/yesterday's angel/
The sky above them was cloudless, a washed-away blue. If there had been sunlight earlier it was mostly gone now. The cemetery was empty, except for the three of them, but Yuki was glad of that because he didn't feel like making polite conversation.
Rin was walking half a pace ahead of him, her baby boy cradled in her arms. Yuki wondered if she'd chosen a name for him yet. At three months old a name was something most children had had for a long time, but as far as he knew, Rin's son was still without one.
They were almost at the car park when Rin said suddenly, 'Do you still think about her, Yuki?'
Yuki didn't need to ask to know who his cousin was referring to. He saw a fleeting image in his mind: long brown hair blowing in the wind, loosely fastened with a yellow ribbon which was the colour of buttercups. If he could only see her face again… In answer to Rin's question he said quietly, 'Sometimes.' The truth was, he thought about her a lot more.
Often he played out alternate realities in his mind, where Tohru, Kyo and himself all graduated and nothing went wrong; the neko wasn't locked away; they didn't wake up to find Tohru gone; he wasn't persuaded to go back to the Main House. They were all much happier than the reality he was living. He knew there must have been something that he could have done, to prevent everything from going wrong… but then again, maybe it was just fate snatching away his happiness just when he thought the bad times were over.
Even to this day Yuki still didn't know why Tohru left. Could it have been of her own free will? He doubted that; she'd been so happy living with the Sohmas, despite all the problems Yuki's family had bought her. And she would never have left Kyo to his cruel fate, of that he was sure. So what had happened, three years ago? Would he ever know?
/end of part 3/
AN: Nothing much happened really in this chapter… it was just Yuki reflecting on the past. :)
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