My Greatest Wish

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Ooh~! I made another Yukiru fic! This is all syaowee's fault! Her stories just inspired me to be a Yukiru fan!!!

Gomenasai, syao-chan. I hope you're reading this, even though you have problems in connecting to the internet.

My third Yukiru fic! I hope everyone would read this (and also will review. I'm a bit jealous to people who get lots of reviews… that includes SYAO-CHAN!!!)

Ehehe… let's begin, ne?

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Like an angel out the sky, you came

Clearing up all the clouds, the sadness and the rain

So pure and healing was the love you bring

I knew inside… it felt so right…

For me, I struggled all my life

To find that thing that makes it right

With you it seems I may have found

Some other kind of love---

"Shut up!!!" Kyou barged in angrily at Shigure's office. The novelist looked at the angry neko who was carrying a huge broomstick on his hand.

"What's wrong with singing?" he asked as he started writing again innocently.

"What's wrong?! You're scaring the animals away!" he stomped across the room and forced Shigure to look at him. "Also, that's a love song!"

"What wrong with it?" Kagura peeked inside the room. "I like it. It's Jennifer Lopez' song, Again." She sighed dreamily.

"I know! And it's WAY OUT of tune!" Kyou pointed.

"What's wrong with singing such song? Mit-chan said that singing could increase your imagination. It helps one reach out more to the blissful haven of fantasy." He adjusted his glasses and placed a hand on his chest. "It gives a positive premonition of love and life."

"Yeah," a voice came. "It makes you insane, for short."

"YUKI!" Kagura pouted as she stared at her cousin who was walking towards her. "Don't think like that! True, it's a love song, and it also triggers a spot in your heart. It enables a person to understand what love really means."

"What did you just eat, Kagura?" he asked coldly. "Or is the effect of Shigure's poor intonation?"

"You're so mean to me, Yuki." The dog said groggily. "I'm just singing to get my work done. My beautiful but persuasive editor kept on calling me about this next story and I haven't started anything!"

"Then, start writing now, baka." The younger Sohma muttered. He approached the door and opened it for himself. "I'm getting fresh air for a while."

"Ne, kuso nezumi! What about our battle?!" Kyou waved his fists. "I'm sure that I'll win this time!"

He looked over his shoulder. "Save your strength, baka neko. I'm not in a mood for fighting."

"Demo---"

"You should be thankful that I refuse to fight you." He grinned. "I might kill you once I do."

"NEZUMI!!!"

"Stop it, Kyou-kun!" Kagura shouted and blocked his way. Instead of hitting Yuki, Kyou clumsily hit her on the face. She fell down in front of him and it seems like he had no intention to help her up.

"That's what you get from barging in a fight." Kyou hissed. She sat up and looked at him with her dark eyes. She clenched her fists, quickly stood up and slapped him arrogantly in the face.

"DO you know who are you dealing with?!" she yelled as she kept on punching Kyou.

Shigure laughed completely at the common scene that he found. "Ne, Kagura-san, can I use this scene in my novel, if you don't mind?"

"Sure… I would be very happy… to tell the women… all over the world…" she said in between punches. "… that men… have no right… to hurt women… like that!" she kicked Kyou on the stomach, which knocked him unconscious. "Just right it good, ne?"

"Oh… sure, whatever you say." The novelist nodded obediently. "I guess you have to clean him up, ne?"

"Sure, I'll handle it." She stood up excitingly and looked down at the beaten neko, strangled on the floor. "I'll take care of him until he wakes up."

He sweatdropped. "Kagura-san, you sure loved Kyou in a different way."

"That's me! Always original!" she winked.

The novelist laughed again as she literally dragged the poor neko across the room. He looked for Yuki whom he thought was still standing there, watching them. But, as he expected, the present Sohma clan head already ran off.

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"Yuki…" a voice made him look up. "Please… come this way…"

He submissively followed the doctor towards a room in the Sohma main house. There he saw a person lying on a futon. He looked frail and almost dying. But he never gave a pitiful reaction in his face.

"Yuki, Akito will die soon." Another person whispered on his ear. "It's time to choose a different clan head."

He stood there stiffly as he stared at Akito, who was also dimly staring at him. With all the strength he had, the dying Akito stretched out his arm and pointed at the 17-year-old Sohma.

"Yuki…" he murmured. "…will be my replacement, as a clan head."

Still as possible, Yuki looked away from Akito's order. The rest of the people inside the room were silent, after he declared the new clan head.

"Don't fail me, Yuki." He whispered huskily as his arm started to feel numb and weak. He dropped his arm on the floor, and remained completely still as death took away his last breath.

"Sohma Yuki…" a whisper was heard. After the burial of Akito, the Sohmas gathered in groups to talk about the upcoming problems, after Akito's 'immoral' declaration.

"Why would Akito chose such weak and strange child?"

"I heard that Hatori should be the one who'll replace him, but that doctor once loved an outsider." A reply came. "Akito dismissed and forced the doctor to erase this girl's memory."

"I heard that he will marry her but Akito denied his request."

"He did that but soon after, his will as a subordinate wore off. That's why he chose the next coldest person in line: Sohma Yuki."

"Poor boy. His mother was killed because of her misjudgment of Akito. But he was the one who took care of him personally."

"I say that he can be a great leader."

