Sometimes the Truth Hurts

Intro:

Ano sa, ano sa! Hello, everyone! Man, I suck. Hands down... I've been so busy with stuff that I didn't have time to read the fanfictions that I subscribed to, let alone update at all.. so.. I guess... All I could offer is this chapter and my apology. All I ask of you is your patience and your loyalty for this fanfic and my future fanfics.

Latest Update:

Say everyone, I've been playing Drakengard lately! Anybody played this game before? It's so fun! With the blood splattering! And the cool storyline! Not to mention mountains upon mountains of soldiers just begging to be killed! Wooo hooo!

Mogeta: (Sweatdrops)

Vee: (Looks at him...) What?

Mogeta: Tell them about ME!

Vee: Ah, yes, yes... Well, uh... see.. me and Mogie made a PACT! Yep, a PACT! That means he can talk and I... hmm.. Mogie, what was my disability again?

Mogeta: Your disability to...OBSESS!

Vee: Hah, you wish!

Mogeta: Yeah yeah... I do wish it...(Cries mentally) Your disability is...to...ski!

Vee: Yeah, yeah, that's it! Skii! That would be very true... I never tried skiing actually, and I fear it! I mean.. the things I see on TV... just SCARES me! UGH! The broken bones!

Mogeta: Yeah yeah... I got the ability to TALK! I'm soooo lucky!

Vee: Yes... now that you can talk... I found out that you are such an arrogant little Moogle!

Mogeta: I DO NOT LOOK LIKE A MOOGLE!

Vee: Ah, yes you do... (Actually he doesn't, does he?)

Mogeta: We will continue this after the story!

Vee: I used to say that... (Sniffs)


(9) True Nature of Insecurity

The sun was setting on the heavy-aired atmosphere of the day. Yuki stood at the door knowing the full consequences of going against the Head. In another part of the Sohma Household, Shigure was merely wasting time in Hatori's office where the doctor was fully occupied with his work.

"Shigure, is there a reason why you are in my room for two hours straight?" Hatori asked, not even looking at him. He placed his full attention on some document papers that were scattered about on his desk.

"Ah, just a feeling... that the 'end' will happen tonight." Shigure said with a carefree shrug.

Hatori glanced up from his work. "...Are you...sure?"

"Not entirely, no... but what does it mean to be really sure anyway, Haa-san? I mean, regarding such matters like predictions... who is a hundred percent sure?" Shigure said, spoken like a true philosopher.

"Shigure-" Hatori attempted to lecture tiredly.

"Haa-san, just get back on your work... I'll call Aya and we'll have a house party to calm ourselves!" Shigure exclaimed jumping up from where he sat next to Hatori.

"I wonder if he was even serious about his so-called 'prediction' anyway..." Hatori thought, with a twitch as he tried hard to concentrate on his work.

Shigure skipped to the phone and punched in his snake friend's number. "Actually, Haa-san, I'm entirely serious about this... very serious indeed... You just don't know me as well as you thought to assume that I'm not..." Shigure's expression of childish happiness istransmutedinto that of Hatori-and-Kureno-added-together-like seriousness. (Mogeta's Note: Meaning he has a very very verrry serious face on.)


Akito wrapped his arms around his legs, clutching himself as if he was afraid. He was shaking from an unknown fear. Akito looked at the floor with downcast eyes. He was in such a preoccupied state that he was ultimately thankful that no one could see him at such a weak appearance.

"Akito..."

Akito almost immediately narrowed his eyes at the one who just came in. Yuki flinched in pain and had to hold his head up. Akito widened his eyes in shock. Yuki was the person he least expected to see right at that moment.

"Yuki... You came to see me... Why?" Akito asked, recovering from his bout of havoc and redeemed his overpowering voice. Yuki felt the pain in his head disappear; as if something released its grip on him.

"Akito, I am here to end this... To end our curse..." Yuki told Akito.

"End it? Yuki, I thought you were more intelligent than this..." Akito whispered, chuckling with pure emptiness booming in his voice. "What do you think the curse is, Yuki?"

"..." "What is he getting at...!" Yuki thought impatiently. Akito stood up and slowly walked towards him.

