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Chapter Two: Rain, Rain Go Away and Take the Mutant Dog with You, Too!
"I know I shouldn't say this because I'm going to regret it later, but do you guys want to go to the mall or something?" The twins looked at Haruhi, confused. "You're asking us to go to the mall? With you?" Haruhi looked around, "Well, Abby can't talk so I guess I said that. Do you or not?" Hikaru and Kaoru nodded. She knew was getting herself into trouble from the moment she asked the question.
After being in the mall for five minutes or so, Haruhi was already beginning to regret it. Every store they passed, the twins insisted that they should go in. Haruhi just wanted to go to the mall to get some type of exercise over the break, seeing that mall walkers do it every morning and night; it must work in some way. Haruhi followed the twins as they walked in and out of store, impressed with some, disgusted by others. One store had caught her eye as she about to pass by it. It was decorated with two large bears, one appearing to be stitched up with a red heart sticking out of its back, the other wearing a ballerina outfit.
"Uh guys?" Haruhi motioned them to come over to her. The twins had walked over to her . "Yeah, what's up?" Kaoru was the first to speak up of the two. Hikaru took notice of the store Haruhi had called them over to, "Wow, Haruhi. I didn't know you were into stuff like this. Stuffed bears and kittens and things." Haruhi looked at him, "I'm not. I just think it's pretty cool that you can make your own bear." He looked up, "Well, it is called "Build-a-Bear Workshop. Wanna make one?"
"Nah, I'll pass this time," Haruhi looked around, "Though, one of these would make a great present for Hunny, right?" Kaoru looked at the collections of animals. "Well, we all know he'll never part with Usa-chan but I'm sure he'll appreciate it the same." Suddenly, a jingle with a vibrating sound begin to play, originating from Hikaru's hoodie pocket. He pulled out his cell phone and glanced at it.
Hikaru looked at Haruhi, "Hey, wanna head home? I just received a text from the weather station, its gonna rain soon, with a chance of becoming a storm later on." Kaoru looked at him, "You get weather reports texted to you?" Hikaru shrugged his shoulders, "Well, yeah. You don't know how the weather's gonna be half the time." Haruhi nodded to answer Hikaru's question, "Yeah, let's go."
The trio exited the mall, outside it had already began to rain. The sky had an unusual darkness about it. The chances of it becoming a storm: very high. "Wow, your texts are dead on." Haruhi held her umbrella nervously as they walked back to their apartment. It wasn't too far of a walk from the mall and Hikaru had insisted she get umbrella before they left the mall. After about ten minutes of walking, the steady rain had turned to a torrential downpour. Hikaru turned to his brother and Haruhi, "Hey, I think we should pick up the pace, we're almost home." They both nodded in agreement and began running home.
Just as their apartment building came into view, there was a sound of screeching tires and someone screaming. "What the was that?" Kaoru stopped, turning in the direction of the sound. "Who the hell cares? Let someone else deal with it." He didn't pay his elder sibling any mind, "I'm gonna check it out. You two go back to the apartment." Kaoru ran the opposite direction of the apartment turning the corner. Hikaru and Haruhi continued running to the apartment. They finally reached the apartment doors and went inside. "Do you think Kaoru will be okay out the rain like that?" Haruhi has out of breath from running. "I dunno, he should be fine though. It's so like him to be worried about other people." He smiled to reassure her that his brother would be fine, or at least he had hope so.
Meanwhile, Back to Kaoru
Kaoru had found the source of the screaming. There was a car stopped in the middle of an intersection with its hazards on with a woman standing outside of her car crying hysterically. Assuming she was hurt, he had ran up to her to help her. "Hey, are you all right, miss? What happened?" The woman looked at him , "Something jumped in front of my car as I was driving. I don't know what it was. I'm worried it was a person." Kaoru looked at her, he could tell that she was crying even though it was raining out. "Do you have a cell phone?" The woman nodded and went to reach for her car door when Kaoru opened the door for her, "Call 911, I'm going to try and find who or what it was you hit. Do you know which way it went?" She had pointed to her left, "It went down that way, towards to the park." Kaoru helped her get inside of her car and ran in the direction that he had pointed to.
