"Is It Truly Forbidden?" Chapter 1
"This may never start.
We could fall apart.
Can I be your memory?"
Sugar Cult "Memory"
"I don't 'love' you and I never will." Kyou Sohma said in a calm voice to the raging boar, Kagura Sohma. Tears poured down the nineteen year old's face and she looked up pleadingly at him.
"Why?" She interrogated, trying to understand how Kyou could not be affected. "Why won't you ever love me?" Kyou sighed and turned his head away.
"Kagura… I just… I just can't." He started to walk away, but Kagura's hands clutched his, her grip saying please. He jerked his hand away and walked off. Tohru let out a deep sigh and leaned back on her hands.
"I hate watching her go through that." She said to Kelsey. Kelsey nodded, looking apologetically at Kagura. Tohru watched Kagura fall to her knees bawling. "Poor girl."
"Yeah." Kelsey replied, standing up. "I'll be back." She then skipped off. Tohru closed her eyes and laid back.
"Why be sorry?" Kyou's voice asked. Tohru opened her eyes and saw him standing over her. She sat up and he sat down.
"I can't help it. Kagura loves you, and you---" Kyou silenced the sixteen year old with a pointer finger pressed against her lips.
"You're wrong." He responded as Tohru fixed a puzzled gaze upon him. "Kagura doesn't love me. She's just lonely. She…." He balled his fists and closed his eyes, turning his head. "She wants to take advantage of me with my other form!"
"Kyou…" Tohru said softly, putting her hand on his shoulder. He rotated it and she stopped, just looking at his orange hair. "Kyou… how do you feel about her?"
"Whaddaya mean?" He snapped. Tohru jumped slightly from his tone.
"I mean what I asked." Se replied. "How do you feel about her?" Kyou turned and stared at her.
"I hate telling her no!" He confessed. "I hate to say that I don't love her or ever will… but that damn boar has to learn that she can't always get what she wants!" He put his forehead to rest on his knees. Tohru looked from him to the grass. He let out a sigh. "There's someone else."
"There's someone else?" Tohru repeated. He nodded slowly, unsure of his previous action. Tohru smiled. "Who?"
"S…someone…" His voice hesitantly trailed off. He gave her a look and she continued her smile.
"Who?"
"It isn't important." He stood up, looking down at her. "Let's go get some lunch. I'm starving!"
Shigure knocked on Kyou's door after seeing Kagura off from his house. When Kyou didn't answer, the twenty-seven year old let himself in. Kyou was laying on his stomach writing in a book.
"Dammit, Shigure!" He shouted, closing the book. "Don't you know that ---"
"'When I don't answer, that means go away!'" Shigure finished. "I know." He stood over Kyou and the dog sat down. "What is your problem?"
"'Problem'? I don't have a 'problem'!" The cat retorted. Shigure was serious this go-round. Kyou's shifty eyes closed and he gritted his teeth. "Go away."
"Kyou, why do you always treat Kagura like you do?"
"Oh God…" Kyou sighed. "You're the second to ask me." He looked at Shigure, who persistently stared. "She's bratty."
"So? You are too?"
"She doesn't know when to stop. You know her."
"So, who's this other person?"
Kyou froze and looked down. "You really wanna know?" The pervert nodded. "OK. That someone is…"
