Perfection Comes With a Price
Chapter 2
Pairings Yuki Kyo
Well hello my faithful readers, sorry for the wait, I've been a little busy with my almost nonexistent life and I found it hard to get a hold on typing time. Well this chapter should dig further into Kyo's gunshot wound and Yuki's ever present mind problems. I really do love Yuki, Kyo and Haru (not a main character this time but still…) so don't worry, I'm not going to kill them and it hurts me a little inside to hurt them like this. (Yes I know I'm pathetic, you can laugh, and I give you permission.)
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Hatori thought it would be best not to approach Yuki at the current time, not until he had good news, any news. He had yet to even see Kyo but he couldn't help but worry more about the rat. The neko had doctors watching over him, Shigure and Kazuma as well, the nezumi was alone.
That's how it always seemed to be, Yuki would sit alone, even surrounded by a sea of people, he had no one. When he did manage to grab onto something or someone it was ripped away form him. It just so happens that Kyo often finds happiness then is struck down by something that causes him pain.
Hatori decided that he couldn't leave Kyo any longer and began looking for someone to help him. He spotted Mayuko; she had been on her way to see him after she heard about Kyo. "Mayu-Chan, I need you to look after Yuki."
"Yuki? But isn't Kyo the one who-"
"Yes, and that's exactly why I need you to watch him. Yuki suffers from several trauma induced mental disorders. He was close to committing suicide in the eighth grade; he would have succeeded if Hatsuharu hadn't knocked the knife from his hand. He and Kyo recently began dating each other, about five or six months ago. If he thinks Kyo isn't going to make it he may not see the point in living."
Mayu nodded and thought back on everything he had done when she had taught him. He was always so quiet, afraid to get near people and have fun. I wonder what kind of trauma he went through. Akito…it must have been him, just like Kana…don't die Kyo.
She was too afraid of startling Yuki to get too close so instead she sat nearby and watched as he rocked slowly back and forth with his head in his knees, crying. She sat in silence for as long as she could but in the end she felt the desperate need to comfort the boy. She knew good and well what would happen if she hugged him but she felt she needed to do something.
Mayu walked as quietly as possible to the shaking form that was Yuki Sohma. She reached out to rub his back when a pair of red-rimmed purple eyes locked with hers. "What?"
"I just wanted to let you know that Ky-" Before the neko's name finished rolling off her tongue the rat looked back to his knees. Mayu touched him gently on the shoulder and suddenly realized how frail and alone Yuki was. The teacher expected him to yell at him or reach up and try to hug her, despite his condition; she didn't expect what happened next.
Yuki, upon feeling her gentle touch, collapsed further on the ground and began sobbing uncontrollably. He was practically screaming it was all nonsense. Things like how he was no good for Kyo, he should've died years ago, and it was all his fault because he was too unstable to protect anyone. He was almost crying against the tile but his face was just above it. His hands were clenching and unclenching his chest and stomach in his fit.
Mayu didn't know what she could do for him. She was just going to let him cry it out until his breathing became stressed. He's having an attack. What do I do? I can't call Ha'ri…"Nurse! Nurse! He's having an asthma attack! I-I don't know what kind of medicine he needs!" A nurse ran right to them, he tried to pick Yuki up from the ground but he was having some difficulty. The rat wasn't helping in any way.
"Young Man! Young Man, I need you to let me help you! Miss, is this your child?" Mayu shook her head and nearly broke down crying herself when she heard a flat-line noise coming from Kyo's room.
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Kyo was lying in his hospital bed, naked from the waist up, with the exception of some blood and gauze. There was an oxygen mask secured tightly around his nose and mouth. His breathing was ragged but it was to be expected. The bullet had punctured his left lung. He would live, if the doctors could remove the bullet without tearing the organ tissue.
They were working quickly so the blood loss wouldn't be too extensive. It was a long hard battle. Blood was coming out too fast and the usually tan feline was loosing skin tone.
Hatori removed the bullet and threw it carelessly into the tin container behind him. For the longest time, with those tweezers in hand, he had been in a trance of sorts. He knew nothing of his life except the cool metal in his hands and the skin the copper jacketed lead that had torn so carelessly through a young boy's breast. The sickening clink of the copper bullet against the tin brought him back to reality. He could finally see how bad his cousin looked and he was also forced to hear the sudden screaming of Yuki in the hall.
He flat-lined. It was sudden, just like the screaming in the hall. Hatori had always been told he was cold as ice but now he was forced to feel so much at once, he didn't think he could stand it. In a clumsy frenzy Ha'ri tried to find out what his mistake had been. Kyo wasn't breathing and from the distant voice of a male nurse, neither was Yuki.
It was chaos, doctors and nurses were running into the room, Kazuma was having a panic attack; Shigure had collapsed against a wall, Mayu was crying and pacing, and Yuki was fighting with someone trying to help him. It was at that moment Hatori turned back to ice and bent down to perform CPR. While pumping Kyo's chest he shouted for a blood transfusion and let his mind freeze over to the world around him.
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Yuki was fighting his own battle with a nurse. Just let me die! He did, just let me die! The rat tried to claw his way out of the nurses' grasp but eventually he couldn't fight anymore. He collapsed again and let himself be carried away, there were nurses carrying blood packs into Kyo's room. He's still alive, I can't give up.
Mayu spotted Hatori and locked eyes with him. It was agreement between them that both boys needed to be watched but they would both survive the night.
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Kyo's heart monitor was showing signs of a steady heartbeat and a strong pulse. Yuki was sitting in a large windowsill with a nebulizer in his mouth, the mist flowing everywhere around him. (Nebulizer's are these things that work like an inhaler, it puts albuterol in your system but it comes out as a mist and you stick the mouth piece in your mouth and the turquoise tube faces out and it blows the extra albuterol out when you exhale. I've had many of these treatments. It tastes kind of like battery acid and it makes you hyper and dries out your mouth.)
The cat was too exhausted to sleep and had yet to wake since he first lost conciseness. The rat was too stuck wallowing in his own pity and past memories to focus on anything, not even the lover that needed him so desperately.
They had their moment of happiness where everything was perfect and it had been taken away in an instant.
Maybe Akito was right about me…I don't deserve him,…I love you Kyo…"…Yuki…"
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Well that is the end of chapter 2 and I hope you all enjoyed it. I'm sorry if you were expecting something a little happier. It will get better and I hope you like it.
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