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KS:

Kaye glared at the back of Kyo's head, willing it to disappear a while. She prayed that his finding out would be a secret, and not mean Hatori. 'Oh, shit. Hatori will kill me!' she thought, glimpsing down at her bloodstained hands.

"Kaye, why? Why now? Why start this again?" Kyo whispered, hugging his sister even tighter.

"It didn't start again, it never ended," she muttered and continued to glare. "More like a break than ending,"

Kyo looked confusedly at Kaye, "It can't be because of Tohru... no... is it??" Kyo was on the brink of letting loose a torrent of tears. His sister was torturing and killing herself, but why?

IS:

'Sure it's because of Tohru, but she's not worth the cost of all my torment…' Kaye thought in an empty way, her thoughts echoing off her insides as though they had all the room in the world. She hadn't thought about much else lately.

Kyo gripped her harder and held her in front of him, his eyes narrowed almost angrily yet still flooded by tears on the brink of spilling. "Talk to me, Kaye, please. Talk to me. What's been bothering you? It can't just be Tohru. It can't."

Kaye looked away. "That hurts, Kyo. Let me go."

"This hurts?!" Kyo shouted. "This hurts but doing such things to yourself doesn't?!"

"Let me go Kyo!" Kaye shouted, pulling away roughly. Suddenly, both of them paused. Someone was coming up the stairs.

"Honestly, you two should go into acting. You do the best impressions of a lover's spat I've ever heard…" Shigure called as he headed up the stairs toward them.

Kaye froze. She glanced around herself, looking for the fastest way out and saw the window behind her as she fidgeted. If Shigure saw her like this Hatori would definitely be alerted and she didn't want to have to deal with that. Kaye gave a violent jerk from Kyo and he turned to look at her.

"Is this why Tohru dropped all that tea this morning?" he whispered. Kaye's eyes filled with tears and with a few more tugs she was out of his grasp. She leaped up and made for the window. Kyo grabbed for her, missed, and she was gone. By the time Shigure entered the room Kyo was the one curled up in the ball shape, holding his head down by his knees.

Shigure stood back a moment, looking around the room. There were blood stains on the floor, some which had soaked into the wood and would not come out no matter how much they were abased with cleaning materials. Shigure looked up to the window where he knew Kaye must have disappeared. "I'll call Hatori," he said in sad, low voice.

KS:

Kaye was running, running as fast as her sore feet could take her. She had her eyes closed, letting them lead her to where they willed. This was as far as her army training could take her. It couldn't stop her true thoughts from finally escaping their prison-like hold. She tripped, her thoughts on something else while still running. She rolled so as the fall would not hurt as much, and continued to roll until she stopped. Unfortunately, stopping was colder then she thought as she rolled right into a stream.

She sat there a minute, her eyes glazed over in thought. Cutting was the only way to stop thinking of her true pains. Yes, she had been raped. She had been cutting herself since the age of eight, and she had stopped talking once they took away her knife. Her life. She had just stopped, as she would now. She would stop, not of her own accord. It was because of who she was that her body went into hibernation mode and ceased movement. No talking, no eating, sleeping, nothing. Just nothing. She sat in the stream a moment, looking as the blood from her wrists trickled down into the stream, billowing out like clouds on a summer's day.

Summer.

"Kyo! Hurry up! We're gonna go fishing with Hatori!" Kaye shouted. She blinked; her distress was bringing up flashbacks. She didn't try to stop, and continued with the flashback.

"Coming! You can't go fishing without the damn poles!" Kyo shouted back. He was so cute. Kaye must have been five or six, and Kyo six or seven.

She blinked in reality and stood up a moment. She shook, much like a dog would, all the water off of her, or as much as she could. The curse? Pssh. Kaye was sick of hearing about the curse! She wasn't part of the zodiac but all the same knew what it felt like to be cursed. She knew that no matter what she did everyone around her would forever be in pain. The only way to save their pain was to get rid of her own. Take away her life, waste away into nothing, and become nothing once more. Live only in the memories of the ones she loved, and nothing more.

IS:

Kaye took another minute to think over her options. Tohru had kept her secret, sure, but Kyo would not and it was most likely Shigure with his sharp eye would not overlook the blood stains on the floor. Shigure would, doubtless, call Hatori, who would have raced over worried sick. Kaye's head drooped further, thinking of the trouble her adoptive father would go through from his grief, from his worry. She couldn't go back. The thought of America flashed in her mind.

