Once upon a lullaby chapter48

DUN DUN ! Sorry, needed the huge dramatic effect there… anyway… I sat up and looked out my window groaning… you can only guess what day it is… I'm officially 18 today… -sigh- I climbed out of bed and trotted down the stairs in a green dress the Akito had given me as a sorry present. I opened the door to go into the living room and streamers and balloons fell from the sky.

"SURPRISE!" Kyo, Yuki and shigure yelled. The room was all decorated and there was a huge cake in the middle surrounded by presents. What made me smile though were their costumes, all three of them wore the ears and the tails that matched their zodiac animal.

"Wow, this is… great!" I grinned forgetting all the reasons why I had been depressed just moments ago. Kyo grabbed my hands and pulled me down to the table were the presents lay. I shelled the first one, mainly because it was huge and I like opening big stuff, inside was a stereo, the label said it was from shigure.

"Your sound system is pretty weak and makes me want to cry." He grinned. My CD player was small yeah, but it was still pretty good.

"Hey, don't diss the sound system." I grinning winking, picking up another present. Un-wrapping the silver wrapping paper I gasped slightly, it was from yuki and he got me these stunning silver shoes. "Omg… Yuki?" He turned away slightly going a little pink.

"Jessu helped me pick them." Was all he said, I grinned and pulled out another present. It took me about half an hour to open all my presents; I got three pairs of shoes, 2 dresses, a lot of teddies, some chocolate, money, Cds, a cook book (Shishou XD) and picks for my guitar. I finally got round to my last present. It was medium size and in a square box. The label read Kyo and I looked up at him for any clues. He shook his head grinning.

"Just open it." He demanded. I scowled slightly chuckling to myself and removed the orange paper. (XD) I ended up almost falling off my seat.

"OMG KYO!" My voice almost reached shouting level. Inside the box was a purple dress and a purple gem necklace to match… It was the same one from that snooty dress store. "When?" I demanded an answer.

"When you left to go get drinks, I got them to deliver it." He laughed at my wide eyes. He ruffled my hair slightly and came to my level. "Do you like it?" I fixed my hair and nodded.

"Thank you, thank you all so much." I smiled almost crying. Yuki came and kissed my cheek and Kyo carried all my stuff to my room. Only me and shigure were left.

"You ok?" He asked as I just sat there, letting a few happy tears escape.

"Yeah," I nodded wiping them away. "Thanks for the stereo again." I smiled.

"You deserve it, I mean you have changed them… no not just them all of us. You're like family to us now, we couldn't live without you." Shigure smiled patting my head. Then the waterworks came, there were so many reasons why I was crying, both happy and sad.

"Hey, what have you done to her now?" Jessu walked in along with uo and hana. I jumped up and hugged all three of them laughing. "Happy Birthday!" They cheered and we grinned at each other.

"Your 18 now, so you know what that means don't you Namii?" Hana grinned.

"YAY!" I jumped up and down clapping.

"What? What does it mean?" Shigure sat left out, tilting his head in curiosity.

"We are taking Namii to do something on her to do list." Uo hugged me from behind and I laughed. "And no matter how dangerous it is, nobody can stop us!" We all laughed and they dragged me outside to go jet skiing!

I returned 10 hours later at 8 o' clock. We had loads of fun, going jet skiing, we all fell off like 8 times. We had also spent the day having a good ol' heart to heart, and Jessu confessed to us how well things are going with Yuki, and Hana was telling us about how her mother is worried about her future yet again. I had so much fun that it felt like nothing bad could happen.

"See you tomorrow." Jessu hugged me, the last stop on my way home. "Share my love to Yuki too." She winked and ran inside. I walked home humming a little tune, and when I opened the door they were all waiting for me… with cake!

"Hey," Kyo said turning round. "Did you have fun?" He asked gesturing me to sit down next to him. I was kind of scared by Shigures and Yuki's grave look. I nodded to Kyo and took some of my birthday cake.

