Machi felt the blood rushing in her veins pumping faster and faster as Akito squeezed her wrist tighter and tighter. Yuki got a hold of his wrist and was able to fling his arm off her, but got a lash at himself. Akito, kneeled there on the ground, struck Yuki full hard on the cheek and Yuki fell backwards.
Machi yelped a soft cry and she moved over to where Yuki laid. "Yuki-kun! Yuki-kun, are you alright?" She said while trying to help him up. She was able to prop him up on his elbow and she put her cold hand on his red cheek.
"Let that be a warning from the God of this family. Don't you dare tell anyone of this curse or you will pay by his pain." Yuki and Machis eyes grew large as Akito started to laugh evilly to himself. He was standing in the middle of the room and was smiling with a toothy grin.
Softly as they left to leave, Akito muttered something like a chant. No one heard but he said, "With the breaking of your skin and the touch of my skin in your blood, you are bound to us forever to have a burden like us." He smiled. "Whenever you go to kiss someone, you will poison them with tainted love."
"Yuki-kun! Are you hurt?" Tohru ran over to him as he entered through the door of the house.
She got out the first aid kit and took out a bandage and started to apply it to his swollen face. Machi put her jacket down and sat next to him, a sad downcast look on her face. Tohru smiled to her as if nothing really happened, but knew something in fact did happen.
"How was the meeting?" Shigure-san asked with a down face as well. He leaned in the doorway with one hand in his robe and the other on the door frame.
Tohru got up and put the kit away and walked into the kitchen, knowing they would want some time to themselves. It wasn't her business to listen in on something she wasn't apart of. She sighed and decided to get working on dinner.