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Enjoy Chapter 4!

Kyo walked around the streets. The only thing on his mind was Tohru. She may be getting weaker and weaker any moment. What would happen if she did die? He wouldn't be able to stay at Shigure's anymore, every corner reminding him of fond memories. He would drop out of school, remembering Tohru as he walked in the halls. He would disappear for months at a time. And still there would only be one thing on his mind:

Tohru Honda.

"Is that Kyonkichi walking through the streets with the aura of gloom-liness? Or is that some other stray orange haired teenager?" Kyo turned to see that LAST face he wanted to.

Ayame.

"Dammit go away!" Kyo yelled.

"Ah I see! You're worried about the princess, Tohru-kun. Young love is so beautiful." The snake said dramatically.

"Go to hell." Kyo felt a VERY strong urge to kill him. This was a very bad moment to upset him, when he already was upset.

"Awwww..."

Kyo stormed off yet again, but kicked Ayame in the back of the head first.

...Later...

"Yuki my brother! How are you today?" Ayame hugged his brother.

"Get off of me...NOW!" Yuki pushed his brother away.

"Gure-san! Haa-san!" Ayame greeted his friends.

"What brings you so happily to a depressing day?" Shigure asked with a small but serious pout.

"Ah yes, I heard about your princess, being held captive by a dangerous plague which infests her body. And her beloved knight being driven to tears, helpless in her time of need." Ayame closed his eyes. "Such a girl like her shouldn't have to be put through such troubling things like her."

"It's a fever not a plague." Hatori sighed.

"I request to see her immediately." Ayame declared. "Yuki shall take me." Ayame dragged off his brother, who was yelling "Why do you need me! You know where you're going!"

"Toooo--rrrrrruuuhhhuuu!!" Ayame sang as he entered her room.

"Shut up she's asleep!" Yuki hushed.

"Huh?" Tohru opened her eyes. "Yuki-san? Ayame-san? Whaa...Is something wrong?"

"Everything, except you currently, is fine." Yuki smiled.

"Such a sick girl! The plague has reduced her to nothing more then a helpless maiden chained to a bed to one day step out with health."

'I will not strangle my brother I will not strangle my brother...' Yuki was thinking with annoyance.

"Sorry if Nii-san is bugging you. How are you feeling?" Yuki put his hand on her forehead and felt the continuing presence of her fever.

"Same." Tohru smiled weakly. "Is Kyo here?"

Yuki shook his head. "No. He's still off on his walk."

"But he seems to be very gloomy about you. I saw him on my way here. Ah, the knight falling for the damsel in distress. Just like in a fairy tale." Ayame thought for a second and then began adding onto the 'Knight and Princess' story.' "But what if the Prince is becoming jealous of the knight. What if he wants to hold the princesses' heart as his own? Ah so much drama will follow and of course only one can truly be with the Princess."

"Nii-san. Please. I beg you. Shut up." Yuki really wanted to bring out duct tape, make a big ball with it, stuff it in his brothers mouth and put more duct over his mouth then kick him off a bridge into a shark and electric eel lake infested with rat poison and dead cockroaches.

Ayame gasped. "Yuki! Are you actually on your hands and knees begging me to continue my reign of excellence?"

"Where did you come up with that? I just told you to shut-"

"Ah ah ahh! Not another word. You and I shall spend the rest of the day together."

"NO!" Yuki tried escaping his brothers embrace and then being dragged out.

"Get better soon, Princess Tohru." Ayame waved goodbye.

Tohru nodded off into another nightmare.

'NO!' A familiar voice screamed. 'No! what did I do wrong?

Kyo was yelling.

'You were born.' A voice cackled nastily.

Tohru looked around. Kyo was chained up to a cold stone wall. Blood dripping down his bare chest. The figure in front of him was a black haired man wearing heavy clothing.

Akito.

He turned and grinned at Tohru. 'Is this your precious Kyo?' He spat on the ground. "Precious to only you. He's a monster. Therefore he will be thrashed like one.'

A bloody whip was in his hands, blood was oozing to the stained floor.

Tohru tried to run to the Cat, but she found a cage locked around her. She screamed with tear shot eyes as a scream of agony followed a terrifying cracking sound.

Again and again, the whip met bare skin. Kyo struggled to look up, sweat running down his face. 'Tohru. Help. I need you...' He was able to say as another hit sent a new line of exposed flesh.

"NOO!" Tohru bolted up.

Meanwhile, Kureno was taking care of Akito back in the Sohma estate.

"Kureno." Akito began.

"Yes?"

"Did you hear, about the worthless cat and that Honda girl?"

"Sorry I didn't. What is it?"

"We'll she's fallen down with an illness and the one most worried about her is Kyo." The God of the zodiac grinned wickedly. "Perhaps this can be used to our advantage."

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