Akito appeared to stand up a little straighter as she spoke, "Yu-Yuki San called today?" She didn't meet Hatsuharu's gaze with her own, "And -ER- what did Yuki San have to say to you?" Kicking up a ball of snow Akito noticed her wounds hurt more in the cold.

((Hey look a short flashbacky page thingy...yeah flashback from last night))

It was late, or early however you wanted to look at it. No matter how you saw the day it was three a.m and Hatsuharu was very tired, but her kept himself up somehow. During on of his walks around the hallway outside his room he heard the low ring of the phone instantly rushing over to it. It wasn't an uncommon thing for the phone to ring, but when you have a girl that seems like she may die tonight a phone call could be important, "Hatori San?" His voice was in a panic that scared the person on the other end of the phone.

"Hatori? Why would-Is Akito Chan sick again, I'll be right-" Hatsuharu cut Yuki off before he could get out any of his plans.

"She is sick yes but there's something else..." Silence on the other end, "Well Akito, you know the -ER- older Akito ya know, she wanted Akito, the smaller one, to -ER- well, stay at Sohma house..." Hatusharu did not get the reaction he was expecting... there was no panic, no screams, simply...Laughter? "Hey! This is nothing to laugh about Yuki!" Hatsuharu's voice was fierce but low, so he didn't wake up Akito.

"No it's just," He took a moment to catch his breath, "Kyo would never go for this...I mean he may very well be a stupid Cat but he's not that stupid I mean he knows...Hatsuharu?" Yuki's voice got a lot softer, "Aktio, has Kiada?" There was simply silence as an answer on the other end, "Oh god, how bad is it?"

"She's sleeping right now from where she's been sick, just a couple bruises at the moment, nothing to bad, I think her pride is hurt worse than anything." Hatsuharu watched the ground, "Ya know those rats, real big on their pride..." He jumped a little when he thought he heard Akito Stir.

"So nothing I need to come and kidnap her over right Haru?" Yuki seemed relived that nothing terribly bad had happened. But he still seemed incredibly worried, and angry, "Has Kyo called or anything, Hatsuharu?"

"No, I don't think Kyo wants to think about what's happening to his daughter," There was silence on the other end, nothing but the sound of Yuki's heavy breathing, "Don't get mad at him, you're more used to the things that go on in this house Kyo...Well Kyo never went through the same things you did... but do tell Kyo what I said to you...Alright?"

"How can I not be mad at him?" Yuki seemed as though he hadn't heard anything that Hatsuharu had just said, "I mean, she's his daughter, how could he do this to her? It's like he doesn't care about his own daughter...Stupid rat." Yuki sighed a bit, "Hatsuharu, tell her that Tohru called, she's really worried..."

"You seem rather worried about something," Hatusharu noted from Yuki's low hum at the other end of the line, "Something you're wanting to say?"

"If anything happens Hatsuharu...You'll call right?"

"I have no reason not to."His answer was short and simple. The two said their goodbyes, neither wanting to stay on the phone for too long. Hatsuharu sat the phone down, "Maybe he's right, maybe Kyo won't be a stupid cat, I mean Akito id his daughter...

((End of flashback))

"I from what Yuki said you're probably not going to have to live at Sohma house," Hatsuharu shuddered looking down at Akito's broken smiling face, "So...You're not still angry with me?" He watched her face instantly fall.

"No I'm still angry with you...incredibly angry...but..."Turning on her heel Akito wrapped her arms around Hatsharu's waist, "I'll get over it...I mean I know that it's only day two and I have a lot more of Kiada to deal with but..." Akito looked around at the snow, "I'll learn to deal with it...It's hard now, but it won't matter in a month, or a year, it'll just be another week, um Hatsuharu?" Hatsuharu looked down, "We should go see Hatori, if Kiada find out..."

"She won't, but we should." Hatsuharu picked her back up laying her over his back, she looked so small. Her face barley recognizable from the blood and breaks, but she didn't blame Kiada. She should have stayed with her, she felt that it was her fault. She would discuss the matter further with Hatori San.

The walk to Hatori San's was a silent one. Akito was quite happy when they arrived there. "Akito?" Hatori turned around, how had Kiada managed to do that to Akito's face?! "Come here,"

Walking over Akito let Hatori brush off some of the dried blood,

"Hatori stop." Akito turned her head away from Hatori's that cloth that had become covered in blood. "Come on it's not that bad, really, I can get it." Akito made a move to grab the cloth only to have it pulled out of her reach by Hatori.

"No, now hold still, there's still a good amount of blood." He looked up for a moment, "Hatsuharu would you please go get my bag," He grunted a bit trying to get to Akito's face, "And maybe a horse tranquilizer." Akito got pretty still, Hatori knew the things she hated...and being sedated was one of them.

It didn't take Haru long to return from the back room with a medium sized black bag. "Here, is she gonna be alright, I mean..." Haru's voice trailed off, "She's not going to be…" Hatsuharu did seem able to finish any of his sentences.

"She should be alright, maybe a little weak from the blood loss…And there will be a good deal of physical scarring after this, but nothing too traumatic." Hatori kept every sentence short, as though he didn't want to talk much.

"Ow hey!" Akito pulled back when Hatori attempted to put alcohol on her face, "Don't do that! It hurts." Akito, ever the complainer when she wasn't around Kiada. "Hatsuharu," Her words seemed to bring Hatsuharu back out of deep though. "Nevermind…I mean…" Akito took a deep breath, "I was stupid back in there, but so were you…I mean, you could have let her kill me in there, now you're going to be in trouble with Kiada. If she hurts you then-"Akito didn't get the chance to finish her sentence instead she felt her face slapped by the person who had just saved her from suffering.

"Don't talk like that. You have no right to judge what I did in there. It was my choice and you don't have to justify yourself by beating yourself up over it. It was my choice to run in there and help you and I'll live with the consequences, not you." He sounded fairly angry, but his face changed right after he made his little speech and Hatsuharu moved his hand away from her face almost immediately after impact. His jaw dropped down a bit as he watched the blood rush to her face and a couple of her wounds broke open leaking out a bit more blood. "I-Akito, I'm sorry I didn't mean to…I…"

Akito lowered her head letting Hatori go back to his attempts at putting Alcohol on her cuts. She didn't flinch this time, "No…I'm sorry…But, you really shouldn't have ya know?" She sighed a bit, "But it's my fault if I hadn't screamed you never would have had to come in…But I'm happy you did." She waited for Hatori to start putting everything back in his bag before she jumped off the chair and ran over to put her arms around Hatsuharu, "It really makes me fell…Like you really do love me."

Millie: This chapter shall continue shortly, you see I'm currently also doing a Kodocha fanfic, so I'm terrified of getting the Akito mixed up! I have too many Akitos!!!! Anyway the next chapter will just be the rest of this chapter! 3