"We would like to ask you if you put yourself through Danger –every- year," Shigure asked putting a lot of emphasis on the 'every'. Suddenly getting it I burst out laughing, I nearly sprayed cake everywhere.

"Seriously, uo was kidding. We just do random stuff, like eating lots of cookies and jet skiing." I grinned eating cake, they all visibly relaxed.

"Good." Yuki laughed starting to tuck into his cake. "Although Kyo was most worried, he was planning on stalking you just to make sure you were safe." Yuki winked at me and Kyo instantly went straight into defence mode.

"I did not!" He yelled at yuki then repeated to me more sincerely. "I was just worried, I mean knowing Namii's luck something was bound to go wrong." I smiled to myself not bothered. I like this, the feeling of warmth and happiness… little did I know the knock on the door was about to shatter all of that.

The person at the door knocked 3 times before I jumped up to get it. The door swung open and I took a step back; eyes wide and my whole body tensed up. There stood Haku, wearing a white t-shirt, a black blazer and black jeans, his hair bright blue to match his eyes, and his evil smile… I couldn't move for fear.

"Whose at the door?" Kyo asked walking into the hall. "Oh hi…?" He said slightly unsure when he saw me and Haku at the door. He noticed that I probably wouldn't move anytime soon so he took over. "Excuse me, why are you here?" He said very bluntly both hands in his pockets.

"I came… to collect my package." Haku grinned at me, and I gulped. Oh. My. God.

We had all moved into the living room, were Kyo had sat back down at the table and I leaned against the wall, Haku decided taking up the whole stage would be necessary. He was grinning the whole time, clearly enjoying this. "Haku just say what you are going to say and then let's go." I said darkly unable to look at any of the other three in the eyes.

"Oh Namii, you always were impatient weren't you," He laughed. "Ok, ok, I am Namiis cousin Haku, and my family would like Namii to come back and live with us back in my family's mansion." He said is so innocently I wanted to throw something at him.

"Why now?" Kyo had sensed the disgust I had directed towards Haku and had immediately made him into the bad guy in his eyes.

"You see," Haku smiled at Kyo. "Namii needs to be trained properly before things get out of control." He grinned at me, Aqua, Tulula, Jasmina and Clairia were yelling abuse at him in my head.

"Out of control?" Yuki butted in this time. "What do you mean out of control?"

"Well you know, Namii's unique abilities are going to be treasured all over the world, we have to give her the proper training. It was decided that on Namii's 18th birthday Namii was going to come with us travelling around the world, I am sorry but you will probably never see her again." Haku was too cheery, faking all the right emotions and actions, he was a natural.

"Hold on." Kyo said his voice rising with anger. "You keep telling us Namii is going to have to go, and you're not telling us the full story, what are Namii's unique abilities that you keep going on about?" No… I wanted to scream, he can't know. Just hurry up and let me leave… please…

"Oh wow, you mean you never told them!" Haku exclaimed with mock surprise in his voice. All heads turned to me, my head was hanging and my hands were shaking. I shook my head. "Tut, tut, Namii, you know you should never keep secrets from the people who willingly took you in. Go on tell them… or maybe you can show them." His mouth curled from friendly to evil. I sighed and stepped forward and murmured.

"Please don't hate me." And I closed my eyes. Despite the yells in my head I unfolded my wings, revealing the gold feathers I had kept a secret for so long.

"N-Namii?" Shigure finally spoke in shock.

"I'm the phoenix, the forgotten one in the legend, the one that led everybody else to misfortune." I sighed unhappily, I looked at each one of them, Shigure was smiling slightly as if he were amazed, Yuki wasn't happy, he seemed shocked and sad maybe… but Kyo, the rage was blatant on his face.

"Why… didn't you tell us?" Kyo demanded. I remained silent. "Why didn't you say anything for so long, I mean we trusted you, come on, we told you everything, we shared stuff with you, emotions we hadn't shared with anybody else. We cared about you, and you threw it back in our faces." I still didn't speak; he was right. "I mean you're the phoenix, were you looking down at us the whole time? Were you thinking, 'hah I don't have to transform even though I'm a member of the zodiac' well?" He demanded his voice getting louder each time. He had stood up by now, yelling never letting up. "Why didn't you tell us and why won't you answer!" He finally shouted and I looked up at him my anger and sadness building up and forming words.

