Chapter Four: Mobile
(Emarista: Oh yeah, and if some of you haven't noticed yet, me and
Arisa-san are really into Avril Lavigne and her music. I find her music
inspirational and I seem to relate to her songs a lot. And I've memorized them all
Recap of the last chapter:
Arisa frowned as she walked into the kitchen. She only noticed that Kyo was
in the room when he said hello to her. She spun around and thought wildly,
'What if he heard me talking to Tohru?!' then managed to smile and tried to
look normal.
"Hey honey." She said, walking over to him and kissing him on the lips,
being careful not to hug him. Kyo just stared at her, "What's up with
you Arisa? You look surprised. This is still my house too right?" he said this
in a joking way but Arisa could hear the worry in his voice.
"It's okay Kyo, well it's not okay, but I can't say why." Arisa said
lamely.
Kyo looked at her strange then said, "This is about that phone call
isn't it? You know I heard everything you said and I think it's good, that
damn rat needs Tohru to come back."
"I know he does Kyo, I know, but I'm still worried, I don't want my little
baby Tohru (AN: well they do treat her like a baby! NO, ARISA IS NOT
GOING SOFT! I'll just have to have her beat up someone later!) to hurt him,
or Yuki to hurt her, but that's all they've been doing lately."
Kyo came over and kissed her cheek, "They'll be fine." Was all he said
as both of them stood there, hoping for the best.
End of Recap
Went back home again
Two Years Afterwards
"Oka-chan!" a little three-year-old girl called from in the blue-green seawater. She had waist-length silverfish hair and bright violet-purple eyes and was wearing a red bathing suit. She started giggling and splashing the warm water happily.
"What is it Shinju-chan?" Tohru said wading out into the water to where her daughter was playfully splashing around. She had her hair up in a ponytail and was wearing a light blue bathing suit.
"I found a pretty shell!" Shinju gleefully said holding out a large pale gray shell that sparkled dazzlingly in the sunlight. When Tohru looked at it, it reminded her Yuki's hair. She started to remember the times she went to visit him. They were all so fun. But it was always so hard having to keep Shinju away from him.
Flash Back to one year ago
"Come Shinju-chan! Wake up now. It's time for you to go with Auntie Arisa
and Uncle Kyo (Emarista: AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I couldn't help myself, I
just had to put that in) now." Tohru said slightly shaking Shinju awake from her
sleep on the drive there. (Emarista: Oh yeah, right now, currently,
Shinju is three-and a half, in the flash back, she's one-and-a-half and can
talk but only a little bit)
"Awuntee Awisa an Unkou Keeo!" Shinju squealed gleefully. She was excited to meet these people her Oka-chan talked about so much. Tohru carefully picked up her daughter and walked over to the blue house second to the end of the block and walked up to the door and wrung the doorbell. The door opened to reveal…
…An old woman!
"Eep!" Shinju shrieked as she hid her face in Tohru's chest. "Scarwee!"
"Eh heh heh," Tohru laughed nervously, "I'm so-sorry. I-Is this the house of
Arisa and Kyo Sohma?"
"Oh, you mean that lovely couple? They live next door." The lady smiled,
making her face look more wrinkly and old. (Emarista: Eww. I used to
have a teacher whose face was covered in wrinkles. She always scared me)
"Okay…" Tohru said backing away and walking over to the house.
"I nevow wanna go dere adain!" Shinju cried.
"Don't worry, we'll never have to see that scary lady ever again."
Tohru said sweatdropping, "Now let's get you to Arisa and Kyo's now."
END OF FLASHBACK
Tohru smiled as she thought of the six or so times she had gotten time of work to go visit Yuki. As Tohru sat reminiscing she almost started to doze off, until she heard a scream.
"Oka-chan!" Shinju screamed as a huge hunk of drift wood almost hit her in the face.
Tohru managed to grab her daughter and bring her to safety just before the wood and waves killed her. Shinju started yelling again right after her mother picked her up, only this time she kept saying, "Look at the boat Oka-chan, mommy, mommy look at the boat!" over and over again.
Tohru turned around to see what shinju was talking about. Sure enough, in between the waves a little wooden boat was rocking up and down, nearly lost to the sea.
Tohru stood in wonder as she took in everything around her. Not only was there a boat, where was tons of wood, enough to make up a ship. But tohru did not look for very long because Shinju, who was on her shoulders, was yelling again.
"Look in the boat Oka-chan! Look at it!"
Tohru looked. Someone was still in the boat. When the boat rocked it was easy enough to tell that someone was still in the little wooden life boat. Tohru's loving heart told her that she had to save whoever it was.
"Stay here honey." She told Shinju as she set her down at a safe part of the beach. Then she dove into the water and swam towards the boat. When she finally reached it she was exhausted, but she still pulled the boat the shore.
After struggling with the boat for a while Tohru managed to get it to shore, and get salt water in her mouth. Spitting and heaving she finally looked over the rim of the boat. Inside was small girl, only a few years older than Shinju, who was out cold.
Tohru picked up the girl, ran over to her towel and called the police using her cell phone.
"Hello, 911 emergency office, how may I help you?" said a cool female voice on the other end.
"Hello, I'm at ocean beach, San Francisco, and parts of a wrecked ship and a crew member just washed up on shore! I don't know what to do! Please sent someone to help!" Tohru said in fast accented English.
"Okay ma'am well send someone down there right away, now, could you describe the scene in more detail?" The lady asked, probably to keep Tohru occupied until the ambulance got there.
"Sure thing" said Tohru as she continued to explain until she heard the sirens approaching.
END OF CHAPTER
this isn't my first draft of this chapter. After all my stories got erased I found that I didn't have this chapter saved to my computer, so the second half of it is just the closest I can remember.
- Arisa