Well, I don't have much to say except, I saw Charlie and the Chocolate Factory for the second time in three days! I love that movie! I swear, I almost died laughing. If any of you have seen it, then you probably know what I'm talking about. Johnny Depp is soooo hot! Anyways, thanks to the reviewers from the last chapter, the responses will be at the end as usual. Hope you like this chapter!

Disclaimer: I do not own Fruit's Basket but I do own Yukiko.

Innocence
Chapter 5
Hot Springs Time

"Hey, Tohru! Look! A mountain!" Momiji yelled looking out the window on their way to the hot springs.

"Ah, yes," Tohru replied.

"Ooh! And a river!" Momiji continued.

"Uh-huh," Tohru said not really paying attention.

"And a field!" Momiji said. Tohru just nodded again happily. "And look! It turned out to be a beautiful day, huh?"

"Yes, it did!" Tohru answered. She was sitting next to Momiji and across from Yuki and Kyo. Yukiko was sitting on the other side of Momiji. Earlier, when she was about to sit next to Kyo, Momiji had complained that he wanted to sit next to the little cutie. Sensing a fight beginning to erupt between the two, Yukiko heartily agreed and now sat where Momiji could talk to her.

"Right Yuki? Right Kyo?" asked Momiji hopping over to the other two's seat.

"I guess," they both replied at the same time. They looked at each other, then Kyo turned away angrily.

"If you wanted to sit next to Yukiko so much, then do it and stop hopping around," Kyo yelled over at Momiji.

"Aw, don't be so mean," Momiji said taking his rightful seat next to the quiet Yukiko. "Hi there!"

"Hello Momiji," replied Yukiko looking back from the window.

"So why are you guys being so quiet? You're not sad you came, are you?" Momiji asked looking at them all.

"No, not at all. I'm very glad you allowed me to come. This gives me time to get to know you all better," Yukiko said, allowing a huge smile to cross her face. Momiji and Yukiko started up a conversation while the others talked about… well, other things…

"Momiji, you're in the same class as Haru, right?" asked Yukiko.

"Yes that's right. We're in our last year right now and I can't wait to go to the high school with everybody!" Momiji exclaimed.

"I think my… um Hatori, is putting me in the same class as you guys when you go to the high school next year," Yukiko said stuttering over Hatori's name. She looked out the window wanting the subject to end for now.

Momiji looked sad as the conversation ended, but he perked up when he noticed they were almost at the Hot Springs. Turning back to looked over at the disheartened Yukiko, Momiji noticed what she was wearing wasn't from Japan. She had on a white dress that ended a little ways above her knees. The dress itself had a mint green belt over the waist and hip part. It had long sleeves that flared out slightly and the bottom of the dress poofed when she walked. Over the dress, she wore a mint green coat that was like the one she wore yesterday. Her boots matched her coat exactly and went to mid-calf. All in all, she looked very pretty today and was depressed for some reason.

"Why do you look so sad?" Momiji decided to ask.

"Well, you see. Hatori promised that he would come visit me tonight, but since we're going to the Hot Springs, I won't actually be able to see him for a couple days. Even though I only met him about a week ago, I miss him already," Yukiko replied looking at Momiji sitting next to her.

"Oh I see. Why don't you call him dad?" wondered Momiji.

"I would, but I don't think I'm ready to yet. I haven't known him that long and even though he told me to call him that, I'm just not ready," Yukiko said before noticing the bus stopping. They all got out and walked to the entrance of the Hot Springs.

"Wow… It's absolutely beautiful!" Tohru exclaimed, and everyone agreed with her.

"Well, come on Princess Tohru, your room awaits!" Momiji said.

"Ah… Thank you, Momiji. It's all so wonderful… You really have made me feel like a princess…" Tohru said dreamily.

"That's right! You're the princess! Ooh! And I'll be your knight!" Momiji replied happily. Yukiko was anxious to get inside the hot springs, and pulled Yuki inside with her.

