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Chapter 12

Kyo and Tohru ran down the street, Akito hollering at them from the window. Their fall had been broken by several rose bushes (ouchies)on the ground, saving them from a few broken bones. Now, bruised and sore, and Kyo bleeding all over the place, they ran as fast as they could down the street, scared out of their wits.

"Hold on!" Tohru suddenly shouted. "Stop!"

"Tohru, what! We can't stop!"

"Stop," she said firmly, and Kyo was forced to do so. She pointed dead at his shoulder. "We need to get that helped. You could lose a lot of blood!"

"There's no time for that!" Kyo yelled in her face. "We're being chased by a madman—madwoman, whatever! Do you think I care about my shoulder at this point?"

"But your leg too…." Tohru began, but Kyo grabbed her wrist and pulled her into a run. "No time!" he answered.

They ran for quite some time, aimlessly, until Kyo leaned against a fence and rested for two seconds. "Ouch…" he groaned, clutching his leg.

"Kyo-kun you need a doctor!" Tohru cried, horrified.

"Do…Not…" he panted.

"Yes you do! I'll get one!" Tohru said defiantly, marching away.

"No, Tohru, Tohru! Wait! What if you come back and find me dead?"

Tohru's eyes grew wet. "Kyo!" she squeaked. "No!"

Kyo grabbed her arm. "C'mon. I know where we can run to."

"Why not back to the house?" she demanded.

"Because Akito will be there, waiting for us!" Kyo rolled his eyes at Tohru's spacy-ness (is that even a word!).

Tohru nodded slowly. "You're right….we can go to Hana's house! She can get a doctor or some help for you there!"

Kyo opened his mouth to say something, when he heard a chilling voice behind him. "No. Hanajima won't be home. You should come with me."

"You again!" Kyo spun around, reading to sock Akito in the face again. But it wasn't Akito. It was that mysterious man who loved to pop up at the most random times.

"Its you," Tohru said to the man blankly.

"Yes, I suppose it is. Hanajima wont be home. She's at the school."

"Why?" Tohru asked.

"Because of her stupid superstition that there's a damn magical gateway or something," Kyo grumbled.

"Ah! But its true!" the man said quickly. "And I think she found it."

"How would you know!" Kyo shot back. "Who are you, anyway? Tell us your name!"

The man merely chuckled, and disappeared. "I hate it when he does that," Tohru shivered. "He jumped out of the hospital window when he came to see me…"

"Let's just go to the school," Kyo said, "and see Hana. What the jerk said might be true."

At Da High School

"The nurse could be in her office," Tohru offered, helping Kyo up the steps to Machida-san's classroom (A/N: yes there is a staircase. Like my school. Staircases GALORE.). "Maybe she could help you. And why are we going to Machida-san's classroom?"

"Because Hana said something about a gateway in here…" Kyo said, breathing labored. "My guess that she's in here…"

Tohru nodded, trusting Kyo, and swung open the door. There, they saw Yuki and Hana, staring in amazement at a wall.

"Yuki!" Tohru shouted. "And Hana! What--!"

Yuki and Hana's heads spun around, as if in a trance. "Honda-san," Yuki whispered. "How'd you get here?"

"Tohru?" Hana questioned, voice FINALLY holding emotion. She gasped when she saw Kyo. "What happened!'

"It's nothing," Kyo said, brushing the question aside. "But what are you doing here? With the rat?"

"We found the gateway," Hana said solemnly. "Well I did, at first, when I was here an hour ago for an after-school study group. And then…after…I just came into the classroom…and there it was."

"There what was?" Tohru asked, awed.

"That," Yuki responded, pointing dead ahead. There, on the wall, was a yawning archway, with pillars made of white marble. In the middle of it, there was a blue-ish sort of light, wavering slightly.

"What the--!" Kyo spat out. "What the heck is that!"

"The gateway," Hana replied calmly. "I told you I felt a presence in this room. And it turns out that odd man gave me extra powers to sense it."

"Whoa," stated Kyo, who had nothing else to say.

"Y-you mean…this is the gateway…to another world?" Tohru stammered, hardly daring to believe it. "And…I can be healed?"

Yuki nodded and smiled at her. "Isn't that cool? I can get the cure for you, Honda-san."

