I'm so sorry that this took so long. First of all my disc broke, the one that I put chapter 5 on so I had to rewrite it! Then I was grounded from the computer, my Math grade fell, and I had to bring it back up so it was study, study, and study until I died. From this TT to this XX.
I don't own anyone. They aren't mine. EXCEPT CALEB!
I don't own anyone. Caleb was a character one of the voices in my head made up. Here you go.
Tohru walked around in the darkness without any idea about where she was. The silence all around her was frightening. The only light was the pink glow that she gave off. It circled ten feet around her.
Tohru dropped to her knees to think about what happened and to massage her aching head. She prayed for human contact. She wished for anyone, anyone other than the man walking toward her.
Kyo was pacing around the living room, periodically glancing at where Tohru was lying on the couch. Yuki was sitting in an armchair across from the sofa. Hatori was transformed back into a man and standing next to Tohru (He's clothed).
"What could have caused this?" Yuki asked looking toward Hatori who had finally stopped crying. Hatori could not answer, he only shook his head in puzzlement.
"Where's Shigure?" Hatori asked looking around. The dog had disappeared soon after Akito had been absorbed into Tohru.
"Where he always is when Tohru gets hurt." Yuki slowly stood and led Hatori into Shigure's study.
Shigure was slumped over his desk with a glass half full of an amber liquid in front of him. He was starting to mumble incoherently about how sorry he was and about damning Akito to hell. Hatori walked up to Shigure and took the bottles of alcohol off his desk. He dumped the contents of the bottles down the kitchen drain. What was left in Shigure's cup, Hatori swallowed.
"Does he always drink like this?" Hatori asked draping a blanket over the drunken man. "He was never partial to the alcohol an the 'Inside'."
"He started when Tohru was in the hospital." Yuki said shutting the study door. They walked back into the kitchen to clean up the bottles.
"Yuki, Hatori! Come quick!" Kyo called from the living room. The two ran into the room while Kyo was trying to keep an unconscious Tohru on the couch. She was thrashing her arms and kicking her legs out at nothing. They cry of anguish that came from the struggling girl broke all of their hearts.
"What do you want?" Tohru asked standing. Akito took a step forward and Tohru one back.
"You know what I want. I want you to die, but you had to make it difficult." Akito saw the fear in Tohru's eyes and chuckled.
"Go away." Tohru said twisting her hands into her skirt.
"You don't even know where you are, let alone who you are." Akito said taking another step forward. "Why don't you just give up? Their lives aren't worth saving."
Tohru flinched. "The Sohmas are very special to me. I like them better than you." She spoke, her voice wavering from fear to courage. "So, I won't let you hurt them."
"That's sweet." Akito took three steps toward Tohru before she could blink. "As soon as I get my body back, the first thing I'm going to do is put that carrot-topped-cat-monster in the darkest room in the main house and he will never see sky again." Akito grasped Tohru's shoulders and smile wickedly. "Doesn't that sound nice? Now, die."
Tohru flailed in his arms, but Akito's grip was like iron. His fingers bruised Tohru's small shoulders. Akito pushed Tohru onto the ground. He laughed as a grey smoke swirled and formed about his hands.
The smoke turned into an elaborate black spear. Tohru's eyes widened in fear as Akito rested the point at the base of her throat. He pulled it back to make a fatal blow, but Tohru rolled out of the way.
"Making this interesting aren't we?" Akito said watching Tohru. He swung the spear at her neck and missed. It grazed her shoulder. Blood now coated the tip of Akito's weapon. He was looking at Tohru when he brought the point up to his mouth. Akito licked some of the blood off and watched Tohru crawl backwards.
"Why do you want to kill me?" Tohru asked as she regained her balance. Akito looked at her thoughtfully.
"Since I couldn't kill your body, I thought I could kill your soul and take over your body." Akito walked in a circle around her, his eyes never leaving her. "Think about it. It would still be you. Same body. Same voice. All I'd have to do was act ditzy and then no one would know."
Tohru got onto her knees as Akito stopped before her." Plus I won't have to know anything about your worthless past because Hatori erased your memory." The spear found it's way Tohru's wounded shoulder and increased the opening of the gash.
"No, if you won't die quickly, then you will die painfully." Akito's voice echoed eerily and the spear made an arch for her again.
"What's wrong with her?" Yuki asked holding Tohru's legs down. "What happened?"
