AN: Okay, so by now you've had chance to read what happened, but you probably didn't know ALL that happened, and were confused why Yuki said those things... SO I decided to post the chapter in HER point of view, so you can see why she said (typed?) those things... okay
Please enjoy, read and review ^_^
Kaytii
Hatsuyuki Shinderera
Yuki's POV
After hiding it took me almost three hours to get to my room without being detected – something I always had to do when I snuck out, but today it seemed even harder than usual…
And it was two in the MORNING when I finally reached my room…
… And I knew he'd be gone by now, he wouldn't wait two hours for me, even if I needed him after what had happened…
Well… I suppose I might as well try to log on… he could be there…
… Not that I had much hope of it…
*Iri has just signed in*
So he is online…
Has he been waiting for me all this time…?
Hatsuyuki: Hiya Iri.
Iri: You're on later than usual…
So he did notice… a well, I suppose it was only natural – I mean I would have noticed if someone had been TWO HOURS late… and I had been…
At least it hadn't been my fault… not that any of it was my fault…
… After all, I had no choice in any of the events… although I wish I had… wish I could have a choice in what would happen in my life.
Hatsuyuki: Yeah… I had some… family problems…
Iri: Can you be more specific…?
*sigh*
He is always trying to get me to be more specific… but I can't be. If Akito ever went onto my computer and saw my conversations… well, he'd kill me… or at least keep me even more chained up even more than he does now…
… So I can't tell him… no matter what, I must protect the one I love, and the one who hates part of me… and seems to like the other part…
So I told him what I always did when he asked for the details…
Hatsuyuki: Oh "Iri" you know I can't tell you about my problems in detail… family rules and that…
I waited for five minutes as he thought about what he said, but then I got a little worried, was he still there?
Another five minutes, and I got even more concerned…
Hatsuyuki: Kyo…? You're spacing out again…
Iri: Oh… sorry… so who caused the problems…? Him…?
It was amazing how much Kyo could guess about my life without even knowing anything about my life… truly amazing…
But I suppose it would be easy to find things about a person's life if they wanted you to find out about it… and I most certainly did want him to find out…
… Find out – and accept it all…
Hatsuyuki: Yeah… he was in a bad mood today… and… I received mail…
Mail for Yuki Sohma, mail for me… but of course, he wouldn't know that…
Iri: Mail? What's so bad about Mail…?
Hatsuyuki: I never get mail… It could have been sent to someone else in the family… but it had been put in my pigeon hole… and so… he burnt it…
… So I had to explain it to him…
Because he or his Shishou had sent me the first piece of mail I had ever received… and Akito didn't like that, no sir he didn't.
Iri: Damn rat…
Damn rat… that was what he called me when I was at school… did he know?!?
Hatsuyuki: What?
Iri: Oh! Sorry, sorry! I was just thinking and must have typed it!!!
He had just made a simple mistake…
… So why did it feel as if he had ripped out a piece of my soul as he spoke those careless words…?
Hatsuyuki: And what were you thinking about Kyo?
I had to know… I couldn't explain why… I just HAD to…
Iri: Just… well… Shishou sent an invitation to the main house… to a classmate… that must be the one that you received… Damn rat, always getting in the way, getting innocent people hurt!
Poor boy. He still didn't realise that this 'Yuki' he knew hadn't caused this problem… rather him sending the invite in the first place… and Akito's reaction to it…
Hatsuyuki: You know, Yuki isn't really that bad… you could get to know him better.
I regretted typing that as soon as I had pressed 'enter'. How could I give myself away so… so easily…?
Iri: That won't happen 'Hatsuyuki'… he's the rat, I'm the cat. That's all there is to it, and all that there will EVER be to it.
And how could he still be so blinded by the hate between the Nezumi and the Neko…?
I had long since passed that phase…
… I had passed that phase the day I first saw him…
…. The day that I fell in love with him for the first time…
On my first day of freedom…
Hatsuyuki: I wish it weren't…
As I said that, I knew it weren't true – he'd always hate Yuki… but maybe I could get him not to hate me as much…
There had to be hope for that to happen… there just had to be…
Iri: I'm sorry Hatsuyuki… anyway; let's talk about something more… interesting…
No, oh no, no, no, no, NO!
Why did he always have to bring that up!
I wouldn't tell him my name – I COULDN'T!
