Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ From Heaven to Hell ❯ Confusion ( Chapter 5 )

A/N: Once again, thanks for all your wonderful and supportive reviews, because of that, I am more than happy to be writing chapter 5. This might be a little confusing as my title name says it all but don't forget, it'll all make sense at the end….well it should anyway. But I Hope you like it and please keep in mind that all reviews are much appreciated!

 

Chapter 5 Confusion

 

When fear decides to take over your life, so doe's pain, pain can be emotional or it can hurt physically…by far it has been emotionally but who could expect something so sudden to appear out of nowhere? Normally you would feel an earthquake as a mere sign of a possible tsunami heading your way, but who could tell since it were passengers happily expecting a beautiful gorgeous cruise ship to sail on the seas without any problems, of course, they were all mistaken, or were they not. In situations like this when fear does manipulate you, the obvious way to respond is to panic.

 

Previously: As from the end of chapter 4

 

“Rin...We have to get out of here NOW!!” Haru grasped her arm tightly and started to run.

 

“Where can we go? Haru, it's a tidal wave! We have nowhere to hide, don't you realise that?!” Rin shouted back as the amount of screams made her dizzy.

 

Haru ignored her and continued to run wildly, desperate to think of something along the way, they didn't have much time. In a few seconds they could all be wiped out, or worse, dead.

 

~*~

 

“I won!” Ayame grinned with glee as he showed his deck of cards to Shigure. Since they graduated high school, they didn't have a nice chance to catch up…on holiday. Without Hatori, it was different but they managed since out of the mabudachi trio, those two were ….the happy and joyful dramatic ones while Hatori on the other hand was the complete opposite, serious, mature and had a very different personality. It was interesting how they had all managed to become best friends.

 

“Oh Aya, this is the fourth time you've won today, don't you think I deserve some well-earned pity” Shigure pouted. Ayame stayed silent.

 

“Oh Shigure…I felt something, like an earthquake.” Ayame put his hand on his head as he started to feel sick. Their pack of cards flew off their table as if magic.

 

“Can you hear that?” Shigure stood up listening carefully. “People are screaming outside.”

 

“What is going on out there?” Shigure opened the door to look, and then felt a huge loss of oxygen as an enormous wave lay ahead of him.

 

~*~

 

“Geez, where is that Haru?” Yuki asked rubbing his sore head after having a small fight with Kyo. (He ended up winning of course…because that's just typical them.)

 

“Don't know; let's just hope he isn't in the girl's room again.” Momiji teased playfully as he jumped up and down on the beds with joy.

 

“One more jump and I bet you that bed's gonna collapse.” Kyo scoffed.

 

“Yea right, you're just saying that.” Momiji poked his tongue out.

 

“Oh yea I can make it break!” Kyo lifted his hand.

 

“Fine, Fine I'll come down….oh man, you spoiled the fun.”

 

“Damn it, did you feel that?” Kyo complained to Yuki and Momiji.

 

“Yes…what was it?” Yuki started to get a feeling of queasiness.

 

“Kyo, Yuki, I'm getting scared.” Momiji whined as he clung onto Yuki's arm.

 

“Let me have a look.” Kyo got up and opened the door seeing the roaring tidal wave.

 

“Shoot!” He shut the door quickly and waved his hands.

 

Momiji's face went ghost white, obviously he and Yuki had seen it too.

 

A wild and eerie noise made them fall to the ground as they felt the floor moving rapidly. Suddenly the door of their suite burst open with water madly rushing in sweeping them off their feet. The water was such a strong force that it hit them instantly knocking Momiji unconscious, he sunk down and down onto the floor, slowly losing the ability to breathe. He was going to drown. Kyo and Yuki opened their eyes slightly to reveal the ship losing its balance and sinking into the waters along with the tidal wave still pushing it till it sunk.

 

The ship was capsizing and they couldn't do anything about it, people were going to die. The water was still hitting their face so hard that it hurt; it slammed Kyo and Yuki against the hard wall and pinned them there. It was like sharp needles were holding them on the wall so they couldn't move.

