She sat quietly in the room eating what Haru had brought in the bag. She nibbled on the cookies as she looked to the window that was out of her reach. He silently entered the dark room and closed the door behind him he went to the other side of the room and looked to the ground after taking a seat.

She stood slowly walking over to the boy holding out a cookie to him. She watched him carefully now. "... How come you know my name, but I don't know yours?"

"Kyou..." He kept his eyes off of hers leaving them cast to the floor. He waved a passing hand to her offer. She looked down sadly before she sat beside him eating what was left of her cookie. He frowned and gave her a sad look. "I'm sorry Tohru..." He couldn't think of anything better say.

"... Its ok..." She looked down sadly pulling her knees up resting her head on her knees. "... At least you feed me even if its just cookies..."

He smirked finally looking over to her. "Well get you some real food tomorrow I promise."

She nodded lightly looking to him now. "Am I allowed to eat when I want?"

"Duh? What kind of people do you think we are...well you've had a bad example so far." He sighed taking his eyes from hers.

"... Akito-sama only lets me eat once in awhile... When he thinks I should be..." She looked down sadly.

Kyou gave her a sympathetic look and frowned. "Do you think that's love...?"

"... I don't know I don't understand it really..." She spoke softly.

He nodded not wanting to press the issue and leaned his head back against the wall he closed his eyes. "... I love the boy for bringing me cookies, is that the same?" She tilted her head to the side looking up to him still.

"No it's not the same." He smiled softly to her. Glad that she wasn't acting afraid of him and talking. She nodded slowly as she laid down resting her head down on his lap curling up slowly starting to rest. He froze almost in shock that she trusted him enough to go to sleep on his lap. He gave her a warm smile and stroked his hand through her hair. She flinched lightly at his touch as a reflex her azure eyes opening halfway, she stayed though resting quietly.

"Tohru what all do you remember...?" He continued to pet through her hair the smile on his face dieing.

"... Akito-sama and that dark room that boy took me out of." She closed her eyes now. "... Why?"

"Just earlier you mentioned something about your mother…" He tried to remember her words

"... Oh her... She didn't want me so Akito-san took me in when I was little... I don't remember her though..." She held onto his pant leg now as a comforter letting her know he was there while she kept her eyes closed.

He retested his head against the wall and kept the sad frown. He allowed his eyes to close lazily and softly nodded. "I'm sorry to here that..." He new it was all lies and hated that Akito would trick her mind so cruelly.

She yawned finally finding a comfortable position to rest in. "... Do you remember your parents...? Were they nice to you?"

"I never new my father...and my mother tried...and she pretended to love me but no matter how much she said it the more I realized how much she feared me and how much she tried to keep me away from people and hid me like she was ashamed." He thought back on all the memories and his mother.

"... Then were the same we are unwanted by others..." She spoke softly as she looked up to him her eyes slowly opening looking to his. He nodded knowing how wrong she was but chose to keep silent for fear of starting another argument he nodded and looked away from gaze. She closed her eyes as she started to rest quietly curled beside him. He allowed him self to fall in and out of sleep knowing that he was supposed to stay awake to watch over her he couldn't help but feel guilty and new if he fell asleep his dreams would be plagued with nightmares. She slept quietly still holding onto his pant leg as she shivered starting to shake from a nightmare.

He was startled awake by her shaking and moved her gently off of his lap so he could see what was the matter with her he gently rocked her shoulder to wake her up. "Tohru... wake up..." Her eyes opened quickly hearing him her hand moving smacking him hard. She looked away after realizing what she had done. He leaned back against the wall and bit his tongue to keep from yelling he gave a aggravated sigh.

"... I'm sorry I didn't mean to I thought you were him..." She spoke sadly as she pushed herself up off the floor looking to him as she moved away from him feeling she had done something wrong she moved to the corner of the room once more laying down her back to him.

Tohru its ok don't worry about it..." He stood up to walk over to her he knelt down onto his knees and looked sadly to her. "What did he do..." He wanted to know who or what she was talking about. She started to lift up her shirt her back exposed to him showing fresh marks that were streaked across her back.

His eyes grew wide. He glared at the marks and new that it was Akito who had done this to her he couldn't help but feel the need to cry for her but kept it hidden. "Tohru how'd this happen?"

"He said it's because of some cat." She spoke sadly. "He told me that this cat was allowed to be free because I was his sacrifice..." She smiled faintly looking to the boy. "At least I was able to free someone from this kind of pain right?"

He shook his head feeling his heart being ripped out, his mind cursed his very existence it was his fault this happened it was his fault for coming back to Shigure's why did he even go back there none of this would ever have happened. "I'm so sorry Tohru..." He covered his face with his palms not wanting to see her.

She tilted her head to the side as she reached over placing her hands on his. "... Why are you sorry... You didn't do anything wrong..."

He couldn't tell her he was the reason for her pain it was nearly impossible he wanted to scream his lungs out. "Just know I'm sorry..."

She nodded lightly. "... I can't go back to sleep... can we play a game...?"

"Sure..." He gave her a fake smile and sat with his legs crossed/

"... What kind of game do you want to play I don't know any at all except the games Akito-sama played..." She looked down. "... I don't like those games..."

"You decide..." He felt his neck prickle with angry toward Akito. He was such a sick bastard who didn't deserve to live but he tried and tried to hold back his anger so that Tohru wouldn't have to see him so aggressive.

"... Can we make up a game?" She tilted her head to the side as she smiled a bit taking one his hands smiling a bit.

"What would you like to do?" He returned her smile and gave her hand a light squeeze.

She looked to her shoes pulling off her shoe. "I'll go hide it and you can find it is that ok if I hade it outside?"

"We can't go outside..." He gave her a sad look knowing he couldn't risk having her run away.