W00t. Finally finished chapter 2 XD
Er... I haven't started chapter 3 yet, and I lost my outline, so it's going to take a really long while. T-T Gomen...
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Chapter 2: The Household: Tohru, Yuki, and Shigure
"Kyo...kun?"
Tohru brushed a hand across her eyes and managed to smile.
"Thank...you."
She kneeled down and clasped her hands together in front of her heart.
She kneeled down in front of a gravestone.
"You... you've made me so happy...and I'm so, so happy to have known you. Thank you so much, Kyo-kun. A-and I'm sorry." She stopped to wipe away more tears. "I'm sorry for hurting you when I decided to be... with Yuki-kun."
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"Kyo-kun...I...I have to tell you something..."
Kyo looked up. "What, Tohru?"
"I-" she paused, her face red, head bowed. "Yuki-kun... he asked me to be his... girlfriend."
Kyo stared at her for a moment, then erupted. "WHAT?! THAT DAMN RAT! I'LL-"
"I... said yes." She whispered.
"What...?" Kyo let his fists drop. "What...?"
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry, Kyo-kun. I'm sorry..."
Silence hung in the air. Kyo walked past Tohru and put his hand on the door.
Tohru whirled around. "Kyo-kun, where are you going?" she cried.
"To find that damn rat!" he yelled angrily.
"No!" Tohru grabbed his hands from behind him. "Don't Kyo-kun! Please, I'm sorry! Please, just don't... don't take this out on Yuki-kun... don't hurt him, don't hurt yourself... please?"
More silence. The resistance in Kyo disappeared as his body loosened a little.
"But..." Kyo's voice was softer. "I... like you too. A lot..."
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"I love you. Kyo-kun. I've always loved you, I've always loved the cat! But I love Yuki-kun, in a different way... I love you, Kyo-kun, as my brother, as my best friend, someone who I know will always be there for me, as my family. You, and Yuki-kun, and Shigure-san, thank you so much for letting me live with you, because... well, you're all like my family now, and I feel so grateful... I'm sorry for hurting you, Kyo-kun, but I was so happy, I was so glad, that you found what I found in Yuki in someone else, you know? Remember that, Kyo-kun? You found the same love in my best friend, Uo-chan."
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"Heeeey, Tohru, what's up?"
"Aaaah! Uo-chan! I haven't seen you in so long! Where have you been? Are you ok?"
Uo laughed at her best friend's panicked reaction. "Hey, don't worry about it. I've been... er... good... lately."
Tohru breathed out in relief. "I'm just glad that none of my other friends are feeling uncomfortable..."
"What do you mean by that?"
Tohru sighed. "It's Kyo-kun... he's been acting weird lately... he doesn't eat very much, and he always spaces out, and he doesn't talk much, and his face is always red, and he doesn't even fight with Yuki-kun! I'm worried about him..."
A confused look crossed Uo's face, then it was replaced with a grin as she laughed. "Haha! Orange Top? You mean he didn't tell you?"
It was Tohru's turn to be confused. "Tell me about what?"
At that moment the mentioned orange-haired teenager walked in, stopping at the sight of the blonde. "Y-you! Yankee! What are you doing here?!" his tone of voice changed from shock to anger to nervousness, as his face started turning red.
"Hey, Kyon! We were just talking about you!" Uo stood up and grabbed Kyo's arm, making him turn redder.
"A-ah?!" Tohru's mind couldn't process the sight in front of her.
Uo grinned at Tohru. "I guess Kyon-chan didn't tell you that we're going out!"
Silence.
"Dammit, Yankee, what's with the Kyon-chan?" Kyo growled, but Uo had no chance to reply as she was cut off by a rather loud exclamation.
"UWAAAAAH???!!! UO-CHAN AND KYO-KUN... YOU-YOU TWO ARE- UWAAAAAAAAHHH????!!!!"
"Y-you don't have to be so surprised..." Kyo said apprehensively, a little freaked out by Tohru's reaction. And she's the first person we told... He gave Uo a goddammit-what-kind-of-things-did-you-tell-her look. She just smiled.
