Illness

Sakura pulled her lips away from Yuki's, it felt right, the kiss felt right.

"What was that for?" Sakura breathed.

"I was thinking, and my lips acted on their own" He smiled at her, and she smiled back. They walked hand-in-hand to the fire they saw.

"What's this?" Haruka was the one who saw them, she smiled. "HatsuHaru and Momiji got here not too long ago, Tohru and Eri are here too... Somewhere... Kyo went to get more firewood, it looks like we'll be staying the night here" She glanced at their hands. "Are you two-?" Before she could finish, Sakura nodded.

"Congrats!' Momiji said clapping.

"KYO!" Everyone heard Kagura's running feet.

"Did she come out looking for him?" Haruka asked.

"It would seem so..." HatsuHaru said.

"Don't you go anywhere Kyo, we're going home" Haruka told him. Not even turning around to look at him.

"But Kagura!" He yells at her.

"What about her? You did promise to marry her" Haruka said with a smirk.

"SHE THREATENED TO KILL ME!" Kyo yelled.

"So?" Haruka put out the fire and waited for Hatori, Shigure, Ayame, and Kagura to step into the campsite.

"Is everyone ready to go home?" Shigure asked.

"Yup!"

"KYO!" And they walked home.

Haruka coukdn't sleep, she tossed and turned. She shared a room with Sakura as usual, but also with Kisa and Tohru.

"Yuki!" Sakura said in her sleep, kissing her pillow.

I'm going to pretend I didnt see that... She thought, turning on her side.

When the sun rose, she was already up, she heard someone in the bathroom. After awhile, she realized they were throwing up. She knocked.

"C-Come in" Said the girl. Haruka slowly opened the door, Tohru was looking at her.

"Oh my gosh!" Haruka looked at Tohru. "Are you okay?" She rubbed Tohru's back. "I'll get Hatori!" Haruka was about to get up and run off, but Tohru grabbed her wrist.

"No, I know what's wrong" She looked at Haruka. "I-I'm..."

"WHAT! But Tohru, you're only seventeen going on eighteen! You can't be, how did this happen?" Haruka was frantic.

After the reaspon slashed her eardrums, Haruka punched a wall, making a dent.

"Who was it?" She asked. "Who was the one that did it?" Haruka looked at her.

"Akito..." Haruka snapped.

"I'm going to kill him..." And she walked out of the house. She wasn't happy, Haruka thought she warned Akito with her sister...

"Oh, Haruka, what are you doing up so early?" Shigure, Hatori and Ayame were having coffee on the front porch.

"Did you know?" Haruka asked. "About Tohru?" She looked down at the ground.

But at that moment, Tohru walked out onto the porch and bowed. "I have something to tell all of you..." She said quickly.

Haruka already knew what the news was, but Tohru wasn't going to tell them the whole story, scared for her life. Only Haruka knew, and she would keep that secret.

"Everyone... I'm- I'm pregnant..." She looked at her lap.

"WHAT?" Everyone said in unsion, even Eri. But everyone glared at him.

"I didn't even know!" Eri held up his hands in defense. Haruka walked over to Tohru and put a hand on her shoulder.

"It's quite alright..." Haruka said, ignoring everyone protesting. "The baby will be healthy, and we're going to be happy" Haruka hugged Tohru.

"Tohru, who did this?" Eri asked.

"Well... You see... I promised him I wouldn't tell, so I'm not..." Tohru gave Haruka a pleading look. Haruka understood and got up. "Shigure, Hatori, can I please speak to you... Alone?" They nodded and folowed her.

Tohru chewed on her bottom lip.

Eri... I'm so sorry, I betrayed you! But Akito... He cornered me... UGH! Tohru started to cry in her hands.

"Tohru... What's wrong" Eri wiped her tears away when Haruka, Shigure, and Hatori walked back in.

"I'm going to check you every week Tohru..." Hatori said. "To make sure you're okay" Hatori said.

"Oh, you don't-" But Haruka didn't let her finish.

"Now Tohru, you can't go off worrying about other people right now, let US take care of you" She gestured to the whole crowd of people.

"Did you tell the other two?" Yuki asked.

"They know..." Tohru whispered.

