Hello everyone! As promised, here is my first Fruits Basket fanfic aside from my poem! And I am just letting you know in advance, the chapter lengths will vary.

Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket.

The Sun And The Storm

Chapter 1. Disaster

A crisp Autumn breeze blew through the trees and made its way down to the empty streets below.

It was about noontime, and the dark clouds poorly hid the signs that it was going to rain.

Tohru and Kyo had gone out grocery shopping that morning, as Kyo refused to let her go alone. Shigure had taken a short vacation to one of the Sohma's estates to avoid Mii. And even though it was the weekend, Yuki had to go to school for some Student Council meeting.

So since it was one of those rainy days that Kyo detests, Tohru was trying her very best to act cheerful. They were walking back from the market, each carrying a huge bag of food, and Tohru held a green umbrella in her other hand.

"I'm glad I brought an umbrella today." She stated with a smile, tilting it more over Kyo's head than her own. He just mumbled agreement. After a moment of silent walking Tohru spoke up again. "Kyo-kun, if your not feeling all right, we can stop walking for a while and wait until the rain stops." She suggested. His head was down and his carrot-orange hair covered his eyes drearily.

"Nah. If we don't get home soon it'll only get worse and then we'll be stuck out here and I'll only get even more angry." There was dry irritation in his voice, but Tohru could tell that he was trying his absolute best to be nice about it. He really has changed. And he's trying so hard to control his temper, even on his worst days. "And, you don't hafta hold the umbrella for me. Just hold it for yourself. I'll be okay." He spoke softly and slowly.

"Oh n-no t-that's alright! I'm fine! Don't worry about me!" She chirped truthfully.

Kyo turned his head slightly and gave her a small, quick smile, and if Tohru had not been looking, then she never would have seen it, and she smiled back.

They continued to walk through the empty streets in silence; there were hardly any cars let alone people. The sidewalk was starting to pass the forest where the house was, and Tohru heard Kyo sigh in relief just at the fact that there were more trees now to block out the rain.

They were about to turn to go into the woods when an alarm call from some type of bird went off. Tohru had been so used to the quiet, steady pattern of the rain that this loud squawking startled her. She gasped as the bird flew from the trees just barely above her head and disappeared in an instant. It had been so close to her, that its claws had scratched her forehead and now she stumbled backwards, dropping everything she had been holding.

It had all happened so fast that Kyo only turned to see her falling towards him. He had no time to drop his bags and help her; she just tripped and fell against him.

There was a familiar 'pop' and Tohru fell to the ground. She lay there for a second, pain throbbing in her head from the cut. Then, as the smoke cleared she saw Kyo a few inches away from her sitting there with an annoyed expression on his face.

"Aw Hell! How does that count as a hug? I mean she hardly even touched me! Damn, they might as well make it 'if we're touched by someone of the opposite gender we transform'! Geez." Then he suddenly remembered Tohru and turned around to find her lying on the ground. "H-Hey! Are you okay?" He asked, padding over to her and bending over to inspect the cut on her head.

It was a long, deep gash that made a crooked line from the center of her forehead and traced back along the right side of her head to her ear, and it was still bleeding. Oh no! He thought. "Tohru? Tohru! Are you okay?" He repeated.

After a long second, she stirred and lifted her head to see his worried face inches from her own.

"Oh no! K-Kyo-kun! I-I'm so sorry!" She shrieked, jolting to sit up. "And now that you're a cat that'll only make you even more unhappy since it's raining and all. I'm so, so sorry!"

"That's not the point here!" He shouted. "You're bleeding all over the place! You're lucky that stupid bird didn't cut open your temple, or you'd be a goner!" The rain was falling harder now, and the blood was running blissfully over her right eye, down her neck, staining her clothes, and into murky puddles on the sidewalk.

"Oh no it's not that bad, I'm alright!"

"YOU ARE NOT ALRIGHT!" He yelled furiously. Then, Kyo turned around and began rummaging though all of the bags they had dropped.

"Ah…Um…Kyo-kun. What are you…?" She tried to ask, but he silenced her with an angry glare, a lash of his tail and a sharp command.

"Be quiet!" He hissed and continued searching through the bags.

Finally, he reached his paw into one of them and then stuck his head in to draw out whatever it was he wanted. When she could see his face clearly, Tohru saw that he had pulled out a little white box. He stalked over to her and spat it out on her lap, and she saw that it was a first-aid kit.

"Oh! T-Thank you Kyo-kun." She said quietly, picking up the box and opening it.

"Yeah, yeah, just don't pass out from blood loss or anything." He said in a soft voice as he sat down with his back turned to her.

But then he stood up again a moment later and started to gather up all of the things that had fallen out of the bags. He rolled an apple back by pushing it with his nose and he sunk his teeth into the plastic of a loaf of bread and shoved it back into the bag.

Once he had collected everything, he turned back to Tohru, who had successfully bandaged up the cut. But Kyo still did not like the fact that there was so much blood on the ground, swirling around with the puddles and sickeningly tainting the water.

"I'm alright now!" She reassured him with a smile and pushed herself to her feet.

The orange cat eyed her warily but followed her over to where the bags and umbrella were. She placed the first-aid kit into one of the bags, and gathered up Kyo's clothes but then stopped.

"Ah…um…uh…here!" She placed the umbrella into one of the bags, slung his clothing over her arm and lifted all of the bags up with a little effort. "You can ride on my shoulder if you want." She suggested.

