Tohru walked slowly into the Head Sohma house and was escorted into a room where everyone
else was waiting impatiently for Hatori, who was running late, to come in. Tohru sat down on the
floor and leaned back against the wall. Everyone looked at her oddly but smiled like nothing was
gonna happen. Everyone except for Kagura was in an abnormally good mood. They all decided
against telling Kagura what was going on since she got them into this mess in the first place. Kagura
swung her feet back and forth and crossed her arms.
"We wouldnt be in here if Kyo wasnt mean to me" Kagura stated as everyone mumbled
conversations. "What? Its not Kyos fault. Your the one who lied to Akito, Kagura" Haru said
angrily. Kagura glared at him and shook her head.
"I didnt do anything wrong. If Kyo wasnt always sticking up for Tohru and spent more time thinkin
about me, I wouldnt have had to do that." Kagura said angrily, glaring at Tohru who was looking at
her like she was the plague. Tohru cleared her throat and grumbled "What do you mean you havent
done anything wrong Kagura? I never did anything to you but be nice. And you are always
smothering Kyo and clinging to him like velcro when its easy to see that he hates you for it. Its pretty
obvious too. So i dont really know why you continued. But just because Kyo stopped you from
calling me a nasty name and yelled at you, you had to go and tell Akito that we were together? You
made him think we were! We all know that it cant happen and you had to make it a truth. Your a
moron, Kagura. Look where your stupid lie got us! In a small stuffy room, waiting to be forced to
forget everything. Nice job." Tohru finished, making everyone stare at her. "Thats unusual. Ive never
seen Tohru snap like that!" Hiro said to Kisa, who had just woken up. She nodded and yawned,
making a weird squeaky sound in the process. Things got pretty quiet from there and when Hatori
finally came in the room, Everyone exploded with talk of what just happened, making sure every
detail was heard. Hatori shrugged his shoulders and sat down. He took a couple of pills that looked
like asprin and mumbled that hed get started in about 15 minutes. The room resounded with a loud
groan and grew silent again. Fifteen minutes later Hatori got up and sighed loudly gettingn everyones
attention. They all stared at him as he went around and handed everyone a small slip of paper which
read "Ive come up with a better plan, the pills i took temporarally stop my mind erasing
abilities, however you will get knocked out for a few, when you wake up, youll be in your
designated place with this paper, See you all later!
-Hatori"
For everyone but Kagura, whos not read something about mind erasing procedures..making her
think that she was gonna forget everything. After everyone put the papers in pockets or something,
Hatori began walking around putting his hand on everyones head and watching them fall back,
unconcious. He had to resort to this new plan because Akito as watching from the small window in
the door and would be very angry if he saw the original plan, involving sneaking people out a couple
at a time. After everyone was asleep, he inconspicuously dropped a small vile which created a
convincing smoke that usually happened after a group erasing, normally,the smoke was all the
memories leaving, this time, it was just a small glass bottle filled with dry ice and vinegar, creating a
thick smoke. Akito didnt see the vile drop and was thorougly satisfied of what just happened, so
Akito walked inside and began helping Hatori take everyone back where they belong. About an
hour or two later, Hatori sat down in his room and sighed. Even though he didnt really erase
anyones mind, he was still tired and groggy. So as everyone else was waking up from the days
earlier festivites, he fell asleep, thinking about what would have happened if he really did erase
everyones memory. Hiro and Kisa could be heard running down opposite ends of the hallway and
Hatori laughed when they asked eachother if they rememberd Tohru to make sure if Hatori didnt lie
to them all. Kagura carried on as if she really did forget Tohru and complained about remembering
an odd brown haired girl, but everyone knew she was doing that to herself and her memory didnt
really get erased. Hatori listened as Harus boots could be heard clunking down the hallway, meeting
up with everyone else to discuss what had not happened. After listening to them for a few minutes,
Hatori finally zoned out and fell asleep with much better thoughts in his head than his previous what
ifs.
