Summary: Tohru receives tickets for the luxury cruise upon the Poseidon for her birthday, along with 10 other people from the Sohma family. Midway through the cruise, the ship is fatally struck by a rogue wave, and it capsized. Now Tohru must find out where everyone else is and escape the bowels of the ship before it slips under the ocean's waves. But not everyone can survive fate. . .

Poseidon
Chapter Three
Rough Seas

Kyo and Tohru embraced for what seemed an eternity, when the cabin door was rapped upon noisily, pulling the lovers apart.

"Who could that be?" asked Tohru, looking over Kyo's shoulder at the wooden door opposite them.

Kyo walked over to the door, looking through the peephole, he turned back to Tohru "It's Uo and Hana."

"Let them in," replied Tohru, pulling the case on the bed closer to her, and opening it.

Tohru heard the noise of the door opening, and Uo and Hana entered the threshold. Tohru turned around to see Uo and Hana approaching her.

"Tohru, there's something wrong with our room," said Uo, folding her arms.

"Huh, what's wrong?" replied Tohru, a quizzical expression upon her face.

"Our room does not appear to be classified within this ship," said Hana spontaneously, her head popping from over Uo's shoulder.

"Huh?" asked Tohru again, the same quizzical expression on her face.

"Basically," said Uo, cutting through the awkward silence that had ripped through the room "Our room doesn't exist!"

"What?" asked Tohru, taking the key-card from Uo's grip, and checking the details, which seemed correct to her.

"I dunno! We followed the rooms around the ship, but ours never came up" Uo replied, moving her hands to her hips as she spoke.

"Um... Well give me and Kyo about 30 minutes to unpack, and we'll all go down to the reception and sort it out."

"Well, where are we supposed to go?" asked Uo, frustration and anger upon her face.

"I don't know," replied Tohru "How about you just check out the ship? And meet us at 1:10 in the reception."

"Urgh, what's the point?!" shouted Uo angrily, raising her arms above her "We're meeting at 1:00 anyway!"

And with that, Uo left, Hana in tow, slamming the door behind them both. Kyo, who had been silent and out-of-the-way up to this point, walked up to Tohru and hugged her.
Tears welled up in her eyes, how could Uo or Hana be so mad with her? Her best friends... Her first best friends.

"W-What did I do?" she asked, muffled slightly as Kyo squeezed her tighter.

"Nothing," replied Kyo "Just ignore them. You're here to have fun, and if they can't have fun, then let them be."

"But-"

Kyo cut her off with a kiss, and they parted, and Kyo looked into Tohru's big brown eyes with his flaming red ones. He wiped the fallen tears from her cheek, and kissed her forehead gently.

"You leave them to mope," he said softly "This is your vacation too; you need to focus on enjoying yourself, okay?"

"Um... Sure" replied Tohru, asked Kyo grabbed her hand, and lead her to the room's balcony.

The ship wasn't due to leave until 7:00pm, halfway through the dinner courses later in the evening. It was only 12:50 when Tohru and Kyo decided to leave for the reception, which would probably take them 20 minutes at the least. They followed the winding corridors back the way they had come, and eventually found the lifts to reception.

When they arrived, it was flooded with people. They were trying to see what films were being shown in the ship's cinema, or what was on the menu for the evening courses. It was noted that there would be a major feast in the ballroom every night on the cruise. The only real problems that seemed to be happening was the fiasco with Uo and Hana's room.
Tohru and Kyo were the first to arrive, the time on the wall said it was 1:05. There was no doubt that the others had either gotten lost, or completely forgotten they were meeting up.
By 1:30, everyone had arrived in the reception, and the reception had emptied considerably. Uo and Hana had gone to the counter to sort out their room situation, which turns out the ship had been overbooked.

10 minutes later, Uo and Hana came back, Uo was enraged.

"This is so STUPID!" she shouted.

"What's wrong?" asked Tohru, who was sat upon a comfortable couch, along with the others.

"What's wrong? What's wrong?!" shouted Uo "I'll tell you what's wrong! It turns out the ship has been overbooked, and that other people have got our room. This now means we're being deported from the ship!"

"What?!" everyone shouted in unison.

"T-That can't be!" said Tohru, standing up.

"Oh, it can, and it is!" replied Uo "So, they're sending back that other ship and we're leaving in half an hour!"

"There must be something we can do!" said Tohru, looking at everyone for encouragement. It never came.

"Let's face it, Tohru" said Hana "This trip was never meant for either myself or Arisa. You enjoy your vacation without us."

"But-" replied Tohru.

Hana cut her out "This is something that was meant to be. We are not needed upon this trip. Nor shall we ever."

"Are you sure there's nothing you or we can do?" asked Tohru, he hands together, almost prayer-like.

"Positive," replied Uo "There's not a single cabin left empty. This trip's fully booked. Forget it, Tohru. We'll see you when you come back."

Tohru stood there, tears in her eyes. Her two best friends were not accompanying her on her first ever cruise. They would be leaving in less than twenty minutes, and there was nothing she could do about it.

"Forget about us, Tohru," said Hana "We'll see you when you get back. It's only 2 months, right?"

"That's not the point!" replied Tohru "I wanted to experience this trip with everyone I loved, including you two!"

"It doesn't matter," said Uo "You're so sympathetic. Just leave us and enjoy your vacation, we'll be okay, and you'll come back refreshed. I know, we'll make a deal."

"What's that?" asked Tohru, tears falling to her cheeks.

"You take lots of pictures and videos to show us when you get back?" Uo replied with a smile on her face, Hana behind her smiled too.

"Okay!" replied Tohru.

"Oh, look, it's almost time for us to go" said Uo, looking at the clock in the wall "You got your luggage, Hana?"

"Yes," replied Hana, rolling a velvety-black suitcase in front of her "We'd best get ready to go."

Tohru hugged her two best friends one last time. She wouldn't see them for 2 months after this. It was heartbreaking for her, and Uo and Hana were beginning to show it too. The receptionist called Uo and Hana's names and they headed to the door.

"Goodbye, Tohru" they said in unison, as Tohru hugged them one last time, before going to Kyo and sobbing in his arms.

The door slid shut behind them, as the ship's horn bellowed loudly outside.

Little did Tohru know that there were worse things upon the horizon...

(A/N: Well, it's done now! A new chapter. Just two more and Outcast begins again! XD Betcha can't wait for the next one, huh!?!?! XD)