AN: I got word from my readers that the last chapter was icky and cruel. Well get used to it! I love (As I tell people constantly) victimising my nice characters, because it makes them OH so CUTE!

AN2: I'm getting into the soundtrack for the movie Plunkett and Macleane. It's another Brit Movie. It's wicked. It's about sexy Highwaymen. What's not to like? Anyway, there's this character called Rebeca who seems like a bee-aah-ch played by Liv Tyler (Steven's daughter: I DON'T WANNA MISS A THAYNG!) and then you find out she's in love with Macleane (Played by Johnny lee Miller who's almost as pretty faced as a bishounen! I love him!)and he nearly gets hung and he's clutching the necklace she gives him to buy his way out of it –even though for some reason he doesn't- and its all really sweet and I love him. Anyway, in the bit before he dies and he's in prison (In chains: nyahahahah! So cute! X3 Poor Macleane!) and she comes to see him and they play this sad romantic music, and I'm listening to it as I'm writing, and as you all know, I NEED MY CHOONS. So I just thought I'd tell ya'll bout that song. (It's called Rebecca and it's from Plunkett and Macleane if you want to track it down, trust me, it's worth it!)

AN3: Man that last AN was long…. Anyway; on with le ficlet!

AN4: Before anyone mentions it, I am now aware that desactified isn't a word. My apologises, I was being stoopid.

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The Rain That Always Falls

Chapter 4: The Traitor Prince

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Tohru lay in bed, her eyes staring at the ceiling. She felt the unfamiliar arms wrapped around her, and Haru's breath on the side of her neck. The more she thought, the harder she had to try not to cry. Tears slipped silently down her cheeks and her mouth twisted. She closed her eyes and gritted her teeth. She didn't understand. Why? Why had she done it? She had performed the worst betrayal, and now there was no turning back. Haru had been given the same freedom with her as Yuki. She hadn't stopped him. She'd told him she wanted him, needed him. It wasn't love. Of course not. It was loneliness.

Over the past month, Yuki had been so distracted. So distant. It was like he was a completely different person. He was in there somewhere, but she couldn't find his real personality.

She felt Haru move next to her. She looked at him sadly. He was still asleep after the night before. She winced to think of it. How could she do this to her husband? She looked down at Haru. That night… Everything had seemed so clear. Why he had always been so kind and nice to her. Why he had always comforted her and had worn such a blank expression around her.

Haru was in love with her. He had told her that night. His eyes had glinted in the moonlight as he told her.

Haru held Tohru's face in trembling hands. His expression showed more emotion than she'd ever seen him express before. "Tohru… I…"

He touched her lips with his own, and his headslipped gently past hers to lean on her shoulder. "I'm in love with you. That's why… We…Can't-…"

"But I want it." Tohru held him, and then pulled him back from her shoulder, to kiss him full on the lips. She closed her eyes, and felt the moisture on his cheeks rub against hers, feeling his flushed skin and trembling hands. This was love. A love so real she'd felt it form only two people. One was off in this earth-drowning storm, the other was safe in her embrace. It should have been the other way around.

Haru was a traitor, much as it was her own fault. Given the chance to finally let his feelings out, having stepped aside to give his brother a chance at happiness, Tohru had given him a kind of clearance. Thinking she loved him back, Haru had poured his heart out after so long, and she had made him a traitor to the person to whom he had tried so long to remain loyal. She was the real traitor. She had betrayed her husband. She had betrayed Haru.

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Yuki felt the rain beating down on his back. The morning was come. But the rain remained after such a long dry spell, the clouds had torn apart to give way to a cascade of water. The temperature wasn't too cold, but the water was the hard kind of rain that seemed to tear the skin it landed on with it's cold weight. Hard water.

The highway looked like rapids, the water rushing through, sweeping up everything in it's path. It was already a few inches deep, and Yuki feared how far he had to go. He knew where he was going. The mountain that housed the Sohma wolves. The place he had found Akito and Keiko.

He waded through the cold water, his clothes weighed down by the liquid. He found it too tough to walk with all the weight, so he took his cloak off and sent it floating down the stream path. He would take off all his clothes before getting on that horse with Akito.

