A/n: I beg of my readers to please pardon my seemingly abandonment of this particular work, and I ask that they continue to read and review as they please.
In other words I'm really sorry that I haven't been on in such a long time and haven't updated in an even longer amount of time, so forgive and forget right?
Disclaimer: I do NOT own fruits basket...if i did that'd be pretty cool ;P
A frown crossed the doctor's flawless face, and his violet eyes narrowed a bit "she's suffering from severe malnutrition, a sprained wrist, cold symptoms, and a fever." He classified after only examining the girl for a matter of minutes.
He stood from his kneeling position and turned to face the look of sheer confusion on Shigure's face. "In other words" Hatori said "she's worse off then Rin at the moment." A look of understanding finally lit up the dogs face and Hatori gave an irritated sigh.
"Come! Come!" Shigure said waving a playful hand in the air "We mustn't worry too much on such matters" the carefree man said with a smile plastered on his face. Hatori bit back any remark and turned back towards the unconscious girl lying on the couch. After a moments hesitation he tightened the bandage wound around her left wrist.
With another sigh he stood once more "that's about all I can do right now" he closed his bag and turned towards Shigure once more. "Be sure to call me when she wakes up, give her some cold medicine and only allow her to drink liquids in small amounts unless you want to be cleaning up vomit for awhile" he said sternly. He pushed past Shigure glancing at his watch.
'12:35 a.m.' glared up at him as he looked at it with disdain. Hatori had received the call from Shigure hours before and ever since his arrival had been paying close attention to the newcomer. As for Kyo, Yuki, and Tohru, they had retired hour's before-Tohru insisting that she at least try to wash as much of the mud from the girls' hair as best she could before doing so-but eventually the house had grown calm and for the most part restful.
Hatori heard a loud yawn from behind him but he didn't turn to look, as he grabbed his coat from the closet and placed his feet into his shoes. "G'bye Haa-San" Shigure said lazily while adjusting his robe. Hatori nodded in reply, and stepped out into the very early morning, already hating the prospect of having to go to work in a few hours time.
A small smile crept over her face as she was finally granted leave of the darkness and step into a less menacing, but still dull, gray. She had no knowledge of what had happened, and she, somewhat, feared that she had already met her death without even getting close to what she had come to Japan to do.
If she was in fact dead she refused to believe it as she fought desperately against herself, forcing her body to wake up against its will.
Her eyes flashed open catching the amused eyes of an older man before they slipped shut in a more restful sleep than the darkness had served.
She awoke to the feeling of something digging into her side, removing itself and then digging in once more repeatedly. Her eyes opened lazily to reveal the dark-haired man she recognized from her previous waking. She felt his finger poke her side again "wake up" she heard him drone as if he were a small child waking his mother to come play with him.
"What the hell do you want?" she asked, her voice coming out scratchy and small. "Ah, so you have awoken!" he said excitedly "That's good because I don't know what I would do with myself if I had to watch you sleep all day" the poking ceased, thank god, and the man scratched the back of his head.
"I was told to give you these" He said holding out two white tablets. She looked down at the pills "where am I?" she asked as she noticed that the open sky she had expected to wake up under had been replaced by a white ceiling, and the wooden deck she had fallen on had been replaced with a soft couch.
"You are currently located in my house which is located in Japan which is then located on planet Earth, which is then located in the Universe and so on and so forth. Now open your mouth" He reached towards her with one of the white tablets, and with a sudden burst of energy she slapped his hand away and sat up all in one move.
Dizziness swept over her almost forcing her to lie back down but she ignored it. "What makes you think I'm just going to accept that from you?!" she shouted glaring at the man. "It could be poison for all I know!" she objected.
The man looked up at her with an amused expression "and what reason could I possibly having for poisoning you?" he asked with a small laugh, which earned an even more intense glare from the girl. "There's a lot of sick people out there, you could be one of them" she swung her legs off of the couch and flinched at the coldness of the floor.
The man looked away as if hurt "everyone seems to think wrong of me as of late" he said sadly but it stirred no emotion from the girl. "What if I told you that they were just cold pills" he said happily enough turning back towards her.
She glared at him, "you can't prove that!" she protested before looking down at herself. She was unable to move her left hand, as it was bound tightly by boring colored bandages and she felt, overall, horrible. The man stood up, placing the pills in one of the pockets in his robe and shook a finger at her "don't make any more movement, while I go get some medicine" he said cheerfully enough.
She watched as he left the room and sighed. She frowned at her body's weakness and cursed it 'I'll never get anything done at this rate!' she thought to herself. She returned to lying down on the couch and stared up at the white-washed ceiling above her. "Why am I so weak?" she asked herself bringing up a hand to examine her palm.
She heard a crash from down the hall way and averted her gaze towards the door. She heard the man curse a few times before he appeared once more in the doorway. "Kyon really must learn how to stack blankets in a closet" he said waving his spare hand in the air dramatically.