Tohru woke up in a very familiar yellow tent and laughed to herself when she remembered what
happened. She crawled out of the tent and stretched, looking up at the sky. Curious as to what time
it was due to the orange colored sky, she hastily made her way back to the Sohma house and
pushed the door open. Looking around the kitchen and living room, she began to wonder weather
everyone was still asleep or not. She made her way upstairs and checked the clock in her room.
7:00 pm. Man she slept long. Tohru scooted over to everyones room and checked to see if they
were still asleep. Yuki and Shigure were, but Kyo wasnt in his room so she opened his closet door
and walked up to the roof, where he was asleep. Tohru laughed and decided to head back to the
tent incase Akito decided to drop by. Akito did just that, ironically, She got back to the tent about
five seconds before Akito came romping along. Tohru pretended to be dumb and scurried out of
her tent like she was going somewhere and was accidentally runnning into him. "Ah, Hello there..i
dont see people often around here." Tohru said cheerfully, tieing a bandana around her hair and
began to walk in the direction of the building she worked at.
"Do you know who i am?" Akito asked following her. Tohru laughed to herself and turned around
slowly, like she was worried.
"nooo...should i...?" She asked precautiously.
"No..no you shouldnt...good. Well. Becareful in the woods, theres a ravenous pack of dogs about 6
minutes west of your little tent. I suggest not going over there." Akito said, turning around and
walking away. Tohru thought for a moment and let it hit her like a lead balloon that Akito was
talking about Shigures house. She laughed and walked forward still to make sure that Akito wasnt
watching her. Then, Getting out onto the main road, she doubled back and took the long way home.
Tohru sighed and opened the door, taking the bandana off her head. She looked around and began
to wander again like she had before. This time however, she heard voices coming from upstairs and
hastily rushed up them to greet the Sohmas. She walked into Kyos room where Hatori, Yuki, Kyo,
Shigure and Momiji were talking about the mind erasing. They all grew silent and looked at Tohru
as she walked into the room, undoing her braided pigtails. She smiled at them and sat down next to
Kyo to tune into the conversation. Looking back and forth she soon realised that the conversation
she had heard first was ended and they started up a new conversation about the importance of
smokescreens in movies. Tohru got up and left when they began talking about scensorship of
derogatory means and went downstairs and began to cook dinner like normal. Kyo followed shortly
after her and hopped up onto the countertop and looked down at Tohru. "How do you do it?" Kyo
asked confusing both of them "do what?" Tohru asked stirring some things into a pot.
"how can you act like nothings happened? We were going to get our memories erased because of
Kagura and her stupid lies. And you continue to act like always." Kyo complained, swinging his feet
back and forth and making them bang on the cabnets under the counter. Tohrus smile quickly faded
and she shrugged her shoulders. " I dont know. I just keep thinking that things will get better and
you guys wont have the curse anymore and that everything'll be ok." Tohru said softly. " I guess i
keep wishing for something good to come out of all this bad. But maybe im in denial." Tohru said
sadly, stirring the food more vigerously.
"Well. Maybe something will. Maybe we just have to work harder or something. Theres gotta be a
way to break the curse. Its just coming to us yet." Kyo said hopping down off the counter and
stretching.
"Ok. Theenn... lets make a promise huh? I promise that i wont quit looking till i find out how to
break the curse and youu... . "
"Ill work harder than ever to whoop that damn rats ass." Kyo said throwing a punch in the air.
Tohru laughed and nodded "yup.. That works. Deal?" She said holding out her hand. Kyo grinned
and shook her hand. She giggled and turned around to finish the meal. Kyo looked at her hair and
sighed, hoping that she would find a cure soon because he was sick of changing every time she fell
and he caught her or she just felt like hugging him. It made him angry thinking about it but he wasnt
sure why he felt that way. Kyo shook his head and smacked his ear as he walked out of the kitchen
and into the living room, where he flopped down onto the couch and turned on the TV. He began to
randomly flip channels as his mind wandered off into oblivion " Man this is odd. I dont know why
the hell im feeling this way. I mean, just for a second back there i wanted to hug her and not
let her go. And i dont know why.. Its kinda annoying, but i feels..kinda right. I keep hoping
that shell find the cure faster and faster so that i can hold her and i wont change, or
something. I dont know. Its confusing me and it seems like ive been in a daze constantly since
i came back. Maybe Shigures right, Maybe i really do li-..no. no i dont. do it. Aww Fuck. I
dont know! But i get a weird feeling in the pit of my stomach when i look at her. Damn that
Tohru, makin me all confused like and whatnot... Hmm.. That smells good, whats she
making? Maybe i should go check.. no.. that would make me feel weird again. Maybe ill just
sleep. Yea, sleep sounds good.. besidess...i..think...it might..rain...so..oon..." Kyo thought as he
drifted off to sleep.
