Chapter 11

I heard someone walking into Hatori's room. It's getting nearer, and I'm getting worried.

"Hatori, someone's here. What should we do?"

Hatori stopped washing me. He stood up, wore his robe and whispered to me, "Stay here. Don't make a sound until I signal you to. Relax okay?"

He gave me a chase kiss on the lips before stepping out of the bathtub. He closed the bathtub curtains with me inside. At the same time, the door opened.

"Akito." Hatori, not surprised, greeted louder so I can hear him.

I was so scared. It was Akito, Akito Sohma, the head of the clan. He had come to get me. I don't want to go with him. I want only Hatori, not Akito.

Wait. If the purpose of Akito coming here is to get me, wouldn't Hatori stop him? Then Hatori would be in trouble! Oh no... what have I done by letting Hatori out to face Akito alone...? What if Akito hurts Hatori? Akito is best at hurting people... damn it! What should I do?

I hear them talking outside. Should I go out? But if I step out of the bathroom, would Hatori be angry? He had told me to stay in here...

Hatori said signal... what signal is he talking about? How do I know what signal is he going to show? Is he even going to show it? I can't even see Hatori behind these closed doors!

"What brings you here Akito?"

Akito walked around the room, searching for something. "Someone."

"Someone?"

"Yes... that someone you were with just now."

Hatori wondered if Akito is playing mind games with him, afterall, it is Akito's forte.

Akito sat on the bed, his hands feeling the texture of the bedsheets, eyes closed.

"This is quite some bed you've got here. I remember giving you the bedsheets that I picked. Why didn't you used them?" Akito lied down on the bed, rolling around, as if trying to test the durability of the bedsheets.

Hatori, careful not to provoke Akito, found some excuse that surprisingly worked. "I already did. But they had to be washed and I changed them to these."

Akito stopped rolling around and opened his eyes. "You bought them?"

"No, Ayame bought them."

"He must be one lucky person... having to sleep on these soft sheets." Akito pulled at the blanket, testing whether it tears easily.

"You mean Ayame? Ayame doesn't sleep here... he usually..." Hatori decided to left his sentence hanging, not wanting to get his best friend into trouble.

"Don't play fool with me Doctor Hatori. It doesn't work this way... you know who I mean. You know the boy... cute little face, beautiful eyes... and most of all... has a body to die for. I've seen his body, it's so sexy..."

"Well? Ayame still what?" Ayame stood at the door, smirking.

Shigure quickly hid the three rings in hs pocket, trying to find something convincing to reply.

"Ano..."

"Well?"

"Ano..."

"Ano... what?"

"Ano..."

"You know this is the first time Shi-chan doesn't have anything to say to me. I'm so hurt!" Ayame faked a hurt expression and fell to the floor dramatically.

Shigure, who panicked and thought that Ayame was really hurt, immediately rushed to Ayame's side.

Ayame cunningly took this chance to slip his hand into the Shigure's pocket and pulled out the three rings.

Shigure was shocked, at Ayame's hair and eye colour as well as his appearance in his house.

"A-Ayame! What..?"

"Hey... these look familiar... where have I seen these before...? What do you say Shigure? Why do you have three rings on you?"

Ayame looked at Shgiure accusingly. Shigure just looked away, embarrassed that an sly adult like himself can actually get caught by his best friend.

"Aya... I... erm, I have them since a long time ago. So you see it's not weird to have them on me!"

"But you don't wear rings! Ah!" Ayame pointed a finger at Shigure.

"Wha-what?" Shigure's eyes widen and backed into a wall.

"Hatori, you and me used to have them! But how come they're with you? They were buried weren't they? HUH?"

Shigure darted his eyes all over the room, unable to make eye contact with Ayame anymore. "Ayame... I..."

"Get him out. Now."

Hatori was really worried that if didn't bring Kyou out, Akito might be more angry than he probably already is. But if he bring Kyou out, he had no idea what Akito is going to do to him. Hit him? Lock him out? Torture him mentally? Worse of all, taking him away from Hatori.

For the first time, Hatori decided to go against his God. His voice went utterly flat. "No."

Akito stopped playing with the bedsheets. He continued to sit up on the bed and raised a brow, half smirking.

"And why not?"

Hatori pondered for a whlie whether he should tell the reason, for Akito might just push his way into the bathroom, where Kyou was naked. Hatori shook off the bad thoughts of what Akito might do to Kyou.

"Because you might hurt him. I love Kyou, and I'm not letting anyone hurt him."

"Does this 'anyone' include... yourself?"

Hatori was stumped with that question. Was he hurting Kyou? No, wait. Will he ever hurt Kyou? What if he did? But he love Kyou so much.

After a few minutes of pondering, Hatori realized that Akito was gone. Hatori rolled his eyes and mentally slapped himself, blaming himself for being fooled by Akito, knowing that Akito was best at mind games.

well, this is it. chappie 11. i hope you guys review!