Chapter 12 – Unintentional Lost

The traffic's today was busier than normal or was it that everyone was in a rush that it seemed that way. Hatori received a phone called from the local hospital and hopped into his car immediately to see his younger cousin who sounded like he was at a lost and didn't know what to do. Shigure, Yuki and Kagura were also on their way to the hospital. Once arrived, Hatori was the only member who was admitted into the examination room. Everyone else wore a depressing face and waited outside. Everyone and everything appeared to be standing still and time went dreadfully slow as each person looked at each other's faces and then all eyes stared at the emergency room where Tohru was being examined.

Kyo curled up into a ball by the door. His fists were turning white from his tight grip and his fingertips buried deep inside his palms. His arms were shaking frenziedly as if he wanted to aim his anger at something or someone. He felt responsible for Tohru being in the emergency room. He didn't understand what was happening. All he did was pushed her away from the speedy vehicle to save her. Did he not make the right decision? When he brought her to the hospital she was admitted in right away due to the bleeding from her head. He then called Hatori and Shigure to let them know what happened. The next thing he knew he was sitting here by the door of the emergency room waiting, lost in his thoughts and feeling guilty.

Everyone was disturbed to hear the news and they could see that Kyo was taking it very hard. Kagura couldn't help, but felt partially responsible for what happened because it was she whom made Tohru ran away. She had never in her life seen Kyo so lost and distracted. She approached him in trying to comfort him. "Kyo…" She started with a very low voice.

The sound of her voice set the bothered Kyo on fire. "Bitch! It's all your fault!" He instantly stood up and without thinking swung his arms at her landing a vicious five fingers mark on her left cheek.

"Kyo!" Shigure exclaimed from across the hall. He couldn't believe what he just saw.

She fell onto her knees holding her face and bitterly she apologized, "I'm… sooorry."

"You stupid cat!" Yuki returned him a fist into his guts sending him back against the wall of the dead hallway.

"Why?" Kyo questioned, but didn't fight back. "If she hadn't played such dirty trick, then this would never happen. I would be with Tohru right now. Why are you defending her?"

Yuki sighed in agreement. "Yes, she was stupid to do what she did, but she did it for you. No one would expect anything like this to happen. Look at her, she knows what she did was wrong and she is sorry."

"Sorry?" Kyo smirked hot air escaped his nostrils.

"There is nothing we can do now. What happened already happened. We can only wish for the best and hope that Tohru will be okay."

"Yuki is right. You shouldn't overreact like this. It's nobody's fault, this is just an unfortunate accident. Hatori is with her right now. He'll make sure that she'll make it through this safely." Shigure said as he walked toward the cat and gently patted his shoulders to assure him that everything will be alright.

Kyo swung away and stared at the doubled doors that separated him from his love and sighed. "Tohru… please be okay." He whispered.

Kagura managed to stand up with Yuki's help. She could still feel the burn from her face as apologized again, "Kyo… I am truly sorry. I didn't mean for it to end this way. I never intended to get Tohru hurt. I just wanted to…"

"Shut up!" Kyo didn't want to hear her saying anything. At this moment, he despised her and the troubled cat again said ruthlessly ignoring what Shigure said earlier, "If anything happen to Tohru, I'll never forgive you!"

She exhaled instantly at his word placing her hand on her chest. She could feel her heart ached and her lung squeezed tightly with every breath.

Yuki held her in his arms to comfort her. "Just give him some time. He'll forgive you."

She clung to his comfort and thought to herself, 'I deserve this.'

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Four hours later, Hatori came out of the emergency room. He walked up to Kyo and smiled. "She'll be alright." He said. Everyone exhaled their relieved.

"What happened?" Shigure asked his friend.

"It appeared that she fell and fractured her head which cause minor bleeding. We've stopped the bleeding and bandaged that part of her head. The bandages should be removed within a day or two, but she will need to stay at the hospital for a week for follow-up exams."

"How did this happen?" Yuki asked.

"I don't know." Hatori looked at Kyo for an answer.

He sighed heavily, "I tried to push her away from a running car. I might have pushed her too hard. I think she hit her head on the curb or something." Again his gripped his fists together with guilt.

"Did you noticed or remembered anything different about that curb or street you were on?"

Kyo took a second to recollect his memories. He remembered his hands were in pain when he held her body up. He released his fists and held his palms up to find little dried dots of blood, which looked like they were made from needles contact. He opened up his eyes and said, "There were lots of gravels. That part of the street was under construction."

"Yes, then that explained it. Her wound was not deep, but there were a few pieces for sharp gravels that managed to crack through the outer layer of her skull, which cause the bleeding. Fortunately, it didn't hit any vital member and we found no internal bleeding."

"Thank goodness." Kyo exhaled releasing his fists.

