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Previously

Now

Hatori nodded Kyo in; he did as he was told. Kyo walked in some ways before sitting on his knees. "Do you know why I called you here?" Akito asked in a cold, low tone.

"No, I don't," Kyo answered.

Akito smirked. "Hatori, you can leave now." Hatori, without question, bowed and left the room. When Akito heard the door close he turned to face the cat. "Are you sure you don't know?"

"I am sure I do not know why," Kyo answered once again, a little more anger in his voice.

Akito lowered his head, so his hair covered his eyes, then his shoulders started to shake and then. "YOU DAMN MONSTROSITY!" Kyo fell back and backed away a bit. He had never seen Akito this made before.

"You Touched Him! You TOUCHED HIM!"

"I touched who?" Kyo yelled back.

"You touched my Yuki!" Akito went up and slapped Kyo across the face making him fall to the ground. "You touched him with your filthy hands! How dare you!" Akito kicked Kyo in the stomach, making him slide into the wall. Akito then kicked him again. Kyo clutched his stomach and started coughing. Akito then reached down and grabbed a handful of Kyo's hair and pulled him to his knees. "If you ever touch him again, I'll hurt him and kill you." With that Kyo pushed Akito away so he stumbled to the ground. Kyo sat there gasping for breath. 'I didn't know Akito could hit so hard.' Akito was back on his feet, fiery building in his eyes. "You dare defile me with your touch?" Kyo didn't move or answer. "Fine, have it your way."

-Sometime later-

"HATORI!" Akito yelled throughout the halls. "HATORI!"

"Yes, Akito?" Hatori asked upon entering the room.

"I want that filth out of this house!" Akito said pointing to a badly beaten Kyo. Hatori didn't take a second look at Kyo, before picking him up and took him to his office, where he bandaged his wounds and helped him walk to the car. No words were spoken, mostly because Kyo was half out of it and Hatori didn't know what the hell was going on, but decided not to ask.

When they go to the Sohma household it was around 11:30. Hatori helped Kyo to the house. Once in Tohru ran up to them.

"Kyo, what happened? Are you okay?"

"I'm…alright," Kyo managed to get out. "I'm just…really tired."

"Alright, do you want some help?"

"No, I'll be fine." Kyo hobbled to the stairs and then up them. He braced himself against the wall the whole way to his room. Once he entered his room, closed the door, he was surprisly greeted with a teen hugging him.

"Kyo, you're hurt," Yuki said releasing him and giving him the once over.

"It's alright. I didn't feel much of anything," he said with a smile. He placed his hand on Yuki's cheek. Akito's voice flashed through his head. He immediately withdrew his hand and moved past Yuki to site on his bed.

"Is something wrong?"

"No, everything is fine. I'm just really tired and I could use my rest." He laid back band pulled the covers up to his shoulders and rolled on his side.

"I understand," Yuki said. Yuki went over to Kyo and placed a hand on his shoulder. Kyo shuttered under his touch. Yuki had a sad expression on his face as he withdrew his hand and walked to the door. "Good night Kyo." He then closed the door. Kyo listened to Yuki's footsteps get further and further away, till they reached his room.

"Stupid Akito!" Kyo punched his pillow beside his head, soon regretting when a throbbing pain shot through his body once more. "I hate you Akito." On those words Kyo fell into a restless sleep.

-Morning-

When Kyo woke up, the sunlight shining down on his face, he didn't move for awhile. After the night he had, he didn't want to move for the world. Sadly though he had to, for today was the first day of school for the week. He got up, and carefully he dressed himself in his school uniform. Once dressed, he walked his best to the bathroom. He looked at himself in the mirror. "Monstrosity, that's what he called me. Am I really that hideous?" His bruised face didn't help anything either. He turned on the faucet and put his hands under the warm running water. Then he splashed the cool water on his face. Taking a dry towel he patted his face dry, squinting as he put pressure on his bruised cheekbone. He bandaged a few small cuts on his face before moving on to comb his fair. He then exited the bathroom, bumping into the one person he didn't want to see. "Yuki," Kyo said, and then headed back to his room to get his backpack, but a hand caught his forcing him to stay where he was, in mid step.

"Why won't you look at me?"

"I just did."

"That's not what I meant. Are you mad at me?"

"No, but I think we should talk."

"Now?"

"Yes." Then he led Yuki into his room. He sat him on his bed. 'How am I going to say this?' "Yuki, I think that maybe we shouldn't be together anymore." Kyo turned away at the sound of his voice ushering those words.

"What, why?" Yuki got up and walked over to Kyo. "You're joking right?"

"No, I'm not."

"Kyo, don't do this."

"Leave Yuki."

Yuki didn't leave; instead he put his arms around Kyo's waist from behind and rested his head in Kyo's back. "You don't mean it. That's Akito talking."

