Theme Song-
Yuki, Tohru, and Kyo
"L-O-V-E we love Yuki, Yuki, Yuki lalalalalalala lalalalalalala YUKI!" chanted the prince Yuki fan club girls as Yuki, Tohru, and Kyo walked to school.
"Well, ya damn rat, don't you get the welcoming comity," Kyo said sarcastically with a smirk on his face. Tohru lifted her head up to the sky with a large smile on her face. 'Hi, my name is Tohru Honda and this is Yuki and Kyo Sohma. I've been living with them over a year now; I didn't always live with them. You see, about a year ago my mom died in a car accident and I lived in a tent on Sohma property, and now I live with Shigure, Yuki, and Kyo. I'm so happy to know that I have great friends who care about me I feel like the luckiest person in the world. Yuki turned and whacked Kyo in the back of the head.
"Shut up you stupid cat," Yuki said with an agitated but clam voice.
"DON'T CALL ME STUPID, YA DAMN RAT!" shouted Kyo.
"Would you shut up your causing a scene," Yuki said giving him a cold glare.
"ALL RIGHT THAT'S IT IT'S ON NOW!" Kyo shouted while grasping the collar of Yuki's shirt.
"Oh, I haven't heard that line in awhile," Yuki, said with a smirk. Kyo let go of Yuki's shirt and Yuki stood in his fighting stance. Then something rustled in the bushes near them. Kyo and Yuki put down their fists and turned their heads in the direction they heard the sound. There was nothing there.
"Kyo, Yuki!" Tohru called she had walked ahead of them and hadn't noticed that something had happened. They turned to look at her in the distance. "We'll miss class if we don't hurry!" Tohru called. They looked back at the spot again. Then they fallowed after Tohru.
Uo and Hana join
"Hey Tohru," greeted Uo.
"Hello Tohru," greeted Hana.
"Hello Uo, hi Hana," Tohru greeted back with a smile on her face.
"So, how was your weekend Tohru?" Uo asked.
"It was wonderful except…" Tohru cut off with a saddened look upon her face.
"What, what happened tell us," Uo said worriedly.
"What happened, please tell us Tohru," Hana said with no emotion but her face was saddened.
"Well one of Yuki and Kyo's family members died," said Tohru as her eyes began to swell up with tears. Uo and Hana pulled her into a tight embrace. After a couple of minutes the tears stopped and they started the conversation back up.
"So which of your family members died?" Uo asked Yuki.
"Just a cousin," he answered with his head hanging low with his hair covering his eyes.
"I guess you and him weren't very close, uh," Uo said. She looked at Yuki who was trembling in fear. Then he began to hear voices in his head.
Flashback"Why don't you listen to what I say?" young Akito asks while moving closer to him with a whip in his hand. Akito points the whip at Yuki. "Do you think you can go against me and not pay the price?" he asked as he began to whip Yuki.
"Stop, stop it…" young Yuki's voice fades out.
End of Flashback"STOP!" Yuki screamed as he bent down to the floor with his hands covering the back of his head. Still trembling he looked to find Uo, Hana, and Tohru in shock starring at him with wide eyes. He stood up straight his hair covering his eyes, and he gave a small cough. "Excuse me, I have a meeting I have to attend," he said as he walks off at a fast pace. Uo, Hana, and Tohru were still staring at him as he turned the corner.
"I wonder what got into the Prince all of a sudden?" asked Uo.
"I don't know," answered Tohru with a worried expression upon her face.
Yuki and Tohru
Yuki ran outside of the school building and went to the open area where most of the students sat down to eat lunch. He was leaning against the largest tree that was also the farthest away from the building. Sweat was dripping from Yuki's face at a tremendous rate. His eyes wide still trembling in fear. Then came the voices again.
Flashback"As long as you're a Sohma you will never escape this curse," young Akito hissed at Yuki.
"Shut up," Yuki mumbled under his breath.
"Your weak, pathetic…you will never know what it's like to be normal," Akito said with a sneer
"Shut up," Yuki began to raise his voice.
"Nothing you do will make the curse come to an end so stop trying," Akito told Yuki as he began to step closer.
End of Flashback"SHUT UP, GO AWAY LEAVE ME ALONE!" Yuki shouted as he dug his fingernails into the tree bark. His breathing was heavy but it wasn't and asthma attack. (He doesn't transform because I got something special coming up).
"Yuki?" a soft sweet voice called from behind. Yuki turned around to find Tohru standing there with shocked but worried expression on her face. "Yuki what's wrong?"
"Mrs. Honda how did you…" Yuki cut off.
"Well I…(she says this quickly by the way) sort of run after you when you left, I was just worried about you when you did that all of a sudden…does it have anything to do with Akito. You seem so terrified when we talk about him or when he was near, I'm worried Yuki. Why are you so frightened of him?" Tohru asked as she and Yuki sat down beneath the tree.
"Well, it all started when I was little," he started as his eyes began to fill with sadness as he went on. "You see, when I was little I got sick very easily."
"Yes, Ayame told me that, and your parents moved you to the main house because of it," Tohru pointed out but what she had said made Yuki even sadder.
