Hi, PinkGoddess here, sorry that I took so long to write another story, but my stupid PC won't let me upload thing for some reason, oh well, I hope that you will enjoy reading my new story, enjoy! (Oh by the way, I kind of just took that plunge and went straight into it, so please excuse the rubbish start!)
The silence was unbearable; saying that you could cut the air with a knife would be an under statement! Every single member of the Sohma household (including Kyo for once!) was knelt at a long rectangular table that was set in the middle of a blank staring room. The only movement was a young man with purple hair, who was slowly pacing up and down behind the motionless people. Occasionally, he would stop to look out of the window into the silent night, mutter something and then carry on. Stopping again at the window he asked in barley more than a whisper "Do any of you know why I have called you all here today?" He waited for an answer, but nobody moved or made a sound.
"Do you!" he roared. Everyone flinched but still no one spoke. After a few moments of silence, there was a voice from the end of the table which warned "Careful Akito, you don't want to collapse again."
Akito shot the man a dark look and then carried on pacing "Don't tell me what to do Hatori, I'm the head of the family, not you!" he spat.
"As I was saying… before I was rudely interrupted…" he gave Hatori another dark look, and then carried on. "You all know that I don't have long to live, due to this retched curse I shall die soon." Akito waited for a reaction, but wasn't one.
"But… as you all know as well, me dying isn't going to be the only thing that will lift this curse from you all."
There was still no reaction.
Akito, trying to keep his temper continued, "Tomorrow, at midnight, the Zodiac comet, also know as the Emerald star, will appear in our sky… now to see if you all have been paying attention, can anyone tell me what that means?" Akito said with an evil smile spreading across his face. "Who shall I pick on today," wondered Akito, as he scanned around the table.
"Kisa…" he said to himself as he walking across the room towards a small child with brown hair. Crouching down besides her he whispered, "Do you think that you could tell me Kisa?" The small child slowly shook her head. "Tut, tut, why ever not? I was expecting more of you Kisa… we shall have to have one of our little… talks, again soon, won't we, eh?" Kisa, trying to hold back her tears but it was no use; they spilled out over he rosy cheeks and down her chin. "Won't we?" Repeated Akito. Still sobbing, Kisa nodded.
Akito saw out of the corner of his eye, that a boy, slightly younger than himself, with short grey hair clenched his fists on the table. Akitos's grin became wider. "Yuki…" he said getting up and walking over to the boy. "I suppose that a very intelligent young man like yourself could tell me what is so important about the Emerald star."
Speaking through clenched teeth, Yuki reluctantly explained, "From the moment that the comet appears in the sky, this curse that we have had to suffer with for years know will be lifted. But as soon as it burns up in our atmosphere, the curse will be upon us again." Finishing, Yuki looked up into Akito's eyes to see if he approved of his speech.
"For once, I am quite impressed… very good Yuki," Akito said moving along the table again. Yuki felt shuddered go down his spine when Akito said his name. A flash back of his childhood played back to him in his mind.
(Flash back)
It was dusk, and a silent night except for the gentle music produced by the chirruping crickets. Yuki had been asked to pay Akito a visit on his way back from his evening supper. Stepping into Akito's darkened room; Yuki had noticed a dark figure standing in the shadows. "Akito," he had asked, "is that you?"
"Ahhh, Yuki, I'm so glad that you could spare the time to pay me a visit, I just wanted to have a little talk with you," his voice loomed out of the darkness. Yuki, not understanding why, had felt a shudder go down his spine when Akito had said his name. Pulling his maroon robe further up his shoulders, Yuki had stepped towards him.
Suddenly out of nowhere, Akito had leapt form his hiding place, and grabbed Yuki round the throat. Tightening his grip round his grip, Akito had produced from his kimono a long thin weapon… a whip.
Akito had started to slash the whip violently across Yuki's feet; Yuki had had no choice but to buckle onto his knees. "How dare you not bow to me when you enter my room, how dare you have you forgotten who I am, have you!" Akito had screamed still slashing Yuki.
"No of course not! Why are you doing this to me? What have I done? Stop it… please!"
"As the head of the family, you must show me respect, to show me respect, you must bow to me!"
Yuki had cowered into a dark corner, and started to cry. "Yuki, how dare you, how dare you!" "Yuki… Yuki, hey, Yuki!
(End flash back)
Coming back to earth with an unpleasant bump, Yuki lashed out violently to the person who was shaking his shoulder.
"Ahhh, God damn it! What the hell did you have to do that for?" Kyo shouted.
"Huh, what…?"
Yuki opened his eyes to an empty room, except for Kyo who was sprawled on the floor with a grazed cheek, and Hatori who was watching him cautiously.
"God, you damn rat, why the hell did you have to do that!"
"What… I…"
"Why the hell does it always have to be me that you hit? Can't it be somebody else for a change!" raged Kyo as he stormed out of the room. After a few moments of silence Hatori went over to Yuki.
"Do you want to tell me what happened there Yuki?" questioned Hatori as he crouched down beside him.
Yuki thought for a moment, and then said "I think…" began Yuki as he rubbed his head. "I think that I had a flash back of my childhood… what Akito used to do to me," Yuki said looking up into Hatori's eyes with a puzzled expression.
"Ahh, the mind it can do strange things to people sometimes," sighed Hatori as he sat down next to Yuki. The two of them sat there in silence for a few moments, until Yuki said, "Why do we have to obey what Akito says Hatori? Why can't we make our own decisions?"
"What Akito says is law to us Yuki… Akito thinks that if he let us make our own decisions, then we could rise up against him… he wouldn't be bale to stand that." answered Hatori. He paused for a few seconds, and then said "I have been monitoring his health recently, and I have noticed that he is becoming ill faster than he knows it."
"Oh…?"
"As you heard today, Akito knows that he is going to die soon, there is no question about it… but I feel like he his going to die sooner than expected," finished Hatori.
"So umm… how long has he got left," Yuki questioned placing is words carefully.
After thinking for a moment Hatori answered "Most people think that Akito has years left to live, but I think differently… at the most… I would say that he only has a matter of days."
So there you have it, the end of my first chapter, I hope that you liked it, please RR! PinkGoddess, over and out!