Author's Note: Sorry everyone for the waited updated, I've tried updating sooner, but I've been packed with my schedule with studies, and now relatives visiting I haven't had time to even go online hardly. I'm so glad though that many of you reviewed and liked my story so far. I never expected more then three people to read it. As for you fans that are only faving the story. Go ahead and leave a review, a simple Update soon is enough for me :)

WickedlyMe: Yay you did, hehe I see people think in similar ways then :)

Katyra: Your review touched me so, I just wanted to let you know I in no way support average teenage pregnancy, and even less rape or abortion. It's something very shocking and big to be taken as a joke. I have your similar views of being a sort of pessimist; being from a religious background myself. I just want you to know that I wouldn't desire any girl to be raped or impregnated against her will in reality, it was included here in the story as dark, serious, traumatizing and something that should be avoided if possible; exactly how I think it should be done in reality. I hope you continue reading my story, I look forward to hearing from you.

Little Miss Novela: Lol you'll see

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KoyukiFujisaki: Lol actually it was a cliffhanger hehe Hope you enjoy this chapter

Melody3: Thank you reader for reviewing; Lol glad that you knew it then, and I love your Shigure reaction. As for how your fandom lol It happened to me too, I became an instant Akito fan right after I finished the anime.

Leif the Lucky: Thank you for reviewing and finding my story interesting. I try my best too

zenophobiaz: Lol actually I love long reviews even if short ones are good enough for me. I also love your review for the fact that you seem to think on my same grounds. Yes Tohru feels exactly that way, especially in this chap. As for Shigure hehe you won't be seeing the last of him and his sadness that's all I'm saying. I'm glad you liked his back-story. And don't worry I'm totally the same way with loving that kind of drama despite not being hating sadism.

DISCLAIMER: I DON'T OWN FRUITS BASKET IT RIGHTFULLY BELONGS TO NATSUKI TAKAYA. I'M JUST A FAN.

CHAPTER 5

The door shut on its own, as a wave of silence fell upon the room. The young god backed away from the wall cornered girl slowly; his bangs obscuring his eyes as he didn't look up. He walked slowly towards the young doctor, and raised his arm slowly. SLAP

"Barging into a room unannounced is one thing, but lying to me Hatori; that is not permitted." The young head said as his eyes flared up in anger, as his hand balled into a fist; digging his long nails into his palm.

Hatori stroked the side of his cheek slowly as he didn't bother to look up. The slap alone, had knocked him on the floor; he didn't bother getting up and remained on his knees. "I wish I were lying Akito, but it's true the test is positive." He said as he handed him the results.

Akito didn't bother looking through them as he slapped them out of Hatori's hand; causing them to fly around the room. After a brief few seconds of continued silence, he uttered slowly under his breath. "Sohma."

Hatori didn't shift his gaze from staring at the floor below him as the word passed Akito's lips.

With that in mind, Akito walked out of the room with the final word being. "Get that girl her own room; I want her out of my quarters tonight.

As he shut the door, Hatori slowly lifted his gaze to the stunned girl on the other end of the room. Her expression was blank and clearly in shock as she hadn't moved from the position Akito had left her in. Which brought him to think exactly what was Akito doing to her; the way he had her pinned against the wall did not look like something good was happening.

He quickly went over to the young teenage girl, and softly patted her shoulder. "Tohru, what was going on between you and Akito, did he hurt you. In your delicate condition, any strong push or hit could risk..." The young girl interrupted his sentence by falling headfirst into his arms. Before the girl would faint in his arms, he lifted her up bridal style, and carried her off to the examination room.

After being given fluids and some medication safe enough for her state, Tohru slowly began to stir from her current shock as Hatori tried his best methods to counsel her. She spoke in a weak voice that made it hard to hear. "Hatori-san is...if I really am...then is it...is the b...bab" She tried her best to mutter out the words, but she was fighting back from breaking down herself.

