Author's Note: This is a quick little bonus Christmas Yukiru oneshot type thing that I'm doing in my spare time. Hope you like it!
Chapter 1
Song Of Love
It was Christmas Eve and the Sohma household was bustling with people. They were having a Christmas Talent Show hosted by Shigure, who generously offered his living room as a stage. As Tohru and Kagura made dinner in the kitchen, Yuki and his girlfriend, Leiko walked by laughing and talking to each other. Tohru smiled sadly as she saw the two walk by into the living room. Kagura saw her friend look longingly a the couple.
"Do you love him?" Kagura quietly asked.
"It's not my place to say anything," she smiled tightly, "They do look go together. I hope they have a happy and long lasting relationship!" she sighed happily as she finished the last batch of onigiri.
"Sometimes… you have to voice your opinions, you know. In this world, it's the only way that you can survive," she looked at her friend kindly.
Tohru looked down slightly and smiled a small smile. "It's okay. Besides, I'm getting over it. Slowly. There, I think that's the last of the dumplings!" she set down the plate on the table gently.
She looked at Tohru sadly. "Why can't she see what's right under her nose.
"Dinner's ready!" Tohru yelled for the other's to hear. There was a great bustle and shouting to get to the kitchen table first.
As dinner went by without any further ado, Kagura glanced at Tohru to see that she didn't smile and add to the conversations as much as she used to.
There was one sushi piece left and simultaneously, Yuki and Tohru went for it with their chopsticks. They glanced at each other and Tohru had a flashback.
They grabbed the last dumpling at the same time.
"It seems that you telepathically sent me a message to battle for the last dumpling," Tohru used a mocking general's voice.
"As the King, I command you to surrender!" Yuki used a deep voice.
"I shall never---What is that?" she pointed behind him with an alarmed look on her face.
"What is it?" he turned around to look.
"Told you that I will always win in the end!" she laughed at him as she deposited the prize in her mouth.
Tohru's eyes started to smart as she thought about how things used to be. She slightly bowed her head and let Yuki had it.
"Excuse me, I must attend to something for my friends," she pulled back her chair and quickly disappeared up the stairs.
Shigure raised an eyebrow and sensed discomfort between her and Yuki. "Hmm, some sort of a lover's quarrel. That girlfriend of his is just not his type… Pity," he shook his head slightly and continued to eat and talk with Momiji.
Kyo glared at Yuki from across the table. "I didn't give up on Tohru to have you going out with some other girl. Nngh. She looks like a complete dunce," he angrily thought to himself before continuing to eat while shooting death glares at Yuki every once in a while.
Meanwhile, in Tohru's bedroom, she opened her window to feel the cool wind of winter on her face and to see the stars glitter in the night sky. "Follow the way of your heart," she whispered the words into the silent night of Christmas Eve. She added a pebble to her wishing mountain and sat on her bed. "What am I going to do with myself, Mom?" she thought inside of her head. As if out of nowhere, she heard her mom's voice. "Just be yourself, you'll be fine,"
"I'm not sure that's going to work this time," she got off of her bed and went downstairs to the living room where she saw out through the large window. She sat down on the chair that sat next to it. "It's snowing," she breathed silently to herself as she held her cup of cocoa in her hand. She smiled to herself.
Yuki stood in the doorway between the kitchen and the living room watching Tohru. He gazed at her features for a few minutes before regretfully shaking his head and walking away.
They were going to have a talent show. And before anyone could say 'wonders of winter' it was Tohru's turn.
She stood up there on stage with her short black miniskirt, white halter top and black long boots. She curled her hair so that it had a little bit of a bounce and she looked absolutely stunning. Shigure actually started to drool as he looked on at her. Kyo hit him over the head and the fun began.
Tohru started out singing in her clear alto voice, "Silent Night." Everyone was mesmerized by her voice and they all clapped enthusiastically at the end of it. (Except for Leiko, of course!)
Tohru hesitated for a second and started out by saying. "I dedicate this song to the one who stole my heart and given me something that I will never forget in my life," she softly spoke. She sang "My Immortal" by Evanescence.
