Here is chapter 7

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His hypnosis didn't work.

For some reason, instead of locking the subject memory away and making sure he won't interfere with the family.

It had brought the hidden memories back.

How was that possible?

He refused to think his power had failed on him so that meant Xisto wasn't just a normal person after all, that meant that there was something different about Xisto that was powerful enough to cancel his hypnosis.

But he couldn't just ask the boy.

Hatori was lost in thought, he could barely do his work, after the revelation that one of his subjects had regained their memory and now know the family secret, every attempt he had made to see the red head and possible try again, had failed since he had no genuine reason to see the boy as far at the gatekeeper was concerned.

"Hey, Hatori what are you thinking so hard about?" A familiar, happy go lucky voice said and Hatori didn't need to turn around to know it was Momiji, he sighed.

"Hey, Hatori what's wrong? All the adults have gone quiet and even Kyoko and Yuki aren't saying anything!" Momiji exclaimed, crying at being kept from a secret.

Hatori drowned out Momiji wails and remembered the gummy worms in his pocket and gave them to Momiji. "Here" he put it his head.

Momiji stopped crying and looked up to find a pack of gummy worms, his expression immediately changed into a one of joy.

"Tell Tohru-chan, thank you for the gummy worms!" Momiji beamed as he tucked in.

"Oh, there not from Tohru-chan. There from Xisto-san, he kept his promise" Hatori said.

Now it was Momiji turn to stare into space.

Ch 7: Valentine's day.

"Please take this, Xisto-kun," a second-year classmate said, holding a box of chocolate in her hand, this was the sixth time this morning.

"Of course, Princess. I'll gladly take it since you put so much love into it" Xisto said, winking and taking the box of chocolate while the girl blushed red before getting dragged off by her friend, for details.

DIE!

Xisto ignored the heated glares he was getting from a certain population and jealous looks as he put the box of chocolate in with the rest and went to his locker but when he opened it a mountain full of chocolate poured out of it.

Somewhere even dumped in a nearby trash can.

"Wow, now that's what I'm talking about," Arisa said, having seen the whole spectacle.

"As expected of a guy who has a fan club that rivals Yuki," Masal said, eyeing the chocolate in his locker like a hawk. "I would gladly help you finish these, Xisto-kun" with a certain gleam in her eyes and Xisto sweat dropped.

Yuki was shooting him uncertain looks while Tohru was trying to reassure Yuki that he wouldn't tell the family secret.

Just then, Kyo came over to them and when he reached Yuki, he swung a fist out just barely missing Yuki.

"What was that all about?" Xisto asked, having already known the answer.

"Don't know but he's not bothering to hide his hate this morning. I wonder what happened?" Arisa said, shrugging.

"Let's get to class before the bells, rings," Yuki said and they all nodded and went to class.

Xisto sat down at his usual seat, he ignored Kyo glare from far away before he got interrupted by one of their classmates coming over and giving him some chocolate and he pretty much went white after that with the thought of seeing Kagura and pretty much tried to leg it but was stopped by their teacher.

"Damn you!" Kyo shouted, rubbing his sore face.

"Is that how you talk to your teacher?" The sensei said, getting out a packet that said 'Let's die our hair' "I'm always ready to die your hair black"

"Xisto-kun," Tohru said, getting his attention and he beamed.

"Yes, Tohru-chan?" Xisto asked, having a good guess of where this is going.

"Please take this chocolate," Tohru said, all flustered.

Xisto glanced at both Yuki and Kyo and said loud enough for them to here. "Why of COURSE TOHRU-CHAN. I would gladly take your CHOCOLATE" getting a satisfied reaction from both of them as he took the chocolate from Tohru hands and promised to eat it later.

#After school#

Kyo didn't look so good, he looked like he was ready to bolt at any chance.

"Don't worry, Kyo-kun. Valentine's day is the most amazing day of the year" Xisto said, with passion while the rest sweat dropped.

Kyo saw Kagura and froze.

He bolted and she ran after him.

"SHE CAME!"

"LLLLLOOOOVVVVVVEEEEEE!"

# 5 minutes later#

Kyo was unconscious in Kagura arms.

"Have we met before?" Kagura asked, now realising Xisto was there as well.

"No, are you a Sohma?" Xisto asked, both Tohru and Yuki exchanged looks, so Kagura too felt like she know Xisto.

"That's right, I'm Kagura Sohma. Nice to meet you" Kagura said, bowing politely and he bowed back.

"Nice to meet you Kagura, you wouldn't happen to be a boar would you?" Xisto asked making them all freeze in their tracks.

Kagura turned slowly to the others and was shocked when they both nodded their heads, cautiously though and she smiled and said. "Yes, how did you know?"

"It the only animal that fits with your personality" Xisto said, before dragging his huge bag full of chocolates behind him. "Well I'll see you guys later, Kagura-chan, you and Kyo-kun make an adorable couple" and just like that Xisto was in Kagura good books while the other two sweat dropped.

#Home#

Xisto got home and went down into the incinerator, he looked at the bag with cold eyes and throw it into the flames.

He watched the chocolate burn before going back upstairs.

Snakes can't eat chocolate.

#A couple of days later#

Shigure had decided to pay Hatori a visit.

"Hi Hatori, here's some valentine chocolate from me" Shigure beamed, with love in his eyes.

Hatori slammed the door in his face.

