Love Hurts 5 Ways (OUTDATED STORY) Chapter 8: Shadows from the Past, a Fushigi Yuugi + Ouran High School Host Club Crossover fanfic

ATTENTION READERS: This is the Beta version of LH5W, if you want to read the official, updated version of the story, you'll have to go over to DeviantArt. com and head on over to my page. My username is Aloubell. You can also get there by going to my fanfiction. net profile which provides a link over there.
In any case, this Beta version is basically the rough draft of LH5W, my first attempt at it. Much of the plot points from this version will be the same in the official version, but there are significant and consistent characterization changes, a few (but very important) plot differences, expansion of past ideas, and overall better quality in storytelling.

All of this will be done over on DeviantArt. I no longer will write the story in traditional prose nor submit/update it here to fanfiction. net. The Beta version will remain here, just know that it isn't the 100% official story.
The official version will be written in a lazy prose mixed with play-writing elements (you'll get what I mean when you see it).
This is the new format for the story from now on.
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-Aloe

PLEASE NOTE: The official version is being written somewhat out of order. The official version will start on chapter 46, the place where the Beta version left off. The official version will go on to complete the last chapters of Season 2. Once those are done, I will redo the story over again from Chapter 1 which will be the official version.

Having said that, if you choose to continue on reading, I hope you enjoy the Beta version and look forward to the official!

Shigure's 3rd POV~

"So, Hatori, is it done?" Shigure asked.

Hatori Sohma stood in front of a closed sliding door with a solemn look on his face. The twenty seven year old doctor looked straight into Shigure's eyes with his good one, that was uncovered—as opposed to the other that was covered by his long black bangs—with concern.

"I couldn't do it," Hatori told him in a monotone-ish voice.

Shigure looked at him with confused amusement. "Has the girl grown on you?"

"It's not really that. When I said I couldn't do it, I meant it can't be done." Hearing this put a momentary look of shock onto Shigure's usually easy-going expression. Without breaking his controlled stature, Hatori noticed and continued. "It's almost like something is protecting her, making it so that I can't even touch her memory."

While sighing and scratching the back of his head, Shigure sighed. He knew the girl was special, though he didn't know how, but he didn't think that she could prevent a memory swipe. She's a peculiar one, that Akimoto, he thought to himself. I am now quite curious as to what she is hiding. The moment she arrived, her whole presence was not only mysterious, but suspicious. Hatori's news only confirmed his suspicions of her.

Shigure laughed to himself. "Akito is not going to like hearing this."

Hatori cleared his throat to get Shigure's attention. "Not that I mean to interrupt you talking to yourself," He said sarcastically without losing a hint of monotone, "but there's something else."

"What?"

"When I realized that nothing worked on her, she smiled in a way that seemed like she wasn't surprised."

Chuckling again, Shigure glanced at the door behind the doctor where the girl was located."You don't say."

Aki's POV~

To be honest, I had a feeling that wasn't going to work. The universe was twisted, no doubt about that, but erasing my memory would have just been plain messed up. I couldn't help but smile when I saw the look on Hatori's usually-together face when he realized that I still remembered everything. One of those "Kodak moments", ya know? If I actually thought I was threatened of losing my memory for real, I would have just conjured some magic storm and got the heck out of there. Since that wasn't the case, the only real down side to that whole thing was that now he was going to be suspicious about me just like I knew Shigure was. I guess I'll just grin and bear them snooping around me for now. Can't really turn on them or anything, after all—and despite the fact that they tried to erase my memory—they were housing me. I may just end up telling them just so that they finally get off my back.

Sighing, I looked to the door Hatori left out of just to see Shigure open it up and emerge smiling in that inviting way he always seemed to be doing. Funny thing is that it never gets any less charming.

"Shall we go?"

"Just like that? Hatori isn't going to try again?"

"No," He walked over to me as I stood up, ready to go. "If it's not going to work, then it's not going to work. No point in stressing on it." That seemed like a lie to me. If there wasn't a point of stressing about it, then there wouldn't really have been a reason to erase my memory in the first place. He was using my being used to his nonchalant attitude to try and fool me from the truth. Somebody doesn't want me to know about the Sohma' secret. The question was, who?

