Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ Being Broken Ones ❯ Breaking the Children ( One-Shot )

Being Broken Ones

Warnings. Angst, and nastiness in general. I mean it. Menstruation makes my tastes run dark. Rape, and Unnecessary Amputations. Seriously. It's nasty. If you don't want to read it. Don't.

A/N: This little spew of angst was co-written with Aubreys_Master. It's check mark one out of a list of 100 that have titles just waiting for stories to go along with them. And about Haru and his hand… Viva la Evil Dead… <3 Enjoy, try not to cry.

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Hatsuharu still wasn't exactly sure why they were in Akito's room to begin with. Well, he knew, but he didn't see why their older cousin had called them there. He'd been with Kyo when Akito had sent Kureno to get them. The ox had an odd suspicion of why Akito wanted to talk to them (it seemed to be a pattern in their family) but he really hoped he was wrong. After all, he and Kyo hadn't been dating that long, right? How could Akito possibly be pissed off at them already?

Akito doesn't need a reason to be pissed off. The only words that properly describe him? Bitter and Bitch. So just the very knowledge that that filthy little slut of a cat was actually being allowed to enjoy the affection of that pretty cow made him absolutely apoplectic with jealous rage. He thought he'd made it clear to Hatsuharu when he'd SHOVED Isuzu out that window. But obviously not. He'd have to do something more drastic this time, apparently. He scowled as he looked over his two younger cousins. They both looked rather calm… He'd fix that.

"Come with me cat." He ordered tersely, and Kyo obeyed with a frown. The head took him into a back room and up some stairs. There were some men-waiting there to knock him out before he could so much as protest. Akito smirked with delight before issuing some orders as to what should be done with the red head. When all his orders were followed through he went back out to get Hatsuharu. Akii wondered if the ox would enjoy seeing his precious strapped naked to a table… Haru questioned him half heartedly on what he was planning, as he allowed Akito to lead him back to where he was holding Kyo. However, he had a feeling that he didn't want to know. And, once he got there and saw what those men where doing, he was sure he wasn't.

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When Kyo had awoken, he most certainly was NOT thrilled to be strapped naked to a table. Most people usually aren't thrilled to find themselves strapped spread eagle to a table. Really. He had looked around in a slight panic. A strap around his neck limited the movement of his head though and he didn't recognize any of the people he could see. He had tried to call out but found he had a gag in his mouth and could only make some odd muffled noises. He couldn't move his head to look, but he could feel someone between his legs… Wow. He was naked wasn't he? His thighs were cold and he could feel every brush of the other person's skin.

Akito's orders had been to make Kyo hurt as much as possible. And he'd gone through a lot of trouble to find a large man. One who could quite thoroughly split his, probably virgin, cousin in half. And now, according to his orders, the man he had found was going to just shove all the way into the child beneath him. Kyo choked around the gag and tears started to stream down his face once he was all the way in. The pain continued since the man didn't stop. No, he picked up power and speed as he went. The cat could hear the other men that had been in the room cheering him on. He was going to be sick! Then thanks to that gag he was going to choke and die on his own vomit. That would be merciful actually. It would hurt so much less. The man's grip on his hips, as he slammed in over and over, hurt a lot too… He wouldn't be surprised if there were bruises there later.

Kyo was about to pass out when he felt the cool drag of something cold and sharp on his skin. His blurred eyes snapped out and he tried to focus. He had to go cross eyed to see the shearing scissors they were taking dangerously close to his own penis. Despite the gag he tried to protest that as well, but he choked when the intruder to his body suddenly pulled all the way out, and slammed back in for the full force of his orgasm. He was gone from the cat as soon as he was done though. All his buddies cheering, and another guy stepped up to the plate.

"Ay, good job." The guy called as he dipped a finger into the teenager's sore tunnel with two fingers. A mixture of cum and blood covered the digits and he idly wiped it off on the kid's thighs. Whichever man had to scissors was pressing painful little dots all over the cat, anywhere he could reach. Kyo was quivering and crying helplessly as that next guy pushed into him. He wasn't nearly as big but he was just as rough. And now that the `leader' was done, the other paid rapists decided to relieve themselves as they waited for their turn… all over Kyo. So that's what it's like to be the center of a bukkake circle… Haru got to watch as all of this went on too. Kyo was turning into a bruised, and bloody mixture of tears and cum…

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"What the hell is wrong with you?" Haru demanded after a few minutes, turning a burning glare onto Akito. And, if he hadn't been Akito, the head would have probably been hit too. Really, really hard. Right in the balls. But, he was Akito, so Haru couldn't actually touch him. The ox found that quite irritating too.

"Plenty of things." Akito shrugged before turning his eyes back to the show and grinning. "But you juunishi keep ignoring my warnings. So I thought perhaps something very dramatic would keep the whole lot of you in line." He mused absently.

"There's a tiny flaw in that logic." Haru felt he should point out. "We didn't actually do anything to be punished for. Make them stop!" He gestured vaguely to the large men fucking his boyfriend.

"I must say this is far more amusing." Akii grinned. "Even if it doesn't keep all of you in line... the filth will most certainly be effected..." It was nice to see the cat helpless like this.

"But--but--" Haru spluttered a bit before realizing something. He could hit those stupid thugs. They weren't Sohmas at all, let alone Akito. And so, he started moving forward to do just that. With a small wave from Akito, Kureno grabbed the ox. He looked fairly disgusted with all this as well, but he still stopped the kid.

"You really suck." Haru informed Akito with a bitter scowl. Though, he did continue to fight against Kureno. He could hit him too, if need be. The rooster frowned and murmured something along the lines of 'I'm sorry' before hitting the ox, hard, and forcing him into an unconscious state.

Akito let the show finish and thanked the men profusely before sending them off. He had some... other things he needed to do now. Once they were gone he and Kureno got Haru chained up on the floor, gagged too incase he woke up. Then they set about moving Kyo. They un-strapped him from the table, and set him on the floor. Handcuffing him to one of the table legs with his hands behind his back. They took out his gag, Akito wanted to hear his pained sobs after all. Now how to wake him up... Oh! Akii knew! Let's just smack him until those disgusting, cursed, demons eyes open! Kureno grimaced as the sounds rang through the room. But the red head woke up eventually. He shivered and sobbed in choked breaths. But he was awake. He even managed to stop for a moment when Akito ordered Kureno to wake up Haru as well.

Haru was here? No....

"No... No..." he sobbed instead as the rooster carefully shook the younger teen awake. Haru didn't wake up groaning like most people who'd just been hit on the head. No, he woke up trying to spout every profane word he knew. That had fucking HURT.

"Did you enjoy that?" Akito was crooning to Kyo, petting his ruffled hair in one of the few spots that wasn't covered in anonymous sperm. But the red head was still too busy crying to answer... That annoyed the head so he just made a disgusted noise and moved over to bother the other boy he had captive right now. He not so gently prodded the ox with his foot. "Ready for your turn, Hatsuharu?" Haru just glared at Akito, and mumbled some very choice and rude phrases through his gag. This sucked so much. "I think he'll like this too." The head grinned, jerking his head back in Kyo's direction. "Let's see if you stay conscious long enough to find out? Now, Kureno." The rooster looked like he really wanted to disobey... But Akito had told him the entire plan earlier. He hadn't liked it then and had tried to talk Akito out of it. He'd gotten smacked for efforts and told to just fucking do it. That was why he now got the... PLEASURE of cutting of one of his younger cousin's body parts with a chainsaw. Sometimes... being Akito's lackey really. REALLY. Sucked. When he returned with the thing he apologized quietly to Haru and Kyo. This got him a 'Shut up and do it Kureno!' From Akito and desperate plea for them to stop from Kyo. Haru shot him an `are you fucking crazy?' look, and made a few attempt to bat or kick the thing away as Kureno grabbed his wrist to begin the unnecessary amputation. That didn't work to well and Akito was giggling happily as the first drops of blood dropped on the floor. Kureno had thought about what would harm his cousin the LEAST by chopping it off and come to the decision that his left hand probably wouldn't handicap him too badly. Haru tried really, really tried to bite back any satisfying screams, and he did a pretty good job until it hit the bone. Even then it was as strangled as he could make it, he was determined not to pass out and give Akito that too... but this really hurt! The cat, which was only halfway across the room, was leaned as far against his handcuffs as he could get as he watched. His throat was so abused now he couldn't get out more than some gasping sounds but he was still crying with no way to stop. He and Haru really should have known better than to try and be happy. They should have known better than to be happy when Akito couldn't be... Oh well... their mistake is losing Haru a hand and gaining Kyo a shattered `innocence'. Haru was still awake when it was finished, but his shoulders were heaving as he tried to catch his breath. He wasn't sure how much longer he could stay conscious either. So, he shot Akito a dirty, angry look and was quite obviously Black before the pain fully registered to his brain and he slumped forward, unconsciously. "Hn... That was fun. Why don't you get rid of him Kureno? Throw it out the window. That's an order." Akito hummed as he went and claimed the bleeding hand. "How pretty... it still has some rings on it! You'd like to have this. Wouldn't you cat!" He grinned as he came over with it. Indeed he did take off one and reach around the red head, slipping it onto one of his fingers. Kyo drew away fearfully, but he is still technically handcuffed to the table... Akito obviously had more planned…

Sighing, Kureno did as commanded. But before he returned he quietly told one of the gathered family members to hurry up and get Hatori.

Hatori wasn't exactly pleased to be told he was needed for something Akito had done. It usually involved a lot of blood when Akito did something that required his aid. Still, he went to assess the situation. And, indeed, there was a lot of blood. And vomit. Lots of vomit too.

