Sorry for the long wait. I got preoccupied with something else

Akito's rampage

Ch. 5

Yuki's P.O.V.

Water ran down my face not because of the pain in my back again, but everyone… everyone telling me what they think about me and this family curse. They don't think I'm the cause of it.

*Sniff* I can't help but feel Kyo called them here just to help me see or make me see his point.

Haru picked me up and carried me inside the house. There was just something about having everyone here that made me just so happy.

Hatori took off my shirt so he could examine my back again.

"Thanks to you having this slightly heavy shirt on Yuki, you'll be fine," Hatori said. "Although this bruise will be monitored. I don't like the way it looks."

"Yeah, same here," Kyo said, gently tracing the bruise Hatori mentioned. Wait, wait a second.

"That's a 'D' you just traced. Right?" I asked.

"That's… what it looks like," Kyo stuttered, like he knew what it stood for. I didn't want to ask him about it. I had a feeling I already knew.

"Shigure, Tohru… I don't want to be any trouble, but would it be okay if I stayed here for a while?" Momiji asked shyly.

"It's no trouble at all, Momiji. If we have enough room all of you are welcome to stay," Shigure smiled. "Oh, Tohru… what do you think?"

"I think I should start dinner," Miss Honda smiled. Her smile really does brighten up my day. "Kagura, Kisa, would you like to help me with dinner?"

"Yes, I'd be happy to help," Kagura giggled. Kisa giggled as well as they went into the kitchen.

Shigure, Hatori, and ni-san went to see if there was enough room in this house for everyone. All of them wanted to stay.

"So, you finally see what the hell I or we were trying to tell you, damn rat?" Kyo asked a little roughly as he sat down in front of me. I nodded to him with a smile. The whole 'damn rat' from him and 'stupid cat' from me is like a force of habit.

I opened my mouth to tell him 'thank you for not giving up' but that's not what came out.

Violent coughing exploded out my mouth. I couldn't seem to stop as I felt my chest become tight in an instant.

I felt Kyo's hands on my shoulders as the others shouted for Hatori.

"Yuki! Yuki look at me!" Kyo shouted, gripping my shoulders a little. I looked up to lock with his eyes, still coughing.

"Breathe! In, out! Come on!" Kyo sounds like a drill Sargent. Huh? What's he doing? Does he want me to copy his breathing path?

"Breathe, damn rat!" he shouted at me. I tried to breathe. I followed his inhale and exhale until Hatori came running down the stairs.

By the time he got to me with my inhaler, I was steadily breathing a bit easier. I inhaled the medicine anyway. My chest loosened up and I thanked Kyo and the others.

Miss Honda asked me if I was okay. I smiled to her saying yes. Kagura, Kisa, and Miss Honda brought dinner out and every one insisted that I eat first. Oh, I'm going to cry again.

Kyo's P.O.V.

The tree idiot; oops, force of habit there; told everyone that there was plenty of room for everyone to stay. I'm just glad that Yuki finally sees what we were telling him. *Sigh* that was close. That asthma attack came out of nowhere. I'm glad to see Yuki smiling as he ate some sushi. His hand shook a bit but he was able to eat; thank God.

The rest of us began eating with the rat. I didn't know that I was actually eating some leeks when I put a spoonful of soup in my mouth until Yuki and Tohru said something. I spit it out saying, "Oh God! I can't believe I just ate that! Gross!"

Suddenly, I hear giggling. I look at everyone and Yuki's the one giggling. Looks like he's not trying too, though.

"S-sorry, Kyo," Yuki giggled. "Your expression. Heheh, your expression is just…"

It makes me happy to see the rat laughing. Wait, this is the first time I've ever seen him laugh. I wonder what face I'm making anyway. Huh? I just noticed how bright Yuki's smile is. Its… angelic… oh crap! Am I blushing?! Crap, crap, crap! CRAP!

"What's wrong?" Kagura asked the rat. Huh? Did I miss something? I looked over at Yuki again, who was now clutching the back of his neck.

"It… hurts…" Yuki groaned a bit before 'boom' he transformed again. Painful squeaks were all that came from him. What the hell is going on?