"Hell no! Put those down! We're not going anywhere until I change back! You won't be able to make it back to the house, you can't even lift all that!" He spat.

"No, no, I'm alright, I can make it!" She tried to reassure the both of them.

"Don't lie to me, you can hardly even lift that!" He repeated and lashed his tail again, flattening his ears against his head.

"B-But who knows how long it'll take before you change back? We could be here for a while and you'd catch a cold and-"

"Look just be quiet and listen to me! Now put that stuff down!" He ordered.

She hesitated a moment, but finally Tohru put the bags down, partially grateful.

"Good." He sat down at her feet on the wet sidewalk. "You should be okay until we get back, then I'll call Hatori-"

"Oh no! Y-You don't have to do that! I don't want to cause him any trouble! I'm perfectly fine!" She insisted.

"Fine?! You call nearly having you temple sliced open and almost dying from blood loss fine?!" He yelled. "And you're a mess." He added, more softly. "There's blood all over you."

Tohru looked down at her clothes, suddenly self-conscious. She was wearing a light yellow sweater with a matching skirt that was level with her knees with a light pink, un-zippered coat over the sweater one. But now there were ugly, red, rusty stains on the right side of her body, dripping onto the ground.

"Oh no! This is the coat that Uo-chan and Hana-chan bought me for Christmas! I've ruined it! And they spent their hard-earned money on this!" She wailed.

"The coat isn't bleeding!" Kyo snapped. "And besides," He added a minute later. "It can be washed, so don't worry about it. Just…worry about yourself for once."

She blinked once, but then gave him a sweet smile. She then pulled the umbrella out of the bag and opened it up, shielding Kyo and herself with it. Then, she put her hand in her coat pocket and gasped. Kyo's fur shot up and stood on end as he looked up at her. "W-What's wrong?" He asked, standing up on all four paws.

"I-I-It's my wallet! I-It had Mom's picture in it! It's gone!" She stammered.

Tohru looked up and glanced around wildly, her eyes scouring the sidewalk and looked back the way they had come. Kyo searched too, his eyes able to see better in the gray shadows. Then he spotted it, in the middle of the street, completely soaked.

"Found it!" He announced out loud and took off to fetch it.

Tohru heard him and looked over to where he was headed, and relief washed over her.

But that relief instantly turned to fear.

Her eyes widened and she dropped the umbrella racing out into the street just as Kyo picked up the wallet in his mouth.

In his dash to retrieve the wallet, he had not heard nor seen the car coming.

"KYO-KUN!" Tohru cried out his name as loud as she could, but it was too late.

When the little orange cat looked up at her, with the wallet in his mouth, he did not see the car coming from behind. He only noticed when it beeped and he jumped and spun around. Kyo closed his eyes and braced himself for death, but it did not come.

It all happened so fast he could hardly make any sense of it.

Tohru was suddenly there in an instant. She covered Kyo with her body and shoved him as far as she could before the car smashed into her.

Kyo's eyes widened in horror as he witnessed the whole scene.

Tohru let out a cry of pain from her throat that sounded like a dying animal. Then, she was sent flying a few feet and rolled over several times, and then lay still on the sidewalk.

Memories of long ago flashed through Kyo's mind. He remembered wanting to reach out to Kyoko, trying to stop her from going out into the street, when he stopped himself. He remembered letting her mother walk right into the speeding car's path, and he remembered his own mother as well. He saw both his mother and hers, flying through the air, now at the same time, but then they changed into Tohru.

Kyo was frozen, unable to believe what he had just seen, his eyes wide and his mouth open; the car had kept driving as though nothing had happened.

Then, he ripped his rooted paws from the ground and raced over to her at top speed.

"TOHRU!" He called, agony in his voice.

When he reached her, he could not see her face, it was covered by her long, wet hair.

"Tohru? Tohru! Are you okay?!" Kyo nudged her limp hand with his nose.

He dashed across the street to where their bags were, searching for something, anything.

Then, he changed back and threw his clothes on.

Now with fingers, he looked through the bags but found nothing at all that could be useful. He ran back across the street to Tohru, who still had not moved. She lay on her side, her long, brown hair spread out everywhere. He gently placed his hands on her shoulders and turned her over slowly to lie on her back. He looked down at her in distress, uncertain of what to do.

I can't take her back to the house, what if she broke something? Moving her would only make it worse. But I have to call Hatori somehow, and the only thing I can do is call him from home. But I can't just leave her here! He contemplated.

Then he looked down swiftly as she stirred the slightest bit. "Tohru?" He whispered.

But aside from her fingers twitching a bit, and her face twisting into an expression of pain, she did not respond. Kyo brushed a strand of hair from her face and tucked it behind her ear.

Then he leaned down over her and put his ear just below her left shoulder. He listened to the weak and unsteady beating of her heart for several moments, but it showed no improvement or signs of getting back to its normal pace. It just got weaker and weaker and softer and softer…

Finally, Kyo lifted his head and made the decision that he was going to have to take her back to the house and call Hatori. But before he did that, he picked up her wallet and shoved it into his pocket.

Then he knelt down on one knee next to her, and slowly slid his arms under her body. He froze whenever she flinched at his touch, but eventually managed to get her in his arms. But as he stood and lifted her up, a shuddered ran through her entire body, and Kyo rethought moving her.

But then he decided against it.

He crossed the street and disappeared into the forest, not giving a second glance to the drenched shopping bags, or the opened umbrella.

A/N: There is chapter 1! Please review!!