"Akito-san, are these little anti-romance crusades of yours REALLY necessary?" He questioned softly, once he'd been let in and allowed to untie Kyo to go take care of the trembling, crying creature.

"No, not really." The man smirked. Kureno was trying his best to help Hatori, and Akito was quick to put a stop to that. Saying something about how they deserved it and the dragon could manage.

"Was there anyone else, or just Kyo today?" he wanted to know, though he'd have to get Kyo back to his office before he could even try and find anyone else.

"Hatsuharu." Kureno supplied quietly, since Akito wasn't listening anymore. He'd flitted off to a cleaner room. The rooster swallowed nervously as he continued. "He's outside... that window." He pointed over to it.

"You threw him out a window?" Hatori raised an eyebrow at him, before motioning for the rooster to grab Kyo to carry him while he went to go find and care for Hatsuharu. "Take him to my office, I'll be there in a minute." Hatori instructed, before moving over to the window. Kureno frowned. He didn't WANT to throw him out a window! But he picked up the shaking cat carefully. He'd been very, very sick after what Akito had forced him to do once Haru was out of the room again. There wasn't anything left in his stomach currently, or else he would have still been vomiting violently. Kureno set off for the doctor's office though. And Hatori got to see a rather... pale and broken looking Hatsuharu under that window... Fun huh?! He cursed under his breath before hurrying down to see if he was even still breathing. Oh, he was. His breathing was uneven and shallow, but it was still there. He'd landed flat on his back, and his face was currently rather contorted with the combined pain of his various injuries. Kyo and Haru made quite a pair back in the dragon's office. Hatori was really wishing he had a helper right now... But because Haru was bleeding the most, he had to set to work on the ox first. That entailed getting his wrist to stop bleeding and probably putting more blood in him then checking to see just WHAT all was broken. Maybe even hooking him up to a breathing machine... It turned out that there were plenty of things broken, but the one that really bothered Hatori was the break in his cousin's spine. It wasn't too severe, but it would still leave some pretty lasting damage, and hurt for a long time. It was a very, very good thing that the younger boy was unconscious. Once Hatori got things to stop bleeding, got an IV, and set what broken things he COULD. The ox would probably need some uncomfortable brace put on his back thanks to his tumble out the window. He was going to work on Kyo, but the cat had managed to get enough wits about him to crawl away to a bathroom and was pouring green foamy slime from his mouth there.

Haru stayed asleep for a LONG time. Both Black and White were painfully aware that Akito had had their hand cut off, and neither one were particularly willing to wake up and deal with it. However, eventually he woke up, White, and there was much cursing as soon as he did, followed by a rather loud (and appropriate) "Ow!". Hatori had given up trying to help Kyo. The cat was clinging to the toilet he was leaned over and refused moving. So he just put a robe over the naked red head's shoulders and went to think about what else he would need to do. He was feeling horribly tired... But... There was that ow...

"Don't try to move around..." The dragon ordered as he went about finding more painkillers. Haru made an irritated and un-amused noise, and muttered something about hangovers gone awry. "I didn't have one here... so I called one of the hospitals nearby for a back brace. I'm warning you now, it won't be comfortable." Ha'ri told him as he stuck the needle in him.

"Fucking hell..." Haru muttered as various memories started to clear his sleep fogged mind. "Tori-nii," He murmured finally, rubbing his eyes with his remaining hand. "How'd you like to explain why I can't feel my legs?" He wasn't quite awake yet, but he'd heard something about a back brace, must have something to do with that.

"Breaks in your spine." The dragon sighed. "Meaning your nerves are also screwed up."

The ox let out a humorless and exasperated laugh that sort of melted into a groan.

"Perfect." He grumbled irritably a few moments later.

"I can straighten your spine with the brace." Hatori shrugged. "But nerves are much more difficult to deal with. I can't do anything about the nerves."

"Tori-nii," He sighed, shaking his head a little. "I'm not fully awake yet. How about a simpler translation?"

"You're stuck like that."

"That's what I thought you meant." He nodded, blinking a few times, before looking around the room a bit. Akito had had Kyo raped... so... "Where's Kyo?" He wanted to know next.

"Over in that bathroom." Hatori pointed to the closed door a little way off.

"Could you get him?" Haru requested with a raised eyebrow. "I'm kinda worried..."

The dragon rubbed his temple a little bit. "I don't know if I can get him out of there." Then he added a little: "Or if his stomachs empty yet... I don't think you want him vomiting on you..."

"He's puking?" Haru frowned a little. Akito hadn't started that whole further torturing thing until he'd passed out.

"Nnn, quite a bit." Tori nodded. "I'll go check on him." He offered finally. He really did need to check on the red head. When he got down there, Kyo wasn't puking anymore... He'd run out of green bile finally and his throat hurt like a bitch. Instead, he'd wrapped himself up in the robe, still crying and trying vainly to wash all the blood and other disgusting things off.

"Hatsuharu's awake." Hatori told him softly. "Are you feeling better?" Kyo turned his head and looked at him like he was crazy. No. No. He wasn't okay. He hurt everywhere; he had to lean heavily against the counter of the sink just to stay upright. He was covered in people he didn't know's jizz, he was bleeding in several unpleasant places. And Akito had... had... His tears just came harder and he turned back to what he was doing before to doctor came.

"He wants to see you." Hatori added, though he kept his tone at the same even level. He knew Kyo had heard him. The cat wasn't even sure he could walk that far. He idly rubbed at the red line around his neck from that strap, before trying... and failing rather miserably. He was just lucky he didn't hurt himself.

"G-great..." he muttered irritably as he wiped his eyes with the heel of his hand. Hatori rolled his eyes, went over, picked Kyo up, and sat him down again on the edge of Haru's bed.

"There." He stated before informing them he had to check on Akito and leaving the room, warning Haru not to try and sit up as he exited the room. The red head looked over at the ox tiredly. Being carried over here kind of sucked.

"He said you wanted to see me. Here I am." He whispered, since currently his voice didn't get any louder.

"Uh, hey." Haru greeted, groping blindly over the bed to find his boyfriend's hand with his own good one. "Are you okay?" He wanted to know, frowning with the fact that he couldn't sit up right now to see Kyo more properly.

"Uh-huh," The cat answered impassively. When Haru took his hand he felt the press of that ring and looked down at it. It was... all bloody and Kyo felt sick again. He closed his eyes and carefully extracted his hand so he could take the damn thing off. Haru blinked when he did that, and raised an eyebrow at the ring. He'd have thought Akito would have thrown it out, not given it to Kyo. Aforementioned boyfriend promptly chucked it somewhere across the room.

"What about you?" He wondered, as if... he hadn't just done that.

"I've been better." He admitted with a slight sweat drop. "But, it's nothing that can't be dealt with." He added with a small, supposedly assuring smile.

"Right," Kyo murmured. He needed to get back in that bathroom and shower or something. Maybe he could crawl?

"I--" He started a moment later. He could tell Kyo wasn't fine, anyone with eyes or ears could tell that. "You're sure you're okay? I'm so sorry he did that to you."

"He threw you out a window. I think I'm fine." The older boy answered, idly wiping the edge of one of his eyes. There would be no more crying. None. Zip. Zero.

"Did he?" Haru blinked a little more. Hatori hadn't mentioned that. Though, he supposed, it did explain the broken bones. Kyo just nodded. He didn't feel like referencing what happened before or after that for the ox.

"Hm." Haru mused absently, reclaiming Kyo's hand. "Tori-nii didn't mention that part."

"They did trust me."

"That would explain it." Haru nodded. Yes, Akito would have had to kick him REALLY hard to hurt his spine.

"I need to wash." The cat complained quietly. He didn't care how stupid he looked. His legs wouldn't hold him currently so he crawled back to that bathroom without another word. He was tired of feeling dirty already.

Hatori came back from Akito's check-up looking a little bit worse for wear. But he we still alive! He noted that the cat was gone again when he returned though.

"Kyo?" He questioned the mostly-conscious ox idly.

"Is bathing." he informed him in a bored tone. He really didn't have anything to do, and he didn't appreciate it, either.

"Hn," Tori nodded. "Most of it's fairly obvious... But would you like to fill me in on what happened to him?"

"The raping thing?" He blinked a little. "I kinda saw."

"Anything else?" That didn't explain the vomiting very well.

"Nnmm." He shook his head. "Not that I saw, but, you can probably get more out of him."

Eventually Kyo came slithering back out. Hatori went over and collected him so he could finally take a look at him and maybe find some medicine to help. It was getting late too, so he popped a sleeping pill into the poor thing's mouth/

"Er, sharing a bed's going to be a little out of the question, isn't it?" Haru questioned, as he watched Hatori move the sleeping kitten to a more comfortable place than a chair.

"Yes." The dragon murmured. Kyo was drugged out right now, but all the casts and other machinery attached to the ox would probably make sleeping there uncomfortable either way.

"Mm. Wonderful." Haru rolled his eyes, sarcasm just oozing from his tone. "He's not hurt, is he?"

"Only a little." Hatori replied vaguely.

"But, he'll be alright?"

"Yes." The doctor nodded. Physically yes. He had NO idea mentally since the teenager hadn't actually spoken to him much yet. Haru let out a relieved sigh. Raped or not, at least Kyo had come out of this (relatively) unscathed.