After Tohru calmed down, she beamed. "Wow... you two... I'd never have imagined it! Congratulations! I'm so happy! Two of my best friends are together! Thank you so much!"
What's she thanking us for? The same thought echoed through both of their minds.
"So... how long have you two been like this now?" she asked eagerly.
Uo elbowed Kyo in the stomach. "Ever since he got spacey, I guess."
"Ah! Goddammit, woman, what was that for?"
"Sweet, sappy, symbolic signals of young looooooooove!" The last word was sung in a high falsetto, making everyone wince.
Tohru sweatdropped. "Shigure-san..."
"Oh, great." Kyo slumped down onto the table, and Uo patted him on the head sympathetically. "Aww, poor kitty." She cooed, earning herself a glare.
"So, Kyo, your strange behavior lately was actually the first floating sakura petals of love, as they fell from the sky, like the sweet caresses of angels- AAAAH! IT BURNS!" Kyo had flung the remainder of the teapot's contents, still fresh, into Shigure's eyes. "I'm sorry, Kyo-kun, the only sweet caresses you want are from Uotani-san!" he jumped up from the table and ran out the door, followed immediately by a very pissed off neko, who was shouting colorful things which quickly faded away.
Tohru sat in shock as Uo laughed amusedly. "That's him for you."
Tohru recovered and smiled. "I'm so glad for you, Uo-chan. I wish you lots of luck with Kyo-kun and happiness."
"Ha, with a guy like that, I'll need luck. ...But Tohru, is it ok, with me and him and all?"
Tohru smiled, one of her honest, sincere smiles that could melt anyone's heart. "Yes, Uo-chan, I'm so happy..."
Uo smiled too, one different from her trademark vintage smirk. "Then... that's good."
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Tohru smiled at her fond memories of her two best friends together. That had been one of the happiest times in her life, as she was with Yuki, and her two best friends were with each other, and Hana was with Haru, and everything was like a fairy-tale.
Her smile faded a little. She just hadn't expected the fairy-tale to end this way.
"She... she blames herself, Kyo-kun, for what happened. But it's really not her fault, is it? It's no one's fault. I'm so worried for her, and I don't know if I can help her. I feel so helpless, Kyo-kun, please, you have to help her, you have to protect her, you have to be there for her, you have to do all those things that only you can do, because only you have that special, special place in her heart. Oh, god, Kyo-kun, help her, please. Why- why do people have to suffer like this? Why do these kinds of things happen to good people, to such good people like Kyo-kun? Kyo-kun- and Mom?! This shouldn't happen to anyone, no one deserves this! ...No one deserves... this pain... no one deserves to be ripped away from the people who care about them..."
Tohru attempted to catch her breath and calm down. She finally became aware of the rain which hit her skin and drenched her clothes.
"Y-you feel that, Kyo-kun? This rain... it's been raining now, ever since... so many people care, they care so much about you, the sky, the heavens, they're all crying for you..." she shook her head. At your funeral...maybe you didn't feel it... our love I mean... but it wasn't really a fair funeral to begin with, was it?"
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It was two days after the accident. Several people stood in front of a plain, brown, closed casket, the only decoration being a small cat symbol carved into the bottom of the casket.
Hatori lifted his head up and looked at the other faces, some bowed, some tear-streaked, some grave. He sighed. "I hate to say something like this in this situation, but our time limit's running out. It's time to lower the casket."
"...wait..." A whispery voice sounded.
Uo stepped forward. Her hand traced the cat figure slowly, a faint smile forming on her face. "Will you...let me... carve something...?"
Hatori nodded solemly and produced a jackknife out of thin air, handing it to her, a sadness in his eyes. "Yes..."
Uo whispered her thanks. She studied the cat figure once more. With a trembling hand, she carefully carved out a simple fish shape and stepped back, handing the knife back to Hatori.
Hatori nodded to the staff standing by, then addressed the party again. "...today there's a time limit, courtesy of Akito, but tomorrow you may pay your respects as long as you like..." he saw Uo linger behind out of the corner of his eye as he walked away.