"NO!" I yelled finally taking a stand in this battle. "I never thought them things once, I have never looked down on you all." I spoke normally this time looking down again.

"Ok then… what were you trying to do by keeping secrets, were you trying to hurt us?" He shouted again.

"No… I would never hurt any of you…" I started to say.

"Then Why, I mean you could have at least told me…" Kyo tried to interrupt but I'd had enough.

"I didn't tell you Kyo sohma because I am in love with you." I started to cry. "Always have and always will, I couldn't have you hurting as well… It so hard to stand here right now like this, I never wanted you to know because you were the one person I couldn't have hate me… the one person. Kyo Sohma I'm in love with you, but since you are so mad about this I'll go, and you will never see me again." And I pushed past him and ran out the door.

"Make sure she doesn't escape." Haku spoke into a phone and turned back to the Sohmas. "Well this has been fun." He grinned. "Do not fret, I shall send you the amount of money it has taken to keep Namii here, I would like to thank you for doing an amazing job. Cheerio." He winked and walked outside leaving a baffled Kyo, and angry Yuki and a for once serious shigure.

"Did you get her?" Haku spoke to his two bodyguards. They both shook their heads.

"We couldn't find her sir." The first one said.

"Never mind," Haku shook his head. "She can't have gone far, let's go." He said climbing into the back seat of his Mercedes McLaren when he stopped, inside, on the right hand side of the car sat I, still crying slightly and arms crossed.

"Come on and let's get this over with." I sighed, speaking in monotone, I gave no attention to the yells in my head or Haku's grin and waited as we drove to the end.

Meanwhile

Kyo's fist bashed the wall and he frowned heading for the door when Yuki grabbed his shoulder. "What the hell are you doing you stupid rat!" He growled at him.

"The question is what are you not doing?" Yuki was calm but angry. "Your letting her get away."

"Huh?" Kyo asked suddenly shocked.

"Tell me now, do you love Namii Kuroboshi?" He looked at Kyo with his questioning eyes. In reply Kyo's mouth opened slightly. "Tell me." It was Yuki's turn to growl.

"I don't have a clue what you're talking about…"

"Ok Idiot," Yuki pushed him back onto the chair. "Tell me now that when Namii confessed to you, you weren't secretly jumping for joy."

"I can't…" Kyo looked down.

"See…"

"That doesn't change anything, even if I do love her she still kept the fact she was the phoenix from us, and besides, she is going off to travel the world, she will soon forget about me." For a moment there was silent, but soon after Kyo had flew across the room due to the force of Yuki's punch.

"OMG! You really are an idiot. Didn't you head Namii she said having you hurting as well, you also saw her cousin, do you honestly believe they are going to take Namii on a trip around the world, if that were the case would she have been staying with us for the past few years?" Yuki started to yell as Kyo sat up his lip bleeding. "Also, do you really care if Namii is the phoenix? I mean you weren't planning on telling her about the real you were you?" Kyo shook his head, clearly defeated. "Well then go, go tell the woman that you love that you need her, and go and fight for her." Yuki pointed to the door. Kyo clambered up and ran outside leaving the doors open behind him. When he had gone Yuki fell down into the chair his hands over his face.

"Are you ok?" Shigure asked coming over to Yuki, placing a hand on his shoulder, Yuki revealed one of his grey eyes to look at him.

"Yeah… I just hope he is not too late."

Kyo had ran outside yelling my name, but the car had already started to drive off. "NAMII!" Kyo yelled again. "I LOVE YOU TOO!" He yelled at the top of his lungs but the car went out of seeing distance. "No…" Kyo fell on his knees. "She's gone…"

Not exactly the happiest chapter ^^'' I can't believe I have only two chapters left. If the next chapter hasn't already been uploaded I shall post it up soon. Bye~