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Tainted Choices

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********************This chapter contains rape***************

Chapter 5
Consequences


Tohru lay on her bed after school holding her mother's picture and looking up at the ceiling.

“Okaasan? What am I supposed to do? Should I just allow myself to be raped after work one night? Should I try to find someone outside of the Sohma household to love? No, I don't think that would be possible. I would feel too guilty.”

But, if she allowed herself to be taken advantage of one night no one would think ill of her if she were to fall pregnant from the attack. She had made up her mind. She would tell Yuki and Kyou she was staying over at Uo's and she would go to the seediest area of town and allow some pervert to take advantage of her virtue.

“Only to save them. I have to save them. They have done so much for me.” She thought selflessly as usual.

She got up from her bed and dressed in her shortest skirt and tightest shirt. Then she wrapped her overcoat around herself, picked up her purse and trotted down the stairs.

“Shigure?” she called.

“Yes, Tohru-kun?” he said and then seeing her added, “Are you going out to get some groceries? Do you want Yuki or Kyou to go with you?”

Tohru tried her best to look innocent and shaking hear head, said, “No…I am meeting Uo at the bus stop up the street. We are having a slumber party over at her house since we don't have school tomorrow.”

Shigure's mind danced with visions of high school girls in their jammies having a naughty pillow fight.

He shook his head to clear it and then said, “Okay…have fun!” he said smiling.

Tohru ran down the lane and headed for the bus stop. She got on the bus headed downtown. She watched the scenery pass by and looked for a rundown and dark area of town where she had heard there had been a lot of rapes. The girls had not been harmed seriously and they had all been impregnated. When she rang the bell to get off the bus driver turned and said her, with concern in his fatherly eyes, “Young miss this is a very dangerous area. Are you sure this is the stop you want.”

She felt guilty lying to him but said, “It's okay sir, my boyfriend is meeting me right down the block.”

He eyed her suspiciously because there were not a lot of apartments or shops in this area of town.

“Okay, but be very careful until you meet up.”

Tohru thanked the bus driver and promised she would be careful and got off the bus. She headed towards the small park where the other attacks had happened and sat down on the park bench to wait. She took off her coat and laid it beside her and took out one of Shigure's novel and began to read. Luckily, the night was warm and it was relatively quiet in the park. It seemed like she was there a long time and she began to get really sleepy. She rolled up her coat and lay down across the bench. She tried to stay awake but before she knew it she was asleep. She dreamt of Yuki wrapping his warm arms around her in an embrace. Then he kissed her and told her that he loved her. He placed gentle kisses down her neck and began to open the buttons to her shirt. She was embarrassed so she pushed his hands away but he persisted and finally got impatient and ripped her blouse off and started shouting.

“You know you want it Bitch!”

This was not and could not possibly be the Yuki she knew. He would never use such vulgar language to her, then she realized it, she was asleep. She woke up. But instead of being safe in her own room she was on a park bench in the middle of the night and a man was touching her in her most private of places. “No!” she shouted and tried to push the man off of her all the while squeezing her eyes tightly shut…she didn't want the face of her attacker to haunt her. She had changed her mind, but now it was too late.

“Please, don't do this to me! Yuki! Kyou! Help me!” she screamed.

But she knew there was no one to help her. Her attacker punched her in the face and she whimpered in pain. The man ripped away the remaining shreds of her clothing and roughly rubbed his bristly face down her nubile body to end in her crotch. He licked her and then he pulled her to her feet, turned her around and forced her to bend so that her bottom was in the air. She heard a zipper as he opened his jeans and she made the mistake of looking at his crotch. She had never seen a penis but she was sure that the size of this one would scare the most jaded woman. It was huge and it terrified her. She tried to plead but all he did was pull her forcefully toward him and position himself. She could feel the head of his manhood pressing against her. Then in one forceful thrust he ripped her open. She screamed and he pumped into her as hard as he could and finished. He pushed her to the ground. She lay there in a crumpled heap and he picked up her coat and threw it over her.

“Here you go Bitch. Thanks for a good time.”

The man said as he zipped up his pants and ran away into the darkness. For some reason the man's voice sounded eerily familiar. Tohru lay there for a long time.

