DISCLAIMER: Fruits Basket belongs to Natsuki Takaya. Lyrics (in bold italics) belong to Linkin Park. All your base are belong to us.
-- Leave Out All The Rest --
I dreamed I was missing
You were so scared
But no one would listen
Cause no one else cared
"Don't leave me," Akito shrieked, clinging to Kureno with tears streaming down her face. "Don't leave me!"
Kureno shook her off.
"I'm free now," he said. "My curse is broken. I can live 'outside'."
And there was such joy shining in his eyes at the thought of being free - at the thought of not having to be ruled by her anymore - that she stopped fighting and let him go.
After my dreaming
I woke with this fear
What am I leaving
When I'm done here
She didn't want any more curses to break. She didn't want any of them to leave her. She quickly learned that the more she held them down, the more they would struggle to gain their freedom from her.
Slowly, slowly she let them go. Their curses broke one by one. And even though she'd been slowly letting go of them all, every time one of them came to her and smiled and said "I'm free", it hurt. It always brought back that memory of the first one who left her, and it set off a deep ache within her soul.
Now there were only two of them left. Just two curses. And she had realized long before that being God was the worst curse of all.
I'm strong on the surface
Not all the way through
I've never been perfect
But neither have you
Shigure was the only one who was left at her side. But more than that, he was the only one of them who had ever sought out her company of his own volition. He was the only one who had ever stayed without her having to beg, or even ask.
So if you're asking me
I want you to know
Akito was staring out the window (as usual), wondering what had become of her missing family members (also as usual) when she heard soft shuffling footsteps behind her. She didn't turn to look. The footsteps stopped and she felt Shigure wrap his arms around her, pulling her back against his chest.
"Even if my curse breaks, I will never leave you," he whispered.
When my time comes
Forget the wrong that I've done
Help me leave behind some
Reasons to be missed
"Liar." She said it sadly, without anger. "Everyone leaves when the curse breaks."
She turned in his arms and he saw the tears sliding down her cheeks.
"I won't," he said.
"Liar! Yes, you will," she shrieked hysterically.
And don't resent me
And when you're feeling empty
Keep me in your memory
He would have expected her to push him away, but she only clung to him harder.
"You'll leave me just like everyone leaves me when the curse breaks!"
He held her tightly against him.
"Then I'll make sure my curse never breaks."
Leave out all the rest
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