AN: Hi! OK, this is a really fun chapter to write… I've been looking forward to writing it since I decided to do all this to Kyo… You know, I'm a Yuki lover, but I think Kyo is my favourite in this fic. He's just so fun to write about!

Oh yeah, and sorry this update will probably be a little late, but I got my hair cut today! Squeeee! I have Yuki's side bits! How cool is that? Before anyone says 'not very'… Go to hell, you know NOTHING of my fashion!

And please note all: You have to give me some cred, because I've only read books 1-5 (stupid slow English publishing system) and I don't know what happens! ;; even though I have fanart somewhere, I CAN'T SEE IT! I am so sad… ;;

Anyway, here we go, on with the fic! CAUTION: LONG CHAPTER! BIG KYORU AND YUKIRU MOMENTS!

It was coming on 10:00PM, and everyone was exhausted. They had run through the entire piece twice, and the Prima Donna scene four times, minus Uo singing.

Shinji sighed and ran his hand once again through his conveniently short hair. "I guess we'll have to call it a day. It's a shame though, because I would have liked to run through the exits and entrances a few more times."

Yuki raised an eyebrow and smiled. "Come on Shinji-san, you know you want to, just make us sleep in the theatre."

"Sleep in the theatre eh? WHAT A GREAT IDEA!"

Yuki did an alarmed double take. "I was being both sarcastic and sardonic."

"Your point being?"

"We're not sleeping in the theatre!"

Haru shook his head sadly. "I think we might have to."

"What?"

Haru took Yuki aside. "I just realised, Kyo isn't going to come back to the house. We can't just leave him here on his own."

Yuki thought for a second. If the four of them stayed in the theatre for Kyo, would that mean they'd have to go and stay with him? And they'd be locked in with no escape route if things should take a turn for the worse. But Haru had a point. If they left Kyo alone in this state, anything could happen to him. Even as his nemesis Yuki wouldn't wish that on him.

After talking to Shinji, they persuaded him to let them stay in the building. He of course had to keep it a secret, but he said it was the least that he owed them for being so good to him as actors (and one crewmember).

As Yuki's watch beeped for 11:00 PM, Shinji left the theatre. Standing outside, he spoke to Yuki.

"I don't know what's going on between you guys, but if you burn down my theatre or anything, I swear…" Yuki tried not to listen as Shinji made empty threats, with over gesticulations involving lots of tearing motions and wringing of hands.

Eventually Shinji left, and Yuki could hear the keys rattling as he locked the door.

Yuki turned to see Tohru Haru and Momiji standing a little off from the door.

Momiji was the first to speak. "So… What do we do now?"

"I guess we'll have to turn the theatre lights out and go upstairs." Said Haru, scratching the back of his head.

Tohru and Momiji both gulped. The theatre lights were next to the door. Which was on the opposite end of the building to the first stairwell that led to the maze above.

"If we link arms we won't separate." Said Yuki. After they had all linked arms; Haru at the front, then Momiji, then Tohru, then Yuki at the back, Yuki braced himself, and then flicked all three switches at once.

Tohru yelped a little as they were all plunged into blackness.

"Here we go then." Said Haru, taking a breath, and then leading the way.

They were about halfway through the theatre, when suddenly the stillness was pierced by a sound. The four of them felt themselves go numb. One long, echoing laugh sounded through the theatre. Haru recognised it as the only person it could have been, yet they all stayed silent. Tohru gripped Yuki's slightly sweating hand a little tighter.

They were just about at the stairwell, and Momiji let out a long breath he had been holding in with nerves.

Yuki suddenly froze. The others hadn't seen, but the image he was faced with sent him into shakes. There, in the pitch-black night, just above the mezzanine, was an almost floating object. The shape of one, big, glowing yellow eye.

Before stopping to think, he grabbed Tohru's hand and pushed Haru and Momiji up the stairwell, making them run as fast as they could. When they finally reached the second floor, they collapsed in Yuki's dressing room, panting as if they'd just run an Olympic Marathon.

"What… Why… Who…?" Haru gasped out the words as he seated himself on Yuki's table, once again taking the liberty of eating his sandwich.

"I... I swear… It's -70 degrees in here, but I'm sweating Yuki!" Panted Momiji as he pointed his finger at his forehead in exasperated fatigue.

"I've… Never seen you… Look that scared… Yuki-kun…" Came Tohru's exhausted verdict.

"K-Kyo…" Breathed Yuki, clutching his chest.