"I guess that's true. I hope Hatori isn't too upset about it." As if he'd ever show it.

"Of course not my dear." He placed his hand on my back in a gesture to move forward. "Shall we go home, then? Unless you like staying in your uniform. I have no complaints." I nodded, ignoring that semi-lecherous statement.

We walked out of Hatori's office only to pass by the guy himself. I flashed him an apologetic smile, not knowing what to say. He acknowledged it by nodding and looking away before returning to his work. Hatori was the family doctor, I heard, passed down after his father. He was the only real doctor that the Sohma's were permitted to see. Not only that, he was cursed with the spirit of the Dragon—in his case, a sea horse since the curse seemed to be weakening. During my time here, I've learned that the Sohma family was actually a very strict family. They weren't really allowed to get close to people outside the family, for obvious reasons. Consequences for doing so were never usually good. Yuki told me a while back that the reason as to why Hatori could barely see out of his left eye was because he wanted to get married to someone. The head of the family, some guy named Akito, wouldn't allow it, so in anger, injured Hatori's eye. The guilt weighed on the poor girl so heavily that her memory eventually ended up being wiped. Thus proving further that knowing the Sohma's was only going to end in suffering.

I really didn't want to put the family out, but I wasn't going to accept forgetting. If this whole thing was indeed a curse, then perhaps there was a way to break it. Why not? It should be possible, especially with the use of magic. I wonder…

"AKI!" A familiar happy voice yelled out to me and snapped me out of my thoughts. Things truly came into focus as the hyper figure slammed into me from the back trying to hug me. Not too long after, there was an apparent poof! followed by its usual white smoke.

I turned around to find a small, cute rabbit clinging onto my lower leg. Sighing, I couldn't help but smile. "Momiji! Why do you always do that when you know the outcome?"

"Aki! What are you doing here at the main Sohma house?" He asked after he reverted back to human. Momiji Sohma was a young happy-go-lucky boy who was cursed with the spirit of the rabbit. He had styled blonde hair and wide light brown eyes. While wearing a cute bunny back-pack and acting like a kid, he was actually only two years younger than me. He went to the same high school that Yuki, Kyo, and I went to but chose to wear the girls uniform (everything being the same except he wore shorts instead of a skirt). To be honest, the kid was absolutely adorable! There was almost never a time that I didn't want to snuggle up with him like a stuffed animal. He's always cheery and barely ever frowns. He sort of reminded me of how Saru used to be before high school changed her…

"I had an…appointment with Hatori. But it's over now!" I told him cheerily.

"You still remember everything?" Asked the attractive boy next to Momiji.

"Yup! Surprised Haru?" Hatsuharu Sohma was another in the family who was cursed. He possessed the spirit of the bull—or in his case, cow. He had soft, grey eyes as well as organizing-ly messy black and white hair (white on top with black at the bottom). Even though their maturity levels tend to significantly differ, him and Momiji are the same age. Most of the time, this guy was a laid back, nice, lazy guy, but when he went "black" he turns rude and violent. Hopefully, that won't happen again—even if it was mildly entertaining. He had this distant aura surrounding him the majority of the time, shrouding him in mystery. Gosh, what is it with these Sohma's? Why are they all so freakin good looking?

"A bit." He responded shortly.

"How did you do it? How did you escape Hatori? Did you use your superpowers and fly over him then defeat the ninja's standing your way only to achieve victory but losing poor Shigure in the process?" Momiji had such the imagination…

"Umm Momiji, I'm standing right here," Shigure noted.

Momiji giggled. "Oh yeah! I knew that! I was just kidding. Imagine if it was true though! Aki would be even more awesome!" I couldn't help but blush at that statement. The kid always flattered me, not that I deserved it. Not only that, he wasn't far off from the scenario I would've pulled off had Hatori actually had the power to erase my memory. I probably would've had to pull a "super hero" and beaten up whoever I needed to in order to escape.

Laughing nervously, I tried to change the subject. "It was nice seeing you two here, but Shigure and I have to get home. After all, that homework won't complete itself!"

"Omigosh! That's right Haru! We have to complete that paper the teacher gave us!" Momiji then started to flail on the ground comically. "I don't wanna do it! I don't wanna! Haru do my homework for me."

