Chapter 13
Fighting the Family

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What if it makes you lose faith in me,
what if it makes you question every moment you cannot see
And what if it makes you crash and you can't find the key
What if it makes you ask how you could let it all go

The beginning of June couldn't come fast enough for Kyouya. He had been given the green light to return to work, which helped since he was completely bored at home. Tamaki had been out of the house as he had returned to his old schedule and Angela had been working at the center as much as she could while Michelle was at school. He noticed both seemed troubled by something but Tamaki said it was due to law changes and now trying to change policies so he could abide to them and Angela told him she was facing family issues.

Kyouya woke up to the sound of his alarm, he still hated that sound but today it meant he could go back to work. He was finally completely recovered from the operation, and he could officially say he was cancer survivor. Other than the alarm sounding off he missed going to work. He never would have guessed working for a car company would bring him certain happiness. Growing up around the medical field he figured that would be what he worked in. Now years later he didn't even work in a semi-related field. Tamaki worked more in that field with his line of work then he ever would now. If someone told him this would be his life he wouldn't have believed them. How life could change by single events, it really made life interesting.

"Kyouya, welcome back." He wasn't surprised to see Hiroshi and a few others welcoming him back. Hiroshi probably told everyone in the office all that happened, not to mention he actually hadn't been here in at least a year or so. Before he told Hiroshi he was coming back he made sure it was okay that he would be allowed to. He had to take it easy for not only health reasons but personal as well. He feared that his vision problems would worsen with too much stress and he had an eight year old at home. He wanted to watch her grow up. Hiroshi was happy to agree to his terms he believed everything would be fine and work out, he was easy to please. Kyouya stared at the mount of paperwork he had to go over the coming weeks, life began again and with a faint smile he grabbed the first one.

With life finally getting back on track the days again seems to fly by. Though he made sure he always spent time with his family. Michelle seemed to growing up so fast and he feared that if he missed one thing he would miss a lot. He already seemed to be missing something as Tamaki would be locked in their home office most nights. Angela still seemed to be facing family trouble and denied any help from him. He felt bad for not being able to do anything to help her with whatever was going on. She had been a huge help to both himself and Tamaki over the last few years. He felt he should do something to repay her.

Tamaki sat at their desk scrolling over the number figures on the screen. It didn't seem possible there would be no way to fix this unless he used the joint account he shared with Kyouya that they used to pay the bills. How could everything spiral out of control like this? Even if he did use their account it still wouldn't cover all of this, they would be completely broke. He needed another plan or just give in and hand the centers over.

"Tamaki, your parents are here."
Tamaki looked over the monitor to see Kyouya in the doorway.
"Is everything okay Tamaki?"
Quickly he closed the page and shut down the computer. "Yes everything is fine. I wonder what brings my parents here like this." He walked out behind Kyouya to see Yuzuru and Annie-Sophie in the living room talking to Michelle. They seemed to be in good moods so that helped.
"René, Kyouya, I'm thinking of selling my house in France. I decided it's a good time to officially have me move in with Yuzuru."
Neither were completely surprised by Annie-Sophie's statement, she had been staying with him since Kyouya got sick to stay close to her family. Since then she had only gone back to France a few times.
"Are you sure your health will be okay here?" Tamaki loved the idea of having his parents under one roof again but he didn't want to see his mother fall ill.
"That is part of the reason I didn't do this sooner, but I feel fine so now is the best time I believe. Also if you boys want I'll give you my house instead of selling it off. You both know its fine for the three of you to stay comfortably if you wanted to use it."
Tamaki thought about it for completely different reasons than what Annie-Sophie had probably been thinking. Should things fall apart more so than they already had and they lost everything including the house they could move to France instead of living with his parents or the streets. The three of them could be comfortable there and both would be able to find work. Paris did hold all sorts of job positions.

"Tamaki the decision is yours since it is your mother's house. But I think Michelle wants you to hear her decision." Michelle sat between Yuzuru and Annie-Sophie bouncing up and down wanting them to say yes. She hadn't been to France since she came over to live with Tamaki and Kyouya, that was three years ago and she didn't remember much.

"Sure, we would love it. I guess I know where we are going on your next school holiday huh Michelle?"
"Yay!"
Tamaki let her smile take him over and smile back. He would do whatever he could to not move her, or any of them. He didn't want to move her out of Ouran and away from her friends. Knowing how important friends were to him he couldn't take them away from her.