Tohru pulled some plates out of the cabinets and placed them on the table along with napkins and
chopsticks. She scooted over to the fridge and looked for something else to eat other than the pork
fried rice she made. "Hmm. Im gonna have to go to the store pretty soon again. Man, these
guys eat like pigs. hmm... oh well. I wonder if Akito figured out i was lying. I thought i was
pretty convincing. Akito scares me a little bit. Yea. Oh well. I dont think that ill be seeing any
of the Sohmas for a while, including Akito, who i can tell dosent like me in the least. Im not
quite sure why though. Oh well. Hmm...i think ill make some tea." She thought as she set the
table for dinner. Tohru was setting some cups down when she was extremely startled by the TV,
which had gotten really loud. She rushed over to the couch and tugged the remote out from under
Kyos head. She laughed as he made a weird moaning sound kind of like a cats hiss and rolled over.
"Oh, now i know why your groggy..." she said to herself as she looked out the window at the rain
splattering against the windows and ground. Tohru shook her head and nudged his arm a few times.
"Errrrrhhhh...whaaaatttt?" He groaned as he rolled over and looked up at Tohru.
"Dinners ready!"She said cheerfully, walking to the stairs to call for Yuki and Momiji, while Shigure
stumbled out of his room, tripping over clutter. Everyone shuffled over to the table and sat down,
picking up their chopsticks and grabbing some fried rice.
"Sorry theres not much, i need to go shopping again." Tohru said apologetically.
"S'alright, its better than pickled radishes and curry." Yuki said glaring at Shigure... who liked to
make that dish religiously. Shigure laughed and scratched the top of his head as he began to pull
peices of pork out of the rice and piling them up on the side of the plate. Tohru looked at him
questionably and shrugged her shoulders at the fact that he was building little things out of the pork
chunks. Tohru looked back and forth between everyone at the table and began to eat her food
making sure that no conversations were coming up any time soon. "I wonder what they're all
thinking about. Its unusually quiet today. and Kyo-kun keeps looking at me weird. I wonder
why. Oh well. Probably just thankful we didnt get our memories erased, or something. I wish
hed tell me more things, hes always so bottled up and gets annoyed pretty easy. Errgh. Well,
at least we got rid of Kagura..shes so annoying. I didnt mind her at first, but all she ever does
his hang over Kyo and has to know his every move. It annoys me a lot. Shes really
obnoxious. Hatori says she really thinks her memory was erased. He thinks it might be true,
she was the last one to get knocked out. Maybe she did lose her memory. Thatd be cool. I
guess. No Kagura means no Obnoxious house breaking loudmouths. That makes life a lot
easier for EVERYONE, moreso for Kyo. Which makes me happy. " Tohru thought as she
finished up her meal. Standing up, she took everything that was not being used from the table and
began to do the dishes.
"Hey. You look tired. Let Yuki do those." Shigure said walking up behind Tohru and dumping a few
plates in the sink.
"But then... then i wouldnt be doing my job! I ha"
"no. Let Yuki do them. Go take a nap or something. Yukkiiii! Come do these dishes for meeee?"
Shigure said, calling to Yuki in a singsong voice. Tohru laughed and nodded. She thumped up the
stairs and flopped down on her bed. Rolling over onto her stomach, She buried her face into her
pillow and sighed loudly.
