Truth
Chapter four
By Wildfire
Kyou jerked awake and he was suddenly falling he desperately reached for something only to find smooth wall. Than he wasn't falling any more he was sitting in a puddle of water. He looks around remembering where he was… the park. He had been asleep in the slide. It had stopped raining but it was very dark out. He rubs his sore arms and shivers a little his butt was wet he was cold and his body hurt from being cramped in the slide.
But where was his mother? Did she go home? Did she not know where he was and went looking for him? Or was she with that… man? Should he go home and check? Or should he stay here like he was told too? He walks over to the bench and climbs up it. He sat hugging his knees to his chest, sniffling. Small tears ran down his cheek. He didn't know what to do… if he went home what if that guy was there? But he couldn't just stay here… He wondered if it was time for dinner… it seemed awfully late. The rain probably kept him asleep all day.. He had no idea how late it was.
"KYOU!"
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The small boy whirls around to see Hatori standing there. He didn't look happy, but he never looked happy. Kyou jumps off the bench and goes over to his older cousin. "Is my mom home?"
Hatori stares at him for a second "Your mother's dead, I found her when I came to tell her Akito wouldn't be attending your party."
Kyou stares at him. "What… happened?" his voice was soft yet steady.
"Doesn't matter.. Come on I'm taking you to the main house." He roughly grabs Kyou's wrist and starts speed walking away from the park.
Kyou stayed very quite just letting the older boy lead him. He didn't really understand death but… he knew it meant his mom had left him too just like his dad. But if both his mom and dad left, would that mean he'd live alone? Well if that was true he'd have to learn how to use the stove, but who was going to teach him? "Hatori.. Will you teach me how to use a stove?"
Hatori looks at him "WHAT? How heartless are you! Your mother just died and your worried about the stove! The cat is evil!" He yanks him harder
Kyou's eyes widen. He hadn't meant it as anything bad, maybe he was evil. Maybe he just didn't know it. But if that was true why didn't he want to do mean things? Was he suppose to be doing bad things? Is that why his mom and dad left him? Because he wasn't a good at being bad, like the other cats? They were probably all bad and he was bad at being… bad? He was so confused! Why did his mom have to leave him NOW! He didn't' understand. Maybe she'd come back.. People on TV died and came back, but his mom said TV wasn't real. She died… they'd put her in the ground and he'd never see her again. Who would check his bracelet? Who was going to love him now? Well he knew one thing…
"I'm NOT evil!" HE abruptly stops and yanks his arm away. "I'm a GOOD kid and I don't do ANYTHING wrong therefore YOUR wrong!"
Hatori stares at him for a second. Than reaches to grab him again.
Kyou yanks back "NO! Take it back! I'm NOT evil! My mom says the family judges me cause I'm the cat! Well STOP! OR.. OR I'LL JUDGE YOU! I'm the cat and your just a.. a FISH! I'll EAT YOU!"
Hatori's eyes widen and he slaps him "I'm cursed with the form of the DRAGON it's just evolved into a SEA horse! Don't MAKE FUN OF IT!"
"THAN DON'T JUDGE ME!"
Hatori almost seemed taken back, he nods "very well, come on, we have to get to the main house"
"We'll Yuki be there?"
"Your not to talk to Yuki. He's the rat you're the cat, you can't be friends… it's wrong."
"Why?"
"I dono" the teenage boy shrugs "it just is." They walk in silence the rest of the trip.
Kyou looks around as they enter the main gates it was so quite now. He never liked the main house it was so big and kind of creepy. "Who's going to watch me now?"
"I dono… That's not up to me, that's going to be up to Akito." He leads him to the doors to Akito's room. "Knock when he says enter than enter and kneel don't speak unless spoken to. Understand?"
The small boy nods biting his bottom lip. Everything was moving so fast, he wasn't going home… he was coming here but they didn't know who was going to take him after that, and his mother was dead… dead. He closes his eyes thinking away the thoughts.
He knocks on the door as Hatori walks away. He waited for a few minutes starting to wonder if he should knock again. He fidgets about looking around hoping someone would be there to tell him what to do but no one was there. He nibbles on his bottom lip, he starts to rise his hand up to knock again when the door slides open. Yuki stood there, his eyes widen as he sees Kyou.
"Kyou? What are you doing here? Your not suppose to be Here! GET OUT!"
Kyou flinches at the harsh words wondering why his best friend would say that to him. "I was… told to come."
Yuki glares "Well you shouldn't have! Now he'll just get angry for having to see you!" Yuki shoves past him and nearly runs down the hall.
Kyou stares after him wondering what he had done wrong.
