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Fruits Basket
Chapter 11: One Rainy Night and One Depressing Morning
Saga: Paint the Walls Black and White
A soaked female figure stood in front of the Main Sohma House gates. She looked up at the dark clouds hovering above her, her face contorted with anger. Moving her head down she faced front, her eyes locked with the huge gates that stood in front of her.
Dammit! Why the Hell did that bastard have to go off and start stupid rumors like that! Why does everyone automatically always assume that there is something more than just friendship going on with me and him? I'm his best friend! He's my best friend! What the Hell could you expect from us! We're going to act just a little odd! We consider one another brother and sister! I'm going to care and talk about him! I'm going to run crying to him!
"Sonki?" a confused voice asked from her side.
She looked down, Kisa and Hiro coming into her line of view.
"Oh… Hello Kisa." She forced a herself to smile. Her hand moved up to her face, moving her limp hair behind her ear. "What are you doing out here in the rain?"
"You…" She looked afraid to speak. "You don't have an umbrella…"
"No… It seems I do not…" she answered crouching down, sighing.
"What are you doing here?" Hiro asked frowning at her. "Don't expect Hatori to see you if you get sick, it's your own stupidity."
"I know." She frowned at the boy. "I'm not here to see Hatori, I want to speak to Hatsuharu."
"I'll go and get him," Kisa answered rushing forward, the gate opening for her.
"Wait Kisa!" Hiro called, running after her.
Sonki walked through the open gates hesitantly, as though it was a crime. Should I have even come here? I could have waited until tomorrow… I would have seen him during school… She shook her head. No… It wouldn't be right to do this at school… I have to do it now, I don't want to wait.
Kisa appeared in front of her again, Hatsuharu at her side, sharing an umbrella with her.
"Sonki?" Hatsuharu questioned, as though she wasn't standing before him. "Why are you here? And without an umbrella? You're going to get sick… You'll make Tohru and everyone else worry…"
"Why didn't you say Yuki!" she shouted at him, her hands turning into fists at her side. "Why did you say Tohru and everyone else!"
Hatsuharu frowned at her. He handed the umbrella into Kisa's hands. "Kisa… Go play with Hiro, me and Sonki have to talk about some things… I'll have her come inside and dry off in a little while…"
Kisa nodded her head, walking off hesitantly.
"I won't get sick!" he called after her disappearing figure.
Her body rushed forward, her hand raised, slamming itself across Hatsuharu's face with a 'smack!' that echoed over the empty gardens.
"I HATE YOU!" she screamed, tears running down her face, mixing with the rain water that soaked her features. "I HATE YOU FOR TELLING YUKI ALL THOSE HORRIBLE THINGS!"
Hatsuharu blinked, staring at the plants that were now in his line of vision.
Slowly his head turned around, his face twisted up in anger. His hand shot forward, snagging her wrist. "YOU WERE TWO TIMING HIM WITH THAT IDIOT FROM AMERICA!"
"I WASN'T TWO TIMING HIM!" She screamed back, crying harder.
"He had his arms wrapped around you like the world was going to end!" he hissed at her. "If that isn't two timing, than what is!"
"I was crying! He was trying to comfort me!"
"What reason did you have to cry!"
"HE LEFT TODAY! MY BEST FRIEND THAT I HAVEN'T SEEN IN OVER SIX MONTHS LEFT TODAY! WHAT REASON WOULD I NOT HAVE TO CRY!"
He dropped her hand, stepping back, his other hand running down his face. "He shouldn't have held you like that…"
"He's my best friend! It doesn't matter how he holds me, nor does it matter to you!"
"He's in love with you!"
"IDIOT!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, her hands turning back into fists, her tears turning into sobs. "You're as bad as my parents! He's not in love with me! If it wasn't for our difference in blood we would be brother and sister!"
Hatsuharu twitched. "I won't let you get away with this. I won't let you break Yuki's heart."
"Why would I want to break his heart! Why would I want to hurt him at all!" She was now in his face, clutching his soaked shirt between her fingers. "What reason would I have to do so!"
"If he's not in love with you than you're in love with him… You're eyes tell the whole story! The way you act around him expresses it all!"
She slapped him again. "I'M IN LOVE WITH YUKI!"
