Hajimemashite and Konnichiwa!!! Hello, and it's wonderful to see you! I'm so glad that we've maid it to here! I do hope that you guys enjoy this chapter, O and this is the clean version just so you know, I've put the lemon up separate.

Chapter 12 of "In the dawn of night"

Tohru just stood their in his arms looking up at his big orange orbs of light that had flexes of gold and hints of red. Every body in the room was silent at what they had just sort of heard. Haru looked up at Ritsu who was still a little shocked at what he had done and then looked at Haru how was just standing there with his arms crossed and wearing a cold lifeless expression on his face. Momiji was the first to speak…"Um Tohru???? Does this mean….that…..their going to have to erase your memories????" Momiji asked as he looked from her and then down to the floor. Tohru had forgotten all about that and was now begging to worry.

"O NO!!! Kyo please don't let them! I don't want to forget!" she said as she buried her face in his chest. Kyo rapped his arms around her and put his chin on the top of her head. "Don't worry. I would never let them do that to you." He said as he gave a sharp glare to Hatori. "Don't worry Momiji, Kyo….the curse is broken so Akito doesn't have the power to make me or any of us do anything any more. So if he were to order me to erase her memories….then I COULD disobey…." Hatori said staring over at Tohru who was peaking over at him from the corner of her eye to look at him from over Kyo's shoulder. Kyo noticed the emphasis Hatori had put on the "could" part and was outrages.

"So even if she asked you to!!! Even if she ordered you to!!! Even though we are free from her grasp you would STILL obey her!" Kyo said pulling Tohru a few inches away from the embrace not really wanting to. "Yes." Was all Hatori said; Momiji was angry at the statement that his guardian had just uttered. "WHY HATORI!!!! Don't you love Tohru to!!! Don't you love her like we all do! Why would you want to take her memories!!!! WHY!!! It's not fair!!" Momiji said as he began to cry and ran towards Tohru, jumping into her arms as she held him close to her body, shielding him from the world.

She could feel him sobbing into her blouse but it didn't mater to her, she new he was upset…and she was a little sad to…..she didn't want to lose her memories. She loved her memories….she loved every one of them…she lived off of her memories and couldn't sacrifice even one…not even the bad ones that only hurt her and maid her cry….she wanted to keep all of them, especially the ones of the Sohma family….especially the ones of Kyo. She loved him so much…she couldn't bare to lose him.

"Come on Tohru." Was all Kyo said as he grabbed her hand and pulled her towards the door. She surprisingly stopped him and gave Momiji one more hug, putting him down and waved good bye to them all…she looked back up at Kyo who was wearing one of his famous scowls on his face. She new it wasn't because she had stopped him but it was because of what Hatori had said. She smiled up at Kyo and that maid his heart and his scowl melt. They hooked arms and walked out the door.

"Why did that stupid girl have to do that! Now SHE'S going to come and rub it in my face and Ill never here the end of it!" Akito said as she was shouted and threw stuff around, breaking any thing breakable. She new SHE was going to come….and she new exactly what SHE was going to do. Just then SHE came into the room escorted by a maid. "Hello dear." The woman said. "GO AWAY!!! I don't want to talk to you MOTHER!!!!" Akito yelled as she tried to hide under a desk from her mother. "Now, now is that any way to speak to your own mother!!!" The woman said as she reached over and grabbed Akito by her hair, dragging her out from under the desk and on to the middle of the area rug that was now covered in daubery and broken glass.

"I won the bet!!! Now you have to PAY!!!!" Akito's mother said. "NO!!! IT WASN'T MY FALT!!! IT WAS THAT STUPID GIRLS DOING!!!!" Akito yelled as she tried to blink away the sticky crimson substance that was trailing down from her scalp were her mother was yanking her hair. The pain was excruciating, but Akito wouldn't show it. She wouldn't give her mother the satisfaction showing her the pain she was causing. "GO AWAY!!! I HATE YOU!!!!" Akito yelled at the top of her lungs. Her throat was now a little swore. "How dare you speak to me like that!!!" Akito's mother said as she bitch slapped Akito. Leaving her knuckles red and the mark of her wedding ring imprinted on Akito's face. Akito winced in pain but still refused to show it.

