Disclaimer: I own Fruits Basket in my dreams, but unfortunately this is reality…and I don't. :(

A/N: Wow it seems like it's been awhile since I have updated. Sorry -;. Can you believe I actually got writers block only after the first chapter? heh. Anyways enjoy the story, more too come soon…hopefully. This is the revised version.

Mystery at the Sohmas

Chapter Two:

An Unwelcome Visitor

"Ah! I just remembered about the fuse box!" exclaimed Shigure out of the middle of nowhere.

"That's great!" replied Tohru happily.

"Stupid dog! It took you that long to remember?" yelled Kyo in mild annoyence.

Shigure smirked at the cat. "Kyo-kun, Kyo-kun you need to learn some patience, ne?"

"SHUT UP!"

"Shigure," Yuki quickly intervened, "do you think you can get the power back on?"

"Of course I can," replied Shigure confidently as he turned his attention to his other cousin. "They didn't call me the electronic genius of our time for no reason."

"Shigure I never knew that! How impressive!" Tohru exclaimed enthusiastically.

"He's lying," mumbled Yuki and Kyo at the same time.

"ANYway," yelled Shigure a bit too loud ignoring his younger cousins statement, "I'll go and get these lights back on in a jiffy." With that the older man rose from his spot on the floor and dramatically waved goodbye to his cousins (and Tohru).

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Shigure walked casually down the hall to where the fuse box was located, smiling inwardly to himself and completely oblivious to everything around him. He hummed a ridiculous tune under his breath as he daydreamed of beautiful high school girls sunbathing at the beach. At last he made it to his destination, still humming a tune under his breath he moved to open the fuse box.

If only he had been paying more attention, if only he had not been humming a song to himself, Shigure might have noticed someone coming up behind him. He might have noticed, but the fact is he didn't until it was too late.

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"Um, what do you think is taking Shigure-san so long?" asked Tohru a bit anxiously.

"I don't know it has been awhile," thought Yuki aloud.

"Ah, forget about that stupid dog he is probably just fooling around," growled Kyo carelessly as he stretched out his arms over his head, stifling a yawn.

"Ah…" Tohru replied trailing off at a loss of words.

Silence enveloped the room once again as the occupants waited a few more minutes for the return of the cheerful dog, yet nothing came.

"Okay now I am worried," Yuki broke in surprisingly, "maybe I should go check on him." Yuki moved himself up from the floor and was about to proceed through the hallway with his own flashlight when Tohru suddenly grabbed his arm. "Honda-san?" he questioned.

"Um, Yuki-kun we should go together…or something," Tohru asked quietly. She gave both Yuki and Kyo a meaningful look. "I am really worried."

Yuki paused for a moment not sure what to say, when Tohru spoke up again breaking into to a wide grin. "It's like my mother always said 'there is safety in numbers!"

Yuki smiled convinced, and helped Tohru up from her seat on the floor. "Alright Honda-san lets go together."

"Shigure better not be fooling around," mumbled Kyo, "I am not going to walk all over the place just to find him goofing off." With that Kyo also stood up and joined Tohru and Yuki for the search of the lost inu.

The three made their way down the hallway leaving the warm glow of the candles behind them and entering the dark depths of the shadows before the. Yuki clicked on his flashlight as well as Tohru and Kyo as they made their way down the hall.

"Where is the fuse box?" asked Tohru curiously.

"Just at the end of the hallway," responded Yuki who was straining his eyes to see beyond his flashlight beam. "Wow, it's dark."

Kyo merrily shrugged. He shinned his flashlight further down the hallway then suddenly paused stopping completely.

"Kyo-kun what's wrong?" Tohru asked worriedly as she noticed him stop. He didn't answer he just stood there his facial expressional unreadable. "Kyo-kun?" Tohru questioned again her voice growing more apprehensive. She moved to rest a comforting hand on his shoulder, but before she reached him, Kyo raced off to the end of the hallway. Yuki and Tohru exchanged confused glances before they chased after the cat.

Breathing heavily Tohru came up behind Kyo. "Kyo-kun…what's the matt…er…" Kyo was speechless he couldn't answer, he just pointed in reply.

The three teens had reached the fuse box, which was opened slightly. Yet their real attention was focused below it. There, sprawled out on the floor was the slumped figure of Shigure. His skin looked drained almost gray as though the life had been sucked right out of him. His face that usually held a carefree grin was now contorted into an expression of twisted horror. In fact the man slouched before them didn't really resemble the Shigure they once knew he looked more like a corpse of the undead.

