*9th chapter... Yes, I decided to post chapters 8 and 9 together for those of you who aren't fans of lemony things. ^_^;; I hope you enjoy this, it picks up in the morning... Oh, and thanks to all of you who commented on past chapters!! Yay. I still dun own Furuba. o.o; ^_^*
Aite - Chapter 9 - A New Path
Yuki blinked, violet eyes opening before he sat up, glancing beside him to find himself left alone... and hurting. "Kyo?" he mumbled, though half asleep, eyes widening as the red-head slipped into the room with two cups of tea in his hands. Yuki tilted his head to the side, pouting at the pain while he tried to ignore it, slender digits raising to brush messy silvery strands from his face as he watched the cat near him.
"Good morning, did you sleep well?" the cat asked, raising a brow as he took a seat next to Yuki, handing the boy a cup of tea as he did so.
"Hai... but I almost regret waking up," stating this rather bluntly, he took the cup and carefully sipped the contents of it. Steamy hot tea only helping him wake up even more. Yuki sighed and hung his head, glancing oddly at Kyo who'd only blinked and stared at him as though he were someone he'd never seen before. "Kyo?"
"Holy Christ!" he exclaimed, sneering as both brows furrowed, "Why did I have to hurt you like this?! I know that's what it's from! I know I was the one that did it! Damn, you'd think I'd think ahead when it came to this stuff!" he paused and frowned as Yuki placed a hand on his cheek. He tilted his head into the palm, crimson hues closing slightly as he gazed into the violet hues of the mouse.
"It's okay. I don't care at all, Kyo... it doesn't mean a thing to me! You and I... expressed our love for each other and if doing that brings a little pain then I don't care! I don't care how much it hurts..."
"You should take a shower, Yuki... It might help you feel better."
Yuki nodded, only to raise a brow as he glanced around, "Ah, Honda-san... she didn't do any of our wash yesterday, I have nothing to wear..."
"You can borrow some of my clothes, I've got plenty to spare.. Sure, you might not be used to it but at least you won't be walking around in the nude, you know?"
Yuki nodded again, a faint smile tugging at his lips as Kyo left to find some extra clothes. Raising a delicate brow as the door slid open, he averted his gaze to the girl who stepped into the room. Violet hues then averted his gaze to the floor, "Hai, Honda-san?"
"Ah, I-I..." she started, stuttering as she watched the Mouse tightened the blankets around himself. "..I made some breakfast, incase you're hungry."
"Arigatou."
"Hai..."
"Hn, don't you announce the presence of visitors?" he hissed lightly as he entered the room behind Tohru, who had been startled by his popping-up.
"G-gomen! I'm so ditzy sometimes!"
Akito merely smiled and hurried her out of the room, tapping her on the head after his task was done, "We need some time alone, I hope you understand." After the girl had gone, Akito had made it a point to take a seat beside Yuki, dark hues seeming to be full of some hidden emotion as he leaned and snaked a hand around the boys neck to draw him in close. "I was so well this morning that I decided to visit." He paused, noting that the boys bare chest... and his clothes strewn about the room. "Now, now, my Yuki... Have you been a bad boy?"
Yuki blinked, staring in disbelief as he looked frightfully into the eyes of Akito, slender digits folding and playing around with the blanket that he had tightened around his waist as Tohru entered. "I-i-iie.." he stuttered, the tone of his voice barely reaching a pitch higher than a whisper. He felt Akito's index finger dig into the nape of his neck and he winced, both eyes falling shut as he tried to ignore the pain.
"Hn. I wasn't expecting to see that vile creature exiting your room. Tell me, my precious Yuki, since when did he visit you this early in the morning without having a plan to defeat you at some thing or another?" He grinned maliciously as he pushed his finger deeper into the boys neck, both brows furrowing as his free hand slammed into the pale cheek of the left side of the mouses face. "You disgust me! ...Everything will be fine, though, I took care of him." Noting the rather disgusted and terrified look on the boys face after he said that, he pressed his finger in harder and grimaced, "Are you not glad that I rid you of pesky and vile creatures?!"