“What was I thinking? How could I have let a man touch me like that? I am so stupid.”

And she cried until she didn't think she could cry anymore. The sun started to light up the sky and she pulled herself up and wrapped her coat around her. Then she picked up the scraps of her clothing and placed them into the wastebasket next to the bench. She wasn't sure how bad she looked but she hoped it was better than she felt. She walked gingerly to the bus stop and checked her reflection in the glass. She looked horrible. Her face was black and blue from where the man had punched her and eyes were bloodshot from crying. She moistened the corner of her sleeve and wiped the dried blood off her lip. She flagged a bus down and rode it back to Shigure's house.

Kyou was stretching outside when he thought he caught a whiff of blood in the air. He rounded the corner of the house and then froze in place when he realized where the scent was coming from. Tohru staggered up the walk wrapped in her coat. It was dirty and she could see from where he stood that her face was bruised and swollen. Tears traced paths through the dried blood on her cheek.

“Tohru! What happened?” he screamed as he rushed towards her.

“Oh Kyou! S-some man a-attacked me on m-my way to Uo's house.”

She stammered as she cried. “I'll kill the man who did this to you! Where did it happen! What did he look like?” he screamed with rage in his eyes as he shook her by the shoulders.

“I don't know! I don't remember! Please, don't make me remember!” Tohru screamed in frustration and wrenched herself free of Kyou's grip, and rushed towards the house.

She ran into the back door past a startled Shigure and a groggy but surprised Yuki, up into her room and then slumped against the frame of her western-style bed clutching her mother's picture and sobbing. Shigure and Yuki ran up the stairs behind her, Yuki having been snapped from his stupor by the scent of Tohru's blood. Shigure rushed over to Tohru surveying her wounds and detecting the scent of a more sinister crime with his sensitive canine nose.

“Yuki, call Hatori right away!”

As soon as Yuki left the room, Shigure pulled Tohru close and whispered in her ear, “It is okay Tohru-kun, we will find who did this to you and they will pay. I will have Hatori look you over and take care of any consequences that may result.”

Tohru pushed him away and said seriously, “I would never consider doing that Shigure-san. It is not the child's fault how it was conceived. I will keep any consequences that may arise…”she said in the most serious voice Shigure had ever heard her use.

Hatori came and examined Tohru and he and Shigure promised to keep the full effect of the attack to themselves. It became apparent after a month that she was pregnant. Neither Kyou nor Yuki realized that Tohru had been raped that night. They thought she had only been mugged. If they knew the truth Tohru knew it would break their hearts. She wasn't sure how she was going to hide the fact that she was pregnant. The school uniform didn't leave very much to the imagination. Hopefully she wouldn't show much in the first few months because she only had four months until Summer Vacation. She thought she could probably hide it until then and then she could wear baggier sundresses during the summer. Guys seemed to be pretty clueless about things like that anyhow. Maybe she could get Hatori to get some clothes made for one of his pregnant patients by Ayame and give them to her. The last few days she had felt horrible in the morning and had convinced Yuki and Kyou that she must have a stomach bug, but she managed. She was feeling quite queasy this morning and was trying to calm her stomach with some tea when Yuki came downstairs. He was surprisingly alert given the early hour.

“Tohru-kun? Can I talk to you in private for a moment?” he asked, looking rather serious.

Tohru put on a brave face and answered, “Of course Yuki!”

A quick flash of what looked like irritation passed across Yuki's face, replace by a forced smile. “Okay, let's go to the Secret Base.”

He said quickly and took her by the arm, almost pulling her along behind him. The arrived and Yuki pulled a couple of crates he had stacked over and they sat down face to face. Yuki took her hands and with a cheerless expression on his face.

“Tohru? Are you okay? You don't seem yourself. Yeah…you go around smiling to everyone like usual…but I can see the pain in your eyes. I am well acquainted with depression and I can see it written all over your face. Are you hiding something from me? Please, I want to help you…”

Tohru looked up into those deep amethyst eyes and started to weep. She could see he was hurting because of her and she couldn't stand it anymore. “Yuki, that night I said I was mugged. I-I w-was actually r-raped and I am p-pregnant…”