Published 1999 by Flower Comics ISBN 4-09-137136-1

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All translations done by Crystal. Please do not copy unless I give you persmission to. Thank you!

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Part 1

Yoshiki comes back to Saga and sees Kyoko sleeping in a chair in the hotel lobby. Kyoko wakes up and tells Yoshiki that she'll wait for Yoshiki until she becomes a fossil. Yoshiki feels really bad and hugs her. Yoshiki thinks back to what happened with Kasumi...

Kasumi is about to confess her love to Yoshiki too, but they get interrupted with Kyoko's phone call. She's wondering when he'll be back. She asks Yoshiki if he's with anyone and Yoshiki lies and tells her that he's by himself. Kasumi tells herself that she can't be doing this with Yoshiki and sends Yoshiki off in a taxi. Yoshiki tries to talk to Kasumi, but she won't listen to him and talks to him as his sister.

The summer goes on and Kasumi has fun going to the beach, etc. She stops by Kazuki's restaraunt and she's drunk with her friends. Some guys start to pick up on Kasumi and her friends and Kasumi starts to flirt with them. Kazuki wants to go and stop the guys from talking to Kasumi, but he gets in trouble with his manager. Kasumi laughs and tells herself, See? I'm okay.

In Saga, Yoshiki and Kyoko are having sex and Kyoko wants Yoshiki to take it a little easier on her. After they are done, Kyoko asks why he's so mad. Before Yoshiki answers, Kyoko tells him that whatever it is, it's fine with her, but to only think of her. Yoshiki gets up and apologizes to her and calls himself an asshole.

Kazuki approaches Kasumi and asks her if she's alright. Kasumi smiles and tells him that she is fine, but Kazuki is not convinced. He tells her to call him even if it's for no reason. Kasumi is touched that he's so nice to her. Kasumi and her friends leave the restaraunt wit the guys and one of the guys grabs Kasumi's hand and takes off with her. This makes Kasumi dizzy (from being drunk), so the man takes her to a hotel to rest. When Kasumi wakes up, she realizes where she's at (while the man is taking a shower) and runs out!

She gets home and decides to call Kazuki. But instead, she calls Yoshiki. She doesn't even realize what she did until she hears Yoshiki's voice. Yoshiki knows that it's Kasumi and tells her that he just arrived in Haneda and that he'll be going to her apartment. Kasumi breaks down and tells him that she wants to see him...but Kasumi realizes what she says and tells Yoshiki to forget about what she said. Yoshiki tells her that he won't forget what she said and that he's back in town to go see Kasumi...to make love to her. This shocks Kasumi. Yoshiki tells Kasumi that if she doesn't want to, to just leave her apartment for the night. Kasumi tells Yoshiki to wait, but he's already hung up. Kasumi is panicking and telling herself that this is wrong and that they cannot do this. She runs out of her apartment.

Yoshiki arrives at the apartment and sees that the lights are turned off in Kasumi's apartment. Yoshiki mumbles to himself, "Of course she's not here". He walks in and to his suprise, Kasumi is out on the balcony. Kasumi turns around and says, "Yoshiki, let's go to hell together."

Part 2

Kasumi tells Yoshiki that she did go out of the apartment once, but she came back. Yoshiki runs to her and hugs her.

Back in Saga, Kyoko is worried and has an uneasy feeling about Yoshiki. She tries to call Yoshiki and gets no answer. Her friends tell her that she shouldn't worry so much because Yoshiki was with her this whole time, but she is wondering why Yoshiki was so serious about going back home.

The phone starts to ring and Kasumi tries to go answer it. Yoshiki ignores her comments and tells her how pretty she looks on the bed.  Like a "pinned butterfly". He can see that Kasumi is still a little unsure and scared, so he tells her not to be afraid of anything. If he has to go to hell, he will go himself and she won't have to worry about anything. Kasumi hugs him and tells him that she won't let him go to hell alone.

At the restaraunt where Kazuki works, his manager asks him to go out and have some dinner with him and a girl named Yukari, whose a big fan of Kazuki. Kazuki hestiates to go at first, but goes anyway since Kasumi didn't call him after all. They all get pretty drunk and Kazuki realizes that his manager is gone. Yukari tells him that he probably left so her and Kazuki can be together. Yukari tells he should have sex with her and forget about Kasumi, but Kazuki refuses at first, telling her that he only wants to do these things with Kasumi. Yukari tells him that he doesn't know what she's doing now anyway; implying that she could be doing the same thing. Kazuki agrees with her and is about to kiss Yukari when, but he gets an image of Kasumi in his head and pushes Yukari away and tells her to go home. Yukari gets mad and leaves. Kazuki can't believe that this is what Kasumi did to him. He wishes he could just dislike her, so things could be easier on him. He kicks a motorcycle out of anger and the owner of the motorcycle and his friends, pissed off, start fighting with Kazuki.

