"You're kidding me."
Yuki stared flatly at the note on the door. It was written in a flashy, girl-like script, which was why Yuki knew it was definitely from Shigure.
It read:
"'Yuki:
I am going far, far away. Away from Mitsuru. Did you know she has a tracking system on me? Anyway, so I dragged Kyo along with me, to help me hide, and of course he wantedto bring Tohru. And I couldn't say no to our little flower!! =) So basically, you're all alone for… a really long time. Hopefully. I don't want Mitsuru to find me too quickly… Good luck!! =)
Shigure Sohma (the most awesome and great-i-fi-ed being to ever walk the Earth. ) '"
Yuki groaned. Now what was he supposed to do? Find Shigure? Tohru would probably be okay with Kyo… Not that Yuki liked the idea.
Talk Mitsuru out of suicide again? But, Yuki supposed, she would be tracking Shigure, so it probably wasn't a good idea to find the suicidal editor.
Tell Akito that Shigure dumped him to run away? Yuki shuddered at the thought. Yes, that would be a lovely, friendly conversation….
In Yuki's mind…
Yuki walked into the main house, perfectly confident and humming a song about not be brutally murdered or abused by Akito. "Hello, Akii!" he called, and he saw the girl (A/N: Yuki knows she's a girl. Don't ask me why. Please, just don't.)
…saw the girl sitting in a room with Kagura, Rin, and Kisa. They were having a slumber party together and doing their makeup. "And Kagura-chan, Rin-chan, and Kisa-chan. How are you?"
"Perfectly wonderful!" Kisa gushed, "We were just about to do our hair so that we could go outside,
an—"
She was cut off by Rin, who, as a change of pace, was wearing a spaghetti-strap, knee-length dress that was not indecent in any way. "What do you want?" she asked cheerfully. "I think Tohru's at the house… why don't you see if she's there?"
"Ah, no. I came to talk to Akii. Shigure left to run from his editor, and dragged Kyo along to defend him, and Kyo wouldn't leave without Tohru, so Tohru's gone and I think they're living in the… states and now I really don't know what I should do, should I—"
"Stay here!" Akito trilled. "We've got your own room right on the left of the hallway…
End Yuki's mind/daydream
Yuki grimaced. He figured he'd be even more scared of that instead of…
Actuality
Yuki ducked into the Sohma house, running into Akito at the door, Kureno shadowing him. "Akito." Yuki said blankly, hiding his fear.
"What is it?" Akito's dark eyes narrowed in a playful but predatory way. Like a cats'. Like a cats' eyes right before it sank its teeth into the helpless prey. The cat was having fun. The prey wasn't.
"Shigure is running…" Yuki faltered, Akito's cold, cruel eyes were taunting him now, and it seemed like a worse idea than ever to come here.
"Shigure went to the states to escape his editor. He took Kyo with him." Yuki turned to go; now would be the time to make his escape, before Akito from reached out, his hand curling on Yuki's shoulder, sharp nails piercing his skin…
He was too late. "What did you say?" Shadows hid Akito's dangerous look that always bordered on the edge of insanity.
"Shigure left. I couldn't stop him," Yuki defended himself, eyes widening in horror as he watched those dark pinpricks of cruelty, insanity, and malice. Those eyes…
End actuality
Yes… Better to wait, wait and hope that no one would notice that Shigure was gone. Ayame probably wouldn't… He was too busy with his shop; it was almost the end of the school year, and apparently…
Flashback
"Everyone wants new clothes now!" Ayame had trilled, adding more doubt to his brothers' question of sanity.
"Yes, yes, summer with everyone running around in their new bathing suits at the beach, all provided by none other than the glorious me, Ayame!" At the last word, Ayame had leapt on the table and yelled triumphantly, his purple eyes flashing as he held his arm out victoriously.
"Umm… Ayame-san?" Tohru had asked.
"Yes, my lovely!" Ayame was still not meeting anyone eyes, string off into the distance in his egoistic way.
"Would you…" Her face was screwed up in concentration. "Would you… get off the table, please, sir?" Her eyes still shut, she continued, "There are footprints…" She looked tenser than someone finding out whether they had won seven quadrillion dollars.
End flashback
Yuki seriously doubted that anyone would care that Kyo was missing… he was the cat after all, and no one at school in particular was so obsessed with him that they would have stalked him on his way home from school to find out where he lived so that now when he disappeared, she would follow the same trail to find him.
No, Yuki doubted there was anyone as stupid as that.
And thus, Yuki reflected, he was all alone. He hoped that no one would come here, finally Yuki could do things (such as homework) in peace.
Yuki gave a deep sigh of contentment and swung the door open.
Because it wasn't a cliché Fanfic, no one was standing inside. The rat headed up to his room, enraptured by the peace. He actually managed to do his homework without the ceiling crashing down on him, and it was a legitimate concern, as it had happened before…
Yuki was on his final math problem, when the doorbell rang.
Crap.
Now he was going to have to be social.
That is, if he was worried about leaving someone out there, just waiting forever (until they gave up) for an answer that would never come.
Somewhere else…
"Kyo-o-o-o," a black haired man complained to his orange haired companion in front. "Why are we here, anyway?"
This appeared to give the orangey a psychotic need to kill. "Shut up, **** dog! I'm not the reason why we're here, you *** ** * *****!"
The black haired man cowered. "It thought only Yuki-kun was referred to in that way," he whimpered, then turned to his other companion, a brunette with a perpetually happy smile on her face. "Make him stop, Tohru," he moaned.
"O-okay, Shigure. Kyo-kun, could you stop yelling?" she stuttered.
"Do you do everything the **** dog tells you?" he shouted, although his voice was lowered slightly, and he stalked on ahead instead of remaining and yelling for ten more minutes, like usual.
Somewhere else else
"Shi-Shigure, I-I'll get y-y-you." A pretty brunette shivered as she looked at the gadget in her hand. "You can't escape me. Never. Not ever."
Back with Yuki
The doorbell rang again.
Yuki was perfectly content with sitting around and not saying a word, barely breathing until the unwelcome stranger left.
"HEY YUN-YUN!!!!" the stranger screamed.
Yuki froze. Crap.