OH MY GOD! I feel so stupid. "Duh….me feel dumb." My friend wrote that even if I do feel dumb. I'm going to go hide in a closet now. Shessies lova, the animal is not for Tohru, sorry but it's not. I don't own anyone. Save my Caleb hugs. Caleb, "Get off me!"
Oh so in every chapter I included a quote that I usually hear in my usual day.
Chapter 1- "Sounds like a personal problem" by my principal
Chapter 2- "He likes you, He likes you." By my friend Pyro
Chapter 3- "I am the muffin queen, bow down to my golden brown goodness and authority." By my friend Pyro
Chapter 4- "Mwah ha ha ha ha, I am victorious" by my friend Bubbles
Chapter 5- "I hate negatives" by me and my friend Pyro
Chapter 6- "Yes thir" by my friend Flower
And Chapter 7- "Stupid Indians stole my chickens" By me Lynxes-I swear those Indians stole my friggin' chickens!
Everyone stared at Caleb who had been standing in the doorway for some time. He didn't say anything he glanced from all of their faces and then onto Tohru's puzzled face.
"Who are you?" She asked innocently.
Caleb stood dumb struck, as if waiting for them to yell "Just kidding!". No one jumped up or even blinked for that matter. They were all so still and were waiting to see what reaction Caleb would give. Instead he smiled and looked down at Tohru. "I'm your older brother." He said calmly sitting down. "My name is Caleb."
"Hello Caleb, I'm Tohru…but you probably already know that." Tohru said blushing a bit. "Oh, would you like anything to eat? I just made lunch and there's more, I'll get you a plate." Then Tohru rushed out of the room.
"What happened?" Caleb asked turning toward Hatori oblivious to the other Sohmas. "Shigure said nothing would happen to her." Caleb looked shocked and sad at the same time. Kyo thought since Caleb was blood-related to Tohru then he would attack somebody, but surprised everyone by chuckling.
"What's the matter?" asked Hatori looking at Caleb funny. Caleb just found out that his sister just lost all of her memory and he was laughing.
"I just thought about how long it took me to try to come back to Japan to see her and now after all the hardships we talked about, she can't remember my name." Caleb said staring out the doorway to see Tohru rushing around the kitchen getting Caleb a plateful of food.
"Caleb. Do you want a drink? We've got iced tea." Tohru said placing a plate in front of him.
"That's fine." Caleb said watching Tohru. "Hatori, all I can say is that for your own good you better find a way to get her memory back to her." Hatori looked down at his plate without saying a word.
"Tohru, I think that I'll eat in Shigure's study and check out those books." Hatori picked up his untouched plate and headed for the room down the hall. Tohru watched Hatori leave and handed Caleb his drink.
Hatori didn't leave that room for the rest of the night. He sat flipping through the pages of the books, marking which ones would help. Even though he had taken memories he never had to put them back.
"Hatori?" asked Tohru. She slowly walked in, wearing a purple nightgown. "It's getting late. Caleb left already. Are you staying here? I could make up the couch for you." Tohru walked over t the desk where Hatori sat and touched his back softly.
"No, I'll be going home. If you could make me up some coffee before I go that would be great." Hatori said stacking the books up and placing them in a bag.
"I've already got a cup waiting in the kitchen," Tohru said smiling. "Need anything else" Hatori shook his head and walked out of the study.
Yawning, Tohru shut the door when Hatori took off in his car. She saw a book left half under the couch. It looked as if it had been dropped. The cover read 'The mind's eye'
It was one of Hatori's books. Tohru picked it up and took it upstairs. Haru could give it to Hatori, she'll give it to him in school tomorrow.
Tohru was lying in her bed awake, she couldn't fall asleep. She had overheard Caleb threatening Hatori, something about her memory. Was it really that important? Tohru looked over her shoulder at the book on her nightstand.
BBBBBBRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNGGGGGGGGG!
Tohru's alarm clock was going off. She had fallen asleep reading the book. She stood up and walked to the bathroom through the dark hallway. Tohru turned the shower on cold so that she would wake up faster. Tentatively Tohru re-wrapped the bandages around her upper body and slipped on her clothes. When Tohru finally stepped from the bathroom in her uniform Kyo was already awake. He walked past her to the kitchen where he grabbed an energy drink.
"Good morning, Kyo!" Tohru said happily. Kyo just glared at her and mumbled something about her being too cheery. Unexpectedly Tohru leaned toward him and planted a soft kiss on his check. Then she turned away, blushing.
Tohru busied herself with breakfast while Kyo smiled at her reaction. Then he walked almost dazedly out of the room nearly colliding with Yuki.
"Watch where you're going you stupid cat." Yuki said with almost no emotion. Tohru finished with breakfast when Shigure woke up.
"What happened? I feel like someone hit me over the head with a frying pan." Shigure said rubbing his head.