"Let's go Yuki. I wanna look around," Yukiko said joyfully. Yuki nodded and followed her while watching rooms pass by. They heard the rest of the group enter with some lady before making their way back to the entrance. They stood behind the lady that was on her knees and listened to their conversation.

"Oh… don't worry. She's the Hot Spring Lady…" Momiji said at seeing Tohru's frightened look.

"The word is hostess…" Yuki said as they walked back over to Momiji and the rest. Looking their way, Momiji noticed Yukiko stand next to him.

"Yukiko! You're back!" Momiji exclaimed before wrapping his arms around the shorter girl beside him.

"Ah… yes," Yukiko replied slowly.

"Uh-h, a-are you okay? Is everything all right?" Tohru asked the Lady seeing her kneeling on the ground.

"Pleeease! Let me show you to your room!" the lady said grabbing Tohru's arms. Tohru screamed at the quick movement.

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"Guess what! The hot spring Lady is a Sohma, too!" Momiji said as they were walking towards their rooms. He was holding Yukiko's hands cheerfully pulling her beside him. Yukiko looked slightly uncomfortable but was too busy looking around at everything. "But she gets sick a lot, so she stays here, for the health benefits and all that. The Sohmas own this place, you know."

"Oh, really?" wondered Tohru.

"I do apologize if I startled you…" The hot spring lady began.

"Oh, no… please, you don't have to apologize to me…" Tohru said raising her hands. "Just as long as you're feeling okay, that's what's important…"

"You are too kind to an old woman like me… but thank you," the lady said.

"Um… excuse me," Yukiko said to gain the lady's attention. The hot springs lady looked down at Yukiko and smiled. "Why are there no other people here? We haven't seen anyone else yet."

"I can answer that!" Momiji said smiling. "You see, since it's early in the season, most people haven't started to come yet."

"Oh, okay," Yukiko said understanding.

"I'm surprised Young Master Shigure didn't accompany you today," the hot springs lady said as they started to walk again. "Perhaps he was too busy with work?"

"Young Master Shigure? How old are you!" Kyo asked rudely.

"Yes, he had deadlines on two books coming up," Yuki said politely ignoring Kyo's outburst.

"Well, that's a shame," the lady replied. "You see, you're the only guests we have today… It would have been a fine chance to visit with him." They stopped at a room and the lady slid the door open. "Ah, here we are. This will be your room."

"Wow, it's so big!" Momiji squealed as he skipped into the room dragging a reluctant Yukiko.

"Yes. I made sure we had our best room prepared for your arrival," the lady explained.

"Tohru! Come over here! You've got to look at this garden!" Momiji said standing by a window.

"Wo-ow! I can't believe how beautiful it all is," Tohru said looking into the vast garden. "How bit is it? It looks like it goes on forever!"

"Well… almost… See, from that forest over there, all the way to that mountain, it's all Sohma property," Momiji said. "And since Yukiko is now a Sohma, everything is hers to visit too!"

"Are you serious?" asked Yukiko wide eyed at the thought of all this being her family's property.

"Uh-huh! Everything you see is Sohma!" Momiji said.

"Well… while we're here… maybe it would be fun to go out for a walk," Tohru said intrigued with the picture.

"You wouldn't be the first to think so… Actually, we've even had a few guests go walking who never made it back…" the lady said holding a cup of tea. Yukiko, scared, grabbed onto Tohru who was equally as frightened.

"Tohru, Yukiko… You were supposed to laugh," Momiji said laughing at the girl's faces.

"Oh, that was just a joke… How silly, of course it was…" Tohru said as both she and Yukiko sighed with relief.

"Yeah, so don't worry. Really, they never lose the guests for too long…" Momiji said giggling. Both the girls visibly jumped at the thought. "There's a professional search party on call at all times." Yukiko grabbed onto Tohru's arm again and shivered at what Momiji said.

"What! You mean they have to send out search parties!" Tohru said exactly what Yukiko was thinking.

