Summary: Tohru, Kyo, Yuki, Shigure, Haru and Momiji get the chance of a lifetime as they are whisked away on a four-day trip on The Orient Express! But all trouble breaks loose as some one is killed and a detective-type crime sweep pursues…

"A TRAIN RIDE TO REMEMBER"

CHAPTER 18

"That'll teach ya to mess with us!" shouted Kyo

"And to murder innocent people!" shouted Tohru. Then she remembered "HARU!"

They ran back to the last luggage carriage, to find Haru, pale blood everywhere

"Is he OK?" asked Tohru

"If we don't get him to a hospital, he'll be gone too" said Shigure

Momiji had puffy red eyes, so did Shigure. Now it was Tohru's turn to help everyone

"I'm gonna get this thing to Hakodate... NOW!" she said "any one coming?... or know how to use a train? That would be helpful!"

"I'll come" said Kyo "c'mon"

Then they ran back to the engine (panting) and over the tender and into the engine cab, which was full of levers and switchs, each doing its own job

"Which one is it?" asked Kyo (well shouted over the noise of the train)

"Erm... let's try them all!" said Tohru

So they tried everyone (literally) some were the brakes which jerked the train, smoe made sand go on the rails to stop the train slipping, other released steam, one opened up the firebox, and one squirted Kyo with water, which made Tohru laugh which he squirted at her, and laughed too... Finally, they found the lever which made the train speed up. But it started to slow down straight afterwards

"What's wrong?" said Kyo

"We have to put..." Tohru said tring to remember what she'd seen that night. 'What was they doing' she thought... Then...

"I got it!" she said "We gotta put that coal into that firebox-type thing."

"OK" said Kyo "Get a-shoveling"

"Why me!" she said

"You thought of it, you should do it"

"There's two shovels. Help me"

"Fine"

And then they started to shovel the coal into the firebox. Then Tohru froze

"What is it?" asked Kyo

"I've only just realised" she said "we killed someone. WE'RE MURDERERS!"

"Errr... don't ya mean you're a murderer?" asked Kyo

"What?" asked Tohru

"You stabbed him and you pushed him off the train" said Kyo

"Oh my god, you're right" said Tohru looking at her hands, which were covered in blood "b-b-b-b-b-but we did it for a good cause right?"

"I guess, be it on your conscience"

"Are you OK?"

"I'm fine"

"OK then... OK the trains going fast enough. We'll have to keep an eye out for Hakodate"

"Uh-huh"

About an hour or so later (after discovering what buttons did what) then stopped the train in Hakodate, to a crowd of people, who, were disappointed to see only Kyo, Tohru, Momiji, Shigure and an injured Haru get off the train

The crowd started mumbling

"Who are they?"

"What happened to everyone else?"
"Is that all the people there were on the train?"
"Why did those two come out of the engine?"

Then someone finally spoke out, which was a train conductor

"Where is everyone?"

"We are everyone" said Tohru "and this person needs immediate medical attention!" she added pointing to Haru

"Lucky for you we had an ambulance waiting, just in case" said the guard, and they rushed him off to the local hospital "but, before you run along, tell me, what happened to the TRAIN!"

Tohru and the others looked round, the train was a state; windows were smashed, black finger prints everywhere and scratched paintwork.

Then Tohru dived into the story about the Inspector being a murderer and all that had happened

The guard looked puzzled and said: "There was no train Inspector on board this train"

"There had to be" said Tohru "alot of people were talking about him!"

"Well. There wasn't I promise you that" said the guard

They spent the night in the local hospital with Haru, who made a full recovery

They were going to get home by the Bullet Train, (a high speed train that cuts hour long journeys to minutes)

They woke up the next morning; suitcases packed and ready to get home. Knowing they weren't going the have Yuki around the house or at school, which Tohru remembered the 'Yuki Fan Club' girls were going to be not upset but very very very very very upset and probably blame Tohru for his death.

Then Tohru went into a faze where she blamed herself for getting those tickets to a stupid train ride and cried silently. They reached the Bullet Train Station and got on board. It was very modern; not like the Orient Express with its many olden time antiques that if you broke; could not be bought again

The ride home was uneventful. Just the scenery going by was the only thing that changed that day. They reached the Station back home and realised they had no lift, so they rang Sohma House and arranged for Ha'ri to pick them up. He wouldn't be happy when he knew what happened...

(A/N: Check out soon for more!)