Hey! Got chapter 2 here. Sorry it took me longer than I said to post, but here it is. Enjoy and review…otherwise ill be evil and not update XP


Lost but Never Forgotten

Chapter 2

"Nnn…" Amai groaned as she awoke remembering the pain her body was in. She thought she felt the presence of someone else and it took her a moment to realize the arm laying protectively over her naked body. She jumped up startled and let out a small scream, waking the boy lying next to her, who also had the reaction. She quickly grabbed the blanket to cover herself up, and was about to jump off of the bed when she noticed the face of the boy lying next to her.

"K—Kyo?" She stammered, her eyes brimming with tears. Forgetting she was unclothed she fell onto him, hugging him tightly. "I've finally found you!" she whispered.

Slowly at first, not really sure how to react he wrapped his arms around her, and then he held her tight. " I can't believe you're actually here. For 9 years I thought you were dead."

"Dead?" she asked as she pulled away, and rewrapped herself in the blanket, wincing as it touched her many cuts and bruises.

"Yeh, it was said that you had fallen down a waterfall when you were training in the mountains."

" Training? Mountains? What are you talking about?" Nothing like that ever happened. Umm, but before I get into it, can I borrow some clothes?"

"Oh, right, why don't you go down stairs, Tohru has some for you."

"Who's Tohru?"

"Oh that's right. Here, lets go down stairs and straighten everything out.." He said as he threw her a sweatshirt and a pair of his pants.

After she got dressed, she followed him down the stairs where everyone including Haru (Who stayed the night to make sure she was okay (A/N I sense a future hookup…heheh, you'll hafta wait till later chaps to find out tho!)) was waiting.

"Good morning you two," said Shigure cheerfully "Long time no see Amai, how are you doing?"

"Shigure!" she exclaimed with a smile then winced realizing she couldn't really run. " In pain." She replied " A few of my cuts reopened and I think I broke my wrist is broken. But besides that, I'm just glad to be back."

"Well aren't we all" said Shigure with a smile.

"Oh, and thank you haru," Amai added " for last night."

"No problem"

"So before I go see Akito about this—"

At the mention of Akito, Amai's anger level quickly shot up to ten, "Don't you dare go to Akito! It's his damn fault for all of this!" she yelled clenching her good fist tightly. realizing

"Calm down, you didn't let me finish." Said Shigure

"Umm, why don't you just tell us what really happened then, if it isn't too much trouble." Said Tohru.

"Huh? Not to be rude, but who are you?"

"Oh! That's right, how rude of me, I'm Tohru Honda." She said as she quickly bowed

"Amai Sohma, wait a second, what's an outsider- no offense Tohru- living here with you guys, with your, um…situation?"

"Don't worry, she knows about the zodiac and everything," answered Shigure, "And Akito is allowing her to stay here. You can hear the whole story later, but the only story I want to hear now is yours. I mean it is odd for someone to be proclaimed dead at the young age of eight, and just suddenly reappear nine years later"

"Okay" she said with a bit of a sigh.

"Here," said Tohru bringing out the first aid kit " I'll take care of your wounds while you talk." She said with her usual smile.

"Umm thanks" she said and returned the smile

After Tohru was done, Amai began her story:

"First off, the whole part about me going to the mountains to train, and falling down a waterfall resulting in death, as you can tell is a huge lie. I was actually sent to America Where I was adopted by a young couple in California, which is where I was living until recently.

"Well, the day I was sent, I was told to go visit Hatori because it was urgent. I was confused, I had no idea what was going on, and was totally unaware of what Akito had in store for me. Hatori seemed sad when he saw me enter his office. He led me by my hand and hugged me really tight and whispered his apologies in my ear, and told me that he would miss me. By now I was even more confused as he let go and prepared to suppress my memories. Before I could ask him why, the deed was done. My memories of everything since the day I was born were gone.

"When I finally came to, I was on the train to the airport. The person who was sitting next to me told me a fake story of who I was, and how my parents had recently died so I was being adopted by a family in America. Knowing nothing else, I believed the lies and went along with them. I was sent to all girls schools throughout my life there, and my mother never allowed me around boys. I sometimes got curios about her intentions, but I never brought it up. I just went on living this lie. At fifteen and a half I got an internship through the Culinary Arts Academy at my school, at the Ritz Carlton—the top hotel/restaurant in Southern Orange county. After nosing around and proving my skills when the head pastry chef got into a bit of trouble with one of the deserts he was to prepare for this one celebrity (that in itself is another long story which I'll get into another time) I was promoted to assistant pastry chef, and the first 16 year old to be almost considered a professional at it. My life was extremely enjoyable, and everything was going fine. That is, until about three months ago.

"One afternoon, as I was getting ready to go out with some friends, I decided to borrow a t-shirt from my mother. As I was digging through her closet to find one, I came upon a shoebox buried deep in her stuff. Curious, I opened it up. Inside were a few letters and a stack of pictures. As I grabbed the first stack of pictures a note fell out. It read 'Please take good care of her. Please keep these pictures, because some memories are just too painful. –Hatori'

"Even more curious I began to flip through them. There were about 4 pictures that were with the note. The first one was of me on a swing with a little boy with black and white hair pushing me, the second had me holding hands with a little boy almost totally identical to me and a little girl with brown hair, the third was of me being held by three guys around the age of sixteen or so, one with long white hair, and two with short black hair. The last was of me standing in front of an unfamiliar house with surroundings even more unfamiliar to me. I started to become even more confused, I didn't remember any of this, I thought to myself. I began to read the other letters. The first contained all of the legal information of my adoption. The second one was what shocked me the most. It went something like this:

" 'Dear Akane and Yuu Sohma, This child is being sent to you because she is a disgrace to the zodiac. One cat is enough to have with us and a second is not needed. The revolting thing has been sent to you with all of her memories erased and is to never remember her past. She knows nothing of the zodiac, or what a disgusting creature she is. Keep her away from anyone of the opposite gender, and make sure her body does not become to weak, for if she were to transform, especially into the cat's other form which is why the beads must remain around her wrist at all times, everything will be ruined and there will be consequences. Most importantly, never is she to know about her past. Never!' It was signed Akito.

"I was always curious why my father never came too close to me, or why my mother forbid dating and going to co-ed schools."

"Anyway, after reading the letter, I became even more weired out and a bit scared. All of this was really intense. 'Is this true?' I thought to myself. I hastily began to flip through the rest of the pictures. All of a sudden all of these memories came rushing through my head. It was like a door had been opened, and everything behind it came spilling out. Everything was beginning to make sense, I was starting to remember stuff I had never known I knew. I remembered all of the people in the pictures and my love for them. I remembered being sent to Hari and having my memories "erased". I remembered my journey here, and my life back at Sohma house. I remembered and knew everything."


Whew! Finally got that typed up. Heheh, I left a kinda big cliffie, but no worries, I'll write chapter three next tutorial and hopefully put it up soon. If you review I'll do it sooner. XP

Next time in Lost but Never Forgotten: The end of Amai's story (which is a little intense, but good) and a happy reunion with Shigure Ayame and Hatori. Hatori confesses the real reason she was sent away, never to return. Also, you'll find out why Akito despised her so much and why, even being the cat, she was so special to all of the members of the zodiac. And some other stuff I decide to add in. So stay tuned!