Ok I know I said in one of the other chapters I'd make a sequel or make the
story longer if you wanted me to, but I was already on my train of thought
and I kept typing and now this is the last chapter. I'd make a sequel for
you, but I don't think I'd be able to.
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~*Chapter 6: I Love You; The End*~
"So Kyo, you know what's going on with Panther?" Momiji was pondering on the question before he finally let it out. Nodding his head, Kyo sighed.
"She doesn't want me to tell, ok? She made me promise not to tell anyone." Kyo lay on the house porch with his eyes closed.
"Oh come on Kyo, what if she'll get hurt? C'mon tell us!" Momiji pleaded sitting next Tohru. Everyone was in the room, everyone except Panther that is.
"Kyo, you know what my sister's going to be doing? Please, tell me. What is she going to do? Will it involve her getting hurt?" Tohru choked on tears of fear. Opening his eyes and looking deeply into Tohru's, Kyo gave in to the cries.
"Fine, I'll tell you." He looked up in the sky and started explaining.
"She told me," Panther walked in the rain down a street, "that she knew Akito when she was little. They were close friends."
He continued to explain while during this time, not there, Panther walked under the gray clouds. She finally reached the Sohma Mansion.
"Akito told her about our curse. When he did, Panther's parents were spying on them..." His explanation continued as the rain started to blow a little onto the porch. He went inside and slid the door shut. Unknown to everyone, exactly when he shut the Sohma house door, the doors to the Sohma Mansion opened.
Panther walked pass Hatori's house and to Akito's. Hatori stood from his house watching with bewildered eyes. He followed her from behind. Panther didn't stop until she got to where Akito was. Hatori stood behind the door and spied on the two. Meanwhile, in the Sohma house, they were still talking about Panther and Akito.
"So then...that's how Akito became the way he is now?" Shigure looked surprised. Kyo nodded his head; all of them wondered what Panther WAS doing.
Standing up, Akito turned to face Panther. Smiling, he walked over to his old friend. She stood in silence, glaring at the man before her.
"Panther, do you know how old I am?" He asked for no reason in particular.
"Eighteen."
"And you're fourteen, correct? Four years younger than me, yet I can't..."
"Akito, why are you doing this?" Panther asked in a firm voice.
"Hmm yes, why am I doing this?"
"Is it because of my father and uncle? Akito,"
"DON'T YOU EVER REMIND ME OF THEM, EVER!" Akito yelled at her. Hatori watched in amazement when Akito didn't bother hitting the girl. Usually when one said or did something to upset him, he'd hit them.
"Akito," Back in the Shigure's house, they were getting angry at the fact that Panther had to deal with Akito alone. They didn't know what she was going to do.
"Why Akito? So you can live the rest of your life acting like a psycho?"
"Shut up!" Akito ordered, but she did not heed.
"Well? Are you going to answer me or just stand there?"
"SHUT UP!" Akito's anger grew.
"What is she doing?" Hatori whispered to himself from his hiding spot and continued to watch.
"Akito, you've already killed my whole family!" Choking on tears, she waited.
"YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DID TO ME! LEAVE ME ALONE!" He grabbed his head in pain. "WHY DO YOU WISH TO HURT ME PANTHER? WHY!"
"I don't wish to hurt you Akito, you're the one who's been trying to hurt me. You've threatened me; you've killed the rest of my family, WHO DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT THE CURSE, AND TO TOP IT ALL OF, YOU HAUNTED ME IN MY DREAMS! ON PURPOSE! And made it seem like I was DEAD!" Panther glared with hatred at the man before her.
"SHUT UP! I don't care if that happened to you I don't care! YOU HURT ME FIRST! YOU DESPISED ME PANTHER...you detested me. After you promised not to, you did...you avoided me like you promised you wouldn't." He dropped to his knees holding his head letting the tears flow. Staring in shock, Panther dropped to her knees as well.
"Oh my gosh...you mean, you hated me...because-because you thought I hated...you?" Her body started shaking as she watched Akito cry. Tears formed as she reached out to touch Akito. Hatori from his hiding place arched an eyebrow in curiosity, he'd figure everything out later, but right now he was busy watching this.
