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Chapter 2: Goodbye

Tohru brought herself to her feet and looked out the window. It was time for her to leave, she didn't want to, but she knew she must. She opened her window and sat on the sill swinging her legs into the outside world. The ladder that Kyo often used was near her so she carefully had one foot on the sill and the other on the ladder, then she made her way down to the ground. As she was walking she turned to look back at her familiar residence and felt tears rush down her cheeks.

"Goodbye."

"Shigure!"came a disturbed voice. "Shigure you damn dog!"

"In here Kyo." Shigure stuck his head out of the door way to show where he was, then asked. "What seems to be the problem? Oh! And how's Tohru by the way did she eat any-"

"Shut the hell up! She's gone! Tohru's not in her room and the window is open!" Kyo frantically yelled.

"What was that?" came Yuki's voice. "Miss Honda's gone?"

"That's what Kyo seems to be telling us, Yuki." said Shigure.

"Where'd she go?" asked the rat.

"What the hell? I don't know! You damn rat how can you be so calm about this!"

"Ah ah ah Kyo. Please stop yelling. Tohru couldn't have gone very far the way she now." Shigure looked around the room for a certain rat. "Ah, where'd Yuki go?"

"Here." Yuki walked through the doorway as he had one arm in the sleeve of his jacket and was trying to get the other one to do the same. "Let's go see if we can find her."

"Alright." said Shigure. Kyo watched as they calmly stepped out of the house and into the night. He couldn't figure out why they were acting so calm, something wasn't right. But, seeing he was being left behind he left his thoughts and followed.

Tohru ran through the woods, her shoes were muddy and she couldn't see very well. She stopped when she came upon an enormous house. The Sohma main house to be exact. She held up her hand to knock but the doors were already creaking open from her arrival.

"Come in Miss Honda." said a creepy servant.

Tohru followed the servant to Akito's chamber, the person she had come here to see. She was left in front of the door until it slid open only to startle her.

"So, I see you have finally come crawling to me. Come in Miss Honda."

Tohru did as she was told so she wouldn't upset the head. She on the matt laid out for her arrival and bowed her head in respect.

"So, Miss Tohru Hon-da, what is it that you have come here for?" He watched her mouth begin to open but cut her off. "No wait! Let me guess, the deaths of your two friends is too much to handle, and living in that house makes it even more painful to bear? Am I right?" Tohru nodded up and down as he revealed the truth.

"Answer me. Am I right?" came the cold demanding voice.

"Y-yes." she whimpered.

"I thought so. But why is it that you have come here of all places?" asked the head.

"B-because I-"she stopped.

"Because you want your memories erased? You want to forget that you ever knew your friends, including the one's from the Zodiac?"

"Y-yes."

"But, why Tohru?"

"Because I-I just can't take it anymore! I love Shigure and Kyo and Yuki and all of the others but I can't stand anymore pain! I don't want to hurt anymore."

"But Tohru, don't you remember what I said not too long ago?" He leaned closer to her until he was right in her ear and whispered. "I will make you suffer." And with that Tohru was sent painfully to floor with a pale slap across the cheek. She rose up on her elbows and shakily sat back up returning her gaze to the floor, her head bowed once again.

Shigure Yuki and Kyo stopped on the trail leading to Sohma house. Shigure could smell their sweet little flower's scent along the path.

"She went this way." As Shigure said the words they all flinched.

"What?" Kyo growled.

Yuki looked further down the path and caught a glimpse of the estate. 'Why would you go here Miss Honda?'

Tohru was thrown about the room by Akito's hands. She hit the wall sliding to the floor, her eyes were closed from the pain but she wasn't lucky enough to be unconscious. She slowly made her way back to her original place and sat once again.

"You just keep coming back don't you? Are you really that stupid?" Akito walked closer to Tohru and bent down to be at eye-level. "Look at me."

Tohru obeyed his command and looked into his deep dark eyes. She got lost in them, she couldn't fin her way out of the pain in his spheres. Her eyes widened as she saw his misery unfold before her. Then, she realized how foolish she was. She had succumbed to her sorrows and had let herself be sucked into the deep void of pain. She was such a fool, how could she have turned a blind eye to all the people around her, who cared about her? Yes Uo and Hana were gone, and it was still painful to think about but-

"Tell me what you are thinking." came the cold voice.

"I-I'm foolish." she said.

"Why are you foolish?"

"I-I'm foolish because I felt so sorry for myself that I didn't know how much more pain others have endured. So much misery is spread through the world and I felt so sorry or myself because I believed I was caught in that misery. But there are people out there who have it worse then me, and one of them is standing right in from of me, Akito.

Hearing his name used like that made him sick. He took his hand and slapped her across the face, causing her to fall to the side. He walked over to her as she once again tried to pick herself up. Her cupped her chin in his hand and inched closer to her face and smiled.

"Don't you ever feel sorry for me. Ever! I am the head of this family there is nothing to feel sorry about."

"B-but."

"Don't speak! If you're referring to the case that I was born in order to die don't! That's not pain, that's power. Since I'm going to die I can do whatever I want to the people around me. It's a perk really." Akito looked at her bit blue eyes and noticed that her once glazed orbs were not so foggy anymore; in fact she almost looked cheerful. It made him feel queasy. All of these emotions she had were so useless. He snapped. He took by the neck and held her in the air as she was gasping for breath.

"What about this pain? Is this the kind of pain you were talking about?" He smiled his crooked smile as he watched tears streak her face. Her pink, rosy, soft cheeks were now stained with salt and water. Her hands were grasping onto his wrist and her fingernails were digging into his skin.

"A-kito. S-sto-" She fell limp. Her hands fell from his wrists and dangled in the air. Her head fell to one side, and her breathing stopped, she was unconscious.

"Yes Tohru? What was it you wanted to say to me?" Akito laughed. And his laughter echoed throughout the entire estate.