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Chapter 4: Unable To Let Go
"Who are you? What are you doing in my house?" the owner of the gun demanded.
"Calm down, Lady!" Kyo pleaded. "Don't shoot! I didn't know you were here! I'm here with my family."
"Family? What family! Get out of my house!" the blonde woman shouted.
The woman grabbed Kyo and lifter him over her head. She slipped a little and fell from being too hasty. She landed on top of Kyo and Kyo turned cat form. The woman screamed and jumped out of the tub.
"What the hell is this?" she screeched. "Who the hell are you? I know you're not him! Don't mock me!"
Tohru ran flew down the stairs and slid across the floor outside of the bathroom. She caught her balance and landed on her butt in front of the doorway. The gun clicked and was ready to shoot her brains out.
"Get out of my house," the blonde woman ordered.
Tohru thought for a moment and then crawled into the bathroom with her head down. She grabbed her son and sat at the woman's feet.
"I- I'm so sorry. I'll take my family and leave. We didn't know that someone lived her. I'm sorry. Yuki!" Tohru called.
The blonde woman yanked Tohru to her feet and examined her body up to her face slowly.
"T- Tohru?" she cried.
Tohru looked up from her son's furry head with one eye closed. Her other eye opened quickly.
"Uo! Arisa Uotani!" Tohru yelped.
Kyo looked up and stared at Uo and started to claw at Tohru's shirt.
"Uo, this is my son, Kyo. I know it was wrong but he was conceived the day Kyo died. So we named him Kyo."
"You had sex the day my boyfriend died?"
"I'm sorry. It started as comfort but it ended differently."
"Did you get the man who killed Kyo?"
"Yes, he's dead," Hatori replied from behind.
"How long have you been living here?" Yuki asked from upstairs.
"I'll be right back," Tohru told them and put Kyo down.
Uo looked at Tohru. She petted his orange head and looked at him.
"Your hair is just like his," Uo breathed.
"You were his girlfriend?" Kyo asked.
"Yeah, but he was killed soon after he confessed his love to me. I miss him. I should have told him that I loved him before he told me."
"I'm sure he knew that you loved him in his heart."
"You really are your mother's son. Who's your dad?"
"Yuki is my dad."
"I wish I went to the wedding but I just couldn't get away from here. That's when I moved here."
Yuki was wheeled into the bathroom with Tohru behind him. Uo looked at Yuki and had a puzzled look on her face.
"Yuki was shot and crippled by the man who killed Kyo, Akito."
Uo cringed and stepped out into the living room. She settled herself down on the couch and took out some beer from a small fridge. Tohru watched her old friend drink the poison pee colored liquid and winced.
"Want?" Uo offered.
"No thank you," they all replied.
Tohru passed Kyo his clothes and the cat ran off as he began to transform back into his human self.
"So, Prince Charming you treating Tohru well? If your not you'll be more than crippled," Uo asked.
"He treats me like a queen. He spoils Kyo ad me a lot," Tohru replied.
"I see. You only deserve the best Tohru," Uo reminded.
"Oh no, it's actually too much. I don't deserve such treatment," Tohru said modestly.
"I don't see why you would be living here. Why is it that you wanted to live here in the house that your boyfriend died in?" Yuki wondered aloud.
"Because this is where he told me that he loved me. This is where Tohru lived for a long time and it holds many happy memories for me."
"What happened to Hana?" Tohru queried.
"I'm not sure but I think she got married to someone from Yuki's family. You can try to track her down. Whenever I tried there was no trace of where she could be. What scared me is that once I was searching and she was put under deceased but Hana wouldn't be dead she's much stronger than that," Uo answered.
"We should find Hana. Akito may have known about you both and ordered for you to cause us pain by killing you. Even though he's dead people still answer to his last wishes," Yuki told her.
"It's very dangerous to do anything that has to do with the past and our families," Hatori advised.
"That's true," Tohru concurred.
"We need Hana to fit together how that writer guy died," Uo whispered.
"How did you know about that?" Yuki demanded.
