A New Beginning
By Sunshine Usagi
Chapter 2 Who am I?
Two weeks had come and gone without any change. Tohru's friends and family had stopped by bringing flowers and gifts for her. Tohru's two best friends, Uo-chan and Hana-chan, have come by every day to check on her status, makes sure she always has clean clothes, and that she is always clean and presentable. Hana-chan does Tohru's hair up in her usual pigtail braids while Uo-chan shoos everyone out so they can give Tohru a bath and change her clothes, then everyone took turns watching her during the day and during the night. This had been the normal pattern for the past couple weeks.
Until one day, while Hana-chan was braiding her head, Tohru moved. Uo-chan saw this and called everyone over to the bed. Shigure softly asked his flower to move again if she heard him and she moved again only this time she opened her eyes. She blinked over and over again, trying to focus in the bright light. Yuki quickly went for the doctor while everyone else crowded in as close as they could to the bed, anxious looks on all of their faces. Tohru opened her mouth to speak but she couldn't make any sound. Understanding that Tohru's throat must be dry Hana- chan helped her up and pressed a glass of water to her lips. Tohru drank greedily until she had finished the glass. Then she tried to speak again. Her voice was a little rusty from non-use but they could all understand what she was saying.
"Where am I?...Who are you? And, I guess, the most important question would be: Who am I?"
Momiji ran and hopped excitedly up to the door of the main house. He rang the doorbell and asked for Hatori, urging the butler to hurry. Hatori came to the door with a very haggard look about him. It looked as though he hadn't slept in days. "Hari, Hari guess what?" and before Hatori could answer Momiji quickly blurted out the answer.
"She's awake, Tohru's awake!" Hatori had to take a moment to let this soak into his exhausted brain before he realized what Momiji said. "Are you sure Momiji? Or is this just something that you made up to cheer me up?" Hatori asked sternly. "Whaaaa!" Momiji wailed. "Hari doesn't believe me!" "Shhhh Momiji, I believe you, but we need to keep it down so we don't wake Akito." "OK." Momiji nodded his head in compliance. "Now, Momiji, where did you hear about Tohru waking up?" "Well I went to go visit Tohru when Yuki came out of her room grinning. When he saw me he told me the news. So after I visited with Tohru for a while, I came running here to tell you the great news!" Hatori pondered over this and finding that it had to be true (Yuki never lies) he decided to ask how Tohru was doing. "Oh she's doing great except for the fact she has a broken arm and leg and something else that starts with an a… but I don't remember what it's called."
This caught Hatori's attention, so he asked Momiji to explain the symptoms. "Well she can't remember anything at all, not even me." Momiji looked sad for a minute then quickly cheered up again. "That just means I get to become her friend all over again." Momiji giggled then waved goodbye to Hatori as he raced back down the driveway. Amnesia, I hope it's not too serious and her memory will come back soon. With that thought Hatori went back inside to do some paperwork.
"So that stupid girl woke up… she should have just died and done us all a favor." Akito sneered from the darkness with his eyes closed. "If she doesn't leave I'll just have to make her." Akito opened his eyes and smiled at the thought. His eyes and teeth seemed to glow within the darkness.
Shigure helped Tohru from the car and was helping her to her wheelchair as Yuki and Kyo grabbed her things from the trunk. Welcome Home Tohru! A banner said across the front of the house. Wow look at this place… Tohru's thought was cut off as a searing pain cut across her head. She would have fallen if she wasn't being held up by Shigure. "Whoa there, Flower, Don't strain yourself too much!" Shigure quickly swept her up into his arms and carried her the rest of the way to the wheelchair. Once he sat her down he asked if she was ok. "I'm ok sir, just a little tired and overwhelmed." "I guess you would be, oh and Tohru?" "Hm?" "Please call me by my name, Shigure." "Ok." With that he wheeled her into the house where everyone was waiting.
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