Phase Two

The next morning, the couple went to brush their teeth together, while Sunohara continued to snore away. After a short while, Kyou got up to find Sunohara still sleeping, and she tiptoed towards him. She stroked her chin, thinking of another prank to pull on the idiot, while Tomoya and Tomoyo discussed their current agenda in the restroom.

"So is it working?" Tomoyo asked him.

"I tried to get Sunohara to accept and take action regarding his feelings for Kyou, but he's still a pansy. How about you?"

"I got Kyou to actually consider Youhei a bit... She even smiled when I reminded her that Youhei is a good man... She even called him noble at times."

"Wow... I guess those romance novels must have paid off."

"But I don't read those mushy things..."

"I'm joking! But, seriously, why is it that girls have an easier time talking about these things?"

"Well... Well I'm not too sure about that."

"Hmn..."

The two continued their morning preparations, of sorts, while Kyou began to act out her scheme.

Sunohara Youhei woke up...

And found himself bound like a cocoon, hanging upside down from the ceiling. The white bandages and rope made it quite difficult for him to move.

"I always wondered why there were hooks on the ceiling." Kyou laughed. "Now I know."

"Fujibayashi! Get me down from here, now!" Sunohara wiggled back and forth, and his massive form swayed from side to side.

"You'd make a good punching bag." Kyou giggled.

"GET ME DOWN FROM HERE!"

Tomoya and Tomoyo heard Sunohara's cry for help and emerged. Upon seeing the giant cocoon in their living room, they could only join Kyou in ridiculing the poor fellow.

"Tomoyo, Okazaki, get me down or I'll accuse both of you of kidnapping me!"

The couple stared at each other.

"I guess he can stay up there for a little while longer. What do you think, Tomoyo?"

"Sure."

"WHAT?!"

Kyou laughed. "See? You make a good decoration!"

"FUJIBAYASHI, GET ME DOWN FROM HERE!"

Kyou giggled. "No."

"Kyou!"

"Sorry, Youhei. You should find a way to free yourself instead of making yourself feel better by making your begs sound like orders." Kyou sneered.

"She apologizes to him?" Tomoya whispered in Tomoyo's ear.

Tomoyo gave her lover a rare devious smile. "But she sneered at him. I believe those cancel each other out."

"Ah..."

"Fujibayashi!"

"Tomoya, let's go get lunch." Tomoyo spoke, trying to drown out Youhei's pleas.

"Sure... Want to join us, Kyou?"

"Of course." Kyou smiled, giving Youhei a wink.

For a second, Sunohara froze, then he began to shake even more violently. "YOU THREE! WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU!"

Tomoya, Tomoyo, and Kyou were gathered around a small table in Tomoya's favorite café. "Don't you think you're getting a little too harsh on him, Kyou?" Tomoyo began.

"Don't tell me, you're actually worried about that idiot?" Kyou gasped.

"Well, not really, but I thought you wouldn't want him to suffer like that..."

"If he can't free himself from something like that, then he wouldn't deserve my care."

"But Kyou..."

"No. Shut up. Sunohara Youhei has been a loser, and I have no desire to be with a loser. If he can't even solve his own problems, how can he expect to work together with any girl later in life, let alone someone like me? So no, I don't give a damn."

The cocoon shivered a bit, rustling every ten minutes. "Why can't I get out of here?!" Sunohara groaned as he used his strength to try to shake himself loose. But try as he might, the stupid thing refused to give way, and after a few hours of trial and error, Sunohara gave up. "I might as well catch up on sleep..." He thought as his consciousness began to fade away.

Sunohara Youhei fell asleep upside down, that day, while his three best friends continued to talk about him.

"Seriously... If Youhei can't solve his own problems, how can he expect to get married?" Kyou sighed.

"You talk about him so much..." Tomoya hinted, but a glare from Kyou forced him into silence.

"Did you have to be so extreme about it?" Tomoyo offered.

"Well, yeah. He needs to solve his own crises, or he'll just be some doormat like he was back in high school." Kyou sighed, staring out the window of the shop. Both Tomoya and Tomoyo decided to change the subject, otherwise she might end up killing one of them.

The day came and went, and by the evening Kyou was forced to ask Tomoya to stay for the next three nights. Since it was summer, and she honestly had nothing to do, she decided to stick around for a few more days. Tomoya decided to accept, and Tomoyo decided to stay too, as she practically had the same situation as Kyou on her hands.

So Kyou, happy that she now had a place to stay, with close friends that she could talk to the whole time, entered Tomoya's house, hoping that, to make a perfect ending for the day, Youhei would have freed himself from the cocoon. But, the moment she saw the cocoon still hanging there, with Youhei snoring in it, she flipped out.

"KYAAH!!" She sprinted forward, jumped, and performed a perfect flying side kick, smacking her foot against the huge cocoon and shattering it, forcing Youhei to plummet to the ground.

"IDIOT!" She growled, beating him with her fists and kicking him mercilessly with her foot.

"Kyou, calm down!" Both Tomoya and Tomoyo pleaded with her, but it was all in vain.

"You worthless piece of trash! You should just go and rot in the streets!" Kyou continued to screech, pummeling the poor Sunohara with whatever she had, be it a fist, foot, or thick dictionary.

She went to sleep that day after the torture was finally over, feeling very angry and hurt that Sunohara was so worthless that couldn't even solve his own problem.

Youhei decided that he'd leave early the next morning. That way he wouldn't have to face the wrath of Kyou. So, when the other three were sleeping, he slipped out of Tomoya's house, and fled off to work. At least there he wouldn't be physically abused.

So Kyou woke up and found that Sunohara Youhei, like a loser, ran back to his little home. She felt so horrible that he was such a pathetic guy. Tomoyo and Tomoya honestly had nothing to say to her, otherwise she'd probably kill them both. With a heavy heart, Kyou left a few days later. She decided that this would probably the best time to visit her little sister, Fujibayashi Ryou.