Chapter 3: Pained Heart- Transformation

I'm very sorry for not updating in a while…school started to become a pain and I was falling behind due to trying to type this chapter. . But it's all okay now! Summer! Wooo! Okay, I'll make this little column short since you probably want to read this chapter right about now.

Last Time:

He entered the bedroom, his hand trailed against the shape of the door as he closed it. Yuki walked toward his bed and fell on it weakly. His hand drooped over the edge of the bed and he began to mutter to himself. "For someone…that's free and wants to remain on the outside…I am quite clumsy when it comes to words…or at least when trying to convince such a beautiful girl to love me back…" he shook his head and dropped it against a pillow.

Tohru looked toward the staircase nearly twenty minutes later. "Kyo-kun…" she looked at the neko boy, "can you go tell Yuki-kun that dinner is ready…I'm not quite sure he would want to see me right now…" Tohru finished speaking in a soft tone, with hints of scattered sadness in it.

He nodded and hurriedly went up the steps, unable to bear seeing her sad expressions. Kyo approached the door and listened closely. Loud groaning could be heard if he stood with his ear on the door. His hand slipped to the doorknob and he turned and opened it as quickly as he could. He got an eyeful of what was going on. "YUKI! WHAT HAPPENED?" He shouted, slamming the door and locking it behind him. "How…is it…because of…" his eyes grew wide as Yuki got closer and closer. The ground shaking as he walked. Yuki stopped only a couple feet away and huffed in Kyo's shocked face.

The heavy breathing became irritating. Who knew something like this could happen because of emotions? Is this the reason why it happened to the…. No…impossible. Is this the ……no.. It can't be possible…only us.

Now:

A large creature of some sort took a step towards Kyo, one foot, pound; next foot, pound. He couldn't believe his eyes, nor his nose. For once, now, Kyo wished that he didn't have such a keen sense of smell, for the atrocity in front of him gave off the odor of a chemically infected garbage dump mixed with the worst smelling things imaginable. "Augh…" he covered his nose down by crossing his arm around his head, peering over his long sleeve. "Yuki…that can't really be you…" Kyo whispered inaudibly and kept staring, wide-eyed.

The beast took another two steps in the cat's direction and stopped, huffing in his face almost angrily. The monster Kyo saw before him bore a close resemblance to his true form. It had long legs the were bent and facing forward as if to give it more speed when running; it's ears were small but not cute, they had an angular shape that gave it a deformed look. Kyo felt as if he were looking at a slightly altered version of his vengeful spirit. Every member of the zodiac…must have its own form, its true form. Their vengeful spirit. It just so happens…that…the cat had the most stress and had its form appear first… "Yuki…calm down…" Kyo tried to say as nicely as possible, but seeing as he was half covering his mouth and half speaking in disgust from the smell, he didn't portray his words the way he had hoped.

A grotesquely shaped paw swung at Kyo's head and he instinctively covered his head protectively but the force of the blow slammed him through the door and into the hall way. His body crushed against the wall in the hall and he dropped to the ground as if he was the weight of a mere rag doll. He was now sprawled across the floor and rolling around slightly in incredible pain. The amount of strength Yuki had put into that swing was enough to paralyze Kyo if he had not tried to defend himself at all. Unconsciously, Kyo began screaming in pain as he felt a twinge in his ribs and noticed that in that spot there was bone halfway bulging out. The pain became excruciating after noticing he did in fact have a wound.

Tohru came running up the stairs at the sound of a scream. She wasn't quite sure whose it was or what room it came from but she came ready, holding a First-Aid kit in her left hand as she used her right hand to grip the railing that lined the steps on the outer side. "I'm coming, just stay still, I'm on my wa-." before she was able to finish the sentence she found her self tripping over her own feet on the top step and falling on the same floor as Kyo had, only ten feet from his agony filled body. "K-Kyo…?" she gasped softly, seeing him with his arms wrapped around his body, covering up the spot that was causing him so much pain. Suddenly, a nauseating sense overcame her. The smell, in short, was dreadful and brought back bad memories of pain for both her and Kyo. She forced her head to turn in the direction the stench was coming from and got an eyeful of a monster that was slightly smaller then Kyo's true form. If anything, it looked like a malformed rat that was put on some strange chemical to make it freakishly huge and intimidating. She couldn't understand what had happened upstairs in such a short amount of time that could have cause such a monster to appear without coming in, in a much noisier fashion.

The creature clamored loudly as if calling out something, obviously, though, it was impossible to understand what exactly he was yelling when Tohru listened.

Kyo glanced at the monster that he knew as Yuki. He shook his head; he was the only one in the room -besides Yuki himself- that could understand what was being shouted. The cat rolled over so that he could see Tohru, he met her large shocked eyes. Come on…show me you can move you space cadet! Quickly, Kyo forced his mouth open and let out a groan of pain, which wasn't what he was planning on doing. He recomposes himself and opens his lips and forms them into words instead of painful moans, "Tohru, get out of here! Hurry up!" he roared. It was the only way he was able to speak. Kyo would sound angry no matter what he said because of the excruciating pain that his broken ribs were producing.

