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: Thanks for your great reviews! Sorry it took so long for the update! Since I haven't updated in over a year or so, it's kinda weird, so please bear with it. Also, possible future OOC-ness, especially for Tohru! Read on!
Whatever It Takes
Chapter 11- Newfound Love And Newfound Hate
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.
Hatori just leaned against the door, covering his mouth, hoping it would contain that horrible sick feeling he had just received seeing Shigure.
"Sh-Shigure..." Hatori said, his voice slightly muffled by his hand. "Tohru-kun...She's dead...Isn't she...?"
"No, Ha'ri..." Shigure replied lifting his face from his hands to reveal a smiling face stained in tears. "She's alive! She made it through the operation!"
"Sh-Shigure, are you serious?!" Hatori asked in shock, taking his hand away from his mouth.
"She's okay!" Shigure laughed a great deal of relief. "She'll be okay!"
Hatori let out a great sigh of relief. For the longest few seconds of his life, he thought Shigure was going to tell him something he didn't want to hear. "Shigure, I'm going to go and tell everyone else!" He said as he quickly made his way out of the door. Shigure just sighed a great sigh of relief.
'And I'm going to go and see Tohru-kun...' Shigure thought as he got out of his bed.
'Nnnhh...Where am I? It's so bright in here...Is this Heaven? Uh...! No...I can't be dead...'
"It still hurts too much..." Tohru forced out as she slowly opened her tired blue eyes. "Both in my body and my heart..."
Tohru tried to sit up, but the stabbing pain she felt in her abdomen told her 'no'. She let out a cry of pain and fell back down onto her bed. "Itai...I guess...Sitting up will just have to wait..." She groaned.
' Which is too bad...I still wanna get out of here...Just far, far away from here...Where I'll never have to see him ever again...'
"Sohma Tohru?" A nurse asked as Shigure stood in front of the desk of the recovery ward of the ICU.
"Yes, can you please tell me what room she's in?" Shigure asked. 'Please! I really need to see her!'
"I'm sorry Sohma-san, but no one but medical staff is allowed in for the next few days." She told Shigure. His face fell.
"What?! Why?!" He asked, stepping foward. "Please, I need to see her!"
"I'm sorry, sir." The nurse said. "Try coming back later this week. You can see her then."
"NO!" Shigure, voiced raised and earning himself some stares to go with it, said. "I won't wait another few days! I've waited almost two years to say this to her and I'm not letting some 'by-the-book' nurse keep me from seeing her! Now either tell me what room she's in, or I'll go and find it myself!"
"Sohma-san, she needs her rest!" The nurse retorted. "You can't go in there! This is the most important time after her operation! And she's emotionally unstable!! We can't run the risk of you upsetting her! Doing that now could kill her!"
"I don't-! K...kill her...?" He began, but stopped as the information sunk in. "Wh...what do you mean...kill her?"
"Her injuries were that servere." The nurse said. "And her operation was that delicate. If you went in there and said something that upset her right now-!"
"Her internal stitches could rupture and make her bleed to death on the inside." A deep male voice finished. Shigure turned around quickly, only to find Hatori standing behind him.
"Ha...Hatori...!" Shigure stammered. "What...what are you doing here?!"
"I think the question is, what are you doing here?" Hatori asked. Shigure was still to stunned to speak. "Now, lets get you back to your room. All this excitement isn't good for your fever. The last thing we want is for it to raise up again." So Hatori grabbed one of his shoulders, and turned Shigure around so he could walk back down to the elevators and onto his floor. "I'm sorry, nurse. He's one of my more troublesome patients."
"It's alright, Sohma-sensei." She smiled.
"Now, Shigure, let's get back to your room." Hatori whispered.
"Hatori, how does she know you?" Shigure whispered back.
"I work here on occasion." He replied. Shigure gave him a questioning look. "I'm like a subsitute doctor. Ever wonder why I take an occasional day away from the estate? Or how I managed to supply Tohru with her medication while she was comatose? It's to come here and help out, and get supplies."
"Oh, I get it..." Shigure said, a little dazed.
"Hmm? Shigure, what's the matter?" Hatori asked, noticing the tone of Shigure's voice and looking over. "You're looking rather pale..."
"I'm not feeling too good at the moment..." Shigure responded, starting to cough a little.
"Well, that's what you get for getting yourself worked up." Hatori replied, not worrying about the now nauseated Shigure next to him, pressing the button to the elevator. "Now let's get you back to your room."
"Yeah..." Came Shigure's spiritless reply. Hatori looked at him and noticed that his face was lined with sadness, even as he stepped into the elevator and leaned against the walls for support.
"You know..." Hatori said, breaking the silence, "You shouldn't worry about this whole thing. Everything's going to be fine."
"Yeah..." Came the same dull reply as he started slipping down the wall.
