Chapter 6; Enlighten Me
Rikku Swirls: (Dryly)Yes, sorry to disappoint you.
Daisuke-n-dark+feels ashamed+ I'm sorry I gave away this chapter! No, really, I just didn't want anybody to hate my guts and start flaming me for killing off Tohru, because I find that very annoying. Some people are just too sensitive when it comes to onigiris.
Okay, I'll try adding inner thoughts to the characters! It would only make the story better, right?
And about the idiot style, it was me who named it. It's when I'm feeling very… reckless; I guess would be the best word. It's when I write with BIG LETTERS a lot, and point out obvious things with them. Like this part: "But Momiji wasn't drunk. Not at all. He was actually more sober than HATORI! Oh my gawd! AND HATORI WAS ONLY DRINKING COKE! Either Hatori can't even handle coke, or Momiji is really, really tolerant to alcohol! I would guess on the second one, actually." (It's from another fic I've written)
I don't have a problem with it, but some people seem to find it annoying, for some reason (can you believe it? They're actually offended by it!) Therefore, I try not to use the "Idiot-style" when writing fics outside the humor section.
And lastly I would like to say: OF COURSE I'LL READ YOUR FURUBA FICS! (This was written with big letters so they would be easily seen.)
Purple crush: Sorry I didn't write your nick with different sized letters! Anyways; is age really that important? No, I'm just kidding! I have an end, and I'm sure you'll like it.
Melody: Wow… thanks! I've never gotten anybody to bounce before.
Vixen: Yes… I'm evil, I know. But you'll have to live with that P YES! All guardians grow with their "Humans". Though, the guardians always knew how to talk and float etc. Yes, sure, I'll e-mail you, it's not a problem. Thanks for the name! I'll consider it!
And while I'm at it: (answer to the 'warm hands' ONE SHOT review from Vixen) what do you mean actually? You expected something worse? Am I not a good writer to you? +tries to be mad, but falls down in a fit of laughter instead+ just messing! I'm glad you actually liked it.
AND LASTLY! (Make sure you don't miss this) WOULD SOMEBODY PLEASETELL ME? WHAT IN THE LIVING HELL DOES OOC AND IC MEAN+Has no idea+(And excuse my obscene words. I didn't mean it)
On with it….
Honda Tohru walked through a long corridor. She wasn't sure why, and she didn't know how she got there, but something inside her told her to keep walking.
The corridor was incredibly long, and Tohru couldn't actually see what was in the other end. The walls were covered with pictures and paintings of her loved ones. Mostly people from the Sohma family and her mother, but there were also of her dad and the rest of her family. Some people, she noticed, had grey pictures, and those people were all dead. Except for one…
Kyo.
Kyo's picture was coloured, even though he was supposedly dead. When Tohru saw this, she stopped walking and looked at the picture for a long time. A strange prickling feeling lit in her heart… was it hope? Hope that Kyo wasn't really dead, even though she saw his dead body on the funeral?
Then she saw another picture, next to Kyo. It was a picture of the new Kyo, but in baby form. It was grey.
All of this confused Tohru terribly. Why was the former Kyos picture coloured, and the new Kyo's picture not? Wasn't it supposed to be the other way around?
"My, my, I think she is figuring out our very weird way of keeping track of the living and the dead." A very familiar voice said behind her. She turned around and was face to face with… herself!
Tohru blinked. Then she blinked again. She didn't understand anything.
The Tohru who stood before her, more like floated before her, grinned widely at her expression.
"Hello, Tohru-chan!" He said cockily.
"Huh? Hello… err…?"
"Tohru!"
"Tohru?"
"Yes! And this is Kyoko." Tohru-kun pointed on a woman with bright orange hair beside him. She was very similar to Kyo… BOTH Kyos.
"Err… Hello Kyoko-san!"
"I don't like it when people, or guardians, use the –san suffix. Please don't use it, Tohru!" Somehow, this statement seemed very familiar to Tohru. Where had she heard something like that before…?
"Okay… Kyoko-kun!" Tohru said a little uncertain.
Kyoko smiled. She was sweet, Tohru.