"Akito, I'm so sorry. I-I didn't know that was- I thought you were avoiding me. I started to avoid you a little too because you killed my family," She took her hand back and covered pat of her face.
"Akito, listen to me. You killed my father and uncle Loony, they deserved that, but when you went after the rest of my family... I don't know, I just thought that you'd try to come after me too. I didn't like the fact that you killed most of my family, true, I mean after all, you could've just gotten Hatori to erase their memories. But you didn't, so I just thought that you were trying to hurt me somehow and that, when you'd run out of victims, you'd come after me..."
"I was trying to hurt you somehow. The day I killed your family, here, was two days after I escaped from the lab. Every time I tried contacting you, I always got the machine, and you never called back. So I went crazy because of what happened and because you broke your promise." Akito's tears came to a halt while he quietly spoke. Panther's eyes became soft as her tears streamed down her cheeks.
"Akito, after you killed my father and Loony, I was sent to go stay with the rest of my family. I thought you said your blood being mixed with mine helped you know what I've been doing."
"I didn't try it at that time." Panther chuckled catching Akito's attention.
"I've never really hated you, Akito, just afraid."
"Afraid? But...oh." He looked like he was about to cry again when Panther flung herself onto the man before her.
"I don't hate you Akito. I don't."
"Y-you don't?" He stared down at Panther, watching her, as she shook her head no. Smiling, Akito gently returned the hug.
"Panther, I wanna tell you something-
"Okay, but it better be the truth and the WHOLE truth, got it?" The two parted and Akito nodded.
"Let's go for a walk though, okay?" She nodded with a smile. Akito went to change into his turtleneck and blue jeans. When he was done, Hatori left for Shigure's house and the other two went on their walk.
They walked around smelling the sweet grass as the clouds cleared away. The sun shone brightly in the sky. Akito pondered in his thoughts of what to say to Panther while they were at an ice cream parlor. Once she got her ice cream, the continued their walk heading towards Shigure's place.
"Mm. This is good!" Panther licked her sherbet ice cream. "Want some?" Akito looked at it.
'I've never had that flavor before, but she always seemed to pick that one.' Akito took the ice cream cone and licked the ice cream. Apparently he licked too much of it and received a brain freeze.
"Ha, ha! Sorry, but that's funny. By the way, what did you want to tell me?" Smiling, Akito took a glance at her.
"Well, earlier when I was comparing our ages...I admit I like you a lot. Perhaps even love you, but I don't know how you feel about? You probably wouldn't even dare to even try to like me that way, after everything I've done and my age too. Four years apart, you're still a student and I'm an adult-
"Okay well first of all Romeo, I can't believe you forgot my birthday is tomorrow. You just turned 18 so...Secondly, you're right. Our age difference is pretty big, but only by a few; that's not bad. And lastly, don't ever jump to conclusions when it comes to my feelings, got it? Because you know what?" She finished most of her ice cream before speaking again.
"I do like you, aside from your psychoness from before, the part of you I DO know, I like a lot. And hopefully you haven't changed too much, because I'd like for us to be together without too many problems. Sure it's dumb to date someone who's killed your family," he winced, "but it is partially my fault for making you crazier. And besides, that was the past, right? So let's leave it there, please." Akito smiled and gave a small chuckle before bending down to give her a kiss.
"Panther, you've never cease to amaze me, you know that?" Akito looked at her while they were walking. "That ice cream was good, can I have some more?"
"Yes, you may." She gave the rest of the ice cream to Akito to finish as they started walking in the forest. At the Shigure's house, everyone who was there were in the dinning room with the porch door open, letting in some light. Hatori told them what had happened while he was spying on the two and they all felt relieved as well as shocked. They heard laughter and voices coming from the woods.
Stepping out of his house to check it out, Shigure looked in the direction the laughter was coming from. There he saw Akito and Panther merrily walking through the area holding hands while heading over to the house. Shigure smiled and signaled everyone in the house to come out and see. Momiji and Tohru smiled while running over to hug Panther. Hatsuharu let a little jealousy slip but paid no attention to it.
