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Tigers and Lambs!
Tohru POV
I was sitting in the living room playing cards with Samantha-chan and Hatsuharu-kun when Momiji-kun ran in.
"Kisa and Hiro are here!" he called
"Really? I'll go greet them. Ah! But we have to clean up first." I said turning to the table
"I'll clean it up." said Samantha-chan "go ahead and greet them. I'll be there in a minute." she waved her hand dismissively and Momiji-kun pulled me to the front hall. Hatsuharu followed behind us. I should have helped Samantha-chan to clean up.
The front door opened and in came Kisa-san and Hiro-san.
"Kisa-san!" I said holding my arms out. Kisa-san had a huge smile and ran giving me a big hug.
"Jilted again, Eh?" said Hatsuharu-kun
"Jilted! Jilted!" Momiji laughed
"Shut up!" Yelled Hiro-san, "I'm tired from being in a car all day!"
"Konichiwa, hello!" said Samantha-chan as she walked into the room. "My name's Samantha."
I smiled at her.
"This is Kisa-san. And that's Hiro-san." I said gesturing to Hiro-san.
"It's nice to meet you." she said walking over to kneel next to Kisa-san and I.
"Konichiwa Kisa!" said Samantha-chan.
"Hello." said Kisa in her small voice.
"You are so cute!" said Samantha-chan "Do you like flowers?" Kisa nodded
Samantha-chan reached behind her ear and pulled out an origami flower. Kisa's eyes lit up and she had a big smile on her face.
"That was amazing! How did you do that?" I asked excitedly. Where did she get the flower from?"
"It's not that amazing." huffed Hiro-san
"Hiro, that's not very nice." said Momiji-kun
Samantha-chan simply walked over with a smile, taking a deck of cards out of her pocket of her short shorts.
"Pick a card Hiro." she said holding out the cards
"You know this isn't going to make me change my mind." Hiro-san said sternly "It's a pretty lame trick any way."
Samantha-chan just nodded toward the cards and Hiro-san reluctantly took one.
"Remember that card; don't tell me what it is okay." Hiro-san nodded and rolled his eyes. Samantha-chan cut the cards. "Okay, now please put the card back in the pile."
Hiro-san put the card on the pile in her left hand. Samantha-chan put the deck together, cut it and shuffled them. Then she handed the deck to Hiro-san. "Okay, now find your card."
"Are you serious?" Hiro-san asked taking the deck "Do you even know how this trick works?"
"Then again," Samantha-chan put her left hand to her chin. "You might not be able to find it..." she put her right hand in her pocket. "...since your card is in my pocket." She pulled out a seven of diamonds.
"Wow! That was amazing!" I gasped
"Do it again!" cheered Momiji-kun
Hiro-san smirked "That was pretty good, I guess."
Samantha-chan smiled, she took the cards and turned to the staircase. "Now why don't we find you some rooms."
"Uh, um..." I thought "As far as rooms go, Samantha-chan and I are in this wing and all the boys are in that wing." I said pointing to the left.
"Kisa can stay in Tohru's room!" piped up Momiji-kun "C'mon, Hiro! You can share a room with one of us!"
"Huh?!" said Hiro-san turning his head to Momiji-kun "Would you stop deciding those things on your own?" Hiro spoke in Japanese "There's no way I'm sharing a room with anyone!"
"Ah..." Hatsuharu-kun stood up "You won't share a room unless it's with Kisa... How precocious."
"I never said that!" Hiro-san shouted blushing, I felt Kisa-san flinch "Why do I have to share, anyway? You think that just because you're all older than me, you can stick me in whatever room you want?"
"Ah... In that case..." I tried to calm him down
"You stay quiet stupid woman!" Hiro-san shouted at me
"H-hai!" I stuttered.
"Hiro-chan..." Kisa-san pleaded
"Oh? Welcome, you two." said Yuki-kun walking into the room. "You got here early."
"Ah... I see..." said Hatsuharu in English now (the earlier conversation was in Japanese) "In that case, Yuki and I will share a room." he said coolly putting his arm around Yuki-kun
"Huh?" questioned Yuki-kun obviously surprised.
