A/N:
Woo! I'm updating.
Did you even realize?
Oh, you did?
… Gee. No need for that look.
Hiro had been missing for the past three days. The cursed were worrying for him, especially so for Kisa and Haru. They didn't know where he had gone and, unlike the others, they both wanted to find out. Although the two were currently in a war for Hiro's love, Haru hesitantly knocked on Kisa's front door. Her mother answered.
"Hello Haru. Kisa is in the yard." She smiled and let Haru in. He walked across the hard wooden floor, the rims of his jeans brushing noisily along the ground beneath him. He opened the door and closed it behind him before running a hand through his hair. Kisa was staring at him, silently.
"Kisa." Haru nodded at her. She smiled softly.
"C… Cousin Haru…"
"You haven't seen Hiro anywhere, have you?"
Kisa's face dropped. Haru saw and acknowledged that he shouldn't have asked. Her heart thumped. What was she to say? She'd seen Hiro was Akito just before he went missing, but should she tell the Cow? He was known to get violent…
"No." She said sternly. "No. I don't know." Her eyes rimmed with tears as she got off the swing she was sitting on. She gave Haru a glance before walking inside.
"Wait, Kisa!" Haru called after her, running up against the door and blocked her way in. Kisa ran into his chest. She blushed, purely embarrassed.
"I know you're not telling me something. What is it?"
Kisa shook her head; tear droplets flying everywhere as she did so.
"Tell me, Kisa." Haru urged. "If you get into trouble, just say my name. Just say my name, and you'll be fine! Just say I made you. Just say my name."
Haru ran a hand through his multi-coloured hair. Kisa looked up. And spoke a single word.
"Akito."
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Haru had been through this before with Akito. He'd been to this place before in search of Rin. Akito, completely denying anything to do with it, enraged Haru to the point he almost punched her in the face. Now it was the same thing, except with Hiro instead. Haru gulped and pushed the door open.
"Oh… look who's come here… the dearest Ox… stupidest of them all…" Akito sneered at him. Haru cringed. "What is it that my precious fool wants now?"
The words came out dry and raspy. He was afraid; truth be told, he was damn scared. But still, he managed to say something.
"Where's… where's Hiro?"
Akito squeezed her hand into a fist. Haru noticed there was something in her hand. Before he could conprehend it, his face was bleeding. Akito had thrown a cup at him.
"Bastard!" She hollered angrily at him, standing up now. "I knew you'd come for him! Why must you sneak around behind my back all the time?" She paused. "You all do. All of you! You're supposed to love me, not go against me!"
"No one is going against you, Akito." Haru mumbled, blood seeping into his mouth. It tasted metallic on his tongue. "Surely you've been in love before."
"SHUT UP!" Came Akito's enraged answer. "NO ONE ASKED YOU!"
"Surely, you have…" Akito hand came in contact with the Cow's face. Nails ripped into his skin so deep, he could feel her nails on his teeth.
"I told you." Akito spoke softly. "To shut up. Things like this are none of your business. I have no time for this…" Akito trailed.
"I'm sorry." Haru muttered.
"Just leave, "Akito sighed, pointing to the door. "Just. Leave."
"But Hiro-."
Akito shot a glare. "The longer you stay, the harder he will be punished."
"Do you think I'm going to believe that!" Haru growled, turning Black. "I'm not leaving until I get some answers!"
Akito stopped, mouth open. "You have some nerve, you do. I'm not telling you anything! You don't even know whether I know where he id, yet you presume! What if he ran away?"
"I know it was you!" Haru fumed. "Because you said the same thing about Rin!"
Memories flooded back for both parties involved. Rin. She was the girl Akito had pushed from the window in a fit of rage. She tried to take the blame for the relationship. She only succeeded in making it worse. Rin. She was the girl Haru loved and still does.
"You're so annoying. Stop accusing me!"
Haru gave up. There was nothing he could do. Akito was too powerful for him; for every single one of the zodiacs. He gave Akito one last look before walking out, in a daze. He tried to remember which way he had come in the first place.
He walked out and into the garden.
"Now," he said to himself. "Where does Hatori live?"
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Sun crept across Hiro's face as Akito slide the door open and closed it behind her. Hiro had been lying there, bleeding for what seemed like days now. Akito had been back once or twice, just to tease him or kick him, or check that he was still alive. But Hiro could sense an evil demeanor about Akito on this occasion he braced himself.
"Your Haru… he really is stupid."
Hiro's eyes turned to Akito's and they locked.
"He just wouldn't listen when I told him you'd be punished if he didn't stop."
Hiro tried to curl into an even smaller ball, but did not succeed.
"So… This one's on Haru."
The whip smacked across Hiro's porcelain face. His tear stains now replaced with blood stains. The tip of the whip got his straight between the eyes, sending searing pain throughout his body.
"This is Haru's fault!" Akito cackled, before kicking him in the small of his back. "Him! Not me!"
Hiro trembled under Akito's touch. He just wished he would wake up.
A/N:
How sad.
Heh.