"PANTHER! Are you all right?" Momiji asked while holding the girl.
"Perfectly fine, Momiji. Akito?" Panther smiled to him and he nodded before walking up to the rest of the Sohmas.
"There is something I need to tell you all, call the rest of the family over and we'll all have a little chat." Akito said before they all went inside.
"Hey, Shigure, don't call Kagura over, okay?" Kyo called from the living room. Shigure hung up the phone after the last phone call and said, "Whatever you say Kyo." Within twenty minutes, all of the Sohma family was over at Shigure's house, all except one.
The earth shook as Kagura hurried to Shigure's house. Once she got in there, Kyo tried to run away but was held back by Shigure.
"Kyo, my love!" Kagura ran to Kyo and started swinging him around, not noticing everyone else around. She started beating him now. She stopped for a second and grabbed Kyo by his collar, giving him evil eyes.
"AND DON'T THINK I DIDN'T HEAR YOU ON THE PHONE, LOVE! I HEARD YOU TELL SHIGURE NOT TO CALL ME!" She did a wrestling on Kyo and threw him threw the door when she noticed Akito sitting on one of the porch smiling.
"Akito? What-
"Hello Kagura. Please come with Kyo inside here, I have to tell you all something." Soon everyone was in one area where Akito could talk to him or her.
"What I had to say was, I'm sorry. I'm very sorry for hurting you all. I didn't want to, but I did, so I am really sorry. Will any of you forgive me?" Some of them looked surprised while others smiled.
"Of course we will Akito! We love you. And I knew you loved us too!" Momiji gave one of his cute giggles as he gave Akito a hug.
"This calls for a celebration!" Ayame held up a glass of wine and all the others agreed.
"But we don't have enough food!" Shigure stated.
"I'll go buy some." Tohru grabbed Shigure's wallet and was about leaving when she said, "I'm gonna bring Uo and Hana over, ok?" Shigure agreed to let them come over too.
"Would you like some company?" Yuki offered.
"No thanks, I got it." Tohru left. Yuki looked around the house and noticed something.
"What about the space, though? There's too many of us."
"I'll go get the patio tables out from the closet." Hatsuharu left to get the tables.
"We don't have any juice or milk either, kids can't drink alcohol you know." Momiji said.
"I'll go to the store and get some!" Ritsu left the Sohma house.
"I'll go with you, who knows what trouble you might cause." Shigure left with him. Everybody helped out with preparing and when they were all finished, they started the celebration.
Epilogue
Four years later, Akito purposed to Panther, as did Yuki and Kyo to Tohru. Both girls accepted the proposals; Tohru accepted both Kyo's and Yuki's and they agreed to share Tohru's love. Kyo and Yuki still got in fights and argued a bit, but that was because they couldn't help it, as always. Momiji grew up to be a handsome young man and had his very own fan club at work. Hatsuharu lived in the Sohma Mansion and refused to get a job. Shigure, Ayame, and Hatori are still the same, but now Ayame is able to spend time with Yuki.
Yuki wanted to get to know his brother a bit more and understand why Ayame is the way he is, so he agreed to have bonding days with him. Kagura still beats up Kyo, but she lost her taste in him. Hana worked with Tohru at a mall while Uo and Panther decided to become boxing coaches. Panther figured that the reason why she was able to hug people, who weren't cursed, and not change was could be because she had mostly uncursed blood; truly, no one knew. Yuki was president of one of the Sohma companies; Kyo got his food and everything from nature, except for his clothes and bathing stuff of course; he got those from Yuki's money. Other than that, everything else was a bit the same. Oh and they lived happily ever after, with some problems in the middle of course!
~*End Of Chapter*~ Oh in case any of you got confused, in the beginning of this chapter when it has Panther and Akito talking and then Kyo and people in the Sohma house talking, imagine it like this: While Panther and Akito are the way they are, Kyo is explaining at the same time and you can hear the people in the Sohma house talking while you see Panther and Akito's scene. I hope I didn't confuse you or anything. Again, thank you for reading and reviewing.