Only Tohru heard what Uo whispered as she watched the casket disappear under a mountain of dirt, her eyes trained on the two carvings the whole time.
"So... Kyo... a part of me... will be with you forever..."
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"So... now I'm here... Kyo-kun..." she sighed. "Uo-chan, she should've come here first maybe, I didn't deserve to speak with you first. But she... she's not all right, Kyo-kun. This might be a selfish request but... don't... don't leave her alone, Kyo-kun... don't leave us all..." she broke down crying. Her cries echoed in the empty graveyard for countless minutes, the kind of time no one bothers to count.
"Tohru-san..." the rain stopped hitting her skin as a pair of hands gently touched her shoulders, a more spiritual sort of hug.
"A-ah! Yuki-kun!" Tohru tried to brush away her tears, to no avail. "Y-you're here!"
Yuki nodded and stood up, looking at the plain gravestone. All it said was "Kyo Sohma." "How could I not come here...?" he whispered softly.
"I'm sorry, I'm almost done..."
"No, it's my fault for intruding..."
Tohru smiled up at him. "Don't worry, I'm really almost done." She picked up the flower bouquet next to her and placed it in front of the gravestone. "Y-you see, Kyo-kun? They're tiger lilies... they're... the same color as your hair." She said quietly, then stood up and bowed. "Rest in peace, Kyo-kun. ...Take care of my mom up there." She finished, sniffing and wiping away her other tears. Slowly, she turned to Yuki. "I... I'll see you back home."
"Yes..." Yuki handed her a spare umbrella he was holding. "Be careful."
"Thank you, Yuki-kun..." Tohru looked at the umbrella for a moment, then hurried out of Yuki's own umbrella's protection towards Kyo's gravestone.
"T-Tohru-san?"
Tohru opened the umbrella and stuck it in the ground firmly next to her flowers, shielding the gravestone from the pelting rain. "There... Kyo-kun... he didn't really like the rain... now... he won't get sick..."
Yuki smiled sadly. "I'm sure... he'd appreciate it."
Tohru nodded and hurried away, holding an arm up to block the rain.
Yuki watched Tohru leave, then turned to the gravestone. "She's been miserable since you left, you know that?" A soft, gentle, cold voice.
It disappeared. "...you STUPID cat." He spat out the well-used phrase like it was poison.
"Why'd you go and die? Did you do this on purpose or something to get people to feel bad for you? Did you do this because you felt you didn't have enough sympathy from the world? Did you do this because you felt sorry for yourself? Do you even know what exactly you did?" Yuki appeared calm, but his words were angry and cold. He breathed in and out deeply, closing his eyes. After a moment, he spoke again, more calmly, more restrained.
"No... even you wouldn't have done something like that. Especially someone like you. You... you love Uotani-san too much to have done something to hurt her on purpose. You saw it in her from day one, didn't you? It was in your eyes. Something different about the way you looked at her. Something special. You..."
"Did you ever know why I hated you so much? This goes deeper than the cat and the rat, deeper than becoming part of the zodiac."
Yuki's voice was tinted with regret, anger, sadness. Why now, why couldn't he conceal his feelings like usual, why at this time, why in front of Kyo?
Why... in front of his grave?
"I always... admired you. In the way that you get along with people by being yourself, by being who you are. You can live a normal life, you could've lived a normal life, with a normal person, don't you see? Even now, when I'm with Tohru-san, she's not cursed, but she's not exactly normal, either. She's special. That's why... why we both fell in love with her, right? She knew about our curse from the very beginning of it all. But Uotani-san, she fell in love with you before she found out about the curse, before she found out she could never hug you. And it's not just Uotani-san who cares about you, there's Tohru-san and Hanajima-san and Shigure and Hatori and Ayame and definitely Kagura and a lot of the other zodiac members and pretty much everyone in the whole school, they all care about you. I admire you, Kyo, you stupid cat. You couldn't join the zodiac, but you joined the real world. You shouldn't have died. You were the outcast, Kyo, but you had so much! You have so much! Watch, Kyo, watch what happens over the next few days. Watch their reactions. Watch over them. You hated me from the start, just because I'm the rat, and- and, maybe, that's ok."
