Don't you remember

Chapter 10


The boys had finally gotten themselves under a pattern that was finally acceptable to all of them. Haru would take her in the mornings to his workplace, where she

would correspond with Ayame, and then in the afternoons, 4 times a week, she would spend the afternoon at the shop, with Kyo as her assistant. On the days that he

had classes, it was reversed, so that he would have his contact with her to reverse the effects. It was a strange situation but one that was beginning to

work.


Seijiro, on the other hand, had been tracking down what to do with getting Tohru out of Natasha. His other plan was something that he had not spoken to anyone. He

wanted to find out where Rin was, and bring her back. She had been gone now for nearly 11 years, and she had covered her tracks well. But he was better. Far better,

he thought, then her. He had gotten close a few times, finding her in far away places like Madrid and Rome, and he almost had her when she was in Venice, but

somehow, she seemed to disappear. Currently, he had heard she was in Berlin, and he was getting closer to her. He then rememebered that his uncle Momiji was

there, visiting his German relatives, and turned from the computer to make a phone call.


"Thank you for calling the Huber residence, Momiji speaking. How may I help you?" Momiji answered, speaking in German (1)


"Uncle, do you have a minute?" he asked him, in German


"Of course Seijiro, what can I do for you?" Momiji said, switching to Japanese


"We need to find Rin. Auntie Tasha has her memories back, and she and the boys are back together." he informed his honorary uncle


"Tash is back! Awesome! I can't wait to see her! And you need Rin! Say no more!" he said with a nearly unnatural exuberence that on anyone else would have been

so wrong. On Momiji, it worked.


"I think she is down at the Cabaret, on 4th street. At least, that is what is supposed to be. I need a visual." he said, speaking like a 40 year old, instead of a 8 year

old.


"I'm your man!" he said, then paused and spoke again with a quiet seriousness "Is everything okay Seij?"


"Uncle Yuki spoke. Auntie Tasha fixed him. And the boys haven't let her out of the house. It's the curse. We need to break it. I need Rin back here." he said matter of

factly


"Suppose she doesn't want to come back. A lot can happen in 11 years." Momiji said


"I am not giving her a choice." he said


"You sure your eight years old?" Momiji said with a bit of humour


"My father is Ayame Sohma. Behaving like the responsible adult is par for the course." he said matter of factly, and hung up the phone as Momiji was laughing in his

ear


"You know, I don't ever want you to give up your childhood Seij." a voice said from the door


"Father, if we want things normal, this has to be done. I am doing for everyone I love." he said, turning from the phone, and going back to his computer.


"I love you Seij, till the day I die, and beyond." Ayame said, and came up to his son, and wrapped his arms around him


"I know Father. I love you too. Now go, you are distracting me." he said with a hint of humour.


"Very well. Your aunt should be in later. Kyo is her assistant today." he said and before he left, he kissed the top of his head and left.


"Can you ask Uncle Haru to come and see me?" he asked


"I suppose I could." Ayame asked and then left. As Seijiro turned back towards the computer, he could hear his uncle scream "Let go of me you stupid Nebi!" and at

that he smiled



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"Tash, what do you need me to do today?" Kyo asked


"Hmm, today I need you to iron." she said, as she handed him a pile of clothing


"I hate ironing." he grumbled


"Would you rather do the dyeing?" she asked about the special blending that Ayame did for his customers.


"God no!" he exclaimed and headed to the back to begin ironing, as Natasha stayed at the front, dressing up the manequins


As she began her work, she didn't hear the door open, and she didn't feel the presence of the man that snuck up behind her, until she felt the awareness of her mate as

he began his familiar greeting, and nuzzled her neck.


"What are you doing here? Are you not supposed to be working?" she asked


"I am. I told them that I needed to model for a famous designer, and that I would get the best reward ever" he purred into her ear, as he nibbled on it


"You are incorrigable" she said with a slight giggle


"That's why you love me." he said pressing closer to her


"I thought I had her today?" Kyo said, coming back into the room after feeling Haru's presence


"You do. But I was getting tired of the siccophants, so I made up an excuse." he said, running his hand through the white of his hair.


"You realize that it is par for the course. You want to be part of that world, you have to deal with people sucking up to you." Natasha said, pulling herself away from

Haru


"I only did it to get your attention." he said placing his hand on his hip and tilting his weight onto his other leg, making him look sexy as hell, at least to

Natasha


"Well, you have it now." she said lowering her voice, getting turned on by her mate


"Now, now, none of that today! I need my assistant working. Oh, and Seijiro wants to talk to you." Ayame said coming up and startling Natasha, as he seemed to just

jump out from nowhere.


