This chapter is much longer I promise. So don't be mad, I was just trying to figure out where I was going with this story. So I hope you enjoy. PLEASE PLEASE review, I beg you to review. I want to know if I should actually continue it.

Chapter 5:

Tohru looked at the man dressed in a black suit with bright blond hair combed neatly. She wasn't sure why her father and Yuki were getting so tense in his presence. "Hello, um…" Tohru said as she gave him a warm smile.

"My name is Elliot." He smiled back and drew his attention to Kyo and Yuki again. "I see that you've taken excellent care of her." Kyo clenched his fist. "She looks the same as her mother."

"You knew my mother?" Tohru asked with confusion.

He smiled as he looked at her but did not answer. "I'm here just to meet Tohru's daughter, so don't worry Kyo." Kyo didn't believe him. They went back to Shigure's house, which seemed to notice the tension between the three. He knew who Elliot was and what he had done. Tohru was in the kitchen preparing lunch for the quest, Elliot.

"So why are you really here Elliot?" Kyo snapped, but low enough so that Tohru wouldn't hear him. Elliot smiled as he folded his hands together.

"It's simple, really," he paused as he looked at Yuki and Kyo. "I just want to see my daughter." Kyo cringed at the thought or reminder that Tohru was his daughter. He didn't raise her from the day she was born, so she isn't really her father, only my blood. Kyo still didn't believe him.

Tohru brought him some miso soup and fried fish for their lunch. She then continued to her room. Even since the accident, she had spent a lot of time alone. A slight knock on the door interrupted her crying. She opened to find Yuki standing there with a tear in his eye. He still couldn't get over the fact that if he hadn't told her goodbye then none of this would've happened.

"Yuki?" she questioned as she walked up to him and wiped away the tear in his eye. He walked in and shut the door. Tohru looked at him with wide eyes as he wrapped his arms around her small waist.

"I should have been there to protect you Tohru," He whispered. She smiled a little and then hugged his back. "I'm so stupid; I'm in love with you. I should have never tried to deny what we had." She looked to his pained eyes and wiped away more tears. "I just wanted to let you know that I loved your mother so very much and that she was the greatest person I ever knew." Tohru realized that Yuki loved her mother. Is that why he loved her, since she looked almost exactly like her? She pushed him away.

"It's because I look like her isn't it?" Tears were choking her throat. "You don't love me, you see my mother when you look at me, don't you." She was starting to yell load enough for Shigure and Kyo to hear her, not to mention Elliot. "You lied to me," She started to hit him on his chest. "I'm not my mother; don't love me because I look like her." She fell to the ground on her knees. Yuki bent down with tears in his eyes because she didn't seem to understand. "Just go Yuki," She whispered with bitterness in her voice. He tried again, but she yelled for him to leave this time.

Yuki left the room with a heavy heart. Tears were pouring down his face as he walked away and out of the house. Tohru looked at her reflection and cried. She now hated that she looked exactly like her mother. She took scissors from her pencil cup and grabbed a lock of her hair; the hair that was exactly the same as her mothers. She cut it a short as she possible could. She put the scissors down and cried at her boyish appearance now. Satisfied now that she lost the elegance her mother had.

A knock the door was heard and Kyo entered the room with Elliot. Kyo stood in shock and dismay of what his daughter had just done to her beautiful hair. "Tohru…" Kyo sighed.

Elliot stepped forward taking his chance. "The real reason I'm here," he paused and looked at Kyo. "Is to take you back to the States with me." Tohru didn't understand why. Why did some stranger her mother knew want her to come back with him?

"Daddy, I don't understand his request?" Kyo looked at Elliot with deadly eyes.

"Because I'm your father Tohru," Elliot said as he offered a hand to pick her up off the ground. Tohru didn't understand, how could he be her father? "You look unhappy here, so let my take you to California with me and you'll be happy there."

"Wait Tohru," Kyo yelled as he looked at his daughter.

"Is that true daddy, is he really my father?" Kyo looked at the ground; he didn't want to lie to his daughter. He nodded to her in defeat. "Why?" She yelled. "Why, how could this be, you and mother were together for so long?"

"Your mother met Elliot on the way to California, she was running, because she thought I was dead. And when she was there, she found out about away to relieve the Sohmas Family curse. Being your mother she did and the only she could do that was to bare a child with Elliot." His voice bit in bitter distaste.

"Curse, what curse?" She said she looked at Elliot, then at Kyo.

"We were cursed with the twelve animals of the zodiac, plus the cat. I was the cat Tohru. Yuki was the rat and Shigure was the Dog. Momiji is the rabbit and Hatori is the dragon. There are many more than those, like Hatsuharu is the cow. Your mom took away the curse by having you, but she lost her life because of Elliot's blood in her system. I tried to save her, but it was too late." Kyo almost broke down because of the memories he tried to recall. "But I'm as much your father as his. I took care of you since the day you were born. I raised you the way I remembered your mother being. Very few people know this, but Tohru was pregnant with our child, she lost the baby in an accident. When she was going to have you, she wanted you to be raised by us and that you were going to be my child. "

Tohru didn't know whether to be mad or amazed by his father's story. "Tohru, see your father as told you nothing but lies since the day you were able to understand words. Come with me, I will never lie to you." Tohru's bitterness of her father and Yuki was strong enough, that she wasn't able to think about what she was doing she agreed to leave with Elliot. She remembered looked at her father with tears in his eyes as she drove away from Shigure's house.

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