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She sat silently in the dark room her back was against the cold wall to ease the pain of the cuts on her back the ones that Akito had given her earlier that day blood seemed to roll down her pale porcelain skin. She couldn't tend to her back Akito had made sure of it by tieing her hands tightly together. Soft footsteps came across the brick walkway outside. A small glimpse of orange peering through the bars before two hands wrapped around them, crimson eyes looking between them. "I heard you were here... and I came over as fast as I could..." he whispered, breathlessly from running. She looked up from where she was her eyes were dull as she looked up to him. She was struggling now starting to shake a single yellow ribbon rested in her brown matted hair.

"Tohru, come on... we have got to get you out of here and take you home..." he said as he looked in at her, shaking the lock.

"Who's Tohru...?" She spoke up looking back up to him watching him listening to his words and his attempt to get the lock off the door.

"You're Tohru..." he said, not really noticing the question's meaning, just tugging on the lock still, trying to break it.

She watched him as she used the wall to stand she walked toward the door limping. "... I have no name..."

His eyes slowly lifted a bit and looked in at her, "Wh-What? Quit playing Tohru, we got to get you home."

"This is my home, in this cage." She placed her hand against the cold door as she looked to what little light was allowed in the room.

"No, you live with me, and Yuki and Shigure. Far from this hell hole." He was growing angry, being unable to bust the lock.

"Who are you I never heard those names before." She tried to look up threw bars. "Why have you come?"

"I came to take you home Tohru, it's me... Kyou..."

"... Kyou?" She looked at him blankly. "I don't know you why would you be taking me?"

His eyes fell slightly as he let go of the lock, "Y-You don't, know me..? Tohru, how could you not know me..."

"Why do you keep saying Tohru that's not my name!" She spoke up a little louder. "I'm a monster that no one wants..."

"Because it IS your name!" His anger at the lock was growing more intense, his hands yanking at it harshly.

"... You're going to hurt me just like him... Aren't you..." She spoke sadly as she moved away from the door into the darkness.

"No! I'm here to save you Tohru! To take you away from that bastard..." Quickly he walked away from the cage, looking around for something to smash the lock with. She sat with her back against the wall whimpering a bit from the pain that was felt from her sudden movements. The sounds of loud banging against the lock came from the door as he smashed against it with a small metal pipe. She covered her ears quickly hearing the metal against metal. Her ears had become sensitive from being in the cage for to long.

Slowly he slid the pipe between the lock's opening, prying on it slowly. "Come on... break damn it!"

"Leave me alone!" She screamed threw gritted teeth. "I'm the monster I'm the cat that caused everyone so much sorrow!"

His eyes looked up, stopping the prying on the lock. "No Tohru... you've been lied to, fed false memories... I... am the cat..."

"Don't be stupid now leave before he comes!" She stood weakly. "I don't want to be beaten because some stupid boy playing hero!"

He growled and started prying on the lock again. "I'm the cat damn it, you don't belong here! You aren't a Sohma! You have nothing to do with this!"

"... Then how come whenever a boy embraces me I transform!" She growled now she wasn't the same anymore everything was different.

His left hand reached through the bars, showing the beads, "This is why I am the cat! These beads are all that keeps me hidden, the true me!"

"Oh wow a fuckin bracelet! Aren't we special!" She turned her back to him showing a blood soaked shirt.

Kyou yanked his hand back and grabbed the bracelet, starting to slide it off. "This is the true form of the cat!" His eyes closed as he nearly got the bracelet off, hearing the sound of footsteps.

"... I really don't give a shit what your true form is..." She spoke so coldly towards the cat. "... I have a true form to thanks to Akito-sama..."

Kyou growled again, she was starting to piss him off, not so much her, but Akito. He'd made her think she remembered things that weren't true. Pulling off the beads, a cloud of purple smoke began to flow. She moved from the door now her hands struggling against the rope as she growled at him fiercely.

Slowly his form grew to nearly twice his normal height, a monstrous appearance of a demonic cat, claws extending well over six inches in length. She only smirked shaking her head. "Good you can kill me and end my suffering. Its only right for a cat of such burden to be killed in such a way."

Kyou's right hand slammed down on the lock, smashing it to hundreds of pieces. "I'm the cat!"

She slowly opened the door walking out her appearance had even changed her eyes opened slowly as she looked to him her eyes had even changed to a crimson color her hands were bleeding from where she had been trying to get free of the ropes. "I never knew there were two monsters." She spoke coldly.

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