 

Tohru and Uo were washed away from the ship; Shigure and Ayame were drowning, trying to find some air to breathe in. Haru and Rin, who had been on the top deck had slid off once the ship tipped over, and fell into the freezing minus fifteen degrees ocean causing them to die without thought or suffering pain.

 

A few seconds later of pain, the water calmed down as the tidal wave moved on to a further spot. The whole ship was underwater, most people had died, and the screams had all faded immediately.

 

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“Ahhh.” Tohru screamed as she woke up spluttering and coughing out water that had entered her mouth without a trace. She clutched her heart, it was beating rapidly. That nightmare was even scarier than the one's the phantom had caused purposely. Was this one done deliberately, was there another spirit on the chase, was it trying to haunt her again? Her eyes had even gone watery, it was almost real. She had seen Yuki, Kyo, Momiji and the rest all dying including the people on board. It was dead scary since her dream had shown them suffocating and drowning and being knocked out by the powerful waves of the sea tidal wave. Even though she was sleeping, she could feel herself being hit directly by the wave, this was worse than ever but the strange thing was she saw everyone in that dream but Hana…Infact Tohru didn't even remember falling asleep. She looked around and saw Uo lying next to her, she was sweating and she was even talking in her sleep.

 

“No, I'm not dead, I'm not….Tohru….Tohru..” Uo was panting.

 

“I'm right here Uo.” Tohru shook her trying to wake her up. Uo opened an eye with a look of fear inside. She had never seen Uo so scared before, perhaps Uo had the same dream, but it wasn't possible, it couldn't be a coincidence if she did.

 

“What…Huh?” Uo sat up rubbing her eyes checking the scene around her. She ran to the bathroom and started to vomit because she felt so dizzy in the head.

 

Tohru entered the lounge looking around, she saw Hana in the kitchen happily pouring milk out of her carton, it looked like Hana didn't even notice the fact that Uo was unwell or Tohru and Uo were on the deck before, having nightmares.

 

“Hana?” Tohru came towards her feeling cold inside.

 

“What?” Hana replied rudely. Her face had changed into an aggravated and annoyed expression.

 

“My plan was ruined again.” She murmured.

 

“What did you say?” Tohru asked.

 

“Nothing you need to know.” Hana sat down at the table and started to eat her cereal.

 

“You know Hana, I just had a very weird dream, and it appears that Uo had one as well since she's not feeling well right now.” Tohru told Hana

 

“And how does this have something to do with me?” Hana replied coldly.

 

“I just thought you might want to go cheer her up.”

 

“Your one to speak, standing here and being useless and lazy.”

 

Just then Yuki and Kyo burst into the room like they had just run a marathon or something, their expressions were alarmed and afraid, Tohru had a bad feeling rush inside of her.

 

“Miss Honda, sorry to come in like this…”

 

“Cut the crap will ya? Tohru, the rest of us just had a weird dream, did you happen to have it as well, you know a tidal wave, people screaming and not to mention…..death.” Kyo interrupted Yuki as Yuki tripped him over making Kyo fall flat on his face.

 

“Oh you damn rat, you're gonna pay for that!” Kyo growled ready to aim a punch.

 

“Stop fighting please, Yuki, Kyo I did have the nightmare…” Tohru gave in.

 

“Yea, we thought so, Haru, Rin, Shigure, Ayame, Momiji almost everyone had it. Of course not the other passengers but just us. I find it really strange and mysterious. I don't think it's a coincidence.” Yuki gave a look of curiosity.

 

“That dream scared me to death….oh my god, Tohru, I can't believe I just woke up on the deck. Argh, people dying, including me... it was so real…” Uo came out of the bathroom and stopped talking when she saw Kyo and Yuki.

 

“So you were scared huh?” Kyo gave a menacing laugh.

 

“OH yea, I bet you were yelling for help in your dreams, who knows, you would've been worse than me.” Uo came closer and shot an angry look at Kyo.

 

“Bring it on yankee.” Kyo pulled his sleeves up.

 

“Shut up you stupid cat.” Yuki blurt out forgetting Uo was in front of him.

