hey all, sorry it took so long, but i worked every chance i got on my vacation. jeez, i think im the only person i know who would work on my vaca, but its just cuz i luv ya all that much haha. anywasy i worked uber hard, and i hope u like this chapter! please read and review!
Shigure sat alone in his den. The house was silent. Yuki had left for good, Tohru was still missing and Shigure wasn't even sure if Kyo was still living there or not. He sat alone in the silence and it scared him. Once a whole family had lived in his home, well sure it wasn't any ordinary family and Tohru may not have technically been a biological member of the family, but she was the one who made it a family and without her it all fell apart. Shigure sat there and thought about the day he first met Tohru, she had been passing by on her way to school when she stopped to look at his zodiac models. That's also when she mentioned how sad she was for the cat. Shigure silently laughed, that should have been his first clue as to how caring and passionate and loving she was for every creature on this planet. The way she had entered the sohma's lives may have been extremely odd, but she changed them forever. She had become the mother and sister to all of them, the family that they had never before had, but she was also the friend.
Shigure's thoughts were interrupted by the loud ring of the telephone. After staring at it for a moment he moved to pick up the receiver.
"Hello?" he asked into the mouth piece.
"shigure-san? It's Mii," came the female voice form the other end of the line.
"Why hello Mii-Chan. Do I owe u a manuscript already? I'm afraid it must have slipped my mind, I will have one ready for you as soon as possible,"
"No, no you don't owe me a manuscript. I was wondering………………… would it be alright if I stopped by you house for a sec tonight?"
"Why of course you can Mii-Chan, you didn't even need to ask. It would be a pleasure to have you over this evening."
"thank-you shigure-san I will stop by shortly, good-bye." Shigure heard the click of her hanging up.
'well that was odd, I wonder what's wrong ………………………… …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….hmmmmmmmmmmm, its to quite upstairs, I wonder if Kyo really did leave………………………….. I should go check.' Shigure thought to himself.
Slowly rising from his spot he left his den and entered the chaos that was the rest of the house. And chaos was being nice about it. Three men living in one house certainly was not sanitary, and no one had made a move to clean it up a bit, as if maybe, just maybe if they left it Tohru would come back seeing that they couldn't survive without her.
Walking up the stairs with no sound but the creaking of the old wood under his feet. Once he had reached the top he walked down the dark hallway to Kyo's room. Knocking on the door shigure got no reply, so he reached out and pushed the door open. To find an empty room. Kyo was gone too.
: With Akito :
"well, well. What have we here? Hmmmmmmmmmmm? The filthy monster has come back, you dare to enter my home! You disgust me. You're lucky I have allowed you as much freedom as I have, and you want to push your luck by coming here! I should lock you up now as punishment for showing your face here," Akito shouted at Kyo coldly.
Kyo kneeled silently in front of Akito, not fighting back or arguing. He took everything Akito dished out.
'What's wrong with him? He's never let me talk to him like this without fighting back,' Akito thought
Akito brought his hand back and swung hard at Kyo. Kyo flew across the room and landed hard in a corner.
"Is this what you wanted you filthy cat? Is it?" Akito flew at Kyo in a rage, grabbing Kyo by the hair to make him look at his face while he said that. Akito kicked Kyo hard in the stomach, throwing him against the walls and doing anything imaginable to the young teen.
"ANSWER ME!" Akito demanded.
"…………………………………Y-yes………………………" Akito's eyes widened as he heard the reply 'what! He wanted me to do this to him? What is going on with all my Junnishi?'
Kyo lay motionless in a dark corner of the room. He could have easily been mistaken for dead if it had not been for the shallow breathing that could be heard coming from him, barely.
"Fine! If this is what you wanted it's exactly what you'll get." Akito responded., moving towards the fallen boy.