"Yes Tohru...it's most likely Shigure's since apparently he was the first and only one to...should I say...do that to you; unless there was someone else who..." Hatori looked at her worried. He knew Tohru was a naive and innocent minded girl, but still he wasn't absolutely sure if Shigure had been her first and only.

Tohru hung her head low, as she twiddled her fingers slowly. "No Shigure was the only one...does that mean Hatori-san that it would be a S...Sohma too."

Hatori frowned as inside he felt deeply full of sorrow and pity for the unfortunate girl sitting before him. "Yes I suppose so... being Shigure's blood, most likely makes the unborn child of Sohma blood." Hatori thought it over as he said this. All of a sudden he realised another Sohma was in their midst; top off it would be the one of his friend. He didn't even try to think of the connection he himself would have with it, if it were born.

Tohru's breathing became stale, as she thought this was probably what Akito meant when he said the name Sohma earlier. Her mind on those thoughts quickly made her panic and think of something else that came on her mind. "Will it...be part of the Zodiac?"

Hatori's eyes widened once he heard her utter those words. Since as far back as he remembered, the Sohmas that were cursed with the Zodiac hardly ever had children or relationships for that manner. The cursed gods hardly ever allowed it, due to the curse's purpose of the animals being only for the god and the god alone. The few times when one of the gods did allow it, still it naturally could be only amongst their own selves; due to the curse.

This was the first time he had heard of a outsider being a bearer of one of the Sohma's cursed with the animal spirit. He still himself at times wondered exactly how Shigure made such a thing happen without transforming. He cringed in disgust as the thought alone made him feel as perverted as his friends.

He cleared his throat, and spoke up. "To be honest Tohru, I don't really know. I'm thinking however that since all the zodiac members are still alive; no further cursed ones would be born until one of them does. Most likely then it won't be."

He watched as she slowly wrapped her arms around her stomach area, and trembled slightly. He couldn't even imagine what was going through her mind, or what she was thinking. As his duty of a doctor, he had to try to keep her calm as best as he could. He looked at his clipboard, and sighed as he tried to keep calm and professional in this situation.

"Tohru on Akito's request then, and also simply because there was no way you would continue sleeping in his bedroom; you will be moved to the room that used to belong to the previous personal maid of Akito. It's close to my office, as well as the washroom so it should be of great convenience to you. You would be sleeping there from now on comfortably. The room has a buzzer to Kureno's room, in case if you need any assistance." He said slowly trying to keep her mind of the current situation.

"It also has a phone that's private, and untraceable. If you wish to call anywhere you want, you can and no one would know where you are located if you don't want them too. Your grandfather or your friends at school perhaps." He said, as he tried to let his point across being that if she felt like calling elsewhere at the moment.

These words however ran a different way with Tohru. Once hearing of the news of her pregnancy was like a huge wave swallowing up a tiny sand castle on the beach. She felt alone, lost and scared. She was just coming to terms with what had happened to her recently, and now she was struck with this new news.

Pregnant at seventeen. It was true her mother had gotten pregnant with her at a young age herself; but that was different. Both she and Katsuya were married, and had each other. Tohru was born as a token of their love they had for each other.

This however was a different matter, she wasn't in a loving home with a loving husband by her side to support her, she didn't have her loving mother to cry to anymore, and the worst thing wasn't that she was living in a huge estate working for a fearsome powerful family head; but that the baby in question was a result of something she wasn't apart of herself.

She recalled once what her mother told her, in one of those times she fondly spoke of Tohru's father.

Having a baby isn't just something remarkable or shocking. When you have someone you love dearly and vowed to spend your life with them; your baby is a result of your love shared in creating that miracle. A miracle of a new life that has the both of you.

The whole fact that she was carrying a baby, a baby that wasn't a result of someone she loved, that wasn't created by sharing blissful love that two people have when such a event takes place. That fact alone was completely reversed to what her mother told her.

