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"Oh… it was nothing… just a misunderstanding…" He trailed off, avoiding my sharp gaze and staring off out the window, looking out at the bright day light.

"What kind of a misunderstanding?" I pried trying to get some information out of him, but I couldn't even see his face anymore to try and work out his expression. "Please, Yuki." I begged, hoping for him to give up.

"I can't…" He replied breathily, his voice cracking in all the wrong places and his head bowing low, as though showing worship to the sun outside. I sighed and sat down in the middle of the floor with my legs crossed. I placed my head on my hand and leaned forward, my ginger hair falling like flames in front of my eyes so that my whole world was orange. I sat for a while in silence until I heard movement and I looked up to see his pale face turned towards me and his earlier smile gone.

"Why do you even want to know?" He asked quietly, staring at a random point in the flooring and making a circle on his knee with his finger, then resting his fingers laced together on his lap.

"Because, I'm a cat." He looked up at me as I said this and I met his gaze. "I'm curious." I held his gaze for as long as possible trying to soften his expression and get the truth out of him, but he quickly looked away again, towards the window. "Why won't you look at me?"

"Because I don't want to see that look on your face." I whirled my face towards him and stared at his back. I didn't think I was looking at him horribly? Or did he just hate my face in general? I can't help the way I look. We sat in a still silence for a while with tension that could've been cut with a knife, until I broke the silence by standing up.

"I should leave." I told him, trying to interpret his reaction, but he didn't flinch. "I have to get on with stuff…" I turned towards the doorway and reached for the handle, but stopped. "Yuki," I began, not turning. "Could you tell me what Tohru was upset about?"

"She had a little tiff with Shigure and was really upset about it. Apparently, he was chatting up some girl in the supermarket and Tohru caught him." Yuki half laughed at the end, but I was confused.

"Hang on, why would Tohru care if Shigure was chatting someone up?" I asked stupidly, realising half a second after that, that was possibly the most idiotic thing to have been said… It was obvious now.

"God, neko, don't you know? They're together. Where do you think Tohru got them flowers from everyday?" I heard him move around and heard the bathroom door slam as I walked out, towards my bedroom. How could I have been so blind? It was so obvious in the way they were with each other and the way that Shigure was so angry and Tohru so apologetic. Now that I could see it, it was so perfect. In my mind they were a perfect couple, Shigure in his adult, pervy kind of way and Tohru in her teenage, innocent way. Maybe Shigure just had to know why she slept with Yuki… The words made anger rise in my throat. She slept with Yuki I didn't understand why it made me feel so mad. Probably my empathy for my cousin seeping through. Yeah, that was it.

I redirected my steps towards Shigure's study and knocked quietly before entering. I heard a groan and took that as acceptance and slid open the door to see him bent over a novel-in-progress and I cleared my throat, but he didn't even look up. He seemed to be lost in his own little world. "Shigure?" I attempted to break through his reverie.

"Huh?" His head tilted upwards and he looked up at me over his lopsided glasses. "Kyo-kun? What are you doing in here?" I took a step forward and knelt down in front of him.

"I've come to talk to you about Tohru." He immediately grunted at the sound of her name and turned away from me. "Look, Shigure, I know she hurt you, but she was upset and she had reason to be. She told Yuki what she saw you doing."

"She misunderstood." He lifted his head rapidly and turned towards me. "I was just talking to the woman and Tohru got all angry about it and made a scene in the supermarket, then stormed off and when I followed her she told me to go away and she didn't come into our room that night so I thought she'd gone to stay at her Granddads when all the time she was in that despicable, conniving little rat's room!" He yelled in my face.

"It's not his fault, it takes two to tango you know."

"I don't give a shit about dance, baka neko." He bellowed at me and rested his cheek on the desk, away from me. "Just leave me alone."

I left the room then and made my way back to my room where I laid my head on my pillow and felt slow tears fall down, wet and fiery, onto my cheeks. I'd never been good at being yelled at, even when Kazuma yelled at me. I knew he didn't mean it, but still the tears would fall and he would apologize endlessly for upsetting me so. I didn't leave my room for the rest of the day, I just curled up and let my thoughts engulf me and let myself drift into a state of slumber every now and then, but when I awoke one time to see the moon high in the sky, I decided to get up. Unaware of the time I tiptoed along the hallway and came across a certain young rat's room and couldn't help, but catch a glimpse of what he was like asleep.

I'll just peek in and then walk back out. I won't stay long. I can't. I'd end up waking him up. Just a peek. Just a glimpse. Then I'll go.

Steadily, I opened the door and peered in, looking round the edge of it and glancing over at the pale body lying in a stream of moonlight and before I could stop myself I approached the bed and looked down at the small creature. His breathing was light and steady and I couldn't help, but smile as I knelt down and stared at the sleeping rat.

He was so cute in his little pyjama shorts and they clung tightly to his hip and his face was buried sweetly into his pillow. I smiled down on him and reached out to stroke his hair when his eyes opened and he scrunched his face then looked at me. "Kyo?" He blinked a few times. "Kyo, what are you doing here?"

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