[copied an pasted from previous chapters, feel free to skip over]
Title: When It Rains, It Pours
By: BluX
Rating: R
Warnings: THIS IS YAOI! YOU NO LIKE, THEN YOU NO READ!! If you don't even know what "YAOI" means then that basically says to me that you shouldn't read this…
Pairing: Kyo x Yuki
Summary: Storms have adverse effects on animals. What will happen to the Yuki when the Kyo goes emotional during a severe storm? How will Yuki react to the Cat's unconscious confessions?

Oh my goodness!! cries I'm so surprised at all the reviews I got! [25 to be exact] cries some more I didn't know so many people would enjoy my sad attempt at writing! I'm so grateful!! bows Thank ALL of you that reviewed! You give me such strength!!

Well, it seems I'm back with another chapter. All the positive reviews made me want to hurry with a new chapter to appease the masses. throws steak at large dog with nametag reading "the masses" Horrible joke, I know. I was in such a hurry with this chapter that I didn't have time to read over it 50 million times like I usually do to get rid of most of the spelling and grammatical errors and to make sure it fit in with the story. So yet again, please excuse any serious spelling and grammatical defects in this chapter.

I guess that's all for my foreword. You can get on to reading now…

Chapter 3

Nothing much happened that afternoon. Kyo remained at his stakeout place on the porch while Yuki had tried to busy himself with things inside the house. Only once had Yuki stepped out onto the porch. Yuki immediately sensed the Cat nearby but chose to act completely oblivious to Kyo's existence, as did the Cat to Yuki. Neither looked at the other but both had a permanent image burned on their minds of the other that appeared as a picture in their minds eye. They didn't need to look at each other. Needless to say, Yuki had retreated into the house and Kyo had moved himself to another part of the porch, far away from the nezumi.

Dinner was the same as the afternoon had been. Yuki had retrieved the food that Tohru had cooked for the neko and nezumi. Yuki had called for Kyo and the Cat sulked through the door of the dining room. Both had seated themselves and eaten in complete silence. Only this time, Kyo and Yuki would glance up from their food every once and awhile at the other occupant at the table. Once Kyo had caught Yuki looking and yelled his usual:

"What are you looking at?!" Kyo had grumbled loudly while finishing up his food.

"Nothing, baka…" Yuki had replied calmly, also finishing up his food. Kyo then "humph"ed and both stood to clear the table.

Feeling an obligation as the only other occupant in the house, Kyo stayed in the kitchen to help with the dishes. Yuki was somewhat surprised at this but did not show it. The Mouse cleaned while the Cat dried, only realizing their mistake later.

Yuki submerged his hands back into the water to catch a dish, his delicate hands not used to doing such chores. Maybe I should have made the Cat do this, he thought to himself. No, that would have made the baka go into a rage and cause something more to be broken. Perhaps it was better this way. Yuki scrubbed the dish and paid no attention to the annoyed remark from Kyo:

"Hurry up! You take long enough doing this!" Kyo snapped as he waited with the towel. "I could do this 10 times faster than you!"

Yuki calmly rinsed the dish off and handed it to the impatient Cat, who took it, quickly dried it, placed it in the correct place in the cabinet, and returned to rant some more while waiting for the next dish. Yuki almost sighed, but then realized that would only fuel the Cat with his ranting so only just breathed a slow deep breath. Reaching in again and grabbing a plate, scrub, rinse, then hand to the…

"Here, let me show you how much faster this could go," The Cat said as he lunged for Yuki's place in front of the sink. That was when the mistake happened…

Kyo reached for Yuki's hand, which happened to be holding the dish away from the sink for the Cat to take, to pull him away from the sink. But as his hand touched the nezumi's something very odd occurred.