She had in a way defied her mother yet again, and now was carrying a baby she hadn't planned for; something that tore the kind gentle words her mother told her years ago to was she turning into? Was she really defiling her mother in all expectations? How could she ever return to school again? There was no way.

"What do I do...there's no way I can finish high school now. Oh mom I'm so sorry." She said aloud in a broken voice despite no tears came from her eyes. Her face hadn't changed emotion at all from the shock-dead expression she had since the announcement which left Hatori unsure of what to respond.

He cleared his throat, and pressed his lips together in a firm line. "Well...there are other options available. If you don't feel ready, it's completely understandable. It was afterall unplanned, and a girl your age, and with your personality; becoming a mother could be extremely overwhelming, especially in your situation."

"What do you mean?" She said softly as she looked at the young doctor with her face still wet from her tears.

"There are certain procedures that can be done, so you can be able to attend school again as if nothing happened. No one aside from us would ever know that the baby ever existed. As for Akito, he'll be told that it was a miscarriage." He said as he bit on the end of his pen, desperate for a cigarette.

"Never existed? You mean kill it." Tohru's eyes flew wide open. Of course she had heard of such things in health class, but still that was nowhere near in her mind at the moment.

"Well...that's putting it bluntly, but it is a practiced procedure done in other parts of the world. You're the not the only one who has gone through with it, if you choose too, you won't be judged on your opinion; you after all have all the reasons being the mother." Hatori said as he stood up from his chair, and laid a hand on her back. "Don't worry you have plenty of time to think it over, and come to me with your answer. I'll show you to your new room."

Her new room was much smaller then Akito's but still much larger then her old room at Shigure's. The bed was a simple small one against the wall corner. The room also had a small desk, a dresser, and a shoji door leading to the veranda outside.

"Is it ok?" Hatori turned to her, taking her silence as a objection.

She quickly waved her arms."Oh no it's fine, it's just that..."

"Say no more Tohru, I understand." Hatori finished as he pat her head tenderly and left her on her own in the room saying. "You don't have to worry about Akito for today; he'll be taken care of."

Tohru was now alone in a room she just received; clueless and lost as to what to think of. With nowhere to turn, and unsure of what to do next; she thought to do the next best thing to take her mind of things. Clean and tidy up her room to make it more hers.

Hours passed and nightfall came, he hadn't seen or heard of the girl ever since Hatori's announcement. To be told news such as that, he would have expected her to be on the brink of insanity, but this silence of hers was overbearing. 'What the hell could she be doing in that room anyways?' He thought as he stood up from lying on the veranda and walked towards the room that now belonged to the outsider.

It was then he noticed the room was empty. The school uniform was hung in the closet, and a certain picture frame was displayed on the dresser. It had the picture of the smiling woman holding up her two fingers, but the other small picture was nowhere to be seen. Had she hidden it again?

The night chilling breeze was blowing briskly, as the wind chimes were heard on the veranda. As he looked out on the estate's land, it was pitch darkness; he couldn't imagine who in their right mind would go out at this hour of night. Then again, this outsider was an airhead and did the most idiotic things at times.

As he walked down the lawn, he heard a faint whimper in the wind; wincing his eyes against the wind he decided to follow the cries.

-Tohru awoke coughing up nothing in particular, despite she felt as if she were drowning and spitting up water. She rubbed her eyes wearyingly as she looked around the room. The room looked familiar in a way, but when she looked up at the dresser; her mother's picture wasn't there, or her uniform wasn't hanging no more in the closet. What she did see though was a glass vase on the bedside table. It was filled with an assortment of flowers that she couldn't quite name them all. Some were petunias, orange lilies, and yellow carnations.

They filled the room with their floral scent that Tohru immediately smiled. Although she thought she had never seen such a bright floral arrangement before. As she carefully touched the rarer flowers' petals she noticed a note besides the vase. Whoever had written it had beautiful handwriting, and what was written sounded like a poem.