"YOU'RE LYING!" He roared back at her. His hands flinging forward as he shoved her body into the gate behind her, causing a loud cracking as her back made contact. "YOU'RE LYING! YOU'RE NOT IN LOVE WITH HIM! STOP PRETENDING! IF YOU DON'T LIKE HIM THAN JUST BREAK UP WITH HIM AND CONTINUE TO GO OUT WITH YOUR STUPID FRIEND FROM AMERICA!"
She coughed, her hands clutching at her chest.
"He's not… he's not stupid…" she gasped out, her eyes bulging out of her head. "Erick's not… stupid…"
"Sonki?" Hatsuharu questioned, his voice full of fear.
"You don't… you don't know him at… at all…" She coughed again. "I can't… I can't breath…"
She fell forward, her head on the ground, her hands still clutching at her chest.
"I can't… I can't…" She gasped, trying to get air into her lungs. She looked up at Hatsuharu pleadingly, her vision sliding into and out of focus. "W-why…?"
"Sonki?" Hatsuharu asked again, a hint of panic in his voice as her face fell out of his view. "Sonki!" He rushed forward pushing her body up, her pale face looking up at him, her eyes motionless.
"Mh…" Sonki mumbles as she opened her eyes, Hatsuharu's face hovered over hers.
He drew back away from her, watching as she pulled herself up into a sitting position, her hands holding her head. "Are you alright?"
"Where am I?" she asked, drawing her hands away from her face to look around the room she was in.
"The building that I live in, in the Sohma House," Hatsuharu replied falling back, his arms now holding his body up. "You stopped breathing… I had to use artificial respiration to get you breathing again… Once I'd managed that I brought you here out of the rain…"
She sneezed.
"And now it seems that you're sick…" He looked at her hopelessly. "I'm sorry for showing you my Black side."
"Black side?" she asked looking confused.
"When ever I get mad… my Black side comes out… I'm surprised you've managed to pass by seeing it until now…" He stared at her. "I shouldn't have pushed you into that gate…"
She shook her head. "No. I deserved it, I slapped you, it's just karma."
"You're back is going to bruise… Is it sore?"
"A little…" She shrugged. "I've gotten into worse fights with my brother…"
"Has he ever made you lose consciousness?" he asked desperately.
"No…" She turned her attention to the floor. "No matter how hard we fought against each other we never seemed to push ourselves to that limit."
"I shouldn't have done that… I shouldn't have gone Black!" he yelled out, frustrated.
She looked up, meeting his mournful eyes.
"Are you going to tell Yuki what I did?" he asked, his hands clasped around his head.
"Yuki doesn't exactly…" Her eyes glossed over. "Want to talk to me right now…"
"Is it because of what I said?"
She nodded her head. "That and we had an argument. He didn't want to believe me when I told him that me and Erick are just friends…" Tears began to well up in her eyes. "Why would you tell him something like that Hatsuharu? Why would you try and convince him that I was cheating on him? With my best friend of all people?"
"You were just acting a little overly friendly with him…" He frowned. "I guess I got scared… My mind just told me that you were cheating on him with your friend… It was the only reasonable conclusion I could come too…"
"But you didn't see me crying…" She bent her head down, frowning as she pulled her knee's up to her chest. "You didn't see the whole picture… You left out the most important thing when you went and told Yuki what happened… And now he's mad at me…"
"What did he say to you?"
"He said it'd be better if we were just friends. That maybe it should have never come to this…" Her face fell into her knee's. "Then I ran off…"
"What do you mean talk?" Sonki asked frowning at him confused. "What happened Yuki?"
"When I ran into Hatsuharu… He told me that he saw you and Erick downtown last night…" He looked at her painfully.
"Yeah…" She nodded her head, still confused. "What'd he say?"
"He saw you two hugging each other…" He looked as though he was about to cry, though no tears were in his eyes. "He said you were holding each other in more than just a friendly matter…"
"What are you… No!" She frowned, shaking her head, now starting to get angry. "Don't you start thinking like my parents Yuki! I'm tired of everyone always automatically assuming that me and him have more of a relationship than what we show. We're best friends, we act like brother and sister… Period. That's how we act, of course we're going to hug each other! That's what friends do!"
