Darkdreams: Chapter 3! Yay! I would have posted this sooner, as in last week, but I had my birthday and everything was a bit hectic and filled up. Hm, I must confess my muses have no idea what they're doing with this. One wants it to be happy-happy Kyo and Yuki fluff! The other wants angst, a large love triangle, and lots of blood O.o Obviously I must compromise with them. I really like Eryk. He's a good character. Too bad I have to kill him off! Muahahahaha! (Joking! Joking!) On to the chapter, shall we?

/.../ Kyo's thoughts

/italics/Kyo's other thoughts

"Where'd Kyo go?"

"I don't know…"

"He went upstairs."

"Oh."

Kyo frowned and stared hard at his ceiling. He couldn't go up on the roof, because it was too steep and people here tended to notice these sorts of things. So he lay on his bed instead, trying to clear his mind of the thoughts buzzing around.

Yuki. Eryk. Yuki. Eryk.

/Obviously there's no contest./ Kyo thought, letting out a deep sigh. He didn't care that everyone downstairs was wondering where he was. A long time ago knowing that they realized he wasn't there would have both annoyed and thrilled him. Now he didn't care.

Something about Eryk, the new head of the Sohma's, unnerved him. Even when they had all first met, he had been edgy.

/But I'm not really being fair, am I/ he scowled. /There's a chance that he's not like his brother./

He heard footsteps coming up, and instantly knew they were Yuki's. His door opened and, sure enough, Yuki stepped in.

"What's wrong?" Yuki asked, flopping down beside Kyo on the bed. He turned onto his side to have a better view of Kyo's face.

"Nothing." Kyo said shortly.

"Ok, then I'll just leave…" Yuki went to get up, but Kyo grabbed his wrist and pulled him back down. Yuki smiled, knowing that now Kyo was ready to talk.

"Damn your psychology crap," Kyo growled. Yuki said nothing and waited for him to continue. "Fine. It's Eryk. I can't shake the feeling that I'm missing something. Maybe I'm just paranoid." Kyo scowled, refusing to look at Yuki.

"So, you're afraid that Eryk is exactly like Akito, and just playing with us?"

Though Yuki's words were calm, Kyo could hear the familiar panic creeping into his voice.

"No, that's not it…just, grr I don't know!" Kyo sat up abruptly, and crossed his arms.

"Kyo…" Yuki sat up as well, and wrapped his pale arms around the angry boy. "I think I get what you're saying. But Eryk seems nice enough, doesn't he?"

"Yes." Kyo replied grudgingly.

"Then we have nothing to worry about." Yuki said.

"Of course you would think that, you simple minded rat." Kyo's eyes flashed dangerously and a small smirk appeared on his face.

Yuki's expression went from confused, to shocked, to annoyed. He said, "Stupid cat, at least I think!"

Kyo tackled Yuki, who kicked him off and rolled off the bed. The two wrestled with each other for a few minutes, finally Yuki kicked Kyo and he went flying back onto the bed. Yuki collapsed beside him.

"You're getting better." Yuki commented.

"You're getting worse," Kyo remarked. "Ow!" he glared as Yuki swatted him.

The two stayed in a comfortable silence for a while, content with just holding each other. Kyo focused on Yuki's silver hair, his violet eyes, and his pale skin. He ignored thoughts of Eryk.

/Eryk is thousands of miles away. Who cares about Eryk/

/Oh, you're back. Wonderful./

/You never appreciate me…/

Kyo's thoughts were interrupted by the sound of the doorbell. Confused, Yuki sat up, and Kyo followed suit.

"I'm going to go see who it is." Yuki said. Kyo nodded but didn't follow him out. For some reason he thought of the airport earlier that day. He had seen Akito there; he swore that he had.

"I'm going crazy." He sighed to himself. There was some sort of commotion going on downstairs, so he got up to see what it was.

He wished that he had stayed upstairs.

"Kyo, how nice to see you." Eryk's British accent had not diminished one bit, and Kyo found this to be quite unsettling.

