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Fruits Basekt chapter 101

OMG OMG OMG!

Before he was banished to his own house Shigure slept with Rin to get back at Akito for sleeping with Kureno?!?!

Dude, Akito and Rin must have been young at the time. ::smacks Shigure and Kureno:: That's just not right.

But... OMG OMG OMG!

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OMG MY ICON IS CANON.

There are just not enough "OMG"s to cover this chapter.

EDIT: So it was Ren, not Rin. ::shrug:: Misread due to enthusiasm. BUT ALL THE OMGs STILL APPLY FOR AKITO/SHIGURE! OMG! And Ren... that's just wrong. wrongwrongwrong. Apparently sleeping with people several years younger than you isn't a personality trait restricted to the male side of the Sohma family, either.

Does this mean that my theory of Shigure having slept with Akito was true then? Or was Shigure just promising her but not actually sleeping with her, and Akito got impatient and lost her virginity to Kureno?

"I do love Akito. Back then, and now, I love... I love her too much to the point that I wanted to spoil her."

Like, love love? Like the love Yuki feels for Tohru or the love that Kyo feels for Tohru?

Wow, I hadn't expected Shigure to have been in an actual relationship with Akito. Wow.

"Even though you hadn't realized it, I was waiting for that day." -- Wait, I'm confused? Shigure really was waiting for her to be old enough to love? Then why is there the image of him looking down at her naked in bed? If they'd slept together, what were they waiting for?

And damn, if that was the case then I kind of feel sorry for Shigure. Not totally, because he obviously misjudged Akito if he thought she'd wait too... but then, no, I do feel sorry for him.

So. Now we know why he's so cold. Because as a young man he fancied Akito as his true love and she burned him? And so he made himself just like her-- picking the cruelest person with which to exact his revenge. Ouch.

Now I need to listen to that Garbage song "Sex Is Not the Enemy" a few dozen times.

EDIT: Waahhhh. I just realized my mp3s of the Bleed Like Me album are all gone from my last computer crash. ::sob::

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chapter 102

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Yuki/girl-whose-name-I-can't-remember are so cute. And the best-friend=whose-name-I-can't-remember is adorable too.

Comments

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It's probably all relatively recent--I can't remember if we've been told how long it's been since Shigure was shipped off to his own place, so it's possible that the incident with Hatori and Kana happened earlier. *thinks* Akito's twenty now, and it's been almost two years since the series started . . . but I'm not quite sure. The fanbook timeline doesn't seem to go back that far. :/

I do think that Shigure sleeping with Ren made Akito's insecurities a LOT worse, but some of it is lifelong. The bond with the 12shi is literally everything she has, and so the idea of losing even a bit of their love is unbearable to her. (And there's been some very detailed insight into her recently, which is interesting.) Like everything else in the series, there just keep being more layers. I'm pretty certain of the connection between what Shigure did and the severity of what happened to Rin, but she's my favorite character, so that's part of how I filter the series. ^^

*reads other comments* I think it's safe to assume that Shigure and Akito didn't have a sexual relationship before she threw him out, but there're some moments between them that're ambiguous earlier in the series, like the way she climbs into his lap (while they're at the beach house?).