"How far along are you?" Momiji asked, Kyo rubbed his fist into his head.

"That wasn't very nice" Kyo tried to contain himself from yelling.

"Oh, I don't mind! I'm two months now..." She said, looking at Eri.

"You know, I'm going to find this guy and kill him..." Eri told her.

"No your not..." Haruka said. "I called dibs... a long time ago" She stood. "In any case Tohru, you better leave all the house work to me and Sakura, you need to rest."

"Oh no! I couldn't possible do that! I mean, it'll be putting too much on you two and-" She started but Sakuura smiled.

"We'd be more then happy to" Sakura reassured her. "No worries" Sakura smiled her sweetest smile.

"If you two say so..." Tohru sighed.

"Well..." Haruka got up. "I have to do some things... ALONE..." She looked at some people who were getting up to go with her. "Let's go Fuji..." She looked to the cat that was curled up in a ball on it's bed.

Kyo followed Haruka, he was worried, not because she might get attacked, but he had a feeling that it was something else. He walked carefully so Haruka couldn't hear him, she stopped at a clearing tht had rocks circling it. Kyo watched as Haruka pulled out something from her pocket, it was a sphere like thing.

From all of the rocks, light shot at the sphere, making day look like night. She then dropped it, her hand bore markings but then it turned into her creature's arm. In fact, her whole left side of the body turned creature like, while her right side maintained it's usual stand point.

"What a waste" Kyo heard a voice say, looking at the sphere on the ground. "Why didn't you want to change into the full form?" Fuji didn't look frightened, she was sitting still, watching closley.

"I didn't want to..." Haruka's voice sounded. She pulled out a knife.

"You don't want to do that" The second voice said. "It'll kill both of us..." Haruka held it out.

"A world without you is a better place dingbat" But that's when Kyo slapped her. Dropping the knife, Haruka fell. "Kyo?" Haruka looked at the boy.

"Don't" He said, getting the knife. "It won't do any good"

That's when the creature disappeared and Haruka layed on the grass.

"I'm so tired..." She said, huffing. "Ugh... I had no idea I wanted to kill myself..." Kyo looked at her, he tried to hide the tears.

"You know... There'll be a lot of people that would miss you" Kyo said, looking away.

"I don't know why, but there are some emotions the creature controls, such as the suicidal one you just saw..." Haruka looked to her left side. She saw Kyo sway. "Kyo, are you okay?" Haruka forgot her pain and got up, he was about to fall when she caught him.

POP

Haruka felt Kyo's forehead, he had a fever.

"Let's go Fuji!" Haruka yelled, grabbing his clothes. Fuji meows and they take off back to the house.

"Back already?" Shigure was reasing the paper.

"Shigure, where's Hatori?" She breathed when she got to the house.

"He's out, why?" Haruka showed him Kyo. "Oh dear, he got sick, you know where the room is?" Haruka nodded and fast walked to the boys room.

Yuki, HatsuHaru, Momiji, and Eri were in a circle when Haruka walked in, they were playing some sort of game.

"What happened?" Momiji asked as Haruka put Kyo into a bed.

"He got sick while we were out..." Haruka said.

"And Hatori's out" HatsuHaru said, looking at Kyo.

"How did he get sick?" Yuki asked.

"I don't know, he followed me when I left and he fainted and turned into a cat" Haruka didn't want to tell the truth. At least she told half the truth.

POP

Haruka walked out of the room. "One of you dress him!" She yells.

"You stupid cat" Haruka could hear, because her ears and tail popped out.

She stepped back into the room after Kyo is dressed. She walks over. "Can one9* of you get a themometer?" She looks at the boys.

"I'll get it..." Eri got up and left the room. Haruka saw Kyo open his eyes a little, she looked at him.

"How are you feeling?" She asked softly.

"Horrible..." He groaned.

"Well, you do have a fever, is there anything that hurts?" She asked him.

"My head, throat, stomach and my back" Kyo looked at her as she sighed.

"You probably have the flu... It sounds like it..." She looked at the boys. "Stay as far away from him as possible" She ordered.

Eri walked back into the room and handed it to Haruka, she took his tempature.

"102.3? That's high..." She looked at the boys again. "Ice" She said. This time, Momiji got up and went to go get it. "Kyo are you sure nothing else hurts, your chest maybe?"

