Chapter 21

Wufei was fidgeting in his chair now, while Heero and Duo has slipped out side 'for a moment together'. He had no idea if Heero was shouting at Duo for following him, or if Duo was comforting Heero after receiving such news… but then again, it had been quite a time since he had been in a relationship, and he wasn't sure that his marriage really counted since they had hated each other for most of the time.

Memso had wandered off, commenting that he was a historian and was researching a collection of books by an old ancestor of his called Shiguri Sohma, he was quite interesting and his books had a depth to them that he wasn't expecting, considering the reputation Shigure left behind of himself.

So Wufei was left in the sitting room, with the young girl named Hitomi, and there was silence. She was staring into space, seemingly thinking.

"Why did you follow your friend Heero?" she asked suddenly. Something in her attitude changed as she continued to stare at a book case on the far side of the room.

"Me? Oh… well, he's a good friend and I was going to help him find his family if he thought it was important enough." He couldn't exactly tell her about the growing hope he had had that he would find someone in this world that was related to him and not already on the other side waiting for him. But Heero hadn't been able to dig up anything on the Chang background that was more personal than birth/death certificates and business transactions.

"No… I think it was something more…" she said vaguely before she reached out a hand and touched his forehead and stared into his eyes. "You know of us, you might be Chinese, but once the Sohma family had some very powerful relatives in China that got to big for there boots. They were forced to leave China by the other powerful families of that time."

Wufei was frozen to the spot, fear filling him about transforming as these people seemed to have no idea of the curse. They hadn't mentioned it and it seemed to be unknown even in the same family.

'Maybe Heero got the wrong family? It was good that he found his father, but... What about my involvement in this?' He mused as the girl continued to stare at nothing, finally removing her hand. Wufei breathed out in relief silently as the girl sat on the other end of the couch and he tried to burrow into the arm rest for more distance between them both.

"So, do you know the name of this family?" He asked into the strange silence that had grown up again, as she went quiet. It was a complete 180 from when he had first met her, crowing over catching Duo and tugging on his braid as she did a victory … well, wiggle on his back.

"I don't know, Memso will, I think. He's gone to go check on it now. He's top knowledge on history, but he's also our family historian too!" She was starting to perk up a bit again now, the episode of staring and being creepy-ness over. 'Sugar crash?' wondered Wufei as she started talking again. "He does get sick easy, but that doesn't stop him getting curious. It just means people have to poke in and make him take breaks in his research before he runs himself into the ground. Again."

"Also, I've been wandering…" she cut off. But as Wufei was opening his mouth to ask what, she had jumped on him. Just like that.

"YES! I knew it!"