"Here you are" he said happily enough as he held out a green box covered in odd symbols. "Cold medicine for you" he smiled as he fetched a glass filled with tap water from the end table next to the couch she lay on. She eyed him, suddenly a bit suspicious, and the glass of water he held in his hands. She glanced back at the box and pulled out the thin plastic sheets with the same white tablets embedded in them as the ones she had been offered earlier.
"How many?" she asked softly finally giving into the man's will. "Two should be just fine" he smiled. She ripped out two of the pills and popped them into her mouth. Before the bitterness of them could spread throughout her taste buds she gulped down some of the water. She felt somewhat relieved as it washed down her parched throat and she found herself thirsting for more. "Hey!" the man objected snatching the glass away from her, she reached out for it again, but he kept it just out of her reach.
"Tsk, tsk" he said ticking his pointer finger in the air as if she had done something bad. "Drink too much and you'll make yourself sick" he explained. She fell back onto the pillow, suddenly at a loss for anything to do and waited for the sleep aid in the pills to kick in. "Before you go back to sleep" the man addressed her "what should I call you?" he asked simply enough.
She looked up at him and smiled slightly "my name is Len" she closed her eyes and sighed. "Thank you" she whispered under her breath before turning around. "Not a problem" he said in assurance. "What's you name?" she asked trying to keep her eyes open against the work of the cold medicine. "Shigure" he answered with a smile and stood up. "Call me when you wake up again" he said, before turning and leaving her alone in the room once more.
She watched his back until he disappeared down the hall and her eyes slipped shut in a more peaceful sleep.
"What the hell do you mean, you damn Rat?!" her eyes snapped open at the shouts.
"I mean that you should pay more attention to what you're doing, stupid cat" said a calmer person.
Len sat up, looking around her surroundings groggily, she knew immediately that something was amiss but it took her a moment to discover that the sun was low in the sky and hardly any of its light escaped into the room she occupied.
The shouting of the two boys ceased almost instantly at the panicked voice of someone Len couldn't identify right away as a female or male as they were talking much to quietly for her to hear anything other than the murmurs.
She looked at the doorway, half expecting Shigure to poke his head in to check on her. But nothing happened. She was about to lay back down when a fuming flash of navy blue and orange passed by the door quickly and angry footsteps stomped up the stairs. She flinched at the sound of a door slamming shut.
"I'm going to put my stuff away" she heard a female's voice and wondered if it was the same one who had stopped the two boys bickering. She watched as a bubbly looking girl, with dark chocolate brown hair passed by the doorway and listened to her footsteps until they stopped.
"Loud house" Len mumbled to herself before turning away from the door, not quite ready to show anyone that she was awake. She felt, rather than heard, the girl pause at the door and felt stray eyes on her for a moment before it disappeared and she was left alone in the room once more. She closed her eyes in thought, wondering if she should perhaps reveal herself now, or play dumb for the moment. She decided on the latter.
She didn't notice how hungry she was until she could smell whatever was being cooked in the kitchen. Her stomach began to make loud protests and she found herself cursing herself for no particular. The minutes passed and she listened to the soft murmurs of conversation coming from the kitchen, but could make out none of it.
Len half worried about what excuse she was going to use to explain why she had been outside on such a night, and she half worried about leaving the home soon and getting what she needed to do done. She pulled the thin white sheet that covered her away and propped herself up on her elbow. She took another look around the room, but saw nothing new.
She reached for the glass on the end table and frowned when she realized that there was less than half of what had been in there earlier. She gulped down the remainder of it quickly but still thirsted for more. A small sigh escaped her lips as she swung her legs off of the couch, the cold medicine had done its work well and she felt tons better than she had in the past few days.
She stood up shakily and waited for a minute for the dizziness to pass her. She bent backwards slightly in a poor attempt to stretch her back and gasped when a series of popping sensations and sounds came up along her spine. She stood for a moment longer, contemplating on how best to introduce herself, especially in the state she was in.
She was just summoning up enough courage to leave the small room when the girl interrupted her thoughts. "Dinners ready" she called happily enough from the kitchen. Len frowned at the happiness evident in her voice but thought nothing of spoiling it. "Guess this is as good as a time as ever" she mumbled heading for the door.
She wasn't paying attention to the boy dashing down the stairs, and he wasn't paying attention to her. Len stepped out from the doorway and turned towards the stairs at the sudden THUMP THUMP THUMP sounds of heavy steps. She opened her mouth in a startled 'O' and only had time to gasp before it happened.
The orange hair boy noticed Len too late, and the momentum from the stairs propelled him forward, causing him to knock them both to the ground, and worse he landed right on top of her. It took a moment for Len's disoriented mind to decipher what had happened and when she did a panicked expression crossed her face before a loud POP and orange smoke filled the air…
a/n: well there it goes for chapter three (i'm wondering if i should name them or not...) will the sohma family secret be revealed!?...or will something even larger/bigger/worser occur :o?