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(A/N): OMG!!! Sorry, sorry, I am so sorry! I APOLOGIZE TO THE WORLD!!! And did I mention sorry? Lol I forgot to ever give you a full description of Inora! MY BAD!! Ok so she is 5’5 with blond hair and blue eyes. Any other questions just ask! ...sorry. Lol
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“When did you get here?” Inora asked still gazing at Hatori from the floor.
“Just a few moments ago, I finished a little earlier then usual this evening so I decided to wait here,” he said staring at the sight of them on the ground with an odd expression. There was a ‘poof’ and Inora almost jumped out of her skin and let off a little squeak.
“Oh don’t mind me, I’m just the naked man sitting on top of you,” Shigure said with heavy sarcasm. Inora had completely forgotten that he was there even though he had been sitting on top of her the whole time in his dog form.
“Go put some clothes on,” Inora and Hatori said at the same time, making Inora blush and try to look away from Hatori. That didn’t go well, however, because it seemed like everywhere else was filled up with naked Shigure. It looked to Inora like he wasn’t particularly trying to hurry with getting his robe back on; she rolled her eyes as she sat up.
“If you don’t mind me asking, how did you two end up like that?” Hatori asked with the same odd expression on his face.
“I tackled her,” Shigure said shrugging. Hatori mumbled something that she couldn’t quite hear; he walked over and plopped down on the couch looking a little annoyed. ‘What’s up with him? I’ve never seen him act like this,’ she thought.
“Hatori is something bothering you?” she asked. He locked eyes with her for a long moment before replying.
“No, nothing. Thank you for your concern though,” he said softly smiling at her. With the way he talked it was hard for her to remember that he was only 27 years old. ‘That’s probably because he’s a doctor, people expect that from doctor’s right?' she asked herself. She hadn’t noticed that they were still staring at each other until someone cleared their throat loudly.
“Well I can see that I’m not needed here, I think I’ll go annoy Kyo,” He said walking out of the room. Inora got up from the floor not really sure of what to do with herself.
“Do you, um, want something to drink… or something?” she asked, she knew that the usual thing was to ask if they wanted tea but she hated tea. ‘I don’t really know how to make it anyway, well I guess you just throw a bag in hot water?’ she wondered.
“No, thank you,” he said quietly. He looked dead tired, ‘when was the last time he slept?’ she wondered.
“Do you want some pillows and blankets so you can sleep for a while?” she asked. “You look really tired.”
“No not yet, I need to talk to Shigure about something,” he said standing up.
“Oh, well just follow Kyo’s shouts,” she said with a laugh and right on cue they heard Kyo yell from the porch.
“SHUT UP YA DAMN DOG! I AM NOT!” Kyo’s voice bellowed through out the house. She heard Hatori sigh.
“Shigure really shouldn’t do that to the poor kid,” he said mostly to himself. He wondered out front, she followed to see what Shigure had done this time. When they got there Shigure was still singing a little song about Kyo being a pervert and Tohru was standing off to the side blushing. Kyo looked like he was going to punch someone and Inora had to think fast.
“Hey Kyo, You wanna take a walk with me?” she asked quickly. He froze and looked at her, she almost laughed at his surprised face.
“Uh, why?” he asked suspiciously. She couldn’t help but think about how the people in his family must treat him if a simple thing like asking him on a walk put him on guard.
“Because silly, we live together and I still know almost nothing about you,” she said making an effort to sound as welcoming as possible.
“Uh, ok?” he said slowly. He seemed to glance at the others for advice.
“Dude, it’s just a walk. Stop being so paranoid,” she said rolling her eyes. “Just let me grab my shoes.” She went back inside and went to the front door to put on her shoes and walked back around the outside of the house. Shigure and Hatori were having a tense whispered conversation away from the others; Kyo still looked confused but was waiting for her.
“Ready?” he asked as she walked up to him, she noticed he was still totally on guard. She nodded and they took off down a path.
“So Kyo, your 17 right, almost done with school? Do you know what you want to do after you finish?” she asked.