 

“I meant...umm stupid brat.” Yuki corrected as Tohru couldn't help but laugh at his random answer but she had to give credit to him for thinking so fast.

 

Kyo stayed silent knowing what was best for him as they didn't want to give the secret away to Uo since only Tohru knew.

 

“Okay…I'm going to need some fresh air, Hana coming?” Uo opened the door and walked out with Hana trailing behind her. Tohru thought she saw Hana grinning in a strange manner but she chose to ignore it.

 

“Miss Honda, I don't know if you realise, I'm not trying to accuse your friend…”

“What that rat is saying is that Hana wasn't in the dream, she's up to something.” Kyo interrupted again making Yuki angry.

 

“Will you let me talk?” Yuki nudged Kyo with his elbow.

 

“To tell the truth I don't even remember falling asleep but I remember it was right after Hana jumped off the ship again.” Tohru pointed out.

 

“Serious, she did that again?” Kyo stood there with an open mouth.

 

“Yes…I think…no, that can't be…” Tohru shook her head.

 

“What, why what are you thinking of?” Yuki was eager to hear.

 

Before Tohru could speak, they heard a pitch high scream coming from the top deck.

 

“That sounded like Uo." Tohru exchanged glances with Yuki and Kyo as they ran out of the room and up the stairs outside to the top deck.

 

“Hana, what are you doing, your hurting me, Let me go!” Uo's loud voice made Tohru worry even more.

 

She finally reached the top and looked straight ahead. She saw Hana grabbing Uo by the collar; she looked like she was strangling her. Hana's long slender black fingernails dug into Uo's neck.

 

“Oww…Stop it!” Uo's face was going blue.

 

There were a few people surrounding Hana, watching the scene, getting nervous. And what's more, not only was she gripping Uo around the neck and strangling her but she was holding her over the deck rail. If Hana let go, then Uo would fall into the sea, and since their on the top deck of the huge ship, she could die.

 

“Miss, why don't you just let go…” A policeman calmly told Hana.

 

“Don't boss me around!” Hana replied.

 

“Miss, I'm afraid I might have to shoot you!”

 

“GO ahead, if you want her to die!”

 

“Are you threatening me, don't forget I'm a police officer.”

 

“I'm not blind, you stupid head.”

 

“I'm warning you, miss, one more word...”

 

“And what, you gonna hurt me? Well before you can even think about it, try taking this!”

 

The next thing that happened sent the crowd screaming. Hana had felt a sudden beam of hatred around her; she wished that the policeman could move out of her way right on the spot, that her psychic-ness had only reminded her of her past. She sent the policemen flying a few metres and he fell to the ground unable to move, almost dead, blood running down his arm from bad scrapes and his eyes slowly closing.

 

`No, no, NO, What have I done this time?” Hana felt a rush of grief in her.

 

She remembered the time when she was little, when her psychic powers were terribly strong, she almost killed a young boy that had been bullying her and then she went to a new school where she befriended Tohru and Uo and now…now she was going to kill another….without notice.

 

She turned her head and saw Uo, nearly running out of breath, she got such a big fright that she let go instantly.

 

“AAHH!” Uo's scream as she felt herself falling.

 

“UO!” Tohru shrieked.

 

“NO!”

 

Hana caught Uo's hand just in time; she gave her a trusting look and pulled Uo over the rail. Uo climbed over then crashed onto the ground gasping for air and coughing. Tears streamed down Tohru's face, she ran to Uo's side and hugged her and comforted her as Yuki and Kyo stood there speechless but couldn't help but feel sympathetic and helpless at the situation.

 

True as it was, it had nearly given Tohru a heart attack when Uo nearly fell to her death. She looked at Hana, this time Tohru didn't feel like being nice. She felt a small ball of anger inside of her that was aiming towards Hana who was sitting there also crying at what she had done.

 

“Hana, how could you, she could've died, she's one of my best friends, she's one of YOUR best friends, don't you know that? Hana? What's happening to you?” Tohru cried out making Hana feel more miserable.

