I feel like writing again. Huh, maybe my writing spirit is coming back. I hope so. Chapter thirty, hell yeah.
Point of No Return
Kyra's POV
I felt my muscles quiver and sweat trickle down my back as I pulled myself up for the fiftieth time. Sit ups, crunches, the works. Not one muscle group was left unaccounted for. Each day I felt my strength grow and I yearned for my visit to the dojo three times a week.
"Master Kazuma," I nodded my acknowledgement as he watched me work. "When will we start karate?"
"When you are sure of your strength I will teach you how to control it," was all he said before walking off to check on his other students. There was a prickling on the back of my neck, like the feeling you get when you are being watched. I released the bar and whirled around but there was no one around.
Paranoia seemed to be my closest friend lately. I always felt as if I was being followed or watched, but sometimes the feeling intensified. Stretching my legs slowly I decided to go for a run in the woods to let my arms rest, so I told Master where I was headed and was off.
The sun dappled the ground as I jogged easily through the woods. I felt relaxed and knew the path like the back of my hand so there were no worries of getting lost. There was a snap in the trees to my right and I stopped mid-stride.
"How is there?" I demanded with more bravado then I felt. There was rustles all around me now and I felt panic rise in my stomach. A head slowly emerged from behind a bush and I nearly collapsed with relief. "Kyo, what were you doing?" He blushed slightly.
"I was, well you see that is um..."
"Spit it out."
"We were worried about how much time you spend alone in the woods so I came to check on you." I was stunned. Why would they be worried? It wasn't like...
"Who is 'we'?" I felt mild frustration growing.
"Haru and I." Swiftly I sat on the ground and shook my head.
"Have you two been spying on me for the last week?" He bit his lip before answering.
Kyo's POV
Only tell her minimal information here Kyo.
"Only off and on." Fury was licking at the edge of her retinas and I did not want to catch the blunt of her rage. "It was only because we thought someone was hurting you." She sneered, royally pissed now.
"And what made you think that someone was hurting me? Also why do you think that I need someone to take care of me? That is why I'm going to the dojo, so people don't have to be so worried."
"That is exactly why we're worried. We thought that instead of asking for help you were going to try to fight off this hypothetical person on your own." The stupidity of the situation struck me a moment later and I started to laugh. Kyra though was still extremely angry.
"You. Are. A. Sexist. Pig." The muscles in her jaw were twitching with the pressure that she was using to grind her teeth. She spun around and began to jog back to the dojo without another word.
Kyra's POV
When I got back to the dojo I beat the crap out of a punching bag without feeling any better. Haru and Kyo's lack of faith in me hurt deep down, beneath the rage at being thought weak. Since violence towards an inanimate object wasn't working I decided to seek out Haru and give him a piece of my mind.
The sun was setting, but I had become accustomed to the Sohma estate so there was no fear for me of getting lost. Haru's house came into sight and I walked to his window. If I hadn't been blindingly mad I would have thought back onto the other time I climbed through his window, but that thought was blocked from my mind at the moment.
Jumping nimbly I grabbed the tree branch and swung up. It was a lot easier this time with the use of both arms and with my new muscles. I leapt to the ledge of his window and tried to open it, but was dismayed to find it locked. Surveying the side of the house I saw another window slightly ajar. I readied myself for the jump, but the sudden opening of Haru's window had me losing my balance and I fell inside.
From my vantage point on the floor I looked at Haru. His hair was wet and dripping and he was not wearing a shirt (A/N drool). All words of anger fell out of my brain and I tried to keep my jaw from hitting the floor.
"What are you doing here Kyra?" His tone was scolding and I felt my anger return and I stood up from the floor. Not a good idea, I could smell him now, he used a very unique soap. Fresh yet dangerous... "Kyra?" I tried to concentrate but his half-nakedness wasn't allowing me too.
"Could you put a shirt on or something?" He smirked and grabbed one off his dresser.
"Better?" I scowled at him and took a step back.
"You shouldn't make fun of me right now. Not when I am already quite annoyed at you." I sat on the edge of his bed and crossed my legs civilly.
"Why are you angry?" It was my turn to smile.
"But Haru dear, did Kyo not tell you about our little chat?" Understanding bloomed over his features and I felt triumph.
"What did he tell you?"
"That you were worried about me because I joined the dojo. He went off to tell me that because I was learning to fight, you two thought there was someone I was going too fight. Then I asked him if both of you had been spying on me this week and he said yes."
"So how pissed are you?" He smiled sheepishly knowing there was no way out of the hole he had dug himself. I surveyed him from head to toe thinking of what I wanted to do to him to pay him back. His hair was drying and had a clean shin, his shirt had soaked up any stray droplets that might have been left on his torso, and his toes poked out underneath the legs of his pants.
"I could stomp on your toes, give you a 'do to remember, or you could come up with a punishment I think is adequate." He sat next to me and began to think.
In the silence I thought about my predicament. I had not been so close to Haru in so long the feeling was weird. The old familiarity was still there and I felt terror curl into the back of my mind. What if he hurts me again? I couldn't live through another rejection.
Haru's POV
I felt her recoil as if I had hit her. First we were laughing like we use to one moment, then the next she is emotionally cut off.
"Is there something wrong?" I asked her softly and touched her shoulder. At the contact she jumped up and out of my reach. "Kyra, what's wrong? What did I do?" I stood and stepped towards her but she kept moving away. Finally I grabbed her shoulders in my frustration. "Please tell me, what is wrong?"
Those big green orbs brimmed with unshed tears and I felt like a piece of shit. I couldn't help it so I pulled her to my chest and embraced her. For so long I had wanted to do this but Hatori had urged me not to, then with Rin in the hospital again... I just couldn't find time to comfort Kyra.
"Can I trust you?" Kyra's voice was quiet but I heard her perfectly. She tilted her head back so she could see my face.
"I would never hurt you again." Hope was just out of sight, but still we managed to cling to a sliver of it.
Aww, so cute! I love these chapters when I get to write about Haru and Kyra or Kyo and Tohru. Oh, I am such a softie. Well I hope everyone enjoyed. Write to ya later. Bye
