Chapter 7: Sorrow in The Sohma

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Here is chapter 7. I hope you all enjoy. Tell me whatcha think. R&R. Sorry it took so long

Haru continued tearing his fists gently at the door, no longer having the strength to rip a hole through it. Tears dripped down on his cheeks and onto his black pants. Akito was still laughing from within her bedroom and Haru just begins to grimace at the thought of what Akito may have done to Isuzu.

There was not the slightest sound that made Haru reassured. All he knew was that she was knocked unconscious…or worse. He wasn't able to stand this any more. He was mentally forcing himself to come up with any idea possible. When nothing came to him he furiously slams his fist through the door, splintering the wood all over the place. Akito, from inside the bedroom, became startled instantly, and staggers backwards trying to get as far as she possibly can away from Haru. His hand flipped open and he reached around the door, groping for the doorknob. Feel the cold touch his hand, he grasps it and turns the knob, opening the door gently.

He gets up from his knees, finally standing on his feet again. Entering the room he looks around and sees blood all over the once welcomingly cozy carpet. "Where is she!" he demands angrily approaching Akito.

Akito looks down and then back up at him, a fierce grin across her face. "Do you not remember the message I had Kureno relay to everyone? Especially to you and Rin." He gives her a questioning stare leaving her open to continue. "You know…. the one where he told you that you were not to be anywhere near Rin and she was not to be anywhere near you. Do you realize how many times you have broke this little law?" She questions roughly, stepping towards him with out any fear. Haru's eyes shake as they gradually became glazy from him holding back his tears.

"What'd…. you do to her?" he looks at the ground as he mutters this. It was much less demanding then the last time he spoke.

"I….put her to sleep." Akito says flatly, her hands at her hips.

Haru looks up instantly. His eyes were full of horror. He couldn't believe what Akito said; she spoke it so calmly that she was making it sound like a good thing. Haru quickly spins around and runs to the closet. Opening it swiftly he sees Isuzu's motionless body lying there. Blood was dripping from her forehead, cheek, arms, nose, lip, and almost everywhere else. Quickly, he kneels down at her side and lifts up her limp body and holds her close to him. She was drenched in her own blood and it was leaking all over his own clothes, yet he didn't care about any of that. The only thing on his mind was I have to help Rin. Haru lifts her to her feet slowly holds her in his arms. Turning to look at Akito, he launches an angry glare at her and leaves the room, as well as the entire house.

Kyo looks out the window and winces trying to get a good look at who was walking out of the house. All he knew was that whoever it was, there was blood dripping from the object in the person's arms. He couldn't discern who the people were but no matter what, it was definitely a cause for worry. All he could really say to himself was, Akito did this… That little bitch. Toying with people's lives. I…just hope it's no one I know. He couldn't bear to think these kinds of things right now. Kyo was getting more and more eager by the second as the person trudged along in the distance. The blood was leaving a lengthy, yet extremely slim trail. His fingers wrap around the bars as best as they can, since the bars were practically right up against the window, he was having a hard time grasping the cold ingots. He pulls away from that area and bustles across the room, skidding to a stop at the bolted shut door. Glaring at it passionately, he takes hold of a padlock and rotates it in many different directions, even if it was beginning to seem impossible.

Haru stumbles once or twice but keeps cleave-to on Rin's ghostly body. She continues to permit the opening and closing of her eyes, steadily leasing them the time to flicker open. But the moment her eyes were wide, they'd instantly shut like a door. The increasing worry in Haru's body was becoming exasperating. He can't stand it any more. And finally, he steps forward, and looks around, coming to a slow halt. The sound of more pounding –similar to his own- fills his ears like a ringing bell. Gently, he kisses Rin's forehead and slowly –ever so carefully- rests her body on the crumbling sidewalk that hasn't been cared for in years. Glancing to the right, as well as the left, he catches a short glimpse of a rattling door coming from a rundown shack - which began to look extremely familiar. He couldn't make sense of it. Then, indecisively, he runs over to the door and peeks through a crevice just a couple inches over the doorknob.

The tattered clothes he could see began looking just as familiar as the hovel. He wasn't able to make any conclusions upon who it was, but felt the rumbling of the doorknob upon his cheek as he continues peeking in. Then, it came to him the clothes were that of a young man. The one he told Tohru he would save. It had hardly been a day and Kyo's clothes were torn everywhere. Clearly, Akito had beaten him many times since dragging him all the way to the Sohma Estate. But, something inside Haru was keeping him from dismissing Kyo from his so-called 'cage'. It was no vendetta. No –nowhere near that- it was the fact that the dying soul of Rin was resting upon a decaying sidewalk that made him rethink his actions. His voice shook the door softly after Kyo had stopped the rapping against the wood sections of the door, "I'll…be right back Kyo." His words made Kyo fall backward with a thump, landing on his butt.