"K-kyo... W..what di-did you do t-to h...im?!" Yuki gasped, arching his neck back as his hands wrapped around the right arm of Akito.
"It's as I thought," the boy hissed before releasing his grip on the mouse and throwing him back into the wall. Making his way to his feet, he placed a hand on Yuki's head, slender digits wrapping around the silver filaments they encountered as he pulled the boy up by his hair. "You've shamed me, Yuki! How dare you even think of doing something I would not approve of?!"
"I-i.. I didn't... me-ean to..." His hands found their way back around the arm as he found himself being pulled up to his feet.
Akito then sneered and swung the boy around as he turned himself, his back facing the wall. "You are a pitiful excuse for a Sohma! You should be exiled! Forced into the streets to live like the low-life you are!" he spat, the volume of his voice reaching a fevered pitch as he insulted the younger boy, bent on belittling him until Yuki re-thought his actions. He knew that he had little chance of Yuki actually regretting doing what he did, and Akito wasn't satisfied with the thought of the mouse only giving the appearance of regretting those things that were all the more worse than just going against Akito's will. He smirked, tightening his grip as he lowered his face to Yukis. "He's coming with me. He's getting locked up a year earlier, thanks to this little endeavor. You aren't to see him."
Yuki choked, both brows furrowing as he put all his strength and effort into pushing Akito's arm away and spoiling his grasp on his neck. Fingernails dug into the skin of the arm as he tightened his grip, his own hand raising to slap the pale flesh of the older boy as Akito lost his grip. "You're not taking him! You're not doing this anymore! We can love! Ye can love and be loved, the only thing preventing us from that happiness is YOU! I don't care what you think, I don't care what you say, and I don't care what you do! You can't have everything your way! I refuse to live in this hell in which you rule as Lucifer. You sicken me! I wont let you do this anymore!"
Akito's head was thrown viciously to the side as Yuki slapped him and he stared in disbelief at the floor as the mouse spoke, all but the steady flow and high pitched voice of the boy seeming to dissolve into nothing. He could feel the anger welling up inside himself, the jealousy and hate. Malice and cruelty. He was about to erupt like a volcano, magma flowing from his veins to cover the land and demolish all within it's path as lava. Growling, dark hues darted up to the boy and he raised a hand only to have it smacked away.
"I wont let you ruin our happiness just because you're going to die. Just because you're too stupid to live what life you have to the fullest. Just because you'd rather hurt us all than give us joy. You'd rather be out Satan than our Savior. You are no martyr, you are the very evil that exists in this family. We'd be better off without you. You are nothing to us but a cruel and unmerciful god of destruction and hate and I can't forgive you." Yuki moved past the shocked Akito, quickening his pace as he reached the door and slid it open before he exited, tightening the loosened blanket around his waist after sliding the door closed.
/Yuki... I wont forgive him.../ Akito mused, slender digits comforting the soon-to-be-bruised flesh of his insulted cheek. Yuki's stepped more than out of line this time, he'd dared to do the unthinkable. He dared to bruise him and to stand up for himself, to completely dismiss what Akito had ordered and had been planning to set in place. He dared to go against his God. Akito couldn't stand it.
"Kyo?" Yuki asked as he peeked into a few rooms he passed, both brows quirked upwards as he spotted Tohru wringing a cloth out into a bowl of water. Poking his head into the room, he saw a rather mangled neko-Kyo -- Tohru obviously playing the part of the nurse caring for her patient. Violet hues widened as he stepped into the room and neared the cat, the various cuts, scrapes, and bruises becoming all the more obvious. "...Kyo..."
"He's okay, Yuki-kun..."