The mountain came into view. He still had far to go, but at least it was in sight, over the mahogany trees.

The water was making the horse's coat wet. When he walked, he rose up and down, and his black coat was dripping. Akito's body was continually sliding off. The horse didn't like the water either, since large logs and pieces of driftwood were constantly drifting quickly down the path of water, that was travelling in the opposite direction.

Something large and black was floating quickly down the knee-deep water now. Yuki watched it. It was heavy and coming fast. As it got closer, he saw that it was the body of a wolf. He held the horse's reigns as it reared and shied, obviously fearing the wolf, but he couldn't hold on for long. The horse bolted in the other direction, Akito's body plunging under the icy water. Yuki delved in for it, soaking his skin and slipping on the loose dirt beneath the water.

He grabbed the body and sat in the freezing water. Could he make it? To the mountain? At the rate this water was rising he could be in big trouble. And with no horse he had no chance of riding back. And now he'd be carrying his brother's body. And he knew no way of burning it.

He knew he'd have to find a way. The mountain wasn't too far now. He couldn't leave the body now. he'd come too far to turn back. He picked the limp corpse up in his arms, and carried it, wading through the water with caution. He didn't want to think about why the body was so light. Knowing that the amount of flesh that had rotted and fallen off with its decomposition was making him sick.

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The Palace was once again in an uproar. Not only because Yuki was gone, but because since someone left the cellar window –that was ground level- open, the entire cellar was flooded and the water was rising.

Now the stairs to the cellar were flooded. It was panicking everyone. If the water continued to rise and the rain kept falling this heavily, they'd have to be moved from the palace. But that concept wasn't looking good, since the streets were flooded aswell.

The search party had ridden out that morning through the water. Momiji was with them. The other two princes had seemed reluctant for some reason.

Now Haru, Tohru and Kyo were alone upstairs. They were in a strange silence. Tohru and Haru looked at eachother. "Kyo-kun…?" Tohru said quietly. "Is… Something wrong?"

Kyo looked at them both. He narrowed his eyes with disgust, and stood up. He slammed the door behind him, which was quickly opened as Haru and Tohru followed him.

"Kyo, what's going on?"

"What do you think?" Shouted the Prince. He spun around, his eyes flaring. He glared at the two of them. "I saw you last night. And I heard you too. Don't think I'm not telling Yuki when he comes back! I knew you were big trouble from the start, Tohru, but I never thought you'd be such a whore!"

Kyo's face glanced off to the side. A couple of blood drops splattered the wallpaper grotesquely. Haru rubbed his fist. Kyo turned his head back. His nose was bleeding. "You bastard. You…Bastard." He turned away from his brother and sister-in-law, and walked back down the corridor. "Well if Yuki drowns in the floods you have a bitch to fall back on don't you Haru?"

Haru watched as his brother walked away. He deserved that comment. If Yuki died, he was the next in line to take the throne. And since Tohru was Queen, he'd be the one who married her. It was as if they'd already been to the funeral.

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AN: Next chap even more emotional. Next chap is tha big fishy!

AN2: Excuse the nasty language. –puts tape over Kyo's mouth-

Damn That Bloody Weather Report 4

Narrator: "He would take off all his clothes before getting on that horse with Akito."

Yuki: -sweat sweat- Boy, this IS a long way to go… Maybe I'll take off my shirt too?

Yuki fangirls hiding in bushes: OO –swoon-

Yuki: Ah…. But maybe I'll take off my boots and pants aswell?

Yuki fangirls hiding in bushes: -swoon- OO –fish out clothes from flood and frame them-

Yuki: Ah… but this underwear…

Narrator: "Suddenly the bodies of hundreds of unconscious girls floated down the river…"

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Kyo: I knew you were trouble from the start, Tohru, but I never knew you were so a HO! –puts hands on hips- And ya know bro, you ain't much better either.

Haru: -tosses hair- I'm notchur BRA! An' fo-yo-inFO, I too am a HO-

Momiji: Well guys I'm off to the search party!

Haru and Kyo: -clear throats- Urm.. yeah we're gonna go watch football and drink some beer. –have cat fight-

Tohru: O.O