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Xisto opened and closed him mouth but nothing came out.
Was his parents really marrying him off to a 10 year old!?
The word 'Pedophile' was branded on his head reguardless of his gender.
No.
The wedding couldn't be now, they would wait until she turned 18.
They wouldn't dare make a wedding now.
But still.
The drive back to his family summer home was dead silent, thankfully she seemed to have gone with her parents back to their own.
He was just speechless and bewilder that all he could say was "Please take care me as well" like a morn.
As he sat down in the car, he geniuinely thought about smashing his window, and using that to escape.
Injuries and no destination be damned.
Honestly he felt bad for that girl the most, her head was probably filled with the fantasy about getting married and how she would be a failure if she failed to satisfy her husband.
If she wasn't engaged to him, she would have been married off to a complete jackass.
We'll, even though he could never love that girl like that, he could treat the little girl with decency and be like a big brother instead.
Hopefully she would fall in love with somebody her own age and run away together.
He sighed.
He had watched way too many Korean dramas.
The vechile stopped and he got out, looking worse than he had been before as he approached the summer home.
Well, there goes the summer vibe for him.
Xisto went straight to his room and made sure to avoid the Sohma's.
He knew they were probably wondering why he wasn't pestering them like usual and why he had mysterious vanished when his summer home wasn't that far from them.
He was in such a bad mood that when Tohru texted him, he ignored it.
6 glorious weeks had become 6 hellish weeks.
He left that home quietly and headed back to his main home without saying a word and when he got home, he proceeded to cut his hair short and style it to look like a young master.
And than the day came.
His third year of Highschool debute.
Damn it.
When he went to the door after being informed his fiancee was here, he was met with adorable 10 year girl in a high school uniform.
When she saw him, she blushed.
Yes, it was his third year and even the girliest looking guy would be all man.
You don't know how amazing six weeks could be on a male when they are getting close to adulthood.
The only thing he enjoyed over the summer was flexing in the mirror and realising the amazing naked male was you in the mirror.
"Let's go" he said and she followed him.
And just as he suspected, everybody was looking there way as they walked down the street.
The whispers about his usual hotness was now overshadowed by people asking if they were siblings even though they looked nothing alike.
Everybody looked shocked to see a tiny girl wearing a highschool uniform.
Was she perhaps a genius?
They walked to the school and passed the gate.
It got worse.
"What is a little girl doing here?" Said one girl, shocked.
His grown up debute had been overshadowed by his child fiancee.
Xisto was in such a bad mood, he didn't even look at the usual large group as he walked down the hall feeling like running and hidding from shame.
He entered his classroom and the teacher was there like usual, she hadn't changed in appearence at all through the summer.
She was about to say good morning when she saw the little girl.
It was than he quietly slid a note to her.
She took it and read it, her eyes going wide several times, there was even the principles signature on it.
She stared at him and said. "And your okay with it?"
He didn't strike her at all for having something for little girls.
"I want to take care of her" he said, the little girl blushed while his sensei heard.
'I have no choice in this matter'
She gave him a look, he wondered if she was thinking of opening up her house to him or helping him run to another country.
"Take a seat while I introduce her" she said and he did so.
When Toru and the others came in, he was silent and didn't even look at them, it was like he couldn't see them at all.
Something terrible clearly happened the last time they saw him.
However when they all sat down and nobody else was coming in, they found out the reason why he was silent.
"Hello my name is Rika Alberto and I am Xisto finacee" said Rika as everybody eyes grow wide with shock when the news reached their ears.
Some dropped their pencils.
Others gapped like a dead fish.
While those loud shouted. "EEEEHHHHH!?"
So many eyes turned to him liked he they were discovering a Lolicon or pervert.
However just by seeing his face, you could tell he wasn't happy at all by this news, nobody had ever seen such an ugly frown on his face before.
When she was told to sit down next to him, his frown was gone and instead he suddenly appeared like he was asleep.
She sat in the seat to his right and than the teacher began to do the register.
The little girl was actually professional when she answered her name and so was he.
He tried to ignore her staring at him in their first period.
When break arrived, there was an uncomfortable silence in the room as everybody wanted to poke their noses into this juicy business.
He stood up and walked to her and said like he was talking to a child.
"Would you like my cookie? I have white chocolate and dark chocolate."
Bringing out the holy grain of baked goodies.
Her eyes lit up and said. "I want one. I tried making you some lunch but it doesn't look very good" embrassed.
"I would love to eat it, no matter how it looks...Practise makes perfect" he said, with a long unnatural gap in-between to swallow any words he was thinking.
Suddenly she said
"You don't want to marry me, do you?" She said.
She had noticed.
He saw nosey people listening in immediately and said. "Let's have this conversation outside. It's a beautiful day"
And she agreed, they went outside and sat underneath a tree.
