The Forgotten
Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket
A/N: Yeah the Grudge reference in the last chapter was supposed to not fit and be completely spontaneous and bizarre. Congrats to those of you who picked up on that, oh and I have a question if ya guys would mind emailing me: and telling me, how out of character is Hatori? Just curious and I can take the criticism so just tell me so I can maybe fix it or leave it…Thanks, lots of love,
The Water Sprite
Chapter 8: Livee
"I've come to meet Olivia!"
"Oh, of course, come in." Hatori was actually happy to see his friend, excited even. "Olivia!" he called, blushing again at the memory of her lips on his cheek. Ayame saw his blush and inquired about it.
"Tori-san is something wrong?" the snake looked up worriedly.
"No, why?" the doctor asked, confused.
"You're blushing,"
"Oh," Hatori's blush only grew stronger, "No it's nothing Ayame, really."
"Alright…" Ayame said questionably. Olivia came into the entry room and smiled.
"Yes Hatori?" then she saw Ayame. "Oh, hello, I'm Olivia Sohma," she said politely.
"Oh Ha'ri she's lovely! So polite! And look at her high cheekbones, her golden blonde hair, those lovely gold eyes, or teal, sorry. I thought they were gold, maybe I saw wrong. None the less what a peculiar, but pretty color. Oh Tori-san she's absolutely beautiful!" the snake exclaimed. Olivia blushed fiercely and put her right hand to her cheek.
"Oh, please, no, really I'm not-"
"Yes you are! But what happened to your arm?" he saw her holding it up, like it was injured. "And you eye? And your ear!" Ayame looked horrified.
"Umm…" the wolf hesitated. She wasn't even entirely sure what had happened, it had happened so quickly.
"She had a run-in with Akito," Hatori said quietly.
"Ah, I'm sorry dear." The snake frowned. Olivia shook her head.
"I'm fine," she smiled.
"Tori-san, call Shigure please, ask him to come over. It's only 8:30, (am) we could spend the day together! Just here if you'd like, or outside, wherever. Plus he should know about dear Olivia's injuries as well." Ayame suggested to the doctor who thought it over.
"Alright, but you can call him, I have work to do."
"Will do!" the snake jumped happily, walking towards the living room to call his friend. Hatori sighed and walked into his office, leaving the door open. Olivia poked her head in and knocked on the open door.
"Yes?" came the reply.
"Um, aren't you going to stay out there and see your friends Ha'ri?" she said nervously. Hatori's head shot up.
"What?"
"I asked if-"
"No," he interrupted her, "You called me Ha'ri."
"Oh, right, I'm sorry, I heard Shigure and Momiji call you by it so, I don't know. I shouldn't have, I'm sorry," the girl turned to leave.
"Livee," she stopped and turned back around, looking at him. "Short for Olivia right?" he smiled. She returned the smile.
"Right,"
"Oh Olivia, I realized I didn't properly introduce myself!" Ayame called from the other room. "I'm Ayame Sohma, Yuki's older brother!"
"Yuki's older brother?" she said to herself. A frantic knocking began on the outside door, only to be stopped by Ayame who answered it. Shigure burst in, out of breath and panting.
"I came as quickly as possible, Olivia! Come here honey!" he called to her. Olivia walked over to him and he pulled her good side into a hug. "Oh you poor thing!"
"Really I'm fine," she pulled away and smiled slightly.
"Olivia would you like to help me make some tea?" Ayame asked her. She quickly complied.
"Sure!"
"Wonderful, oh wait, Olivia, O-liv-ia, so a nickname for Olivia is Liv?" he questioned.
"Most people either call me Olivia or-" she paused; the nickname now seemed foreign on her tongue since he called her by it. "Or Livee…" she told him.
"Lovely! Now come along," the snake led her into the kitchen. Shigure went in and said hello to Hatori before seating himself in the living room. Once Olivia, Ayame, and Shigure were all settled, Ayame served the tea.
"Shigure what do you do for a living? Are you a writer?" Olivia asked. The dog looked up.
