Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ The Pain of Love ❯ Chapter 4
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By: Klove0511 
Anime/Manga: Fruits Basket Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Romance / Drama | Type: Divergence | Uploaded On: 12.30.2005 | Updated On: 12.30.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 702 | Visits: 595 | Status: Work In Progress
Anime/Manga: Fruits Basket Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Angst / Romance / Drama | Type: Divergence | Uploaded On: 12.30.2005 | Updated On: 12.30.2005 | Pages: 1 | Words: 702 | Visits: 595 | Status: Work In Progress
I'm back!! Sorry it takes so long to update.... I know my chapters can be short... I'm sorry. I'll update again soon. I hope. :) Anyway, thank you to everyone that has reviewed so far. I hope more people decide to review (hint hint). ^_^
I was going to do discussions with the characters in the author notes, but I'm too lazy to at the moment. Maybe next chapter.
Disclaimer: Still not mine.
Chapter 4
After Kureno left, everyone else followed the boys in search of Tohru, everyone except Kisa, Hiro, and Hatori, who was forced to play babysitter for the two children. Surprisingly, despite his penchant for getting lost, Hatsuharu was permitted to search as well.
After hours of searching it was finally Hatsuharu who found her, after he nearly tripped over her still body. He bent down and gently shook her, hoping she’d just fallen asleep in the woods. However, when he placed a hand on her head, he felt a sticky substance, not quite dry, coating her face, and he knew she had not simply fallen asleep among the trees. After he made sure she didn’t have any obvious broken bones or large, still bleeding wounds, he gently picked her up and swiftly carried the battered Tohru back to the summerhouse, careful to hold her away from his chest.
Thankfully, the children had gone to sleep, and a few of the searchers had come back, disappointed, but hoping someone else had come back with her. These two, Shigure and Momiji, immediately went back out in search of Yuki and Kyo.
After shooing Hatsuharu from the room and sending him to get clean cloths and hot water, Hatori proceeded to examine Tohru. Thankfully, Akito’s strongest kick was still remarkably weak, and she hadn’t suffered any serious injuries. The most serious wound was the one on her face, which had bled quite a bit. Hatori cleaned her wounds, bandaged her, and very carefully tucked her under a blanket on the couch. As he worked, he knew in his heart that Akito had done this to her.
At about that time, Yuki and Kyo burst into the room demanding to know how she was. Haru hadn’t given them any more of a description other than “she’s alive with a lot of blood on her face.” Hatori did his best to quiet the boys, giving them a brief glance at the girl on the couch, and then he ushered them into the next room where everyone else waited. Looking at the worried faces, he summed up her injuries quickly, stating that she had some cuts, the most serious one near her temple, and a large mass of bruises on her side. Knowing Akito’s strength well, he also said he seriously doubted that she had managed to break, or even slightly crack, any of her ribs.
When he was done speaking, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and their worry and the exhaustion of the search began to show on their faces. Shigure sent them all to bed and returned downstairs to speak with Hatori.
“She really is ok, Hatori, isn’t she? You weren’t hiding anything from them, were you?” Shigure asked as he seated himself next to the doctor.
“No, I wasn’t. I really do believe she’ll be fine in a few days. I am wondering how she came to be so far in the forest though. Hatsuharu said he found her quite a distance away. It’s a miracle the boy didn’t get lost bringing her back,” the doctor said, hiding from his friend his certainty about the one who had injured the young girl.
“Yes, it is a curious thing, her being that deep in the forest. It was almost at the other house, was it not? And Yuki’s and Kyo’s reactions today, when everyone was questioning them, that was interesting as well. I wonder what happened with those three,” Shigure replied, implying that he, too, knew who had hurt his precious flower.
I was going to do discussions with the characters in the author notes, but I'm too lazy to at the moment. Maybe next chapter.
Disclaimer: Still not mine.
Chapter 4
After Kureno left, everyone else followed the boys in search of Tohru, everyone except Kisa, Hiro, and Hatori, who was forced to play babysitter for the two children. Surprisingly, despite his penchant for getting lost, Hatsuharu was permitted to search as well.
After hours of searching it was finally Hatsuharu who found her, after he nearly tripped over her still body. He bent down and gently shook her, hoping she’d just fallen asleep in the woods. However, when he placed a hand on her head, he felt a sticky substance, not quite dry, coating her face, and he knew she had not simply fallen asleep among the trees. After he made sure she didn’t have any obvious broken bones or large, still bleeding wounds, he gently picked her up and swiftly carried the battered Tohru back to the summerhouse, careful to hold her away from his chest.
Thankfully, the children had gone to sleep, and a few of the searchers had come back, disappointed, but hoping someone else had come back with her. These two, Shigure and Momiji, immediately went back out in search of Yuki and Kyo.
After shooing Hatsuharu from the room and sending him to get clean cloths and hot water, Hatori proceeded to examine Tohru. Thankfully, Akito’s strongest kick was still remarkably weak, and she hadn’t suffered any serious injuries. The most serious wound was the one on her face, which had bled quite a bit. Hatori cleaned her wounds, bandaged her, and very carefully tucked her under a blanket on the couch. As he worked, he knew in his heart that Akito had done this to her.
At about that time, Yuki and Kyo burst into the room demanding to know how she was. Haru hadn’t given them any more of a description other than “she’s alive with a lot of blood on her face.” Hatori did his best to quiet the boys, giving them a brief glance at the girl on the couch, and then he ushered them into the next room where everyone else waited. Looking at the worried faces, he summed up her injuries quickly, stating that she had some cuts, the most serious one near her temple, and a large mass of bruises on her side. Knowing Akito’s strength well, he also said he seriously doubted that she had managed to break, or even slightly crack, any of her ribs.
When he was done speaking, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and their worry and the exhaustion of the search began to show on their faces. Shigure sent them all to bed and returned downstairs to speak with Hatori.
“She really is ok, Hatori, isn’t she? You weren’t hiding anything from them, were you?” Shigure asked as he seated himself next to the doctor.
“No, I wasn’t. I really do believe she’ll be fine in a few days. I am wondering how she came to be so far in the forest though. Hatsuharu said he found her quite a distance away. It’s a miracle the boy didn’t get lost bringing her back,” the doctor said, hiding from his friend his certainty about the one who had injured the young girl.
“Yes, it is a curious thing, her being that deep in the forest. It was almost at the other house, was it not? And Yuki’s and Kyo’s reactions today, when everyone was questioning them, that was interesting as well. I wonder what happened with those three,” Shigure replied, implying that he, too, knew who had hurt his precious flower.