"H-honda-san... a-arigatou..." he offered a faint smile as he glanced at her, taking little notice to the rapidity of his heartbeat and the quickening of his breath. It was hard to be in a room with the two people you love more than anything... the two people you'd give your life for. He blinked and averted his attention back to the sleeping cat, swallowing hard as he listened to the ruffled breathing of the boy.
"Yuki-kun."
"N-nani?"
"...Kyo... means a lot to me, Yuki. You mean a lot to me. I don't want you two getting hurt..."
Tilting his head to the side, his gaze fell to meet that of the girl who had began to fumble around with the damp cloth in her hands. "Honda-san?"
"I didn't expect this -- the rivals finding love for each other. I don't know... maybe if I hadn't left then this wouldn't have happened... Demo, I should have expected this... It's only logical, it happens all the time..! But... you two will get hurt... Kyo... would get hurt..."
Yuki sighed, not needing to hear this right now. Although Tohru was being sincere and expressing what was on her mind... it sounded as if she were trying to break them apart. Nothing was sounding right to him anymore. He hung his head, grimacing as he replayed the words in his head ant took them for what they were worth, "...He's always been your favorite. It didn't matter when I told you that I loved you because you love him, don't you? I wasted my feelings on someone who never would have returned them in the way I wanted her to."
Tohru remained silent for a few seconds before she rose to her feet, handing Yuki the damp cloth before she exited the room. She didn't mean to hurt Yuki, she didn't mean for him to waste his time on her... She never loved him as anymore than a brotherly figure... But Kyo? Kyo was the real cat of the zodiac. He had her eyes before anyone else did... She had her love before anyone else did, as well.
Lowering himself to his knees before lying down beside the cat, he snaked an arm around the furry creature and pulled him close. "Thank you for saving my heart..." Now... all that was left to do was wait for the others to return home. Yuki knew full well that Akito'd be left where he was unbothered until one of the infamous Mabudachi Trio entered the building. Tohru wouldn't go near the god-like boy... unless she wanted all that pent-up anger taken out on her.
*Yes, I know... short... but I figured I might as well post this chapter and get it out of the way. I ran out of ideas about halfway through it. So sorry! It goes right downhill, doesn't it?! Oh well. I'll try to make up for it on the next chapter. ^_^*
Aite - Chapter 9 - A New Path
Yuki blinked, violet eyes opening before he sat up, glancing beside him to find himself left alone... and hurting. "Kyo?" he mumbled, though half asleep, eyes widening as the red-head slipped into the room with two cups of tea in his hands. Yuki tilted his head to the side, pouting at the pain while he tried to ignore it, slender digits raising to brush messy silvery strands from his face as he watched the cat near him.
"Good morning, did you sleep well?" the cat asked, raising a brow as he took a seat next to Yuki, handing the boy a cup of tea as he did so.
"Hai... but I almost regret waking up," stating this rather bluntly, he took the cup and carefully sipped the contents of it. Steamy hot tea only helping him wake up even more. Yuki sighed and hung his head, glancing oddly at Kyo who'd only blinked and stared at him as though he were someone he'd never seen before. "Kyo?"
"Holy Christ!" he exclaimed, sneering as both brows furrowed, "Why did I have to hurt you like this?! I know that's what it's from! I know I was the one that did it! Damn, you'd think I'd think ahead when it came to this stuff!" he paused and frowned as Yuki placed a hand on his cheek. He tilted his head into the palm, crimson hues closing slightly as he gazed into the violet hues of the mouse.
"It's okay. I don't care at all, Kyo... it doesn't mean a thing to me! You and I... expressed our love for each other and if doing that brings a little pain then I don't care! I don't care how much it hurts..."
"You should take a shower, Yuki... It might help you feel better."
Yuki nodded, only to raise a brow as he glanced around, "Ah, Honda-san... she didn't do any of our wash yesterday, I have nothing to wear..."
"You can borrow some of my clothes, I've got plenty to spare.. Sure, you might not be used to it but at least you won't be walking around in the nude, you know?"
