Chapter 17: Worry of Loss

Here is chapter 17. It definitely explains more towards the end, hopefully everyone will be hooked to what's going on… as… you all may find out about even more things. Omg, I sound dumb, I'm gonna stop blabbering on and let you read. ENJOY! Lol.

The day grew darker and soon enough, within only ten minutes, the sun was actually on the other side of the Earth because of the rotation.

Meanwhile, Tohru sits on the couch in the living room talking to Haru and Yuki while watching the two kids run around enthusiastically. She smiles occasionally and just barely catches glimpses of the hallway Kyo went down only fifteen minutes ago. The anxiety was building up inside her body and every few seconds a cold chill would run up and down her spine trying to tell her something. She shakes and turns herself around completely, instantly sidetracked by an awkward feeling. "Kyo's been in the bathroom for quite some time…" Tohru whispers softly, yet it was loud enough for both Yuki and Haru to comprehend.

"Well, maybe he's reading a newspaper…." Haru suggests softly, laughing deep down inside.

Yuki slaps his forehead and gets to his feet from the armchair he was sitting on. "I'll check on that stupid cat I guess…." Yuki gives in, slightly annoyed that Haru didn't offer to do this since it's usually him who is friendly with everyone.

Heading down the hallway slowly, Yuki reaches the bathroom door and puts his ear to the wood. After listening for a moment or two, he knocks on the door and awaits an answer. "Baka neko!" Yuki exclaims out of irritation. "You're going to get Honda-san worried at this rate, open the door!" He continues to yell, but not loud enough for Tohru's ears to put the words together. He jingles the bathroom door's knob and then pushes the door open slowly, "I'm coming in…" Yuki informs quietly, entering the bathroom at an extremely cautious and slow speed. His eyes get large instantly and he stares at Kyo's motionless body on the bathroom tile. "KYO!" Yuki shouts in shock allowing everyone in the living room to become alert and ready to act if needed. At that same time, Yuki drops down beside Kyo and looks at him, shaking him by his arm a little, "Hey! You just got here you idiot! Get up!" Yuki growls trying to sound as impatient as he can.

Tohru couldn't help it, nor stand it any more. She gets to her feet and hurries down the hall to stop at the doorway of the bathroom, thinking over her choices. Should she go in or not? What if there wasn't any problem at all and they were just starting a fight with each other? Then again… why would Yuki shout Kyo's name as if he in disbelief? Within seconds, Tohru comes to a solid decision.

Entering the bathroom, she walks up behind Yuki and looks down at Kyo's body. "Kyo-kun!" She yells desperately, tears slowly making their way out of her eyes. Gradually they pour down her cheeks and drip to the floor. "Wake up Kyo-kun! Tell me your okay!" Her voice was full of complete worry; there was no doubt in Yuki's mind that she was on the verge of breaking down because of him. Tohru drops to her knees behind Yuki and covers her face with her hands. "I don't want to lose you again Kyo-kun…" she sobs into her hands, her words muffled by her weeping and her hands.

"He'll be fine, Honda-san. D-don't worry…" Yuki says sounding unsure of what he was telling her. She was being given all the reason in the world to be sad and worried at the moment. The person she loved looked like he was dead. His body was pale and there was bloodstains all over the back of his shirt and a bruise on his forehead that was slowly becoming a lump.

Tohru looks at Kyo through her barely spread out fingers. "He…. he looks sick. And…the bathroom smells…" she looks at the toilet and nausea befalls her. Tohru wraps her arms around her stomach weakly and groans. "I think I'm going to…. be sick…" she leans back and forth becoming dizzy and faintly ill. "Ah…" Tohru staggers to her feet and beads forward, hovering over the sink a little, "Um..." she groans once more and pukes into the sink, yelping in pain.

"Honda-san!" Yuki shouts attentively, turning around just to see her slump down the sink cabinets and lean against the wall weakly. "What's…. going on? Is it some kind of contagious flu? A virus of some sort…" he whispers in confusion looking from Tohru to Kyo over and over again until he stops between them so that his eyes can see glimpses of the both of them. In seconds, sweat was beading down his forehead and filling his face with water just like falling rain in a hole. Yuki gets up, leaving the both of them on the ground regretfully, and then looks at the mirror. His face was slowly getting white like a sheet. "What…"

Haru walks into the bathroom, his hands against Kisa and Katsuro's chest to keep them back. "What's going on in here Yuki?" Haru asks just before he notices that Tohru and Kyo were lying across the floor lifelessly. "What happened to them!" His voice rose and in an instantly he had become black. Suddenly, he realizes that Yuki was becoming mesmerized by the mirror and quickly, he grabs hold of Yuki's arm and yanks him out of the bathroom. Within a minute, Yuki was back to himself, his pigment returning to its natural color, not being white anymore. Haru takes another peek into the bathroom and then at the mirror. He turns around, pulls a toy from Katsuro's hand, and lasers it at the mirror, shattering it into a million pieces, most of which fell into the sink or on the sink counter. Some dropped beside Tohru and Kyo but only a few shards grazed their skin.

