Chapter 5: Utterly Shocked
Kyo slams the playing cards on the table angrily. "HE CHEATED!" He yells jumping to his feet abruptly, pointing at Yuki. His rage was incomparable to the likes of any one in existence as always. "THAT DAMN RAT WON BECAUSE HE BROKE THE RULES!" He continued on, which was beginning to annoy Yuki.
"I didn't cheat, you stupid, worthless kitty…" Yuki states simply as he drops his cards back to the table and stands up. "Now….I think I hear your mother cat calling…" he mumbles and walks passed Kyo and everyone else.
Kyo looks at Yuki and becomes infuriated. He throws his fist at him only for Yuki to move out of the way, grab his wrist, and kick him in the face, launching him through one of the walls of the house. Shigure comes hurrying in hearing the loud crashing sound. His eyes closed as he enters the living room he mutters in a strange type of prayer, "Please…please…don't let…" he pauses. Everyone else was looking at him nicely thinking he was going to say something thoughtful. "My house be destroyed." Each of the people who thought he was going to say something nice let out a deep sigh, except Tohru who was staring out the broken wall, arms flailing around as she looked from what side to the next repeatedly calling 'Kyo-kun! Kyo-kun! Are you okay?' Shigure's eyes flutter open, full of anxiety. His eyes sudden become very large. "MY HOUSE!" He mourns at the rubble outside the broken wall. They all stared at him like he was crazy. Tohru, on the other hand, was attempting to pull all the broken pieces of the wall off of Kyo to make sure he was okay.
"Kyo!" She calls digging deeper into the rubble like she was digging a hole. "Are you okay?" Tohru's eyes were all spirally like she thought something was wrong with Kyo, even though she hadn't seen him yet. Falling onto what was left of the rubble a gentle 'poofing' sound was heard and she rolls off the rubble and sees Kyo. Her eyes get wide with excitement and discovery. "I FOUND KYO-KUN!" She says stating the obvious. But, that was a good sign for everyone that remained in the house. She was okay again. Whenever she got like this when seeing someone get hurt it worried them because they'd think there was something wrong with her. All of them had felt this, except Hiro, who still somewhat disliked her. Then again, Hiro wasn't nice to anyone really, and he tried his hardest not to say anything bad to Tohru because he knew it'd hurt Kisa's feelings as well as Tohru's probably. Tohru gather Kyo up in her arms. His furry, cat body was covered in scratches and bits of blood. She pets him a little.
He groans in annoyance. "I'm not your pet! Put me down!" Kyo shouts trying to wriggle out of Tohru's hands just as he had tried the night Haru and Rin saw him being carried by her.
Tohru looks at him in concern, her eyes soft now as usual. Like when she is walking around the house with - what Kyo called- 'her idiotic expression'. "Kyo…I don't think you're my pet." She laughs softly, covering her closed left hand over her mouth a little, and then removing it. "Its just that, I wanted to make sure you weren't hurt." She informs him happily.
"Take a guess dummy!" He barks at her (not like a dog). "That damn Yuki kicked me through a wall! What do you expect!" Kyo yells in anger and jumps out of her arms.
Her eyes were closed and she shook a little hearing Kyo continue to yell at her. He stares at her and then sees tears slowly dripping from her eyes. The expression on his cat face changes significantly. "T-Tohru…" he stutters a little then walks up to her, his front paws on her legs since she was sitting on her knees. Jumping onto her thighs he looks up at her face, tears dripping onto the top of his head. Kyo's head would twitch as the little droplets of water dropped onto him. "I….I'm…" he stops seeing that she wont stop crying. "Will you quit it!" He says fairly loudly. She rubs her eyes and looks at Kyo who was standing on her lap. "I'm sorry I yelled at you…Okay!" He says quickly so that Momiji and Hiro don't hear him, since he wasn't in the mood to hear either of them crack a joke of any sort.
