Hi! Sorry it's been so long, I spent the end of the half term doing homework and going to London. Camden market's so great, but my mum wouldn't let me have all the lolita stuff I wanted. --'

Ah well, on the bright side: I finally got Pocky! Yay! But enough about that, you don't care, do you?

This chapter's another short one, I'm sorry! But I'm being forced off the PC by my evil brother, despite the fact he should be being nice to me 'cos I got him .Hack/SIGN. Younger brothers are all evil. Anyway… I would've waited and made this chappie longer but it's been so long since I updated and I didn't want anyone to think I'd forgotten this fic.

We're nearing the end by the way. I was thinking maybe 7 or 8 chapters, or is that too short? Well… whatever. -.-

Chapter 5

Haru reached Yuki's room and nervously reached for the door. He slid it open, and his eyes widened slightly at the sight inside. Yuki was sat on his bed, hugging his Pillow-Chan and crystal tears were falling down his face.

"Haru… You don't… have to stand there…" muttered the crying boy.

Haru stopped staring, deciding to sit with Yuki instead. Yuki turned so his face was facing Haru's chest and rested his delicate head on it. His hands gripped the material of Haru's shirt shyly, and he sobbed into it. Haru rested his chin on the top of Yuki's head. Neither spoke, it was a mutual agreement that had been reached without words, verbal communication wasn't needed right now.

After 5 minutes of silence Yuki seemed to be struggling to say something. Haru sat back, subconsciously giving Yuki space to breath to prevent an asthma attack.

Finally, the boy forced the words he so badly wanted to say out between his choked sobs. "Haru… I'm… sorry! I'm so dependent… on you… always… and even now… I… don't love you, but… I'm relying on you… right now… I'm sorry… but…" Yuki's tears started falling harder then ever, but he forced the next part out before Haru could interrupt, "But… I need you!"

"Hey…" Haru said, looking sadly at the boy clinging to his shirt, but looking ashamed to be doing so, "Yuki… I don't mind. Best friends are meant to rely on each other. That's what they do! And…" Haru pulled Yuki into a hug, "And… I know you don't love me, but I do love you. I want you to be happy."

Yuki pulled away from Haru and stared at the floor. "Haru, I'm sorry, but I need to do this. I'm sorry…"

Resisting the urge to point out Yuki was turning into Ritsu, Haru raised an eyebrow," Do what?"

"This…" muttered Yuki, then he pulled Haru into a kiss. Haru widened his eyes before noticing that Yuki had shut his tightly. Yuki fell back onto the bed, bringing Haru with him.

Haru had to stop himself from laughing; this wasn't exactly something he felt Yuki had to apologise for. Of course, Haru realised this was probably a one-time thing. Part of him would be sad if it was, but part of him would be happy because that would mean Yuki and Kyo had gotten together, and then Yuki would be happy! Haru vaguely wondered what somebody would see if they opened the door right now. Would they realise exactly what was going on, or in this dim light would they only be able to make out the two lying next to each other.

Despite feeling slightly guilty about it, Haru slipped his tongue into Yuki's mouth. Yuki shyly copied Haru, leaning closer to Haru. Haru smiled when he realised Yuki's Pillow-Chan was occupying part of the space between them.

It was the next morning, and the only sound that could be heard through the house other then Tohru's cooking was the sound of a grumpy Kyo. He'd been sent to get Yuki and Haru down for breakfast because apparently depressed boys needed to keep their strength up. Stupid Shigure. It's not like it was Kyo's fault Yuki was depressed. Ok… maybe it was, but he didn't exactly know why. And why did that mean he had to come get them up anyway?

Kyo was a bit scared to open the door. What if they actually had had sex? Kyo shivered; that was just creepy… and a little interesting, but mainly creepy.

Shaking all perverted thoughts from is head and opened the door. Yuki and Haru lay facing each other with, Kyo was glad to note, all clothes still on. They looked positively cute together.

Suddenly, Yuki stirred and opened his bright violet eyes. They turned to face him, and Kyo could see the sadness, guilt and… love… hiding in their depths. Yuki barely reacted to Kyo being there, but that wasn't surprising, it was still morning after all. Kyo began to look around Yuki's room, though he didn't move from the spot he was rooted to. He felt very awkward, and though he knew it was wrong, he felt jealous of Haru… Yuki was obviously in love with him. He'd realised it last night; he was in love with Yuki. The cat in love with the rat…

Half an hour later Yuki, Haru and Kyo came downstairs. Tohru's inner Chibi almost went mad imagining what could've happened upstairs, but she realised it had probably taken that long to get Yuki to get up. And it had! The only reason Kyo had managed to get Yuki up at all is because Haru had woken up, rolled his eyes and kidnapped Pillow-Chan. Yuki had then been rather happy to get up and he'd held Haru and Pillow-Chan's hands all the way downstairs.

Kyo was, of course, rather annoyed at this. He'd spent 25 minutes poking Yuki to get him up and Haru manages it in less then a minute.

During breakfast Shigure noticed Yuki shooting guilty glances at Haru. Haru had noticed them too and, because they were sat next to each other so it was easy enough to hide, Haru had slipped his hand into Yuki's. Yuki smiled, remembering what Haru had said last night before they'd fell asleep, "You don't need to apologise, ok?"

"Ok…" Yuki muttered, blushing when he realised he'd said that out loud at the table. Everyone was staring at him. He chose to look at Haru, hoping that maybe everyone would think Haru had asked him something quietly, but also hoping that Haru would realise what he was replying to.

He did. Smiling he said, "Good, watch about, you're about to spill stuff on Pillow-Chan."

Yuki quickly altered Pillow-Chan's position beneath the table and went back to his food. The rest of the table soon followed his example and breakfast was resumed at the Sohma house.

5 minutes later, several inner Chibi's imaginations went into overdrive when they realised Haru's hand was lurking under the table by Yuki.

Ok… sorry if it's below standard. In fact… if it is can someone tell me, 'cos as you may have guessed I'm quite insecure about my writing. And if the kiss sucked it's not my fault, I'm 13 so I'm not exactly an expert. XD

Thank you to all my luvleh reviewers and stuff… Kay, I better go, sorry if the ANs look rushed, I'm being simultaneously rushed by my brother and my 6 rats that look hungry. So… review please, 'kay, bye!