"Kyo. Kyo!" A whispered voice tried to arouse the sleepy orange haired boy. He raised his hand to brush away the intruder. "Kyo!" "Leave me alone Neko, I'm trying to sleep."
"Kyo, what are you talking about. Wake up, stupid." Now that made him angry. Never had his other voice called him stupid. Foolish, silly and a few other choice phrases had come to him, but he would never call himself stupid. He wasn't crazy, you know. He opened his eyes and scanned the room.
"Where are you? And what do you want?" He leaned down to look under the bed and crawled over to check under the dresser. Nothing. He returned to his bed and sat on it leaning against the wall. He noticed that the breakfast tray had been removed and some kind of fish smell came from the lunch tray. No, he didn't even want fish. He would rather have a small koi swimming in his sink, making faces at him as it swam around, at least it would look like it was talking to him. He sighed.
"Are you awake yet? Now, where did you go, I can't see you?" That did it. They were right, he was crazy. He would have saved them the trouble and ended it all except there was never anything lethal around here.
"Kyo! Come on. Do you have any idea how much trouble I could be in for being here, and you are ignoring me. Are you that mad at me?" The voice was just above him and Kyo turned to see a hand laid on the edge of the window over his bed. He turned slowly and eased his way up to the aperature. Only to come face to face with Yuki. "Gods Kyo! You scared me. Don't do things like that."
"What are you doing here?" Kyo looked out at the garden Yuki was standing in, he scanned all about hoping to see that no one would catch his cousin in this covert meeting.
"I came because Hatori told me that you aren't eating. He was worried about you, and so is Tohru. And well, so was I." What was he talking about. Kyo didn't need Yuki and Tohru to tell him when to eat. Heck, he had Neko to nag him about that, though his alter ego had stopped recently.
"I eat." Yuki gave him a knowing look and rolled his eyes. Then his hand reached through the bars to pinch at the skin on Kyo's hand.
"I can sure tell. Look at you you're nothing but skin and bones. They are going to make you go insane and what was that business a few minutes ago, have you been talking to yourself. How can we get you out of here if you start acting crazy. Now, go eat your lunch."
"I'm not hungry! And I don't take orders from you!" Kyo stated firmly rubbing his hand that still hurt from where Yuki had pinched him. A small purple mark was just then rising to the skin's surface. "What do you mean get me out of here?"
"Shhhh. Not so loud. We are trying to get you out, but it is going to take some time. In the meantime start taking better care of yourself, do you understand?" Kyo shook his head, why would Yuki want to get him out of here? He was his enemy wasn't he?
"Why are you doing this?"
"Because I feel responsible and it is wrong. No one should be kept like this. Why didn't you tell me? I would probably have let you beat me, you stupid cat." Kyo started to get angry about that.
"I don't want you to let me beat you, I wanted to win. What would it prove to win that way?"
"What did it prove anyway. Except that Akito is insane, and you are being kept in a cage so that you won't hurt anyone. What is wrong with this picture?" Yuki's voice had a dangerous edge to it and Kyo didn't like the sound. His cousin was barely controlling the anger that threatened to overwhelm him. Kyo was surprised that the one person he knew to rarely allow emotion to show was almost being swamped by the strength of his own.
"You should go. You don't want to be punished for being here. I'll be alright, it's not that bad." He wanted to send Yuki away, not because he hated the boy, because he didn't want to see him succumb to his anger. Kyo did not like the idea of being the cause of that. He would suffer alone and no one would be harmed but himself.
He had only to convince his cousin that fears about him were unfounded. "I am starting to get hungry, Rat so leave. I don't want my appetite ruined by your presence."
"Don't lie to me, Kyo. Are you really going to eat?" Kyo nodded at his cousin. Trying not to give anything away in his facial expressions. "Well, I should go. But, I'll be back and you had better look like you've been eating, do you understand?" Kyo nodded again. Yuki glared at him once more before turning and sneaking out of the gate to the outside world, looking back only once before disappearing around the fencing. Kyo sighed. He hated tricking his cousin, but it was for the best. He slid down to the bed below him and curled up to once again drift into sleep, lunch tray untouched.