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"You damn rat!"
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"One day I'll make you say you're sorry!"
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"I hate Yuki! And I like hating him!"
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"I hate you too, for not seeing what you have. You don't need to be a Sohma to be happy. It'll only make you worse, perhaps. You were fine being the cat, stupid! Why did you die, dammit, why did you have to die!"
Yuki rarely, if ever, swears.
"I won't forgive you for this... for dying. I promise... I won't forgive you. For all of this pain you've caused us. For ruining it for yourself. I won't. I won't forgive you."
Yuki's fist was shaking as he glared down at the gravestone. "Get up, bakaneko! GET UP! Get up and tell me I'm a damn rat! Beat me! Make me say I'm sorry! GET UP, KYO!" Yuki screamed at the name carved in the stone.
The only sound was of Yuki's panting, small and alone and in a huge graveyard.
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Familiar footsteps sounded behind Yuki as he walked back to Shigure's house. He sighed in exasperation. "What is it?"
Kyo gritted his teeth. "..."
"Looking for another fight, bakaneko? You'll never win."
"...I know."
Yuki looked at his cousin in surprise. "What?" he said, momentarily flustered.
Kyo looked away, anger, confusion, defeat contained in his red eyes. "You- you're the kuso nezumi. I'm the bakaneko. You'll always win, anyway... just like you won Tohru."
"What exactly is your point?"
"I give up. On Tohru, I mean. God, you can have her. It would never have worked anyway. She's too pure, too innocent."
"It might not work with me, either, you know. She could fall in love with an outsider and never choose either of us."
"Are you CRAZY, you damn rat?! Haven't you noticed the way she looks at you?! Goddammit, accept it already! It's ONLY you!" Kyo was angry again, just like usual.
"..." Yuki smiled a little. "So the cat finally accepts defeat."
"What the hell did you just say, you damn rat?! I'll grind your face into the dirt! I'll make you wish you were never born!"
"Been there, done that. So much for giving up." Yuki sighed exasperatedly, walking home with a yelling neko stalking him.
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And he'd never have memories like that again.
"Baka...neko."
The umbrella in Yuki's hand fell to the ground with a small splash, destined to be forgotten. The rain showered down on him, plastering his gray hair to h is face, his large purple eyes shining through the dull weather.
"Do you understand now? Do you understand what you truly meant to the world? It's almost pathetic, Kyo, how this all turns out. The cat, scorned by the zodiac, scorned by the head of the Sohmas, will probably leave the most painful memories among those he lived with. It's crazy, Kyo. It's crazy... just like the way you lived your life. Everyone always says how Honda Tohru-san has made such a huge difference in all of our lives... now that you're gone, maybe you've made as huge of a difference in our lives. No matter how hard you try, you'll always be yourself. You're like an open book, a huge novel, lying there on the floor for everyone to read, for anyone to step on... for anyone to pick it up and bring it to safety, to care for it. But... no one realized the novel was coming to an end... no one realized the book would fall off the table and slam shut on the floor. If... if anyone, if everyone had saw it coming, then the novel might have been read more often, it might have gotten more attention and care. Dakedo... no one saw it coming. Everyone assumed the annoying cat would always be there, that he would always be annoying. It's like that old saying... You never know how much something means to you until it's gone. If you hadn't died, things would pretty much be the same, wouldn't they?" his voice became a little hopeful, in a miserable way. "Everything would still be OK, WOULDN'T IT?"
Yuki shut his eyes tightly, refusing to let all of his emotions come out. He refused to ever surrender everything he had to Kyo. He would never. Not even in this case.
But some of them came out. Isn't that what counts...?
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"Heeey, Yuki!"
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Yuki's eyes shot open as a faint memory flashed quickly in front of his eyes, a kid's happy voice sounding in his head, then disappeared.
Was that-?!
"What... happened? Before, I mean? Did you hate me... from the moment you were born? Or-" his voice shook. "Or- did someone-" he couldn't finish the sentence.
Akito.
He remembered a little now. He remembered laughing, and the color orange. He remembered being happy, he remembered having a friend.