The moment they did so, he said. "No. I don't want to marry you"
As soon as those words were out, tears began to pour down her face which made him panicked.
He managed to get some tissue and have her blow into some tissue.
"It's not really you, it's your age for me" he said. "I like long legs, a mature face. You not even old enough to have any of those yet. I just can't look at you as a woman. The age gap is too big"
The little girl continued to blew into tissue and said. "I know it wouldn't work out, your too cool and mature for me"
Too Cool and mature? He thought, that was the first time somebody called him that.
Both male and female Xisto grinned like idiots on the inside.
"Nobody my age likes me" she said getting him to blink. "And I'm smarter than everybody my age. My parents actually said getting engaged to you was the worst thing that could happen to me."
Oh? He thought, super surprised.
"No offence but they said, your family was nothing but snakes who use people" she said.
We'll, shes not wrong...he thought, thinking about how heartless his parents could be.
"They were scared for me, but if there was anybody who could take care of me and not try to plow me right off the bat, it would be your family" she said, yes she was aware of how evil rich people could be especially in a traditional country like this.
"If you were maniuplative, it was far better than not knowing if I would be slapped or kicked, or raped as soon as nobody was looking" she said, before she cried. "I was so scared walking to school."
He was horrified and said. "I would never force myself on you. Your childhood should be happy not full of terror. We can be friends instead of lovers. I got principles and one of my principles is that I can't look at anybody who isn't 16 or older. I feel sick if I even think of imagining a 10 year old girl naked. There is nothing attractive about that"
She stared at him and said. "You really are a decent person aren't you?"
"I'm a good person who was just taught to be terrible" said Xisto. "Luckily for me, my parents never successful brainwashed me. However I want you to keep this conversation a secrete. My parents would raise hell if they found out I was genuinely nice to somebody and not have an ulterior motive. We can be siblings and I can introduce you to the prettiest people you will ever meet"
"I don't think there is anybody prettier than you" she said.
And he smiled widely and said. "What's the point of beauty if being able to hug someone is a privalage?"
"Huh?" She said.
"Nothing" he said, turning around and saying. "It's time to go back in, break is over" he stood up and being extremely mysterious in her eyes.
They went into the classroom and Xisto yelled to everybody.
"Everybody meet Rika! She's going to be my little sister from now on. So treat her well!"
And that was all it took for the uncomfortable air to disappear.
The girls welcomes Rika as they could now cuddle her and envision her in cute clothes.
"So your parents are okay with it?" Said Tohru.
He laughed and said. "Hell no. I plan to move out when I turn 18"
And class began before Tohru could shout in surprise.
For too long he had let his parents walk over him.
He was rich but he didn't even enjoy his own life.
The person who could break the curse was actually reachable at any time and yet he was caught in a 'Will he?' web.
If his father won't give him the method, he would take it by force.
But that just left him one more issue.
Was the serpent within him ready to forgive god?
Xisto waited until the end of the day until he told Rika that he was going to do adult stuff with a bunch of people, the announcement got quiet the reaction out of her.
Rika called her Chofer and left with a red face while he turned to Tohru and the group and said. "I'm walking home with you, today"
"Leave" both Yuki and Kyo said together, how is this adult stuff!?
"But Tohru-chan, there is a hole in my coat that ripped earlier and went through my trousers." he said, taking his coat off and showing a very purposefully done rip in his trousers revealing his bunny boxers.
"Oh, I got a sewing kit at home" said innocent Tohru.
"I know you could help me" said Xisto, ignoring how both Yuki and Kyo were cracking their knuckles in the background.
He was very snake like.
However Xisto was crafty because they couldn't fight him in front of her so they both begrudgingly let him walk to the house with them.
Xisto happily walked to the Sohma place with two guys who would rather not be with him.
"How was your holiday, Tohru-chan?" He said to the girl. "I'm sorry I just became so busy that I couldn't see you"
It was 6 weeks of bliss...thought Yuki and Kyo.
"It's alright. I had lots of fun with the Sohma's" she said. "I was a little sad that you couldn't make it though. We could have had fun together"
"I would have loved to have fun with all of you" said Xisto. "But my family is completely separate from the Sohma's. I have to do boring stuff with my family once in a while. Sometimes I wish I could live with all of you, you guys seem way more fun."
Thank god, he doesn't live with us...both Yuki and Kyo thought, they all thought he would be one of the tiresome ones.
However when they got a certain distence away, they saw three people meet from another path.
Everybody turned to each other in surprise.
Shigure Soma.
Hatori Soma.
Akito Soma.
It all happened so fast.
Xisto eyes met Akito.
Akito eyes met Xisto.
The serpent looked at god.
His fist met Akito face.
The world decended into madness.
And scene!