"WHERE IS HATORI!!!?" Akito's mother said. "I WILL NEVER TELL YOU!" Akito said as she lay their not even bothering to fight back. "WHERE IS HE!?" The mother said as she once again bitch slapped her this time making Akito bleed from were her wedding ring had penetrated Akito's soft gloomy skin. Akito staid quiet as her mother began to slap her faster and harder. "NOOOO!" Akito yelled at her mother as she kicked her in the stomach making her mother topple over in pain, blood spewed out of her mouth as her eyes grew dark.

"Don't you remember the deal darling????!!!!" Her mother said as she slowly stood up, whipping away the blood from the corner of her mouth as she leapt at Akito, twisting her ankle around until she heard a pop and Akito yell out in pain. "I remember it clearly!!!" Akito yelled at her mother as she grabbed her mothers face and dug her nail into her mother's pale cheeks, pulling down so that she could inflict more damage on her mother to the point that it left a nasty scar. "The deal was that if I couldn't keep my zodiac members with me….then…..then…you would have Hatori erase my memories of father…." Akito said as she looked away from her mother at the thought of her father.

Her father was the only one that actually cared for Akito. He loved her and hugged her and played with her and that made Akito's mother very jealous…when ever her father would have to go some were for a while or he was a little busy with his work, you see he was the original head of the family, like his father before him. Well any way, when ever her father had to do something out of the house, Akito would be left alone with her mother, and her mother would take advantage of this and do such terrible things to her daughter. She would thrash Akito till she knocked her unconscious…and she was only a little girl….she was about three or four I presume….poor little Akito was abused so much by her mother that she would actually start to cry and shake and go mute every time she saw her mother….that's why she stayed with her father most of the time.

She loved her father because he never hurt her and he made sure that nobody else did….but he never new what his wife was doing to her. Nobody did….Akito was all alone in the world with nobody but her fathers love…. But then that day came…her father fell very ill and just couldn't get better, he new that he had to choose the new head of the family but they were supposed to be his first born child…and that child was Akito; the only problem was Ren. Her mother was angrier knowing that he would choose it over her. She called Akito It ….never by her name. She then had an evil idea in her mind. She told her husband that it would be rather hard for a girl to be the head of the family because she was a girl and that the head is always supposed to be a boy and that a girl would just cause inappropriate scandals.

Her father new this but still new that Akito could do it….but he did know that his wife had a point. Even though he didn't want to…he decided with his wife that they would raise Akito as a boy….they would make her think she was boy and have her hid her true gender when she grew breasts by bandaging them up, making her flat. Akito new that she was a girl but agreed with her father that she would be a boy from then on….she loved her father and would do anything for him even if it meant to hid who she really was. The next day her father had passed and the whole estate was filled with greave…especially Akito. She had nobody now. Her father was gone and he was the only one that loved her. Now she would have to live with ….dare she say it….her mother…the one person that made Akito go mute at the very sight of her.

Her mother had moved Akito from her room to a very small dark room that had no windows and no floor. The floor was a slab of cement and it was cracked all over the place. There was a draft in some of the cracks on the wall. Those cracks in the wall were the only thing that could cool Akito down in the summer. There were neither ceiling fans nor air conditioning in the room. It was like a dungeon or a prison sell…or dare I say it…..It was like a chamber from hell. Akito sat in the corner were there was a very large crack on the wall that she could almost see out off. Every day when her mother wasn't hurting her or enslaving her she would sit their in the corn of her room and pock at the little that was left of that whole so that she could try to open it little by little so she could look out into the world….It had been about 6 years since the last time she had seen the out side world.

Akito shuddered at the thought of all of those memories flooding back into her mind. She had tried so much to lock away those memories from herself but it just didn't work. Some times she would make her self so sick at how much she would cry that she would end up throwing up by herself in her room; they would have to call Hatori over to check her at times for how much she would regurgitate. She hated being the person she really wasn't. She was so happy and sweet and caring when her father was alive…but then all of her mothers anger and rage and angst got to her and turned her angry and distant from the world….I guess that is why Akito is always sitting by her window in her room…so she could look out to the world and try to remember every inch of its beauty so that she could use those memories to block out the ones of her child hood.

