HI! This is my second chapter that I wrote today! Hardly working, I think not! (Yah, like writing fanfics about hot guys is sooooo hard)
Anyway, here it is: Theme from Chariots of Fire plays, Author cheering dramtically in super-slo-mo
Author: Ducks to avoid flaming garbage OK, OK I'm writing!
To kikvws ( ): Thanks for the positive review for my last chapter. I don't know what I was on when I wrote that lol!

Chapter 6: Crime and Punishment Yuki was staring at the floor. He noticed an interesting speck there. It was probably a happy speck, it didn't have to get yelled at, or expelled, or hear Kyo whimpering. Lucky speck, he thought bitterly.
He was sitting in the Principal's office, in a hard, straight-backed wooden chair. His hands were nervously squirming in his lap. He glanced over at Haru. He stood there, too ashamed to even look up as their Sensei was talking to them.
".... Completely voilent and irresponsible. What were you thinking?!" he snapped at the Ox.
Haru flinched slightly as the teacher kept ranting at him. Why did he have to be scolded like this? Couldn't they see he had suffered enough? That he felt like total crap for what he had done? He thought the worst thing about this was probably seeing poor Tohru cry over Kyo. It was a pitiful sight. Even now, sitting on a bench beside Uo and Hana, she was sniffling slightly and her eyes were puffy and red. A small gasp escaped her lips occasionally. And Kyo.
He had never been beaten like this, even from Yuki, his worst enemy. His eyes were equally red, and his face was a shade of dark purple. Well most of it, his nose was more red from blood. He was sitting beside Tohru also, well more leaning against her shoulder. He felt very weak. Tohru held his hand gently, but she was shaking quite badly.
The teacher noticed her shaking and sniffling also.
"Honda Tohru? You and your friends may leave," he said in a more gentle tone.
Tohru nodded slightly. "What about Kyo? Can I take him home?" she asked quietly.
"Yes, I will talk to him another day. Kyo, you have permission to miss school tomorrow if you like."
Kyo merely nodded, staring grimly at the floor.
He stood up shakily. Tohru stood up quickly right beside him. She squeezed his shoulder gently.
He looked at her face, which was still streaked with tears. Tears for him. He remembered what he had heard:
"I LOVE YOU SO MUCH! I ALWAYS HAVE!"
He wondered if it was true, or if he was unconscious and merely dreamt about it. Tohru smiled slightly and said,
"Come on, let's go home so you can rest."
They walked slowly out the door, with Hana and Arisa following them. They shut the door gently behind them.
"Yuki? It seems we've heard all we need from you. You can leave, also," the principal stated.
Yuki nodded. He glanced again over at Haru. Haru noticed and looked him in the eye. There in the dark depths, Yuki saw.
nothing. No life, no happiness, only shame and misery. Yuki did not want to leave Haru. He leaned over Haru slightly and said,
"Don't worry. It'll be OK. I'll wait for you outside the front doors."
And with that he left.
Kyo felt terrible. He was so bruised, so bloody, so...beaten and battered. Tohru even had to carry his backpack for him. His back felt on fire after he hit the floor with Haru on top of him. For the first time in his life, he felt absolute abject fear towards someone.
And that was Haru. Well, technically, Black Haru. And he would never forgive himself for making Tohru walk him home, carry his things,
cry for him, worry so completely about him.
"Kyo?"
"Yeah, Tohru?"
Kyo then heard sniffling, then he heard a muffled sob.
"Oh Kyo! I'm so sorry! I couldn't help you... I-"
Tohru was sitting on the street on her knees, her face in her hands, crying.
Kyo felt his heart wrench and his eyes water. He knelt beside Tohru.
"Hey. This wasn't your fault. This was noone's fault, it was a horrible accident." Kyo said soothingly.
This made Tohru cry harder.
"I'm so pathetic!" she wailed," First you get beaten so badly, now you have to comfort me when I should be comforting you!"
Kyo took her arm gently. "Tohru, please get up. Let's go home. I..I need you there with me. You're the only person in the whole world who makes me feel better, and comforts me, every single day." Kyo had wanted to say this to Tohru for a very long time, and he continued,
" You always know what to say, and even if you're having the bad day, you manage to put on a smile, and cheer everyone else up.
You are the most selfless person I ever knew, and that is why..I..love..you."
Tohru stopped crying and looked at Kyo through watery eyes.
"You...do?" she whispered.
Kyo blushed, he desperately wanted to look away, to tell her to forget what he had just said, but instead, he looked her in the eyes, smiled slightly, and nodded.
"Yah."
"I.. love you too.. I always have," Tohru replied, leaning towards Kyo slightly.
Kyo's heart was pounding. What he had heard was true! It wasn't a dream! This was the single most happiest moment in his young life.
"C'mon, Tohru, let's go home," he said, and he sounded... happy. So very, truly, utterly, undeniably..happy.
In a single sentence.
Tohru stood up somewhat shakily. Kyo offered her his hand. She took it, feeling slightly giddy, and they walked home, silently, together.
Unfortunately, things were not as happy for Haru. He had been suspended for a week. And he was not allowed anywhere near Kyo.
As humanly possible, of course. He did not bother to tell his teacher and principal that he was living with the Neko. They probably would have cried, anyway. The next half-hour was a blur. Hatori was called. After the conversation, Hatori hung up, sighed heavily, and called Shigure. How he loved to be the bearer of the bad news.
Yuki had grabbed his things and was waiting at the front doors, like he promised, in the cool, late afternoon autumn air.
Yuki breathed in deeply, the cool air tingling pleasantly in his lungs. The cool air calmed him, cooled him down.
He couldn't believe the events that took place in one day. One day. How many like these he would have to endure now that Haru was living with him? He didn't want to think about it, it made him feel slightly ill. Lost in thought, he jumped slightly as the door banged open. It was Haru. He didn't even look at Yuki. He walked past him and headed down the street, but not towards Shigure's house.