Yuki nodded again, a faint smile tugging at his lips as Kyo left to find some extra clothes. Raising a delicate brow as the door slid open, he averted his gaze to the girl who stepped into the room. Violet hues then averted his gaze to the floor, "Hai, Honda-san?"
"Ah, I-I..." she started, stuttering as she watched the Mouse tightened the blankets around himself. "..I made some breakfast, incase you're hungry."
"Arigatou."
"Hai..."
"Hn, don't you announce the presence of visitors?" he hissed lightly as he entered the room behind Tohru, who had been startled by his popping-up.
"G-gomen! I'm so ditzy sometimes!"
Akito merely smiled and hurried her out of the room, tapping her on the head after his task was done, "We need some time alone, I hope you understand." After the girl had gone, Akito had made it a point to take a seat beside Yuki, dark hues seeming to be full of some hidden emotion as he leaned and snaked a hand around the boys neck to draw him in close. "I was so well this morning that I decided to visit." He paused, noting that the boys bare chest... and his clothes strewn about the room. "Now, now, my Yuki... Have you been a bad boy?"
Yuki blinked, staring in disbelief as he looked frightfully into the eyes of Akito, slender digits folding and playing around with the blanket that he had tightened around his waist as Tohru entered. "I-i-iie.." he stuttered, the tone of his voice barely reaching a pitch higher than a whisper. He felt Akito's index finger dig into the nape of his neck and he winced, both eyes falling shut as he tried to ignore the pain.
"Hn. I wasn't expecting to see that vile creature exiting your room. Tell me, my precious Yuki, since when did he visit you this early in the morning without having a plan to defeat you at some thing or another?" He grinned maliciously as he pushed his finger deeper into the boys neck, both brows furrowing as his free hand slammed into the pale cheek of the left side of the mouses face. "You disgust me! ...Everything will be fine, though, I took care of him." Noting the rather disgusted and terrified look on the boys face after he said that, he pressed his finger in harder and grimaced, "Are you not glad that I rid you of pesky and vile creatures?!"
"K-kyo... W..what di-did you do t-to h...im?!" Yuki gasped, arching his neck back as his hands wrapped around the right arm of Akito.
"It's as I thought," the boy hissed before releasing his grip on the mouse and throwing him back into the wall. Making his way to his feet, he placed a hand on Yuki's head, slender digits wrapping around the silver filaments they encountered as he pulled the boy up by his hair. "You've shamed me, Yuki! How dare you even think of doing something I would not approve of?!"
"I-i.. I didn't... me-ean to..." His hands found their way back around the arm as he found himself being pulled up to his feet.
Akito then sneered and swung the boy around as he turned himself, his back facing the wall. "You are a pitiful excuse for a Sohma! You should be exiled! Forced into the streets to live like the low-life you are!" he spat, the volume of his voice reaching a fevered pitch as he insulted the younger boy, bent on belittling him until Yuki re-thought his actions. He knew that he had little chance of Yuki actually regretting doing what he did, and Akito wasn't satisfied with the thought of the mouse only giving the appearance of regretting those things that were all the more worse than just going against Akito's will. He smirked, tightening his grip as he lowered his face to Yukis. "He's coming with me. He's getting locked up a year earlier, thanks to this little endeavor. You aren't to see him."
Yuki choked, both brows furrowing as he put all his strength and effort into pushing Akito's arm away and spoiling his grasp on his neck. Fingernails dug into the skin of the arm as he tightened his grip, his own hand raising to slap the pale flesh of the older boy as Akito lost his grip. "You're not taking him! You're not doing this anymore! We can love! Ye can love and be loved, the only thing preventing us from that happiness is YOU! I don't care what you think, I don't care what you say, and I don't care what you do! You can't have everything your way! I refuse to live in this hell in which you rule as Lucifer. You sicken me! I wont let you do this anymore!"
