Sorry it took so long to reply. I had school... so don't think I'm not continuing this story, because I hafta be fatally injured before I stop here.
Chapter 17- Day 7- Rin's Block
I sighed, walking slowly... I appeared in front of Kagura's house. I paused, and then I stepped forward and knocked. It was quickly answered by Kagura herself, she knew I had come to see Rin. She bowed, let me in and called Rin down.
"Yuki..." Rin said giving me a small smile.
"Rin." I said bowing.
"My turn? I've pondered mine for a while... if you thought any of the others had sad stories, mine is the worst." Rin said frowning slightly now.
"Alright, please...go on." I stated a bit scared.
In the darkness Bunza sat, waiting for nothing, feeling nothing. He wouldn't move. He knew his pitiful life would be over. He... may have been small, but against Kikai's wishes he went to see their mother. He knew she'd find out. Saving her now, that day meant nothing to her. So even when Takai came for him, to take him to Kikai, he didn't move. So... as punishment Kikai ordered his memory erased, that or death. Bunza, being small, a mere child, didn't know. Bunza decided that no one cared for him, so... death. To believe he never was. To not be in this life, it... seemed like bliss. Lina came to watch as he was given some doses off medicine that made him feel no pain. Then she watched as he was put into a sleep, and then she turned away when they gave him things he was allergic to. She wept, knowing it was her fault. Tear shed for her lost brother, so... in his honor, or so she believed she ran from the family. No one could find her... she moved away, like another had tried. She moved to China... to a small house on a beach near a city...
7 years later...
Lina and her husband and their five year old son walked along the beach. She had forgotten her brother, her family; she chose to forget, so she did. Her husband knew the curse, he cared not. He knew their son was special.
(A/N: Alright if any of you ask how it's possible for Lina to have a son I'm gonna scream... it just is. I want it to work... so let it. It's my story. Deal.)
The boys name was Koro. Koro knew that his mother loved him, he knew that he was a horse He loved is mother; he also loved his father very much. Koro had short, spiked, brown hair. He was short and since he was only five he didn't understand very much.
Koro was home schooled, it was safer. Whenever he went down to the beach and he saw someone there. They looked at him in disgust. A boy kept from the light, shunned from society, that's what poor Koro was. He was ignorant to this life and knew only that his mother and father loved him. He seemed sad whenever someone turned away from him, and Lina began thinking.
"Dear... would you like to goto a new home and live with others who will be kind to you?" Lina has asked him one morning.
"Mama... I... wanna do whatever you want. I want to be happy like you and Papa." Koro had answered.
Lina was surprised and told her husband. He smiled; Lina was always the person who worried. She always cared... that's why he loved her
"Send him home. Back to... her." Her husband said.
"Should we? Kikai will be furious!" Lina said.
"So?" He answered.
Lina shrugged and went back to Koro, "Remember Cousin Kotetsuma? The bunny? Would you like to go and live with him and Takai and Kikai?"
Koro smiled, "Yesh!"
Lina almost cried and her husband hugged her, "You realize mommy can't go with you right son?"
Koro's smiled faded, "Yes."
Lina cried, "Koro... you... can and you will go. With your father. Don't... think of me. Don't remember me or even mention me. Let Cousin Takai answer everything. Darling..."
Her husband hushed her, "I know, I'm to drop him off to a boy holding a beige bunny rabbit."
Lina nodded and hugged her son to her, crying. Then leaving the poor boy in tears she walked out, and Koro never saw her again.
A few days later...
Father and Koro walked out of the airport. They were in Japan. A bunny bounded up to them, it was beige. Koro smiled, "Kotetsuma?"
The bunny smiled in a bunny-ish way. And Takai came over, "Hey there. Is Lina well?"
"I don't know she left." The father said sadly, "Well anyway, please take care of Koro for me. I'll be staying here..." He gave them his address and walked away, giving one last hug to Koro.
Koro cried, "Daddy..."
Takai hugged the small boy in his arms, "It'll be okay. Let's go see Kikai..."
Koro held tight to Takai as they neared the main house.
Kikai was waiting for them, "Who is he?"
"A cousin." Takai answered, pushing Kotetsuma and Koro behind him protectively.
"Name?"
"Koro Jiit-Sohma."
"Whose?"
"Lina's."
"Why?"
"Because."
"Fine."
"Good."
Takai showed Koro to Kikai who faked a smile before grabbing Koro by his hair and punching and kicking him to the ground. Takai jumped to the rescue.
Koro whimpered and crawled away. He had injured his leg and gotten a black eye. Kikai calmed down and stalked off muttering, "That'll teach that bitchy mother of his."
Koro cried, Takai tried to help and Suma stayed out of the way. Soon Koro started a real school, an all boy's school.
It got worse for Koro... the boys teased him. They pushed him, shoved him, beat him. The teacher knew nothing of it. Koro's fear grew more and more, his kindness faded more and more, and one day when someone shoved him. He shoved back, hard, he kicked punched and beat the kid up. He got caught, he was sent home to face Kikai, but he was still angry so when she took out her whip he fought her. Koro had become an unloving boy, voracious for revenge.
When his father came for a secret visit, Koro... hit him.
Rin was crying. I understood, it was an awful story. She didn't lie when she said it was the worst one yet. I had no words for Rin, so I left her in her misery, nodding to Kagura on my way out. She'd take care of it.
Dear Journal,
Living in America is... okay. I'm getting better. A little... I can't wait to see Yuki. Oops... I hafta run, Uo and Hana are here. I'll write more tomorrow.
Tohru Honda-Sohma
