Chapter 4
Cookies and Levers
Kagura, still smiling, made her way into the kitchen. Kyo was still there, but he was standing in front of the stove, with a very determined look on his face. He was staring at a pot.
Kagura wasn't sure what to say, so she just started mopping up the water. She was still smiling.
"Um… thanks… for catching... me earlier…" She said, looking at the ground, and tucked a piece of hair behind her hair. The blue hooded sweater she was wearing was too big for her, and her fingertips only just showed.
"Whatever." He continued to stare at the pot. "I don't need an injured person over here anyway."
"Hm." Once satisfied that the mess was thoroughly cleaned up, she left the kitchen and sat down to watch television in the living room.
"Hope you want rice!" She heard Kyo yell from the kitchen.
"Sounds great!" She yelled back, but still not very loud.
The lights flickered again, and then went out.
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"What do you folks need?" An old woman had been standing behind the counter, but came around to the other side to watch the television.
"Uh… door paper." Tohru stuttered.
"That's all fine and well, but you can't leave in this weather. I saw you three walking here. Now what kind of shop owner would I be if I left my customers to go out in the cold to freeze their noses off?" She went behind the counter again, and emerged with a tray of cookies. "Pull up a chair and enjoy yourselves." She nodded her head toward a garden patio display.
"Oh, no, ma'am, that's not necessary!" Tohru quickly insisted. "We can just get our things and be out of here soon."
She nodded at the window which she had seen them walking through earlier. The sky was nowhere to be seen, or the stop sign that was only 3 feet away, on the corner. "Yes, it is necessary. Besides, I would hate to have to sit through a storm by myself."
"Oh, but…" Tohru began when Shigure interrupted her,
"Tohru, my little flower, can't you see she wants us here? Now what kind of customers would we be to refuse the request of our host?" He smiled at the old woman. "Thank you very much, we would be pleased to join you."
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Kyo's head popped up around the corner. He was holding a flashlight in one hand.
"I'm going to the basement to see if I can turn the power back on. You wanna come with?" He asked.
Kagura was about to say no, but she heard the wind howl and a tree branch scrape the walls. It was getting kind of creepy here. She got up and joined Kyo.
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"…and that's what happened. Ever since then, I've had cookies here every Saturday." The old woman reached for a sugar cookie and picked up one of the four glasses of milk she had brought out from the back room.
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Kagura walked close behind Kyo as he walked down the stairs leading to the basement. He brushed a few cobwebs away with his hand and held a flashlight up. It showed a gray metal box on the wall. Kyo opened it.
"Well… this should… do… the… trick." He said while fighting to move a rusty lever. It broke clean off the box.
"Damn it!" He threw the lever at the ground. "What the hell do we do now!"
Again, Kagura shrugged. "I saw you guys have candles upstairs. You have that flashlight there too. We could play a game, since your stove's not working." The stove had gone out with the lights, since it was electric.
"Look!" Kagura pointed to a stack of boxes in the corner of the living room once they had gotten back upstairs. They were a bunch of board games.
A/N: There you guys go! Finally updated, and the story's back in progress! After writing and completing another fanfiction, I wanted to continue this one.