"Y-You're not going to have an attack… Are you?" Said Tohru, worriedly putting a hand on his shoulder.

"I'll… Be fine…" He said, putting a hand over hers. She leaned her head on his back as he caught his breath.

Momiji tilted his head at this, and Haru cleared his throat artificially.

"Oh!" Tohru leapt away from Yuki, and put her hands behind her back, turning red.

"It's OK Haru… We… Might as well tell him too." Yuki said, looking to Tohru for her approval. She nodded. "Me and Honda-kun… Are…"

"Are you going out?" Said Momiji, right on the mark.

"Uh-huh." Tohru smiled and kissed Yuki on one flushed cheek, which made him go even redder.

After they had all settled back down, and Haru had made as many jokes as possible about the state of Yuki's room, (as if a bomb hit it, completely askew, big crap-hole and so-on) they all decided to get some sleep.

Haru and Momiji decided they'd sleep on a big random pile of the outfits that had been tried on Yuki and discarded, (Ichigo was a perfectionist, and Shinji had asked her to make Yuki's outfit especially endearing, so as to make his groupies enjoy the performance more… dazedly.) And Tohru and Yuki resumed they're position on the chaisse-longue.

"Honda-kun, are you awake?" whispered Yuki.

"Yes. I can't sleep."

"Neither." Yuki yawned in Tohru's ear, and she smiled. "It was so strange. I just saw his eye in the darkness above the mezzanine."

"His eye?" Tohru turned around to look at him, as he was hugging her from behind. "Weren't there two?"

"Well, I suppose he's hurt the other one." Yuki sighed, burying his head in Tohru's shoulder. "I wish he wouldn't try to give me a heart-attack though."

Tohru sadly sat up. "I think I need to talk to mom. And… I can't do it here. Not with you awake. I'll have to go outside."

"No." Yuki's voice went cold. "Y-You can't. Kyo, he could be anywhere. He's probably looking for us as it is."

"Kyo-kun wouldn't want to hurt us."

"This isn't Kyo we're talking about. He's not himself. The look in that eye…" He glared at the ceiling. "I don't trust it."

"I'll just go to another room. I'll only be a few minutes. Nothing's going to happen. I promise." She kissed him on the cheek and stepped off the chaisse-longue.

He waited until she had left the room, and watched her at the door. She slowly opened the door of the next room, looked in and closed the door behind her. Yuki closed the door behind him, and sat down with his back to the wall. He wasn't going to leave her alone at a time like this.

Yuki looked at his watch. It had been almost 15 minutes. heard something move in the darkness. He looked around, but it was pitch black. He couldn't see a thing. Then he heard what sounded like a cloak. There was definitely something, or someone out there.

Suddenly Yuki felt a mind-numbing blow to his head, and felt himself slump over. If what he could see could go any blacker, it did.

Tohru silently begged her mother for guidance. Every worry and anxiety she had swept into the air, and she sent them to the spirit she hoped was watching over her.

SLAM! Tohru felt her heart skip a beat as the door closed on it's own. She closed her eyes and wished with all her heart that she had left it open and the wind had closed it. A floorboard creaked. Tohru felt a tear slide slowly down her cheek.

It was too much. She would have to call for Yuki. She opened her mouth to yell, but before she could make a sound, there was a hand clapped over her mouth.

Before she knew it, she was being dragged out of the room. She tried to scream when she saw Yuki slumped across the floor, but she couldn't make a sound. She tried to escape from her captor, but they were far too strong. She simply let herself be led up almost three staircases.

Halfway up the third, light began crawling in from above. She should have been relieved to see the shock of red hair, knowing that her kidnapper was Kyo and not a stranger, but somehow it made her all the more terrified.

Tohru tried to yell again, but he turned to look at her. He was in his costume, (which was just as well, because she had forgotten to change) and was wearing the white mask over his face again.

Tohru pulled away, and looked back at him. He was smiling at her, but it wasn't any smile that would have comforted her. It was as if he knew he'd done something terrible, but was proud of it. He slowly held his forefinger against his lips, and took her hand.

He led her almost as if he was escorting her to a dance, placing her hand gently in his upturned palm. She followed him without much difficulty, because he had started to walk very slowly for her. He carefully picked up one of the candles that had been placed on the steps of the stairwell. Tohru wondered briefly who put them there, but her question was soon answered.

When they reached the end of the stairwell that led to the seventh floor, Kyo turned to her and spoke at last.