“Huh? Oh, I’m gonna take over my masters dojo, hopefully,” He said.
“Oh so you must be really close to your master huh?” she asked.
“Uh huh. He sorta raised me from when I was ten,” he said staring off into space. She wasn’t sure if he would mind telling her what happened to his parents.
“Um, you don’t have to tell me but…” she started.
“What happened to my parents?” he finished for her. “Well if you really wanna know… Dad left mom and me because I’m the cat. And, uh… mom, well she kinda committed suicide when I was ten… because I’m the cat.” They were quiet for a while after that, Inora felt horrible. ‘But what do you say to something like that,’ she thought franticly.
“Kyo I-” she started.
“Don’t worry about it. So why did you wanna go on a walk when it’s all dark and stuff?” he asked trying to change the subject.
“I like walks based on who I’m with, not what I see,” she said simply.
“This one can’t be very good then,” he muttered.
“Kyo,” she scolded. “You need to learn to like yourself more, and not be so hard on yourself. You know, you have the kind of personality that draws people to you, once you open up to them I mean. Like you just did to me,” she beamed at him. “And you see? I like you already!” He stopped and stared at her as though he had never really seen her before.
“I’ve wanted to ask you something,” he said still staring at her. “Did you really mean what you said about it not being the cat’s fault?”
“Huh? Oh that! Yeah man, how the hell is that the cat’s fault? He was given false information, if it was anyone’s fault it’s the rat’s if you think about it,” she said, she had almost forgotten about that part of the conversation
“Well it’s said that it’s the cat’s fault for being stupid enough to believe the rat, and they thank the rat for getting rid of him.” He said sadly. They were still standing looking at each other.
“No one should ever be blamed for believing in someone,” she said softly. They looked at each other for a while longer; he looked like he was trying to figure out something to say to her, so she decided to break the silence. “Well we should start back don’t you think?”
“Huh? Oh yeah.” He said and they started back. “So your uncle is coming tonight?”
“Yup! I think you’ll like him. I know he’ll like you,” she said cheerfully, from the tone in his voice she thought she knew where he was going.
“Did he raise you or is he just super protective?” he asked. She knew for sure now what he wanted to know.
“Well he didn’t really raise me. I’ve just lived with him since I was 17 when my parents died,” she said, she could see from the look on his face he wanted to know what happened but he didn’t have the balls to ask, she couldn’t blame him, but he had opened up to her so she should return the favor.
“They died in a car crash, I was in it too, and I was in the back seat so I guess I didn’t get hit as hard?” she said and thought for a second. “I don’t know, I’ve gone over it so many times in my mind wondering if there was something more I could have done for them. Maybe because I was younger I was able to pull myself out after the car was on fire, but if I had been stronger I wouldn’t have passed out and I… could have pulled them out.”
“You can’t take the blame for that,” he said quietly. “I’m sure there was nothing you could do.” People had told her that before, and just like with Kyo none of them had been there, so they couldn’t really know. And just like all of those other times she decided it was time to change the subject.
“So a master huh? What’s his name?” she asked, he got the message.
“He’s Kazuma,” he said.
“Awesome name,” she said, they could see the lights from the house now. “So I’ve always been interested in that kinda stuff. Do you think you could show me something sometime?”
“Oh, sure,” he said brightly, she had never heard him sound so light. “Anytime you’d like! Well obviously it would be better in the day time.” She smiled at him as they walked back into the house. Shigure observed them as they walked in still chatting happily.
“And how was your walk?” he asked.
“Great!” Inora said and looked around. “Where is everyone?”
“Yuki is studying, Tohru is working in the kitchen, Hatori is in the living room probably asleep by now,” He said. She didn’t know why but she walked off without another word into the living room. She didn’t see anyone until she looked over the back of the couch; Hatori was stretched out on it with his hands resting lightly on his stomach. She was struck by how extraordinarily hot he was. She thought of something and ran out of the room; she came back with a pillow and a blanket. She set the blanket on the side of the couch for a moment and thought about how she should go about putting the pillow under his head. Finally she shrugged and gently lifted his head and slid the pillow under him. His eyes fluttered open.