"Tohru, that was a joke too…" Momiji whispered to the shocked girls. They both relaxed and laughed nervously.

"Oh, I guess it was, wasn't it…" Tohru trailed off. Yukiko, who didn't want to hear anymore jokes, went and sat at the table beside Yuki.

"Are you alright?" Yuki asked looking at the slightly shaken girl.

"Um… yes, I'm fine," Yukiko replied giving him a shaky smile.

"Miss Tohru, Miss Yukiko, I've prepared a room for you adjacent to the young masters' here…" the lady said still sitting across from Yuki.

"Oh, okay," Tohru replied.

"Hey!" they heard Kyo say from where he was sitting off to the side. "I hope you don't think I'm stayin' in the same room as that damn Yuki!" They all felt his dark aura begin to grow.

"You two get along as poorly as ever, I see…" the lady said laughing. "But please, don't be upset… There are sliding doors to divide the room…"

"That's not the point! The point is, I didn't come here to—" Kyo started jumping up.

"The point is, you just want to stay in the same room as Tohru and Yukiko, don't you?" Momiji said nudging Kyo in his side.

"How crude," Yuki said calmly.

"Hey! I didn't say that!" Kyo complained. "So shut up, Momiji, you and your damn mouth!"

"Master Kyo…" the hot springs lady said darkly from behind him. "Ahhhh! You should be ashamed of yourself! To think you would even suggest the idea of sharing a room with young women!" The lady ranted as everyone watched the growing fight.

"Is she always this loud?" Yukiko asked Yuki.

"Yes. Unfortunately, she has a son that's the same way," Yuki replied taking a sip of his tea. Yukiko followed his example and drank her tea as to not be rude.

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"All right then… I'll leave you to enjoy yourselves," the lady said before leaving the room. Kyo sat down in a chair relaxed.

"Finally. It's quiet," he said.

"There's still time before dinner, so let's take a bath! Okay, Yukiko?" Momiji asked while holding his belongings for after his bath. He handed Yukiko her things before he pulled her along after him.

"Um… okay," she replied.

"Come on Tohru. You can come too," Momiji said as the other girl agreed. "Let's take it together!" The girls agreed while Yuki and Kyo stopped what they were doing in shock.

"You little- Now who's the pervert?" Kyo asked slamming Momiji into the floor. Yukiko grabbed his arm in an attempt to stop him from hurting Momiji.

"Don't hurt him," Yukiko complained trying to pull Kyo off of Momiji.

"Aww-ww, what'd I do?" Momiji cried aloud.

"Oh… but Momiji and Yukiko are still so little and all, I think it'll be okay. I mean, uh-" Tohru tried to explain.

"Little! What the hell are you talking about!" Kyo yelled. Yukiko was still trying to pull him off of Momiji.

"Kyo-o! I wanna go in with Yu-ki-ko! I wanna! I wanna! I wanna!" Momiji cried as Yukiko successfully got Kyo off of Momiji. They didn't notice Yuki was about to say something. "Wahhh!"

"Momiji… Why don't we give the girls some time to themselves?" Yuki asked pulling Momiji's face towards him. "After all, the reason we brought them here was to give them a chance to relax, right?"

"Right, I get it," Momiji replied calmly. "But tonight we'll sleep together, okay?"

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Tohru and Yukiko finally made it into their own hot spring to relax. Tohru had brought her mother's picture wrapped up so it wouldn't get wet. They heard Momiji on the other side of the rock splashing into the water.

"How nice, my first open-air bath! And the spring seems almost big enough for someone like you and Momiji to swim in!" Tohru said looking down at the smaller girl who was looking around excitedly.

"You're right!" Yukiko exclaimed before running and jumping into the hot springs like they heard Momiji do. Yukiko swam around a couple of times before happily sitting down and relaxing.

"Ta-da!" She heard Tohru exclaim before holding up a picture.

"What's that?" Yukiko asked Tohru sliding over to sit near the older girl.

"It's a picture of my mom. She's not alive anymore, but I like to talk to her sometimes," Tohru explained.

