Chapter 3

Graduation Day

Yuki looked over his speech again and again. He had already memorized it, but all of sudden he felt like he couldn't remember anything that he had written.

"Hey prince." Uo called striding through the weave of desks. "The teachers are looking for ya. He said he wants you to make a special dedication to Tohru and Kyo." Uo choked up on their names. Hana and herself had received a call saying that both Kyo and Tohru had been in a sever car accident, neither had lived. It had seemed weird because there had been no mention of the driver, and the cause of death other then they were in an 'accident' was unknown. But it had also shocked her when they heard the head of family had passed away from an illness on the same day.

Yuki nodded dumbly. He couldn't do much else. Because of what happened, no one would ever know what happened that day. That Akito had chained Kyo to the wall, cut up Tohru's body with a cheese grater in front of him, than shot both Kyo and himself. The memories flooded over him and he had to stumble past a desk to empty his stomach into the waste paper basket.

"You ok?" Uo asked patting Yuki's back comfortingly. The boy had been nothing but skittish and sick since the accident. He mumbled incoherently until Hana had joined them and pulled Yuki from the basket to dab his face with a cool washcloth.

"Yuki, I had something I wanted to give you." Hana dug in her graduation robes and extracted a pair of yellow hair ribbons. She handed them to the prince who took them, pressing the yellow fabric to his face as tears started to leak down his cheeks.

"Leave me." He demanded in a hoarse voice.

Uo and Hana just stared at him. "I don't think we should leave you alone boy, you don't look very good to me." Uo stated.

"GET OUT!" Yuki roared pointing to the door. Uo and Hana both booked it. Leaving Yuki once again alone. He stared at the ribbons, his white day gift to Tohru the year before. He couldn't handle this. He was broken, an empty shell.

He had visited their graves at the Sohma house the day before to apologize. But Yuki felt he had no right to live. Locating the speech he had written, he set it on the desk where someone would find it and unraveled the ribbons. Tying them together at the ends extremely tight he tugged them a few times for good measure before creating a slip knot at one end. Hopping onto the desk he reached up to the ceiling and pushed up two flats, looping the yellow ribbon over it and creating another knot to hold it in place. He tested the weight and length and determined it was enough space and would hold his weight.

Sighing heavily he pushed the desk to the point where he could slip the ribbon over his head, which he did, and push the desk over. He choked on his sobs, and with one final goodbye to Kyo and Tohru, he kicked the desk away.

Shigure tapped his program uneasily on his leg. What was taking Yuki so long? Hana and Uo had spoken to him moments before hand, but the graduation should have already started. He glanced down at the two diplomas he held in his hands. For the two people who deserved them the most, that would never join them again.

The Sohma household had been devastated with what happened. Momiji and Kisa had taken it the hardest, but no one took it harder then Yuki. He had blamed the entire thing on himself, which Shigure could relate to. He would never voice it, but according to Hatori and Yuki, it had been Yuki's fault, even though Akito had acted it out.

Shigure was still disgusted to that very moment of how he had tortured his beautiful flower that had not deserved the fate she met.

"HELP!!!!" A girl screamed running from the school. The entire graduating class, plus audience stared as she ran towards the staff, screaming the whole way. Shigure recognized her as one of the 3 toting fan club girls that belonged to Yuki's club.

Shigure had a horrible feeling, and Hatori, who had been sitting beside him stood as well. Hatori stared straight ahead before shaking his head. "He did."

Shigure simply nodded. When was it going to end? He watched solemnly as the teachers approached him, and extended a piece of paper, tear stained and partially ripped. He had never been a very religious man, especially in Christianity, but the words stared back at him:

Psalm 6

O Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger or discipline me in your wrath.

Be merciful to me , Lord, for I am faint;

O Lord, heal me, for my bones are in agony.

My soul I sin anguish.

How long, O Lord, how long?

Turn, O Lord, and deliver me;

save me because of your unfailing love.

No one remembers you when he is dead.

Who praises you from the grave?

I am worn out from groaning; all night long I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

My eyes grow week with sorrow; they fail because of all my foes.

Away from me, all you who do evil, for the Lord has heard my weeping.

The Lord has heard my cry for mercy; the Lord accepts my prayer.

All my enemies will be ashamed and dismayed; they will turn back in sudden disgrace.

Hatori smiled as he took the paper from Shigure and crumpled it in his palm. Turning to face the teacher he finally let his smile falter. "Do we need to identify the body?"

The teacher shook his head sympathetically. "We are so sorry for all the losses you have suffered in these weeks."

"We are too." Shigure simply shrugged and took the diploma from the teacher, before turning towards the car where Hatori had parked.

Hatori nodded to the teacher before following him to the school. He sighed and stared up at the sky, Kyo, Tohru, Yuki, and Akito, there life was short and harsh. Something no person, let alone an entire family, should cope with. But they hadn't coped, they had fled and suffered. When was the pain going to end?

A/N: OMG I FINISHED!!!! Dances around happily I know, I'm so horrible. But it's such a sad, sad story. I know that it's really harsh and blunt, but one day I was watching Law and Order with my friend, and it had been about this man cutting up his wife with a cheese grater, I know! Disgusting... but she was like dude, imagine if Kyo and Tohru had a little thing and Yuki was jealous and got Akito to do that to Tohru? At first I was like O.O no way. But then we started joking about Kyo being chained and forced to watch, and then Akito killing himself. So I wrote it. The other day she convinced me that since Yuki would be so devastated he should find Tohru's ribbons in her stuff and hang himself in front of the fan club girls. Well I figured since they follow him everywhere, they would find him eventually, and Hand and Uo had to make an appearance so it was all so much easier that way. Thanks for reading; I have other, non violent or gruesome stories at that is a Kyoru, in a happy long living ordeal. Thanks again!!