"She is still unconscious now from the anesthetic, but should be awake in a few hours. No visitor will be allowed to see her until her bandages are taken off. This facility is run by the Sohma's family, I'll ask to be her doctor and in the mean time, take care of her. You guys should all go home. I'll let you know when she wakes up and when you can come and visit her."

"Why? If she's okay, then why can't I see her now?" Kyo demanded.

Hatori sighed as he met Shigure's eyes staring at him. "This is just the way it is…"

Kyo took in a deep breath as he looked at the lifeless doors that were standing between him and Tohru. "Fine." He breathed. "You better give me a call when she's better." And he left the quiet hallway of the hospital and headed home.

"Yes, keep us update on her condition as soon as possible." Yuki added. He and Kagura also left the scene leaving only Hatori and Shigure behind.

"Is there something else that you didn't tell us?" Shigure asked knowing Hatori too well that he was keeping something away from them.

"Physically, Tohru should be alright and I doubt that she will need to stay here more than a week, but…"

"But what?"

"The area that was fractured was on the side of her head near her medial temporal lobe."

"Temporal lobe?" Shigure winked. "What's that?"

"This section is a part of the brain's cerebrum located near the temple of each person head. When I erase a person's memory, this is the area where I would concentrate my power. Its particular function is to collect and store memories."

Shigure reached his arms out and grabbed the doctor's gown, "You don't mean that she will…"

"I hope not."

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A Sunday without Tohru's smile was out of the ordinary. What was more out of the ordinary was that Kyo and Yuki were not fighting? Each boy had accepted their places. The invisible wall of tension and hatred that they had between them had somehow disengaged. The love and emotion that they had for Tohru have settled by her decision. Although, she didn't have a chance to tell everyone her choice; everyone had figured it out for themselves from what had happened the day before. Right now, both boys have but one objective and that was for Tohru to get better and get back home safely.

Shigure was also acting surprisingly weird today. He woke up early for a change and even made breakfast. "I've just got a call from Hatori." He said while his cousins seated themselves down at the dining table.

"Really? What did he say?" Kyo asked hurriedly.

"Tohru hasn't waked up yet."

Kyo stared at his respond.

"Why? Didn't he say that she'll wake up in a couple of hours after the anesthetic wears out?" Yuki asked.

"He said that he had checked everything, and she seemed fine. He said that maybe she was just too exhausted from being sick before and maybe her body just needed some more rest, so that's why she hasn't woke up yet. He told me not to worry. " How can they not be worry? All three cousins were very worried now, especially Shigure who knew a little more about the situation. He tried to ease the anxiety a little and pretended that nothing was wrong. "Don't worry. I know Hatori well, he's a great physician. He could handle anything even the toughest task like erasing people's memories."

This made Kyo and Yuki worried even more.

Shigure didn't mean to say that last part about erasing memories, but somehow it just slipped. He chuckled. "Just believe in him… and think about it, Tohru is just too sweet and kind. She will be blessed, I'm sure…" He wasn't sure.

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The next day at school, Uo sneaked behind Kyo who was staring into space on the roof top of the school building. "Orange-top! Where have you been? I thought that you'll never come back to school." Uo gave him a hard welcome smack on his back.

"What's that for you witch?"

"You better not call me names or I'll make the rest of your high school days so miserable that you wished you never knew me."

He sighed and looked away into the blue sky. "So, did anything happen while I was gone?"

"Nothing special." She replied sitting down next to him. "Oh, we did a survey about post graduation."

"Survey?" He asked still looking into space toward the hospital direction where Tohru was staying at.

"Yeah, each senior student was to think about what he or she would like to do after graduation. Tohru wants to do something with animals, Yuki is looking into martial art, Hana wants to become Chemist and I'm interest in motor machinery. What about you? What are you interest?"

"Huh?"

"Didn't you hear a thing that I said?"

"What?"

"I asked you what do you want to do after graduation."

"Beats me… I don't have time to think about this nonsense right now. What happen will happen… I'll just deal with it when it comes."

"Is something wrong? You don't seem to be yourself today."

"Hi!" Hana greeted them from the entrance. "I thought that I might find you guys here." Yuki also came at the same time and both walked up to the two that were already there.

"I sense something odd is going on here. I've been waiting to ask you where is Tohru? She never misses school unless she's very ill. Am I right?" Hana asked.

"Leave me alone!"

"You jerk! You're hiding something aren't you? Spit it out or else?" Uo strangled his neck with both of her hands.

"Just leave him alone." Yuki said leaning his back against the fence of the roof top.

"Now this is definitely the first time. The prince is defending him. Something is very fishy…" Hana said as she examined Yuki's plain expression.

"Tohru had an accident…" He started to explain.

"What?" Both girls asked at the same time.