0o0o0o A few weeks later

Kyouya sat in his office mid-day; he wasn't in the mood to go out for his lunch break. Hiroshi walked in unsure if now was a good time; Kyouya knew right away it wasn't work related.
"Kyouya, how is Tamaki handling the takeover? I know those centers meant a lot to him"
He just stared at Hiroshi, saying he was completely lost didn't even seem to explain how confused he was.
"Hiroshi, could you please elaborate for me?"
" What are you talking about, haven't you read today's paper?"
"No, not yet, I forgot to buy one walking in earlier. What is going on, what takeover?"
Hiroshi laid out a paper in front of Kyouya and pointed to the story in the side.
*Rumors are confirmed as hundreds of depression clinics are bought out.*
"What the hell is this!?" Kyouya pulled the paper closer. He had no idea what this was about; Tamaki said nothing about this possibly happening. He slammed the paper back on his desk as he finished reading the article, he was pissed off with Tamaki for lying about this, he wondered if this was the real reason Angela had been upset recently. Apparently this had been in the works for some time now so it wasn't like this came completely out of the blue.

"I am sorry if this is news to you, I didn't mean to expose any secrets, and I was merely concerned. We both know who this person is that is buying him out and I was concerned about how he was taking it."

Kyouya walked into the house finally getting home from work. He saw Tamaki sitting next to Michelle at the piano.
"Michelle, do me a favor and go to your room for a little bit I need to talk Tamaki alone."
"Daddy K, Is something wrong?" She could instantly tell he was upset, he never called Tamaki by his name to her unless it was urgent.
"Now, please Michelle."
She looked at them both and ran upstairs to her room. Angela was walking into the hall to leave for the night when Kyouya stopped her.
"Angela, please make sure Michelle doesn't leave her room for a few minutes."
Angela was scared by the harsh sound escaping with Kyouya's voice.
S…sure if you would like me too Kyouya." She placed her bag and car keys on the table by the door and went after Michelle.

"Kyouya what's wrong? Are you okay?" Tamaki stood up; he could tell Kyouya was angry at something.
"You tell me Tamaki. Let me lie straight to your face for months and let your boss inform you of the truth and we'll see if you get pissed off! Why didn't you tell me my father was on the verge of buying you out?!" He pushed a vase off the edge of a nearby end table, Tamaki stepped back as it crashed by his feet.
"Why Tamaki, answer me! Why didn't you tell me? I could have helped you!"
"Because…because this didn't involve you! And when it first started you had been sick, I couldn't give you more to worry about."
"I'll give you your second excuse but how does it not involve me? Are you really that stupid?!" The only reason my father is doing this to you is to get back at me! I work under Hiroshi so he can't go after me without hurting himself but you are all alone and in a field he can call a sub-branch of his main business. He is doing this to prove his point to me!" He stepped closer to Tamaki who again backed up. For the first time ever Tamaki was scared of Kyouya. They had never fought like this before and while deep down he knew Kyouya would never strike him he couldn't shake the feeling. Not with that look that had completely taken over Kyouya's eyes.

"I'm…I'm sorry."
"You're sorry?! Your about to lose all you have worked hard for and your sorry?"
"What do you want me to say? You were right I was stupid!"
"Why did you go behind my back Tamaki, tell me why! You yourself said no more secrets and then you pull this shit!" He moved forward, Tamaki couldn't step back fast enough and felt Kyouya grab his shirt collar. Kyouya wanted him to look him in the eyes when he gave his answer.

"I messed up and I'm sorry I should have told you sooner. Please…please let go of me, Kyouya your scaring me!"
Kyouya let go and stormed out of the room. Tamaki stood staring after him only flinching when he heard the front door slam closed.

Falling to his knees he could feel his face getting wet; that was all he could feel. The sound of the door slamming had shut down the rest of his body. It deafened him. What had he done? He screwed up big time; he knew from the start that he should have told Kyouya what Yoshio was doing. But, it wasn't just his father it was his brothers as well since the eldest was the successor of all Yoshio owned. Kyouya had been right in saying Yoshio was going after him to get to him to get to Kyouya, he knew that from the start. Why else would he try to take the centers away? They were all non-profit and weren't allowed to diagnosis people so they still had to see a doctor.
He cried harder as that look of anger came back to his thoughts, he wasn't sure if it was directed only at him or Yoshio as well but it frightened him. He couldn't stop his body from shaking. In all the years he knew Kyouya he had never seen him with such anger in his other fights, while they had been bad were not as bad as this.

"Tamaki? Are you okay?"
He looked up to see Angela in the doorway staring at him with such worry.
"I'm so stupid."
She noticed the broken vase on the floor and it wasn't hard to tell Tamaki was shaken up.
"Tamaki, did he…"
"No," He stood up, "I'm going to call a car for you to go home. Kyouya took yours when he left."
"I can stay here if you want so you can go after him."
"No, thank you but I need to stay here. I don't know where he would go to be honest with you. This has never happened before and he technically isn't allowed to be driving."
"Well you have my number."
"Thank you Angela."
He tried to straighten himself out, he felt like a wreck and he figured he looked like one as well.
"When you have a second Tamaki I would see Michelle, she is, worried to say the least. I know things look bad now but I know you both will work this out. There is no doubt in my mind that Kyouya still loves you."
He couldn't answer her, right now he wasn't sure.

