Disclaimer: Fruits Basket is (c) to the great Takaya Natsuki-sama. Not KrimzenAngel...She only wishes it was.
Summary: For Tohru to realize her feelings for Shigure, he got engaged. But for Shigure, it was far worse than anyone could've ever imagined...(Shigure/Tohru)
Genres: Romance/Drama/Angst/Suspense
Authors Notes: I think I'm nearing the end of this story. That's kinda sad cause I love writing this. Also, possible future OOC-ness, especially for Tohru! Read on!
Whatever It Takes
Chapter 10- Of Life, Love, And Death
It was 4:37 in the Shigure Sohma house, very early. You'd think that no one would be up this early, but someone was.
Yuki Sohma was wide awake and wandering around the house, making his way into the kitchen for a drink. He had awoken close to an hour earlier and couldn't sleep since. So he figured why try and fight it, and just got up.
Once he poured himself a glass of water, he sat down where the living room and switched on the T.V. But he didn't really watch it. He had awoken with a strong feeling that something was horribly wrong, and kept thinking about it, from the time he woke up, to the time he had turned on the television.
'God, this feeling has been bugging me for a long time!' Yuki thought, rubbing his violet eyes. 'But what could be wrong? Something with the wedding? Or-!'
The sound of the phone in the hall had broken his thoughts, making him get up and race to the phone so that it wouldn't wake up the rest of the inhabitants of the house.
A few seconds later, he had picked it up and spoke into it. "Hello, Sohma residance?"
"Y-Yuki?" Came a scared, and almost souless voice.
"Shigure...?" Yuki replied, giving a look of concentration and confusion. "Is that you?"
"Yeah, i-it's me, Yuki." Shigure replied.
"Where are you?" Yuki asked, noticing the shakiness of his cousins voice. "Is something wrong?"
"I-I'm...In the hospital right now..." Shigure responed. He sounded like he didn't want to say anything.
Yuki's eyes widened. "The hospital! Why! What happened!"
"There w-was..." He stammered, crumbling as he spoke.
"There was what, Shigure?" Yuki asked carefully. He could hear whimpering on the other end of the line. "Shigure?"
"There was an accident!" Shigure cried, startling Yuki a bit. "Tohru-kun was hit by a car!"
"Wh-wh-wha?" Yuki stammered breathlessly, knowing this was the feeling he had since he woke up.
"She's in the operating room right now, trying to be kept alive! She's dying, Yuki..." Shigure cried, sounding if all hope was lost. "She's dying and I don't know what to do...I'm so scared...I'm the reason she's dying right now...And I can't do anything to help her...! I can't help her...I feel so useless...!"
"Shigure, calm down!" Yuki said, trying to calm himself too. "Shigure, I want you to tell me where you are. Can you do that?"
"I..." Came the meek reply. "I'm at Tokyo General Hospital...Being treated for fever..."
"What room?" Yuki asked.
"Um...507...Floor six..." Shigure responded as calmly as he could.
"Okay, Shigure, don't worry, Kohana, Kyo, and I will be there soon, okay?" Yuki said.
"Y-yeah...Okay..." Shigure replied.
"Okay." Yuki replied, hanging up the phone, and digesting what he just heard. Then he turned away and ran up the stairs.
"KYO! KOHANA!"
"SHIGURE!"
"SHIGURE-KUN!"
Was what hospital staff and patients alike could hear as nealy the entire Sohma family, minus Akito, came running down the halls. The original two had been quadrupalled to all of the Juunishi, and by a simple telephone call.
"Yuki-kun, what room!" Kohana asked.
"507!" Yuki replied.
"Hey, there it is!" Momiji exclaimed, pointing to the last room in the hall.
So all of the Sohma's raced to the end of the hall and into the room, where they found nurses hovering around a sleeping Shigure. Everyone was rather shocked to see him sleeping, but Kohana was pretty terrified.
"Wh-what happened to Shigure-kun?" She asked hesitantly.
"We sedated him, dear." One nurse replied, throwing some medical things away.
"What for?" Kagura asked, a bit nervous. "Why would Shii-chan need that?"
"He started to go hysterical." The other replied.
"Hysterical?" Ritsu asked, his timid voice shaking.
"From what?" Hatsuharu asked.