"I'm sorry, this is from Tohru-chan" Shigure, whimpered, tears rolling down his face. "Please let me in."

Idiot. Hatori thought as he let Shigure in and took the chocolate from his hands. "This is actually quite a good quality" he confessed looking at the brand knowing it quite expensive."The rest got these too?" he asked.

"Of course, Tohru-chan got chocolate for everybody," Shigure said, with joy, fanning himself and Hatori had the sudden urge to walk away and pretend Shigure wasn't in his house.

"So what did you come to talk about, don't tell it's about how you're using that Tohru-chan girl?" Hatori said, not really caring while Shigure looked like someone just stabbed him in the back.

"I'm not using her! I'm just making use of her talent to sooth people problems." Shigure said, sounding honestly offended. "Did you know, I said something that I shouldn't have and Kyo ran out of the door, Tohru went after him and when they came back it was like the whole occurrence never happened?"

"You know, you must stop with meddling with people lives," Hatori said.

"I'm not a meddler" Shigure plainly denied.

Hatori sighed and asked. "So what is your second topic that you graced me with today," he said in disdain.

"Well since you're dying to know," Shigure said, striking a pose. "It's about Xisto Valentine" at the mention of Xisto, Hatori suddenly didn't look so bored anymore. "Do you remember him?"

"Of course, I'll remember the one person who managed to shake my hypnotise off," Hatori said, sounding annoyed. "I haven't had an opportunity to grab the boy and make sure he doesn't open his mouth and tell a living soul. I have a feeling that my hypnosis will no longer work on the boy"

"Really? That's interesting" Shigure said, it was as was as he thought. " Hatori, I want you to answer honestly. When you first met him, did you feel like you know him from somewhere?"

"I'll be lying if I said, I didn't, but things like that happens. People can feel like they've met somebody before, but it's actually the first time they have actually met" Hatori said, not getting what Shigure was getting at.

"I would have thought so too if it wasn't for the fact both Kyo and Yuki felt like they know him too when they met him for the first time, even Hatsu felt like he had met the redhead," Shigure said, after investigating further. "I'm willing to bet if all of the Sohma met Xisto, they would say the same thing."

"So what are you saying?" Hatori asked, knowing where thus going.

"Don't you find it odd, that it seemed only this family feels a strong sense of Déjà vu whenever we meet the red head?" Shigure asked, " Even though if we search our memories, we would find we truly have never met before?" meeting Hatori critically eye.

"So what you're saying is that our strong Déjà vu is actually coming from our animal spirits?" Hatori said.

"Well it's the only thing that makes sense, I've never felt so confused before whenever I look at the red head. I'm sure you've felt a kind of unease and even sometimes I swear I was going to let out a hostile growl when I turn towards him." Shigure confessed, he really did feel like sometimes biting the red head, head off.

"That's a very extreme reaction," Hatori said, in shock, now that he thought back to his short encounters with the red head did he ever feel hostile towards him?

The encounters were too quick to judge what he was feeling.

"The redhead raises questionable feelings in me that I didn't even know I had," Shigure said, truly disturbed.

"And you think all of this is connects to your animal spirit?" Hatori asked. "How do you even know the rest would have the same reaction to Xisto? and if It does end up being related to the Zodiac animals, what was Xisto at that time? As far as we know, it was just god and us. Was Xisto a plant? I highly doubt it, when he saw Momiji transforming, he looked horrified, that is not the reaction of someone who know the family secret even if Xisto was somehow involved, I highly doubt he even has any memories of that time unlike us. Xisto is completely normal and has absolutely no connection to the Sohma house what's so ever"

"Your right, he doesn't. I checked, the Valentines are not even a distant cousin of the Sohma." Shigure sighed. "but then why do I feel so hostile towards the red head whenever I see him especially when he's close to Tohru-chan? I know for a fact that I don't love her, she cute and adorable and any guy would be lucky to have her, but I just can't see her as my wife."

Hatori nodded, Tohru was more like a mother than a wife. "That and you'll be a terrible husband" he injected in and it was like something stabbed Shigure in the heart.

" I'm not that bad!" Shigure exclaimed, hysterical.

"Yes, you are. You're lazy, you don't do your work on purpose, you drive your editor into thinking about suicide. Your basically the worst kind of adult" Hatori said, finishing Shigure off as he laid on the floor motionless. "Anyway, go and see Akito. He would clear all your confused thoughts" he said.

Shigure got up and the bright smile suddenly dimmed, it was not a happy thing to see Akito, everyone practically feared the day where they would have to visit the head of house because of how brutal his tongue was that reduced strong grown men into crying sobs.

Only Shigure wasn't that affected by Akito so he would usually talk to him on the other family members behalf.

"Okay, I'll go. I need to wish Akito a happy valentine day" Shigure said, much more mellow and bracing himself for the confrontation while Hatori just nodded, having stopped being affected so strongly by the head of house years ago.

Shigure walked out of the house and into the main house to find it dark and a figure sitting in the middle.

"Akio, you are the most important thing in the world"

And scene!

Sorry I haven't updated for a while, my life is hectic and I have less and less time to write up a new chapter so sorry for all those people that want me to update: God Gift To You (Writers block), Raised in Snow (writers block also and The Sold Ackerman) and I'm just getting my juices flowing for The Adventures of Elf Jellal. Next chapter it's a new year and Hatsu and Momiji come to the school!