 

Somehow Tohru felt guilty afterwards for saying those words to Hana as she seemed back to normal whereas the bad Hana couldn't have cared less.

 

The People in the crowd had had enough drama for a day, they called another police officer, as the first one was taken to the medical room after some hard injuries from just a fall, but somehow it combined with the supernatural which made the injury even worse.

 

“Your names Saki Hanajima right?” The Policeman asked her.

 

Hana nodded in response.

 

“You're coming with me.” He handcuffed her and he took her off while Uo and Tohru stared shamelessly at Hana.

 

~*~

 

“Uo, I was so scared, are you okay?” Tohru questioned as Yuki managed to carry her all the way back and placed her on her bed.

 

“Thanks Yuki…yea I'm not too bad I guess, I really thought I was gonna die before, it was seriously freaky, hanging there with the deep water underneath you. I really thought Hana had gone too far this time, she could've killed me. I don't want to believe this but I can't trust her anymore. She's too dangerous.” Uo explained.

 

“I know how you feel. When she tried to poison me..”

 

“Wait, what, how come I haven't heard this before?” Uo looked at Tohru confused.

 

“Oh sorry, I didn't explain.” Tohru and Yuki told Hana about the time when Hana placed rat poison in Tohru's drink and how Yuki saved her barely.

 

“Oh my god, I can't believe she did that, are you okay?” Uo started to worry, slowly forgetting about her own situation just a few minutes ago.

 

“I'm fine thanks to Yuki.” Tohru replied.

 

Kyo felt a little jealousy in him. He felt his absence but he was amazed to know about Hana's situation with Tohru's drink.

 

“I'm getting a headache from all this, perhaps I need some air.” Kyo got up and exited the room.

 

“Maybe we should go visit Hana.” Tohru spoke up randomly.

 

“What?” Uo thought she had heard wrong.

 

“I mean, I saw the look in her eyes before, it was fear. Somewhere inside of me, I still believe that Hana has good in her, we just need to find her when she has that good moment and maybe she can tell us what's going on in her life right now that's making her….”

 

“Murderous?” Yuki interjected.

 

“Uhh…I guess you could say that.”

 

“Sorry, I think I need to go back to my suite and tell the others as well. Well as long as you two are okay…” Yuki gave them a hopeful glance.

 

“Sure, we'll just get orange-top to come with us, I'm sure he's had enough air.” Uo joked calling Kyo in.

 

~*~

 

Hana sat in the dark cold scary room with graffiti and spider webs.

 

“I don't want to do this anymore, LEAVE ME ALONE!!!” Hana shouted at what looked like she was talking to herself.

 

Tohru, Uo and Kyo looked through the window of the room.

 

“What is she saying; I mean is she talking to herself?” Uo asked Tohru.

 

“I can hear what she's saying but it doesn't make sense who she's talking to…” Tohru answered bluntly observing Hana's behaviour.

 

“I don't know why, but I have a funny feeling she's back to herself….for now anyway.” Kyo commented.

 

“You know what? For once you're right Orange-top. I do think she's in abetter mood now; let's go before she changes her mood.” Uo instructed.

 

“Are you sure you want to do this? I mean after all the trauma you've been through with Hana in the last hour?” Tohru asked concerned.

 

“Sure I do.” Uo gave them a brave face and asked the security guard to unlock the door to the dark room.

 

“Uo, Tohru, Kyo…..” Hana looked up, her face dark and gloomy. Her eyes were red and puffy; it looked like she had been crying for hours.

 

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A/N: So did ya like that chapter? It's the longest chapter I've written by far so I hope you enjoyed it as much as I enjoyed writing it. This wasn't really what I call a cliff-hanger but you know, I didn't really know where to end so yea…. Okay well…. You know the drill: Reviews please, as many as possible to give me a confidence boost, or shall I say author's writing boost! (Prevents writers block, for a while anyway.) So that would be nice, a few reviews thanks for reading! Oh and one more thing, I don't have a grudge against Hana or anything Infact I think she's really cool but in order to write this story, I kind of had to use her since her psychic-ness relates to my story.

 

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