"You really shouldn't drink like that Shigure." Yuki said looking at Shigure attentively. "You already know what happens to a member of the zodiac when they drink too much, you'll have a hangover for days."
Kyo came downstairs wrapping his shirt around his shoulders. He tripped on the last stair and nearly ran into a wall. Yuki started to laugh at him, but stopped as Kyo got up to pummel him.
"Please be careful, Kyo!" Tohru said running from the kitchen. "Are you okay?" Kyo's expression softened when she looked at him and nodded. A bell rang from somewhere behind Tohru and she jumped. "We're gonna be late!" Then she started running everywhere to finish getting ready.
Tohru practically carried the two boys out the door and onto the street. When she started to fret about being late and jumping around Kyo finally got fed up and threw her over his shoulder. Tohru was now being carried like a sack of potatoes.
Wow, she's so light. She was heavier before. Kyo thought of the first time that he had caught Tohru. Now she was more than a few pounds lighter. Must be all the troubles we put her through. Kyo sighed and decided that he and Yuki would have to take better care of Tohru.
"Yuki, Tohru's so light." Kyo commented.
"Are you saying I look fat?" Tohru asked a little confused.
"No, no. I'm saying that you feel lighter than you used too." Kyo said defending himself. His face had all of those embarrassed scribbles all over it. "Yuki, take her." Suddenly Tohru found herself in the arms of Yuki. Not a hug
"You're right." Yuki said looking down at Tohru.
"Yo!" called Uo-chan from the school yard. She was waving over at the three teens as Hana-chan watched as emotionless as ever. "What's wrong with Tohru? Why is she being carried?" Yuki quickly set Tohru down, but not before the Yuki-fan-club members saw them. Then he leaped into the hurried explanation.
"Oh, no! Poor Tohru, she's lost so much weight. We'll have to fatten you up when we get to Hana-chan's house after school." Uo-chan said wrapping her arms around Tohru's small frame.
"What, are you gonna eat her? You sound like the witch in Hansel and Gretal." Kyo said, "Wait, your house?" He looked to Hana-chan who smiled slightly.
"Yes you are all invited. My brother has not met Tohru's new friends." Haru and Momiji walked up. "And you two are also welcome. It will be quite a fiesta."
"I wanna do the hat dance!" Momiji yelled suddenly dancing around in circles and snapping his fingers. It was quite a sight and Momiji nearly fell over when he danced into Haru.
"He's been doing that ever since we saw Death in Mexico City last night. What are we welcome too?" Haru asked looking at Hana-chan.
"To come to my house after-school. My mother was making cookies this morning." Hana-chan turned to walk towards the school as the bell rang.
"Then you know I'm coming. Your mother's cookies are to die for." Uo-chan said walking next to Tohru. "Can you come?"
"I'd love to!" Tohru exclaimed. Then Yuki and Kyo knew they'd have to go to protect Tohru from Hana-chan and Uo-chan's questions. Haru just nodded and Momiji just tried to hat dance his way to homeroom.
All through school Yuki and Kyo worried about what would happen at Hana-chan's house. When the last bell rang they all gathered outside on the grounds.
"Are we all here?" asked Hana-chan counting heads. Uo-chan sighed and watched as Momiji once again hat-danced into a wall.
"Will you cut that out!" yelled Kyo getting slightly annoyed. Tohru laughed and smiled at Momiji who rubbed the red spot on his head.
"Be careful okay?" Tohru said kissing his head. "What are we going to do at your house Hana-chan?"
"Oh, you know we'll talk," Hana-chan then glanced at Yuki giving him a knowing look and then continued. "And snack on cookies. We all have much to catch up on. Here we are at my humble home." Hana-chan led them up the stairs to a purple apartment. Once at the top of the stairs Hana-chan unlocked the door and they followed her inside. While leading them to her room she paused outside of an open door revealing a small boy on the computer. He looked exactly like Hana-chan, but with shorter hair And he's a boy!.
"The stupid Indians stole my chickens." He said glancing at them and then back at the screen. Silently Hana-chan walked over to the computer and looked at the game. She pressed a few buttons and the rest heard screams of terror from the speakers and swallowed.
"There, no more Indians." Hana-chan said as she walked away from the bloody screen. "Megumi, you know Tohru and Uo-chan. These are Tohru's friends Kyo, Yuki, Haru, and Momiji. They go to our school and Tohru is currently living with Yuki and carrot-top." Uo-chan ruffled Megumi's hair as Kyo yelled something about not calling him carrot-top. Tohru smiled at him all while trying to memorize his name.
Suddenly Megumi stared hard at Tohru then looked to his sister. "Something's wrong with Tohru." He said looking closely at Tohru he then turned to Yuki and Kyo. "If you did something I will curse you." Haru and Momiji looked confused.
