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CHAPTER 4
"It's going to happen tonight." She had said with a dark blank stare.
Tohru's words rang eerily in Kyo's mind. What had she meant? And, why wasn't she back from her walk? It's been a while...
Frustrated with his own thoughts, Kyo jumped up, grabbed his jacket and dashed outside. It was cold and Kyo was glad that he brought his new fleece jacket. He scanned the grounds quickly and with no sign of Tohru, began walking in miscellaneous directions.
There's probably nothing wrong, Kyo thought to himself, she probably just fell asleep on the back porch again. Still, with a sick feeling in his gut, he kept walking. Further he walked across Sohma property. Then, he stopped.
"Yuki's secret base," he muttered heatedly to himself as he kicked the ground. He turned to head back to the house when something caught his eye. Across the base, lying near that big rock; something, somebody, was on the floor. Tohru!
Kyo ran across the base - killing Yuki's vegetables along the way. He knelt down next to Tohru and shook her while whispering, "Tohru. Hey, Tohru wake up. You'll freeze to death out here." There was now a warm sticky liquid on Kyo's hands. He absently wiped them on his pants and, with the light of the moon, saw what it was. Blood! Oh Tohru, what did you do...?
He bent back down and shook her furiously. "Tohru, wake up! WAKE UP!"
His heart faltered as he looked at her pale lifeless face. Her skin looked pale and the gashes on her wrists looked deep and painful. Any longer and she would die. He carefully picked her up, expertly holding her away from his body. He ran back to the Sohma house, almost knocking down the door.
"Kyo-kun, can you please not ruin my hou-" Shigure started, the paused when he saw what Kyo-kun was holding. His face drained of color as he yelled, "Yuki-kun! Call Hatori, now!"
Yuki-kun, who had been in the kitchen, walked in when he heard Kyo barge in. "Whatsamatter?" he asked while stretching.
"Just-call-Hatori." Kyo said through gritted teeth. Yuki angrily glanced over at him and then seeing what Kyo was holding, his mouth dropped open.
"What did you do!" he roared.
"CALL HATORI-SAN!" Shigure yelled, causing Yuki to jump and run out the door.
"What happened to her?" Shigure asked shakily. Kyo glared at him, causing Shigure to nod. He was silent for a fraction of a second, then said, "Bring her into my office. Lay her down on the couch." And left the room.
Kyo nodded and followed Shigure-san's directions. He carefully set Tohru down on the couch and gently stroked her hair. He could hear her breathing heavily. In and out, in and out. Her face showed pain; Kyo-kun turned away, he didn't think he could look at her a second longer.
Shigure and Yuki stepped into the room, each breathing heavily.
"Hatori will be here any minute." Yuki said as Shigure wrapped a blanket around a frail Tohru.
"Shigure," Yuki asked, "Why didn't we just take Tohru to the hospital? Why wait for Hatori?"
Shigure paused before saying, "Because it looks like a suicide attempt. It is a suicide attempt. If she got better, they would have to look over her. I'm not her guardian or yours now that we mention it. They would ask questions. How would you answer them? 'She did it to break the curse that's been haunting our family for generations.'? You know that's exactly why she did it. It would arouse too many complications. And... you may be taken away from me. You may not know it, but I love you each very much."
They sat in a stony silence for a few minutes, each person occasionally checking to make sure Tohru was still breathing. A few moments after the sixth check, Hatori walked in; not bothering to knock.
He pulled over a stool, told everyone to leave the room, and sat down next to Tohru. Yuki hadn't told him what happened on the phone, so when he saw the gashes on her wrists his breath got caught in the back of her throat.
This is Akito's doing, he thought grimly. For the next few minutes he worked on helping Tohru. In all of his years he had never held somebody's life in his hands. He didn't know if he could do it.
After a few moments he dashed out of the room, almost tripping over Shigure, who was sitting by the door. Kyo and Yuki stood up as soon as he walked into the room.
"What blood type are you?" Hatori asked them.
"O positive," Shigure said.
"A positive," Yuki said.
"Ditto to the rat boy." Kyo answered.
"Good," Hatori sighed, "Come in here with me."
The two followed the doctor back into Shigure's office. "She needs blood. Are you willing to give any?" Hatori asked.
Without any hesitation Kyo rolled up his sleeve and Yuki followed in suite. Hatori smiled at the determined looks in the boys' eyes. Hatori took out two syringes with tubes attached and poked each boys' veins. The dark red liquid shot up the tubes and in no time Hatori had about five little bottles. He got a new syringe, applied the tubes of blood to the top, and injected blood into Tohru's system. Within minutes her face wasn't as pale and her body looked more life like. After he injected all of the bottles of blood, he started to work on her wrists. He got a clean cloth, dabbed water and a healing solution and gently wiped away the blood off of Tohru's arms. When it was all clean, he started to stitch up the too-deep cuts. He saw Yuki flinch at the sight of the needles going in and out of Tohru's body.
"Don't worry." The doctor said, "I gave her a sedative before I gave her the blood. She doesn't feel a thing."