Akito's head was thrown viciously to the side as Yuki slapped him and he stared in disbelief at the floor as the mouse spoke, all but the steady flow and high pitched voice of the boy seeming to dissolve into nothing. He could feel the anger welling up inside himself, the jealousy and hate. Malice and cruelty. He was about to erupt like a volcano, magma flowing from his veins to cover the land and demolish all within it's path as lava. Growling, dark hues darted up to the boy and he raised a hand only to have it smacked away.
"I wont let you ruin our happiness just because you're going to die. Just because you're too stupid to live what life you have to the fullest. Just because you'd rather hurt us all than give us joy. You'd rather be out Satan than our Savior. You are no martyr, you are the very evil that exists in this family. We'd be better off without you. You are nothing to us but a cruel and unmerciful god of destruction and hate and I can't forgive you." Yuki moved past the shocked Akito, quickening his pace as he reached the door and slid it open before he exited, tightening the loosened blanket around his waist after sliding the door closed.
/Yuki... I wont forgive him.../ Akito mused, slender digits comforting the soon-to-be-bruised flesh of his insulted cheek. Yuki's stepped more than out of line this time, he'd dared to do the unthinkable. He dared to bruise him and to stand up for himself, to completely dismiss what Akito had ordered and had been planning to set in place. He dared to go against his God. Akito couldn't stand it.
"Kyo?" Yuki asked as he peeked into a few rooms he passed, both brows quirked upwards as he spotted Tohru wringing a cloth out into a bowl of water. Poking his head into the room, he saw a rather mangled neko-Kyo -- Tohru obviously playing the part of the nurse caring for her patient. Violet hues widened as he stepped into the room and neared the cat, the various cuts, scrapes, and bruises becoming all the more obvious. "...Kyo..."
"He's okay, Yuki-kun..."
"H-honda-san... a-arigatou..." he offered a faint smile as he glanced at her, taking little notice to the rapidity of his heartbeat and the quickening of his breath. It was hard to be in a room with the two people you love more than anything... the two people you'd give your life for. He blinked and averted his attention back to the sleeping cat, swallowing hard as he listened to the ruffled breathing of the boy.
"Yuki-kun."
"N-nani?"
"...Kyo... means a lot to me, Yuki. You mean a lot to me. I don't want you two getting hurt..."
Tilting his head to the side, his gaze fell to meet that of the girl who had began to fumble around with the damp cloth in her hands. "Honda-san?"
"I didn't expect this -- the rivals finding love for each other. I don't know... maybe if I hadn't left then this wouldn't have happened... Demo, I should have expected this... It's only logical, it happens all the time..! But... you two will get hurt... Kyo... would get hurt..."
Yuki sighed, not needing to hear this right now. Although Tohru was being sincere and expressing what was on her mind... it sounded as if she were trying to break them apart. Nothing was sounding right to him anymore. He hung his head, grimacing as he replayed the words in his head ant took them for what they were worth, "...He's always been your favorite. It didn't matter when I told you that I loved you because you love him, don't you? I wasted my feelings on someone who never would have returned them in the way I wanted her to."
Tohru remained silent for a few seconds before she rose to her feet, handing Yuki the damp cloth before she exited the room. She didn't mean to hurt Yuki, she didn't mean for him to waste his time on her... She never loved him as anymore than a brotherly figure... But Kyo? Kyo was the real cat of the zodiac. He had her eyes before anyone else did... She had her love before anyone else did, as well.
Lowering himself to his knees before lying down beside the cat, he snaked an arm around the furry creature and pulled him close. "Thank you for saving my heart..." Now... all that was left to do was wait for the others to return home. Yuki knew full well that Akito'd be left where he was unbothered until one of the infamous Mabudachi Trio entered the building. Tohru wouldn't go near the god-like boy... unless she wanted all that pent-up anger taken out on her.
*Yes, I know... short... but I figured I might as well post this chapter and get it out of the way. I ran out of ideas about halfway through it. So sorry! It goes right downhill, doesn't it?! Oh well. I'll try to make up for it on the next chapter. ^_^*