"What is Tohru pregnant?" Haru asked bluntly. Everyone stared at Haru like he was crazy and Tohru just looked confused. Then it set in and she stared wide-eyed at Haru as if to say 'WHAT?'.
"What the hell is your problem!" Kyo yelled kinda loud. He practically flew at Haru, but Uo-chan held him back. Even Yuki looked at Haru with disgust. "Get your mind out of the gutter!" Snaps!
"Well, I'll lead you all to my room where we will not discuss the fictional topic of Tohru pregnant. Then I'll find us something to eat." Hana-chan said going to her room down the hall.
Hana-chan's room was not surprisingly, black. The walls were a soft charcoal grey and the wooden furniture was a dark cherry wood. The tall windows overlooked the streets and the lace curtains were imprinted with roses. Hana-chan's bedspread had the same patterns as the curtains, but had tiny black beads sewn on. The plain wooden floors had black rose rugs and over top one was an oval table that was low to the ground.
Hana-chan sat everyone at the table before leaving to get the cookies and iced tea. There were a few moments of awkward silence before Uo-chan suggested something.
"Tohru, how about you go see if Hana-chan needs some help."
"Oh, yes how inconsiderate of me." Then Tohru jumped up to go to the kitchen to help Hana-chan. Once Tohru was gone Uo-chan pounced.
"Okay you two, spit it out. What did you do to Tohru? Why couldn't she remember my name and why is there something wrong with the waves Hana-chan sees coming from Tohru?" Uo-chan asked putting her hand on the top of the table so she leaned dangerously close to Kyo who was across from her.
Kyo and Yuki didn't know weither Uo-chan's persuasion skills were perfect or if Hana-chan had the power to control minds or what, but the truth came pouring out of their mouths. Well kind of. They included nothing about the zodiac curse, but they did mention Hatori's hypnosis and a less involved version of Tohru's battle with Akito. They somehow turned Akito into a gang-member with a penknife and instead of in Tohru's body the 'battle' was in an alley by the place Tohru works.
Even though they left out most of the crucial parts of the whole story Haru managed to grasp the fact that once again Tohru had been attacked by Akito and not only had she been stripped of her memory, but her health too. For several seconds no one said anything and let it sink in. Then Haru stood up and nearly ran into the door to get out of this house to kill Hatori. When he swung open the door it smashed into the person coming in.
Haru looked down at Tohru who was sitting on the floor with the cookies all around her. She had dropped the plate when she fell though fortunately the plate was made of paper so there were no sharp pieces of plate to cut her.
"I'm sorry Tohru, I didn't know you were there." Haru held out his hand and pulled Tohru off the ground. "Just heard what Hatori did to you." Tohru blushed and smiled weakly.
"It's okay, he's trying to find a way to reverse what he did." Tohru said looking around at the frowning faces in the room. Uo-chan suddenly ran to hug Tohru.
"My friend's got amnesia!" she wailed.
"Actually it's not amnesia a hypnosis of some sort." Hana-chan said setting the tray of iced tea on the table. "I'll be right back with a dustpan and mister hurry horse can clean up his mess. Now follow me." Hana-chan led Haru down the stairs and into her kitchen where she filled a tray of cookies and then handed him the dustpan.
Once the mess was cleaned up and the cookies in front of everyone they settled into a calm and Tohru unrelated conversation. Haru mocked Kyo and they almost broke Hana-chan's table until she threatened to make them hear voices in their heads for six weeks. Tohru made everyone laugh a few times by being her usual ditzy self.
When the sun started to set Yuki and Kyo said that they'd better be on their way home. Everyone agreed and left Hana-chan's house reluctantly leaving the feeling of comfort and ease behind because once they felt the cold, frigid air they remembered what might never happen.
Yuki was surprised when he saw Hatori's car in front on their house. Tohru and the rest tentatively walked inside so that they could find out why he was here and why his car was half-parked on the lawn. Once they were inside Hatori flung himself around Yuki and hugged him tight. Letting go of the confused Yuki he vaulted over to Kyo to give him a hug too, but Kyo dodged the arms before they could lock themselves around his neck.
"I found it! I found it! I found it!" Hatori said while leaping onto innocent high schoolers and choking them with hugs. He didn't hug Tohru because then he would turn into a sea horse and have to wait.
"What did you find?" Tohru asked looking at Hatori with interest.
"A way to get your memory back."
Sorry that it's so boring and kinda short. I had fun writing out Hana-chan's bedroom. I know it shows in one of the books, but I always wanted to remodel her bedroom. I wanted to get to you faster than a month, but I had to study for my ever killing me math. Guess what? It paid off no more sucky Algebra! Now it's Geometry!
I want reviews okay. Is that too much to ask? I started with like twelve reviewers in the first two chapters and now there's only like three.