"I wanted you to be the first to see it."

Tohru was led up the last few stairs, and taken through into another world. There were candles everywhere. The whole place was filled with warm light, and unlike the rest of the theatre it felt warm too.

"Kyo-kun, it's beautiful… Did you do all this yourself."

"Yes." Kyo stared proudly at his creation, and then turned back to Tohru. "Stay with me. You don't have to go back down there with them. You can stay here with me, and you'll never have to worry about anything again."

"Kyo…"

"You're so beautiful." Tohru did a double take. He put a hand under her chin, and smiled as he moved it slowly around her face until it reached the top of her cheek. "Like an angel…"

Tohru felt very strange. These were words she'd never imagined coming from Kyo. Tohru looked in his eyes. Yuki was right. There was something in them that was different. And she didn't like it at all. Yuki…

"Was… Was it you that hurt Yuki-kun?" Kyo frowned and took his hand away from her face. He looked at the floor. "You…y-You didn't…" She sniffed, the tears welling up again. "You didn't kill him, did you?"

Kyo looked up again. "No. I wouldn't be that primitive about it. I just knocked him out."

"What do you mean by primitive?"

"Nothing." Kyo turned away from Tohru. He walked over to a spot on the floor and sat down in it, his back facing her. She thought quietly to herself. He won't take off that mask for me, so I'll have to do it myself.

Slowly she reached forward and lightly touched a hand to his face. He turned around quickly, and when he did, she ripped off the mask, and dropped it on the floor in shock.

Kyo leapt to his feet and grabbed onto her wrist. "WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!" He stared at her, eyes flaming as brightly as the candles that surrounded them.

"K-Kyo… What did you do?" Tohru felt tears sliding down her cheeks she looked at his face.

Kyo let go of her wrist reluctantly, and looked her in the eyes. "I…I burnt it."

"Why?"

He looked at her once again in desperation. "I don't know." A tear fell from Kyo's one good eye. "Help me."

He had obviously blinded his right eye, and the lid had been burnt shut. The entire right side of his face was completely destroyed, still bleeding a little, with ugly red marks all down the side of his face, and a little down the side of his neck.

"Kyo-kun, if you come back down with me, we can show the others… you don't have to be afraid of them. They won't be mad… Or judge you. We can get you a doctor for your face and-"

"No!" Suddenly Kyo became hostile again. Before, he seemed to be himself again, and now they were back to where they had been just minutes ago. "I like it this way…" He put a hand to his face and pressed down hard, making it bleed a little. "it means I have an excuse… To wear it."

He stooped down and carefully picked up the mask, and pressed it back onto his wounded face.

"Kyo-kun, please don't-"

"You can go back to your friends now." He said, taking her by the arm and pulling her towards the door. "And by the way, if you tell anyone that I can't perform tomorrow then I'll kill myself."

Tohru froze. "W-what?"

"You heard me. Oh, and tell Yuki," and then he paused and smiled devilishly, "he'll get to see my new trick soon."

And with that he flung Tohru out the door and slammed it behind her.

Tohru stood there, helpless and bewildered. Since she and Yuki had decided to make their relationship official (To only them of course), she'd felt more confident, more sure of herself. She hadn't even felt at all shy about being in an affair with Yuki. Now she felt like everything was falling apart. Kyo was losing himself to his role, Yuki was in danger, and it felt like her mother had died all over again.

She trudged dazedly back down the five flights of stairs, and gasped when she reached the bottom.

"Yuki-kun!" Yuki was still lying unconscious on the floor. She knelt down beside him and shook him lightly. His eyes slowly opened and his eyes focussed again.

"H-Honda-kun…? W-what happened? There was a man and-"

"It was Kyo-kun."

"What!" Yuki tried to sit up quickly.

"Whoah… Everything's fuzzy."

"Don't try to sit up." She lifted his head onto her knees. "What did he hit you with?"

"I don't know, but it felt a lot like a brick."

Tohru smiled sadly. If things carried on like this, someone was going to get badly hurt. And somehow she had a feeling that it would be either Kyo or Yuki.

AN: OMG… LONG CHAPPIE! Well, I have received many very lovely e-mails from loads of you, and for that I thank you all! I must be the luckiest amateur writer in the world!! This is so fun! I will definitely be updating very soon, as I have absolutely no life. But this is fun! I'm still in my 9 week hols so I'm making the most of it! (Sitting at computer and making Kyo go mental)