To thou that refuses such emotions, and swallow's in their midst. Take thy flowers and evoke such thoughts in their petals.

She stood there holding on the the note confused of it's contents. What did it mean? She never was good at poetry in school; less ones written in formal words. She decided to hang on to it, and try to figure it out later. She turned her attention again to the flowers; on the wall behind them was a full-length mirror. She stared at her reflection and noticed she was wearing a different yukata then before.

This time it was pale yellow yukata with black lining. It was an odd selection to match up, but somehow it looked so soft the combination. Her hair was loose, and she had a flower in her hair, resting over her ear. It looked more like a blossom and it was a pale pink color; but it didn't look like a cherry blossom.

Tohru wondered how she got into this room, and dressed like this. The last place she remembered being was alone, outside on the Honke grounds at night. Letting her worries get the best of her, she decided to head towards Hatori; most likely he knew how she ended up here.

As she went to open the door, she realized it was locked with a key. Panic rising up in her, she quickly went to the back shoji door; which was also locked. Her rising panic getting the best of her, she did what anyone would do next.

"HELP!"

Meanwhile far off in the mountains in a small traditional home, lay a man about in his mid twenties on a futon matt on the floor. He slowly blinked his eyes open, and stroked the edge of his face as he yawned.

Despite he didn't exactly live in the city at his home, being cooped up in recovery isolated in the mountains was a bit too much for him. Strangely it reminded him of the Honke, but far worse. He seemed alone, and just with him of all people. He hardly spoke with him in his teen years, so they weren't exactly close per say.

BRING

He heard a nearby phone ring, and a person answer it. He recognized it being the dojo master's assistant.

"Hello..Kazuma Sohma's Dojo...yes...oh yes..Kazuma told me that one of you would call...yes...oh...well I'm not sure if he's awake...no no right away sir." The muffled voice seemed a bit nervous answering the person on the other line's requests.

Netherless it was mere seconds later, that the said assistant appeared in the room, and handed him the phone with a simple. "a call for you" phrase.

As he took the phone from the assistant, and watched him leave; he placed the phone to his ear, twiddling the cord around his unharmed finger since his other hand had a cast on it.

"Hello Aya that you...must say it's awfully boring up here without hearing you or ol Hari around." He said with a sheepish grin.

The voice on the other line however swiped the grin of his face once speaking.

"What makes you think I'm Ayame you traitor." Shigure froze in place, and felt for once in his life speechless.

He was interrupted of his shock by the door to his room opening, revealing a very outraged ginger-haired teen. "Is this where you've been all this time!"

-Tohru had never been locked in a room before, and now that she was, she felt terrified; being locked in. Immediately she thought of Yuki and Kyo. How must have they felt being locked up in a room; a dark room. She had no idea how long had she been locked up already, but she felt like it was hours passing. No matter how hard she screamed, no one answered, or came to her rescue. She felt as if the walls of the room were caving in on her, despite they really weren't.

She looked back at the room, the flowers bright colors standing out amongst the room's walls. There was no way someone possibly could have purposely locked her in. She suddenly felt nauseous, and it made her remember something she had forgotten had happened.

She had a baby, or at least was carrying one. She had always thought in the past that she would of loved to be a mother, but not like this. She was as helpless as the baby was going to be if it were born. She had technically no home of her own. No family to lean against and worst of it all; she had no idea on how to raise it. She was here on the Honke to tend to Akito, there was no room for her to raise a baby the way she wanted to as well.

Her thoughts shifted to what Hatori had told her. Could the whole baby's existence just disappear without a trace, as it never happened; return back to school, see her friends.

As she was thinking over these thoughts the doorknob jiggled, and the lock turned as the door opened slowly. Behind the door stood Akito who simply looked down at her, as he took the key and placed it inside his yukata sleeve.

