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((A/N Ha! Two lots of drabble space. Just for me. sighs in contentment nn remembers Duroko-nee-chan's update and runs off Wah! I'm wasteing my drabble space because I would rather go and read more fanfiction then go on and on about random nothingness... ;.;! ))

Rebellious

Kyo eventually got better. Hatori had been torn between: one, letting Kyo go home, two, keeping him 'prisoner.' For the last ten days since he had decided that Kyo was better (which was at least five days from the one day it took for Kyo to be back to his normal self) he had been attempting to make a decision. Kyo, being the independent cat he was, did not like Hatori's control over his life. Kyo, being the rebellious teenager, decided to do something about it.

…But the only thing with the Kyo's plan to 'do something about it' was that, although he was independent and rebellious, he was not the smartest kid on the block. Thus he didn't have a clue what to do, or how to do it.

Now, how to make Hatori see fit to let him go? He could run away... But running away never worked. He could do something really bad – like take up smoking, but Hatori already smoked. He could drown, but cats didn't like water. Oh what to do, what to do! …Wait! A sudden stroke of genius hit Kyo: He would simply do the opposite of whatever Hatori told him to do! Never did it occur to Kyo that perhaps doing the opposite of whatever Hatori told him to was not was the best idea.

- - - - -

"Kyo! Come downstairs for dinner!" Hatori called.

"No!"

"Will you tell me why?"

"No!"

"…Kyo, please don't tell me that you are not eating?"

Kyo was about to say no again when he realised that this was a trick question. What, exactly, did Hatori want him to reply? Kyo's thought processes: '…Hello me. What are you doing here?…I'm you. Idiot… Did I just call myself an idiot?…No, I did… Oh. I like rainbows…So do I…Funny that…' As can be seen, not much was happening in Kyo's head. The only thing looking into Kyo's brain revelled in that he is secretly schizophrenic, and likes rainbows. "…I'm doing whatever you don't want me to do!" There you go. Kyo was so smart.

"Well I don't want you to eat!" Hatori called from downstairs, rolling his eyes.

"Ok! I'm coming down then… wait. Is this a trick?"

"…"

Kyo went downstairs anyway because he was hungry. After all, Hatori couldn't tell him what to do. Kyo was being independent!

- - - - -

Hatori sighed in frustration, "Kyo, why are you being so annoying? Aren't you even partially mature for your age?"

"…What do you want me to say to that?"

"…I want you to say you are mature. But that answer clearly says that you aren't."

Kyo couldn't think of an answer, so the rest of dinner passed in silence, as Hatori got increasingly angrier at Kyo's childish behaviour. Finally he gave up getting annoyed at Kyo's limited mental capacity, and decided to make fun of it instead.

"Kyo, I don't want you to go have a shower right now."

Kyo instantly ran for the bathroom. Wow. Power. This felt good. Now Hatori knew how Akito felt… and he liked it. Perhaps because of the dragon inside him, as a sea horse would not enjoy having complete control over Kyo's actions… Complete Control.

- - - - -

On Hatori's subtle direction, Kyo cleaned the house. Kyo left his house spotless, and Hatori was well pleased.

So Hatori was happy, and Kyo was triumphant. Everyone was happy, right? Wrong.

"Wah! That is so unfair! So Kyo cleans your house and destroys mine!" Shigure could be heard sobbing from the other end of the telephone call. Hatori smirked victoriously.

"Yes. I can make him do whatever I want to simply by telling him I don't want him to do it!" Hatori was feeling very smug with his accomplishment, so had decided to gloat about it to Shigure.

"Wah! Kyo cleaned your house- wait. Are you saying that Kyo will do anything you tell him not to do?"

Hatori nodded happily, remembered that Shigure couldn't see him, and told him that that was correct.

"…He will do anything for you."

"Isn't that what I just said?"

"…Hatori, you are so… genteel!"

Hatori frowned, "Why are you saying that as if it is a bad thing?"

Shigure sighed in frustration, "Hatori. You have ultimate power over Kyo, and all you did was make him clean up your house? Jeez… You could make him do anything… and all you want is a clean house?"

"…What are you saying I should have made him do then?"

"…Ha'ri, do you have any natural desires and imagination at all!"

Hatori thought for a moment, "Now Shigure, I don't think you are being quite fair-"

"Ha! A break though! At last! Now tell your friend 'Gure why you didn't make Kyo do something yummy."

Hatori blinked, then decided to ignore Shigure's instinctual perverted talk, "Well, I wanted him to-"

"-To do what? Tell!" Shigure interrupted.

"I was telling before you interrupted. As I was saying, I wanted to tell him to actually take the time to bathe properly because he takes the 'cat's hate water' thing way too seriously-"

"Now tell me what your reasons for wanting Kyo clean are." Shigure interrupted again, trying to get Hatori to admit that he was, in at least some, very small way, perverted.

"Can you please stop interrupting? I think Kyo should be clean because it isn't good for his health to live in filth-"

Shigure groaned and gave up, hanging up on Hatori in mid sentence. Hatori looked in disgust at the phone and hang up as well.

- - - - -

The next morning, Kyo's first thought was 'I have been manipulated'. It took him a few minutes to figure out exactly how, but when he did, he stalked out of Hatori's house and back to Shigure's, furious that Hatori had tricked him like that. Kyo was only grateful that Hatori hadn't used his stubbornness in a more 'warped' way. Then again… he wasn't that grateful. He was just as angry that Hatori had made him clean as he was that Hatori had not 'made' him do something /interesting/ with the sea horse instead…