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Tohru and Kyo

(a Fruits Basket fanfic)

Chapter 1

It's never quite the same when your best friend and supposed enemy fall in love with each other. I've always hated him, but I've always loved her. My name is Yuki Sohma and this is my story.

It all started the week before graduation. I was happily sitting in the dining room with Tohru when Kyo and Kagura came barging in. I guess Kagura wanted him to do something and he refused, once again.

"Shut up! I'm not going out with you, so stop following me around!" My idiot cousin yelled.

"Oh, but Kyo! We have to! Couples are supposed to go out on dates!" Kagura whined.

"So what?! We're not a couple!"

"Hmph! Kyo, you're no fun!"

"Yeah, well, ya shoulda thought of that before you threatened to kill me if I didn't marry you!"

"Kyo! How can you say that?" Kagura gasped. She looked at him for a minute and sighed. "I see. I'll give you some time, then," she said softly with a smile and left.

Tohru and I- who had been watching the whole thing- looked after her, and then looked at Kyo.

"Um, Kyo…? Shouldn't you go after her and apologize?" Tohru worried. She's so adorable like that.

"No! 'Cause I don't wanna go on a date with her," he spat.

"Honestly, you could be a little nicer," I advised, but knowing him-

"Whatever."

-he'd just blow it off.

"Yuki's right, Kyo. I know if I had a boyfriend, I'd want him to be nice. I'd want him to treat me well and make me feel special." She blushed as she said this.

Kyo stood still for a moment and a shadow appeared on his face. "Then, why don't you just go out with that damn rat?" He finally said and walked out of the room.

"That stupid cat. He makes me sick with all the nonsense that comes out of his mouth," I said, disgusted. "He'd do well to heed your advice, Tohru."

"Y-Yuki? Do you think Kyo meant what he said?" Tohru asked with tears in her eyes and a hint of a blush on her face.

"I'm not sure anymore about what he says. He could just stop talking for all I care. Anyway, he hurt you."

"Huh?"

I lifted my finger to her eye and wiped a tear that was starting to fall. "He made you cry with what he said. It's not right."

"Oh! I didn't even realize!" She freaked and started frantically wiping her tears away.

I chuckled and lifted my hand to cup her cheek. "It's okay to cry. He said hurtful things."

"I guess," she sniffled. Her blush darkened a little.

I looked in the direction Kyo stormed off and thought for a second. Then, I grudgingly made my decision. "I'll go talk to him. You should cry it out in your room. This way, Shigure doesn't worry if he sees you and you can get it out of your system, alright?"

"Okay. You're so kind, Yuki. I'm very lucky to have you as a friend." She smiled thankfully and headed for her room.

I hesitated before finding the idiot. I found him in the kitchen making a rice ball.

"Kyo?"

"What ever you gotta say, I ain't listening," he warned.

"Well, you should."

"Why the hell should I?"

"Because what I have to say is important."

"Fine. Talk already."

"Why did you say for Tohru to go out with me?"

He didn't answer. He just kept looking at his rice ball. I was surprised that he was so calm, but he wasn't cooperating. I decided it was getting us nowhere, so I took it from another direction.

"What are your true feelings for her?" I could almost tell what the answer would be. It would hurt.

"Like I'm gonna tell you!" He scoffed.

"Fine," I shrugged and grinned. "Then, I'll just have to throw you through the roof." Kyo winced and slowly turned to face me.

Last summer, Kyo declared a final battle with me, which lasted for three weeks. That's twenty-one days of non-stop fighting, 504 hours of "breaking" Shigure's house, 30,240 minutes of sweating and bleeding, and 1,814,400 seconds of Tohru worrying. I won, of course, and Kyo finally learned his lesson. All we do is argue now and if I threaten to hurt him in any way, he knows to leave me alone or do what I say.

"Alright. You want the truth? Here it is." He took a deep breath and looked at me with serious eyes. "I said that to her because it hurts. It hurts when she says the stuff that she says because it makes me feel like crap."

