29. She Hit Me, Dad


'You Screamed and I watched it happen'

Tomoe froze, trying to catch his fleeting breath. Painful memories started to flood in as he choked. His book slipped slowly to the ground as he stood there staring at the cold woman in front of him. Why did she have to say that? Did she enjoy how much he was pained when he was younger?


Flashback


She looked at him with her cold green eyes, Her long black hair reached her lower back, " Tomoe.."

The little boy looked at her, Scared. his was the second time Mikage left him here with her. Last time she hit him...Over and over again. She called him worthless and gave him a large bruise.

When his New Daddy asked him he said it was fight. Mikage didn't sleep with his wife, so the child knew something wasn't right; but this woman? She scared him..

"Come here."

The little boy whimpered; knowing exactly what she was going to do to him, He shrunk away. Scared like any little boy would be of his age.

The woman snarled her lip and gripped his hair, yanking him up the stairs and throwing him into the one room he already hated.

"D-Don't!" Tomoe crawled to a corner, scared and frightened as the woman glared at him,

"Your not even my son, why would I listen to Mikage's little pet?"

And then like all the other times at the ophanage she beat him, the only thing? It was worse.. He screamed for Mikage, asking for him to come and help him, But he wasn't there. He was at work making a living for the family. It hurt so much..

He would have bruises that hurt so much that he couldn't sit. So when Mikage came home he could hug him and follow him to each room; making sure he wasn't with his adoptive mother in the same room. Mikage probably thought it was somthing a little kid did; but... It wasn't.

And then finally? After all that.. Mikage found his wife with another man in a car. He didn't have to explain what they were doing...

The divorce was signed and Tomoe didn't have to see that woman again. Now, She only beat him if she was mad, other than that she was fine. So maybe thats why when she died... He mourned.

Maybe he mourned because she was his only mommy...The only one he ever had.


End Of Flashback


"Oh So you do remember?"

Tomoe's throat went dry, he couldn't speak. What could he say? He backed up; his eyes wide.

"Shut up.." Tomoe muttered.

The womans face turned cold and a glare settled across her face, " What did you say to me?"

Tomoe swallowed and tried to recompose himself, but how do you do that in front of person you hate? In front of a person that almost ruined his life? He backed up,

"Shut up." Tomoe said a bit louder and the woman snarled her lip.

"I should be saying that to you! Your the one that was so sorry that his REAL parents abandoned him.. No wonder they did; ever since you were little you didn't have any potential. Now.. Come here."

Tomoe's eyes grew wide, " N-No.."

"Excuse me? You should respect me boy."

Tomoe backed away but the woman walked up to him quickly. He wasn't expecting her to slap him hard across the face, it stug and the memories flooded in, making him feel sick. He looked at the ground in shock. He couldn't speak... It wouldn't come out. Then there was the sound of someone running towards him.

"TOMOE!"

He would have looked but he was still in shock. Maybe he should have told his father about the beatings; but.. He didn't want to go back to the orphange. He knew Mikage and the man would have blamed himself. He couldn't take this anymore.. It hurt.

He heard his father run up quickly; then he felt his hand on his shoulder, " Tomoe? Look at me..Tomoe come on."

The teen stared at the floor; unable to speak. How could he? What that women did scared him, and it was unnerving to even look at the one man that trusted him all these years. He trusted him and then he lied to him.

"MIA! I told you to stay away from my Son! He's had enough of your mental Abuse!" Mikage screamed out at the older woman.

Mia only smirked, " Mental? I only remember the Physical abuse.."


Mikage paused and looked at Tomoe confused, He patted his sons shoulder lightly and then looked at his face, " Tomoe, What is she talking about?"

The teen paused and then jerked his shoulder away from his fathers grasp, He couldnt face him. It was too much.. It was.. Horrible.

"Tomoe.."

"Leave me alone.. Just.. Go away!" Tomoe turned and bolted out of the school; running, trying his best to get away from his past. He couldn't stand it, He could take it!

Mikage looked at Mia and glared, " Remember what I said? I'm getting a restraining order Mia! And if you go near him again you will pay for it!" The man took off running towards his son but stopped when he saw someone walking out of the bathroom.

"Mizuki!"

The boy paused and looked at Mikage. His eyes grew wide and he stuffed his phone into his pocket, a look of innocence came over his face, He opened his mouth but he noticed Mikage was in a hurry.

"Mizuki!"

The boy paused, " Yes Sir?"

"Thanks for calling me." Mikage ran off and Mizuki watched him take out the door towards who knows where.


Tomoe stopped and gasped for air, He was at a stop sign. Ha, How ironic.

He gasped for air and winced, his face still stung and he wondered how hard that woman hit him. He rubbed his cheek and chewed his lip, " Ow.." He moaned and looked up at where he was. Snow was still everywhere but sadly it was starting to rain also. So now he was getting saoked; along with the cold of the icey air.

Tomoe shivered and pulled his jacket closer. It wasn't helping him at all.

"TOMOE!"

