Yuki tossed and turned in his bed. "How can I be comfy in this bed? Uggg I just want to go home! I must be in really bad shape if I'm still here. And why do they still have to be here.?" Thought Yuki, his eyes adjusted to the dark room. Yuki looked at his night stand clock and it showed 3:14 AM. Yuki turned his back to his sleeping brother and Yuki started to let some held up tears fall from his eye. I am in bad shape… I will never be free.. he thought. Letting out little crying gasps. Ayame stirred and opened his eyes and sat up abruptly, hearing little crying gasps coming from Yuki's bed. Yuki tried to calm a little but his thoughts got worse and he started crying a little louder. Aya sighed. He knew his little brother needed to be comforted, but knew if he tried to comport him, he would push away Yuki even more. Aya laid back down, and listened to Yuki cry for two hours; till Yuki finally cried himself back to sleep. Ayame on the other hand couldn't fall back asleep, and went down to get a cup of coffee, not caring if he looked bad, and his hair was messy.
Ayame sat alone sipping his coffee and rubbing his tried eyes. He knew Yuki was on the deep end; and Ayame knew that Yuki would completely lose it maybe in the next few days. The only thing Ayame could think of was how to keep Yuki safe, safe from himself- and Akito. Ayame finished his coffee, and headed back to the room. Yuki was still asleep, so Aya laid down on his bed and let his mind wander, trying hard not giving into sleep. Aya finding he was unsuccessful in not falling asleep, was waking up from sleeping, looked up to see Yuki flipping threw the channels of the TV on the wall, with the volume low.
"Morning Yuki—umm-" Yuki just stared off into space not paying attention at all.
Yuki kept flipping threw channels in a certain rhythm that Ayame found interesting. Ayame stood up and stretched with a long, loud yawn. Ayame walked over to Yuki who was still trying to ignore his brother.
"Look at me Yuki." Ayame said
"No." Yuki said simply.
"Fine." Ayame said annoyed and walked into the bathroom to get cleaned up for the day.
Around 10:30 AM, Shigure came in with his normal smile and dog like cheer. "Hi Yuki! Shigure said. Your eye looks really good! It's fading-"
"I know, Shigure." Yuki said flatly, cutting of the dog from his happy greeting.
Shigure frowned and walked past Yuki to his chair and sat down, feeling he was still unwanted. Ayame came out still looking terrible, even after the shower, and his hair all fixed up.
"Wow Aya….. You look-" Shigure stopped knowing Ayame knew that he still looked horrible. Ayame went and sat on his bed; and put his hand to his face and moved his hand over his eye, and then to the side of his face worn out completely.
No words were said for along time. Nothing happened. Nothing seemed to be right. Yuki still flipped threw channels, and still had a spaced out look on his face. That was until Hatori came in with a tray that had a weird looking bottle, and a blue cloth. Hatori came in with no welcome from Yuki, or his other cousins. The dog, and snake gave sad looks; while Yuki just kept his *eye* on Hatori.
"Here Yuki, this might help with your eye, It's really calming, and smells really good. What do you think?"
Yuki looked away from Hatori and ignored him without any word or acknowledgement.
"Fine, be that way, I'll just put this on the counter till your willing to give it a chance." Yuki clenched his fists, still not looking at Hatori. Yuki turned off the TV and looked out into space, still not wanting to walk or even look at his family.
"Yuki, lets try walking again ok?" Hatori said walking toward Yuki. Yuki scoffed and looked turned his head away from Hatori.
"Yuki, your attitude is not acceptable, we have done nothing to upset you. We have been quiet and you sit here sitting in space and being rude to people who worry about you. Now you are going to try to walk. That's not up for debate." Hatori said in his professional tone.
Yuki looked at Hatori angry and took his fist and tried to punch Hatori. But Hatori just lifted his hand and caught Yuki's fist and brought his back to Yuki's side. Stop it Yuki, now do as I say, I know what's best for you. At that comment Yuki took his other fist and managed to hit Hatori right in his bad eye. Hatori stumbled back holding his eye in pain. The two cousins ran to Hatori to see if he was all right. "I'm fine- It's fine.. uggggg- ow—au ehg-"
At that moment Yuki yelled. "YOU OF ALL PEOPLE KNOW NOTHING! YOU THINK OF YOUR SELFS AND NO ONE ELSE! YOU HATE ME! YOU ALL JUST SIT HERE AND FEEL HAPPY THAT I'M-" A hard slap was placed on Yuki's face from his brother.
"STOP IT YUKI! WE ARE DOING WHAT WE CAN FOR YOU! SO SHUT THE HELL UP AND TAKE OUR KINDNESS! HOW IS THAT SO HARD FOR YOU TO EXSEPT! YOU ARE A RAT YOU KNOW THAT!? YOU ARE A SLI- DESEVING- SCAVIGING RAT THAT HAS NO USE HERE! YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITHOUT HATEING PEOPLE WHO DO THERE OWN THINGS, AND HAVE THEIR OWN LIVES! HOW MANY TIMES DO I HAVE TO TELL YOU I'M SORRY!? YOU LIVE IN THE PAST! DO YOU GET IT NOW!" Yuki began to sob as his brother yelled harsh, and full of anger, unable to control the tears running down his face.
