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Author's Note:
Hi! This is my first fanfic andi have no idea where im going with it. lol....ok...yes...anyway...i want all of you who read this to REVIEW! b/c that is the only wayi am going to improve and provide you all with crap worth reading (that's an oxymoron isn't it?). ok....so please read and then tell me every single fault you can find with it....EVERY SINGLE ONE....oki admit it....im a perfectionist....but anyway....enough about me...read on!
Oh! but wait...a warning....i change POV's a LOT so...live with it...;)
Her Birthday
Chapter 1"Honda-san?"
"Yes, Yuki-kun?"
"When is your birthday?"
The two were walking home from Tohru's work place. It was raining again, as it had been for the past week or more. But Yuki didn't mind, because when it rained…. Tohru smiled. "April Showers, May Flowers." That's what she'd said when Yuki had commented earlier on the amount of rain they'd been getting. He'd laughed then, because it was still March.
A while ago, they had passed a group of girls laughing and enjoying themselves. One of
them had had a paper crown on her head, pronouncing her 'BIRTHDAY GIRL'. When Yuki saw the girl, he had imagined Tohru in her place, just as he did with all the girls he saw. But then Yuki realized that, although he could imagine Tohru with the crown, he couldn't imagine her surroundings. Was it winter or spring? Were the trees green or multi-colored? A scary thought hit him: he didn't know when her birthday was…
She had never mentioned it and it had already been a year since she had come to live with them. Come to think of it…Uotani-san and Hanajima-san had never mentioned Tohru's birthday either. He had planned to keep quiet, planned on asking Tohru's friends at school tomorrow first, lest he should offend her in some way. But before he could stop himself, the words had tumbled out. And now he couldn't take them back. Or maybe he didn't want to.
Yuki waited for an answer.
"Oh! Um…well…uh…!" Tohru didn't know what to do. Should she tell Yuki the truth and risk him shunning her just as the others had? Would he shun her? She didn't think she could smile again if he did. But…she owed him the truth. After all, he and Shigure had taken her in at a moment's notice and…she couldn't lie to them after that!
Finally she answered, in such a soft voice that Yuki had to lean close to hear and missed the first couple of words. "…on April 4th."
Yuki suddenly understood her reluctance to answer the question now. She's afraid. I understand but what could have happened to make her this afraid…that she wouldn't tell any of us…even me?
The pronunciation for the number '4' and the word 'death' is the same in Japanese. I think you get the connection. If you don't…Tohru was born on a date that is considered the unluckiest of the unlucky. I even read somewhere (not sure if this true though) that Japanese hospitals don't have a fourth floor. So yes…anyway…I made this her birthday date because…well...you'll see why later on! REVIEW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!