Kyoko and Yoshiki's friends walk by Kazuki getting beat up, so they approach them as the men run away. Kyoko realizes that it's Kazuki and tries to help him. Kazuki tells Kyoko not to touch him and that looking at her face right now will probably just make him angry since it reminds him of someone he dislikes.  Kyoko looks sad and tells Kazuki that she feels the same way towards him as well.  Kazuki looks up at her and apologizes.

Kasumi and Yoshiki lay in bed (after having sex) as they look at each other. Yoshiki asks Kasumi what she is thinking about. Kasumi tells him that she was thinking of him and that she's sorry. She tells him that she's sorry that Yoshiki met her. If he hadn't met Kasumi, his life would be much easier with a set future. Yoshiki grabs Kasumi and kisses her as he bites her lip. Kasumi is a little suprised as Yoshiki tells her that a future without her means nothing to him. He'd rather have this sin with her than not have her at all. Kasumi predicts in her thoughts that they're probably going to have to go through a lot of hardships from now and will lose a lot of their friends/family. Even so, she's happy that she's with Yoshiki and that she'd give anything up to be with him.

Part 3

Yoshiki and Kasumi wake up in the morning. Yoshiki wants to make love to Kasumi again, but Kasumi, smiling, tells him to stop. Just as they're having a good time, the doorbell rings. It's Kyoko. Yoshiki tells Kasumi that he'll be right back and steps outside with Kyoko. Kyoko tells Yoshiki that she was worried about him since he had such a serious look when he left Saga. Yoshiki tries to interrupt several times, but Kyoko won't listen to anything Yoshiki has to say. She tells Yoshiki that her father was very happy that Yoshiki came on the excavation trip with hiim and that he'll probably invite him again. Yoshiki feels a little guilty and tells Kyoko that her father has done a lot for him. Kyoko kisses Yoshiki and tells him that she hopes his sister feels better. As Kyoko leaves, she has a troubled/sad look on her face and Yoshiki cringes.

Kasumi is with her friends and one of her friends asks her to return a CD to Kazuki. Kasumi doesn't want to, but her friend begs her and tells her that she'll buy lunch for her in exchange. Kasumi reluctantly gives in. The CD she needs to return is the Carpenters CD and her friends start talking about how the vocalist, Karen, was rumored to be in love with her brother. They talk about how weird it would be and that it's unbelievable. Kasumi thinks that it is, indeed, weird, but she's in love.

Kyoko's father comes in to talk to Yoshiki. Her father asks her how he's doing with his new sister and tells him that Kyoko gets jealous that Yoshiki pays so much attention to his new sister. He explains that Kyoko is an only child, so she gets jealous easily. Before Kyoko's father leaves, he tells Yoshiki that he would like to have dinner with him, Kasumi, and his family. Yoshiki is annoyed and disturbed by his comments.

Kasumi goes to Kazuki's work place to return the CD. She sees him with Yukari as she's throwing herself at him. Kazuki is bothered and tells Yukari that he doesn't want to get involved with her in that way. Yukari reminds him that he was about to anyway. Kasumi approaches them and Kazuki is suprised to see her as his face turns red. Kasumi grabs Kazuki and acts like she's fond of Kazuki and tells him that she wants to hurry up and go someplace where they can be alone. Kazuki, still red, plays along with Kasumi's act. Yukari gets upset and leaves. Kasumi giggles and jokes around with Kazuki telling him that she didn't know that he was so popular with the girls. Kazuki has a cold look on his face and says, "Did you think that I'd be thanking you? You're such a cruel woman." Kasumi is shocked at Kazuki's words. He goes on to tell her that it tears him apart when she says those words when she doesn't even mean it. He also tells her that he was about to use Yukari to distract his feelings, just like Kasumi used him, but he couldn't do it. Kazuki breaks down and asks her how her feelings can be his. And how he can forget about her.  Kasumi walks back home very sad thinking, A way to forget about someone? If there's something like that, we, the siblings, would like to know that the most...When she reaches home, she sees Yoshiki waiting for her outside. She asks him why he didn't just wait inside for her and Yoshiki tells her that he can see her just a second sooner if he waited outside. Kasumi turns red and buries her face into Yoshiki's chest. She tells him not to look at her right now and if he does, she'll get really mad. Yoshiki tells her that he wants to go on a trip with her someplace where noone will scrutinize them. Kasumi lifts her head up, looks at Yoshiki, and tells him that she wants to go. As they go back up to Kasumi's apartment, Kasumi thinks back to how she wanted a pill to make herself forget about Yoshiki. She wonders if Yoshiki would take such a pill and thinks that he probably wouldn't. She concludes that she wouldn't either.

