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“Oh my god you speak English!” Inora said jumping to her feet and pointing at Hatsu. “That is fucking awesome!” Everyone was silent for a moment. “Sorry?” she said guessing it was her bad language that threw him off. Because he was older, about in his seventies, she didn’t realize the real reason. What really happened was that when she had stood up he took in her outfit and forgot how to speak for a moment.

“I- um…er…” he stammered. He paused to clear his throat. “Sorry. Yes, I do speak English. Shigure called me over to help out.”

“Shigure…?” she glanced at the gorgeous man next to her, assuming that must be him.

(A/N): For the sake of everyone’s sanity I’m going to take out the parts where Hatsu is translating everything, just please keep in mind that he is. ;)

“Yes! Now that we can finally introduce ourselves, my name is Shigure Sohma!” he said with a huge smile. Inora’s eyes went a bit fizzy and she felt slightly dizzy so she sat back down as the young girl cleared her throat. ‘Whoa, I’m still a little sick. I gotta remember to take it easy for a while.’ She also started to feel nauseous again.

“Hi! I’m Tohru Honda, it is so nice to meet you!” the girl said.

“Hi,” Inora said to them. “My name is Inora, thank you so much for all of your help. I was in pretty rough shape I guess.” ‘Still am,’ she added in her mind.

“You guess? Are you kidding me? I’ve seen better color on a corpse ….. My name’s Kyo by the way, Kyo Sohma.” The orange haired boy said. Inora gave him a small wave and looked at the other boy. He was sitting right next to her so when she looked at him she realized for the first time that his eyes were purple. ‘Strange family,’ she thought.

“Hi Inora, it’s a pleasure to meet you. I’m Yuki Sohma,” he said. He gave her a very pleasant smile, and she smiled back at him. As she looked at his face, however, she saw some sadness that he was obviously very used to hiding. ‘So it’s just Shigure I can’t get a read on, still annoying,’ she thought. She had never run into anyone that she couldn’t read their face like a book. She glanced back at Shigure, he was smiling serenely. It was obvious he was thinking about something completely unrelated to the conversation but what it was? She didn’t have a clue. She sighed.

“Something wrong?” Shigure asked. She covered it up.

“Yeah I was just thinking about all the mistakes I made in the past few weeks.” She said sadly.

“I have been curious to find out how you got here. Do you mind telling us?” he asked.

“I don’t see why not,” she said. She told them the whole story about the family and how she got sick.

“Hmm, yes, I see. You did have it rough. You must be a pretty tough girl,” Shigure said, winking at her and smiling. ‘He is hitting on me…. no, maybe not… oh I don’t know,’ she thought. Some annoyance must have showed on her face because he smiled wider. “Just one question though… why didn’t you just leave after a week like you said?”

“Because that would have been giving up! I would have had to go home with my tail between my legs and I just don’t do that! I haven’t lost a challenge yet and I don’t plan on starting!” she said. Shigure had giggled at the ‘tail between my legs’ line, but she kept going assuming it was just an American saying, and that they hadn’t heard it before.

“A challenge?” Kyo asked.

“Yeah, my uncle always challenges me to try new things and do the best I can. You see I’m super competitive, and I can’t resist a good challenge. My uncle just uses that to my benefit,” she explained. ‘What the hell?’ she thought, she was starting to feel clammy.

“Awww. That’s so sweet!” Tohru said.

“Super competitive huh? Sounds like someone else I know,” Yuki said looking over at Kyo. Kyo shouted something at Yuki who calmly replied back.

“I don’t think there’s any need for me to translate this” Hatsu said looking bored. Inora tried to include him.

“So are you a Sohma as well Hatsu?” she asked.

“Yes, I am sort of like the family interpreter,” He said smiling at her.

“Wow, how big is this family? Are there more outside this house?”

“Oh yes. They are scattered here and there, but mostly they live at the estate in town. About a hundred and fifty I’d guess.”

“Whoa, and I thought my family was big. Won’t make that mistake again.” She laughed. Yuki and Kyo, who were still fighting, rose to their feet and walked out to the backyard.

“What’s up?” she asked.

“They’re going to fight. Again.” He said rolling his eyes.

“Happens a lot huh?” she asked. He nodded and they followed the rest outside. ‘Maybe fresh air will help?’ she thought. Yuki and Kyo were still saying things back and fourth, now they just sounded way more intense. Finally they stopped talking and put up their hands, it was clear even to her that they had both had a lot of training. ‘Oh man I’m just getting worse. And how long did I just sleep? All night then most of the next day it looks like. Man I’m pathetic,’ she thought. ‘Maybe I should still go to a hospital?’

Kyo ran forward and swung at Yuki’s head with his right hand. Yuki grabbed Kyo’s wrist with his left hand and pulled him forward, while pulling him forward he stepped towards him and thrust his right elbow into Kyo’s nose. It was clear that the force of the blow broke Kyo’s nose. Kyo stumbled backwards and clutched at his face, blood was already pouring from both nostrils. He muttered something at Yuki and stood up straight. He kicked his left leg out to the side and brought it around; he was aiming for Yuki’s side. Yuki very simply blocked his foot with his right arm and kicked out with his right leg. His foot connected with Kyo’s diaphragm, Kyo was immediately winded and was sent flying backwards.

Kyo was sprawled out on the ground panting. Inora turned to Tohru who seemed to be frozen in place. “Would you mind getting me a towel for Kyo?” Inora asked. She nodded and went inside. Inora walked out to where Kyo was laying and Hatsu followed her. She turned to look at him and said, “You’re awesome, you know that? I don’t know anyone else who would be willing to do all this for a total stranger.” She smiled warmly at him.

