Jyunishi Drama #122

The right to be able to accept...

While being hurt herself, Tohru accepted Akito's loneliness. But just after that, the ground beneath her gave way, and she ends up falling from the cliff!!

Picking up immediately from where the last chapter left, off, Akito starts to scream in shock as she remembers Tohru telling her she wants to become friends and asking her not to cry anymore.

Akito screams for anybody surprising Shigure and Yuki who were walking up the stairs to the house. Kyou too, hears Akito and looks back.

Akito runs off yelling for someone to come help remembering Tohru's words, telling her not to cry by herself anymore, and that she didn't need to be afraid anymore when she runs into Shigure, surprising him.

Akito: .........
...Shi-

-gure...

......H-
Help. Please
Fell

F-

From the cliff...

Doesn't move......
Doesn't move at all... wha-

What should we do. Doesn't move. Help. Not at all...
Doesn't move at all...!!

Shigure: Akito

Shigure: Calm down
...Slowly.

Who fell?

Akito: ...

......
...To-

Tohru...

Yuki, shocked on hearing Tohru's name, runs off to call an ambulance while Shigure asks Akito where Tohru had fallen from. Akito points back the way she'd come and that Tohru had fallen from back there. Still upset, Akito asks Shigure what they should do when Shigure interrupts her and asks if Akito had pushed Tohru. Akito denies pushing Tohru and (though Shigure seems somewhat disbelieving), goes on to tell how the ground beneath Tohru had given way suddenly.

Akito: ......

But......

I'm......

The one who stabbed Kureno......

As Shigure takes in Akito's confession, Yuki comes running back telling Shigure that he'd called an ambulance and asks him to take care of meeting it when it arrives. Yuki runs off continuing on to where Tohru fell and Akito turns to follow only to have Shigure pull her along with him. In the meantime, Yuki, having reached Tohru, stares shocked.

At the house, Shigure phones Hatori:

Shigure: Hello?

Hello, Hatori?
It's me.

...Yeah.

Did something happen at the mainhouse?

...

If it's about Akito, (she's) here.
...yeah, here.

Shigure: .........
I heard.

How is he?

--...

I see.

...
No, that's

Wait a minute

We've got trouble over here too right now.
...No, Akito's all right.

Tohru-kun

...yeah.

Apparently, she fell from a cliff

Kyo, having returned to the house while Shigure was on the phone, hears what happened to Tohru and runs back outside.

Shigure takes off his jacket and drapes it over Akito's shoulders. Shigure then tells her that simply put, Kureno was alright and Akito starts to cry.

Kyo finds Yuki kneeling by Tohru's side and as he nears, Yuki stands. Kyo stares stunned at the sight of Tohru and falls to his knees. But as he reaches out to touch her,

Yuki: Don't touch her

...Don't touch her.
I think...

She hit her head pretty hard

Kyo stares horrified at the blood on his hand and remembers the blood on his hands at the time of Kyoko's accident.

Kyo: ...

Wai-...

Wait...
Wait

Wait

No...

Kyo: Wrong. This isn't
What I wanted.

Tohru

Wait
This...

Tohru, lying unconscious on the ground, here's someone crying and asks them to stop, to no longer cry. As she wonders who was crying, whether it was Akito or Kyo, she sees Kyo in the distance walking away. Tohru chases after him wanting to tell him something; that she was so happy that they met. And while she didn't know whether their meeting was only a source of hardship for Kyo, even so, she was still happy that they'd met.

Your awkward gentleness

Was so delightful.

Your look when you smiled

And when you were embarrassed

[Were so delightful.

So delightful and little by little
Became so very dear.

More than anything else.]

[That day, chasing after you so hard was just

Because

I'd come to love you (Kyo-kun).]

I love you, so

I didn't want you to go.

Not anywhere.

Kyo-kun

[Unfortunately, my being with you,
My feelings for you

Ended up hurting you, but]

But

Don't cry anymore.

Just as happy things
And fun things

Must eventually come to an end,

Scary things and sad things too

Will come to an end.

Always.

Even if you can't believe in such a time, please

Please don't give up.

Live.

I want you to live

It's okay

If you make mistakes or take the long route.

But please,

Please live.

Please don't give up walking.

Please,

Don't give up on that alone.

It doesn't matter

Even if

I'm not there by your side

Tohru regains consciousness to see Kyo looking down at her crying. Tohru tells Kyo that it's all right, that it was all right now and wonders to herself if her thoughts and feelings had reached him.

In the distance, the sound of an ambulance's siren can be heard, and Akito gets up. Yuki too goes off to meet it.

Kyo: It's all right...

It's all right already...
I understand

It's all right...

Tohru: ......

Kyo: Lie still (lit. don't talk)

And as Tohru hopes for her feelings to reach Kyo, Kyo kisses her.

Banner: Tohru's feelings gently enwrap Kyo's soul... The two's future is...?

Furuba returns in Hana to Yume Issue 7. March 4 release.