Shigure slowly put down the phone. His hand was trembling and his heart felt like it had stopped cold in his chest. He turned to the door as he heard arguing voices. They got louder and Shigure could now understand what they were saying.
"I told you I do NOT like Uo. She's not my type." Came Kyo's loud voice.
"Well she seems to at least like you. She was looking at you all day. She looked like she either wanted to molest you or kill you, I couldn't tell the difference." Came Yuki softer tones.
"Well I don't like her. Though she probably wanted to kill me." The front door slid open and the two boys entered the house removing their shoes. Yuki was about to say hello to Shigure when he noticed how pale the older man looked. He looked haunted and his body was trembling.
"Shigure." Said Yuki softly, slight worry in his voice. Kyo seemed to have noticed too. "Are you all right?"
The older man gulped and tried to speak but his voice failed him. Tears built up in his eyes and he didn't even try to stop them. Why should he? They would have fell anyway. Yuki and Kyo surrounded around Shigure and tried to coax him to tell them what was wrong. "T-tohru." Stuttered Shigure. Both guys tensed. This had to be really, really bad.
Kyo panicked. "What about Tohru? Shigure what's happened?"
"She's-" Shigure gulped. "She's been… killed."
Kyo's eyes widened with disbelief. "No," Kyo shook his head. "You're wrong. You have to be joking."
Shigure seemed to loose it. "Do you think I would joke about something like this?!" He shouted. Kyo was still shaking his head as he turned tail and ran upstairs to his room. Yuki stood beside his older cousin not really wanting to believe but knowing that Shigure wouldn't be joking about something like this.
So that was it. Tohru was gone. Just like that. Yuki didn't really know what to do or even how to feel. Something smashed upstairs. Kyo didn't seem to be taking it well either. Well how could they? They had invited Tohru to live in they're house and had all grown used to her presence. They lost probably the only person that would accept them for who they were. Not mattering about the curse.
Yuki could understand why Kyo was taking it so bad. The redhead had finally found someone that wasn't a zodiac that would accept him and his true form. And now she was gone forever. There was another smash upstairs.
Yuki walked Shigure to the living room and sat him down. Yuki wanted to cry. He never wanted to before but now he did but the tears wouldn't come. Shouldn't he be sad? Shouldn't he be crying like Shigure or smashing things like Kyo? Was there something wrong with him that he was so unfeeling that even the death of someone close to him couldn't bring the tears? There was a loud crash from upstairs. It sounded like Kyo had knocked over his bookcase. Yuki decided to go out for a walk. Maybe then the full impact of what had happened would bring his grief.
Yuki took a walk to his secret base from there he heard another loud smash. Kyo was fairly tearing up the house. Yuki reached his base and sat on one of the rocks near by. He looked at his little garden not really seeing it. He felt numb. He couldn't feel anything. He should have at least felt something but he didn't. He had really cared for Tohru maybe even loved her, so shouldn't this news about her death effected him more. More than this numbness that blocked out everything.
Yuki just sat there on the rock looking at his garden for a while not knowing how long he had sat there. He heard his name being called in the distance. "Yuki!" Yuki got up and followed towards the voice. He recognised it to be Shigure. "Yuki!" Yuki got to a clearing and saw Shigure there. The man's eyes were red from crying. "There's more." Was all Shigure could manage to say. Yuki nodded dumbly and followed the dark haired man back to the house.
Kyo was still destroying his room upstairs. "I'll go get Kyo." Without waiting for Shigure's response Yuki headed up to Kyo's room. He knocked on the door and waited.
Kyo slid the door open harshly. He was angry and Yuki looked at the fallen bookcase and smashed photo frames in Kyo's room. One of the walls looked like it had been punch a few times and there was a big dent in it. Yuki looked at Kyo's hands and saw his bruised knuckles two of them were bleeding. "What do you want?" Kyo finally asked, harsh anger in his voice.
"Shigure says there's more." Came Yuki's distant voice. Kyo roughly pushed past Yuki and headed downstairs leaving his room door open. Yuki looked in again and saw every piece of furniture was broken in at least one place. The bed was missing a post, which was lying on the floor in splinters. Kyo really did have a lot of anger. Yuki was just glad that he wasn't the redheads punch bag, because for once Yuki just didn't have it in him to fight back.
Yuki headed down to sit with his two cousins. "So what is it you want to tell us?" Kyo asked harshly.
Shigure breathed out a shaky breath. "I just thought you should now what happened."
"Who was it?" Asked Kyo narrowing his eyes.
"No one knows. When T-tohru was found she was already dead. S-she was stabbed three times." Tears had built up in Shigure's eyes again but he didn't want to cry till after they pair knew everything.
"And no one saw any of this happening?" Kyo stood up angry. "How could anyone miss it?!"
"No one was there when it happened. Tohru's grandfather is dealing with all the legal stuff. He's the one that phoned to tell me."
"What's going to happen now?" Yuki asked, his voice still sounding very distant and hollow.
"I'm not sure. Tohru grandfather is organising her funeral." Shigure sighed. "We'll just have to wait and see." The atmosphere in the room was depressing and no one was smiling.
"Your room is a mess Kyo." Said Yuki trying to lighten the mood somewhat.
Kyo sighed. "I know. I just had to break something."
Yuki smiled a little. "Well you certainly done that." Yuki noticed Kyo's knuckles again. "You're bleeding."
Kyo looked at his hand. "I hadn't noticed."
Yuki stood up and went into the kitchen to get the first aid kit. Yuki sat down on the floor and opened the kit. Kyo sat down and waited to see what Yuki was up to. Yuki went to wipe up the blood from Kyo's knuckles but Kyo moved his hand away. "What do you think I'm going to do? Break your hand?" Said Yuki tiredly. Kyo gave Yuki his hand to fix.
Shigure watched the pair. With everything that had happened it was surprising that there was a sort of understanding between the two. But would it last? Shigure sighed to himself. "So how much mess did you make upstairs, Kyo?" Asked Shigure.
"Just a little bit." Replied Kyo, wincing when Yuki put iodine on his cut knuckles.
Yuki snorted. "That was a little?"
Kyo glared at the pale boy. "When your hand is fixed you should tidy it." Suggested Shigure, effectively stopping a fight between the two. "I'm going to phone Hatori." Both boys nodded. Shigure got up and went to the phone.
When Kyo's hand was bandaged the pair went up Kyo's room. "You sure made a mess." Said Yuki.
"Well what did you do when you found out?" Kyo asked as he picked up the broken bedpost.
"I just went out for a walk… to think about things." Yuki picked up the photo frames. Both boys worked together to stand the bookcase back up and put the books back. They cleared up the broken glass. Kyo reached for a piece of glass not noticing another bit that was sharp side up. Kyo cut the back of his hand. Kyo winced when he cut himself. Yuki sighed and went downstairs to get the first aid kit.
Yuki sat on Kyo's bed and opened the box. "You really are a clumsy cat, Kyo."
"Shut up. I didn't do it on purpose."
"Fine, fine." Kyo sat next to the purple-eyed boy and let Yuki fix his cut. The pair finished tidying the room, once Kyo's hand was once again fixed up with bandages. Kyo's bed was unfixable so for that night the redhead had to sleep in the living room floor with the heater.