Once she was heading home he went to talk to Michelle. If Angela could hear them yelling at each other than so could she.
"Michelle, can I come in?"
He opened the door to see her lying in bed, it was only a little after five so she couldn't be sleeping. He could feel his heart break as he heard escaping sobs from her. Angela was right, Michelle was worried to say the very least. He sat next to her and rubbed her back since she wouldn't face him.

"Michelle, why are you crying, it's okay, everything will be fine."
"Why was Daddy K yelling at you? Why did he seem so angry? Did I do something wrong?"
Tamaki stopped, how could she think they were mad at her? She was still putting false thoughts in her head he thought they got her to stop with that so she wouldn't try to handle more than her age needed her too.
"Of course he wasn't yelling about you. You did nothing wrong I can promise you that. Michelle when adults get upset over something they tend to raise their voice. This doesn't solve anything yet we still continue to do it. We also feel terrible after it happens though each person realizes they feel bad later than others."

Michelle still wouldn't look at him and he couldn't figure out why.
"Michelle, please tell me what is upsetting you. You know you can tell me anything."
She sat up and wiped her eyes, Tamaki could tell she had been crying for a while. Probably since she came upstairs.
"You and Daddy K aren't going to divorce and move far away from each other are you? A girl in my class said her parents are divorcing and her dad is moving to Okinawa so she won't see him except extended school holidays. I don't want anyone to move to Okinawa." She dug her head into his side worried that he would leave; she heard Kyouya walk out and saw him drive away. Tamaki brought his arms around her in hopes he could chase away her fears.
"No one is going anywhere Michelle, we will stay a family."
"But I heard Daddy K leave, when is he coming back home?"
He could feel her start to cry again. How could he promise her that everything would be okay when he didn't know? He had a lot to think about as well, how this would end was still unknown.
"Michelle, I know I'm going to try and make sure we stay the family we are. You still love Daddy K right?"
"Uh huh." He felt her nod her head up and down against him.
"Than never let that love die, if you hold onto it than no matter the outcome we will still be connected."
He wasn't really sure what he was saying. All he did know was that if this didn't work he didn't want her to hate Kyouya or himself. He had heard of too many cases where the children of divorced parents usually held some anger towards one or both parents after. He always wanted to see Michelle smile, though he knew it sounded childish.

"Come on Michelle, let's go downstairs. How about we do whatever you want tonight? You won't even have to worry about homework."He would try anything to get her to come out of her room and stop crying, she was making herself sick. "We can order from that takeout place you love so much and then we'll go from there. Sound good to you?"
"Okay daddy."
She pulled away and took his hand, together they walked downstairs to look at the menu.

Kyouya sped down the main roads, passing every bar and club. He never cared to and now couldn't drink so stopping was pointless. He had no idea where he was going, or or what exactly he was doing. Everything was speeding past him in a blur. The wind around him helped clear his mind, no wonder people made the comment about feeling the wind in your hair. The warm summer air around him set him free, escaping all that happened. He pulled over to the side of the road noticing the city was no longer in sight. As he stopped he realized what he was doing, he shouldn't be driving. While he was licensed he wasn't suppose to get behind the wheel of a car due to his sight problems. He could tell his vision was getting blurry as well; the stress of all that happened was affecting him. He messed up big time; he shouldn't have gotten so upset. Looking around the area of where he stopped he noticed signs for the line of hotels near the ocean. He was at least two hours from home. If he drove home now with his vision getting worse and the night approaching he would be putting a lot of people in danger. Pulling back onto the road he headed for a hotel hoping he could get a room for the night.
The first place he stopped at had a vacant room, it had been busy with tourists but he still managed to get a room with a nice view of the water. Letting the sound and smell of the water clear his mind he focused on what he did earlier. He thought about how stupidly he acted. He thought about the look of terror on Tamaki's face when he got closer and closer to him. Did Tamaki really believe he would hit him? When did he become such a monster? He wasn't as mad at Tamaki as he was at his father, though he was upset at Tamaki. How could he lie to him, look him straight in the eyes and lie? That pain hurt him but it was over taken by what his father and older brothers were doing. His brothers had recently been trying to fix their relationship, ever since his operation actually. They had called him a few times when he went home, though he didn't want to speak to them until a few months ago. Now he wondered if it was to get closer to Tamaki so this whole thing wouldn't reach the press so soon. He hated his father even more for doing this, if Yoshio had a problem with him then he should handle it between the two of them. He had no right to drag Tamaki into this. No one messed with his family like this, no matter what, he didn't care if it was technically his family causing this problem, if you messed with Tamaki you messed with him and it meant war if you hurt them. He knew his father was ruthless and this is something he would have done if it meant he got his way. His father was proving to him that he still controlled his fate, that he could never escape Yoshio no matter what. Was Yoshio really that displeased that he was having a successful, happy life? Even though he had been shunned from a life he technically never had. His father made it clear that he was never going to be anything but the third son that worked for his brothers as just another employee so why did this bother him?

