Disclaimer: I don't own Fruit Baskets. I'm so depressed. Well not really, but I'm updating my story for all my fans! Thanks for reading and now here is the next chapter of Stray Dog: Lost Dog Found…
RECAP: "AYAME! SHIGURE'S GONE!" Hatori shouted at the top of his lungs.
He ran to Ayame's room slidding the door wide open. Ayame stood in the middle of the room with his uniformed pants on and loosely had his white shirt on, his chest exposed. "Excuse me, a little privacy would be nice thank you." He said turning his back to Hatori, putting his white collard shirt on, still not buttoned up. "Ayame, this is not the time for privacy. Shigure's gone!" "He's what?" asked Ayame hurrying off to Shigure's room. He looked inside seeing Shigure's messy room. "My, my, that dog sure is messy. How could he stand it?" "This is no time for jokes Ayame. We need to find Shigure and bring him back here." Said Hatori looking around the room. "Where could he have gone? No Sohmas live outside the Sohma estate." Questioned Ayame. "I'm not sure, but finish getting your clothes on. We're going out to find Shigure." Hatori stated leaving Ayame to finish getting changed.
They had their book bags in their hands as they sprinted for the door. They flew by the doors of Sohma house. As they ran by a voice caught their ears. "Going to school?" asked Akito coolly. "Yeah, we're late so we have to go now." Said Hatori, taking a step closer to the door. "Where's Shigure?" she asked coolly again. "He…uhm…" Ayame began, thinking desperately of a lie. "Shigure had a presentation due today and needed to leave early. That's all. Now we have to leave now or we'll be late, right Ayame?" finished Hatori, glaring at Ayame. "Right! Bye Akito." He said running for the door. They ran, they ran and they ran until they got outside the Sohma estate's gate.
((Back with Shigure))
It had been three hours since Shigure had transformed into a dog. Even though he had a blanket of fur on his body he was still bitterly cold and wandering the streets for warmth. Hypothermia was getting to him, and getting to him fast.
He began to stagger along the streets until he finally collapsed. With the little strength he had left he curled up into a little ball of warmth, shivering.
A fifteen-year-old girl had just left her house on her way to another day of school. She walked briskly on the cold sidewalk. Her binder close to her face because she forgot to do her homework the night before. As she walked along her foot kicked something. Looking up she saw a suitcase fly down the sidewalk. She looked down to see a black puppy in a small ball of warmth.
"Oh my gosh!" she gasped picking up the ice cold puppy and the suitcase she had kicked. She turned around and ran as fast as she could back to her house. She quickly slid the door open to her house wide open and closed it with a SLAM!
Just as the door closed behind her Hatori and Ayame ran past the stranger's house. "Shigure!" called out Ayame, with a hand to his mouth to project his voice. "Shigure! Where are you!" asked Hatori loudly. "Why would he do something like this?" questioned Ayame looking at Hatori. "I'm not sure. Probably because he's mad at Akito. But we need to find him now before he transforms." Hatori stated, looking around for any sign of Shigure. "Hatori! Look!" Ayame pointed a finger to some paw prints on the frozen ground that were awfully close to a square shape.
"It must've been his suitcase…" said Hatori, examing the square shape closer. "The paw prints are here but where's Shigure?" asked Ayame still looking around for Shigure. "Do you think somebody dog-napped him?" suggested Ayame. "It's too hard to tell. Look at all the footprints around here. We can't tell." Hatori was right. Many footprints surrounded the puppy paw that belonged to Shigure. "The only thing we can do is put a missing person's report on him and put up flyers of a missing dog. One of the two will help us find him." Concluded Hatori walking away. "Where are you going? What about Shigure?" questioned Ayame, a bit in shock. "I'm going to school. If I don't how do you expect me to get to med school?" said Hatori looking back at him coolly. "But…Shigure…" started Ayame. "There's nothing we can do now. We'll just have to wait until we get home from school." He finished walking toward the school.
((With Shigure and stranger))
He could feel warm arms wrapped around him tight. "Mom! Get lots of blankets!" shouted a voice. The next thing he knew he was in a sea of blankets. Shigure slowly regained conscience. He stood up on all fours, "Where…where am I?"
That's it for now! I hope you liked it! Thank you for reading my story Stray Dog. Please R&R!