He remembered Akito's cold, familiar voice, yelling at a small, orange-haired boy on the ground in front of him, as he peeked in a crack in the door.
"You're disgusting! You're a monster! You will never be accepted! You will never be able to be happy, you're a monster! Don't you ever try to be friends with Yuki again! It's all his fault, you understand? IT'S ALL HIS FAULT YOU'RE LIKE THIS!"
He hadn't seen Kyo for months, maybe even years after that. They had been little, so the memories pretty much faded away anyway, even without any of Hatori's help.
And the next time he saw Kyo, the next time he approached Kyo, never remembering they had once been friends- Kyo's eyes burned with hate. Directed at him.
"I hate you."
But Kyo had remembered. He had to have remembered.
Yuki brought a hand to his mouth, holding back any sound that might have come out. He cursed himself for taking this long to figure it out. How could he have never seen it?
Akito.
God knows he himself had been through hell with that... that... person... but Kyo... he never knew what Akito had done to him. Before he had been banished from the house, except for New Year's.
"So... maybe..."
Yuki gritted his teeth. Now he was really mad. Not only does the bakaneko die, but he finally remembered what they could have been.
They weren't gay, no fanservice, sorry. But they could've been best friends...
They could've been like brothers.
Was this the same abandonment that Ayame felt, his real brother?
Yuki groaned and moved his hand to his head. Doing all this memory digging was killing him.
"But... you're dead."
So there was no use remembering anymore, was there?
There was no use knowing what they used to be anymore.
He couldn't stay around here too long, it was already hurting him. If he stayed too long, he'd think of things he didn't want to think about.
So he'd just let it end, now.
"Bakaneko... Kyo..."
This is it, isn't it.
"Goodbye..."
It's finally... over.
Yuki stood there for a second more, then turned around and started walking slowly, picking up the umbrella from the spot where he had dropped it. He wasn't going to cry for him, at least not in front of him. He was never going to give up to him. But...
But in the end... no one really won.
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Shigure looked up from putting on his shoes as the front door opened. "Ah, Yuki-kun. Home already?"
"Home finally." Yuki said, but it lacked contempt for going to his rival's grave. "Where's Tohru-san?"
"Her room. Yuki-kun ...not right now. She needs her space, too."
"I know, stupid. Leave ME alone." Yuki walked up the stairs, throwing the umbrella at him.
"Oooh! Tag! I'm it!" Shigure caught the umbrella, but immediately held it away from him. "It's getting my clothes all weeet, Yu-kiiii-ku-n..." he was ignored by the nezumi. Shigure's eyes looked down at the umbrella, then fell on an old pair of Kyo's shoes, still in the closet near the doorway, which he had been meaning to throw out. His eyes softened as he started to walk outside. "I suppose it's my turn to grace Kyo-kun with my presence, eh..."
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Aroooooo... the chorus of dogs bounced around the gravestones, all bearing the name 'Sohma' or having some correspondence with the Sohmas.
"Welcome... to the Sohma graveyard. It's always cheerful here!" Shigure sang to himself. He stopped in front of Kyo's stone, chuckling at the tiger lilies. "The orange makes it impossible not to miss... ah, just like in real life..."
"Because... Kyo-kun was impossible to miss..."
Shigure shook his head like the dog he was, his hair flinging water everywhere under the cover of his umbrella. "Maybe you should come home, Kyo-kun. Where were you, staying at a 'friend's' house? You missed your curfew, you sly cat!" he winked. "Anyway, come home. It's not home without loud noises, without a cat and a rat attempting to kill each other. Such a shame, I can't get anywhere with my novel! You've spent enough time away, so come, dust is gathering on your sweet picture of your sweet Uotani-san! Come home, Kyo-kun..."
Arooo... a lone dog's cry.
"God, who am I kidding. Kyo's not coming home." Shigure ran a hand through his hair and moved his gaze to the ground. What interesting stones. One of these days, he had to write about stones. He switched back to his annoying, high-pitched voice. "What is going to become of my beautiful room with no master, and my wonderful, wonderful novel?" But his normally cheerful façade was cracking.
