Chapter 18: Momiji & Hiro- Relieved

There it is. Chapter 18! Progress has been made. This chapter finally features the other Sohmas. Which I enjoy doing. Cause, most of their personalities are so fun to work with! Enjoy!

Kyo keeps still in his bedroom for many periods of time, remaining undisturbed by everyone. It was amazing how people can first be so aware of your pain then instantly ignore it. They aren't leaving me alone just to ignore me… to shun me… it's for my own good. So I can think things over. Haru must have told them about when I said and how I am going to find Akito and take her down. Even if she is a girl…. His mind was racing and thoughts were popping around like crackling popcorn. "How am I going to even get into that damn Estate?" Kyo asks himself, rubbing the top of his head as he contemplates this.

Meanwhile in Tohru's bedroom, Haru and Yuki, as well as Tohru, sat around, talking with extremely soft voices. "I don't know what came over me… I just suddenly didn't feel too well. When I finally realized where I was, again… the glass was all over the floor. Shigure-san… won't like that, he'll be angry with me again…" Tohru sighs after speaking of what she remembered from when she entered the bathroom to see if Kyo was okay earlier.

Haru slaps his forehead, slightly surprised by her worry of Shigure's reaction. "It doesn't matter if he gets mad, Tohru-kun. It's just good that you didn't get hurt or anything. But… what bugs me is that when the mirror shattered, you and Kyo became fine… in an instant," he found himself talking even quieter then before and lying back a little only to lean against the wall. Haru was soon emerged in his thoughts, almost drowning in them as they begin to take up too much space in his head. He found himself gasping for air on the inside then closing and reopening his eyes after a couple seconds. "I think Akito's doing all of this. She's torturing all of us one way or another… and oddly enough, I think a mere mirror is more then enough for her to tap into her souls or… anything I guess…"

For some reason, Haru was acting too sophisticated and all knowing, so Yuki gets up from a chair he was sitting in, in Tohru's room and looks at him. "A mirror? Heh… Haru? You're kidding me," as he said this though, a sense of fear arouse from his voice. He couldn't help but recall Tohru's dream that had only occurred a day ago. Did Akito cause that? He asks himself then glances at her, fright creeping up into his eyes to make them somewhat glazy. "A-Akito… you think… she's doing all of this? Wha… why her though? Is this because we freed Kyo?" Finally, the memory of being contained in almost the same room as Kyo was coming to mind. A cold feeling dripped down his back, making sweat cover his neck, making him instantaneously rub the nape of his neck.

Haru was able to sense Yuki's fear and he pulls himself from the wall just to walk to him and make sure he's feeling okay. "Yo… Yuki. Don't let Akito faze you anymore, all right? I wouldn't let the first person I ever loved get her by that little …" Haru glances at Tohru and picks a different choice of words, "brat…" it was clear that he didn't want to offend anyone with any type of foul language.

Both Tohru and Yuki stare at Haru after he says 'the first person I ever loved'. "Can you please stop saying that? You know it gives people the wrong impression…" he groans and looks down, his face basically as white as a sheet. "And… I'm not afraid of Akito. I just can't believe she's always finding a way to ruin things in my life. Even if I'm not her target this time. Lately her aim's been towards Kyo as I'm guessing and… some how… that's bothering me…" he whispers, the shadow his hair was creating over his face gave all of them an awkward feeling.

A slight smile made its way across Haru's face slyly. He didn't even realize he was smiling yet; the urge to laugh was swirling around in his body. He was just about in the middle of black and regular Haru, which was making him feel weird, yet he had the sense of serenity as well. Approaching Yuki, he stops right in front of him and leans his head to his ear and whispers, "You're feeling bad for Kyo 'cause you know it bothers Tohru-kun…" a smirk crosses his face after saying this and he was able to notice an annoyed cringe in Yuki's expression, "Do you love Tohru-kun…?" Haru asks, going around to behind Yuki, his head in the same position as it was before, only he was more comfortable since he was just leaning his head forward in a normal stance.

Moving away from Haru startlingly, Yuki spins around to face him, blushing wildly. He shook his head from side to side as if to say 'no' but mouthed the word 'yes' instead. Yuki begins to calm down a little after realizing that he can actually talk to someone about his love for 'Honda-san'. So, he turns back around to look at Tohru and lets out an unnoticeable sigh. "If it really is Akito doing all of this stuff, then I think we have to avoid being near any mirrors and such," the moment he said this, Haru stared at him. "I know… it's probably going to be an almost impossible thing to do… but that's all I've come up with…"

Haru pats Yuki on the shoulder and laughs with a large, humorous smile widespread across his face. After everything that was going on, Tohru seemed to have the same spacious look on her face, like she was thinking about other things that were just as important. "Yuki-kun… uhm… Haru-kun… do you think… well maybe we should just remove all of the mirrors in the house. If we ask Shigure-san first that is… Like, you can explain everything, right? And then we can all be safe," she was proud of her distant thought process even though it was almost exactly what Yuki said.

