Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ The New Akito ❯ Tamaki's Blackout ( Chapter 8 )

[ P - Pre-Teen ]
Chapter Eight: Tamaki’s Blackout

7 Years Later…
“Tami!” Kiri called up the stairs to her sister, using her nickname. “Tami! Dinner time!”
Tamaki walked down the stairs at a half run. “You don’t have to be so loud!” she scolded gently in sign, “I was coming down anyway.”
Kiri smiled at her sister. “Well, you were taking too long,” she said sticking her tongue out in very ten year old way.
Kiri was a cute little girl, with her mother’s long straight hair, but her father’s silvery gray color. She wore her hair in pigtails tied with red ribbons, and a matching frilly red dress, definitely not your normal ten year old.
Tamaki was her opposite. Tamaki was tall for her age, especially in Japan: she stood at about 5’ 10”. Her hair was also long, but pulled back in a single pony tail. She still had long bangs that went to the bottom of her earlobes. Her hair was a golden-brown, her skin a perfect golden-brown, and she still wore two huge earrings and now had four gold studs. Her clothes were a black halter top and faded jeans.
“Soup’s getting cold!” Tohru called to her children, and both of them ran over to eat. Tohru and Yuki smiled at each other as their two not-so-little daughters wolfed down dinner.
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It was another normal school day as Kiri got ready to go to school with Tamaki. They ate breakfast with their parents before they left for work; Tohru to teach at a preschool and Yuki to the computer company of which he is the vice-president.
“Kiri! Let’s go!” Tamaki signed to her little sis. “We’re going to be late again!” she signed as they rushed out the door and began walking to school.

Kiri skipped ahead of Tamaki laughing and singing as she enjoyed the warm spring sun. Tamaki smiled at her sister with her heart full of love, then memory flooded back…
A little boy, no more then two, running toward her, his hair the same beautiful auburn color as her own. He smiled and laughed as he ran into her arms. Tamaki was six years old again, right before the accident. A beautiful woman with straight dark hair stood next to her. She laughed along with the little boy. ‘Kaya…’ she called…
The flashback ended, and Tamaki lay sprawled on the ground with a scared Kiri shaking her awake.
“Tami! You’re awake! What happened?!? We were walking along and then you just fell to the ground with an eerie silent scream! Oh I was soooo scared!“ Kiri informed Tamaki, throwing her arms around the older girl.
Tamaki sat there, stroking Kiri’s hair until she calmed down. It had all seemed so real… like she had been six again, and back with her mother… Tears began to trickle down Tamaki’s face. God, how she missed them!
“Tamaki! You have to go back home! You don’t look so good…” Tamaki smiled at the young matriarch of her family. Even though it was not quite an order, she had to obey. Ten year old Kiri had not only gained Akito’s curse, but was also the new head of the family, not that she cared.
“School can wait! I’ll take you to Uncle Hatori and he can give you a check up. Collapsing for no apparent reason could be incredibly dangerous!” Kiri scolded her sister for not having better health, then started to walk back towards home.
It didn’t matter that no parents were home. As soon as they arrived back home, all Kiri had to do was call the main house and say Kiri Sohma requested a ride from the Sohma-Honda house to Hatori’s office, and in ten minutes a stylish black car with a driver pulled up outside the house. Ten minutes after that, they arrived at Hatori’s hospital.
“I’m Kiri Sohma, and I’m here to see Doctor Hatori Sohma. I know I don’t have a appointment, but if you don’t tell Uncle Hatori that I’m here, then you’re risking your job,” Kiri informed the nurse at the front of Hatori’s hospital.
“Well, hold on just a minute, little miss, and I can go tell him now,” the friendly nurse said with a smile. “I definitely don’t want to lose my job!” she added as she bustled off.
“You needn’t be so rude!” Tamaki scolded. “It’s not THAT serious.”
“I wasn’t being rude! I was just informing her!” Kiri said, sticking her tongue out at her sister. Tami sighed, then left Kiri alone until Hatori arrived.
“What’s wrong, Miss Kiri?” Hatori addressed the younger Sohma.
“Oh Uncle Hatori! It’s not me you need to ask! It’s Tami! We were walking to school when she blacked out and fell to the ground. I insisted we come see you,” she explained in an exasperated ten-year-old manner.
“You were right to bring her. Come into my office and we can see what’s wrong,” Hatori said, gesturing to an imposing oak door. The two girls followed their uncle into the office, with a single thought in their heads…
What if it was something serious?