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Chapter 16 – all this time…
“And the little Honda girl still
wins.” Akito chuckled arrogantly as he cocked his head to one side to look at
me. “It is settled then.”
Sighing, he lifted up my chin again with his
fan. “I wish we didn’t have to go through all this trouble.”
I looked at
him with nothing else to say, but I nodded slightly in compliance.
“It is
now time,” Akito said as he put my chin down while looking at Hatori.
I
gave them a curious, worried look. I began to feel my stomach turning over in
fear as I watched them talk silently to one another.
Akito folded his
arms as he waited for Hatori to come to the front of the room. Yuki and I just
looked at them quietly. Actually, Yuki was glaring at both of them, when I
glanced at him.
Akito looked at Yuki, while Hatori pushed Yuki’s
shoulders to make him kneel in front of him. As Akito stood in back of Hatori,
he said, “And we’ll erase you from Yuki’s memory.”
My heart stopped
beating entirely as I held my breath.
All this time I was preparing
myself to die, but not in that way.
No…
Not that
way….
Anything but taking Yuki’s memories of me!!!
I looked on in
horror as Yuki turned to me with a slight smile. “Trust me, Haru. I’ll
remember.”
I wasn’t breathing as he looked at me so intensely.
So
sure that I got confused all over again.
Then, he turned over to Akito as
he began to give the mysterious, dark smile that made my skin crawl. He only
gave this look and tone whenever he was royally pissed off.
With defiant
eyes, he boldly said, “I’ll remember, Akito. Over and over again, I’ll remember
Haru.”
His tone became an octave lower. “Then or now. Isn’t that why
you’re so eager to get rid of him?”
My eyes opened wide as I looked at
both of them. I watched Hatori as he took a deep breath.
And it was then
that I felt so sorry for him…
How much he would do for Akito because he
cared for him…
It was disturbing, yet sweet though.
“Then or now?”
I asked in bewilderment. “Yuki…what are you talking about?”
But he kept
his eyes steadily on Akito’s angered ones.
“I said I will not forsake any
of them, Akito,” he said as he took a deep breath. “You and Hatori know more
than anyone else one of the reasons why I’ve gotten ‘punished’ so
much.”
Slowly, he got up with his hands in fists. Then, he continued, “I
never needed ‘to fall in love’ with Hatsuharu or this stupid challenge you’ve
given because you _knew_, Akito, that I had loved him ever since I first saw him
when he was little.”
“The legend will always say that the mouse rode on
the cow, but why? Why must that be? The cow admired how small and cute the mouse
was, thinking he was ugly and fat. He admired the mouse so much but couldn’t say
how much he loved her.
“What the cow didn’t know was that the mouse
admired the cow for being big and able walk in the light. He always had to walk
in the darkness because people feared him. But a cow? No one’s scared of a cow
unless you tick them off.”
I just blinked at Yuki with nothing to say,
but my admiration of him was growing even more.
The very thing I had
always thought of him as was his own dilemma. He was looking at me the same way
I had watched him all these years…
I continued to blink at Yuki in shock
and I couldn’t believe what he was saying while I breathed slowly with tears
wanting to slip from my eyes at the impact of it all.
“Akito, you know
Haru was given to me when he was one year’s old. That’s the part of the legend
you’re trying so hard to push away, by masquerading it that we can’t be together
because we’re both male.”
Akito looked away as I gave Yuki a weird
look.
“’Kawaii onna!’ I stupidly said, right?” He began to cry with
frustrated tears. “’I want.’ It wasn’t mama or dada or Akito, I looked at Haru
said, ‘I want.’ And I said it while he was in his cow form when I was two and a
half!”
“So he’s mine!” He then shouted as if finally letting out a secret
he had kept inside for so long. “Haru is mine, dammit!!”
Slashing his
hand through the air and stepping forward as Akito watched him with hateful, yet
pained eyes, Yuki continued to say, “I’ll always remember as long as it comes to
Haru. When he first spoke to me, even though you erased his memory. When he used
to sleep in my bed. When we once played together. When he first gave me a
drawing that you crumpled in front of his eyes, right?
“I have watched
him and you kept on erasing our memories of one another. You even spread that
rumor of the cow being a fool so that he would hate me, but you were
wrong!”
Yuki had loved and cared for me all this time…?
I began to
see my tears on the wooden floor. And then, I turned to Yuki
again.
“Haru’s life belongs to me,” he said, still standing tall and
elegantly while tears were falling from each side of his face.
With his
entire body shaking, he shouted with his whole heart,
“He’s mine.
He’s always been mine, but you always kept him away.
You took
him away from me!”
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Author’s note: That was really fun. ^_^ I
know I should have just combined both the last chapter and this one, but I just
couldn’t resist being cruel. My friend Winnie the Pooh always gets mad at me for
torturing my characters, but it’s because they’re my favorite! ^^;;; I’m
weird.
I just love reactions whenever I do things like that. Hee. What’s
fun about a singular plot?
Well, one more part and we’re done guys. ^_^
And yes, promise it’s a happy ending. I planned that from the beginning, but
it’s no fun if I say it. :p
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