"He asked about the condition of a girl he came in with." She replied. Everyone of the Sohma's paled. They knew exactly who she was refering too.
"Y...You mean...Tohru-nee-chan?" Kisa asked, her golden eyes misting over with warm salty, tears.
"Yes, I belive her name was Tohru." The nurse said. "We said we didn't know right at the moment. He started to panic to the point in which he threatened to go find the room she was in just to see her. We kept trying to calm him down, but he kept trying to get up. He kept saying that he had something important to tell her, and that this may be his only chance while she's still alive."
Everyone felt sick at what she had just said. Then Rin, of all people, asked the question that was on everyones mind, but didn't have the courage to ask.
"Tohru...What happened to her?" Rin asked, her dark eyes fixated on Shigure. "How exactly is she? Will she...?" Rin didn't finish her last question, but everyone knew what she was planning on saying.
"Tohru-san was hit by a car." The nurse replied, her response earning some shocked expressions and gasps of disbelief. "She wasn't breathing when she came in. She has alot of external injuries and internal injuries. And she's lost quite a bit of blood. Before she went into the operating room, the doctor said she had a 15 percent chance, and that's being optomistic."
This was the breaking point for some of the Sohmas. Kisa, Momiji, and Kagura had broken out into tears. Haru, Ritsu, Hatori, Rin, and Ayame had turned away. Hiro had wrapped his arms around the crying Kisa. Kyo looked down with his body shaking, and fists clenched tight, while Yuki just left the room, growing sick at the upsetting news.
"I'm sorry." The nurse said as she left the room, leaving the family to deal with the rather unfortuante event together.
'It's been over five hours since we came here...' Yuki thought, looking up at the clock in the waiting room for the millionth time. 'Shigure's still sleeping, and Tohru-kun...Only God knows know...' Yuki thought, looking up at the clock in the waiting room for the millionth time.
The entire Sohma family had left Shigure's room and went out into the waiting room to wait out their nightmare. Every second seemed like a minute. Everyminute seemed like an hour. And every hour seemed like a day. The time seemed to stop. Every second felt like another day.
But for Shigure, it felt as if time had stopped all together for him.
He had woken up a little while earlier, but he still got no news of Tohru and her condition. He was still a bit dazed from the medication, but he had chose not to think about Tohru and her possible death. He had another important thing to worry about.
'Who do I really love? Tohru, or Kohana?' He thought, contemplating on every single detail he could think of.
He had compared every small feeling he shared between Kohana to every small feeling he shared between Tohru.
It didn't take much time or work to think about it. Everything with Kohana was little to none, but as for Tohru, everything made his heart race. Her actions, her voice, the way she had a smile on her face no matter what she did. He always had to resist the urge to go over and scoop her up into his arms. With Kohana, it was always dull. She never brought the light into the room quite like Tohru did.
So the most obvious choice?
'It's Tohru that I love.'
"Clean up." Miroshu-sensei, a female doctor ordered as she started to remove her operating gear. "I'll go and inform her family of what happened."
"Yes, ma'am." The nurse replied, getting things in order and ready to wheel Tohru out of the room, as another one covered her up.
"Excuse me, Sohma-san?" Miroshu asked as she came into Shigure's room. "Can I speak to you for a minute?"
Shigure's head automatically went her way as she stood infront of his bed. "Y-yes."
"I'm the doctor that performed the surgery on the young woman you came in with, Tohru Sohma-san." She said.
"Tohru!" Shigure blurted out, eyes wide with hope and fear. "How is she!"
"That's what I came in to tell you." Miroshu replied, explaining what happened while Shigure was all ears.
Hatori went into Shigure's room to see if he had woken up yet. He was worried sitting inside the waiting room and wanted to find out anything that he could.
But when he was a few feet away from the door, a doctor had come out. Hatori felt his stomach flip-flop as he froze in the hallway. 'Maybe it's about Tohru!' So he quickly walked the last few feet and opened the door.
He looked in and over to the bed.
'Of course it had something to do with Tohru...'
Because Shigure was crying.
End of ch. 10! Mwuahahahaha! A cliffie! Sorry it took so long to update! Please don't hate me! Alot of bad crap happened in life! But everything's better now, so expect more updates soon!