Kyo shook his head yes about his chest.

"Oh dear..." She said.

"What?" Eri asked.

"I can't be sure, because I've seen this only once before, but I think he's sicker then anticipated" Haruka smiles at Kyo. "Kyo I'm telling you right now that I'm not totally sure, but if it is, prepare for a long road ahead" She told him. "But it's good you have it now then being an adult and not being able to take care of yourself..." At that moment, Hatori walks in and starts to check somethings on Kyo. Hatori tells everyone to get out of the room.

"What is it? What does my Kyo have?" Kagura asked.

"It's a virus that is unnamed no one knows the cure, but it's highly contagious..."

"Unless you had it once before, you will only get it once, that's why it's so mysterious..." Sakura said. "And I only know one person who had it..." Haruka knew who she was talking about.

"Yeah, I had it when I was little, I still remember the pain... So Kyo may scream or not..."

"All guys need to get out of the room.." Hatori said and they did.

Haruka walked into the room after everyone moved and put her stuff in the room.

"Haruka?" Kyo said weakly.

"Yeah?" She walked over and knelt beside him.

"I'm thirsty..." Haruka smiled and went to grab the water. She saw Sakura making the beef and leek soup.

After a while, Kyo went to sleep and Haruka went out of the room to read a bit, she had Fuji in there to keep an eye on him while he slept.

After two hours, Sakura finished the soup and Kyo was awake, he took a bite and spit it out.

"Too much leek taste..." And he wouldn't touch it, Haruka served it to everyone else, who said it was good, and cooked Kyo's and her's soup.

"Here..." She handed him the bowl.

"Thanks" He took a bite and started to eat the whole thing.

Later that night, Haruka couldn't sleep, Kyo was so uncomfortable, he even changed into a cat. She finally walked to his bed and picked him up, he started to purr. When he fell asleep, Haruka put him back in bed and she went to her own and fell asleep.

Kyo felt bad for Haruka, having to spend her days taking care of him instead of hanging out with everyone. But he was also happy, she wasn't like Kagura, or Tohru, she was different. She understands...

Each night he couldn't sleep on his own, Haruka would hold him until he did. He was grateful. One day, she came in with a washcloth and some soap.

"You are getting a bath" She told him. He nodded and started to undress. "Put swim trunks on" And he did.

Using the bathroom across the hall, Haruka started to wash him as he sat there in the tub.

"Why are you doing this?" He asked her.

"You needed a bath, trust me, I did both of us a favor" She said.

"No, why did you volunteer to take care of me?" He asked.

"I did because when I got sick with this thing, I had no one to hold me, I was locked up in a cold room for a couple of months..." She looked at him. "But, you are actually getting better faster then I, I think it was because I was always cold and stuff" She helped him out of the tub and dried him. "Put your clothes on, I'll be right back, okay?" He nodded as she left the bathrrom, after he dressed she came in the themometer. "100.1, it already went down a few degrees and it's only the second day' she got up and helped Kyo back into the room. After they ate dinner, Haruka tucked Kyo into bed, not like a little child, but more like she was a nurse taking care of a patient.

"Thank you" He mumbled.

"No problem..." And she went to bed herself.

He still felt very uncomfortable and he turned into a cat, Haruka knew this and walked over, she picked him up and held him close to her.

"You don't have to do this..." He told her.

"I know, but I want to..." And he fell asleep.

Waking up, he usually got dressed and Haruka was already walking in and handing him breakfast. But not this time, this time she was sleeping right next to his bed. He pulled his clothes on and layed back down, he brushed her hair.

I must be tiring her out... He thought. But then she woke up and started to do her usual routine.

TBC...

Haruka: Finally, Kyo isn't sick anymore!

Sakura: That's good... Hey what did that boy want yesterday?

Haruka: The boy I was talking to?

Sakura: Yeah...

Haruka: That's easy, he wanted me to go out with him...

Sakura: And?

Haruka: I told him I wasn't interested in getting a boyfriend...

Sakura: But does Kyo know that?

Haruka: Why would he care?

Sakura: You are so oblivious .

Haruka: Huh?

Sakura: Nothing ^^