Chapter 10: After So Long

Princess Sango

Last Time:

She seemed to have gotten her wish when she bumped someone's shoulder, turned around to say sorry and saw Yuki's purple pools staring into her brown eyes that were waiting for him to say something. Yet they both stood there tongue tied and all Tohru did was hug him and yell, "I missed you Yuki-kun!"

That's when Tomiko realized who he was, Kazuki's father.

This Time:

Tomiko looked at Kazuki who was confused and walked over to Tohru, "Mommy is this one of your friends? He does look familiar, from the pictures in that room."

Tohru turned around to see Kazuki looking up at them and Tohru blushed. While Tomiko walked up and picked Kazuki up, "Mom I'm going to walk around with him okay? I'll meet you in the food court in an hour. See ya!"

Tomiko to say the least was happy to be out of the situation and left the two adults to figure out what they were going to do. Tohru looked up at Yuki and smiled, "It's great to see you again, Yuki-kun."

Yuki amazingly didn't know what to say. He had rehearsed many different scenarios, one of them being this, but now he was face to face with her he didn't know what to say. So he repeated her words, "I miss you too Tohru-kun."

Tohru smiled, "Are you the only Sohma in the mall?"

"No, Kyo, Kagura, and Shigure are walking around here today also," he answered her. It was just a blessing to hear her voice to him.

Tohru nodded and felt slightly uneasy, "That was your son, and he looks more like you every day."

"That was? Does he even know about the curse, me?" Yuki asked quickly.

"I've told Tomiko the story and so Kazuki knows it, but he never knew he was part of it. About you, he's seen your picture, but he's never asked and I haven't said anything," Tohru answered softly.

Yuki smiled, "Let's go see if we can find the others, I notice we don't feel that good around each other right now."

Tohru nodded, happy that he hasn't changed that much and he was willing to change the subject from their uneasy relationship. It didn't take long for them to find them, and Kagura was hugging Tohru and saying it was good to finally see her again while Kyo smiled along with Shigure. "It's great to have you back here!" Kagura squealed.

Smiling Tohru thanked her but noticed the closeness between Kagura and Kyo, and looked confused over at Kyo. "We're married."

"He had the guts to tell me at least a while after you left. We wish you would have shown up but we couldn't wait forever," Kagura said excitedly, going back to that day he proposed.

Tohru smiled, "I've missed so much! I was only gone for five years, what else did I miss?"

"Well Kagura's pregnant, Kisa and Hiro are engaged, and Momiji is still the hyper little kid, and Hattori is going out with Kana again!" Shigure informed Tohru.

Then she looked at her watch as it started to beep, "Oh, I have to go get them!"

"We'll come too Tohru-kun," Yuki told her, not wanting her out of her sight, for fear she would run off again.

"Okay, come on then." Tohru said hurriedly as she ran out of the store to the food court where she saw Tomiko sitting there with Kazuki eating some Chinese food. When Kagura, Shigure, Kyo caught up they saw the two sitting there and looked at Tohru confused.

"I adopted one, come on and meet her!" Tohru said happily as she strolled over to them.

"Mom!" Kazuki yelled and ran up to her.

Picking Kazuki up she smiled, "Kazuki, this is Shigure, Kagura, and Kyo they're your aunt and uncles."

"What about him mom?" Kazuki asked pointing to, you guessed it, Yuki.

"Well sweetie, he's your dad," Tohru answered, almost in a whisper.

"Dad, he lives here?" Kazuki asked.

"Yes, he lives in Tokyo, why don't you go say hi?"

Kazuki hopped down to the floor and strolled over to him, "Hi dad!"

Tohru watched as Yuki seemed uptight yet he soon picked him up and hugged him, "Hi there Kazuki!"

Kazuki giggled, "Do you know Tomiko-chan?"

Yuki shook his head and Kazuki pointed to Tomiko, "She's my big sister, and she takes care of me. She's also boy crazy."

Tomiko looked down blushing like mad and everyone laughed, "Well maybe we should go home."

Tohru looked over at Shigure, "Home?"

"Yes home Tohru, because I believe it's time for you to come home too. We need you back."

Tohru nodded as they walked out of the mall and when they reached the Sohma house Tohru ran up to her room to see it hasn't been changed, as if time was preserved there. "I missed you so much Tohru-kun, I didn't have the heart to change the room. I lived on the hope you would come back," Yuki whispered into her ear and his hands went around his waist, "I didn't want you to leave. Promise you won't leave."

"I promise Yuki-kun, for even if I never admitted it, I missed you too, and it's probably for the best," she whispered back to him before he kissed her softly to seal the promise.

TBC…