"Do you think the curse is a magical stone or a mirror on the wall where you can just break it and end it once and for all?" Akito's eyes were widened with bewilderment.

"Of...course not." Yuki fidgeted uncomfortably as the clan head approached him slowly.

"Well, if you don't then why are you here! Saying that you're here to break the curse like you're all high and mighty! Let me tell you this, Yuki! Just because you're the talk of the family and the most popular member of the Jyuunishi does not mean you are the prince of a fairy tale and the rest of your family plays the role of the princess!"

A long, lingering silence filled the room.

"Akito," Yuki finally said, "You..."

"I...what is this feeling?"

"YOU DON'T HAVE A RIGHT TO SAY THAT!"

Akito looked at him taken aback. "Yuki...he finally grew a backbone..."

"This is..."

"Akito, you are the reason! You are the one who caused us pain and sorrow! If this were a fairy tale, then you'd be the villain, Akito! You snake!"

"When... Did I have this much strength..."

"You are the poison that infects the Sohma Family! You are curse of this family! You yell, scream, and hurt us and convince us that this is because of the curse! You blame 'the curse' of this family! But what all others have failed to realize is that... YOU ARE THE CURSE!"

"When did I ever... have this much strength... as to...go against... the one I feared the most... the one that lingered in the darkest corners of my mind..."

Akito smirked. "Me...?"

He smiled at him with a smile that used to strike fear into Yuki's eyes as soon as he looked at him. Now, Yuki stared at him with as much hatred as the young rat could muster.

"You think I am the curse..? Yuki, you're so naive... and helpless.." Akito laughed a laugh that stood in the middle of sanity and insanity. He took small steps as he advanced nearer and nearer to the violet-haired youth.

"No, Akito... you are." Yuki replied with such superiority in his tone. He clearly marked that he won't back away from Akito. "You are weak and helpless...You take your title as the Head of the Sohma Clan and you occasionally abuse us to demonstrate that power... but Akito... if we rebelled, you KNOW you cannot do anything about it... (Sting) Ugh!"

"ENOUGH!" Akito screamed at him. Yuki was forced to kneel down. He felt as if his head was about to explode. "You worthless little rat!" Akito walked over and slapped Yuki. Yuki groaned in pain as he was suddenly thrown on the floor by Akito.

"You won't be able to understand! You will never understand the curse!" Akito yelled as he began to kick Yuki continuously. "YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IT MEANS TO CARRY THE CURSE ALONE! YOU WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THE CRUSHING LONELINESS AND THE PAIN OF CARRYING SUCH A HEAVY BURDEN! YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE CURSE IS! AND YOU AUTOMATICALLY ASSUME IT IS ME!"

Akito stopped, gasping for breath. He could hardly believe what he screamed out. Some part of him had yelled all those things out at Yuki.

"Akito...It's...alright..." Akito's eyes widened. The violet-haired boy stood up, despite his hurting side, and crawled over to Akito to embrace him warmly.

"You...you're not alone...Don't forget that there are thirteen of us here as well...We know about the curse you bear...So... it's alright...You don't have to keep reminding us by making us suffer..."

Akito felt as if a pin had shot through his heart. He could feel it. He could feel the chains that binded him loosen. He closed his eyes and let his tears fall and the wall around his soul crumble.


"Ah, here it is!" Ritsu exclaimed happily, waving a bottle of purple substance in front of the orange-haired youth. Kyo, who was sitting across the table from the eccentric monkey trying to watch his television show, but you know how loud Ritsu can be.

"What...is that?" Kyo asked, cocking an eyebrow at the substance.

"This? It's cold medicine! But look at it... it's got about 2 milliliters left in here! I'll go find more, ne ne?" Ritsu asked him, as if Kyo would actually give him the time of day. So, Ritsu up and left to go salvage the house for the medicine.

Kyo yawned and turned off the TV and headed towards the door. "I'm going out, Ritsu!" After he left the property premises, he looked up and saw that it was already pitch dark out. "Strange... Tohru, Shigure, and that damn rat didn't even come home yet..."