"Are you in love with him?"
"No! I love him to death but I'm not in love with him! He's like a brother! I can't fall in love with him!"
"What do you mean you can't?" he asked stepping back. "You act as though you're forcing yourself not to fall in love with him."
"Of course I am!" she shouted back, her hands now fists at her side, frowning. "I can't fall in love with him because we would no longer be friends! That's the last thing I want to happen!"
"Maybe you should rethink your relationship with me…" He sighed. "Maybe it would have been better if we had just continued being friends… That you shouldn't have confessed to me… Then you wouldn't have these mixed feelings…"
"I don't have any mixed feelings! I'm in love with you Yuki!" she stepped forward, taking his hands in hers. "I'm in love with you, and only you!"
Yuki jerked his hands out of her grasp.
"Are you really in love with me Sonki? Do you believe your own words?"
She stepped back, shaking her head.
"What are you saying Yuki? Do you not believe me?" She could feel the tears welling up in her eyes as the rain softly came down upon the two of them. "Do you think I'm lying to you!"
"I don't…" He looked down at the puddle forming at his feet. "I don't know."
She turned, running away from him, tears running down her face.
"Haru?" Sonki asked finally looking up at him, breaking the silence that they had created to listen to the rain slap itself against the roof.
He looked up at her quizzically.
"Um… Do you not want me to call you Haru?" she asked nervously.
"I don't mind…" He shook his head. "I was just surprised that it took you this long to call me that… I thought you would have just followed suit with everyone else."
"I like your name." She smiled at him. "But what I was going to ask you was…"
"Yeah?"
"Would you mind if I stayed here for the night, and then just went with you and Momiji to school tomorrow?" She laughed to herself nervously afterward. "But then again that probably isn't right, right? I shouldn't be asking stupid things like these…" She stood up clumsily, nearly falling back to the floor. "I'm sorry… I'll go back to Shigure's now…"
"It's still raining," Haru answered. "You'll get a fever if you go back now… You're already getting sick as it is…"
She nodded her head.
"I'll call Shigure," Haru said standing up, he then sighed. "I'll have Tohru bring your uniform to school tomorrow, you can change there, alright?"
She nodded her head and then sank back to the floor. "Thank you Haru."
"It's not a problem…" He left the room.
"Sensei?" Haru asked into the phone.
"Haru! What a surprise calling this late at night? I assume you wish to speak to Yuki or Kyo?" Shigure fired back at him through the phone.
Haru pulled the phone a few inches away from his ear. "You need to learn how to talk quieter on the phone Sensei… But no I didn't call to talk to Kyo or Yuki. I want to talk to you."
"Fire away."
"Sonki's going to stay the night…" Haru answered frowning at the wall in front of him. "I wanted you to ask Tohru to bring her uniform to school with her tomorrow… So at least then she won't get attacked by a school officials for wearing something inappropriate during school hours…"
"Why is she over at the Sohma House?" Shigure questioned, sounding a bit frustrated. "I knew she ran out into the rain, but what led her to come to the Sohma House, and to you for the most part?"
"I told Yuki something I shouldn't have…" Haru answered, now getting annoyed.
"Oh! What was it?"
"None of your business. Just ask Tohru to bring her uniform tomorrow."
"What if I don't like the idea of someone so pure and innocent as her to be spending the night with someone so brutal and cruel like you? Don't you think this would just make it worse for Yuki? He's already sunken into a state of depression, he been looking out the window all night, like a love sick dove."
"Than tell him she's staying the night at my house…" Haru answered, getting more and more annoyed by the minute.
"Can I talk to her?"
"No."
"Why not?" he whined back.
"Because the last thing she needs to do right now is talk to anyone who's not going to consol her the way she needs to be consoled."
"And you've managed to master this lost girls heart?"
"Are you going to tell Tohru or not?"
"Of course, of course," he answered defeated.
"Good bye then."
"Is she going to come back here tomorrow?"
"How should I know? It doesn't bother me having her here… She can do what she likes for all I care…"
"Do you think Akito will do when he finds out that she was here, right under his nose?"
Haru pounded the dial button, disconnecting himself from Shigure.
