Disclaimer: Guess what! I still don't own Fruits Basket...

Author's Notes: This is kind of a stupid chapter...I think so anyway. I mean it's still good, but re-reading it it sounds kinda choppy to me. Please leave comments . This is just a space, getting ready for the uber juicy 4th chapter. Promising a lemon!

Chapter 3. Open Wound.

"Where is the girl?" Hatori said with no hint of emotion in his voice, "You know I'm only the family's doctor. Kyo said it was an emergency. A girl covered in blood. Is she injured?"

"I don't think it's her blood. She seems injured. Like her arm might be broken," Shigure said, his usual happy demenor gone, "She's badly bruised, and I think she still might be in shock..." A loud boom was heard upstairs. Shigure and Hatori both rushed upstairs to Tohru's room. The slid open the door quickly, but only to find a large, furry, black, white, and red creature huddled in sleep on the bed. Shigure quietly moved to the bed, "It's...a panda?"

"Where's the girl?" Hatori said, looking around confused, "And why is there a panda here?"

Shigure crossed his arms, "The girl is the panda. That explains it." He turned to Hatori, "She embraced me earlier, when I was carrying her up the stairs. I didn't really notice it until I put her on the bed. I was confused, because I didn't transform, so I just guessed that she might have been a boy in disguise or something, so I guess I was wrong."

Hatori opened his doctors bag and pulled out a stethescope. He moved over to the snoring bulge and pressed it against the back. "Her ribs are broken," he said. He gently moved his hand along the wet fur, feeling the ribs. He nodded, "And..I'll have to wait till she transforms back to check the rest."

Shigure moved over, rubbing the massive head slowly, "I've never touched a panda before...aren't they supposed mean good fortune or something like that?"

In a loud 'pop' and a puff of thick smoke, the girl was back. Her eyes fluttered open slowly, "Where am I?"

"Somewhere safe," Shigure said softly. He blushed, noticing that the young girl was naked. Her clothes were ripped in the transformation. He looked away nervously.

Hatori didn't flinch. He ran a hand over the girl's secret bruises that were on her abdomen and arms, "What happened to you? These are all old..."

"Something bad," she said rolling over to her side. She remembered what happened, and then the blackness. The pink bedsheets were stained with the blood. She started to cry again, but then a sense of relief came over her. She smiled slightly, trying to sit up.

Hatori pushed her back down, "I don't think so...you're to stay here...Shi, fetch me some bandages." Shigure dissapeared from the room suddenly. "Tell me what happened," Hatori said, getting a seringe full of liquid, "Don't worry, it's just morphine. It'll stop the pain..."

"He's dead. My step-father is dead," Sakura said casually, "He killed my mother...and then he tried to kill me. I was so scared...I grabbed a knife and accidentally killed him..."

Hatori jabbed the needle into her arm and administered the drug, "Is he the one who gave you all these bruises? You don't seem very remorseful..."

"Yes...he is," she said, looking to the ruffles on the bed, "I must sound like a horrible person..."

"I would have done the same thing," Shigure said, walking into the room. His eyes were rimmed with red.

Hatori wrapped her chest with the bandage to contain her ribs. "I'll be back tomarrow. You'll need X-rays. What is your name?" he said, packing the rest of the bandage in his bag.

"Sakura Haruma," she said worried, "Please...don't tell anyone...that I..."

"You're secrets safe with us. All of them," Shigure said smiling and sitting by the bed. Hatori left the room and he could hear him leaving the house.

Author: Prepare for the sexolicious 4th chapter!

Shigure: Yummy .