… But that didn't mean that I didn't want him to know… to guess…
… This was why I let things slip up every now and again… just so he would begin to accept me – ALL of me…
… But I had to make it appear that I didn't want him to know… even though I
Hatsuyuki: Kyo! You know I can't tell you… no…
Iri: No, I'm not going to ask you your name… at least not directly… Let me have three questions… please…?
Hatsuyuki: …
I couldn't let him have three questions… then again…
I wanted him to know…
I was just scared he'd reject me…
Like everyone else has done…
… And what, according to Akito, they would continue to do…
I was just so, so scared…
Iri: Please…?
… But if I just did nothing, and continued lying, then he really WOULD hate me…
… So I had to risk the truth… even if it was only to answer three of his questions…
Hatsuyuki: Fine. Three Questions. But that's it, okay?
Iri: k… just let me think…
Hatsuyuki: Okay…
I knew I'd regret saying those things… but still, I couldn't help myself… I almost needed him to know…
… I needed someone to know the truth about me, and to hold me even when I was in danger…
… Someone to accept EVERYTHING about me…
… Someone like him…
Iri: Are you a Sohma…?
Hatsuyuki: …
Still, I didn't expect him to be so blunt…
But I had promised myself that I would tell him the complete truth… so tell him the truth I would… no matter what the consequences would be…
Iri: Are you…?
I decided to tell him the truth, even if he wouldn't understand it…
Hatsuyuki: Not one that you would have met…
So he knew I was a Sohma now… I suppose it would only be a matter of time until he visited the main estate, in hope to find me…
Ah well…
I decided to stop his musings in the bud – and how better than to move him onto the next question….
Hatsuyuki: Question 2?
Iri: Have I ever seen you before?
Only like every single bloody school day…
I settled for saying something less obvious.
Hatsuyuki: … Yeah… you have… You probably wouldn't recognise me when you did though…
And now to move STRAIGHT on to the next question, again so that he wouldn't suspect anything…
Hatsuyuki: And question 3?
Iri: Hatsuyuki… will you meet me sometime…?
Hatsuyuki: …
Out of all the questions he could have asked me, I would never have expected that one… and unfortunately, for me it was forbidden for me to do. I was never allowed to do anything without Akito's direct permission, and I somehow doubted that Akito would allow me to meet the Neko as a girl…
Iri: Before you answer please let me explain!
I suppose I could give him an opportunity to explain… after all, it wouldn't do me any harm... would it…?
Hatsuyuki: …okay…
Iri: It's my birthday soon… on Saturday… I was wondering… well could you come… Shishou won't mind… and he can always get you out if necessary…
Kazuma? No matter what little Authority he had in the family would get me to that party… not even the fact that he knew that I was a girl, having taught me martial arts when I was little, would help him convince Akito to let me go there… nothing anyone but Akito said himself would matter to our 'god'
Hatsuyuki: … I doubt Kazuma could get me out…
But still… maybe I could sneak out…
Hatsuyuki: … but… if he could, then… yeah, I'd love to ge;orhis
As I finished the sentence I felt a cold hand rest upon my own, pressing the keys down upon the keyboard and resting his other hand upon my neck possessively.
"Yuki dear… what on earth are you doing up so late, and talking to a strange…?" He looked up at the screen, to see who I was talking to.
Iri: Hatsuyuki?
Iri: Hatsuyuki…?
"The Cat?" He whispered threateningly, breathing down my neck "You have been seeing the… cat… The Cat knows your secret, and… wants to take you to a party…?"
I knew that his questions were rhetorical… but still, I couldn't stop myself in time from talking back to Akito…
"He… he's not that bad Akito-sama… and he doesn't realise it's me… at least no—"
"Not yet…" Akito closed the hand that was around my neck tighter, causing me to squeal. "Well, we shall have to make sure he never finds out…"
Akito giggled to himself, removing his hand from on top of mine, before pulling out the dagger that always was around my person.
"Your mine Yuki-chan." He seethed, letting go of my, but brandishing the knife, keeping me in my place. "You hear it, mine. You are forbidden to talk to anyone else, got it?"
As he raised the dagger I felt my world go blank, and I screwed up my eyes in fear…
But no thudding came.
No blood left my body…
There wasn't even any real pain…
… Because I hadn't been his intended target…
… At least not at that moment…
The computer had been…
"Now, little Yuki-chan, get up!" He whispered threateningly, grabbing me from under my arm and marching me out of the room…