Amaya
I was laughing I couldn't help it. Kyo, Yuki and Tohru had found me and now Mia-chan was going to ruin my cover. Diana didn't know I'd run into Mia-chan and Mia-chan knew how I was dressed. I'm screwed. I thought laughing helplessly.
"What's funny?" Kyo asked suspiciously.
This just made me laugh harder and I pounded my fist on the table.
Diana chucked and shuffled back to the oven to peek at the food and Mia-chan sat across from me. "What is so amusing?" I waited for the bombshell but I couldn't stop laughing. "Amaya stop laughing!"
There was a sudden silence from behind me then I felt a hand roughly grab me and spin me around. I stared up into Kyo's angry face. I heard Tohru's gasp and Yuki suck in his breath but I heard another sound under that. Diana was picking her knife up from the counter ready to defend me from Kyos violent action. "Hey guys." I said trying to smile around my bruises. My right eye was almost swollen completely shut and my left wasn't much better.
Tohru touched the long cut on my cheek gently. "Oh Amaya…what happened?' Mia-chan got up and stood behind Tohru to see and she also gasped. I began to giggle looking at them. Until just now I had no idea how alike they looked.
"I met a few boys who wanted a fight." I said looking into Kyo's eyes. "I'm alright though."
"The hell you are! Have you seen your face?" Kyo demanded shaking me slightly.
I shook my head gingerly. "Tohru…may I introduce Mia…your grandmother." I said dragging the conversation away from me. It worked with everyone but Kyo. He continued to stare at me with so many emotions in his eyes.
Yuki and Tohru spun to stare at Mia-chan and Diana also began to laugh as she set the knife back down. Tohru met the eyes of the woman whose eyes were the same. "Grandmother?"
Diana finally got calmed down as everyone else gaped and turned down the oven before shooing them all into another room. As she passed me she gestured upstairs and nodded toward Kyo.
I gave her a small smile and looked back at Kyo. "Come on Kyo. I'll tell you everything." He followed me as I went up to the room I had been given. I sat on the edge of one of the twin beds and he all but fell on to the other never taking his eyes off my bruises. "The day I left I got a threat from my father. I knew he'd hurt you guys and I had to leave. I met Mia-chan this morning in a diner and after leaving I met up with a small gang. They decided they wanted to beat me up but I got all but two of them down for the count before the last ones ran. I still got beat pretty bad though. Then I made my way here." I said staring at the soft brown carpet. Kyo was mad, I could see it, hell I could understand it but I hadn't meant to hurt them, but there'd been no other way.
"Do you know how worried I was?" He said his voice harsh with anger as it lashed out. "Do you know what Tohru went through when she learned you were missing? And Yuki and Shigure?" He stood and gripped my shoulders painfully and forced me to look at him and his red slitted eyes. "Do you know how we felt searching for you, wondering if we'd ever find you?"
I began to cry, I couldn't help it. Kyo was mad and he deserved his anger but I had been to scared, so alone and finally so relieved that I'd get to see him. I pressed my fists to my face as he held on to my shoulder and began to cry. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." I whispered brokenly over and over.
Kyo dropped to his knees in front of me and bowed his head against my knees. "Don't do it again." He whispered.
I learned something right then. Something that scared me and thrilled me at the same time. I'd fallen in love with Kyo in that moment. Seeing his worry and his anger and his concern for me had plunged me over the edge. I had little hope that we could be together with me being so…different. I wasn't sure I could be loved. Did I even deserve to be loved? I was a monster, monsters don't love or get loved. Maybe my family had been right, maybe monsters don't get to love.
A knock on the door made Kyo jump to his feet and go to open it. Yuki walked in and ran a hand over my hair as tears continued to fall from my eyes. "Kyo probably already yelled at you so I'm not going to but don't do this again." He said gently. "Are you coming home with us?"
I looked up at him and shook my head. "I came for a reason. I'm not done yet."
Kyo growled. "Are you stupid or something? You can't stay here alone."
"I won't be alone. Diana will take care of me." I said stubbornly. "I'm not going home yet."
"I'm taking Honda-san home." Yuki said loudly covering Kyo's next words. "Mia-chan is coming with us."
"Then I'll say goodbye to them. You all should go home but I'm not leaving yet." I crossed my arms and tried to look strong around my bruises, I think I only managed to look silly.
Yuki looked at the fuming Kyo. "Well stupid cat?"
"Shut up you damn rat! I'm staying." He exploded then marched out of the room.
