Then the screaming started.
She sat alone, curled in a ball on the floor. Alone again, alone with the drip drip, alone with an empty stomach, alone with a crestfallen heart.
And it hurt. Each drip pounded into her skull, and each second alone caused an aching in her chest.
Soon, there was no silence, only screams. Screams until her throat was dry and hoarse. Even then she didn't stop.
When people came to the house… They knew. They heard and they knew.
The kids, Hiro and Haru and Kisa and Yuki and Ren and Momiji and Kyo, they didn't know it was their friend. But they knew someone was there. That's why none of them liked the main house. When it was quiet and empty, all you heard was screaming. She'd scream, and Akito would yell, but she'd never quiet. She'd scream and Kureno would hold her, but still she didn't quiet. She'd scream and Hatori would lecture about her asthma and how it was only making things worse, and how everyone could hear, and she just wouldn't quiet.
Shigure heard it, and he screamed, too.
"Are you kidding me? What's wrong with you? What are you doing to her?"
Akito barely flinched, he just smiled and smiled.
She screams and screams and screams, and three years go by.
Kyo forgets. He was only fourteen when she had left, and he was angry. Every day, he was so exceedingly angry at everyone, for allowing these things to happen. At the whole idea of God being in charge, when he knew that all Akito was doing was hurting her. He was angry.
He is fifteen soon, and he is still angry. At the family, and the secret and the curse. Sometimes, he thinks of his friend, sometimes he doesn't. He's so angry he runs off into the mountains to train with the only man he ever saw as a father. Sakura is fifteen, she's still screaming for Kyo, still alone without him. Kyo doesn't know.
Kyo is sixteen, he is learnign to drive though he isn't in school, he's home schooled. Sakura doesn't learn anything but pain. Kyo learns nothing but anger. Kyo doesn't think of Sakura, only his anger at the Sohmas, the rat, the Zodiak, the whole wide world.
Kyo is seventeen, Sakura is seventeen. Kyo meets Tohru Honda. Sakura gets to see Hatori, Akito, Kureno, and the servants. Sakura feels insane. Kyo only feels angry.
Kyo has forgotten Sakura.