She shook her head slowly as if she had a stiff neck. Fright had consumed every ounce of her body and her muscles felt as if they had shut down and were permanently out of commission. I can't move. But I have to… what's going on? Kyo…. Yuki… Tohru's thoughts were completely jumbled and she soon began to look around frantically as she felt her entire self freeze. Oh no… Where's Yuki? Did the monster hurt him? Oh my… no…THE MONSTER ATE YUKI! The space cadet began to flail frantically even though she was practically glued to the wood floor beyond the last step at the top. Her eyes became even more dilated then they already were. Under her breath she whispers in a calm voice that managed to be filled with a million forms of franticness, "The hallway…is awfully bright…. why…" she rubs her eyes. Obviously, Tohru wasn't going to discover until later that the room was only bright because her eyes had managed to become dilated with fear.

The vengeful spirit snarled at Kyo and began swatting at him as if he were a mere fly. Kyo, unable to get to his feet fast enough to move out of the way, rolled to the right as the monster's large paws dropped down into the spot his head once occupied. Replacing that spot was a big gaping hole the size of two footballs at least.

Tohru's eyes then got very small, stunned. She was praying for Kyo to get away without get even more hurt in the process. He continued to roll round, just barely saving his skin as the beast of a rat slammed its large anti-slowing paws down at the cat's weakened body.

"God dammit! Stop it Y-." he stopped and though for a second, rolling a couple feet away this time, disregarding the pain flowing through his nerves. She isn't aware that this thing is actually Yuki…. knowing her…she probably thinks that beast of a rat ate him. He shakes his head and speaks again, agony in his tone, "Stop this you damn freak!" Damn…that was a bad choice of words… Kyo heard his conscious say to him.

The monster thrashed around the hallway towards Kyo after hearing the dreadful word 'freak'. Kyo knew he shouldn't have said that, seeing as that was what people called him whenever that form overpowered him. It was something that was sure to get on Yuki's rage filled nerves, but if it was necessary, and in the current situation, it was. Kyo understood how Yuki was feeling. He wasn't able to control himself and he didn't want Tohru to get hurt as a result of it.

Neko boy got himself to his feet –though struggling greatly- and ran to the end of the hall that had a window at the end. "Come and get me you overgrown turtle thing…" he huffed, his left arm wrapped carefully around his ribcage. The pain was becoming even more unbearable. But this was what he had to do. I have to make sure Tohru stays safe… Kyo turned his back on the rampaging Yuki and covered his head with his other arm and threw himself out the window, doing a feeble flip as he landed on his feet and ran. His injuries pain intensified as he began running toward the forest that kept Shigure's house hidden. Yuki followed him out the window, eager to track him down at this point and knock him to a pulp.

Tohru crawled to the end of the hall, nearly dumbfounded. She found herself worrying uncontrollably now. "Kyo-kun!" she shouted weakly out the window. What happened to Yuki-kun? Oh no, please be safe out there Kyo, please don't come back even more hurt… Her eyes became large and spirally again as if she was getting dizzy. She turned herself around and around again to face the shatter wall and window. "OH NO! SHIGURE-SAN'S HOUSE!" Tohru gets to her feet insanely fast and runs around the house like a mad woman trying to find things to somehow fix everything.

Her list of things to do became: Find Yuki- wherever he may be in the house-, make sure Kyo comes back safely even if it means running into the forest that she had so many bad memories in, fix the giant hole in the floor of the hallway that is neatly placed smack dab in the center of the walking path, lay a carpet over the non-existing window, and go shopping because she knew that was the only way to keep Shigure down stairs long enough to accomplish every single other thing on her list.

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Kyo lie motionlessly against a moss covered log that was nestled against a few charcoaled pieces of wood. A calm fire burned only a few feet away from him and two eyes were fixed upon him, clearly amused by whatever had caused him to appear in such a terrible condition. "What did the idiotic kitty do to get himself in this condition this time?" the man sighs and shakes his head halfheartedly, "Siiigh… and I was hoping to challenge him to another fight too..." he grins after saying this and laughs, slapping his knee as he threw a twig into the fire, "Well…I guess I did come at a somewhat well time…otherwise we'd have a dead and rotting cat in the forest…"

Okay…there it is! Chapter 3 is finally done and posted. I'm sooooo sorry it took so long. But… thanks to Utada Hikaru and her song "Sanctuary" I was able to finish it. (Yeah…I know, how does music help). Well, without good music, I lose the force to type. Lol. Hope you all enjoy this chapter! I SWEAR I'll get chapter 4 up a lot quicker then this one. Please Read & Review so I can see if you really did enjoy, okiez?