Summary: "Life has taken a drastic turn, but I have yet to determine if it's for better... or for worse." Yoshi has just realized her true identity a Juunishi. When she's reunited with her family her life is turned upside down. Ai x ?
The Kitsune
Chapter 1
Memories of Yoshi
I am told that my name is Ai, though I have always been known as "Yoshi" by my parents. Or at least, I once believed they were my parents. What I had accepted as truth was nothing but layer upon layer of deceit.
Ai. What a joke. For who in their right state of mind would give me such a name? Whoever's clever idea it was to name me Ai is probably laughing now.
Sohma Ai. Sohma Ai. It sounds so foreign as my tongue forms the awkward syllables. All my life I have been called Kira Yoshi. Now I am told of my true lineage. Now am I told of the curse. Now I am told who I really am. After seventeen years of being Kira Yoshi...
My... first memories are of those people. Those people who said they were my parents. Their names were Yukari and Minoru Kira. I remember being sent to an all-girls boarding school in Kobe at the age of five. And there I stayed for eleven years, venturing home only for holidays. I remember my "father" never hugged me.
I also remember last year. They took me out of school because Yukari had been diagnosed with lung cancer. She had always been a smoker. I remember the doctor murmuring to Minoru that she was terminal. I remember his stoic demeanor. He was always so aloof and serious, whereas Yukari was feisty and fun-loving... I never did understand them. I can't really say I knew them very well. Anyway, though Minoru was always seemingly cold, I heard him weeping at night.
After a couple of months of being home-schooled in our apartment in Osaka, Yukari's condition worsened. One night, when I was visiting her in the hospital, she said to me in a raspy voice:
"Yoshi... I love you, my daughter... please remember that...," her eyes, which had been closed previously opened and her gaze wandered up to my face, "that even the sly fox can be mislead," there were tears in her blue eyes now, "but even then she can find her way."
I was utterly confused to say the least, but it made me sad. Could she be becoming delirious in her slow decline? I tried not to cry, but failed. I can't say I tried very hard.
"I named you Yoshi... in the hope of granting to luck in the time to come... You... will... understand soon..."
Later that night, Yukari died. The next morning I found Minoru dead on the kitchen floor of our apartment. I must have fainted because I was immensely sore in various places and I awoke in a place I had never been. I opened my eyes and through the groggy haze observed my surroundings. I was laid on a futon. From where I lay, I could see a person lounging by an open sliding door, bathed in the sun's warmth.
It was a rather barren room. The hard-wood floors were polished and many decorative textiles hung on the walls. The house appeared to be old and traditionally built. As my consciousness flooded within my head and dissipated the haze, images flashed into my mind, the strange darkness that emanated from them clashing with the clear day; Chichi, gun in hand, face down on the linoleum floor of the kitchen... red blood pooling around his still body, Haha, smiling at me from the hospital bed, with her brow furrowed in pain...pain every time she drew a breath. I could not have stopped the tears pouring down my cheeks if I had tried.
At the sound of a quiet sob coming from me, the person, who appeared to be male, looked over at me.
"Ah. I see you've finally awoken."
Author's Notes:
Yoshi means "luck" when used as a name
Haha means mother (Japanese would never call their own mother oka-san ((as it shows respect)) to other people because it would seem rude)
Chichi means father. Same as above.
The first chapter in my first Furuba fanfiction... Read and Review? Please? Also, later in the story, there will be periodical shifts in POV. I'll have some chapters told by other characters.
Rinjii-chan