: WITH SHIGURE :
Shigure stood in front of Kyo's room, 'him too? Best guess would be the states, probably trying to stop Akito form locking him away, and forget about her at the same time. I guess the comfortable life we had all grown accustomed to had disappeared completely now.' Shigure moved towards his own room, if he was to have Mii over he thought it best to put some clean clothes on. Although he didn't know why he had decided to change, it's not like Mii hadn't seen him looking unclean before. Looking into his closet Shigure reached for some casual looking jeans and a tee-shirt accompanied by a black button up dress shirt. 'Wow, I'm spending too much time around Kyo' he mused to himself. He had never actually bothered to wear jeans before, not for any reason really, but mostly, he guessed, because he found his usual attire much more comfortable.
Shigure quickly took a hot shower, changed, brushed his hair, and went down stairs to his den again where he began to work on his next manuscript. 'No harm in being a little ahead,' he thought.
He was interrupted by a knock on his front door. Rising to his feet Shigure made his way to the front door, opening it he found himself looking at an extremely attractive woman who slightly resembled Mii. She was dressed in a white tank-top with an acid-fade jean jacket that only reached just above her stomach, and a matching acid fade mini-skirt and a pair of whit flip-flops.
"Mii-Chan? Is that you?" Shigure asked struggling to keep his mouth form hitting the ground.
"Yes of course it's me, what's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?" she asked with concern creasing her face.
"Nothing, I've just never seen you dressed like this before."
"Oh, this? Shigure-san you see me in my work clothes. Did you really think that's how I always dressed?" Mii laughed.
"Well………….. Yeah I guess I did," Shigure mumbled back, "but anyways, please come in."
As she entered Mii couldn't help but say, "Well Shigure, I didn't expect to see u in jeans. Very unlike you."
"Well I guess both of us got a surprise today didn't we?" the two sat down at the table in the main room, "so what is it you wanted to speak with me about Mii-Chan?"
"You."
"Me?"
"Yes, you."
"Well what about me?"
Mii hesitated before speaking, "what's wrong with you Shigure san?" she blurted out, but by the look on Shigure's face she could tell he didn't understand. Becoming flustered she tried to explain, but it became more of a babble then an explanation. "It'sJustThatYou'reActingAllWeirdAndNotLikeYourselfAndI'mWorriedThatSomethingHappendAndIDunnoWhatIShou-" Mii was quieted when she found a hand covering her mouth, Shiguer's hand.
"Mii-Chan, calm down, I can't understand a word your saying," Shigure released his hold on Mii's mouth.
After a moment of silence Mii took a deep breath and tried one more time, slowly, "I'm just worried about you Shigure-San. You're acting so different, I mean the past few weeks have been wonderful for me as your editor, you're much easier to work with, but it's not you. Shigure-San, you're the type of person who jokes around, and is just a big kid at heart. And that's the way you should be, the way everyone loves you for. But lately you have become mature and serious, like your cousin, I think his name was Hatori-Sama………. But that's not who you are. Shigure-San, what happened?" you can't just deal with everything yourself, you have to let your friends help you, let me help you!"
Shigure just sat there watching Mii. He was totally dumbstruck. 'Have I really changed that much? I thought everyone would be relieved that I had grown up and started acting my age,' Shigure thought inwardly, "Wait………………………… did Mii just call me her friend?"
"Shigure-San? Please say something…….." Mii pleaded.
"Huh? Oh, I'm sorry Mii-Chan. It pleases me to hear that you have been worried about me, it means a lot that you think of me as a friend. But I really don't see me being so diff—I just did it again didn't I? Went all serious?" Shigure asked chuckling.
Mii couldn't help but laugh while nodding her head yes in reply.
"Listen, Mii-Chan, things have been a little rough around here lately. And as a result of that I guess that maybe I have matured, lets say. But that doesn't make me a different person. Anyways weren't you always the one who wanted me to grow up? Get my books done on time?" Shigure tried to reason with her.
"No! Not if it's going to change you! Shigure-San can't you see how different you are? Hasn't someone else mentioned it? I mean usually when I'm here the house is full of people," Mii stopped for a minuet and looked around, "Wait…………………… Where is everyone? I mean, yeah, usually people are visiting you, but don't three other people live here?"
The mention of his empty house only seemed to upset him. Letting out a long sigh Shigure replied quietly, "Well remember how I said something happened? Well it threw my whole family into a state of depression. Everyone has changed, and now I am left living here alone, no one else."