"mmmmmmhh! Im so confused! I dont know why the frell Kyo is acting so weird. Maybe he
li- no. noo, Kyos not that kind of person.. I dont think. Maybe he is. Maybe he really does like
me..Or maybe im a moron with cheesy girlish fantasies. Urrggg...i wish i could understand
him a bit more. Heck i wish for a lot of things, dosent mean ill get them. Like, i wish for my
mom and dad to be alive.. and i wish i had money so i wouldnt have to work and i wish Kyo
would like me like i like hi----WOA...whered that come from? That was odd. Because i dont
dont DONT Like Kyo Sohma. I dont i dont, i dont , i dont, i. . . dont... Yeaaaa theres no
denying it, I do. Crap. Thats unexpected. Well, theres no sense in tryin to fix it. Its not that
bad after all, to like him... well...NAPTIME!"
Tohru thought as she closed her eyes and made a serious attempt to go to sleep.
Sitting up, Tohru looked around at the oddly cast shadows playing around on her walls. "Weelll
then. I guess i really did get to sleep. hmmph thats cool" She thought as she stretched and got up.
She shuffled over to the window and pulled back the curtains "Well, its either early in the evening,
oorrrrr...Early in the morning...im hoping the first one was right." Tohru said to herself as she walked
downstairs and looked around.
"hmmm...nobody.. I guess Shigure and Yuki are out doing their nightly thing. But Kyoooo...must be
on the roof" She said responding to the loud thump coming from upstairs. She spun around and
began to walk back up the stairs.
Hopping up onto the roof, Tohru smiled and walked over to Kyo, who was lying down and lookin
up at the sky. "hey!" Tohru said, flopping down next to Kyo. He glanced over at her and looked
back up at the sky "Hey." Kyo said in a low, somewhat depressed voice. She laid down next to him
and sighed "Do you know where everyone went? Aside from you, the house is empty." Tohru
asked, trying to strike up some form of conversation.
" Dunno, I think Shigure went out with Mii-san and Yuki..welll i dont really care where he is." Kyo
said with his normal tone of disgust when Yukis name was mentioned.
"Umm..Kyo?" Tohru said sitting up and looking at him.
"Huh"
"Ar..are you gonna go train again?" she asked shyly "Maybe...why?" He asked, sitting up.
"Uhh. well. i wasnt sure..weather you were for the deal we made or not. So..i asked." She said
kinda soft-like.
" Yea.. i was thinkin about it. Its seems like the only way i can get tougher is if im away from
everything here." Kyo said wrapping his arms around his legs.
"Oh. i see." She said, afraid to ask anything else. Kyo looked down at her and raised an eyebrow
"Whyy are you so depressed all of a sudden?" Kyo asked foreward to look at her face.
"I...dunno. Well i was gonna ask something else...but i kinda dont wanna bug you anymore than i
already do." Tohru sighed looking up at the moon.
"One..who said you annoy me? And Two... im in a pretty good mood. So nothing you ask is gonna
bug me. So shoot. Whatcha need? "Kyo asked looking back at the sky. "Okk..um..can i...can i go
with you the next time you leave?" Tohru blurted out. Kyo looked at her and squinted "Why? Why
the heck would you wanna leave for god knows how long and be all secluded in a mountain? And
besides your clumsy. You might get hurt." Kyo said crossing his arms and lying back down, staring
at the moon. Tohru pouted and mumbled something "Because, last time you went away.. things
were really boring here...Shigure was always out with Mii-San, and Yuki was always galavanting off
with his garden crusades, so i got stuck in the house, dealing with Kagura who came by everyday to
see if you were back and pestered the crud outta me saying i was lying and tearing the house to
shreds. Then, Momiji came and was far to energetic...so he was always outside or at the main
Sohma house, playing with Kisa and Hiro. I was stuck in the house. An im worried that if you go
again.. things'll be the same as before and i dont want that. So PLEASSEE can i go with you Kyo?
Ill try not to annoy you and i wont be clumsy! Please?" Tohru begged looking at Kyo who was
staring at her like a person would stare at a hyper puppy.
