Prettyinpinkgal: Hey! Me again :) I'm glad that you three have enjoyed the fic so far! Please enjoy chapter two!
Disclaimer: I don't own Left Behind; the movies, books, or anything. They belong to Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins. And as for Fruits Basket, it belongs to Natsuki Takaya and Akitaro Daichi.
LEFT BEHIND: THE FRUITS BASKET
CHAPTER TWO: DISAPPEARANCES
Two Weeks Later from the Previous Chapter
Tohru, Kyo, Yuki, and the other second years were jumbled up in an excited group. They were at Tokyo Airport (A/N I don't know if this exists, but oh well D) , waiting to take a trip to Hokkaido. Uo-chan looked at Hana-chan and Tohru-kun happily as Yuki and Kyo were attacked by crazy fangirls from all four classes. "Isn't this so cool? We're finally going somewhere other than that stupid building (aka school)!" Uo-chan cried with delight as she "lightly" punched another second year, who then cried out in pain.
"Yes, it is quite thrilling," said Hana with indifference, although she had a hint of a smile on her face.
"I can't wait to go see everything there," Tohru said happily. "And it's been a while since I've gone on a plane."
"Yeah! Free peanuts, here we come!" Arisa cheered, making the entire group sweatdrop.
"Flight 426, please enter the terminal. Flight 426, leaving for Hokkaido," a woman said over the loudspeaker.
Mayu-chan and three other teachers ushered the teens toward their plane. Uo, Yuki, and Kyo were forced to sit together, while Tohru, Hana, and another highschooler sat together. The pilot said, "Thank you for riding with us today. This is Captain Uta Takizawa. Please enjoy your flight." Fifteen minutes later, the plane was over the clouds.
The trip to Hokkaido was supposed to be for a week, and the trip there was overnight. At 21 o'clock, the teens, exhausted from the excitement, went to sleep.
"Harold?" Tohru's dream of her mother faded away into merely a memory as she slipped into consciousness. Tohru glanced at her watch and saw it an hour after midnight. An elderly woman frantically looked about in her seat, calling out for the person named Harold.
"Um, Oba-chan? Do you need help with something?" Tohru asked sleepily, carefully getting out of her seat as to not wake anyone.
"Yes, young lady," the woman said. She was clearly a foreigner, but she speaked Japanese fairly well. "I'm looking for my husband, Harold. Have you seen a man get up recently?"
Tohru shook her head. "I'm sorry, I was asleep. Would you like me to go look for him?" she whispered, worried someone might wake up.
"Oh yes, thank you so much, dear. Ah! Take this with you." The woman handed the riceball a jacket and suggested that the brunette had a boy go with her to give the jacket to Harold.
"Eh?" Tohru asked. Why would Harold-san need a jacket? Why does a boy need to go with me?
"I'm sorry to say this, but I'm afraid he'll be embarrassed if he realizes he's out naked," the woman said, her cheeks turning red. She nodded towards the seat beside her, showing a set of clothes, still in the position they had been in when Harold had been sitting there wearing them.
Tohru Honda stared at the clothes. "Um, I'll go look for your husband." Knowing that Yuki could hardly get awake, especially at this hour, she decided to awaken Kyo-kun.
"Ano, Kyo-kun," Tohru said, hoping he wouldn't be too mad.
Kyo opened his eyes and groaned. "What do you want? Gaah, what time is it?"
"It's one. I'm sorry, Kyo-kun, but it's for a good reason." Tohru briefly explained the situation and Kyo rose.
"Fine," he grumbled. "Give me that jacket." The two looked around the plane until they reached the restrooms. So far, there had been no evidence of Harold.
Tohru-kun knocked. "Harold-san? Your wife is looking for you. Harold-san?" Kyo pushed the doors opened, revealing...
"Harold-san?" the girl called into the empty stalls. She frowned. Surely he had to be here somewhere. As the two went to the front of the plane, Kyo-kun and Tohru-kun noticed some more sets of clothes. Some were where little children had sat as the high schoolers boarded the plane.
What the...? Kyo wondered, trying to make sense of this. This wasn't your average airplane.
"Honey? Honey, wake up." The confused teens turned and saw a woman shaking her husband awake.
"Aww, and I was dreaming about being a millionare again..." the man said, yawning.
"Motoharu, where are Yuri, Minako and Hime?" the wife asked, beginning to look worried. The husband looked around, starting to become confused.
"I-I don't know. Wait...why is their clothes laying there?"
