Tohru: A Short Story

The girl groans and puts her arms over her ribcage, then quietly says, “I’m here to protect Tohru.” For a moment, both boys look confused. Then the orange hair boy says, “Then why was she CRYING!?” The girl stands up, still holding her ribs, and tells him, “She was crying BEFORE I got here. She wanted to be friends!” At this, neither boy looked too surprised. Silver looks over at Orange and says, “That does seem like something Miss Honda would do. Maybe she is telling the truth.” Orange still doesn’t fully believe her story and says back to Silver, “Yeah, and maybe she’s not telling the truth.” Trying to reassure the boys, the girl tells them “I am telling the truth. I was chasing something but it got away. I came in here to make sure she was safe.” At this, Silver decides that her story is believable.

It was this time when Orange asks, “Where the hell is Tohru?” She must have got scared during the fight and slipped out when everyone was too busy to notice.

The girl runs to the door closest to where Tohru was sitting, and finds herself in a kitchen. There was another door in the kitchen, so she ran to that one too, and found the laundry room. There, in the laundry room, was another door, still open from when Tohru left, that led outside. The girl cursed under her breath and was about to go out to find Tohru when the two boys appeared in the room with her. “Goddammit! You two have to stay in here. It’s bad enough I have to find and protect Tohru, I’m not going to babysit the two of you too! That would just be a huge disaster.

Just, stay here.” I can tell Orange wants to argue with her, but Silver managed to answer her first. He assures the girl that they will both stay inside, causing Orange to look pissed, but neither look like they plan on leaving the house. Once she was certain they weren’t going to leave the house, she ran back into the dining room, remembering her weapon was still in the ceiling. As soon as she grabbed her scythe, she heard the two boys arguing in the other room causing her to roll her eyes. She ran back into the laundry room and made her way outside, ignoring the two guys. When she was outside, she shut her eyes again, doing the same thing from earlier. She smiles again, and I assume she finds Tohru and the creature. When she opens her eyes, she sees Tohru hiding behind a hedge and the creature was crawling around, looking for her. The girl called out to get the creature’s attention, “Hey! Looking for someone?” She lifted her scythe and rested it on her shoulder. The creature made a hideous screeching noise and started running towards her. It was then when Orange shouted, “What the HELL is that?” The girl turned her attention to him, and told him to go back inside. “Hey, look out!” By the time the girl turned her attention back to the creature, it was too late. It attacked her, causing her to fall and hit her head hard.