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Chapter TEN - Leaving

A young boy meandered through the streets, walking and walking, no purpose, no destination.

He walked on through the empty nights, as if searching for something, or someone.

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After school

Kyo was flipping through the channels of the television when he saw Tohru going out the front door, he yelled out,

"Where are you going?"

Tohru looked back and smiled while touching the knob of the door,

"Oh, I'm just going to get some groceries for Mrs. Sohma. Would you like to come along?"

"Groceries? Eh... nah."

Tohru nodded and then waved goodbye to him before walking out of the door, breathing in the wonderful fresh air. She strolled down the streets for a while, heading towards the grocery store, but didn't get too far because someone grabbed her by the arm and pulled her aside, causing her to yelp loudly.

"It's allright! Please do not be alarmed!"

There was a boy with lavender hair that shined brilliantly in the sun, and violet eyes that pierced her skin, they were so familiar...

The boy looked as if he was about to cry as he whispered out in a shaky voice,

"Honda-san?"

She was shocked to hear her own name coming out of the mouth of a stranger that she had never met before. She stuttered out nervously,

"H-How do you know my name?"

The boy was taken aback by her apprehensive response and he placed a hand over his pale forehead,

"I've been looking everywhere for you... hoping that you were still alive... Oh, I'm so happy that you're alive..."

Tohru felt guilty as she said,

"I'm sorry... but I still don't remember you."

He frowned deeply and then grabbed her by the shoulders, shaking her lightly,

"Think Honda-san, think... please. It's me, Yuki, your fiancee, remember?"

Tohru's mouth dropped wide open and she squeaked out with all the power she had left,

"F-Fiancee?!! That can't be!!"

"It's real... we were about to get married..."

Tohru squeezed her eyes shut, trying desperately to recall this memory but nothing came up.

That would explain why I was in a wedding dress when I landed though...

"No... no... I'm sorry."

Yuki tried to rack his brains for words that might refresh her memory,

"You don't remember Planet Hikari? There was a war that broke out during our wedding day... and now our planet is being rebuilt again, and you are to be crowned the new queen of Planet of Hikari, so you must come back with me, come back to your home. You belong there, not here. I will help your recuperate, I promise. Just please believe in me."

Tohru was still in denial,

"I'm not a... queen... I'm just a regular girl."

"Honda-san, you are a queen!"

Tohru asked with tears in her eyes,

"Then where are my parents? My family?"

Yuki looked away from her and said wistfully,

"They... died in the war... I'm sorry. While the war was going on, they dropped you off in a space pod at the last minute so that you would be safe, and you landed here, and I'm guessing that you have lost your memory along with it."

This does explain a lot...but...

"This is too much..."

"Please believe in me,"

repeated Yuki while he held his hand to his heart earnestly. She began to get more into this as she asked curiously,

"How do you suppose we'd get back into... space?"

"I have a spaceship ready already, so please come along with me... don't you want to be back home again? Meet familiar faces? Gain your memory back?"

Tohru actually felt a tingling sensation run through her, wanting to go back all of the sudden. She yearned to learn about her past... she needed to know so much more, but Kyo's face popped up into her mind, causing her to step backwards,

"I can't go."

Yuki's eyes widened and he asked dubiously,

"Why not? This is not where you are meant to be! Earth isn't your home..."

"But, I have people I love here!"

Yuki sighed, and then finally said,

"Honda-san... will you please decide by tonight? We must hurry back as soon as possible... we need our queen. So please meet me at this address by midnight if you decide to come... I hope that you will make the right choice, your highness."

Yuki bowed and handed her a piece of paper with the address scribbled onto it, before walking away, his hands stuffed into his pockets.

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After the mysterious encounter, Tohru shopped in a daze, not really picking out the best fruit, or the best meats. She just stuffed everything into the plastic bags, and then purchased the items, messing up the change twice. She sped walked back to the house and opened the door with her key, placing the groceries onto the floor. Her vision was still in a whirl, and she desperately needed some moral support from someone. She heard noises coming from the backyard so she rushed out there, to see Kyo punching and kicking a wounded tree, obviously training. He spotted her standing by the doorway and he promptly stopped training, wiping a few beads of sweat that were trickling down from the side of his head.

"Yo, what's with the white face? Look like you've seen a ghost or something."

Tohru gulped and then walked over to Kyo, her voice shaking with emotion,

"Kyo.. I-I need help."

Kyo could see the panic in her eyes, so he walked up to her, grabbing hold of her shoulders as an attempt to calm her down,

"Whoa, whoa, just tell me what's wrong."

He gulped and scanned her face as she finally let out,

"I just met... someone who knows all about my past."

Kyo's eyes widened and he wasn't sure of what to make of this statement so he just asked,

"Who?"

Tohru hesitated for a moment and then she finally uttered out with a low voice,

"My fiancee."

Kyo felt like a cement ball had just smacked him straight in the forehead. He felt his entire body heat up and he exploded out,

"WHAT?!!"

He backed away from her, his hands leaving her shoulders, and she felt the tears filling her eyes as she whispered out to him,

"He told me...that I was his fiancee and about how I am the queen of this planet called Hikari... and... and how my parents are dead. i don't know, but I believe him."

Kyo just stood there like a stone statue and he finally asked coldly,

"So what, you're gonna go back to him now?"

Tohru looked down at the ground for a while and answered truthfully, trying to keep the tears from falling,

"I don't know, I have to decide by midnight..."

Kyo grunted under his breath and then punched the bark of the tree next to him with all the anger that he possessed, causing a whole heap of leaves to sway down from the branches. He turned his back to her and yelled out bitterly,

"FINE! You can leave, I don't care."

Tohru raced up behind him and pleaded,

"Kyo-kun, please don't be mad.."

"Just leave me alone."

Kyo walked away from her, leaving her numb in the backyard. She whispered out softly while watching his retreating back,

"I'm so sorry..."

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11:30pm

Kyo had just taken a long walk out on the road, clearing his head, trying his best not to pound each and every person that passed him by. He walked by the graveyard and stopped, thinking about his father all of the sudden and a surge of memories flew by. All the regrets of not being able to have given him a proper goodbye...

I don't want the same thing to happen twice...

Kyo tightened his fists together and then broke into a run, running all the way back to the house where he nearly crashed into Tohru who was shuffling out the front door quietly. She gasped when he almost trampled over her and she stumbled backwards. When he finally caught his breath he asked breathlessly,

"You leaving?"

"I need to know about my past. But that doesn't mean I don't care about you or Mrs. Sohma... you don't know how much you two mean to me."

"Look, don't say anything else... I understand."

Tohru felt a real smile come onto her face for the first time that day. Kyo lowered his head so that she couldn't see his eyes and he muttered out,

"Well... I just wanted to say bye, and that I'm not mad at you."

He raised his head again and she saw that his eyes begged for forgiveness and they sparkled with kindness as he drew closer and closer to her, slowly. She felt his breath on her face and she could feel her breath get caught in her throat and her heart thundering in her chest. His lips stopped next to her ear and he said in a throaty voice,

"Don't forget me..."

Tohru's eyes widened and she felt a tear slip down her soft cheek, her heart warming,

"I won't, ever..."

Kyo stepped back so that there was a rift between the two, and Tohru gave Kyo one last half hearted smile before waving and saying quietly,

"Bye... Kyo-kun."

There were so many more words that wanted to be said but none of them came out from either of their mouths, so they both parted ways. Without another word being said.

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