Akito was brought back to reality when she felt the hand of her mother cross her face once more. "Stupid little wench!! Stop daydreaming and come back to reality!!!!" Akito's mother said as she kicked Akito in the back. "Well are you going to tell me were I can find Hatori???!!!!!!!!!!" The mother said again as she raised Akito up by her underarm nearly pulling it out of the socket. Akito drooped her head down for a moment to think if she should tell her bitch of a mother were Hatori was…then she remembered that SHE couldn't control Hatori or any of the others any more so then even if her mother told him to erase her memories of her father then he wouldn't do it because for one she wasn't the head of the family and for two he wasn't cursed any more so he didn't have to obey! She smirked and looked up at her mother.

Her mother saw the smirk and jumped back a little and was angry that her daughter was showing so much disrespect towards her own mother! "He's in my room!" Akito said in her actual feminine voice, not the horse voice of a man that she needed to use hide. They all new she was a woman so she could use her real voice now. It had been so long…and it felt good. Her mother got up and smacked Akito so hard that she sent her flying making her hit the corner of the desk that she had drug her out from underneath earlier. Akito yelped in pain. She had cracked a few ribs when hitting the desk. Her mom snickered to herself, walking over to the door. "Stupid girl." She said as she left the room leaving Akito on the floor in pain, just as she always had.

Hatori, Haru, Ritsu, and Momiji just sat their each lost in their own thoughts. "So Akito is a chick???" Haru said as he took his hand off of his head and pointed it out. "Yes Akito is a woman." Hatori said as he sat on the blood drenched bed. "What do you think is going to happen to Akito now???" Ritsu asked as he maid his way to the bed and started to pull of the blood stained sheets so he could replace them with new ones. Every body watched as he did this. "I can't say for sure what will happen; Haru go call Shigure for me and tell him to bring Yuki along." Hatori said as he got up off of the bed were he was sitting so that Ritsu could get the sheet.

"Kyo…" Tohru said rather bashfully. "Yes." Kyo said as he could see her bashfulness. "She's so cute when she's all shy like that….I wonder why she's shy, why now???? All were doing is walking back home??? OOOO……she wants to get the family started…..I still wonder whether if it's a good thing….I mean….she is only 18 and I'm going to be 19 next month…..still….I love her so much…and I know we will be good parents…if it works…" Kyo thought with a smile at the thought of him and Tohru being parents.

"I wonder…… I wonder if it's a good idea for us to do this??? I really, really, really want to start our family…… but…I'm only 18 and he is going to be 19 next month…OMG I have to start planning his surprise party!!! WHAT AM I GOING TO GET HIM!!! O NO!!!! THIS IS ALL SO SUDON!!! WHAT AM I GOING TO DO!!!" Tohru thought as she did one of those things in the anime were she stops and she is freaking out in her head and her eyes are swirling around and she's all stiff…LOL.. Kyo saw this and started to shake her a little. "Tohru! Tohru are you ok!" Kyo said as he was able to snap her back into reality and kissed her on the forehead.

"I'm ok really! I was just thinking is all…." She said as she smiled up at him. "Kyo….what would you want???" Tohru asked him as he was smiling down at her. "I don't really care because if we do get to have a family then….I would love our baby no matter what the gender…" Kyo said as he kissed her on the lips making her blush a little. She was so happy. "O Kyo!!! I love you! ….but would it be selfish if I said that I wanted a girl…??" Tohru said as she looked into his eyes then down to the ground. "For you…not at all…" Kyo said as he kissed her once more making her smile. "I would like a girl to…but like I said before…I would unconditionally love our baby no matter what the gender." Kyo said as he smiled to her one of his shy awkward smiles that he doesn't let just anyone see, but only her. She giggled at this and hugged him. "I love you Kyo." Tohru said as she snuggled closer into him. "I love you to…so much more than you know." Kyo said as he kissed the top of her head.

