Chapter four (4) What are you doing here? And dinner conversations
He turned around to see Kyo glaring angrily at him from beside Hanajima. Yuki ignored him and instead looked at the cats' nails, which seemed to grow and turn into a hard metal. (Ever seen X men 2. If you remember wolverines copy girl. Her fingernails, how they grew is what I'm talking about Kyo's nails.) Yuki looked around the shed to see one of the twins beside him the knife now lowed in his hands. The other twin was standing beside Tohru also putting away a small dagger. Standing behind Uo was Mir, who had let go of the Yankee's arms and removed her now longer fang-like teeth from her neck.
"Did you just attack us?" Yuki asked, still in shock from having a knife put to his throat by somebody he had just met.
"Our apologies Sohma-san." Akaisha and Liam said in unison.
"We thought you might have been an enemy so we had no choice but to act first." Aka explained from beside the rat.
"Sorry Honda-san." Liam said bending down to help Tohru up. She had slid to the ground from shock after he had removed the dagger form her throat.
"Uhh… it's… it's alright." She stuttered taking his hand, and with amazing strength for someone who looked so skinny, he pulled her to her feet.
"Hehe, sorry about that Uo-san." Mir bowed apologetically backing away.
"Umm… yhea sure. Okay." The blonde Yankee stood in the same spot and didn't look like she was going to move.
"That's all nice that you're sorry guys." Kyo stated anger apparent in his voice and he wasn't trying to hide it. "BUT WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE!"
"I think they followed us." Liam said still holding Tohru's hand in his.
"No shit Sherlock." Mir growled. "Why were you following us?" She asked Uo.
"Hanajima felt some weird waves coming off you and we wanted to see what they were about." Uo explained.
Akaisha turned to Hanajima. "You sensed our waves?"
Hanajima nodded.
"You must have had some amazing training to be able to sense Kyo's waves, let alone ours." Aka muttered to himself. "Were usually blocked off from normal humans…" his words were lost as he began to think to himself.
"Don't think to hard there Akaisha, You might hurt yourself." Mir joked. She ducked the small dagger that was thrown at her by Akaisha. "Hey! It was a joke. Stupid Bat." She muttered. 'They have no sense of humour.'
"Right!" Uo said quite loud. "Well this has been fun, beside the getting attacked and the long claws and everything else. I'm just going to go home and get some sleep and try to convince myself this has been all a very bad dream before I start to believe that I was adducted by aliens and brainwashed. Right well see you all tomorrow." With that Uo grabbed her bag and ran out the door.
"I think I'll follow her." Hanajima sighed and went up to Tohru. She untangled Liam's hand form Tohru's and bent down to the smaller girl. "Please be careful Tohru-chan. If you need anything, or if anyone of these boys try to do something to you call me. I will personally see to it that they rot in hell." She gave Tohru a hug before saying goodbye and heading out the door.
Now the only ones left in the room were Yuki, Tohru, Kyo, Mir and the twins.
"Hey Kyo. I think you better put your claws away." Mir stated pointing to the razor sharp metal coming from Kyo's fingertips.
Kyo sighed and withdrew the claws back to normal size.
"I think you should explain Kyo!" Yuki said seriously.
"Humph." Kyo turned his head and began to walk away. "Explain what?"
"Don't act coy! THE CLAWS, THE DAGGERS, DISAPPEARING INTO THIN AIR THEN
ATTACKING US!" Yuki shouted back.
"WE WOULDN'T HAVE ATTACKED YOU IF YOU HADN'T FOLLOWED US!"
"IF YOU HAD TOLD US WHAT WAS GOING ON, WE WOULDN'T HAVE!"
"PLEASE STOP FIGHTING!" Tohru's cry cut off Yuki and Kyo's argument immediately. They started at her. "Ah, I'm sorry for yelling but please stop fighting." Tohru said looking like she was about to cry. "Can we just talk this out with out any yelling?"
