✓ | WITHERED BONDS, shigure sohma [Fruits Basket]

Chapter Seventy

Hatori had to carry Kira away after she literally cried herself into exhaustion.

It did not take long for Shigure to head there to be by her side. He ended up having to stay over since Hatori refused to let her out of his sight, knowing that she was in a delicate state.

She was asleep even a couple days after, which had worried Hatori greatly. His schedule was already packed with having to check both her and Akito-who refused to eat or having visitors at all. The state that Akito was in was having an effect on Kira, which caused the younger twin to keep sleeping.

Hatori sighed walking into the room later that day after getting off the phone with Kazuma," Everyone in this family really is trying to make me meet my death sooner"

Shigure looked up from, from the book her was reading," What happened?"

"As what Kira would say, 'What isn't happening?'" Hatori said blandly before sitting down," Anyways, Rin escaped the hospital, but Hatsuharu found her. Fortunately, she was already in a state of not needing any more medical attention, so he brought her to Kazuma's"

Shigure removed his eyeglasses and leaned back on the chair he was on," Such an active couple they are, but from what you stated things must be going well"

"I would assume so, but anyway, have you been caught up with the situation?"

"For the most part yes, Kureno told me. Though he is just as clueless to as why Akito had done what she did. Locking up Rin and even cutting her hair-" Shigure sighed pinching the bridge of his nose," I am just worried how things will go for Kira, since no matter what Akito does-Kira cannot hate Akito"

"Why is that?" A sudden voice came from the door, making Hatori and Shigure both turn to see Hatsuharu peeking his head in. For a moment they both fell silent, worried about how long he was there," Why can't Kira hate Akito?"

"How much did you hear?" Hatori asked and Hatsuharu titled his head

"Just the last part about Kira and Akito, I would have heard more, but the wind was so loud that it stifled most of your other words"

Shigure chuckled leaning on his palm at the luck that was," To answer your question, hatred is impossible between them, because they are each other's half. They are our god, that was always one being, but then suddenly his soul was split and the twins were born. Actually, it was not them that was the first, there were countless others," Hatsuharu furrowed his brows as he listened.

"The first set of twins ended in a tragedy to one of them dying. It was said that since God's soul was split, it had drawn the life of the other twin to become one. So, the lost life had restored the soul. Every single set of twins born, that had the power of God would always end in a tragedy with one death. Kira and Akito-when they were discovered to have been twins, the family had prepared a funeral for one of them, believing that it'd be the same as the past. However, when they were born-it was a phenomenon because neither of the twins showed any signs of dying and they both grew up healthy. There were times that some of the family believed that it'll happen. Such as when Kira had his accident, they believed it was fate" Shigure's turned intimidating at the last sentence," They had given..."

Hatsuharu was startled as he saw the darkening expression on Shigure's face and Hatori noticed the anger building up in his friend so he reached over stopping him from continuing.

"That should be enough, Shigure" Shigure snapped out of his belligerence and he forced his face to soften.

"Kira, not being able to save anyone in the past was also another reason that connects to the tale" Hatori continued," When he stepped up for Yuki in the Banquet, both of the twins had been in unbearable pain that night, because one defied and one injured the other. If they tried to do anything against each other, the pain could literally kill them"

"Enough to kill them?" Hatsuharu sat straight up

Shigure dipped as he leaned on his palm," While we are cursed, they are as well-even if they are the powerful being we are bonded to, they are just as imprisoned as we are," Hatsuharu closed his eyes as he lowered his head.