The door of her bedroom slowly creaks open and in comes Kyo, straight faced –completely serious- and ready for a real conversation. Then… he ruined it, since he's Kyo and can't contain himself without getting pissed off about something, but he managed to tune it down, "Let's talk about that gender-bender. I can't fricken deal with her interfering with everything. She's making my whole damn life a living hell! I know what she's up to… I… I can feel it in my veins… its like a sixth sense." Kyo sighs and places his hand on the top of his head and bringing it down so that it covers his face for a moment. He drops his hand back to his side and looks at them wearily, "Maybe not a sixth sense. But… it just seems a little familiar. Like its happened before…" after receiving a questioning stare from both Haru and Yuki, he explodes with a seconds worth of anger, "God dammit! Just trust me for once!"

That was it though. All they needed to hear was in that final sentence that Kyo spoke. All his life people interrupted him in some way. He wanted to be heard for once to be trusted like everyone else in the world. The people closest to them trusted them with the world, with their most valuable secrets and items. Kyo was never given that chance because of how everyone depicted him and how he grew up. Everyone blamed him for everything and called him a variety of names. Murderer. Crazy. Anger-driven. Yet, in truth, he was a calm and fun loving person. He had to be known and that happened only a couple times. Mostly when he was younger and lived with Shishou.

Tohru gets up from the bed and looks at Kyo softly, tilting her head ever so slightly to the right, a gentle smile occupying her face to give him the need to smile back, like he always did. And that's just what happened, the smallest smile ever was formed and no one noticed it except her. "Kyo-kun… I trust you." She beamed happily, her head no longer tilted in any way. Haru grins and grabs Kyo's head grinding his knuckles through his hair and against his skull.

"Stop it you idiot! That hurts!" Kyo shouts, but on the inside he was laughing like a child. Quickly, he pulls away from Haru's grasp and falls down, and then leans against the dresser he was near.

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Downstairs, in Shigure's house, the door was being knocked on wildly and whimpering was echoing through the walls and into Tohru's bedroom.

"I'll get it…" Tohru says cheerfully, going down the steps quickly so that whoever was at the door wouldn't leave. After reaching the door, she slides it open and exclaims a sweet, "Hello!" and spots Momiji and Hiro in tears. "Wha? Aw… are you two okay? What happened?" She kneels down and smiles at them, trying to calm them in some way.

Momiji sniffles and rubs his nose then his face, making his face red and eyes sting. "I'd think you'd be sad and crying too… T-Tohru-kun!" He says quite loudly, making Haru and Yuki come down the stairs, being followed in the shadows by Kyo. "Especially after what has happened! It even made Hiro-chan cry! It's so sad! Akito even said it like it was a good thing… she's so cruel! I don't know how she could do such a thing!" He was talking almost in riddles and it gave Tohru not one clue what was going on, but she felt bad that they were sad and that was all that really mattered at the moment.

Following suit, Hiro rubs all over his face and sobs, his eyes were hardly even open. "Committing such a thing twice in a matter of weeks. First Isuzu-chan and then… and then…" he couldn't even finish the sentence, he began crying too hard. For the first time ever, Hiro was actually making sense, he wasn't talking in his like brat, know-it-all type of tone. "For some reason…" he whimpers, " I can believe that she'd do such a thing… but…" Hiro throws himself at Tohru, and Momiji copies the youthful jyunishi. The both of them hug her and transform after a couple seconds. Tohru hugs them comfortingly and sighs a little hoping that they'll be okay soon.

"Can you… maybe tell me what happened?"

Kyo approaches the three of them, and puts his hand on Tohru's head, leaning over to look at them. "What are those brats crying for?" he asks out of aggravation. "I think I deserve at least one day without hearing a person whining about something…"

Tohru smiles and looks up at Kyo a little. "Kyo-kun… I think something happened back at the main house…" she whispers to him so that they wouldn't hear much, which, in result, wouldn't affect them as greatly as it probably would have if she had spoken any louder.

The two slowly stop crying and their animal forms glance upward to see Kyo staring down at them. Within seconds they were rubbing their eyes and climbing up Tohru to get on her shoulders, despite the fact that it was quite an ache having them there, but she didn't seem to mind it much. "AKITO-SAN SAID SHE KILLED YOU KYO!" Momiji shouts, completely baffled.

Blinking many times, Kyo slaps his forehead with the hand he had on Tohru's head. "Your kidding me…. that little… God dammit… she makes up lie after lie… and people actually believe it," Kyo groans, dragging his hand down his face before finally letting it drop back to his side.

Hiro glares at Kyo angrily, yet relief was widespread through his body. "I HATE YOU! I THOUGHT YOU WERE DEAD!" he shouts loudly, poofing back into his human form, quickly changing back into his clothes. Quickly, after being re-clothed, Hiro launches himself at Kyo and begins choking him, making Kyo fall backward and hit the ground.

"GET OFF OF ME YOU BRAT!" Kyo exclaims only to receive small chuckles and awkward stares from Yuki, Haru, Momiji, Tohru, and Kisa and Katsuro who just came back down stairs.

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