Author: OK this is the last chapter for ya guys. Oh and to answer the Akito girl question, Akito turns out to be a girl I think around chapter 97 or volume 9 something like that. I think Takaya is just trying to make the series last longer. Well, I will start the story now! Any other questions may get answered in the last chapter. Oh, thanks again for the wonderful reviews! You guys are very sweet! Sweeter than you should be!
Akito walked silently through the dark part of a small forest that had been behind the estate; Tohru following slowly behind her. Akito was looking for that certain spot where the whole murder mission would just look like a freak accident... if she went about it correctly.
"Ms. Honda..." Akito began, "How do you think Yuki and Kyo feel about you? Don't worry, you can be honest...I won't hurt you if your words displease me." Tohru was silent for a moment, thinking of a nice way to go about saying it.
"Well..." She began, "I think that they care for me a whole lot...as a friend at least...I'm not sure if there are any other feelings...with us..." he voiced drowned.
"...I see..." Akito said in a hardly audible tone, "...Do you care for them?"
"Yes," Tohru said, "Very much."
Tohru had a feeling she said something offensive, so decided to say something that would make it less troubling for her sake, but before she could, Akito spoke again.
"...Do they ever mention me?" Akito said in a dull, flat voice as if suspecting what the answer would be.
"...Sometimes...not very often though...only when they're making plans to go to the Sohma estate or something like that." Tohru lowered her head, feeling a little bad for Akito and how he must feel (remember, Tohru doesn't know Akito is a girl).
"But..." Tohru said, "I think that they just don't understand...what you must be going through...I think there must be a reason...you act the way you do." Akito stopped walking and turned to Tohru. Tohru gasped and bowed very low
"Oh forgive me that was out of line!" Akito chuckled in response to her apology.
"I suppose," Akito started, "That you're not as dim as I thought you were...Ms. Tohru Honda." Akito placed a hand on Tohru's forehead, "Your about to understand that reason."
Tohru heard a faint whisper in her ear and saw at that instant ablack hooded figure floating closer to her and Akito. Akito and Tohru looked at the vision as both of them felt a sharp pain in their heads.
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Shigure had just started exiting the gates of the main house when he saw Yuki run up to him with a terribly worried look on his face.
"Shigure, Akito left with Tohru, won't you do something?!" Kyo saw the two of them and jogged to the gates to see what was going on.
"What's wrong? Where's Tohru? I haven't seen her since she was with you" The red head turned to Yuki.
"This doesn't concern you, stupid cat."
"It does if Tohru gets involved, damn rat."
"Calm down, both of you" Shigure spoke up, "I'm going to watch them and make sure nothing happens, you two need to stay here, If Akito does something she won't punish me, but if she finds you two your really going to get it."
"Fine...wait a minute, SHE?!" Yuki and Kyo said in unison.
"Oh my..." Shigure put his hand over his mouth for a second and made a nervous little laugh, "I'm sorry, I meant HE."
Shigure lifted up the latch to the gate and slipped out before Yuki and Kyo could say another word, but just look at each other in confusion.
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Shigure was surprised to hear absolute silence in the forest, now it was going to be hard to find them. The only sound was the chilled air that whistled past his ears and the sound of mush when he took each step. He heard a slight shuffling of something moving upon the ground nearby to his right. Shigure followed the shifting and started hearing whimpers of pain and what sounded like fear.
When he found the sound, his expression became one of astonishment as a small hand reached to grab him by the ankle with a firm grip with their chilled fingers digging into his flesh lightly.
"Shigure-san, please... don't let her die... she deserves to live ...show her mercy...help her...she needs you and the others more than I do."
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Kyo and Yuki shifted nervously upon the deck of the main house, not taking their eyes off of the gate that followed the passage way to the back forest. The gate slowly opened and Shigure entered it slowly, his face pale and distressed. Kyo noticed that Hatori sat up abruptly from the seat that he had sat in for the entire night and walked over to Shigure. They whispered for a while and then Shigure seemed to make a hand motion beckoning Hatori to follow him.
Yuki and Kyo gave a quick glance to each other, and then decided to follow the two adults. Kyo and Yuki ran as fast as there feet would let them, they slipped past the gate and followed the footprints of the two men. Soon the two boys found that the trail of footprints led them to the two elder men who were standing over the bodies of two women. One was lying on her stomach; her eyes stared into the snow with a look of horror glazed in their wide eyes.
The body was a pale white that almost matched the color of the snow; their arms were in a twisted angle as well as their legs. The second woman also lay on her back; her eyes were closed, although her legs and arms seem to be in a twisted angle as well as the first woman.
"Oh my god..." Kyo choked looking at both of the woman. Hatori turned over the woman with her eyes open and closed them with his index and middle finger; he crossed her arms across her chest and took off his lab coat to place it over her. Shigure took the other one and held her bridal style in a firm grip so as not to let her get colder than she must already have been.
"There's nothing we can do..." Hatori said as he picked up the body of the dead woman. "Get her into shelter immediately; we can't have any more deaths."
Author: I hope you have enjoyed the story I'm sorry, was that confusing for you people? Sorry, I got carried a way. Well, that is it! That's the end. I hope that you enjoyed this fic and have a merry season!