Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ Musouka ~ Dare to Dream ❯ Eriko, the Rejected Seishin ( Chapter 13 )

Chapter Thirteen

 

Within every adversity lies a slumbering possibility.

 

Robert H. Sohma - Year 1920

 

The Monkey

 

Eriko, the Rejected Seishin

 

Damn't! Leave me alone! What did I ever do? Eriko thought angrily as she ran swiftly through the forest, her claws striking at anything in her path, her skin scathing itself as it ran up against trees, rocks, and so on. Her tail rammed into everything that her body passed through, she ignored every pain that was being inflicted upon her. Dark images loomed into her mind, not one smiling, instead, all frowning.

 

It's the Fox!

 

She's `his' spy, she must be spying on us to report to `him'!

 

I would never do such a thing so leave me alone you bastards! Her mind hollered as a twig snapped as her cheek ran up against it. She remembered how they treated her, ignoring her every request or demand, retreating whenever she came into their view, scowling and insulting her behind her back she was well aware of, and of course, accusing her. She never even knew who this `him' was, it couldn't have been God, surely they weren't that stupid. Foxes could never reach their own Goddess, Inari, so never God.

 

Would she really do that?

 

She didn't want to be part of the Zodiac in the first place remember?

 

I want to be left alone! So leave my head! You have no right to be there damnit all! She growled as she finally tripped and stumbled down. Doing several somersaults before landed on her head and knees, her back arched and arms laying numbly at her side. It was hopeless, her urge to run away from at the minimum, all she wanted to do was hide her hideous hands covered in blood from the boy that once had the same guilty blood on his hands. Thus, hide herself.

 

So the legend is correct?

 

Of course! The Fox thought she was too good for us and refused the `God's' offer!

 

No! The Fox was right! It had the right! It had the damn right! She placed her left hand in front of her and her right hand did the same, she slowly raised herself up and looked up at the sky. The clouds in the night sky were darkening, a distant lightning bolt flashed, a low rumble of thunder followed. She suddenly felt calm, away form the world she felt. It seemed as if she was drifting as she came to her feet. She let her head hang as she questioned herself. Did the Fox have the right to do what it did? Now that she experienced one of the minimum symptoms of running away, she didn't know answers too much of anything.

 

More horrible than the Cat…

 

I'm surprised it wasn't the Fox whom tricked the Cat, the Rat doesn't seem to be the kind…

 

Did her parents love her? Did Yuri love her? Did her family care for her? Kaede? Riku? Aunt Kita? Mei? Anyone? Flashes of demonic crimson mixed with a light dark chocolate came to her, yes, someone had to care for her, but what was his name? She was sure it was a he was it not?

 

Damnit! I'm losing my memory! What was his name? I remember some, but now I'm not so sure… she leaped from the ground and landed just to run off again, her right hand holding the right side of her face, her teeth clenched and bared.

 

Yes, I agree, the Fox is much more easier to believe of such trickery!

But the truth is the Rat did it…

 

The Rat! What's with the Rat? Rat! I feel like I heard it before! Flash memories of a boy with gray hair and large violet eyes of kindness and agony rolled up in one zoomed in her mind, images from different events strolling through her brain like a film in a tape cassette.

 

But the Fox was given the option, and she refused…

 

She is not apart of us, nor is she like the Cat, she is the only one to ever be so close to `God' than any of us!

 

Cat! Cat! Another name I can't recognize! What's with me? She thought, her eyes clenching shut for a moment. Was she losing her mind? Was this another symptom? It couldn't be like this; maybe this was how the Foxes before her ran away. Because they thought no one cared about them, the ones that did they had forgotten. She couldn't run away like that, in pain and agony, sorrow and rejection. She won't be able to make it, not being able to live. Was that her fear? Dying?

 

But the Fox was given the option, and she refused…

 

She is not apart of us, nor is she like the Cat, she is the only one to ever be so close to `God' than any of us!

 

God? Why would they think I serve him when I refused his offer! What- she stopped, her left arm hung uselessly as her right kept grasping her face. She was thinking like the Fox that rejected the offer, she was thinking that way! She couldn't! She would lose everything! She would lose her loved ones, friends, family, memories both good and bad, and her future.

 

“But there is a way…” she looked up, no one was there. But it sounded horribly familiar. Her knees began to wobble, she was weak! All her life she refused to be weak, become someone she could depend on and not on others, she needed the skill, but now, it all seemed hopeless. “I know it's painful, so please, do us all a favor…”

 

All? Who's all! “And who the hell are you?” she screamed out into the woods. She was scared, than she felt a coldness on her nose. She looked up, and surely enough, it had begun to rain. “Please tell me why you are here to torment me? Tell me what I want to know! What I need to know! I can't stand this any longer!” she screamed, another memory came to her, but she could hardly remember it.