"Idiot…" He muttered placing the phone back in it's holder as he walked back to his room.
"So what's the deal with you?" Sonki asked sitting on the edge of his bed, plucking at the shirt she was wearing. She then narrowed her eyes. "Isn't this Kyo's shirt?"
He shrugged, smiling at her as he pulled off the shirt he was wearing, tossing it on the floor as he reached into the middle drawer of his dresser for a new one.
"What do you mean what's the deal with me?" He asked beginning to unbutton his pants.
"Do you honestly have to do that right in front of me!" she screeched out, flipping her body around.
"I didn't think you'd be so modest," Haru answered sounding amused. "You've seen Yuki and Kyo naked dozens of times, haven't you?"
"Not on purpose!" she yelled back, her face glowing.
He laughed.
"Well what I was asking was… if you're gay or not?" she said frowning.
"What do you think?" he asked sitting on the bed next to her. "Do you think I'm gay?"
"You're talking to the kid who thought Yuki was a girl." She narrowed her eyes at him. "I'm pretty dense."
"You're not that dense…" he answered knocking her lightly on the head before he fell backwards on his bed, looking up at the ceiling. "Does it honestly matter? If I see something I want I'll go for it… Yuki was my first love but I'm still…" He paused, frowning at the words that he had let escape from his mouth.
"Who are you still in love with?" Sonki questioned looking at him blankly.
He didn't answer her, continuing to stare at the ceiling.
"If you don't want to tell me it doesn't matter… It's not like I'm going to force you into anything. You can do what you want around me… Even if it is embarrassing…" She gulped, her face turning red. "When I first met you the first thoughts that ran through my head were 'he's cute'. I even have to admit that I did have a slight crush on you… Even though I acted like a jerk."
"Do you still have a crush on me?" he questioned turning his head to face her, a devious smile on his face.
"No. When you love someone I don't think it's right to have crushes on other people… You should be dedicated as a whole to them and no one else." She smiled at him. "After all they are the person you love right?"
"Sohma Isuzu…" Haru sounded out, as though the name confused him.
"Will I ever meet her?" Sonki questioned dreamily. "This girl who has captured you're heart."
He shook his head. "No, you most likely won't. She's in the hospital right now… But… She broke up with me, she was tired of me…" He laughed to himself, amused. "Why am I telling you this? You of all people?"
She shrugged. "Because you're bored, because I asked? Does it really matter when it comes down to it? Doesn't it feel better to let the things inside of you out? Instead of keeping them locked up inside of you?"
"You keep everything to yourself." He rolled over, his head resting in the crook of his arm. "You won't even take your own advice."
"It's because I'm stupid," she said bluntly.
"Do you just take what people throw at you… When they call you names you just shrug it off, accepting their truth?" He frowned. "Do you enjoy being such a push over? To have everyone walk all over you all of the time? Doesn't it get annoying… to be so timid?"
She yawned, falling backwards beside him. "I'm tired, lets go to sleep, alright?"
"Right here?" he asked rolling over to face her.
"If you want me on the floor I'll go to the floor, it doesn't bother me…" She smiled at him. "I've slept on worse. Once at my friend Emily's house on her birthday I ended up sleeping on an air mattress, but when I woke up in the morning I had been dead asleep on her cement floor… A carpet's not going to kill me."
"But aren't you afraid I'm going to do something to you while you're sleeping?" he questioned looking innocent. "Do you really feel that safe around me?"
"You're like Erick I guess…" She yawned again. "You're scary on the outside but once I get to know more about the inside you I change my thought process… and realize that you're not such a bad person after all…"
He shook his head as he flung his body off the bed and onto his feet, leaving the room to only come back a few seconds latter with a blanket in his arms.
Laying it across the middle of the floor he got under it, staring up at Sonki as he got positioned. "You want to get the lights? It's late as it is and once Momiji finds out that you spent the night here he's going to throw a fit."
She shrugged, getting up to turn off the lights. Slipping back into his bed she begun to speak, "I'm sorry for taking your bed… I'll try my best not to argue with you anymore, but then again that must be a real accomplishment… I don't argue with many people…"
"Whatever…" he answered, his hands crossed behind his head. "It doesn't matter… Do what you want."
