Jess : Yes, the song fics live! I love this song! It was on the radio and I was like "Hey, this sounds like an Akito song." So it became my Akito Theme Song!

Slightly Hinted/Suggested AkitoTohru

Also, let's ignore any 'information' that may interfere with this paticular story.

Everything Changes - Akito Sohma - Jessica

Kureno and Akito walked slowly yet steadily to the last door in the hall, Akito's room.

"You can go now." Akito said coldly with a glare to the taller man behind him. Kureno bowed his head and left as the head of the house closed the door behind him.

Akito laid in his bed stiffly and felt his head. He'd been lucky today it seemed, no illness. His eye lids felt heavy as he gave into a deep sleep.

If you just walked away
What could I really say?
Would it matter anyway?
Would it change how you feel?

"Kureno." Akito called in the dark as he sat up. "Kureno come here!"

"Why? What could you possibly need from me?" Kureno's voice asked coldly. Colder than Akito had ever heard it. He shivered.

"You'll come when I call you! Where are you Kureno?" he yelled angrily before coughing a bit.

"Here..." Kureno whispered, and Akito saw a light where his door was. He stood and walked to the door, feeling apprehensive and he pulled the door open.

He blinked in the brightness outside his door for a moment before his eyes adjusted. Kureno was walking away down the hallway.

"Kureno! Wait!" he called, walking after him.

"Why? You're a useless person, right?" a cocky voice said smoothly. Akito's head snapped to his left.

I'm the mess you choose
The profit you cannot close,
The devil in you I suppose
Because the wounds never heal.

"Shigure? How dare you talk to me like that?" he growled out.

"You're not worth it." Shigure seemed to be talking to himself as he opened his eyes. A seemingly practiced glare in place on his face. Akito shook as he struck out at the dog.

Shigure vanished and he blinked and froze.

"Where?" he looked around him and noticed he was alone in the hallway. "Kureno? Shigure?" he asked.

"Akito..." a voice called, down the hall. He walked towards it.

Sitting in the middle of the hall was Rin. She was glaring at him.

"Rin." he stated calmly and coldly.

"Stay away from me you bastard." she growled out at him. "I hate your guts." her voice was soft and evil.

"You can't tell me what to do wench." Akito seethed. A form behind Rin stood up, having sat back to back with the horse.

"Don't call her that." his voice was harsh and Akito knew he was 'black.'

"Heh, ox. When did you grow a spine?" Akito sneered. Haru's face scrunched up in distaste.

But everything changes
If I could turn back the years
If you could learn to forgive me
Then I could learn to feel,

"Haru is braver than you are." a little voice called to him, and Akito turned around.

Kisa stood slightly behind Hiro, not two steps away from the head of the house.

"Braver than me?" Akito asked incredulously. Hiro took a step forward.

"Of course. You're a coward. I hate cowards. You hide behind your sickness and order everyone else around. I can't believe you can stand to exist." Hiro lunged at Akito, who put his arm in front of him in defense.

After a moment of nothing, he looked up to see...nothing. No one was there. He turned around to see that Haru and Rin and Kisa were gone too...

Sometimes the things I say
In moments of disarray
Succumbing to the games we playTo make sure that it's real.

"Wh-where did they go?" Akito asked, feeling an uncomfortable fear settling in him. "What's going on here?" his eyes shook along with his body.

Music filled his ears and Akito began walking towards it, his steps quickening as he neared. He stopped outside of a door and took a deep breath before opening it.

Momiji stood in the center of the room, playing the violin. A little blonde girl was next to him, playing along with him. It was a sad and scornful song.

"Stop that." Akito ordered. "I said stop playing that music!" he yelled, covering his ears.

The music just seemed to get louder and his head hurt. He fell to his knees in the doorway, the kimono nearly falling off of his shoulders. He felt tears gather at the corner of his eyes but he forced them back.

"STOP IT!" he heard himself screaming, over and over like a mantra.

All was silent. He opened his eyes slowly and looked up at the suddenly empty room. The side door was open and the violins were in their cases against the wall. He rushed to the wall and threw the cases against the opposite wall. They smashed to pieces as he regained his nerves.

But everything changes
If I could turn back the years
If you could learn to forgive me
Then I could learn to feel,

"Akito!" a joyous voice called from outside. Akito flinched at the person calling to him as he walked onto the porch.

"What do you want you great buffoon?" Akito asked before he backed up, a fist barely missing his face. "What do you think you're doing you monkey?" he yelled, trying to hide his fear.

