Chapter 20: More Secrets Revealed and the….

Princess Sango

Yuki and Tohru walked down the streets, trying to find a well-known arcade, when they bumped into someone, someone who was named Motoko and the other girls from the former Prince Yuki Fan Club. "Hi there Yuki-kun, long time no see," then she looked back at Tohru, "Hi there Tohru, what are you doing here?"

Kyo-kun looked up at the annoying girls and tugged on his mother's sleeve, "Mommy, can we go now?"

Motoko saw the young orange top, "Mommy? Tohru you're a mother, then who's the father?" She stared horrified at Yuki and then at the mother and son.

"Oh this is my son, Kyo Sohma, but he is right, we must get going," Tohru said, bowing slightly to her elder and her and Yuki went to move along when Motoko stopped them.

"That is Kyo's son, can't you not tell the difference, senpai?" Yuki questioned her.

Motoko's eyes went calm and she nodded, "How foolish of me, yes, good-bye then."

Yuki, Kyo-kun, and Tohru started to walk away and all girls surrounded Motoko to talk. Kyo-kun looked up at his mother and Uncle Yuki and smiled and asked, "Who were those girls, and they seem so annoying."

"They are annoying, I'll admit, but I had to deal with them in high school and so did your mother. Lucky for her, we were never in a relationship like they thought. She was with your father Kyo-kun, and they didn't give him much attention after the first day," Yuki said, while pictures of the first day of school for that cat went on in his head.

Tohru giggled, "I remember, Kyo almost broke that poor girl's arm, after all he couldn't be hugged."

Yuki laughed with her but Kyo-kun wanted to hear more, "What happened, not just fragments but the whole story."

Tohru smiled, "Sure, well as you now know, you're father went to the same high school as me and your uncle. Anyway, Kyo was bombarded by all those fan club girls and when he tried to get away, one girl tried to hug him."

"Why would they bombard him if he wasn't Uncle Yuki?" Kyo-kun questioned.

"It's because of his relation to Yuki; they wanted to see if Kyo knew anything. Unluckily for them, your father hated Yuki because he was the rat, well known fact for people inside," Tohru lectured but smiled softly and kissed his forehead, "We're here."

Kyo-kun gave a shriek of joy and ran inside before his mother or Yuki could stop him.

Kyoko smiled as her dad handed her a huge stuffed plushie of her zodiac animal, a pink bunny fluffy and decorated. Kyo-san placed her on his broad shoulders and walked out of the theme park. They had been there all day and were now heading home. Kyoko was laughing and giggling as she hugged her father's neck so she wouldn't fall. To her, her dad was everything she had dreamed of; there was no gap between them. All those times she dreamed of being with her dad, are finally coming true. Kissing the top of her father's head she rested and smiled, "Arigatou dad, for everything."

"You're welcome Kyoko-chan, really you are," Kyo-san said awkwardly.

Kyoko smiled at her father, who was really trying to be himself and yet a father figure. "Daddy, I know you're trying, but if you're just yourself, then I will know who you really are."

Kyo-san looked up at his daughter, thinking that she was just like Tohru, wanting him to be himself, and everything else. Kyoko "Okay," Kyo-san answered calmly.

Kyoko smiled and soon closed her eyes and fell asleep right there on her father's shoulders and Kyo couldn't have felt more like a father right there.

Later at the house…

Tohru smiled as she and Kyo-san sat down on the couch, turning on the television, they both sat on opposite sides of the couch. Kyo-san's attention wasn't on the television, it was on Tohru. "Tohru-chan, what went on when I was gone?"

Tohru turned to Kyo-san and smiled her carefree one, "Don't worry about that Kyo, you're here now."

Kyo-san shook his head, "No, I don't want that Tohru-chan. I was locked up for eight years, only being let out once. I have a thirst to know what went on Tohru, and I don't want to hear it from out daughter, I want to hear it from you."

Tohru bit her lip, "I sacrificed a lot for them, but I knew it would be worth it, but as the children got older, new and harsher rules were added too. Some the children didn't even know about, others, they were told by me, Yuki, or even Akito."

Kyo-san's eyebrow went up at Tohru's remark, "What kind of rules?"

"Well at first, the children were aloud outside the Sohma family, but when they got old enough to Akito to realize their surroundings, they weren't aloud outside the Sohma estate. That's when I stopped going out of the Sohma estate, unless we needed food or something really important. Even then Yuki went out instead of me. When the kids were old enough to speak, they started going to see Akito, even if I objected that they were too young. By the time they were old enough to go to school, Akito forbid it, saying there was too many leniencies on the family as it is. So going against his wishes I home schooled them," Tohru answered and then added, "There were more, but those hurt us the most."

Kyo-san looked at Tohru and scooted her to him, embracing her, "I have the time to listen."

Tohru took a deep breath, "Okay, I'll continue, but it's only going to cause you more pain than you know."

"I already carry pain Tohru, more won't matter," Kyo-san answered truthfully.

"Well, you know how you changed my name? Akito changed it back, and that detective found out, and he went snooping, my family got involved. Grandpa didn't care, but my aunt did, and she didn't like this fact one bit. Of course Akito won but it wasn't easy, and that's when Akito forbid me to keep ties on the other side, so I lost Hana and Uo. Akito made rules of my own household, and who could and couldn't come, and at what times. Only Yuki was an acceptation, and Akito could come anytime but the house must be clean form top to bottom. Then she made times when the children could be outside and only during those times were they aloud. It's okay now though, really," Tohru told him, a slight glaze in her eyes, but a smile still on her face.

Kyo-san kissed her lips softly, "Tohru, if you want to cry, it's okay, you've got a shoulder. If you want to open up, have someone hold you tell you everything's alright, if you want anything, I'm here."

Tohru clutched his shirt as if it was her only life line, and cried, let out her eight years of stress, and when she was about to pass out from exhaustion, she heard Kyo-san say, "I'm sorry Tohru, you won't be alone again, I'm here now, for you."

TBC…