~*End of Story*~
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~*Chapter 6: I Love You; The End*~
"So Kyo, you know what's going on with Panther?" Momiji was pondering on the question before he finally let it out. Nodding his head, Kyo sighed.
"She doesn't want me to tell, ok? She made me promise not to tell anyone." Kyo lay on the house porch with his eyes closed.
"Oh come on Kyo, what if she'll get hurt? C'mon tell us!" Momiji pleaded sitting next Tohru. Everyone was in the room, everyone except Panther that is.
"Kyo, you know what my sister's going to be doing? Please, tell me. What is she going to do? Will it involve her getting hurt?" Tohru choked on tears of fear. Opening his eyes and looking deeply into Tohru's, Kyo gave in to the cries.
"Fine, I'll tell you." He looked up in the sky and started explaining.
"She told me," Panther walked in the rain down a street, "that she knew Akito when she was little. They were close friends."
He continued to explain while during this time, not there, Panther walked under the gray clouds. She finally reached the Sohma Mansion.
"Akito told her about our curse. When he did, Panther's parents were spying on them..." His explanation continued as the rain started to blow a little onto the porch. He went inside and slid the door shut. Unknown to everyone, exactly when he shut the Sohma house door, the doors to the Sohma Mansion opened.
Panther walked pass Hatori's house and to Akito's. Hatori stood from his house watching with bewildered eyes. He followed her from behind. Panther didn't stop until she got to where Akito was. Hatori stood behind the door and spied on the two. Meanwhile, in the Sohma house, they were still talking about Panther and Akito.
"So then...that's how Akito became the way he is now?" Shigure looked surprised. Kyo nodded his head; all of them wondered what Panther WAS doing.
Standing up, Akito turned to face Panther. Smiling, he walked over to his old friend. She stood in silence, glaring at the man before her.
"Panther, do you know how old I am?" He asked for no reason in particular.
"Eighteen."
"And you're fourteen, correct? Four years younger than me, yet I can't..."
"Akito, why are you doing this?" Panther asked in a firm voice.
"Hmm yes, why am I doing this?"
"Is it because of my father and uncle? Akito,"
"DON'T YOU EVER REMIND ME OF THEM, EVER!" Akito yelled at her. Hatori watched in amazement when Akito didn't bother hitting the girl. Usually when one said or did something to upset him, he'd hit them.
"Akito," Back in the Shigure's house, they were getting angry at the fact that Panther had to deal with Akito alone. They didn't know what she was going to do.
"Why Akito? So you can live the rest of your life acting like a psycho?"
"Shut up!" Akito ordered, but she did not heed.
"Well? Are you going to answer me or just stand there?"
"SHUT UP!" Akito's anger grew.
"What is she doing?" Hatori whispered to himself from his hiding spot and continued to watch.
"Akito, you've already killed my whole family!" Choking on tears, she waited.
"YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DID TO ME! LEAVE ME ALONE!" He grabbed his head in pain. "WHY DO YOU WISH TO HURT ME PANTHER? WHY!"
"I don't wish to hurt you Akito, you're the one who's been trying to hurt me. You've threatened me; you've killed the rest of my family, WHO DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ABOUT THE CURSE, AND TO TOP IT ALL OF, YOU HAUNTED ME IN MY DREAMS! ON PURPOSE! And made it seem like I was DEAD!" Panther glared with hatred at the man before her.
"SHUT UP! I don't care if that happened to you I don't care! YOU HURT ME FIRST! YOU DESPISED ME PANTHER...you detested me. After you promised not to, you did...you avoided me like you promised you wouldn't." He dropped to his knees holding his head letting the tears flow. Staring in shock, Panther dropped to her knees as well.
"Oh my gosh...you mean, you hated me...because-because you thought I hated...you?" Her body started shaking as she watched Akito cry. Tears formed as she reached out to touch Akito. Hatori from his hiding place arched an eyebrow in curiosity, he'd figure everything out later, but right now he was busy watching this.