Yuki's mind was still on passing the dish to the fuming neko but everything stopped when he looked down just in time to see Kyo's hand touch his. At that moment a jolt or shock of something feeling like electricity started at the point of contact between their skin and traveled from that spot. Tiny needles of some odd sensation bloomed under Yuki's skin and traveled up his arm. Stopping, or rather, fading as it reached up the side of his neck. Yuki's hand was so numb that he didn't realize that the slippery dish he had been holding had fallen from his grip.

With reflexes like his animal curse, Kyo's eyes darted to the falling plate and immediately bent down to catch it inches from breaking across the floor. Yuki still stood in shock with his hand outstretched but suddenly shook out of it and watched as the Cat straightened with plate in hand.

That was odd, Kyo thought as he stood back up with narrowly saved plate in hand. Something had happened when he had touched the nezumi; it had felt like tiny prickles of something traveling up his arm. That was way too weird for the mind of Kyo to comprehend. His arm had stopped its odd stunt when he had let got of the nezumi's hand. It now was tingling and somewhat numb. He glanced up at Yuki as he stood back up and time stopped. The Cat could read the confusion in the other's deep violet eyes. So that odd sensation hadn't just ripped up his arm, it had happened to the mouse as well. That must have been why the mouse had dropped the plate.

Uh-oh, questions again, Kyo thought as said questions began to barrage his poor brain. Something very odd was happening to the two and it was puzzling the Cat more and more.

Kyo looked once more at the mouse. Violet eyes were large, confused and embarrassed. Lips were opened slightly in surprise while a very soft blush appeared on his cheeks. His breathing was slightly quicker and the hand that Kyo had touched seemed to be shaking slightly. It was oddly silent, it lay thick and wanting to be broken but neither spoke. The room had suddenly become quite hot as well.

"Gomen…" Yuki whispered softly as he looked straight into the eyes of the Cat. His eyes and features looked as if he didn't quite realize where he was and more like he was trying to comprehend what just happened. Kyo realized his hand was shaking…

What…what just happened, Yuki thought to himself. The look in Kyo's brilliant eyes said that his mind was repeating the same thing. The plate in the Cat's hand was shaking quite badly. So, it seemed that the Cat had felt something as well. The blush on the Kyo's face was too adorable for the Cat's own good. A glance at the Cat's other hand to find it was clenched extremely tight on the towel he had been holding.

They both seemed to snap out of their stupor at the same time.

"Damn rat…"

"Stupid cat…"

Both of them resumed what they were doing, disregarding the thought of trading places. Yuki now working faster and Kyo slowing down his drying so as to keep better time with Yuki's handing over plates. Both now more careful.

Not one spoke a word and neither looked at the other full in the face. Small glances at each other's remaining blush but never connecting eyes.

The job was soon done and the Cat immediately retreated back outside while the Mouse tried yet again to busy himself around the house.

Kyo lay on the porch, the rain still falling. Lightning flashed in the distance and thunder echoed past. It was getting chilly but Kyo didn't want to risk passing Yuki in the house as he went to his room.

Kyo grasped his arm with his hand as he thought of the sensation that had ripped up it earlier that evening. Traces of the feeling still ran amuck in his mind. It hadn't been painful; in fact it had almost been pleasurable, but way too odd to be liked. His hand had since stopped shaking. Even with all his will he hadn't been able to make his hand still earlier. He had tried to hide it from the nezumi as Yuki had tried to hide it from Kyo.

Kyo wanted to know the answers to the questions coursing through his already tired brain, but none came. He had no idea what was happening between himself and that annoying nezumi. He didn't know what that feeling had been as it had raced through his arm. He still didn't know what had compelled him to dance, yes he admitted it, he had danced, in the rain with Yuki. When he looked back, he didn't even remember having control over his actions. He had just done them and then later shaken out of the dream with a quaking realization of what he had done.

Kyo started to shiver as the light in the room behind him was turned off. It seemed that Yuki was heading off to bed already. Kyo curled up even tighter, waiting for the nezumi to get to his room so the Cat could slip, unnoticed, up to his own room.

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