Thanks to drugs, both of our injured little friends slept through the night. And like Hatori had guessed, Kyo was up the next day. It hurt to be up, since some various pieces of tissues were ripped. But he didn't try to move too far. Just from where Ha'ri had put him over to the edge of Haru's bed. Haru continued to interrogate him about his health and well-being, but eventually he was convinced that the cat was no worse than uncomfortable. He was more than prepared to answer any questions Kyo had for him too--as far as his limited knowledge on just what was wrong went. Mostly, though, he was feeling guilty that those goons had been inside his kitten to begin with.

Kyo normally wouldn't, but he forced up a small smile for the other. He'd been raped yesterday; Haru had to watch, then got his hand cut off, THEN got thrown out a window. The very least the cat felt he could do was assure the other he was okay.

"Good." Haru sighed finally, giving Kyo's hand a quick squeeze. It really was all he could do at the moment, not being able to sit up or anything at the moment.

That was when the noise began. "Haaaaaaaaa-san?" The idiot whose name we don't even need to mention crooned. Haru grimaced. He didn't know where Hatori was, just that he wasn't there. That meant one thing--they'd have to deal with Shigure. He wasn't looking forward to that at the moment. The dog came flouncing in, obviously looking for his very bestest friend as he went. Instead he found the cat and the ox. "Oooo, Kyo-kun. Really. I didn't think you were the kind for strenuous sex! But this does explain your not coming home last night." The cat frowned darkly at him muttering something along the lines of 'you fucking moron' but not answering.

Haru sighed and forced a pleasant expression. "Hi, Sensei." He greeted with a small wave of his good hand, while the other almost unconsciously hid under the covers.

"So what have you two done to yourselves in your exploitations?" Shigure winked. "I'll need something to take back to Tohru-kun. She's just about pulling her hair out with worry as it is." Kyo retook Haru's hand and held it tightly in an attempt to keep himself from killing Shigure right there.

"Kyo, you're crushing my fingers." Haru felt he should point out, before turning his attention back to Shigure. "Does Honda-san want a picture to assure her he's alive?"

"Some kind of explanation would work just fine."

"What kind of explanation?" Haru asked with a raised eyebrow.

"It can be a lie." The dog smiled. "Now that I know where you are. But the dear girl is far too familiar with my kind of lies for them to be very comforting to her."

"Eh, tell her he fell asleep." He waved it off vaguely. It wasn't a total lie. Kyo had fallen asleep after Hatori had drugged him.

"Oooh-kay. So, either of you know where Haa-san is??" If they weren't going to tell him what had happened, he was sure he could bother it out of the dragon.

"No." Kyo murmured, his throat was still all touchy and scratchy though. He didn't feel like saying much more.

"What'd you want, anyway?" Haru asked with an odd look. "Or, did you just want to bug him?"

"It's not bugging." Shigure murmured innocently.

"Eh, whatever." He brushed that off. "That didn't answer the question, though."

"I'm here to visit him." The older man corrected with a 'Hmph'.

"He'll probably come here before too long." Haru shrugged, glancing at the clock. Yeah, soon. Which wasn't an intelligent thing to say, considering they got to live through Shigure's chatter until such time occurred. Haru could handle it for a while. Shigure still wouldn't know anything to gossip about as long as he kept his injured arm under the blankets and didn't say anything stupid.

Then of course, Hatori appeared. Frowned. Told Shigure to get out. Then sighed, and added a 'wait at my house', and set about checking his less than comfortable patients. Haru was soon to get even more uncomfortable since Ha'ri'd been off getting that lovely back brace this morning.

"This thing sucks!" Haru grumbled as Hatori put it on him. Indeed, it was quite uncomfortable.

"I warned you. But if you want your spine to stay misaligned and broken, I'll be happy to take it off for you." The dragon told him with a shrug. Kyo pat his head comfortingly since that was one of the few places that weren't broken, and the ox would actually feel it.

"Geh, no thanks." He muttered in irritation. Damnit all, why'd Akito have to throw him out a window?

After checking Kyo, Hatori left one of the maids who could get them food if they needed. Kyo didn't honestly think he could eat though. Not after his last 'Meal'. So he declined with a shake of his head and went in search of something he and Haru could do, since it was always just the two of them until Hatori showed up again. And Haru got to lie there and wait for him to come back. That was one of the less entertaining moments of his life.

"I found books and cards." The cat offered quietly once he came back to his perch on the edge of the bed. Said items bundled up in his arms. Apparently, it was from when Ha'ri had to baby-sit Momiji.

"Cool." Haru nodded in appreciation. "You pick." Kyo smiled lightly, and despite Hatori's orders, curled up carefully next to the ox and offered to read him a story if he was a good boy, jokingly, of course. He'd just have to whisper to, that's all. Not like anything would make it difficult for the ox to hear him. Haru smiled at him, despite everything, and used his good hand to usher Kyo's head down and gently kissed him. He was careful to be gentle. The last thing he wanted to do was hurt him--especially not now.

"I said if you were a good boy." Kyo pointed out. His fear of hurting his boyfriend was also rather great.

"I am being good." Haru pointed out with a small, pouting frown. "Am I not allowed to kiss you anymore?"

"Don't pout you big baby..." The red head mumbled sounding vaguely annoyed. "That's not what I said."

"Then what was with the timing?"

"You could be a little careful about yourself you know." His boyfriend grumbled half-heartedly. "Kureno tossed you out from a top floor window, I don't wanna accidentally hurt you."

"It's not going to break again." Haru pointed out with a small sweat drop. "Not from that."

The kitty sighed before getting into a safe position. "Hush so I can read you your story, little boy."

"Yes, Daddy," Haru snorted with amusement. "Of course, I'll be good."

That was the exciting way they got to spend most of their afternoon. It was kind of nice. They went through all that crap because they were dating. Might as well make this like one big, not that exciting, date. After a while, Haru had to insist Kyo rest his voice. After all, it still wasn't the best condition. And then they'd cuddled for a while. (Carefully, of course, due to various injuries.) And played cards for a while.

Later that night Kyo had to extract himself on the grounds that he needed to wash. He also wanted clothes rather than this stupid robe, but he'd have to wait for that maid to come back later that night. He'd just have her get some of Haru's. The kitty was developing a deep hatred of feeling dirty. Not that anyone blamed him. But he honestly felt like he could have a breakdown if he couldn't be clean. Haru watched him go with concern. He'd seen Yuki after Akito had been through with him, he didn't want Kyo to have to go through that too.

Kitty returned a bit happier, but he still wanted to clothes. He almost missed his chance too! Since when that nurse came back she got all blushing at how they were situated in the bed and tried to leave as she mumbled apologies.

"Stop, stop." Kyo tried as loud as he could. "Go to his room and get clothes for me. Please?" He begged her quietly when he finally got her to come back over. She nodded and scurried off.

"Ah," Haru cooed at him with a sly look. "Does my kitten like the way I dress?"

"This robe is dirty. I can't get my clothes unless someone drives to Shigure's, and this stupid robe doesn't cover much." His boyfriend grumbled in response to that.

"But, the view is so great." The ox snickered a little, obviously teasing him. Though, it wasn't like he minded seeing so much of his boyfriend.

"Hush, you." The red head frowned. He couldn't hit the ox or anything, since he was already hurt and Kyo would have felt bad about that.

"Oh, come on, don't be mad." Haru offered him an imploring look, motioning for him to rejoin him. The red head sighed and returned. He'd gotten up on the painful task of making that nurse come back into the room. Man, having boyfriends was hard work. Maybe he should have stuck to his 'I hate everyone' guns and avoided this whole mess? Haru smiled at him and placed another kiss on his lips, after having urged him into leaning over again. Okay... maybe it wasn't so bad. Anyways, once the clothes maid returned the cat scampered off to the bathroom muttering something about not stripping down for Haru. He returned later in clean clothes. That didn't fit. But... beggars can't be choosers, he supposed? Well, of course, Haru just HAD to comment on how cute Kyo looked in his clothes, but it wasn't his fault. They really were too big on the cat, and he really did look adorable.

"You need to hush." The cat warned him pressing a finger to his lips. Haru just grinned, and his tongue darted out, licking Kyo's finger teasingly.

"Credit where credit is earned." He shrugged a little.

"Eck," The cat murmured, then carefully ran his slobbered on finger down Haru's cheek.

"Hey," Haru grumbled, wiping it off again. "No fair. Returning affection with nasty."

"It's your spit." The red head snorted quietly at him.

"It seemed more effective than a kiss, at the time." Kitty rolled his eyes before carefully leaning over and kissing the ox instead. There! It was all nice and fair now. Affection for Affection. Haru is such a baby... Haru smiled into the kiss, and murmured against his boyfriend's lips something to the effect of 'I love you'.

And their romantic moment was quite thoroughly ruined by:

"Awwwww Kyo and Haaaaru! Sittin' inna tree! K-i-s-s-i-n-g." Being crooned by none other than Momiji. Kyo's head drooped a little and he wondered if the rabbit would just go away if ignored. Haru, however, had a more direct way to get rid of him. Or, so he thought. He turned an annoyed look on the bunny and demanded to know what he wanted. And then he was given a big long and exaggerated account of how he'd found out they were there. Then finished with: "And I came to see you. Since I know Ha'ri is awful boring."

"Oh. Great." He really did try to keep the sarcasm out of his tone. Really he did. Though, he wasn't sure Momiji noticed, even if it had been there. Yes, Hatori was boring, but he'd been enjoying his alone time with Kyo, thank you very fucking much.

But his boyfriend had had quite enough already. "Twerp." He whispered as he moved over by the blonde

"Yeeees, Kyo?"

