Prologue
"Infultrate Kaibara High."
Akito was quite clear of the words that he spoke to me, as he flicked his large hand through his navy coloured hair.
I myself was kneeling in front of him, my fist on the ground to keep my body up, the other hand on my waist.
Akito's hand reached my hair, a sick grin written on his face, "With your swordsman-ship, I'm sure it won't be too much trouble to find the killer."
Killer? There were so many questions that I wanted to ask, but out of respect – and fear that I'd slap his hand away – I kept my head down, but, Akito seemed to read my thoughts. He withdrew his hand, and moved his pale body away to the door, to look at his garden, as if unworried about the whole ordeal. My gaze followed his movements.
"There's somebody trying to find out about the Sohma Family curse."
He stated clearly, turning his head to face mind – connecting my eyes with his own, at which I immediately, looked down to the bamboo mat. Akito only gave a sick laugh, "You are as withdrawn as ever, Aezume."
True, I was withdrawn. I hated to be touched, I hated to be spoke too – I just wanted to practice with my sword and be left the hell alone.
"Then again, that's what assassins usually are." Akito turned his gaze back to the garden.
Assassin. Yeah, that's what I was – the number one Sohma Assassin. In a family as big as the Sohma family, one can predict that there would be under-ground jobs done, like murders, manslaughters, interrogations, stealing and a whole lot of other things. Even though I was only nineteen, I was already committing these crimes, heck, I dissolved myself into them.
Going undercover would be easy for me as well, well, I hoped anyway.
"They want to get their hands on the cat." Akito continued, fixing up the side of his kimono, "But we can't have that, can we?"
Akito's motives for not handing over the boy cursed by the cat were completely different from my own. I knew that Akito just didn't want people to know how 'abnormal' his family was, or to have alien-like tests preformed on the cursed members. Mine were, however, deeper than that, and, I thought, going undercover this time would be harder than I thought.
"Pathetic." Akito muttered, noticing the glare I had just given the floor, "It's pathetic how you can't hold in that glare, and yet you hold in all different kinds of emotion."
"Akito-sama, I think we should continue with the mission." I had done it now; Akito's eyes turned extremely violent, he marched over to me, grabbed me by the hair, and thrust my head to the ground.
"How dare you tell me what to do, you murderer! You scoundrel! You low-life!"
I squealed when my head hit the ground with an all-mighty thump, and he seemed rather pleased with that, and let my hair go – although he ripped out a few threads in the process.
"These people." He continued, as if the incident just before had never happened, "Will blackmail the Sohma's if they find out about the curse, and as a result, will be able to get endless sums of money from them."
To me, it seemed more logical to just have Hatori erase their memories, but I wasn't going to chance my opinion again.
"It's our belief, that like you, one of their members will go undercover to the school, and that's where you come in. To stop them."
This time, he swung around from the garden, his gaze colliding with mine, "Shigure, I believe, has already brought your school things. You'll be moving in with them for now on, because it is my belief that they will target Tohru, and she will speak if pressured. Besides, it'll be interesting to see how that stupid cat reacts…" Akito's voice trailed off to silence, it'd done its work.
My face was covered in all different emotions. Some of me wanted to cry, some of me wanted to rejoice, but most of me was angry. 'Stupid cat' my arse. Kyo wasn't stupid; he was very intelligent, seeing as he had my genes. No, I wasn't his Mother, I was his older sister. Our Mother had forced the pair of us apart, so I had to observe Kyo threw a glass window, seeing as he was always kept alone, I heard that it was because she was so ashamed to have given birth to the Cat, and after she died, nothing changed. Our Father not only didn't want anything to do with Kyo, it wanted nothing to do with me either – seeing as by that time, I was already as deep as young kid could be in the underground Sohma Family.
Perhaps, this would be a good opportunity to get to know Kyo better.
A long silence followed, even after when I'd finished speaking. Finally, Akito turned around to look at me, and stated, "You're dismissed."
Once I had stood, and my back was facing him, and my hand had just opened the door, Akito stated, "I've told Shigure to make sure that you stay in the laundry."
I felt a twitch, and shut the door behind me – making sure to get away from Akito's house as possible, considering I hadn't bowed when I exited.