"Well, now that you're here, you can ask us any questions you want, because Tori-chan isn't here right now, and she is so strict!" Tohru-kun said, still grinning.
"Really?" Tohru asked wide eyed, and after a nod from both Kyoko and Tohru-kun, she twirled around.
"When a picture is coloured, it means the person in question is alive, right?"
"Right!"
"And when the picture is grey, it means they're dead, right?" Tohru continued, talking rather fast.
Kyoko and Tohru-kun nodded, understanding where this was going. Tohru pointed at the Kyo's pictures.
"Why are those pictures wrong?"
Tohru-kun and Kyoko looked at each other. "Can I tell her?" Tohru-kun eventually asked. Kyoko nodded slowly, eyeing Tohru carefully.
"Tohru-chan… It's not wrong."
"What? But it has to be wrong! Kyo-kun is dead! He died when we were 16!"
"Yes… he did… but he was placed in another body, because it wasn't his time yet." Tohru-kun began slowly.
"He was placed in the body of Sohma Kyo, son of Sohma Keiko, brother of Sohma Taeko. I should know, I am his guardian." Kyoko continued.
"You mean… Kyo was never dead? Just… placed somewhere else?"
The guardians both nodded. For some reason, Tohru looked exceptionally happy at her new discovery. Kyo was alive?
In the middle of her happiness, two people came over to them, loudly stomping their feet… in the air, and arguing about something. Tohru recognized them as Shigure and Yuki… as girls. The Yuki didn't look all that different from the regular Yuki, but her hair was longer. That's all. Shigure's hair was very long, and for some reason, she seemed slightly perverted.
Both were in white robe things and they kind of… shone. What they were wearing looked very different from what Tohru-kun and Kyoko were wearing, which was simple white dresses.
"Ah! Yun-chan, Shigeru-san!" Tohru-kun exclaimed and waved. Then he leaned over to Tohru and whispered "They're the 'higher ups'."
"Why are they 'higher ups'?" Tohru whispered back, a bit confused.
"The ones they are guarding are significant people. You know them, Yuki-kun and Shigure-kun! While the ones we're guarding, Kyo-kun and you, are less… important."
If Tohru was a normal female, she would be very offended by his statement, but as far as I'm concerned, she is very unusual, and didn't mind being called unimportant. However, that wasn't exactly what Tohru-kun meant.
"I mean, more people down at earth know their names than yours." He continued. "You are a teacher, and Kyo is a 15 year old, hormonal teenage boy who needs to get anger management. Yuki-kun is a famous lawyer and Shigure-kun is a big hit seller."
Tohru nodded slowly and studied the two new guardians. They were arguing, well Yuki… no Yun was arguing at Shigeru, who was just shrugging everything she said off in a very Shigure like way.
"No! I will NOT allow Shigure-san to make Yuki-chan FAT! You HAVE to tell that stupid writer to STOP fatten up my human for his own amusement!"
"What are you talking about, Yun-chan? Shigure-chan would never do anything like that for his own amusement!"
"Oh, yeah? Then look at this!" Yun waved in the air, and dragged a damp mirror out from nowhere. "Show me what Shigure-san is thinking right now!"
To Tohru's surprise, the mirrors reflection changed, and words began to appear on the surface.
Hehehe… I wonder if Yuki-kun would like a cake for breakfast tomorrow. With a lot of sugar and whip cream and ice cream. That would probably make him fat eventually. Oh, how giddy!
Yun glared at Shigeru, who shrugged. "What? He's not allowed to have some fun?"
"DO YOU KNOW THE DANGERS OF OVERWEIGHT? YUKI-CHAN COULD DIE FROM HEART DISEASE!"
Silence.
"Err… you guys… This is Tohru-kun's human, Tohru-chan." Kyoko broke the uncomfortable silence filled with evil glares mostly coming from Yun.
Yun turned around and eyed Tohru up and down, before she shot her a kind smile. "Hello, Tohru-san. It's nice to meet you."
"Hello, err… Yun-san?"
