Summary: Two months after the mass murdering, which included: Yuki, Akito and Jeimii and the Orient Express finally pulled into the station, Tohru feels happy, but lonely. But what's worse is now Yuki is popping up in Tohru's mind and she's seeing him, one night she speaks to him. He tells her the Inspector didn't kill him; he was murdered by someone else. Now Tohru, Haru and Kyo must find out who did kill Yuki...


"In The Arms Of An Angel"

Chapter 21

… Yuki Arrives

With Ha'ri gone, and Haru still out of action, work was going to be slow. Tohru picked up her bucket and set to work with just Kyo and Shigure at her side

"This stinks!" shouted Kyo, five minutes later "Why does Haru get to goof off while we're here busting our backs all day!"

"Haru isn't goofing off!" said Tohru, looking at him "He's ill with food poisoning!"

"Yeah right!" said Kyo "He's probably up there with some porno magazine right now!"

"Haru's not like that!" said Tohru, wondering whether or not Haru would do that "He's not some pervert like the ones Shigure talks about"

"The only pervert around our end is Shigure!" shouted Kyo, staring at him

Shigure blushed "I don't keep pornographic magazines under my mattress!" he shouted, then realizing what he had said, ran off to his room to hide them better

"Pervert" Kyo muttered under his breath, Tohru hadn't noticed

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Later that night, Tohru gave Haru some ant-acids to calm his stomach

"Feeling any better?" she asked, tucking him in and giving him a light kiss

"Yeah," he said looking up into her eyes "Thank you"

"For what?" she asked

"For being here," he replied "I'd prefer you to Ha'ri any day"

"Don't say that!" said Tohru, blushing "He told me to do what I have done… If that made sense…"

"Will you stay in my room tonight?" he asked

"Erm… I don't know…" said Tohru, looking guilty

"Please?" asked Haru

"Ok… But only for tonight" she said, going to collect her things

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At about midnight, Tohru was having another strange dream

She was on the train; it was speeding along the tracks. The carriages clanked about each other. The train flew down the tracks, gaining more and more speed. She looked around, she was in the baggage coach; the landscape whizzed by outside the windows.

She heard cackling, it sounded like someone she remembered. The doors rattled on their hinges; she was scared

'Why does this keep happening to me!' she thought

'Be yourself… you'll be fine…'

"That doesn't help me in this situation!" she shouted to the ceiling

"Tohru… Tohru…" came the soft voice of Yuki "No one's here to help you now"

"What? Where are you?" she asked, looking around the dingy room

"No Kyo… No Shigure… No Ha'ri… And no Haru… They're gone… And they're not coming back…" he said, appearing in front of her

Tohru screamed

"Scream as loud as you like… No one's gonna find you… They think you're fine in your sleep… But even now, it always was your fault" he said, following her every whim trying to escape

"What was my fault?" she asked, looking up at his ghostly silhouette

"You killed me! It's your fault I died!" he shouted

"That wasn't my fault! I didn't know… I was just a fool back then" she said

"You still are" he replied, touching her face

She ran through Yuki, and towards the door

"You little bitch!" he shouted after her, and chased her

She opened the door, looked down; the tracks below rushed past. She looked up, steam from the train billowed over her head.

'Ladders!' she thought, seeing them lead up to the roof

She climbed up, Yuki not close behind her

"You can't escape!" he shouted, smoke flying through him

She ran down carriage roof after carriage roof. Eventually, she was at the engine. She looked head, the cliff was coming closer; she had to get inside before it flew off it. Maybe… Just maybe she could jump off the train itself…

It was a crazy idea, but she was fed up of falling down a cliff

"Tohru…"

'What was that?' Tohru thought 'that wasn't Yuki!… Where is Yuki?'

"Tohru!…"

Up ahead was a lake; she could jump in there… She just had to time it right

"Don't even think about it, Tohru" said Yuki, coming up (no sexual innuendo needed thank you very much)

Tohru looked around, Yuki was right over her

"Don't think about running or jumping," he said, "You won't survive either way"

"I don't listen to dead people!" she shouted, and jumped into the lake

She held her breath as she came in contact with the icy cold water hit her in the face. She sunk to the bottom and quickly swam to the top

She came above the water to see an angry Yuki cursing her, as the train flew off the rails and over the cliff

"SEE YOU TOMORROW, TOHRU HONDA!" Yuki screamed, just before an explosion shook the cliff-side.

'Tohru… Tohru… Wake up!…'

The scenery around Tohru began to dissolve; it was fading to black. Was she passing out?

She awoke, a puddle of blood around her; drenching her hair and pyjamas

"Tohru, it's happened again hasn't it?" asked Shigure

Tohru nodded

(I won't be updating over Christmas, so until then, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Check out Jen some time for more!)