Akito's Sister

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Note: This story take place after episode 26 of the TV series.

Chapter Twelve

Ashi entered the main estate without a problem, asisted by Shigure, Hatori, and the others. When one of the maids saw her they bowed. "How may I help you miss Ashi?"

"Could you tell me where my brother is?" Ashi asked, leaning on Shigure.

"He should still be in his room packing." The maid replied.

"Thank you." Ashi said as she walked away with her escort in tow.

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"Akito, what do you think you're doing?" Ashi asked the moment she saw Akito.

"I-"

"Could you guys leave us alone for a minute?" Ashi asked everyone as Hatori helped her sit down.

"Sure." Hatori said as he shooed everyone out and left himself.

"Ashi you didn't need to come down here." He told her once the door closed.

"Yes I did. You don't seem to know what you're doing, so I am going to tell you." She told him.

"I am doing what I want to, nothing matters other than that." He said.

"Akito, do you honestly want this?" Ashi asked. "But before you answer that let me tell you something, to be honest I never thought I would need to, but, some things can't be helped. Akito, you know that your father spoke to me shortly before he died, right."

"Yes, but I was there when he died so it doesn't matter."

"It does matter, because of what he told me. Though it's never mattered enough for you to ask me what he said, you should have asked, because that's how much it matters, It was what he told me that helped me make the decision to serve you as I did."

"And look what that service ended in."

Ashi smiled. "That's just it, Akito. I knew from the beginning that this would happen."

"What?"

Ashi nodded her head. "I knew from what your father told me that I would have to sacrifice most or all of my life to give you exactly what your father wanted you to have. Did you think that I was just doing this for you? I wasn't, let me tell you that."

"What did my father tell you?" Akito asked.

"All he told me was that he wanted you to take his place and make sure that you and the zodiac were happy." Ashi told him. "Now, by doing this you've gone agsinst his wishes and everything I've worked for. Do you really think that I want this. Even if you step down, I will not take your place. This is against what your father wanted for you."

Akito smiled slightly. "I don't care what my father wanted. This is what I want now."

Ashi shook her head. "You don't understand, Akito. You've been ignorant this entire time, you yourself told me that I had opened your eyes and that you couldn't shut them. Well, what will you do after this? Can you even recall what life was like a few years ago? I have kept you in your happy ignorance since the day your father died, I have kept harm from the zodiac, and they have been happy. You would have punished them for disobeying you, and that would have hurt them, they never would have been happy."

"I don't care."

"Like hell you don't care. Akito I heard you, when I was in my coma I heard you. You were crying, I never wanted to hear you cry. Ever since we were kids I never wanted you to cry, I wanted you to be happy, I wanted the same thing your father did." Ashi began crying. "I don't want you to do this." She suddenly looked up and saw a shadow behind the screen and a flash of light as they jumped through and she jumped in front of Akito. "No!"

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She was so close. Oh! How little they knew she was capable of, how little they appreciated her, those very brats that she gave life to. She held up the knife that she had stolen from the kitchen. This sweet piece of fifteen inch steel would help her realize her dream, it would help her rid herself of them. It would rid the world of those who pained her so, of those who reminded her of painful love.