Chapter 10: The Betrayal

By the time I reach home, it's already about 5:00. Miss Honda and that stupid cat were home over an hour ago. I quietly step inside the door. I am really not in the mood for a worried, ecstatic Tohru to greet me. I see from the door that she is in the kitchen, cooking dinner. It looks like miso soup and leeks. I chuckle under my breath. Kyo will just love the dinner tonight…

I set my school backpack down, and sit down and start to watch the news. Tohru hears the TV, and runs into the room, tripping over my backpack in the process, falling down by my feet.

"I'm so sorry!" She pleads, although it was where I set my backpack that caused her to trip, "Did I hurt you?"

"No, Miss Honda," I sigh, "I'm fine. It's you that I'm worried about…" she blushes.

"Oh, I'm fine, one hundred percent, totally and completely fine, don't you worry about me…" I tune her out as she monologues about her well-being. Finally, she finishes, and states, "I'll get back to making dinner now… it's probably about to burn…" And I turn back to the television. Today's my lucky day. She must have forgotten that I was home late, so now I won't have to listen to her monologue about that, too…

"Oh, I almost forgot the whole reason why I came in here in the first place! Yuki, you came home late! Did something happen? Was it at school? Oh, you've got to tell me! Oh, but I'm being nosy, I'm so sorry-" I mentally slap myself. I guess I shouldn't count my chickens. Honestly, Tohru's a great person, but sometimes…

"-Tohru, I think I smell something burning…" I say, interrupting her. It was a good move on my part.

"Burning? Oh! The soup! Oh, no, I'm so sorry!" She cries as she runs into the room, tripping at least twice on her way there. Tohru is definitely a very… unique person, to say the least.

Soon, dinner is served, and Shigure, Tohru, Kyo, and I are seated at the table. It took a while to get Kyo down from the roof when he heard Tohru had made leaks.

"Why leeks? Kyo yells, "Nobody even likes the damn things! I think you make them just cause that rat likes them…"

"Kyo, I think you're the only one who doesn't have the etiquette to be courteous to your chef and eat the food. It's a sad thing when a meal this good is rejected…" Shigure says mournfully.

"………." Is Kyo's reply. He sits and stares disapprovingly at the food for a while, while the rest of us begin to eat. After about five minutes of sitting with no progress accomplished, and the food starting to get cold, Kyo finally announces, "okay, okay, I'LL EAT IT!" And he shoves the food into his mouth, grimacing in disgust. The three of us watch wide-eyed and dismayed as he crams more and more gobs of food down his throat. He finally finishes, and with one triumphant gulp, he utters, "Gross! Not only was that disgusting, but it was cold! Yuck!" I have to really try not to laugh. He's such an idiot sometimes… I guess I don't really hate him, exactly, just because he's such a good form of amusement.

When we all are done with our dinner, and Tohru has cleaned up, with my help, Kyo announces,

"I'm going out on the roof to train."

"I'll come with you, if you don't mind. The roof needs sweeping…" Tohru says, getting up and following Kyo. That's strange. Since when does Tohru sweep the roof? I, having nothing better to do, stood up, pushed in my chair, and went up to my room. I lay down on my bed. I eye my bedside clock, which reads "7:29". I remember that Haru was supposedly coming over later tonight. It's a comforting thought. I start to think about today's events, and what we would talk about. I get lost in my own thoughts, and soon I drift into a dreamless sleep…

I am awakened by loud noises and yelling. I look at my clock again, which now reads, "12:04." I have been asleep for five hours! I glance out my window. It's too dark to make out much, but there's three figures, two of them moving around, like they are fighting or something. Two of the figures are most likely Tohru and Kyo, but who's the third? Shigure, maybe? No, Shigure wouldn't be fighting with Kyo. That left one possibility: Haru. Maybe he did come to see me, and had gone black and picked a fight with Kyo. That was pretty likely. I don't really want to deal with the two of them, so I decide to go back to sleep, but can't, because their loud voices distract me.

"How could you do that, you idiots? You went behind his back! He trusted you!"

"I don't know what you think this is, but it's not what it looks like!"

"It's kind of obvious what you guys were doing out here… ugh, you make me sick, how you're betraying Yuki like this."

A light goes off inside my head when I hear my name.

"You guys, quiet down… he'll wake up. How about we just… don't tell him, okay? Everything will just stay the way it is if we don't tell him…"

"Of course I'll tell him! I'm not going to keep something like this from my best friend-"

"Haru, don't tell him… or I'll… I'll…"

"You'll what, Kyo? You'll beat me up? Send me to the hospital? Maybe, if you're lucky, I'll get amnesia and forget that I ever saw you two!"

"Bastard!"

Then, I hear a lot of noises, like they're fighting, but a lot more seriously than usual… it scares me, how vicious they sound… I'm worried about them, mainly Haru, so I decide to venture outside and attempt to stop them. I walk briskly down out of my room, down the stairs, and out the front door. On the way there, I here something that disturbs me:

"Kyo, no! I'm sorry, but you're taking this too far! You've got to stop!"

"Not until he promises that he won't tell Yuki!"

"Kyo, please, stop! Kyo…" And then there were no more voices for a long time, until I hear Tohru say, "Oh, no…" in a soft whisper. I finally reach the trio… and my heart sinks, my stomach flips inside out.

Haru… or maybe just Haru's body… lies on the ground. One of his arms sticks out at a very irregular angle, and blood trickles from his lips onto the ground. He has a huge, deep wound on the side of his head, so bad that it exposes bone. I cannot say a word. I am in complete shock.

Tohru and Kyo must have heard me walk up. They slowly turn their heads towards me, wide-eyed and looking terrified. I take a good look at them. Both of their hair is messy, lying in matted clumps, with leaves stuck in it. Tohru's blouse is partially unbuttoned. At first I am confused, but then it all comes together inside my head:

Haru must have caught the two red-handed, kissing in the woods, or maybe something more. That's what Haru must have meant when he said that they betrayed me. And Haru was going to tell me. So Kyo tried to stop him, and it all ended up… like this.

I feel my eyes tear up. At first they are tears of sadness and regret. But then, they transform into tears of rage. My hands clench into fists as I look at Tohru and Kyo. Right now, at this very moment, only one thing is on my mind- revenge.