Chapter Five

A New Order

Tohru couldn't believe what she saw.  Standing right before her was her one true love, Yuki Sohma.  Every moment of the past few years had been thinking of him.  But why was it so hard now?

"Honda-san?  Tohru…"

She could only smile.  "Hello Prince Yuki."

"Don't…  Why are you crying Tohru?"

Tears streamed down her face as she spoke.  "I-I don't know."

Without thinking he embraced her and for a moment she was happy.

"Oh!  Yuki I'm so sorry!  I wasn't thinking.  I completely forgot.  Please forgive me.  I'm so sorry!"

"Tohru, please.  It was me.  I hugged you, remember?" the small rat reminded her.

"I know, but I'm so sorry!"

The other zodiac members had gone off to talk with the other Sohmas.  Tohru didn't care at this moment though.  All she cared was that Yuki was here and she was finally with him.

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Tohru blushed as he changed back in a poof of smoke.  "Tohru, there is so much I want to talk to you about."

"And I, you Yuki."

"So then let us leave this place.  None of the family will care.  They all know by now…"

All he wanted was to have her be close to him again.  To talk to her and tell her everything; the pain, the nights of tears, the longing, and everything else that had happened.

But she shook her head.  "No, you remember the day after Kyo changed into the original cat form?"  He nodded.  "I told Akito that we would be sad for him if he died."

"Even after what he did to us?!?"

"Yes, Yuki.  Even after he hurt me and called me those horrible things.  Even though I am glad he is gone, and I am still sad that he is gone.  We will stay."

Yuki knew that he wouldn't understand what went through Tohru's head that day, but it didn't matter.  She was here now and he wasn't letting her hand go.

*****

After they finally lay Akito into his grave Tohru and Yuki were ready to be on their way, but Shigure stopped them.  "Where are you two going?"

"Away.  We're done with Akito and everything he's done to us," Yuki stated simply, the stupid dog should know this by now.

"You cannot leave yet Yuki!  We haven't decided on a new clan head."

"It don't care who the new clan head is.  It can be you for all I care."

Tears streamed down Shigure's face.  "Ah Yuki!  I'm so touched that you would even think of me as the new clan head.  And you Tohru??  Would you pick me as well???"

"Err…"

More tears.  "OH!!!  Thank you so much Tohru!!!"

This dog is dumber than he appears, Yuki thought.  "Fine.  Let's just pick a clan head so Tohru and I can finally leave."

Shigure took Tohru's hand in his and Yuki's in the other and skipped off with the two giving each other a questioning look.

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When they arrived at the Main House all of the Sohmas were seated at a large table.  Tohru had only been to the Main House a few times, but she was always in aw of it.  And there were so many Sohmas!  She had never even heard of half of them before.

However, they had heard of her.  Each and everyone wanted to shake her hand and meet her for themselves.  Tohru just nodded politely and stared with a glazed over look in her eyes.

"Enough!" a Sohma called out.  He must have been in a hurry as well.  "Let's get on with it."

"Yes, let's," Shigure agreed.

Kyo had been roped into passing out small pieces of paper to each family member while Haru followed with pencils.

Tohru could only look on as the Sohmas each wrote something down and handed the papers to Shigure.

"Is that all of them?" A pause.  "Yes?  Okay good!"

Shigure and Hatori began to count the ballots, calling out a few names every so often.  Well, at least Shigure did along with a comment.

"Oh!  Yuki you did vote for me!  How touching!" and "Kisa!  You know that you can't vote for Tohru.  She's a girl, and not a Sohma," were just a couple.

The other Sohmas talked quietly until Hatori announced that they had finished counting all the votes.

"So?  Who's the new clan head?" the same Sohma man from earlier asked.

"The new clan head is…  Yuki."