Chapter 14: nice guy

"I dunno." Tanako says. The man carries Tanako off of Shigure's back, giving him a pat on the head. The man turns his attention back to Tanako, observing her bruises.

"Oh my, what happened to you kid?"

"What do you mean?" Tanako asks.

"You're covered with purple bruises. Did someone beat you up?"

"What is purple?"

"You're… oh," When the man looks into her eyes, he notices, "you're blind, aren't you?"

"I guess…"

"No wonder, okay, I'll go take you to a hospital alright?"

"What is that?" The man lifts a brow. Oh well, it's not her fault she barely knows anything. Shigure thought as the man thought so as well. The man smiles.

"It's a place where they help the injured and sick. I'll take you and your dog there." The man carries Tanako in his arms as he carries her to his car with Shigure following. He puts her in the back seat, allowing Shigure to sit there as well.

"What's your name?" The man asks as they drove. Before he took off driving, he put seatbelts on both of them.

"Tanako. What is yours?"

"Zinan Yoshida. Now what's your friends here, name?"

"Almighty Shigure." A sweat drop appears on Zinan's face as Shigure for the first time felt embarrassed of the name.

"Oh… really." Zinan says. Zinan parks his car in the parking lot of the hospital. We're here now."

"Okay." As Zinan stepped out of the car, Tanako was about to as well, until Shigure nudged her with his nose. "Yes?"

"Listen, don't tell anyone about my true identity or my powers all right?"

"Okay."

"And give me a hug before you leave, I don't want to transform back into an angel in this car."

Okay." Tanako gives him a hug, and then releases him. "I'll… hear you soon okay?" She says as she tries to open the door.

"Bye bye." Shigure says as Tanako struggles opening the door until Zinan opens it for her.

"Oops, sorry. I didn't take the child locks off." As soon as he shuts the door, walking away with Tanako, Shigure spots the cell phone near the front seats.

Chapter 15: coming together

Riing… Riing… "Hello?" Tohru says as she answers the phone. "Shigure? Is that you?" From the living room, Maiko perks up when hearing the name.

"See… Told you someone will call." Hatsuharu says.

"Damn…" earlier, Kyo made a bet with Hatsuharu that no one would call today about Shigure. Now he owes him 3000 yen In a manga I read earlier, it said $8:50 in US money is 1000 yen in Japan money. As soon as Tohru hung up, she ran over towards the living room.

"We need to hurry. Shigure's trapped in a car and-"

"WHAT?" Maiko screams.

"Uh…" That's right, Tohru thought. This girl doesn't know about Shigure's secret yet. "Um… well, the person who found him needed to take this little girl name Tanako to the hospital,"

"Tanako?" Maiko asks with a worried look.

"Yes, and uh… before he left, he gave us a call. He left the door unlock for us to come and get him."

"SHIGURE!" A high voice yells out. Instantly, Tohru, Yuki, and Kyo knew whom it was as the person runs up to them in the living room.

"I'm sorry! I'm sorry we barged in like this! I know it was quite rude but-" Ritsu apologizes as Mitsuru stood tall in front of them all.

"Kids, where is your uncle Shigure? He needs- oh." Mitsuru looks down towards the familiar face, "Maiko?"

"What?" a few people in the room yells out.

"Ahh… Shigure's editor knows her?" Momiji asks. Maiko makes a small grin and a slight wave.

"Hiya… mom."

"MOM?" again, a few people in the room yells out. Mitsuru bursts into tears as she gave Mitsuru a life-threatening hug.

"Oh sweetie! Where have you been! You made me worried sick! I can't believe you ran off earlier! My gosh, I thought if I were to never see you again, I was going to commit seppuku! I missed you so much! Don't make me worry like that again! Oh god, thank the lord you're back into my arms!"

"Y-you're the girl from earlier at the bathhouse. With that dog…" Ritsu points out.

"You were at the bathhouse at the same time we were there?"

"Who-who is he… mom?" Maiko asks.

"Uh… um, This is Ritsu Sohma. Listen Maiko, while you were gone, I left your dad or actually filed a divorce and now I'm living at your uncle Zinan's house. You won't need to see your dad no more, everything's fine now."

"Ey Rits!" Aiko says walking into the room with her three brothers. "I-"

"NO!" Maiko yells as she hides behind Ritsu. "Those boys were beating me up a few days ago!"

"Ahh!" The three boys yell. "It's her!"

"Where's her guard dog?" One of them asks.

"You were beating up this poor girl?" Aiko says with an evil aura around her.

"Eh…" SMACK! SMACK! SMACK! "OWW!" The three boys moan out.

"Apologize to her! Gosh! I will not allow boys like you to be acting like this! Specially since yer all related to me…"

"Sorry..." the boys says, one of them rolling there eyes. Aiko smacks them in the head again.

"Apologize properly!"

"SORRY!" The three says, bowing.

"Wow…"Maiko says. Hatsuharu stands up, heading towards the door.

"Come on, we still need to pick up Shigure." Hatsuharu says.

"Hey! You're not leading the way! We'll get lost!" Kyo yells running after them.

"Wait, just get a ride from Hatori. He's outside right now." As one of the boys was about to stand up, Aiko smacks him in the head. "You're not getting up yet."

"Kay…" he whimpers.

"Oh Rits… uh… Aww damn. Never mind." Aiko kicks one of her brothers on the side. "Get up, we're going back to the limousine now."

"Kay…" They say in a whimpering voice as they stand up and all walk away. Awkward… Yuki thought when the room grew silent. Mitsuru gets a call on her cell phone.

"Hello? Ahh, Hello Zinan! Great news! Maiko is back! … What? Oh my god… oh my…" Tears almost filling Mitsuru's eyes, she hangs up. "Maiko! We must leave now!"

"Oh? So soon?" Hatsuharu asks. This isn't your house… Kyo and Yuki both think.

"What's the rush?" Maiko asks.

"Your uncle found your little sister, but she had to be sent to the hospital. Her uncle says that her dogs been an angel to her. Come on."

"Looks like we're all heading to the same place." Yuki says as he got up.

eh… what to say now… um… just one more chapter to go and that's it! Please comment me and thank you for still reading!