“Sorry,” she said. “I thought you might be more comfortable with a pillow, the arms of the couch aren’t very soft.” He watched her as she got the blanket spread out over him, she made sure to pull it all the way up to his shoulders.
“Thank you Inora,” he said softly, she was stunned by the emotion in his voice. They looked into each others eyes for a long moment, and subconsciously she leaned forward a bit. She realized what she was doing and stood straight quickly. She tried to act as though nothing had happened, but she couldn’t help but notice the slight blush on his cheeks. ‘Dude were you seriously going to try and kiss him?’ She asked herself.
“Well I’ll let you get some sleep! Should I wake you when we need to go?” she asked, he nodded and she backed out of the room quickly. As soon as she was in the hallway she pressed her back against the wall and tried to slow her heartbeat down. She had already decided that she wasn’t going to sleep before they went, so she went to go and bother Shigure.
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One thirty rolled around and Shigure told her that the air port took about 20 minutes to get to. She tiptoed out into the living room ‘Why are you creeping around? You have to wake him up anyway,’ she thought. She walked over to the side of the couch and leaned over, willing him to wake up. Finally she reached over and put her hand on his shoulder and his eyes slid open.
“Sorry,” she whispered, for some reason she felt the need to be quiet still. “But it’s one thirty.”
“Ok,” he said simply, he stood up quickly and stretched out. She couldn’t help but watch him, he was so tall.
“Thanks again for doing this!” she laughed. “Wow you must have to get up on sudden notice a lot.”
“You have no idea. And you are more than welcome,” he said smiling at her. They got in the car and drove down the quiet road. It was a quiet drive, they were both really tired. She started worrying that he was going to fall asleep, but she couldn’t think of anything to say to him. When she saw the airport ahead she finally broke the silence.
“So are you going to come in, or do you want to wait in the loading zone?” she asked.
“Oh,” he thought for a moment. “Actually I think I’ll go in.” they got a parking spot and made their way through the air port. They checked the times and Dan’s flight was right on time, so they made their way to where he was supposed to come out and waited.
“So what’s your uncle’s name?” Hatori asked.
“Oh, it’s Daniel. People usually call him Dan though,” she said.
“What does he look like,” he asked scanning the crowd coming out.
“A lot like me actually, he has blond hair and blue eyes, the same color as mine. He’s about 6’3 and he’s younger than you might be thinking, he’s only 27.”
“And he raised you from a certain age?” he asked looking back at her. She really didn’t feel like explaining twice in one night so she tried to think of a response that wouldn’t bring up any more questions. She had just opened her mouth when she hard a familiar voice.
“INORA” Dan bellowed through the terminal. She looked to see her uncle running towards her, before she knew it she was in a huge bear hug.
“Dan it’s so good to see you,” she said once he had set her back down.
“Same here,” he said looking her over. “Well I think you lost some weight but you look healthy enough.”
“I’m glad you approve,” she said rolling her eyes. “Oh, Dan this is-”
“Is this that ‘sugar ray’?” he asked in a dangerous tone, he didn’t wait for an answer. He drew his fist back and threw it towards Hatori’s face; she didn’t have time to do anything but watch in horror. But her horror turned to surprise; Hatori grabbed Dan’s wrist and twisted his arm around. Dan was forced to turn or get his arm dislocated, Hatori kept a hold of his wrist so Dan was trapped facing away from him with his arm twisted up behind his back. Inora took a second to recover but knew exactly what to say.
“No Dan, this is Hatori Sohma. He’s the family doctor and he was nice enough to help me out tonight,” she said trying to make him a guilty as possible.
“Oh my God. I’m sorry man I thought you were that other guy,” he said, people were starting to stare at them. Inora told Hatori what Dan had said and Hatori let him go immediately.
“That’s ok,” Hatori said with a smile. “I often want to punch him.”
“Oh and Dan,” she said after she translated what Hatori said, “it’s Shigure not ‘sugar ray’. You’re staying in his house so you should at least get the name right.”