"One problem solved" Hatsuharu-kun said indifferently
"Solved!" cheered Momiji-kun
"Wait... What are you talking about?" asked Yuki-kun with wide eyes.
'I have to open that tightly closed lid' ... I wonder what that means?
"Okay! The rooms have been decided!" cheered Momiji-kun "Tohru, show Kisa to her room, 'Kay?"
"Yes! Understood!" I said taking Kisa-san's hand "This way Kisa."
"I'll come with you." said Samantha-chan carrying in Kisa's bag
"Okay!" I smiled
When we arrived in the room I showed Samantha-chan where to leave the bag letting go of Kisa-san's hand and walking into the room.
"You must be really tired." I said to Kisa-san "Are you thirsty?"
"Um... About... Hiro-chan..."she said quietly "I'm... I'm sorr..."
"Yes? What is it?" I asked turning to her. There was an awkward silence. Kisa just stared at me.
"Aahh?! Do you feel sick?! Should I get some medicine?!" I panicked. Samantha-chan backed away from me surprised
"Ah...! No, I'm not sick..." Kisa answered "I'm not sick... I'm fine..." she gave a cute smile
"And you're adorable!" squealed Samantha-chan given her a hug. Kiss-san blushed and hugged back.
"This room... It's really big..." Kisa-san said. I turned to look out the window. It took up a whole wall and had a balcony facing the ocean.
"Yes! Isn't it wonderful?!" I exclaimed "You can even see the ocean!"
"Your bedroom has such a pretty view" commented Samantha-chan
"Is... That your mother...?" asked Kisa-san. I turned to find she walked over to the bedside table.
"Ah... Yes! That's her!" I answered.
"Do you always take that picture with you...?" she asked
"Yes. We're always together." I answered. I stood next to Kisa-san and we smiled to each other.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~time skip~~~~~~~~ Samantha POV
"This way!" called Momiji running down the forest path.
"Coming!" I called skipping to catch up with him
"What on earth are we doing in this forest?" asked Hiro
"We're making preparations to catch stag beetles!" Momiji answered
"And that's supposed to be fun?" questioned Hiro
"Yes!" Tohru replied with a brigt smile
"I found one!" called Momiji "A Kunugi tree!"
"I don't see any... Stag beetles" observed Kisa
"If we leave a special something on this tree, the stag beetles will come to lick it up." winked Momiji "And that certain thing is...!"
"Sugar water!" cheered Tohru and I.
I handed Kisa a paint brush and held out a little container of sugar water. She dipped the brush in the solution and started painting the trees.
"We'll have to come back first thing in the morning!" smiled Tohru
"Yup! We have to try hard to wake up!" Momiji said putting his hands on his hips. "Wait here! I'll go see if there are more Kunugi trees!" and he hopped off down the trail.
"I'll join you!" I called skipping after him, he's so fast!
"Be careful!" was the last thing I heard from Tohru
I caught up to Momiji. "Oh there's one!" I said pointing to a Kunugi tree further ahead to the right.
"Yup! Let's put sugar-water on it!" said Momiji
We hopped over and painted some solution on it. Soon I heard a rustle in the bushes. I turned around seeing Tohru coming out from behind a bush. She look troubled. I wonder what happened?
"Tohru!" called Momiji jogging over to her. She immediately put on a smile.
"I was just worried I might lose you." she said
"I see..." I said "Well we don't want to leave the kids alone in the forest for too long. We should turn back to get them." We turned around and Kisa came running and hid her face in Tohru's back
"Kisa-san? What's the matter?" asked Tohru looking at the little girl
"It's nothing..." she said quietly
Mmm... I wonder how Hiro is...? I patted Kisa on the head and we walked to where Hiro was.
"Let's find another tree!" said Momiji lightening the mood.
We got to Hiro at this point. He looked pretty down. I walked over to him and put my arm around his shoulder, he didn't resist like I thought he would. "I think I saw one over there." I said pointing left. We walked over and found another Kunugi tree off the path a bit. Kisa painted this one as well.
