Broken Together
Summary: Looking to the boy in the window, Kagome felt her heart clench. "Mama...who's that boy?" Rai turned her eyes to see who it was that her daughter spoke of, "his name is Akito, and he is to be the one you spend the rest of your life together with. The Gods have chosen to save him, but you must act as their Messenger, Kagome." Kagome smiled, "so we'll be allowed to play together too?!" A wistful smile graced Rai's lips, "Yes...you can both play together...for as long as you want, for as long as you think you can."
Anime: InuYasha/Fruits Basket
Pairing: Kagome/Akito
Genre: Romance/Hurt/Comfort
Rated: M
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Rai held her daughter close, staring at the current Head of the Sohma family.
"I'm sorry Rai, please don't look badly upon Akito, for he himself doesn't have a say in such decisions, not even aware of the choice made yet."
"It's not fair, not for Kagome...and not for Akito."
"I know, but the choices made are unchangeable...besides, this may be Akito only chance at life."
"How do you mean?"
"This curse takes its Head Host when they reach a certain age, typically in their early twenties, sometimes younger, but I feel...Kagome might be able to break the curse on Akito, and perhaps the rest of the Sohma's..."
Sighing, Rai placed her daughter down when the girl started wiggling in her arms, moving to the man who was talking, Kagome watched him kneel down before her and smile. He was one of the kindest Sohma Heads, to be sure. She had the misfortune of meeting the late Head before he passed away at twenty-three and was left with a sour taste in her mouth after the meeting. "Will she be treated right?"
"I'm sure if they meet early enough, yes."
"I understand..." Rai watched her daughter and smiled, though it didn't reach her eyes, she would put on a brave front, for her daughter. "Come Kagome, let's be on our way. Say goodbye to Akira-Sama."
"...mama..." She ran to Rai and wrapped her arms around her mother's legs with a laugh as the two of them left the room. Kagome waved farewell to the man behind her and smiled before turning away.
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(Two Months Later)
Kagome had been coming periodically throughout the last two months, meeting with the old women who liked to boss her mother around, telling her how Kagome needed to act, then yelling at Kagome when she did something wrong. "Mama...why do I have to act the way they tell me?"
Rai glared back over her shoulder, looking at the old woman who'd walked her to the door. "You'll understand when you are a little older, Kagome." Her daughter was only five, going on six in a couple more months, and they were acting like she was a teenager, who had a complete understanding of mannerisms and feminine grace.
"How much older?"
"...not much older, just a few more years..."
Kagome glanced down at her shoes as she walked towards the Sohma's Main House entrance and curiously, with the feeling of being watched, she peered back over her shoulder and stopped walking. There, in one of the windows of the Main House, was a boy who was no older than herself. Looking to the boy in the window, Kagome felt her heart clench. "Mama...who's that boy?"
Rai turned her eyes to see who it was that her daughter spoke of, "his name is Akito, and he is to be the one you spend the rest of your life together with. The Gods have chosen to save him, but you must act as their Messenger, Kagome."
Kagome smiled, "so we'll be allowed to play together too?!"
A wistful smile graced Rai's lips, "Yes...you can both play together...for as long as you want, for as long as you think you can."
"I can't wait!"
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(A Year Later)
Time wasn't friendly to Kagome, as with its passing, many people around her were also lost to it. The most important of which, were her mother, and Akira Sohma. Though, both had happened almost on the same day, it had been an hour difference, and the losses had killed her. She was crying fiercely in the shadows of the Sohma's Main House.
She loved her mother, and now she was alone. Her grandfather had died years ago, when she was only three, and while she did still have her brother, he was only three, and could do nothing to care for her, so the responsibility fell on her. While she wasn't related to Akira, she had seen him often during the last two years, and she knew he'd been kind, and patient with her, and was caring and happy despite the dark shadow that had always clung dangerously to him.
"Hey..."
Kagome looked up from where she was huddled in a corner, tears clinging pathetically to her cheeks. "...A-Akito...sniff...that's your name, right?" Her voice was broken from the many hours she'd spent crying. She had been so lost in her tears and thoughts of her mother and Akira, she didn't even know where her brother had gone. Though, she knew he'd started off in one of the old ladies arms, he'd probably made it into another one of the relatives good graces.
"...yeah...who are you?"
"My name is Kagome, I thought you would have known my name." Kagome wiped away her tears, though, that didn't put a stop to them, and it only made way for more.
"Yeah, I recognize the name. My dad mentioned you."
"Akira-Sama...was your dad?"
Akito nodded, "was Rai-Sama your mom?"
Nodding, Kagome smiled, "I've never heard her called that though. She'd always been just Rai or Mama."
Akito sat down beside her and watched the shadows on the walls run in every direction with the change of the sun. "Dad said that she and you were from a strong and holy family line. He called her Rai-Sama...so I figured she must be really important."
"...she was...at least...she was to me." Kagome felt her eyes slowly drift shut and she leaned her head down and let it touch down on Akito's shoulder. "It's only been a couple days, but I really miss her."
Not saying anything, Akito listened as her breathing leveled out. He'd seen the girl many times throughout the years she'd been coming to the Main House, but today, at the funeral of his father and her mother...he'd met her for the first time...how pathetic was that.
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Me: Here is the first chapter of one of my many FB/IY fics. Tell me what you think, nyan!