"Why would he want to see me?" he said, to the former snake


"I honestly don't know. He doesn't tell me his plans." he said, as Haru shrugged, and walked to the back of the store. He heard Kyo yell at him for being here, when it

was his day, and then scoff, as Haru ignored him, and headed up the stairs.


"Ayame, what do you really think Seijiro wants Haru for." Natasha asked him. Ayame was quiet for a moment, then began to tap his finger against his cheek, like in

deep thought. He did this for a good five minutes, and then his eyes brightened up, and with the widest grin possible he declared


"I have no idea!" as Natasha frowned at him. After working with him for so long, she knew that he wasn't as dumb as he pretended to be, and he knew exactly why, but

would not reveal why. But she also knew that he must have a good reason, so she let it go for now.


"So what are the plans for today?" she asked her boss


"Well, you are going down to the market to get my fabrics that I ordered. Then you and Kyo are going to cut some of the patterns for the wedding coming up" he said

of the results of the consultation that they had a few weeks ago, when all the family had been in the shop. It was one of the royal family and was the largest coup that

they had landed the dressmaking contract.


"I'll go get my purse then." she said, as she headed to the offices, as Ayame looked for the farthest away fabric shop he knew of. He suspected some of what his son

wanted Haru for, and when the former Ox found out, he wanted to make sure his mate was far away. Not that he suspected that he would do anything, but he was not

taking any chances.


"Here is the address, Natasha." Ayame said as he handed her the piece of paper, with his flourish handwritting.


"Ayame, it is going to take me most of the day to even get over there, let alone coming back." Natasha said as she looked at the piece of paper


"I know, but they have the best fabric, and I already have the order ready. Please....?" he begged her, with his puppy dog eyes, that he had mimiced from

Shigure


"Of course. Mind the store for me." she said as she turned and headed out the door. As he could hear her car leave, the expected crash of the upstairs door slammed

open, and the stomping down the stairs of a very angry Ox.


"Haru, what is wrong?" Kyo asked, not liking the feelings that he was getting from him


"I don't want to talk about it." he snarled at him, his eyes glowing red


"Fine, Tash had to go out." Kyo said, as he had finished folding the ironed clothing, and began gathering the clothing to be dyed, already accepting that she was going

to sweet-talk him into doing it


"Get her back" he snarled, his eyes going nearly blood red


"Haru..what is going on." Kyo said, now getting very worried.


"I need my mate." he growled


"Well she isn't here, and chances are good that she won't be back for most of the afternoon." he said, after hearing what Ayame had asked her to do. When she had

gotten her purse, he had given her a kiss goodbye


"Arrrrrggggggggggggggg" Haru screamed, as he held his head between his hands, and sank to the floor in frustration


"HARU!" Kyo screamed and ran to his partner.


"I need Tash....get me Tash..." he whispered to Kyo, chanting the same phrase that he used to, after he had been denied her the first time.


"Why...?" Kyo said, not understanding


"Need...one more time....need her....please...just this one time more...." he whispered and then fell unconcious


"What is going on?" he said, holding Haru's head on his lap.


"I asked him to go get Rin. I found her." Seijiro said coming out of his bedroom, and began to come down the stairs


"Why was he so angry then?" Kyo said


"Because, I told him how to break Rin's curse." he said simply


"How?" Kyo said, almost afraid of the answer


"To willingingly give himself in black mode to her. If he takes her in black mode, something he has never done before, as he was too afraid of hurting her, he will bind

himself to Rin, and it will release the bind on Auntie. This is how to break Rin's curse." Seijiro said "But we have to move quickly. Rin keeps moving, and this is the

only opportunity we will have. Otherwise she will go underground again." he finished. The telephone then rang, and Seijiro moved to answer it.


"Yes...He is here...Come to the front.......Thank you for your promptness." Seijiro said and he hung up the phone


"We need to go now. The jet is waiting." Seijiro said turning to his honorary uncle. As Seijiro was the first child of the cursed to been born, all the Jyūnishi became his

honorary aunts and uncles. The jet, they found out, was purchased by Momiji's father, for his business, and had been made available to the inner circle of the family.

Usually it was either Momiji or Haru that used it, as they were the mobile members of the family. Recently though, he had been letting Seijiro use it, as he knew that

he was trying to break the curse.