Yuki looks into the bathroom will Haru, taking up the rest of the space that can be seen through, which means the two kids couldn't see anything. "The mirror…. once it broke, it felt better. Like… there was nothing wrong with me in the first place…" Yuki mutters in almost disbelief. He wasn't able to understand why something like this –as strange as this- had happened to them. He looks at Kyo and Tohru and sees them slowly begin to move, almost rocking back and forth in draining agony. Yuki takes a full step into the bathroom, glass cracking under his shoe-covered feet.

At the sound of the glass, both Tohru and Kyo groan quietly and move a little more, seeming to regain the ability to move. Their mouths open a couple times but nothing comes out that was legible, it was either gasps or groans of pain. Finally, Tohru speaks with the sound of a sore throat, "I…" she clears her throat and rubs it a little, "feel a little better now…but…oohh…" Tohru groans once again and wraps her arms tightly around her lower abdomen. She takes a quick look at Kyo and gradually pushes herself onto her knees as she crawls over to him, glass getting carefully wedged into her delicate skin. She yelps and almost gives into the pain by dropping down a little.

Yuki hurries over to her and pulls her off the ground and out of the bathroom. "Haru… bring Honda-san, Katsuro, and Kisa-chan upstairs. Clean out Honda-san's wounds and bandage it up. I think one of her hands is already bandaged up so… the wounds on that one should be far easier to clean and such…" Yuki says, ordering them to take her upstairs and get her back into shape.

After they leave the hallway and head upstairs, Yuki walks deeper into the bathroom and looks at Kyo who was leaning against the bathtub, his head against the edge of it. Kneeling down beside him, he looks at the blood on his back. "That's the wound from when we first saw him… after we freed him from that shack…" Yuki mutters in slight confusion, and then puts his hand under Kyo's chin, lifting his head up a little so that he can have the light in the bathroom shine on his face. "He looks as pale as I did… and as pale as Honda-san was earlier…" the wonder in his voice was building rapidly and before long he was pulling Kyo to his feet and hauling him out of the bathroom. Placing him down against the wall, he re-enters the bathroom and stomps his foot on a larger piece of the mirror. In an instant, Kyo's eyes shot open and he fell forward onto the wood floor that was throughout the house. Spinning around, a small proud smile crosses Yuki's face. "So that's it… the mirror…." he says softly, walking toward Kyo at a slow pace and helps him to his feet. "I'm only helping you because I don't want Honda-san to be worried about you all night…" Yuki says quickly, walking with Kyo out of the hallway and up the steps to where everyone else was.

Tohru peers past Haru and out the bathroom that was upstairs. "Kyo-kun! You're okay!" She exclaims, a wide smile leaping across her face in a matter of seconds. Pulling herself off the bathroom sink, she pushes past Haru, whispering 'sorry' as she does so, and stops in front of a weak Kyo. "How are you feeling?" Tohru asks quickly, in a short type of worry and then looks at Yuki, "Thank you for helping Kyo-kun, Yuki-kun!" says Tohru, thankfully and then asks, "Are you okay too?"

Face still slightly pale, Kyo looks at Tohru and manages a half smile and then pulls away from Tohru and enters his 'still' empty bedroom and sits against his wall.

Kyo stares at his hands as he leans against his wall weakly. "Why… why did I get the same feeling I did when I had that dream back in that dungeon. I felt so cold… and useless… and nauseous…" Kyo sighs, rubs his hands together, and sees small grazes on his arms from what looked like chunks of glass. "What the hell… is going on these days…?" He asks himself, wishing that the answer would appear in the palms of his hands as a hologram or something. After telling himself that it wont happen, he drops his arms limply to his sides and stares forward at his door, hoping that it will open to reveal Tohru's shining expression. The doorknob jingles and a surge of happiness roars through Kyo's body. But when it opened, it was Haru that entered, closing the door behind him.

"Kyo… I think I know how Isuzu-kun died…" Haru says sadly, glancing at Kyo and the floor at the same time. Eventually, he takes a step towards Kyo and that one step became many before he reached him and sat beside him, his legs pulled up a little so that his feet were flat on the ground. "At first… I though Akito ruthlessly beat her until blood was pouring out of her from every part of her body. Thankfully…that's not the case… at least, not in my current state of beliefs…" Haru adds quietly, and then looks at Kyo with a smirk. "Akito was making you feel sick to your stomach somehow and got you to go into the bathroom, where she knew you'd be alone. How she did it, I have not one god damn clue, but what matters is that she knows how to do it. Now… the moment I broke the bathroom mirror…Yuki snapped out of his trance. I think Akito was trying to gain control of Yuki as well as you and Tohru-chan." He says, rubbing his chin and then the back of his head with both hands. "Ya know what I think-." he stops due to being cut off by Kyo.

"I don't care what you think, Haru!" Kyo shouts, getting to his feet quickly, looking down at Haru who was taken slightly aback. "All I want to do is kill that snotty little bitch! She's so damn stuck up and manages to get whatever she wants! I'm going to stop that, got it Haru?" Kyo says roughly, watching Haru get to his feet to meet eyes. With a slight urge to laugh, Kyo smirks at Haru and watches him pat him on the shoulder. "What was that for?" He questions curiously.

