Zodiac Doubles Chapter 18
Kyo watched as the car drove silently down the damp street. He could feel tears on the break of poring out but stopped them from falling when he heard someone behind him. "Kyo, are you going to be ok?" Kyo turned around and saw it was Kana. Kaiya and Kana had become close friends despite the age difference. "What do you want?" "Nothing, she's gone you know. She isn't coming back." "I know that. I just don't know why she left." "I think it caused her too much pain to stay. I could hear her crying sometimes in her room. One night, I came in to see what was wrong, she told me everything inside her heart that was troubling her. What had caused her so much pain. She said the only thing she had now was her music. A man came a few months ago and started recording her music and songs. When she was asked to go to Tokyo to pursue her career, she felt she had nothing left, nothing but her music and where ever it took her, that's where she would go. And that beautiful voice of hers took her to Tokyo. So she left. Hoping to leave her pain behind." "To leave me behind." "I guess after all she's been through in her life here, she needed to leave." "At least she didn't have to go through everything I had to in my life." "I wouldn't be so sure. Locked in a cage, beaten, raped, and heartbroken. Don't think her life was ever easier then yours. You think no one could ever understand you but what you don't understand is that the one person who has been through everything you have and more just left your life and you let it happen!" Kana said angrily. "How the hell is this my fault? She left on her own! She left Shigures, and went here then to Tokyo. Those were her choices, how is any of this my fault!?" Kyo yelled getting frustrated. "Do the words, 'I could care less about her or if she left' ring any bells?" Kana said mater-of-factly leaving Kyo to stand in the steadily pouring rain.
Kyo just stood in shocked silence. It was all his fault she left. He had said that at the dance at the end of high school, that was why she left. He had put her through all the pain and heart ach. It was he that caused her to cry so often at nights when she thought no one could hear.
Kyo started walking not really paying attention where his feet were leading him and ended up in front of what used to be Kaiyas room at the main house. He walked in and saw the empty room. It still smelled like Kaiya. Kyo walked over to the desk and picked up a picture frame face down on the desk. The glass on it was shattered and the picture was falling out. Kyo remembered when the picture was taken. It was taken of him and Kaiya at the big celebration the Sohmas had after the curse was broken. Kyo and Kaiya both had their arms around the others waist and Kaiyas head was leaning on the crook of Kyos arm. She smiled sweetly back at him through the shattered glass. Kyo pulled the picture out of the destroyed frame and saw something written on the back. It read: "It was never meant to be. Leave the past behind and start a new future."
Kyo sank onto the bed feeling weak. When he sat he found a piece of paper beneath the covers. Kyo took it out and read it. "You think things will turn out the way you want them too. That after all the pain and darkness there will be happiness waiting for you. You experience a moment of joy, thinking that from now on everything will be all right. That the one person you've found will give you eternal happiness and never leave your side. When all that comes crumbling down. Crushing every ray of hope left in your life. Seeing no way out of this hole your trapped in. The song, rushing in like a latter to help you out. Seeing this as the only way, taking it. Following my new dream my new hope and inspiration, the song leading me. Leave the past behind and follow your new future. Leaving Kyo behind, to follow my new future. Hoping to heal the shattered pieces of my broken heart, to heal the deadly scars on my body. He could care less about me. If I left or stayed, lived or died."
Kyo couldn't believe what he just read. Kaiya had obviously written it about her and how she felt. He still couldn't believe she was gone from his life forever. Then he suddenly stood up. "The airport!" he exclaimed and ran towards Hatori's office. "Hatori! I need to borrow your bike thanks!" he yelled grabbing Hatori's keys off the shelf and heading towards the garage.
Kyo revved up the engine to the motorcycle (Its not really Hatori's motorcycle, he's just keeping there for Haru. ^_- ) and headed towards the airport. He sped down the high way weaving in between cars and lanes hoping to get there as fast as he could. Kyo parked the motorcycle in air port parking and ran up the stairs to the terminal that was leaving for Tokyo. 'Please don't let her be gone' he pleaded.
"Last call for Tokyo, please board the plane now." A voice said over the intercom. Kaiya boarded the plane with a heavy sigh. She sat in her seat by the window looking blankly out. She saw a man in the window of the airport banging on the glass. She couldn't tell who he was or what he looked like though. 'I hope he finds who he's looking for.' The plane took off into the air.
Kyo banged on the glass of the airport. 'No, I cant believe she's gone.' Tears started to pour out of his eyes. "Kaiya. Come back. Kaiya." He whispered. Kyo walked somberly back to the airport parking lot and got on the bike and started back for the main house.
