Reliving the Past
By: CallxMexSenseixSenpaixSama
Kyah! I have like the perfect ending for this story and I don't have the patience to be writing in between chapters!!
But on goes the story : )
Mine stared at the ground; the shattered pieces glistened with the water that was on it. She couldn't believe what she just heard. A curse? of the Jyuunishi? Is this a joke? A prank?
"MINE? ARE YOU OKAY?" Ayame came rushing to her. She seemed to be in a blanked out state.
"The plate... it... just slipped..." Bending down, she began picking up the pieces with a dustpan. Ayame bent down to help her. When their hands touched, Mine freaked.
"What's wrong?" Ayame asked. How could she answer? She was at a loss for words. The shock... she didn't understand exactly what was being discussed, but it seemed like a secret. A dark secret. And the pain she felt for having not been confided in about this. What was he hiding?
"It's.. nothing. I'm just a little tired." She smiled to rid any suspicions. Shigure watched from the doorway. He knew.
Kyou watched his students do their routine. Washing the floors, wiping the windows, fixing the broken doors, do their exercise and then go home. But he was a little out of focus that day. Something bothering his mind. Earlier, he was told by his assistant that he was overworking and he should go home to rest or his family will get depressed. What is Tohru doing right now? What is she thinking? When his class congratulated him for the baby, there was a slight disturbance about the fact that the baby was born 2 months earlier than most babies. They kept asking him if the baby was okay. If she was sick or have any ailments. Why couldn't he realize before the birth? Why didn't he think that something was strange? But what would he have done... ?
"Ne, Kyou-kun! Old age must be getting to you!" Momiji slapped him hard on the back.
"Do you have to be so loud, Momiji?" Yuki sighed from behind.
"Ah. Kyou-sama. You have visitors." his assistant announced from way back.
"Why are you here?"
"Mean as always..." Momiji remarked.
Kyou wasn't up for this. He didn't want to be there listening to Momiji's every little whim with the strange presence of Yuki. So in the end, he ignored him and continued with his thinking process. How did the curse come back in the first place? Is his child going to suffer the same thing as he did? Those memories.. the ones that he continuously tried to block out kept knocking its way back in. To be looked upon with scorn and disgust... left outside with hate from his father... the guilt put onto him for the death of his mother. Then. The guilt of having let Tohru's mother die to save his own skin.
Yuki was also lost in his thoughts. With the same burden of pain from the past. The reopening of the emotional scar left in his heart. What it would be like to still be cursed. What it would be like if the black room still existed. No... it still exists.. he had just been denying it, but forever, the room, the words said in that room, and the pain inflicted in that room would remain there.
"This is just like reliving the past, huh?" Momiji said. The other two looked up. Was it obvious? Did the others feel the same way? "To see new ones born to possibly go through the same experience we went through... it's painful, huh? Especially to possibly hate your child because they bring back those discarded memories... To find means of avoiding them to not be reminded everyday. It hurts, doesn't it... Maybe sometimes even on the brink of asking God to never have had that child. Or to have those memories wiped away. But... all memories are precious, aren't they? To gain strength from overcoming the pain of those memories. Maybe... right now... someone out there... is repenting. Learning. Living. And moving on..." He paused. "This is an old story now... but my own mother got rid of me. She wanted to completely forget me. And she had no regrets. Told to leave my family and to not make her remember... to live in pain so they wouldn't... How I wanted to erase everything as well. But they're not meant for that. I wish that my mom thought that. But. In the ends of things, there's a new beginning.. isn't there.. ?" He replayed the time when Momo asked him to be her brother.
Yuki and Kyou thought deeply on what he said. They began regretting for living off their past. Now that they recall, was there not a light that led them out of their darkness? Was there not someone who gave hope when they were without? Then, something suddenly clicked. The only reason they grew up that way was because they were raised without a lot of love from their parents. Who are the parents now? Will they be the exact same?