"Akito, I'm so sorry. I-I didn't know that was- I thought you were avoiding me. I started to avoid you a little too because you killed my family," She took her hand back and covered pat of her face.
"Akito, listen to me. You killed my father and uncle Loony, they deserved that, but when you went after the rest of my family... I don't know, I just thought that you'd try to come after me too. I didn't like the fact that you killed most of my family, true, I mean after all, you could've just gotten Hatori to erase their memories. But you didn't, so I just thought that you were trying to hurt me somehow and that, when you'd run out of victims, you'd come after me..."
"I was trying to hurt you somehow. The day I killed your family, here, was two days after I escaped from the lab. Every time I tried contacting you, I always got the machine, and you never called back. So I went crazy because of what happened and because you broke your promise." Akito's tears came to a halt while he quietly spoke. Panther's eyes became soft as her tears streamed down her cheeks.
"Akito, after you killed my father and Loony, I was sent to go stay with the rest of my family. I thought you said your blood being mixed with mine helped you know what I've been doing."
"I didn't try it at that time." Panther chuckled catching Akito's attention.
"I've never really hated you, Akito, just afraid."
"Afraid? But...oh." He looked like he was about to cry again when Panther flung herself onto the man before her.
"I don't hate you Akito. I don't."
"Y-you don't?" He stared down at Panther, watching her, as she shook her head no. Smiling, Akito gently returned the hug.
"Panther, I wanna tell you something-
"Okay, but it better be the truth and the WHOLE truth, got it?" The two parted and Akito nodded.
"Let's go for a walk though, okay?" She nodded with a smile. Akito went to change into his turtleneck and blue jeans. When he was done, Hatori left for Shigure's house and the other two went on their walk.
They walked around smelling the sweet grass as the clouds cleared away. The sun shone brightly in the sky. Akito pondered in his thoughts of what to say to Panther while they were at an ice cream parlor. Once she got her ice cream, the continued their walk heading towards Shigure's place.
"Mm. This is good!" Panther licked her sherbet ice cream. "Want some?" Akito looked at it.
'I've never had that flavor before, but she always seemed to pick that one.' Akito took the ice cream cone and licked the ice cream. Apparently he licked too much of it and received a brain freeze.
"Ha, ha! Sorry, but that's funny. By the way, what did you want to tell me?" Smiling, Akito took a glance at her.
"Well, earlier when I was comparing our ages...I admit I like you a lot. Perhaps even love you, but I don't know how you feel about? You probably wouldn't even dare to even try to like me that way, after everything I've done and my age too. Four years apart, you're still a student and I'm an adult-
"Okay well first of all Romeo, I can't believe you forgot my birthday is tomorrow. You just turned 18 so...Secondly, you're right. Our age difference is pretty big, but only by a few; that's not bad. And lastly, don't ever jump to conclusions when it comes to my feelings, got it? Because you know what?" She finished most of her ice cream before speaking again.
"I do like you, aside from your psychoness from before, the part of you I DO know, I like a lot. And hopefully you haven't changed too much, because I'd like for us to be together without too many problems. Sure it's dumb to date someone who's killed your family," he winced, "but it is partially my fault for making you crazier. And besides, that was the past, right? So let's leave it there, please." Akito smiled and gave a small chuckle before bending down to give her a kiss.
"Panther, you've never cease to amaze me, you know that?" Akito looked at her while they were walking. "That ice cream was good, can I have some more?"
"Yes, you may." She gave the rest of the ice cream to Akito to finish as they started walking in the forest. At the Shigure's house, everyone who was there were in the dinning room with the porch door open, letting in some light. Hatori told them what had happened while he was spying on the two and they all felt relieved as well as shocked. They heard laughter and voices coming from the woods.
Stepping out of his house to check it out, Shigure looked in the direction the laughter was coming from. There he saw Akito and Panther merrily walking through the area holding hands while heading over to the house. Shigure smiled and signaled everyone in the house to come out and see. Momiji and Tohru smiled while running over to hug Panther. Hatsuharu let a little jealousy slip but paid no attention to it.
