Me- Hum…what should come next?
Jeh-kun, Sky, and Anne come in- Thinking about the next chapter?
Me not listening: Damn this is hard!
Jeh-kun- Come on not another writers block! Damn you!
Sky- Um…she's not even on the computer
Anne- What's up?
Me- YES I GOT THE YELLOW!
Jeh-kun, Sky, and Anne- WHAT THE HELL?!
Me- I got the yellow on the Rubik Cube: flips the cube: Damn it I screwed up the white: turns all the squares: NO NOT AGAIN: Chucks it and it hits Jeh-kun: oops my bad
Jeh-kun- Here let me help you: evil smile:
Me- See yea: takes off with Jeh-kun on my tail:
Sky and Anne- This author owns nothing!
Chapter Four
On her own!
The story behind her past unveiled!
"Damn it! Why can't we find some clue?" Kyo yelled.
The group had gone back to Shigure's house after their fight with Tohru. And of course they couldn't find anything.
"Well what are we suppose to look for idiot?" Hiro asked angrily
"I'm not an idiot!" Kyo fired back
"Well you are if we don't know what to look for! Besides I'm only doing this for Kisa!" Hiro said, "I could care less as to what happens to that girl! She shouldn't even have gotten involved with us in the first place! It was your fault you stupid cat! For not paying the hell attention when you came through this god damn roof!"
"Why I should through you out the window and know one would care!"
"Then I'll call child services!"
"KNOCK THE SHIT OFF!" Yuki yelled, "Kyo shut up and get back to work! Hiro if you don't want to help get out of this house!"
The room went quite and Uo and Hana obviously no clue to what Hiro was talking about continued searching to find some clue as to what made Tohru snap. Kisa went over to Hiro and tried to calm him down and Yuki went over to Kyo, "Look Kyo we are all worried about her but you have got to keep a cool head."
Kyo nodded and then out of know where, "I think I found something!" Momiji yelled and they all went over to him, "What'd you find?" Uo asked
"I don't know it looks like a book but I can't open it."
Kyo took the black leather bound book out of his hands and tried to open it, "It's locked but it's a start. Now if only we can find the key." The search started once more but they gave up, "We can't find it anywhere." Kisa said
Kyo started to paste the floor, "Ok let's try this then. Think if you were Tohru and you had a journal, by the looks of this book, were would you put the key."
There was a moment of silence in the room. Until, "I got it!" Momiji said jumping up and down
"What?" Yuki asked the hopping rabbit
"I would put it somewhere that is most valuable to me!" he said excitedly
Just at that moment all the heads in the room had a light bulb moment. Uo smiled, "Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"
The heads of the Sohma family nodded, "Find the picture of her mother-" Haru started
"We find the key." Kyo finished.
So the search started all over again but the picture couldn't be found.
"This is hopeless!" Uo said, "I should've talked more sense into her instead of fighting with her!"
"I want sissy back! Sissy always had good ideas." Kisa said starting to cry again.
"We can't give in to hopeless emotions," Hana said kneeling down next to Kisa, "We will find Tohru ok? We will get her back, but the thing is we have to try this from a different angle."
"What do you mean?" Kisa asked looking at her.
"Well we have the basic idea were the key might be right?" The group nodded their heads, "Ok then…so where do we always see the picture if it's not in Tohru's room?"
"It's normally with-" Yuki slapped his head, "Oh great!"
"Not again." Kyo said, "Tohru must have it. Damn it!"
"Ok good," Hana said. And they gave her looks, "That is were it is so now the next part is to think of where she might have gone."
"Oh I get it; we have to narrow it down to the places. So we have to split up." Kisa said happily
"Exactly! See how easy it was when we broke it down into steps?" Hana smiled at Kisa.
"Ok so this is easy. If she's trying to runaway she wouldn't go to her work because she knows Momiji's dad is the owner." Kyo started
"And she can't go to her grandpa's because of…well you know." Yuki said
"And she can't go to the school because that'll be just plain stupid." Hiro listed
"So were else then?" Haru asked.