Kyo sighed and Yuki closed his mouth.
"Did she just stop Kyo when he was in the middle of a fight?" Mir asked her eyes wide.
"She did." Liam's chin almost hit the floor.
"That's amazing." Aka agreed.
"WOOT!" Mir shouted and slung her arm over Tohru's shoulders and cheered. "Way to be girl. From now on you're a peacemaker between Kyo and Yuki-kun."
"Something tells me she already was." Liam added.
A low rumble from Aka's stomach made everyone stare at him. "What?" he asked. "I'm hungry."
"Then lets go shopping so I can make some lunch." Tohru smiled.
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It was around 1:30 PM and everyone sat around the dinner table waiting for lunch. Everyone included Yuki, Kyo, Tohru, Liam, Mir, Aka, and Shigure and for some strange reason volleys of bats were hanging from the ceiling.
"Umm, Why are their bats hanging from our ceiling?" Yuki asked as one of them came to land on his head.
Kyo, Mir and Liam looked at Akaisha.
"What?" he asked innocently.
"GET RID OF THE DAMN BATS!" The three of them yelled at the boy who had bats on both of his shoulders and head.
Akaisha sighed and looked up. "Sorry guys, you can't eat here."
One of the bats let out a sheik.
"I know, I know. Okay, I'll see you all later." Aka said as all the bats suddenly flew out of the open window.
"Umm what was with the bats?" Tohru asked.
"My familiars." Aka answered. Seeing Tohru's confused expression he elaborated. "You know how the cursed members of the Sohma family can speak with their respective animal?" He asked and she nodded. "Well it's basically the same thing. Me being a bat I can speak with the bats of the area."
Tohru nodded slowly trying to take in all the information. Then with a gasp She, Shigure and Yuki all yelled. "You know about the Sohma curse?"
Mir raised an eyebrow. "Duh, Of course we do." She laughed. "We're friends with Kyo after all. And ignoring the wee little part that we're cursed in our own way." Mir smiled.
Kyo gave her a look. 'Were cursed in our own way, she says smiling… what a strange girl.' Kyo sighed. "You know Mir, it'd be easier for them to understand if you just told them the whole truth."
Mir, Aka, and Liam stared at Kyo. "You mean I can tell them?" Mir asked.
"You're letting her tell them about the Eight Days of Hell?" the twins asked.
Kyo looked at Shigure, Tohru and Yuki. They all looked hopeful that they were finally going to be able to understand what was going on. "Did I say anything about The Eight Days of Hell? No. I meant just tell them about what you are and about your familiars."
Mir's shoulders sagged. "Oh." She grunted. "Do you want to hear our story?" She asked the three eager listening people across form her. They all nodded.
"Well I guess we should start by what we are." Mir said as she lifted off her hat. Two silver dog-ears shot up from her hair and the two human ears disappearing from the side of her head. Tohru, Yuki, and Shigure let out a gasp. "To start off, our curse is a little different then yours. Your curse transforms you to animals of the Zodiac. Our curse transforms us into monsters " Mir stood up and looked out the window. The sun was starting to set. "We each turn into a different monster of the night. Originally there was five of us. But, we lost one of our friends, in…" A growl from Kyo made her lose her words.
Aka picked up where she left off. "We lost one of our friends in a battle. Then the other one sealed off his powers and disappeared afterwards…" Akaisha glared back at Kyo and Kyo looked away.
Akaisha continued to speak after a minute. "Our creatures." He looked to his brother and Mir. "They are a werewolf." He pointed to Mir and she grinned sheepishly. "A Vampire." He pointed to Liam who bowed. "And a bat. Which is me." He heard Tohru gasp. "Like you Shoma's, we can speak with our respective animals, or the closest being to it."
An uncomfortable silence filled the room, the only noise coming from Kyo who was still eating and ignoring the story.
"Are you going to eat that?" Kyo asked Liam using his chopsticks to stab Liam's egg roll on his plate.
