Yuki straitened his collar, he was having trouble grasping what Kyo had just said.
"What do you mean by trouble?" Yuki asked icily.
"Akina…and some man." Tohru's stomach did a flip. What did Kyo know? Had he heard her telling the truth to Yuki? But Kyo hadn't heard, he was to occupied on getting Tohru out of here, to somewhere safe. Tohru turned and was heading to the house, but Yuki and Kyo quickly thwarted her.
"Tohru," the said strangely in unison, "We can't go back to the house, not yet anyway." After saying this they looked at each other strangely but didn't start an argument. Tohru looked from one of them to the other, and back again.
All of a sudden, they heard a rustling in the bushes, making them all jump back in fear.
"Sorry to startle you," Hana said, "But we're in on this to. Still not sure what exactly what is going on, but we are going to be here for Tohru." At these words, Tohru broke down crying. Here were the people closest to her in the world trying to save her, but she somehow felt that they were just going to get hurt tonight. She wondered if maybe there was a way to escape…..
Yuki walked over and without thinking put his arms around her shoulders in a slight embrace. Kyo was appalled by this, he thought that Yuki would surely transform, but he didn't. Tohru looked up from crying in her hands and whispered some that was inaudible to the others there.
"Yuki?"
"Yes?"
"I don't want everybody to get hurt over me. I'm not worth it."
"Tohru," he put his cheek against hers, "You're worth it to us." His words were good to hear, but she couldn't believe them. How could they let her do this to them? She had to figure out a way out of this…. She would go to her father herself and receive her punishment alone, no matter what it was. Tohru stood up and announced,
"I have a plan."
"Wait," Hana walked over followed by Arisia "We want to know what's going on first."
"No," Tohru said defensively, "I'm sorry but telling you would put you at more danger than you already are and I can't bring myself to do that to you." Her friends looked stunned, she had never acted this way. It must be big then…
"Okay," she started once more, "we get as far from here as possible and make sure that he sees us leave so that he won't hurt any of our families. We'll be sure to lose him in Kyoto. Then we get a hotel and wait." Everybody exchanged glances, but they seemed to approve.
"What do you say president?" Asrsia asked Yuki sarcastically.
"Sounds good." He commented, "But you two would have to stay, to guard things around here. You to, Kyo, because one of us would have to take care of things if they got out of hand and I'm not leaving Tohru."
Nobody liked this new arrangement, but they all knew that there was no other way around it. Of corse, Kyo had to state his opinions,
"Why do you get to go with her? I don't trust you with her life"-Hana and Arisia flinched at this, they didn't know it was so serious-"and I don't want to stay here and play spy on him."
Tohru immediately understood her power in this situation, "Kyo, please? I really need you to do this… for me." She looked down towards the ground and then looked up at Kyo through her eyelashes. Her ploy worked.
He sighed, "okay, I'll stay. But exactly what are you wanting me to do here?" he addressed the final part to Yuki
"Well, for one thing watch out for all the people that she cares about, including her friends and family. He might want to use them to hurt her"-he sent a glance to Hana and Arisia- "also, report everything that goes on to me. I'll call home as soon as we get to the hotel and give you the number."
"Well, we aren't just going to stand by and trust you with Tohru's life," Arisia said aggressively, "We want to know what's going on and we want to know how we can help."
Yuki and Kyo exchanged glances and Tohru knew that something was going on, they both had the same stunned look in their eyes and something seemed to be passing between them without the use of words.
Yuki and Kyo nodded at the same time and Tohru was scared, what had just happened? She, however, did not have much time to worry because Yuki had flung her up into his arms as if she weighed nothing and was running so fast through the forest that she was afraid of hitting a tree. She tried to talk, but he was running so fast that she couldn't catch her breath. Tohru couldn't imange how he felt right now.
Before she knew it they were back at the house, Yuki setting her down on the porch before he started climbing up on the roof.
"You have 5 minutes till we leave, pack everything of yours that you see first and don't bother getting any money," he shoved himself up the final edge as she disappeared into the house. Her mind clouded, she raced for the stairs, only to be her clumsy self and run into a wall. Not noticing Shigure appearing out of nowhere she cursed herself as she stood up.
"I was starting to wonder where everybody had gotten off to, how's dinner coming? I don't smell anything yet…" Tohru gave him a look that he would never forget, full of concern, love, and sorrow for him, but full of hate and bitterness toward herself for what she had brought upon everybody.
"I'm sorry Shigure"-a brief pause-"but I'm not going to be able to cook for you for a while" She didn't want to see the bewildered look on his face so she ran up the stairs before he had the chance. She grabbed a duffel bag from underneath her bed and began shoving her clothes into it. When it was full she realized that Yuki wouldn't have anything to wear either, so she ran to his room and threw some stuff into a bag as well.
Six minutes had passed since she had left Yuki to go into the house to gather things and she was out the door. She planned to never return she just couldn't do it to them.
Yuki was immediately on the ground in front of her and she realized that she didn't know how they were going to get to Kyoto.
"How are we getting there?" she asked him, "we aren't walking are we?"
He just similed and shook his head.
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Author's note- Ta da! I've overcome my writer's block! I'm very sorry about the wait (almost 1 month! Ack!) To those of you who have been eagerly awaiting my next update but 5 days after I published the last one, I got a new boyfriend. Sorry! I know that isn't a good excuse not to update but he is so perfect, you wouldn't believe! Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this short & sweet chapter (mine are always short and sweet aren't they? ) and I am planning on either putting up the next one today (I'm in a writing mood) or at the longest by Friday. BTW: I know I've said this before but the more reviews I get the sooner it makes me want to update. Okay! Sorry for stealing your time!! Thanks for reading!