"Sorry, no."

"Aww…" I walked slowly away with Shigure as the two had their scene.

When we got closer to the entrance, I saw Kyo standing there, waiting for us. My stomach then did that fluttery thing that happened whenever a cute guy was in my sights. Walking was harder since my strides went stiff, but I tried not to show it as I got closer to him.

"Ah, Kyo! What are you doing here?" Shigure asked him.

"Nothin really. I just knew you two were here and…" He looked at me with a softened look on his face like he was sad about something. His gaze started to fall the longer he looked at me What's…wrong with him? That's when I realized.

"K-Kyo," I tried to say confidently. "I still know everything." It was still too hard to look him in the eye. MAN did I feel pathetic.

"You mean, Hatori didn't do it?" The excitement in his voice was apparent when he said that. I blushed even more than I was when I realized that he was worried about me forgetting him.

I chuckled a little. "Didn't, couldn't. You know how things go."

"Are you happy about this Kyo?" Shigure teased as he nudged him in the arm with his elbow.

Kyo quickly pulled away and looked away. "I didn't want her to forget, so what? None of you guys did either."

Right when I felt that my heart would leap out from my mouth, I felt a chill run throughout my body. I couldn't explain it. The weather was actually pretty warm, and the other two looked unfazed. So what was that sensation?

Danger.

I quickly looked around to see what was stalking us. Keeping focus on the thought of my wand, I started to run in the direction of the feeling—past Kyo and around the corner.

"Aki!" Kyo's faint call rang out to me as I searched for what itched at my senses. The sensation was familiar, but I couldn't quite pin it down. It couldn't be…

Naraku?

No. There's just was no way. His memory should have been wiped along with the others. But this feeling. It's so familiar…

I ran as fast as I could try to find…whatever it was. Before I could get any further, the feeling diminished and my body warmed up once again. Gradually, I slowed my pace until stopping completely. Continuing to look forward, I tried to figure out what entity grabbed my senses so much that it urged me to go after it. What was it? What's this awful feeling? There was a voice saying something, but I didn't hear a word it was saying. So cold. It's not natural. My mind was still all fizzed put by trying to focus on the coolness of the dark energy I felt. It really wasn't until someone was shaking my shoulders to brake me out of the trance.

It was Kyo.

I blinked. "K-Kyo."

"Aki, what happened? Why did you run off like that?" He forcedly asked.

"I…don't. I'm not sure." For some reason, the wind started to blow more than usual again. A whirlwind around Kyo and I surrounded us as my thoughts sank more and more into confusion. The moment I took notice, I tried to stop it with my thoughts, but that proved futile with my head all in a jumble.

Kyo protectively embraced me the moment he realized that the wind was blowing more fiercely, forming a mini cyclone ready to lift us off the ground and violently throwing us. "What is this?" He yelled out. But not a second after doing so, he transformed into a cat. He was now too light to keep himself from flying away, so I grabbed him and held his small feline body close.

This power was going too far. I growled before I boldly shouted, "Wind I command you to cease this instant!" As that was said, the wind didn't hesitate to stop—it just instantly stopped blowing. By this time, both Kyo and Shigure, who was standing and watching everything from not too far away, were staring at me with the biggest mixture of confusion and concern I've ever seen.

"Aki—" Kyo started to say before I quickly crouched down to release him. Only to take a few steps away from him.

"Dammit!" Was what I shouted before running away. How the hell am I supposed to explain this?!

"C'mon Aki! Just come out already!" Kyo shouted from outside my door.

I sat on my bed, cross-legged as I faced the door. He and Shigure both saw that! What am I going to do? If I tell them, Taiitsukun may take me away again…and for good! She told me not to slip up! I had to think of something before confronting either of them. My life wasn't exactly easy, not even in that world, but it was better that how things were in my world and I was already beginning to sort of tolerate, maybe even be fond of this world. It was too early to leave because of my stupid loss of control.

"Aki!" More pounding on my door by Kyo made thinking that much more difficult. Speaking of which, why does the wind start blowing like that whenever I can't focus properly? Jeez, what the hell is wrong?

"Kyo, leave her alone," Yuki joined in outside my door. "She doesn't want to speak to you. Can't you see that, you stupid cat."