"Haru?" she asked, her voice sounding concerned.
"What?" he answered, trying his best to keep his voice plain.
"Is Isuzu in the hospital because of Akito?"
He didn't answer her straight away, as though going into thought.
"I don't know…" He finally answered, his voice pained. "I honestly don't know…"
"You spent the night with Haru!" Momiji yelled out, fake tears in his eyes as he stood outside of the Sohma House, Haru and Sonki at his side. "Why didn't you come and say hello to me?"
"It was late," Sonki answered shrugging her shoulders.
"Why are you in Haru's clothing? Where's your uniform?" Momiji questioned suspiciously.
"I forgot my umbrella when I came over…" she answered, starting their trek towards the school. "So my clothes are still wet and I had to borrow some of Haru's. And my uniform… Tohru's bringing it for me since I didn't exactly know for sure when I came over that I would be spending the night."
"Oh," Momiji answered, though he didn't sound satisfied. "But next time you come over you promise to come and see me right?"
"Course!" She nodded her head happily. "I promise! Wouldn't break it for the world."
Momiji grinned at her happily.
"But isn't that Kyo's shirt?" Momiji asked plucking at the shirt she was wearing.
Sonki narrowed her eyes at Haru. "I'm not the only one who's noticed…"
Haru shrugged the accusation away once more.
"Sonki!" Tohru called out as soon as the trio had stepped into her line of view, Kyo was at her side.
"Good morning Tohru!" Sonki called back to her, rushing over with a smile on her face. "How are you this morning?"
"I'm fine," Tohru answered looking confused. She then presented her uniform to her.
"Thank you so much Tohru," Sonki said throwing her arms around Tohru's shoulders, pulling her into an awkward hug. "I don't know what I would do without you!"
Tohru blushed as Sonki pulled away from her.
"Sorry," Sonki answered looking at her nervously. "I know I've never hugged you before, but I thought I might as well start now… I usually hug one person every day in America… It kind of felt lonely not being able to do it anymore…"
"Feel free to hug me anytime!" Tohru answered looking at her determined. "If it makes you feel comfortable then you can hug me as much as you want!"
"Right!" Sonki answered nodding her head smiling.
"Hey… Isn't that my shirt?" Kyo asked raising an eyebrow at Sonki. "Since when have you been stealing my clothes?"
"I wasn't," Sonki answered narrowing her eyes. "And don't you dare start accusing me of snooping around in your room. Haru let me borrow this shirt as a matter of fact."
Kyo twitched.
"Oh!" Tohru exclaimed. "This is the shirt you let him borrow when I first met him!" She smiled as the memory came back to her. "So he never gave your clothing back?"
Haru shrugged his shoulders walking away from the group.
"Where do you think you're going!" Kyo called after him.
"I have something I need to do before school starts…" Haru answered emotionless, not even bothering to turn around to talk to him as he walked away.
Kyo let out an angry sigh. "He's rude this morning."
"Probably annoyed because he had to put up with me all night…" Sonki said looking guilty as she begun to walk down the hallway. "The girls locker room is open right Tohru?"
Tohru nodded her head. "If it's not to much trouble Sonki…" She looked hesitant. "I would like to go and visit with Uo and Hana for a little while before school starts… I wasn't able to see them this weekend so I'm feeling a little guilty…"
"I don't mind," Sonki answered shaking her head as she stopped in the doorway of the room.
Kyo frowned, leaning against the wall as Tohru walked off, looking a bit nervous.
"You don't have anywhere you need to be?" Sonki asked him before she entered the room.
"Hurry up, I don't want to wait here all day," Kyo answered frowning at her.
She smiled at him as she entered the locker room.
"Took you long enough," Kyo said pushing himself up from the wall as she stepped out of the locker room, her clothes in her arms. "Come on then…"
"Where are you going?" Sonki questioned, following behind him.
"To you're locker so you don't have to carry those damn clothes around with you all day," Kyo snapped at her, his pace quickening.
"Why are you being so nice to me today?" Sonki questioned nearly in a run to catch up with him.
"I'm not being nice to you for any reason! I'm acting like I act everyday!" He frowned to himself.
She sighed, having no choice but to follow behind him.
