"I will make you suffer like as suffer…I will make you feel our pain, I will not let you live." Akito said with a nasty grin on his face

"Leave her alone Akito!" Lira yelled as she helped Tohru up out the mud. "Tohru never did anything to you!"

"Look at her!" Lira looked at Tohru and her eyes were empty and cold "She's to afraid to go on! She can't fight it!" yelled Akito "It haunts her…"

"Tohru! Snap out of it!" Lira yelled but the rain drowned Lira's voice out.

"…I admit it…I'm scared…but what haunts me is that memory…" Tohru thought waking up " I've been trying to push it awayto the back of my mind since we went after Kyo that night but i don't understand...why…would Akito make me suffer?" Tohru looked at Lira, she was still fast asleep in Kazuma's bed but she looked frightened and she was breathing very hard as if she had been running. "Lira? Lira, please wake up."

Lira slowly woke up from her nightmare and she sat in bed.

"Is it morning already?" she asked groggily, she noticed Tohru looked a bit shaken up and asked "Tohru what's wrong?"

"I want to speak with Akito." She said with no emotion

"Hmm…if that's what you want, I wouldn't mind speaking to him myself, but the thing is you don't whyAkito acts the way he does,you see Akitois going to die. He doesn't have a choice in the matter…he is the core of the Chinese zodiac…so he gets most of our curse. So he takes it out on us, so we suffer the way he does." Lira ran a hand through her hair and continued "but I want you to talk to him…because I don't want you to go Tohru."

"Lira…" Tohru whispered

"I don't want to see you walk away from me. When you're down I want to be there to pick you up and care for you…. I won't let you go, not without a fight."

"Why?" Tohru asked

" Because I love you very much Tohru Honda…" Lira said smiling at her

"We've become so close." Tohru thought wrapping her arms around Lira's neck "All this time, I thought you didn't want me around but you only wanted me to stay." Tohru knocked Lira backwards on the bed and Tohru landed on top of her sobbing uncontrollably "I won't push you away, I love you too. This is where I belong and I won't go away that easily. Not without a fight."

Lira smiled and patted Tohru on the back and lay there looking at the ceiling wondering if god knew what would happen when they spoke to Akito.

2 weeks later

Lira and Tohru were on their knees waiting for Akito to say something. While Hatori, Yuki, and Shigure were on their knees behind them and Akito was lying on the porch.

"So what is it that you want?" asked Akito

"I don't know." Said Tohru

The boy's eyes widened but Lira simply closed her eyes. Akito got up and walked over to them and stood in front of them. He fixed his kimono and the next thing Lira felt was her bodybeing thrown against the wall. Lira got up slowly and saw Tohru hair being grabbed by Akito and Shigure.

"You will both leave that house! Lira will go back to America and you will forget everything and everyone you saw and leave that house as well!" yelled Akito

Tohru began to cry and Akito chuckled but Lira smiled and said, "I'm so sorry Akito."

"What?" Akito barked

"I'm sorry, I couldn't even imaged what it would be like to know that you were going to die." Said Lira getting up and going over to Tohru and she wrapped her arms around Tohru waist.

"Shut up you don't know anything!" he yelled "Hatori I want you to erase Tohru's now!" Hatori didn't move, he was still in shock "Hatori!"

"Your right, we don't know anything at all! But we would all be very sad if you died." Tohru said looking up at him

"Ha! These people can't wait for me to die!" Akito yelled, "They never asked me! How was it decided that I was the one to die!"

"I don't know! But we would be very sad if you'd died!" Tohru yelled

"We all would!" Lira cried, "Kyo, Hatori, Shigure, Yuki, and everyone's as well! No one should have die unless it's there choice! Not because of some stupid curse!"

Akito released Tohru's hair and he knocked Yuki and Shigure off him, then he slowly walked backwards. Tohru and Lira looked at him and Akito's bangs covered his eyes and he whispered, "I don't know..."

They all got up and the others left but Lira went over to Akito and kissed him on the cheek.

"What was that for?" he asked

"Just because." She said taking down her hair "Do you wwant to get together later?"

" Of course, I love you Lira." he said running a hand through her hair, she was going to say something back put akito put a finger to her lips."You'd better go. Kyo's waiting."

She nodded and he kissed her forehead and she ran off.

"Hey Lira! Hurry up!" yelled Kyo

"Coming Kyo!" she said running up to the front gate. "I don't know what's going to happen next…and I don't care as long as were together."

"OW! Lira why'd you'd have to jump in my arms!" yelled Kyo

"Don't complain, it's not like I'm heavy!" said Lira "Plus a princess should always be chauffeured! SO Yuki carry Tohru!"

"Oh I know he possibly—AHH!" yuki had picked up Tohru "Y-Yuki?"

"Is any thing wrong Tohru?" asked Yuki

"Oh my goodness he called her Tohru!" exclaimed Lira

"I don't know…and I don't care…"