Again he let his mind go back to Tamaki, how could he have yelled at him so harshly? He had been trying to protect him from learning the truth; something that Tamaki had done for years; always hiding the truth behind that smile, not wanting to worry anyone. How could he fix this? How could he make Tamaki not see the monster he became earlier every time he would see his face?

Tamaki stayed at the foot of Michelle's bed until she fell asleep. He tried to forget about earlier when they were hanging out but now nothing was stopping him. When she was fast asleep he walked to his room and sat by the window and stared out. It was a clear night but only a part of the moon shone down. What would he do now? Should he forget all that happened or was this a sign? Could this be a sign of what Kyouya could become should he snap? Did he want to wait to find out? Would it be too late by then? Again he knew that Kyouya had never touched him but then again they never got so angry with each other before. Life had been pretty good for them up until now. Maybe all the drama that happened in past years had kept this moment; this sort of reaction locked away and now that everything had finally settled it emerged. Could life and a never fading love blind him from how Kyouya really was? What was he going to do? How did he decide something like this? How could you decide something like this? To stay together and maybe go back to the way life was never again having these thoughts in one's mind, or stay and possibly be in an abusive relationship. How did people make the final call?
Letting more tears fall he decided to let his heart decide on the answer. Whatever it chose he would live with and whatever consequences the decisions brought.

Realizing he wouldn't be able to fall asleep with all that was swirling around in his head he got up and walked back downstairs. As much as he hated the thought maybe today would be the one of those nights he needed help. It would be just this once so he doubted he wouldn't become hooked. Opening the medicine cabinet he searched for the bottle of sleeping pills he thought they kept around. Not finding anything he closed the cabinet and stared at his face in the mirror. He couldn't look at his eyes, he didn't want to see the troubling thoughts his soul was dealing with.

Tamaki sat on the couch and flipped through channels not really looking for anything. He hadn't realized it was nine thirty. He jumped in his seat as the phone rang; the remote slipped from his fingers and fell between the side table and the couch.
"Crap." Letting the phone ring he tried to find the remote. He didn't feel like talking to anyone anyway. If it was urgent they would leave a message.

"Tamaki, I know the last thing you probably want to hear is my voice, which is understandable after the horrible way I acted. I just wanted to tell you that I am staying a hotel for the night since I am no where the house, and I don't trust my sight in the dark….I guess I'll talk to you tomorrow. I am sorry Tamaki."
He stared at the machine for a moment, a part of him felt relieved to hear that Kyouya was safe. That was one thing he could stop worrying about. Standing back up he cursed as his knee hit the lock on the side table. He felt a sharp pain course through his leg from the lock hitting his nerve. Why was today turning out to be so crappy? Once the pain went away he noticed the lock had opened and fell off the door, what a waste. Suddenly it dawned on him; this was perfect he found something to help him sleep. He grabbed the first bottle and closed the door. He hoped this wasn't too old, for he knew alcohol always made me tired and he wouldn't have to drink much at all to feel it.

Kyouya placed the phone back on the receiver and stared at the rooms ceiling. He needed to think of a way to fix this. If this could even be fixed he wasn't sure, Tamaki held the final decision since this was completely his screw up not Tamaki's. Whatever Tamaki told him he would agree with. He still believed things could be fixed but he knew fighting would only make matters worse.
"SSShit." He rolled over, shoving his face into the sheets. He was a horrible human being and though he had known it for years this was the first time it ever really affected anyone else. Especially the one he cared for the most.

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Oh I sooo went there, I wasn't going to but my friend brought up a valid point. I touched upon every other major topic in life so why not add one more into this series, plus they needed a fight. Life isn't perfect and full of ups and downs, I want them to have every aspect of a real relationship and the struggles people face. My wrists are beat red from my keyboard and the laptop I'm using because I didn't want to stop until I finished typing up this chapter since it took me hours to do in general. I still love you guys and the reviews, though I know people don't like me too much right now.

~Femalefighter~