Smiling she nods and stands up. Tohru bends back down a little to pick him up and then. POOF! The pinkish mist surrounded then and she slams herself against a tree, covering her eyes. Kyo changes incredibly fast, so no one saw anything even if they want to. Tohru was quick to ram into a tree so…who knows what she thought she saw or did see. Kyo looks at Tohru. "Sorry 'bout that…" he mumbles walking up to her. Grabbing her hand, he turns her around to see her eyes closed. (When she heard his voice she put her hands down and kept her eyes closed.) Blood was slowly trickling from her forehead and onto her nose. His eyes grew wide. "T-Tohru…you're bleeding!" He exclaims in surprise. "YOU SLAMMED YOUR HEAD AGAINST THE TREE DIDN'T YOU!" He places his hands on the top of his head in annoyance. "Open your damn eyes." Kyo says to her quickly.
Momiji, the moment he heard Kyo say that she was bleeding, jumped to his feet and went running to the bathroom. Coming back he jumps to the outside ground from the broken wall. Stopping beside both Kyo and Tohru he opens up a band-aid and puts it on her forehead. With his other hand he wiped away the blood with gauze. She was still smiling nonetheless at both Kyo and Momiji. She couldn't help but be happy that they cared for her so much, the others' still inside the house worried, even Shigure had momentarily stopped mourning over the damage done to his house to see if Tohru would be okay. "Th…thank you…Kyo…Momiji."
Kyo rubs his head in embarrassment. But Momiji quickly grins, becoming very pleased with his quick thinking, putting his hands at his waist. "Your very welcomeeee Tohru-chan!" He exclaims now hopping around becoming very energetic.
Running into the house, Kyo bumps passed Yuki and he continues on to go upstairs. Each of them looked very surprised. They didn't know what had occurred that made Kyo leap out of the little fiasco that went on that had been cause by his anger in the first place. Opening his bedroom door he sees something that makes his heart skip just about every other beat.
What made him go running was the fact that out of all the commotion he had heard a crash of something near where Kagura had slammed him against in his room. Even with Momiji jumping up and down. None of the others' heard it because they weren't paying attention. Standing in the middle of his bedroom was Akito. His eyes got large. Even though the person's back was to him he knew exactly who it was. On her knees, crying in pain was Kagura. There was blood on Kyo's bed. Kagura's eyes were closed, as she did not want to meet Akito's eyes. He had suddenly gone into shock, and he found it hard to breathe or speak, let alone move around and inform everybody about what just happened.
Akito's hand was raised, blood stained on her fingers. She brought her hand down viciously and swiped at Kagura's cheek. Powerfully she slams against the ground, her body sprawled across the floor of Kyo's bedroom. Blood was dripping from her cheeks, her arms were bruised, and her legs in complete pain. A chair was broken and so was a bedpost. His closet had a large cracks in it as if someone had their body forcefully slammed or shoved into it. That body was most likely Kagura.
His mind was scratching at his face now. He had to speak. He had to find his voice so that no more pain would be inflicted on her. Suddenly his lips moved, his voice was running up his throat to inform him that his lungs and voice box were once again working correctly. "KAGURA!" Kyo yells knowing that if he yells it loud enough someone is bound to come running upstairs to see if something was happening if she was attacking him out of love again.
Akito abruptly spins around and glares at Kyo in annoyance. The running of near footsteps could be heard echoing throughout the now quiet home. Kagura's crying could now be heard from downstairs. Then almost instantly, more footsteps could be heard running towards them up the stairs. Entering the room, Tohru comes to a sudden stop in complete, horrorific fear. Kyo turns around and looks at Tohru. "GET OUT OF HERE TOHRU!" He exclaims.
Her hands covered her mouth in even more fear. She had come up hear because she heard Kyo yelling as if something was wrong. Bumping into Tohru were Kisa and Momiji. Instantly though, Momiji transforms into a rabbit and hops out of the room knowing that it isn't safe in that form when he saw the blood on the bed. Kisa yelped seeing Akito was blood-covered hands.
"My dear….dear Kisa." She says walking towards Kyo, Tohru, and Kisa. "Would you like to be put through this torture again?" Akito questions flicking her wrist to let the blood spatter across the ground. Kyo puts his arm up across Tohru. In result, Tohru puts her arm in front of Kisa so that now they were preventing each other from charging forward at Akito.