"I..dont...Yea...yea ok. You can come if you really want to. Im leaving next friday. Meet me up here
friday morning if you really wanna go. " Kyo said helping her up from the roof. "Right. Friday
morning." Tohru said as she watched Kyo go down the stairs. She stared at the moon for a few
seconds as if she were giving thanks and quickly followed behind him. Walking past Kyo after
leaving his closet, she waved goodnight to him and he nodded back, floppind down on his bed and
clicking the light off. "This should be interesting. A while in the mountains with Tohru
honda..." Kyo thought as he stared at the dark celing and listening to all the cicaidas and crickets
outside, droning out the other sounds of cars and blaring horns a few miles away. Tohru put her
headphones on and flipped past a few songs that she didnt feel like listening to and laid down. "I
wonder what its gonna be like up there on the mountains. I hope nothing bad happens." She
thought.
The next few days seemed like a blur. In a minimum of four days Tohru and Kyo managed to pack
all the nececcesities they would need into one suitcase, granted they needed to sit on the thing a lot,
and reminded Shigure several times to not mention Tohru to Akito when the occasional runnabouts
to check on people who had their minds erased. Hatori says Akito still checks on people who had
their memories erased 5 years ago. Hatori agreed to come here before Akito does one of these runs
to give Shigure time to explain things. They also managed to get a lot of foods that wont spoil and
tossed them into a suitcase as well. Friday rolled around and Tohru was abnormally excited and
rushed downstairs to eat a quick breakfast. On her way to the kitchen, She heard Shigure and Kyo
talking outside. She slowed down and listened in.
"Its not the best idea Kyo. Leaving her here would put her at risk for Akito to find her. Sure shes
clumsy.. but it would give you a good amount of training time and her time to figure out how to
break the curse. You know were counting on her to do that. So stop having regrets. Its gonna be
fine. And besides, leaving her here without telling her would kill her. So dont. And..i think it would
kill you too after wha-" Tohru walked away quickly then, noticing that they were coming inside. A
bunch of things were racing through her head and she sat down slowly and ate some leftover fish
from the night before.
"err... Maybe i am too annoying... or stupid enought that Kyo was thinkin of leaving me behind.
Well. Im going. I dont care. I'll get over it." Tohru thought as she finished up and walked
upstairs.
Looking over by the door, Tohru waited for Kyo to come up to the roof and paid attention to the
driveway below her, incase Kyo was gonna leave without her. He didnt. About 5 minutes later, she
heard Kyo coming up the stairs grumbling about something having to do with the suitcase flying
open again. He hopped up onto the roof and sat down next to Tohru.
"Damn suitcase flopped open again. I got it though. You sure your up for this? I mean really sure?"
Kyo asked looking at her. She sat up from staring down at the ground and nodded.
"Yea. But i dont think you think i am... I heard you talking with Shigure."She said sadly. Kyo hit his
head on the ground and apologised. "Yea...no i was just thinkin. Not about leaving you just for the
sake of not letting you come. It can be dangerous up there. I 7dont think id hear the end of it if i let
you get hurt. But i know it was wrong. Im not leaving without you." Kyo said looking at Tohru who
was staring at the ground again. She nodded and stood up. "So are we ready to go?" She asked
looking down at Kyo. "Yea"
Tohru flung her backpack over her shoulder and grabbed the suicase crammed with food. She
followed Kyo outside and bid her goodbyes to everyone. Walking down the driveway, They turned
into the woods and began to take a inconspicuous route to the mountains, 3 days away. "So..are
there bathrooms up there"
"nope"
"Showers"
"Nope. But there is a very cold lake"
"Is is cold, like, winter cold up there"
"Not this time of year. Its like summer up there. Very warm"
"Oh"
Theres Chapter 3! This took me a lil while cuse i was finishing it up and the power went out so i had
to type it over again. Hope you like where the storys going. Cause i have a good way to break the
curse. I might have her figure it out soon.. by mistake?who knows. Either chappy four or 5 will
show how things get fixed. Muahaha. Hope you enjoy!
chapter four up soon!