Chapter 8

AN: Yay! Chapter 8! Hehe. I hope you are finding the story more and more interesting. ) Please leave me reviews to let me know whatcha think:)

I never found out who kissed me that night. Mrs. Hamasaki said that no one could've been in there because she had ordered everyone to leave me alone. Who ever it was, I believe that we'll meet again. Someday, somehow…

At school the next morning…

The next morning, when I was at school, I felt weird presences watching me. However, I didn't know who it was. I continued to class. When I reached first period, everything began to go wrong. When I was walking past my desk to get on the other side like always, a hook that had seemed to be attached on the side of my desk on purpose completely ripped my skirt. I was so embarrassed. My skirt practically tore off! Every girl in my class, the fan club girls mostly, laughed at me. They must have been the people that put that hook there. However, I didn't know why. The guys of my class and Mr. Shigure just stared at my almost naked lower half. Hana quickly removed her black coat and wrapped it around me. Uo hushed the girls with some sort of threat. Hana and I exited the classroom with permission from Mr. Shigure and we headed to the office.

Later, Hana had to leave me in the office to wait alone for Mrs. Hamasaki to arrive with my replacement skirt. After I've waited for about 20 minutes, she finally arrived.

"Mrs. Hamasaki! Thank goodness!" I said relieved.

"Oh, Tohru dear. Come let's get you changed," she said with a relieved tone.

I changed into another skirt and went to second period after I bid Mrs. Hamasaki goodbye. When I got to Health class, I caught another group of fan club girls staring at me, but when Uo gave them a scary look they turned away. I quickly went to my seat, checking the desk before I sat down. I opened my notebook and began to take notes.

"Ok, we left of yesterday on the stomach. Who can remind what the stomach's function is?" asked Mr. Hatori Sohma.

"It digests our food!" yelled some guy in the front roll.

"Correct, but next time raise your hand please. So the stomach digests our food…" Mr. Hatori Sohma continued the lesson.

I was safe for that whole period, or so I thought. When the class was over, I gathered my stuff and tried to stand up. To my surprise, my back was stuck to my chair! I struggled to get loose but it was hopeless.

"Miss Honda, is something wrong?" Mr. Hatori Sohma noticed that I was struggling.

"Um..." I began to say embarrassed, "I'm stuck."

"Oh?" he seemed shocked, "To the chair?"

"Yes…" I answered embarrassed.

At this moment, those fan club girls were laughing really loudly. It was them again! Mr. Hatori Sohma knew that they had something to do with this too. He sent them down to the office while he helped me get loose. To get loose, I had to cut off the fabric that was attached to the chair by glue. Mr. Hatori Sohma didn't do it though. It would be weird for him to cut my shirt of course, so he called in the nurse. After she was done, I had a big hole in the back of my shirt. Once again, I called Mrs. Hamasaki. She was really worried, but I told her that today is just a bad day. After I changed my shirt, I continued with my day.

In my third period, Science, I expected something else to happen. But I didn't know what exactly to expect. I had thought that those fan club girls were finished with me for the day, but then I heard them giggling. That was a bad sign. What can be wrong this time? I checked the desk and chair for glue. It was ok. I checked the edges for hooks and nails. Nothing was there. I sat down carefully and began my lesson.

"Good---Good----Good—Morn---" the teacher stuttered in fear.

I looked up. In the front of the class stood a beautiful woman that I didn't recognize. She had beautiful long, golden brown hair that was neatly tied back. She was in a traditional style kimono, which kind of looked odd. I mean, she looked great in it, but I've never seen any teacher coming to school in one before. She seemed nervous and afraid for some odd reason. She must have been the replacement teacher that our principal had talked about the other day. Our original science teacher had resigned for personal reasons, so I guess this woman was our new science teacher. I was still examining her when Mr. Hatori Sohma and Mr. Shigure entered the room.

"Hello, Mr. Hatori Sohma!" all of the girls yelled at once in a dreamy kind of way.

"Oh! Hello, my lovely teenage girls!" Mr. Shigure answered in his place.

The room was silent. Everyone ignored Mr. Shigure. He was disappointed.

"Class, this is your new science teacher, Mr. ---" Mr. Hatori Sohma was interrupted by that woman.

"Miss," she said.

Mr. Hatori Sohma looked at her awkwardly then continue, "Very well, Miss Ritsu Sohma."

Mr. Shigure started to giggle. He stopped when Mr. Hatori Sohma shot a mean look at him.

"Yeah, Miss Ritsu Sohma," Mr. Shigure said in a joking kind of way.