Tilting her head, Akito grins evilly. "My children will come back to me…" she whispers. "YOU ALL WILL COME BACK TO ME AND SERVE MY WORD" Akito exclaims loudly, being heard almost throughout the house. Hiro, Shigure, and Momiji were sitting in the living room watching TV. Momiji was too frightened to mention what was going on. But, Shigure knew exactly what was happening so he pretended as if everything were okay. Yuki looks past everyone and spots Akito. Seeing him, Akito smiles happily. "You want to come back to me, don't you Yuki-kun." She whispers to him. "That beautifully shadowed room, pitch black, barred up room that you have become so well acquainted with." Akito took another step towards the four of them. Yuki's eyes were large in pure fright. Kisa was now hiding behind Tohru's leg. And Tohru couldn't even find herself to think straight, because she had grabbed Kyo and Yuki's hands and held them close to her. "You can share it with Kyo right? I mean, you definitely wont fulfill your side of the deal. You've never done it before, and you wont ever do it!" She exclaims proudly. Then takes a quick step towards them making them take a step back, she staggers toward the window and jumps out.
Birds had grabbed her by the kimono and flew off holding her tightly so that she wouldn't drop to the ground.
Kyo's eyes shook with fear. Yuki at the sight of Akito was struck with shock. Instantly though, the four of them had rushed to Kagura's side when they see Akito disappear into the now dark night. She was shaking so much that even when she had embraced Kyo she almost unwillingly wriggled out of his arms that were wrapped around her so that Tohru and Yuki can wipe the blood off her cheeks a little so that she can be a little cleaned up. But afterward they knew she had to be brought to a hospital as quick as possible. And as long as they made sure she had female nurses and doctors there was no apparent way that anyone would discover their curse. Lifting her into his arms, Kyo walks out his bedroom door sideways so her head doesn't head the doorframe.
Kyo, Tohru, and Yuki rush her to the hospital immediately. The doctors quickly tell them the room and Kyo rests her on the bed she is supposed to lay on. The three of them sit in chairs that were spread around the room. Every few minutes they'd switch chairs so a different person would be near the door, window, and her bedside each time. So they all had a chance to think and stuff and the other could reassure Kagura and help her with any thing she needed.
Tohru sat at her bedside first and smiled, placing her hand on her forehead comfortingly. "Kagura-chan…" she whispers, "Please be okay…" Tohru's voice proved to be soothing for her so she closes her eyes and rests with the feeling of Tohru's hand running from her forehead to the top of her head over and over again to help Kagura sleep.
She stops and stands quietly so that she doesn't wake her. In clockwise order, Kyo came next. Tohru sat in the chair near the door, and Yuki moved to the chair beside the window. Sitting down at her bedside now, Kyo tries to pull a smile to his face. "I'm sorry Kagura….I'm so sorry…" he mutters. "I should have stopped Akito…you wouldn't be as badly harmed if I had stopped her…" His voice trails off into a streak of sad expressions from him. He had never seen anyone this roughed up close before. Sitting there much longer then Tohru had, Kyo smiles at Kagura as her eyes flicker open. At the sight of Kyo she almost jumps, but he quickly pushes her back down to the bed softly. "You're going to overexert yourself…" he says softly. She nods and smiles at him happily.
As he gets to his feet, she grabs his hand. Just as she began to speak, Kyo spoke over her. "We're all taking turns at different spots, I'll be back," he laughs a little and pulls his hand away from her's and sits in the chair beside the door, Tohru now at Yuki's former seat, and Yuki at Kagura's bedside.
"Y..Yun-chan." She says quietly looking almost as happy as she did when she saw Kyo. "How are you?" Kagura asks trying to make polite conversation since she didn't want to be complaining about her injuries and how much pain she was in.
"Kagura…. Why…why did Akito attack you?" Instead of answering her question, he asked one of his own. He was curious about why Akito would attack her if she didn't have a clear reason. Maybe that clear reason was a wall that he and the others' couldn't see, but she could.
Sighing, Kagura responds like she was obligated to do so, "I told Akito…that I loved Kyo." Her voice was in a whisper so that Kyo couldn't hear her. She didn't want him to feel any worse then he already had. If Kyo knew that it was because she told Akito about how much she loved him, he'd feel as if it were his fault. Like, if he had loved her, he would have stayed up in the room and protected her from Akito or something.