"Because they wanted me to tell them where the two of you went. They wanted you to kill him Yuki so that it would look like some sort of act of vengeance for the fact that he was the reason that your brother was killed. Your family told me all about it they filled me in with every single little detail."
Tohru sat quietly and she took Yuki's hand in hers.
"My brother's death would be a cover for the death of another man! They have no respect for the departed! So then they had a purpose to kill Ayame! That's sick!" Yuki raged.
"They killed many people to kill my father?" Ichigo asked as he came down the steps.
"Yes."
Ichigo slipped into a seat and put his head in his hands. He shook his head in disbelief. His face frowned and he looked at himself. He was only alive because other people died to protect his parents. His life was nothing but part of a scheme. He felt as if his life was some unforgivable sin.
"None of this is your fault," Tohru prompted.
"Then why do I feel like it is?"
"Because you're alive and people are dead. As noble as intentions were your parents had guilt of other people's deaths on their heads and you feel it as a tremendous burden to carry on what they had started," Yuki told him.
Ichigo stepped into the crushed garden in the back of his father's estate. He sat where his father once sat with Hatori smoking their cigarettes and staring at the trees and the sky. He was outside and not in and he had freedom when others did not.
Inside
"Then it's settled? We'll find Hana?" Uo made sure of.
"That's right," Yuki replied.
"You can all stay here and we'll start tomorrow if you want," Uo proposed.
"Okay."
The day finished and night began. Ichigo sat on his father's unmade bed with the floor covered in papers, pens, anything a great writer needed to do anything. He shifted through the mess of pictures and made piles where he could find room.
"He wasn't known for being neat. They say that the messier someone is the smarter they are. I wouldn't say that this applied to your father by looking at the sty," Hatori said.
Ichigo picked up a piece of paper that seemed to be scribbled in a rush.
Dear Son/ Daughter,
If you are reading this then I am most likely dead. I know that it seems strange but in a dream I could see myself dying or disappearing. I took it that whomever got possession of you would take you here to teach you more about me. I really wish I could tell you that I love you. I don't know you but if you are my child then there is no doubt in my mind that I would love you. You are a Sohma and most likely cursed. As your father I can only tell you this, if you want happiness you have to create it, if you want hate, anger, and sorrow you must destroy your happiness. But most importantly you have to be yourself and love yourself more than anything else in the world. If you don't then who will? I know I will but it's most likely that I'm no longer there. I love you.
Love,
Your father, Shigure SohmaIchigo dripped tears on the letter and folded it up and placed it in his pocket.
"What is it? Why are you crying?" Hatori asked.
"My father really loved me even though he never knew me. His morals were strange but his heart was very much pure and they killed him. He sounded like a good man and they killed him! I'll kill all of them. I'll kill everyone who loved and actually cared for that bastard, Akito. If he were alive I would murder him myself and I would avenge my father," Ichigo vowed.
"Your father wouldn't want that for his son. He would want you to let it go and most importantly he would want you to be yourself. He believed that if you weren't yourself than no one else could ever be. Shigure knew that his son wouldn't be a murderer. Don't be what your father wouldn't be proud of."
"You knew my father very well didn't you?"
"Since he was four I was just stuck with your father. He was a pain in my side but I couldn't stop being his friend no matter what he did. He was a much better man than I could ever hope to be. Do your father proud and don't do anything that he may not have approved of. I will be your father's voice."
"What do you mean my 'father's voice'? You'll take me in?"
"Yes."
"Thank you."
Hatori smiled for a second and then Ichigo turned out the light and allowed himself to fall asleep. He wasn't alone anymore he had Tohru, Yuki, Kyo, and now Hatori behind him as back up.
A dark figure stood at the window of Tohru's old room. The tree branch looked like a pathway into the house but the figure just stood outside and watched Tohru and Yuki sleep with a smile and a sigh of relief.
Well? What did you think? Hatori is now Ichigo's unofficial guardian and someone is watching over them. Who is it? It could be anyone… Bye- bye!