The One I Love
Shigure X Akito
Inspired by scenes see: post/185446961714/in-honor-of-this-weeks-fruits-basket-episode-can
"I dreamt about the one I love…"
As Shigure opened his eyes that Valentine's morning, how ironic that his dreams would follow the whim of a holiday. His wards drop by his study, heading off on a double date in celebration of it. Ah, young love… something he knew much about but couldn't live, yet. To be a couple was but the dream and only on me woman held the key.
No one else really knew just how much that childhood dream or more like a vision had truly affected Shigure. Hatori, Aya, they knew the few tidbits he let slip, but just as the ocean tides surge and recede, so does Shigure's confiding. Which made it more difficult to discern when he was telling the truth or not. Hatori knew that Shigure was up to something, but what exactly, he still wasn't sure of.
Every step of Shigure's journey till now had been set in motion all those years ago, heading towards a desire so thrillingly sweet and sad it was the mother of all tragic love stories. Maybe that was why he became a writer, for it was the perfect way to chronicle his emotions without ever telling the truth to a living soul. For now.
"Akito-san," Shigure slides the door open, "I'm here to visit you."
"Well, isn't that only natural," she sighs, turning but never rising to greet him in-kind.
Even Akito had no idea just how much Shigure loved her with every fiber of his being. It had nothing to do with the Bond, but because that was all that mattered to her broken mind, for now it was okay. One day he will make her see.
"I care about you most, after all," he reminds her…
After his visit to Akito and the Sohma compound, Shigure treks home pondering over his latest conversation. The late afternoon sun burned a fierce reddish-orange that mirrored the ignited fire Tohru had brought into their world. With every visit to Akito he could see the so-called Bonds unravelling and as much as it killed him to see her in pain, it made him smile.
He knew that Akito had never fully forgiven him for his indiscretions, but he couldn't tell her the truth because she wasn't ready yet. None of them were. It wasn't a noble quest to free the Zodiac's of their curse, that was just a byproduct of his end goal. He was doing all of this for her. To make that affection he'd dreamt of real for all of time. A true bond with the one he loved.
"That vow is still right here," as he'd said to Hatori with his hand over his heart. 'And I'll be there to catch you Akito. Just wait for me…'