Yuki nods and glances at Kyo out of the corner of his eye. He was sitting in the chair trying to act calm as he looked out the window, down five stories to the zooming cars on the street. He looks back at Kagura and smiles. "I'm just glad that you're going to be okay. And…" he pauses and then changes his tone to a gentle whisper, "Next time you see Akito, tell her that you no longer love Kyo, even if you truthfully do." He advises her to see if that would change Akito's mind in any way. It seemed to him that Akito got angry whenever someone had told her that they loved someone.
Example one is Hatori. He went to Akito to ask for her permission to marry Kana Sohma. She wasn't apart of the Juunishi but she was most definitely apart of the Sohma family. For saying this Akito hurt Hatori's left eye. It depressed Kana that it may have been her fault, so Hatori was forced to suppress her memories. Then the next case was with Haru. He told Akito that he loved Rin and then the next day she attacked Rin and made her go to the hospital for a very long time. Then when Hiro went to Akito to tell her that he loved Kisa, Akito gave Kisa wounds that took two full weeks to heal.
It brought Yuki to the conclusion that: Akito couldn't bare the fact that they had come to her and told her that they loved someone that wasn't her. Or something. Maybe she didn't want anyone in the Sohma family to feel love because she believed that it wasn't right. She wanted all of them to herself. Just as she said, Akito wanted them to serve her. He sighs and stands looking down at Kagura. "You should go back to sleep. That way you don't have to feel as much pain. When you're awake, you're aware. So, go to sleep and be unaware, we'll be here all night, we have permission." He explains to Kagura and she nods closing her eyes.
Only minutes after Kagura had drifted to sleep. Yuki stays on his feet and Kyo stays seated realizing that he isn't moving. "I…think I know why Kisa, Kana, Rin, and Kagura have been harmed." He begins firmly, his voice a little shaky when he began. Kyo and Tohru's attention had been captured and were being held now by Yuki. "Do you notice, that when one of them got hurt it was when someone admitted that they loved that one person to Akito?" he asks them to see if they even noticed them.
Tohru and Kyo shake their heads from side to side blankly. Slapping his forehead, Yuki mumbles, "Of course you both don't…" They stay seated not even noticing Yuki mumble anything extra.
"Well…I did." He says flatly. "Akito is afraid of losing us to other women. Because she knows that we'd rather be around them then her. She got into Hatori's head about suppressing Kana's memories. And he hurt Rin, Kisa, and Kagura because of their love." He stops becoming a very angry at the fact that Akito was doing something so absurd. "She wants to own us! Like we're objects. Akito wants to make us her pawns and have us follow her every word." He stops, finishing what he has to say.
Tohru shudders and hugs herself becoming even more frightened of Akito then she had ever been. Kyo stares at Tohru from the corner of his eye. How could he admit his feelings without harm being done to her? It was physically impossible. There was no way that he could ever say the words 'I love you' to Tohru.
Yuki sighs and looks at the ground, sitting once more, ignoring the rules they had agreed on about switching chairs. He could never be loved now. Not without having the feeling that the one he loved, or the one that loved him, could be harmed.
She couldn't ever love any of the nice people she had met that were apart of the Sohma family, the ones that were possessed by the vengeful spirits. But not caring about that she thinks about the members of the Juunishi. They couldn't love anyone. Period. It was almost forbidden in Akito's mind. So now, they could never love anyone without fear. But she, she was allowed to love anyone that wasn't apart of the Sohma family. That left so many more people. Akito did not allow those many more people that the Sohma's could love. She kept thinking this over and over again. How fortunate she felt. But…she didn't want to feel that way. Tohru was more worried about what would become of the future people that the members of the Juunishi may end up falling in love with. She's seen Hatori's eye. What else could Akito do that could be worse then the things she has done to Kisa, Hatori, Rin, and Kagura. Suddenly, without realizing it, she was becoming tired. And just moments later she was asleep in her chair, being watched over by Yuki and Kyo who were taking turns watching her and Kagura.