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PlaidPajamas01:No Hatori and Kana are not Rika's parents. Everything gets explained around chapter 21 (I know it's 10 chapters away but it shouldn't take that long to post since everything's already typed out I just have to reread and edit.)
Rika walked into the locker room to see Yuki, Tohru, Arisa, and Saki were at Yuki's locker.
"What's going on?" Rika asked. Tohru looked to her.
"Girl's put chocolates from other girls in the trash to make room for theirs." She said. Rika nodded.
"I kinda expected that." It was Valentine's Day; Rika had already gotten a few chocolates from a few younger students.
"Um but wait… that belongs to Yuki right?" Tohru asked when Saki picked up a thing of chocolate.
"That's okay." Yuki said with a smile.
"Shouldn't let it go to waste." Rika said with a shrug.
…
"Hey," Arisa said as she, Tohru, Saki and Rika saw Kyo walking down the hallway.
"Hey." Kyo said. He looked and saw Yuki and growled before walking over to him and punching the wall next to Yuki.
"K-Kyo!" Tohru jumped. The two kept looking at one another before Kyo walked past him.
"That guy's just been itching for a fight all morning." Arisa said. They walked into their class. It was a few minutes until the bell so Rika normally stayed and hung out until then; she didn't care if she was late to her class and her teacher was used to it by now. Rika grimaced watching the weird Yuki fan club girls being creepy behind Yuki who was reading. "Damn those fan club girl's look scary today, they're either about to mug him or eat him I can't tell which." Arisa said.
"Oh I almost forgot, these are for you." Tohru said holding out chocolates to Arisa and Saki.
"Hey I still owe you from last year." Arisa said.
"Thank you very much, what would you like in return?"
"Oh no, you don't have to worry about getting me anything, I just wanted to thank you both for always being there for me."
"They're from me too of course." Rika said with a smile.
"Kyo-Kyo?" They looked over to see a girl by Kyo who was at his desk. "Here, I got you some chocolates." She said happily.
"Oh, looks like Kyo has an admirer." Tohru said.
"Cute." Rika said.
"Well who woulda thought?" Arisa said. "'Kyo-Kyo''s a stud." Kyo stared at the green bag with sunflowers that the girl was holding out.
"Wait a minute is today Valentine's-" Suddenly Kyo stood up. "I'm going home." He said quickly.
"What?" The girl asked.
"No wait." He said. "Home's dangerous too." Yuki looked up from his book. "A journey… yeah I'll just … go some place far away where no one can find me!" He said sprinting from the room. Rika chuckled. Yuki and Tohru looked over at her.
"Just my guess but…" She chuckled again. "But who else would come today to visit Kyo?" Tohru looked confused. "Kagura." Rika said looking out the window to see Kagura running to Kyo and him backing up trying to run away.
"Why do I get the feeling he's not happy to see Kagura?" Tohru asked as she, Yuki and Rika looked out the window.
"He's not." Yuki said.
"I'm here for Valentine's silly." Kagura said later when they were all back at the house. "It' a very important day for lovers to be together." She said.
"You're not gunna find any lover in this house." Kyo muttered facing away from her. Shigure was across from her and Yuki across from Kyo with Rika next to him.
"Kyo, behave please." Shigure said. "I don't want the house getting, you know, smashed."
"Damn it! I shoulda left on that journey sooner. How was I supposed to know today was Valentine's?!"
"It's called a calendar." Yuki said.
"So," Shigure said. "Did you give him chocolates?" He asked Kagura.
"Well yeah," She said. "I tried but for some reason he just won't take them from me; watch." She pulled out a giant chocolate heart. "Happy Valentine's Day Kyo! A chocolate heart stuffed full of my love all for you!" She said holding it out to him. Kyo stood up.
"Keep it! What man in his right mind would eat that girly sugary crap?!" he shouted.
"How the hell is chocolate girly?"
"I meant the shape!" Kyo snapped at her. Tohru stood into the doorway with something behind her back.
"I'm sorry but do... do you really not like chocolate Kyo?" she asked.
"No! I hate it!"
"Shut up and eat it!" Kagura said making Kyo cower. "Did you hear me?! I said eat it damn you!" She shouted. Rika looked at Yuki who looked bored.
"No means no, woman!"
"Eat it!"
"No!"
"Eat!"
"Never!"
"Eat it!"
"You'll have to kill me first!"
"I'm starting to get angry!"
"No!"
"Tohru," Shigure said. "I don't suppose those are chocolates you're hiding behind your back?" Yuki looked up.
"Eheheh. Well," She said bringing the bag around and holding it in front of her. "Actually I did have some here, from Rika and I, we wanted to give everyone." Kyo and Kagura stopped. "I forgot to ask if everyone likes chocolate. You know, silly me." She hit her head lightly.
