Chapter Nine: Tenacious Akito

Dark knocked on the door and opened it, "Hello," he smiled, "We have a present for you." he said as he pointed to the door.

Kyo opened the door wider and spotted Tohru being carried by Krad.
"Tohru!" he said softly, before yelling the news over his shoulder. Yuki came running for the door.
"Where was she!" he asked.
"And what happened to that chick who carried her off?" Kyo asked.

Dark didn't say anything as he looked at Krad, "Put her in her room. Don't let Kyo and Yuki or Shigure in," Dark said to Krad and new that he would under stand why.

Krad nodded and opened his wings. He flew to her window, which was still open, and set her in her bed before leaving again and locking the window behind him with magic. Then he went into the house through the hole Rogueblade had blasted in the ceiling and guarded her room.
"Wait, why can't we go in!" Kyo said angrily.
"And you never answered our questions, either." Yuki added.

"The girl is called Rogueblade, a vampire. She worked for Akito. And no you can't see her. Not one of the Sohmas can see her until she asks for them. You guys don't understand what he did to her. But Yuki..." he said as he looked at Yuki, "The dark room that you where in...he put her in that as well," he said as he turned around and guarded Tohru's room door.

Yuki's face showed no emotions at first, but then he grew enraged and began to curse Akito in his head.
Kyo also knew what this meant, and he just stood there until a small piece of the information finally hit him.
"Wait just a--did you say VAMPIRE!"

"Yes," Dark said as he looked at them sitting down in front of her door, "Kyo you where lucky. You could have got bitten by her when you saw her in the sky. Be very careful when you are alone." Dark said.

Kyo got very pale in the face and Krad glared at Dark.
"Don't scare him, Dark. You heard what she said. She only got hungry when her soul was returned...plus you don't want your little sweetheart to think you think badly of her, do you?"

"It's my fault that she fell for my charm." he laughed a bit, "I'm not trying to scare him just tell him that he should be aware," he said

"Hmm..." Krad said, not really caring one way or the other. "Somehow I don't think it was really your charm. Admit it, you think she's cute, plus she can beat you up, and that got you to liking her."
Kyo rolled his eyes, not wanting to hear anymore, and headed down the stairs again.

"Whatever," Dark said as he rolled his eyes, "My woman is Tohru," he said it loud enough for everyone to hear and laughed a bit.

Kyo bristled a bit, but he'd gotten used to Dark's odd jokes, along with Yuki.
Krad sighed, tired of arguing, and closed his eyes. "You'd better be careful or you'll make that vampire jealous," was all he said.

Dark laughed and rolled his eyes, actually this time he had no snappy come back. He heard Tohru get up from her bad and tried to get out of the room, "wow Tohru go back to bed…" he said.

Kyo's attention was refocused the instant he heard Tohru's name again.
"She's awake?" he called up the stairs.

"Yeah. Tohru go back to bed..." Dark said as he felt her bang on the door softly.

"Kyo...kun..."she said softly through the door.

"Kyo she called you," Dark said, a little shocked

Kyo just nodded and walked up the stairs. He pushed open the door to her room.
"...Tohru?"

Tohru was sitting on the bed, her hair draped over her face, "Kyo..." she aid softy as she looked up.

Kyo went over to her and knelt beside the bed.
"Tohru? Are you all right? You look so sad..."

"Sadness..."she said softly."I have always been sad…but no one tried to see through my smile!" she said as she looked up as Akito started to take over and she pulled up her arm and put her hand on his throat. "No one even tried to help me!" she said, and it was not her voice but Akito's.

Kyo finally realized why they'd been told to stay out of her room, and decided he'd just have to get rid of Akito's presence himself.
As much as the thought of kissing Akito repulsed him, hopefully it would repulse Akito as well and get him out of Tohru's body. So, he kissed him/her.

The part that was Tohru started to let go of his neck but Akito pushed her away and squeezed harder, "This is what you get!" Akito yelled through Tohru's body. But her other hand started to pull the hand off, "Stop...it..." she managed to say.

Kyo realized that he'd managed to get Tohru to fight back and stopped kissing him/her.
"You don't scare me anymore, Akito," he said quietly, knowing that he would hear him through Tohru. "Doesn't that just make you furious? That you lost control of someone? That they can do whatever they want, and you can't even touch them? Fight him, Tohru; let him know that he can't control you either!"

Akito growled as Tohru made him let go. "No!" He yelled as Tohru fell on her knees and on Kyo as well.

Kyo put his arms around Tohru. "I've got you," he whispered, knowing she would hear. "Just keep fighting him. I won't let go..."

"Stop it!" Akito yelled through Tohru as a dark aura lifted off of Tohru's body. Tohru fell once again and looked up at him, "Kyo-san..." she said softly as she looked up at him.

He looked at her, and relief was all over his face. "Thank goodness! You're you." he said, hugging her and nearly laughing with relief.

She clenched his shirt in her hands and she started to cry, "I'm so sorry Kyo-san! I let Akito into my mind. I'm so sorry...I doubted you and everyone else."

