Ch. 2 As Rin drifted off to sleep, Haru pulled her closer to him, she instinctively wrapped her arms around his waist, holding on tightly, as if she thought he may disappear in the night. And as sleep overcame them both nether of them could think of anywhere else they wanted to be. Rin felt so content and safe in his arms it was as though nothing could harm her. The night came and went so fast that when they awoke they barely had time to adjust to the shocking events that were to follow. They both heard the door to the house slam open and angry, fast footsteps clamber down the hallway towards her room. Rin stood up abruptly, but Haru barely had time to sit up in the bed before the banging and slamming came upon her door. "Open this door!" The banging continued. "Let me in you dirty little bitch!" As the voice she heard drifted into her ears and registered in her mind, all color left her already pale face as she stumbled backwards slightly into Haru's outstretched arms. "I-It-its……Akito….." Her voice was shaken and had a vulnerable sound to it, one like Haru had never heard her speak with before. The door finally came crashing down and an enraged Akito stepped through the now empty door frame. "You! You dirty little whore!" Akito was screaming at the top of her lungs barley stopping to breath. Rin could see Kagura and her mother standing behind Akito with terrified looks on their faces. She closed her eyes as she heard Akito's steps grow closer. She knew what was about to happen, she had angered her god once again and now she would have to face the punishment. But she felt Haru move at that point, moving in front of her. "Get away from her Haru! She has disobeyed me for the last time!" Rin listened to the words but didn't believe them……..would her god really kill her? Akito smacked Haru aside and grabbed Rin by her hair. She slumped down but Akito pulled her up to face her. "Look at me Isuzu! I said look at me!" Rin opened her tear-filled eyes as Akito raised a hand and slapped her. She cried out as Akito continued to slap her and beat her relentlessly. Haru lifted himself up and ran over to Rin who now lay beaten and bloody on the floor, he lifted her up into his arms and then his mind went blank. His eyes grew cold and empty and he shuddered as black Haru surfaced and all control he once held left him. Akito had never seen black Haru and it frightened her.
"What the hell do you think your doing!" Haru asked the very shocked Akito. He laid Rin down again and walked lightly over to Akito and wrapped his hand around her tiny throat. Akito gasped but he wouldn't release his grip. He then began to punch and beat Akito as she had beaten Rin. Blood dripped to the floor and Akito began to speak.
"Why Hatsuharu…….why would you harm me, your god, for that…..dirty woman?" At these words Haru slammed Akito up against the wall. He said simpily and softly "Because I love her." Over the hard breathing and screaming of Akito Haru hadn't heard the foot steps of Hatori and Shigure as they came into the house and then Rin's room racing to restrain him before he hurt Akito any further. He fought them but soon gave up as he returned to his normal, controllable state. As he regained his scenes he looked around to see the bloody bodies of Rin and Akito lying on the floor. Kagura was at Rin's side trying to clean her numerous wounds and her mother was by Akito doing the same. "Rin! Wh-what happened!" Realizing that he was under control again Hatori and Shigure released him He ran over to Rin and lifted her up in his arms again. She was barely hanging on to consciousness, but she looked up at him with her soft, tear filled eyes. "Haru you…" She fainted.
"Haru….would you mind telling me what happened in here?" Hatori asked calmly but with a slight hint of anger in his voice.
I don't…..know…..Akito just came in and started beating Rin I had to do something"
"Well what you've done has nearly killed Akito"
"and what would you have done if it was Kana?" Haru gave Hatori a very serious look.
"How'd you…….it doesn't matter anyway." He look up at Shigure. "Shigure bring my car around to the front, Akito and Rin are both going to need to go to the hospital." Shigure obeyed and left the room swiftly. Hatori moved over to examine Rin's wounds. "These are bad, it may take a week or two for her to fully heal." He continued to check her over closely making sure that Kagura had properly dressed Rin's wounds. Shigure came back in and proceeded to assist Hatori in moving Rin and Akito to his car.
"Oh and Haru, I don't think you should come to see Isuzu while she's in the hospital, it would be better for both of you." And with that he and Shigure left. Haru took this as a sign to leave to, so he quietly slipped out the back. Kagura had caught sight of him and followed.
"Haru, wait up!" She said as she ran to catch up with him.
"What is it Kagura?" He turned around to face her.
" I-I just wanted to ask……why were you in Isuzu's room this morning"
" I…well we got back together last night and it was late so she asked me if I wanted to stay the night and….." Kagura's eyes widened.
"oh…I didn't know you were dating Isuzu, that's great!" She though a little more deeply then asked. " If you where there the whole night….did you and Isuzu"
"No…..no we didn't do anything." "Kagura….can I ask you something"
"ah….um, sure"
"Do you know how Akito found out I was at your house……..did she say anything to you or your mother when she came in? She looked up at him as if she was about to cry.
"N-no….she just burst through the doors and started beating Rin"
"Oh….thanks Kagura." She nodded her head before turning to leave.
It was a week before he was able the to get any news on Rin, which he got from Kagura.
"You should try to go see her soon…..whenever I visit her….your all she talks about….." Kagura had told him this on one of her visits to his house with news about Rin. So he decided later that he should try to visit her that day. When he came into her room he saw her sitting up in her bed with a tray of un-eaten food sitting in front of her.
"You know you have to eat eventually Rin." He said as he walked over to her bedside.
"I'm just not hungry right now…..plus the food is terrible" He was surprised that he voice was so calm.
"Rin…I just wanted to say that…I'm sorry for what Akito did to you"
"What?…….Haru, that wasn't your fault, I knew what I was doing." There was a silence after that in which Haru lifted her food tray and moved it to a desk. Rin Rolled over and curled up hiding her face in a mess of sheets and hair.
"Haru…." He looked over to her. "Why do you love me?" The question was so blunt that Haru couldn't quite decide how he should answer.
"I don't understand what you mean"
"My parents don't love me, Akito despises me, I have no friends….but you …..you don't even have to love me…you just do…..and I want to know why."