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Hello again! With my quick update, as per usual. What on earth would you all do if I didn't update almost once a night? You'd be stuck with that cliff hanger for like... a long time oO; You're also really lucky that I spend all time at school going; "Come on end... I wanna write... come on end..." Then I go home and write until I've finished at least one chapter. That being said, I can't believe I'm up to Part Twenty-Five... oh gosh... and I'm all like... WOW! And, what's even more amazing is the amount of reviews I've gotten - thanks you guys! Thank you all so much!

So, now, I'm all sure that you're dying to end the cliff hanger... so... without further diarrhoea from my mouth, here it is! (Oh, and don't forget to review n.n!)

Part Twenty-Five: Revelations

Blushing, Kyo drew back... his eyes surveyed the rather blank look on Shigure's face and cursed. He'd just done that for... nothing?

"Uh... Kyo?"

"WHAT?" Kyo immediately shut his mouth. If Shigure had remembered after that, he didn't want him to think that it didn't mean anything. Cursing yet again, he didn't want to be seen looking at the dog, so he looked away.

"What was... that for?"

"DAMN IT ALL!" Kyo screamed, kicking the door down on his way out of the room. (A/n: Literally. If Kyo can bust a table in the 2nd episode, he can kick a door down xD.) "Fucking mutt..."

Shigure blinked, bringing his hand up to his lip, the looking at the door, half of which was hanging loosely on its hinges, the other half in the hallway. "..."

If Yuki hadn't stopped to stare dumbfounded at Shigure's door before checking on the dog, he would have noticed a small smirk that had formed on the dogs lips.

Kyo rolled over. Then, he rolled over again. He got up, turned his fan off, rolled over, got up and turned the fan on again, continuing the routine a squillion and one times before he finally gave up, laying on one side of his bed, his arm dangling over the edge, almost touching the floor. He knew the fan wasn't the reason why he couldn't sleep.

He sighed. He'd never thought about the consequences of kissing Shigure if it actually didn't work. And, by Shigure's reaction, it most probably hadn't. "..."

The cat rolled over again, burrowing his head into his pillow. He felt... embarrassed? Stamping his head into the pillow again, Kyo realised that with Shigure on his mind, he was only going to get a little, if any, sleep that night.

Kyo stared at Shigure from the doorway to the dining room, and Shigure, who had been reading his paper, stared at Kyo. "..."

Yuki and Tohru, who were in the middle of their breakfast, exchanged glances, before attempting to excuse themselves from the tension. They were stopped by Shigure, who decided that he'd had enough of the glaring competition.

"Ayame's coming over today." He said simply, picking up his paper again to shield the chopsticks worth of noodles that Yuki had flung at him from his breakfast. Needless to say, Kyo wasn't too happy either.

"Kyo, Yuki be on your best behaviour."

"I think I should be saying that about you." Yuki said simply, picking up more noodles to replace the ones that now coated the front page of Shigure's news paper.

"Now, now, Yuki." Shigure sighed, "You all have such little faith in me. I'm not going to do anything with Ayame."

"That's what you said the last time he visited." Yuki replied, making sure that he was referring to the times that he wasn't with Kyo, "and we all know what happened what happened then."

"Exploring sexuality isn't a bad thing." Shigure replied simply, shrugging. "Yuki, you should try it. There are plenty of gay bars..." More noodles were flung from Yuki's chopsticks and they hit the novelist square in the side of the face.

"Gure!" Aya exclaimed, checking back and forth in the doorway for Kyo, before flinging himself on the novelist. "It's been such a long time! Did you miss me while I was away?"

"Of course, my dear Aya." Shigure replied, hugging the snake back, "Who were you checking for?"

"Kyo of course!" Aya grinned, "He would have killed me if he'd seen me do that."

"Would he now...?"

Koda sighed, re-reading the ticket for the fiftieth time, before looking around the air-port to make sure that nobody was following him, and then read the ticket again. The airport was basically empty, having chosen the earliest flight that he could – he'd been there for over five hours.

"Koda."

Koda jumped, turning around the see a rather weary man stalking towards him. "Akito-sama requires you to return to Sohma house at once."

Koda shot up from the chair that he was sitting in, starting backwards as quickly as he could to avoid Kureno, who it appeared had followed him. "..."

"Akito-sama has realised that the plan has obviously failed, or will fail." Kureno continued his speech, taking another step in Koda's direction, "therefore he requires you to return to your cage at once."

Koda began to sweat. He was a plane ride away from complete freedom, but in front of him was a barrier of a rather peeved looking rooster.

"He was not happy that you ran away from your fate." Kureno said, watching as Koda wasted no time pushing in front of the line for the clearance check, chucking everything he had on the conveyer belt, and darting through the detection gates – that luckily didn't ping – and grabbed his stuff.

Kureno followed at a much more relaxed pace.

Koda waited impatiently at the gate that he was boarding his plane at, luckily in only a few minutes time. He was rocking back and forth, glancing to the ticket lady – who was looking rather concerned – then back at Kureno, who was walking in his direction.

"Koda, you and I both know that you can't run." He said, stopping just inches from where Koda was; the wolf of course was sweating like somebody wouldn't believe. "Now come for back with me to where you belong..."

"This is the first boarding call for flight QF 4885 to New York, your flight is now boarding at Gate 5... Repeating..."

Without a second thought, Koda shoved the ticket at the ticket lady, who accepted it, just as Kureno grabbed his arm in a rather tight and painful grip. "You will not escape."

Koda shook his arm and walked forward, eventually forcing Kureno off, and then darted out of the door to get to his flight without a second thought, giving a small triumphant glance to Kureno once he was safely on the tar mat and out of the roosters grasp – out of Akito's grasp.

As Kureno watched Koda jog to his plane, one thought went through his mind. Shit. He got away.

"Akito." Kureno said softly, opening the door to the Head's room. "The wolf escaped."

"He," cough, "what?" Akito screamed – or tried too, through a hoarse throat. "Kureno you," cough, "useless rooster! How dare," cough, "you let that flea ridden," cough, "wolf to get away! Are you incapable of," cough, "nothing?"

Kureno calmly sat at Akito's side, receiving the slap for his failure, the slap only having half of its normal effect. Silently, he reached for the bowl of ice cold water from the top of Akito's bed, taking the washer from Akito's bedside and soaking it in the water. "Akito-sama, you should really lie back down. You aren't going to get any better if you..."

"I'm not going to get any," cough, "better, Kureno! And you and Hatori both," cough, "know it!" Akito looked away from the rooster, who was looking in blank shock at the Head, then, he said venomously, "you're just waiting," cough, "for the inevitable to happen."

"No we're-"

"Don't lie to me!" Akito shot, "You'll all just be," cough, "glad when I'm gone! I can see it," cough, "by the way you look at me!"

Kureno fell silent. He wouldn't lie – nobody would be sad when Akito wasn't there, except maybe the house staff that knew nothing but him. He also knew that it wouldn't be too many days until Akito departed to the afterlife, Hatori had told him so the day before yesterday. He presumed that a new Head would be announced after Akito's death.

But – one thing was for sure. Akito wasn't going to live past Kyo's graduation.