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Chapter 9: Let Sorrow Pass and Misery Replace It.

Pain shot through her small body with every motion of the muscle she made, tossing and turning in her bed as she slept. Tohru saw in her mind Uo and Hana standing only feet away from her, but for some reason she was unable to reach out to them, to call their names. Tohru jostled in her sleep enough to wake the orange haired cat up from his restless slumber. 'Ugh. Wha- How long have I been asleep?' Kyo groggily wondered to himself.

The creaking of the medical bed and the uneven breaths were enough to make any sane person wonder what the hell was going on. As Kyo groggily opened his eyes he let them set on Tohru's body wrestling with her own thoughts. The orange haired boy debated for a bit whether or not to wake her but feared if he didn't that she might end up hurting herself.

Kyo stood from his chair and walked over to Tohru's body. Her eye brows were wrinkled in pain and her cheeks were red from the fever. Kyo put his hand on her jostling shoulder and held it down a bit, trying to subconciously coax her out of the fit she was undergoing. It didn't work. 'Damn' he thought. 'This night has been hell for all of us and it still isn't over yet'. Kyo bent down over Tohru until he could speak right into her ear, the bed jostling around with every movement she made.

"Tohru," he whispered. "Tohru, let's go make dinner, or walk to the park. Maybe later we could have a picnic or visit your mom's grave, Uo and Hana may even be there as well." Kyo whispered happy things into her ear hoping that whatever thoughts possessed her head would go away and be replaced by these happy ones.

"Uo...Hana..." She winced. Tears flowed from her closed eyes and down her bandaged cheeks. "Uo! Hanaaaaaa!" Tohru yelled their names with all the air her lungs could muster then fell silent once more, tears wetting the pillow on either side of her head.

Yuki was utterly disturbed by Tohru's outburst and shot his eyes open, only to let them rest on her crying face. Yuki watched Kyo shoosh Tohru back into a rythmic breathing patter, whilst holding her hand and kissing the top of it, unaware that the rat was watching.

"Yuki! Kyo! What happened is everything all right!" Hatori burst through the door startling both Yuki and Kyo. Yuki stood up and walked over to Tohru's bedside and noticed that Kyo had not let her hand go.

"It's okay Hatori, Tohru's just restless, I think she needs to wake up though, if she starts tossing and turning again she could hurt herself."

Hatori looked at Kyo and thought to himself 'Since when has been so thoughtful?'.

Yuki on the other hand was thinking more along the lines of 'You damn cat'.

Hatori shook his head no to Kyo's suggestion. "She needs all the sleep she can get. By the way I don't suppose Shigure came with you tonight, did he?"

Both the cat and the rat looked at each other then said,"Oh shit!"

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With Shigure

Laughter, white sheets blowing in the wind, now yelling, fighting, breaking his poor house. Tohru, Yuki, Kyo, his house, Hatori, everyone. In his mind their faces played over and over as if a slide show had been activated, their smiles, their laughter, their fights and quarrels, breaking his house.

Where were they now? Where was he now? Shigure opened his blood glazed eyes and immediatley felt his head throb, almost as if his heart had moved its way up into his brain and was profusely pumping blood to the rest of his aching body. Shigure raised himself up on his elbows and looked around the destroyed room. Vases were broken and their pieces were lying on the ground around Shigure's body and other various places around the room. 'Where's Akito?' thought the dog. 'Where'd he go?' Shigure looked around the room but saw no traces of Akito or where he might have gone.

Shigure's eyes fell upon the broken glass of the window Tohru had been thrown through, her blood stained the sill and some of it had dried upon the broken frame. "Tohru..." he breathed to himself.

"Heh."

That voice.

"Tohru, Tohru, Tohru. I'm beginning to hate that name more and more with every time your pathetic mouth utters it." came the cruel voice.

Shigure looked over his shoulder and found Akito leaning up against the door frame to his room, a shoulder of his kimono drooping slightly.

"A-Aki-to." Shigure froze where he sat and stared into Akito's cruel eyes.

"It was either that ugly girl or her friends you know. It shouldn't have been a hard decision to make."

"What are you saying?" asked Shigure.

"I'm saying you idiot dog, that you could have killed Tohru instead of her two friends, but no, you enjoy having that young girl in your house so much that you would make her miserable by causing the death of her two friends. How selfish of you and Yuki."

Shigure sat up straight and looked into Akito's hateful eyes.

"If I could take it back I would, but you didn't give us much of a choice Aki-" he was cut off short.

"DON'T YOU BLAME THIS ON ME! I gave you a choice and you just so happened to make the wrong decision. I told Yuki to kill her or else but he pleaded with me 'no akito, not Miss. Honda-san please no'." Akito mocked Yuki's pleaded cries.

"I told him it would be easier to have her out of your lives but he wouldn't have it. Then I came to you Shigure."

Akito walked slowly over to Shigure's stiff form and watched as the helpless dog began to tremble, though he tried to hide his fear, it didn't work.

"I thought that maybe you had some sense in you, that maybe an older influence would show Yuki to the path of realization...but no, you felt the same as he did. Why was that Shigure?"

"Akito..." he trailed off. "You gave us the choice of losing the most precious thing that had ever happened to us in all of our lives, or, ridding Tohru of her two friends and trying to help her cope with the pain." Shigure smiled. "To tell you the truth, it wasn't a hard decision."

"YOU BASTARD!" And with that, one final vase was thrown forcefully against Shigure's head, the glass digging itself into his skull, the blood dripping down his face and running over his ears until everything was dark.

Laughter, white sheets blowing in the wind, now yelling, fighting, breaking his poor house. Tohru, Yuki, Kyo, his house, Hatori, everyone.

Gone.

A/N: I know! I killed Shigure! Please don't hate me but nothing eventful was really happening so I decided to spice it up some. Yesss! Oh well, its really hard to get back into my stories that I've left dormant for months but now they are off hold and back on full swing (though i don't think i'll update any sooner lol) oh well R&R please!