Author's Intro:

My dad's taken the Internet connection from me. Why? He has "to work". Which leaves me screaming, "NOOOO!". Why? Because I adore my computer's internet. Period.

But I still have everything else on it.

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Kazuma had reluctantly given Kyo permission to go to the Main House and visit Akito; he knew that the boy would make the trip whether he had been allowed to or not, and it seemed better to let him know that his "dad" was on his side. So Shishou stood on his porch, watching Kyo's running figure disappear into the foggy distance.

It started to lightly rain, which made the already sticky night even stickier. Kyo's "Master" didn't know what had caused Kyo to want to go to see Akito so much, but he guessed he knew the reason: the orange haired boy wanted to know his past, and what he had forgotten, and probably what Tohru had to do with it all.

Kazuma also supposed he could safely assume that Kyo was having flashbacks. Hatori had mentioned his deeds secretly to him, feeling that the martial arts instructor would be best trusted with the information. It would only be right for a guardian to know his child's opportunities, and what paths lay ahead of them.

Shishou finally decided that watching the silent horizon was not going to do him any good, nor was worrying, at least at that moment, so he stepped back inside his small house, firmly shutting the door behind him.

Kazuma would find out what become of his boy's meeting later.

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Tohru was paralyzed as the dark figure slowly walked towards her, stepping solidly onto the slippery shingles with dull, black, plain shoes. It was growing more and more apparent that the unknown figure was Akito.

She stared, determined, at his knees, which were eye-level with her, and discovered that Yuki's fine, silvery hair was bobbing slightly at the edge of the roof. It was raining too hard to see more of his girlish features than that; she couldn't tell what his expression was.

Flashing him a scared, nervous, expression, she felt the God's shoe hit her chin, hard, causing her to bite her tongue harshly. Tohru felt the salty taste in her mouth as she heard Akito's voice:

"Look at me when I'm talking to you," he stated in a fierce, yet bored, tone.

"Y-yes…" the Cat replied, keeping her scared eyes on the man's face. Tohru could feel a bit of blood on her lip; the warm liquid that had come from her tongue was seeping out of her mouth. She remembered being locked in that room….it completely dampened her spirits. Memories of pain kept flooding back as Akito spoke again….

"Let's go back inside to talk, Tohru," he demanded. "It's too wet…"

Tohru remembered what Kyo had said before losing his memory.

"Promise she won't go back into confinement."

So the Cat knew what she had to say.

"N-no…you promised you wouldn't take me back to the Main Hou—"

"Get off the roof!" Akito yelled, kicking her closer to the edge of the building. He knew that she thought that he'd put her in that room again….and he knew that he had a grip on her.

The Cat immediately curled up on her side, and he kept swinging his foot at her stomach lightly enough to not hurt her badly.

Yuki, still standing on the top of the ladder, watched Tohru being nudged to the edge of the roof, two stories up. His entire brain clouded with horror, knowing that if Tohru refused to get down, Akito would push her off.

But he seemed paralyzed at the moment.

The Cat had been focusing on the kicks, not where she was going, but when she felt nothing but air under one fourth of her back, she rolled franticly over. This proved the be a mistake.

Screaming, Tohru felt one last fierce nudge as Akito dug his foot under her back and flung her fragile body off of the roof.

She thought that she'd land on the balcony. It provided a sense of safety—or as much as would come—to know that you wouldn't land two stories down, but only one.

But her assumptions were incorrect.

Yuki didn't make it in time; when he saw that Akito was pushing her off, he had leapt up and shoved the God down, but it was in vain. Her extended hand was barely beyond his reach.

The Cat shrieked all the way down, and managed to smack her head on the balcony ledge, causing her vision to swim.

After hitting the hard, solid dirt and strands of pale green grass, Tohru laid completely still. Hot pain seared up her back, causing the girl to whimper. She had hit the left side of her body on the balcony (along with her head), and then her right arm and back on the ground.

'Am I…dying?'

She heard the door to the house open, and Shigure's blurry figure run out, and Yuki sprint towards her.

As her sight became more and more bleary and dark, she faintly heard Akito's solemn voice wavering in the background, commanding.

"I'm going back to the Main House. The wench obviously wasted my time."

Then Tohru blacked out, her last sight being Yuki's face, lined with silver hair, framing terrified silver eyes.

Kyo had arrived at the Main House long ago, and he felt that if he asked to enter that he would be shooed away. It was simply…a hunch.

So, crawling into a broken wall gap (the one Momo showed to Tohru), Kyo set out to find the God.

"Yuki, call Hatori," Shigure breathed, staring at Tohru's unconscious frame. "I'm going to try to get her into the house."

"But you aren't supposed to move he—"

"Shut up!"

The Rat ceased to speak immediately. He didn't think that he had ever seen Shigure like this. Yuki himself was panicking; she could have died, had she hit the ground correctly. Who knows what damage she received from the fall.

Yuki ran back inside to call the Dragon, while the Dog was trying to decide how to pick the girl up.

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'She's really light,' Shigure concluded as he carefully carried Tohru to the sofa. He hadn't acted out like that in a while…well, almost never. And Yuki had been there to witness it.

The girl seemed almost dead; the only sign that she was living was the slow breath seeping out of her slightly open mouth.

'Hatori better hurry over,' Shigure frowned, watching Tohru lay motionless on the couch.

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Author's Closing:

Sigh….another chapter….

I can't seem to stay alert in my Science class. My teacher drones on….and on….and on….

Well, you get the point. So I miss, like, ten or so minutes of important info. Maybe that's why I think I bombed my first test.

Bad E! Bad!

This chapter was really just one scene...how depressing...but ah, well.

This week at my church, we got to sing to '70's karaoke! Whoop! Except I don't sing, or not solo like that, unless it's in a studio. So I just enjoyed the music. It was so great... (Haha!)

Laterzz.

E.