"Ahh! Tohru! You look so much like Tohru-kun!" Shigeru almost shrieked. "And you're so cute! It makes me want to cuddle you to death!" Shigeru took a step forward, but both Yun and Kyoko stepped in her way.
"Just… don't." Yun said, while Kyoko glared.
Just then, a very boyish girl popped up beside Shigure. Her hair was short and bright yellow. She, too, had a simple white dress on and also kind of floated. Behind her was a strict looking woman with her black hair in a tight knot on the back of her head. She did, however, have a few bangs falling down over her left eye.
Tohru recognized them as Momiji and Hatori.
"Kyoko-chan… I'VE MISSED YOU SO MUCH!"
From behind Momiji and Hatori's guardians a brown haired boy with an insane look in his face came running. Kyoko barely made it from being completely squished in a way-to-hard hug, by dodging the insane boy and running in the opposite direction while shouting "AAHH! KEI! GET AWAY FROM ME!"
And with that, they both disappeared, leaving a trail of dust after them. After a moment of silence, Hatori's guardian spoke up.
"Haru! I thought I told you to keep Kei away from Kyoko!"
A light flickered in front of her, and a black and white haired woman appeared from nowhere.
"I'm sorry, Tori-san, but he was too strong for me. He over powered me and came here because, well, he somehow figured out I was talking about Kyoko when I talked to Ayame about an 'orange haired girl'. A mystery…"
"THAT'S NOT A MYSTERY, YOU STUPID BITCH! I'M THE ONLY ONE HERE WHO HAS ORANGE HAIR!" Kyoko yelled when she was running back, still alive, and she kept running because Kei was closing in to her, and she had to guide and guard Kyo. She ran for his sake! Or something…
For some reason, they all started to dim before Tohru's eyes. But Tohru-kun was the only one who noticed. He shot her a happy grin, and his lips formed the words: "See you later!"
When Tohru woke up, she felt her left wrist was hurting, and something was wrapped around it. She looked down at it, and saw bandage. She looked at her surroundings. She was in a hospital, it seemed. Kyo and Yuki were leaning against the wall, not looking at each other, or Tohru. Kyo was finding his feet very interesting, and Yuki had always liked plants, so he was studying the rose on the table beside Tohru.
She felt a small tugging on her right arm, and noticed it was warm and wet. She looked at it, and saw a blond head sobbing loudly.
"It was just a dream?" She asked herself out loud, because she had found it so very real. Everyone in the room looked at Tohru in surprise.
"To- Tohru? You're awake?" Uotani Arisa stood up with a blinding smile and tears still streaking her face. She threw herself at Tohru and embraced her in a heart warming, but suffocating bear hug.
"Yes, I'm awake! Why wouldn't I be?" Tohru had a faint memory of a knife and apples, but the dream was dominating her mind. It did seem very real.
"Don't you remember, Tohru?"
"Err… no, not really."
Tohru turned and studied Kyo's face and hair. He was very similar to the old Kyo, with his orange hair, and almost exact face. Even his height was the same. And they had the same hobbies, and similar personality.
When Kyo saw her looking at him, he looked away in that very Kyo-like manner, and blushed slightly.
"What?" He muttered.
Tohru didn't answer, she barely heard him over her thoughts, which seemed so very loud in her mind. She was trying to remember every detail of her dream, but the more she thought about it, the more she forgot.
Uo, with the help of Yuki, was explaining what happened the night before, but Tohru wasn't listening. Not until Hanajima's name was pronounced.
"Hana-chan is getting us something to drink. She'll be here soon! She'll be so happy you're alive!" Uo started to cry again, from joy, of course, that her beloved Tohru-chan who was so kawaii was still alive!
Just then, Hanajima Saki came through the door. "Oh my, Tohru is awake." She stated in a very Hana like way. "I brought some coke, Tohru-chan, would you like some?"
"Yes please, Hana-chan!" Tohru replied, and got her coke. Hanajima gave everybody their coke, except for Kyo, whose coke had been given to Tohru.
"Why didn't I get a coke?" He asked angrily. Hanajima looked at him with a very creepy expression, which was really just Hanajimas natural expression.
