A New Beginning
By Sunshine Usagi
Chapter 1 Sadness
Tohru Honda was walking home from work thinking to herself about everything that she needed to do the next day, when she heard the squealing of tires. She quickly whipped around only to see a car going out of control and heading straight for her. She tried to dodge it by jumping to her right, but to no avail. The last thing she remembered was someone crawling from the wreckage towards her, calling for help, and then she blacked out.
The Shoma family raced into the hospital and came to a screeching halt in front of the receptionist's desk. "Where is Tohru Honda located?" A calm Yuki asked while Kyo freaked out in the background, yelling at everyone to stay out of their way. The receptionist, with big eyes, replied," She's in room 206… her doctor is in there right now, so if you'd please wait a moment he'll be out to talk to you." She gave them a nervous smile, her eyes shifting back to the fuming Kyo. "Thank you very much" With his answer, Yuki ushered everyone into the waiting room to wait for the doctor.
"That stupid girl….she finally got what was coming to her. Now there is no one in my way…all of the zodiac will come crawling back to me because they have always loved me, not that wretched girl Tohru! Akito crackled evilly and ended in a coughing fit. Hatori sat quietly head slightly bent with his bangs covering his face from Akito's penetrating gaze. I hope Tohru is ok. "Aren't you going to help me to my bed or are you going to sit there and cry over that little b!" Akito scream seemed to echo throughout the room as Hatori sighed and helped him the five feet to his bed. Please be ok. We're all counting on you.
The Shoma's sat waiting patiently except for Kyo, who was pacing the floor. "Calm down, you stupid cat." Yuki ground out, annoyed by Kyo's constant back and forth motion. "Shut up you stupid rat! If you had went to go pick up Tohru instead of going to the damn main house so you could be Akito's damn lapdog, this would have never happened!" Kyo viciously spat out while cartoon cat ears, pointed back in anger, appeared over his head.
"Um…excuse me but are you the Shoma's?" Everyone turned to see a young man dressed in doctors clothing with a clipboard standing in front of them. "About time." Kyo growled. Yuki just pushed him out of the way apologizing for his cousin's behavior. The young doctor just laughed and informed them that he was Tohru's doctor. "How is she, doctor… she is still alive?" Yuki asked touching deeply on everyone's deepest fear. "Oh no she's fine but…" He trailed off and everyone gave him their full and undivided attention.
"She's in a comma right now and there is a chance that when she wakes up, she may have amnesia. It'll be scary for her to wake up not knowing who she is, where she is, and why she has a cast on both her left arm and leg." "Don't worry we'll be taking turns keeping watch over her…no matter how long it takes." Shigure, finally finding his voice, interjected. "That's good because we don't know how long this comma is going to last." Kyo, now that his temper had finally resided, asked," Can we go see her now?" "You sure can, go right ahead." The doctor directed them to the room and they power walked to get to Tohru's room as fast as possible.
Tohru was lying very still, so still it made the Shoma's fear she was dead. With closer inspection they could see her chest rising and falling slowly as she breathed with the help of breathing tubes. "My Flower, my precious Flower." Shigure murmured as he sat down on the edge of the hospital bed. He reached over, softly clasped her hand, and started whispering reassuring things to her even though he knew she couldn't hear him. Yuki stood near the door, both giving Shigure time alone with Tohru and pondering over his new fear, the fear that she would never wake up.
Kyo walked slowly forward wishing that Tohru would just suddenly sit up and tell them it was all just a joke and that she was perfectly fine, but when he reached the bed he knew it wasn't going to happen. Shigure gave a great sigh and stood up. "I'm going to go get some coffee from the cafeteria, anyone want something?" "No." Came the reply from both the cat and rat without removing their eyes from the form on the bed, as if they were afraid that she may disappear. Shigure just sighed again, as if a great weight was suddenly placed on his shoulders, and with a tired look went to get his coffee.
Kyo took hold of Tohru's casted hand while Yuki took hold of her right hand and both just sat there looking at her and studying her face. When Shigure came back he found Yuki and Kyo asleep holding Tohru's hands. He smiled, kissed Tohru on the forehead, and covered both Yuki and Kyo with blankets provided by the hospital. He took one last look at the picture before him, turned, and headed out to the waiting room to sleep.
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