This, also, was an unlikely option, seeing as all her money, tickets, travel information, and clothing was back at the house, a place she wouldn't risk going back to unless a plan formed. Another thought flashed her mind. The knife. The knife was still at the house, too.

Kaye dropped to her knees, ending up sitting back down in the stream. The cool water rushed past her and wrapped a chilling embrace around her frail form, one that like Kyo's was uncomforting and unwelcome. Even here she was being babied. But she couldn't think about spite right now. She wanted that knife, but she knew she didn't need it. Still, desire is always stronger than common sense.

Tohru and Yuki walked back to the house with their arms full of groceries. It was late autumn, yes, but that meant harvest time. "These strawberries look delicious," Tohru commented, staring at the ripe, plump berries with eagerness. "I can wait to get into them."

"Use them in a dessert or a meal or something, put them to good use," Yuki said smilingly and Tohru smiled back. Neither of them had any idea what was going on within the walls of Shigure's house.

As they continued to draw closer Tohru stopped as something big and black caught her attention from the corner of her eyes. It was a car. "Yuki," Tohru called, taking a step towards the vehicle, "Isn't that Hatori's car?"

Yuki looked to where she was talking about and blinked a few times. He looked at the house again and titled his head curiously. "I wonder why he's here."

"I hope Kaye's okay," Tohru said, randomly as far as Yuki could tell.

"What would be wrong with Kaye?" Yuki asked as Tohru slid back the door. Both of them stepped inside and looked around. Hatori was sitting in a chair, his head in his hands, a knife at his feet. Shigure was consoling a shaking Kyo over in a corner.

"Oh no…" Tohru rushed over to Hatori, who was closest. "What happened?"

"Kaye's gone," Shigure explained. He looked over at Yuki, "She was doing it again." Yuki's eyes widened and he dropped his bags. Kyo looked over to Tohru, his eyes wide and reflecting the same insanity within him that he had released to her once before. He gripped her arms tightly and continued to stare wildly, his face tearstained.

"Why didn't you tell me?" Kyo demanded to know, even if in a weak voice. "This morning you saw her arms didn't you? That's why you dropped all that stuff. Why didn't you tell me?"

Tohru looked at Kyo sadly and loosened his grip on her very steadily. The glare Kaye had given Tohru earlier when Kyo had asked her that question was still plastered firmly in her mind. "She… she didn't want you to know," Tohru muttered miserably.

Kyo's face contorted in anger. "That doesn't make it right to not tell me! She needed help and it could've been given to her! Dammit!" Tohru looked down at her lap and Kyo put his head back down in his hands.

Everyone in the room was silent for a while. Tohru was thinking very, very hard. Kaye had run off yes but she couldn't have run terribly, terribly far, army training or not. Blood loss would drain her, even if not much. And Kyo and Hatori were so upset… she felt the need to give something back to them. She felt as though it was all her fault Kaye was gone, and she definitely knew that whatever she had done was the reason Kaye had been angry in the first place. She felt so helpless…

A light went off in Tohru's head and she took Kyo's hands in hers. He looked up, startled, as she pulled him to his feet. "I know where she is," she said anxiously as she pulled him towards the door. "I know where she is."

"How could you possibly…?" Yuki wondered out loud as he, Shigure, and Hatori stood as well. Everyone was staring at her.

"There's a chance that I might be wrong, of course," Tohru admitted, "But we can't just wait here to see if she comes back. We have to go look for her. Kyo, you remember where you were that night when your Master was here?" Kyo blanched, thought a minute, then looked at her again, nodding his head. "I think that's where Kaye is. She must be there, down by that stream. "

"It's worth a try," Shigure agreed. "Tohru's right. We have to go looking for her. We'll split up." They all took off in different directions, Kyo and Tohru heading to the clearing by the stream where Kyo had first learned that it was possible for him to be accepted by an outsider, where he learned that Kaye's way of thinking was very, very inaccurate.

Numbed by her thoughts Kaye didn't hear the two of them approaching. It had taken a fair amount of time to get down there and it was dark already, even if it was still relatively early in the day. Tohru and Kyo stood just outside the woods, staring down at her silhouette in the water. Tohru looked over at Kyo and saw that his relieved face matched her own.