By popular demand, I have updated again! In the same day. lol. Wow. lol. Enjoy guys.

Oh what a dramatic event it had been. Yuki's asthma attack. Kyo had carried Yuki home and promptly brought him upstairs, then took the stairs back down (two at a time) and called Hatori.

"I'll be there in a minute. Calm down."

"I am calm!"

"No you're not."
"Yes I am! Damn it, this is a waste of time. Just hurry up and get over here!"

Kyo sat on the stairwell with his legs crossed and his hands on his knees, staring intently at the hardwood floor. He didn't dare go upstairs. Not until Hatori was there. Kyo wasn't exactly prepared to talk about the kiss, and he knew that it would be the first thing Yuki would want to talk about should he go up there.

Man...if anyone found out about this...I hope nobody saw us. We'd have hell to pay.

Kyo was pulled abruptly from his thoughts when a knock came on the front door. He shuffled to his feet and almost tripped on the way to the door and ripped it open. Hatori let himself in and started for the stairway.

"Tell me exactly what happened, Kyo." Hatori said and started up the stairway. Kyo followed,

"You were so panicked over the phone that -"

"I wasn't panicked!" The cat snapped, "Yuki and I got into a fight and he stormed out. Then I went after him and he had an asthma attack while we were...were..."

Hatori looked back at the cat, "While you were what?"

Damn it! I almost let that slip...

"W-while we were arguing...yeah. I was trying to get him to come back to the house but he wasn't listening. Then he had the asthma attack."

Hatori knew that there was more to the story than Kyo was letting on. Granted, he only suspected this because Shigure repeatedly called himm saying that Kyo and Yuki were still acting strange, but he suspected more to the story nonetheless. However, he didn't care so much as to push the subject.

"Okay."

Kyo let out a sigh of relief and followed Hatori into Yuki's bedroom where the rat lay beneath the covers unconscious. Hatori pulled up a chair by the bed and sat his doctor bag on his lap, then pulled out his silver stethoscope.

"Has Yuki been having any other problems?"

"No. He's been okay ever since the day we had that Endurance run."

Hatori didn't say anything in reply as he pressed the stethoscope against Yuki's chest. Soon, there was a stir and a groan and Yuki opened his lavender eyes.

"H-Hatori?" He said groggily, "What are you doing here?"

"You had an asthma attack." Hatori replied, now checking Yuki's heartbeat, "Kyo panicked and called me."

"I told you I wasn't panicked!"

Yuki groaned slightly, "Could you please not yell, Kyo? My head hurts."

He attempted to sit up, only to be pushed back down by Hatori.

"You just woke up. Give yourself a second to recover." Hatori put his stethoscope away, "He seems okay to me."

Hatori put the back of his hand against Yuki's forehead, "A slight fever, but after he eats and sleeps a while, he'll be fine."

Hatori got to his feet and dropped his stethescope back into his bag, then made his way to the bedroom door. Kyo panicked. Hatori was leaving. Yuki and Kyo would be home alone again.

"Wait, Hatori -!" Kyo grabbed the sleeve of his shirt, then pulled away immediately, as he realized he was sounding needy.

"What?"

"You..uh..." He glanced back at Yuki who was slowly closing his eyes, "Yuki...maybe you

should - "

"Yuki will be fine. There's no reason for me to stay. Feed him and let him sleep."

And Hatori walked out. Kyo stood at the doorway, wishing Hatori had stayed. Sighing, Kyo turned back to see if Yuki had fallen asleep again. Much to his surprise, the rat was sitting upright with his fingers laced and his head bowed low. Kyo took a step back towards the door.

"I'm..uh...You go back to sleep. Shigure and them'll be back and - "

"We might as well get this talk over with now." Yuki interuptted Kyo's nervous ramblings, "Better when no one is around, right?"

Kyo sighed and crossed his arms over his chest, glaring at the wall next to him and not at Yuki, "Nothin' to talk about. It was...you were like...delirious or something."

"I wasn't delirious." Yuki looked over at Kyo, "I was fully aware of what I was doing."

"That's exactly what delirious people think! They think they're perfectly fine, but they're not. And...And..."

Yuki sighed and pulled the blanket off him, then stood up, "I was not delirious. You can sidestep this issue as much as you want, but eventually, you're going to step right back into it and you'll have to face it. Kyo, I kissed you."

Kyo closed his eyes and held his arms against his chest, "How the hell are you so calm about it?"

"I'm not calm." Yuki shook his head, "I'm just as...freaked out as you are."

"You don't look it!" Kyo glared at him, "Look fine to me."

Yuki shook his head, "My insides are...I've never felt so scared, confused, angry...you have no idea how freaked out I am right now."

Kyo shook his head, "I'm out of here. I don't want to talk about this."

Kyo walked out and headed for the stairway. Yuki stood still for a minute, contemplating whether to go after him or get back in the bed and pretend as though it never happened. It wouldn't go away if he just pretended it didn't happen. And so, he walked out of the room and went after Kyo. The sound of footsteps caught Kyo's attention.

"Damn it, go to bed!" He yelled.

Yuki continued after him, "I don't want to talk about it either, but I also don't want to be tormented for the rest of my life!"

"Just forget about it like I plan to!" Kyo snapped back as he reached the bottom step and started towards the kitchen

Yuki sped down the stairs and caught up to Kyo just as he was about to step into the kitchen. He grabbed onto him by the shoulders.

"I can't..." Yuki gripped tighter to the cat's shoulders, "I can't just forget about it. And I know you can't either..."

Kyo clenched his teeth.

Damn it...He's right. I can't forget about it...and I don't want to.

Kyo unclenched his teeth and relaxed his body, then turned to face Yuki who's expression read that he was getting slightly upset. Kyo's was the same.

"I don't know what to think." Kyo mumbled, "Shigure said that...he..."

Yuki nodded, "He said the same to me."

"Then you get why I can't...why this..." Kyo groaned as he couldn't find the words.

"Why we can't do anything right now." Yuki finished and ran his hand through his hair, "Why, until we can sort this out for ourselves, we can't..."

"Yeah."

The two nodded in unison. For the first time, the two had actually agreed on something. And on a huge matter at that. A subject as delicate as love.

Yuki turned his back on Kyo and went back upstairs.

I don't have anything to think about. I'm pretty certain of myself now...

Kyo slid down to the ground and looked up at the ceiling.

Damn rat got to me. There's nothing to think about.

It's amazing, really, how two people so different could be thinking the exact same thing.

I love him.