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The Blade

Ch. 3

Normal P.O.V.

"Hey, I just realized… we didn't re-bandage Yuki. His wounds are bleeding again," Shigure observed, looking over at the rat sleeping in Kyo's hand.

"Why exactly… did he curl up in my hand?" Kyo asked himself, gently stroking the rat's fur with his thumb.

"That might be a bit challenging, Shigure," Ayame said with a finger to his chin. "Yuki's still in rat form and the bandages are huge compared to his current size."

"That is true. I'll go call Ha'ri back over," Shigure said standing up when there was a furious pounding on the front door all of a sudden. "Now I wonder who-"

"OPEN UP, YOU DAMN DOG!" Akito demanded in a scream still pounding on the door.

Yuki suddenly woke up from a peaceful nap and scurried off Kyo's hand and ran towards the wall. Kyo's eyes followed Yuki as a couple rats appeared from a hole in the wall. Yuki went into the hole while Ayame and Tohru quickly cleaned up the blood trail.

Akito broke the door down still shouting, "DAMN IT DOG! WOULD IT KILL YOU TO OPEN THE DAMN DOOR?! I KNOW THAT RAT IS STILL HERE! WHERE IS HE?!"

"He's not here!" Kyo shouted. "He's not here, because of you, Akito!"

"Yes, I agree with you there, Kyo," Ayame started crying in his dramatic voice. "I can't see what you saw is so horrible about a person."

"It's simple, isn't it?" Akito asked in a psychotic way. "It's the rat's fault for causing this curse. It's because of the rat that the cat isn't a part of the zodiac. It's the rat's fault for making the cow look like a total fool and idiot. And the rat was the first to enter the zodiac banquet, remember? This curse is all Yuki's fault. I wonder what would happen if he were to die." Akito's psychotic grin actual scared Kyo.

"You stay away from Yuki! He's not responsible for this damn curse!" Kyo yelled.

"Where is he?! Come out Yuki! I know you're still here!" Akito yelled as he grabbed Tohru's arm and held a knife to her throat. "Come out or she dies in you place!"

Tohru couldn't move as she started to cry. Kyo didn't move cause he know if he did move, Akito would cut her throat. Shigure and Ayame did the same as the cat. They growled at Akito hoping Yuki wouldn't come out of that hole in the wall… but… to their shock… Yuki scurried over to Akito with some rats trying to stop him.

"What the hell are you doing, you damn rat?!" Kyo shouted, watching Yuki write 'you win' on the floor in front of Akito's foot. Kyo saw a tear fall from the rat's eye when he gave him a glance.

"Ah, I see this blade works just fine," Akito's eyes grew even more psychotic when he saw that Yuki was writing things instead of saying things. "Heheheh, tell me… how long have you been in rat form?"

'All night, day, and most of the afternoon' Yuki wrote.

"Ehaha Hahaa, Whaaahahahahahahahahahaha! I can't believe this blade works so damn well! Haaa ha ha haaaa!" Akito laughed as he shoved Tohru to the floor and stomped on Yuki's tail so he couldn't get away from him.

"No please don't! Akito please! Leave Yuki alone!" Tohru begged, turning around to see Akito picking Yuki up and squeezing him. Scared, frantic squeaks were all that came from the rat.

"Now I'm really, dead serious! I AM SERIOUSLY GOING TO MURDER YOU, AKITO! I DON'T CARE IF YOU ARE THE SOHMA FAMILY HEAD! Whenever I get the chance… you're so dead," Kyo told him in a growl, fisting up his hands. "Leave him alone!"

"The cat cares about the rat? Tsk, tsk, tsk. If that's really true then… you won't make a move and let me leave with the rat. Otherwise… he dies now," Akito cackled, squeezing Yuki even tighter. Yuki choked for air and suddenly bit Akito's hand.

Akito threw Yuki out the window with a scream. "Okay, now that rat must die for this," Akito growled storming off, back to the main house.

Kyo, Ayame, Shigure, and Tohru ran outside to try to find Yuki. They called out to him, but they didn't hear a squeak. They didn't see anything; no blood, no gray fur, not even Yuki's black ink covered tail.

"Tohru, I have an idea. Hug me. Make me transform. I'm sure I'll be able to find Yuki as a cat," Kyo said to Tohru. She nodded as she hugged him, turning him into a cat.

Kyo sniffed the air and went into a bush at the base of a tree. "*Gasp* Hey guys! Guys I found him!" he shouted curling up next to the coughing rat he found just lying there in the grass near the tree's root.

Tohru was the first to push aside the bushes to see Kyo cleaning up Yuki's wounds a bit while cuddling with him. "Yuki?" she asked softly, yet tearfully.

"Can you take him, Tohru? I'm afraid I'll make his wounds worse if I pick him up in this form," Kyo said softly, gently nudging the rat.

Yuki opened his eyes to see Tohru's hands slowly coming towards him. He suddenly got to his feet and ran off to the back of Shigure's house and deeper into the forest.

It happened so fast that Kyo and Tohru couldn't react fast enough to stop him.

"Yuki!" Tohru shouted in worry.

"You damn rat, we're trying to help you! Please come back! Yuki!" Kyo shouted as he transformed back to normal. "Yuki!"

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