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CHAPTER THIRTEEN: DISAPPOINTMENT
Tohru took a deep breath in as she finished hanging the clothes up, the breeze tossed the sheets around but they were clipped on tightly. She let her hair blow back before feeling worn out, already? Her arms and legs weighed her down but she couldn't give up could she? Afterall she hadn't had a great night with Ayame and Shigure singing and dancing around...the second night in a row that they did that.
Shaking her head she told herself to do something but what had Hatori suggested? A smile crept over her face as she remembered! A walk! She could take a walk, usually she and Yuki went out for a walk in the afternoon to the park or the base or...or somewhere. Coming down the stairs she was surprised not to find Yuki-kun at the table, "Shigure-san?" she asked with a smile, "Good morning! How are you today? Have you seen Yuki-kun?"
Shigure gave a strong smile as he looked through a magazine Aya had given him, the fashion was quite elaborate but more than that it was the model that interested him, how had Mine become such a pretty thing. "Hmm...Yuki went with Ayame to his store, surprise to me as well." He looked up, his glasses perched on his nose, "Why are you asking?"
"I..." Tohru rubbed her forearm trying to find the best words to fit, "I felt that...do you need anything from the store?"
Shigure looked up before shaking his head, "I can't think of anything, didn't you do the shopping with Yuki yesterday?"
"Mhm, but I...I thought that," she bowed her head awkwardly, "Shigure-san is there anything in particular that you're missing or that you'd like..." The dog looked up confused but after noticing the pleading nature of her expression smiled.
"Well I could always use more mochi, I have another novel to be finished soon and--"
"Yes" Tohru chirped, a wide smile spreading on her face, "Yes! Mochi is Shigure-san's most powerful weapon!" The dog started laughing too, going to his bag and pulling out seven 100yen pieces.
"And get something for yourself as well? Wouldn't want my precious flower not to blossom, ah a baby will make this house a brighter place," Tohru blushed as he said that and nervously took the money with a bow. "Don't stay out too long alright?"
"Oh, of course, I'll be back to make dinner," she smiled walking out of the house. As she walked along she started humming to herself thinking about how it would feel to hold a chubby little baby in her arms. She wanted to draw a picture of the baby and soon it's hair was grey and then it faded to orange and then it merged into something similar to Hatsuaharu-san's hair. It was orange on the top and grey on the bottom.
She shivered, that didn't look so good. No offense to Hatsuharu-san but she didn't want her first-born to have a mosaic of hair colors. Before she knew it she had closed her eyes and was now humming Rock a Bye Baby. Her eyes widened, that didn't sound good to her. Closing her eyes again she started singing one of her favorite songs...
" Yuhi no you yamani
Deru, Deru Momiji
Kaeru yatokage ga
Konnichi wa"
Tohru smiled as she remembered how much fun she had had when she learned that song but then Kyo-kun and Momiji-kun and Yuki-kun had all been there too. Tears arose in her eyes when she thought of Kyo and all the time she had wanted to spend with him. She loved him but...why was he avoiding her? As she walked she absentmindedly tripped over, knocking over a box of lemons that the shop had set up outside.
The lemons rolled everywhere and she heard a man cuss as he tried to get away from the monster lemons and accidentally knocked over a box of limes adding that to the story. "Oh gosh...I'm so...so" she tried before seeing those familiar juzu beads and heard the angry kitty's voice.
"What the hell were you thinking? You wanted to break everything or..." he turned around until they were staring at each other. Tohru had forgotten how attractive he was with his tan skin, his orange bangs hiding his eyes and his surprised expression, he really was adorable in her eyes.
"Kyo-kun, good morning" she smiled looking at him with a smile.
Kyo took a deep breath in and tapped her on the side of her head playfully, "You might wanna know that the store owners looking at you, we better pick up all of these fruity fruits."
"Oh!" Tohru smiled, "I think they'd all have fun if they could play together."
Silence
Tohru looked up as she found the shop keeper to be looking at her, "Oh...I'm, I'm really sorry, I..I'll pick them all up and I don't have much money but...I..."
"Hell," Kyo laughed as he saw some being trampled on and he pulled out some cash, if he ever married this girl he'd have to pay for all of her clumsy acts. "How much do we owe you?" his eyes widened as he heard the cost and handed over 5,000 yen...and he had wanted that anime DVD as well.
"Kyo-kun?" Tohru asked looking up at him, "Umm, you didn't need to, I...I'll pay--"
"It's fine," Kyo told her with a short nod, he couldn't get mad at her right now since this was most definitely an accident. "Listen, can we go somewhere to talk and then come back, I wanna tell you something and..." Tohru nodded seeing how desperate he appeared and if the curse didn't hold her back she would already be hugging him.
Tohru nodded getting to her feet and, after making quick apologies to the shopkeeper, passers by and eventually the fruit, followed Kyo. The two of them walked to the park and sat down on the bench. Tohru's eyes strolled over to where a couple of two year olds were playing in the sandbox, their mothers interacting with them. She really did want a baby.
"I've been thinking," she started, "That, even if I do have a baby, I'd really like to graduate from highschool I mean...I promised my mother...and.."
Silence
Tohru tilted her head as she looked at Kyo, he seemed so nervous around her now and it upset her a little, she didn't want to show it however and reached for his hand. "Kyo-kun, what were you going to say? You said that you wanted to talk to me about something?"