"Yea, my mom's not alive anymore either but I don't have a picture of her anymore. I lost it while I was coming here," Yukiko said sadly remembering her deceased mother.

"Oh, I'm sorry," Tohru said.

"It's okay. Don't worry about it," Yukiko said smiling at Tohru before continuing to swim around the small hot spring. She listened to Momiji splashing on the other side before Kyo got angry. Everything was quiet a moment before Momiji was yelling over to the girl's side of the fence.

"Yukiko! Tohru! How are you doing?" Momiji asked jumping up and down.

"Great Momiji," Yukiko replied before hearing Kyo yelling at Momiji. She laughed quietly to herself.

"Oh, hey! I know! Tohru, let's sing a song, okay? That way, it'll seem like we're all in here together," Momiji said happily. "It'll be a lot of fun! Really!"

"Uh… A-a song?" Tohru stuttered.

"Yeah, yeah! Sing something!" Yukiko heard Momiji yell excitedly from the other side.

"Well… I wouldn't know what to sing. I'm afraid I don't really know many songs…" Tohru said.

"Okay, Yukiko, you sing then!" Momiji exclaimed. Yukiko stopped her swimming then concentrated.

"Okay, I got one!" Yukiko said before she started singing. Everyone stopped moving so they could hear her better.

"And I'd give up forever to touch you

'Cause I know that you feel me somehow

You're the closest to heaven that I'll ever be

And I don't want to go home right now

And all I can taste is this moment

And all I can breathe is your life

And sooner or later it's over

I just don't want to miss you tonight

And I don't want the world to see me

'Cause I don't think that they'd understand

When everything's made to be broken

I just want you to know who I am

And you can't fight the tears that ain't coming

Or the moment of truth in your lies

When everything feels like the movies

Yeah, you bleed just to know you're alive

And I don't want the world to see me

'Cause I don't think that they'd understand

When everything's made to be broken

I just want you to know who I am

And I don't want the world to see me

'Cause I don't think that they'd understand

When everything's made to be broken

I just want you to know who I am

I just want you to know who I am…" Yukiko sung trailing off. She looked up and saw that Tohru had tears in her eyes.

"That was beautiful, Miss Yukiko," she heard Yuki say from the other side of the fence.

"Oh, thank you," Yukiko replied quietly while blushing.

"Okay, now let's sing one together!" Momiji exclaimed cheerfully. "Who's in the forest, strolling? The birds and the bees sing, Momiji! The frogs in the pond are calling Momiji, yes it's true! The trees raise their leaves-"

"What the hell is that?" Kyo interrupted rudely.

"It's my song. I made it up!" Momiji replied.

"So why don't you make up something that isn't so annoying?" Kyo asked irritated.

"Just sing it! Tohru, Yukiko, you sing too!" Momiji said before singing. Yukiko laughed before joining him. Tohru started to sing also quietly before getting used to the song.

"Hey, knock it off already!" Kyo said annoyed. Yukiko laughed with Momiji and continued to sing. Tohru's voice increased in volume as she grew more comfortable with singing in front of everybody.

"Ah this is driving me crazy!" Kyo yelled. Momiji, Yukiko, and Tohru continued singing happily together. Yukiko looked over at Tohru when she noticed the older girl had stopped singing. She gasped and rushed over when she saw that Tohru was wobbling and colored a bright red.

"Tohru!" Yukiko yelled seeing the other girl faint and fall into the hot spring.

'What do I do!' Yukiko wondered nervously grabbing the taller girl out of the water. Yukiko had no idea what she would do with Tohru after she fainted. 'Somebody help, please!'

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Well, there's another chapter! I hope you liked it. Yukiko is definitely talking much more and interacting with the characters a lot. Haha, they didn't know that Momiji was a boy! Silly girls. The song was Iris by Goo Goo Dolls. I couldn't find anything else I liked to fit the moment. Anyways, please review and let me know what you thought.

Love, Archer

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