"Really, well let me take a look at this 'girl'." Akito stepped forward and took her from Yuki arms. He held a glance for a moment only for a moment and then dropped her. Everyone watched as the lifeless body hit and bounced. Now lying on the ground her head fell to one side and Hatsuharu full of shock and worry sprinted forward.

"I don't think so." Akito blocked his way. "I think that you need a time out Hatsuharu. Kureno! Take him to the confinement room, and then come back to me; and take the two little ones inside while you're at it, they don't need to see this."

Slowly Kureno made his way towards the hopeless, Hatsuharu. But not before whispering into his ear "I'm sorry." Dragging the fighting ox, into the house the two of them disappeared from sight followed by Kisa and Momiji. Leaving Yuki, Kyo, Akito and the girl, out side on the porch.

"Yuki, go fetch me some rope and Kyo I want you to pound that stake into the ground in the middle of this court yard." These words sounded as if Akito had spat them to the dirt as if to give the ground some moisture. He would never do such a thing; his heart was too filled with way too much hatred for him to give anything away.

Kyo was finished with the stake, long before Yuki came back; perhaps he was taking his time for he already knew what was going to happen next. When he finally did come back; Kyo was gone and Akito was waiting for Yuki on the steps the girl was not far off. She hadn't been moved from where Akito had dropped her.

"What took you so long, I've been waiting…. I don't like to be kept waiting, Yuki, now give me that rope and head inside with the others." He stepped forward and reached for the rope.

Stepping away from Akito, Yuki sounded concerned. "What are you going to do to her, Akito… she's ill and is in need of care. Please don't hurt her; she hasn't done anything to you."

"You don't know what she has done, you don't know her. To you she's just a girl that you saw eight years ago saw her again and brought her home." He sounded a little on the defensive side there for a moment. Yuki thought to himself and that added more to his thoughts. Maybe he has seen her or maybe he even knows this girl; any which way he's mad and I know that he's going to hurts her in some way.

I can't believe that he not listening to what I say. Give me the rope Yuki…now." Akito walked over to the girl "Why do you defy me, why do you not do as I tell you to do, maybe if a rid of her you'll listen to want I have to say."

With that he bent down and touched her face, taking a knife out from his packet. He slit and craved words into her arms, nasty and hurtful words. The blood from her wounds slowly leaked out and formed a shallow puddle in the center of Akito's out stretched hand.

She is weak, so weak. Weaker than that last time we meet, she is going to be at my mercy for a while. She is going to beg me and cry to me for help. I will never let her forget; never let her see the light. I'll place her back into the shadows and keep her there, where she belongs. I don't know how she got out last time but this time will be the last time.

"Yuki go inside and there you will stay in your room till I say so…now...GO." Without a word he walked into the house, remembering the rope, Yuki throw it out the door. It landed five feet from the stake. Taking it and lifting the girl back into his arms, Akito step-by-step made his way back to the stake. Letting her fall from his arms for the second time, Akito bound her from her chest down to her feet to the wooden post.

It was roughly about ten feet tall; there was a hole just big enough for her head to fit through. Akito, than nailed onto the pole, another stake making in the end a cross. Tying her arms one each to a side pole; he than at the bottom of the cross placed a bowl of water, right so when she opened her eyes she would see it. He took his knife and cut off her long black hair and draped it over her arms, tying it there so that it wouldn't fly away with the wind.

Walking over a tree, Akito broke off a limb, with every step that he took coming back to the cross a bird could be hear chipping, wishing her the best. Taking the stick he repeatedly hit her back; within a few minutes the shirt that she wore laid in tatters on the grass. But she didn't stir, not for the whole hour that Akito took out his rage on her.

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From the window in the main house, one that overlooked the courtyard Yuki, Kyo, Kisa and Momiji watched the torture that the girl went through. Never, not once did any of them take their eyes off of her.

"It's all my fault that she's here, if I didn't trip over her, and came to tell you guys what I had seen… than…than this never would have happened!" Kisa made fast for the door, but Yuki was faster, grabbing her he held on to her, cuddled her and telling her over and over again that it wasn't her fault. It was nobody's fault.

Nobody's Fault…

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Kureno came back to Akito, just as he had asked. "There you are Kureno…what took you so long I missed you." Turning around Akito latched on to Kureno; draping his arms over him shoulders, and he hung there.

"What are you going to do with the girl?" Kureno nodded towards the cross. "That girl has a name…" Akito's answered. "Are you going to tell me what you have planned for her" "I don't quite remember it…it was something like…Sh…Shi…that's it Shrina. That was her name…Shrina, such a pretty name it fits her well you know."

Shrina…oh Shrina what ever I'm I going to do you with you. I want you, but I don't. I hate you and I want you to die at my hands, but than I don't. Nothing ever changes between us, does it? "

Sorry to interrupt your thoughts, Akito but what are you going to do with her, now that you have her." Akito looked at Kureno like he wasn't even there, but he answered. "Bring her up to my room; I want to keep a close eye on her."

"Bring her neither food nor water; I want to watch her die slowly, in my chamber." Wait, no I don't I want her to my self. "I will be the only one to bring her food and water"

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I hope that you guys like the little twist that I'm carefully hinting towards. You will also find that I love to torture people and characters in my stories. This time I was nice to Shrina...but next time... (evil grin)... please review I like to know what you guys think of my stories.