I'm so tired of being here
Suppressed by all my childish fears
And if you have to leave
I wish that you would just leave
'Cause your presence still lingers here
And it won't leave me alone
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
You used to captivate me
By your resonating life
Now I'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts
My once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away
All the sanity in me
These wounds won't seem to heal
This pain is just too real
There's just too much that time cannot erase
When you cried I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
I've tried so hard to tell myself that you're gone
But though you're still with me
I've been alone all along
When you'd cry I'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
I held your hand through all of these years
But you still have
All of me
Tohru finished the last note with a sweet kiss that was blown at Yuki. As she walked slowly off the home made "stage," Leiko started to shout at her.
"How dare you sing that song! How dare you think that you can just steal Yuki away from me!" she stood up and started to shake her fist at Tohru.
Tohru slowly turned her head to reveal a tear rolling down one cheek and her face completely expressionless. "I don't. I don't think that I can steal him away from you. Why are you so scared? Is it because truly, deep in your heart, you know that he doesn't love you? Is that why you act uncontrollably?" her voice was quiet, but her words did wonders.
"Scared? Do you think that I'm scared of you? No," she shook her head. "I'm not scared of you or anything in this world!" her face was contorted in anger and she shouted them at Tohru's face.
"You should be scared. Because there are things that are out of your power. You have to accept that," she stared straight at Leiko as if trying to drill at hole through her.
"You bitch! You can't talk like that! You don't make sense at all! Stop act---" before she could say another word, Tohru had made long strides and had slapped her face with a deafening sound.
"Don't you ever call me a bitch again. Understand?" she narrowed her eyes and shoved her face into Leiko's.
Leiko was taken aback by her sudden cold demeanor. What had happened to that girl that had been so meek and docile? Tohru walked out the door shutting it with a bang.
Yuki stood through all of this, stunned at what he had just seen. So Tohru did love him? But, why the sudden coldness? What had happened between to her to make her changed like this? Could it be that her mother's blood was slowly awakening in her? "No, that's not possible. It's Tohru. She's kind and sweet. There's something that's really bothering her right now. And that something is me,"
Suddenly, he dashed out the door not even bothering to grab his coat.
"Wait! Yuki! You can't go out there! You saw what she did! She's just trying to get back at me for going out with you!" Leiko clung to his arm and made puppy eyes at him while talking in a hurt tone.
"Get off of me! You don't understand! You don't need me! I don't need you! You can never understand me! You're a spiteful girl and I can't be with you anymore. Get over it! We're done, through! I can't believe that you could act that way to anyone!" he exclaimed with disgust in his voice.
Leiko gasped. It was true. All of those things. But, she didn't want to admit it. "Wait! No, Yuki!"
"Let the boy go. If he doesn't love you then that is the end. There is no use in clinging," Hatori's cold voice cut through the atmosphere. "I suggest that you go on back home now before the storm get's any worse," Hatori nodded at her and gestured towards the door.
She glared at all of them and said with finality in her voice. "I can see that I'm not wanted here. I'll be going now," she picked up her coat and left with another bang of the door.
"Good riddance! That girl was annoying! I couldn't stand he for another minute!" Kyo complained.
"What about Tohru? Where is she?" Momiji looked slightly worried.
"I'm sure that Yuki is with her. There is nothing to worry about. It was just a lover's quarrel from the looks of it. It will be back to normal in no time at all," Hatori replied and went into the kitchen to get more tea.
"Tohru!" Yuki frantically called her name as he darted here and there to look for her.
Suddenly a thought came to him. Something that she had told him long ago. "When I get stressed out or need some time to myself to think, I go to the temple. It soothes me,"
He ran as fast as he could towards the temple. He didn't get there fast enough. He gasped for breath as he reached it and saw a lone figure in the dense snow that was falling profusely as time went by. "She must be freezing in that outfit!" he thought to himself.
"Tohru!" his voice was lost to the winds.
She turned behind her to see Yuki shouting her voice while all the while coming towards her. She turned away from him and her hair flew out and was blown back by the winds as she walked slowly away from him.
"Tohru!" he finally reached her and grabbed her by the wrist. She was wrenched backwards and had no other choice but to look at him. She gave a little yelp of pain as his fingers closed over her half frozen arm. She saw his anxious face looking into her's. Then, everything went black.