Another night and Kyo is woken up by Yuki. He hears whimpering coming from across the hall and he can't ignore it any longer. The rat was just too sad sounding not to comfort… but he couldn't actually comfort him lest he be found out. His love is something that must always be kept hidden. It's improper for him to care for Yuki...
Kyo, being the cat that he is, moves stealthily towards Yuki's room. Silently he opens the door and walks toward the smaller one's bed. If I can't hold him I'll do the next best thing and just be here for him. Kyo thinks to himself and lets out a soft sigh; Yuki isn't wearing shirt and the covers are just barely over his slightly exposed hip. Resisting the urge to jump him right there Kyo sits beside the bed.
"You know," he speaks softly, "I always thought I hated you." there was a slight change in Yuki's breathing, he stopped and looked up. As it returned to normal Kyo began to talk again. "But I never really did. There was a fire there but not one of hate but of growing love and desire. And I wonder to myself, how can it be possible that I love you? How did I let myself fall for such a creature? I sat back and looked at everything that happened between us and most of the time our fights were so useless. We fought over the most stupid things."
He looked at the peacefully sleeping Yuki and smiled, "The first time I realized that I loved you was when I walked in when you where taking bath in the hot springs. You had your back to me so I couldn't see you but when I did see you and my heart almost exploded. You were beautiful and still are. Yuki," Kyo whispered his name with so much passion it was hard not to have your heart go out to him. "I love you so much and you'll never know. If we could just be friends it would be so much better, but we aren't even that. Even though I think we are my mind is tricking me. The pain is almost too much to bear some days and I can't tell anyone not even Tohru. If only I could then this burden would be less…"
Kyo heard no more moans or groans from Yuki for the rest of the time he was in the room. He smiled to himself as he saw that daybreak was almost there, he had helped even though Yuki would never know. Slowly walking back to his own bed he fell asleep and no one woke him for the rest of the time he was asleep…
It was Saturday and Yuki had finally been drug out of bed by Tohru. She wanted him to go shopping with her. She knew why Kyo was tired and decided to leave him alone to sleep. She heard the footsteps when he walked past her bedroom. She was an extremely light sleeper so she also heard most of things that Kyo was saying to Yuki but heard no reply from Yuki so she assumed that he was still sleeping. Tohru was often bothered by Yuki's moans of pain but never told him for fear that he would dig himself deeper into the hole that he was already in.
She looked over at Yuki and realized that he was in as deep of thought as she was. Even though she had been living with the boys for a while she could never tell what either of them was thinking. Though she knew it was serious by the look on his face.
A/N: sorry for this taking so long I really wanted to get it posted sooner but final had me swamped. Please review, tell me how you might want the story to end… thanks for reading!