"How'd you know?"
"Well, the way you talk, your use of vocabulary, and you said something yesterday about a manuscript." She explained.
"Yes, I'm a writer, and you should be a detective." He winked. The girl smiled. "So, Olivia, I never got a concise answer from Hatori, is there something going on between you two?"
"No, of course not." She blushed.
"Well there's something, like little energy waves, that pass between you whenever you're around each other."
"Chemistry," Ayame offered the word.
"Indeed."
"No, nothings going on," Olivia insisted.
"It's not a bad thing, you two would be cute together," Shigure assured her.
"Yes you would! He's all yours Livee, just don't hurt him." Ayame said seriously.
"Hurt him?"
"Like Kana." The snake scowled.
"Ayame, Shigure, what happened?" Olivia asked quietly. Shigure looked down.
"Kana was Ha'ri's girlfriend; they were very much in love and engaged to be married. But when Hatori and Kana asked for Akito's permission, Akito got really upset."
"He ended up hurting Hatori's left eye so now he's almost completely blind in that eye. Akito yelled at Kana, and instead of Hatori blaming Akito, Kana blamed herself. She became so heartsick that Ha'ri had to erase her memories of him. The memories of him. The memories of their love." Ayame finished. Letting out a small hiccupping sob, Olivia cried into her hands.
"E-e-erase her m-memories?" the girl stammered shakily.
"When ordered to, Hatori can erase or suppress a person's memories by placing his hand over their forehead." Shigure explained. "That's why we were so nervous when he put his hand to your forehead. Remember, when you were first at our house, before you fell ill."
"Oh, yes, I understand." She regained her composure but the tears still fell. "That's so terribly sad. Why didn't he blame Akito?"
"It's the nature of our curse, Akito never gets blamed." Ayame replied.
"Bastard," Olivia spat acidly.
"So, that's what happened." Shigure sighed sadly. "But on a brighter note, let's talk about you and Ha'ri, Olivia!"
"Oh yes lets!" Ayame piped giddily. "So do you like him, Livee?"
"Well," the girl smiled.
"Well?" the men said in unison, glancing at each other.
"I don't know, I mean he's very nice,"
"And?" they prompted unanimously.
"And he's a gentleman, and a good person." She finished.
"Oh come on Livee! Give details! Do you find him attractive?" Ayame asked.
"Well he is very handsome," she complied.
"Have you ever wanted to kiss him? Or felt like he wanted to kiss you?" Shigure sat forward anxiously.
"Yes, we almost kissed last night," Olivia smiled, blushing.
"Ooh! When and where? What happened? What led up to it? Why didn't you?" Ayame was jumping up and down in his seat.
"Last night after we left Shigure's, at the main gate, about half way through over walk it thundered. I'm deathly afraid of thunder so I freaked out and he ended carrying me the rest of the way home." She answered in order.
"Then what happened?" Shigure begged for more details, his brown eyes sparkling.
"I said, 'I'm sorry,' and he said 'no that's okay, I didn't mind at all,' and I said 'okay are you sure?' he said 'yeah, it was nice,' so I asked 'nice?' and he replied with 'very nice'. Then we almost kissed but realized what we were doing and jumped back." Olivia finished.
"Ah, how sweet!" Ayame smiled. "You should go in there and talk to him!" the snake pointed towards Hatori's office.
"No, well, I don't want to bother him, he's working." She shook her head.
"Oh please Olivia?" Shigure cooed, making puppy eyes.
"What would I say?" the girl shrugged in question.
"Tell him how you feel!" the dog exclaimed. "Come on, just try."
"I don't know," she said doubtfully. "What if he doesn't like me back? I know that sounds like something a middle school girl would say but still. Plus I don't even know if I like him!" she told them, even though she very well knew she was attracted to the doctor.
"Well do you get butterflies when you're around him?" Shigure raised an eyebrow.
"Sometimes," she told the two men. "But that doesn't prove anything, I mean come on you guys,"
"No Olivia, you come on!" Ayame scolded her. "Why is it so hard? Why can't you admit you like him?"