"PANTHER! Are you all right?" Momiji asked while holding the girl.
"Perfectly fine, Momiji. Akito?" Panther smiled to him and he nodded before walking up to the rest of the Sohmas.
"There is something I need to tell you all, call the rest of the family over and we'll all have a little chat." Akito said before they all went inside.
"Hey, Shigure, don't call Kagura over, okay?" Kyo called from the living room. Shigure hung up the phone after the last phone call and said, "Whatever you say Kyo." Within twenty minutes, all of the Sohma family was over at Shigure's house, all except one.
The earth shook as Kagura hurried to Shigure's house. Once she got in there, Kyo tried to run away but was held back by Shigure.
"Kyo, my love!" Kagura ran to Kyo and started swinging him around, not noticing everyone else around. She started beating him now. She stopped for a second and grabbed Kyo by his collar, giving him evil eyes.
"AND DON'T THINK I DIDN'T HEAR YOU ON THE PHONE, LOVE! I HEARD YOU TELL SHIGURE NOT TO CALL ME!" She did a wrestling on Kyo and threw him threw the door when she noticed Akito sitting on one of the porch smiling.
"Akito? What-
"Hello Kagura. Please come with Kyo inside here, I have to tell you all something." Soon everyone was in one area where Akito could talk to him or her.
"What I had to say was, I'm sorry. I'm very sorry for hurting you all. I didn't want to, but I did, so I am really sorry. Will any of you forgive me?" Some of them looked surprised while others smiled.
"Of course we will Akito! We love you. And I knew you loved us too!" Momiji gave one of his cute giggles as he gave Akito a hug.
"This calls for a celebration!" Ayame held up a glass of wine and all the others agreed.
"But we don't have enough food!" Shigure stated.
"I'll go buy some." Tohru grabbed Shigure's wallet and was about leaving when she said, "I'm gonna bring Uo and Hana over, ok?" Shigure agreed to let them come over too.
"Would you like some company?" Yuki offered.
"No thanks, I got it." Tohru left. Yuki looked around the house and noticed something.
"What about the space, though? There's too many of us."
"I'll go get the patio tables out from the closet." Hatsuharu left to get the tables.
"We don't have any juice or milk either, kids can't drink alcohol you know." Momiji said.
"I'll go to the store and get some!" Ritsu left the Sohma house.
"I'll go with you, who knows what trouble you might cause." Shigure left with him. Everybody helped out with preparing and when they were all finished, they started the celebration.
Epilogue
Four years later, Akito purposed to Panther, as did Yuki and Kyo to Tohru. Both girls accepted the proposals; Tohru accepted both Kyo's and Yuki's and they agreed to share Tohru's love. Kyo and Yuki still got in fights and argued a bit, but that was because they couldn't help it, as always. Momiji grew up to be a handsome young man and had his very own fan club at work. Hatsuharu lived in the Sohma Mansion and refused to get a job. Shigure, Ayame, and Hatori are still the same, but now Ayame is able to spend time with Yuki.
Yuki wanted to get to know his brother a bit more and understand why Ayame is the way he is, so he agreed to have bonding days with him. Kagura still beats up Kyo, but she lost her taste in him. Hana worked with Tohru at a mall while Uo and Panther decided to become boxing coaches. Panther figured that the reason why she was able to hug people, who weren't cursed, and not change was could be because she had mostly uncursed blood; truly, no one knew. Yuki was president of one of the Sohma companies; Kyo got his food and everything from nature, except for his clothes and bathing stuff of course; he got those from Yuki's money. Other than that, everything else was a bit the same. Oh and they lived happily ever after, with some problems in the middle of course!
~*End Of Chapter*~ Oh in case any of you got confused, in the beginning of this chapter when it has Panther and Akito talking and then Kyo and people in the Sohma house talking, imagine it like this: While Panther and Akito are the way they are, Kyo is explaining at the same time and you can hear the people in the Sohma house talking while you see Panther and Akito's scene. I hope I didn't confuse you or anything. Again, thank you for reading and reviewing.
~*End of Story*~