"Miss Honda, I would love some chocolate." Yuki said.
"Oh… Okay!" She said happily. "Let's see," She said reaching in the bag. "Here," She held out a little purple box. "Here's yours."
"Thank you very much."
"And… this one's for Shigure." She said giving him his.
"Oh really? For me?" Shigure said.
"She did say everyone, didn't she?" Yuki said.
"It's not much thanks for everything you've done for Rika and me."
"Oh no, no." Shigure said. "I should be the one thanking you two. Still, I'm touched Tohru and Rika's Valentine chocolates. How they warm the heart and lift the soul." Rika giggled and leaned over to kiss his cheek. He looked at her in surprise with the slightest blush on his face. Rika sat back down and looked to Yuki who was also looking very shocked.
"Jealous?" Rika asked with a small laugh. He blushed. Rika quickly pecked his cheek and his face went red. Rika chuckled and he looked away.
"Oh and Kagura." Tohru said. "There's one for you too."
"Ahh one for me?" She asked before hugging Tohru. "Thank you!"
"And we have one for Hatori, and Hatsuharu and Momiji." Tohru said putting three boxes down. "I didn't know if we'd see them today. But I hope there's some way to give them to them."
"You really did mean everyone, didn't you?" Yuki said.
"Well they were so cute and we had so much fun wrapping them." Tohru said Rika smiled. "I guess we got a little carried away. Oh…but uh... I suppose first I should have asked to see if they even like chocolate…"
"Oh." Shigure said. "Don't let what Kyo said bother you. You see, he thinks he's being manly but really he doesn't have a clue what true manliness is. A real man would've eaten the chocolates without all of this fuss. To refuse a gift, to trample on another person's heart like that it falls short of being a human being let alone a man."
"Oh eheheh. No really I should have known to get something besides chocolate. Like maybe fish crackers or thunder rice cakes, or I don't know something more masculine sounding that he would've liked."
"Those sound delicious too." Shigure said.
"Hm." Kyo said, still on the ground. "Fine, I just gotta eat it?" He stood up picking up Kagura's chocolate heart. "So! I'll eat it!"
"Goodie!" Kagura said happily as Kyo began to eat the whole chocolate heart. "Look Kyo's eating my chocolate!"
"Why is he always so dramatic?" Rika muttered to Yuki who cracked a smile.
"Um… Are you alright?" Tohru asked once Kyo was finished. He stood where with his hands on his sides munching on the last of the chocolate. He held out his hand towards Tohru. She looked up at him. After a moment she smiled.
"Here." She said putting the box in his hand.
…
Later that day Kagura was leaving. She held Kyo's hand in hers.
"Don't worry; I'll see you soon."
"Who's worried?!" He said pulling his hand away. Kagura smiled anyway.
"You know… I heard something from Haru; he said that you and Yuki are sort of getting along better now. He said if you two keep getting to know each other you might actually become friends one day… I'd be very happy if that came true." She giggled. "Bye Bye."
The next month seemed to fly by and exams came and went. Rika studied with Tohru and Yuki, mostly helping Tohru since she was a year older. Rika really wanted to know how Tohru did on her tests so she walked down to her class and walked in.
"Part time job here I come!" Tohru said happily. Kyo and Yuki looked over to Rika.
"Rika, do you have work as well?" Yuki asked. Rika shook my head.
"No, not tonight. So I can walk home with my two favorite boys." Rika said with a smile putting her arm around one of Yuki's and one of Kyo's.
"Hey let go." Kyo whined pulling his arm away.
"Fine, I guess I'll just hold on to Yuki." Rika said sticking her tongue out at him and hugging Yuki's arm. She noticed the entire Yuki fan club girl's freak out and chuckled. "Come on, Yuki." she said pulling him out of the classroom. He blushed but walked with her.
"Hey! Wait for me!" Kyo said coming out of the classroom and walking beside them.
…
Rika had moved to holding Yuki's hand by the time they left school property. They got home and she let go of Yuki's hand as they got inside.
"We're home!" Yuki called.
"Ah Rika!" Shigure said popping out of his office. He started to come over, arms out-stretched and Yuki hit him on the head as he was about to hug Rika.
"Would you cut it out?"
"But I only wanted a simple hug." Shigure whined. Rika chuckled.
"One hug -" Rika got cut off as he pulled her to him. "B-but that's it!" Rika said. He leaned down to her ear.
"What else did you expect me to do? Having naughty thoughts are we?" He said quietly in her ear. Rika blushed bright red and pulled away.