She slipped her clothes inside of her locker when they arrived in front of it, pausing in front of it as she locked it.
"What are you waiting for?" Kyo asked annoyed, his hands deep in his pockets.
"Does Yuki know that I spent the night at Haru's?" Sonki asked, her eyes on the lock, her hands falling to her sides. "Is he still mad at me?"
"How should I know!" he snapped back at her.
"Oh okay. Sorry to bother you then…" She stepped away from the locker, a grim look on her face.
"He's still depressed…" Kyo said frowning. "He hasn't smiled since you guys had that stupid argument… What the Hell did you manage to do to make him so unhappy? He wouldn't even talk to Tohru when she tried to consul him last night!"
"Haru saw me hugging Erick and automatically jumped to the conclusion that I had feelings for him… He told Yuki and Yuki seems to be thinking along the same lines…" she answered mournfully. "So now he's mad at me and thinks we shouldn't be going out anymore because I have feelings that I still need to work out I guess…"
"That's stupid!" Kyo said, anger starting to build. "That's what he's so depressed about! He's caught up in some stupid little petty argument over your friend?"
Sonki nodded her head, confused. "Why is that stupid? Wouldn't it bother you if Tohru'd been hanging out with a best friend that was a boy and they were hugging each other and stuff?"
"It's obvious that you two treat each other like siblings…" Kyo said huffily towards her, his face twisting up in frustration. "I knew the Rat was stupid! But this stupid!"
"So you don't think we have a secret thing for each other?" Sonki asked hopefully.
He frowned, hitting her softly against the back of the head. "Of course not. It's obvious about how he feels about you, he doesn't need to spell it out."
She smiled at him. "I would give anything in the world just so I could hug you right now!"
He frowned rolling his eyes. "And I would give anything in the world just to get away from you right now."
"You can leave if you want… I'm sure all the people who enjoy calling you Kyon-Kyon would love to be in your company right now." She smiled at him.
"And I would love to shove you into one of these lockers." He narrowed his eyes at her.
She laughed tears springing to her eyes, a few seconds latter she was crouched over, sobbing into her hands.
"What the Hell's happening with you!" Kyo yelled out looking at her shocked.
She looked up at him, her hands rubbing against her eyes as she tried to dry her eyes as she stood back up. "I… I need to talk to… Yu-Yuki!"
He grabbed her arm, frowning. "Come on!"
He then begun to drag her towards the Student Council Meting Room.
He opened the door, startling Yuki and the two other Student Council Members.
"Son…" Yuki started before he stopped himself, he looked pale.
"Talk to him already," Kyo grunted slamming the door shut behind her, causing her to jump.
Sonki gulped stepping forward, opening and closing her mouth several times as she tried to find the right words to say.
She stopped in front of him, looking up into his eyes.
"Yuki I wanna say something…" She flinched. What the Hell was that Alyssia! 'I wanna say something'! Isn't that obvious!
Yuki nodded his head slightly, looking down into her eyes surprised.
"I've figured out what my feelings are, even if you don't believe me." She gulped, shutting her eyes, her hands clasped tightly together. "I know you don't believe me when I tell you that I'm not in love with Erick, but really… I'm truly not. I'm in love with you Yuki! You and only you! When you love someone you shouldn't have crushes on other people! So I've devoted myself to you Yuki! No one else can catch my eyes but you! I'm in love with you!"
She opened her eyes, looking up into his blank face.
"Oh?" the other male Student Council member asked raising an eyebrow at the situation that was happening in front of him. "Isn't this a change of events? Yuki, you didn't tell us that you'd had a fight with your little girlfriend." He pronounced the word with venom.
Yuki frowned, ignoring him.
He reached out with his own hands, shaking, taking hers into his. His lips briefly met hers, both of them blushing a light tinge of pink.
"Even if I don't have a full understand on what you mean… That I still believe you have feelings for him… I don't want to think like this, I want to think that you are completely in love with me… But I can't… You act so close around one another, I can't help it." One of his hands reached up, caressing her face, a smile on his lips. "But if you say that you are in love with me, and that you don't have a crush on anyone else… I'm willing to believe you… I'm willing to believe that you really are in love with me, and only me."
He kissed her again.
"And I'm in love with you."