Mr. Hatori Sohma looked at him again and he stopped. "Be nice to her," he continued and then turned to her, "Sorry for interrupting your class Miss Sohma, please proceed. Would you mind if I supervised for a few minutes?"

"No problem," she said softly.

So this new teacher of ours is called Miss Ristu Sohma. She must be one of Mr. Hatori Sohma and the other Mr. Sohmas' cousin. I wish I could know more. Anyways, Mr. Hatori Sohma and Mr. Shigure observed her as she taught from the back of the room.

"Good---Good—" Miss Ritsu Sohma began to stutter again. She was nervous. "Good Morning class. Please open you books to page 12," she said softly and very politely.

Miss Ritsu Sohma is so beautiful and nice. I really like her for some odd reason. She was the only female teacher that I had, so I guess there was some girl-to-girl connection. I grabbed my book out and set it on my table. I was getting ready to open it when I heard Miss Ritsu Sohma call on me.

"Um, Miss---Miss Tohru Honda. Where are you?" she asked softly.

I stood up. "Yes, Miss Ritsu Sohma?" I answered.

"Can you please read the first paragraph out loud---Please?" she asked nervously.

I smiled and answered, "Of course!"

I sat down again and opened my book. To my surprise it was covered with doodles of a group of girls hitting a single girl. The writing behind the doodles weren't legible. I began to flip through the pages frantically only to find all of the pages doodled on. I panic because Miss Ristu Sohma and everyone else were waiting for me to start.

"Sorry Miss Ritsu Sohma. I can't read it," I said.

"Why not Miss Honda?" asked Mr. Hatori Sohma.

"Somebody doodled all over my book," I said.

"Oh no! I'M SOOOOOO SORRRRRY! IT'S MY ENTIRE FAULT! I SHOULDN'T HAVE ASKED YOU TO READ! PLEASE FORGIVE ME! I KNOW! I'll pick someone else off this list!" Miss Ritsu yelled loudly and frantically. She seemed to be having some sort of emotional break down.

Then Mr. Shigure went up to her and poked her in the side. She dropped immediately. He giggled. Mr. Hatori Sohma walked up to them and kneeled down.

"It's my entire fault Hatori. I'm sorry. I'm a horrible teacher," she said as she sobbed.

"No it's not Ritsu. You don't have to be sorry," he tried to comfort her.

It didn't work. Miss Ritsu continued to sob. Meanwhile I heard those familiar giggles from the back of the classroom. It was those fan club girls again. Uo noticed to. Uo looked at me and I just turned away sadly. It was my fault. I made Miss Ritsu Sohma upset. I felt really bad.

"OW! YOU---" I suddenly heard one of the girls yell and then pause.

"I what?" Uo asked.

She didn't say anything afterward because Uo gave them a threatening glare. She looked at me and winked. I found out later that she had thrown her science book at one of the girls and hit her on the head.

Soon, it was lunch time. Finally, peace. I sat in our usually spot with the usually people, Hana, Momiji, and Uo.

"So was sup with those girls? Why are they out to get you today Tohru?" Uo asked concerned.

"I don't know," I answered.

"Hm. Hana, do you know?" Uo asked Hana.

"No," she said simply as she bit an apple.

"Tohru, if they mess with you again, I swear I'll scramble 'em," Uo assured me.

"Oh! But that's bad," I replied.

"They're just getting what they deserve," Uo said.

"Tohru is right Uo. You can't hit anyone you want," Hana added.

That was how we spent our lunch. Uo and Momiji had a "grape stuffing" contest to see who could fit the most grapes in their mouths. Momiji won. He was really smart. He chose all of the smaller grapes while Uo just grabbed the first ones she saw. Uo ended up buying Momiji the ice-cream bar she promised him she would if she lost. After lunch I decided to walk Momiji to class. He was still licking the ice-cream bar.

"Tohru?" he said suddenly.

"Yes Momiji?" I replied.

"I heard those girls talking in the hall right before lunch," he said.

"Oh?" I said.

"They said that they can't wait to do 'Operation D-stroy Tohru Honda'. I'm scared Tohru," he said, "I don't want anything to happen to you."

"Oh, don't worry Momiji. I'll be fine," I assured him even though I was somewhat afraid myself.

"Really? Promise?" he said.

"Yes, I promise," I answered with a reassuring smile.

"Ok, we're going to eat ice-cream together tomorrow ok?" he asked.

"Ok," I answered as he ran off into his classroom.

What are those girls planning now? What in the world did I do anyway? I guess I'll find out soon.

