Chapter 7, woohoo. Not too long of a wait right? I hope you enjoy!
"I'm baaaaaack!"
The changed Tohru sang out, almost in a mocking way. With her glowing orange eyes she looked around at her surroundings. She took time to look at everything, with great detail. Then her eyes fell upon the Sohma's. The look in Tohru's eyes weren't like her usually kind ones. Somehow they were now more hateful, cruel, and full of darkness. The smirk fell from her face as a cruel smile replaced it.
"Nice to meet you, my name is Akane Katsunuma, the black Cat of the black Zodiac." Akane bowed down to the surprised Zodiac animals. Slowly lifting her head back up, she looked right into Kisa's eyes. Kisa felt as if she was hit of a gust of wind. She fell to the ground and started to shake in complete fear. Haru and Momiji kneeled down next to her and asked what was wrong. Kisa refused to speak, since she was too terrified to even speak. Somehow Haru knew that 'Akane' was to blame for it.
"What did you do to her?" Haru asked with anger laced in his words. But Akane just stood up straight and put on a puzzled look.
"What I did? Oh you mean why the little Tiger cub is so scared?" Akane put a finger up to her cheek in a questionable manner.
"Yes." Haru quickly responded, starting to get annoyed at her un-answering attitude.
"Ahh, well I guess that she wasn't strong enough to handle my soul's presence." Akane let out her cold smirk once again. "And neither can any of you!" She swung her hand up as if to swat away a fly and all the Sohma's except Kyo and Haru fell this time. With a puzzled look on her face, she couldn't understand why the two males didn't fall. Then Akan looked into Kyo's strong and worried eyes. Akane gasped as she realized that it was the Cat of the Zodiac. She cursed out loud as her hair started to turn a deep red, the same color as Kyo's eyes. Kyo's eyes went wide as he took a small step forward.
"Tohru…" Kyo whispered out with worry. Akane got mad by the comment and knocked Kyo onto the ground, with herself on top of him.
"I am not that selfish weakling!" Akane yelled out as she was about to punch Kyo, but Haru grabbed her hand before she could do so. He had already turned black, and didn't have any will to hold back after Akane started attacking them. And for some reason Haru felt as if he needed to fight her, he could already feel his blood starting to boil. Akane looked up towards Haru and then back down at Kyo. Her cold smile started to appear back on her face as she slowly got off of the Cat. "Stay there." Akane harshly said, and it was as if Kyo couldn't disobey. She grabbed ahold of Haru's wrist that held hers. Without much effort she threw Haru into a tree, which in turn broke the tree, and made it come crashing to the ground. Haru let out a large grunt, and the others called out his name.
"It's been a long time since I fought another member." Akane said as red ears and matching color tail started to form. Her fingernails and canines got longer and even sharper than before. Haru stepped out of the pile of broken trees and wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth.
"Same here, Akane." Haru responded, and his eyes had changed once again, but this time they didn't disappear. Haru had a fierce look on his face, and he took a fighting stance. Before he could begin to attack, Akane started to laugh in an insane way. He stopped and waited for her to explain her sudden outburst.
"HAHAHAHA! You want to attack me? The strongest, against one of the weakest? That's so funny!" Akane started laughing once again to her own comment. Haru just stood there with no expression.
"Stop acting tough. You can only be the strongest when you are in berserker mode." Akane stopped taking and just glared at him. "And you don't want to go berserker cause then you'll lose all control. That little bit of strength you used to throw me made you lose more than half your energy. You may be the strongest in brute strength, but you are the weakest in control." Haru finished and the Sohma's could feel the anger coming from Tohru's body.
"Shut up, shut up, SHUT UP, SHUT UP!" Akane kept repeating the words like a chant. She held her head once again and screamed on last time, "SHUT UP!" Orange fur started to cover Tohru's body, which meant that the animal's soul, Akane, was losing control, and starting to enter the berserker state. The Sohma's could only stare at her in fear. They couldn't understand why this was happening to Tohru and Hatsuharu. After the orange fur fully covered her body, Akane let out a roar/scream that sounded as if Tohru's and Akane's voice were twined together. With speed that the watching eyes could barely keep up with Tohru leapt at Haru. He dodged, knowing that it would be hard to fight Akane in the state she was in now. Haru backed up on a bolder and Akane saw the chance and aimed for him once again. But he dodged just in time for Akane to miss, but the boulder wasn't so lucky. From Akane's punch it cracked into different segments. Looking back at the immobile Sohma's. Haru knew that he had to get the berserking Akane away from them, or they would be hurt in the crossfire. He quickly started to run off into the forest, and just as he had planned, Tohru came running after him. After they had ran far enough away, the Sohma's could move once again. All of them sat up. Kyo was the first to stand up, looking at the trail of destruction that was left behind.
"We have to go after them!" Kyo shouted to the rest of the sitting Sohma's. But none of them responded, except for Kisa who was sobbing.
"That's not Tohru!" She yelled out, "I want Tohru back!" She started to cry even more than before. Shigure clenched his hand as he stood up.
"Kyo, Yuki, Aya and myself will go after Tohru. Kagura and Momiji, you both stay here with Kisa. And Hatori come with us but stay hidden, it might get bad and if it does, we need a doctor then." Hatori nodded in agreement. The said members did as they were told and started to head off in different directions. It didn't take long for them to reach Tohru and Haru. When they reached them, the sight that they found sent chills down their spines. Haru was knocked out and Tohru was bent over while holding him by the wrist. Aya grabbed her left leg, Shigure grabbed her right leg, Yuki grabbed her left arm, and Kyo went for the right, trying to pry off the grip that she had on Haru. They managed to release the grip that she had on Haru but that made Akane really angry. She shook off Kyo, grabbed Yuki and threw him on to a tree. He let out a gasp as he fell to the ground, coughing for need of air. She pulled off Shigure with mere strength and threw him as hard as she could; he lay limp on the ground. With her now free leg she kicked Aya right in the gut. Aya gagged as he felt like he would puke from the forced used to kick him. His body slid to a stop as Akane looked at what she caused. Tears started to form in the corner of her eyes.
"No" Their voice whispered out, "Why didn't you run away from me?!" When the black Cat creature, the three of them knew that it was currently Tohru speaking. With grunts, the four people stood back up, and started to walk towards Tohru. More tears started to stream down her eyes as she yelled out, "Don't come near me! I'm a monster!" But those words didn't stop the four as they slowly made their way back to Tohru. Tohru kicked away Shigure, punched Aya and smacked Yuki. With each second Tohru grew weaker and then fell to her knees. The orange fur started to fade and Akane spoke, "This isn't over, I'll take back control and destroy this weak human, like all the others!" All the traits of the cursed soul and Tohru sat on the ground crying. All of them smiled gently at her, even Haru who just woke up. They were so grateful that she was back. Walking, while some limped, they all walked out of the forest with the crying Tohru right behind them.
Tohru wasn't crying because she was sad, but because she was happy that she found loved ones who aren't afraid of her monstrous curse. But even though she was so happy, Tohru didn't know that there was more difficulties and sadness coming in the future.
A teenage girl with purple hair, and blue eyes looked out towards the lowering sun. She sniffed the air and said, "Akane… no, Tohru."
I felt soo bad writing the fight scene, i didnt want anyone to be hurt, but it had to be that way *serious face* Anywhoo i hope you enjoyed this chapter, but... Who is the purple haired girl? And what troubles await Tohru in the future? Find out in later chapters! \(0v0)/
Let me know if you have any ideas for future chapters, ideas r always helpful to get my brain gear turnin! X)
Till next time! XD