MCD: I feel so loved with all of your reviews :D I was surprised with the song I chose for Kyoya…

Breaking Barriers

~Rise up and take the power back

It's time the fat cat's had a heart attack~

-Muse

"What are the names of your family members?"

"Oh come now, that's not fair." An amused Kagome said, staring over her teacup at Kyoya. "Not only do you probably already know the answer, but that's asking multiple questions all in one turn." She mused and took a sip of the expensive tea.

She and Kyoya were alone in the third music room, she because she was excused early from class for archery club which got cancelled due to weather. He was in there just because he'd needed to start preparing for the Host Club, as always.

Kyoya smirked, writing something down in his little black notebook. "Very good, Miss Higurashi. You are very observant." Kagome smiled wryly.

"The lamb must think carefully, lest she suffer getting tricked by the lion." She murmured, adding a little more sugar to her tea. Kyoya wrote something else down in his notebook.

"Ah, The Lion And The Lamb; one of Aesop's fables, I believe?" he asked and she nodded.

"My turn," she smiled and he looked like he was about to protest, but she gave him a look. "Ah-ah, you asked me if The Lion And The Lamb was one of Aesop's fables. It is my turn to ask a question now." He closed his mouth and nodded, leaning back in his chair. "What family members do you have?"

"Two elder brothers, a father and mother." He answered a little stiffly.

"And they are all alive." Kagome said, then added, "That was an assumption, not a question." Kyoya looked at her with his eyebrows slightly raised. To say the least, he was impressed with her wordplay skills. He nodded affirmative.

"What do you do outside of school?"

"I train my abilities, work out, and hang out with my friends here." She said and frowned, thinking. This was her chance to crack down on Kyoya and really find out what his secret was. But would she go bluntly or would she sneak it in a question?

"What is your problem?" bluntly, apparently. He snapped his head toward her in question. She stood, starting to pace around their couches.

"Lately I have been talking to the other hosts. Hikaru, Kaoru and Haruhi. So far they have all had their own problem, whether it be at home or in school, the club or their private lives. You see, I am on a mission to help each and every one of you hosts because it would seem, with my experiences, I can help you. I have seen people's souls die right in front of me because of problems or worries or anything that keeps chewing at them and they had no one to spill their hearts out to."

She said and stopped, right behind him in his chair. He remained frozen, staring in front of him with wide eyes. Whether it was from shock or realization, he couldn't tell. She leaned down, next to Kyoya's head. "I want to know what your problem is so I can help." She said quietly and rounded back to her seat and sat there as if nothing had happened.

Kyoya snapped out of his trance-like state and couldn't decide whether to be amused or pissed off.

"You want to know what my problem is?" he asked very quietly. She simply stared at him. He smirked, deciding to humor her.

"The only possible problem I have is that the two older brothers I have overshadow me, seemingly overpower me. They seem to mock me every time they speak to my bastard of a father. And speaking of him, he is a pompous bastard that thinks he can get whatever he wants ad that he can control me, but he is oh so wrong. If it happened, I would be ready to accept his death and capsize my brothers in order to steal his throne from right underneath his nose. I wish to show them what I am truly capable of… but I figure that will come in time." He said, surprising both Kagome and himself.

Why had he not assessed this earlier? Had he really just pushed it to the back of his mind and then spilled it to a girl that was practically a stranger, just because she wanted him to? Kagome, she was an odd one… how was she able to weasel that out of him when he himself hadn't even known.

Kagome slowly grinned, a twisted show of sadness.

"Heh…Well what do you know, it seems that I have something in common with every host…" she murmured and looked to the side, her bangs covering her eyes. Kyoya frowned. What? Kagome continued to speak, except a lot quieter.

"I was not involved in a sibling rivalry… I love my brother very much. However, someone who could have been my sibling, just by looks… she and I were terrible rivals." She said, hint of sadness in her voice. It almost ached to hear someone speak in that tone.

"And it was over something as foolish as a man. We both loved this man very much, and we'd do anything to win him over. But I was sorely out of his league, apparently." She said, almost sounding like she was about to sob. "She was practically. He'd mistake me for her. He'd go running off to see her when I wasn't looking. They'd been in love long before I'd been in the picture." '500 years before I was in the picture.' "Eventually, she ended up dying in her effort to prove her love to him, poisoned by a man that had once loved her. The rivalry was over. He'd loved her." Kagome said, tears brimming in her hidden eyes. She couldn't believe she was telling this to someone. To a random person that had really no clue of what had actually gone on, who she was trying to help but she just ended up putting her burden on.

She sniffled and stared at the ground, smiling fakely.

"Sorry, that was a bad memory for me. But what I'm trying to tell you is that you shouldn't hate your brothers and your father just because you're striving to beat them. You see how it turned out for me." She laughed dryly, her words humorless. She stood up quickly.

"I'm sorry, please excuse me…" she said and walked past Kyoya and towards the restroom.

Kyoya sat there, eyes wide. His tea slipped form his hands and shattered with a crash on the floor, snapping him back into reality. He cursed and quickly walked out the doors, calling for a passing maid while he stayed out in the hallway and stared out the large windows, blurred with the downpour of rain that made the hallway seem gray.

Kagome… what exactly had happened to her? Of she could recite something that terrible with so much detail and emotion, it had probably happened recently. But why had the news reported it? He sighed. He felt a pang of guilt and sympathy in his gut and he leaned against the window. Why was he still over-thinking things? Kagome had obviously been through something terrible, that was what had affected her to be the way she was just a few moments before.

Bubbly, sarcastic, happy, excitable Kagome. Dismal and on the brink of tears. Kyoya frowned. It just didn't fit her, not in the slightest.

He'd have to find out what happened. He'd be doing a lot of research, and then he'd plan something to make her happy. That's what he did with Tamaki, maybe it could work with her as well? He only hoped so.

He walked down the hallway, frown still in place, unknowing to the shaded eyes of one Kagome Higurashi. She stared at him emotionlessly. Poor Kyoya…unable to escape his own brilliant mind. He always over analyzed everything. He'd never be able to find out what happened…and I might just drive him insane. She shook her head. He practically lusted for information. Kagome turned around, her melancholy aura following her as she disappeared down the hall.

Breaking Barriers

MCD: Wooh! Jeez, the chapter's a lot longer than I expected. Sorry if it seems late, this just kept blowing up in my face and I had to keep editing. I'm also not going to be updating as much, I've just started school again and It's 11:30 so BLEH XD

It's so rainy down here in the east coast~ it's raining right now, actually.

Attention! I don't think I'll be doing a mori/hunny next chapter because I can't really think of their flaws at the moment, but would you mind terribly if I put up the Kasanoda chapter I have an idea for?