A/N: Thank you for reviewing my story! Here's the second chapter. I know it's confusing but that's the point. Will you find out the secret in this chapter? Read and find out!

Chapter 2: No Real Change

Hi young one….

Turning and tossing, groaning and kicking, sweating and restless.

Come here, I need your help…

The man grabbed her arm and pulled her toward him.

"No!" She screamed. "Please, leave me alone!"

Come here pretty girl….

She pulled away and fell against a tree, scratching her back on the sharp bark.

Oh no…you've fallen….

"No…"

The man stepped over her and kneeled to her level.

"Tohru…. Wake up."

"No! Get away!" She screamed. "I don't wanna hurt you!"

But you must….

"…wake up, Tohru, we're hungry…"

She looked up in confusion. "Hungry?"

"Tohru! Wake up!"

Tohru's eyes fluttered open and the morning sunlight caused her to squint. She blinked a few times and then looked to her bedside. There was Kyo, sweaty and freshly back from his morning run.

"What are you… doing in here…? Kyo-kun?" Tohru mumbled through her drowsiness.

"I'm waiting for breakfast. Did you go to bed late? It's already eight twenty." Kyo said glancing at her bedside table where bright red digits flashed the numbers.

Tohru now sat up. "Eight?! I have to make breakfast! I can't believe I slept in so late!!" She leapt out of bed so quick that she tripped over Kyo's foot and fell face flat on the floor.

"Tohru! Are you okay?!" Kyo yelled in surprise.

"Ow…" Tohru mumbled as she sat up.

"Are you alright? Sorry, you got up so fast!" Kyo said as he kneeled down to see if she was in one piece. "I didn't mean to trip you!"

"I'm okay… my forehead just hurts." Tohru said wincing in pain.

"Let me see if it's anything serious…" Kyo said examining her head.

"I don't think so. The pain is slowly fading." Tohru said, patiently waiting for Kyo to find nothing and be satisfied.

"Are you sure? You fell pretty hard."

"Yes, I'm…..sure…" She trailed off, realizing how close they were.

Kyo softly ran a forefinger across her head, searching for any trace of a lump. Tohru said nothing, but stared up at him with wide eyes and small pink patches on her cheeks. The silence caused Kyo to blush as he looked closer at a small red mark.

He cleared his throat. "Here's a…mark."

"I don't feel it." Tohru said in a whisper. She looked in to his eyes and seen his cheeks turn completely red. "Kyo-kun…"

She gently grabbed his hand and clasped it in her own sweaty palm. Her heart pounded as he slowly raised his other hand to her cheek….

GRROWWLLL.

Kyo's stomach protested against the situation in hunger.

Tohru smiled then laughed. "I think someone's hungry!"

The two got to their feet and Kyo patted her head.

"Come on, let's go eat." He said suddenly in a grouchy mood.

Tohru pushed all thoughts of her dream away from her mind and tried her best to enjoy breakfast with the Sohmas.

"Yo, Tohru!"

Monday morning found Tohru at school with her friends and of course the Sohmas. The night before she had not dreamt of anything and had a good nights rest. Though she was still pale, she was beginning to smile a little more, much to the relief all of her buddies.

"Uo-Chan! Hana-chan! Good morning!" Tohru greeted the two with a smile, followed by the smug looking Kyo and Yuki.

Hana placed her hand on Tohru's shoulder in an approving way. "I'm happy to see you smiling again. Is everything alright?"

Tohru smiled and nodded. "Yes Hana-chan! I feel great!"

And she did. For she had told herself to not grieve on anything that could not be helped…. Even if she was reminded of it in her dreams….

"Honda-san, I am headed to the student council room." Yuki told Tohru. "I will see you after school. Be safe."

"Yes Yuki-kun. You too, be safe and try your best!"

Yuki smiled to himself as he walked away from the group, where Uo had began to tease Kyo and they had started yelling. Tohru seemed to be feeling better. Not completely better, but smiling and laughing is always a start.

So, why is she still pale?

RIIINNNGGGG!

The students piled into their classrooms while some made trips to the restroom. Tohru had completely neglected her bodies urge to dispose of its waste and therefore ran as quickly as she could to the flapping doors.

As quickly as she had run, she had failed to notice a long black limousine parked on the side of the school near the restroom she was now using. A back window rolled down and a woman with short black hair and large dark brown eyes glared at the restroom door.

"Is that her, Vanessa?"

A man seated next to the woman named Vanessa spoke with a low voice. His features consisted of mostly the same as the woman's. They were both short with large muscles on their arms and calves. Their faces were full-out Latin, and they both wore pitch black coats over pitch black suits and black dress shoes. In a way one would say they looked sophisticated. The man had only one difference from the woman; his eyes were a striking, bright and glowing green.

"Yes, Angelo. That is her." Vanessa spoke, her voice a feminine form of his.

She looked at a picture on a clipboard that lay in her lap. A picture of a smiling Tohru, with her hair in braids and a bright baby blue t shirt.

"She seems like that happy type. She may accept surprise gifts, don't you think?" She leaned over and pulled an envelope from the floor.

"Driver, I would like your assistance."

Tohru pushed open the door and stepped outside. The empty hall way caused her to panic. "I'm late!"

She set off at a jog, but stopped when she noticed a bright pink envelope taped to her locker. Her name in big black and bold letters across it.

