A/N: As I write this now I am not at my home, but on a school trip, I'm writing on my lap top, and have no idea about reviews, there for I cannot respond to any. Sorry. Anyway I wanted to get out chapter four as soon as possible, because Now I can finally explain the history! Yeah! On another note I keep for getting to put a disclaimer on my chapters, so here it is:
Disclaimer : I do not own Fruits Basket, or Yugioh. To be more specific I do not own Kaiba, Mokuba, Akito, Kyo, Shigure, Motoko, Kagura, Tohru, Minami, Mai, Mi, Hiro, Kisa, Haru, Momiji, Ritsu, Hatori, Ayame, or any of the rest of them I can't think of at the moment.
Learn To Be Lonely
Chapter 4: (The True History) Child Of The Wilderness
"I think you made him mad." Shigure said mysteriously appearing after Kaiba left.
"I don't see why, it's his own damn fault for coming, besides, isn't he supposed to be an outcast, and why the hell did he have to show up now?" Kyo said.
"Idiot, it wasn't his choice!" Hiro said, he was kinda pissed, why'd they have to come and run off his best friend.
"And how is that?" Kyo barked out.
"Akito." Hiro answered softly.
"So now he's working for That bastard Akito!" Kyo Yelled!
"I doubt he likes it. He hates Akito, maybe more then the rest of us." Shigure said, suddenly very serious.
"What?" Kyo and Yuki said in unison.
"Because, Akito ordered for his parents to be murdered, and him to be sent to that orphanage." Shigure said, sill completly serious
"WHAT!" Exclaimed all 5 of the other people in the room.
"Yes. It was a long time ago… about ten years. Seto was only six then. That would have made me only 17 at that time. Anyway. Before Akito was even conceived there was a previous Head of House, his name was Aoshi." Shigure started into his story.
"Believe it or not Aoshi was even crueler than Akito. Aoshi had long blue hair, and deep blue eyes, he was so beautiful he was often mistaken for a woman, even more so than Ayame or Ritsu. Anyway, he hated Seto's Parents." Shigure stopped for a breathe.
"See they had ideas. Ideas about breaking the curse. Ideas about how we could live better, and that we shouldn't live in hiding. They said that we should embrace our curse, and let it become part of our personality. They had, and they lived freely, and happily. They were members of the Zodiac."
"He was the Ram, and She was the Tiger, they'd been best friend their whole life. Everyone was surprised when Aoshi allowed them to get married, because he despised them both so much." Shigure paused to look at Hiro and Kisa, Hiro looked away.
Shigure continued. " For years everything went OK, until Aoshi turned thirty-two. Right before he died he wrote something on a piece of paper, and sealed it, handing it to Me he said with his dying breath. 'Give this to my heir, he will understand when the time is right.'"
"A day later Akito was born. I did not give he letter to him until her turned eight. How I wish I hadn't. A week later Seto's parents were dead, he was left in the orphange with his little brother, and everyone was forbidden to make contact with them".
"It turns out the letter said 'You have a horrible life ahead, but let me tell you something that will ease your pain. The pain of others. Here's an assignment for you. You are to order the murder of the Ram and the Tiger. Then You are to banish their offspring. This is my final command, but it will not be followed unless you order it. It sounds wrong, but trust me, you need this. … Aohsi…" Shigure paused.
"S-so Akito killed Kaiba-san's parents?" Tohru asked, she was sobbing. Loosing your parents, because your family murdered them, how did he survive?
"Well no, not directly, Akito has no real blood on hands." Shigure answered sullenly.
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Seto at that very moment lay on his bed starring at the ceiling .
"Achoo! Achoo! Achoo!" He sneezed. 'Hm, some one must be talking about me. That doesn't matter right now, where was I?'
Seto Closed his eyes, trying to picture his parents, there was his mom, her beautiful black hair, for the Tiger that was very unusual, Her melodic laugh, her kind comforting words of honey and sugar, her songs, how he missed her. He remembered how she loved Sakura Blossoms. He remembered the day they went to the Sakura Blossom festival, he couldn't stop smiling at her, nor she at him. Ever so often she absently rub her pregnant belly, then she'd take a deep breath.Ever so oftenSeto asked why she would take such deep breaths whenever she would rub her tummy.
" I want the baby to be able to experience this beautiful Sakura festival, This way he can smell them, and the promise they bring through me." Then she'd look at him and smile "Believe it or not I'm your and the babies channel for the world. It's my job to show you everything, so you can experience it for you self."
"Everything?" He would ask, his eyes as wide as saucers.
She would only smile and reply "Yes everything"
"But why?" he would ask, unable to understand why'd she do this for him.
"Why? Because I love you, you and the baby, and I always will. And I'll never go away. I'll always be right here." She would touch his head "and here" She would touch his chest, right where his heart would be.
He would look away for a few minutes, and then when she would again touch her stomach then inhale deeply, he would ask her again. They did they same thing all day long. Why? Because he loved her words, he loved them, and he'd so wanted them to be true.
He sighed. But her words were untrue, she was gone, and she wasn't coming back, ever.
"The worst part is I can't ever remember her face." He mumbled to himself. He blinked back a few tears. He had to think about something else.
The two things he remembered most about his Father was his hair, which was almost identical to Seto's, and the fact that his father loved to smoke. He remembered that once a night, right after supper his father would light up a cigar, and tell him stories about the zodiac and the curse. Seto's favorite story had always been about the cat.
He remembered the first time he heard the story about the cat he'd started to cry, he though it was so unfair. Then he said that he'd be a year of the cat, instead of a dog. His father had then had to tell him, about the cat curse. Seto looked sad after that, and he never said anything like that again, but secretly he still wished for many years, and that's why he'd ask his father to tell him the story so many times.
About the time he stopped want to be a Cat was about the time Gozaburo Kaiba adopted him and his little brother. It was also then that he learned to hate the smell of smoke, that he had once loved because of his father, and now would only bring bad memories because of Gozaburo.
Kaiba sighed , the picture of both his parents coming into his mind. There were both smiling and laughing, he could hear their voices, but their faces were completely gone. Again he sighed. Rolling over onto his side. He hated his life. Gently, hedrifted into and uneasy, uncomfortable sleep.
"I hope you enjoy your nightmare as much as I've enjoyed mine"
To Be Continued…
A/N: yes, I finally finished, Now, onto the next chapter. Be warned, there will probably be three chapters put up at once when I get home. So yeah for anybody who likes this story! Any way that doesn't matter to much, does it?