When Kyo got back to Shigures he was exhausted and depressed. He still had the picture and note in his pocket. "Kyo, your back. We were all so worried about you." Tohru said as Kyo walked through the door. Kyo stared up at her with a blank face. His eyes were red from tears and he was drenched from the falling rain outside. "Kaiya." He said in a small whisper before there was a loud poof of orange smoke and he turned into a cat. Tohru jumped a bit remembering that when they wanted to or in severe cases the Sohmas could still turn into their animal forms. Tohru called for Shigure who took Kyo up to his room to dry him incase he turned back on the way or something while Tohru took his damp clothes to the laundry room. In his jacket she found a folded note and the picture. Tohru knew almost instantly what the matter was with Kyo. She put Kyos clothes in the washer and took up a bowl of hot soup to Kyo. She opened the door to his room and saw a fully dressed Kyo sitting up in his bed. "Here, I found these in your jacket." Tohru said handing Kyo the note and picture. "Thanks" Kyo said taking the items as if they were treasures made of glass that would break at the slightest touch. "Are you going to be ok Kyo? Without Kaiya and everything. I mean, it was different when she moved out, but now that she is really gone. Are you going to be all right?" Kyo looked up at her with a face that said, 'how did you know' "I called the main house to see if Kaiya would come and see you, and Hatori told me."
Kyo looked back down at the picture in his hands and shrugged. Tohru hugged him tightly in comfort and left him alone.
Everyone was surprised the next morning when Kyo was back to his old self. They all thought his mood would stay like it was last night, but when they asked him about it all he said was, "Leave the past behind and start a new future." And left the room, grabbing his backpack as he went. No one knew where he was going with it but decided to leave him alone.
Kyo spent the rest of the day applying for a photography school. He liked taking pictures, he just never thought about it as a career. He showed them some of his skills with different cameras and after seeing his work; they accepted him into the school. They gave him a list of things he would need and the hours and days of studies. He was going to start in two weeks, he had two weeks to get everything he needed and find a cover story for where he was going all the time. He didn't want everyone knowing what he was up to. He just needed something to keep his mind busy and something of his own that no one would interfere in. Kyo looked in his bank account to see if there was enough money there for his studies as a photographer. He groaned as he realized he would need a job. And a high paying one at that. Kyo went over to Hatori's place next and asked him if he needed an assistant or anything. Hatori hired him and gave him a paying job, but it still wasn't going to be enough. He would have to find a way.
Over the course of the following months Kyos skills with a camera grew rapidly. He made money from working with Hatori and by selling some of his pictures. He later got an internship with a magazine. He did a model shoot for the front cover along with some of the other interns and the editor put his picture on the front page. That was when everyone found out. They all made a big deal out of it, now people in his family were asking him to take pictures for them. It all became too much for Kyo after a year of this kind of busy schedule, he was called to his boss's office at the magazine he now worked for.
"You wanted to see me Mr. Kinsho?" a now 20 year old Kyo said, a camera strapped around his neck. "Yes, please, sit down." Kyo sat in a seat across the table from his boss. "Kyo, you are one of the greatest photographers I have had in a long time. You are very gifted and I don't want to see that talent go to waist. I would like you to do two things for me. One, I want to do an article on out top photographer and then I want that photographer to take a job with a friend of mine in Tokyo." Kyo didn't know what to say. "Well? You up for it?" "Yes sir, thank you sir." "Good, I'll get that interview set up and you can pack your things. The magazine will be paying for your ticket to Tokyo." Kyo bowed left the office. When he stepped out everyone at the magazine cheered and threw confetti. Things like, "Congratulations man!" "Way to go!" "Awesome promotion Kyo!" were heard all around him. Kyo couldn't help but smile.
On the bus ride home, Kyo couldn't get something out of his head. It was one of the questions he was asked for the article.
~*~Flashback~*~
"Mr. Sohma, what inspired you to become a photographer?" Kyo was silent for a moment before speaking. "It was a picture I came across, a little over a year ago. It was of a good friend. It was the only picture I had of her, and when I looked at the picture, something sparked in me and I just followed my passion from a long time ago for photography and, well, here I am." "And what happened to this mystery girl in the picture?" Another long silence, "She left, a long time ago. She left her past and made a new future for herself."
~*~End flashback~*~
Kyo sat on the bus, ignoring the side-glances he got and walked off the buss at his stop. He got to Shigures house and told them all he was leaving for Tokyo in a few days. "When are you coming back?" "Im not, Im going there to take a job offer and I don't plan on coming back. This is my ticket out of here and Im taking it." Kyo said bitterly going up the stairs to his room. There he took out the old picture of him and Kaiya and stared at it.
As the wheel of fate turns, arising the futures tides, two figures in destinies oar less boat, sail closer back together on waves of time.