"Shigure..." Hatori asked, starting to think there was something more to Shigure's dullness than a fever. "What's wrong?" Shigure didn't even shift his gaze as he answered.
"You wouldn't understand..."
"Hey, I'm really starting to worry...!" Kohana said, looking more worried by the minute. She came to check up on Shigure, but he was nowhere to be seen. "I mean, where could have gone off too?!"
"Kohana, calm down." Kagura coaxed, just as worried as she was. "I'm sure Shii-chan's alright."
"Y-yeah..." She relpied, looking down.
"Kohana-san, if it'll make you feel any better, I'll go and look, okay?" Yuki asked, placing a comforting hand on her shoulder.
"Thank you, Yuki-kun." Kohana smiled.
"I'll be right back." He said as he walked out the door.
"You know, he might've gone to see Tohru." Kyo suggested.
"True." Rin said. "After Hatori came to tell us, we came in here and he was gone. That's the best opti-!"
"Shigure-kun!!" Kohana said loudly as Yuki suddenly opened the door and helped a passed out Shigure back to his bed. "Shigure, are you alright?!"
Kohana didn't get an answer. Shigure out cold and was so pale he looked dead.
"SHIGURE!!!" She screamed, trying to hold him, and starting to cry hysterically.
"Rin! Kagura!" Yuki shouted. "Take Kohana-san and get her out of here!!" Rin and Kagura did as they were told and took the panicked Kohana out to calm her down.
'This isn't good...! He can't be that sick!!' Hatori thought as he helped lay Shigure down and pressed the call button for the nurse. It was only a few seconds later that she arrived.
"Hatori-san, what is it?" The nurse, Yuna asked as she saw him and Yuki shift Shigure's lifeless body into the middle of the bed.
"Something's very wrong with him." Hatori replied. "He passed out in the elevator on the way back from the intesive care unit. I know he's pretty anemic from the bad weather he was picked up in, but he shouldn't be this bad."
"I'll get a blood sample and see what's going on." She said as she pulled a syringe and some viles out of a drawer. "There may be a serious underlying issue."
"Yuki, Kyo." Hatori asked, looking towards the two teens. "Has Shigure been any different the past few days, aside from all the wedding things?"
"Well..." Yuki said, a thoughtful expression lining his face.
"He's been sleeping more lately." Kyo stated.
"Yeah, actually he has." Yuki agreed. "But I just thought it was laziness."
"Sleeping more?" Hatori questioned. "There could be alot of things wrong with him then..."
"Don't worry Hatori-san." Yuna said. "We'll do all the proper tests for him. I'll take these and make them a priority, alright?"
"Thank you, Yuna." He replied as she left the room.
"It'll be about an hour and a half before the results come back." She added.
And so began the longest hour and a half the Sohma's had ever waited through.
"Well, the results of his blood tests are back." Hatori declared, earning anxious looks from everyone.
"S-so...What is it?" Kohana fearfully asked. "Wh-what's wrong with Shigure-kun?"
"He has mononucleosis." He replied. Many of the Sohmas gave a questioning look. "It's a sleeping virus. And the only cure is to just let him sleep it off, so he won't be awake much for the next week or so."
"That...That's all...?" Kohana asked, letting out breath of relief. "He's gonna be fine?"
"Yes, he'll be fine." Hatori smiled, making Kohana and the others feel so much better. 'Actuallly, I think this is a good thing. Maybe he'll be more calm when I tell him about Tohru and how she's doing...'
"What is it, Hari?" Momiji asked, noticing Hatori in thinking mode.
"Nothing, Momiji." He said. "I'm going to check up on Tohru-kun. Why don't you guys go on home and get some sleep."
"But I wanna see Nee-chan!!" Kisa said, jumping up and grabbing Hatori's coat, her eyes watering.
"You can in a few days, Kisa." He said, patting her head. "Her accident was very bad and she needs some time to rest. But, I can tell her you said 'hello', is that okay?"
Kisa sniffled, "I guess so..."
"Alright, now go home and get some sleep." Hatori said, taking the girls' hand and placing it in Hiro's. They all started shuffling out the door until Hatori stopped them. "One more thing; nobody is to tell Akito about any of this. If he even suspects anything, Tohru-kun has the flu, am I clear?"
A clear chorus of yes was heard through the group. Hatori nodded at them and went towards the elevators.
Two Weeks Later
"Good morning, Sohma-chan." A nurse greeted as she walked into Tohru's room. "How are you feeling today?"
"Morning, Kaori." Tohru greeted. "I'm still sore, but I feel alot better." A day earlier, her doctor said she was well enough to leave the intesive care unit and go to a much quieter and calmer recovery ward of the hospital. She started walking the hallways the day before, hoping that Shigure was on the same floor as she was and if she could catch a glance at him, despite her decision.
"Are you ready for a visitor this early?" Kaori asked.
"Visitor? Who is it?" Tohru asked.