"Well I...I really like you..." Kyo started
Tohru's heart beat faster, was this a love confession? No one had really said anything like that to her before but why didn't Kyo-kun look at her, it seemed that he...
"I really like you too Kyo-kun" the brunette smiled in her usual way as Kyo closed his eyes, so she was wrong, this wasn't what he wanted to talk about.
"I don't want to be a dad Tohru, I don't wanna have a kid. I feel that if I had a kid there would just be this..this desire within me to strangle them or kill them, I'm sorry," he bowed his head as Tohru's eyes widened, why was he saying these things to her?
"But Kyo-kun, you'd make a very good father..." the girl attempted to tell him, she just wanted him to believe it and not have this self doubt. The orange haired man seemed so angry and he had already run away from them. Her eyes pinned to his bracelet as he held his wrist self consciously. Hadn't he threatened to remove that if the father issue was touched again? "Please...don't"
"I won't rip it off but you know, I wish I could be the dad..." Tohru didn't say anything, this time she could only listen to Kyo-kun. He closed his eyes remembering what he had told himself, if he believed hard enough that it was Yuki's kid inside of there then it was. "Yuki's the father..."
"Wha-What?" Tohru blinked before seeing Kyo's fist tightened and she stroked his fingers, she wanted to help him.
"Yuki...should be the father, he's the one who really cares about being part of the kid's life...I'd only screw the child up..."
"No!" the girl said at once, "You wouldn't...and...and I like someone much more than Yuki-kun, I like..."
"Listen I gotta go," Kyo commented awkwardly standing up, "But...I don't wanna be with you alright?" he lied as he turned his back. He would want to be with Tohru as a single person but a family, no, he didn't want that. As he walked away from her Tohru was reminded of the cat Kyo had left and tears came to her eyes. She loved him and he didn't love her...wasn't that what he had said?
Ayame's Store
"Well, well my fabulous baby brother" Ayame laughed, pulling Yuki through his extravagant store, "We have certainly updated on maternity wear, why I have a young woman trying to decide which patterns to get for when she will need the clothes. Of course, we're taking a naughty selection of her oh so fabulous wardrobe and gaining inspiration from it, and of course we'll do the same for your bride."
"My...What?" the poor rat choked, his eyes widening as he saw that Ayame had pulled him dangerously close to the womens changing room. He could swear that he even heard someone in there, cussing.
"Why your bride," Aya laughed giving a random spin for no reason whatsoever, "Oh I could be the most fabulous uncle in the..."
"If you're the father you stuck up manwhore then I'll fricken slaughter you..." the girl in the changing room growled. Yuki heard a zip strap up and then a familiar girl came out wearing...a maternity outfit? "You wanna own up to sleeping with Tohru now?"
"Oh it does look fabulous right?" Aya laughed over the enlarged corset, skirt and blouse and the stretchy black stockings. He had agreed to commission a lot for his younger sibling and she was letting him because he worked on commission, as annoying as he was.
"Well...I..." Yuki stumbled over his words, "Rin? Why are you wearing that?"
"You know," Rin said glaring at him, "For a high school student council president you really are an idiot and more than that a baby. You are aware that I'd prefer to come in here with the kid's father but guess what Einstein he's not here because he went to protect your fricken butt."
"Wait..Haru really went to..." Yuki attempted to get the facts together as Aya watched, this was better than a soap opera.
"No of course not," Rin spoke sarcastically, "I slept with Ritsu, it was the best night of my life..."
Yuki stared at her before moving uncomfortably, Rin was really rounding on him, trying to get him to confess that he was the father but none of this would be known until the parental test results and that could take at least a month. "It's not my fault that Haru went there, I would have tried to stop him...really? He doesn't bel--"
"Ha! How much of that do you really believe!" she snapped, tears rushed to her eyes as she walked over, pinning Yuki to the wall, "At least you can admit that but you know I've had it with you! You're even worse than that idiotic, retarded feline. If it is you asshole then I'm gonna take your dick and break it off with my bare hands...he fricken loves you you know and you allow him to go through..." her hormones were really starting to affect her.
"I told him not to do it, he wouldn't listen to me," Yuki whispered, "I'm trying to think of something I can do to save him...I even told him that I would go to Akito and say that I was the father, he stopped me..."
"You talked to him about this?" Rin blinked, she wanted to hit this guy now, just to take all her stress and anger out on him. She wanted to break but after hearing him say that she had to admit that Yuki wasn't lying. It was something she knew Haru would do.
"I want to get him out of there," the grey haired boy told her, seeing Rin break, "I do, I'm trying to think of a way alright, a way that he would let me. I feel guilty for not protecting him, he's my younger cousin..."
"He's MY boyfriend!!" Rin screamed, she needed to do something, to just...do...something.
"I know that!" Yuki choked feeling his throat swell slightly and his lungs weaken, "And the way he looked, what Akito did to him, it scared me...disgusted me!"
"He's not disgusting!!" Rin yelled at him before breaking into tears, she hated these hormones and the baby wasn't due for another eight months anyway, Tohru's was due in seven. "He's...He's not!!" Tears dropped down as Yuki attempted to hold her and for once in her life, Rin let him.
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