Hatori examined the rat. "Let me see your neck, Yuki," he said sternly yet softly. Yuki forced his furry hands to move away from his neck. Now I'm totally confused now. A little red glow shined from the stab wound he had, that was now a scar… what's going on?

The door blew apart by a strong wind that suddenly came. It blew in here violently. I hear Yuki's frantic painful squeaking. I turn towards him to see that he was flying around the room.

"Yuki!" Kisa shouted as she used Hiro's shoulders to jump up far enough to catch the rat. Hiro caught her and held onto her. Haru wrapped his arms around the two Sohma kids.

"Stop it Akito!" Huh? What did Yuki just shout? The violent wind suddenly stopped as a cackle filled the house. It vanished with the wind.

"Is Yuki alright, little princess?" the snake asked Kisa. Kisa pulled her hands away from her chest with the rat suddenly passed out in them.

"I don't know," she said in a soft cry. She handed the rat to the snake.

"I have no idea what just happened, but I think I should go back to the estate. To keep an eye on Akito," Hatori told us.

"That might be a good idea," Shigure said. "We'll call you if something happens."

"Understood," Hatori said and left. The sun finally set as we went to bed. Yuki turned back to normal once the snake entered his room.

The rat woke up with a sharp gasp. He got dressed then climbed into his bed. He pulled the sheets over his head and asked to be alone for the night.

I can respect that but I stayed by his door the entire night.

Normal P.O.V.

All through the night the Sohma's all thought about how to help Yuki again. Apparently Yuki turned scared to death again from that wind, pain, and just knowing it was Akito.

Yuki woke up every now and then because of a nightmare of Akito stabbing him in his heart repeatedly. He decided to stay up for a while, staring out the window into the sky.

Just as Yuki was starting to get tired again… a hand slapped over his mouth and slammed him on his back on his bed. A pocket knife was held to his throat to make him stay quite.

"Make one sound and I kill you right now… or I'll just go find the tiger girl and kill her in your place," Akito told the rat in a scary whisper. Yuki's eyes were glued wide open with fear. The grin on Akito's face made hot sweat drench his skin.

Akito moved his hand down to Yuki's throat and clutched it. He threw Yuki out of the window. Yuki landed on the ground with a 'thud'… he didn't scream like he wanted to. He forced his vocal chords to not breathe a peep.

Akito landed beside the rat. He clutched his hair and dragged him deeper into the forest. "You're going to love what I have planned for you, you little good-for-nothing rat," Akito cackled once they were far enough away from the house to where no one would hear him. Yuki whimpered as the Sohma Head continued. "And I brought a couple guests to help out with it."

"Everything is ready, Akito-sama," hollered a guy with strong arms. Yuki gasped as Akito threw him to the ground in front of two other people. He looked up to see his parents with maniacal grins on their faces.

"Kilik, Sandra you two know what to do with him. You know where he goes," Akito's cackled made Yuki's skin go cold.

Before Yuki could get up to run… Kilik grabbed his wrist firmly. "No please! Let me go!" Yuki shouted in fear.

"Shut your fucking mouth, rat!" Kilik demanded as he dragged Yuki over to a thick tree with thick branches. Yuki looked up the tree to see a few ropes wrapped around two branches that were aligned going up and down, just dangling from them.

Sandra was already up there as she lowered a rope with a noose. "No please… arck!" Yuki shouted again, when Kilik grabbed the noose and put Yuki's head in it and tightened it to where he couldn't breathe.

Akito laughed maniacally as he watched Sandra grip Yuki's wrists and bring them above the branch. She tightly tied them together as Kilik tied Yuki's ankles together under the branch they reached.

"PLEASE! STOP! LET ME GO! KYO! NI-SAN!" Yuki shrieked.

"Shut his filthy mouth you two!" Akito ordered. Sandra stuffed a handkerchief in Yuki's mouth. Then she took out a black ball gag from her jacket pocket and shoved that into his mouth as well. She strapped it tightly behind his head as she wrapped some duct tape around his mouth. With Sandra, it's just to make sure he couldn't yell so loudly anymore.

Tears ran down Yuki's cheeks as Akito took out a gun from his robe. Yuki's eyes widened even more in fear just by looking down at the gun pointing at him.

Akito pulled the trigger as the bullet was fired as soon as the other two were out of the tree.