He spoke up casually. "You look disappointed, were you expecting someone else to come rescue you. Yuki or the filthy cat. Or did you think it was the dog who kidnapped you, and locked you in here?" The tone he had didn't sound like he was asking a question, but more like a annoyed tone.

Tohru quickly shook her head. "No, I wasn't expecting anyone in general. I just w...was scared that I was locked in." She said slowly, hoping she maybe get the answer as to why she was locked in the room in the first place.

Akito frowned, as he walked past her, and stood in front of the back shoji door; gazing out a oval window that was besides it. "It was for your own good you know. I knew you were weak and pitiful, but I admit I never thought you'd have the nerve to try and end your life." He said as he didn't bother turning around.

Tohru's eyes grew wide, wondering where he took such assumptions. Before she could ask he answered the question for her.

"I assume you don't remember what happened last night after you practically disappeared. I happened to be out in the grounds, and saw you jump into my personal quicksand area. It wasn't so much that it would have killed you on the spot, but in your condition, and last night's temperature you could have frozen. Do you really wish to die with the same sickness as your father?" He said turning around with his arms crossed, staring at her.

Tohru was surprised. She didn't remember at all that event happening, but then again she hardly remembered anything last night. If Akito was in fact though the one that saw her, then that meant...

Tohru blushed a bit. She couldn't believe she had gotten saved by the same sick head twice. She must of have been becoming such a bother to him by now. After all Akito was in no health standard to be a everyday hero. She quickly bowed low. "I'm so sorry Akito-sama, I must be hassle to you. I'll try my hardest not to do it again." As she lifted from her bow, her eye caught on the flowers in the vase, which made her curious.

"Akito-sama if you don't mind my asking. Who put the flowers in this room, they're so pretty." She said with a small smile as she walked towards the vase, and touched one of their petals.

Akito smirked watching her. "You noticed them, I thought you said you were scared."

Tohru quickly spun around nervous. "Ah...well I was, but when I saw the flowers; it was before I knew I was locked in...and look there was poem with it as well." She said as she held up the note.

Not shifting his gaze a bit, when she lifted up the note' her merely continued to question her. "So you know it's a poem, well then what does it mean then." He said as he curled up the side of his smirk deviously.

Tohru quickly looked at the note again, dumbfounded. "Well...I could read it, and I could tell it was a poem; but it's meaning? You mean it has one?" She said quickly.

Akito inwardly growled at her ignorance and lack of knowledge, and "sweatdropped". "What kind of education do they teach at your kind of school? Don't you know that nearly all poetry has a meaning behind it. I would've at least expected you to know that basic fact since floral arrangement is out of the question for people with your education that is." He scoffed.

Tohru felt puzzled, but intrigued. She remembered the day Akito told her what he was taught since a young age, she never quite understood what he meant by floral arranging though. "So you were the one who put these flowers here, what exactly is floral arranging Akito-sama?"

Akito having calmed a bit down from his annoyance was now baffled and even a bit amused to how this outsider acted. She was no different then a child; with her curiosity, and loads of questions. He didn't know whither it was annoying him, or pleasing him with a sense of superiority.

He walked over to the flowers and gazed at them."It's the art of flowers. Flowers aren't just plants or things to pick; they are arranged and organized by their color, scent and meaning. Every flower has its own meaning, and that's what makes them special on some events." He said in a calm voice, as if the topic alone soothed him.

Tohru listened attentively with interest. Subjects considering rare and traditional things interested her, and she enjoyed what Akito had to say on them. She remembered, just how Yuki used to describe his gardening, or Kyo his martial arts training. All of them had the same essence around them when they spoke of what they loved. Passion. Tohru quickly glanced at Akito's display.

There were very few times, she caught him looking so serene. The last time was when he was playing the yamatogoto, and it didn't last long either. It made her wonder if there were other people that saw Akito in a similar state. She then realized his yukata has slipped off a bit his shoulder revealing...

"Ummm...soo what do these flowers mean Akito-sama?" Tohru asked turning away from him nervously beet red.