Yuki followed and after a moment so did I. Cat? Rat? I wonder why they have those nicknames. Tohru and Mia-chan were talking quietly and never stopped until they hugged me goodbye. They piled into Mia's car and Yuki thanked Diana for her hospitality. "Sorry we caused such a commotion."
Diana patted him on the shoulder. "No problem. I'm glad Mia met her granddaughter. Now you better get going or they'll leave you behind."
Yuki nodded and bowed to her and waved to Kyo and me. After he left there was a cloud of silence. Diana pointed at Kyo. "You have clothes?"
Kyo jumped when she addressed him. "A small bag…" He said gesturing at his backpack by the door.
"You have the room across from Amaya's. Go throw your stuff in there and hurry down. Dinner is almost ready. Amaya yell downstairs and tell the boys to come up." She walked off not bothering to make sure we did as she asked but after a look at me from under his lashes Kyo grabbed his bag and ran up the steps. He was still furious.
I called down to Washi and Yasuo and by the time the three of us entered the dining room Kyo and the two girls were there. The girls were close to Kyo and flirting with him outrageously and he stared at them coldly. My heart wrenched at the sight of girls flirting with Kyo. But I couldn't blame them, Kyo was a gorgeous man: so handsome and tall and strong. I was staring at him when he turned to look at me. Something flashed in his eyes in reaction to my gaze and it made me wander over to him. "Hey Kyo." I said softly. The girls bristled at my interference and the short girl with spiky pink hair practically growled at me.
"Bitch we were talking to him." Apparently this was Michiko. When I didn't turn to look at her she grabbed my shoulder and wrenched me around to hit me but a hand caught her fist a few inches from my face. All six of us turned to look at Kyo.
"Don't try to hit her again." He said quietly letting her go and pulling me away. Diana began to bustle around and settled us all around the table before dishing a mixture of American and Japanese food.
I got a small bowl of miso soup, a few buffalo wings, a hamburger and some shougayaki. I rolled my eyes in joy as I ate. "Diana this is delicious!"
She gave me a smile as she ate her own food. "Thanks I love to cook."
Kyo was eating pretty much the same things I was with the addition of cheese on his burger and he nodded in agreement. "This is fantastic. I've never had American food before."
"You're missing out." Diana said biting into her burger.
Michiko looked up at me and gave me a tentative smile. "Sorry, it's my time of the month and I always get angry. I didn't know he was your man.'
I blushed and mumbled something before focusing on eating. Kyo choked on his food. He remained quiet though deciding not to make an issue of it. He probably figures if they think we are going out they'll leave him alone.
By the time dinner was over everyone was laughing at each others stories. The girls and Diana went to the top floor where their rooms were while the brothers retreated to their room in the basement. Kyo and I stood outside our respective bedrooms staring at each other. I leaned up and kissed him on the cheek. "Thank you for coming after me." I said before fleeing into my room.
I changed quickly into my pajama's and sat on the edge of my bed fingering my locket. Ama had completely joined back into me but sometimes I wish she hadn't. Being in that form, being able to be angry, though I was raised to view that form as ugly, I felt so free being able to run and actually go somewhere.
I sighed and opened the door to the hallway. I crept up the steps and out onto the roof. I curled up and stared up at the stairs. Dad is never going to just leave me alone. He'll keep coming after me. But why? I am not bothering him, I just want to live my life. I heard a door close behind me and turned to see Michiko walk out on to the roof. She plopped down beside me and look up at the stars too.
"My dad used to pimp me out to his co-workers." She said quietly.
"My dad beat me and my mom tried to drown me." I said feeling a connection to this girl.
She nodded, "You taking them to court?"
I jumped and looked at her. "Why would I do that?"
"The last guy my dad sold me to was an undercover cop. He brought me here and now my dad is in jail and I get every single penny he made off me." She said with a wolfish grin. "I am financially wealthy. Officer Douglas, he's American too, look at my fathers will. When he died I was to be given to his best customer."
"Ouch." I said and she grinned at me.
"But if I hadn't pressed charges against my dad I wouldn't have even gotten away. I'd still be in his control." She said fingering a ring on her right hand. It was a mans ring, large but fit down to her size.
"Are you saying I should go to court with my father?" I asked.
"I don't know. How about I call Officer Douglas and you talk to him about your situation he may be able to give you an idea what you should do." Michiko said and she looked eager, I wondered if maybe she hadn't fallen in love with her savior but I nodded at her smiling.
"Alright. I'll talk to him." I said and when she stood to go back in I followed.
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