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Chapter 3: Running

After reluctantly leaving the grave Kyo and I hastened our steps as far away from the Main House as possible. But only after the blazing sun had set did we painfully realize that we had no where to go.

Starting from here, lets make a promise
You and me, lets just be honest
We are gonna run, nothing can stop us
Even the night, that falls all around us

We stopped in an abandoned park just on the outskirts of town. The rusted swings and beaten slides gave the place such a haunting atmosphere. But not as haunting as what could have been taking place this very minute at the Main House. My body shuddered just thinking about it.

I could feel my stomach knotting and my muscles twitching from cowardice. I was extremely afraid of what I had done. Running away from the head of the family!

I had to calm myself down. There was a way I could get through this. Plus, Kyo was with me. Though he can't beat me he still defends himself decently and against a normal person he might win, but not if it was someone from the Main House. Especially if they were sent on Akito's orders.

I walked over the worn earth to the molded gravel and seated myself breathlessly on an old wooden bench, Kyo followed suit.

"Kyo?" I asked him, voice quivering.

"Hmm?" was all he uttered. He looked at me with those passionate crimson eyes once more. Those beautiful orbs like mirrors that reflect my own. They gave me comfort, hope maybe even happiness. But soon those feelings were gone as my mind returned back to the thoughts I wished would leave my head.

"Kyo..." I whispered, then looked at his face intently.

"Where are we going to go? What are we going to do?" I was beginning to panic. I couldn't live the rest of my life like this. Running to nowhere with nothing to eat and barely anything to wear. How would I survive winter in this robe? The silk is too thin to offer any kind of warmth or heat for my body. And Kyo, he will soon be scouted for because of his absence and may even be connected with my escape. What if they captured him? What would they do to him? To me if I was ever caught!

Ridiculouse thoughts and ideas began to form into my head at the thought of being caught. Akito would kill us surely he would. He already destroyed Tohru's life, he already took her away from me. Tohru...

A light trickle of something slid down my cheek. I touched it only to realize that it was a single tear, soon followed by many. A cascade paraded down my face as I chose this time to cry for her. For Tohru.

Something warm was placed on my shoulder and kneaded it in a way that said it was okay to cry. Just the slightest body language, the smallest touch told me so much, said that everything was going to be ok. Yes, having Kyo there assured me everything was safe.

But I couldn't risk him.

Soon there will be laughter and voices
Beyond the clouds over the mountains
We'll run away on roads that are empty
Lights from the airfield shining upon you

I looked up at the concerned crimson eyes staring at me so intently. I wanted to melt into their color and relish in their heat and passion. Such emotions were filling those eyes and such wonderful eyes they were.

"Yuki?"

I focused from the eyes to the face they were embedded in.

I stood up.

"I'm sorry Kyo. You shouldn't be helping me like this." I turned away from his confused stare. "It's not that I'm not grateful for what you've done. I am forever in debt to you but, what would happen if they caught you helping me? What would they do to you-?"

"Yuki, I am the cat of the chinese zodiac. I am already hated, I am a monster and am soon to be-" He paused. I could see the wheels turning in the back of his mind, debating whether to finish what he didn't want to say. I decided to end the debating for him.

"Kyo you don't understand. Akito will do things to you. Hurt you, invade you, violate you and more, if you do not go back to Shigure's where its best for you." I hung my head as I thought back to the all the times I had been hurt, invaded and violated. And then I heard the question I feared to answer.

"Did he do all of those things, to you, Yuki?"

I shuddered and said nothing. I was somehow all of a sudden compelled to look at the darkened grass. The blades swayed in the moonlit breeze back and forth back and forth. I bent down and plucked a hand full of green then held it up eye-level with myself. I drew a large breath then forcefully released it, causing the blades to disperse from my pale hand and float along the wind current through the night. Soon I heard the very grass I was crouched down upon crunch under another pair of feet. A shadow loomed over my head and it was easy to decipher who it belonged to.

"Kyo, it doesn't matter anymore." I could feel my chin begin to quiver. It felt so good to be cared about. I stood up and turned around to meet the crimson eyes that were once so full of passion but now were compelled with hatred and anger. "What's done is done." I said, and left it at that.

I returned to the bench I had previously been sitting on and shivered from the cool breeze. My first panic stricken worry taking place.

I wrapped the silk robe around my shivering body and hoped to the heavens that an asthma attack would be kept at bay for another night. Kyo sat beside me again.

"I'm sorry." His voice sounded small. "I'm sorry I didn't realize what had happened to you. I couldn't protect Tohru, I couldn't help you. I guess I am nothing but a worthless monster. A disgrace to the face of the planet." He cast his eyes to the ground.

"Don't go sounding like Ritsu, Kyo." I barely chuckled and the corners of Kyo's mouth turned up a smidgen. "None of those things could have been halted or altered by you or anyone else." The corners soon fell back down. "This world is messed up from the inside out. And the only thing we can do is live with it or try and make it better. But it seems all we can do is live with it."

I shivered once more.

"Well the least I can do is get you some proper clothes. C'mon, let's sneak back to Shigure's house and get you some clothes."

"Shigure?" I said. Shigure... I unconciously backed away from Kyo as the thought of Shigure poured into my mind. I pointed a quivering finger at him, it felt like I was going crazy.

"I can't be seen by Shigure. He's tied in with Akito. He lied about the Student Council meeting he knew they were going to take me. He knew!" My mind was spinning into a tornado of hatred. "That damn dog knew what they were going to do! He knew what would happen to me! What Akito would stoop to!" My breath was caught in my chest as I thought of Shigure but soon by breath was cut short until there was no more breath to breathe. The asthma attack I wished to keep at bay broke through the barrier anyway.

"Yuki!" I could hear Kyo yelling but I couldn't see him. My vision was giving out on me. Blurring the world around me. My head kept spinning until I dropped from the bench to the ground with a thud.

Nothing can stop us, not now, I love you
They're not gonna get us,
they're not gonna get us

A/N: sorry its short and sorry it took so long. we all know school is going to start so it will be much much slower on updating now than ever. eep don't hurt me. I hope you all liked even though nothing happened. once again sorry. R&R