Tohru's eyes finally fluttered open. She sat up and felt a pain in her stomach and leg so she just lay back down, staring at the ceiling. She wondered why she felt so dizzy. Yuki and Shigure came into her room and smiled, more of a sad smile because of her state, seeing she was awake. She sat up slowly to look at them. She winced in pain.
"W-Where's Kyou-kun..?" Tohru asked, a hint of weakness in her voice. Shigure hushed her as he handed her a tray of sushi. Yuki look worriedly down at Tohru as she silently ate, her eyes fixed to the wall ahead of her. She was daydreaming. Yuki spoke up.
"Kyou is on the roof. After he helped bring you in and set you on your bed he scoffed and went to the roof. That was about..Two hours ago." Shigure only nodded. Tohru set the tray of sushi on the floor next to her futon and threw the covers off her legs. She let her legs dangle over the side of her futon as she regained her strength to touch the floor with her feet and stand up. Yuki and Shigure held their arms out to catch Tohru if she were to fall. She was still weak from the injection of that needle. She stumbled forward, Yuki and Shigure were too far away to catch Tohru and they didn't make it in time. She feel on her knees. Yuki and Shigure gasped and stepped to her side to help her up.
"T-Thank you..I am so sorry.." Tohru said, rising to her feet with the help of Shigure and Yuki.
"Sorry for what, Tohru-kun?" Shigure asked.
"For..For..Everything..For being a bother to you all..For causing you all such worry and concern only for me.." Tohru said..A few tears started to slide slowly down her cheeks. Yuki leaned in and wiped them away, his lips only inches from Tohru's. She blushed and looked Yuki in the eyes. He pulled away and smiled at Tohru. Tohru nodded to both Yuki and Shigure and started to walk out of the room.
"Where are you going, Honda-san?" Yuki asked.
"To talk with Kyou-kun.." Tohru responded, already in the doorway. Shigure and Yuki just let her go. When Tohru got outside, she couldn't climb the ladder because of the pain it caused her. So she just yelled, a weaker yell. "Kyou-kuuuun! Come down here please and talk to me?" Tohru waited but she didn't hear a reply. "Kyou-kun?" She yelled louder. Harumi, Chiaki, Maemi and Nozome came out from behind the Sohma House.
"He left." Nozome said. "Where..Where did he go to?" Tohru asked, looking at Nozome, then at Maemi, then at Chiaki, then at Harumi. "He went to the place we all were held..He said something about revenge." Maemi said. Tohru gasped.
He was going to get revenge for what they did to her..
"Oh my gosh! He might get hurt!" Tohru yelled and motioned the girls over to the Sohma Fountain. "Do you remember where that place was?" Tohru asked. No answer from Harumi, Maemi or Nozome.
Chiaki spoke. "Uhm..I do.." She replied shyly. Tohru smiled. "Where is it, Chiaki? Please lead the way." So Nozome took Chiaki's hand and they lead the way. Tohru walked between Maemi and Harumi. Chiaki pointed. "This is the place.." Tohru remembered.
Someone greeted them. It wasn't Akahito, Yeijiro, Ryunosuke or any of the other three men. It was someone different. He was dressed in black with a cloak over his body and his hood pulled up, covering all his face except his mouth. Tohru noticed it wasn't any of the other men because the voice was different.
"Follow me." The man said, motioning them to the now unlocked gate that they had climbed before. "My name is Eijiro Azumamaro. I will lead you to the new captive." The one called 'Eijiro' walked through the gates and lead the five girls to a room that looked bigger from the outside than the ones they were in before. Eijiro opened the door to reveal an unconcious Kyou.
Tohru gasped.
He was in handcuffs and around his ankles were tied in rope. "Oh my goodness! Kyou-kun!" Tohru yelled as she ran over to his side and kneeled next to him. She started to cry as she noticed a thin bloodline coming from his left nostril and another bloodline coming from both corners of his lips. His eyes were black and his what used to be smooth-milky white skin was blotched with bruises. Tohru pulled him into her lap and hunched over him. She started crying silver tears.
Kyou started to stir in his sleep. He felt the tears fall on his lips and his cheeks and run down to his jawline. His eyes opened slowly as he groaned with pain. "Kyou-kun!" Tohru sat up and looked down at him. He tried to smile, but his lips were also bruised, so he just nodded. He started to cough and blood came from his mouth and splattered over Tohru's nightgown. Tohru didn't cringe that her ivory colour nightgown was now stained with scarlet blood. She just studied Kyou's features. Tears started to well in her eyes again. Kyou reached up his hand to wipe them away.
"Don't cry, Tohru...I'll be fine..It's just a few bruises, nothing I can't handle." The corners of his lips curled into a gentle smile that was too small a smile to cause him to cringe in pain. Tohru kept sobbing. The four girls went over to Tohru and Kyou and started to comfort Tohru. Eijiro looked at them all and decided to join. He took down his hood and threw off his cloak. Kyou started to tell Tohru about what he did.