Akito's mother slammed the door of Akito's bed room open and entered in a most bewilder manner. "YOU!" She yelled, voice cracking, pointing to Hatori. "Yes" Hatori said staring at the bewildered pale faced woman who shock and stared at him in such a rude manner. "I have a job for you….Hatori." She beckoned in a most seductive manner, making Hatori go wide eyed with suspicion, but he obeyed nonetheless. Akito had fallen unconscious from the massive impact of hitting the desk. Hatori and Akito's mother walked into the room, Hatori gasped at the sight of it, broken glass and shredded paper, along with broken furniture scattered the room. The curtains were shredded, the desk was over turned and broken, there was blood splattered on the wall and then he saw her.

Akito was sprawled out on the floor unconscious a deep crimson substance covered her person, it oozed out of her stomach and mouth, from the freshly opened wounds on her arms which were inflicted by Kyo earlier that day, she looked so broken laying their on the floor, so helpless. Their great and powerful god, who struck fear into their hearts and minds, looked nothing more, than a small child, wanting to be held and told that it would be ok. Instinctively, Hatori rushed to her aid, pealing off the blood drenched clothing and cleaning her up as best he could so he could tend to her wounds; of course, that just maid Akito's mother angrier.

Her teeth clenched close and her nostrils flared at the sight before her; she stomped over to Hatori and threw him off of Akito. He was lucky that he hadn't administered the medication in the siring yet because if not he could have done some damage to Akito's veins or he could have pocked himself. Luckily he was just filling it up with the medicine so the needle was still in the bottle. He looked at Akito's mother with a solemn expression then turned his attention back to Akito, trying once more to help Akito but once more her mother shoved him down to the ground. "May I ask what you are doing?" He said, giving up on helping, knowing that she wasn't going to quite any time soon.

She glared at Hatori then turned her gaze to Akito with the most hate full glare ever, "Do not touch her!" She bellowed as she snapped and turned over and slapped Hatori, making him fall back. "But she is in need of immediate care Ren, if I don't help her she will die, is that what you want, you want your own daughter to die? Ren, is that what you want?" Hatori said trying to tend to Akito once more. Ren gasped at the tone had used, never in her life had a male ever spoken to her is such a manner. "Shut up and do as I say!!! It lost a bet and now its memories of its father must be erased!!! They are the only happy memories in its life so you must erase them!!!! IT LOST!!!!" Ren yelled, tacking hold of Hatori's collar and pointing a shacking finger to the crumpled Akito on the floor.

"No." was all he said. "YOU DARE GO AGAINST MY WORD!!" Ren yelled, about to slap Hatori when Ritsu came in, shoving Ren down to the ground not even thinking of what he had just done, he jumped on top of Ren and started wailing on her while she was down. "WHY ARE YOU SO MEAN TO AKITO!!!" Ritsu yelled, throwing Ren on to her stomach as he was kneed her in the back, twisting her arm around feeling something pop. "I WAS THE ONLY ONE THAT NEW!!!! I NEW AND I DIDN'T SAY ANYTHING!!!" Ritsu yelled when Akito finally woke up and saw what Ritsu was doing and a look of worry actually came over Akito's face then she looked to Hatori who was refilling the siring with medication and antibiotics.

"I NEW WHAT YOU WERE DOING TO HER!!! I NEW HOW YOU REALLY TREATED HER!!! YOU ARE A MONSTER!!!" Ritsu said punching Ren in the face breaking her nose. Ren just sat their in shock, every thing that was happening was not being processed into her mind clearly yet. "He was always the timid one that had no self esteem! Why such a change??? Was it the curse that made him that way??" Ren thought to herself as she got the crape beet out of her. She finally came to her senses seeing the anger and rage in his eyes, slapped his hand away before he could punch her once more dodging the punch.

"I KNOW!!! YOU TREATED HER WITH SUCH CRULETY!!! SHE DOESN'T DISERVE THAT!!!!! YOU WOULD BEAT HER TILL SHE WOULD PASS OUT BECAUSE OF THE LOSE OF BLOOD!!!!! YOU'RE A MONSETER RIKA!!!!!!! YOU ARE THE ONE THAT SHOULD GET THEIR MEMORIES ERASED OF YOUR HUSBAND NOT AKITO!!! HER FATHER IS THE ONLY HAPPY MEMORIE THAT SHE HAS!!!" Ritsu yelled right in Rens face as he kneed her in the chest making her gasp for air. "HATORI!!!! YOU MUST ERASE REN'S MEMORIES!!!" Ritsu yelled to Hatori as he tried to keep Ren away from Hatori and Akito. Ren was furious now…"HOW WOULD YOU KNOW WHAT I DID TO IT!!!!" Ren yelled as she bit down on Ritsu's four-arm making him bleed.

