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By the way... stuff said between these (' ') is thought. Yeah.
Chapter 3
"Miss Eiko?" Yuki walked over and kneeled next to her. Eiko slowly opened her eyes and looked to her left to see Yuki's face inches from her face. She jumped back a foot.
"Y-Yuki? Y-you scared me. What are you doing here?" They both looked over to the garden. "Oh! This is your garden? I'm so sorry! I didn't realize- I didn't mean to intrude, I just thought it was so beautiful, I couldn't pull myself away. I'm so so sorry!" Eiko sat up and shoved her things into her bag as she frantically apologized. Yuki grabbed her arm.
"It's okay. Calm down. I just came to protect the garden from the storm.
"Storm?Oh..." Eiko had just realized it was raining. (Man, people can be thick sometimes...) Yuki sweat-dropped. "At least let me help you."
"You don't have to."
"But I want to! Your garden's so wonderful, I can't just leave it here in the storm." Her eyes were wide and pleading.
"If you really want to, I'd be glad to have the company." He smiled.
"Thank you! I'll get started right away!" She kneeled next to the garden and began covering it.
After silently working for some time on protecting the base, Yuki broke the silence.
"You don't have a place to stay, do you Miss Eiko?" Eiko looked up.
"What? Of course I have a place to stay! What made you think that?"
"Well, for one thing, you were sleeping on your math textbook in the middle of the woods..."
"Hmph." Eiko crossed her arms. (Stubborn child...-Just like me!)
"We do have an extra bedroom you could stay in," Yuki said. (If this is true, then how many bedrooms do they have? Yuki's, Kyo's, Shigure's, Tohru's... wow.)
"Oh no! I couldn't! I'm only staying out on my own for a few days."
'Home... what is home?' Eiko thought to herself as Yuki stood up.
"Whatever you decide is fine with me. At least come in to warm up. You're soaked."
"What about the garden?"
"It should be okay. The storm has gotten calmer."
"Okay, I'll come." Yuki helped her up. She grabbed her stuff, and they set off to Shigure's house.
"I'm back," Yuki said to no one in particular as he stepped inside. Eiko followed.
"Oh, Yuki! I'm glad you're back, I was getting worried," a girl's voice said as she stepped into the hall. It was Tohru.
"Wait, you actually live here?" Eiko asked in disbelief. "I thought you just walked to school together."
"Yep, I'm very happy here." Tohru smiled.
'Alone... with three guys... WHAT IS SHE THINKING!?' Eiko's eye twitched slightly. She rubbed her eye to male it stop. She didn't even notice that Shigure and Kyo had come downstairs.
"She's come back to me!" Shigure cried as fake tears rolled down his cheeks. He ran/pranced towards Eiko with open arms. Eiko put out a hand and held him back. Her eye twitch had come back.
"Shigure... don't you ever get tired of this?" Yuki asked as he pushed Shigure away.
"Yuki, why must you be so cruel?" Shigure fake sobbed. Eiko's eye twitch had stopped. She was staring at the arguing cousins with amusement. She started to shiver (she's still wet. People don't instantly dry off you know... besides Inuyasha 'cause he can shake all of the water off... I'm rambling. Okay! Back to what you want to be reading!)
"Oh, Eiko! You're so wet! I'll go get you some of my clothes."
"No, you don't-" But Tohru was already up the stairs. Eiko had barely taken off her shoes and put her stuff next to the door, when Tohru came back with a bundle of clothes.
"Here. They may be a little small since you're taller than me. I hope they'll be okay."
"Of course they'll be okay. Thank you." Eiko smiled a true smile. (which I might add is rare)
"The bathroom is on the second door to the left. You can change in there," Tohru pointed. Eiko walked off to change.
"Is she gonna be staying here tonight?" Kyo asked.
"Aww, Kyo, feeling lonely at night?" Shigure said teasingly, nudging Kyo.
"What the hell is that supposed to mean, you sick... bastard..." Kyo made a sad attempt to punch Shigure.
"Kyo is feeling lonely?" Tohru turned to Kyo with a worried look. (Poor, poor, naive Tohru.)
"Well, you see Tohru, when a man hasn't-" Shigure started, but Yuki put a hand over his mouth.
"You finish that sentence and I swear it will be your last," Yuki growled.
