Thank you all for reading! I really hope you enjoy this chapter, some of my best dialouge work I believe. I think I bring out how I view the characters quite well in this piece. I hope to have more up within the next few days! Enjoy!

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Tohru ran senselessly straight ahead. She did not know where she was going, but it did not matter. She finally had to stop, and took a rest on the exposed grass in the garden. She sat beneath a blossoming tree and quietly cried.

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"Let go off me." Yuki said as he stared at Kyou, who still held onto the scruff of his neck. He gave the rat a slight smile, and his eyes narrowed at him. "Not until I have finished talking to you." He calmly said. "Besides, I do not want you to go anywhere near Tohru at the moment."

Yuki stared at his cousin. He had never been in his grasp before, for once it was Kyou who was in control. "I've always wondered why I hated you so much aside from how the family treated you. Everyone accepting, some even adoring you. Aside from all that attention you received you never found that one who accepted you as you were...someone who you felt the same for and returned the feelings."

He tightened his grip on Kyou's wrist. "Only one ever came close to that, but there was an obstacle preventing her." Yuki harshly laughed at Kyou. "You really think the family and all those on lookers felt anything for me? It was just the image they loved, an illusion really. My own mother gave me over to Akito just so she could have a few extra vacations courtesy of the Souma fortune. It was always you who had people fawning over."

Kyou drew his cousin in closer. Yuki gave another laugh. "Wonder what I mean? Even though your mother died, and your father rejected you harshly. Kazuma was there for you. How Kagura nearly loved you to death also shows it- "

"So you think it's in your right to grab those feelings of someone else by force? Are you so pathetic that you can't find someone who will accept you as you are?I've resented you for reasons that seem superficial now, but from what you've done I have a right to despise you entirely!"

Kyou had now tightened his grip so much around Yuki's throat, that he couldn't speak. He attempted to fight back, but it was fruitless.

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Tohru felt something colden in the air. She quieted herself and stood up. She was hesitant about going back to Kyou, but she knew something was wrong. Tohru hurridly ran back towards Yuki and Kyou.

It seemed faster now to turn back. She ran in moments of time. The immediate view she saw was Yuki being held up by Kyou. She let her voice carry over to them.

"Kyou-kun!" At the mention of his name by her voice, Kyou realized what he was doing. He stopped squeazing so tightly around Yuki's throat.

Tohru ran toward the two, Yuki stared at her with half-closed eyes. Kyou dropped Yuki with the slightest thud. He landed without a fuss on the ground. He rubbed his throat with his right hand and balanced himself with the other. Tohru ran beside him to see if he was alright. His throat had started to bruise ever so slightly.

She looked up to Kyou with tearless eyes. "Be different Kyou-kun, show that you are not like them." Kyou stared down at his wife, he had to look away because he felt ashamed.

Yuki finally was able to stand on his own. Tohru slowly followed his movements, though she moved slightly more away from Yuki. She didn't look at him directly when she asked."...where are they?"

Yuki held his lips tight. "They're in the care of Shigure and Kagura." Kyou bluntly said. He was now leaning up against the wall.Tohru turned to his voice. "Akito thought he'd amuse himself by provoking me with the news." He said before Tohru had asked.

"Their memories have been wiped, they think of them as their parents." Yuki said as he stood brushing the dirt of his upper sleeve. "They will have no recognition of you." He simply said. He looked down as he said this, the look on Tohru's face was something he did not wish to see.

Tohru clenched her fists but not a tear was dropped. She had let free too many tears and now was the time to stop. She calmly said. "It was not entirely Akito's doing is it Yuki?" She looked up at him with fought tears in her own. He turned slowly to meet her face.

"No...it's not." Was all he could say. He stared directly past Tohru. A light laugh came from behind Tohru. She turned to see Akito standing behind her. Her eyes widened to his prescence.

"The truth has be unveiled to you now, hasn't it Tohru?"He said with his classic wide mouth smile. "Didn't you wonder why Yuki never called you Honda-san, or why you were even here? How about that wedding band on your finger?"

Tohru had now turned to face him. Yuki was preparing himself in anticipation of any of Akito's actions. "No? You're more simple minded then I thought Tohru." He slightly shook his head. "Is she really what you desire Yuki? I really do not see your interest in her."

Yuki had lowered his face. "You never will Akito. To say it plainly, any person with care for other people could see it. But you Akito being who you are will never see it." Yuki smiled at the end of his sentence.

In a flash Akito came and lunged towards Tohru. He knocked her back sending her falling. Yuki responded to attack and elbowed him in the stomach. He gave a gasp as he lost his breath, he fell back grasping onto Yuki's arm for balance.

Tohru had managed to break her fall. She just was slightly stunned from the blunt contact with the ground. Yuki grabbed Akito by the front of his clothes and held him there. Being taller and stronger showed the benefit to Yuki.

"The first cut has been made." Kyou's voice carried over from his imprisoned room.



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