As the husband began to get more awake and aware of the situation, the woman jumped up and rushed at Kyo and Tohru. "You two! Have you seen three girls, they're triplets, about four years old? They were sitting right there," she said, pointing frantically at the seats across from them. Three sets of clothes, looking like a person was wearing them and had vanished.
"Uh-uh. Gaah, what is up with this plane?" Kyo grumbled, running his hand through his orange hair.
"You mean others are missing?"
"Yeah, the clothes still on the seats and everything."
The woman lost it. "Where are my kids!" she yelled, beginning to run through the isles, hoping that by some miracle her three children would turn up somewhere.
"Come on, let's go!" Kyo yelled at Tohru and pulled her back to their seats. Tohru explained as calmly as she could that they couldn't find her husband anywhere, and the elderly woman started shaking people awake, demanding if they had seen her husband earlier walk off.
By this time, everyone was awake and in a frenzy. Mothers and fathers cried out in anguish in seeing their young children's clothes laying perfectly in a seat. Husbands called for their wives, and wives for their husbands. Although not many adults were missing, every single child under the age of around twelve was gone. What had happened? What was going on? Would they see their loved ones again? Everyone asked, but no one knew. People tried calling and using their cells, but they couldn't get through at all.
The school group, to their immense sorrow, found out one of the teachers, a Yoshida-san, had disappeared as well as about two other students. The plane had suffered one of the most bizarre and horrifying tragedies, and no one knew why.
Captain Uta Takizawa flew the plane with his co-pilot with experienced ease. It was the perfect night: hardly any turbulance or anything.
He laid back in his chair when a content sigh. After only ten years of flying, he was one of the best. Suddenly...
A flight attendant rushed in. "Excuse me! Captain, we have an emergency!" The woman, Hoshi, seemed to by hyperventalating. Surprised, Uta got up and told Machida, the co-pilot, to keep things in control. He took Hoshi-chan out of the room and into the next, where no one could hear them.
"What is it?" he asked her.
The poor woman had tears rolling down her cheeks and shook. "People...Vanishing...Terrible...Clothes..." The girl couldn't make a single sentence without stammering.
"What?" he asked, trying to make since of the few words she said. She grabbed him and pushed the baffled captain into the crowd. Everyone realized who it was and immediately flocked to him.
"Sir! My baby...!"
"Where is my husband!"
"We want out baby back!"
"Where the heck's my wi...!"
One got close enough to yell, "My kids are gone! There clothes are the only thing left! Where are they! Oh gosh, where are..." the man cried out in anguish as he slid to the floor, pounding on it.
"Captain!" Hoshi cried out, sobbing harder. "It's Mitsuki! He's disappeared as well!" Mitsuki was a young twenty-year-old flight attendant. "We...we found his clothes...!" she managed to scream as she collapsed onto the floor. Mitsuki was not only Hoshi's co-worker, but her husband.
It was then, only then, that Uta Takizawa understood. People vanished right out of their clothes, and no one knew where to. He began panicing himself. What about his own wife? His new baby? Uta ran his hand through his hair, still sort of in shock. "P...Please, everyone, get back to your seats. The staff will search every single inch of this plane until we find them. But for now, please just take your seats!"
He quickly retreated to the cockpit (A/N That's where the pilots fly, right? I can't remember). "Mayday, mayday. This is pilot Uta Takizawa. We are missing crew members and fliers. I repeat, we are missing workers and passengers..."
"You too, over?" came the reply, just as shook up as Takizawa.
"Y-yes. Are there people missing over there as well, over?"
"Uta-kun, haven't you heard? It's all over the country! The world! No one has any idea where these people went!"
Tohru's friend Arisa finally, miraculously, managed to use her cell phone. "Dad! Are you there? Dad?" she yelled into the cell as she heard a phone. Immediately after, she realized it was the answering machine. She sank down in her seat, pale and weaker than anyone had ever seen her.
Yuki did his best to be positive. "Well, you don't know for certain if he's gone. Maybe he was just...out."
Hanajima, on the other hand, was realistic. "Her father was out in the middle of the night?"
"And he was finally getting better..." Uotani whispered. Tohru hugged her as Saki patted Arisa's head.
In everyone's heart, they knew that things in their lives would never, ever be the same. People vanishing right out of their clothes isn't exactly something that happens every day. What had happened? What was going to happen? No one knew. All they knew was that their loved ones were gone, and that they were left behind.
Prettyinpinkgal: So, the plot finally reveals itself! What's gonna happen? You'll have to wait and find out! Please review! Thanks!