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The pain of caring

Kyo watched the scene play before him as if he was watching a movie. He watched as akito walked up to tohru and grab her. Tohru had a look of fear on her face as akito pulled her towards him, an evil smile upon his face. kyo watched as akito began to hit and scratch poor tohru, making her scream out in pain "KYO HELP PLEASE!!!" as if she knew he were there. Kyo felt a lump come to his throat "why is she calling my name?" he thought to himself.

Akito continued to slash at her skin, blood droplets hit the ground one after the other, kyo felt so helpless at the fact that all he could do was watch. Just when he thought it couldn't get any worse, kyo began to hear crying. He turned to find out where the crying was coming from, because it sounded closer then tohru's crying, only to find shigure, yuki, ayame, and hatori there watching the whole scene. yuki stared at what akito was doing to his precious tohru, on the verge of tears.

"what are they doing here?" kyo thought to himself, "well hatori is usually here because of akito and shigure is kinda like a pet… ayame is probably here for no reason at all ,

but why would yuki be here unless…" kyo reasoned in his head, but yuki being in this place didn't seem to add up. While he was still trying to reason the apperance of yuki, he heard another scream and the sound of ripped cloth, to which yuki finally lost it and leaned into ayame and began to cry into his chest.

Kyo regreted turning around, for when he did, he found akito holding a limp, bloody body that belonged to tohru. He dropped her to the ground carelessly, and began to wipe of the blood and cloth from his arms "hatori! Clean this mess up now! I can't stand to look at this monster anymore!"akito snapped at the dragon, knowing full well that everyone was there. Hatori just stood there, staring at tohru, who seemed to be crying, but he couldn't tell.

Akito looked down towards tohru "that's' what you get for trying to free your beloved kyo, your precious yuki and the rest of those pathetic fools." He spat at her as he kicked her in the stomache. Yuki immediately stopped crying and turned towards tohru, "she tried to free us? More to the point me and that damn cat?" he thought to himself, little did he know that kyo was thinking the same thing. "she tried to save us? More to the point me and that damn rat?" he thought to himself. Yuki released himself from his brothers embrace and began to walk towards akito, kyo did the same oblivious to yuki's movements.

Around the same time the to boys started to walk towards akito it clicked in everyones head what tohru was trying to do and how much she had to suffer for it. At that moment everyone hated akito with a deep, burning passion.

Kyo and yuki finally came face to face with akito who smiled slyly "what are you to going to confront me for hurting her? You wouldn't dare." He said as his expression changed to horror. In one swift movement, kyo and yuki punched akito in his abdomen, sending him flying into the wall.

Kyo bent down towards tohru who was smiling weakly, while yuki continued to beat the shit out of akito "this is the last time you'll hurt someone you asshole!" he shouted as he began to attack blindly at the so called "god." Akito just smirked "oh is the feline and the rodent upset because I hurt the one the love?!" he half shouted as he took another blow from yuki.

Meanwhile kyo was trying to get tohru to her feet, but it was a lost cause. "kyo?" Tohru said weakly. Kyo looked at her, tears briming "what is it tohru?" he said softly, thoughts racing through his mind. "why'd it have to be her?" he thought to himself as he continued to try and help tohru. "thank you so much." She said softly, she tried to help kyo but she had very little strength.

He picked tohru up bridal style in one swift motion. "I have got to get out of this place….. I have to get her somewhere safe." He said as he quickly began to run when something pierced his back. Tohru flew out of his arms as he tossed her. Tohru landed on hatori, who jumped underneath her as she was about to hit the ground. Strangly he didn't change into his dragon form.

Tohru just stared at hatori, a little shocked at the sudden flight lesson. "oh yeah, kyo." She said in her head. For some strange reason she couldn't feel any pain physically. Emotionaly however, her heart was on the verge of breaking,for when she looked up, she saw Kyo laying on the floor, a dagger sticking out of his back…..

DUN DUN DUN!!! TO BE CONTINUED!!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!

Authors note: just to let everyone know, I hate T.B.Cs (to be continued…) but I wanted to see how you guys liked this so far. If I get at least 3 good reviews, I'll post the second chapter. Also if you guys have read the inuyasha one I did, I'm going to be fixing that and adding another chapter so I hope all goes well. And seriously… three reviews for this story ain't that hard so please review. Thanks.