Kyo looked up when a knock came to the apartment door. He knew who It was already, since he had cancelled his martial arts lessons with his students until further notice. He walked over to open the door, seeing Yuki's bright eyes look at him in concern.
"Hey." Kyo said in a low, slow voice of depression. Yuki walked forward, revealing Hatsuharu behind him, who walked in as well.
"I have no idea where she went. I thought about where they could have taken her all night, and I have no idea." Kyo said, running a hand through his orange hair in frustration as they all sat down on the floor, since there weren't enough chairs to seat them all.
"I called Akito and Shigure as well, to see if they would know something we didn't. It turns out they do." Yuki looked at Kyo with deep purple eyes. He had never seen Kyo this way before, and for some reason it was starting to scare him. "There's a second cat house."
Kyo looked up in shock at that, his eyes wide. "What? You think they brought her there?" He said in horror.
"It's a possibility. These are people who for some reason would want to hurt Tohru. The only reasons I could think of why they would want to do that, is because she broke the curse and made everyone happy." Hatsuharu added.
"A lot of people were upset that none of us had our 'powers' anymore. Some thought it was more of a blessing than a curse." Yuki said, shaking his head in disgust.
"Either way, I think one of those people decided to act on their hatred toward her for making them useless to the Sohma family. It's the only thing that makes sense at all. She's too sweet to have enemies, and she runs too fast to be captured by a pervert." Hatsuharu said in a matter-of-fact tone.
"She does run fast." Kyo said, letting a small smile slip out at the memory of having to catch her after she came out of the hospital.
"There's a smile. Good." Yuki said, letting out a sigh of relief.
Kyo looked up at him in surprise. "What, you were worried about me?"
"Oh, so cute. Get a room." Hatsuharu teased, making a kiss-y face as both Kyo and Yuki glared daggers at him.
"Well, I suppose we should try looking around for this 'second cat house' then." Kyo said, shivering at the thought of looking for the house he could have been stuck in for the rest of his life. What if she had been put in it instead?
"Alright, let's get going then. The longer we wait, the more danger she's in." Kyo said, standing suddenly. Yuki and Hatsuharu agreed and they left to try and find Tohru somewhere in the country of Hokkaido.

"Do you give up, yet?" One of the burly men under the old woman's command said angrily, holding Tohru up by the cuff of her shirt. She closed her eyes as tears ran down her face from the pain of him hitting her again.
"You must let the cat go. Forget about him, and agree to never see him again."
"I can't." Tohru whimpered, flinching as another blow was struck.
"You're making this much more difficult than it needs be, my dear." The woman sighed, and walked over to her, looking up at Tohru who was still being held up against the wall of the cat house. "I need to find a way to break the curse. All was well until you fell in love with the cat. That must be the key."


Tohru looked up at the woman with wide blackened eyes, wondering how far she was willing to go to try and bring the curse back.
"Let her go, if we do any more damage she's likely to faint." The woman sighed, and the burly man set her carefully on the ground, looking at Tohru in apology as the other man grunted in disgust. The woman leaned down over Tohru, who was scuttling back against the corner as quickly as she could to get as far away as possible. "Deary, if you don't try harder to cooperate, you're likely to die here." She said, rolling her eyes when Tohru huddled even tighter against herself. "I'm not going to let you go, Tohru. You'll stay here instead of the cat in the need arises, always looking at the world through those bars over there." The woman pointed to the small window on the other side of the room. "Do you really love him so much that you would take his place in solitary confinement?"
Tohru looked up at the woman in disbelief. Something inside of her somehow settled into place and her expression started to melt into anger. "How can you do this?!" She yelled, her voice raspy. "What did I ever do to you?!"
"I was welcome in the Sohma household until the curse broke. Akito cast me aside like some useless toy now that she didn't need me anymore. I'm an old woman- there's nothing I can do with my life anymore. I spent my entire youth taking care of the Sohma children, and this is what I get in return." She hissed. "If I can get the Sohma curse to return, I'll be welcome back into the main house again. This is my only chance for redemption, and I'm taking it."
Tohru continued to glare at the woman, uncaring of whatever excuses she had. There was no reason to kidnap and hurt her. "You cannot bring the curse back, no matter what you do. I don't know how you figured out this plan, but it won't work."
The woman looked at the young girl for a moment in shock, and turned around to walk out of the building, opening the door built into one of the walls, and closing it behind her and the two men under her command. Tohru flinched as she heard the heavy iron lock close and she was once again left in the small room where the only light came from the window with heavy bars separating her from freedom. She would get out somehow… even if she had to chew through one of these walls, she would get out and go back to Kyo.

"Are you saying the cat house is somewhere in the middle of this forest?" Kyo looked around the dense forest, the noises of the nocturnal creatures starting to sound out now that the sun was setting.
"It's the only place we haven't looked. " Yuki sighed, starting to get tired. They had been searching all day for some abandoned house, but all they had found was a small shed in the middle of the forest.
"Perhaps we would have more luck if we split up?" Hatsuharu said, looking around ahead of them into the darkness.
"Good idea. We'll meet back up at the edge of the forest at midnight- agreed?" Yuki looked down at the watch on his wrist, which now read 8:30.
"Agreed. Let's get going." Kyo said, wanting to find Tohru as soon as possible.
Kyo started heading east into the forest, moving aside branches and avoiding raised roots as he stumbled as quickly as he could off in his chosen direction. He cleared the trees and found himself in a grove, revealing a small building at the far side of the clearing. Kyo stared at the old wooden house, a small barred window the only sight into the inside of the building. He ran as quickly as he could over to the window, looking in to see utter darkness, except for the silhouette of a huddled figure lying at one 

side of the small room.
"Tohru?" Kyo whispered, gasping when the figure raised its head in confusion, but seeing nothing, put its head back down with a small groan of pain. Kyo ran around the building looking for a way in, and spotted a large iron latch on one side of the building. He opened the latch and pulled on the knob, opening one of the walls into the small building and running in. He kneeled next to the figure and turned her over in her sleep. Not able to see the girl's face in the dark, he brought her over to the window and choked when he saw Tohru's soft expression riddled with bruises and scrapes. He cradled her closer to him, hoping that she wasn't injured too badly, and wondered who would do this to such a sweet woman. He started walking carefully back to the open door with Tohru in his arms, only to see it close before him in a hard slam. Kyo yelled in shock and ran over to the wall, kicking at the closed door, but to no avail.

Hello everyone, this is Caroline! Thank you to all who reviewed the story and convinced me to keep going with this plotline If you'd like to see more, please keep reviewing and I'll write a new chapters ASAP.