A/N: I know that Eichi is way out of character here but I just want everyone to keep in mind that he left his whole life behind to search for someone who has changed their mind so if you wouldn't react like him then I bow down to you… Although Eichi is super nice, but that's beside the point like I said earlier it fits better in my storyline if he acts like this. So yeah, here's the next chapter! Oh yeah and thanks for all the reviews!

Chapter 17

If all else fails then all else falls

Takuto walked away from the girl. It was probably the hardest thing he had ever done moving further from the one girl he has and will ever love. The silent rip of his heart being left behind was the last thing he felt before nothing was left. He turned around one last time looking at the most beautiful girl he had ever seen wrapped in Eichi's arm. Closing his eyes he walked into the mansion seeking his death.

"Why are you doing this?" he froze then turned to see a dark shadow leaning against a wall.

"I have no choice," Takuto whispered continuing to walk forward. As much as he hated to admit it he was scared. He wanted the little girl to take him in her arms to comfort him. He wanted to hear her say she loved him. He would come back to life just for her if she screamed out about how much she loved him, like she had for Eichi but now, now that was just a distant dream.

"Your wrong Takuto you have no idea!" he felt a strong hand grab his shoulder.

"Izumi," this was the first time Izumi had ever called his full name. "I'm sorry," he looked to see the pink haired girl who had been standing silently beside the yellow haired boy. "I hope you and Meroko have a happy life together." He nodded to her as she wiped a small tear from her cheek knowing it wasn't her turn to intercede.

"Besides if I don't do this then she'll be the one killed and I can't allow that," he finalized turning back to his route.

"You don't know anything!" Izumi screamed. "You don't know how she feels did you even ask?" Takuto froze for a moment to think then turned back around.

"I didn't have, to I could see it in her eyes," he mumbled.

"Fool," Izumi muttered as he watched his friend walk off to his fate.

"He never did tell me the alternative to breaking the curse unless…unless he's sacrificing himself in my stead…" her heart froze, everything froze.

"He's a good guy Mitsuki I'm glad he was there to look after you," he smiled. Mitsuki looked to Eichi then spun around about to run when he grabbed her arm.

"Eichi no let me go, let me go!" she screamed trying to fight against his strong hold.

"He told me not to let you go," he said worried about her reaction.

"Takuto!" she wailed defeated. "Takuto no," she fell against Eichi's chest. 'Please don't leave me again Takuto,' she thought crying against her second loves chest.

"Shh Mitsuki its okay I'm here," Eichi soothed smoothing back her wild mane of hair. "I'm here now," He whispered kissing her head.

Torches, chainsaws, knives, all those and more could have been ripping through her dormant heart and it would probably feel like relief. Relief of the feeling of what was going to happen…what was about to happen.

"Eichi?" she snuffled wiping her runny nose with the back side of her wrist.

"Yes love?" he answered placing his gentle hands on her robotic shoulders. Her red puffy eyes made contact with his soft hazel ones as she thought back on what she had wanted for so long. For so long she had wanted to see these eyes. For so long she had wanted these arm, these lips, this love, but now all she wanted was…

"Takuto," she mumbled.

"I'm not Takuto," Eichi's tone hardened for the first time ever. "Mitsuki it's me the man you love…the only man…you love," He phrased the sentence strangely in a hard tone. Chewing on her bottom lip looking away Mitsuki tried her hardest not to hurt the man before her.

"N-no you're not Eichi but w-where did he say he was going?" she asked innocently although she already knew the answer.

"I already told you that he just went to talk to some man named Kato and that was all, I don't know what that means and I don't think it should concern you either!" this was the first time she had heard Eichi speak in such a voice. It didn't suit him. It seemed more appropriate for Takuto. "Just wait for Izumi," he mumbled looking away from her.

"Eichi I don't want to wait for Izumi I need to," he cut her off.

"Don't say you need to look for Takuto Mitsuki it's me you want me! Mitsuki I have searched so long for you, so long! Did you know that? Did you know that I loved you more and more each day, that it still grows every moment I'm with you?" his tear-filled eyes mirrored hers. "You're the same Mitsuki so don't go running off to that man, please say you choose me just me. He's just a low class proletarian loser. He has no future. You and he together have no future but you and I do Mitsuki try to see that." Mitsuki's hands balled into fists it hurt to hear him spit these words at her.