"Go away before I smack you."

"Awww, Kyooo you're no fun!" But the red head just ignored him and ushered him as roughly as he could towards the door. Momitchi cried and whined the entire way. Even though it hurt Kyo a bit to be walking around, it was worth it to get rid of the little shit.

"You sure you should be moving around that much yet?" Haru questioned him idly, once the room was once again rabbit free.

"Don't know. Hatori didn't say either way." Kyo told him with a half shrug.

"Well, you can kind of tell with that sort of stuff." Haru wasn't trying to remind Kyo of anything, but he did know a thing or two about post-sex discomforts. The cat just perched on the edge of the bed with his back to Haru.

"It hurts. But what the hell." At least he COULD walk.

"Hmm, at least he didn't hurt you." The ox mused, trying really hard to find the upside here. The feline glanced over his shoulder at him like he was fucking crazy. Right. Right! It was fine just as long as Kyo wasn't hurt! Haru's missing hand and inability to move aren't a fucking downside at all!

Haru met the look evenly. "I'll be fine." He brushed his own ever-growing pain off. Where was Hatori with drugs when you needed him? "I think." He added, as it registered that he probably wouldn't be, but he wanted Kyo to stop giving him those looks anyway.

Oh. Hatori was coming. And when he showed up he irritably threw his coat onto a chair and set about what needed to be done. Stupid Akito and his crap. It was bad enough what he'd had done to Hatsuharu and Kyo, but then he has to be a complete ass and keep the doctor there for hours.

"Pain killers for you..." He murmured absently as he checked all the things for the ox, and after a quick check to the clock added a "And a sleeping pill for you..." For Kyo. Haru was quite grateful to get the painkillers, and murmured out some appreciative words as he took them. Drugs were good. Kitty was not so grateful. He frowned at the doctor. He hadn't consented to the pill the night before. He didn't appreciate being drugged out, at all, and he didn't want to take the thing now. He could sleep on his own, thank you very much, Hatori, and go away. And so, an argument commenced. Haru finally intervened on the pretense of getting a headache from the bickering and quietly pleaded to Kyo to just take them one more time. His red headed boyfriend glared at him darkly before taking the thing from the dragon. Fucking... pills. Hatori also still refused them the same bed and when the older teen was beginning to fall asleep he ushered him carefully off to the other bed.

Ha'ri was tempted to let him go a night with out the pills. Maybe a nightmare or two would make him more grateful for them. Haru waved farewell and goodnight to Hatori and attempted to get comfortable. But, he couldn't move, and that stupid brace was a pain in the ass. Literally.

The next day a fun new argument broke out between the cat and the doctor.

"Drop. Dead." The red head glared. "I'm not leaving him here to go to school. No." It wasn't a loud argument, but it was one nonetheless.

"I can go with him?" Haru offered after a few minutes of this.

That halted the bickering and both looked at him coolly. "No."

Hatori didn't want the big open wound that was his wrist to be going out into the exposed air. And Kyo could just imagine how much FUN Haru would have trying to move around with all those casts and back braces. It would be completely pointless for him to go.

"Hatori. I'm not going." Kyo told him stiffly once he turned his attention back onto the dragon. Well, so much for that! Hatori made an exasperated noise and decided to try and bargain with him. They'd been at this for a good half hour.

"Two weeks." He sighed, thinking about it for a minute. "Your school waits two weeks before they call looking for students. You have until then at the very most."

"Fine." Kyo rolled his eyes tiredly and went back to his position on his boyfriend's bed. Hatori could shove a stick up his ass for all he cared. And for a moment, he looked like he might. But, instead, he just checked on Haru's various injuries, gave him more painkillers, and left the two of them alone, saying he'd be back later.

Later that afternoon they got yet another visitor. Kureno. Fun stuff huh? The poor guy looked really sorry if that counted for anything.

"Akito-san sent me..." He mumbled out carefully in response to the cat's more than angry glare.

Hatsuharu offered him a cool look, and in a matching tone asked, "What's he want? To gloat?"

"This is for Kyo." The rooster offered over a little ring box. "And I wanted to apologize, to both of you, again." The cat was reading a little slip of paper that had been in the box. There was a ring in there too. But once he was done, he shut all of it in there and threw it as hard as he could at the rooster.

"Fuck him. Fuck you." He muttered darkly before disappearing off to the bathroom. He hadn't eaten for two days, but he still felt sick now.

"What the hell was that about?" Haru demanded, staring after Kyo for a moment, before turning an accusing glare on Kureno. The older man sighed before carefully taking the box over to the garbage and shredding up the little note Akito had written.

"I don't know." He hadn't read the note, but he could imagine which one of the unpleasant events it had been about. The ox sighed in irritation. He'd just have to wait for Kyo to come back out of the bathroom and get it out of him. Kureno murmured out another low apology before leaving. He'd done what Akito had told him to do, and he figured he could let them be now.

Kyo couldn't return until he'd forced some more frothy green bile out of his guilty stomach. He was amazed he still had anything left in him to vomit. But hey? Anything's possible, he supposed.

"What was that about?" Haru asked, in a gentler tone when he did finally return. "You okay?"

"I'm great." Kyo shrugged with a half smile.

"Liar." Haru accused darkly. "You can tell me, you know. I--I can't help you if you don't tell me, Kyo."

"It's fine." The cat mumbled. "So hush."

"Someone needs to kick Akito in the nuts." The younger announced, motioning for Kyo to join him again. The red head did as he was beckoned. He agreed quietly with what his boyfriend was saying. But silently thought he would much rather cut them off and make Akito eat them. Well, kicking them would be a start.

"I love you." Haru murmured after a moment. "And you're way too good to me."

Kitty really laughed at him. "How do you figure that?" The way Kyo figured it, he'd gotten his boyfriend's hand cut off and gotten him thrown out a window. That didn't seem to be too good to him.

"You're going to get in trouble with Shihan over ditching school, if you're not careful."

"I hadn't even thought about him." The feline shrugged.

"Yeah, well," Haru offered him an odd look. "Just don't get in trouble because of me."

"Bit late for that isn't it?" Their current conditions were pretty much them getting in trouble for dating.

"I meant with Shihan."

"Hnn right." Feh. Kazuma could fuss all he wanted.

"Thank you." He nodded in content.

It was another boring day in the doctor's office. When the little maid appeared Kyo still had to refuse food on the basis that he'd just been sick a few hours earlier. He was beginning to feel the effects of no food. But it was the form of wooziness when standing, not hunger.

"Kyo," Haru confronted him on it. "I'm not an expert, but aren't you supposed to actually eat?"

"Don't eat if you're just going to barf." The older half of the relationship offered with a little smile.

"Yes, that reminds me," Haru offered him an odd look. "Why have you been barfing so much?"

"Sick?" Kitty suggested.

"This is related to your mini hissy fit on Kureno, isn't it?"

"He deserved it." Kyo replied indignantly. He didn't see it as a hissy fit.

"And yet you still haven't told me what's going on!"

"I didn't think you needed to be told. You were there."

"Kyo," Haru raised an eyebrow at him. "I've been bottom before. It doesn't make you throw up for days on end." Damn Haru and his sexual experience. Kyo rolled his eyes.

"Really. It's nothing. Badly timed stomach flu." and he eyed the ox dryly. "And it hasn't been days on end. It's been three."

"Still plural." He shrugged.

The feline sighed. "Tcch, fine." He murmured. This day just would have been better without Kureno coming to visit.

"Besides," he continued to muse. "Wouldn't Tori-nii have noticed? I think you're not telling me something."

"Or not." Kyo mumbled shortly.

"Kyo," He whined a little. "It's not nice to keep secrets." But he did let it drop after that. Kitty sighed with relief and just curled up tiredly by the other. Haru played idly with Kyo's hair while he softly changed the subject.

Kyo's aversion to the sleeping pills stopped that night. He actually asked the doctor for them. It was probably good he didn't have to go to school for a while because he was always too tired. No food, no energy. Hatori even came in to check on them one afternoon to find that the cat had passed out in the bed with the ox. Despite the orders to sleep separate. Another body with Haru might injure him or the body.

Haru didn't care about that, though. He was worried about Kyo. He shouldn't be that tired. Maybe it was from not eating for a week? The dragon wandered over with a sigh and raised an eyebrow at the ox. Waiting for an explanation as to why his orders were disobeyed.

"He fell asleep." Haru murmured quietly, wrapping his arms almost protectively around his sleeping boyfriend. "Twice." The cat looked pale, and Hatori didn't appreciate one his patients looking like that. He brushed aside the red bangs on his forehead and put his hand there.

"Did he say he felt unwell?" The doctor wondered.

Well, he had said something about stomach flu.

"Mmhmm." Haru nodded a little.

"Hn..." Tori murmured. When the kid woke up he'd have to take a look and interrogate him.

"And he hasn't been eating." Haru admitted in a low tone. He didn't want to wake Kyo up by tattling on him.

"For how long?" That would explain everything right there.

"Uh... six... days... ish." That he knew of, anyway.

"Idiot." Ha'ri grumbled, eyeing the cat with irritation.

"He won't tell me why not, though." He continued, as though Hatori HADN'T just interrupted him. "Something about a stomach flu, but he doesn't have a fever."

"No fever." Tori confirmed. "Anything else you'd like to share?"

"I don't know anything else." Haru promised, offering him an odd look. "That's the problem."