Sonki laid down on the deck, Yuki beside her, their hands holding one another.
"Are you mad at me for doubting you?" Yuki asked breaking the stillness and quiet of the night.
She shook her head. "No. I can't blame you for being who you are. Not everyone is going to see things the exact same way as another person. I just thought… That maybe you wouldn't take things the way my parents did… The real reason I came here to Japan was to get away from them as you know…"
"What did they do to make you want to get away from them?" Yuki questioned, staring up at the sky.
"They took everything that I held dear to me away." She sighed. "Erick's my best friend as I've told you a million times already. They took him away from me, telling me I could no longer be around him, that I could no longer visit him or even talk to him on the phone… I didn't know what to do… So instead of having to face my problems and tell him the situation that they had placed me in… I ran away, hoping that he would forget me and neither of us would have to suffer anymore…" She smiled to herself. "But in the end that didn't happen, on the day that I had to leave I called him…"
She turned her head to face him.
"Of all people I could have called at the airport, an hour before I had to leave… I called him, spilling everything that I had tried to keep to myself because of him to him. He was disappointed in me for having so much doubt in me… But he forgave me as friends do." The smile vanished from her face as she turned to look back up at the stars. "Even know I still wish that he had forgotten about me, that this feeling would go away, that I would no longer have to worry about him constantly. Things never seem to work out the way people want them to, so you just have go flow with it and hope things turn out for the best."
"You'd rather never see him again?" Yuki questioned, shocked.
"For him to never have to worry about me again would be a nice change for him. He might even be happy, but it won't work that way. I'm to selfish to want to give up our friendship, even if it meant my life I would still continue to be friends with him. I came to Japan hoping that he wouldn't get mixed up in this mess inside of my head.
"In the end he was just able to dig himself deeper inside of it. Proving to me that this is what friends do for each other. That he wouldn't leave my side, even if happiness would have been presented before him."
"I would give up my life to see you happy," Yuki said softly. "To see you smile everyday and worry no more about things like this."
"But I am happy!" She rolled over, kissing him on the check. "I've been happy everyday that I've been able to spend with you! Nothing else could give me this much joy! Being with you makes me happy, and nothing is ever going to change that."
"You promise?" He asked turning his head to face her.
"I promise," she answered kissing him again.
He drew away, now looking at her seriously. "What caused you to spend the night with Haru?"
She grinned at him guiltily.
"I kind of went out in search of him for revenge… I ended up slapping him and finally caused him to go Black…"
He blinked at her, horrified.
"He didn't hurt you did he!" he exclaimed, his eyes now concentrating on all of her skin that was showing, looking for any sign that would have indicated a healing wound.
She sighed looking disappointed with herself. "I said I wouldn't tell but I am… Just promise me that you won't get mad at him."
He nodded his head.
"He ended up slamming my body into the main gate. I'd lost my breath and then finally passed out because I couldn't get oxygen into my lungs… When I woke up again I was in his room and he was White Haru once more… He apologized and I know he meant it…"
"Do you have any bruises?" he questioned, now sitting up.
She nodded her head. "On my back, he told me it would bruise, but I never got a chance to look at them, in fact I'm a little scared to see them."
"Let me see them." He pushed her up from the deck, his hands at the bottom of her shirt, waiting for her reply.
"Fine I guess…" She frowned to herself. What are you doing Alyssia? You've never showed this much skin to anyone before… Not even in PE.
He lifted up her shirt, his eyes catching the green and purple skin that ran down her back in two thick lines.
"How is it?" she questioned, her back shivering from the cold.
She jumped as he kissed her back before allowing her shirt to cover up her exposed skin.
"What was that for?" she questioned looking at her, her face bright red. "Is it that bad?"
"They say that if you kiss it it will make it feel better," He smiled at her.
"Creepy…" she answered stretching out the word, her eyes narrowed. "But I guess that gives me all the more reason to like you!" She leaned forward, kissing his forehead. "Just promise me you'll do more of that weird stuff latter on down the road, alright?"
"I promise," he answered taking her hands in his once more, his head moving forward to meet another kiss.
A/N: SorryI didn't update soon enough and thank you all for the encouraging review. Next update sometime next week, hope you all are anticipating it!