It wasn't hard to track the victim, there was blood trailing it, indicating that whatever got hit was injured. "Whatever it was, it can't be too far from here." Kaoru thought out loud to himself. He had seen the park, in which the blood trail had lead up to. "What the hell is that?" He noticed something lying on the slide, the rain was coming down hard, making it almost impossible to see. He hopped over the fence and crept closer to it, trying not to startle whatever was laying there. "Excuse me, but are you okay?" He could see a red puddle forming underneath slide. Kaoru had feared the worse. A bolt of lightning had illuminated the area, and he could clearly see that it wasn't person, but a very large dog. It was red in color with a black mane and white marking on its face and underbelly.
Back at the Apartment
Hikaru was pacing back and forth frantically, obviously worried about his twin. He had anticipated that the storm was going to be a thunderstorm, so no sooner that stepped through the apartment doors, he had place headphones over Haruhi's ears. She was on the couch curled up with Abby. She was obviously scared to death. He sat on the couch and held her close to him. He was hoping that he was comforting her enough and that his music was louder than the thunder. He took out his cell phone call Kaoru.
Back to Kaoru
Kaoru's cell phone rang with a loud rock song. He looked to see if the animal had been startled, but it was still on the slide, not moving. Pulling it out of his pocket, he looked down at the I.D. screen and saw that it was Hikaru. He hit the answer button.
"Hey. I'm kinda busy right no-" Kaoru answered his phone with hushed voice, but Hikaru's voice came through the other end like a megaphone. "Where the hell are you, Kaoru? Can't you see that it's raining like hell out there? Get home now!" Kaoru sighed, "I know, but I found out what had happened. I'm at the park and something got hit. It's on the sli-" He looked up to see that the animal, who was collapsed on the slide, was now gone. As soon as he had realized the animal was absent, there was a sound growling coming from behind him. "Kaoru?" His brother's voice came through the phone as he held down to his side. Kaoru turned around slowly and looked down to see cerulean eyes meet his amber eyes. He had dropped his phone, at which it had turned off from the impact, hanging up on his elder twin.
The soft growl was accompanied with glistening white teeth, but it wasn't a growl of terror. It was more of a wince of pain. Kaoru over looked the animal, it was about the size of a great Dane, but was built more like a husky, or to be more precise, a wolf. But its fur color was a soft red with white accents of the face, belly and tipped tail. It had brown forearms and back legs with white paws. Its mane was situated in a way that made it look like it had bangs. But what had caught his eyes the most were its blue eyes that had seemed so strangely familiar. That and the fact that its front left leg was badly bleeding. There was a fairly large cut, obviously from being hit by a car.
"Alright, Kaoru. There are two things you can do here. You can either help this thing out. Or you could high tail it home to your safe and cozy apartment. I think I'll take option two." Kaoru picked up his phone slowly, making sure not to make any sudden movements that may cause the canine to strike. The canine kept its eyes locked with Kaoru's. "Easy, boy. I'm just gonna grab my phone and go home. Is that alright with you?" He kept his eye locked unto the canine's, slowly backing away from it until he was a good distant from it, finally turning around to head back home.
As soon as he was about to run, there was a yelping noise that came from behind him. He turned around to see what it was. Of course, it was the dog but it couldn't walk because of its injury. It took a step forward and yelped again. Guilt had overwhelmed Kaoru and he went back over to the dog, bending over to it so that they were eye level. "You're hurt pretty bad, aren't you?" The dog then nodded, taking another step toward him, collapsing this time into Kaoru's arms. He looked at the miserable animal and gently stroked its fur on its head. He looked at the canine's leg, watching the rain mix with blood on its fur. "Okay, let's see what I can do for you." Kaoru suddenly ripped off the sleeve of his blue plaid flannel. He moved his wet bangs out of the way of his eyesight so he could wrap the wound efficiently. He wrapped his sleeve around the leg of the animal and pulled it tight; making sure that it would stop the majority of the blood flow to the wound.