"Sohma Hatori-san." She replied. "I belive he's your family doctor."
"Yes!! Let him in!!" Tohru nearly shouted. There were some important things she needed to ask.
"Alright, I'll go get him for you." Kaori replied. A few minutes later, Hatori walked in.
"Hatori-san!!" Tohru beamed, feeling relived at the sight of him. "How's Shigure-kun!? What happened?!! Please tell me Akito doesn't know about this!!"
"Hey, calm down, calm down." Hatori smiled, sitting down in a chair next to the bed. "Well, despite the major and painfull surgery you were in, I'm glad to see you back to your normal self."
Tohru looked down at her hands for a good minute before she worked up the courage to ask Hatori about what happened to her. "Ha-Hatori-san...What exactly happened to me? I don't quite remember..."
"Well..." Hatori began. "How you got there is something only you and Shigure know, but you know that old road by the house that no one ever uses?" Tohru nodded. "You somehow ended up there...But as you crossed it, you were hit by a car." Tohrus' eyes widened for a second and she looked down at her hands agian.
"I did remember bright lights..." She said softly. "Oh! What about Akito? Does he know about this?!"
"I told him you were in the hospital, but for a very bad case of influenza." Hatori said.
"Oh, thank you, Hatori-san!" She sighed. Then things grew deafeningly silent.
"Shigure saved you." He said after a minute. Tohru looked up in surprise. "He said he followed you and used your cell to call an ambulance. He was pretty shaken up about the whole thing. I think the thought that you might've died terrified him."
"Mmm...How...How is Shigure-kun?" Tohru forced out.
"He had a sleeping virus." Hatori replied. "He's getting over it." He added, noticing Tohru look absolutely terrified that he might be sick. "He actually contracted it before any of this even happened. It's not fatal, but we kept him here because he's been pretty unstable after the whole accident. He really wants to see you."
Tohru remained silent.
"What about you, Tohru-kun?" He asked. "Do you want to see him?"
She hesitated. "...I don't know anymore..."
"Shigure, are you sure you feel up to this?" Yuki asked as he helped a sleepy-looking Shigure to Tohru's room. He skipped school to see how he was doing and for moral support for Kohana.
"Absolutely." Shigure answered. "I just need to see her and talk to her."
"Well, you can." Yuki said. "She's in this room right here. Are you ready for this?"
"What do you mean?" He asked.
"It's just...All the bandages and cuts and bruises..." Yuki said. "It's hard to look at..."
"Don't worry, Yuki." Shigure smiled. "And thank you." He said as he entered the room, automatically seeing Tohru's face looking back at him, and not even noticing Hatori with her.
"What are you doing here?" She spat at him.
"Oh, Tohru-kun!!" Shigure said, to relived to see her awake to notice the malice in her so called greeting. He ran over to her bedside and embraced her. "Oh, I'm so glad to see you!! You don't know how scared I was!"
"Don't touch me!!" She demanded, shoving Shigure away from her. "Just get away from me!!"
Hatori was to shocked to say or do anything, but Shigure didn't like what was going on. "Tohru-kun, what's-"
"I said get away!!" She screamed, getting on her knees to be more face-to-face with Shigure, looking like she was about to hit him. " I don't want to see you anymore!!"
"Tohru, listen, I need to tell you something!!" Shigure said, grabbing her wrists in an attempt to keep her from hitting him.
"I don't want to hear it!!" Tohru said, her eyes tearing up as she struggled to free herself.
"Tohru, listen, I thought alot about this-! He started.
"NO!" She screamed. "I don't wanna hear anything you have to say!!!"
"Tohru, look, I love you!!" Shigure shouted, obviously catching her attention. "I love you and I don't want to loose you like I almost did!!"
"...No you don't." She said, her voice dripping with hate. "You love Kohana, not me!!"
"Didn't you tell me you loved me too?!" Shigure asked, still struggling with a fighting Tohru.
"I thought I did!!" She seethed. "But I guess I thought wrong!!"
Shigure was starting to become frustrated. "Tohru, liste-"
"NO!!!" Tohru screamed, breaking one hand free and slapping Shigure with it. "YOU DON'T LOVE ME, SO WHY SHOULD I LOVE YOU?!?!"
"That's enough!!" Hatori said, finally done with their fighting, taking Shigure out of the room and leaving Tohru alone to calm down. Out in the hallway, Shigure slid down the wall and onto the floor and Hatori stood there trying to make sense of what he just witnessed. "Okay, I don't know what happened between you two, but- Shigure?" He asked, noticing a few stray tears fall down his emotionless face. "What's wrong?"
"What have I done? She hates me..."
End of Ch. 11
I'm sorry for being such a slacker!! I hope you enjoyed it! Hopefully the next update will be much sooner.
So what happens when Akito decides to pay Tohru a visit at the hospital, learning about the accident in the process? What'll happen to Tohru and Shigure?