"I don't know, One minute she was lying there and the next she acted as if she was being attacked." Kyo said holding Tohru's shoulders.
"Well, maybe she was." Hatori said looking at the younger boys. "Akito was absorbed into her body. That means there are two spirits inside there. According to some of the books I've read one body can only contain one soul and if there are two then they will battle until one dies."
Tohru's body tossed, turned, and rolled over until blood showed through her shirt. Then she went completely still and Doctor Hatori jumped over to take her pulse.
"What's wrong?" Yuki asked, his eyes full of worry.
"Nothing she's fine." Hatori said looking away from Tohru.
"Fine? Fine? Akito is inside of her! He's going to kill her and it's all your fault!" Kyo yelled glaring at Hatori. "You erased her memory!" He threw a magazine that was on the coffee table at the wall.
"Calm down, Kyo. Have some faith in Tohru." Yuki said leaning against the couch. "Maybe we can find a way to help Tohru. Why would Akito want Tohru or her body?"
"He could want it for regeneration." Hatori said pushing one of Tohru's bangs out of her sweat-soaked face. "What he wanted at first was to sacrifice Tohru to heal his body. Now that it's gone, he would want to summon another one."
"If that is the case, then why would he need Tohru?" Kyo asked still glaring at the Dragon.
"Anyone would do, in fact he could have easily used one of us. My guess would be that he wanted revenge on Tohru after what happened. Tohru is also a pure soul. Which would strengthen his new body." Hatori said loosening his tie.
"How do you know all of this?" Kyo asked. "Never mind. What are we going to do now? What can we do?" Kyo looked at Yuki whose blank stare told him that he wasn't listening.
Hatori rubbed his hands over his tired face and then he left for a minute. He returned with a handful of bandages and disinfectant spray. Hatori quickly bandaged Tohru's shoulder and mopped up some of the unwounded skin.
"What do we do mow?" asked Kyo whose voice had attained a squeak.
Hatori sighed and glanced around. "Someone should make a pot of coffee. This is going to be a long night." The hands on the clock chimed midnight.
"Aaahhh!" Kyo yelled as Tohru suddenly struck out with her legs and kicked him. The girl on the couch was wheezing and breathing heavily. The Tohru curled herself around her abdomen and started making crying noises.
"Stupid fool. If you keep dodging like you'll get hurt." Akito said mockingly. "I don't want you hurt, I want you dead." Tohru slid away from Akito on her butt with her left arm trying to stop the blood flow from the wound on her midsection. She didn't get very far. Akito took one step with his long legs and landed in front of her. The deadly spear was once again poised to strike.
"Wait," Tohru gasped looking up into the eyes of the Sohma. "I need to know, Could I have ever saved the Sohmas of the zodiac? Is there a way to break the curse?" Tohru saw Akito's grin fall and her fear rose.
The spear was lowered and held at Akito's side. He knew he had the upper hand so he let his guard down. Akito looked at Tohru carefully and then spoke.
"No, there is no way you could have broken the curse. It is an unbreakable curse. The only way the Sohmas got it was because some other pitiful family gave it to us." Akito leaned on his spear as he spoke. "I doubt you could have found the spell to rid the Sohmas of it."
"But, you were so sick and stayed in Hatori's library. You could have found the spell to reverse it." Tohru frowned in puzzlement.
Akito laughed. "You think that I'm going to rid the poor Sohmas of the zodiac curse? They deserve it. They don't obey me at all. Yuki defied me, Hatori tried to help you, and Kyo…Kyo is the cat he's a monster." Akito raised his spear "Goodbye."
Tohru threw up her hands and Akito threw the spear at her. A pink cloud appeared around them and Akito screamed. When the fog faded Tohru saw that a red and white shield had wrapped itself around her right forearm. Akito's spear had broken and the point was now embedded in his chest.
"You bitch." Akito whispered as he faded away into grey dust. The spear and shield also disappeared in a colored fog. Tohru sat there on the floor. Too stunned to move, too stunned to say anything. Then she fainted.
"Akito!" Tohru screamed leaping off the couch. Kyo and Yuki were right there beside her in case she decided to have a seizure again. Hatori rushed into the room seconds later. "Kyo, Yuki!" Suddenly Tohru threw her arms around both of their necks and there was only a few seconds pause before they turned into the cat and the rat.