Mii looked Shigure in the eyes, and with concern lacing her voice she asked, "You're not going to tell me what happened, are you?"
"No Mii-Chan, I'm not. But not because I don't want to, or don't think I can trust you. Only because if I told you it would complicate your life, and I don't want things to be hard for you," Shigure said to her.
Suddenly Mii stood up, looking down on Shigure she smiled, "well, if we're not going to talk, then we're going out!"
Shigure stared up at her, stunned, "come again?"
Mii laughed and bent down to pull Shigure up to his feet "you heard me! My car is outside, so you and I are going to go do something fun! I don't know what yet, but we can figure that out later, and it's going to be fun."
And with that Mii pushed him out of the house and they headed towards town.
: With Yuki :
Since it had been awhile since Yuki had last stayed in the main house many of the things in his old room were no longer big enough, or of good enough quality. So Akito refurnished everything, Yuki's return had put Akito in a bit of a good mood. Although, Yuki had seen him about an hour after he arrived and he seem a bit upset and somehow…………………………………………………………… confused.
'I wonder what was wrong with him, he was acting really weird, even for Akito!' Yuki thought to himself.
Yuki had finished unpacking everything and the room now looked as comfortable as possible. As he walked across the room to make the last few things look perfect he knocked over his scrapbook, it landed on the floor with a thud.
'I don't remember packing that. I must have done it sub-consciously.' Yuki thought as he reached for the fallen book. As he picked it up and old picture fell out, face down. Picking up the picture and turning it over Yuki discovered the one photo he never wanted to see again, it broke his heart. It was a picture Momiji had taken at a school dance. None of the Sohma's had ever attended a school dance, or any dance for that matter, in fear of getting to close to a member of the opposite sex, but somehow Tohru had convinced them all to go, even Haru. In the picture Yuki had been slow dancing with Tohru, and if you looked really hard you could catch a glimpse of the Fan Club girls attempting to kill Tohru with their eyes, but Hana kept them away. It had been the Valentines Day, so Tohru was of course wearing red, she had on a stunning red dress that reached to just above her knees and a peek cut all around, and the neck came into a halter style with nearly no back to it. The dress hugged her every curve until it hit her waist when it became loose and flowed around her thighs. She had let Uo and Hana curl her hair for her and she looked absolutely beautiful, but Yuki always thought she looked beautiful. He had been wearing black slacks and a red dress shirt. Tohru was laughing and smiling at Momiji and Yuki looked extremely shy for holding Tohru so close. On the back of the picture Momiji had written 'Yuk and Tohru valentines Dance, 2006………………………………………………….AWWWWWWWWWWW what a cute couple.' The end part had of course earned him a smack on the back of the head form Kyo. Yuki couldn't help but let out a small chuckle. It made him sad to think about their times together, but it also made him smile.
'She wouldn't just leave without a reason. She couldn't have just left! Where would she go? We checked her grandfathers' house, she wasn't there. It just doesn't make any sense……………………………………… Tohru, where ever you are please know that I'll never stop looking for you.' He thought to himself, 'I love you.'
Looking down on the picture Yuki let out a deep breath.
"Yuki?" a cold voice that sent chills down his back scared him out of his thoughts. He dropped the picture when he jumped and turned to Akito.
"Yes Akito-Sama?" Yuki replied, diverting his eyes.
"Hatori has requested that you go in for your check-up now," Akito stated simply before walking away.
"That was close," Yuki let out a sigh of relief.
: With Akito :
After leaving Yuki's room Akito went around a corner just out of sight and waited for him to leave, before once again returning to his 'pets' room. When he had entered Yuki's room the first time he saw him looking sadly at a photograph, and when Akito had called to him to tell him Hatori wished to see him Yuki was startled and dropped the picture. Akito wanted to know what it wads that made his rat so sad. Once he was inside the room he went to where Yuki had been standing, and of course he found a small photo on the ground. Picking it up it up Akito found himself looking at a picture of his rat holing Tohru Honda as close as possible without transforming. Tohru was happily smiling while Yuki looked very shy. Akito couldn't help but stare at the couple. Yuki may have looked shy, but he looked happy too, a happy Akito had never seen him show. On the back of the picture it told him that this picture was taken at a dance. He had never been informed that his junnishi had gone to a dance. Taking the picture with him Akito left the room and went towards the 'cage' he held Tohru in.