He smiled back and said, “I can already tell I’m going to like you, I’m very fast on deciding things like that. Anyway for some reason it’s fun to translate for you, I really don’t mind.”

“Well… if I’m able to figure out how to stay in Japan maybe you could teach me the language! I’m a very quick study it shouldn’t take too long,” she said.

“That sounds like it could be fun,” he said smiling again.

“Hey, hey, hey! Did you people forget about me down here?” Kyo said, sounding annoyed. Inora wiped around to find that he had sat up and she kneeled down beside him. He was a complete mess; the blood was still flowing and was seeping through his shirt. Tohru finally ran up with a towel, Inora grabbed it from her and gently pressed it under Kyo’s nose. He winced slightly, she could see now that it was defiantly broken. She heard footsteps behind her and she thought Tohru was going for more towels.

“Yeah Kyo, It’s defiantly broken but it doesn’t look too bad,” she said. He groaned and tried to tilt his head back. “No don’t do that, lean forward if anything.”

Kyo looked at her puzzled then said “I thought for nosebleeds you were supposed to lean back to stop the bleeding.”

“No, if you tilt your head back it does nothing to stop the bleeding. All it does is make the blood run into your stomach. It could make you sick if you get too much in there.”

“That’s absolutely true,” a voice behind her said. She jumped slightly; it had been Shigure’s footsteps she had heard earlier. “Oh! Hatori would be so proud!” he sang.

“Hatori? Who’s that?” she asked.

“Oh sorry, he’s our family doctor. He’s so overworked that he wants us to take first aid classes, but we’re all too lazy. I assume that’s how you knew about the blood?”

“Yeah. That and it just makes sense if you think about it.”

“Hmmm. Yup, I’ve made up my mind I like you! You can stay at least until you are healthy again ok?”

Inora was surprised. These people had to be the nicest people she had ever met. They were all going way out of there way to help a stranger. There aren’t that many people like that anymore. “Oh! Um, thanks!” she grabbed Kyo’s hand and brought it up; he got the idea and held the towel to himself. She stood up and bowed, she felt a little silly but she knew that was the custom. “Thank you so much, you are all so wonderful!” Yuki walked over just in time to hear Shigure’s offer. He said something to him that Hatsu didn’t translate. They had a tense conversation. That is Yuki was tense, he was worried about something, Shigure just looked carefree.

“IT’S SETTLED!!!” Shigure sang while throwing his arms out. Yuki didn’t look like it was settled. “Just make yourself at home!”

Tohru laughed, “Hehe, it’s just like the speech I got!”

Standing was making Inora dizzier. She tried to clear her vision; she felt something hard hit her knees. It took her way longer than it should have to realize that it was the ground. She was on her hands and knees, her stomach was heaving but there was nothing for her to throw up. Eventually it stopped and she collapsed on the ground. Through all of this she heard them muttering franticly to each other. She felt hands on her shoulder and head. She rolled over and looked up.

Shigure had knelt down and was the one stroking her hair. Hatsu was the one at her shoulder. They both looked concerned, more concerned then they should have been considering how well they knew her. They were muttering back and fourth. Tohru, who Inora had just noticed had gone missing, came running up with a glass of water. Hatsu and Shigure helped her sit up and she sipped a bit of it.

“Sorry,” Hatsu said. “We should have realized that you haven’t fully recovered yet.”

“No…. no, it’s my fault,” Inora said. “I’ve always had this thing about hiding that I’m sick. I shouldn’t do that when I’m this bad off.”

“Do you want us to call Hatori to come look at you?” Shigure asked. ‘Yeah because I totally want some stuck up old dude poking me and telling me what I already know,’ she thought.

“No, I’ll be fine I just need to take it easy for a while. Get some fluids… you know.” She also had a serious fear of needles and she didn’t want any chance of having one stuck in her. That was part of the reason why she didn’t go to the hospital in the first place. Shigure and Hatsu both still looked uneasy. So she gathered her strength and stood up to prove she was fine. She adjusted her too tight dress, while they said something else to each other. Hatsu cleared his throat.

“So, Inora,” he said. “Did you bring anything other than yourself?”

“You mean do I have any other clothes?” she laughed. “Yeah I have a suitcase out in the woods, near where you found me,” she added looking to Shigure.

“Oh! I’m not the one who found you,” Shigure said smiling. “That was Yuki here he was the one that brought you back and took care of you.” She looked at Yuki and smiled at him. He was so tiny it was hard to believe that he could carry her anywhere, ‘But then again he did just send Kyo flying,’ she thought. ‘He must be stronger then he looks.’ She took a step towards him.

“Thank you so much! I thought I was a goner!” she said laughing. Since her thank you was just being passed along she felt the need to show it another way as well. She walked up to him and threw her arms out. ‘Does he not get a lot of hugs?’ she thought as she grew closer and he started to flail around, he looked scared. ‘Oh I know his type; you have to force physical contact on them.’ She smiled wider and caught his arms. She heard Shigure yell something but Hatsu didn’t have time to translate it before she slid her arms around him and squeezed him tightly.

“There, see? That’s not so-” there was a ‘poof’ noise and Yuki was gone. She looked out and saw something small and fury falling through the air. She instinctively caught it and turned it around to face her. She found herself face to face with the cutest rat she had ever seen. “Bad?”