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Kyo opened the door of his house as quietly as he could. He hoped his father wasn't home. He started to close the front door.

"Hey!"

Kyo's heart jumped and his breathing became forced. "Here sir."

Kyo's father came, and Kyo was filled with dread. His father was drunk. "Where you been?" He slammed his drink down and approached his son.

"School Sir." Kyo's voice quaved, but he held his ground.
"What right do you have to go anywhere?" the man glowered down at his son, inches away. "Who do you think you are that you have any right to leave?"
Kyo's heart was pounding, he couldn't answer, couldn't move.

'I'm sorry.'

'It's not my fault I'm sorry.'

-smack-

Kyo collapsed on the floor. He wanted to leave, to disappear, to be anywhere. Instead, he stayed, frozen, hopeless.

His father seemed to be satisfied with the one strike and stumbled off into the living room, where he turned on the tv and zoned away.

Kyo stayed in place, breathing, shaking, he closed his eyes.

'I'm sorry.'

"Kyo?"

Kyo looked behind him, the front door was still open about a foot. He blinked twice. "Yuki?" It had been years sense Kyo had seen his sworn enemy.

"What are you doing here?" The silver haired teen tilted his head. "I thought you were staying with Kazuma Sensei?"
Kyo glanced at his father, who was perplexed on the screen. He then quickly scurried outside, shutting the door behind him. "Keep it down, please." He whispered. He wasn't filled with the anger he normally felt on seeing the rat, he wasn't really filled with much of anything.

"Akito moved me." Kyo sat down on the porch "What are you doing here? Don't you live on the other side of the estate?"

Yuki's face twitched at Akito's name. "I was on my way back from school." He sat down next to the cat. "Are… you okay?"

Kyo blinked, shocked. Did the rat…care? "What would you understand of it?" It wasn't a hateful comment, just curious.

Yuki shrugged, his face seemed to fall. "I may understand more than you think. Try me."
"Do you…" Kyo looked up at the sky "Do you ever feel like things would be better if you just…disappeared."

It was Yuki's turn to blink. He smiled a little "All the time." Kyo looked at Yuki, who shrugged back. "Akito has me trapped, it's like I can't breathe without setting him off. It's suffocating."
Kyo opened his mouth to respond

"Hey!"

The color drained from Kyo's face. He turned to see his father standing in the doorway. Yuki looked up, surprised.

"You're Yuki right? The rat?" His father spat, "Leave before I call Akito." He pointed and Yuki grabbed his bag and bolted, leaving Kyo alone.
Kyo sat, frozen. His father was yelling, not like before, not half assed yelling, real yelling.

"Inside." It was stern, like concrete.

Kyo scurried inside, leaving his bag. He tripped on the threshold and fell, catching himself. He moved to get up but was pushed back over.

"What did I tell you?" his father glowered. "What did I tell you about seeing other people? You think you can talk to just anybody under my nose? While I'm just feet away?"

"No Sir." Kyo stammered, backing away with his hands.
"I took you in, payed for your food, gave you a place to sleep and this is how you repay me?" Kyo's face felt a bold of pain then a throbbing numb as his father struck him. "You are a monster."

"Oh…"

"You killed your own mother." Anther strike.

"That's right…"

"You're nothing but a leach."

"how could I have forgotten?"

"People literally have to be payed to keep you." A large kick to Kyo's side. He felt a rib crack.

"It was my fault…"

"It would have been better."

"If it weren't for me…."

"It would have been better if you were never born!" His father put a foot on Kyo's arm, putting pressure on it. Kyo screamed as cuts were ripped open. "you will never be loved."

"she wouldn't have died…."

Kyo's father grabbed him by the wrist, pulling him up. He hung limply, eyes glazed over.

"She could have been happy…"

"Don't ever, leave this house again. I will call the school, tell them you're out sick."

"Kazuma could have done so much without me…."

"And don't think for a second Kazuma is going to 'save you'. He know's where you are, but he doesn't appear to want you anymore."

"I know…."

"I guess that makes no one who really wants you."
"I know…."

Kyo's father dropped him, and he landed on the floor with a thud. There was a brief dialing of numbers and Kyo hurt Hatori's name mentioned before he blacked out.

"Maybe… I'll die here." He thought as he drifted away. "Maybe, I won't have to wake up."

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