Title: The Way it Goes
Pairing: Hatori X Tohru
Summary: Hatori chases ghost. Tohru doesn't understand. And Akito is satisfied.

Author's Notes: I've never done this pairing before and I hope it has turned out well. I'm very sorry if the format is a mess.

Word Count: 632

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The Way it Goes

His first real conversation with her is one of tension, mostly on her part.

"Leave the Sohmas." He warns even though he knows, somehow, that she wont.

..0..

He knew he shouldn't have asked her but he did and he couldn't take it back.

"Snow melts what do you think it becomes?"

"Hm. It becomes spring!" she answers holding a cup of hot chocolate.

..0..

One day all it takes is a little rain on the walk home. The mud is dangerous and everything smells like wet grass. She keeps on thanking him for walking her. He replies it is no favor he has to check up on Yuki, besides it would be safer and logical if they trekked together.

She is so busy trying to engage him in some sort of conversation he doesn't quite understand that she doesn't see the ground break away at her feet. Nevertheless, swift and smooth he catches her, wraps her in his arms then poof!

She smells like crisp spring, just like Kanna, he thinks.

..0..

On another day she is taking a break from the large meal she had insisted on making for all the Sohmas she has met. He is outside enjoying, although you couldn't tell, a smoke.

"Those are bad for you." She says and it sounds so familiar that he questions himself.

-"Really Hatori, you need to stop smoking. Those are bad for you." When she takes out the still lit cigarette from his mouth he doesn't mind at all. "I know," he replies moves in to kiss her. She laughs twirls away. "No way, you got to brush your teeth now." He laughs.-

There is a shell of a smile on his lips when he says, "I know."

..0..

He is tired and she is too naive to realize that taking in so many fractured men will kill her.

-and it was just so much easier to feel than pretend and he hasn't felt in so damn long.

His hands are slow and precise, touching in places she hadn't even thought could feel so good with simple pressure. Although, he seems to know every spot that makes her burn into conflagration. "Tohru," he whispers, it is needy and searching unlike how she thought her dream man would say. No, the man of her dreams would say her name wanting, loving.

Good thing she fails to tell the difference.

He plunges deeper and deeper until he thinks he has found the sun from the morning's spring.

..0..

She is resting her head on his knee one night when she asks, "Who do you want me to be?"

He clips her bangs back. "No one."

"Promise?" she asks staring up at him.

"I wouldn't lie to you." She climbs into his naked lap, puts her arms around his neck.

"No, you wouldn't."

He captures her lips, devours her in-between the dying amber's of sun.

Of course.

..0..

Akito is laying on the floor, one of her many pillows tucked under her.

"Your beloved Hatori is quite taken with Tohru," Shigure smirks alongside her.

Akito laughs, "I could not have chosen a curler punishment for that girl."

"And what of Hatori?"

"He seems content enough, besides it is better she distracts only one Sohma than two."

"Oh no my dear," Shigure grins, bringing his lord lady close with ready fingers. "She was not a distraction."

Shigure descends upon her, feeling guilty about not feeling guilty.

Hatori did warn her after all.