Chapter 7

Hello. I really couldn't think of anything to put as a title for this chapter. And sorry if it's a little short. I wanna do some Review responses, starting this chp and only to reviews that just beg for some.

Katsuki Harusame Sohma- OK. The name intrigues me. Harusame. Is that like.. Amidamaru's sword of Shaman King? Anyway, I'm also being very serious when I say I have never had pneumonia and hope I never do. In truth, I did study this and then two of my ff . Net friends started helping cause they'd had pneumonia. So I actually started this by going online and searching for diseases and ended up getting bored so I chose pneumonia cause it had all these different kinds. It's actually very confusing. But I understood enough.

Anyway, I'm out of my rut cause I'm getting reviews. I'm trying to update but I'm lazy. -sticks tongue out- If anyone has any suggestions to this or any of 'my' fics I'll be happy to hear them. On the other hand, if you have suggestions for my sister's stories I'll disregard them. I only send her reviews to her stories so any suggestions for her stories are sent to her through a review to her stories. Right now she's a bit of a Gundam Seed fanfic writing fanatic. Oh well. I'm rambling now for chapter 7.

Hatori had only been driving for a minute or so when he spotted something on the roadside. He stopped the car and got out. The person was on his hands and knees and breathing heavily, as though he'd run the whole way there.

"Kyo?" He asked the wet darkness. Over the rain you could hardly hear him, but the figure did as it turned it's head toward him. "Kyo, come back to the hospital now. You're only going to make your condition worse by doing this."

"Oh Leave me alone! You go back to your damn hospital!" Kyo growled. Hatori walked over and tried to help Kyo up but the cat just shoved him back.

"Kyo!" Hatori bit out, steadying himself so as not to fall over into the mud.

"Dammit!" Kyo panted. "I said leave me alone! I'm going to see Tohru whether you want me to or not!" And with that Kyo lifted himself up onto his feet and kept walking. Hatori stared after him, getting quite wet, for a minute. Then he jumped back in the car and followed Kyo slowly. Along the way, Kyo kept pausing to turn and yell at Hatori.

When they finally reached the house, Kyo seemed awful. He was panting and sweating and tired. Hatori had left his car a bit back up the trail and now followed Kyo on foot. But when he'd been following Kyo in the car, he'd gone so slow that it hardly made noise.

Kyo stumbled up to the front door and almost fell over but hit the wall near the door instead. It made a low 'thud' sound. Kyo reached to open the door when it opened for him and revealed Tohru standing there. When she saw him her eyes widened.

"Kyo! What are you doing here!" she asked frantically. Kyo fell forward into her, but not so that he'd transform. "Kyo!"

"T... Tohru.." Kyo stuttered and sank into unconsciousness. Hatori walked into view. Tohru didn't notice him so when he spoke, it scared her.

"He walked the whole way here. I couldn't stop him. He was just so insistent that he had to see you." he explained.

"Oh Hatori! I didn't see you there!" Tohru jumped. The rain was subsiding now, and according to the wether channel, it would be nice and dry for the rest of the week.

"That's understandable. With the time and weather. Anyway, we should get Kyo back to the hospital now. He shouldn't be out here at all." Hatori walked up and began to try and pick Kyo up. But as soon as the cat's body was beginning to move, his hand attached itself to the bottom of Tohru's shirt and refused to move or let go.

"Okay. Maybe we should get you to the hospital." Hatori groaned. He and Tohru both lifted Kyo up, making his fist grab tighter to Tohru's shirt, afraid they were trying to pull him away from it or something. They laid him in the back seat of Hatori's car and Tohru sat with him. Hatori went in to explain where Tohru was going before coming outside, starting the car, and going back.

Done!

Next Chapter: The Dream

Preview: "Where am I?" What's going on in Kyo's mind through this chapter and next?