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Chapter 7: Little Flower

Hatori watched as Tohru stirred in her unconcious state. The sweat from her fever poured down her face and neck; her silky brown hair sticking to the sides of her cheeks and neck. He also looked at Momiji who was sitting in a chair at the side of the bed Tohru was in and watched the destraut blonde sob.

"Hari why did this have to happen to her?" asked Momiji whiping at his tears.

"I don't know Momiji, I really don't know." As Hatori said these words his mind drifted back to Kana and how he had realized that bad things seem to always happen to good people. He stood up and walked over to a mirror hanging on the wall, he lifted the long hair covering his glazed eye and stared, remembering painful emotions and memories. 'Akito must be stopped.'

Meanwhile back in Akito's room the zodiac members were recovering from their shocked state and the three were trying their best to stand up. Kyo accomplished this task first and shakily ran towards the shattered window of blood covered glass with the moons rays shining brilliantly through. He climbed through the window in hopes of finding Tohru just picking flowers or staring at the moon with a dumb grin on her face, but no such luck was for him today. Red blood covered the flowers and plants all around him, and he noticed footsteps leading away from the tainted garden. Kyo hastily followed the prints in the grass until they stopped before a paved road. Kyo looked all around for any sign of Tohru and her smile, he started to walk back to Akito's room but stopped when he noticed drops of crimson blood stained the road. He followed the trail of red until he came to a door that had streaks of blood in lines leading down to the ground on a welcoming matt. He looked at the name plate and read Sohma Hatori and without even knocking he let himself in.

Yuki and Shigure were standing now and just staring at the broken window. Yuki narrowed his eyes and looked at Akito; his fists clenched in anger.

"Why?"

"Why what, Yuki?" asked Akito.

"Why did you have to hurt Miss. Honda? All she ever did was try to help us."

"Did you not see her kick me Yuki? No one has ever done that, so she had to be punished. And for the record, she would have never been able to help us." he said with a grin.

"Damnit! Akito you don't know that!"

"Oh, Yuki but I do, because I wouldn't have let her help us, she will die before she helps anyone."

Yuki didn't know what ot say to this, he didn't want Tohru to die but he didn't want to let Akito get away with this either. Yuki was angry so he turned on his heel and faced Shigure who was deep in thought, then he rushed out the door to find the cat and the flower.

Shigure watched the teen run past him leaving thehim and the head alone."Akito, this is enough. I honestly don't think Tohru can take much more of this torture."

"Don't tell me what to do Shigure, her pain will be over when I say its over, which may be never." he chuckled. Akito walked over to Shigure with his kimono dragging after him in a silky manner. He cupped Shigure's chin in his hand and smiled. "You wouldn't dare think of going agaisnt me would you?" He pulled Shigure closer.

Kyo slammed the door as it swung open to reveal a sobbing blonde haired body leaning over the bedside of a lifeless brown haired body. Kyo looked at Momiji then looked around andtried to find Hatori. When Kyo turned around he found just the man he was looking for.

"Kyo? What are you doing here?" came the doctors voice.

"What the hell do you think? I came to get Tohru."

"Kyo, shhh. Tohru is sleeping, and she's hurt really bad." said Momiji.

"What? How bad?" asked the cat.

"Just some scrapes and a few deep cuts but nothing fatal." Hatori looked to Momiji and to Tohru, then felt a deep sadness fall within him. 'Akito needs to stop this madness.'

Kyo walked over to the bed and looked at the unconcious onigri and sighed. 'Atleast she's not really hurt.' he thought. Kyo took his hand and stroked the hair out of her eyes and looked at her beautiful face. He wanted so badly to take all of her pain away just like she had tried to take his away, but neither of them could have what they desired, especially him.

Minutes passed as Kyo thought of how much he desired Tohru's embrace and her love, but that would never happen for him.He thought of all the timeshe had gathered enough courage to tell her but then somehow that damn rat wouldshow up and ruin everything. He loved Tohru's smile and her clumsy way of doing things, but so did that damn rat. They had both fallen in love with the same person, how typical.As Kyo thought a silent knock was heard at the door and Hatori went to open it.

"Hello Hatori, have you seen Miss. Honda?"

At these words the cat perked up and let go of the hand he had been holding. He leaned back and lookedto Yuki who had just walked in the room.

"Rat."

"Cat."

The two stared at each other, but no tension was felt.

A/N: I'm thinking of getting really weird with this story, like...death, lots of death. I don't know really, I'm starting to get interference with my story idea. Help me! R&R!