"But Eichi he's going to kill himself for me!" She wailed trying to struggle from his grip.

"Good then we can regain our perfect life. Don't you remember? We were engaged. Every day I searched for you I dreamt of the day I would save you then bring you to the altar to make you mine forever and no one else's." He was starting to go into hysterics.

"Eichi calm down please?" She whispered touching his cheek as well as wiping away the small crystals which descended from his hazel orbs.

"Mitsuki I saw him kissing you! Okay I saw that you betrayed me because you kissed him back! You didn't pull away and that's why I had to walk in when I did. I know he told me to at least give you two fifteen minutes before I walked in but I couldn't not after seeing that," jealousy coated his every word.

Taking in a deep breathe Mitsuki looked up to the boy before her. His eyes were distraught and it hurt to know she was the reason why. A slight breeze flowed through her dress sending shivers up her spine. She still wore Takuto's sweater. Closing her eyes she leaned forward wrapping her arms around his neck. She felt him close the distance between them as their lips melded as one. His lips were all too familiar to her as they moved together with almost grace. Her heart fluttered for a moment as memories of the past flowed through her veins. Mitsuki felt his lips curve upwards into a smile as he felt her give into him. When she pulled back for a breath he gently kissed her cheek moving to her ear.

"You see," he whispered in his kind gentle tone. "You'll always belong to me, you can't resist me." Mitsuki's eyes seemed glazed over as Eichi pulled her back to him with more passion he had ever given her… this passion was unrequited. "Mitsuki," he gasped angrily "Kiss me back," his lips crashed against hers again. "Kiss me like you kissed him!" A steal hand froze on the back of Mitsuki's head when she tried to pull back. Mitsuki's terrified eyes met Eichi's. She watched, she watched as his hazel eyes turned from lost to determined in an instant. He pulled back with a satisfied smile which confused Mitsuki.

"What are you…?" she followed Eichi's eyes turning to see the last thing her heart would have wanted.

"Izumi?" she didn't even notice the girl who accompanied him she didn't care. "Eichi why!" she wailed pulling from his hands tearing away from everybody. She ran away from the garden and back through the hallways, she had to save him.

She now knew why her heart had always been fighting against her conscience. This whole time she had been wrong, her conscience always thought it was Eichi who she would need when all along her heart knew otherwise.

She had fought so hard against him yet… he was always there protecting her, loving her. She was a fool not to realize how much she loved him, he was everything she never needed yet… he was exactly what she needed and still yearned to hold him, to touch him, to see his beautiful face.

"I'm so stupid!" she screamed racing through the corridors.

"Mitsuki wait!" Someone called to her "He told me not to let you go!"

"I don't care!" she screamed back.

"Mitsuki!" he called again but she cut him off

"It's going to be all my fault if he dies!" she cried back "I can't lose him! I love him!" that was when she heard her follower stop dead in his tracks. At that point she didn't care. She didn't care that she hurt Eichi with those words she didn't care if she betrayed him. The only person who possessed her heart now was Takuto.

"So why do I have the great honor of seeing my beloved brother in this hour of the day?" Kato greeted buoyantly. "I heard you took a little…vacation?" he asked openly.

"Enough of the chit chat Kato I have a question," Takuto's patience and time was wearing thin.

"Well well what has my brother in so much haste?" he asked jumping down from his throne. Takuto looked around the large room where they invited new guests. He knew why Kato was here. Not only was it the first major place they had ever brought Mitsuki it would also be the last.

"The curse," he spoke. "If Mitsuki desired one thing so heavily that I could give to her then the curse would be lifted would it not? Because a Kira is doing something for a Koyama?" he asked. Kato's brow bent at Takuto's theory.

"You mean instead of giving her love you want to give her her biggest desire?" Takuto nodded. Kato smiled. "Well yes then I suppose that would also be a way to break the curse." Takuto smiled.

