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Part 7: Bedtime
Kyou awoke with his head throbbing, and found himself lying on something soft and warm. As he started to get up, groaning from the pounding that increased in his head, he looked around. He realized he was in his own room, lying on his bed. What had happened?
"You awake? You've been out for awhile already." Yuki's voice suddenly interrupted his thoughts, and Kyou turned to see Yuki wearing PJs, sitting on a mattress on the floor next to his bed.
"Yeah…my head feels like its being crushed with rocks. What happened again?" Kyou squeezed his eyes shut, trying to remember why he blacked out…he was taking a bath, and as he stood up…. His eyes snapped open as he suddenly remembered that he had lost consciousness when coming out of the bathtub. He looked down and realized he was still stark naked, and his face turned beet red.
"How…did I…did you….?" Kyou sputtered, staring at Yuki's confused expression. Realization suddenly dawned on Yuki's face and he also flushed, quickly turning away.
"Well, right before you blacked out, you grabbed my shoulder, so I caught you before you fell completely…but not fast enough so that you didn't hit your head on the edge of the tub first." Yuki said, giving a small embarrassed laugh. "And then...since I couldn't carry you all on my own, I called Shigure to help me carry you to your room. But the first thing I did was wrap your towel around you!" Yuki explained rapidly, blushing even harder.
Kyou's eyes were dark with embarrassment. Yuki had seen … everything?
Yuki saw the heated expression on Kyou's face. He had been shocked earlier when he had felt Kyou's hand on his shoulder, but he still didn't turn around fast enough to save Kyou's head from hitting the bathtub. He was in a panic, seeing Kyou passed out and completely naked, and wanting to run out of the room to get Shigure was not an option because of the rope.
Yuki's heart had been pounding when he grabbed the towel to cover Kyou's lower half, trying to look away all the while. Attempting to lift Kyou himself proved unsuccessful, for Kyou was surprisingly heavy and his skin slippery from the water. Yuki had finally yelled for Shigure, and the two half-carried Kyou into his bedroom. Shigure offered to set up a futon for Yuki on the floor next to Kyou's bed, and here they were now, not speaking. When Yuki had snapped out of his thoughts, Kyou had already put his pajamas back on and laid down, head turned towards the wall away from Yuki.
Yuki cleared his throat awkwardly, and climbed out of his futon to switch off the light. Getting comfortable, he faced Kyou's backside, wondering to himself if Kyou was asleep already. He watched Kyou's body rise and fall slowly with deep breaths, and concluded that the cat was already asleep. He sighed heavily. He hadn't wanted the day to end this way, everything had been going well between them that he had been looking forward to a longer talk at night. Even if there was going to be no talk, at least he wanted to see Kyou when he was asleep. Harsh expressions were always the only ones he'd seen on Kyou's face with the exception of today, and Yuki had no doubt that his sleeping face would show a peace he had yet to see.
'I could still see it…" Yuki thought to himself, staring hard at Kyou's backside. Slow, even breaths continued to rule Kyou's otherwise unmoving body, and Yuki sat up. He hesitated. 'Am I turning into some Kyou-obsessed psycho? What if he wakes up and sees me staring at him…that'll go over well,' Yuki belated himself, yet his instincts kept urging him on. 'He won't wake up…look at him, he's dead tired and I doubt anything could wake him up right now.'
Curiosity overruled, and Yuki crept silently to a standing position. Being cursed with the sign of the mouse had helped in these kinds of situations, for Yuki learned how to move unnoticed, just like a small mouse. He drew nearer and nearer to Kyou's backside, finally being close enough to rest his hands on the side of his bed. He listened to Kyou's breathing; it was still as steady as before.
Trying to lean over, Yuki realized he still couldn't see Kyou's face. He would have to actually climb onto the bed. As slowly as he could, Yuki eased a knee onto the bed, and awkwardly lifted the other knee onto the bed, trying to balance precariously on the edge of Kyou's bed. It wasn't working, Kyou was lying too close to the edge of the bed as well, and Yuki just didn't have enough room to balance. Either he would tip forward and fall right on Kyou, or he'd topple backwards onto the floor. He had to come up with another way.
Yuki eased himself off the bed and back onto the floor. He realized that if Kyou was sleeping so close to the edge, that would mean there should be enough space for him to slip in between the wall and Kyou. It was a lot riskier, and probably a lot easier to wake Kyou. Yuki debated his chances, and decided that he hadn't tried this hard for nothing.
He made his way to Kyou's foot of the bed, and lifted one knee onto the bed, then the other. 'Thank God Shigure bought Kyou a big bed,' Yuki thought to himself gratefully as he saw there was indeed more than enough space for him to squeeze between Kyou and the wall. Yuki stretched forward, supporting himself on his elbows, and slowly edged his way closer and closer to Kyou's face.
When he finally reached his destination, Yuki realized he had been right. Seeing Kyou's sleeping face was worth all the trouble he had just gone through. There was not even a trace of tension in his face. Eyes closed and mouth slightly parted as he breathed steadily, Kyou looked like a child. Yuki couldn't help but smile as he looked down to see Kyou's hand tightly clenched around the blanket, almost as if he was holding onto it for support.
He longed to reach out and touch Kyou's sleeping face, just to confirm that he was not dreaming, but that this was really happening, that he, cool Prince Yuki had officially gone insane and crawled onto the bed of a sleeping Kyou Sohma, the cat and sworn enemy of the mouse. He shut his eyes and shook his head, hoping to clear his mind and the cloud of emotion that had fogged his judgment and lead him to do such a crazy thing.
'I really should get off this bed now before I do something stupid,' Yuki thought, willing himself to open his eyes to face reality. But it was too late to regret his actions, for as soon as he opened his eyes, he saw large crimson ones staring right back at him.
