"First Love"

Chapter4: The Aloofness Within

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I want to hold her,

Touch her,

Love her...

Before... I run out of time.

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He climbed out of his cousin's car.

Looking at the Main House, it brought back many painful memories. At least

he wouldn't have to see them again, maybe... never again.

He rang the doorbell.

The door opened a small crack, then suddenly, a Sohma popped up from behind.

"Welcome home Yuki! Welcome home!" Momiji cried out joyfully. "Where's Shigure? I thought he would be coming with you?"

"...I wanted him to stay home, so he did," Yuki told him, but skipped the reasons and the details.

"Okay... come on in!" Momiji ignored Yuki's aloofness and dragged him inside.

The Main House was wonderful indeed. It was as quiet as a forest; however, Yuki didn't like it a bit. In fact, every inch of this house disgusted him, every last inch.

While Momiji went to get Hatori, Yuki sat on the floor to think, just think... about... her.

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"Tohru-kun... would you mind sitting down and quit worrying about Yuki instead of pacing around like that? 'Cause I'm getting kind of dizzy here."

Shigure couldn't stand it as Tohru kept on walking in circles in front of him, it was driving him mad.

Tohru, too lost in thought, worrying about Yuki, didn't hear a word from him.

"TOHRU-KUN!!" Shigure finally put down his newspaper and yelled.



"Huh?" Tohru turned around to face Shigure, bringing her out of her thoughts, wondering over the possibilities of what Akito was going to do to Yuki.

Shigure sighed. "There's no use worrying about him Tohru-kun, he'll be okay," he said, but deep down, he too was worried about Yuki, hoping that he would come back safely, or even to simply come back.

"I hope so, Shigure-san, I hope so..." Tohru looked up to the sky, remembering something suddenly. "Does any of this have something to do with what happened yesterday?"

"What are you talking about?" Shigure looked over at Tohru quizzically.

"Didn't Yuki seem depressed to you last night? During dinner, his face was really down, and..."

Tohru looked more saddened than ever. "And it seemed like he was trying to avoid me."

Shigure looked at Tohru sadly, he didn't wanted to tell her the real reason of why Yuki was trying to avoid her... He noticed that too, so he asked him that night while he told him about the phone call.

*Flash back*

"Leave me alone! I saw them kiss! You happy now?! Is that what you wanted to know?!" Yuki couldn't handled it any more; he broke down and cried.

His chest started to ache again. He grabbed a handful of his blanket, thinking that maybe it would make him felt better, maybe it could help him forget the pain, and forget about her.

But it didn't, his chest just ached more and more.

Shigure just watched him then started to move toward the door. When he stepped out into the hall, he closed the door behind him and sighed.

He knew that he should leave Yuki alone right now, until he felt better.

Until then...

*End of flash back*

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"He wanted to talk to you... alone..."

Yuki thought over what Hatori told him earlier and walked down toward Akito's room, that monster's room (Sorry but I HATE Akito... If he were ugly, I would hate him even more! Wait... I thought he already WAS ugly...THAT'S IT! I HATE HIM!) ( Editor: ....I don't think he's ugly... But I

don't like him.... He's meeeaaan~~ personally, I think he's a pansy-@$$ SOB =P) ).

Opening the door to his chamber, Yuki quivered in fear, horror, /dread/. He walked slowly, making sure that he didn't make any noise until his eyes get used to the dark.

He saw him. He was lying on the floor with his eyes half closed.

"You are here Yuki, my beautiful, precious Yuki..." Akito's voice sent chills running down Yuki's spine.

"Yes," Yuki managed to say without falling down onto his knees. "What is it that you sent for me for?"

Akito laughed.

Yuki shivered; he didn't like the sound of his laughter. It sounded harsh, as if he were simply making noise rise up from his throat.

Yuki waited until he stopped.

"Oh Yuki, Yuki... Do I have to have a need for you just so I can talk with you? You little idiot..." Akito, who seemed to be smiling, told the cause of his chuckles.

Yuki gave him a smile, the best smile he could put on... for him."Now, why don't you ask Hatori to take your clothes and other things from Shigure's house? I want to talk to you more often," Akito asked, or rather, ordered.

Yuki froze for a moment or more, but then as he quickly stepped out of that dark gloomy room, he realized that it would be better that way. If he went back to Shigure's house, it would only remind him of the pain. He needed sometime to cool down, to think what was best for her, to let go of his

feelings for her.

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She cried.

After hearing what Hatori said, she cried. She couldn't believe that Akito was going to take someone so important to her away. She didn't believe it, she refused to believe it. She COULDN'T believe it.

She kept on crying and crying... No one could stem her tears. She missed him already... His smile, his every movement, his voice... everything about him, she missed.

She couldn't imagine what her life would be like without him... It would be painful, miserable, and lonely... Nothing good that was certain...

She didn't even try to stop Hatori from packing his stuff, however. She didn't want to burden him with her sorrow.

Shigure pat her on the shoulder, trying to comfort her. If it wasn't for that stupid curse, he might be able to let her cry on his shoulder, in his arms (Shigure thought that from the bottom of his heart...whoever is reading this right now and holding up a chair, screaming at him to back off,

CALM DOWN!) (Editor: Wow, that really lightens up the mood. ^__^ ...Oh...

sorry... continue reading... *bow*). Maybe that would make her feel better, maybe things would have worked out better too...

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Watching the sky, Kyo lay on the roof again. He heard the news today from Hatori. Even though he hated Yuki with a passion, he still didn't really want him to leave. He knew how it felt to sleep under the same roof as the person that disgusted you the most. He wished sometimes that Yuki

could just take control of his OWN life instead of letting Akito play with it... But then again, every cursed member of the Sohma's were all under Akito's control, even himself.

He sighed. Now Yuki was gone and graduation was getting closer every second, the expiration date of his freedom and the time in which he'll be locked up in complete and utter darkness, for the rest of his life...(Doesn't he need to beat Yuki up so he can keep his freedom?) What was

he going to do? And more importantly... what was SHE (not Kagura! Tohru!) going to do? As his thoughts went deeper, he fell asleep, with a 39 degrees high temperature following him... (Editor: _ Celcius, right?)

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Writer's Note: Don't you think ths chapter is kinda...poemish? I think so...like...details aren't alot but...it is kinda poemish...REALLY poemish...I was just thinking about

making this chapter the opening for the NEXT chapter which would be up...sooner or later...

By the way if you know what I am talking about in the ending sentence...review me and tell me (another trick pulled by me to get more reviews heh)...

Editor: _ I wasn't even sure what Kimiku-san meant by the ending of this chapter... *is completely and utterly BLANK* And YES, I edited two chapters in a row...! *does victory dance* I'd do chapter five too right now... but my brother's going to install the Ethernet card on my computer.... So, ja ne minna-san~ ^__^