Kyo was too weary and in pain to shout at him on that one. "We can all get the cure for Tohru," Hana said back, "and we can all go through the gateway. Maybe we can help Kyo too once we enter."

"Ya think!" Kyo snapped, pain taking over his mouth. "Lets just get this over with!"

Yuki shook his head, staring uneasily at the gateway. "I dunno…you don't know what could be on the other side of that thing…"

Hana replied, "And if we don't act fast, Tohru will die in less than a month. Now c'mon, you wimps. All who want to go into this world of Kinoto and cure Tohru say, 'I'."

Everyone, even Yuki, replied with an 'I'. Tohru nearly collapsed with happiness. "Thank…you…" she whispered, smiling brightly.

Hana walked over to Kyo and helped Tohru help him hobble over to the gateway. Yuki took Tohru's hand, which made Kyo bristle with anger.

"Ready?" Hana asked them.

"Just hurry up," Kyo grumbled.

A ghost of a smile touched Hana's lips. "Fine, then."

And with the uncertainty that they could die, not save Tohru in time, or make people sick with worrying where they had gone, they took a brave step through the gateway.

Kyo opened his eyes that he had been squeezing shut and looked around. They seemed to be out in the country or something, because hills and fields that seemed never-ending surrounded them. A few houses were hiding behind a few hills, their rooftops peeking over the top.

All in all, it didn't seem like a very dangerous place. Relief was visible on Kyo and Co.'s faces. But not for long…

A warrior cry filled the silent air, making them jump. A cavalry of men, perched proudly on their stallions, cantered through the hills, right towards them.

"Uh-oh," Yuki managed to say softly.

"Got that right," Kyo shot back, leg throbbing more than ever.

The tallest man of them all, don in a red and black armor, with a snake trailing down the chain mail sleeves, boomed out, "Now! Who are you youngsters? Travelers? Wizards? Slaves? What!"

"W-we don't know what you mean, sir," Tohru, the only one who could even let a sound pass through her throat, replied.

"Who are you?" the man repeated slowly, as if speaking to a child. "Where do you come from? You obviously aren't from here, judging by your clothes!"

"No, sir, we're not," Hana said bravely, determined to protect Tohru. "Now if you'll just let us be on our way—"

"No!" The man raised his great and powerful sword. "Not yet! We don't allow travelers into the borders of Kinoto! A policy that the King passed just a year ago! This war is so dangerous that we can't have enemies creeping around… General!"

A man on a valiant grey mare road up beside him. "Sir!"

"Take the two boys to the dungeon. The two girls….take them to the Queen. She'll know what to do with them." With a proud grin, he rode off.

"What!" Kyo shouted. "To the dungeon! Why!"

The general shrugged. "Orders. And if you're gonna put up a fight—" He didn't get past the word, due to the fact that Yuki took a huge leap into the air and slammed his foot into the man's face. The general fell from the saddle, Yuki landing back onto the ground smoothly, a smirk on his face.

"You little bastard!" the general hissed. "Men! Take these boys and lock them away!"

"Yuki!" Tohru screamed as a sword hilt from one of the soldier's weapons whacked hard against his head, knocking him out cold. He crumbled to the ground.

She tried to run to him, but another rough soldier held her back. "No! NO! YUKI!"

"Let go of her!" Kyo shouted, attempting to bash the soldier to bits, and the other one who now held Hana by the throat, when a heavy object hit his head.

Pain racked through him, and he faintly saw Tohru, screaming his name as well. Then he heard nothing, only the blood rushing pounding in his ears. He collapsed to the ground, and his whole world went black, and he heard no more.

((sweatdrop)) OK! I DID IT! I FINISHED CHAPTER 12! PARTY! Well…not exactly partying, I'll just go and do whatever I please now…so yeah. Won't be able to update for a while, folks! Sorry! AND FLAMES SHALL NOT BE ACCEPTED! Oh and I disabled anonymous reviewers…sorry! It just that…if someone ever flames me, I wanna flame 'em back or something. I dunno. Maybe I'll able it or whatever…ANYWAYS! HUGS AND KISSES TO MY REVIEWERS! LOVE U ALL! R/R please!

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