Okay, wasting time is boring, and making you guys wait is so cruel! You guys really think I'm going for Akiru don't you? I hate Akito. I loathe him more then any words in the English language can describe. This is making me sick to write! So here, read your Akiru, while it lasts.
Chapter 6- Confessions
Tohru didn't know how to react. She was surprised, so she pulled away slightly. Akito only tried to hold her tighter.
"Tohru, don't go." Akito said warmly.
"Oh Akito, you have been so kind, but I need... to go... Yuki and the others need breakfast." Tohru pleaded.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door; it was one of the servants.
"Sir, Mr. Shigure has come for Tohru." He said.
Akito cursed then said, "Get me Hatori."
The servant left and fetched Hatori.
"Akito, what is it?" Hatori asked.
"Tell Shigure, I will be sending Miss Honda home later."
"Yes." Hatori left.
Akito continued caressing Tohru's hair, and Tohru blushed shyly.
"Akito, do you love me?" Tohru asked suddenly.
"I... I don't know." Akito said unsure.
"Akito, tell me how you feel, how you feel treated as Leader, tell me everything." Tohru said turning to face Akito.
He told Tohru about how he hated this job, he said it in a loud angry way, just like the time he had grabbed Tohru's hair.
"It's been decided, they never even asked me. I hate this... all this horror... pain... anger... it's not even my fault!"
Tohru soothed him, "I know, it's okay, I'll fix it."
"I understand so much now, why they fear me," Akito gasped, it felt as if something was lifted from his heart, "why they obey me," another gasp came, "why I need to be nicer," another one, "and why I don't allow love," a bigger gasp, "and why... love is essential to the Curse's antidote," Akito leaned heavily on Tohru, his eyes fluttered and he fainted, he was breathing heavily. Tohru got nervous and called for Hatori. Hatori rushed in.
"Tohru, what happened!?" Hatori asked in obvious shock, which for him was unusual.
Tohru told him everything that happened, Hatori's face lit up, and for the first time in a long time, Hatori smiled in the widest way he hadn't since Kana's incident.
"Tohru... is this accurate?" Hatori asked.
"Yes, I am almost positive it is." Tohru said nodding.
Akito stirred, his eyelids fluttered, then opened slowly to reveal his piercing eyes. He felt dizzy, his head was light, but he didn't feel the least bit of anger.
"What... what happened?" Akito asked putting his hand to his head.
"You fainted." Tohru said straightforwardly.
"Yes, but it feels as if a weight in my soul was removed, I feel neither hatred nor anger toward anyone." Akito said curiously.
Tohru took out the sheet she had worked on and pointed her finger at Akito's name: Akito
(Family Leader)
Suffers: Full weight of curse
Cure: To find love in a trusted person, make them understand his life better, and to understand other's feelings.
Perfect, she had done her job, "Akito, you're free, you're finally free!" Akito took the paper from her and looked at his name and smiled warmly, "Tohru you did it!" He hugged her, and stood up, "I bestow upon you the job of freeing all the Cursed Members."
He kissed her and left the room, Hatori escorted her all the way to Shigure's house to help explain things to all of them.
"Miss Honda... you are in love with Akito?" Yuki asked with a hint of disgust and disappointment in his voice.
"I love Akito, Yuki. I love all of you. Is something wrong, did I say something?" Tohru said currently intone with every slight hint of feeling any Sohma decided to show.
"Que sera sera!" Shigure said, his finger in the air and the stupid look on his face.
Mii banged on the door. "Shigure, I'm sick of this, if you don't have your book ready by right now, I'm quitting, find another editor!" Mii shouted.
Shigure went to retrieve her. He found her collapsed at his front door, her fist against the door, she looked up into Shigure's kind face. "Shi.. Shigure?" Mii questioned.
"Mii, I have the pages, please don't quit." Shigure said more serious then he ever was, he took out a packet from the sleeve of his kimono and gave it to her.
(A/N: Do you guys have pockets in the Kimono sleeves? Cause in all the anime's and manga's people are always pulling things from the inside of their Kimono sleeves.)
Mii looked shocked as she took and opened the packet.
Inside it she found this:
700 pages for a book
A note that read: Mii, if you've already guessed, my playfulness shows how much I care for you.
A box that contained... a ring.
Mii opened the box and gasped. It was gorgeous, she stepped closer to Shigure.
"Shigure... do... do you mean what I think you mean?" Mii asked shocked.
Shigure nodded, then nervously he stepped forward, "Will you?"
Mii only nodded and to everyone's shock Shigure hugged Mii, they all waited for a POP!, but none came, Shigure didn't transform! Mii held on to Shigure, she knew Shigure liked her, but she didn't realize this much, she had always thought Shigure was handsome and smart, and she loved him for it.
Tohru smiled, this was what she had hoped for. Her job was easy, or so she thought. Happy with herself Tohru went upstairs and looked at something Hana had made for her, a book of poems, Uo had helped with it, and she enjoyed reading it, it gave her strength and often times calmed her, but right now she just wanted to read it. She picked out one of her favorites, Deep Forest.
(A/N: Okay so I didn't make it up, it's the lyrics to Fukai Mori, but I like them.)
I'm sure that the heart I left behind Still lies hidden in the heart of the deep, deep forest.
Exhausted, without the strength to search People vanish into the infinite darkness.
If it's so small, I wonder if I can see it even now?
As we live on, We lose a little bit more. Shrouded in falsehoods and lies, We stand frozen to the spot, unable to cry out.
The days pass by and change, Without us even realizing how blue the sky really is.
Overcoming that made-up scheme, we live the present, And our rusted hearts begin to beat again!
If we can find the rhythm of time, we can fly once again
We live our lives Wandering to the ends of the earth. Believing (in you?), now I begin my journey with you, In search of the light.
As we live on, We lose a little bit more. Shrouded in falsehoods and lies, We stand frozen to the spot, unable to cry out
We live our lives Wandering to the ends of the earth. Closing off The way back, We walk on for eternity.
We live our lives standing frozen to the spot, Unable to cry out, for eternity...
Tohru closed the book, she thought of Hana, Uo, and her future, she went to sleep shortly afterward.
Wow... I love that song/poem so much! In the last chapter I'm gonna have the lyrics to Every Heart, it's my favorite.