Hana and Uo looked at each other then said at the same time, "Her old house!"
"Why would she go there?" Momiji asked confused
"Don't you get it? Her waves are in chaos, she's confused, nowhere else to go to. She wants to start a new life but in order to do that; to learn from her mistakes that she thinks she's made she has to go back to the beginning. This means her old home." Hana said.
"Well what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Uo said and they ran out.
They ran through the woods dodging branches and jumping over stumps. "Are you sure this is the right way?" Kyo asked as he nearly tripped over one of the stumps.
"Positive. It's a short cut…hopefully." Uo said
"What's that suppose to mean?" Hiro asked trying to keep up.
"It is…I can sense her waves and it's all around here." Hana said in a monotone voice, "I hope she's alright."
"Is she in the woods if you can sense them?" Yuki asked
"No she's not in the woods but this is the trail she took last night."
Kyo and Yuki looked at each other but they kept following Uo and Hana.
Soon they came to a clearing and they started to slow down. "Why'd we stop?" Momiji asked Uo.
"Trying to get my boundaries. Ok Tohru's house is the boundary line of two gangs if I remember correctly."
"How do you know this?" Hiro asked a little creep out
"Because I use to be in a gang that's why. I looked up to Tohru's mom so I wanted to be just like her." Uo said still trying to think
"What? All happy and go lucky?" Hiro asked in a snide attitude
"No you spoiled brat! The Red Butterfly! When Tohru's mom was in middle school her parents abandoned her so she went bad and became involved in a gang." Uo snapped as she faced him, "Now shut up so I can think!" She turned her back on him to face the development again
Hiro was about to open his mouth again when Kisa said, "Please stop Hiro! You're not making this any easier." He closed it and looked at the ground.
"Well did you find your boundaries yet?" Kyo asked to break the silence
"I think so…let's try to go to the right. If it's not that way then if I remember correctly it should circle around." So they ran down the hill and went to the right.
Five Minutes later-
"Damn it! This isn't getting us anywhere!" Kyo said, "Which one is it?" He asked as they passed houses
Uo stopped and said, "I don't remember! They must have changed the styles or remodeled or something! Damn it! It's only been two years how can things change this much?!" Uo yelled
"Aw man! We've been going in circles and none of this looks familiar?" Kyo yelled back
"I'm sorry! Half does one minute and then it doesn't so sue me orange top!"
"Maybe I will!"
"Cool it!" said Haru stepping in between Uo and Kyo, "Ok let's do this: it's just about lunch time so why don't we get something to eat and then we can search again."
"I can go for some soup about now." Hana said
"Ok fine." Uo replied
"Alright." Kyo said backing down
"Good. So is there a place to get some food?" Hiro asked Uo
Uo face went blank, "Not again." Kyo sighed and slapped his hand on his forehead, "Can anything else go wrong today?"
"Hey why don't we ask her?" Momiji asked pointing to a girl with bleach blonde hair with red streaks, black leather pants, and a plain black coat heading her way into a bar.
"No I don't think we-" Uo started, but it was too late for Momiji walked across the street and went up to the girl and the group followed right behind him.
Momiji poked the girl on the shoulder, "Could you help my friends and I find a place to eat around here besides this bar thing?" He asked
"Touch me again and I'll rip that finger off your hand." The girl said darkly but didn't turn around.
"Kyo the stranger threatened me!" Momiji ran to Kyo and hid behind him
"Yo what the hell is your problem?! I don't give a flying fuck if you're a girl or not I'll kick your ass! Turn around and face me!" Kyo yelled at the blonde haired girl
"If you wish but I will warn you: my ass wouldn't be the one getting kicked it would be yours" She said still not turning around
"We'll see about that!" Kyo charged at her and had his fist aimed for her head but the girl turned and blocked his fist with her hand which took him by surprise; not by the fact that she blocked his punch but at the fact who blocked it, "Tohru?" he whispered looking at her eyes.