The teen froze and looked at his father running up to him. He couldn't run anymore, even though he wanted to. The thought of telling him made the teen feel sick to the stomach.

Mikage ran up to him and turned him to face him. His face was stern but caring and the rain was started to pour.

"Tomoe what did she mean by Physical Abuse?"

The teen looked away, his breath hitching in his throat. He didn't want to say it.. not ot his father. He just couldn't. Tears welled up in his eyes and he sighed.

"I.."

"Tell Me.. I can't help unless you tell me, Remember?" Mikage looked at his son. He didn't understand, and he hated that. Tomoe always told him everything. He would tell him how he felt or what happened in his life, He didn't want him hiding it from him!

Whatever Mia said or did he would make sure she didn't do it again. Anything to keep his son safe; anything to help him..

"D-Dad..S-She beat me.." Tomeo whimpered out, not even looking him in the eye.

Mikage was suddenly filled with a protective feeling. He was at work when he got a call from Yonomori's son Mizuki. He was surprised at first; taking that Mizuki was a main cause to Tomoe being a shut-in, but the boy sounded frantic. He todl him there was this freaky old woman at the school and she was saying something to Tomoe.

And then he said Tomoe looked terrified. Thats when Mikage knew he had to get there..

"Who? Mia? Did Mia beat you!?"

Tomoe shook his head and Mikage groaned. He needed to know why Tomoe was acting this way.

"Who then?!" Mikage pushed, He knew Tomoe had delt with abuse when he was an orphan, but.. He was saying something else. There was something hidden between the lines. Something he needed to know.

Thats when Tomoe exploded..

"MOM! MOM BEAT ME!" The teen started to wail at the pain and Mikage blinked in shock, He couldn't believe it. His Ex-Wife did what? The father wrapped his arms around his son and winced. He didn't know.. How could he not know when it happened right under his nose. Tomoe whimpered in pain and shuttered at the cold.

"How.." Mikage muttered,

The teen coughed and looked at him; wiping his eyes, " When you were at work." Tears started to form again, " She..Dragged me into this room.. And.. She hit me. It wasn't...Sexual. It...Was just.." Tomoe shook his head as if trying his best to get rid of the thoughts that plaqued him.

Mikage hugged him and winced, " Why did you not tell me? I thought you said you got into fights?"

Tomoe swallowed and pushed away from Mikage, He looked away and coughed, " I... Didn't want you to send me back. Everyone else did and If I went back... I.."

" I would have never sent you back, I would have divorced earlier. Your my son, And my wife could not accept that. We could not have kids because I couldn't... Do that; but I do know I would have never left you alone in that orphanage again. To think that she beat you that often.." Mikage shook his head, " I wish I would have known sooner, If I hadn't of caught her in that car, and then on top of that she was pregnant... With that mans child."

Tomoe rubbed his eyes and looked at Mikage, The man smiled slightly and then paused, " You want to get a burger?"

The teen looked at him and paused. He was quite before he nodded.


Tomoe sighed and poked at his burger, for the first time in his life he wasn't enjoying it. He had too much on his mind. His dad told him not to think about the beatings but what he didn't know was that Tomoe already knew that.

That wasn't the only thing that was bothering him.

Mikage looked at him worried and then sat his drink down, " Whats wrong?"

Crap, Tomoe hated how his dad could read him like this. It was good but it was also a curse.

Tomoe shrugged his shoulders and coughed, " Um..N-Nothing."

Mikage sighed and looked at him, He was quite for a few more seconds until he looked Tomoe in the eye, " You've been spacing out lately. Even at my office you were out of it. Whats going on?"

The teen looked at his father confused, He had been spacing out? He wasn't so sure about that. Was thinking considered spacing out? Suddenly Tomoe's pocket vibrated and he froze.

"What the crap.." Tomoe muttered as he dug out the cell from his wet pants pocket. Mikage watched Tomoe's face distort and then tint a lite pink, The father smirked as Tomoe pressed a button and slid his finger over the screen.

The teen slumped down in the booth that they were sitting in and started texting rapidly; He sighed a bit and stared at the screen for a few seconds before typing again.

"Eh, Hem..Still here." Mikage muttered as he held up his hand. Tomoe looked up as his face turned pink and his mouth formed a line of embarrassment. The father wondered how many times Tomoe's mouth touched Nanami's so far.. he would have to ask one day; Today not being that day.

"You texting Nanami?" Mikage smirked as he took a drink of his soda.

Tomoe blushed and rolled his eyes; clearly annoyed, His phone went off again and he started to look at it. His face made a weird look and then he started to type again. He clicked send and stuffed it in his pocket.

Mikage smiled as Tomoe blushed from his father's look. To his surprise Tomoe broke the silence, " Dad..."

The blond haired man looked at him and he noticed that his eyes were glassed over like he was in deep thought, Tomoe's head was propped in his hand as he seemed to think.

"Yeah?" Mikage took a bite of his burger and chewed.

"What...Does it feel like to... Like-Like Soemone?"

Mikage gulped his burger down quickly as he looked his son in the eye, " Eh!?