"Come here cat"
He turns his back to the dark room and slowly enters, the room was normal enough it was rectangular in shape and directly across from him was sliding doors that lead outside, he briefly wondered if Akito had his own backyard than he shakes his head of course Akito had his own back yard everything in this place was Akito's. Heck he technically belonged to him. To the right there was a large picture that took up most of the wall. Kyou wondered why that picture was there, it wasn't very good it was just splotches of color it was actually a rather large mess, he could do much better. In front of the picture was a large padded chair with a small end table next to it the table held both a lamp, which was off, and an empty vase. Kyou looks to his left which was were one lone bed was the sheets were rumpled and some were even on the ground. Akito sat on the bed and was staring at Kyou like he was the most vile thing he'd ever seen.
"I said to come here and yet you still stand there!" The young family leader sits up straighter "COME HERE NOW!"
Kyou quickly approaches he stops just short of the bed and stares down at his feet. Was he suppose to talk? What was he suppose to do? Did he need to bow? Would Akito like that?
"I said here, as in my bed. Are you afraid of me?"
"I'm not scared of ANYONE!" Kyou's bright eyes flash dangerously at Akito.
A laugh erupts from the family leaders mouth "I can see why Yuki is amused by you… Come here" he pulls Kyou onto the bed. "Now why did you have to kill your mother? Now I have to find some place for you to go. Do you know how tiresome that is! I have better things to do than deal with YOU."
Kyou stares at him in shock "I didn't Kill my mother! She died! But I didn't do it! I was stuck at the park! I was told I had to-"
The sound of the slap echoed around the room. "Don't lie to me! You killed her! She died because she couldn't STAND being around you any more! She hated you and the only way she could get free of you and your STENCH was by dieing! It's YOUR fault she's dead! HER BLOODS ON YOUR HANDS!"
Kyou looks down at his hands, his mother had bleed? But how could her blood be on his hands? He hadn't even seen his mother since this morning when he woke him… He never even saw her bleed. He turns his hands over trying to see where it might be and maybe how it had gotten there.
There was another loud slap and Kyou jerks up "HOW can you be so calm after you killed her! You're a murderer! A COLD HEARTED KILLER! I'm DISGUESTED to know your in this family! I OUGHT to lock you up in that cage of yours RIGHT now but since I'm such a KIND person I'll ask the family first… If anyone wants you, well they can have you. If not your going in the cage! I'll ask tomorrow at the funeral. Now GET OUT AND OFF MY BED!" Akito shoved the cat away he smiles as he sees him land roughly on the ground.
Kyou stares up at him with tears in his eyes he slowly stands.
"Ohh don't be a cry baby you did the crime now you have to pay for it, just deal with it. Ohh and if I were you I'd do some serious prayers to atone for what you've done."
Kyou nods and heads out side of the room. Once out it felt like a major weight had been lifted from his chest. He hoped he would never have to go in that room again! It felt evil and like you couldn't breath. He looks around wondering where he should go now. Where was he to sleep tonight? Was he suppose to leave the main house, should he go home? The funeral was tomorrow? Wasn't that awfully soon? Didn't people normally wait for a while first? Maybe Hatori would know. But where was he? Did he live at the main house? He slowly wanders down the hall hoping to find someone to tell him what to do. Maybe he should just head home. But what if she was still there? What if it was all bloody. He rubs his arm but than again maybe she'd be there and this would all just be a nasty nightmare… maybe none of this was real and he'd wake up at any second. He looks around as if hoping to see his room instead of the walls of the main house.
"Hey little kitty"
Kyou turns sharply around, Shigure. He didn't know the teenager while but he seemed fun though he hoped he wasn't like Ayame. That was something he couldn't deal with right now. "H-hi"
The dog comes over to him and kneels down "Had a hard day?"
Kyou breaks down and tears spill down his cheeks "My mom died and Akito says it's all my fault! But I didn't want her to die! I wanted her to stay with me. I didn't mean to be evil!"
The dog smiles kindly and gently pulls the boy into a hug "You didn't kill her, she just decided it was her time to go. It wasn't your fault."
Kyou clung tightly to him balling his eyes out. "Now I have no where to go and even if someone takes me I have no where to go tonight! Because I can't go home it could be bloody! Like my hands! And what if she's still there? But I don't know where to stay here! And if no one takes me I'm going to be in a cage! And I don't want-"
A soft finger pressed over Kyou's lips, stopping him from his rambling. "I didn't get most of that but from what I did get is you don't have a place to stay tonight. Well you can stay with me tonight and as for the cage… I don't think that will be your fate not now or ever."
"But every cat has to stay in the cage, it's the rules"
"Yeah well I don't think you'll be there I think you'll be different. I don't think anyone could ever cage you."
Kyou sniffles and wipes his eyes. "thanks. Hey Shigure why do you hang out with Ayame? You two seem so different, your normal"
Shigure pretends to be in shock "Your word hurt me young kitty! How dare you say I'm normal!" With that he starts tickling him. Kyou laughs and squirms about, it was the first time he had laughed since this morning when this nightmare had started.