"Ayame said...I could be stronger, braver...If I was able to face you this way." Ritsu said softly yet coldly. Akito felt icicles...

"Ayame?" he looked behind to figure directly in front of him to the tall, silver haired man further back. "Why...?"

"Simple. You've made Yuki's life hard, unbearable sometimes. I can't stand back and let you live." he was wearing an unusually cold stare that made Akito's blood run cold.

"Don't...Don't touch me!" he screamed, turning and running back through the music room to the hallway and taking off back towards his room.

When it's just me and you.
Who knows what we could do.
If we can just make it through
The toughest part of the day.

A fist busted through the wall to his left and he barely managed to stop before hitting it. The girl attached to the fist hit the other wall and turned her evil, maniacal look on him. He took a step back away from the boar.

She lunged at him and he felt he couldn't move. Kagura's eyes fell shut as she slowed before falling to the ground in a heap. Akito looked up from her still, sleeping form to see Hatori changing his needles.

"Hatori." he breathed out in relief as the doctor walked towards him. "You stopped her." he closed his eyes for a minute.

"Of course." Hatori's voice was the same as before, not evil and hateful. "I couldn't let her kill you when I could do it myself." he said plainly, like everyday news. Akito's eyes snapped open, seeing a needle coming at him.

He screamed and dodged under Hatori's lifted left arm, running further down the hall. He was nearing his bedroom door, his sanctuary. A red headed boy, the cat, stood outside of it.

But everything changes
If I could turn back the years
If you could learn to forgive me
Then I could learn to feel,

"What are you doing here cat? Move!" he yelled, panicking by this point.

"Don't order me around." Kyo mumbled so softly Akito barely heard it before Kyo's fist was coming to meet him. The fist never met it's mark and Akito realized with fear and relief that Kyo had disappeared too...

He ran into his room and took deep breaths. His head was on fire, the running causing a fever to spring up. He heard breathing besides his own and looked around the dark room. It came from...from...

...from behind him!

He flipped around and met glowing purple eyes. Yuki looked haunted...

"Oh. It's you." Akito sighed. "I don't have time for you. Please leave me. I can't take this." he motioned with his hand to the door.

"No." Akito gave him a 'what?' look. "No. No. Never. I won't leave you alone until you have felt all of the pain I have. You are the lowest creature on earth and you don't deserve to exist." Yuki whispered as he walked forward. Akito backed away.

"Wha..." he felt the room spinning.

"Die..." Yuki whispered before Akito felt his wrist held by a death-cold hand. He heard metal being removed from a sheath and saw the glint in a non-existent light.

Stay here together
And we could
Conquer the world
If we could
Say that forever
Is more than just a word.

The knife came down from the air and went plunging for his heart...Akito closed his eyes and...

...prayed...

"Please don't let me die...I...I'm sorry..."

"Akito-san!"

Akito's eyes shot open.

"Akito-san!"

Relief filled the voice that had called to him out of the darkness and Akito noticed with some pain that he was in a very white, very bright room. He turned his head to look at the brunette girl next to him.

"Tohru Honda?" he asked in confusion. Tohru began to cry. "Wha?" Akito's eyes widened.

"I-I'm sorry Akito-san...I-I mean...Sohma-san." she didn't know how to address him. "It's just...I thought you would die! I-we haven't become friends yet...You were shaking so badly and crying out..."

"Why?" she blinked and looked at him. "Why would you care about me?" Akito asked, looking at the blank ceiling as he remembered his dream.

"Because...I know that somewhere deep inside of you...You're a good person. And I want to know you..."

If you just walked away What I could really say?
It wouldn't matter anyway.
It wouldn't change how you feel.

She wiped her eyes and placed her hands in her lap, looking out the window to her right, to the end of the bed. Akito felt something inside of him hurting...Something on his chest...

"Also...It reminded me of mom..." she whispered and Akito's head turned to look at her in surprise.

"Your mother?" he asked, feeling slightly angry at being compared to a woman.

"Yes." Tohru nodded. "When I saw her in the hospital...the only time ever...she looked so sad and I felt I had failed her. She was helpless in the end, and it scared me. You looked the same. Helpless."

Akito glared at her, but she couldn't see it.

"I want to help you...Akito-san." Tohru stated firmly, turning to smile at him. "I want to be friends."

All Akito could do was stare. Stare at this marvelous angelic being who didn't hate him...The only one in the hospital room with him...The only one who cared enough about him to stay by his side...

Yay for Akito! Everyone cheer!...Okay, you don't have to...