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My Most Painful Memory
Ch. 5
Kyou stood protectively in front of Torhu. He glared dangerously at the stranger. There was an eerie silence that filled the room. Yuki suddenly appeared by Torhu's side.
"Mrs. Honda, are you alright?" Yuki asked, and it seemed to knock Torhu out of a trace
"Huh?" Torhu jerked her head left to look at Yuki. "Oh, yes, I'm fine." She gave an uncomfortable smile as Yuki helped her to her feet. She dusted herself off, and Kyou gave the man one more threatening threat, before they all left together.
Later, when they arrived at home Torhu went up to check on Shiori. However, the boys stayed down and talked with Shigure.
"Hatori will be over shortly to do an evaluation, before he takes her to the hospital." The two boys nodded. "He wants us all to be there while he does the evaluation, since the evaluation is to find out if she knows about… The curse." The boys nodded again. They had been quiet ever since they came back.
When Hatori came over they all gathered in Shiori's temporary room. Hatori held Shigure behind, before they went in.
"Akito wants to be the first to know the results, so the decision on whether or not she goes to a hospital is up to him." Hatori spoke calmly. Shigure nodded and looked in at the sleeping girl. She looked so peaceful at the moment, but earlier she had been crying.
"I understand," was Shigure's reply.
They all sat around in the room while Hatori tapped Shiori's shoulder lightly. Shortly Shiori opened her eyes. "Hello," she creaked.
"Hello," Hatori smiled at her.
"What do you want?" She looked around at all the people, and when her gaze landed upon Torhu she smiled. "Mother!"
Torhu blushed. Hatori jotted down some notes on a piece of paper. "Shiori?" he asked.
Shiori turned her head back toward Hatori, "yes?"
"Can you tell me who you all see in this room?"
"Certainly," she smiled. Shiori sat up, supported by her pillows. She lifted her hand and pointed to Yuki. "That's my pet rat, isn't he cute?" she giggled slightly. Her finger now landed on Kyou, "and that's the pesky cat that likes to chase him around." Her finger moved toward Shigure, "this is the family dog. He used to try and keep the cat from chasing my rat, but he gave up cause there was no use." Everyone's mouth dropped.
Her finger moved to Torhu, "and this is my mother. She's always there when I need her."
Hatori dropped his pencil in shock. There was no way in hell that could have just been a coincidence. Shigure and him exchanged glances, they knew that Akito wouldn't let her go for this, but what would he do with her.
Hatori excused himself from the room, "you may go back to sleep if you wish."
Shiori smiled and laid her head back, "actually I'd like to eat something, I'm rather hungry."
Torhu jumped up and hurried into the kitchen to throw something together, while the rest of the men went into the sitting room. "Hatori…" Kyou started.
"Don't bother." Yuki said, interrupting Kyou. "He has to tell Akito no matter what. There's nothing you can say to change his mind. He has rules he needs to follow in order to protect this family, he cannot make any exceptions because she is a classmate of ours."
Kyou glared, "THAT WASN'T WHAT I WAS GOING TO SAY!"
"Huh? Then what is it Kyou?" Hatori said.
"Until we can figure out what is going on, is it possible that she can stay here with us?"
"I'm afraid that is really up to Akito…" Hatori sighed.
"But you will suggest it, right, seeing as she is most comfortable here with us?"
"I'll see what I can do." Hatori rose to his feet, "but it would help if I caught him in a good mood." He smiled and showed himself to the door, while noises of Torhu's cooking floated in from the kitchen.
All they could do was wait.