"S-Shigure." She looked up at him. He chuckled.
"Leave her alone, would ya?!" Kyo shouted.
Later that night there was a knock on the door.
"I'll get it." Rika said getting up. She went to the door and opened it. "Momiji!" she said with a smile.
"Rika! Hi!" He said before jumping and hugging her. "Huh?" He looked up at her confused. "I thought Haru was lying when he said we could hug you." Rika chuckled.
"No, he was telling the truth. For some reason I don't cause anyone to transform." Rika said rubbing the back of her head.
"That's great! We can hug you as much as we want!" He said happily hugging her and nuzzling his face into her stomach. Rika smiled and closed the door. A few moments later something hit the door lightly. Momiji opened it to find Tohru. "Tohru, you're home!"
"Oh! Momiji!" She said. He grabbed her hand and pulled her inside.
"I just got here too. Come on, come on, let's go in, this way, this way!"
"Where does that boy get all of his energy?" Shigure asked.
"Well he is a rabbit." Rika said. Shigure chuckled.
"This is my first time to Shigure's house! Isn't it exciting?!" Momiji said as Shigure and Rika followed him and Tohru. "Hello there!" Momiji waved to Yuki.
"Hi, I'm home from my job." Tohru said.
"Welcome back." Yuki said. Kyo walked in with a towel on his head, drying his hair.
"Great. The annoying little brat's here." Kyo said.
"Ah, someone just got outta the bath. Kyo!" Kyo came over and gave Momiji a double noogie.
"I swear it bugs me every time you open your mouth!"
"Waaah! Kyo's picking on me!"
"Momiji, I made a snack if you're hungry." Tohru said holding a small tray.
"Oh I am! Ha hahaha!" Momiji said. Kyo was suddenly giving him another double noggie.
"Ya see?! Like I said; every time!"
"Waaah Waaaah!"
"Kyo! Stop picking on Momiji!" Rika said pulling Momiji into a hug. He hugged back still 'waaah'ing.
…
"Momiji," Shigure said. "Have you told us to what we own the pleasure of your company this evening?"
"Mm-mm. Not yet. I have a question for Tohru and Rika!"
"Um yes?" Tohru said.
"I bet you don't know what day it is tomorrow!"
"Let's see, tomorrow… um it's March 14th right?" She said.
"Bingo! And March 14th is White Day! So tomorrow I'm giving you a present, it's a trip to a hot spring!" Tohru kinda freaked out. "I call it: Me, Tohru and Rika's super relaxing hot spring steam trip!"
"I don't think you have to name it." Shigure said.
"A hot spring," Yuki said. "Which one?" He asked.
"You know, there's that one place the Sohma's run right?" Momiji said.
"Oh, I see."
"Um.." They looked to Tohru. "I don't know, an invitation to an expensive sounding place like a hot spring? It's too much, I couldn't accept, I'd just be asking for it." She said.
"Uh you know Tohru," Shigure said. "It's just a hot spring, it's not like he's flying you off to Paris or anything like that. It would be a real shame to turn it down. You two should go, it'll be a good chance to get away from it all; relax."
"I'm sorry I thought you'd be happy to go." Momiji said.
"No I am happy." Tohru said. "Thank you so much."
"Yeah, thanks, Momiji." Rika said as she ruffled his hair slightly. Momiji grinned.
"Yuki and Kyo are coming too." Momiji said. Suddenly Kyo was behind them.
"Why don't you try asking before you start making plans for everyone?" Momiji started to pull on Kyo's shirt.
"Aww go with us! Go with uuuss!"
"Forget it! And whining like that isn't gunna change my mind!"
"Yuki?" Momiji asked. "Will you come?"
"Of course. I wouldn't miss it."
"Yaaaay!Yay!" Momiji cheered and Tohru and Rika giggled.
"Okay now I really don't wanna go." Kyo said.
"Why not?" Momiji said popping up in front of him. "You don't have to worry about money; I've been saving up my allowance."
"That's not the problem." Kyo said.
"Oh," Shigure said. "Speaking of money, Tohru, I hear you still haven't paid last month's dues towards your class field trip fund. I got a call from your grandfather, apparently someone from the school called him. He said he'd pay for you if you needed."
"No no, no, no, I can't ask him to do that! It would be too much trouble! He can't, no!" She said shaking her hand and waving her hands. "Last month there was just a lot going on, but I'll be able to catch up with the money I earn at my job this month so it's alright. I already explained everything to the teacher in charge. So I'm sorry, I'm sorry you had to hear about it." She said.
"But Tohru, you worked a pretty fair amount last mouth so how is it-" He stopped and he, Kyo and Yuki all had the same look of realization.
