A/N: okay so I know it's been a little while but I hope this makes up for my failure at keeping up with the story. I wanted to thank my reviewers for saying such nice things about my story. Thank you all for sticking with my story for so long!

Kyo thought that their relationship would have changed after what happened the other night he was sadly mistaken. Yuki had been avoiding him even more, if that was possible. He wouldn't even look at the cat when he came into a room. So Kyo, his brilliant mind was working well during this decision, thought that he would not comfort Yuki at night no matter how hurt and sad he sounded; he would not go to the rat's side.

It was hard for him especially when he was awake around one or two every night, out of habit. Kyo was terrified that Yuki would hate him for this but he was sad because of the whole being ignored thing. He couldn't help it. He'd never been ignored by Yuki before. They had always fought and never got along well, but they had never just left each other alone. This worried Kyo more than anything.

After about a week of disappointment, the depression set in. You couldn't tell from the outside that anything was wrong with our dear cat,, but on the inside there was a storm raging. He became less loud and quieter, less angry and more reserved. He didn't smile as much. Tohru noticed but said nothing because she knew the boys had to work it out on their own. No matter how scared and worried she was for Kyo, she knew in the end it would either work out…or her cat would fall deeper into that depression.

Yuki had also noticed a difference in Kyo, though he couldn't bring himself to do anything about it. He was confused and the more he ignored Kyo the more it was easier to deal with these unwanted feelings. He liked Kyo a lot, but he couldn't do anything especially if Akito were to find out…he shivered just thinking about it. There would be more than hell to pay if he did find out. Besides it's not like Kyo was that bad now, right? He wouldn't actually stay the way he was, would he?

Whatever thoughts were running through Yuki's mind was interrupted. Kyo had walked into the room; he looked down and disregarded the cat's presence. Kyo looked down also after seeing Yuki. His heart hurt and he didn't want to live like this anymore. It had been two more weeks and the prince hadn't spoken to him yet.

"Why?" Kyo whispered, but Yuki didn't respond. "Why? Why? Why?" he screamed at him. "Why won't you talk to me? Why won't you look at me? Have I done something to you? Did you not feel anything that night? Did you just think I was making fun of you?" by now Yuki was staring at him. "I love you but you're too dumb to even realize that. I wanted something out of this but I guess not, just another one of my hopes being let down." His bottom lip was quivering and there were tears in his eyes that he wouldn't let fall, not just yet.

Yuki opened and closed his mouth a couple times, but Kyo cut him off. "No! Just don't say anything. I mean it's not like you really care or you would have said it by now." He ran, out of the house, away from the one thing that made him realize he was partially human. And he did not look back like he usually did when he left a room that had Yuki in it.

He didn't know where he was going or what exactly he was running from. Possibly from Yuki, maybe from what he had said, but most likely what he was feeling. He never wanted this to happen, never wanted to suffer like this for loving someone. All he wanted was to be accepted. His whole life he was told he wasn't good enough, even though his mother always said she loved him, she didn't. She never had. Now, now he thought he had a chance of receiving love. But again his hopes were dashed right in front of his face.

Even though Yuki hadn't said anything that should have made him think that, he thought he knew

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Yuki just sat there speechless and watched Kyo run away from him. I can't believe he feels that way. I don't know whether to be excited or worried… while Yuki was worrying about the cat Tohru walked in carrying some groceries she went to get for dinner.

"Hey Yuki," she said. "Are you okay? You seem kinda out of it. I saw Kyo sprinting down the street, did something happen?" When Yuki didn't reply, she became frantic. "Yuki tell me what happened. Where did Kyo go? Why was he running? Yuki answer me!" Tohru had never been so worried for her friend before and now wasn't a good time for Yuki to be silent.

"No, I'm not okay. Yes something did happen, but I need to fix it. He was running from me, I think," that statement only made Yuki feel worse about what he did to Kyo. "I should never have ignored him. I shouldn't have said nothing to him. I should have told him how I felt and now I may nev-"

"Don't talk like that!" Tohru slammed her hands on the table. "What the hell is wrong with you Yuki! Don't you think that, if you care about him so much you should go after him, damn it. What you're doing right now just says to him that you really don't care." She had never cursed at him before and this caught Yuki's attention. "You love him… don't you?"

He looked at her with wonder in his eyes. "Yes," he said quietly, then louder, "Yes I do! I love him, so, so much."

"Then get out there and show it to him." She gave him one last look before leaving the room. As soon as she had said that, Yuki raced off to fin Kyo. He didn't know where to look and he could barely see due to the rain… the rain! The rat became frantic. His cat would be soaked and alone in the one thing he hated the most. This was awful.

He was so busy worrying about Kyo to see a dark figure following him while he searched.

A/N: hope that helps for making you wait a while. Please review! Give me some feedback on whether or not I have enough description. Because I'm trying to work on that. Thanks for reading!