Haru smiles and nods, "You really are one headstrong guy, Kyo…" he continues and says, "if I'm not with you when you go and try to stop Akito, then I wish you good luck…"

Kyo groans and rubs his forehead, pulling away from Haru. "You really sounded like a jackass just now…" Haru manages a laugh and a thanking smile.

"I know, didn't I? You know what I mean though, Kyo. I just wish you would allow me to kill her or stop her…or something of the sort…" Haru grins and then gives Kyo a small thumbs up and exits the room without another word.

He stares at the door as Haru closes the door and sighs a little. "I'm not doing this for Isuzu…as much as I do feel bad. I'm doing this…. for…"

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Akito glares at the large mirror on her dresser and then looks at Shigure and Kureno who were occasionally coming in and out of the room. She grunts and then places the small, hand held mirror back into its velvet sheath. "Haru…. is learning too quickly. He is supposed to be the stupid Ox. The one that helped the Rat become the first animal of the Juunishi," Akito screeches in annoyance and places the pouch on the dresser, approaching Shigure and Kureno who were on their knees on top of two cushions. "Are you two going to just sit there the whole time and not say anything?"

With a short sigh, Shigure pulls himself to his standing position, moves forward to Akito, looks at her, and rubs his chin. "Just a suggestion…. but… maybe you should explain to me what is going on. I mean… when I was coming in and out of the room I swear I thought I saw Kyo in that large mirror… and… it didn't look pretty…" as he speaks, he stares past her at the mirror on the dresser and the small pouch that the hand held mirror was being contained by. "So… may you tell me what is going on?" Shigure asks out of pure curiosity, "You sure have Kureno under the impression that I can't know anything…" he laughs softly as he continues stroking his chin.

Grinning a little, Akito leans against the dresser and looks at both Kureno and Shigure. "You may have a point, Shigure. Should I really tell you everything?" Akito asks, her grim smirk growing wider. Shigure nods and then she sees Kureno nod also, his head bowed now. "Have I not told you all that you needed to know, Kureno?" She questions, raising her eyebrows incredulously.

He looks at Akito and then at the ground again, his hands pressed against the carpeted floor. "Well…not everything. I mean… some things you've kept to yourself. Like, how did you find out about the mirrors and how they work? Actually… what do they really do? Why were they made? What can you do with them?" Kureno stops himself and then recovers by saying, "I'm sorry about my constant questioning…"

Akito rubs her forehead a little and looks at the both of them, sighing once again. "You two are slower then that dumb old Ox," she says under her breath out of slight annoyance. "Okay, first thing… I found out about the mirrors and how they work from an Ancient book written by… the ancestors of the Sohma family. Good enough answer for you two?" with their short nod, she continues on, "The mirrors allow you to enter many things… dreams, past, present, and future. They were made to foresee who the next person to be born under the curse would be… On the other hand, I use them for much better reasons," an evil grin curls up across her lips and the two grown men continued to attentively listen, "Such as… making people's lives miserable, changing those persons' dreams and futures. So many things. I can even take control of them and make them sick to their stomachs, as you saw with that Honda girl and the monster…" she adds plainly, rubbing her hands together to gain a little warmth.

Kureno and Shigure blink many times and then the former rooster gets to his feet to stand beside the dog. "You… have so much power over them now, Akito-san. You will definitely get your everlasting banquet soon, or just total control," Kureno was smiling, quite pleased about hearing what the mirrors do and what strong powers they possess.

On the other hand, though, Shigure didn't look all too content with Akito's words. "You haven't told us how it works. All you have is a little mirror, how have you been doing it without it?" he asks, his left eyebrow raising inquisitively.

"Ah…" Akito responds with a mere breath and then adds, "I use two mirrors and channel my Sohma Lordship into them…simple as that, oh loyal dog one…" the entire sentence was being said as if it were completely obvious, but it wasn't as simple as Akito was making it sound. You needed to have mirrors that were equal in mass, but one had to be small and the other had to be large. Also, the person you are trying to use in some way had to have some sort of mirror near by, something that reflects another element. In Kyo's dream, it was the many windows, in Tohru's dream, it was the fifty mirrors and the mirror on her dresser within her bedroom, and earlier in the day the sickness incident, there was a large mirror in the bathroom. "It's quite easy…" Akito says once more and much more proudly then before.

Kureno and Shigure let out hidden sighs and then try to under stand what Akito said about how they worked. They weren't told of how she used the mirrors but they did witness the one that happened earlier in the day where Tohru and Kyo got sick to their stomachs, they have yet to have been completely informed on the dreams…. and… how Rin's death really occurred. For the fact that, Akito never laid a hand on Isuzu…

There's chapter 17! I typed this one before I started HNB's next chapter. I gotta start that one tomorrow now. So… the next chapter to Kan Yume will come… in a week or two. Sorry!

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