A/N: Well, I'm back! I can't stand not updating my story so I came back!! Aren't you glad? Anyway, I would like to say: OH. MY. GOD!!! I just got another review! Actually, I got TWO more reviews than the usual one!!! Thank you:

(((((MILHARU, I'm glad you liked it!

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Oh yeah, I just want to tell you that the phrases in italic and bold face are the thoughts of the speaker before them. Okay? Hope you understand...

Wait!! Before I forget (again)! I do not, in any case, own Touya and Yukito. Alright?! Alright! That's good...

Recap:

Nobunaga won't take his defeat easily... Instead, from his pocket, he took a small dagger, about 10 centimeters of razor-sharp blade and about 8 centimeters of leather handle. Then he burst out a wild laugh... a laugh that a predator would have done after capturing its prey.

"What will you do to him?! I said don't touch him!!!" Touya raged helplessly.

Chapter 4

Holding On

Shido, again, ignored Touya, but instead kneeled beside Yukito's face. He cupped Yukito's chin tightly compelling his face to level Nobunaga's wicked eyes

He traced Yukito's jaw line with a fingertip and said, "You're so beautiful. I feel bad that I haven't noticed that earlier..."

But Yukito turned his head on the other side, feeling nausea hit him from the touch of Shido's hands.

"Get your filthy hands off him!" Touya yelled from below.

"Shut up! Just watch as I torment your stubborn friend here!" Shido yelled back.

Shido gripped his dagger, showed it to Yukito then whispered to his ear, "Let go of Kinomoto or I'll just play with you; in which I will be happy and you will be sorry. Choose wisely..."

"I won't let go of my friend!" Yukito replied without hesitation.

Mustn't let go...

"Yuki, no! Please! He'll hurt you more..." Touya said.

"Oh yes, I will!" Shido said scornfully. "You have a very stubborn friend up here Kinomoto! But he'll regret it sooner or later..."

Shido placed his dagger on Yukito's left arm mischievously, slowly and deeply slashed his skin, ripping his blue blazer's sleeve. Yukito pressed his face against the cold soil to give out a muffled cry. He grasped a handful of soil until his hand sores just to suppress his throbbing arm.

"Yuki! Yuki! No!"

Blood oozed from Yukito's arm down to Touya's shoulders dripping both their sleeves with his blood.

"Yuki!"

"So, are you going to let go of him now?" Shido demanded.

"No..."

No! I won't let go...

"Yuki! Just let go of me!" Touya said desperately.

Touya was anguished now. He started twisting his right hand helping Yukito to let go of him.

But Yukito just hold unto him even more tighter.

I will never let go...

Yukito's hand was growing tired. His arm burns awfully and it was intensified with the whole weight of Touya in his arms. But Yukito took all the pain silently.

"Oh, common! Don't be a hard-headed here, Tsukishiro!"

Yukito just remained silent for he didn't want his voice to betray him, he might only let out a moan.

Having replied with nothing, Shido, finally decided to leave...

"Well, then. I can't convince you any more. I love your determination, Tsukishiro..." Shido smirked. "Here's your reward..." he continued.

His reward happened so fast. Shido, in no time, suddenly stabbed his dagger into the side of Yukito's left thigh leaving only 3 centimeters of its blade surfaced.

Yukito couldn't help but cry out in pain, gripping Touya's wrist, his hands becoming numb.

Touya, who didn't know what happened, felt like his heart jumped up his throat in terror.

Shido only smirked harder, "You should thank me for that, you know?"

"Stop it! Please, just stop!" Touya finally begged throwing all his pride away for his friend.

"At last! Now, I had my revenge! I loved playing with you guys!" Shido said triumphantly and turned to go then paused as he remembered, "Oh wait! That is my favorite dagger! Let me take it out for you, okay?"

Shido pulled out the dagger from Yukito's leg eliciting a moan from Yukito and a grief-stricken yell from Touya.

"No! Yuki! Yuki!"

Shido, again, smirked deeply, and said to his men before leaving, "Finish 'em"

Shido's colleagues gave their best smirk as their reply.

Yukito only remembered being kicked off the cliff, being held protectively against comforting arms, pain, pain, pain and total pain before he passed out.

Touya woke up with a throbbing head and a stinging scraped elbow.

What happened?

He looked at his surrounding and saw Yukito lying beside him.

All I could remember is falling off the cliff... when Yukito caught me...

Yukito also fell but I held him and took his fall instead...

I could remember Yukito's hands were still clutched into mine before I took his fall...

He quickly glanced over his friend and saw blood now soaking his clothes.

Oh my God! He'll gonna lose so much blood! Yuki!

Must find shelter now. It's going to be dark here anytime. I'm sure wild animals would be out here soon.

Touya carried his friend in his arms and went to the nearest cave he saw.

I think it's safe here.

He laid his friend comfortably on the ground using his bundled blazer as the latter's pillow. He hurriedly fetched some water from the lake and cleaned his and Yukito's wounds. He properly bandaged Yukito's cuts, specially his thigh, with his handkerchief and a bit of ripped shirt.

Yuki...

He opened Yukito's blazer, undid the button of his shirt, and was dismayed at what he saw. Yukito's abdomen was full of bluish-purple bruises. He soaked a cloth into the basin-like thing with water and gently dabbed it around Yukito's body. He was more than worried just looking at his friend's wounds.

And you did that... just to save me...

He gently ran his fingertips across Yukito's cheek but flinched when Yukito stirred and his eyes flickered open.

"Yuki!"

A/N: Whoa! That was cruel CRUEL CRUEL! Hey! Don't tell me I didn't warn you! To the other fans of great Yukito-sama, I'm sorry for harassing him. I love what I'm doing right now! Oh, I'm so bad... Hey! Do you know how happy I am whenever someone gives me a review?? God! Like an eagle released from its cage!! See? I AM SO HAPPY!!! So please, review more...