"Hello Kyo." She whispered back and then kicked him away from her in the jaw which sent him flying into the group behind him.
"So sad Kyo, you getting beat by Yuki I can understand but by a girl? Come on." Hiro said to him as he got up and whipped his mouth with the back of his hand.
"You want more Kyo or would you rather quit now before you get sent into the hospital?" The girl asked
"How do you know his name?" Uo asked in surprise as she looked at the blonde haired girl. She does look familiar, she thought, almost like Kyoko back in middle school.
"You must be blind or you have bad memories. Kyo seems to be smart enough to know, would you like the honors?"
"Tohru why are you doing this? What the hell did you do to your hair and just you in general?" Kyo walked up to her and tried to put his hands on her shoulders but she side stepped him and appeared in front of him.
"YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING!" The group yelled in unison as their jaws dropped
"The one and only," Tohru took a little bow, "I figured since I want to be better than what Kyoko was I figured I had to look the part. You know get rid of the innocent bull shit, the happy go lucky attitude, and what not."
"So you figured that dying your hair would help?" Hiro asked still in awe
"That gave me the appearance of Kyoko in middle school, but since we last saw each other I've been a little busy." Tohru explained
"Doing what exactly besides dying your hair?" Uo asked
"Tattoos, looking for a job, trying to get help with fixing Kyoko's bike, the works basically." Tohru listed simply, "Which by the way is easy enough since the Red Butterfly was so feared back in the day. And you don't know how many people said that I was a ghost. It was hilarious!" Tohru started to laugh
"And you think that's funny?" Kyo asked a tad bit disgusted
"Hell yes! Which is why I got a tattoo of a butterfly dedicated to Kyoko for setting the foundation."
"Not real I hope." Hana said
"As a matter of fact I did. Two to be exact and here's proof," Tohru took off her jacket and turned to show them, "See? I don't lie do I?"
"What's with the cat?" Haru asked
"A lost love…but you don't need to here that." She said slipping on her jacket, "So now if we are done I'll see yea around." She started to walk away leaving them in a tad bit of shock.
"Wait!" Kyo called out snapping out of it, it was now or never, he thought.
Tohru turned as he came right up to her with the group at his heels, "What?"
"Um…how do I put this? Um…" Kyo was struggling
"Spill it! I have an interview to go to and I don't want to be late. So if you have something to say then say it."
"Can you please just come home? We miss you I miss you! If it's about what happened over the phone of whatever then can we talk about it? Or whatever the problem is." Kyo begged
"No, we can't. I don't want to go back and my reasons are different. I can't handle it anymore so no!" Tohru turned around but right at that moment Kyo whipped her around and before she could do anything he kissed her on the lips. Her eyes widen in shock in shock. She wanted to pull away but she couldn't or her heart was telling her to stay. What the hell is he doing? Doesn't he realize that I'm the cause of his family's problems?! She thought. Kyo broke the kiss and looked at her, "Is that what you wanted?" he asked
Tohru didn't answer but he continued, "Love, understanding, the truth? Is it?" he looked at her desperately trying to search her eyes, "You don't want to do this Tohru. I know you don't. All this," he waved his hands around her, "Is not what you wanted. The answer that I want is in here." He pulled out her journal, "Were is the key? You said that you had a hellish life Tohru. You probably think that I don't understand…that we," He pointed to the group, "don't understand. I probably do. I met your mom when I was younger. I could've saved her to after the accident. That's why I ran away too. You said that it was your fault for your mother's and your grandfather's death. But it was probably mine not your's. Please Tohru can you come home?" Kyo looked at her compelety ignoring the reaction from Uo, Hana, Momiji, Kisa, Hiro, Haru, and Yuki.
Tohru was now filled with different emtions and lost it, "YOU WANT ME TO COME HOME NOW?! AFTER WHAT YOU SAID! JUST LEAVE ME BE!" And she ran again.
"Now what?" Yuki asked Kyo walking up to him.
"I don't know." Was all Kyo said before walking away.