"Don't you see" His voice said quietly.

Tohru got even more flabbergasted as she didn't bother turning around. "No...I turned around quickly...I didn't see anything."

She then heard his voice get louder, and more irritated. "What are you talking about? I meant don' t you see what kind of flowers these are."

Tohru calmed down a bit, and turned around. "Oh no...the only one I really know are the petunias, lilies, and I think these are carnations." Tohru said calmly glad that Akito had fixed his yukata. She didn't want to see more of his chest again.

"The others are Orange Mocks and Asphodels. I'm thinking you don't know why they're all either yellow and orange." He turned to her, his face unreadable.

"Their pretty colors?" Tohru guessed, though she really had no idea.

Akito closed his eyes and turned around facing the oval window again. "Their meanings. The yellow carnations; disdain and rejection. The orange lilies; Hatred and Orange Mock; Deciet. The Asphodel; Languor and Regret. This is what you are feeling aren't you?" Akito said after a short pause.

Tohru feel into revelation. The poem...that's what it meant by saying evoking thoughts into their petals. Did Akito mean for her to express her thoughts of anger she kept hidden; her thoughts of regret? That was why he had chosen such flowers, and wrote that poem. He was telling her to show her feelings in his own way.

She hung her head low, her bangs covering her eyes. "Akito-sama I don't know what to do. If you want me to leave, I will."

Akito usually would've taken pleasure in Tohru begging and complete helplessness, and he did. This time however he was a bit annoyed at her as well. "Really? You really don't have the slightest idea on what to do with your misfortune, not the slightest idea?" Akito said mockingly.

Tohru thought of what Hatori had told her earlier. "W-Well I'm still in school, and I...I don't know if I can...if I can...I mean the baby will be a Sohma...and Hatori told me that he could make it if the baby didn't exist-" Tohru tried to make out her words when she was interrupted suddenly by Akito.

"So that's your decided outcome...who came up with it you or your mother?" Akito said spitfully as he walked towards her.

"Mom didn't have anything to do with this, it's all my idea. Mom wouldn't be in this situation, she was too smart to be." Tohru answered defensively; especially when mentioning her mother.

"Oh so you're saying you're naive and stupid enough. Hmmm I don't know if you realizing this is either amusing or hypocritical." Akito stood up before her against her defense. "All this time you pranced around telling sugar coated advice to my zodiacs. Saying thing like oh-how-can-your-parents-be-that-way or -oh-thats-so-cruel. You're a hypocrite, telling tall tales of your mother; when the first time something dark happens to you, you revert to murder." Akito turned his eyes to slits as he backed Tohru up to a corner.

Tohru felt her heart racing. Hatori never mentioned it was murder. Many women do it; she had good enough reason to as well. She was after all the baby's moth...Tohru's eyes grew wide suddenly as she felt a dawn of guilt overcome her. Was Akito proving some point to her?

"Outsider or not that creature is a Sohma, and the only one who decides the Sohma's fate is me. As for my decision I like to torture my things after they're born. Especially when it came from one of my zodiac. My decision overpowers yours, and you can't do anything about it. If I feel like trapping you in here for nine months I can and will.

That's your price for meddling in with the Sohmas, when I clearly told you not to you outsid-" Akito had a habit of getting round up and carried away when he was proving his superior stance, he didn't even notice Tohru's reaction. He suddenly felt a presence on him.

He looked down a bit suprised due to the quick outburst from the seemingly silent girl. What she was doing now however, he couldn't even comprehend as to why.

His first thought was to push her away from him. Who did she think she was; clinging her body onto his. Did she mistake him for a average nobody. Clearly she had forgotten who he was, in order for her to do such a thing to him; the Sohma head.

His hands balled up into fists, as he gritted his teeth in annoyance. As he lifted his hands to yank her away, he felt her hands on his chest go from being simply placed, to tightening to a grasp. Her trembling form started to let out slight sobs, staining his yukata with tears.