"Don't worry about it. I'll get him to eat, even if I have to get Kazuma and feeding tubes to do it." Hatori shrugged, relatively unworried. Haru frowned at that prospect. He didn't want to force Kyo to eat, but he didn't want him to starve to death either. Not that it was really his choice either way.

Kyo and Hatori are starting such a great relationship here!

"Go to hell, Hatori. No." he frowned at the mention of being forced into eating.

"Kyo, please eat?" Haru put in before Hatori had a chance to say anything else. "You know this isn't good for you."

The cat stared at him like he was insane for a minute before staying firm. "No." Hatori opened his mouth to say something, but Haru beat him, again.

"But why not?" The ox asked in bewilderment. "You're gonna DIE at this rate!"

"Will not." The red head snorted indignantly. "Takes longer to starve."

"But, it still happens when you don't eat."

"Kyo." The dragon finally cut in. "You're all right for a few days yet. But, if you don't eat tomorrow I'm going to get Kazuma and between the two of us we'll force you to eat."

"Drop dead." Was all the answer he was getting.

"Kyo," Haru sighed in frustration. "Please? I mean, your hurting yourself. And that's bad." Kitty just glared at him and refused to answer. "So, you want Tori-nii to force feed you?" Haru raised an eyebrow at him. "He has feeding tubes, Kyo, I've seen them."

The red head's glare got darker. "You can fuckin' try." He spit in the doctor's general direction.

"I'm going to go talk to Kazuma." The man finally shrugged and headed out. He knew he couldn't force the cat to do anything, but the gray haired man most certainly could.

Hatori had good timing too. Kazuma had just finished his last class of the day when the dragon showed up at his dojo seeking his assistance.

"Hello, Kazuma." Ha'ri bowed politely for his older cousin as he entered the dojo. "If you're not busy, I need to talk with you."

"Not anymore." The karate master shook his head, and took a drink of water. "That was my last class of the day." He added, nodding after his retreating students.

"Hn, it's about Kyo." The doctor started with distastefully. "He's causing me some trouble."

"Problems?" Kazuma echoed, raising an eyebrow at him. "What's he doing now?"

"Starving himself." Tori murmured and was very tempted to roll his eyes.

"Do we know why?"

"No. He won't say. At first I thought he was sick, because he really had been ill. But he doesn't have a fever." Hatori explained.

Kazuma sighed. Kyo was being difficult. Again. "So, what do you want me to do about it?"

"I can't hold him down to feed him." Ha'ri murmured with a half smile.

"Alright." He agreed with a small nod. "Just let me shower first." He added. "Then I'll be happy to hold him down."

When Hatori returned without Kazuma, Kyo was inclined to smirk. But then he was informed the man would be along in a little while. The cat didn't believe him, but then his Shishou appeared, and he was forced to cast a long hard glare on both of the older men.

"Hatori. I hate you." He stated very plainly.

"That's fine." Hatori shrugged.

Haru just looked relieved that they were going to make Kyo eat, and didn't really care if Kazuma saw his various injuries or not. He knew he wouldn't tell anyone. A maid appeared with food and Kazuma took a hand on his former charge. The cat looked up at him nervously and squirmed in his grasp but that didn't help. Hatori was still advancing on him with food. His eyes glassed over and he shivered and twitched. He tried clamping his mouth shut, but Kazuma pried it open. About halfway through the plate of food Kyo was totally out of it, he was smiling oddly and letting out a thin nervous laugh. But he was out of it, as if he had a mouthful of leeks. Haru frowned as they went about this, and his gaze flickered between Hatori, Kazuma, and Kyo himself.

"Is he okay?" He asked finally. Hatori paused for a moment to wave a hand in front of his face.

"I have no idea." He is NOT any kind of therapist after all, so he has no idea what's going on in Kitty's brain.

"Cause, he doesn't look okay." Haru elaborated a little. He was making an odd noise now. On top of his odd little noises the red head was twitching a little too. So, Tori decided he should stop. Hmm, Maybe Kyo did have a good reason for starving himself.

"Kyo?" He snapped his fingers in front of the kid's face and got a nothing. Kazuma tried a few times too, but he still wouldn't react. Haru didn't like this, but it wasn't like he could do anything about it from where he was. Now that Kazuma wasn't holding him down the feline pulled away from him wordlessly. All his odd little symptoms still going full force as he disappeared into the bathroom. Hatori followed him worriedly and listened at the door. It sounded like Kyo was puking and giggling madly at the same time... If that's even possible. Haru raised an eyebrow at the doorway, from which the odd giggly-barfing noises were protruding. He was highly considering risking injuring himself further to get out of bed to crawl over there to check on him, but the door was probably locked anyway, so he didn't even try. Kyo appeared in the doorway much later. He was grinning from ear to ear and it was a bit unnerving. And he was still giggling. The giggling was just fucking weird.

"Er, Kyo?" Haru beckoned him, trying really hard to keep the nervous edge out of his tone. "You okay?"

"Nnnhnn." The kitty crooned and came over to perch cutely on the edge of the ox's bed. He didn't even really seem to notice Hatori and Kazuma were still there.

"You're sure?" He wanted to confirm. "You're acting a little happy." It really was kind of frightening. Kyo cocked his head to one side and blinked at him in wide-eyed confusion.

"Er, never mind." He let it go.

Kazuma was beginning to regret having agreed to do this.

"Hatori. I think we broke him." He murmured quietly to the dragon.

"So it would seem." Hatori agreed, watching Kyo carefully. "But, what I don't understand is why he'd have such an extreme reaction to food." He added under his breath, before posing the question to the cat himself. Kyo frowned for a moment, but the look was gone almost immediately and he turned to Haru. Moving carefully so he was leaned down next to his boyfriend's ear. He whispered everything. His now rather insane appearance not faltering even once in the telling. Haru's expression darkened as the tale progressed. Fuck the curse; he was going to kill Akito for doing that. Even if he had to drag himself to the head's room on his god damned elbows.

"Tell Tori-nii and Shihan." He commanded in a soft, carefully empty tone, a moment after Kyo's story was over. Kyo sat up and just laughed nervously for a few moments before turning to them.

"When-when Kureno... threw Haru out the window... Heh... Akito went over and got his-his! Hand hehe... and he came over and-and put one of the rings that had been on it on me... Nnnheh-heh. Then-then Akito and Akito he had it... it was in my face and Ahah... it was in my face..." He paused to wring his hands nervously. "Then he Akito and Kureno... Akito was-was force-force hehe... feeding it to me... and... hehe..." Kazuma could understand now and he frowned darkly. What the hell was wrong with Akito? "Sick... I was so.. hehe... sick.... sick... sick... sick..." Kyo was mumbling now.

"Kyo..." Haru murmured finally, after a moment. "It's okay now. You don't have to eat anymore." He'd fucking find another way to keep him alive. Kyo's smile got a little less crazy when he turned to smile at his boyfriend. Then he just continued to ignore the two adults in the room by curling up next to the ox. He was giggling like a high school girl and shivering as he did it though. Haru just wrapped his injured arm around Kyo, and ran his fingers through his hair with his other hand. He was going to find a way to hurt Akito for doing that. He couldn't actually touch him, but he'd find a way. In the mean time, he had to find a way to keep Kyo alive without actually making him eat. That was the more immediate problem. Hatori sighed. Great, in his efforts he'd driven his cousin and patient insane. He really needed that on his record.

"Hatsuharu, you take care of him. I'll need to go back to that hospital and get the equipment in order deal with Kyo's problem."

"Right." Haru agreed in a slightly flat tone. Maybe if they could convince Kyo he wouldn't have to eat anything else, he'd stop acting like this.

"Thank you for your help Kazuma, I suppose. Anyways I have to go now." It was still a reasonable hour in the afternoon. He might be able to get what he needs and then come right back. So he set off on the great task of getting this machinery. Kazuma left as well.

"I'm sorry." Haru whispered into Kyo's ear once they were alone. "I--I'm so sorry. I should have known that if you were that adamant, you'd have a good reason. I just didn't want you to keep hurting yourself." He was babbling quite a bit himself by this point.

Kyo chuckled quietly. "It's-it's what we get." He nuzzled the other softly. "It's punishment-punishment for being bad! Weren't you listening to Akii? Heheh." In his own insane little way he was trying to make the ox stop saying he was sorry.

"But we didn't DO anything WRONG!" Haru insisted softly. He still wasn't sure what they were being punished for, besides maybe trying to be happy.

"Nnheh-heh. Haru-haru. Akii said being together is wrong. If he's all alone we should be too!" He quoted in a slightly sing-songy voice. "But his silly rules are made to be broken, ne, ne?"

"Mm, right." Haru agreed, reaching for Kyo's hand and drawing it up to his lips, placing a gentle kiss on his fingers. "Most people just tend to try and not get caught." Well, it wasn't like Hiro and Hatori. Who had actually gone to Akito and fucking ANNOUNCED it.

Kitty smiled brightly. "First rule of breaking rules! You've done nothing wrong unless you get caught!"

"That's right." He agreed with a small laugh. If it weren't for the fact that he was pretty sure Kyo was rather sick at the moment, he could have gotten used to this new, social, Kyo rather quickly. The cat let out another one of those almost valley-girl-ish giggles he seemed to constantly be making now. Then was interrupted by a yawn.

"Hehehe, with all the talking sick and eating and the..." He yawned again and closed his eyes. "Tired.. Heh, Heh..."

"Go to sleep." Haru told him softly. Hatori wasn't going to put Kyo in a different bed tonight, he'd be sure of it. He was going to watch Kyo until he either stopped giggling or stopped twitching. Both would be preferable, but he'd settle for either. Giggles halted in sleep, but various muscles in his face, arms, and hands kept up their happy little twitchy dance.

