The sound of a whip hitting flesh, followed by a shrill cry from the boy, another strike after another, creating lacerations across his back, arms, and chest. The older dropped the whip the wooden handle clanking against the wooden floor itself, the floorboards creaking under his light footsteps "I-I'm s-s-sorry A-Akito-Sama...it w-won't happen a-again..." Akito grabbed his hair roughly drawing a cry from the younger "that'll teach you to defy me again, you ungrateful brat!" Looking into the fear stricken amethyst eyes of the weeping boy, Akito let go of the weeping boy's hair he leaned down placing a chaste kiss against his forehead "stop by to visit me, when you get cleaned up. My dear Yuki." Akito smiled walking past the crying nezumi and opened the door "Clean him up Hatori, and get him a new yukata if you will." Without saying a word, Hatori walked into the room and covered Yuki up with a blanket taking him to his quarters, setting the weeping child down the teen began to clean the deep wounds on his body "you don't need stitches this time around, just come back to me Monday so I can change your bandages." Yuki nodded pulling the Yukata onto him and slid off of the table carefully, and walked out of his office, turning many corners until he came to Akito's room. "Come in, Yuki." Opening the door, he walked in closing the door behind himself kneeling before the head of the household "no need for that, come lay next to me." Patting the bed, Yuki stood and climbed into the bed with Akito "you know, I wouldn't have to punish you if listened to me?" Yuki quietly answered curling up as the older male's long finer traced along his back gently "I'm sorry, I won't disobey you again Akito-Sama." Yuki looked up into the black eyes of his somehow only friend clinging onto him as if his life depended on it, "Shhh." Akito hushed Yuki telling him to go to sleep and he did as he was told.
*dream ends*
Yuki sat up breaking out in a cold sweat, tears welled up in his amethyst irises, a single tear fell followed by many, Kyo groaned sitting up, as to what the commotion would be and noticed Yuki on the verge of a mental breakdown, "I-I let it happen, I let him do this to me!" Yuki pushed himself away from Kyo trying to back up into a far corner of the bed "Yuki, I-" "D-Don't come near me, just please...I can't handle this. I let this happen..." frantically running his hands through his hair, Yuki began to hyperventilate holding onto himself tightly, Kyo moved closer to Yuki pulling the nezumi into him, "breathe, Yuki, breathe." The Junishi began to breathe slowly, inhale and exhale, "none of this is your fault, its not your fault, stop it. None of this, everything, isn't your fault, so stop blaming yourself." Kyo rested his head on Yuki's shoulder clutching the blankets beneath him, and if Yuki didn't know any better he stopped right then and there, comforting the cat.
Kyo couldn't fight it anymore, the overwhelming burden of guilt and depression had taken its toll on the red head, and he cried, and cried. Everything he held in was let out right then and there, it had to be done sooner or later. It hurt physically and mentally, Yuki looked at the ceiling feeling empathy "stop blaming yourself." It was a hoarse whisper but he heard it "it'll bring you down even more." All he did was hold the weeping cat, it was all he could do hold on, and pray it would all be over soon. "Just stop..."
****Mental Breaker****
Tohru peeked into Yuki's room, and gasped at the sight she saw, Yuki was curled into Kyo, the red head's arm wrapped around his waist arm behind his head soft snoring came from the two, "sorry." She whispered softly and close the door, leaving the cat and the rat to themselves.
(Later on that morning)
Yuki groaned as he began to trudge downstairs, in a half wake stupor he sat at the kitchen table "Oh, Yuki-Kun! Glad to see you're finally awake." And not long after Kyo followed sitting at the table, the tension between the two great 'what happened to this morning, they looked so peaceful...Ehh! I wonder if they heard me come in! I hope I didn't do anything wrong! I should apologize to them.' Tohru turned bowing which caused the two to looked at her inquisitively "Uhm...I-I'm sorry about this morning, I didn't mean to walk in on you two! You just looked so peaceful, so I didn't bother you!" Kyo turned a deep red as did Yuki 'does she think...?' "Oh that Miss Honda, you see Kyo was carrying me to my room because I had fallen asleep out in the woods again, and I guess I didn't want to let go, so he stayed in the room with me."
Tohru regained her posture "Oh, well I think that was really nice of him to do so." 'Whew! I thought I did something wrong again...but now that I think about it, I wonder if Yuki-Kun likes Kyo-Kun, or Kyo-Kun likes Yuki-Kun? I'll have to talk to Yuki-Kun later...'