"No, this is me, Kyo, talking. I don't give a damn about what Akito says or does."

"Kyo."

Kyo then pried Yuki's arms off his waist and grabbed his backpack by the door and then left his room. He then declined down the stairs and went straight to the front door.

"Where are you going?"

"School." His tone was sharp and gruff. A door slamming made it certain Kyo left.

'Wonder what's bugging him.' Sometime later Yuki came sluggishly down the stairs and then entered the kitchen.

"Good morning Yuki," Tohru said brightly.

"Good morning Miss Honda." He sat at the table and put his head down.

"Yuki, what's wrong?"

"Kyo seems to have something wrong, but he won't tell me."

"Maybe it's one of those things that he has to sort out himself."

"You're probably right." But Yuki had some doubt in his mind that it was Akito's doing that made Kyo act this way.

Tohru brought out breakfast and the three of them ate it. Shigure tried to lighten the mood with his antics but Yuki was still a bit worried about Kyo. He then got up, grabbed his backpack, and walked out the door without a word.

"What's wrong with him?" Shigure asked. "He was being a bit rude I thought."

"He's worried about Kyo," Tohru said. Shigure looked up at her. "He won't tell him about what happened last night."

"Maybe it's for the best."

"What do you mean?"

"Kyo probably wants to protect Yuki so he's not telling anyone especially him." Shigure took another bite of food.

"That sounds to be right, but I think Kyo should tell him something or at least talk to him. It looks like he's trying to avoid him completely."

"Well, that's no good."

"Oh, I got to hurry and get to school. I have to ask one of the teachers about something."

"Alright, I'll rinse the dishes for you."

Tohru then got up and left with a wave to Shigure. "I hope this day gets better."

-At School-

Yuki walked through the doors of the over standing building. Walking to his locker, he changed his shoes quickly and then started walking down the dark corridors. It was still pretty early, so not many people were there. But Yuki was only there for one reason, to find Kyo. And Yuki knew exactly were Kyo would be and that was were he was headed.

He neared the door and carefully opened it, trying not to make a noisy entrance onto the roof. He headed toward the ladder which led to the uppermost platform. He climbed the ladder and peaked his head over the top to find a sleeping Kyo. He was lying on his side, his breathing steady and calm. Yuki climbed up and sat next to him. Yuki scowled at his bruised face. He brushed a few strands of hair out of his face. 'Why won't you tell me what happened? Do you not trust me that much or is the secret so big you don't want to tell me?'

Kyo started to stir and rolled on his back. His eyes started to open to look up into Yuki's face. "Yuki?" Kyo asked in a soft tone. He rubbed his eyes and then he said, "Yuki?" He jumped up and turned his back to him. "What are you doing here?"

"I came to check on you. You won't ell me what's wrong. I have a right to know."

"I don't care!"

"You should! Why can't you just say why you don't want to talk to me?"

"Because if I do…" he stopped himself.

"If you do, what will happen?" Yuki walked up to him and placed a hand on his shoulder. He felt Kyo shutter but he didn't remove his hand.

"Something will happen." He paused. "And, and I don't want that to happen."

"But what is that something?"

Kyo couldn't take not telling Yuki anymore. Kyo turned around to face Yuki and lunged at him, hugging him tightly. He didn't care if he hit a sore spot anymore. A life without Yuki could hurt a lot more. He hands grasped that back of Yuki's shirt, tightly, as his head rested on Yuki's shoulder. "If I tell you, you might get hurt. If I touch you, you will get hurt."

Yuki hugged Kyo and said, "But you're hugging me now and nothing is hurting me. Nothing, that is, except your sad voice."

Kyo let go of Yuki's shirt and then held onto him. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be such a dick last night and this morning. I guess Akito was putting words in my mouth."

"He does that to a lot of people. We won't let him catch us, even if we have to meet in secret to be together."

"That sounds good." Kyo looked into Yuki's face and sealed their deal with a chaste kiss on the lips.

"So, we have some time before homeroom, what should we do?"

"Well, since there's not one here, let's just sit here and enjoy this time, before the stress of today starts."

Yuki nodded in agreement. They both then sat on the roof and leaning on each other. Kyo leaned into Yuki and kissed his forehead. 'Enjoying this moment, I wouldn't have it any other way.'

I'll stop here for this chapter, but just wait till the next chapter. To me this chapter sounded a bit corny, but I didn't know which way to go. To either keep the fight going, which I was getting tired of writing or end it, so I ended it. Maybe this is a good thing on my part. I guess we'll have to see for Chapter 11.

Hurray! Chapter 10, yeah for me. I've held on this long, I wonder how much more I can take. Well, we'll find out in the next chapters now won't we?

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