"I think we have painted enough trees." I said. "Shall we head home?" Kisa nodded
"Okay." Tohru said softly taking Kisa's hand.
"When we get back I can teach you how to make an origami flower like I gave you earlier. How does that sound?" I asked looking over at Kisa
"That sounds awesome!" said Momiji
"I know how to make a rabbit too." I smiled
"Really?!" Momiji asked "Let's make a rabbit! let's make a rabbit!" he said hugging my arm
"Okay!" I giggled.
~~~~~~~~~~~~back at the house~~~~~ Yuki POV
Miss Honda, Miss Samantha, Momiji, Kisa, and Hiro came into the house later in the afternoon. The girls and Momiji were laughing about something but Hiro seemed rather quite. I wonder what happened?
"Tadaima!" called Miss Honda as she entered the house
"Tadaima!" called Kisa, Momiji and Miss Samantha
"Welcome home." I said walking over to them. "Did you have a good time?"
"Yes!" Tohru smiled making me smile with her.
"Samantha is going to show us how to make origami rabbits!" cheered Momiji
"And flowers." added Kisa quietly
"Okay, I'll go get some paper from my room." said Miss Samantha skipping upstairs.
I followed the others into the living room. Haru was sitting on the couch.
"Hello Hatsuharu-kun, we're back!" said Miss Honda. Haru nodded.
Miss Samantha came skipping in her arms filled with coloured papers. "I got all different colours!" she said sitting at the table "What do you want to learn first?"
Everyone gathered around the table. Momiji and Miss Honda sat on either side of Miss Samantha, Kisa next to Miss Honda, Haru, myself and Hiro.
"Lets do the rabbit!" cheered Momiji looking for a cream paper.
Miss Samantha instructed us and we managed to make a rabbit. We were now working on a flower. While she was waiting for us to catch up, she had already made a crane, a box and was in the process of making something else with orange paper. Speaking of orange, the stupid cat came into the room drinking from a carton of milk. Has he never heard of a cup?
"Ah, Kyo! Lookie lookie, it's a cat like you!" Miss Samantha said holding up an origami cat. Kyo looked over.
"Huh." he grunted and sat on the couch behind Miss Honda
"That is so cute!" said Miss Honda
"Here Tohru," Samantha said handing her the cat "You have it."
"Oh but I couldn't possibly!" gasped Miss Honda shaking her hands "You took so much effort to make it!"
"Not that much." replied Miss Samantha shrugging, "You take it."
Miss Honda graciously took it saying "Thank you! Thank you so much!"
"¡De nada! Think nothing of it!" said Miss Samantha continuing on with instructing. We were almost done the flower when Hiro spoke up.
"Why are you even in Japan?" asked Hiro directing it to Miss Samantha
"Huh?" she said looking up from folding
"I mean you have been living in Canada for your whole life and out of no where you come back to Japan." he huffed
"Hiro, be nicer!" said Momiji
"That's fine, he's just curious." Miss Samantha smiled "Well, some things just came up and living arrangements changed." she said while folding her flower. "Yeah, I came to Japan since my family is here... Three days before I came to Japan, my adoptive parents, well,...they got in an accident... They didn't make it."
There was a silence. We were all looking at Miss Samantha, while she focused on her fingers folding the flower. No one knew what to say. "Two days later I found out I was from Japan and came here... There, I'm done!" she said holding up the flower with a smile, but still looking at the flower. "Here Tohru, you can have this too. It's okay." she said gently putting it in Miss Honda's hands.
She looked around at us. "Hehe, I'm gonna go play piano now!" she gave an even bigger smile and walked out of the room. There was still a silence.
She lost her family, just a week ago. How is it she can still smile? Like Miss Honda? She can't possibly be happy. No one would be. So ho s it that she manages to smile everyday?
A tear trickled down Miss Honda's cheek and Momiji scooted over and wiped it off her face. "I... I... She must be so sad." said Miss Honda "I remember when my mother passed away."
Kisa hugged Miss Honda, her eyes filling with tears too.