He hurries back to Rin and hoists her up onto his shoulder. Carrying her toward the main gate of the Sohma Estate, he threatens the men their so that they open it. Sprinting down the sidewalk just past the gate, Haru eventually comes close to the shouting distance of the hospital. He yells loudly, "GET OVER HERE NOW!" His legs were getting weak and he wasn't going to permit them to give out until he knew Isuzu was in the proper care of the nurses and doctors. The people that are employed at this hospital knew her, as well as her needs, incredibly well. This was the most comforting thing he was able to think of at the moment. Please…. God…let her…be…. be…. be...safe. Haru's mind suddenly goes blank and he collapses to the ground, Rin as safe as possible on his shoulder.

Many shouts of assistance are heard in his weak state. He was able to hear them and got the feeling that they were too far away. Though they weren't really far at all, but at their sides in the hospital. He couldn't hear their words nearly as clear as he wanted to but caught snippets of sentences.

"…. she's in critical condition. We'll have to pray she makes it through."

"…maybe she got hit with something? Does she have any sort of suicidal records? Maybe-"

The moment he let the words sink into his mind, he let his body bolt upright in anger. His eyes lock on the nurse that had accused Rin of being suicidal. "It's nothing like that!" He exclaims roughly, thrusting his arm to the side, soon realizing how much he was going to regret it. His little tangent had yanked a cord loose and they had to take their time away from Isuzu to quickly repair it before he was to threaten his own existence.

After the cord was hooked back into a life support system, he glances at Rin's lifeless body on the bed about ten feet to the side of his own. He stares at her, tears swelling up in his eyes. Quickly, he wipes them away and closes his eyes tightly, no longer wishing to see the pain Akito had inflicted upon Rin.

XxX

The phone rang delicately, its soft sound ringing throughout the soundless house. Shigure groans as he exits his workroom/bedroom. His hand reaches forward and slips across the phone. After fumbling with the phone and cord, he picks it up and listens to what was being said. He couldn't believe his ears. "This…is…sudden. I'll be there as fast as I can." As tired as his voice depicted, he was anxious to hurry down to the hospital to see how severe Isuzu's injuries really were.

Upon deciding to do that, Shigure exits the house wearing a formal outfit. He runs down the path through the forest and towards the hospital Rin and Haru were staying at until they heal.

He grasps the silver doorknob and an awkward expression crosses his face as though he was watching the cool silver drip silently into a milky liquid. Nonetheless, he pulls open the door and runs into the hospital, gathering the information on where they were being kept and their current condition. Haru was in stable condition. On the other hand, Rin was continuing to keep her status at critical condition. This was beginning to worry not only Haru and Shigure, but also the doctors and nurses that had nursed her back to health the last time she was there.

Rin hardly was moving when Shigure slowly entered the room. He looks at her blankly and shakes his head, full of utter sorrow. He honestly couldn't believe how bad she looked. These injures were actually very serious. It seemed to Shigure that, she was not going to ever recover and be bandaged for the rest of her life. This, of course, was a horrible thing to think, but Shigure freely thought it to himself anyway.

He was the only Sohma to show up other then Hatori who was a doctor, so it didn't really make him count as another Sohma at the moment. Shigure sits down at a chair slowly between both hospital beds and glances back and forth between the motionless bodies of his relatives.

XxX

The morning finally arose. Tohru woke up on the floor of Kyo's old bedroom. Between the time Shigure had left and until an hour before she awoke, she was switching rooms in her sleep. Her body was unable to decide where it wanted to be. First, it thought it wanted to be closest to Kyo as it possibly could. And then, she'd come to a decision in her dreams that she was to not go near Kyo's room, only to go back in there at least an hour later.

The bedroom door cracked open and Yuki popped his head in cheerfully. "Breakfast Honda-san?" He offers, holding a pan in his hand. Tohru couldn't figure out what was in the pan. Was it chicken? Or maybe left over rice? Maybe it was bacon and eggs? Either way, Yuki burned the food so badly that you wouldn't know what it was even if he told you.

Her appetite vanished but she accepted a piece of the charcoal-like bacon. She began to pray with each bite, hoping that it wouldn't be the last thing she'd ever do. (A. N: Consider yourself lucky if you take a bite out of that food and live, most people don'tUnless you're like Shigure and Kyo… She swallows with large gulps believing that if she did this, the horrible taste would be vanquished. Tohru gets up from her lying down position on the floor and stands, walking toward the door, leaving Yuki standing where she once sat.

"Shigure left. I don't know where he went." Yuki says randomly.

Tohru turns around competently and looks at Yuki with a curious expression. "I wonder where Shigure-san went off to…." Her voice trails off smoothly; it practically put Yuki into a trance. She calls his name a couple times and waits for him to snap out of it. After he does so, she smiles at him –falsely- and exits the bedroom, staggering down the stairs, step-by-step.

Her foot touches the leveled floor of the house and the phone rings instantly. She turns and looks at it, then sighs quietly, approaching the stand the phone sat on. Tohru reaches, and takes hold of the receiver, lifting it up to her ear and listening attentively. Minutes pass and she finally hangs up the phone. By this time, tears were strolling down her cheeks.

Yuki walks down the steps and looks at her. "What's wrong?" he asks sounding worried.

"Isuzu-chan…. she's…dead." Her voice shook with pain –with fear. She couldn't believe her own words and neither could Yuki.

And, Chapter 7 comes to a close! Woohoo! I hope you all enjoy! Please Read and Review