The picnic
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Finally the day of the picnic came. Tohru had been baking for the past two days. "Tohru are you almost ready? It's been time to leave for an hour." "Just a minute I'm almost done," Tohru replied. "You've been saying that for a while," muttered Yuki. "DONE!" "Let's go! We're late. Arisa's gonna have a cow. Call her on the way and tell her you took forever to clean the dishes." "Well I should have done them last night but you wouldn't let me," Tohru replied as she walked past her husband carrying trays of onigiri. Hikari and Yuki both headed toward the car. "Mommy, can I play with Uncle Ayame and Auntie Mine?" "No!" said Yuki. "But daddy, why?" "You'll end up like both of them" "Come on Yuki at least let her talk to him." Yuki always had a soft spot for Tohru. "Fine, I give up." "Thank you daddy." Tohru kissed her husband while he swiftly tried to maneuver the vehicle. When they arrived at the party Ayame ran up to his niece and picked her up and flung her in the air. "Don't do that." "Yuki, don't be mean to me. I bet you're still upset about the promotion that Uncle gave to me." "No. It's your stupidity and gloating which make me upset." With this said Ayame ran over to Yuki to give him a huge bear hug which meant most of the time his bones were about to break. The moment Tohru stepped out of the car Momiji was standing there looking like he was going to hug her but didn't because he was on strict orders to find Tohru and bring her to Arisa. "Arisa, I'm here." "God you worried me. I almost thought that you were dead." "I'm sorry. I got caught up in dishes, but everything is finished." "Good. Is it in the car?" "Yes where would you like it set up?" "Probably on the big table over there." "Okay let me get one of the guys to help me and I'll get it over there." After everything was set up the girls started to mingle. "Saki, where are Kazuma and Koki?" "Socializing with the family probably." "Well at least we get to talk when we're together like this," said Arisa. "Sissy!" "Kisa, how are you? How's school?" "I'm great and school's going good. Oh I talked to Hiro the other day and he said he would like to apologize for all the things he did to you in the past. He also asked if I would marry him." "Oh my Kisa that's wonderful. Have you started thinking about it?" "Yeah we started thinking about the plans. I just hope Akito won't get angry like he did when I was younger." "What did he do?" "He heard that Hiro liked me so he pushed me into a window and caused me to go to Hatori's hospital wing." "Man, I really didn't know Akito was so violent," said Arisa. "Yes, when I first met Yuki and Kyo he really didn't like me but I helped him and he's not as mad at me anymore. I don't really know how I helped all I did was doing something for him." "What do you mean?" asked Saki. "Nothing. We better start getting people moving." "Tohru tell us." "Okay just don't tell Yuki, please. After Akito realized that the secret to releasing the family from the curse was to do it with a girl who has a man that she loves and has lost both of her parents. But the catch about the girl who is in love has to be in love with the man under the curse of the rat." "So did you?" asked Kisa. "I had to. It was the only way to actually be able to hug my husband. I thought for the longest time it must not have worked, but recently I think it's starting to take effect." "Honey, I think that Akito played you for a fool. I think he wanted to hurt Yuki," said Arisa. "But it didn't hurt Yuki because I was already pregnant with Yuki's Hikari. Also you can really tell that Yuki's her father because of her silver hair and purple eyes," replied Tohru. "That's okay as long as you don't tell Yuki that that happened," said Arisa. "Tell me what happened?" "Oh Yuki, we were just talking about you," said Tohru. "I heard. So what were you talking about?" "Just some stuff. Why don't you and Hikari go ahead and eat." "We already did. While you were talking all of the family floated over to the food and ate." "Oh yeah, Kisa did you want to tell Yuki or did you want me to tell him?" "I'll tell him." "What is it Kisa? Did Hiro do something mean again?" "No, he asked me to marry him." "Oh. That's wonderful Kisa. I'm so happy for you." Yuki hugs the high school girl. He really is happy for her but wonders what Tohru was talking about. "Yuki? Yuki?" "Huh? Oh sorry Kisa. I forgot I was hugging you." "That's okay. I'm gonna go talk to the rest of the family so I'll see you later. Bye sissy." "Bye Kisa. Yuki are you okay? You seemed out of it." "Can I talk to you?" "Sure." They walk away from the group. "Tohru you told me you'd tell me everything and we would never have secrets." "I know and I don't have a secret." "Then what were you talking about." "Hikari, mostly. We just talked about what we see of you in her. I love you Yuki. I wouldn't keep something from you." After a few more hours the picnic ended and the family started to leave. Tohru began to clean up the food and store it into the car. "Yuki, I'm finished why don't we head home." "Okay." As soon as they got home Hikari went straight to her room and went to sleep. Yuki also went upstairs and got ready for bed and work the next day. While the two went upstairs, Tohru stayed downstairs to put up the leftover food. When she finished she walked upstairs to see Hikari's light on. She walked in and saw her daughter asleep on her bed. She left and turned the light off. She walked down the hall to her room. She opened the door to see Yuki waiting for her. "Yuki? I thought you were asleep." "No, I was waiting for you." "Thank you dear." "Tohru, I love you and Hikari. Please be careful, especially if Akito comes over one day and I'm not here to protect you." "Yuki, I'll be fine. I promise I'll be careful. You have work in the morning, you need your rest. We both know you're not a morning person." They went to sleep. When the next day began Tohru, of coarse was the first one up. The day was normal. Yuki got up just in time for breakfast and headed to work. Hikari went over to Arisa and Kyo's to play with Kyoko. Tohru went grocery shopping to surprise Yuki with a special dinner of all of his favorite foods. Little did she know that her special dinner wasn't going to end up like she wanted.