"A-Akito-sama t-thank you so much. I couldn't possibly repay you for all your generosity and kindness. I'm truly indebt to you Akito-sama." Tohru said between gasps of her sobs. Her face buried into his chest, she couldn't see Akito's expression turning from annoyance to surprise. Of course he had seen plenty of people crying and in pain; suffering and miserable. This however was different.

Here was this outsider, this nobody crying; crying not in pain or sadness, but thanking him for what he did. Generosity, Kindness. These two words he had never heard anyone tell of him. The least thing he expected was this girl telling him these things while in his...arms of all places. A girl crying in his arms. If it had been years before he would have immediately slapped her away, however he wasn't sure if it was due to shock but somehow he couldn't pull her away.

As he looked down at the trembling girl, she looked weaker and helpless more then ever in his arms. Her soft brown locks cascading over his white yukata. He suddenly felt steaming hot again, as he felt the sudden urge to grasp those tender locks he had gripped and yanked on that fateful day.

His breath grew staler as he lowered his hand slowly to the unbeknownst form. Flashes came into mind, of memories of a certain rainy night he surely didn't want to remember.

Tohru felt as if she were slowly removing a huge boulder that was crushing her heart. How could Akito make things seem so simple and clear to her. After Akito said those simple things to what others might call cruel; but it made her realize that doing the said thing she planned on doing, was going against what she was grieving over in the first place; her mother's wishes. Akito was the one who caringly come into realization. Yes she knew deep in her heart, he did care somewhere in that sad mysterious heart of his.

She smiled inwardly as she thought of this. Even if it would take months, even years she wanted Akito Sohma to live; hopefully she would do all she could before anything horrible happened. Her mind drifted to what she remembered knowing of Akito Sohma's fate. From the day he was born, he was told he was going to die. When however was unknown. This worried her. She hoped that it wasn't soon.

She heard his soft heartbeat; it wasn't fast but it was slower then she expected it to be. Could this be normal for him? He was after all sickly. As she leaned her head against his chest, she felt his thin frame. It wasn't exactly warm, and firm like Kyo's or tender and soft like Yuki's, and it certainly wasn't like Hatsuharu's tall and lanky one. Yet why did it feel so special when she wasn't exactly hugging Akito.

Her eyes shot open when she realized what she was doing; even if she wasn't hugging him. She then felt something take ahold of her hair and heard Akito's heart rate rise; quickly panicking she backed away, bowing repeatedly, and apologizing as she stared straight down at the floor. She felt incredibly hot on her face, and started to feel the urge to leave the room; when she realized she was in her room already.

Her mind then went to the curse, and it's aftermath. Now she knew why it felt so awkward and different. Every time she hugged Yuki or Kyo they immediately transformed into their zodiac animal. Worried she dared to look up at the other person in the room, when to her shock Akito was standing there unchanged; staring at her with an indescribable expression.

"Akito-sama y-you didn't change?" She said with surprise in her voice.

Akito's expression changed into sly smirk. "What were you expecting, some sort of animal?" As Tohru nodded in response, he continued. "Well then I suppose after living with those cursed you'd expect everyone you hug to transform. Much to your disappointment, I don't transform into any worthless creature; I am God. I already am what I am." He said, as he walked closer to her, and made her back up against the wall.

"You, you're nothing but my captive." He added as he lifted his arm and touched something behind her ear.

Tohru quickly remembered the pale pink flower in her hair, and quickly lifted her hand as reflex to touch it; only to come into contact with Akito's hand. Blushing madly she lowered her hand only to have it grabbed and pressed against the wall above her by Akito.

Tohru surprised by the sudden movement and the closeness of space she had with Akito, quickly had that trapped feeling again. As she looked at his expression, it was there again. That dark expression with his eyes turning into two dark orbs looking straight through her. Her heartbeat began to rise, and she looked aside as she felt Akito getting nearer.

