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Continued…

"Akito!" yelled Yuki.

"Why hello Yuki. Don't you think you should be greeting me nicely?" greeted Akito getting up from her seat.

"What do you want!" demanded Yuki as he stood protectively in front of Tohru.

"Is he mad that we're going out?" wondered Tohru.

"Nothing Yuki, you should learn to trust me," replied Akito as she got closer to the two.

"Hello Tohru! I'm ashamed of you, why didn't you say hello," Akito said towards Tohru.

"Hello," stuttered Tohru nervously.

"Tohru come here! Come greet the head of the Sohma family properly!" ordered Akito sternly.

"Akito, what do you want? If you're angry don't you dare take out your anger on Tohru! It's my fault not hers that we're going out!" shouted Yuki as Tohru silently headed towards Akito.

"I'm not angry Yuki. But that attitude of yours is really getting on my nerves," answered Akito in mock innocence.

"Good evening," greeted Tohru bowing to Akito.

"That's better! Now get up!" screamed Akito yanking Tohru's hair and placing his other hand over Tohru's face.

Yuki's eyes widened.

"Akito! Nooooo! Stop! Tohru!" shouted Yuki running over to her and yanking her hand off Tohru's soft hair.

"Muahahaha! It's too late Yuki! Her memories are gone!" Akito told Yuki.

"Yuki…" gasped Tohru as she collapsed on the floor.

Yuki held her frail body in his warm arms.

"Tohru! Tohru! Get up Tohru! You're okay! Get up please," cried Yuki.

"… I love you…" whispered Tohru as her eyes shut closed.

"I love you too," Yuki whispered back as a tear rolled down his cheek and fell softly onto Tohru's cheek.

The last thing she did was reach up to brush away the tears he started to cry. Her hand fell limply beside her body. Yuki rocked her body back and forth tears continuing to fall.

"Please… Don't forget about us…." He whispered into her ear.

"Akito!" shouted Hatori, Ayame and Shigure as they ran towards the laughing woman.

"How could you!" snapped Yuki.

"Akito what have you done!" demanded Hatori as he went over to Yuki examining Tohru.

Shigure and Ayame headed over to Yuki with Hatori.

"What did she ever do to you!" shouted Yuki angrily.

"I haven't done anything wrong," replied Akito as she turned around and left.

"How could you…" whispered Yuki as he fainted.

"What should we do?" asked Ayame quietly.

"Her memories are completely gone. Maybe we should erase Yuki's memories too," Hatori told the other two as he finished his examination of Tohru.

"It is the best choice for Yuki," agreed Shigure.

"No! Yuki would want his memories, no matter how much pain they cause him," Ayame said protectively.

"I guess it's true, it's better to of loved and lost then to have never loved at all," said Shigure.

"Ayame why don't you take Yuki home and Shigure take Tohru back to her grandfather's. I'll go erase the memories of Tohru's friends, they mustn't remember anything about Tohru and the Sohmas," replied Hatori.

Ayame picked up his younger brother carefully as Shigure cautiously picked the brunette teen so he wouldn't transform. They looked at each other checking if they could manage their task, nodded to each other and headed in their separate directions.

The Next day

"I don't want to go to school," said Yuki miserably, his eyes were all red and puffy from crying all night.

"Yuki be reasonable! If you don't go your classmates will suspect something," reasoned Ayame.

Ayame stayed over-night out of concern for his little brother

"I can't," whispered Yuki, "because she'll be there. And I know that she won't remember anything about us… I don't think I can manage to look at her and not start to cry or want to kiss her and tell her how much I love her. "

"Yuki! You call yourself a man! Defeated just because of a little thing like this!" yelled Kyo trying to cheer Yuki up.

"No, I don't call myself a man. I couldn't even protect her," murmured Yuki.

"Come on Yuki! Kyo is going. You won't be alone. Haru and Momiji will be there too. Besides… Isn't seeing her better then not?" added Shigure with a half smile.

"Be strong for Tohru," said Ayame sadly.

"For Tohru I'll try," decided Yuki getting up to go change.

"I'm worried about him," said Shigure.

"Maybe we should have erased his memories…" answered Ayame.