"Well, that's only part of the reason, the real reason my parents got ride of me was because they rejected me," he told her. Tohru's eyes went wide. "My parents, both of them, after I was born they couldn't stand to look at me. They told me all the time they loved me but in their eyes was a look of hatred and dishonesty. They constantly yelled at me, they hit me, and they had always thought about getting rid of me. I overheard them talk about it one time. Then one day I happened to bump into my older brother I thought that maybe he could help me. So I reached for him. I grasped his shirt but all he did was brush me aside as though I was nothing. I was lying on the ground crying. Then finally I went home and started to packing. The next day I found myself wondering new halls and the best thing about it was that I wouldn't have to deal with my parents anymore. Then I met Akito," Yuki told Tohru. Yuki began trembling once again. "The first day I met him he said, "Welcome, Yuki, to the Maine Estate. As you know I am Akito head of the Sohma family so if you disobey me," Akito cut off there and walked towards me grasping the collar of my kimono and said, "I will be sure that you are punished severely." I thought that he was just playing around. The next day I was in the kitchen and Hatori was making me something to eat. Well I tripped and fell. I knocked over a broom. Which fell on a bucket of water, and the bucket flipped over pouring water all over the floor. Akito walked into the room and started yelling at me just like my parents did. It was as if I was reliving my life again. Then without Hatori looking he dragged me into this dark empty room, and he locked the does behind him as he left my in there by myself. After banging on the doors like mad I walked over to a far corner and curled myself up into a ball frightened of what would become of me. Then the doors slowly slid open and Akito stepped in through them. Then he grasped both handles and slowly shutting the doors behind him again. In his right hand there was a whip. He walked towards me than, as he said, he began to punish me severely. This kept going on for days, then weeks, then years. Sometimes he even did it for no reason just for his own entertainment and pleasure. Sometimes he would just use words to hurt me. He would say 'You are worthless to us' or 'what do you think people would say if they saw your rat form they would be terrified and think you're a freak they would hate you.' Eventually Hatori found out and moved me in with Shigure. That, Mrs. Honda that is why I'm frightened of Akito." Yuki ended, with a sad expression he looked over at Tohru who was in shock.
"I'm sorry," she said as they slowly stood up.
"It's all right, you see what helps me is to not think of the past. I think of my future and how much stronger our friendship will grow Mrs. Honda," Yuki told Tohru. She began to blush. Then, he started to move toward her and she began to blush even more. Then he wrapped his arms around her in a tight embrace. Her eyes opened wide and her face went blood red.
"Poof" Tohru was on her knees still blood red with her hand to her chest (oh, and might I add that she doesn't remember that he hugged her in the 1st one because he didn't transform for one thing and her eyes were closed from crying). 'That was the first time he hugged me because he wanted to,' she thought. ""Mrs. Honda thank you so much for being by my side all this time," Yuki's voice came from the small gray rat. Tohru held him in the palms of her hands and lifted him up to her face and rubbed his head against her cheek.
" No, thank you," Tohru said affectionately with a tender smile upon her face.
Everyone
"Welcome home," greeted Shigure. Kyo was silent he took off his shoes and went upstairs. Tohru and Yuki, however, were discussing about a big test that was tomorrow. "Tohru, are you not going into work today?" asked Shigure.
"I told my boss that I had a test to study for so he said I could have the week off," she cut off with a confused expression. "He said something about how I was working to hard, I wonder what he could mean by that?" she asked herself. (Flashback at work) "I really don't understand why, I'm just doing my best at work," she said to herself with her usual goofy grin. "SLAM" The door had slammed open making everyone jump up in fright in their seats. Shigure walked to the door to find a woman of twenty-four. She had long black hair and black eyes. She had on a t-shirt and pants with holes and they were also soaked in blood. She was covered in dirt and cuts.
"Oh my god, Rin!" Shigure shouted. Tohru and Yuki came running. "Yuki help me carry her. Tohru you go run some warm bath water, hurry please," Shigure commanded. Tohru ran to the bathroom and started a warm bath she pulled out two dry towels. Then Shigure and Yuki burst through the door with Rin's arms draped over their shoulders. They set her down gently in the center of the floor. Then Shigure and Yuki left the room. Tohru began to undress her. Rin looked up at Tohru with a saddened expression.
"It's alright," came a deep sweet female voice. Tohru looked at her in surprise. "I can do it by myself I'll be out in thirty minutes." Rin stood up and started stripping herself of her worn out blood stained clothes.
"Are you sure you don't need my help," asked Tohru worriedly.
"Yes, I'm positive, just go tell Shigure that I will be out in thirty minutes alright," she said calmly but gently turned her head flashing a smile at Tohru. With that Tohru left.
"How is she, is Rin alright?" Shigure asked Tohru worriedly.
"Yes, she's fine; I have to ask, Shigure why are you so worried about her?" Tohru asked.
"Well…uh…lets see, how do I explain this?" Shigure asked himself. "I love her." He bean to talk seriously with a straight face. "You see it all started when Aya, Hari, and I were in our first year of high school. You see we had heard a lot of strange rumors going around about some girl. Well, on out way home we happened to bump into her. We all said our hello's and told each other that we were from the same family and we told each other that we were all members of the zodiac, but what was unexpected was that she was the horse. We heard so many rumors about her, but when we met her we had a whole different out look about her. We had all fallen madly in love with her. The thing was, was that we all told her how we felt and she could not decide between us. It got so bad that it began to eat her away in side so she had her memories erased. She remembered that we were all friends she just didn't remember that we all loved her. From then on we never hung out with her again we did not want to cause her pain any more. Then we heard that these rumors got so bad that she quite school. Eventually Hari and Aya got over, but I never could for some odd reason I could never let her. This is the first time I seen her, except for at New Years, since then," Shigure told Tohru.
"I'm so sorry Shigure, I didn't mean to bring up such painful memories," Tohru apologized. Then Yuki, Shigure, and Tohru faced the stairs. There stood Rin in a light purple silk robe with flowers. Her black hair was wrapped into a dark purple towel. All the blood and dirt was gone. All you could see were scares on her soft delicate skin.
"Shigure do you mind if I stay here for a while," a look of worry and doubt came onto Rin's face.
"Rin, of course, you can stay for as long as you want," Shigure said smiling tenderly at her. 'Shigure really does care a lot about Rin I hope that in time she will learn to love him as much as he lovers her,' thought Tohru.
