Chapter 18

"That's quite a bashing you took to the head, Kyo. Where did you get it from?" Their mysterious person said.

"Oh! Hatori! How did you find us?" Tohru exclaimed.

"I do live in this estate." He commented.

"Why are you here?" Kyo asked.

"After we all got lost, we all headed back to either the estate or Shigure's house. I headed back here and I saw a peculiar person coming out of the estate dressed in all black."

"Yeah, I saw him too." Kyo replied.

"Yes, I failed to catch up with him but I thought that maybe he had stolen something from that mysterious room and so I walked straight here."

"Mysterious room? What mysterious room?" Tohru asked. Kyo and Hatori pointed to the doors behind her. She looked at it to find blood at the base. She touched it and a flash of her pain returned. She shivered.

"What's wrong Tohru?" Kyo asked.

"I've been in that room. Its no mysterious room to me, its a nightmare!"

"What do you mean?" Hatori asked.

"Akito took me in that room. He wrapped my up in ropes and chains against a wall. He left me there... to... to!"

"To what?" They asked.

"To die..."

"Hold still will you Kyo?" Kagura said putting antiseptic on his head.

"What can I do? It hurts like hell!" He complained.

Kagura turned to her scary side. "Shut up... Stop being a baby and take it like a man." Kyo was quiet and didn't move an inch. "Now that's the Kyo I know and love!" She said happily. Kagura had patched up Tohru and was working on Kyo at the moment. Hatori in the main hall to get them some snacks. (A/N doesn't sound like Hatori but oh well. Keep on dancing!)

"Oh no! I've run out of bandages. I'll be back in a second, just have to find some! I will be back my love!"

Kyo muttered under his breath, "No one's going to miss you." She skipped out the door, closing it behind her. Tohru stood up and walked over to Kyo.

"I'm so sorry Kyo, I haven't even thank you yet."

"For what?" He asked keeping his hand on his head.

"For saving me!" Kyo was a little surprised.

"Tohru..." She lifted her index finger telling him to stop.

"No, don't say anything. I just really wanted to thank you. I'm sorry to say the only thing I remember is you stopping the machine and fighting your way through spikes to save me. Then before you reached me, I blanked out. It was so heroic of you. You were really worried about me huh?"

"Yeah..." Kyo blushed. Tohru touched his hand and lightly pushed it out of the way.

"Thank you Kyo." She kissed her hand and placed it on his head where he was hurt. A warm feeling passed from her hand to his head and when she removed her hand, the wound was gone. Completely healed to where you'd never think anything happened there. Tohru was surprised and she jumped back.

"Tohru? How did you..."

"I don't know... I didn't even know what I was doing and yet I did know... I couldn't have done that..."

"But you did..." He said getting out of his seat and walking over to her. "Did you know how to heal me or was it more... instinct?" He asked hovered over her. She was blushing, as was Kyo.

"I-inst-inct..." She forced herself to say. He moved closer and rested his hand on a wall behind them. Tohru fell into the chair behind her but that didn't stop Kyo.

"More of an instinct? If I acted on my instincts... would you..."

"Would I?" She asked curious of what he was going to say.

"Would you get away from him....." Kagura said angrily behind them.

"Gyah! Kagura!!" Kyo yelled jumping away from Tohru. Kagura walked closer and with each step, there was a new dent added to the floor.

"Kyo..." She said demonically.

"Now Kagura, wait a second. Before you do anything rash..."

"Oh I'm not going to do anything I'll regret."

At that moment, Shigure, Yuki and Hatori stepped in the room to see Kyo go flying out the door. They ducked knowing Kagura was going after him. She jumped over their heads and chased Kyo down the halls of the estate.

"So what did that stupid cat do this time?" Yuki asked Tohru.

"Uh..." She said blushing. "Nothing!" She shook her head.

"Tohru... Are you alright?" Shigure asked.

She stopped shaking her head and fell out of the chair.

"Tohru!" They said together. (A/N Of course Yuki said miss Honda... but anyways...)

"I'm alright... Don't worry about me." They laughed and helped her up. Yuki watched from the other side of the room.

"Yuki... Come join in on the fun!" Shigure exclaimed.

"I'm alright over here." He said. Tohru looked at him and walked over towards him.

"If I have done anything to upset you I'm sorry. Please, tell me what I did!" She pleaded. Yuki smiled.

"Its nothing you did Miss Honda."

"Its probably from his asthma attack. He's probably still tired." Shigure replied.

"Yuki, you had an-"

"Its nothing Miss Honda... We were all running as fast as we could to save you and I just had a little attack. I'm fine now, though, so there's no need to worry." He assured her. She nodded.

"But of course my Yuki was so brave!" The door slammed open to reveal Yume. "He risked having an attack to save you! That's my Yuki!" She threw her arms around him hugging him. "Are you sure you're alright though? Please tell me Hatori has checked you out already." (A/N ........ Not like that Jeni-chan! Geez! I already know what you're thinking!!)

"No, not yet." Hatori answered. Yuki removed his shirt revealing rock hard abs. Yume drooled over the sight and Tohru turned around embarrassed.

"Well, uh, I'm going to go...uh-" Tohru chattered.

"Its alright Miss Honda... It's only a bare chest. Nothing more."

"But uh..." She said turning around.

"Don't worry about it, pretend we're at the pool or a hot spring."

"Uh, okay." Tohru turned around and watched Yuki get checked while in the hallway you could hear Izumi and Kagura beating Kyo up for the little 'incident'. All the while, from a t.v. in a different room of the estate, Akito was watching everything.

"So she's alive. They're all alive. Damn..." He cursed. He sat back in his chair. "Its good Yuki is still alive, but why won't that girl die?" He asked. "Oh well, the fools are too busy to even worry about attacks right now. It's the perfect time to strike again."

TO BE CONTINUED