"I know it's wet but that should help for right now. What do you think?" The dog looked at him with its blue eyes again, nodding. Kaoru looked at the animal, with a confused look this time, "Alright, that is the second time you did that nodding thing. Can you understand me?" Once again, the large canine nodded to him. "Yeah, now that's just plain out weird." The rain had let up and had become a steady light rain instead of a drenching downpour. Kaoru pulled out his cell phone and called his brother back. He wiped the screen to clear off water and dirt and dialed Hikaru's number. The phone rang twice
"Why'd you hang up on me earlier?" Hikaru's voice boomed through the phone, Kaoru holding his phone away from his ear.
"I dropped my phone, sorry. I know you're worried, but I'm fine." He spoke to his brother calmly, hoping that he would calm down also.
"So, are you on your way home now?" Hikaru's voice had lower to acceptable volume for the younger twin to tolerate.
"Yeah, about that… We're gonna need a ride home. Think you can pick us up?"
"I don't know Kaoru, it's still raining out and I don't want to leave Haruhi here by herself." He scratched the back of his head and looked over to Haruhi, who still had the headphones on, holding Abby.
"Hmm…well, ask Persephone to hang out with her until you come back. It'll take 5 minutes." The animal's ears perked up when Kaoru had mentioned 'Persephone.' Kaoru took noticed of this, but shook it off.
"Fine." Hikaru looked at Haruhi and gestured her to take off the headphones for a moment. She set Abby down and took them off. "What's up? Is Kaoru alright? If you need me to, I'll come with you." Hikaru looked at her confused, "You heard that whole conversation?" Haruhi smiled, "The storm hasn't made a rumble in a long time. So I turned the music down some. And by judging the look of outside, it's not gonna thunder for a bit."
"Kaoru, we're coming to get you. So just hang tight."
"Thanks, and you might want to bring some towels, so the car doesn't get wet." Kaoru hung up the phone on that final note and looked at the dog. The dog shook its fur to get rid of the water, getting most of it on Kaoru. "I take it as that was a thank you for helping you. Well, my best friend and brother should be on their way. They shouldn't be long, then maybe we can get you to the vet or something."
Apartment
"Did you really think I was going to let you get Kaoru all by yourself?" Haruhi questioned the older twin as he was fumbling in his apartment for his car keys. She had about six towels or so in her arms. "I dunno, it was thundering and stuff. I told him I wasn't going to leave you alone. He suggested that you hang out with Persephone until I got back." Haruhi laugh a little, noticing that Hikaru's keys were dangling out of his back pocket. "Your keys are in your back pocket, goofball. And I'm fine, thanks to you and your trusty headphones." Hikaru felt for his back pocket, grabbed his keys and a hoodie, feeling quite embarrassed. "Let's just go." He locked his door, Haruhi doing the same with her apartment. They both raced down the stairs and into the apartment complex's garage.
Hikaru began walking towards his dark blue almost-black Dodge Charger and unlocked with his key-remote. "I thought you would've upgraded by now. To a Corvette or Mustang, at least." Haruhi smirked, she knew that those were the cars that he wanted from the very beginning, but he's parents didn't want to spoil the twins, at least too much, while staying in America. "Well, I didn't because I'm not a spoiled brat who gets whatever he wants." Hikaru was very proud to say that statement, but not before Haruhi had something to add to it. "Yeah, not anymore." He opened the door to his car, got in and started it up. Haruhi got in on the passenger side and fastened her seatbelt. "Hey, aren't you going to put on a seatbelt?" Hikaru smirked, "I live for the thrill of danger." Haruhi simply pulled her hood over her eyes, 'If I'm gonna die, I don't wanna see it coming.' As if on cue, the charger's engines revved up and peeled out of the garage.