"What's going on?" Eiko had just finished changing.
"Nothing, Miss Eiko. Have some tea... and try to ignore Shigure. He's being more perverted than usual." Yuki glared at Shigure as everyone sat down at the table.
"Oh! I'll go make some tea for everyone," Tohru said, and rushed into the kitchen.
"Yuki, you should change too. You're still soaked," Eiko said with a smile.
"Oh... I guess you're right." Yuki looked down at his soaking clothes. They were stuck to his body everywhere. (oooh .) He got up and went upstairs.
"Kyo, you okay? You look terribly pale." Eiko tapped Kyo on the shoulder.
"He gets tired when it rains. An old habit of his. It's actually good. It means he won't hit me so hard -." Shigure explained.
"Here's everyone's tea. Oh, where's Yuki?" Tohru came out from the kitchen and set down he tea for everyone.
"Thank you. Oh, and Yuki's just putting on some warmer clothes." Eiko took a sip of tea. She hadn't had anything to eat or drink since lunch.
"So, how has school been for you? Tohru tells me you're new here." Shigure tried to strike up a conversation.
'Why does Yuki say he's such a pervert? He hasn't done anything perverted... The ''She's come back to me'' thing was strange, but he was just kidding... right?' Eiko looked up at Shigure. "Yeah, it's alright." Eiko took another sip.
"Did you move here recently?" Tohru asked.
"Yes... it's been a bit hard adjusting, but I'm getting used to it."
"Where are you from then?" Yuki had finished changing, and sat down.
"Oh, I'm from Kyoto," Eiko said quickly. She didn't want them to know where she really came from.
"I've always wanted to go there!" Tohru clasped her hands together with wide eyes. Eiko tried not to laugh. Since she didn't really know too much about Kyoto, she took another sip of tea so that she wouldn't have to say anything.
"It's raining really hard. You should stay the nigh here with us... if that's okay with you Shigure," Tohru said as she looked out the window.
"Of course! A young defenseless high school girl should never go out in a storm like that."
"Oh! I don't want to impose-" Eiko started, but stopped at the look on Tohru's face.
"It could be a sleep over!" Tohru smiled wide.
"Well, I guess it would be allright."
"Great! I'll take you're stuff upstairs."
"See Kyo, now you don't have to worry abou-" Yuki had put his hand to Shigure's mouth... again.
"I told you to stop talking about that!"
"But Yuki... Tohru's upstairs putting away Eiko's stuff," Shigure whined.
"That doesn't give you a reason to be perverted!" Kyo banged his fist on the table.
"Umm... did I miss something?" Eiko was completely lost. 'What a weird group of people.'
"The full moon's coming out tonight." Shigure had finally broken free from Yuki's hand.
Silence
"What the hell?! Why'd you say that?!?" Kyo had a popping vein on his forehead.(I think that's what they're called... you know... the cross lookin thing)
"Why not?"
Silence... again
Tohru came downstairs.
"Wow, it got late fast didn't it? It's almost eleven," Tohru said. Eiko's eyes grew wide.
"What?! Oh no... uh, umm... Goodnight everyone!" Eiko looked around frantically for a second then ran upstairs.
"Eiko?" Tohru walked up after her. The door to Tohru's room was shut.
"Eiko? Are you okay?"
"Come in, quickly." The dor opened, but the light was out. Tohru walked in, barely able to see the outline of Eiko. Eiko closed the door and locked it.
"Tohru, you have to promise to keep this a secret. Please, if you tell anone, anyone at all, I would have to leave and not some back. Okay?"
"Of course I wouldn't tell! I'm not a gossipy person. At least I try not to be. My mom always said that gossiping is wrong and I would never-"
"Okay, okay. I believe you." Eiko took a deep breath. "Turn on the light."
Tohru put her hand to the wall and felt around until she found the light switch. She flipped it up and gasped. Tears formed in her eyes as she stared.
Eiko had blinding white four foot wings sprouting out her back. Tohru smiled and took a small step foreward.
"You're... an angel."
Author's Note: Wow! Long chapter. I promised that I would put in the secret this chapter, so I did. My hands hurt from the typin. I know the whole angel thing sounds corny, but it's not what you think... kinda. I don't really know what I'm saying. Well, see you next chapter! Page-chan