Well, a short chappie to keep you wondering, sorry, I'm pretty good at these cliffies. It's all a technique to keep you all reading. LOL. Anyway, I'll be gone for this whole week on Spring Break so it can't be helped that I keep you waiting for the whole week. Sorry. Oh, about the review, I got more than I have so I settled. I knew I couldn't keep you waiting the whole next week. Love me, people, I didn't have to do this. LOL. Just kidding. Anyway, I don't have any notes this time suprisingly.
Chapter 9
Hatori only had a split second to decide what to do. He could let her fall and allow her to go through undo pain or her could catch her and erase her memory later. He held out his arms and they both fell to the floor. He just couldn't let her fall. All Hana knew was that one moment she was in the arms of a strange man who had been standing at the bottom of the stairs and the next he was gone. She gasped, backing away in one jolt. There were his clothes lying before her on the ground, his white doctor coat, his brown vest and white undershirt, and his black pants, all empty. What remained was a tiny seahorse. Shigure stood there shocked, not knowing what to do. Yuki, who had just come out of the sitting room, was equally stunned. Tohru, however, rushed down the stairs in a panic.
"Hana!" she cried, kneeling beside the frightened girl and putting a hand on her back gently. "Are you all right?" Hana turned slowly to face her.
"Water or sea water?" she asked.
"Oh my gosh, Hatori!" she cried, lifting the seahorse from the pile of clothes and rushing him to the bathroom where she started running the water in the tub. That was about all the energy Hana had left. The trauma of falling down the stairs mixed with the trauma of seeing a man turn into a seahorse completely drained her physical and mental energy. Besides, her head still had that splitting pain. The voices had disappeared the moment she had made contact with Hatori's body but the headache was still there. She collapsed, falling lightly to the floor since she was already on her knees.
"What the hell was that?" came Uo's cry. Immediately Yuki and Shigure snapped back into action.
"Oh, nothing, I just tripped on something!" Shigure called in his usual carefree voice.
"You cheater, you switched those cards when I wasn't looking, didn't you?" they heard Uo shout.
"What? You're seeing things, Yankee, why would I switch the cards, especially since I'm winning!" Kyo screamed. Things had returned to normal, at least for them.
"Hana!" Tohru cried for the twentieth time as she reentered the hallway.
"She fainted," Shigure said.
"We should have picked her up, oh, Miss Honda, I'm so sorry," Yuki apologized, moving forward toward the limp figure of Hana.
"No, Yuki, you would have transformed, don't worry, I'll take her to the couch in Shigure's office," Tohru said, bending over and picking up Hana.
"Miss Honda-" Yuki started.
"Don't worry, Yuki, I've got her," Tohru assured him, walking out the door with one of her best friends in her arms. Shigure sighed and walked over to where the incident had occurred. He bent down and picked up Hatori's clothes.