"I gave yours to Tohru-chan." She stated in the same way she stated Tohru was awake before.
"Yes, Kyo! Don't be such a pig and hog all the coke! Share!" Uo almost screamed. She had never accepted the new Kyo. She was more opposing to him than Yuki was.
Kyo frowned, and without a word walked out of the room and, to nobody's surprise, up to the roof.
Just then Shigure walked in a casual manner, and greeted everybody in the room with a big "HELLO!" Behind him walked YUN, Tohru noticed, but she didn't think about it. She thought of Yun more like some kind of mental instability caused by her blood loss. I mean, why would Shigure-san's guardian, who only existed in Tohru's dreams, be in the room for real?
Yun blinked at her. She blinked back. Shigure also blinked. Everybody in the room blinked at least 3 times. Then Momiji came in.
But screw that! Let's see what KYO is doing, shall we?
He was sitting up on the hospital roof… like always. Next to him was Kyoko, being completely silent for once.
Then she spoke up.
"Tohru visited us today. She is now officially able to see and talk to all guardians."
"Really?" Kyo looked up at her, because she was standing. The simple white dress didn't move an inch, even though it was blowing pretty hard where they were.
She nodded slowly, deep in thought.
"She knows about you. But she thinks it was a dream, so she won't believe it until that happens. Then she'll know, and you both will forget."
That doesn't make sense. Kyo thought, but for some reason he didn't say it out loud. He scratched his nose and sighed. Nothing does.
She took a deep breath before she continued. "Soon, you'll both forget about everything."
She seemed sad, Kyo noted. He lay down on his back, unsure what she was talking about. Soon they'd forget? Forget about what?
He asked.
"What you'll forget about? All of this. You will forget everything that has anything with guardians, hospitals or accidents to do." She sat down next to him, and gently touched his chin, tying to get him to understand. He did.
He muttered something she couldn't hear, but she knew what it was anyway.
"I don't want to forget."
END CHAPTER 6! I wrote this very quickly. It was very easy to write. And I hope you all know what the last part means! It means the story is leaning towards its end! How sad!
Aren't you happy I didn't kill off Tohru? I know you are! I bet you don't hate me as much anymore, right? Good!
And now, a part I would like to call "Ultra-special information about random things."
Naw, I'm just messing.
Anyways, about the guardians: (Nobody has actually asked about this, but I want to make it clear so everybody understands it) they do not have the same personalities as the original characters. They are actually very different!
Look at Tohru and her guardian for example: Tohru is an innocent, naïve and cute little girl (well, not in this fic, but she is usually) and her guardian (referred to as Tohru-kun) is very cocky, has an attitude and not very polite.
Though some guardians are like their humans (Hatori and Tori, for example) some are not. Yun and Yuki are pretty similar, but Yun freaks out about Shigure plotting to get Yuki fat. That means she is very overprotective of him.
Tori acts like some kind of leader of the guardians, because her human, Hatori is a very respectable man.
Yun and Shigeru are under Tori, because she is very strict, and nobody would ever be able to take away her position. They are 'higher ups' however, because of Yuki and Shigure's jobs; a famous lawyer and a big hit seller. (He is such a great writer, in fact, that he over shines ME! Just kidding!)
Underneath them is Momiji's guardian, who I haven't named yet, and Haru, whose name I looked up, and Haru works for both genders, so don't comment about that. Haru is popular amongst girls, even though he has barely made an appearance in this fic, and Momiji is also very likeable
Underneath them come Kyoko and Tohru because, though very likeable, Tohru and Kyo do not make much of an impact on the world.
After them is Kei, Kagura's guardian. As Kagura isn't very significant at all because she is merely a married woman with three kids, two who happen to be twins called May and Fay and a boy called Mario, for some reason. She is married to an American, hence the un-Japanese names. Don't complain about that either.
All the guardians use the –chan suffix when it comes to their humans. (Kei loves Kyoko in a very insane way, and Kyoko, though never mentioned, HATES leek and onions.)
Well I hope I haven't forgotten about anything… If I have, I'll feel very stupid… Anyways, I hope you liked the chapter and will continue reading until the very end!