"KYO! I FOUND IT! BUT THIS COLD MEDICINE IS RED AND THE OTHER ONE IS PURPLE SO YOU WOULDN'T MIND IF I MIXED IT TOGETHER RIGHT?" Ritsu yelled out second floor window to Kyo. "ANO SA, KYO-KUN! IS IT SUPPOSE TO FOAM UP IF I MIXED THEM TOGETHER? HUH? OMIGOD! (Explosion noise)"

"...Baka..." Kyo muttered before he walked away with a sweatdrop.


"Nani! Tohru!" Kyo exclaimed as he saw Tohru, dressed in a kimono, crying in the middle of the street.

"Kyo-kun..." Tohru acknowledged with tear-stricken eyes.

"What happened, Tohru?"

"Yuki-kun...He..."

"That bastard hurt you! Where is he!" Kyo stood up immediately and was filled with rage that spawned from worry.

"No, Kyo-kun.. Yuki-kun... He ran off...saying 'take care' and all these other things... That frightened me... I saw him ran off toward to the direction of the main house... I'm scared, Kyo-kun..." Tohru told him before beginning another fit of crying.

"Calm down... I'm sure he's-" Kyo stopped in his sentence as he remembered last night's events.

'take care of her'

"Tohru, he's fine.. but just to be sure... Let's go check out the main house..." Kyo said reluctantly. The main house is the place where least wanted to be, but for her; he knew he had to.

"Maybe I should tell Tohru about last night..."

"Kyo-kun, let's go!" Tohru said to him before grabbing his hand and running.

"Wait! Tohru... I...got something to tell you..." Kyo said with a certain gleam of seriousness in his eyes. He knew he cannot lie to Tohru even though Yuki did.


Would you consider this a cliffhanger ending, everyone? The thing between Akito and Yuki isn't ended just yet... Maybe... the ending may be more bizarre than what I had planned...Now that Mogeta can talk... We're gonna have a fun show today!

Mogeta, the Last Crusade:

Vee: Hellllooo, everyone! Since today is an extra special day, we have extra guests!

Guests:

Tohru Ritsu Momiji

Ayame Kagura Minako(Yuki's stalker)

Shigure Kyo Yuki

Mogeta: I can tell this is going to be a looong party...

Tohru: A joyous one! (Smiles her usual annoying smile)

Kagura: That's alright...because... I got... KYO-KUN! (glomps him)

Kyo: Ugh... Can't...breathe...

Yuki: Good job, Kagura..

Kyo: WHY YOU... DAMN RAT!

Yuki: Can your criticism vocabulary expand at all...? You've been calling me that since we were kids...you moronic feline...

Kyo: (Thinks for a while) You...RAT!

Yuki: Baka...

Minako: YUKI-KUN!

Yuki: O.O (Runs)

Mogeta: Ah...Everyone! Shut up! THIS IS ABOUT ME! LOVE MEEEEEE!

Vee: He's very self-centered, ne?

Tohru: Mogeta-san... It's alright to be self-centered... My mother told me that-

Mogeta: Girly, you obviously have a mother-complex... (Stares)

Momiji: ...Can I tell you about this story I read about at school!

Mogeta: Is it about me? (-.-)

Momiji: No.

Mogeta: Then, no...

Vee: This needs to be a lil more livelier.. Bring in the jesters!

(Shigure and Ayame comes in)

Shigure: Konni-

Ayame-chiwa!

Shigure: May we have our house-party here, Vee-chan?

Vee: Sure, why not!

Ayame: Wooohoo!

S&A: Party! Party! Party!

(They began to take off their clothes)

Everyone: O.O Nani? What are you doing?

Shigure: Well... we are gonna play strip poker!

Ayame: Yes... see... Me and Shigure... We like...quiet games...very very mysteriously quiet games... (Smirk)

Shigure: And strip poker... isn't a card game...

Kagura: What? Yes it is, Shii-chan...

Shigure: Erm, no, it isn't... (Winks at Ayame)

Ayame: Yes, it's not a card game... it's... ooh hoo, we get to destroy young minds tonight, don't we, Shigure?

Ritsu: MAY I JOIN IN YOUR PARTY OF STRIPPING? (Loud entrance, ne?)

Yuki: Where do you come from?

Shigure: You're too loud for us... So, no..

