Chapter 3- Shadow on the Sun (Audioslave)

(Haru's POV)

It has been almost a month since Kyo left. A month. I know he is still alive, yet it is hard to deal with this when Tohru cries anytime she sees a cat, and she cries especially hard if it is orange. I think she is about to give up hope of him ever coming home.

I moved to Shigure's after they told us Kyo had been gone a week. I figured I could try and console Tohru, but I was wrong, she seems to be almost past the point of no return. Now I just make the meals since all Tohru ever does is cry. I really don't know what she'll do if he does not come home.

We still look for him, yet with no luck. I just home he comes home soon.

(Kyo's POV)

I will leave tonight to go back home. It is raining again, but I still do not care. I need to go back before they think I am dead. There is no telling how Tohru's coping, and I still care for her, though not as much as I did when I left. Actually, my little respite has opened my eyes a bit to the fact that I do not really like girls that way at all.

I have been so wrapped up in my own thinking that I have already arrived at Shigure's door. The lights are on… surprise, surprise. I figured they had given up looking for me by this point. A month is a long time.

Oh well here goes nothing.

(Haru's POV)

Though Shigure was probably the first to hear it, I heard a slight shuffle outside.

Could it really be him?!

Could Kyo have come back?!

What will I say to him? What should I do? Is it even him? Should I tell him my feelings?

God, all I can hope for is that it is Kyo, and that he is ok…

(Kyo's POV)

As I reached up to knock on the door, it was thrown open rather unceremoniously, and standing in the door way was the person that I least expected, Haru. Upon realizing that it was me, he then embraced me in the biggest hug I have ever received.

"Oh my god! It is really you! Do you know how worried I was!? Do you know how worried we all were?! Do you know how much I missed you?! Do you know how we thought you were dead?! Goddammit Kyo!!!"

Through Haru's delirium, I recognized something in the tone of his voice. Care. He really cared about me, and this rendered me rather flabbergasted.

"Umm… Haru can you let me go?"

"No, not if you're going to leave again."

What? Wait a minute! He cares if I leave again? Hmm… interesting.

"No I have no intentions of leaving, but I would love something to eat."

This got Haru off me, and rushing off to fix some food.

" I didn't know you could cook."

"Yeah well there's a lot you missed out on, like Tohru crying herself to sleep every night, and burning everything she made. And Yuki being rendered utterly helpless at her state. And me going insane because I had to cope with all of them. But you wouldn't know this now would you because YOU RAN AWAY!"

"Don't you dare accuse me of… Goddammit! Do you even know why I ran away in the first place Haru? Do you know why I decided that I could not live here any more? Do you know why I left? NO!!!! Because you were not here when it happened. DO you know that I ran away on what is said to have been the coldest day in 20 years?! DO you know that I have slept in a cardboard box for the past month?! Do you know that I haven't had a full meal since then either?!"

This seemed to have shaken him.

"No I did not know this. Nevertheless, Kyo how could I have known!? You never told any of us!!"

"Yes, well that's because I thought you all hated me! How was I to know any different?!"

With this exclamation, Haru brought me my food and embraced me again.

"I'm so sorry Kyo. I should have told you. I should have not been a coward. I am sorry. I'm so sorry!"

After little revelation in which Haru was sobbing into my shoulder, I looked at him rather confused.

"Told me what?"

"That I felt no attraction what so ever to Yuki, that I actually was after…"

"Me?"

"Yes…"

Okay, I really did not expect that. I hugged him tighter and told him this:

"It's ok Haru, I like you too, but until I left I did not realize this. Hush now, it's ok, everything will be ok."

He then turned to face me at this point with tears shining in his eyes.

"You're not mad at me?"

"No, I realize that you were scared to say you're true feelings because you feared being looked down upon like me, and I wish that fate upon no one."

"Kyo you changed a lot while you were gone, but in a good way."

"You think so?"

"Yes."

With that, we then ate the food that Haru had prepared.