After school…

After school I stayed for an hour to tutor one of my classmates. She had asked me right before class ended. I had completely forgotten about "Operation D-stroy Tohru Honda." However, unfortunately I was later reminded about it when I excited the school building. Everyone was gone. The girl that I had tutored left 10 minutes ago along with the last staff member on campus. I was the only one left. I was walking toward the front gate when a girl with long brown hair jumped in front of me. She blocked my path.

"Hi," I said nicely.

She didn't answer me, but within seconds I found myself surrounded by 6-7 girls. I recognized them. About four were "Prince Yuki Fan Club" girls and the others were "Prince Kyo Fan Club" girls.

"Tohru Honda," the brown hair girl began, "You have broken the number one rule of the Prince Yuki fan club and the Prince Kyo fan club."

I was confused.

"The number one club rule is that you can not have Prince Yuki or Prince Kyo to yourself at anytime. I heard that you were with Prince Kyo and Prince Yuki alone at least once!" said that brown haired girl.

I was beginning to understand why they had played pranks on me all day. They somehow found out about my little acquaintances with Yuki and Kyo.

"And for that you are to be punished," the brown haired girl added.

"You can't do this," I said finally. I looked at every girl that surrounded me.

Then one girl tried to hit me with a bat like stick. I dodged it. I've learned how to dodge attacks over the years because every time Master would hit me I would dodge it to the point where I will still suffer some damage, but it is reduced. I didn't dare to dodge Master's attack completely because I didn't want to anger Master. Anyways, right when I dodge the first attack another girl with another bat like object tried to hit me. I grabbed it just before it hit my shoulder area. Then another came. I grabbed it with my other hand.

"Why are you doing this? Yuki, Kyo, and I---" I was interrupted.

Another girl had hit me in the middle of my sentence on the back of my knee. I fell to the ground because the hit forced my knee to bend forward.

"Second rule: never refer to the Princes by just their first name. It is Prince Yuki, Prince Kyo, or his royal highness!" said the girl that had strike me on my knee.

I looked up at the girl, but I didn't saw a word. Then another girl with black hair tried to hit me again. I grabbed her stick and tossed it. The browned hair girl now had a stick too. She tried to hit me, but like I did before I grabbed it. However, before I was able to throw it, another girl hit me on the arm that was stretch out straight holding onto the brown haired girl's stick. I dropped the stick. My wounds from before had not healed completely and now my arm was numb. My arm dropped back to my side strength-less. Almost instantly, another stick strikes me on my back. I fell forward, lying on my chest with my left arm tucked under me. I tried to stop them with my left arm, but some girl hit it so hard that it too became strength-less. I gave up. I completely fell to the ground as they continued to attack me mercilessly. Tears automatically came out. Why was this happening to me? What did I do to deserve this? The physical pain didn't hurt much because I've been through worse. What hurt most was the fact that I've become strength-less, useless, and helpless just like I was when I was trapped in the dark room. I hated that feeling. I hated that feeling of helplessness. I can't stand it. I promised myself that I'll never let myself feel that way ever again, but… I cried.

Fortunately the attacks stopped. I was very dizzy by the time the attacks had stopped. I forced my weak body up to find Kyo halting the girls.

"What the heck do you think you're doing!" he yelled.

"Oh, Prince Kyo. We were just punishing her for disrespecting you," the black haired girl explained.

"She didn't disrespect me!" he yelled angrily.

"But she did. She called you Kyo instead of Prince Kyo or His Royal Highness," she explained further.

"What! You're crazy! Get out of here before you make me hit girls!" he yelled even angrier now. The girls scattered in different directions. Then he sat down right with his legs bent under him beside me and grabbed my bleeding body and rested it on his.

I looked up at him and his looked down at me.

"Are you alright?" he asked.

I didn't answer him. I used the strength that was left in my arms and wrapped them around his neck. I rested my head on his chest with my left cheek against his chest. I began to cry very heavily. I was so relieved to see him. I had thought that that was it. That was all. I was going to be left there all alone. He wrapped his arms around my dirty and bloody body and embraced me tightly. I continued to cry. He then placed his chin on top of my head lightly.

"Don't cry," he said, "Everything's alright now. I won't let anyone hurt you anymore."

I continued to cry as he reached under my legs and picked me up. He was carrying me to his car. I still had my arms around his neck and my head on his chest. I cried until I was unconscious. I was so happy to see him. I was so glad. He was there right when I needed him the most. He cared. I'm not alone. Someone cared. Some else cared about me. I use to think that the only that would ever care about me was the "old" Master that I grew up with, but after he changed, I thought that no cared. I thought that no one will care for me the way Master did anymore. But now…I found someone else who cared…Someone else that will be there when I need them….he cares for me the same way that Master use to… He's that someone that I can depend on and feel protected with…Someone else that'll never leave me…alone…