Home! Finally!

YESSS!!!

We're finally home! After many delays! Those delays being:

The guys working at White Spot on the ferry forgetting to put pickles on Yuki's burger, and Yuki making them go back and make him a new one.

Tohru wanting to go on the toy boat that cost a quarter, and she only had twenty cents, so in the end she was crawling all over the ground looking for nickels because she didn't want to borrow from anyone, god forbid.

Kyo getting into a fight with the fast-food girl on the ferry, and thus a two-man food fight ensues.

Later

As soon as Shigure and I stepped into the main house, a main ran up to us screaming.

"what's she saying?" I asked Shigure, looking at the wall with mild interest.

He listened intently, and then said, "it's something about Hatori. Oh, and... a snake? A white snake?"

"weird."

But he kept listening to the babble the maid was spewing out, a worried look on his face (which is a first). "You know, that snake couldn't have been Aya, could it?"

"nah," I said, picking at a paint flake.

The maid turned to me, flapping her arms crazily. "sensei white snake ate!"

Then I turned around for real, actually feeling kind of worried. Dunno why. "Shigure, I think Hatori miiight have accidentally swallowed Aya. I mean, white snakes aren't native to Japan, are they?"

He looked really freaked out now. "how the hell could he have swallowed a damn snake?"

Now that was weird. I bet Shigure has never swore in his life.

"it was in his rice bowl," said another (coherent) maid. "gone to the hospital."

And the prodded the coffee maker.

"stupid Ayame," I groaned, not able to get rid of the worried feeling. Why won't it go away? "sleeping in a rice bowl."

Shigure went wide-eyed. "YOU IDOT, AKITO! He's probably going to transform back, and if he does, then..."

"don't finish," I told him. "way to gross. Ewww. Now I have a sick mental image."

"sensei hospital!!!" shrieked the incoherent maid.

And then Shigure took my hand and ran like crazy for the car.

Hospital

Uuuunnnggg.

Predictably, the idiot doctors aren't able to get at stupid Ayame. So, Shigure got rid of all the pesky nurses by setting off a stink bomb at the other end of the hospital, and then we sat down to chat with Hatori. But I really, really don't want to look, because the worried feeling keeps getting worse, and it's annoying as hell.

"Akito," said Hatori, who didn't really look sick at all. "you came."

"why wouldn't I come, Dr. Seahorse?" I mumbled grumpily.

"because you're a self-centered pyromaniac?" volunteered Shigure.

"thanks, Dog."

"welcome."

Hatori looked upset. "Ayame's probably not transforming back because of lack of air. I'm swallowing as much I can, but..."

"oh, for gods' sake," I snapped. "fine. I'll do it."

They all look confused. Of course they do.

Outside the hospital room. Everyone thinks I'm some deranged emo kid because I'm sitting on the floor writing, but Oh Well.

There is one way to save Dr. Seahorse, of course. My father told me about a long time ago, before he kicked the bucket, but at the time I was just like, "ha! Like I'd do that!"

My father was all *sagely*, "Akito, if anyone in the zodiac's in danger, don't forget that as you're the 'God' figure, true sacrifice is one way to save them. Ok?"

He was concentrating so much on sounding like a Disney movie narrator he didn't really make himself clear to a four-year-old. So I squeaked, "sacrifice? How?"

"well, of course, there's many different types of sacrifices. But this is ULTIMATE SACRIFICE!"

"what's that?"

He sighed, annoyed. I could tell he was really disappointed that a toddler wasn't getting his foreshadowing or whatever.

"well, life."

There was a silence for a minute, and then I was all like, "OH, I get it! so you sacrifice your life and then they're all better!"

"yes!" he said, beaming.

Well, I guess I didn't quite grasp that when I was little.

But, in essence, what had I seriously done for the zodiac? That question kept me preoccupied for a minute, and then an irritating voice at the back of my head said, "squat."

What had Hatori done? This question was easier. He erases memories, and treats people, and keeps them from getting sick and plays Responsible Parent to me and Shigure. Aya does squat too, though. That made me feel better.

That fact still remained, though. I may not be a stock market trader, but I know what a good deal is. Two lives for one is a pretty fair trade-off. Sigh. Well, those doctors aren't' making much headway on making Hatori barf up Ayame, so I guess it's up to me to do something as stupid as shoulder responsibility. And this isn't even something I can shove off on Kureno, either, like the electricity bills.

So I went into the broom cupboard and rooted around for some rat poison.

Five minutes later

You know, the doctors really shouldn't keep rat poison hanging around in every second broom cupboard. Wouldn't some mentally damaged patient just be able to walk over to broom cupboard and *gulp*! There goes another one.

It's actually easier than I thought it would be to commit suicide, actually. I took a last look at Hatori playing tic-tac-toe with Shigure in the other room.

Actually, I'll leave the diary here. it says, "this belongs to Akito Sohma, no readie!" on the front, so at least they'll know this touching and not-so-difficult sacrifice I made for Dr. Seahorse.

Well, here goes. BYE, DIARY!

Cliffhanger!!! Cliffhanger!!!

Typical Akito. Treating suicide with light-fingered contempt.

Anyway, I'm sorry this fic was so short! One more chapter, maybe an epilogue, and then that's it. Twelve chapters is good, one for every zodiac member, right? XD But, this is only my first fanfiction and I don't want to be writing this for the rest of my life! It is really quite serious though, isn't it? I wanted some serious fraction of plotline near the end, but I ended up laughing my ass off at the rat poison anyway =_=0.

I might post some other diaries on other Sohma members in the Furuba section later, so... keep me on Authour Alert~! Maniac Diaries will be finished by Wednesday. I kinna feel miserable, having to end it, like I killed one of my children :'(

On that happy note... -_-