"Why can't you deal with the fact that I may not?" the wolf retorted. Ayame was silent for a minute, he just sat, staring at his delicate hands. "I'm sorry Ayame," Olivia sighed, looking down.
"Livee, I could deal with the fact you may not like him if it was true." The snake told her quietly. "But knowing how you feel and not seeing you together, that I can't deal with. Hatori is the kind of person who will give up his chance to be happy and just look past it. But he's also the kind of person that would give his life for someone he loves. I'm tired of seeing him alone, he needs something, he needs someone." Olivia kept her eyes down as Ayame talked, digesting everything he told her.
"We're sorry, Olivia, we just want to see him happy. So when you showed up, it seemed perfect. I mean you're only 3 years younger than him, you're part of the curse, and then when there was suspicion that you had feelings for him," Shigure tilted her chin up, looking into her blue eyes.
"Indeed dear," Ayame smiled at her. "But wouldn't you like to be together?"
"I don't know you guys, it's not that I don't want to be with him it's just, I'm not sure if I want to be with anyone. I don't know if I can…I've been alone almost all my life so I'm not used to this much human contact and interaction. It used to be that all I did was go to class, go to work, do my studying and not even think about it. But I've thought about it more these past few days then I have my whole life and I guess it just scares me a little." Neither of the two Sohmas knew what to say to the girl so they dropped the subject completely.
Hatori had Olivia stay in the house for the next four days as her injuries healed. He didn't want her to run into Akito again. Most of the time the doctor was closed in his office working, so a lot of the time either Ayame or Shigure or both came over to talk with her. The subject of Hatori and Olivia didn't come up again much to Olivia's relief. She was somewhat curious if the doctor heard any of what they had discussed the other day, because he had been avoiding her, or at least she felt like he was. The girl could tell he wasn't used to living with someone else and he usually didn't eat three meals a day. Olivia usually skipped dinner but Hatori sometimes would go a day or two without eating anything. When he did this Olivia didn't eat either, it would just have felt awkward to eat alone in someone else's house. She didn't know if he realized he skipped meals because he was almost always in his office working. Occasionally the doctor would come out and talk to her but not very often. Olivia spent her time either talking with Ayame and Shigure when they were over or reading the books on Hatori's bookshelves. On the fifth day of her confinement Ayame and Shigure came over around noon and while Shigure and Olivia discussed J.R.R Tolkien, Ayame prepared lunch for all four of them.
"Haa-san! Come have lunch with us!" Shigure called as Ayame and Olivia set the table.
"No thanks, I'm not hungry." Hatori answered.
"Please Tori-san?" Ayame begged. This time there was no reply so Aya slumped down onto the floor. "He is so stubborn sometimes."
"That pretty much describes Hatori in a nut shell." The dog agreed. "So Olivia, what have you been up to since we last saw you?"
"I read some more in Lord of the Rings, so now I'm at Lothlorien." She smiled.
"Wow, all the way from the Council of Elrond to Lothlorien in two days." Shigure commented.
"What else is there to do but read?"
"Not much I guess." The dog shrugged. The tea kettle whistled and Olivia jumped up to get it.
"I guess Ha'ri and Livee weren't meant to be, Gure-san." Ayame sighed sadly.
"Oh but they are Aya! They just don't know it yet." Shigure assured his friend who just shrugged in dismay.
"I suppose," the snake said.
"Don't worry about it Aya," the dog smiled. "Unfortunately we can not interfere."
"I know, it's extremely frustrating!" Ayame exclaimed, throwing his arms in the air.
"Here you go guys," Olivia smiled, setting the tea down in front of them.
"Brilliant!" Ayame clapped. "Though I do wish Ha'ri would come out and have lunch with us,"
"I'll go get him," the girl offered, turning towards the doctor's office. With one last word of assurance she disappeared down the hallway.
"Being sick sucks…sorry for any errors, I wrote this with a fever of 101.2, shh don't tell my dad!"
-The Water Sprite