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Note: I'm so sorry if I've screwed up something while I was typing. No one is going behind me to see if I've overlooked anything and all so…just let me know if there is something really out of place.
Chapter 8: A Warning
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Kyo yawned and stretched out like a lazy cat. He didn't sleep as much as the others so now he was just being pure lazy. He heard a loud crash come from down stairs and slowly got up to go see what it was. As his foot was about to step off the final step of the stairway, a brown haired girl whizzed past him, just missing his nose and chest.
"SHIGURE, you bastard!!! WHERE ARE YOU!?"
He turned to see Shigure sneaking out the door but the girl spotted him and the chase was on.
"Why can't he just give her his paperwork when he's finished with it? This always happens at least once a month…"
"Who is she?"
Kyo jumped and turned towards Tohru, clutching his heart.
"She's his editor."
"Editor?"
"Yeah. Shigure is a novelist."
"What was all the yelling about?"
"Every time he gets a new deadline, he tortures that girl like crazy. She probably spends most of her salary on a shrink and by the time she can retire, she'll need a straightjacket."
"Does she know what Shigure is? …Is she a vampire also?"
"No and no. She's a human…and I don't know why Shigure puts up with her…but he does and he enjoys teasing her."
Kyo turned to glare in the direction of the persistent knock on the door.
"Go upstairs…now."
Tohru hesitated for a second as he edged closer to the door but ran up the stairs when she received a warning glare from him.
Kyo slowly opened the door and,
"Oh…It's just you…"
"Who else were you expecting?"
"None of your business!"
"Are you going to let me in?"
"Yeah, yeah!" he snapped as he stepped to the side, letting the man with dragon-like* eyes in.
"Where's Shigure?"
Tohru peered around the corner of the stairs at the brown haired man and shuttered internally when he spotted her. He opened his mouth to say something but was interrupted,
"There you are Ha san! I was wondering when you'd be here."
"Shigure…why did you call me? No one here is sick."
"Come with me."
Kyo watched them walk into Shigure's study then turned to fuss at Tohru,
"I thought I told you to go upstairs!"
Thus their argument began. Meanwhile…
"What is this all about?"
"I'm afraid…"
"Go on."
"…that that girl, Tohru, will end up like Kana…I don't want to see a repeat of that and I'm sure you--"
"Just get on with it. Do you want me to erase her memory, is that it?"
"No, not at all! I'm asking you to do everything possible to avoid it. Even if Akito asks you to."
"He won't put up with her if she gets too close, you do know that, don't you?"
"Yes, but help us by stalling him if he gets to that point…"
"Why should I? She's just a human--"
"A human who may give us our hearts back!!"
"…"
"Don't you want to be free of these stupid curses!? Aren't you tired of the kind of life we're living!? How--"
"I tried to escape from him once and look what happened. You're right, I don't want to see a repeat of Kana…and that's exactly why we must get rid of her as soon as Akito tires of her or sooner…I'm leaving."
"Hatori, wait!"
The man ignored him and slammed the front door shut as he walked out. Shigure turned as he sighed but soon began to laugh when he saw Kyo, Yuki, and Tohru. Somehow Yuki and Kyo had been transformed and were bickering madly as Tohru tried to stop them. They all turned to him and asked him why his was laughing,
"To tell you the truth, I don't know. But I needed the laugh, thanks."
POOF!
POOF!
"YAAAHHH!"
Shigure began to laugh again as the poor girl practically crawled up the wall and was redder than an apple. Yuki and Kyo immediately began to argue again as soon as they had their clothes back on.
"Oh Tohru, you haven't been properly introduced to either of these boys, have you? The one on the left is Yuki and the one on the right is Kyo."
"Yes, I've met Kyo in the theater but I--
"You WHAT!? You stupid--"
"Now, now Yuki," Shigure said as he stepped in between Yuki and Kyo, "Yuki, put away that knife--isn't that from my room?--anyway, Akito wanted to see you today so you should probably go ahead and see him."
Yuki growled in response and stomped out the front door after putting on a pair of sunglasses.
"Now…Kyo, I need to try to sort some things out with Hatori…You'll keep an eye on Tohru here to make sure Yuki or someone else doesn't harm her right?"
"What do you…?" Shigure plastered on a big grin, "Wait, don't answer that."
Shigure let out one of his annoying laughs as he headed out the door while Kyo mumbled,
"Damn perverted dog…"
"I guess I'll get to work…"
Kyo turned and watched the girl walk into the kitchen to work on the little bit of cleaning that needed to be done. He watched her work whenever she was in the same room as he was and when she wasn't, he waited for her. She was beginning to over take his thoughts as the minutes ticked by…The more he tried to think about something else, the more he thought about her…and it didn't help to have her whiz by every five minutes or so like a busy bee.
'What's wrong with me?'
Warning…Warning…Warning…
Kyo let out a yell as the voice screamed into every corner of his mind. He clutched his head as he fell to the floor.
Don't lose sight…Don't lose sight…Do what is right…
His head began to spin…faster…faster…and faster…until the voice suddenly came to a halt and he blacked out from the sudden scream of pure silence.
*I don't know how else to describe Hatori's eyes…They definitely aren't normal and they don't look like a cat's or snake's eyes. If you know of a better way to describe them, let me know and I'll use that in later chapters…if no one suggests anything, then their description will remain as dragon-like.
((AN: Good? Bad? Who are the strange voices talking to Kyo and Tohru? What do you think? Reviews please!))
