KRRR: Now, as some of you may know, Emberwillow14 wrote a story in which Marie was with Kaoru after getting abused by Kyouya. This. Is that story.

The first night that Kyouya had ever hit Marie was one she often tried to forget. He had stormed into his room where she had been reading an original French edition of "Les Miserables". When Marie heard the door slam shut, she looked up and mentally marked her place before walking up to her boyfriend.

"Kyouya? What's wrong?"

"My father had decreed that I am to never inherit the company," he all but yelled, agitatedly running a hand through his hair.

"Well. That's all right. You can start your own company. You have several businesses all-"

"No. I don't. Father has ruined them, ran them into the ground. It would take years to recover them!" he shouted, his anger reaching the boiling point and threatening to explode.

"Kyouya. I'm sure that everything..." Marie said, reaching her hand out to touch his face but was stopped when he sharply slapped it away, leaving a red area where he did so.

Marie cradled her hand against her chest, her blue eyes large and filled with fear as she stared at Kyouya. Shocked, Kyouya quickly gathered the girl in his arms.

"I'm sorry. I'm so, so, sorry." He whispered repeatedly, kissing her injured hand until the redness was gone.

-Later that week-

Kaoru watched as Marie interacted with Kyouya. To be honest, the younger twin had noticed something was wrong with their relationship since two days ago when he noticed how she tensed and never made eye contact with her boyfriend. In truth, Kaoru was in love with the young French girl. But she was involved with Kyouya, the Shadow King. Kaoru honestly didn't know what she saw in him.

"Kao. Are you staring at Marie again?"

"Sorry, Hikaru. She just looked a little upset and so I was thinking about talking to her."

The Twins were surrounded by customers and so this little exchange was seen as an act, but the Twins knew that it was not.

"Koa. Are you thinking of leaving me?"

"Of course not, Hika. I was just concerned."

Hikaru grabbed Kaoru's chin and titled it up before lowering his own head.

"Good. I couldn't handle losing you."

"I would never think of leaving you."

The girls around them squealed in delight and for a while, Kaoru forgot about his observations of Marie and Kyouya's relationship. Later that afternoon, once all of the guests had left, Marie and Tamaki were having a very hushed argument. It was unusual to see them arguing and even more unusual to see Marie back down. But she conceded and waked over to Kyouya, who wrapped her in his arms and kissed the crown of her head.

"Are you going to come over?" he asked, his arms tightening slightly around her waist.

"I'm not sure. I'm not feeling well." Marie answered, leaning her head back to look into Kyouya's eyes.

Whatever she saw in his stormy eyes, seemed to change her mind, and Kaoru became worried that something was wrong on the surface. However; Marie seemed happy enough and so he left well enough alone. Kaoru never realized that he would soon become Marie's confidante.

KRRR: So…love it? Hate it? Review please and let me know!