And honestly, Hatori wasn't going to try and move the cat. He didn't have the will, or the heart to, when he came back. He just set the machine he'd gone off to get on his desk and said he'd be back in the morning to see if it would work out for Kyo. Then he gave the ox the painkillers he'd meant to give him when he came earlier and hurried off to apologize to Akito and take care of him. Haru sighed, and waited a few minutes for his painkillers to kick in, before going to sleep himself. Not like he had much else to do. Maybe Kyo would be better in the morning.

Or… or not. When he woke up Kyo was hovering over his face, looking at him happily. He was quite literally biting his tongue to keep his mind numbing giggles in too.

"Ack!" Haru yelped, and jumped as much as he could in his current condition. He hadn't remembered Kyo falling asleep in his bed, and he wasn't used to being in a bed with someone who, well, hovered like that. "Uh--morning?" He greeted, after a moment of trying to catch the breath he'd lost in his little scream of surprise.

A small laugh escaped the kitty and he smiled happily. "Hi." He chirped shortly.

"Er, you slept okay, right?"

"Uuuh-huuuuh."

"Well, good." Maybe it would be harder than he'd given it credit for to get used to this new Kyo. "Um, Tori-nii said he found a way to feed you without you actually having to eat." He added. The kitty made a small tittering sound as he looked on at the ox with bright eyed curiosity.

"Over there." He made a vague gesture toward the desk with his good hand. "Somewhere."

His older cousin grinned, leaning up and kissing him on the forehead. "Okay." mumbled with a cute little tipping of his head to one side. Haru just about melted. Crazy or not, (and he was pretty sure he was by this point) this was still Kyo.

"I love you, Kyo." he murmured softly, pushing Kyo's head back down with his hand so that he could actually kiss him. Kyo kissed him back with an excited little squeal. They hadn't been going out that long, and their kisses hadn't been anything special. But in his current state of mind, Kyo was willing to offer up everything... and did some interesting things with his tongue that most people wouldn't have expected him to know how to do.

"Holy shit!" Haru mumbled once the kiss broke, looking a little dazed. "When'd you learn to do that?"

"Uuuuhm..." his boyfriend laughed and smiled again as he thought about it. "That's a secret?" He finally offered up to the ox.

"Uh, sure." It was probably best that he didn't know.

"Hehe, sorry for depriving you Haru-Haru." The kitty told him. "It seemed like we hadn't been dating long enough to do that for you. But since we went ahead and already got punished by Akii-Akii I figured it wouldn't hurt." He kissed the tip of the ox's nose teasingly. "But I'm all dirty-dirty now. I need a shower. Kay, Bye!" He chirped before getting off the bed bouncily and heading off to the bathroom. Haru just watched after him helplessly. He would need bathe too, at some point, somehow.

The best part of Kyo's shower is that he flounced back out in that robe. It'd been cleaned since he'd stopped wearing it, so he figured he could put it back on. He came over and happily sat on the edge of Haru's bed. His new smile still plastered up on his face as his hands twitched idly.

"Ew, being dirty is no fun." He managed to murmur out a whole sentence without giggling... Oops, never mind. There's the giggle. Haru nodded absently. He was really bored with just laying there. He'd have to ask Hatori how long it would take for his spine to heal so he could sit up, and what the dragon intended to do with/for him afterward. He would need to get out of bed eventually... probably...

The dragon came back, not looking too great. Akito had been annoyed by his lateness the day before. So, he'd gotten in trouble and had to stay late and it just sucked. But he was there now. While he checked Haru he sent Kyo off to actually get dressed. Only looking at the cat a little oddly when he laughed and twitched as he went. Crazy Kyo was going to take some getting used to. Anyways, he tried to answer Haru's questions as best he could.

"I can fix your broken bones, and get your spine realigned. But I can't do anything about your hand or the nerves. You'll have to go to an actual hospital for that." he shrugged helplessly.

"Yeah, you said that." He agreed, before frowning and giving Hatori an odd look. "Wait a minute--what can they do?"

"They can probably give you something for your hand and depending on the damage, they could potentially help with the nerves?" Hatori offered.

"Give me something for my hand." He echoed flatly. "Regenerative science has gone a long way, Tori-nii?"

"Not really." The dragon blinked at him dryly. "More in the way of prosthetics, most likely. Could probably sow someone else hand onto you, if you really didn't want a plastic one."

"That's nasty." Haru decided dryly. "Plastic's fine."

"You're lucky our family is rich, prosthetics cost a lot of money." The doctor murmured, making a mental note to send a maid to clean the ox. "And you'll probably need a wheel chair too."

"At least Akito's going to be the one to pay for it." He shrugged a bit. It was what he got for maiming children.

"I'm sure he thinks the price is worth the amusement he got out of it." His older cousin muttered darkly. Now it was just a matter of waiting for Kyo to return so he could show the cat how to feed himself. The machine he'd gotten was usually used for people who had something wrong with their esophagus. But hey, it was working their needs too. When Kyo did appear, he could help but laugh. The thing went in his belly button! What would you do? Haru watched all this with idle interest. His mind wasn't really there, though. A plastic hand and a wheelchair, huh? Yeah, he was in fucking great shape.

That's what happens when you piss off Akito. Anyways, once Hatori had fulfilled his doctorly duties he left to find a maid (who could clean the stinky ox) and Kyo came over and set about the cheering up of his poor, poor boyfriend.

And Haru had been trying so hard to not act depressed about this too! But, there was a problem with that. Two problems, actually. The situation WAS depressing, and he wasn't the best actor.

"Aww, Haru-haru!" The red head chuckled softly as he pet the other's hair. "Mmheh-heh, it'll be okay..."

"Yeah, I know." He agreed with a smile that was supposed to be assuring. "It's just kind of embarrassing, that's all." The feline had leaned over to give his boyfriend a comfortingly kiss when another one of those blushing maids appeared. She was spouting apologies and something about Hatori-san sending her, and she was about to spill the tub she had. The older and less sane of the boys was snickering helplessly at her.

"Alright." Haru agreed with a small blink, trying really hard to ignore Kyo's snickering.

The girl was funny as she continued to blush and came over. "Hatori-san sent me over to-to help... cause you're dirty and... and..." Seeing them kiss, and then Kyo's giggling at her was obviously making her nervous.

"Oh, ah--thank you." Haru nodded to her. Yes, he was filthy. He had no problem admitting that. "Kyo, quit laughing at her." He added pointedly. The cat bit his tongue to halt his amused little noises. Haru still only had one hand so the maid was helping out. Kyo watched her with amusement for a moment before speaking up.

"Nnnheh-heh. I think I should feel jealous." He giggled again with a bright smile. "Some strange woman is giving my boyfriend a sponge bath."

"Would you rather do it?" Haru challenged with a raised eyebrow. Something other than childish glee moved onto Kyo's face for a moment. He got a slightly sly look.

"Uh-huh," He cooed, insanity slipping right back onto his features. The maid blushed furiously handing over the cloth and then scuttling nervously out of the room. The older boy chortled after her retreat and then set about cleaning his poor boyfriend.

And Haru felt much better once it was done too.

"Thank you." He breathed, placing a soft kiss on whatever part of Kyo's head he could actually get to. Kitty beamed and went to set the tub by the door for the maids to collect before returning.

"Much better. It's not good to be dirty-dirty." He winked and waggled a finger at the ox.

"I know that." Haru confirmed. "But, there wasn't anything I could do about it." The red head kissed his cheek, whispering 'All better' as he drew away again. "Right." Haru nodded with a smile. "All better."

Hatori didn't have the heart to try anything else `useful' with these two. They seemed relatively happy right now. Or at least, when he came that night and Kyo was already asleep curled up closely to his boyfriend with a smile on his face, he was pretty sure that meant happy. So he decided to just give Haru his painkillers and wait a few days before seeing about maybe, taking Kyo to get help and setting appointments at the hospital for Haru.

Well, they were Sohmas. So, it really had to happen. They got visitors. LOTS of visitors. In fact, all the juunishi (excluding Ritsu, who had no idea any of this was happening) plus Tohru showed up at one point or another. Reflecting back on it, it really did make sense that everyone would know, between Momiji and Shigure. The visits really weren't that bad. Everyone thought Kyo's behavior a bit odd. But with Haru being his boyfriend, (Even if he is handicapped) most didn't dare say a word. The only visit that really didn't go well was the one with Kagura. In her defense, she really was just trying to be kind for once. How was she supposed to know Kyo had an aversion to eating after being forced to EAT Haru's hand? Either way, she tried to force some cookies on him and ended up making him cry. This led to a long string of cursing, scolding, and other various forms of rude and admonishing speech from Haru as he tried his best to comfort Kyo at the same time. It really sucked to have Kyo crying. Hatori sighed and led Kagura away and obviously explained something to her. Probably not everything, but she did return in a short while, hug the crying cat, and actually apologize. It was the most amazing thing. Then she left the remaining cookies for Haru if he cared to eat them and was herded out by the doctor. Kitty just curled up by his cousin on the amazing uncomfortable bed Hatori had them set up in and worked to restore his happy insanity look.

Well, of course, there was that day of the hospital appointments. Good luck had it that they were AFTER all the juunishi and Tohru had come and gone. On the way to that hospital, Haru had one thing on his mind and one thing alone. He had never had a more uncomfortable car ride in his life. Kitty would not be left at the compound and promised he would be a very good boy if allowed to come. And of course, Haru couldn't refuse him. So if they were both against him, Hatori's choice was made, wasn't it? Anyways, it wasn't very exciting. Just a whole lot of talking and x-rays, and just not very exciting.

