"Yuki, Kyo, I hope now you realize why I was so hesitant on allowing this outsider to live here," Akito spoke with such hate in his voice. Suddenly the three teens acknowledged Hatori standing behind Akito, silent as always.

Tohru's heart was pounding so much it was beginning to hurt. Yuki though was frozen in his place, eyes fixed on Akito. Childhood memories started flooding through his head. Akito smirked, he knew what affect he had on Yuki, and he enjoys the fear everyone has of him, especially Yuki's.

"Girl, do you know that what you did today has basically condemned you?" Akito said in a superior tone.

Tohru bowed her head in shame and whispered, "Yes…"

Another slimy smile crept upon Akito's face. "Good. Then you won't try to struggle when Hatori erases all your memory of the Sohma family secret?"

Still with her head hanging low, tears starting to form, Tohru shook her head.

With a grim face, Hatori walked over to Tohru. Kyo stepped in front of him with eyes begging him not to do it.

"Move aside Kyo, this is what Akito thinks is right…" Hatori said, just as unhappy with what he had to do as everyone else.

Kyo stood his ground, staring Hatori down, "You can't do this. I won't allow it."

"Kyo, are you defying me? Do I need to remind you where your loyalty lies?" Akito snapped.

Kyo looked down at his feet. He knew that going against Akito would mean severe punishment, but he just couldn't allow Tohru's mind to be messed with.

"Kyo, please. It's all right, it's my entire fault. There's no reason for you to get into trouble," Tohru said now looking into Kyo's eyes. She managed a sad smile and just nodded for Kyo to move away.

"Tohru but if he does this, you'll forget about us, me," Kyo walked closer to Tohru. "Please, don't give up so easily."

"Even if I tried to fight to keep my memories, do you think he'd allow it? No, so let's just not struggle with this," Tohru walked passed Kyo and up to Hatori, "You ready?"

"NO!" yelled Yuki, who had suddenly snapped out of his statue form.

Everyone looked at him in disbelief from his outburst.

"Yuki?" Tohru said, she was beginning to think Yuki didn't care whether she kept her memories or not, but now she questions that.

"Hatori step away from her," growled Yuki, now getting between Tohru and Hatori.

Tohru suddenly became hot in the face and was blushing quite brilliantly.

"That's all right Hatori, step back over here," Akito said. Hatori walked back and Akito glided forward. His face was against Yuki's ear.

Akito wickedly whispered, "Oh Yuki. Do I need to bring you home, punish you? I've missed you; I know you've missed me."

Yuki was now frozen again. His body tensed and his heart was beating with fear.

Tohru had seen this before, where Akito intimidates Yuki. It hurts and frightens her to see how much control Akito can have over Yuki.

Suddenly the sound of a sliding door was heard. Shigure soon emerged onto the scene.

"Akito, Hatori, what are you doing here?" Shigure said with worry in his voice.

Akito gladly pointed at Tohru and said, "She has endangered our secret and has to be dealt with."

Shigure's eyes opened wide and looked to his friend Hatori for a confirmed look; which he regretfully received.

"Akito, I'm not quite sure what she did, but isn't there any other way to get around it. Please we can come to a compromise surely," Shigure reasoned.

"A compromise? How can you belittle our secret to some compromise?" Akito said now backing off of Yuki. Yuki relaxed and breathed in heavily.

"Akito…" Yuki said grabbing everyone's attention. "I'd like to purpose something."

Akito smiled, "And that would be?"

"I'll return to the Sohma home, if you allow Miss Honda to keep her memories." Everyone was absolutely shocked by Yuki's suggestion, including Akito.

Tohru protested, "No Yuki, I can't allow you to do that."

Akito shushed her, "I think it's quite understandable. But honestly Yuki, you think I'd risk our family secret with her just to have you back under my watchful eye?" He paused, "I would rather much have all of you Yuki, Kyo, and the girl back living with the rest of the Sohma family. That way I could always have my eyes on all of you."

"Wait. Are you saying what I think you're saying Akito?" Hatori asked.

"I guess I am. Girl, you can keep your memories as long as all three of you move into the Sohma Family residence. All of you will stay there until I feel it necessary to allow you all leave," Akito said. Everyone glanced around at each other.

"Fine," Yuki said firmly. Kyo rushed up into the conversation.

"Hey you can't make that decision without talking to all of us you rat!" Kyo shouted.

Yuki looked at him, "Then do you want Miss Honda to lose her memory?" Kyo silenced and shook his head no. Yuki looked at Shigure, "Would you mind living alone Shigure?"

"And not have my house get beat up? It's surely fine with me," he chuckled trying to bring some comic relief to the situation.

Yuki turned to Tohru, "Are you all right with this Miss Honda?"

Tohru looked up at his soft eyes and nodded smiling, "Only if you and Kyo want to."

Yuki gently smiled, "Then it's settled."

Akito looked at Hatori, "Come, we'll take our leave now. We'll send a car for you three later tonight, so pack up fast." With that, both of them left leaving the room quite silent.

Shigure figured to leave them alone; he figured they all needed to talk in private. But if they talk loud enough for him to hear, he's not to blame.

Tohru collapsed on a chair, her head buried in her hands. She was upset and crying, "I'm so sorry you guys. I wish I never did those things. You should have just let him erase my memories."

Yuki knelt next to her, he grabbed her hands from her face softly, "Don't allow yourself to feel guilt. This is no one's fault, we all got careless, and that's all. I'll help you pack if you wish."

Kyo stood next to Tohru, giving one of his rare smiles, "That's right, we all screwed up, mostly Yuki and I. So don't worry, besides it won't be all too awful living there. Sure everyone practically shunned me when I lived there, but I'm sure they've grown hearts by now."

Tohru chuckled a bit; she knew they were just trying to cheer them up. But she couldn't help but feel like this was all her fault, and deep down inside, she knew it was.

The three of them went to their rooms and packed up what they had and waited for the car to arrive.

"Before we leave can I ask you two something?" Tohru asked.

"Sure," they said in unison.

"Akito, do you think he has some secret agenda by doing this?" Tohru looked mainly at Yuki when she asked this.

Yuki, without blinking said, "Yes. There's no doubt about it. But we're just going to have to take this one step at a time."

"Oh," Tohru said under her breath. Soon a car's horn was heard and the three of them said their goodbyes to Shigure and left to their new home.

A/N:

Hope you all enjoyed this chapter (it was rather short). Thanks to everyone who's left reviews, I really appreciate them!