Hello to the few that are still sticking to me! I'm very sorry for keeping people hanging… I've been real busy with school and stuff and so I guess it was a hiatus. But now I'm back with a new chapter and I will try to update more frequently so I'll stop talking and on to the story!
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Yuki's legs stiffened as he heard footsteps coming towards him. He thought he was heard. Then there was a knock on the door.
"It is I, Hatori. You requested my presence," a voice came from behind the door. Akito stepped away from the place where she heard the noise. Yuki's muscles relaxed.
"Hatori, please sit," Akito said. Hatori knelt on the floor.
"Well, I needed some one who I trust to tell this story," Sayoko had said. She had a very stern look on her face. "I would like to tell you the true story of Tohru and my family,"
"You may begin, Ms. Takahashi," Hatori replied.
"My mother left my father and took me with her. I was very young then. My mother died of an unknown cause. I had no relatives and my father couldn't be found. He had fled to Osaka. Our father came back to Tokyo and he had met Tohru's mother. She was still the leader of the red butterflies back then. She was running from a horrible fight. My father saw my mother run into the alleyway she was in. He realized what was happening and took her to his house. I don't know why he took her in, perhaps he was just a kind soul, but I guess that was what started their love. They had Tohru and in two years our father had died. The truth is that he didn't. He faked his death." When Yuki heard that, he turned pale. I can't believe the Tohru has been deceived for that long Yuki thought.
"Well, this is surely a very complex situation," Hatori said, "Did you plan on telling Tohru about this? Also I heard from Shigure recently you two were a couple. It was somewhat strange that you two are... a couple...somehow,"
"I was going to tell her, but I would like to find our father and I am going to be leaving to Sapporo to find him. I heard that was where he was last," she said. Then she whispered, "Please see that she gets married as soon as possible. She must get married to legitimate Sohma or the Sohmas will be forever cursed. I would get married to Shigure but because I am already 20 and it would have no effect to the curse. I used my time to find her and now she must fulfill her prophecy," Then she blushed."And what is so strange about Shigure and I? Shigure just never told you,"
Yuki eyes widened and thought what was going to happen. Tohru was almost turning 17 and she's got about a year to get married Yuki thought. He had known Tohru for what seem like forever. He loved Tohru for all that she was, and how much she had changed him.
"Are you going to marry Shigure? It would be nice to have a wedding in the Sohma Estate. It has been a while since we've had a wedding here," Akito asked. With that, Sayoko blushed.
"We thought about being wed after I find our father. And since when did you enjoy weddings?" she answered.
"I'm not cold-blooded" Akito said coldly.
"Sorry. It has been a while,"
Since when was there a thing between Sayoko and Shigure? Yuki thought. So what have they been doing alone in Shigure's office? Hmm.
Meanwhile, they had shifted off the serious topics and started to talk about Sayoko and Shigure. Akito needed her check-up, so she left with Hatori. Sayoko waited for them to leave.
"You can come out now," Sayoko asked.
"You heard me?" Yuki said as he stepped out from behind the vase. "I heard everything. I think that Miss Honda deserves to know,"
"Please, don't tell anyone. It would kill her to know that I am leaving," she said, "I am leaving tommorow night for Sapporo. I'm going to say I left for America. Now come, let's go back to Shigure's,"
BACK AT SHIGURE'S PLACE
"Hey! We're home!" Yuki and Sayoko yelled.
"Where have you two been?" Shigure asked. Tohru, Kyo and Shigure stared at them, waiting for an answer.
"We were at... we were at um...," the two babbled, "Uh... we were at the Main House!"
"Doing what exactly?"
"Things..." Yuki answered.
"Seeing Akito," Sakoyo then answered. She then sat down next to Tohru at the heater.
"What have you been doing while we've been gone?" Sakoyo said trying to shift off the topic.
"Well, I was cooking dinner!" Tohru said sweetly, "We saved dinner for you two. Come eat!"
Meanwhile, Shigure and Kyo were talking.
"Yuki and Sakoyo are keeping something from us. Do you know?" Kyo asked.
"Maybe they eloped!" Shigure replied.
"Shut up stupid! That is not true! I also know you're keeping something secret too.
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