But even though work on the nerves didn't look hopeful, at least the plastic hand did? Well, Haru figured he'd take what he could get, and at least he was finally sitting up again. The prospect of not walking again didn't exactly thrill him, but he'd manage. He wouldn't let Akito think he'd beaten him with this.

Once they returned Hatori figured now was as good a time as any: "Do either of you want me to contact a doctor who might be able to help Kyo?" He asked carefully. The cat blinked at him, he didn't really think there was anything wrong with himself. But that was why the dragon was also addressing Haru.

"Ah--" Haru paused in his answer and frowned a little. Kyo seemed so HAPPY. But, it was also fairly obvious he wasn't mentally sound. "At least someone who can tell if there's anything wrong to begin with." He nodded. "And who can fix it, if there is." The red head continued to look at his doctor oddly. But Hatori just shook his head and left the two of them alone again while he went to hunt down a shrink for Kyo.

Well, Haru was actually sitting up and was determined to enjoy it. So, he quickly changed the subject, and got Kyo going off on something else while he could actually look at him. Kyo didn't need to worry about it for now. They might have enjoyed it more if a shaken maid hadn't appeared then. Saying Akito-san had sent her and she had a note for Kyo-san. The kitty looked up at her cutely from where he was sitting in his chair and reached out a hand for it. She gave it to him and scuttled of quickly. The older boy read and when he was done he blinked at it oddly.

"Akii-akii is so very sweet..." He murmured with a small giggle.

"What'd he say?" Haru asked him, thinking maybe he might actually be told this time. "And last time too?"

Kyo laughed nervously and twitched a little at that. "The first time... he-he and it... wished to know... If--if I'd enjoyed my and the... sick and..." He was babbling so he stopped and decided to just directly read the note he had in his hand. "Dear Filth and Hatsuharu, I do hope you're enjoying your injuries. Your situations have honestly become more than any scheme I could have made on my own. I'm to understand Hatsuharu is paralyzed from the waist down? Too bad. Isn't it nice to know that a gang of complete strangers took your filthy little whore and now you'll never have a chance to claim him as your own? If you still want him insane that is. Oh well. Enjoy that knowledge."

Haru growled and clenched his fist. "I'll kill him if I have to crawl!" He announced, not appreciating the taunting in the least, and obviously on the verge of, if not already Black, and he immediately set about finding a way to get out of bed and not die in the process. Kyo `eeped' and hopped up, he ended up sitting lightly on his boyfriend to keep him in the bed. He didn't want to hurt him, so he kept most of his weight supported himself.

"No-no! Haru-haru! Don't do that."

"He deserves it!" Haru spat angrily. "Think about all he's done to you, even before now! Think about what he did to Tori-nii and Kana! And Yuki, and--and-Rin!" He growled again, quite aware of the fact that he couldn't sit up again now that Kyo had him pinned. "He's not good enough to be able to wait for the curse to kill him! It'd be much more fun to just do it now!"

Kyo pet his hair soothing and smiled. "We're not allowed to do that," he murmured. "Now calm down Haru-haru. Or you'll hurt yourself more." The cat winked. "And that would be bad, ne, ne?"

"Nngh..." Haru growled in frustration. "What difference would it make?" He proceeded to mumble something about 'the stupid sap, letting my body get fucked up over you', but it was under his breath, and he wasn't even sure if Kyo could hear it. See, White liked Kyo fine. He'd even go so far as to say he loved him. Black did not appreciate White getting them into another relationship. And, he was a bit bitter over the needless suffering that he too had to go through now because of said relationship. Kitty blinked and just kept petting his head. Of course the boy possessed by the vengeful spirit of the cat could hear him.

"Sorry-sorry." He simpered with a little shrug. Black turned a glare on him, but he didn't say anything more. He even went as far as to allow his tensed muscles to relax under Kyo's hold. He had no reason not to. He couldn't get up anyway. Gleeful insanity spread rapidly and Kyo's grin grew. He didn't trust the darker half of his boyfriend to behave, so he didn't move. So, to amuse himself until Haru calmed back down to White, he raised up his other hand and began to work little twirled braids into the soft white hair. He was certainly enjoying himself, even if Haru wasn't.

"What the hell!" Haru spat a few moments later, once he'd figured out what Kyo was doing, raising his hand up to try and make an attempt untangle them. Yeah, that wasn't helping to calm him down.

"Haru-haru, you'll just make it worse." The cat shrugged dramatically. Even though his smile had turned a bit sly at the younger boy's annoyance.

"Well--then--" He spluttered, giving one of the braids an unhappy tug. "You fix it! Do you have any idea how hard it is to keep this--this--" He made a vague, and probably rude, gesture at his head, "THING untangled?" The red head snorted and batted his hand away from the fluffy masses of white hair.

"Shhh, Kyo will take care of your pretty hair." He purred slowly as he went back to playing with it. Fiddling out the knots Haru's pulling had worked into it. Haru shot him an irritated look, but didn't argue. He hated having his hair tangled. When he was finished, the feline smoothed the hair down one more time before gently kissing the other's forehead.

"See, no need to fuss, silly."

"Pft. Yeah." He muttered tersely. Black still wasn't appreciating being pinned. "Hey, look," He sighed after a minute. "If you get your knee outta my gut, I'll let him back out." Kyo smiled adorably, chirped out an 'okay' and carefully crawled off the ox. He was satisfied with the other's calm level anyways; he probably would have pittered off to do something else on his own eventually. Haru sighed again, deeply to calm further calm himself. He knew White wouldn't come back out if their brain were too riled. So, yes, calmed down, closed his eyes and passed out while Black searched their mind for White. Kitty waited by the side of the bed with an expression that was about as cute and as predatory as a kitten about to pounce on a cricket. Yeah, Haru woke up eventually, cursing, groaning and muttering about having a headache, and how much he wished Black wouldn't do that.

"Haru-haru." His rather not too-sane boyfriend chuckled at his pain. "Feeling better?" He teased mercilessly.

"Not really." He shook his head, wishing Hatori would just leave some aspirin and a water bottle near him at all times.

"Sorry-sorry." It was his fault for getting him pissed off, then annoying Black into going back to White. But he didn't ACTUALLY feel that bad about it.

"Mmm, yeah." He brushed it off. Maybe Hatori would be able to find a doctor who could help Kyo. He was a little frightening.

That day came soon enough! Haru was absolutely not allowed to come with though. And since Kyo had NO idea where they were going to begin with, he couldn't put in his pouty face on the ox's behalf. Haru was left all alone, bored in the doctor's office while the red head and the older dragon went to see 'a friend' as Tori told the cat. Yeah, Kyo didn't think he liked the guy. He did give him some 'candy' (downers) though? If that counts for anything?

"Tori-nii!" Haru called sharply to him, once they returned. "What happened? How'd it go?"

"Other than frightening Kyo by suggesting he stay there 'over night'." He made quotations in the air as he spoke; Kyo trailed a few paces behind him. "It was fine."

"He wanted to keep him there?" The ox frowned, eyes flickering protectively over to his boyfriend. Was he really that bad off?

"That's beside the point." Hatori murmured. "I told him no and he gave Kyo some medication. Speaking of which, Kyo, get in here and come take them!" The cat was starting to remind him of Momiji and it was vaguely irritating. The red head scurried into the room and blinked at him as he handed out the proper dosage. "You're going to have to swallow them." The dragon told him, waiting to see if he would do it. The boy had a serious aversion to putting things in his mouth. The teen frowned at them for a moment before glancing at Haru, then carefully placing them on his tongue and swallowing quickly. Haru watched warily to see if Kyo would flee to the bathroom to vomit them back up, and let out a sigh of relief when that didn't happen.

"Hmm, I need to go now. Kyo. You stay here with Hatsuharu." Ha'ri murmured, ruffling the psycho kitty's hair and then heading out. As he's prone to do, the cat just giggled and blinked after the dragon before taking up a chair by his immobile boyfriend. He wondered idly about what Hatori had given him. He had no idea. Haru on the other hand was probably waiting to see what kind of effects the drugs would have.

That became apparent in about an hour. Kyo had continued to slump down in his chair a little bit, progressively, for the whole hour. He now sat with his elbows on his knees and his face resting in his hands. A rather blank stare adorning his face. What the hell had that man given him? Haru watched him vigilantly, worriedly, for a while, before he began his interrogation on Kyo's state of health. Well for one he wasn't twitching, giggling, or smiling. As a matter of fact, it took a while for him to realize Haru was talking at all. When he finally did he slowly dragged his gaze up and blinked lazily at him.

"Hmmm?"

"You're feeling better or worse?"

"Eh..." He wasn't feeling too much of anything.

Okay, he'd get it out of Hatori later what he'd put into Kyo's mouth. Yeah, that was the plan.

"Never mind. Forget it." He let it drop.

"Hn..." Kyo murmured, not sounding too interested as his gaze dropped back down. This was almost scarier than Kyo in his hyper state. Almost, maybe not quite, but almost.

When Hatori appeared later that night, he didn't seem worried at all. He just ruffled the red head's hair and went about his usually business with Haru. The cat didn't notice being touched, at all.

"What's wrong with him?" Haru hissed with a pointed look at Kyo, who still seemed to be zoning out.

"Downers do that." The dragon shrugged.

"What'd the shrink say, anyway?"