"I-I- I LIVE- IN TH- THE PAST BECAUSE IT – IT- HAS NEVER CHANGE FROM ANYTHING! I'M STILL T- THE SAME-I HAVE NOTHI-NOTHING!-" Yuki covered his whole body with his blanket sobbing. Ayame froze. "What did I just say…." Ayame thought wildly. Aya couldn't hold back the tears as he ran out of the room sobbing. Unable to take what he just displayed to his brother. Hatori and Shigure stood wide eyed in bewilderment seeing the two brothers fight in such a way- that ended in udder chaos. Shigure tilted his head toward the door for Hatori to go to Ayame. Hatori nodded and went to find, and comfort his friend. Shigure pulled up a chair and sat next to the sobbing Yuki. Then desisted to sit on the bed by Yuki.
"Yuki? I'm here. Everything is- ok." He placed a loving hand on Yuki's back, and then hugged Yuki's covered; shaking body. Shigure uncovered Yuki from his blanket and petted Yuki's head. "Shhhhh Yuki, Shhhhh- I'm here, I'm here. Yuki felt Shigure's kindness and cried more. His mother and father never showed Yuki much love. In fact. They were ashamed of him. Yuki sat up and (lunged) at his cousin. Rapping his arms around him crying in Shigure's chest. Shigure gave Yuki a tight hug and said kindly. "Aya; he didn't mean to do that- He wasn't thinking clearly. You see Yuki-" Shigure sighed. "No more excuses." Shigure thought. "Yuki- I will tell you now that it was wrong for me- all of us- to not intervene more. We just lived in the story. The curse. The Curse is real, but Akito is not. He is not the leader anymore. Yuki? When this is all over. I promise, promise you will not be hurt anymore by Akito. And I –I am p- proud of you for doing what you did." Yuki cried harder, tightening his grip on Shigure's waist. "Even though you wouldn't tell us what happened, we knew that this was all from Akito. And this will never happen to you, or anybody else again. Do you understand?" Yuki nodded into Shigure's chest still crying.
"Now- with what just happened with Aya- I want you to know that he acted out of frustration and anger. Nothing he said was true Yuki- Only you do live in the past, because you have no choice. We all do Yuki, and Ayame here was just letting out what he also was going though. Please don't take Ayame's words to heart or thought. We are all a little on edge here. Let's just try to make the best of it here and make thing work out for the better. Let's just continue our stay here in peace- or just as much as we can. Shigure smiled and held Yuki up so they were eye to eye. Your strong, don't forget that. You are also a big part of our lives, and wouldn't want it any other way. Don't change OK? Be who you are, that's what we want to see. The smart, talented, strong handsome Yuki. Who can't cook." Yuki smiled and hugged Shigure, and started to calm down greatly. "So how about when Hatori comes back, you give the eye stuff a try?" Yuki gave a small smile and nodded. Blowing his nose into a tissue.
"Ayame? Ayame we need to talk." Hatori said sitting on the grass near the snake.
"Go awa- away Hi-Hatori. I don't want – I want to be alone right now."
"No you don't Ayame. You need me here. I am here."
"I-I-I hurt him so much- Why did I say- those horrible things- My- my brother- my- my little brother…."
"Aya… I want you to listen to me- OK? I want to tell you something….. Yuki is the core of pain, he fights back now not knowing when people love him, and not accepting that people love him. Aya, he wants a family. He wants to be held and be apart of something that he wants to be apart of. He wants to live beyond what life has chosen him to be. He wants a mom and dad that love him. Yuki wants to be apart of a family that doesn't look at him as a rat. He want's to have a girlfriend, wants to go to school dances, he wants to be himself without people trying to get his attention and without people looking up to him. Aya- he wants to be free."
Ayame looked at Hatori with now red eyes, tears falling down his face. "Wha- what? I knew he wanted- but- Yu-Yuki… What have I done…" Ayame's body shook.
"Ayame, he wants what ever person wants, what I'm saying is- is… When you love someone, you- you sometimes have to let them go. No matter how painful it is. W-weather you give them sp-space- or let them continue their life…. It sometimes takes time to let go of our own selfish wishes- to let someone else li-live-" Hatori felt him self start to tear up. Ayame looked at Hatori and hugged him. Hatori hugged Ayame back, letting his own tears fall from his eyes and onto his cheeks. They booth sat there, letting there tears fall from there eyes; sitting on the grass outside the hospital. Hatori let his tears flow from his eyes, and let Ayame see how hurt Hatori really was. "Don't make the same mistake I did Ayame, go to Yuki and- let him be loved. Don't let him go- You are so lucky to have a brother like Yuki- You never truly have to say goodbye. You two are apart of each other, in a way no one will ever be. Don't let the last of your lives apa-apart. You never know what you have till it's gone- or you chose not to believe it will ever go away. I don't want you to look back and see what could have been. I want you to – to-two be the part of our family to show us the curse – to show us we can love each other without pain, without having to hurt each other- to not love another.
"I- I can never have a family Ayame- I can never have kids- or a wife. None of us can… The children will never grow up truly dreaming of a family. You and Yuki- (Kissa or Hero) are the only siblings- too ever be truly apart of each other. Aya- please- please don't give up on Yuki, We will never let anything happen to him again- Akito will not harm him-them anymore. Ayame smiled and the two friends stood up drying their tears, and collecting themselves to go back to Yuki's room.
"Come one- no more waiting- now or never." Hatori said, knowing they both didn't want to comport Yuki just yet. Ayame nodded and walked next to Hatori; who then patted Ayame's shoulder, Ayame returned the pat on the shoulder, and they both walked back to the room together.
*High gasps* OH THAT WAS HARD TO WRITE! TEARS! TEARS! OH THE TEARS! Well I hoped you liked it and will comment on this chapter. And the others, the one before this and after incase you were wondering. Wow amazing right?! I'm really happy with this one. The next chapter will be really good. Till next time chow!