hello all! sorry chapters come out less often... yes, that's my fault...
this chapter would've been up like a month ago, but alas... my laziness kicked in. but her, wadda
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Scilence, She is Our Head
When Rika and Tohru came back to the house, it seemd dead quiet and empty.There wasnt a single sound in the wole house. The two girls stood there for a moment in the scilence, then Tohru headed towards the dinning room to set up dinner, it was takeout tonight. while they wer out, tohru hadn't realized she forgot about dinner until it was to late to visit the market.
Rika headed to the liveing room. It was time to get some seriouse manga reading done!
After going to the mall with Uo and Hana, they they stopped at en entertain ment store. ( like Barnes&Nobles or Borders, basically. you know, movies, books, music ect.)
well she had bought the lateest volumes of Gravitation and Kare Kano. She also had the newest Dir en Grey CD. (A/N: HAD to include some dir!) Tohru only bought the movie Garden State and a Poster of Hyde from L'Arc en Ciel (she had a crush on him since middle school!)
She came to a stop in front of the living room door way. She saw Shigure, Kyo, Yuki, and Hatori sitting there in somewhat of a daze. They hadn't noticed her stanind there.
'What the hell?' she thout to herself.
"Yo, did somebody die? Why all the gloomy faces?" she asked.
the sohmas brought their attention to the girl.
"why is it so fucking quiet!"
the boys flinched a bit at the volume in the girl's voice, then went back to their originally dull state. they pased looks at eachother not knowing what to say.
Rika slowly walked over to kyo and got on her knees beside him. she restes her hand on his shoulder and set her mangas aside.
"seriously though guys, what the mishap? someone really die?"
Shigure spoke up in a reassuring tone. "No, no... it's nothing like that, it's just..."
He looked up at Hatori, who then finished the inus sentence in a seriouse tone, "We have some things to discuss over dinner, Muyo-San. Important things..."
Tohru called out from the dining room. "Dinner is ready!"
"well, that's was a bit quick wasn't it? i thought you just got home." Yuki said
"sorry healthy people. it's takeout, so be prepared for the wonders of MSG."
The dinner was ... something. everyone simply ate their food in scilence. it was really starting to bug her.
Ten minutes passed and Rika finally cracked. "ok, what's with all the scilence crap?"
...(scilence) more annoyed. she looked over to Hatori. "Didn't you say we had some 'Important things' to talk about? well start talking doc. this quietness is killing me over here!"
Hatori clreared his throat. "Akito.."
the word sent a chill dome everyones spine. all but Rika froze for a second.
"Akito? What Akito?" Rika brought her eyes to Kyo, who's head was down. "Who's Akito?" she was spazzing."Is akito a bad thing? did it die?"
Hatori sighed. "Akito is the head of our family."
"Oh... well, what about 'em?"
"She needs to know about your current realation ship with kyo, that and Tohru 's with Yuki."
"Why? Nosey much?" chuckled nervously."What, is she some 93 year-old matchmaker or something?"
Kyo spoke up. "Not even close! She's only 21, and she wouldn't know a damn thing about a love life. that bitch. up until last year all of us thought she was a guy!"
"So she's that flat, eh? Wow, must suck to be her..."
Shigure couldn't help but let a small chuckle escape from him.
Hatori sent him a glare.
"Sorry, I couldn't help it... that was just too precious!"
"Anyways, like i was saying, yes, akito may be young, but she is still our head none the less."
Rika thought for a moment 'Hmm... I wonder... I mean, she's only what, a year older than me? ...Hey! I bet I'd make a great head! I'm great at bossing people around!'
Rika broke from her thought, "Ok... So then we tell her about us and we go on and about our merry way, right?"
"Not... exactly... You see, if she doesn't approve, then that's it. You two won't be able to see to have an intamit relationship with kyo anymore."
"What? That's complete crap!"
"It could be worse. If she says so, then you too maigh not be able to have anykind of relationship at all, you may have to stop seeing eachother all together."
"What a prick! 'Akito' thinks anyway? If I love Kyo and he loves me then that's it. Ponit. Blank. Period. What the fuck does she have to do with anything?"
"It's just that... She is head, what she says is law."
"She's twenty-FRIKKEN-one! hmph! she's not the boss of me! besides, who in the name of Ghandi made HER head? Why not you, or 'Gure-San? You sure look old enough!"
Everyone in the room but Rika sweat dropped.
"Family ties I suppose..."
"Famiy ties, my ass. I don't give a granny's hoot about her!"
"Please... Can you just come to meet her tommorrow morning?"