"She is resting at the local hospital now and no visitor is allowed yet. So far, all we know is that she's okay and will be release in a couple of days."

"No… what happened?" Hana asked.

Yuki filled them in with all the details that he knew and said that he will update them as soon as he get more information about Tohru's condition.

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While at the hospital, Tohru finally woke up with a terrible headache as she found herself on the hospital bed and Hatori by her side. "Hatori?" She asked while shaking her head on the pillow and tried to sit up.

"Tohru, you're still weak, so you shouldn't move too much." He loan her a hand to aid her up. He then walked to the window and pulled the curtains to allow the sun to come in.

"What am I doing here? And why this terrible headache?" She asked.

He turned around to meet her blue eyes as he examined her. It looked like she didn't remember how she got to the hospital, but that sounded about right because she had fainted when Kyo brought her in.

"Hatori?" She asked again.

He continued to think. She remembered his name so that was a relieved. He smiled gently and said, "You're…"

"Pardon me." One of the nurses came in. "Miss. Honda is schedule for a cat scan in ten minutes. May I take her to the x-ray room?" She asked Hatori and he nodded.

"Tohru…" He continued. "We need to remove your bandages and run some test on her head injury."

"Head injury?" She quickly moved her right hand up to the right side of her head. She felt like something was thrilling inside of her head. 'So this is where my headache came from.' She thought to herself.

The nurse rolled in a wheelchair for Tohru to sit. Hatori helped lifting Tohru onto the chair and they escorted her to the x-ray room.

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An hour later, Hatori got the test result for the lab and everything checked out fine. It looked like Tohru had no damages whatsoever, but why did she took longer to wake up? He didn't know, maybe it was like he said earlier that she needed extra rest. He called Shigure to let him know the good news and also told him the Tohru will be able to see visitor tomorrow. Shigure was overjoyed and spread the news to everyone that he knew.

Hatori came into his brown hair patient's room and found her sleeping. He didn't want to wait her up, so he turned around and headed for the door. Before he existed, he was able to hear her cried. "Kyo… I love you."

She woke up and found him standing at the door and called for him, "Hatori."

He walked back to her and smiled, "So, how is your headache?"

"It's subsided a little." She replied. "You still haven't responded my question from earlier. Why am I here?"

He stared at her straight face as if she knew nothing. He couldn't help but had to test her out.

"You don't remember?"

"No."

'This is not good.' He thought as he continued with her, "Kyo brought you here about two days ago."

"Kyo?" Her head was starting to hurt again. She placed her hands on both side of her head as she squeezed her eyes together and asked herself, 'Why does it hurt so much when I say his name?'

"Tohru…" Hatori took control of her arms and set them down. "Look at me… answer my questions." He demanded.

"Do you know who I am?"

"Yes, Hatori Sohma. Doctor."

"What about Shigure?"

"Yes, Shigure Sohma. Novelist."

"Anyone else you can remember?"

"Ayame, Yuki, Kagura, Uo, Hana, Momiji, Haru, Kisa… and… and… Kyo…" Her head hurt again as she winked her eyes staring into the doctor's dark ones.

"Can you remember what happened two days ago?"

"No." She shook her head.

"What is the last event that you can remember?"

She dug deeper tried to remember any special events that happened or recent thought that she could recall. She finally said slowly, "Sohma's curse… second stage begins…"

"Second stage?" He questioned. He didn't understand what she was saying. "What second stage? Can you be more specific?"

"I don't remember… Shigure?" She questioned herself.

He opened his eyes as thought he knew something. "Tohru… I'm sorry…"

"For what?"

"I don't know yet… I'll have to figure it out." He let her go and tucked her back in bed. "Sleep and rest her head, you'll feel better after a good sleep."

"You still haven't answered me yet… Why am I here?" She asked again.

"I'll tell you once I figured it out." He replied. "Now be a good girl and sleep."

"Okay."

He left her and went to see Shigure.

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Back Stage Discussion:

Smile: This is all for now.

Kyo: That's it?

Smile: Oh, and I wanted to mention that in chapter 11, I typed "Sunday" instead of "Saturday", so I changed it. For all the readers that already read chapter 11, I apologize for the confusion. (Correction from chapter 11: She found herself caught between the busy crowds of a typical Saturday's afternoon.)

Shigure: Hey, did you have to cut me short? I was coming up next!

Smile: I know. Just wait for the next update. Okay, love?

Ayame: Smile! You said that you won't interfere?

Smile: I never say that I would… did I?

Ayame: What does that mean?

Shigure: Oh, Aya… give her a break. You're jealousy is so predictable and she can easily fiddle you around her fingers.

Smile: Actually, I wished that I was you Aya.

Ayame: Really?

Smile: Uh-huh.