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Note: Arghhhhhhhh! I am so sorry that I took so long to update and then give you a short chapter -- See, I forgot about this thing called 'school' that is out to eat up all my time, and finals were dumped on me this week too. (Blah blah blah, see me whine) But, the good news is, school is now over and I suddenly have all this free time to work on this fic. Yes!

And this is where I beg for ideas! See, I have no idea what Kagura's secret project could be, I guess I kind of randomly threw it in. I think it has something to do with Yuki. But anyway, if you have any ideas to what it could be and would leave them in your review or something, I'd love you forever

Oh, and this has nothing to do with anything, really, but if you happen to be a Kingdom Hearts fan as well as a FB fan, then watch out for "The Sora Project" that I'm working on.

Anyway, enough advertising and rambling.

"Summer Rains"

Chapter 10

"Whoa, those grins of yours are starting to scare me," I said to both of them, only half joking. Neither really smiled that often, especially a huge grin like that.

"Your mission, cat-boy, whether you chose to accept it or not--and you better--" Uo started, pounding her fist into her right hand. Hanajima interrupted her.

"Our mission," she corrected, "is to get Yuki to tell us what is wrong with him."

"Oh yea? That's it?"

"Calm down, kitty-cat!" Uo said, grabbing me in a headlock, "You didn't let us explain how."

"So tell me already," I demanded, trying to pull out of her grip. Damn, she was freakishly strong. "And let go while you're at it."

"It's simple," Hanajima said, "blackmail."

"You're not serious! What good will that do?" I exclaimed, not believing this was Hanajima 'grand master plan.' What in the hell did we have to blackmail Yuki with? Everyone thought he was perfect and loved him and probably wouldn't believe anything bad about him anyway. Man, and I'd always thought Hanajima was pretty smart. The only thing was his zodiac form, I guess, but there was no way Hanajima of the Yankee could know about that, right? Because Tohru wouldn't tell them…

"Think about it," the Yankee told me, "he has a scarily obsessive fan club of idiots that, well, obsess, over him."

"So?" I asked in an annoyed tone because and hated it when people wouldn't get to he point and she still had me in a headlock.

"Well, why do you think they never come over here?" Hanajima asked.

"Because they've got their twisted code of honor that doesn't allow for them to bother him at home?" Yuki's obsessive group had three rules: don't touch his things or him, don't bother him at home, and plus each class had to refer to him in a certain way. I think it was either Sohma-kun, Prince Yuki or Yuki-kun. I don't know, but it was stupid.

"Because they don't know where he lives, baka neko! That's their cover," Uo said, finally letting go of me, "because they can't let it be known they don't know where their Precious Prince Yuki Sohma, then one boy they obsess over endlessly, lives. They'd rewrite their little rules in a minute and run right over if they knew. That would drive him insane, listening to that stupid chant of their over and over and over!"

The Yankee broke into a fit of evil laughter just then, and I just looked at her like she was a nut. It made sense, though. If there was anything else besides Akito that Yuki was afraid of, it'd probably be his little club.

Tohru called, and the Yankee and Hanajima left for the main house to go get Tohru. Shigure bid them farewell and turned to me after closing the front door.

"So, Kyo-kun, what did they have to say?"

So I told him the whole plan and he laughed and said it was just crazy enough to work. I made a comment on how I thought it was too crazy to work, and Shigure opened his mouth to reply, but we suddenly heard Hatsuharu's voice outside. Shigure and I both looked in the direction of his voice as if we could see through the walls of the house that separated us from Haru.

"Is it really that much to ask? Too much to tell someone who's worried about you what the hell is wrong with you? Oi, Yuki! Listen to me, damnit! Yuki!"

This was followed by the slamming of the front door, the appearance of a pissed off Yuki, who retreated to his room, and the entrance of a tired-looking Hatsuharu.

I hoped Shigure was right about this plan working.

"What happened?" Shigure and I asked at the same time, similar looks of concern on our faces.

"Everything was fine, I guess, he sure acted like it, or tried to. He was acting strange, so I asked him what was wrong and he got all pissed off about it and stormed off saying he didn't want to talk about it."

"Stranger than usual?" I asked him.

"Mhm. Like he was depressed or something," Haru sighed and ran a hand through his hair, "I wish I could understand him."

"I think we all do," Shigure said, sighing as well, "but I guess all we can do is just give him his space and leave him alone."

"Maybe," Haru agreed somewhat reluctantly, "anyway, I'd better get back home. Kagura wanted me to help her and Tohru, and if I'm back too late, she'll probably kill me."

"Her project again?" Shigure asked with a slight smile.

"Yea," Haru said with a nod.

"Hey, Haru, what is her project about anyway?"

"Hey, well, I'm out of here!" he said after I asked, stepping out of the door with an extremely out-of-character cheerful wave.

"Bye, Kyo-kun!"

"Hey, get back here, Hatsuharu!"

He was already halfway down the front walkway by the time I'd said it.

"Nobody tells me anything anymore, " I muttered to myself.

"Nobody told you anything in the first place, Kyo-kun," Shigure pointed out.

"Thanks, Shigure, really," I said dryly.

"Don't you feel like a mushroom, Kyo-kun?"

I gave Shigure one of those you're-a-certified-nutcase-aren't-you looks.

"What?"

"You know, Kyo-kun. In the dark about everything. Like a mushroom grows in the dark or whatever," he explained, waving his arms for emphasis.

I don't know if I was just really stressed out and snapped or what, but I found that amazingly hilarious and started laughing.

"I… am… a… mushroom!" I gasped between laughs.

Shigure shook his head as I laughed, probably sorry he'd said it.

"You're a nut, that's what you are."

Yuki didn't leave his room since he'd got home with Hatsuharu following. I'd tried to find out what Kagura's project was from Tohru, but she just smiled and told me Kagura had said not to tell me yet. I wondered what could be so secret I couldn't know about it.

As I was thinking about everything that had been going on lately, I was resting on the back porch, instead of the roof, for once. As I stretched out on my side, back to the door and one arm holding up my head, I was enjoying the cool night air. It was clear tonight and the light of the moon and stars was bright. Suddenly, I heard the door slide slowly open. I expected it to be Tohru, but at the same time I knew it wasn't her.

"Kyo," Yuki said, taking a seat beside me.

"What do you want," I asked with a sigh. I thought I was going to get to enjoy such a nice night.

"Was Haru mad?"

"Well, of course he was. He tries to help you and you get all bitchy on him. I would have punched you in the face. Not that I'd be helping you in the first place or anything. But why are you asking me? You piss off all these people, and then you come annoy me on how they acted instead of apologizing or something."

"I don't know."

"You don't know? Yuki, you're really messed up sometimes. If you would apologize once in awhile when you did things like this, you wouldn't have to worry that everyone hates you."

"It's not that easy…to apologize."

"Well nobody ever said it was. It's probably the hardest thing in the history f difficult things someone has to do."

"You make it look so easy, Kyo."

"What?"

"You know, you apologize all the time. Like it was nothing."

I guess he was right. I didn't even realize…

"Well, yea, I guess. Mostly only to Tohru though. I start thinking about how she must have felt when I did something that hurt her feelings. Then I think 'What of she thought I meant it this time…?' She's the type that would… Then I feel I'd better apologize, kind of to show her that I didn't really mean it, but also…"

Yuki didn't say anything, he was just watching me, probably wondering why I was telling him this. I wondered why too.

"Also…to show that I care…"

Yuki glanced at me for a minute more, then up at the night sky. With a sigh, he stood up and moved to the door.

"Kyo,"

"Yea?"

"Thanks."