Chapter 11: The Wicked Witch Is Dead

Princess Sango

Tohru smiled at her friends as they started to walk around the local shops on the busy Tokyo streets. "So who called you?"

"The prince actually, he told us that you needed some time away from home. Why didn't you tell us, about your kids?" Arisa asked.

"Yes Tohru why?" Hana said, trying to pry into her life.

Tohru blushed and looked away, "I'm sorry I didn't tell you before this, it's just that I'm trying to deal with other problems. Sohma-san has been trying to help me, but it's hard, and every time I see my son, Kyo-chan, it hurts. He looks so much like his father, and I miss his father."

Arisa and Hana both looked at Tohru, with shocked expressions, "What happened to his father?"

Tohru looked at them, tears rolling down her face, "I haven't seen him since Kyoko and Kyo were born, but it's not his fault, don't blame him."

"Why Tohru, we're trying to understand, why?" Hana asked her friend.

"It's complicated, and before I can say anything about it, I have to ask Akito-san, their head of the family, for permission. It's more like a family secret, and I found out about it when I first met Kyo-san, it's that complicated," Tohru explained as she smiled at her friends, wiping the tears away from her face.

"You know we could keep the secret, why can't you tell us?" Arisa asked her long time friend gently.

"I know you can but they aren't happy if I told, I promised them eight years ago. Please, I'll ask Akito-san and then if he says yes I'll tell you. It's just a really complicated story, and we'd have to tell you from the beginning, and it's really long," Tohru explained, begging them to leave the subject alone.

Arisa and Hana both looked at each other and smiled, this was so like Tohru, "Okay, but you better ask soon, I'm dying to find out."

"Hai, I will." Tohru smiled at her friends as they walked into a random shop and started to look for something useful.

Back at the house…

Kyoko smiled as she took the picture off her mirror, it wasn't safe there. She placed it in one of the drawers that no one ever looks in, in the far back where it won't get damaged. She loved to at least see what he looked like, but she wanted to know him, share with him everything he had missed in her eight years of life. She also wanted to see why her mom liked him so much that she would keep two of his kids when a normal parent would've given up.

Kyoko has asked her mother that question loads of times, and she would say the same thing over and over, "I love you two, and your father would have wanted it too. Akito let me, and I wasn't going to give up the chance."

It was something she wandered daily, and the fact that Akito was brought into this; she wondered how she reacted when she found out. Kyoko didn't have the greatest relationship with Akito; it's always been that way, even for Kyo. Most of the time Akito called them over for visits, some were bad and others are better, but when Akito visited the house, everything had to be in order, and even her mother was fearful of her.

Kyoko remembered once when they had had a bad visit and Akito had even threatened to erase her mother's memory, and Uncle Shigure and Uncle Kureno stopped her. That day was something she wanted to forget, because if that had happened, Akito would've been the one to take care of them. It made Kyoko shivered at the thought, but they are still living together, so she was content on being happy with everyday she still has her mom.

Someone knocked on the door just then, and she told him or her to come in, and in came Yuki, "Akito's dead, she's really gone…"

Kyoko looked over at Yuki and smiled, "So does that mean she has no power?"

Yuki nodded, "No power, and no control, we are now all free from her grasps."

Kyoko let out a shout of joy and hugged her uncle, "Now I can see my father right?"

Yuki could only nod as he hugged her back.

TBC…