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Shigure couldn't sit still in the middle of dinnertime. "I am in the process of writing a new novel! Do you all want to hear about it?"
No one paid any attention to him.
"Yay! Ok, well it is about this young, naïve, problemed, high school boy who is an outcast! One day he meets a tall beautiful high school girl, coincidentally also an outcast of sorts! As the story progresses-"
It finally dawned on Kyo. "Oh damn-"
"-tension erupts in the air, like fireworks, boom boom! Fiery love, the passion they withhold deep inside their walled up hearts, searching for the lone key inside one another's soul, like-"
"If you don't shut up-"
"-two lovers bound together by fate and destiny, to be cherished for all lifetime, destined to watch the sun's last rays gleam onto the shimmery ocean surface, and as the wind blew the boy looked at the girl in his arms, as her long, soft, sweet-smelling hair flowed smoothly in the wind, and as she smiled at him, her soft, moist lips curving up, he gazed into her eyes and became lost in the deep orbs which were the same as the ocean, which were larger and bluer and deeper and more brilliant than the vast ocean itself, and as he sunk into her look their faces neared until he could feel her breath in his mouth, losing all control he-"
"Drop dead Shigure-"
"-joined her lips with his own, sweet and soft and warm, but he wouldn't settle for just this, he wanted more, he slowly, sensually slipped his tongue into her mouth, all wet and writh- IIIIIING!!!!" Shigure jumped up and ran away, fake tears flowing down his face as Kyo's eyes glowed red.
"I'LL KILL YOU, YOU DAMN DAMN DAMN DOG!"
That night, like so many others, Shigure (and his poor house) was pummeled to near death. Ah, it's good to know all is well in the world.
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Ah, he would've paid big bucks to watch that expression go over Kyo's face again. You'd think he wrote porn or something.
But all is not well in the world.
He'd never watch that expression go over Kyo's face again, or any other expression. He'd never get to torture Kyo, or clean up after Kyo, or teach Kyo any lessons in life (and girls)...
He'd never know Kyo again.
"When I was presenting the idea to my editor... I was serious, you know... I forgot about one thing, something I usually don't care much about..."
"Character development."
"And I thought, I live with this guy, who practically lives on the girl, like a drug I mean, not physically, although it works either way. But... to analyze someone like Kyo-kun..."
"Someone who matters a lot."
He paused.
"A looooooooooooooooooot." Just in case his point wasn't clear enough.
"And as I watched you, you weren't the cat from the zodiac. You became human. You were human. You were real. I could see everything. But I couldn't write all those things down, because the kind of traits that only Kyo-kun has, they don't fit in words, they don't belong in the form of ink on paper. They surpass all those boundaries."
"Kyo-kun... you are special. Very special. The 'd' is optional. You're like a stamp, both physically and mentally. When you punch someone, you leave a bruise and occasionally, broken bones. But when you meet someone, you leave an imprint in their mind. It is incredibly hard to forget about someone like you, it's incredibly hard to develop a character like you."
"And yet, as I wrote, I wrote as I knew you, I wrote about the juvenile delinquent who is the major source of all my repair bills, I wrote about the idiot who spazzes when we run out of milk, I wrote about the lovestruck crazy hormonal teenager who obsessed without even knowing, and I wrote about the person who couldn't see what he was, who couldn't see who he was, but everyone else could. I wrote about the person that I saw, the person I knew was worthy of everything that everyone else is worthy of, and more."
"I wrote about Kyo-kun."
Aroooooo...
"I don't even know what to say. You lived in my house for almost four years now, didn't you? It wasn't the end, Kyo-kun. After graduation... it wasn't the end."
Oh god.
"If you had known... if you had only known that it wasn't the end... would you have died?"
"Was it really... Kyo-kun's time to go?"
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You can take... my teeth... or my bones.
They don't matter to me.
I will get it.
And I'll do whatever it takes to get there. Even lie or use people.
I will make that dream last forever.