Tohru held onto them and cried. Both Yuki and Kyo were shocked, but then comforted Tohru. She got them wet with tears before she passed out from exhaustion. Hatori noticed that there was blood on her hands and all over the blankets so he sent the boys to the bathrooms to shower.
Hatori removed the blankets and shoved them into the washing machine before wrapping up the wound on her abdomen and treating the bruises. There was blood all over Tohru's shirt and there was no way she would get better wearing it while she was sleeping. So Hatori fetched one of the large shirts from the laundry basket across the room and quickly exchanged the shirts before he glimpsed the bra underneath.
Once that was done Hatori turned off the coffeepot and poured himself a cup. Yuki was sitting across from Hatori, his hair still wet from the water. Kyo was scrubbing vigorously at the bloody hand print on his chest. The water was turned pink with Tohru's blood.
"What are we going to do?" Yuki asked rubbing the towel over his head. "Tohru will have to go to school. Her friends will be worried."
"We can say that she's having problems with the medicine the hospital prescribed. I'll write a note." Hatori said sipping the strong liquid in his cup. "Gods, my head hurts."
"What do you think happened in there?" Kyo asked pulling up a chair. "Do you think she won?" Yuki looked at Kyo like he was crazy.
"Would Akito yell our names and then hug us?" Yuki said looking toward the living room couch where a few strands of Tohru's dark hair were draped over a pillow. "One of us should be at her side all day tomorrow. That way, if she needs our help we'll be there, and if she needs anything explained." There was silence for a minute before Yuki stood up. "I'm going to bed."
Yuki walked out of the kitchen flinging a good night in his wake. He glanced at Tohru before ascending the stairs to his room. Kyo stood nodding toward Hatori who finished his second cup of coffee. He then walked into the living room where Tohru was sleeping. She had a very faint smile on her lips. Kyo leaned down and kissed the top of her head. He moved to walk away, but Tohru grasped one of his hands. She was still asleep and Kyo didn't move his arm. Hatori glanced once at the two and then went to Shigure's room to sleep.
The next morning Kyo woke with his head in his arms. He had fallen asleep holding onto Tohru's hand. She still grasped it tight as if she thought that he would disappear. Her eyes were still shut, at least they were until Kyo kissed her hand. Then her eyes fluttered open and a blush creeped over her face.
"G'morning." Kyo said sleepily. He rubbed his eyes and sat up straight.
"Good morning, Kyo." Tohru couldn't look up into his eyes. She was too embarrassed. "Are we going to school?"
"Yes, go get dressed." Kyo said standing. Tohru flung her legs over the side of the couch and threw the blankets off her numb legs. She winced climbing the stairs and Kyo, who was ahead of her didn't notice.
"Hello, Yuki!" Tohru exclaimed when she saw the rat coming from the bathroom, fully dressed.
"Good morning, Tohru. I'll make breakfast." Yuki said tucking some hair behind her ear. He smiled before walking down the stairs. Tohru then went into her room and carefully took off the clothes she was wearing. She put on a clean uniform. And ran a brush through her hair.
Then she left her room to go to Hatori who was still fast asleep in Shigure's room. She woke him up saying sorry over and over again. Then he re-wrapped all of her bandages and wrote on several pieces of paper. After he had given her the notes, Hatori fell back asleep.
The breakfast the Yuki made was watery oatmeal, but it's the thought that counts. Tohru tried to tie her bow, but her fingers kept getting in the way.
"Let me help." Yuki said pushing Tohru's hands away. He made the bow as quick as he could and then Tohru thanked him. She ate the food he put in front of her and pulled on her shoes as the two Sohma boys dragged her outside.
"C'mon, you're so slow." Kyo said looking behind him at the girl. She was looking around her as if to memorize where she was. "What the hell are you doing?"
Tohru looked at him. "I want to know how to get back to the house in case I get lost."
"You don't have to do that, Tohru we'll be right here with you/" Yuki said pulling Tohru's sleeve. She jogged to catch up with them as they reached school.
"Tohru! I've missed you so much." Uo-chan said hugging Tohru around her head. "Can you get Prince Yuki to help me with my math?"
"Of course……"
"Uo-chan." Yuki whispered helping Tohru.
"…Uo-chan." Tohru looked at Yuki. "Will you?" Yuki nodded and walked off with Uo-chan. Hana-chan glanced at Tohru and then turned to Kyo.