"Great job Hiro." said Kyo annoyed "You just had to make everyone cry."
"It's not my fault!" Hiro retorted "I didn't know her adoptive parents died!" Hiro angrily stomped out of the room.
Momiji was trying to comfort the girls and Haru was looking in the distance.
I haven't heard any music coming from the piano so I decided to check on Miss Samantha. I walked into the music room. Miss Samantha was sitting at the piano, her hair blocked her face. She was playing music, I think it was Memory, but it was so soft. I sat on the bench next to her. She didn't look at me. She played a sour note and sighed putting her hands on her lap. I leaned forward a bit to see her face, her eyes were down cast and she lost her smile. I miss that carefree smile.
" "When ever I'm sad or scared I like to sing... or listen to someone sing!" "
I'm not very good at singing, but piano is definitely not working right now. Uh... What songs do we both know.
" "The second star to the right and straight on 'till morning! ...That's my favourite song!" "
"The second star to the right
Shines in the night for you." I started singing at a whisper. Miss Samantha still sat there staring at her hands.
"To tell you that the dreams you plan
Really can come true..."
Tears started falling from her eyes. She leaned on my shoulder shuddering. I put my arms around her.
"The second star to the right
Shines with a light that's rare,
And if it's Never Land you need
It's light will lead you there."
"Twinkle, twinkle little star
So I'll know where you are,"
Miss Samantha's tears stopped falling. She kept her eyes closed and quietly sang with me.
"Gleaming in the skies above
Lead me to the land we dream of.
And when our journey is through
Each time we say "Goodnight"
We'll thank the little star that shines
The second from the right"
We sat in silence for a while. It was a comfortable silence. The sun was starting to set, bringing in a warm orange light and the birds kept singing saying "It's a nice evening today."
Miss Samantha wiped her eyes. "Thanks Yuki." she said giving a small smile. I smiled with her.
We walked back toward the living room where everyone else was. Miss Samantha followed holding my hand.
"I'm gonna go to my bedroom for a sec. I'll meet you in the living room." she smiled and went up the stairs.
I decided to wait for her. I turned to look out the window at the darkening sky. She really is strong, she keeps her feelings locked away like me. I wonder what else she's keeping from us? I don't want her to feel like she is alone...
"Ninja hug!" someone laughed jumping on me giving me a hug. Huh?
"You're just so easy Yuki!" Miss Samantha laughed. Well she's definitely back to her cheerful self now. She took my hand and lead me to the living room. Everyone was silently sitting around playing cards. Hiro had come back.
"Why are you so quiet?" asked Miss Samantha rubbing Momiji and Kyo's heads.
"Quit that!" Kyo said angrily
Miss Samantha just smiled and gave Miss Honda a hug. She gave one to Kisa too and sat down. Haru patted Miss Samantha on the head. A large smile appeared on her face.
"Dinner's ready!" called a maid.
We walked into the dining room and sat down to eat. We had a good time, but Kisa and Hiro didn't talk. In fact, after dinner they went straight to bed. After dinner, the rest of us gathered in the living room.
"They didn't say a word at dinner, and they're already in bed. Did Kisa and Hiro have a fight?" I asked
"We... Don't really know what happened..." said Miss Honda with a concerned look.
"Uhh..." Miss Samantha answered
"It's a waste of effort for a third party to interfere in a lovers' quarrel." Said Haru blandly "It would be best to leave them alone."
"Y-yes." sighed Miss Honda
"I don't know if you're being kind or cold..." I said to Haru
"Well, it's getting late." said Miss Samantha looking at the clock "I think I'll go to bed. We do have to get up early tomorrow, remember?"
"Oh yes! The stag beetles will be waiting for us!" said Momiji jumping up from the couch.
"Are you coming Tohru?" asked Miss Samantha
"Yes!" she replied getting up and following the two upstairs.
"I will go too." said Haru walking towards the door. "Are you coming Yuki?"
"Later." I said taking a sip of tea.
Haru looked at me for a minute. "Alright." and he walked off.
*sigh* I sure hope things turn out better tomorrow.