Back To Kaoru
Kaoru sat on the swing, drawing in the mulch with a stick, waiting for Hikaru to arrive+. The dog walked over, watching the stick create such lines on the ground. He looked at it and then the stick and then back again. He began to wave the stick in front of the large dog's eyes, which grew into confusion. "Come on, boy. Go , fetch!" Kaoru threw the stick and watched it land several feet behind the dog, who sat still on its haunches, looking at him. "Really? Don't you know how to get a stick and bring it back?" The canine looked at him as if he just questioned its intelligence. It got up and retrieved the stick, bringing it back to him. As it made its way back to him, Kaoru noticed something two things. The animal was no longer limping from its injury and that something was glittering around its neck. It dropped the stick in front of Kaoru, giving him the chance to examine the hanging object more clearly. It was a gold crescent moon charm hanging on a leather cord. There was something engraved on its, in delicate Vivaldi type script.
Just as Kaoru was about to take a closer look at the inscription of the tag, a bright light blinded him and the dog. The headlights of a vehicle had been the culprit. He looked at the dog, who had taken a defensive stance, bearing its teeth again and growling. He wrapped his arms around it to restrain it. Hikaru was the first to step out of the car, "What the hell is that?" Haruhi was next to exit the car, looking at the creature. "Hikaru! Haruhi! We need to take it the vet. It's hurt, bad." Haruhi walked over with towels. The animal struggled in Kaoru's grip. "I don't know why it's acting like this all of a sudden! It was fine earlier!" Hikaru looked at his brother, "Dude, you gotta let it go. It doesn't want our help, obviously." Haruhi knelt down in front of the animal and made eye contact with it. 'Those eyes…' she thought to herself and folded a towel in half, then in half again. She then placed the towel on the animal's eyes so it couldn't see. "Give it a minute to relax. It's scared." She picked the injured leg and examined it, but it pulled it away quickly, accidently scratching Haruhi's right arm in the process.
"Haruhi, are you okay?" Haruhi looked over and noticed that Hikaru was by her side now. "Yeah, it's just a scratch." She looked at Kaoru's sleeveless arm and then the animal's leg. "You did that yourself, Kaoru?" He looked at her, "Yeah, it always seems to work in the movies. So, I thought I'd give it a shot." The elder twin looked at his brother, "If I knew we were picking up Cujo here, I would've taken Haruhi's little Pruis. So, are we placing this thing in the car or what?" Kaoru looked at the dog, "Yeah, I have the front end here," he held the dog's front legs and upper body. "And I've got the back end." Hikaru picked the rest of the animal and they began to make their way to the car. Haruhi opened the door and pushed front seat all the way forward. Just as the twins were going to put the dog in the car, it began to kick and squirm, breaking free of their grip. It fell to the ground and took off running into the wood behind the park.
"Well, there it goes." Hikaru shrugged his shoulders. "Like I said, it didn't want our help." Kaoru looked at the woods, hoping it would return. "All that work for nothing." Haruhi placed a hand on his shoulder, "I'm sure it will be okay, though." Kaoru nodded, "Yeah, I was just hoping we could keep it as a pet when it got better." Hikaru looked at his younger twin, "Guinea pigs, yes. Giant mutant wolf-dogs, I don't think so. Kaoru, that thing was a wild animal. It could've hurt you." His eyes stole a glance at Haruhi's scratch on her arm, "Are you sure your arm is okay, Haruhi?" Haruhi smiled at to reassure him, "I'm fine, it's just a scratch. Let's get home." She hopped in the backseat of Hikaru's car and put on her seatbelt. The twins got into the car also and began their ride back home. Kaoru just stared out the window, hoping he could one last glimpse of the animal, but it never appeared.
Sorry about this chapter… I have the biggest feeling that too much happened too fast. Anyways, hopefully you know what to do… That's Right! Read and Review! Thank you so much. The more reviews I have, the more I'll try to write.
