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Mud. That's what Kyou felt he was inhaling, thick, slimy mud. The car felt stuffy and the tension was so thick, a knife probably would have been able to cut through it. Akito was staring at him with what Kyou felt was one of the creepiest and disgusting smiles ever. He swore he could feel Akito imagining the tortures he had in store for him. Akito had his elbow propped on the arm rest of the door for his head to lay on, in turn better angling him self to look in Kyou's direction. Kyou was visibly tense; every fiber of his being was tight. Choosing to look at his shoes rather then meeting Akito's gaze.
He watched as the shadows from the trees from the side of the street run over his feet and wished he could be walking under them instead. His palms were sweating; he could feel it through his clenched fists that lay on his lap. Kyou just kept wishing he were in a bad dream, that he would wake up back at Shigure's and have breakfast with Tohru. He'd even be happy to eat with the Rat but no. He knew it was real. He felt all of his dreams end and his memories of happiness wilt away.
Kyou nearly screamed as one of Akito's hand placed it self on his wrists and another onto his shoulder. Instead he tensed further. Akito chuckled into his ear at the reaction. Kyou was sure he was crazy, Akito was too close for his liking and he wasn't doing a thing about it. He wanted to punch the head of the house in the face, but he wasn't sure what the outcome would be after that. So he kept his head down, eyes glued to his shoes and the dancing shadows.
"You know Kyou," Akito began. Kyou began freaking out internally; Akito never used his name unless something sinister was planned. "I've actually been missing you at the main house." Akito began fingering the beads on Kyou's wrist. Kyou began sweating slightly but he continued staring at his shoes as if the perpetrator of his nightmares wasn't cornering him in the limited space the car offered. "Ever since Kazuma took you away I have been very upset. You rarely visited." He had a finger under the band of beads. "I had to take all my frustrations out on darling Yuki, but he scarred too quickly."
Suddenly Kyou was slammed uncomfortably into the door of the car, causing his body to across the backseat to accommodate the sudden force of the angle change. Akito had Kyou pinned under him. Not liking the strange position, Kyou began to trash and buck the aggressor off. "That's the difference, you dare resist me even when there is no escape." Akito said calmly looking down on the boy while tightening his grip on Kyou's wrist. "Do you how it excites me? How you excite me?" growled out the head, lowly.
"Like fuck I care!" yelled the cat as he spat onto Akito's face. Kyou saw a glimpse of the craziest smile ever grace Akito's face before he felt the pain and force of a brutal slap. Eyes wide, Kyou remained with his head to the side, unsure if he should look back. Akito was chuckling again. "Welcome back Kyou-kun." The car door opened and Kyou had to shut his eyes form the sudden light. Akito got up and exited the car. Kureno waited for Kyou to compose himself and lead him towards the cage that he would from now call home and rot away.
'Hopefully I'll die fast.'
The 'cage' was barely furnished consisting of a bed, a table and a chair. The room was dull and dusty. Walls had paint peeling and cobwebs filled the corner. Over the recent decade a bathroom had been added on so that a servant would never need to come near besides to give food, if the head of the household deemed the cat deserved any.
Kyou could feel the blood pulsing in his ear. It's happening. It was actually happening. He was being locked away. He was prepared, but he didn't expect the emotions that were whirling inside of him to make him feel like he was having a heart attack. Dropping to his knees he began hyperventilating. He worked on his breathing and did his best to calm down. Kureno simply left and locked the door behind him.
Everything was choking him, the dusty room, the situation, the regrets, the reality of it all. It was more then he thought he was ready to handle. His life was over, yet he had to live, and he was force to live in this retched room. 'If the cat is so unloved why not just kill it off the moment it was born' he thought to himself before passing out from the lack of air to his brain.
Hatori had found him shortly after he passed out. Akito had wanted a health check and physical done on their cousin. He picked Kyou up and laid him flat on the bed. He did the best to conduct the check up while he was in this state. After drawing some blood and double-checking Kyou's pulse, Hatori withdrew from the room. He felt bad for his cousin, but he didn't see a way out of the reality that was their family and their curse. At least he wasn't having his memory erased. Not yet anyway.
Kyou awoke in the late afternoon. He felt sticky from sweat but didn't make a motion to move. He looked at his surroundings again and wished he hadn't. It just confirmed that what he wished was a dream, wasn't. He was finally in the cage. His cage. He wondered what the cat's of zodiac before him did or felt as they rotted away in the very same room. He had been lucky, allowed to live his life away from this room for as much time as he did. He heard others before him were thrown in here at a much younger age.
Getting up, he realized the move in position but didn't bother to think much about it. Who cared anyway. Looking down at himself, he realized he was still in uniform, in the last remnant he would have of his past. His bag and other belongings had been taken from him. Hugging himself close he cursed his unfortunate birth.
Akito sat in his room, sipping his tea. It was a lovely day. The graduation ceremony probably would have been beautiful. He smiled into his tea. Relishing taking away such a lovely moment from the cat. Hatori had told him about finding the cat passed out on the floor of the cage. Akito was surprised but he couldn't have care less. This would just prolong the time it would take Akito to visit his returned pet.
Tbc.
Well I hope that was alright. See you next time.