"But what can we expect from a cold hearted boy who cannot even love his own life? How can he protect the curse that was passed down?"

"That… is something very unpredictable…"

Yuki stood before the grave of Akito and cursedly looked at the carved words on the tombstone.

Sohma Akito, A firm but patient Clan Head with a lot of perseverance. Your works will not be put to waste. Your voice that leads us will be heard forever. You will never be forgotten in the eyes of the Sohmas of the next generation and so forth. We love you.

"Do we?" Yuki whispered. "You're a burden. All of this we engraved on your death is a lie. As the matter of fact, your life and your teachings are all lies."

But still, he knelt in front of it and lighted a candle. "I might be considered as fool for doing this but… it's been a year since a candle wasn't lighted here." He whispered. "I guess I had no choice but to visit you, Akito-san, since you and I are quite the same."

He looked beyond the grave and saw numerous birds feeding on worms found on the futile soil. He smiled as he saw such disgusting but interesting sight. "You told me once that I shouldn't waste my time looking for love. Instead, I should think how I could get through this burden… this curse… just like bird." He looked at his own hands as her clasped the soil on the ground. "If I had to, I should do selfish acts for my own safety, just like you did to Hatori. You thought that Kana shouldn't be trusted so…"

"Ne…" he heard a voice behind him. He stood up, turned around and was about to tackle the person but stopped as soon as he saw who he is.

A girl about his age, stood before him. She leaned against a tree and was gasping for breath. She wore unusual clothes but still, it was nearly ripped off. Her arms and legs are filled with bruises and there was a painful look on her face. Yuki couldn't help but stare at her pitifully.

"G-Gomenasai." She stuttered silently. "I'm… kind-of… lost. Do you know… the way out of the forest?"

"Yes, just head east and…" he stopped as she coughed continuously, "Are you alright?"

"They're… after me… but I ran away." She smiled weakly. She coughed again but this time, blood came out from her mouth. She took a cloth from her pocket and wiped it off her mouth. "Where's the main road, again?"

"It's… this way." He pointed at his right. "Just go straight and you'll see a light brown path."

"Thank you..," she whispered. When she was about to take a step, she almost lost her balance. He approached her quickly and held her up.

"It's too dangerous to proceed alone. You should stop by at my house." I can't believe I just said that!

"I… shouldn't get you involved." She whispered.

"You're wounded badly." He said. "I know a doctor that can help you. In the meantime, please… rest at my house."

"I… shouldn't…. get… you involved…Akito…"

"Huh?" he asked. "What do you mean?"

Before she could answer, she completely lost her balance and fell on his arms. He, unknowingly, twisted his foot and lost his balance as well, and he fell on the ground hard on his back. He winced out in pain but it bothered him. What bothered him more was the girl, miraculously, was on top of him!

God this is not happening. He sat up and stared at her. I didn't transform!

"This is a dream." He murmured. But his words had done nothing on what he sees right now. There's no other evidence other than this. He was completely huggled by a girl whom he didn't know and yet, he didn't transform.

"What does this mean?" he asked himself. He glanced at Akito's grave. "Do you know something that I don't Akito-san?"

"Mmm…" the girl hummed in her sleep. He stared at her for quite a while. Then, he stood up with her in his arms and walked away from the burial grounds.

This girl must be the secret of Jyunishi.

That's why we didn't transform.

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"Ooh~!" Shigure cooed as he glanced on Yuki's room, where the mysterious girl was laid quietly on his bed. "Who's the lucky girl?"

"Shut up and call Hatori." He said coldly.

"Who is she?" Kagura asked.

"I don't know… but she needs my help." He stared at the doorway, where two pairs of worried eyes stared him back. "What's wrong?"

"It's… very unusual of you…" Shigure wondered. "Are you okay?"

"CALL HATORI OR ANY DOCTOR!!!"

"Yes!" he replied quickly.

"Who did this to her?" Kagura approached the bed and looked at Yuki.

"I don't know… but there's something else that bothers me." His face became serious. "She called me Akito…"

"You looked like him, silly." The other Sohma giggled.

"That's not it. When she fell on me," he stopped and wondered. "I didn't transform."

Kagura stopped laughing and stared at him. "Really?"

"Yes."

"She must be some kind of … a androgynous freak."

"I don't think so. It looks like she's more than that." He sat at the side of the bed and touched her forehead. "She's out of this world."

Just as he touched her, her body shone brightly and they were forced to back off.

"What's this light?"

"I don't know. But whatever it is, it came from that girl!" Yuki yelled as the light shone luminously. After a few seconds, the light disappeared, and so did the bruises and wounds on her body. They stared helplessly. What happened?

"Ahh…huh?" The girl sat up and sleepily stared at the shocked faces in front of her. "Ano… what happened?"

"Y-You're in my house…" Yuki answered.

"I see. You're the guy that I saw back at the forest and…" she examined her body closely. "Who… who touched me?"

"Uh… he did." Kagura pushed Yuki toward her, like he was some sort of sacrifice.

"What do you want?" he asked coldly.

"Nothing else but," She stood up and knelt in front of the clan head. "your trust as my master."

"Nani?!" Kagura asked. "Who are you, anyway?"

"Me?" the girl wondered and smiled. "I'm a goddess."

"NANI?!" the two shouted in front of her.

This can't be. Yuki wondered. Why is a goddess bowing in front of me?