Ritsu: I'M SORRY FOR BEING SUCH A DISGRACE TO YOUR GLORIOUS GAME OF 'STRIP-POKER'

Ayame: No no.. Let him join in our game... He helps me out in my shop and... He does have a nice butt, Shigure...

Yuki, Kyo, and other young minds here are beginning to gag.

Yuki: YOU TWO! SHUT UP!

Kyo: DAMMIT, THIS IS THE THIRD TIME I AGREED WITH HIM, BUT HES RIGHT! SHUT UP! AND PLAY YOUR DIRTY LIL GAME ELSEWHERE!

Mogeta: ...I'm bored...

Tohru: Say, Yuki-kun... Where is Minako-san?

Yuki: I...disposed of her already, Tohru-san. (Smiles)

Tohru: What about Kagura-san?

Kyo: They're both kicked out. Ya damn rat! Can't you be straightforward! Always acting so friggin cool and... (rants on)

Yuki: Tohru-san, are you tired? Would you like to have a seat somewhere?

Mogeta: (Sleeping)

Shigure: Say, Aya.. How large would you say buttocks are? (In English accent)

Ayame: My, my, I'd say they are about a good 6 inches, Shigure. (English accent)

Shigure: Oh dear yes! Perhaps I need to go on an ANG-GUS diet, hm? (English Accent)

Yuki: YOU TWO SHUT IT! (angry twitch)

Shigure: Fine fine... Aya and I need some time to ourselves away from the public eye, Yuki dear. (English accent)

Ayame: Heavens! Our favorite show on our favorite channel is about to start, Shigure.

Shigure: Aya my fairest! 'fraid you're right! Well, cheerio, all! Buh-Bye!

(Ayame and Shigure used the Sprite Ocarina to gate out, kekeke..)

Vee: Mogeta?

Mogeta: ZzzZzzzZz

Vee: Yeah, I'm sleepy too.. Everyone.. this party is adjourned... Bye all! (Gates out)


Ah, one last thing before I go... Or... if Mogeta wants to do it for me...

Mogeta: ZzzZzzZ

(Kicks him) Out cold... Oh well... Here's to my reviewers:

omega: Oh, I took your advice for it.. and tried to MAKE it descriptively devastating... but the reason why it is so tragic is because... ANGST and BISHIES go so well together!

Alexandria Eisengaurd: Here it is... Sorry for being late on it... but I see you are a Yukiru supporter! Hah, I'm not sure about myself... but for the time I'm doing this fanfiction... It's a Yukiru... I just can't predict the future... ya see.. I'm like all of you reviewers... I don't know what's up ahead for my story... Only time can tell... thanks so much for your review! I hope you stay with me throughout this and my upcoming stories.

angelicjapgurl: Thank you soo much! I see you've been reviewing me for a long time! Thank you so much! I need support like that every time I run into a bad case of Writer's Block.. which is... occasionally I'd say. Again, thank you!

verlencia:Thanks for your support! I will try to add more to every singlechapter from now on. But what do you think of this one? Is it as long or longer than my last one? Hah,thank you so much for your review!You and other reviewers are thepeople that drive me to write, y'know?So I really appreciate such great reviews like this one!

kitsunedemon: Y'know.. you're right! I should put him into my next Mogeta show! Whaddya say, Mogie?

Mogeta: YEPPERS!

Okay! We got confirmation! He's on the next show! Since that's your new goal, I think I can arrange for Kureno to be tackled. haha.. Hope you like this chapter as well... I'll keep the angst idea in my handy-dandy notebook! Thanks for your review! Haha.. cuteness... twitching.. hahaha...

KawaiiKuteKurama: Ooh! This is awesome! KKK came to review! Say.. about your story, I'm sorry for forgetting to review... but I do read them! I shall review them later, thanks soo much for reviewing! Your story is coming along great too, KKK-san!

To all my reviewers: Ano...I need an editor... I like to write these chapters, but I can't stand reading them repetitively to check for errors and such... (you may have notice the many typos I have in my chapter) How unprofessional! (Cries) So.. I do need an editor... Please email me if you would like to edit my fanfics. Arigatou!

P.S. I got 2941 words in this fanfic! (not including these)

Mogeta: BYE!

Vee: (I'm still not used to his talking...)