Kyo watched as the car drove silently down the damp street. He could feel tears on the break of poring out but stopped them from falling when he heard someone behind him. "Kyo, are you going to be ok?" Kyo turned around and saw it was Kana. Kaiya and Kana had become close friends despite the age difference. "What do you want?" "Nothing, she's gone you know. She isn't coming back." "I know that. I just don't know why she left." "I think it caused her too much pain to stay. I could hear her crying sometimes in her room. One night, I came in to see what was wrong, she told me everything inside her heart that was troubling her. What had caused her so much pain. She said the only thing she had now was her music. A man came a few months ago and started recording her music and songs. When she was asked to go to Tokyo to pursue her career, she felt she had nothing left, nothing but her music and where ever it took her, that's where she would go. And that beautiful voice of hers took her to Tokyo. So she left. Hoping to leave her pain behind." "To leave me behind." "I guess after all she's been through in her life here, she needed to leave." "At least she didn't have to go through everything I had to in my life." "I wouldn't be so sure. Locked in a cage, beaten, raped, and heartbroken. Don't think her life was ever easier then yours. You think no one could ever understand you but what you don't understand is that the one person who has been through everything you have and more just left your life and you let it happen!" Kana said angrily. "How the hell is this my fault? She left on her own! She left Shigures, and went here then to Tokyo. Those were her choices, how is any of this my fault!?" Kyo yelled getting frustrated. "Do the words, 'I could care less about her or if she left' ring any bells?" Kana said mater-of-factly leaving Kyo to stand in the steadily pouring rain.
Kyo just stood in shocked silence. It was all his fault she left. He had said that at the dance at the end of high school, that was why she left. He had put her through all the pain and heart ach. It was he that caused her to cry so often at nights when she thought no one could hear.
Kyo started walking not really paying attention where his feet were leading him and ended up in front of what used to be Kaiyas room at the main house. He walked in and saw the empty room. It still smelled like Kaiya. Kyo walked over to the desk and picked up a picture frame face down on the desk. The glass on it was shattered and the picture was falling out. Kyo remembered when the picture was taken. It was taken of him and Kaiya at the big celebration the Sohmas had after the curse was broken. Kyo and Kaiya both had their arms around the others waist and Kaiyas head was leaning on the crook of Kyos arm. She smiled sweetly back at him through the shattered glass. Kyo pulled the picture out of the destroyed frame and saw something written on the back. It read: "It was never meant to be. Leave the past behind and start a new future."
Kyo sank onto the bed feeling weak. When he sat he found a piece of paper beneath the covers. Kyo took it out and read it. "You think things will turn out the way you want them too. That after all the pain and darkness there will be happiness waiting for you. You experience a moment of joy, thinking that from now on everything will be all right. That the one person you've found will give you eternal happiness and never leave your side. When all that comes crumbling down. Crushing every ray of hope left in your life. Seeing no way out of this hole your trapped in. The song, rushing in like a latter to help you out. Seeing this as the only way, taking it. Following my new dream my new hope and inspiration, the song leading me. Leave the past behind and follow your new future. Leaving Kyo behind, to follow my new future. Hoping to heal the shattered pieces of my broken heart, to heal the deadly scars on my body. He could care less about me. If I left or stayed, lived or died."
Kyo couldn't believe what he just read. Kaiya had obviously written it about her and how she felt. He still couldn't believe she was gone from his life forever. Then he suddenly stood up. "The airport!" he exclaimed and ran towards Hatori's office. "Hatori! I need to borrow your bike thanks!" he yelled grabbing Hatori's keys off the shelf and heading towards the garage.
Kyo revved up the engine to the motorcycle (Its not really Hatori's motorcycle, he's just keeping there for Haru. ^_- ) and headed towards the airport. He sped down the high way weaving in between cars and lanes hoping to get there as fast as he could. Kyo parked the motorcycle in air port parking and ran up the stairs to the terminal that was leaving for Tokyo. 'Please don't let her be gone' he pleaded.
"Last call for Tokyo, please board the plane now." A voice said over the intercom. Kaiya boarded the plane with a heavy sigh. She sat in her seat by the window looking blankly out. She saw a man in the window of the airport banging on the glass. She couldn't tell who he was or what he looked like though. 'I hope he finds who he's looking for.' The plane took off into the air.
Kyo banged on the glass of the airport. 'No, I cant believe she's gone.' Tears started to pour out of his eyes. "Kaiya. Come back. Kaiya." He whispered. Kyo walked somberly back to the airport parking lot and got on the bike and started back for the main house.
