Chapter 5
Pairings Yuki Kyo
I know the last chapter was short so I'll try to make this one longer. I was just trying to stop at a certain dramatic point and the effect was that it was a short chapter. I'm not one of those kids who sit down and draw a bubble chart before writing essays. I'm the kid who goes back and does that after. Webs (bubble charts) get in my way, I prefer to write and think as I go. Anyways I hope you can forgive me for my great gaps in-between writing because the story is so good, if you don't like it I'm really not offended.
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At roughly 5 a.m. Mrs. Sohma found herself seated in Mayuko's living room. Yuki was in a fitful sleep and Mayu tried her hardest not to lash out at his mother. "You have me here now what do you want with me?" She sat as though she was royalty and Mayu was an unruly servant.
"I'm worried about Yuki."
"Worried? Don't worry about him he feeds on it. Yuki spends so much time finding ways to be depressed, he's pathetic." Mayu slammed her glass down.
How can she treat him that way? He's just a child. "You're cold…" Mrs. Sohma seemed amused at these words.
"Me cold? Have you spoken to my child at all? His name suits him, more than I ever thought it would have. Do you know how Yuki got his name?"
"I-"
"Of course you don't. You never cared for him when he was small, not enough to ask, not that he would answer you." Mayu looked behind her quickly to make sure Yuki was out of earshot. The teacher had a distinct feeling that this conversation wouldn't compliment the boy.
"He was early, you know about the cursed, they're all early. They're all healthy too, but not Yuki. He was so tiny. When he was born he didn't cry. His lungs were underdeveloped and he had trouble keeping his body temperature up. The doctors forced me to touch him. I wanted nothing to do with him. Ayame was enough of a disappointment; I didn't deserve to have something weak and dependant attached to my hip. When I felt his skin it was cold. He seemed frozen like snow so I named him Yuki. It was the quickest insult I could think of. He wasn't meant to survive the night…it's nights like these that make me wish he had breathed his last in that tacky hospital, premature baby basinet."
Mayu was crying again. She had once cried for Hatori and now she gushed forth tears for the rat. Yuki was suffering, as far as she knew Kyo was on the verge of death, and Mrs. Sohma sat as calmly as ever. "You look ridiculous. Crying like a child, like Yuki did. Pathetic…"
"Get out…" The voice was low and breathy. Yuki had woken up from his nightmare filled sleep only to be graced with the pretenses for more nightmares. Mayu snapped her head to the side so fast her neck began to throb. His mother simply stood and left. Not a single word to her son or his old teacher.
"Mayuko-sensei, I think it would be best if I left as well." He turned towards the door.
"No! No you don't I promised Hatori that I'd take-" Yuki turned to her with glowing eyes (like in the anime when he summoned those rats) and she fell silent. Those eyes…like Kana's when she went mad…or Akito…I saw that man once…he had that same look.
"Promise or no promise I will have to leave your home Miss Mayuko. Goodbye, I'll tell Hatori I'm alright." He left after that.
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The small sniffles and mumbled cursing led Ha'ri to believe that Kyo had awakened. He entered the room and found the cat letting out tears, curses, and laughs at odd intervals. "May I ask you what you're doing Kyo?"
The neko stopped his peculiar ritual to face the dragon. "I was thinking." It didn't take a genius to figure out what he had been remembering. "This one time, I had taken him to a lake. I made us a lunch and it was a sunny day. After we laid out our blanket and got settled a group of people came into the clearing. A family reunion or something. Yuki panicked and tried to hide behind me. He was afraid that someone would peg us as a gay couple. I ran out to the car and grabbed one of Tohru's skirts and some of her stockings. He changed in the bathroom and we spent the whole date pretending that he was Yukina. No one knew any different so we got away with it. In the end though a guy started hitting on Yuki so I kicked his ass. He got angry and we hightailed it before the bigger guys in the family could come after us. He said…he said the skirt wasn't so bad. We went to a drug store and I bought a disposable camera. The pictures are all inside a scrapbook Kisa made."
Hatori found himself picturing Yuki in a skirt and a very defensive Kyo. It made him smile, the first time in a while. Yuki in a skirt, so help him if Shigure find the album. Kyo started to laugh again and Ha'ri decided now was as good a time as ever to tell him about his condition.
"Kyo, as soon as you show us you can walk around on your own for at least three minutes without wheezing you can go home. Another doctor, another Sohma of course, will help you with it. I'm not saying you need physical therapy; you just need to be supervised." The neko was happy to hear this.
"I'll try my hardest to get better."
"More over, no more morning runs until I authorize it, no training, no strenuous activity." Kyo looked about to protest, he had been looking forward to necking with his nezumi once he was home. "No if ands or buts. Do what I say and you'll be back to…" he coughed and twitched uncomfortably, "sex with Yuki in no time."
Kyo laughed harder at Ha'ri's words.
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TBC
I know it seems like I spend a lot of time on Yuki but it does take more to describe a mental disorder than a gunshot.
Also the title Frozen Warmth is suppose to symbolize how he was cold when he was born, like he was frozen, and how birth is suppose to be like warmth. It always seemed to me that a baby was supposed to bring warmth to a family (new couples too) but Yuki's birth wasn't welcome. He got the cold shoulder so to speak.
Next chapter coming soon.
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