"He wouldn't want that!" yelled Kyo angrily.

At school

Uo and Hana sat in the classroom. They had arrived slightly early. The door slid open and they smiled when they saw their best friend enter. Hana frowned when she noticed that Tohru didn't seem so cheerful this morning.

"Tohru! How are you?" asked Uo greeting her friend.

"Yes, how are you? You don't seem too well," said Hana worriedly.

"I'm fine, I just have a little head ache," replied Tohru.

"Have you been crying? Your eyes are all red and puffy," gasped Uo.

"I don't know why but I just couldn't stop crying last night," answered Tohru awkwardly.

"Did someone hurt you, 'cause if they did I'll…" threatened Uo.

"No! Don't worry about me!" Tohru said forcing a smile.

"Maybe it's about her mom," Uo whispered to Hana.

"I don't think so. It seems like a broken heart, I'm worried," Hana whispered back.

"You know the prince seems a little down today too," Uo announced.

"Why do you bring this up?" Hana asked.

"I don't know… It just seemed to fit…" answered Uo.

"Come on Yuki cheer up!" comforted Haru.

"It's not like she's dead," Momiji said, "We can meet her all over again!"

"It won't be the same… I shouldn't have come today," replied Yuki as he left for class.

He entered the classroom avoiding eye contact with anyone else.

"We have to do something!" Kyo said.

"So Kyo you're not going to try to beat Yuki now. I'm sure you can beat him since he's so down," joked Haru.

"Haru that's not funny," scolded Momiji.

"What should we do?"

"I don't know, but Yuki needs help."

Meeting Tohru (again)

Yuki was walking home alone, he didn't want to be bothered by anyone today. The day had passed long enough. It took all he had not to go up to her and tell her what happened.

"Tohru, I miss you so much," thought Yuki sadly as someone bumped into his arm.

"I'm so sorry! I'm sorry!" cried a small voice.

Yuki turned around to see a long-haired girl apologizing to him frantically.

"Tohru…" whispered Yuki.

"Sohma-kun? I'm so sorry!" Tohru apologized again.

"It's okay… Honda-san," Yuki said turning around to hide a tear that started to roll down his cheek.

"Sohma-kun, are you okay?" asked Tohru worriedly.

"I'm fine," answered Yuki facing Tohru as he forced a smile.

"No you're not. Why were you crying?" asked Tohru worriedly.

"It's nothing you need to worry about Honda-san," replied Yuki as he started walking away.

"Tohru!" called Uo.

"Yes!" answered Tohru spinning around to face her friends.

"Where are you going? Your grandpa's house is that way," Uo said pointing to the opposite direction of where Tohru was heading.

"Oops! I guess I don't know where I'm going," replied Tohru.

Yuki looked startled as he thought, "She was heading to Shigure's house."

He turned around and was about to ask her something but she was already with her friends. Yuki bit his lip and continued on his way home releasing all the bitter tears he had held in all day.

"Come on Tohru I'll walk you home," offered Uo.

"No! You don't need to go to all that trouble," Tohru exclaimed.

"I want to see if that's a suitable place for you to live. I insist I go," argued Uo nicely.

"Where did I hear that before?" wondered Tohru.

"I'll go too," said Hana coming out from nowhere.

"Great!" replied Uo.

"Where did you come from?" asked Tohru startled.

"Maybe I should be more careful," thought Yuki as he turned around to watch her leave.

He dropped to the ground wiping away his tears.

"Yuki, what are you doing just sitting there?" questioned a worried Haru as he walked up to him.

"She really doesn't remember," whispered Yuki.

"Who? Tohru? Did you speak to her?" asked Kyo.

"Yes Tohru. She just bumped into me," answered Yuki.

"Does that mean I can talk to Tohru?" asked Momiji happily as he jumped out from behind Haru.

"No! You can't talk to her! What if she remembers?" shouted Kyo hitting Momiji from behind.

"Ow! Somebody Kyo hit me!" cried Momiji.

"Are you okay Yuki?" Haru asked Yuki ignoring Kyo and Momiji.

Yuki didn't answer he just got up and walked home.