When Kyo got back to Shigures he was exhausted and depressed. He still had the picture and note in his pocket. "Kyo, your back. We were all so worried about you." Tohru said as Kyo walked through the door. Kyo stared up at her with a blank face. His eyes were red from tears and he was drenched from the falling rain outside. "Kaiya." He said in a small whisper before there was a loud poof of orange smoke and he turned into a cat. Tohru jumped a bit remembering that when they wanted to or in severe cases the Sohmas could still turn into their animal forms. Tohru called for Shigure who took Kyo up to his room to dry him incase he turned back on the way or something while Tohru took his damp clothes to the laundry room. In his jacket she found a folded note and the picture. Tohru knew almost instantly what the matter was with Kyo. She put Kyos clothes in the washer and took up a bowl of hot soup to Kyo. She opened the door to his room and saw a fully dressed Kyo sitting up in his bed. "Here, I found these in your jacket." Tohru said handing Kyo the note and picture. "Thanks" Kyo said taking the items as if they were treasures made of glass that would break at the slightest touch. "Are you going to be ok Kyo? Without Kaiya and everything. I mean, it was different when she moved out, but now that she is really gone. Are you going to be all right?" Kyo looked up at her with a face that said, 'how did you know' "I called the main house to see if Kaiya would come and see you, and Hatori told me."
Kyo looked back down at the picture in his hands and shrugged. Tohru hugged him tightly in comfort and left him alone.
Everyone was surprised the next morning when Kyo was back to his old self. They all thought his mood would stay like it was last night, but when they asked him about it all he said was, "Leave the past behind and start a new future." And left the room, grabbing his backpack as he went. No one knew where he was going with it but decided to leave him alone.
Kyo spent the rest of the day applying for a photography school. He liked taking pictures, he just never thought about it as a career. He showed them some of his skills with different cameras and after seeing his work; they accepted him into the school. They gave him a list of things he would need and the hours and days of studies. He was going to start in two weeks, he had two weeks to get everything he needed and find a cover story for where he was going all the time. He didn't want everyone knowing what he was up to. He just needed something to keep his mind busy and something of his own that no one would interfere in. Kyo looked in his bank account to see if there was enough money there for his studies as a photographer. He groaned as he realized he would need a job. And a high paying one at that. Kyo went over to Hatori's place next and asked him if he needed an assistant or anything. Hatori hired him and gave him a paying job, but it still wasn't going to be enough. He would have to find a way.
Over the course of the following months Kyos skills with a camera grew rapidly. He made money from working with Hatori and by selling some of his pictures. He later got an internship with a magazine. He did a model shoot for the front cover along with some of the other interns and the editor put his picture on the front page. That was when everyone found out. They all made a big deal out of it, now people in his family were asking him to take pictures for them. It all became too much for Kyo after a year of this kind of busy schedule, he was called to his boss's office at the magazine he now worked for.
"You wanted to see me Mr. Kinsho?" a now 20 year old Kyo said, a camera strapped around his neck. "Yes, please, sit down." Kyo sat in a seat across the table from his boss. "Kyo, you are one of the greatest photographers I have had in a long time. You are very gifted and I don't want to see that talent go to waist. I would like you to do two things for me. One, I want to do an article on out top photographer and then I want that photographer to take a job with a friend of mine in Tokyo." Kyo didn't know what to say. "Well? You up for it?" "Yes sir, thank you sir." "Good, I'll get that interview set up and you can pack your things. The magazine will be paying for your ticket to Tokyo." Kyo bowed left the office. When he stepped out everyone at the magazine cheered and threw confetti. Things like, "Congratulations man!" "Way to go!" "Awesome promotion Kyo!" were heard all around him. Kyo couldn't help but smile.
On the bus ride home, Kyo couldn't get something out of his head. It was one of the questions he was asked for the article.
~*~Flashback~*~
"Mr. Sohma, what inspired you to become a photographer?" Kyo was silent for a moment before speaking. "It was a picture I came across, a little over a year ago. It was of a good friend. It was the only picture I had of her, and when I looked at the picture, something sparked in me and I just followed my passion from a long time ago for photography and, well, here I am." "And what happened to this mystery girl in the picture?" Another long silence, "She left, a long time ago. She left her past and made a new future for herself."
~*~End flashback~*~
Kyo sat on the bus, ignoring the side-glances he got and walked off the buss at his stop. He got to Shigures house and told them all he was leaving for Tokyo in a few days. "When are you coming back?" "Im not, Im going there to take a job offer and I don't plan on coming back. This is my ticket out of here and Im taking it." Kyo said bitterly going up the stairs to his room. There he took out the old picture of him and Kaiya and stared at it.
As the wheel of fate turns, arising the futures tides, two figures in destinies oar less boat, sail closer back together on waves of time.