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Stitched Memories Part 2- III

Dinner was uneventful for the most part, and before as well. Kyo had returned home after running away from school, but went to the roof and didn't go down, not even for dinner. Yuki remained at his secret base for a while, before going inside to bid Tohru farewell as she went to Shigure was simply puzzled by everyone's strange behavior and chose not to comment on it. After Tohru left the house for work, Shigure and Yuki stayed seated at the table. This is when the dog decided to break the tension.

"So... Yuki," he began, "Anything intresting happen at school today"
The other boy gave im a look that said 'I don't want to talk about it.' This kept Shigure prying, "Come on, anything remotely intresting? In the slightest"
Yuki gave up, and got up to leave the table. He couldn't really handle Shigure's questions at the moment. But the novelist had one more thing to say, "What about Tohru? She seemed to be rather... how should I put this... not herself. I know you must be worried, right"
"Right now, I don't believe I should tell you. Not yet anyway... not until it becomes a threat." with that the silver haired boy left the presence of his older cousin and shut himself up in his room.

Kyo decided to wait for her, for Tohru to come home. For a while he had debated on if he should come down from the roof. Finally, he thought it best if he just stayed up here and waited for Tohru, then he'd go down. Judging by the position of the moon, Kyo guessed that Tohru would be gone for two more hours. He sighed bitterly, he hated having to wait for her to come home and it wasn't that he felt he was going out of his way or it took time away from him. It was the feeling he got when he waited, the nagging feeling that Tohru might not come home again. It might be due to the fact that she nearly left twice before, or it might be because his mother, father, and Kila left him and didn't come home again.

A growl emitted from him, 'Why?' that was all he had been asking himself all day. 'Why had Kila left? Why is she back now? Why did her memories have to be erased? Why am I thinking about her now?' Kyo was sick of all the fucking whys.

Kyokyo? 'What?' Umm... nothing... nevermind... 'What is it?' Nevermind! 'if you're gonna say something then say it!' No! Kyo clenched his fists in attempting to control his anger, to suppress it. Kyo! Kitty and me want to go ice skating, do you want to come too? 'I dunno.' Please? 'Fine...' Thank you so much! It'll be fun! 'Yeah... whatever...' He shook his head, causing his orange locks to tremble. Kyokyo? 'Hmm? Kila? What's wrong?' I-I had a nightmare... 'Again? What about?' My... my... mom... 'Oh...'

A roll of thunder brought Kyo from the voices of his past that continued plauging his mind. Waiting a minute or so and flash of lightening led him to believe that a storm was on the way. His brow furrowed, rain was not what he needed tonight. Then it came to him that Tohru would be walking alone, through the woods, late at night, during a storm. When rain began trickling down from the clouded skies, his suspiscions were confirmed and he set off to meet the brunnette girl at work.

Latching her locker shut, Tohru gave a sigh of relief, happy that another day of work had been accomplished. She left the office building in high spirits, only to be discouraged when she noticed the rain coming down lightly. Of course, nothing could keep her sad for long. Almost immediately after, she began thinking of how the rain would turn into snow and the snow would melt into spring.

"That would be nice!" Tohru said outloud, "To see spring again."
"Hmm... I suppose it would be... I guess you weren't kidding when you said you'd see me later."

In surprise, she looked up to meet the teal eyes of Kila Hasaru. From the looks of it, the red head had just crossed the street, nearly walking into the dazed Tohru for a second time that day.

Tohru stumbled around for something to say, "Oh, umm, Kila! Hi. What are you doing out here so late? And in the rain?"
"I could say the same for you... but, I'm simply walking home from my job at the resturant on the corner." she replied, pointing to a tiny cafe down the street for evidence, "But what about you? Why are you out here?"
"I was going home from work too! What a coincidence!" she said brightly.
Kila nodded, a slight smile on her lips, "Mm-hmm. Kitty and me live in that apartment buliding down there."

Tohru looked over at the bulding in the midst of all the hustling and bustling late night traffic and all the city lights. Remembering about the cat, she quickly looked to see if Kila was carrying the plush with her. The faded, yellowish-orange cat was draped over her left arm carefully and it's head was cradled by her hand.

"I see you brought your cat along." Tohru commented cheerfully.
She nodded, "Yeah... he comes everywhere with me. I don't feel safe without him, you know?"
Tohru looked on, surprised that this girl had shared something so personal. "Oh, I'm sorry... I guess that sounded a little weird."
"Huh?" Tohru shook her head feverantly, "No! No, I thought it was sweet."
Kila averted her gaze, "Oh... well, thanks."

The two girls walked in silence, biding each other farewell only when they reached the younger one's apartment complex. Tohru continued on home, now drenched since she didn't think to bring an umbrella. Her thoughts drifted back to the strange reactions of Yuki and Kyo when Momiji mentioned the girl with whom she had just been walking with. This got her caught up in worry, causing her to drift off and think without paying attention to where she was going. Resulting with the drenched girl colliding into our orange-haired friend(A/N: couldn't resist... heh...).

Soon Tohru was kneeling in a puddle and before her was a very angry, wet, tired cat. "Eek! I'm so sorry! I just wasn't looking where I was going! I should have been paying more attention! I'm sorry!"
"Yeah yeah..." Kyo muttered, sounding exhausted probably due to the rain, "Just... just come on. Let's go home."
"Okay."

Kyo attempted to turn around and walk back as a cat, but was immdiately picked up by Tohru who had grabbed his clothes as well. She began walking, despite the half-hearted struggles to get down.

"You look tired Kyo, you shouldn't push yourself too hard. Besides, it would be a problem if you transformed back." she explained to the disheveled cat, who was quickly drained of his energy due to all his effortless attempts to escape.

After a period of half an hour, they approached Shigure's house. Tohru was about to place Kyo down, but noticed that he was fast asleep. She smiled to herself, then entered the house and crept up the stairs into Kyo's room and lad him on the bed with his clothes. Making way to exit the room, the cat shuddered violently. Surprised by the sudden movements, Tohru looked on.

"Kyo?" she asked tenatively, "K-kyo...?"

Kyo's eyes opened abruptly, and he leapt up from his previous position. He panted heavily, shaking his head to rid himself of the images. The blood... "No!" The blood and her eyes... "Leave me the hell alone!" The little girl... "Go away!" The stuffed cat... "Just go away..." Tohru... Kyo turned around, but emptiness met him. He was alone. All alone...


A/N: Sorry it took me so long to update, my parents planned us a surprise trip to Santa Cruz and then school started and blah! Hehe... well, it may take me a while to update so I apologize it advance.