Yuki: can you please keep your voice down...I have a headache.
Kyo: -is grumbling in a corner-
bloodredangel: He's been doing that since the last chapter.
Yuki: stop sulking stupid cat!
Kyo: -still grumbling-
This chap is dedicated to the chorus of 'The Great Pretender' from the Yu-Gi-Oh the movie soundtrack..
Chapter 4
Yuki's secret
Kyo yawned and stretched out on the floor of the family room. He had fallen asleep during a game show an hour ago and had eaten a lot of food. The evidence was scattered on the coffee table next to him. After the embarrassing weakness Yuki had seen Three days ago, Kyo was determined to regain the strength he lost and prove to Yuki he hadn't been weak in the first place.
With a grumble, and another cat-like stretch, Kyo stood up and began clearing off the table.
"Quite a party you had." Shigure snickered, walking in from the kitchen. Kyo snorted. "It wasn't a party...I just got hungry"
"Oh I bet. After throwing up Tohru's wonderful medley soup." Shigure taunted, making the cat blush furiously.
"Shut up you damn dog! I wasn't feeling well and that damn rat forced me to eat it!" Kyo snarled, pushing past the grown man and throwing the raimder of the food away. Shigure just laughed and went to his study to write more of his story.
YukI pushed through the door with a weary sigh. He was met by a happy Tohru, who was cooking in the kitchen. Kyo was chopping carrots and celery on the counter.
"Oh. How was council Yuki?" Tohru asked with a big smile.
"It went well." YukI smiled back, walking over to the counter where Kyo was. "Do you need any help Miss Honda"
"We're doing fine. You can't cook, remember?" Kyo snorted, pulling out another carrot and gaining a glare from the rat. "I was just asking you stupid cat"
"And I answered you damn rat." Kyo, for some odd reason, didn't look up, or ball his fists. He just went on chopping, venting the unseen anger on the carrot. Yuki had been prepared to fight, but it never came. He glanced at Tohru, who was equally confused.
"Are you sick Kyo?" She asked.
"No. I'm better." Kyo replied, looking up now.
She gasped. "You were sick! When!" Now she was circling him, taking his temp and pulse.
"It was three days ago Miss Honda...He's better." Yuki assured gently.
"B-but he's still pale!" She gasped fussing over his medium temperature. Kyo sighed and grabbed Yuki's hand bringing it to his forehead. " Will you tell her I'm not running a fever"
Yuki was flustered and confused when Kyo placed his hand over his forehead. "No...He doesn't have a fever Miss Honda. He feels fine"
Kyo turned and returned to the carrots and celery. "Can we just finish dinner"
"Okay...can you set the table Yuki?" She asked with a smile. "Sure." Yuki smiled back, grabbing some plates and leaving the kitchen.
The next day, Kyo was dusting the hall when the front door opened. No one was supposed to be home now. Shigure was out shopping with Ayame and Hatori and Tohru was with her friends for the day, also shopping. So who would be home?
"Hey! Who's there?" Kyo called peeking around the hall.
There was Yuki, walking towards the stairs. He sent Kyo a dazed look. "I'm home. Where's everyone at?" Kyo raised an eyebrow. "Out shopping, where were you at"
"That's none of your business you stupid cat"
"Don't start rat-boy"
Yuki sighed and started up the stairs. "Fine. When's dinner"
"Uh...are you hungry?" Kyo's eyes scanned the rat slowly and noticed a bruise on his face and wrist. Anger flooded through Kyo. "Where were you"
"You're not my mom"
"You're bruised. What the hell where you doing?" Kyo snarled, grabbing Yuki's wrist making the boy wince. The cat rolled the sleeve up and saw a nasty red mark. "Good God"
"Let me go." Yuki mumbled, struggling to get free.
"Hell no!" Kyo dragged him into the kitchen and turned on the water, shoving the wrist under the flowing water.
"It isn't bad...let..." Yuki's eyes widened slightly at the determined look in those red eyes. They glanced at him.
"What"
"N-nothing..." Yuki turned away to hide the blush creeping onto his pale cheeks.
"Who did it"
"It's not your business."
Kyo growled and shoved Yuki against the wall. "Who the hell went about beating you up? No one's allowed to beat you but me"
Yuki looked away. "Let me go you stupid cat"
Kyo glared harder and ripped open Yuik's shirt. "Hey"
Kyo's jaw dropped. The rat was black and blue. Whip marks on his skin...welts and cuts...scars and...Yuki began to struggle in Kyo's grasp. "Let me go"
"Not until you name the fucking bastard that did this to you!" Kyo snarled.
" Akito! He did it! Are you happy now you stupid cat"
Yuki was prepared for the horror in Kyo's eyes, what he wasn't prepared for.
Was the blood lust.
TBC
Bloodredangel: Oh my God! What will happen next!
-The whole cast of fruits basket is running around Kyo and Yuki-
Tohru: until next time..