Chapter 2

Yet another Sohma Family Fight

"Well, he's asleep now, there's nothing to do but wait…" Shigure said as he closed the door to Yuki's room. Hatsuharu was bandaged up inside, pretending to sleep.

"I really hope you don't mind that he is using your room. There was nowhere else he could stay Sohma-kun!" Tohru franticly said as she looked around for Kyo.

"No, I really don't care. As long as he's safe and away from Akito, he'll be fine. As for me, I don't mind spending the night in another room."

Tohru smiled at Yuki. She was surprised that Yuki cared so much; he's usually a very modest and shy person. But this was not something for Tohru to worry about at the time. First of all, Hatsuharu was still in horrible condition and Hatori had been forbidden to see him (by Akito). Second of all, Kyo was missing, she hadn't seen him since lunch. Tohru was supposed to be the caretaker of this house, and she felt so guilty that she was so powerless at this time.

"Yo!" A voice came from the door. Tohru spun around and saw the bright haired cat-boy standing in the doorway. "What's wrong? You look upset…" Kyo asked as he walked towards her.

"What? Me? Oh, you don't know do you?"

"Know what? Did I miss something here?" Kyo looked around, and then focused again on Tohru…

"Well, Rin was summoned to meet with Akito today, and Haru went…and…" Tohru couldn't finish because if she had talked more she would start crying.

"Oh God, that dumb Ox doesn't know when to but out of things does he?" Kyo yelled. The fact the Haru could have been so stupid to annoy Akito made him very mad for some reason.

"Well, if you're so tough, why don't you go talk to him?" Yuki said as he pulled his hair behind his ear. Kyo had nothing to say to that. There was nothing that anybody could do. If only Hatori could come.

"You guys are annoying…"

Everybody turned instantly to Yuki's door and saw Haru standing there. He was crouched over a bit and you could see blood through his bandages. Some cuts were still visible. Shigure had done the best he could to put bandages on the big cuts, like the huge gash in the stomach, but there weren't enough bandages to cover the smaller ones.

"Ah! Hatsuharu-san! You should be in bed! You should be lying down! You should be resting!" Tohru screamed franticly.

"No, what I should be doing is givin' Akito what he deserves!" Haru took a step forward and almost lost his balance. The sight of this was truly unbearable to Tohru. It looked like he had gotten into a car crash. He seriously should have been sleeping, or something. But even if she told him to rest, he would either ignore her or tell her off like he had dome before.

Yuki rolled his eyes and turned away to face Shigure. "I'm going out for a while, don't let Haru leave, you know he'll get hurt even more if he does." Shigure nodded and Yuki left through the kitchen. As Yuki was about to leave through the back door, somebody came crashing through.

"YUKI!"

Somebody screamed with delight as they wrapped his arms around him

"My dear little brother! How is life treating you! Where is your little buddy Haru, I hear he isn't doing very well!" Yuki stared up at Ayame's face and pushed him off.

"You're so inconsiderate! Don't just bust in here and start talking about somebody or something that you know nothing about! I bet that you think Haru did something bad, and got beat because he deserved it. I bet that's what Akito is telling everybody in the family, but here's the news flash, Haru was protecting somebody and he put his life on the line! If you ever talk about somebody so daring like that again, you'll never see light again!" With that, Yuki stormed out of the door and quickly walked away, so Ayame couldn't follow him.

Aya shrugged his shoulders and walked into the room with most everybody in it. There he saw Haru, leaning on the wall and clutching his sides. Ayame didn't think that Haru could have been in suck bad condition.

"….I don't think we should let Akito have jars anymore…" he said.

Kyo got mad at that comment. "MAYBE WE SHOULDN'T LET YOU IN THIS HOUSE ANYMORE!" Kyo then punched him.

"Owowowowowowow! Kyoninchi! That hurt! Bad kitty!" Kyo got ready to punch him again, but Shigure started talking.

"You two, don't you notice that your own kin is in pain right now….show a little respect!"

"SHIGURE!" Aya yelled, "I didn't even notice you were there! I am truly sorry…"

Kyo wanted to yell something insulting like 'cut the crap' or 'Ayame, you ditz' but he felt that he should hold back his anger because if Haru got annoyed he would turn black, and the last thing they needed was black Haru.

"Shigure, I want to leave…let me fight Akito…" Haru said, in a pained voice

Shigure could tell that he was almost too weak to talk, and that made him worried. "You'll be fighting Kyo if you don't shut up!" Shigure said, just to get Haru's mind off of Akito.

"He'll be doin' what! I'm sorry but there's no way I'll let YOU put me into a battle, Shigure! You aren't the boss of me!" Kyo yelled as he let his anger out.

Tohru had been standing, watching this whole time and she didn't want to watch anymore. This was really out of control. Aya was annoying Kyo, who was annoying everybody else. Shigure was just making things worse and poor Haru couldn't do or say anything (which was a good thing because if he could talk, things would get a lot worse.)

Kyo noticed the scared look on Tohru's face and stopped yelling. He looked at her as she just stared at the ground.

"Um, please, if you don't mind…stop fighting. Haru needs rest….he needs quiet…also, I need to go make dinner, Aya, you're welcome to stay and eat…" Tohru said…then she instantly turned around and made her way to the kitchen to prepare the food.

"Tohru has got a good point…" Shigure smiled and shoved Hatsuharu backwards into Yuki's room. When Haru had fallen completely onto the floor, he shut the door and moved a conveniently place table in front of it.

"Smooth move…that didn't hurt Haru or anything….." Kyo rolled his eyes

"Well Kyo, I'm glad you realize how smart I am!" Shigure smile and bounced out of the room to go read a book or something. Aya followed him. As they left, Kyo screamed "I WAS BEING SARCASTIC!"

Shigure stopped in his tracks and turned around to say "SHHHHH…Haru's resting!" Then he smirked, because he knew that he was making Kyo lose it. Kyo took a deep breath and went upstairs….

W00t….there….its pleez