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"I don't know. This whole time... what was I really thinking? What did I really want? I told myself...'I want to make it last forever. I want to be able to hold it in my hands. And I will.' '...If I can make it happen, I won't feel guilty about... the means to that end. Even if someone gets hurt in the process.' I still remember... telling that to Ha'ri... and telling that to... myself. But now... I'm standing here at Kyo Sohma's grave. Can I still tell myself... that I don't feel guilty?"
"Someone died. Someone who mattered. Someone got hurt in the process... Kyo-kun got hurt in the process. How can I... not feel guilty? I was chasing after that dream, that vow I made so long ago, though it still seems like yesterday. But I never saw in that dream that it would go this far. I never caught the dream, at least, not yet. But Kyo-kun died because I wanted to make it last... forever."
Forever.
"Is this a strange way of telling me I was selfish? By taking away others? Or would I have taken him away anyway, in the end, if he had gotten in my way?"
I...
"I... don't know... Kyo-kun... this..."
Did I...
"Please believe me, Kyo-kun, I never meant for this to happen..."
...take it too far?
"I know I sound pathetic but..."
Really...
"Kyo-kun is alive too... everyone has their own feelings..."
Is it worth it... in the end?
"Everyone is capable of being loved, being hurt... capable of making it last forever... but I..."
Why...?
"Kyo-kun is the cat. Kyo-kun is the outcast of the zodiac. Doesn't an outcast not deserve to be addressed with '-kun'?" he reminded himself.
So how...?
Shigure let out a deep breath and smiled. "Aaaah, Kyo-kun! I now see what Uotani-san sees! Suddenly the future is clear! MY LIFE IS FORFILLED!" A gazillion shiny shoujo bubbles surrounded him as he pranced around in a circle, until he tripped over a non-existent stone and fell, causing his beautiful bubbly bubbles to pop and end his world.
He sat up, rubbing his head. "Anyway... I think... I see it now. Why I don't think of Kyo-kun as the outcast. Why I don't hate Kyo-kun. Why most people really don't hate Kyo-kun. Why people as different as Kagura and Uotani can fall in love with Kyo-kun. Because... all those stereotypes, the character development that people build in their own minds, that's what makes Kyo special, that's what makes you different."
Arf!
Shigure grinned and patted the dog's head, who had just ran up, tugging at his yukata. "That's right. I have a present for you too!" he declared in his normal Shigure voice. He produced a book from the folds of his yukata and placed it next to the flowers. "This is the novel... the novel about someone just like you. There's... no ending. I didn't want to write an ending. Because, Kyo, you deserve... to have a chance... to make it last forever, too."
As the novelist left, a small wind blew, scattering the rain. The pages of the novel turned carefully, under the umbrella's protection. The wind stopped, leaving it turned to the last page.
To Kyo Sohma.
Physical matter, the form of life, it can be taken away at any second. But souls and their memories can last forever, if at least one person still believes.
Kyo-kun, you've got a whole army believing in you.
This novel isn't over unless you yourself believe that it is over.
Rest in peace, Kyo Sohma. You're not just the cat. Not anymore.
-Shigure Sohma, beloved cousin of Kyo-kun! Ahahaha!
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Whee so how was it? Please review. Please XD
darkorejectL13 – T-T believe me, I didn't want Kyo to die. I just thought it would help my mind because when I write fanfics, all my characters go waaaaay OOC. So I was too scared that I would make Kyo OOC, so I killed him off. T-T I love Kyo!!!! Forever 3 And thanks for reviewing!
CorvidQueen – Somehow, I knew the fangirls would attack me. They were always out to get me. T-T Oh well, in future chapters near the end Kyo will magically come back! XD I wish. Well, he'll be there, though. Haha - Thanks for reviewing!
Ariyana – Yea, the beginning was pretty classic. I was randomly thinking about how I would hate it if Kyo died and it came to my mind. I swear I wasn't copying anyone else, lol, I've really never read something like that, or at least I don't remember... oh well! Thanks for reviewing
Wolfy – Yay, someone was shocked! -gives you a cookie- and why Kyo? Because I love him... yea, I know, that doesn't make sense XD Whee thanks for reviewing!
Chapter 3 might have some of a delay. Just a warning T-T Review... I'm out! Love and peace XD