Akito frowns, hearing the news. He turns to Shigure who looked shocked as well. Akito grabbed his teacup and threw it at his head.
"Why did you do this Shigure?" Akito yelled as Shigure bled. Shigure knelled towards the ground, trying to hold the blood in. "I was glad enough to see her! I never wanted to know she'd disobey me!"
"Didn't she try to disobey you before?" Shigure yells. "Wasn't it you who wanted the endless banquet? We could have had that! But she had to destroy it!" Akito tries to hold in his rage as he storms out of the room, leaving Shigure bled. Shigure breathes in heavily as he smiles.
"Atta girl." Shigure mutters as he stares out the window.
Huff, huff, huff… As Phoenix runs out of the estates, into strange neighborhoods, Tohru, Momiji, and Kisa follow her behind closely, staying behind enough so they won't loose her. As they kept running, they finally made it into town, seeing Phoenix catching her breath at a lamppost. "Damn him!" Phoenix yells out, kicking the lamppost. A vibration runs through her before she felt the actual pain. As she grabs onto her foot, jumping from the pain, Momiji taps her on the arm. Phoenix stops jumping to listen to what he has to say.
"What were you about to do with this?" Momiji asks holding the bag up to Phoenix. Phoenix places her foot on the ground, looking at him, and then at the other two as they ran up. She takes a deep breath.
"Damn Shigure wanted Akito to test my loyalty. Shigure seemed to know who Akito wanted dead, I just never would have guessed it'd be Tohru." Everyone gasps. Phoenix looks to the ground, rubbing her shoulder from nervousness. "He calls you a lot of nasty names, Tohru. Ever since the first day, he's told me there's this girl who he hates and wants dead, but he never gave me a name, so either way, I never had a chance to go kill whoever it was that made him so mad."
"Akito would actually go this low?" Momiji asks, taking a step back.
"No, he wouldn't do the killing. I would." Phoenix takes a deep breath, struggling to say her next sentence. "As long as I'm in Japan, I live for Akito, and no one else. In a few days, I'll be going back to America and until then, I want you to stay away from me Tohru Honda."
"But why?" Tohru asks. "In our letters, we always talked about how we'd go eat Takoyaki with each other like when we were little."
"Yea, but that was before… I knew you were the enemy of my master!" Phoenix yells, turning her hands into a fist, her eyes looking as if they're about to create fire. Everyone stood back, afraid to get near her. "Come near me and I will kill you!" Tohru takes a step closer as Phoenix kept taking steps back. "I said I'll kill you Honda!"
"Go ahead." Momiji and Kisa stare at her, with a look saying 'are you crazy?' .
"W-what?" Phoenix asks with eyes as wide as Momiji's.
"If being dead will make you happy, then I don't mind." Tohru says smiling. Phoenix stares in her eyes, noticing her shake. Phoenix looks away, "Messing with peoples' heads was my job…" she says before she left. As they watch her leave, Kisa grabs onto Tohru's arm tightly. Tohru looks down at the little girl.
"Why did you agree to that Sissy?" Kisa asks. Tohru looks at her with relieved eyes as she patted her on the head.
"Don't worry about it Kisa."
"Yea…" Momiji says, scratching his head. "But now we got to wonder where she's going. And if Shigure really is behind all this."
"Wha?" Tohru asks, shocked. "What about Shigure?"
"Did you not hear her Sissy?" Kisa asks. "She said Shigure wanted to test her loyalty to Akito."
"R-really?" Momiji nods.
"Lets go find Shigure." Momiji says, grabbing Tohru's free hand.
"Wha, what about Ta… I mean Phoenix?"
"We'll worry about her later. Lets go Tohru!" Momiji yells, pulling her hard enough to start running.