"So… you hate her?" I asked confused.

"No! I just… I just feel like an idiot all the time and it doesn't help when you and Shigure are constantly telling me that. I don't know how to control the words I say to her, so I always look stupid to her. Then, she makes me feel better when she tells me one of her stories and smiles at me the way she always does." He paused for a while.

I could have sworn I saw a smile appear on his face. That's when I knew how he felt about her.

"You-" I choked on the word. It would be too hard to say it myself.

In response, he looked at me in an odd way and continued. "Every time I see you two together, I get jealous! You make it look so easy to talk to her. Whenever I try to talk to her, I get all embarrassed and I forget who the person is in front of me, so I start yelling at her for no reason. Then, I see the look on her face and remember that I'm not talking to a normal person."

"You don't think Tohru's normal?" I asked confused again.

"That's not what I meant you damn rat! She's just different from other people you might see. She's like a colored pearl among a bunch of white ones. And she makes me feel happy."

"She would melt if she heard that." I sighed. "I get it now."

"Huh? Get what?"

"Y-you're… in love with her." I was right the whole time. It did hurt. Worse than I thought.

"What?! Y-you're just being stupid now!" He lied angrily.

"Oh, yeah? Then, why do you say all those things about her and feel the way you do when you're around her?!" I countered. This put him on the spot.

"So what if I do love her?! What are you gonna do about it?"

I hesitated. Now he had me on the spot.

"You… You love her too, don't you?" He asked quietly.

"Yes," I answered without hesitation.

"So… is this a new rivalry?" He asked with a small grin on his face. I could tell he was thinking of how we always used to fight. That's when we became friendlier towards each other. That last battle was also when I stopped calling Tohru "Miss Honda" and started calling her by her first name. "So rat," Kyo said, snapping me out of my reverie. "Shall we fight each other for her?"

"How about this? Once a week for three months, we'll have Shigure choose a challenge for us and whoever wins gets to spend the rest of that week with Tohru without any interruptions from the other competitor. Fair?"

"I'm game, but we should have someone else pick the challenges because knowing that damn dog, he'd make the challenges perverted. Why don't we just go with Hatori?"

"Because he won't do it." I thought for a second. "Why not Momiji?"

"Because he'll just make the challenges stupid with the way he thinks."

"Hiro?"

"That brat? Forget it! How about Haru?"

"No way!"

"Well, we're definitely not gonna let that idiot brother of yours do it."

"I agree completely." I thought carefully. "Kisa! It's perfect! She loves Tohru so much

that I'm sure she'll want to be involved. And I'm pretty sure her love for the both of us is

equal, so the challenges would most likely be fair."

"Yeah but she's just a kid."

"She's a teenager and very mature for her age."

"Ah! It's too bad we can't have Tohru, herself, choose the challenges 'cause she of all people would be fair."

"True, but we can't trick her like that. It wouldn't be right."

"I know that! I didn't mean anything by it!"

"Just checking." I smiled mischievously.

"So Kisa's gonna do it?"

"Yes. Whoever spends the most time with Tohru after three months wins and he gets to tell her how he feels about her. And he can't mess it up because he won't get a second chance. We have to tell her everything about ourselves that she doesn't already know. Whatever we haven't talked to her about, we do."

"Fine! I accept this!" Suddenly, he froze. He started shaking violently and it hit me then, too.

Kagura.

We'd forgotten all about her. If she found out that Kyo really didn't love her and loved Tohru instead, she'd have both our heads for it because I would have encouraged him. Worse, her friendship with Tohru would be tainted.

"Ah, hell! Why didn't we figure this out sooner?!" Kyo freaked.

"Especially since we just saw her! She's the only flaw in our plan."

"Why can't anything ever go right for us?! If we tell Kagura, she'll literally kill us! What are we gonna to do?"

"We don't tell her and tell everyone else not to tell her. Got it?"

"Yeah. Good idea."

"Glad you see it my way," I prided.

End of Chapter 1

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