Kyo's P.O.V

Huh? Did I just hear Yuki screaming from a distance? I opened his bedroom door to find him gone. His bed messed up and… what's this on the window sill? Hm… oh shit… this bloody hand print… it has to be Akito!

I ran out of the room fast and woke up the snake, the dog, the cow, and the boar. I told them that Yuki was gone and that Akito's hand print was on the window sill in Yuki's room.

The five of us ran outside and searched. *Gasp* was that… was that a gun shot? It was faint but I could still hear it.

"Let's split up and look all over the forest," Shigure told us. We nodded as we ran off in different directions. I ran straight back.

Oh shit… with every step I take I can hear those gun shots getting louder. Crap… it started raining on me all of a sudden. I come to a stop and hid behind a tree as soon as I saw that bastard of a family head with two others.

I sniff the air… yuck gun powder isn't a pleasant smell… but I smell something else too. Blood… tons of it up in that tree near the cliff.

Akito cackled hysterically, damn I hate that laugh. I listened in to what he was saying. "Oh yes! Now that my work is done I'll bid you have a friendly life in the next world, you good-for-nothing rat!"

Rat!? Akito you bastard! I actually shouted that from behind the tree as I ripped off my beads in a raging fury. My veins felt on fire as steam came out of my eyes. Transforming into the true cat always burned like hell fire. I charged at Akito head on as I roared at him.

I grabbed his arms before he could fire a bullet at me. I didn't care if he is the goddamn family head; I'm killing him right fucking now! I tore his arms off and bit down on his neck… which actually my teeth went all down to his chest, but I didn't care. I tore that part of him clean off and threw his body parts over the cliff.

I turned to the other two figures in the pounding rain. They screamed and ran off. Huh? What's going on now? I'm changing back into my human self? I thought I had to get my beads back on to do that.

At that moment, I remember Yuki. I looked up in the tree… and started crying. Seeing Yuki up there… tied up like that… his hands above a branch and his feet below a branch… and, and, and blood covered every inch of his body… I couldn't help but cry.

I quickly climbed the tree to get him untied. But once I got his feet released from the ropes, he stirs a bit. "Yuki, Yuki please hold on," I tell him softly.

"Mmph." No, no they didn't gag him too?! I got his hands free as I held him up. The rain washed away some of the blood on his face and I saw duct tape wrapped around his mouth.

"Hold on Yuki," I say again as I un-wrap the tape. Once that's off I see a ball gag. I take that out and see a white cloth in his mouth now. What the fuck? I take that out of his mouth and he coughs weakly.

"K-K-Kyo?"

"Shh, Yuki. Don't try to talk right now." I don't know what to do. He's losing blood with no signs of stopping. I don't know what I should do.

"Kyo!" Huh? Haru!

"Haru, over here hurry!" I shouted. I turn my gaze slightly to see Haru, Kagura, the snake and the dog coming towards me.

They let out a shocked gasp when they saw Yuki in my arms blooding like a stuck pig.

"I don't know what to do!" I cried, as the snake carefully took the rat from me.

"Let's get him to a hospital a.s.a.p," said the snake. "Kyo, thank you." I cried more as I stood up and we ran towards the house. Kagura got on the phone to call on ambulance here as the others woke up.

I told them – including Tohru – what happened.

"*Gasp* no. Yuki," Tohru shivered in fear.

"I killed, no scratch that, I tore Akito apart once I found him," I told her, still shedding tears for the rat.

"Finally," Hiro cried out. No one cared about Akito in the Sohma house. He was a fucking-ass-zodiac-munching-good-for-nothing-basta rd!

"That was the only time I was ever going to kill someone. I promise you that Tohru," I tell Tohru seriously.

"I understand. Thank you, Kyo," Tohru said, crying now. I embraced her to calm her down a bit… but now I'm really confused. I didn't transform when I hugged her. Why is that exactly?

I don't care for the reason right now. I care about Yuki and the rest of my family now. An ambulance came in no time and took Yuki to the hospital. We had to wait for a call or something that'll tell us if Yuki is dead… or if he survives.

Please Yuki, please I'm begging you to survive. Survive you damn rat.

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This fic is almost at an end now. Catch the last chapter to see if Yuki survives from being repeatidly shot. Please review