"He's cracked under trauma. He could come stay if we didn't want to deal with him. I told him no, so he gave us the medicine people with Kyo's problems get." Ha'ri sighed. "Really, Hatsuharu. It's either this, or that with Kyo." With the drugs, or without. The old Kyo wasn't coming back.

Haru looked rather downcast at that. "We can't just fix him?" He asked softly, unhappily.

"No. You don't just fix crazy people." Well, now he knew what Akito had meant in that stupid letter. But, it was still Kyo, he couldn't just give him up over this, right? He wouldn't do that to him.

"I... guess not..."

Kyo was... kinda... like that. Just... all the time. Great drugs... huh? The medicine chilled him out enough, that Hatori figured it would be all right if the older boy came with when they went to the hospital for the surgery that would attach the ox's prosthetic hand, and they'd be getting him a nice wheel chair too. Er, fun, fun?

Yeah, the anesthetic from the surgery had left Haru a little out of it, but that didn't last too long. Then he had to learn how to actually use the hand. That didn't take long either. It was just a matter of retraining the nerves to make them react. Then there was getting the wheel chair and learning how THAT worked. That wasn't too hard either. All the martial arts had made his arm muscles stronger than most people's, so it wasn't particularly hard to work.

His boyfriend might have been supportive and loving and helpful during this time. But he couldn't. He barely managed to blink most of the time. Those drugs took every last bit of life out of him. So, he would usually sit in a chair with his knees curled up while he 'watched' the goings on around him. Though it was doubtful he saw any of it.

"Tori-nii." Haru murmured as he flexed his new fingers while Hatori worked through the paperwork to get the charges sent to the Sohma Household. "I don't like what those drugs are doing to Kyo."

"And you wish me to do what about that?" The doctor murmured idly. They never had to worry about Kyo listening to them anymore. He was only kind of there.

"I don't know." He muttered with an odd look. "But, there has to be something. I mean, this can't be anymore healthy than how he was before."

"Well then. I can take him off them if you prefer spastic giggle kitty better." Haru growled with frustration. It was painful to see Kyo in either condition.

"At least he was responsive then."

"Hn." Tori muttered, and it actually seemed like he was blowing the boy off. But that was proven wrong when he took Kyo back to the doctor the next day and returned with some different medicine. Which Haru thanked him for profusely. He was still getting used to the wheel chair and hand, so Hatori had yet to let him go back to his room and they were still in the doctor's office.

"Hey Haru..." The cat murmured as he came in the room, swooping down to his wheel chair level and hugging him. Hatori raised an eyebrow at this display.

"I gave him the medicine and took him out for a while first to see if it worked better." He explained. We was impressed with the results, honestly.

"Seems to be working." Haru murmured, before placing a quite, chaste kiss on his boyfriend's lips.

Kitty seemed good. Well. Maybe not good. He still wasn't quite himself. He was responsive now, but he was a bit like Yuki now in the sense of a slight standoff-ish-ness and quiet. It was fucking better than nothing though! But things went a little down hill when Haru went to get his first check-up on his hand. Kyo declined quietly to go along, said he'd be fine there. When Hatori and Haru got back though, the maids were all a bit upset.

"It's not my fault!" One of was murmuring.

"It's not about whose fault it is!"

"We need to get him out!"

"And before Hatori-san gets back!"

"We're going to be in so much trouble!" Haru frowned, and sped up his pace a little when he heard that. Did it have something to do with Kyo? Well, he didn't bother to question them, just went quickly to check on his kitten. Who was missing in action. AWOL. Completely and totally. Nowhere to be found!

Unlike Haru, the dragon paused to question his maids. He caught up with the ox and pulled him off in the opposite direction and then down the hall a few doors.

"Apparently he's locked himself in here." He explained with a shrug.

"Locked himself--?" Haru frowned, before banging on the door. "Kyo!" He called, banging again.

"I asked one of the maids to get the key." His older cousin offered when they didn't get any response. The young man appeared a few moments later and handed it over before backing away cautiously. The red head had thrown a mild hissy fit before retreating away from all of them and hiding in there. It had been scary. Hatori handed over the key and then told Haru he'd be nearby if they needed. But he thought it might be best if perhaps the two talked alone. Upon entry, Haru found the room dark. But that was how the kitty wanted it. It was better for hiding in the corner behind a filing cabinet and crying, if it was dark.

"Kyo?" Haru called again, moving further into the room. He could hear crying, but it took him a few minutes to actually find him. "Kyo, what's wrong?"

"I-i-it's the-the f-fucking pills." The cat mumbled out in between sobs.

Haru almost broke down himself then. They just couldn't win! "What do you want me to do?" He asked quietly, gaze dark and carefully empty. "I keep trying to help, but every time I try to do something, you just keep getting worse." The older boy looked at him over the top of his arms as the tears continued to come. He didn't want Haru to do anything; he hadn't meant to get caught like this. Hence the locking the door behind him. Kyo got shakily to his feet and tried walking away as he wiped vainly at his eyes with the back of his hand. "Kyo..." Haru tried again, giving his chair a quick shove forward to catch up to him, and reaching out, grabbing both of his cousin's wrists and pulling him back so that he landed in his lap, where he wrapped his arms tightly around his waist. "Kyo, I'm not going to let you leave like this."

"I-it's okay, Haru." He sniffled quietly, hanging his head and pulling away halfheartedly. But he wasn't about to hurt his crippled boyfriend in his hissy fit. "I--I've… been-been feeling like this... s-since I got those new pills... It-it's-- it was-was just too much today..."

"Kyo, that's NOT good." He pointed out. "Now, I'm trying really hard to help you, so please let me?"

The older boy shook harder and turned to wrap has arms around the others neck and snuffled on his shoulder.

"Y-y-you can't do anything..."

"I can ask Tori-nii to get you off that medicine, if you want?"

Kyo hiccupped miserably. "It-it doesn't matter! With... with these f-fucking... p-pills… I get a different... different persona-personality every-every time... With-without pills it's even... even someone else... Haru..." He wailed quietly. "I don't... I don't remember which one is me... me anymore..."

Haru swallowed and tried not to cry himself. "I remember." He stated slowly. "You--you're shy, but really proud too. And you're loud, but you can be sensitive when you want to be. And you're a great fighter, and you hate Yuki and want to beat him, and," He sighed and rested his forehead against Kyo's shoulder. "And I really love you, whether you remember or not." All the other boy could do was whimper wordlessly. He was soaking Haru's shirt crying like this. But he was fucking miserable!

"He-he... loved you too..." He keened out. "I-i think... if-if I ever remember... I'll... I'll tell you... but-but... we-we love you too... now... I-i do..."

Haru's lips twitched a little and he just nodded. "Thanks." He snorted a little. "Now I have lots of Kyos to love." Kyo was shivering and miserable for a little while longer before finally calming down. He sighed, feeling slightly unhappy about his breakdown now that it was over and blindly searched out his boyfriend's mouth in the dark, placing a soft, gentle, and definitely salty kiss there.

The end of one bad episode just makes room for more to commence though. And for once it wasn't the pills fault. Akito decided he wanted to visit. That ended with Kyo going into a full blow hissy fit and ending up sobbing unhappily again. Hatori took all the pills from him. And Spastic giggle kitty made his return. But that didn't really matter at all. It was Akito, who decided, in his last great act of complete fucking bitchiness against Kyo, to call an asylum. As one would expect the red head screamed the entire time he was dragged off, and all the juunishi on the grounds hurried to watch. It wasn't a pleasant sight.

"H-haru! PLEASE! H-help... HELP. HARU?" He was thrashing and crying. Haru might have come to his rescue, but Kureno was holding onto his chair tightly. So much for that.

"I. Hate. You." Haru growled, not really caring who heard him or who didn't, though he was pretty sure it was directed at Akito. "I fucking HATE you!" The other's present weren't sure who to be more sympathetic for, Haru or Kyo? Kyo was sure to deteriorate into a babbling little heap of insanity once he was forced to eat, take pills, and be without the ox. Maybe since they were a couple they could pity them as an item? Haru still made a valiant attempt to catch up with Kyo. He forsook his chair all together, and launched himself out of it, trying to crawl after his boyfriend. There was just a tiny problem with that. He wasn't very fast that way, and it just plain didn't work very well. Hatori growled at Kureno and told him to get the hell out of here before he beat him senseless. The rooster frowned, apologized and walked off carefully. The others had a hard time getting their unhappy little cousin back into his chair.

"Don't worry, Hatsuharu," The doctor murmured. "I'll take you to see him?" He tried to offer comfortingly.

"What for? To watch him deteriorate?" He countered with. "You know they'll make him eat there."

"I can't do anything else." the dragon shook his head helplessly. Haru's shoulders began to shake a little as tears he'd been trying to hold back came loose.

"I can't deal with this anymore, Tori-nii." He stated in a tone shaking as much as his body. "Any of it! It hurts way too much." Hatori let his head hang a bit as the others who had come to watch dispersed. Then all he could really do was begin wheeling his crippled cousin back towards the house.

"I'm sorry," He really. Really couldn't do anything else.

"I mean it!" Haru stated, shaking his head. "I can't! I'm not trying to be dramatic, I really can't."

"I understand." But it was against the doctor's morals to be involved. So he was going to take the ox back to his own room, and he could deal with it as he saw fit from there.

A/N: Writing this made me so damn sad. I would like to note, and use Janie's words to do it. We didn't say they died. For all we know, Haru busts Kyo out and they are now living happily in Hawaii. <3 Hope you enjoyed our little angst fest at least.