"I know because……I was their…..I was the little boy that would clean up Akito's room after you destroyed it…" Ritsu said as he slumped to the floor. Akito gasped. Shigure slammed open the door, saw the scene that was playing before him and gasped. "I see…" Ren said as she fell to the ground. Shigure ran to Hatori and Akito's side, giving Akito a full examination. Surprisingly he wasn't surprised that Akito was a woman….actually he acted as if he had already none. "Hatori! What happened?" Shigure demanded. "Apparently Ren's here and well of course….that would explain Akito's wounds." Shigure nodded in understanding.

"But why is she here???" Shigure asked being serious. "Did you here a big poof and see a bright flash of blue light….even though you weren't hugged by a woman???" Hatori asked right when Yuki walked in. "Yes that happened to us…we didn't know what was going on." Yuki said as he looked at Akito and a small barely visible smirk came across his face. "What the hell is Ritsu doing!!!?" Yuki yelled when he turned to see the ever so timid, angst, apologetic, none self confidence, female kimono wearing man who was now the polar opposite of all of that beating the crap out of Ren, the mother of the head of the Sohma family. "Well apparently our rather shy and timid friend was holding back A LOT because of the curse….he can now show his true self." Shigure pointed out with a smile. Yuki nodded.

"Then why is it that he changed but nobody else has…" Yuki asked staring down at his hands, looking for any thing that seamed different. "O he's not the only one that changed….are young Honda-San has changed to." Hatori said while cleaning off a big cut on Akito's head were a chunk of glass had gotten stuck. "Tohru??? But why?? And how so?" Yuki asked as he began to panic. "Well…it seams she found the courage to go up agents Akito…..she even maid her bleed….a lot…" Hatori said as he picked up Akito's arm to show the cuts on her arms that were caused by Tohru digging her nails into the flesh. Shigure and Yuki were both shocked. "Noo not our little flower!!!"

Shigure said as he put the back of his hand to his forehead as Yuki's eyes widened in shock…."Maybe she's just been spending way to much time with that stupid cat." Yuki said under his breath trying to make sure that nobody heard his statement but of course Shigure did. "Now, now Yuki-Kun, don't be jealous of our hot tempered, naughty kitty! He may have deflowered our little flower twice but-" he was cut off by Yuki "HE DID NOT DEFLOWER HER!!!!" Yuki yelled at Shigure. "But they have been sleeping together for about a week. "YES BUT THEY ONLY SLEEP!!!!" Yuki said as he punched Shigure in the face. "OOO Yuki you're so mean!!!" Shigure whined rubbing his now soar nose. "And how would you know???" Shigure asked slyly.

"Because I asked her if he did any thing improper to her and she said no! And then I asked her friends and they said that they did even know that she and Kyo were dating!!" Yuki said…a little disappointed that she ended up with Kyo. "So what do you need me for any way???" Yuki asked egger to change the subject and try to calm himself down again. "We wanted to inform you that the curse was broken and we are free now." Hatori said as he rapped Akito's neck, arm, left leg, chest, both wrists, two fingers on her right hand, right shin, head, and the broken ankle. "Ok well I'm leaving now if that's all and if it's ok with you." Yuki said as he maid his way to the door and looked back for their permission to leave. The two older men nodded and Yuki was out the door.

Ren had gotten a taste of her own blood and collapsed under the heat and pain, plus she had lost too much blood and was out of breath. Ritsu was proud of his work and walked over to Hatori and Shigure. "I'm gravely sorry for what I did….I'm sorry you had to witness me in such a ruthless manner…" Ritsu said as he bowed his head down low to the ground. "No no no Ritsu its ok!!! We are extremely proud of you!!! We have never seen you act so proud and not timid!!! IT WAS AMAZINGGGG!!!!" Shigure said as he waved his hand up and down. Making Ritsu blush a little with as cute girl smile graced his delicate features. "Thank you very much…no body has ever said something like that to me…." Ritsu said. "But what encouraged you to do what you did??" Hatori asked.

