A/N: Hello, fellow YukixKyo fans (or soon to be YukixKyo fans :P ). This is a story dedicated to...a friend. And of course to my beta-er and friend Amaya-hime who recently had a birthday! claps hands (/cough/ READ HER STORIES/cough/) anyways ON WITH IT!

Warnings: Shounen-ai/slash/boyxboy/ homosexual relationships. And possible violence, language, angstyness and more violence. And also, this will be short, it's not a chapter so...

Prologue

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"You have until the end of high school. Don't you see, Kyo? You lost."

His voice is piercing, and I can hear the threats laced on his tongue. My eyes are trained on the floorboards. If I look at him I'll be swallowed up. It's taking most of my self-control not to shake in fear. I won't let my nervousness show. I curl and uncurl my fists, my jaw clenched.

I see his feet move from the window to where I'm sitting, the bird that had been perching carelessly on his finger fluttered away. His kimono is dragging on the ground, making a sort of forbidding, shuffling noise. I can just imagine the look on his face. His special look, the one he usually saves for Yuki only.

The sound stops as his bare feet come to a rest, right in my line of vision, and I can feel his head looming over mine. My body stiffens,I don't like him being so close. It's better when he'satleast across the room, if not much much farther away.His hot breath tickles my ears as he starts to speak again.

"But, you just didn't get it, Kyo. I always win.-Why won't you look at me? Kyo? I said look at me"

Before I have time to comprehend his words, my chin is seized by his cold, unforgiving fingers. He pulls my head up until his pale, crazed face fills my whole vision. I cannot pull away from his eyes. I try my best not to feel panicked, but I can feel my breathing starting to get faster, my eyes going wider.

I can't fight back. No one in the whole zodiac has ever even thought of that, and I am most definitely not going to be the one to test it out. I imaginethat someone who was properly a part of the zodiac wouldn't get beaten nearly as severly asI would be.I haven't been listening to what he's been saying, but his fingers have been removed from my chin and his face is distorted by anger. Fuck, this can't be good...

Slap! My head is snaps around; blood oozing from where his nails scratched me. My face is throbbing. I can hear him screaming now, but it seems far away. I screw my eyes shut, and try to block out everything, convincing myself that it doesn't hurt.

I feel him stand up and I immediately feel the impact of his foot against my ribs. I roll over, curling defensively into the fetal position, blood trickling from a corner of my mouth. I can't breath, my lungs are gasping for air but none fills them. My eyes grow wider with each helpless gasp. My mind goes frantic from the sudden loss of oxygen. My body unable to function as contradicting thoughts race through my brain.

I can feel him staring down at me. Then he is squatting in front of me, a smirk on his face, head tilted to one side, looking pleased with himself. He jerks my head up, pulling me by my hair, making me hiss in pain. My eyes flutter open and again I am forced to look him straight in the face, and again I'm flooded with fear. Shit, I'm turning into one of those losers who faints during scary movies.

My finger nails are digging into my palms, keeping my mind focused on the clean pain. I even my breaths, counting the seconds in between. I will not lose control, it's practically the only thing I have left. I won't get scared,I won't show my fear.I brace myself for his words.

"You thought that maybe you could win against me? Your God? The cat can never win against the rat. It's impossible. Everyone hates you. That is your role, your life's purpose.

You are going to be locked up for everyone to look down on. No one is going to feel any pity for you. You will be hated until the day you die."

He releases me, and I start to cough, hacking up blood. My hands reach for my throat, as if they could coax oxygen into my lungs. A look of disgust flashes upon his face, but is gone in no more than a few seconds.

My thoughts start spinning. I'm going to be locked up. There's nothing I can do about it. I won't see anyone or anything. Ever. I can feel fear spreading through me. My eyes are itching, and my throat is making raspy sounds. I think I have started to shake, but now I cannot tell the difference between shaking and being still.

I should have known by the strange looks Hatori gave me as I sullenly slid into his car just over an hour ago. The slightly confused, but strangely concerned look on Yuki's face. Shigure's serious face. I was so stupid, I should've known that meant something bad, if not horrifying. I knew that being 'invited' here was never a good thing...but...but...

I see him stand up, his arms crossed, looking severely angry. He kicks me again, this time his foot hits my head, full on. Blood is now flowing more freely from my nose and mouth. My head is throbbing. I try to concentrate on moving, but my body's not obeying my mind. Shit, shit, shit...not good, not good.

I manage to get on all fours, looking like the cat I'm supposed to be.The kind of stray that shouldn't be here, and knows it. The kind that disappears in the middle of the night and nobody notices.

The kind everyone hates.

There's a methodic plip plip as blood stains my hands, dripping from my open mouth. My vision goes blurry, and all of a sudden everything is tinted red. I'm struggling not to pass out; that would be too much. I'd be at his complete mercy then...and who knows what the sick fuck would do when that happens.

I stayed conscious long enough to see him brush off his kimono, pulling up the part that had slipped of his thin shoulders, and hear him giggling slightly as he picks up his haori and walks out of the room, shoji slamming shut behind him. A feeling of anger and helplessness washed over me, my arms caved under me and I fall to the floor, my mind turning blank.

"Everyone hates you."

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A/N: Just so you know, I will continue onthis storyeven if people hate it. So pfft...lol. Please review, it takes little effort and the button is below this! I will give you cookie /hands out cookies to all the good little boys and girls/