A/N: The second part of this chapter was recommended by a reviewer and I loved the idea so I decided to do it. Also, I'm not posting until I get at least 10 reviews because I know that over seven hundred people have viewed the story and quite frankly it pisses me off that no one has the courtesy to leave a small sentence to tell me what I'm doing right, wrong, etc. So, I thank the people who decided to take five seconds and review.
Chapter 8
(Tohru)
"Kyo? I'm not afraid of you."
I shook my head back and fourth.
"Never."
I reached my hand out touching his huge orange arm. He immediately shook it off making a deep gushing cut up my arm, blood spilling out over the floor. The strange thing was I didn't care. I was so set on being with Kyo, hugging him, touching him even. Ichigo made a motion forward moving slightly closer. I turned to meet his eyes filled with fear for me. I could tell that Kyo's appearance didn't disturb him at all.
"No, I'm okay."
I gripped my arm trying to hold in the severe pain running through it.
"Kyo"
I approached once more, a little more cautious. Kyo wasn't a monster, no I could still see his crimson eyes staring at me full of concern. A chuckle escaped my mouth because I knew exactly what he would tell me,
"Why Don't you run away?"
but he should know me better than that by now. His arm once again swung for me flinging me into the hard cement knocking me unconscious.
(Kyo)
No, Tohru how could I do that to her. Monster or not, I will not continue to hurt her. The demon inside me struggled to gain control.
"I will not let you hurt her anymore."
I screamed inside my head at the monster controlling me.
"Why do you go for such great lengths, she's just a girl." It responded.
"because" I could feel myself slowly gaining control of my body.
"I think I love her."
My hands were trembling as I fell to my knees only looking at Tohru that laid inanimately five feet away.
"Tohru"
I crawled over to her side grabbing my already torn shirt that was laying on the ground. With my teeth I ripped strips of material.
"what did I do?"
her arm was covered in blood, a pool was starting to form. Gently I lifted her arm, I needed water or else the wound would get infected.
"Ichigo," I turned toward the orange haired guy behind me, "I don't care what you think of me right now, but" a tear escaped my control letting it roll down my cheek, "I need your help please I can't lose her, she's all I have."
With in a second Ichigo was at my side with a black soaked piece of his ripped kimono. I grabbed it quickly, cleaning the mess around the cut first, then moved onto the inside of it hearing her wince at every touch. Slowly once the blood was removed I wrapped the bandages around seeming like a pro since she was so accident prone it felt like we were back at the house cleaning a paper cut or something so insignificant.
"Are all you Shinigami this idiotic, I gave you a simple task and you couldn't even complete that." Akito started to mock as he quickly strode over to the bloody mess.
(Ichigo)
"You better watch how you talk to me, I'm not quite as easy to control as other soul reapers."
I stated while staring at the frail man walking towards me.
"You can't hurt me." he laughed sounding a little insane, like he was drowning in power, "Don't think I don't know the rules of your precious soul society."
he seemed so pleased with himself, and simply I hate people like this.
"I wouldn't be so confident Mr. Sohma," Rukia chimed in while sipping on a juice box, "You see Ichigo over there isn't exactly a certified shinigami," she threw the box on the ground, "he's capable of being a captain, in fact he's beaten up a handful of them. But he's alive, a human inheriting spiritual energy from past generations."
She strode over to stand next to me.
"So?" he questioned, Rukia getting a little frustrated,
"So, that means that even if Ichigo kills you soul society can't do anything to him since he would probably slaughter every person they send after him."
I shook my head placing zangetsu on my shoulder, that sounded about right. With that he stormed off, looking a little panicked.
"Kyo this isn't the end, no it's just the beginning. And don't you or that hideous girl dare go back to the Sohma household."
That son of a bitch was asking for it until Rukia put her hand on my shoulder telling me to drop it, "Rukia, Where'd you go?" She turned towards me speaking in a low voice,
"I got thirsty and saw a convince store open down the road, so I went to get a drink."
I put two fingers to my forehead, "So, your saying while this whole thing was going on you decided it would be a good time to have a break? For god's sake Rukia you didn't even draw your zanpactou."
my voice raising a little,
"It seemed like you had it under control."
damn Rukia always fighting me at the worst possible times, oh I forgot. I spun seeing Tohru being gently held by Kyo who was staring down at her seeming lost in his own thoughts.
"I appreciate your help Ichigo, I wish I had time to explain a bunch of this to you, but I have to figure out what I'm going to do.
(Flashback)
"Kyo this isn't the end, no it's just the beginning. And don't you or that hideous girl dare go back to the Sohma household."
(end Flashback)
there was only one thing I could think of doing which I wasn't so sure myself was a good idea,
"Come stay at my house, my dad runs a clinic there so he could check out her injury."
I tried to say the last part as quiet as possible since it was him himself who gave it to her.
"you've already done a lot for me I couldn't smooch off you even if it was for just a night."