"So hey," Momiji said. "You're going on a class trip huh?" Momiji asked Tohru.
"Oh, I don't know." She said. Suddenly Kyo was by them super pissed off. "Yes?" He calmed down then pointed to the left.
"Water. Hot bath. You go."
"Neh, okay." She said before getting up and going to take a bath.
"Impressive." Shigure said to Kyo. "You're learning self-control. But at any rate, chocolate doesn't exactly fall from the sky; Tohru had to have paid for it out of her own pocket."
"We split the price." Rika said with a frown. "But I guess it was still too expensive. She never said anything about it so I didn't know."
"So how is it that we didn't realize that at the time?" Yuki asked. Kyo put his fist down on the table.
"It's cause she was so damn happy about it! How could we know she was broke?!" Kyo shouted. "She didn't have to get that stuff for us. But hey she thought it'd be fun to spend all her money. She could've bought herself new clothes or paid for her class trip, or somethin. Talk about stupid. I mean what was she thinkin? All she's doing is making things hard on herself."
"Oh hey," Momiji said. "You know what? There's this kid in my class who reads a lot."
"Huh?" Kyo looked up at Momiji confused.
"Yeah, so he got this new book and he brought it with him yesterday. It was called "A Guide to the World's Greatest Fools." He's always bringing funny books like that. This one time he brought one call "The Universe of Stu."
"Do you have a point in there somewhere?" Yuki asked.
"Oh right, so anyway, a bunch of us sat down and read this book together. There was this one story in it, I remember, it was called "The most Foolish Traveler in the World" You see, once upon a time there was this foolish traveler who had gone on a journey. Why was he foolish? Well because he was fooled by everyone he met. Everywhere he went people made up all kinds of sad stories to tell him. And the traveler fell for every one of them. Pretty soon, his money, his clothes even his shoes had been cheated away from him. But the foolish traveler was always glad to help. And he always told people the same thing he said "I wish you happiness." But by this point though the traveler was completely naked. And with nothing left to cover himself he decided to leave the main road and travel through the dense forest, where no one could see him. But soon he was discovered by the goblins that lived in the woods. The goblins wanted to eat the traveler's body. So they begged and they pleaded and they used kind words to try and trick him. Of course the traveler was fooled. First he let the goblins eat one of his legs, then an arm, then more and more. Before it was over all the traveler had left was his head. He'd even given his eyes away to the last of the goblins. And as that last goblin was eating the traveler's eyes he turned and said "Thank you traveler in return I leave you this present." What the goblin left was a slip of paper with the word "fool" written on it. That traveler couldn't see it; he didn't know what it was. Even so tears began to flow down his face. "Thank you" he said. "This is the first present anyone has ever given me I'm so happy. I'm so happy thank you." Even without his eyes he cried and he cried great tears of joy. Then, that traveler died with a smile still on his face. And that's the end of the story." Momiji concluded.
"Well that was pretty morbid…" Rika mumbled.
"Right after we heard that yesterday," Momiji said. "All the other kids in the class started making fun of the traveler. But while they did that, I closed my eyes and I thought about him a little bit longer. I thought about how he'd given everything away until all he had left was his head. And how at the end he still cried for joy as he said "Thank you." And then I realized, I feel so sorry for him. See? Loss, hardship, things like that you can't only focus on things like them. The traveler didn't. He never thought about his own troubles at all. I imagine that it probably does sound foolish to some people. But not to me. I don't think he's foolish at all. Even though other people probably think he was being tricked, I don't think he was. I think he did exactly what he wanted to do. I think, more than anything, he just wanted to make other people happy. What about you Yuki, Kyo?" Momiji asked. "What do you think? Really, is that foolish? When you close your eyes and think about it. Is that what it is?" Rika reached over and ruffled his hair.
"That was so… philosophical." she said with a smile. Momiji grinned.
"You're coming to the hot springs right?"
"Of course. I've never been to one before."
"That's great! We'll have so much fun!" he said. Rika smiled.
"It's getting pretty late, Momiji. I think you should start heading back." Shigure said.
"Aww, I guess you're right. But one last hug!" He said before hugging Rika. She smiled and hugged back.
"See you later, Momiji."
"Tell Tohru I said bye." Rika nodded. "I'll be back tomorrow!" He said with a big smile before getting up and leaving.
"Hey, if you and Tohru split the price how is she broke and you're not? Don't you get the same salary?" Kyo asked.
"Huh?" Rika turned to him. "We don't have the same job." She said shaking her head.
"Well where do you work then?"
"None of your business." Rika said before leaving the room.
"Jeez, I was just askin'."
Next one out as soon as I reread and edit it ^_^ Hope you're all enjoying it.