"No." Liam answered pushing his plate toward Kyo. "I think I just lost my appetite."
"Oh?" Kyo looked at him. "Well your loss, not mine." He smiled as he lifted the egg roll away from Liam's plate.
Akaisha turned to Kyo. "You know you just completely ruined the mood of our story." He chastised.
Kyo shrugged and went back to eating and once again the only sound made was made by Kyo.
Tohru opened her mouth to speak but shut it not knowing if her question as appropriate or not.
Liam saw this and asked. "What's you question Honda-san?"
Tohru blushed not knowing that she had been seen. "Oh… um… I was just wondering." She replied. "I was wondering what the animals of the other two of your friends were, and I was also wondering their names."
No one answered her.
"Oh I'm sorry. I know I'm prying. You don't have to answer it. It's private. I'm sorry." Tohru began to ramble but stopped when Akaisha sighed and gave her a stern look.
"You ramble a lot, and apologize to much you know that?" Akaisha asked with a smirk now on his face.
"Ah, I'm sorry." Tohru apologized again.
"Don't worry about it to much." Aka sighed. "The other two. The one, who died, was our friend Sakura Ohyama. She was a very kind and smart person. She turned into a fox." A distant smile on his face as if he was remembering her. "That's the grave we were visiting when we so rudely attacked you."
"Oh, I'm sorry." Tohru whispered.
"Don't be." Liam smiled at her. "She wouldn't want you to be sad. Or in some people cases, grouchy all through the eight days and annoying his friends half to death." He gave Kyo a serious look then had to dodge a cup that was sent flying by the said cat.
"Hey watch it!" Liam shouted.
"I'm not grouchy!" Kyo muttered.
"Fine you get all manic depressive on us then." Liam stated then having to dodge more cups.
"YOU'RE THE MANIC DEPRESSIVE ONES!" Kyo shouted standing up. "You and your brother go around all creepy haunting and cursing people." He waved his hands trying to imitate a ghoul.
"Bad imitation Kyo." Liam said throwing his chopstick at him.
"And besides we only curse people we don't like." Akaisha added.
"Right we'll just leave them to that." Mir said dropping that 'certain' subject. Sweatdrop "Any other questions?"
Yuki looked at Liam. "I have one!" he said. "You're not going to come around and bite any of us are you?"
Liam looked at Yuki and smiled showing off his fangs. "But why not? I'm sure you'd make great vampires."
"LIAM!" Mir shouted conking him on the back of his head.
"Ahh, fine." Liam resigned. "I won't bite you."
"Okay now that that's settled I guess we should go hunting." Mir said standing up.
"Hunting?" Tohru asked.
"Yhea, for demons." Liam smiled at the look of horror that past by Tohru's face. He kneeled down in front of her and took her hand. "Do not fear Honda-san. We shall rid this world of its impurities and make it a safer place for a fair maiden such as yourself."
Tohru blushed dramatically, and Yuki shot Liam a look that clearly said 'DIE!'
"Yhea, sure Romeo." Kyo sighed as he strode over and grabbed Liam by his ear. "Come on doofus." He dragged Liam out of the room.
"Thank you for dinner, Honda-san." Aka bowed before following after them. Mir stayed for a minute then shot a look at Yuki.
"Hey Yuki-kun!" Mir turned to look at him. "Do you want to come along with us?" She asked a hint of mischief in her voice.
Yuki looked at her. "Uhh, what? N-" he started to decline but Mir grabbed his arm and dragged him out of the room.
"Yay. As long as you can dodge you'll be fine. You'll need all the practice you can get for later." Mir said happily dragging him out of the room.
Shigure and Tohru watched as everyone except them walk, or get dragged out of the living room to outside.
And the house was quite. Then Tohru got up to answer the phone and Shigure… well Shigure sat there at the table wondering if it was safe to have such dangerous kids in his house…