"Psh. Like I'm a fucking kiss-ass!"
"We're not asking you to kiss up to her, we just need you to meet her." Hatori's voice broke from it's seriouseness to an annoyed, almost pleading one..
"Hmm... Whatever, i got no plans anyway."
'Great God almighty! she finally agreed! I think I almost cried! No, no. I must maintain my sexy seriouseness for all the readers out there...' Hatori thought to himself. (A/N: you like that don't you. yeah you do. you love it.:-))
Next day came.They stood outside of the main house gates. They were in their usual Akito-visiting wear: hatori in his normalcy, shigure in his oh-so-hot suit, yuki in a chinese style shirt, and tohru and rika were wearing their own things. rika had redonned her pinstripe suit, sensing that this was something important. she wasn't sure what she was there for, they said something about asking permission from the head of the family. she didn't see the point of it, but she figured to go along with it since it seemed important to the sohmas.
"be careful, don't let akito hurt you. but if she does..." kyo balled his fists. rika kissed the top of his head.
"i can watch myself carrot top. but how come you're not coming in?"
"neko isn't allowed inside the walls. tradition." answered yuki.
"come along now tohru and rika. we can't keep akito waiting," hatori calmly interrupted, before any sort of fight could break out. tohru and rika linked arms and followed behind the boys. rika looked back and gave kyo a toothy smile.
they were seated in akito's chambers. hatori and shigure remained in the back, yuki slightly ahead of them. tohru and rika were in the front, bowing. or at least tohru was. rika looked around at everyone else bowing for a moment. she shrugged.
"eh. peer pressure, why not?" she bowed too. akito was in her usual robes, seated by the window.
"so, no one has informed me what any of this is about. why must i be bothered? why have you brought HER in my presence again?" rika looked up for a moment, then placed her head back down. 'why the nasty tone?' she wondered. 'isn't yuki gonna tell her to shut her trap or something?'
"akito, we come here to seek permission."
"permission for what?" she growled. "and who the hell is this?"
"this is "
"HEY, MY NAME'S RIKA. tohru's cousin," she spoke up for herself, not really enjoying akito's atitude. akito smirked.
"let me guess, shigure. you all are asking permission for this GIRL," she said, making "girl" sound nasty, "to stay with you... this girl who seems to not know when you hold her tongue until she's spoken to. why not just let tohru's entire FAMILY infiltrate the whole damn house!"
"damn, what is your problem?" rika stood, offended. she felt a tugging from below her.
"rika, please." tohru quietly pleaded her cousin to stop.
"yes, rika is it? i suggest you listen to you cousin." akito smirked again. reluctantly, rika got down beside tohru again.
"there is more, akito," shigure continued. "yuki and tohru would like permission to be together." at this, akito gritted her teeth.
"i wasn't very far from the truth then. tohru's family IS infiltrating. first my sohma property, and now tainting future sohma blood?" tohru could feel tears begin. yuki heard her quietly sob and wanted to reach out to her to comfort her. but his instilled fear of akito kept him firmly rooted in his spot.
"...B-but..." tohru began but was cut off by akito.
"BUT NOTHING! if it didn't work for kana and hatori, why would it work for you? what makes you think that you're going to be any different, that you'd be an exception and get approval from me? the sohma family is meant to live alone. you're just a plain, stupid littl- "
SLAP!-
the entire room froze in shock. rika, having built up a rage after every word akito said, had slapped akito across the face. akito raised a hand to her cheek to ease the burning feeling.
"why you..."
"that's enough! jeez why do you have to be so harsh? from my understanding, you're head of this family. i get that. they take your orders. but it seems more like you're nothing but a dictating BITCH." everyone remained frozen. the men in the room couldn't believe this was actually happening. rika went on,
"i don't know anything about this kana hatori dealie, but i don't see what your problem is. tohru is NOT plain, or stupid, she's one of the coolest chicks ever. i'm not saying that just because she's my cousin, everyone else in your family who's met her apparently loves her to bits just as much as i do. and yuki loves tohru. i know this. just like i love kyo..." she almost whispered the last part to herself. "and i have no idea why a relationship would give you reason to have a stick up your ass!" rather than get angry, akito began to laugh...it was a pretty evil laugh... like hahaha you little fool type laugh.
" i dont' know WHO you think you are. this is MY family, and as head of this family i will tell them how to live, and who to live with, and who to be with. and as for that stupid neko... it makes me laugh just to think about how ANYONE could love such a foul, hideous creature..."