"Look, you damn rat, was I talking to you?" At least if they start fighting, then their focus will be off me. "This is between Aki and I. You have nothing to do with this!" But if I'm the center of the problem, I brought my knees up and buried my face into my arms, then they'll never forget! I let out a heavy sigh.

With becoming a teenager, I knew that there would be some drama, but it would have been nice to have some sort of heads up. Then again, who would have been able to see this whole having powers thing coming?

The teacher droned on about the lecture more and more talking about…something. I wasn't completely paying attention. My mind was focused on what the heck I was going to tell those guys because it was completely obvious that I wouldn't be able to keep this up long. We live in the same house and go to school together. Somewhere along the way, our paths will cross—no matter how much magic I use to get away. To calm myself, I looked out the window to the P.E yard. It was pretty empty because the classes today where doing exercises or whatever in the gym. In order to avoid the cliché of being called on in the middle of class while daydreaming, causing me to stand up suddenly and say stuff that's totally irrelevant, I made sure to keep one ear to the teacher. The multi-tasking suddenly came to an end when I felt the chill again.

My body started to shake as the temperature of my body lowered at the sudden spike of creepy energy. Looking around at the rest of the class, everyone was too focused on the lecture, or pretending to be, that they didn't notice at all. Or perhaps, it's like before and I'm the only one who can sense this. No one stirred. I'm positive that's what's going on. Whatever this is, I have to put an end to this!

I raised my hand.

"Yes, Miss Tsubaki?" The teacher asked.

"I don't feel well. Can I go to the infirmary?" With that request, the teacher eyed me suspiciously. I gulped. Please.

"Very well." I shot up out of my seat, but tried to remain calm, so I briskly walked to the door, slid it open, stepped out, then closed the door.

Taking in a deep breath, I summoned my wand. It appeared in front of me in mid-air before I grabbed it.

"If I'm gonna do this, then I'll make sure that no one is conscious to see it." Focusing deeply on putting everyone to sleep, I raised my wand above my head, and felt the energy surge through. A deep blue light floated above, cracking at the sound of what looked like—but probably wasn't—electricity. Without a word, a bunch of "branches" of the blue electricity shot out in different directions. Into class rooms around, down the hall, in the gym, I felt the school being engulfed by my power. The sound dropping kids who were outside their classes, walking around rang in my ear. I hope no one was on the stairs and that none of them hit the ground hard…Last thing I need is a guilt trip.

When I felt that my spell had bound everyone in the school, I sprinted past sleeping kids, and down stairs to get to the P.E yard I was staring at.

Upon my arrival, I was breathing hard looking for the culprit to my heavy nerves.

"Who's out there!" I shouted. "Come on out! I know you're there!"

CRASH!

The poles from the volley ball nets impacted the school building reducing some of the walls to rubble. More of them shot out at me with such force, that if I didn't dodge it, I could have just kissed my life good-bye right there. They hit the building in back of me shattering windows and shooting out debris. What the hell?

That's when I saw them. A bunch of shadows with sinister, bright yellow eyes staring at me. They were spread out all across the yard, swaying back and forth…

Like before.

That's what's been going on! I remembered those things from back in the Feudal Era. They were watching me in the woods before I went off to face Naraku. I probably forgot about them because they didn't really do anything. Those things were just looking at me then, so I figured that they weren't any threat. Boy was I wrong.

Some of the apparatuses, from the gym crashed through the walls and smashed into the ground. Cars from the parking lot flew up and around , landing on the roof, in trees, and just heating up so much, causing explosions. No doubt this would attract attention from someone outside the school in no time at all...which was bad.

"What the hell are you guys doing?" It's like they weren't even trying to hit me. Just…causing destruction. People were going to get hurt if I didn't stop them.