"Shigure!" shrieked Tohru as she immediately run over to him. Not knowing what else to do she carefully moved the older man's head to her lap as tears began to stream down her cheeks. "Is he okay?" she cried between choked sobs.

Kyo stood there still paralyzed with shock his face considerably paler. While Yuki kneeled down beside Tohru. He as gently as possible, laid a shaking hand upon his older cousin's forehead, only to find that it was ice cold. "Honda-san," Yuki started after observing his cousin for a moment, "he is still alive, it looks…it looks like he is in some sort of coma." Yuki's voice shook as he talked. The only thing he could think about was the mysterious figure he had seen earlier outside their home. Could there be a link?

"I think we should go," Kyo said suddenly, breaking Yuki out of his thoughts.

"What? Kyo-kun we can't just leave Shigure, Shigure needs our help," Tohru argued weakly as she frustratingly wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes.

Kyo paused for a second as he shinned his flashlight back down the hallway, he couldn't see anything but his keen cat senses were telling him that someone was out there. "I think we should go, " he repeated again a little more firmly.

Tohru opened her mouth to protest but Yuki interrupted her, his voice laced with concern and urgency. "Honda-san, for once I agree with the stupid cat, we should go. Whoever or whatever did this to Shigure could still be in the house we need to leave now."

Tohru looked at Yuki, she was close to tears again, and finally she slowly nodded her head in agreement. "Okay, let's go." She set Shigure's head gently back down on the floor and shakily stood up with the aid of Yuki.

"He'll be fine Honda-san don't worry," said Yuki in an attempt to ease her worries, even though he wasn't so sure he could believe his own words.

Without another wasted second the three slipped on their rain boots and grabbed their umbrellas and rushed quickly outside into the pouring rain. Tohru's knees kept knocking together, she was shaking like crazy. 'What are we going to do? What happened? Finally she voiced one of her questions out loud. "Where are we going to go?"

"To the main house, I have a hunch," replied Yuki as he opened his umbrella and started to move quickly down the path.

"It better be a darn good hunch, rat boy," Kyo shot back ashe ranto catch up with Yuki, but his insult lacked the energy he normally carried.

Tohru glanced worriedly at Kyo, knowing that he got weak in the rain. "Kyo-kun are you going to be okay?"

Kyo stopped and looked back at Tohru with a surprised expression. "Yeah, I'll survive," he said with a small smirk.

The rain wasn't falling as heavily as it was before as the three made their way towards the main house. The walked in silence each preoccupied with their own thoughts. Tohru dragged a tad bit behind Yuki and Kyo as she trudged through the mud trying to keep up with their fast pace. At the house her main worries were on Shigure's condition, but now she couldn't help but wonder what had happened. Both Yuki and Kyo seemed anxious to get out of the house as soon as possible, for fear that the person who had hurt Shigure, was still lurking about. With that sudden thought Tohru let out a small gasp as the reality of the situation was hitting her. She glanced behind her half expecting to see a murderous monster coming up behind them, instead she only saw the fading image of Shigure's home in the distance. Tohru let out the breath she hadn't realized she was holding then quickened her pace to move in-between Yuki and Kyo. Again, her mind wandered back to Shigure's odd condition, Yuki had said he was in some sort of coma state. Tohru shook her head. 'What could have happened to Shigure that made him so pale and…' Tohru paused for a moment as she brought her hand up to her face remembering the feel of Shigure's skin, 'and so cold.' She shivered slightly at the thought.

"Honda-san are you okay?" Yuki asked softly when he noticed Tohru's unintentional shiver.

Tohru looked up at Yuki. "I am fine, just a little shaken…and worried," she said in almost a whisper.

"It's okay once we get to the main house we will be able to figure everything out," Yuki reassured in what he hoped sounded like a confident response. To be honest, Yuki was feeling shaken and dare he say it, fearful. But he couldn't let Tohru know that he was just as scared and worried as she was. A single thought kept ringing through his mind, the mysterious figure he thought he saw during the beginning of the storm. He knew now that there had to be a connection. And well his hunch, his hunch was Akito, the missing Akito.

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A/N: Yes I completed chapter two! I initially meant for it to go a little longer but I didn't want to leave you guys with a horrible cliffhanger. Yeah…and I just couldn't bring myself to invoke any character deaths (just yet….MUAHAHA) so I made Shigure more like unconscious than dead.

Anyways please review because I really do appreciate it and it helps me get the chapters out faster when I have support. Please tell me if their reactions were OOC, I didn't want to be too dramatic or make it not seem important so I kind of struggled with that…horror stories are hard!

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