"No...no, you don't have to apologize," he said, kissing her and forgetting how red that made her face (lol). He hugged her again and pulled her to her feet.
"Why don't we go tell everyone else the good news?"

She didn't say anything as she shook her head, "Kyo-san...if you don't mind...I want to spend just a little more time with you…alone." she aid softly, still clenching his shirt.

His face got red but he agreed, surprised.
"Okay." he said. He put his arms around her again and closed his eyes. "Just so long as you promise not to turn into Akito again if I kiss you." he teased.

She was red as well and laughed a bit. "Okay I promise." she laughed and smiled a bit.

"In that case..." he said softly, getting serious again. He kissed her and was sure to not make it a short one.

Tohru blushed a bit but relaxed and kissed him back softly.

They stayed in the room for a few more minutes, and outside Krad was getting a little apprehensive. At least Dark hadn't started cracking jokes yet, though.
But no one was more worried or on edge than Yuki, who'd seen Tohru sleeping on Kyo just yesterday.

Tohru smiled softly as she pulled away and looked at him, "Kyo-san...I've wanted to tell you something for a while now. Kyo-san...I love you." she smiled, still red.

Kyo's eyes widened. "...you do?" he asked softly. "I love you too, Tohru." he said, kissing her again and closing his eyes again. He hadn't expected her to admit it, and especially not so soon...but he was happy all the same.

She smiled and kissed him more. "Dinner!" she said as she shot up, "I haven't cooked dinner yet," she said as she reached for the door.

Kyo laughed to himself and put a hand to his face, shaking his head. "Love confessions and dinner anxiety within the same minute..." he said quietly to himself."Yeah, that's Tohru all right." he followed her to the door.

She opened the door as Dark fell into the door way, sleeping, "Oh, poor Dark-san," she said laughing a bit as she got a cover and put it on him and walked down stairs and straight to the kitchen.

Krad looked over as Dark fell to the side. So that's why he wasn't cracking jokes, he thought to himself before thinking up an awesome revenge scheme.
"Tohru...I don't suppose you have a marker?" he asked before realizing that Tohru was actually up and about and her old self.
"Wait---Tohru! You're better! How are you feeling? And do you have a marker?" he asked, still dead set on getting revenge.

"A marker?" she smiled as she opened a drawer in the kitchen and tossed him a marker. "Here you go, Krad-san," she smiled as she got back to dinner.

Krad gave a quiet evil laugh (he couldn't go waking up Dark, now could he?) and uncapped the marker. Ironically, it was purple.
As for what happened after that...let's just say that when Dark woke up he'd have whiskers, a beard, and pretty purple eyelashes. Plus "WOMANIZER" was written in capital letters on his forehead.
Krad put the lid back on the marker and handed it to Tohru.
"Thank you very much," he said. "And please don't let him know when he wakes up, k?"

"B-But Krad-san he could get sick if you leave marker too long on someone's face," she said as he started the rice cooker and stated to chop carrots.

"Don't worry," he said, snickering like a little kid, "the marker was non-toxic. And don't forget that he's got magic flowing in his veins. It'll heal any harm the marker could possibly do. It's not like I smeared poison on him or something, you know."
He stood up. "Need any help with dinner?"

"N-No I'm okay. You're a guest just sit down." she smiled as he ran around do the kitchen, doing dishes, making rice balls and curry.

Krad nodded his head, not really caring either way so long as Tohru was happy, and he decided to wake up Satoshi.
Wakey, wakey... he said before yelling the same phrase repeatedly.
OW! Shut up, I'm awake! Satoshi said sleepily.
Good, because you completely missed out on practically everything. Krad replied cheerily.
What do you mean...? Satoshi answered in a suspicious voice. Krad filled him in on everything as he walked over to Shigure.
"You know, Dark's asleep if you'd like some revenge for the damage he's done to your house."

Shigure was asleep on the sofa; yes not a normal sleep pattern lol. There was a knock on the door as Momiji walked in, "Tohru," he smiled and ran and hugged her," Momiji good to see you."

"How are you?" Momiji asked smiling.

"Good thank you," she smiled.

Krad rolled his eyes. "When he finally can do something, he's asleep." He decided to wake him up, however, since it was a special occasion.
"SHIGURE!" He yelled.

"What!" he yelled as he sat up, "What, is Tohru done with breakfast? Okay, wake me when it's done," he said as he lay back down.

"Idiot, she's cooking dinner. DINN-ER." He said slowly, like he was talking to a toddler. "Plus, you can get RE-VENGE on DARK."

"Revenge..." he muttered as he sat up, "Hahaha," he said, "Tohru can I have a marker please."

"Umm okay," she said as she handed him a marker.

He laughed as he put "PERVERTED" over his eyelid and "VAMPIRE LOVER" on his forehead, "Hahhahahahha," he laughed.

Krad transformed into Satoshi again.
"He's going to wake up soon, you know." Satoshi said warningly. "The noise, if not the smell of food, should revive him."

At those words Dark woke up, "Food..." he said as he smelt marker, "what in the world?" he said.