New AN: Well. That was evil. Guess what? The site was determined that I not update. Or upload. At all. Yeah. I had to try and upload the chapter on two different computers, and neither worked; I ended up just copying and pasting the chapter into the really old alternate chapter one... I submitted an error report and such, but decided that I'd better find a way to update anyway... I'm not going to add a new Author's Note to the bottom...
AN: I'm sorry it's late, but I told you. Here it is, yo! I like how this one's a wee bit funny. I do hope you like it.
Chapter 29- Visitors
"Sissy!" cried Kisa, hardly having the restraint to stay still, rather than risk injuring the Onigiri.
"Tohru!" Momiji had no such restraint, the former Neko intervened, "Are you okay!"
"You came to visit me… thank you!"
"But…" said the Inoshishi, concerned, "Are you alright? The others are worried, too…"
"It's true," Hiro spoke up, "Everyone's all worked up over you!" A trained eye could see that the Hitsuji (AN: Sheep) was smiling, however faintly.
"Oh," she said, smiling to ward off concern, "I'm alright,"
"Are you sure?" asked Kagura, venturing a glance at her (AN: -cough-) swollen stomach in dismay.
"Yes," said Tohru, "I'm quite alright,"
The Tora asked innocently, as if to get the words out for the Inoshishi, "And Sissy's baby is alright, too?"
Still smiling, the Onigiri answered, "From what I can tell,"
"That's good," said Hiro, "Let's go, Kisa,"
"But…"
"There are others waiting," he said, "We've had our turn,"
"Okay…" Kisa turned to Tohru, "I'll see you soon, Sissy!"
As the two youngest of the Jyuunishi left the hospital room, Kagura said, "Well… this isn't my place…"
"Kagura-chan," said Tohru, "You're perfectly welcome; you're part of the family!"
"Yeah!" piped up the Usagi, "Think about it! 'Auntie-Kagura!'" Tohru smiled in approval.
"'Auntie-Kagura'…I like it!" the Inoshishi grinned in anticipation.
"Kagura," started Kyou. He almost felt guilty, being so plainly in love with the Onigiri, with the one who loved him in the room.
The Inoshishi shook her head, "No, Kyou-kun; I know what you're going to say, and don't bother. Please don't worry about me… I'll find my own happiness, like you have, someday!" she spoke happily; she was truly happy.
With that, she smiled, waved, and exited quietly.
"And now I'm left…" said Momiji, "Well, I have to say that you're lucky, Tohru. I was just… wondering, if I could have some sort of role in your new, dysfunctional, family…?"
"Of course!" said Tohru in unison with Kyou's, "No way!"
Momiji smiled.
"I'll call the others in, 'kay?" At the Onigiri's nod, he left.
Kyou sat there for a moment, nearly twitching.
"…how many others are there…?"
Tohru giggled.
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"Hatori-san!" said an exasperated Kureno, finally finding the Tatsu among the people of at the hospital.
"Kureno… san…?" ventured the Doctor, "It's been a while since you last came in for a check up; I wasn't sure that it was you, at first… I assume you'd like to see Akito-san?"
"Um," Kureno contemplated this, but only for a moment, "Yes, please, and if I may see Tohru-san, as well?"
"Of course, this way…" Hatori led the former Tori (AN: Rooster) to the room in the back in which the God was recovering.
On the door, a sign read:
Warning! You do NOT want to come in here! Really!
(We mean it!
Smirking, Kureno said, "Never would've thought of that one…"
Shrugging, the Tatsu said, "I figured upon the fact that it's true, and that she won't see it," (AN: He's her doctor, you know he knows Akito's a girl… Hello? Physicals?")
"Ha-ha…" Kureno opened the door and walked in.
'I'm not going to get a break anytime soon, am I?' Hatori thought, walking leisurely back toward the other rooms.
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"I'll," he winced, "get it," said Kyou at a knock on the door to Tohru's hospital room.
"Okay," Tohru smiled in anticipation, wondering who would be there, caring enough to visit her, all the way at the hospital…
"Oh, great," Kyou muttered, nearly slamming the door shut once more, but he managed to restrain himself.
"Who's there…?" asked Tohru.
AN: You know, I almost always change the format in MS Word to be almost no margins and size 9 (8?) veranda, like the site show it, to have a relatively good size prediction, but I didn't bother this time, and found that the chapter looked longer. I was like "wow". Heh. So enthusiastic, aren't I? I actually didn't say a thing, but I thought it. I'm such a nerd to be telling you all that. Haha.
In any case, I'm sure now that I am better at console games without the controller. DDR I've been pretty good at for a while (even though I don't even own the game, lol), but I finally got to play Guitar Hero earlier tonight, and found that I took to it well. I beat some guy who'd been playing since it was out on my third try. It felt nice. I also want to play Karaoke Revolutions, but as none of my friends have it (and I don't even own a PS2), I haven't gotten the chance. I mostly want to play it for the song "One Week," though. Seeing as I know it by heart and love the Barenaked Ladies. Enough about Games. Mention it in your review, though, and I'll rant about my lack of hand-eye coordination to you. Bwahaha.