"Good, then I have a favor to ask of you Kato," he spoke seriously. "For Mitsuki in her sake I want you to kill me so she can live in happiness and love with Eichi." He looked to see Kato deciphering something in his mind.

"I can't not after all the hell she has put me through I hate her Takuto I do."

"But you hate me too and you would be happy to kill me with your own two hands so get on with it okay!" Takuto shouted.

"Yes, but since your here asking for this request I will tell you my original plan." He glared at Takuto from under his brows. "I always bring the girls to this room to greet them and I also bring them to this room to kill them. I guess in a way this is my favourite room," he looked around at the large windows and self portraits which lined the room.

"The fuck are you talking about?" Takuto's impatiens was leaking through.

"Mitsuki was not going to be the only person blessed with death today." He grinned. "After I killed her in front of you…I was going to kill you next." He smiled opening his arms. "But now that you have given me this beautiful opportunity to get rid of you then Mitsuki will not be that hard to bump off either then. At first I was worried because I knew you would put on a fuss about killing her but now," he smiled slowly brining something out of his pocket. "But now you have presented me with this beautiful opportunity" he finished pointing the gun at Takuto's heart.

The loud smack of her feet trailed up and down the hallways. The sound almost went in rhythm with Mitsuki's frantic heart beat. For some reason her feet brought her to his room in hopes he went there first. Her heart sunk when the light flickered on to reveal the dead room. With shaking fingers she brought the small cell phone he had given her from one of her pockets. 'Please Takuto,' she silently prayed pushing the button which had saved her so many times.

Buzz buzz, buzz buzz,

Her heart jumped and she turned to his bed to see the cell phone beside a small note on his pillow. With no time to loose she raced to the bed to see her name written on the front of the folded paper. She unfolded it to read;

'Dear Mitsuki

I know that I never really got a chance to explain to you but right now is not the time. I know that you will be happy with Eichi by your side and that is why I can leave you so easily because I know you will be with the one man you will ever love. I never really got to tell you my feelings and I guess that is just how it is going to be. I don't want to tell you something that will tarnish your relationship with Eichi. Wow that sounded really noble which I am not if I was being honest I would say that Eichi was one of the biggest losers I have ever met…but you love him and I'm sorry for being rude but I didn't have and eraser or an extra piece of paper. I'm sorry again this is no time to joke around but I just wanted you to know that I will always be watching over you and protecting you so don't ever do anything rash. I hope that one day I will get to see you again.

-Takuto.

She covered her mouth shocked. "No…No!" she screamed. She ran to the one room he warned her never to return to. "Takuto you can't" she screamed. Anticipation rose in her veins as she threw open the large doors to the first place she had officially met Takuto and the rest of the family.

"Takuto?" her breathless words echoed throughout the silent room. The two brothers lay motionless on the floor adjacent from one another. No time was wasted as she fell to Takuto's side. "Takuto?" she asked again

Face up, eyes closed…dead. These were the only words she could perceive in her head. A fountain of blood surrounded his frozen form and she almost gagged at the sight. "Please Takuto," she begged falling to his chest. "You can't be dead you just can't" she mumbled against his blood stained chest. "Not the person who reformed me not the man who taught me how two re-love not the man I," she froze when she heard a menacing laugh pierce through the eerie silence.

"Ha ha ha," she looked over to see the other brothers blue scornful eyes glaring at her. "Poor little Mitsuki couldn't make it in time to save the day ha ha ha" he continued laughing from his paralyzed state on the granite floor. "And now it's all your fault he's like this. He did this out of your own selfishness and now he's dead! Your precious Takuto…Your precious Tak-u-to" his words were slurring. "Is dead ha ha ha" his laugh softened as his eyes closed indefinitely.

"No!" Mitsuki wailed. "No Takuto please!" she screamed crashing her lips to his frozen ones. She placed her mouth against his letting out a big gust of air. She felt the lifeless rise then fall of his chest. She had no clue how to do CPR and her attempts all seemed useless. "Please no Takuto no!" she wailed "I love you!" she screamed falling to his chest letting all her feelings for him fall on his chest.

Chapter End