Using my power over Earth, the tip of my wand glowed a pale-golden color. The ground lifted up like a snake and shot out at the shadow figures, dispersing the ones that were hit. One of the shadows swiftly jumped up through the earth-snake causing some of the rocks to drop down towards me. Releasing my hold on the Earth, I jumped backwards just barely avoiding the life-threatening-boulders. As I sat there, windows shattered on their own all around me, the glass trickling to the ground like raindrops. I gazed at it in horror at the thought of those kids being hurt by these awful things. Not only that…

These guys were totally ignoring me! Gritting my teeth, I used my power to summon the fire-whip I used before. Running after the shadows, I lashed out, each one avoiding my attack. Each time the whip hit the ground in a miss, it would burst into flames. Getting fed up, I snapped the whip towards a group of them, sending out a wave of fire to ride out towards them, toasting them in their tracks. More windows shattered above me, but as I tried to get away, my foot got stuck in between some of the wreckage. The incredibly sharp glass was quickly dropping towards me and with me not being able to escape fast enough. I closed my eyes.

"Aki!" Two voices shouted out. With the feel of two arms linking around mine, I was quickly moved out of the way, only a few feet from the harmful shards. The whip diminished as my concentration was broken.

Looking at the glass on the ground, I looked to my saviors. "Kyo, Yuki!"

"Are you alright, Miss Tsubaki?" Yuki tenderly asked. I nodded slowly.

"What's happening here?" Kyo demanded.

I eluded his question to add my own. "I put this whole school to sleep. How are you two awake?"

"So it was you who did that?" Yuki asked sternly.

Without hesitation, I said, "Yes. I had to."

"We saw everyone in class instantly fall asleep as some weird lightning filled the room and touched them all." Kyo told me. "It didn't touch us for some reason." You're kidding...that spell actually has favorites? Geez, why can't my magic listen to me...?

"So, while looking around, we saw all of the commotion outside. We saw that you were in danger." Yuki grabbed my arm to help me up.

Dusting myself off, I thanked them before saying, "You shouldn't be here. It's too dangerous."

"Yeah, for you. Why deal with…whatever this is own your own?" Kyo was starting to raise his voice by this point. If I had any chance to get through this, I had to ignore the freezing effect he had on me. It was a life-or-death decision that had to be made on the spot.

My face grew serious. "Because right now, I'm the only one who can." That was when screams and shouts from the world outside the school broke us away from our conversation. An eighteen wheeled truck, which I prayed had no one in it, came flying out of nowhere towards the building behind us…where the others were sleeping.

Using my Wind energy, I jumped up higher than any human could, around thirty feet, and faced the truck. Believing that my powers would finally consistently do what I wanted, I summoned it around my body, no, the whole building below. The power circled as a dome shield to the area. At that moment, a dome of light hardened. Words came to my head.

"Behold the protective shield of my energy, Seoshi!" The remaining wind that surrounded gathered in my wand only to be released into one blow. "Saisu!" The crescent shaped wind-blast sliced the truck in half sending both halves on either side of me only to smash into the shield. The explosion protected the school, but caught me off guard, sending me plummeting towards the ground. "Help!"

"What can we do? We can't catch her normally or else we—"

"Then we'll have to work in sync to catch her. Think you can do it, you dumb cat?" Yuki cruelly taunted.

"Let's just go!" The two leaped up as high as they could, and wrapped their arms around mine without making much body contact. Losing my previous momentum, I was reassured knowing that hitting the ground now wouldn't be fatal. Unfortunately, the moment we hit the ground, the landing was a bit awkward so we ended up falling on top of each other. And with that, there was a poof! followed by the white smoke and the leaving of clothes on the ground. A small, light grey mouse appeared from under the clothes as well as a familiar orange cat.

"You two okay?" I asked with concern.

"Yeah," Nodded Kyo.

"Yes, thank you Miss Tsubaki," Yuki gratefully added.

I smiled with relief. Thank goodness. Not forgetting what was going on, I scanned the area, over the destruction, wreckage, and fire, to see if those Shadow Creatures were still around. No sign of them, and the chilled sensation had vanished. Just like that.

"Are they gone?" I looked towards Kyo as he asked. "You can sense them, right? Tell us if they are still there." My eyes widened. Huh, observant boy.

"It seems like they are gone. For now." Focusing on the wand, I summoned it away, never taking my eyes off the grounds as the area began to be flooded by policemen and firefighters and plenty of other scared and confused others.

Yuki ran up to my shoulder. "What were those things?" I sighed looking at the damage—wondering if I really even hurt them.

"A problem."

-Aloe

Having said that, if you choose to continue on reading, I hope you enjoy the Beta version and look forward to the official!