 

“Think! If you ever want to live! You must think of the memory and the one you feel most strongly about! If you can't…” If you can't…what was that suppose to mean? She didn't come all this way for more questions. Eriko felt her hair bristle, what memory could be dearest to her?

 

She remembered a very fuzzy image of a woman on her hands and knees, crying hard and shaking violently. A man was next to her, trying to comfort her it seemed. Eriko looked at the couple, she couldn't recognize them, but they looked awfully familiar. But the memory was so old; it was too fuzzy to remember, like what happens to an old newspaper after years of being concealed in a box for future generations about a great event.

 

Than she remembered someone else, another woman trying to feed her, she saw wisps of black and a smiling face, the eyes were shadowed. But in her arms was a baby no doubt, but the face was fuzzy, but the hair was black. It looked familiar, so darn familiar, what could it be?

 

“…if you can't, than when you're gone, so would be the one you love, and so will I…” the voice said, the one she loved, who was he? Was he the one with demonic crimson brown eyes? She had to find out, but her memories were slowly wriggling out of her fingers like a puppy would out of someone's arms that were squeezing it to death.

 

“Who did I love! I can't remember! Please help me!” she cried out to the voice as she landed on her knees with a splash.

 

Tanoshii yuu ge / saa kakomimashou

 

Kyou no namida wa / kora / asu no chikara ni shite

 

“Please tell me!” she cried again, landing on her hands, her head felt dizzy and pain soared through it like electricity. Why did she have to suffer this fate, why? Why her? What did she do before her life ever started? Did it end before it even begun? Why did she have so many unanswered questions?

 

LA LA LA / subarashiki / LOVE LIFE

 

LA LA LA / ai subeki / LOVE LIFE

 

The paramedics quickly rushed the girl inside the ambulance while the police investigators took the bodies and the separated heart from the boy's body. Mr. Ying (under Sarah's orders) to go after them and wait for news from the little girl's status and how the boy was killed and as well as the girl's supposedly mother.

 

“Eriko! Please answer me!” Sarah cried into the woods. Dikatou ordered them not to move into the forest since footprints led into there with blood on the trails. Police though, followed them. Than a police officer approached them.

 

Sei ippai datta ichinichi ni

 

Sayonara to arigatou

 

Waratte oemashou

 

Sore wa chiisa na inori

 

“We're sending in some dogs, for it seems that the trail had been washed away slightly by the rain, I suggest you folks go home. If you give me your number, we will give you the condition of the predicament when we see or find anything.” The cop said.

 

“Sir, we're staying here till you find my sister,” Yuri said boldly.

 

“Very well, but please stay in the car, I don't want to be responsible for any illness,” the cop said before turning back around to follow the search party. Dikatou than led his family back to the front of the school and they went inside the car.

 

They were silent for a moment before Yuri mentioned something.

 

“Let's call the Sohmas, they'll want to know,” Yuri said.

 

“We already bothered them enough, let's not involve them into our own problems now.” Dikatou said, Sarah began to weep into her hand, thinking about how Eriko was lost and hurt. And how she possibly never told her anything.

 

Haru / hana saki / midori moeru koro

 

Donna namida mo / hora / kaze ni nagasarete ku

 

“Dad, you don't understand, they need to know, especially…Kyo,” Yuri said, Dikatou sighed than rubbed his temples. Maybe they should know, now that Eriko found someone to rely on, he had no other choice. He tossed Yuri his cellphone.

 

“Be careful about how you say it Yuri,” he warned, she nodded before dialing their number.

 

How was she going to say this? To the family that was almost her real family? A family that felt so similar…but how would Kyo take it? How would Tohru or Yuki take it? How could any of them take it? They were with each other for five days and on Christmas and had a great time, and now tragedy strikes, how were they going to react?

 

LA LA LA / subarashiki / LOVE LIFE

 

LA LA LA / ai subeki / LOVE LIFE

 

I don't understand what you want me to do? Eriko cried as she landed on her stomach and began crying into her arm. Her body weak from the cold and shaking of her muscles.

 

“You must remember! Remember! For me and…the Cat…” the voice became distant and finally was gone, and so was her consciousness.

 

Chiisana Inori

 

“Hello!” Shigure greeted as he picked up the phone.

 

“Shigure? It's Yuri…” After a few moments, the stutters from Shigure came to Yuki's and Tohru's attention whom were in the kitchen. They walked into the hallway to see Shigure looking deeply aged-like and depressed.

 

“I-I see, I'll t-tell them, thank y-you, bye Yuri-c-chan,” Shigure said as he finally put down the phone. Than he looked at the two.

 

“Are you all right Shigure?” Tohru asked.

 

“I'm all right, but I fear, Eriko is not.” Shigure stated, the two teens eyes widened in horror.

 

“Is dinner done yet?” Kyo asked as he came down the stairs. When he noticed all three staring at him, his cat features came on. “What the hell is with the staring?”

 

“Kyo, it's…Eriko,”