She felt his ebony end graze her shoulder, and knew he was beyond close. She wanted to fight back and run, but she was either too scared or didn't dare too. She unknowingly held her breath, as she expected the worst to happen to her. Akito's mood swings were certainly unpredictable that she knew, but she couldn't help but feel terrified when he gave her that glare of his.

Akito didn't know what was making him act this way. All he knew was when he heard Tohru's somewhat disappointed reaction when she saw he didn't transform into an animal like the rest of his pets something triggered in him that made him feel something he couldn't quite explain.

Usually he was proud to explain that he didn't transform into any filth vermin like his zodiac. This time however when he said it, he felt a peculiar type of annoyance and bitterness in that she'd be pleased instead to have him change into a animal, and disappointed to have him not to.

Whatever this new emotion was, he knew hated it. To be thought of in a way as lower then the ones he himself considered dirt burned his anger to his core. As he looked at her standing before him, he noticed that the peach blossom he had carefully selected and placed in her hair earlier when she was asleep; was still there.

With his body acting in a way unknown, before he knew it he had a desire to prove his superior role in the zodiac and show his dominance. Soon after, he had her pinned against the wall. The terrified look in her eyes only fueled more his actions.

She was completely under his control, and had no way out. With her yukata having lowered a bit, and her neck fully exposed; the first thought that crossed his mind was to grab her by the neck and teach her a lesson. Before he did so however he found himself lured in by the exposure of her skin, and got the sudden urge to smell her scent.

They stood there in that position for a few long minutes, Akito leaning against her neck inhaling deeply while gripping her hand tightly. A wave of silence went over the pair, with the only thing being heard is Akito's deep breathing and Tohru's uncomfortable occasionally struggle to hold her composure.

Akito felt something wet fall on his cheek; bringing him away from his current stance. When he backed away and stroked his cheek, he caught sight of Tohru; she was crying. A rush of emotions flooded thorough him in a spilt second. Anger, Annoyance, Pleasure...and something else he couldn't explain. Whatever this other feeling was, it made him let got of Tohru's hand and walk out the room confused and bitter.

On his way out the front door, he added one last remark before closing. "Your private tutor will arrive in the morning, you'll be taught here from now on."

Tohru stood there unsure of what to do next after such a predicament. She didn't know why exactly she cried. She knew she was scared of the way Akito cornered her, but she had no reason to be especially after she so openly hugged him a couple of minutes before. For all she knew, he could have been hugging her back in his own "special" way.

The thought of it, quickly brought a smile to her face. The fact that it was possible of Akito becoming more humane lifted her heart up, and made her feel joyful again. She was sure her mother would be proud of her helping a person in need's help, and now she was positive her mother would approve of her keeping the baby and being responsible instead. It indeed sounded more like a thing Kyoko would've done herself.

She looked down at her belly area, and smiled softly as she wrapped her arms around it. "I'll try my best, just like your grandma did for me."

As she walked towards the door to head towards Hatori's office, she looked back at the flowers in the vase behind her.

"And Thank You Akito-sama"

Author's Note: I hope you all love this chapter even if it centered mostly on the pregnancy, but hey that's making it realistic. It wouldn't make sense for Tohru to get around the dilemma quickly would it? Now for those of you worried I assure you; both Tohru and Akito aren't in love yet. Akito is still just as confused, and Tohru is just thankful as she is with most of her friends. So please don't think this is soon going to become OOC.

And about the abortion topic. I'm not judging woman that have done it, but I'm just stating I myself don't approve of the practice, and thinking by Tohru's standards I'm sure she wouldn't have either. The main reason abortion came up was because it was more realistic for Tohru to have that scared/shocked/run away from the situation feeling at first before coming to her senses.

Also don't worry just because Tohru is going to get tutored doesn't mean she won't be seeing her friends later on. I assure you she definitely will.

Anyways

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