Chapter 3

AN: Hi everyone! My very first fan fiction has reached chapter three. Yay! Please leave reviews and tell me what you think because I don't know if I should continue this story or not. ( Anyways, here's chapter 3! Enjoy.

What Happened so Far: Our main character Tohru is telling the story of her past through a flashback. She now is locked up in a small dark room, where she realized that she loves her Master.

A week has passed by since I was last separated from Master. Everyday, when I heard the rooster in the morning I would mark a wall once to count the days that I've been locked up in here. I've counted exactly seven days. With little to eat, I became weaker and weaker by the day. As I sat there in that dark room, I wonder day and night how Master was.

"Maybe I did something wrong. Or maybe I made Mistress (Master's Mother) mad somehow. And…so if something happens to Master, it'll be my entire fault!" I thought as I began to cry.

Of course, it never occurred to me that Master had a 50/50 chance of being o.k. I just let myself blame me for everything and automatically assumed the worse. I sat on the ground and cried endlessly. Then I heard a weird noise. I looked around in the dark cluelessly. Then at the corner of my eye, I saw a pair of red eyes. I screamed. It was a huge rat. Suddenly I remembered the first time I saw a dog. I was terrified by it. This was when I was 6. I screamed and cried. Master eventually chased it away.

"It's just a dog. You're afraid of dogs? You're weird," I remember he said in a teasing kind of way.

I missed him. I miss him soooooo much!

Later that same day, I saw light for the very first time in seven days. The door to this little room opened and rays of light rushed into the room filling the dark room with light. I squinted at the bright light for I have grown accustomed to the darkness for the past couple of days. When I finally got use to the bright light, I found two guards like men at the door.

"Come with us, the Mistress wishes to speak to you," one of them said.

I got up slowly. I followed them to Mistress. When I came into the room where Mistress was, I immediately noticed Master right beside her. Without hesitating, I ran to him. He ran to me too. However, right when we started, the guards behind us held us back.

"Master!" I yelled.

"Tohru! Are you alright?" he asked caringly.

"Yeah, I'm fine now that I know you're o.k.," I replied and smiled gratefully. Then we both turned our attention to Mistress.

She was comfortably located on a huge red coach to the left of Master. She got up and started walking toward me. At that moment, a great amount of fear took over my body.

She examined me thoroughly. "So you are Tohru. Hm, there's nothing so great about you," she said.

"Mother!" Master yelled as if he was trying to halt something.

She hushed him and continued examining me. "Tell me Tohru. Do you love my son?" she asked as she circled around me.

"How did she know?" I thought to myself silently.

I didn't say a word. I knew that a slave will never be allowed to be with her master. It was foolish of me to have even thought about being with Master forever. I was stupid to have believed that Master might love my back. I was stupid. I didn't say a word. I just tilt my head downward and looked at the ground beneath me.

"Why are you not answering me?" she asked as she stopped in front of me, "Is it because of the fact that you do in fact love my son?"

Again, I didn't say a word.

"Answer me!" she yelled.

I had no choice now, I had to let it out. I looked at Master who was still held back by two guards. He had a sad expression on his face, but I didn't know why. Then I looked at Mistress. I gathered up all of my courage and said, "Yes. I do. But I know that a slave like me will never be loved by my master. In fact, a slave like me shouldn't even be allowed to love."

"Very wise of you," she replied, "You say that a slave has no right to love, so why do you love?"

"I…couldn't control it. I…I…just do. I've fallen in love with a person that I was never meant to be in love with," I said sadly looking at Master.

"I see. Do you think you are worthy of my son's love?" she asked.

"No." I answered simply.

"You're a liar," she replied in with a scary tone in her voice.

I looked at her surprised. What did she mean? I was not lying. I really don't deserve his love.

"You think that you can make my son fall in love with you by seducing him!" she continued, "You think that a slave girl like you is worthy of my son!"

"No…Miss--" I was interrupted by a slap.

Mistress swung her arm and slapped me unexpectedly.

"Mother! It's not her fault!" yelled Master now trying to break loose from the guard, but he was unsuccessful.

Once again, she hushed him, but this time he did not stop. He was still trying to get loose.

"You know what happens to those who are naive enough to think that they are more than just a worthless slave?" she asked evilly, "They get punished!"

She strikes me again. This time, he ring left a scratch across my face.

"I knew my husband made a mistake when he allowed you to be around my son. But it's not too late to fix things. I'll show you what'll happen if you do things that you're not supposed to!" she said as she headed back to that red coach.

I didn't understand what was happening. Why was she so angry? Was it because I admitted my love for Master? While I was lost in my thought I felt a pain in my arm. Then I snapped out of my thoughts and realized that Mistress had ordered the guards to whip me. One after another, the guard whipped me with long whips. The pain was unbearable. I fell. I was on my knees begging for forgiveness even though I didn't know what I did. But she ignored me.

After around the 20th whip, I couldn't handle it anymore. I fell with the front of my body on the ground and my back facing the ceiling. The guards continued to whip me on the back. I was crying and at the same time I was becoming faint. I looked at Master who was struggling even harder to get loose now with my wet eyes.

Finally Master got loose. He ran to me and held me in his arms. The guards stopped.

"Tohru, are you o.k.?" he asked frantically.

I smiled. I was still in pain, but for the first time he held me in his arms. I felt protected and… loved. He carefully lifted me off the ground and carried me in his arms. My body was covered in scratches and marks left by the whipping.

"What are you doing?" Mistress asked angrily.

"Mother, you can't do this. This is not her fault. I was the one that said I loved her and if you want someone to take it out on, you can take it out on me. She has nothing to do with this," he replied angrily with my severely wounded body on his arms. Master ignored Mistress afterward, he carried me out of the room. We headed to Master's room.

"I'm sorry Tohru," he sadly as he looked at the marks on my arms.

"Don't be, it's not your fault," I said as joyously as I was able to, "In fact I'm really happy."

I smiled.

He forced a smile and said, "Tohru."

"Yeah?" I replied softly.

"You are the weirdest person I've ever met, but I'm glad. I'm happy to have met you," he said.

"Really? I am too," I said softly and smiled.

There was an awkward silence. I knew that he wanted to say something, but something was holding him back. Then he finally decided to let it out.

"Tohru. What I said back there was true. I really have fallen in love with you. What you said back there, was it…" he paused.

Taking the hint, I replied, "Yeah it was. But I was afraid. I was afraid that you would find me unworthy."

We reached his room and he set me down on his bed.

"I would never think that, because to me, you are the most beautiful person I've ever known," he replied softly as he kissed me on my forehead.

I fainted after I heard those words.

By the time I woke up, I was alone in that small dark room again. For a moment, I had thought that it was all a dream, but when I tried to move, I felted the pain from the whipping. For the next 2 years, I lived in that dark room. I never spoke to Master within those 2 years in darkness. When I was finally let out again, Master completely changed. He was no long the Master that I loved. He became cruel, violent, and abusive. After my release I was forced to sleep with different men, whose face I was not allowed to see because I was always sent to dark rooms where I met them. Even though Master allowed me to have a "normal" life during the day time, my life was hell at night. However everything changed when I met that Kyo. For the past couple of years, he was the one that out-bided everyone for me. But he did not want that from me. Every night we would just talk until we both fell asleep. And by time I would wake-up, he would be gone.

And that was how my life came to it is today. Tohru during the day and Kisa at night…

End of Flashback!