"Well…you see….when I was a little boy…my parents maid me stay here at the Honke a lot to keep me out, and away from the trouble I would cause other people…..so when I would get board….I would help the maids… I would help clean and dust and sometimes cook…but I mainly cleaned the room of Akito-sama…well in my opinion it wasn't really a room…it was more like….like a giant cement box attached to the house, which had no windows, or fans or even floor….I would go in and clean up the mess that Ren would leave after she would beat Akito senseless…that maid me very angry….how she would put on a front for every body, but would then beat her child to death afterwards, when nobody was around….Akito couldn't tell any body what her mother was doing to her…because…..she was scared….she was scared that her mother would find out and literally kill her" He said, looking to the men to make sure there minds were keeping up with his story. They nodded in approval and he continued.

"She would always make-up excuses for her scars….it was always…I fell…or…I ran into one of the walls in my room because the light was off…or something like that….but I new…I new every thing that had happened to her….I was their….I would wait out side the door and listen to what was going on inside and then when her mother would come out…she would give me this warm smile and walk away…then I would go inside and clean up the blood and what ever got broken….and then I would pull out a small first aid kit that I would hide under my kimono and help Akito while she was still out of it….it was the only thing that would keep her alive until the next day." Ritsu said rubbing his arms as he began to grow cold with chills of such dark memories.

"I hated the way she treated her…so I released all of the anger that I had for that woman and enough for Akito to…I know that she hated her mother as much as me….definitely even more...but …..I only supplied a little more anger to count for her anger so that I could take revenge on Ren for all of the pains she put on Akito…all the pains that she did to her…the pains that turned her crude and cruel…the pains that maid her mean….and the pains that maid her angry all the time...the ones that she would use to take out on some of use…" Ritsu said finally looking up at the two shocked expressions in front of him.

"That baka neko, who the hell does he think he is!! Why is it that he got her…all he ever does is get angry and sulk on the roof….he's the polar opposite of her!!!" Yuki thought as he trudged up to the door of the house and opened it to here something. It was Tohru yelling out Kyo's name over and over again. Yuki ran up the stairs to where the sound was coming from and found them together on Kyo's bed. Yuki's face went red…but not from embarrassment…from pure anger. "Yuki, O PLEASE YUKI!!! IM SORRY!!!" Tohru said as she pushed Kyo off of her and tried to cover her self up with a sheet while Kyo tried to do the same. Yuki ran out of the bed room and over to his own, slamming the door shut when he got in to it. Tohru looked at Kyo with evidence of concern sketched on her porcelain face. "Kyo….do you think….that what we did was indecent???" She said hopping it wasn't.

"I don't really know….but hopefully…it worked….and WE WILL HAVE A FAMILY!!!" Kyo said as he jumped on top of her and kissed her with a huge smile on his face. Tohru couldn't help but smile back. "O Kyo wouldn't it be wonderful!!!! I can't wait!!!" Tohru said as he hugged and kissed him. "Tohru we're go'na be the best parents ever!" Kyo said as he sat up. "Really???" Tohru asked. "Yes really! I mean…this baby…if it did work…will be the most loved baby ever!!! He or she will have a great life! Much better then our own lives." Kyo said as he put a hand on Tohru's belly. "well first we have to wait a few days then we can see if it DID work!" Tohru said as she picked his hand up from her belly and kissed his knuckles gently. "but first…" Tohru said as she got up off of the bed and started to get dressed. "I have to go talk to Yuki…if that's ok." Kyo nodded and started to get dressed himself.

Ok there it is!!! The clean version! Well...semi clean...If you want to read the one with the lemon then you have to find it under the M rated category...its titled..."The lemons for in the dawn of night." LOL I don't think you guys can miss it! LOL And thank you all so much for all of the comments I have been getting!! I love to read them so much!! It makes me so happy!! Again thank you so much for the reviews. I hope you will keep on reading and reviewing. This is Super-Kyo saying good bye and be safe! I cant wait to here from you guys again!