"I was furious that you came back injured, so I asked these girls if either of them knew the direction to where you were taken. I met up with five men and started to fight them..They were the easy ones. The one that did this to me though was that big guy. 'The Boss'. He wasn't as weak as he appeared. He bound my hands and feet so I wouldn't struggle and try to punch or kick him anymore..And that's how I ended up here in this condition." Tohru hugged him close, and he didn't transform..They both wondered why this is happening. As Tohru hugged him, his eyes closed and about to fall into another sleep when Eijiro warned them to hurry to get Kyou out of there, that someone was coming. Tohru searched the back of the room to find a hidden door..Eijiro pointed out where it would be and she pressed her hardest, motioning the others to help. Then a passage was revealed and they were clumsily falling out of the passageway and into the bright day. Eijiro followed behind, a bit delayed, then the door to the room opened and a yell was heard. The voice was of one of the men that the name was still unknown to Tohru. "They escaped again!" They all heard him yell. Tohru started to slowly bring Kyou up to support him and succeeded somewhat with the help of Eijiro. The others scrambled to their feet and started to ran while Eijiro, Tohru and Kyou all slowly dragged behind. Then..Out of nowhere, Ryunosuke appeared infront of the straggling trio of Tohru, Eijiro and Kyou!
"Thought you could get away again eh, girl? Looks like I'm the one who was quicker this time." Ryunosuke spoke in a low, evil voice, his eyes black and cold. Tohru could have sworn she saw what looked like flames in the depths of Ryunosuke's pupils. Oh my gosh..With Kyou in this condition our pace can't quicken..And..Why is this Eijiro helping us? Who is he? Is he one of the men with the unknown identity? No. He doesn't look it. And even if he was, Ryunosuke would have probably said something to him.
"Heh. Well, Brother," Eijiro started. Tohru gawked surprisingly over to Eijiro.
"You seem to have forgotten that I have certain abilities that you can't help." His pallid-pink lips form a smirk and his mysterious grey eyes look as though he would drop Kyou and pounce at any time.
But he didn't.
He just untied the strings around his neck that held up his cloak and unbuttoned the brooch that seemed to be a Mage Crest of some sort. Under the cloak that Eijiro had been hiding was a bright white outfit..And upon his forehead played a symbol. The Kanji symbol meaning 'Fire'. He closed his grey eyes and started to mumble small words. Ryunosuke looked furious. With the words Eijiro spoke in another language, the bodies of Tohru, Kyou, Maemi, Harumi, Nozome, Chiaki and Eijiro's all glowed of a pallid, yet eerie, silver..Almost seeming a silver flame was engulfing their bodies and teleporting them to a place elsewhere. Just a few minutes ago they had almost been captured by Ryunosuke. Again. And now they have waken to a meadow, much like the one in one of Tohru's dreams, and lifted their heads. All the bodies were arranged neatly in a circle of unconcious bodies with Kyou in the middle. They all are awake now and Tohru questions Eijiro about his powers and everything. Eijiro told Tohru there was no need to wonder because it was his origin, a gift from his father that his brother Ryunosuke had not received because he shared another father. With that, Tohru crawled over to the still-sleeping Kyou. She noticed his wounds were healed and he was somewhat..
Smiling..?
Yes..He was smiling..Smiling in his sleep. He then shifted slightly and woke up, a smile still playing over his wind-dried lips, he was staring up at Tohru now, who leaned far over him and was watching him smile in his sleep. Tohru, now shocked, leaned back and Kyou sprung up, happy to see Tohru alright and her bruises healing. But how did they get there?
"Eijiro helped us teleport," Harumi said in a voice that the wind seemed to make sound a bit hush, almost as if she knew what Kyou was wondering. Kyou raised an eyebrow and nodded, satisfied.
"Tohru, what do you say we try to go home?" Kyou asked, looking around the empty meadow. Nobody roamed. Only butterflies lingered above the flowers and the gentle breezes played atop the meadow's flowers and caressed the faces of the seven people. Eijiro spoke up. "You cannot. Not until it is safe we can leave these fields. That should be in another day or two." Kyou, Tohru, Maemi, Harumi, Nozome and Chiaki all slumped back down. "But why, Sir?" Chiaki asked shyly. "My brother still lurks to find us. He stops at nothing until he finds what he wants. We should all be protected here. This is my place." Eijiro replied. "But..Uh..Why would he be after us?" Maemi and Nozome asked. "Not just you," Eijiro said. "There is something on one of you that he finds he needs. Perhaps a piece of jewelry that gives off an aura of value, or perhaps power." He explained.
"Ah.." Kyou said. "So, he is just some guy trying to capture anyone he finds that 'has something valuable'?" He seemed confused. "That is more than likely correct," Eijiro gazed to Kyou. Eijiro looked around the meadow for a forest full of trees that may bear fruit. "Ah!" Eijiro cried as he jumped to his feet and ran towards a few trees that held oranges, peaches, plums, cherries. Tohru looked around confusingly. "We need a stove. And a knife and some pairs of chopsticks." Kyou laughed and looked to Tohru, who still seemed to be confused and lost in a daze. "A stove? what for?" Tohru snapped back to reality.
"Why, to cook, of course!" She replied cheerfully.
"Ah," Kyou whispered.
Eijiro came back with his cloak slung over his shoulder, bulged out a little, and Tohru helped him carry it all.
"Heh. Thanks." Eijiro replied as Tohru took half the fruit from Eijiro's cloak.
"You're welcome!" Tohru smiled widely, taking the fruit over to the rest of the bunch.