"You can't do this. It's going to kill him to do this." Kyo said, standing in front of the boy, stopping him from taking Haru


"Uncle Kyo, do you want the curse broken?" he asked him, his blue-gold eyes glittering with the mid-morning light


"Of course I do, but not at the sacrifice of his sanity." he said


"Rin would only accept Haru. Noone else. We all know this. She is his soulmate, as much as he doesn't want to accept it. Auntie was taken only as a substitute." he

said quietly


"NO! I won't accept that. Tash is his soulmate, and mine as well!" he said balling his fists as the child


"I will not let you take your anger out on my son. Control yourself Kyo." Ayame said, placing a hand onto his shoulder


"It's easy for you to say that. You have your mate, and a child." he said, turning to Ayame, and swiping his hand off of his shoulder in anger. "Haru and I are tied

together with her. You break that, you break us. Or did that not occur to you?"


"No, I didn't realize that you were tied to each other. But if we don't do this, we are never going to break this." Ayame said, turning towards his son.


"Uncle Kyo, I know that it is going to hurt, a great deal. But Haru really does belong with Rin. I am sorry, but it is true." Seijiro said sadly, his head hanging down, and

looking at the floor. In that position, he really did look like the small child he was, and not the acting head of the family.


"That doesn't change the fact that this is going to kill him as well. He hasn't seen Rin in years! How do you know that he still has feeling for her, or do you expect him

to just screw her senseless with no feelings involved" Kyo said harshly


"Kyo! You will watch your language around my son!" Ayame said harshly, giving him a pointed look in warning


"I appologize Seijiro for using harsh language, but you are not taking him away." he said, standing between Ayame and Haru, who was still slumped on the floor from

the shock.


"Kyo, he's right. If we are going to break this, I have to do it." a very weak voice said from the floor


"Haru, what are you saying? You know that if you take Rin in black mode, you will not ever be able to touch Natasha again. Is that what you really want?" Kyo said,

hunching down and looking at his partner


"Of course not. But this is not about me. It's about this family. I can't let them continue like this. Natasha will understand." he said weakly


"So you are going to sacrifice your own happiness for the sake of us. Don't do it. Let this family hang" Kyo said harshly


"Kyo you don't mean that. Look, if I was going to leave my mate with someone, I would chose you any day of the week. You love her just as much as I do. Please. Let

me do this. I did love Rin, and in many ways, I still do. She was my first love, and my first woman that I ever made love to. I CAN do this. I WILL do this to spare the

family." Haru said, grabbing Kyo's leg to help himself back up to his standing position.


"This family doesn't deserve that big of a sacrifice." Kyo hissed, still bitter over his own treatment. He still never got over the fact that noone stopped Akito from

taking him and locking him away. He still had the nightmares of the endless torture that she inflicted on him, reminding him that Natasha didn't love him, could never

love him, and that noone loved him.


"Kyo, don't let your own bitterness blind you, to the big picture. Do you not want an end to this? Do you ever want to hear of another cat being stripped of

everything, and thrown into the cage again? Because if you have that much hatred in you, then I will take Natasha away from you." Haru said, his voice becoming

stronger


"You come near my mate, and you will wish you were never born." Kyo said, his possessive streak showing.


"Gentlemen, we need to go. So please stop the arguments. Uncle Haru, please, let's go." Seijiro said as he heard the limo pull up.


"I am coming little one." Haru said, using his own pet name for the boy.


"Uncle Haru, I just want to say, I am proud of you." he said, not in his normal monotone, serious voice, but as a child's voice.


"Thank you little one. Take care of your Auntie for me. She is going to need your support. She is not going to agree with any of this." he said, his hand on the boy's

shoulder, but looking at his partner, Kyo.


"Shall we go?" Ayame said.


"I need to do this myself. Besides, Momiji will be there." Haru said, and saw Kyo groan.


"Oh, come on, he isn't that bad." Haru said


"That brat is going to be the death of me." Kyo mumbled. At that Haru smiled. "Go, I will deal with our mate." Kyo said, with a finality in his voice.


"She will understand, once we get back." Haru said, as he grabbed his messenger bag, that he had dropped at the door, when he had been sneaking up on Natasha, and

with a final look at the shop, exited and closed the door.


"I hope so....I hope so." Kyo said, worried about what his mate was going to do, when she found how what he had agreed to.




Just for safety sake - Terms




mo mhúirnín bán means My fair darling

Tá grá agam duit which means I love you.

Aruné which means Darling

Acushla which means Pulse of the Heart.

Beloved is Grádág for female and Grádén for male