"what the hell is wrong with you? insulting your OWN family? kyo is a beautiful person. is he only as hidous as you say because he's the cat?" at this, everyone looked up. "he didn't ask to be born into the year of the cat. he didn't as to be looked down in this family. how can you shun him for something out of his control?" akito looked outraged. she turned to look at the men.
"and just who decided to tell the whole WORLD about our curse? do you tell every girl that walks into your home shigure? thank god girl scouts never come selling cookies at your door, or entire TROOPS would know our secrets, huh?"
"none of them knew i knew, so stop harassing them! the point of my little speech here, is that you're a complete bitching tyrant who needs to let these kiddos LIVE for themselves!"
"and who the hell are YOU to tell me how to control my family?"
"who are YOU to even be CONTROLLING them! you don't control them, you GUIDE them!"
"why you little witch..."
"your mama." rika spat back. the boys just watched with mouths fropped the entire time. akito's face was red with fury.
"HATORI, SHIGURE, get these wenches OUT OF MY PRESENCE!" the men quickly got to their feet to asist the firls out. tohru willingly went to yuki. it took both hatori and shigure to restrain rika without getting too close to her.
"i am soooo not done with you!" rika, in her fury, hadn't thought of breaking free by hugging them. sighing, she gave up and complied with the men. she began to leave the room. halfway out, however, she turned around to stick her tongue out at akito. satisfied, she turned back around until she heard akito behind her.
"childish tramp." rika broke free of hatori and shigure and whirled around towards akito.
"SAY THAT TO MY FACE, BITCH!"
"FINE!" akto walked up to rika as well until they were inches apart. in a quiet smug voice,
"childish. tramp."
SLAP!-
"how about...your mama!" rika yelled. the cat-fight was on. hatori and shigure stared at the two women brawling, unsure of what to do. yuki and tohru, however, took one look at the scene, and then at each other. they decided it would be better just to leave. so they silently walked away.
meanwhile, there was hair yanking and spitting and clawing and kicking going on.
"um..i'll grab rika," shigure finally piped up. hatori sighed, and shigure pulled rika off akito. hatori calmly put his arms around akito's waist to hold her back as well.
"hatori release me NOW!"
"it wouldn't be wise, akito." the corner of akito's mouth was bleeding and there were scratches throughout her arms. rika was panting heavily with hair disheveled, a part of her sleeves was tron and hanging. she was still riled up, but too tired to resist shigure's hold.
"let me go!" akito screeched as hatori continued to restrain her. finally, he obeyed and let her go. retreating to her window, akito turned and faced everyone. shigure then decided it was safe to let rika go as well.
"let me say this: while i think you're the rudest little snot i've ever had the misfortune of meeting, i'll be nice and forgive you for it. stay there, i don't care, but don't you EVER come back here again. or i won't be nice and i'll order them to toss your ass out. as for tohru and yuki..." at this she turned to notice yuki and tohru had left.
"whatever. i'll let him realize on his own what a waste of time she is." she retired to her spot by the wondow. she was attacked from behind with a giant hug.
"SEE? now, being nice isn't so hard, is it?" akito struggled to get rika off her.
"do not touch me."
"yo mama touches you!"
"HATORI!" on cue, hatori gently grabbed rika.
"it would be very smart to just leave now, ms. rika."
"psh. whateva." reluctantly, she began to lead everyone out. hatori and shigure began to head out after rika, but shigure stopped and turned around to look at akito.
"akito? not to sound ungrateful, but why were you so easy on her?" akito didn't turned around to look at them, but continued to stare out the window.
"she doesn't pity me like the rest of you do. even if she is a rude brat. now go, i want to be alone." and so hatori and shigure left. once they were clear of akito's room, shigure nudged hatori with a smile.
"the rebellious ones are SO hot, ne tori-tori?"
hatori rolled his eyes. he hated that pet name.
kyo was still waiting for them at the gate. when he rushed to rika's side.
"what happened? is it ok? akito didn't hurt you, did she?" rika laughed.
"more like the opposite. rika scratched akito's lip up." kyo's eyes widened as he stared at rika.
"what the hell? oh no. that must mean we're done for..."
"chill carrot top. we can still stay at shigure's , although she semed close to changing her mind after i said 'your mama' the last time." kyo shook his head in disbelief.
"you. are. so. crazy." he said, planting a kiss on her forehead after each word.
"oh? well i already know that. tell me something new and I'll reward you." everyone chuckled lightly, even hatori.
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! that's the end of this chapter.
we tried to steer clear of major seriousness, so we added a cat-fight. oh yesss... you know you love it! lol
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