Unlocking the invisible door he entered the darkness that held a once light spirit. Although he wished to Akito was no longer able to physically harm her, he wanted to so he could prove to himself that he still hated her, but he knew that that was no longer true. In the time he had held her there she was never rude or hateful towards him, no matter how bad he was to her.
"Honda!" he said to awake her form her restless sleep.
"Yes Akito-Sama?" she answered timidly.
Akito tossed the picture at her and glared at her, "did you love him?"
Tohru looked down at the picture before her and her eyes grew wide, as she looked down at it tears began to form on her eyes, and slowly slid down her cheeks, "I-I………………………………….I did," she replied looking down at the floor, her cheeks becoming a shade of pink in the darkness.
"How? How could you love him? He's not normal, he's a freak!" Akito yelled.
Tohru took a chance and looked Akito in the eyes when she said, "I loved him because he was kind, and sweet, and he treated me like I was something special. Akito-Sama, Yuki-Kun is no more a freak than you are," after saying that she quickly looked down again. Preparing herself for a lash-out from Akito, may it be physical or verbal.
Tohru instead heard a very quiet reply form Akito, "than Yuki is more of a freak than I had thought if he is the same as me,"
Tohru once again looked up, but this time she didn't look into the eyes of a cruel family head, but instead the eyes of a small, sad young boy.
"A-Akito-Sama, you are not a freak. You're someone with a lot to deal with, a responsibility bigger than anyone else can even imagine, you sometimes make bad decisions. Or hurt people, but that's what makes you human."
Akito just stared at Torhu. Why? Why was she being so kind and understanding to him, to someone who had literally put her through hell the past month and a half?
Taking the picture back form Tohru, Akito turned around and whispered, "and I now understand why they all love you so much, especially Yuki." Before turning around and leaving Tohru alone in the darkness once more.
THE END! yes thats right, the end, im done writting, this is how i want to end it! (read important message at bottom for explanation)
i hope u all like this and u were all great readers and reviewrs!
Forest-Wyvern
Lol, u better bring me a cookie, I will cry if u don't! how's this one! No cliffy, but I do have plenty more to write, lol!
cocoke5
Im really glad you like it and I hope this chapter is as good as my others.
AngelFire91
Awwww, thank you so much! That means so much to me, im so happy u like it. Awww don't cry! Im sorry, but I can't give her back, lol! U will see why in the chapter after next. Heehee.
anime-punkass-luvr
Lol, ok, ok, how was that? Good?
Tsuki Wolfe Moon
AWWWWW yay! I'm so happy u liked the last chapter. I got this chapter up as fast as I could, I hope its as good as my others. HAHA that is my plan, get everyone hooked on the story! Heehee.
imoutosan
Hey thanks so much, im glad u liked it! Hope this is up to par.
Rose of Death
Lol, ya I tried to type things out totally this chappy but im and MSN fanatic, im so used to typing on there, lol! But im glad u liked it.
animefire275
Heehee, I updated now u can't get me! does happy dance
Tahitianbabe
BAH all over the place, IM ALL OVER THE PLACE! Of course my chapters will be, heehee! Im glad u liked it, and I hope u review still even though I gave it to u to read at school.
shojobutterfly
Haha, I know my horrible cliffies, but I tried to end this one without a cliffy! Just for u:)
catgirlversion3.0otakufan
Ya, the last one was really short, but I just wanted to get another chapter up before I went away, just so I didn't leave u all hanging.
IMPORTANT MESSAGE! lol, now didn't i scare u all by saying that was the end! im afraid i couldn't end it like that because i wuld liek to live to see my next birthday and i know a few peopel would attack me! lol! heehee i did have you all though, think of it as my belated april fools! haha! i will have the next chappy as soon as possible! lol! but u all do have to give me creidt! i managed to end it without a cliffy! big step for me, lol!
