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Revelations

"Ok, Tohru. I'm giving you a choice. You can either go back to Shigure's, or you can stay here for the night. Personally, since Ayame is most likely at Shigure's house, the later is the preferable option. Kyo, you are staying here."

"Tohru, I would also suggest you stay at Hatori's until Shigure's calmed down- What the-! Why don't I get a choice!"

"Because I'm the boss around here. You have to do what I tell you to."

"…Um, Hatori-san? I want to go back to Shigure's…" Tohru twiddled her thumbs and looked hopefully at Hatori.

"Ok then."

"I want to go back to Shigure's too."

"You will stay here."

"No."

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Because Shigure was sitting on you last time I went to Shigure's," Hatori sighed in expiration.

"…So what?"

Hatori looked quizzically at Kyo, "Do you want to be molested by Shigure?"

"NO!"

"Hatori-san, isn't it good to be molested? Shigure said it was…"

"…"

"…" Hatori shut his eyes and tried to find his 'inner-peace' again, "Don't ever listen to anything that Shigure says, Tohru."

Kyo rounded on Hatori, "And you wanted to send her back there!"

"Good point, Kyo. We will be going now, Tohru." Hatori left the house and locked the door behind him. Kyo was still inside resembling a fish.

- - - - -

Hatori had taken both Kyo and Tohru back to his house after 'rescuing' them from Shigure. A rescue that Kyo wasn't very grateful about. In fact, considering the situation, Kyo should have been very glad Hatori had walked in before it went any further. If not for a certain conversation he had overheard, he would have been… grateful that is…

"Hatori? Isn't this exiting?" Ayame squealed, practically jumping up and down. Hatori raised his eye-brows.

"What is exiting?"

"This! Rescuing the ones we love from the grasping hands of the evil Shigure!"

Hatori turned away, "I would take you more seriously if I didn't know that you would love to be in Kyo's place."

"…True…" Ayame suddenly realised something, "Wait, Hatori, you didn't deny that you were rescuing a loved one!"

"I'm not."

The silvery haired man laughed and flicked his hair back, "Too late now! I already know! Which one is it then, Hatori? Tohru or Kyo? Judging by your past, I would say Tohru, but you never know…"

Hatori sweat dropped, "I don't love Tohru!"

"So you like Kyo then?"

"…No."

"Hahaha! Whatever you say Hatori! Don't worry, I won't tell him-" Hatori sighed in relief, before registering the last part of Ayame's sentence, "-because he already knows." Ayame ruffled Kyo's hair on his way out.

- - - - -

The dragon was slightly surprised to see that Kyo was still were he left him, "Kyo? I'm home."

"…Hatori, we need to talk."

"I know."

"That's good."

So they sat there for fifteen minutes in silence before, "I'm going to bed. You can take the couch and we will swap every second night. Sleep well." Last time Hatori had let Kyo have his bed, and had taken the couch himself.

Two more minutes and Kyo muttered to himself, "Wait a moment… we didn't get anything discussed."

- - - - -

Kyo couldn't sleep. He tossed and turned all night, the couch digging into him every time. And the room was too light. It was too hot. He couldn't sleep! …So Kyo, being oh so independent, went to complain to Hatori.

"Hatori? Hatori? Wake up Hatori! …Stupid sea horse." Suddenly Kyo felt really tired. Hatori's room was so dark, and cosy. Kyo crawled to the end of Hatori's bed and curled up into a ball, falling to sleep at the Doctor's feet.

How he ended up underneath Hatori's bed was beyond him, but Kyo supposed, once he had regain his senses in the morning, that he had rolled off the bed and then rolled underneath the bed. In what way he ended up there was not important, however, compared to the expression on Hatori's face if he found out that Kyo had taken to sleeping under his bed… The question of 'to move, or not to move' (in Shakespearian terms) was a pressing one on Kyo's mind as he realised that Hatori was waking up.

However, this decision was taken from him by non other then Hatori, when he actually woke up half an hour after Kyo figured out why he was under Hatori's bed.

Hatori was sitting on his bed, judging by the dint in the mattress as he sat up (A/N For the sake of my non-existent plotline, Japanese peoples now use western style beds. Don't blame me for messing with the Japanese national image – all I'm trying to do is update :D ). And the fact that his pyjama covered legs were hanging over the side of his bed could possibly also contribute to Kyo's evaluation that he was, in fact, awake. It was at this moment in time that Kyo felt a need to sneeze, and so reminded himself that not only would sneezing reveal himself to Hatori, but it would also be rather clichéd, and very inconvenient. Unfortunately, Kyo's bodily functions do not obey his brain very well, and he ended up sneezing.

Which of course made Hatori react in the expected way. He screamed like a girl and hid beneath the bed covers… Kyo realised at this point in his little 'daydream' that Hatori had got out of bed and was on his knees looking at Kyo who was on his belly beneath his previously occupied mattress.

"…Good morning Hatori!" Kyo greeted him weakly.

"What are you doing beneath my bed?"

"Um… I was… sleeping?"

"Why were you sleeping beneath my bed?"

"I wasn't?"

"…"

"Um… I'm making breakfast!"

Hatori sighed, "Kyo, I would really like to know how did you end up sleeping under me-" The dragon winced at the unintentional double meaning to his words.

"The couch wasn't comfortable."

"Oh… Go make breakfast then… I'll be down… shortly." Kyo made a hasty retreat from Hatori's room, leaving Hatori to his disappointment that Kyo hadn't come for something different.