"I didn't know you were coming." Was all Kyo could manage to say. Eryk blushed slightly, ignoring the excited chattering all around him.

"I didn't really plan on coming…" was all he said. Kyo felt his face getting hot and quickly averted his eyes away from Eryk's green ones. Finally everyone settled down and went back into the living room.

"I hope I'm not intruding, Mrs. Sohma." Eryk apologized for the third time.

"No, not at all," she smiled. "We're happy to have you. There is a spare bedroom here if you'd like."

"That would be nice," Eryk smiled. Kyo frowned, and Yuki looked over at him worriedly.

"You mean he's staying with us?" Hiro frowned at the newcomer, and Kisa frowned at his poor manners.

"Yes, Hiro." Mrs. Sohma smiled, and Hiro said nothing more, prevented by Kisa's scathing look. The awkward silence was punctuated by a yawn from Tohru.

When she noticed everyone staring at her she turned beet red. "Oh, I'm sorry!" she stammered, "I'm just a bit tired, not that you guys are boring or anything! But it's been a long flight, and, and--"

"Miss. Honda is right," Yuki said, standing. "I'm sure everyone is tired."

Tohru looked relieved, and smiled at Yuki.

The goodbyes alone took over a half hour, but finally the house was cleared out. Left standing in the living room were Kisa, Hiro, Kyo, Yuki and Eryk.

"Ok, I'll show you to your room Eryk," Yuki said pleasantly. Eryk looked dissatisfied, and pointedly stared at Kyo. He was lead upstairs by the grey haired boy, but didn't break his gaze on Kyo until he turned the corner and was out of sight.

Kyo focused his attention back on the two smaller children of the Zodiac.

"I don't like him." Kisa stated quietly, an unusual comment for her.

"Why not?" Hiro asked, shoving his hands into his pockets.

"I don't know," she said. "I just get a funny feeling."

"You're both crazy. Now go to bed." Kyo tried to look stern, but only got a confused look from Kisa and a bored one from Hiro.

"Always the people person." Hiro said.

"Shuttup brat." Kyo glared.

"Immature cat," Hiro taunted.

"Look who's talking midget!" Kyo snapped.

"Carrot!"

"Stupid sheep!"

"Baka cat!"

"Kyooo!" Yuki called from upstairs.

"I won," Hiro snickered as Kyo left, but not loud enough that the annoyed cat could hear him.

"Yuki?" Kyo called back, heading towards the guest room. He opened the door. Yuki was lying on the bed, eyes closed.

"YUKI?" Kyo stumbled forwards, kneeling down beside the boy and shaking him.

"Calm down Kyo, he fainted just now." Eryk said, stepping out from the bathroom with a cold washcloth in his hands. "It was me who called you."

"Eryk…" Kyo looked up at the boy, whose black hair was pushed out of his face revealing his startlingly emerald eyes. "Is he ok? Why did he faint?"

"I don't know, he said he felt dizzy, and then he just fell. Luckily I caught him."

Kyo frowned, but could find nothing wrong with the story. Yuki did faint sometimes, for no apparent reason.

"I'll take him to his room then," Kyo said, picking Yuki up.

"Wait, aren't you curious?" Eryk said suddenly.

"About what?" Kyo asked.

"About why I came."

Kyo was silent for a minute. "I guess. Why did you come?"

"I…" Eryk frowned. "I got lonely. I wanted to see you. Although, you're still just as in love with Yuki as you were before. Aren't you?"

"Yes." Kyo said firmly. "And I always will be."

And with that, he left.

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Review responses:

Yaoi fangirl69: Yes, poor Yuki. He's going to have a hard time with his brother, especially since they live so far away and Ayame misses him!

Kyonkyon: Kyo will live! We think :P Hopefully…muahaha!

Rachel: yes, quite demanding o.o

Corculum: Here's your update, finally! It's a good thing you bug me or these things might never get posted :P

TheRealInuYasha:hands purple sock: hm, well I guess I'll have to make up a name for her then :) I'm glad you love my story!