A/N: Getting closer…. :D
"There was a time when I stopped talking. Just like you. My reasons were a little bit different, but I think the feelings of being ashamed of myself and hating myself are the same." – Yuki Sohma
A Rat in a Shadow
8. Of being ashamed of myself
He had a single heartwarming memory, and it was a challenge to keep it from escaping him in the darkness of his cage.
Until his cousin rescued him.
It was so unexpected that, if he'd lost the inclination to talk, he may have been struck mute. For Akito to let him out from under his thumb. For someone, anyone, to take him away from there.
But seemed he had friends in dark places that were looking out for him.