Tohru walked over to her locker and pulled the envelope off. She turned it over and seen no sender or deliverer. She looked around the hall before carefully opening the seal.

A six by six inch black and white picture fell out of a "get well soon" card. There was no signature so Tohru picked the picture up off the dirty school floor.

Tohru gasped as she recognized the person in the picture. It was a man…. The man…

Come here pretty girl…

Tohru shook her head, and with wide horrified eyes she ran over to a nearby garbage can, tore the picture into a million little pieces, and threw every piece in, followed by the bright pink envelope.

"She's worse than before."

Yuki, Uo, and Hana all sat together around the living room table of Shigure's home. The three had decided to discuss Tohru's drastic change in mood as of Monday after school. Tohru had been given the chore of buying milk, eggs, and fish by Shigure, and so the three were left with the assurance that she would not be back for about thirty minutes.

"She seemed okay on Monday. But now…" Uo began and trailed off. "Did you see how scared she was after school? She looked like she seen a ghost or something."

Hana nodded in agreement. "It really is quite alarming. What shall we do, Prince? Have you had any luck in speaking with her?" Hana asked a worried Yuki.

Yuki shook his head. "No, anytime one of us approaches her, she seems to remember something she needs to do and walks away as fast as she can."

"There's something seriously wrong here." Uo said, leaning against the couch and screwing up her face in deep thought.

Hana shifted on the floor to make herself more comfortable. "Arisa, remember yesterday in class? When Tohru fell asleep then woke up and said something strange?"

"Oh yeah, that! She said something really weird." Uo sat up ready to discuss the event.

"What did she say?" Yuki asked, hoping maybe something would help decode Tohru's behavior.

"Well, she was sleeping and we didn't wake her up." Uo started. "She's been tired, so ya know? We let her sleep."

"She started mumbling a little loud." Hana picked up. "So I shook her awake and she said 'Not the blood! The rock…' It was very strange."

Yuki scrunched his forehead in thought "The rock..? What is that supposed to mean?"

"Dunno. But after she woke up she looked like she was going to cry." Uo said rubbing the back of her neck. "We tried to ask her what she was dreaming, but she looked at us with those big scared eyes and ran off. Right, Hanajima?"

"Yes. It was very sad." Hana said with a sigh.

"Yoo hoo! Are you kids plotting against Tohru-kun?" Shigure walked into the room with a medium sized cardboard box with a postal stamp.

"Hey, Writer, how long does she normally take to buy groceries?" Uo asked Shigure as he placed the box on the table.

"Oh not long." Shigure said fanning himself. "Oh, there she is now. Coming up the steps."

"Crap!" Uo and Hana leapt up simultaneously and ran for the back entrance, leaving the door wide open.

Shigure looked to Yuki for an explanation as the front entrance door slid open and in stepped a very tired looking Tohru.

"Don't say anything." Yuki whispered as he walked past Shigure to help Tohru with the groceries.

"Hello Yuki-kun. Oh, thank you." Tohru said dully as Yuki grabbed a bag as to lighten the load.

"Was your trip safe, Honda-san?" He tried to prod. Maybe she would let something slip….?

"I was safe, Yuki-kun. It's not too dangerous around here." She replied, practically dragging her feet into the kitchen to put away the groceries.

"Tohru-kun!" Shigure happily walked into the kitchen with the package. "This came for you in the mail!"

Tohru took the package sadly. "Thank you, Shigure-san." She walked out of the kitchen slowly and could be heard walking up the stairs with heavy steps.

The front entrance slid open once again and in came an annoyed looking Kyo.

"Welcome home, Kyo-kun. How was the dojo?" Shigure asked in mock-Tohru enthusiasm. Kyo failed to catch on.

"It sucked, Kagura was there…" Kyo trailed off angrily.

"She's really bad today, stupid Cat-san." Yuki said, folding his arms defensively. "Maybe you should go see how she's doing." He said in what would have been a suggestion but came out sounding more like a demand.

"Shut up! I will! Where is she?"

Tohru stared at the package. She had set it on her bed and examined it for a sender. Like the envelope there was none. She began to pace back and forth in fear. What if I open it, and there's another… reminder? She thought.

Kyo quietly walked to her door and raised his fist to knock. But thinking differently, he kneeled to be eye level with her keyhole, prayed he didn't catch her changing her clothes, and looked in.

Tohru was still pacing. He sat confused, waiting to see if she opened the package Shigure had informed him that she had received from an anonymous sender. He watched as she took a pair of scissors from her dresser and slowly cut open the tape. Kyo noticed the look of fear that never left her face.

She pulled open the flaps and rummaged through some plastic that covered up whatever was in the box. Then as she discovered the contents, she gasped and quickly backed away from the bed. Kyo was now dying to know what was in the box.

Tohru looked around and quickly shoved all of the plastic over the object and closed the flaps. Looking around she grabbed the box then shoved it in her closet behind some clothes. Kyo watched her do all of this in shock. What could possibly be so bad? I have to find out what's in there.

Deciding to wait until she left for work, Kyo walked away with the plan to invade her closet later on that night.

A/N: Oh no! What's in the box? And who's that guy in the picture Tohru tore up? And who the heck are Angelo and Vanessa? Why would they want to harass Tohru like that? Thank you again for reading my story!