Author's Intro:

I noticed how I haven't been updating this story much. Ugh. Only around one chapter a week!

That bothers me.

But hey, I'll be prepared for when I have to write essays; I'll actually have ideas in my brain! x)

This one strand of hair keeps tickling my nose and cheek. AGH! –gets out scissors-

Hehe….

On with Chapter 5!

Kyo laid on his bed, staring at the ceiling, deep in thought. A whole lot had happened in the past couple of days; everyone needs to let things sink in.

He didn't feel like going on the roof, and wondered why. That was always where he went to think through an issue.

Was it because his bracelet was missing? He rubbed the spot on his wrist where he was used to feeling those familiar beads of blood and bones. The boy knew what that signified. He knew that things would never be the same again.

Was it because he was scared beyond the point of sanity? Wondering what Akito would do to his flower was terrifying. To know what had happened, physically and emotionally to him was enough to cause trama. Her pure, innocent heart and mind would not be able to stay strong, no matter what she had been through before.

Kyo closed his eyes. The clumsy girl that had embarrassed herself at the play for him, who had gone looking for the teen when his beads, once before, had been taken from him, and who had cooked for him for the past years would be gone. Lost forever to the cruel god of the Sohma family.

Did that change who Tohru Honda was? Was her name even "Tohru Honda" anymore? What did Akito have in store for the girl?

No, there was no way that Kyo Sohma (was that HIS name anymore?) would just sit there and watch something so precious to him be taken away, just so that he could go and have freedom. He would still suffer, didn't she see that?

Akito's plot seemed absurd. Why would someone who had more than he wanted, and wanted more than he had go and let some girl he hated join the family? He had waited so long to torture the Cat, and now it was only a little bit from graduation.

Why let that go so close to victory?

The answer was simple and clear: He could make everyone suffer and get rid of the girl that brought light and hope to her friends and family.

Killing two birds with one stone.

What would the former Cat say to the girl's family? He couldn't just walk up to them and say "She's been imprisoned for her life, sorry. It was my fault. I should have been there. But you'll never get to see her again." And then run away.

Same with her friends, Arisa Uotani and Saki Hanajima. How would that feel?

No, it would be better if he would just go and switch back. It would save a lot of people a lot of pain. Who wants the Cat of the Zodiac? Who wants the reject? Who wants a hopeless outcast? No one. That's who. No one but her. But plenty of people loved Tohru Honda.

But in the back of his mind, Kyo knew that Akito wouldn't allow a switchback. He wouldn't allow anyone to be happy again without a major benefit for him. There was no turning back after that day. Tohru may or may not of realized that fact when she made that decision of fates.

Would she regret the decision? No, not initially. But later, maybe. In twenty years, how would Tohru Honda feel about Kyo Sohma? Would she still be the kind, forgiving girl she was before?

Or would she have a hardened heart, turning towards death and destruction as he once had. In twenty years, would the Cat even remember him?

Kyo wanted to think so. He wanted to believe that Akito would let her go and somehow lift the curse. But he knew that even Akito Sohma, the God of the family, could not relieve himself of the Zodiac Curse.

So he thought back to Tohru.

Would she even be alive? The revolution hit him like an oncoming truck. He quickly veered away from the thought, but knew that eventually, he would have to come back to the issue.

No matter where his mind ran, Kyo would always come back to the fact that Tohru's compromise would never end well.

He couldn't picture her broken without crying. He hated to think about picturing her, years later, with clouds over her brilliant bright eyes, and bleeding skin and crusted hair, laying in a cell or room of some sort, with a man with black hair whipping her or doing something cruel or even worse than that.

Kyo squeezed his maroon eyes shut and tried to forget and fall into a slumber, no matter how restless it would be.

Author's Closing:

Wow! I finished this chapter in ONE DAY!

It may have been short, but this chapter hopefully contained some good stuff in it. Very deeeep. xD

I hope you enjoyed it. Review, please.

And sorry for those of you who were really hoping to see Tohru and Yuki's conversation. That SHOULD happen next chapter. .

Thanks for reading!

Laterzzzz.

E.