His smile seemed malicious.
"What do you want from me?" Tohru screamed as she jolted up from her bed and started flailing her arms.
"Honda-san! Tohru!" Tohru heard Yuki and Kyou yell..Her eyes flung open to see Kyou and Yuki looking worriedly down at her.
"Y-Yuki-kun! Kyou-kun!" She cried as she flung her arms around their necks, not caring if they transformed or not.
But they didn't..
"H-huh?" Tohru, Kyou and Yuki all yelled in unison. Very surprised Kyou and Yuki looked down.
"Why didn't I become the rat?" Yuki asked..
"And I the cat?" Kyou also asked.
Tohru looked just as confused as they were. Later she told Yuki and Shigure that she'd be going for a walk to clear her head of what happened. She went to the Sohma Fountain to where she saw Kyou waiting for her. Tohru wasn't dressed in her normal schoolgirl attire. She was wearing a dress that stopped just above her knees. At the bottom was laced and the sleeves tied around her neck..She was wearing sandals that tied at her ankle and the heels were about four inches high and her hair was tied into red ribbons. At the sight of seeing Tohru so beautiful And in something different that a schoolgirl uniform Kyou's jaw dropped. Tohru smiled as she approached him.
"W-Wow, Tohru..You look.." His voice trailed off as he cleared his throat. Tohru smiled. "Oh, right..I need to tell you something.." Kyou said again, clearing his throat once more.
"T-Tohru..I.." Kyou looked down at his feet as he began to kick the dirt. Tohru noticed his blushing and she blinks again.
"Well..I-I..Tohru..Since I saw you..From the very first time..I think I liked you..That like..Turns to be love now.." Kyou looked back to see a blushing Tohru.
"K-Kyou-kun.." Tohru said softly, her head slightly cocked to the right.
"What I am trying to say is..I..I think I love you, Tohru.." Kyou looked at her and blushed..
"Y-You do..?" Tohru smiled widely. Kyou could only nod and quickly turn away from Tohru. He seemed to drop something and he nervously fidgeted with his fingers.
"I've got to go.." Kyou said, rushing past Tohru. Tohru picked up what he'd dropped and tried to run after Kyou. "Kyou-kun! Wait! You dro--" Tohru tried to finish the rest but her mouth was clamped with a hand, an arm around her waist. She tried to scream out for Kyou but the hand was too tight upon her lips. Tohru flailed and tried to get out of the arms that held her, but the grip tightened and she could feel a Katana pressed against her neck hard enough to cut her just a little. She heard a voice.
"If you move anymore I will slit your throat.." The mysterious voice sounded so ragged behind Tohru. She could tell that there were two people. One with the Katana against her neck and one holding her around her waist and clamping her mouth. She felt an unwelcoming chill run up her spine as she closed her eyes and hoped that this was also a dream..She wanted to hear the voices of Kyou and Yuki, waking her up..She waited..They did not come..And the pain in her neck was real. Was it true that you feel no pain while in dreams? No. Tohru could answer that herself..The voice spoke again.
"I am Yeijiro. This one here is Akahito. You will meet the rest of our clan as soon as you follow us." The voice sounded rude and Tohru felt the hand fall and the Katana dropping from her neck.
"If you think about screaming, I will have you dead with the snap of a finger.." The one who called himself Yeijiro said harshly. Then Tohru felt a jab in the middle of her back, urging her to move into the direction where they lead her.
"Sirs..Where are you taking me and why won't you just let me go home..?" Tohru asked shyly, trying not to cry and scream out for Yuki or Kyou or Shigure. They just sniffled and pushed her into a room where there was a single light in the center of the ceiling. Just like my dream...Almost exactly..Only..It turned out dark..And someone came into a door which made light burst into the room, killing the darkness..Might this be like my dream..? Tohru began to think..Her mind wandering to many thoughts to why these people held her captive in this room. She skittered to a corner and held her knees to her body. There were three men in the room with her to make sure she didn't escape.
"You, girl..Quit movin' or else I'll have the Boss in here." One of the men said.."Who are you all? I want to go home..Please let me out, will you?" Tohru said through sobs.
"You'll know who w'are in time..Right now is no need for introductions." Said another man. "Hm..What a beauty this one turned out to be, eh boys?" The third man blurted while putting the tip of a sword to her chin, lifting her head up to look at his ugly face that was very ungroomed with a beard. The other men laughed and agreed. Tohru pulled away and shouted many helps, hoping someone would burst in, make the men pass out..And help her. She heard someone walk in..A fourth man? Where are they all coming from..Why me? Tohru thought..She heard the man that just now came in speak to the other three men in a foreign tongue..Quickly the men scurried out the door. So it was just her..And the new man that had entered.
"Well, well, well..What do we have here?" Asked the man, kneeling down to face Tohru. "What is your name, girl?" He asked, his voice more gentle than the others' voices, but still a little harsh. Tohru remained silent, averting her eyes to the ground away from the man. She felt a hard blow across her face that sent her to the ground. "Answer me when I speak to you!" He bellowed. Tohru tried to regain her now blurry sight to look at the man. This one was neater. He must have been the Boss that one of the men mentioned to her earlier.
"M-My name is..Is..Tohru Honda..I live with the So--" Tohru started to say but he cut her off.
"Tohru, eh? Nice name." His smile was evil..More of like a smirk at her..She wanted to spat at him but she did not want to get hit again..She's gone through too much pain.
He spoke again. "My name is Ryunosuke. I am the Boss around here." Tohru turned her back to him, her body shivering with fear. "P-Please..Let me go home.." She whispered, her back still to him. He looked at her. "Well..Quite the rude ones, aren't we?" Hearing that made Tohru growl. She wanted to hit him..She wanted to hit him..She just couldn't. He grabbed ahold of Tohru's shoulder, jerking her back to where she was looking up at him. "Don't turn your back to me, girl.." He snapped. "There will be four other girls joining you shortly.." Tohru cringed at the thought..She didn't want a visit from more of his 'slaves'. She just rolled her eyes. Then the door opened. Three girls were pushed into the room, they fell on their knees. "Ah, see? There they are." Ryunosuke motioned to the three girls. Tohru moved her finger from one girl to the next and counted aloud. "But there are only three..One. Two. Three." Ryunosuke growled and slashed his hand across Tohru's face, sending her into the ground. The three girls gasped and turned their faces. Tohru groaned and sat back up, Ryunosuke growled again, glaring to Tohru's direction. He stood. "The fourth will be arriving soon.." With that said..He left. Tohru glanced at the other girls, she noticed their bodies trembling. "He hit me earlier as well.." She spoke softly, and very shy. She then stood and walked over to them. "My name is Tohru Honda.." She sat on her knees and bowed her head to where it touched the ground. They looked at her and return the favour. The first one speaks. "My name is Nozome Kaonawa and this is my sister Chiaki Kaonawa." She seemed like the eldest of the two. Tohru then rose, still sitting on her knees. The third one speaks a soft voice. "My name is Maemi Yasawa." Tohru bowed again. "Nice to meet you all..I have a word of advice..Maybe the only time you should speak is when Ryunosuke asks for your names..You saw what happened. I said something I shouldn't have and I was hit." They all nod..They start to talk and get to know eachother and when time comes they all lay in a cluttered pile of bodies and fall asleep.