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Chapter 7
"Hello?"
"We have a problem, Shigure, and it's serious. You and Ayame need to get to the main house quickly."
"Has our flower been asked to be married? She'll make a wonderful house wife."
"No, this is really serious. They know that we did something in the past."
"Hari, are you telling me that Kyo went through my room and found the photos?"
"I'm not sure if they actually went through your room, but yes they have it. I'm glad that you've realized the severity of the situation."
"We'll be right there. Hatori, don't tell them anything till we get there."
His head pounds with an arriving headache as he hangs up the phone. He opens a drawer in his desk and pulls out the photo of himself as a teen with Kyo perched on his lap gazing at the camera with large, innocent eyes. "Don't worry, Kyo, everything will be taken care of. I will make up for my mistakes. We made promises to protect all of you as best as we could. Akito holds no power over us anymore and the new head is still an infant, for now you're free," Hatori whispers to the photograph before putting it away. Guilt races through him when he hears the boys whispering just outside the door. The loud, impatient knock tells him that they had Kyo approach the door. His first instinct upon seeing the red-eyed beauty is to hug him close, but he sets his mouth into a grim line while he stares the three teens down. "Are any of you ill?" They shake their heads and he sees Kyo's trembling.
-'You're an ill, little toy, aren't you?' Shaking his head, Kyo looked at Domenic for help but the man only flashed him a smug smile. 'I heard you're a screamer. You're going to yell for me, aren't you?' He backed away nervously and yelped when his hair was pulled. 'Give the nice doctor what he wants, Kyo.' He stared into Domenic's heartless blues then he screamed when the doctor strapped him to a cold, metal table. –
"No, stop it. No, I'm not ill. Get him off of me! I don't understand what I did wrong to deserve this. Domenic, you promised me that you wouldn't hurt me again," the orange haired boy yells as he trashes against the couch Hatori had recently bought. "Hatori, what's going on here," Shigure asks his expression deathly serious and he responds, "I only asked a question and he fainted. I had to send Yuki and Haru out before they went hysterical, too." Nodding Shigure pushes him towards the odor and says, "You and Aya go calm the other two down. I'll stay with Kyo, he's my responsibility."
Despite the cat's struggles against him, Shigure holds the boy tightly against his chest. "Shh, Kyo, I'm so sorry. Calm down and wake up. Tell me what's wrong," he says reassuring the teen by caressing his back. Long, orange strands of hair cling to the boy's pale face and tears dampen the robe the inu wore. The marks on the boy's body are clear as his t-shirt scrunches up with his movements and he whispers, "Kyo, I wish things could have been different, but Akito forced us apart. He didn't believe in happiness. I do care about you, Kyo."
"Is he okay," Haru asks when Shigure emerges and the dog nods taking a seat next to Ayame. "Kyo wont tell us what happened, I only found him that one time he was raped and I saw Domenic hurt him, but I went Black then," Haru says already ready to turn to his other side again and savagely tear the man apart. Ayame flashes his brilliant smile, flips his hair back, and says, "I say we should visit Lucky Kyo and get answers from him. I'm sure he's missed us all. After all, he hasn't seen my beautiful face for so long." Rolling his eyes, Yuki mutters under his breath, "Can I skin him yet?"
Crimson eyes peer at the people surrounding them and groggily he asks, "What happened?" Taking a seat beside the teen, Shigure says, "You passed out and had a horrible dream." Shaking his head and sitting up, Kyo stammers, "But it wasn't a dream. It really happened. Why would he do that to me? He said he loved me and in the beginning he took care of me. Why did he begin to whip me and slap me? He even forced me to ask him if I wanted to do simple tasks. After a while I just stopped talking. Then he raped me and let other men rape me. Afterwards he would buy me gifts and tell me he was sorry. Maybe I really did deserve what I got. He would make me feel so guilty for every little thing. It was worse when I fought back, he would burn me with his cigarette. I'm just his stupid toy." Calmly Shigure lays a hand upon the boy's shoulder and he says, "What he did to you wasn't your fault and you're not his toy. Kyo, you are a person that deserves to be loved."
Sighing with relief to have gotten all the secrets off his chest, Kyo leans back and calms his racing heart. "He threatened to kill me and anyone else that I loved. I don't know how he found out about the two crushes I had before I left." Strong, sturdy arms wrap around him and he leans into the dog's protective touch. "Believe me when I say we'll take care of this. Our family is excellent at getting things done secretively," Shigure says and Ayame sniffs then sobs, "Poor Lucky Kyo, don't worry no one will ever hurt you ever again. This is such a tragic event, ahh, the horror. Our Kyo is not a toy."
Curiously Kyo gazes at the three older men, he demands, "What about the photo album?" Hatori sighs then says, "When you were children despite the story you got along, then Akito forced me to erase your memories, but I couldn't. You all had a small dose of my power so your memories are clouded, but you can still remember them. Then Kyo was sent to live with Kazuma and new memories were engraved in your heads." Shaking his head, Kyo yells, "How come I can't remember at all then? I only have a fuzzy memory of one event and that's it. I've searched my memories for any clue as to why I loved them. So tell me what happened." Looking away Shigure says, "Akito beat you until you fell unconscious. You lost your memories because of that." Yuki look down guilt fully then admits, "Kyo, I knew but I had to act like I didn't to protect us. I'm sorry." Falling back onto the couch in defeat, Kyo allows Haru to hug him and the boy whispers, "Kyo, if it makes you feel better I don't remember either. All I know is that I'm attached to you. Kyo, don't be mad at them." With a groan, Kyo says, "Well, this does explain that weird dream of me as a child in a fairy costume dancing with Ayame. How did you guys get me to do that?" Laughing Ayame explains, "Catnip."