Rukia thought it would be smart to add a smart remark,
"Sure you can I do it everyday, except the fact that I'm sleeping in a closet."
She looked at me like I was about to offer her my bed.
"Who's fault was that, one day you were just there."
"alright," Kyo said I think trying to steer us away from the upcoming argument.
(Kyo)
I looked at the sleeping Tohru laying on a long white bed in the hospital next to the kurosaki household. She had just been through ten stitches and a few shots to numb the pain. It was all my fault that she is in a hospital and not at home being her cheery self, making her smile warm my inside.
"It's funny,"
Mr. Kurosaki smirked in the background
, "that Tohru is in a hospital?"
I stood up fists raised to him.
"no, no of course not,"
he put both his hands in front of him,
"it's just that this scene reminds me of Ichigo and Rukia. You see,"
he pulled a chair next to mine beckoning for me to sit back down in my chair,
"A while ago Rukia was badly injured cuts and scrapes everywhere. Ichigo sat by her bedside for three days not leaving once just staring at her thinking about how it was his own fault she was like that. The quietest period of time they had ever shared, that's probably why they argue so much now to make up for lost time."
With that he got up and left closing the door behind him. That man confuses me, when I first got here he seemed like he was on a high dosage of crack that Ichigo assured me was his normal attitude and then he becomes all serious. The side table next to Tohru held a change of clothes that Ichigo handed me earlier, they still sat there since I didn't want to move from Tohru's side, even though my clothes or what was left of them were blood stained. I sighed and grabbed the clothes turning away from Tohru's bed staring at the wall in front of me. I stripped down replacing my boxers with a pair with leeks of all things on them,
"How ironic."
A squeak came from behind me belonging to Tohru, what a time to wake up. As quick as lightning I threw on the rest of my pajamas which included orange flannels and a tight rolling stones T-shirt.
"Well,"
I was fighting a blush, but it came out anyways, identical to Tohru's,
"that's twice now. But I'm glad your up, I was really afraid."
I paused for a few second trying to think of the perfect sentence,
"Why did you come near me when I was like that, I could have k-"
my throat wouldn't even udder the simple word.
"no, you couldn't. I saw your eyes resisting the urge every second. Besides if I didn't do something soon you would have been d-"
She folded her arms across her chest as a trail of tears stained her face. "Wouldn't that be for the better?" I turned my head not wanting to hear or see her reaction.
"better?," she cried out, after I felt a slap come across my face.
I must have done something absolutely terrible for Tohru to get physical
"You think It would have been better for me for you to disappear from my life? Well, your wrong," a smile creped across her face, "I love you Kyo and this," she held up her injured arm making part of me burn with pain, "this is what I have to prove that I love you."
"Tohru,"
I couldn't help run my fingers along side her jaw.
"I love you."
With that I leaned in, our lips meeting locking in place. I took in every second, it felt magical, like something was changing. Her arms flew around me, while my arms unconsciously slide around her waist. All the years of avoiding contact with any woman gone down the drain with one soft kiss from the girl I loved.
(Ichigo)
"What the hell is going on? This mass of spiritual energy is at about the same level as mine."
I whispered to Rukia holding my head that was now forming a migraine from the pressure which you would think I was used to by now. We were both in my bedroom studying for midterms (A/N: dreaded midterms ugh) when a large amount of spiritual energy filled my room, but it was weird, not like the normal energy that any soul reaper or hollow or vizard for that case it was different like a curse was intertwined with-.
"Kyo. It's coming from him." I shouted at Rukia understanding my assumption.
We used shunpo in our shinigami form to reach the hospital. When we opened the door I was almost knocked off my feet from the new wave of energy coming out the door. Inside was Kyo and Tohru locked in a hug, Tohru looking like she refused to let go even though at the rate the energy was leaking she should have been knocked out minutes ago.
As fast as the cursed air came it left disappearing leaving both me and Rukia gasping.
"What the hell was that?" I said while gripping a nearby table trying to keep my self up right.
(Kyo)
"I don't know" I slowly answered, I couldn't even remember the past few seconds it was more of a blur.
"Kyo," Tohru said surprised, "Your human."
I didn't want to say anything mean to her, but isn't that much a little obvious.
"yeah?" I said with a peculiar look.
"no I mean your not a cat."
She was right I stared at my hands they were still human, no tail either. Tohru was too excited, she jumped on me almost knocking me to the ground, her legs wrapped around my torso.
"hey your hand." I said while attempting to pull her off me.
"I don't care, now I can hug you all I want!"
I blushed again, sooner or later I knew I was going to collapse with all the blood in my head today.
"yeah." i answered her while embrassing her body
"come on Rukia I doubt will get any answers tonight if any lets just go back to bed."
the two of them walked out of the room moaning about something involving midterms.
A/N: I was pretty pleased with this chapter if I do say so myself! Not sure what I'm doing for the next chapter though I'm in the middle of a writers block. oh and i am fully aware on how the 'curse' is actually broken, but that woudn't help my story out all would it -your Neko writer