Kasumi waits at the Tokyo station where she is supposed to meet Yoshiki. Yoshiki is at the apartment getting the last of his things. Just as he is about to leave, Kyoko comes in. She came over to make some dinner for him, but sees that he's going on a trip somewhere. She asks Yoshiki if she can at least put the food in the refrigerator so it won't spoil. Yoshiki tries to stop her, but she walks in anyway and is shocked that the apartment is empty. She asks Yoshiki what's going on and Yoshiki tells Kyoko that he wants to end the relationship. Kyoko is shocked and asks him why he decided this all of a sudden. Yoshiki tells her that it's not all of a sudden and that he's been thinking about it for awhile. Kyoko asks him if he's in love with someone else and Yoshiki just says that he's sorry. Kyoko loses it and asks why he's in love with someone else when they've got along so great all this time and even planned for their future. Yoshiki tells her to calm down and says that he's not going to marry anyone. Kyoko is shocked and realizes that he's talking about his sister, Kasumi.

Part 4

Kyoko tells him to pull himself together and asks him if he realizes what he's doing. She reminds him that he and Kasumi are siblings and that they could never marry each other and noone will ever forgive them. Yoshiki tells her that he knows. She goes on to say that her father will probably be mad and that it may ruin his dreams of being an archeaologist. Yoshiki tells her that he realizes all of this. Kyoko gets mad and asks him why he's doing it then. Yoshiki tells her that he just wants to be with Kasumi and that when he's with her, he doesn't care about morals or anything. Yoshiki starts to leave as Kyoko yells after him saying that she will not break up with him.

The train is about to leave at the Tokyo Station and Kasumi wonders where Yoshiki is. Yoshiki comes running and snatches her up as they board the train. Kasumi is so stunned by all this and feels like she's been kidnapped...but she smiles and thinks that she wouldn't mind if Yoshiki kidnapped her.

Kasumi and Yoshiki reach their destination and Yoshiki asks Kasumi what she wants to do. Kasumi tells him that she doesn't really care what she does. In her thoughts, she doesn't want anything, but Yoshiki. They stop by a fortune teller and Kasumi is really into it as Yoshiki is amazed with her amusement. The fortuneteller tells them that they overcame a lot of barriers and that they're meant to be together. This makes Kasumi really happy and she thanks the fortuneteller. Before they leave, the fortuneteller pulls Yoshiki aside and tells him that the truth is that Kasumi will be going through a lot of difficulties in the future. She tells Yoshiki to take care of her. Yoshiki tells the fortuneteller that he will do anything for Kasumi. Kasumi is so excited that the fortune teller told them that they were destined to be with each other. Yoshiki tells her that he can't believe Kasumi believes in those things so easily.

They stop to see a Shinto shrine and Yoshiki remembers seeing it before. Kasumi asks if he's been here before and he tells her that he came privately before. Kasumi wonders if he came with Kyoko. He starts to tell her about some history and stops in the middle, asking Kasumi if she's bored with his stories. Kasumi tells him that it's not that she's bored, but she just doesn't know anything about it. In her thoughts, she thinks that Kyoko wold probably understand better and tells Yoshiki that maybe she should study some archeaology. Yoshiki frowns and knows that Kasumi is thinking insecurely. He asks, "Why are women like that? You believe things like fortunetelling, but you can't believe me?" Kasumi wonders if he's mad, but Yoshiki smiles instead. He tells her that she's always so insecure and troublesome. That's why he can't leave her alone. Kasumi thinks, To Yoshiki...to men...they probably don't understand that love and anxiety are the same thing. The more you love someone, the insecurity accelerates on you and chases after you. You can't get rid of it. You cling onto the things that have no reliance because you are insecure...because you love him too much.

Kyoko is sitting by herself in the restaraunt that Kazuki works at. Some men come and bother her, but Kazuki scares them away buy trying to persuade them to buy some expensive wine. Kazuki asks Kyoko why she's been waiting by herself for hours. She tells him that she's waiting for Kasumi. Kazuki doesn't understand asks her why she's waiting for Kasumi. Kyoko breaks down and tells him that Yoshiki broke up with her and decided to live with his sister again. Kazuki is shocked and says that he will not accept this. That noone will.

Yoshiki tells Kasumi that the reason why he was late getting to the station was because he told Kyoko that he wanted to break up with her. Kasumi asks what Kyoko said and Yoshiki tells her that Kyoko already realized that he was involved with Kasumi. Kasumi is a little suprised and scared that Kyoko knew. Yoshiki goes on to say that he knows that they're brother and sister, but that also means that they can never be seperated. Kasumi thinks, No time, no distance, no rules can ever seperate us. Because the two of us have been related since we were born...

At the airport, Kasumi's mom tries to call Kasumi's home phone and cell phone, but gets no answer. She wonders where Kasumi is at. She decides to go to Kasumi's place anyway since she has a key.

Kasumi and Yoshiki make love. Kasumi thinks, We can never get married, but we'll never be seperated. We're bonded by being prohibited to commiting sin.

<END OF Tsumi ni Nureta Futari - Volume 3>