At Sohma house……….

"Tohru?"

"Oh! Ye –es Kyo kun!" Tohru poked her head out from behind the ricepaper door.

"We're about to go. You ready?" Kyo sighed. He didn't care a damn about the festival but he had to. Shigure would bother him about it for months.

"Um yes. Wait a moment!" Tohru rummaged through her bags until she found her mom's picture.

She smiled happily and jumped up. "Ready!"

........

They walked down the stairs and Yuki was waiting for them.

"What took you so long, stupid cat?" Yuki sighed.

"Hey, it's not my fault Tohru takes such a freakin long time!" Kyo mumbled.

Tohru heard him. "Oh! Sorry Kyo kun. Yuki kun I -!"

"Doesn't matter. It's fine. We have just enough time to make it." Yuki grabbed the bags filled with onigiri.

" Did you make some for all of us?" He didn't sound surprised. Tohru would exactly done that.

"Yes!" she smiled. "And there's some extra incase were hungry after!"

"Yah, yah, yah, lets just get this over with" Kyo sighed. What was up with the big new years thing anyways? It must be a Sohma thing…

…………………………………..

"Kyoooooooooooo!!!!!!"

"Damn!" Kyo broke sweat. "Who invited Kagura here?"

"You mean you didn't know stupid cat?" Yuki rolled his eyes. " Kagura, Momiji, Hatsuharu, Kisa, Hiro, Shingurae…" He began ticking them all off on his fingers.

" Hatori, Aayame (twitch) , Hana, Arisa, .."

"Did you invite everyone we freakin know?" Kyo yelled glancing at Tohru,

"Um…" (she actually did.)

" Oh my! Yuuuki!!!!" Aayame called.

" I'll be over there…away from him" Yuki hissed, and wiggled away.

Tohru smiled and greeted everyone. Today was the festival of new years. The Sohmas celebrated new years the night before until midnight, so she had arranged this so that everyone would be able to attend.

"What should we do first?" Tohru asked. She looked around at all the colorful games and stands around them,

"Fireworks! Fireeeeworkkkkkks!!!" Momiji yelled.

"Momiji fireworks are at night. You have to wait." Hatori dragged Momiji back from the stand of sparklers.

"Awwwwww" Momiji pouted. "But we get to do that later right?"

"Of course!" Tohru said.

"Then….fishing! Let's go!" Momiji dragged Haru to the stands.

" I spot an odango stand." Hana said quietly and….she disappeared.

Hiro grabbed Kisa's hand and took her to a game stand. He had promised to win her a prize.

Shigurae had dragged Hatori and Aayame to look at funny costumes.

Soon everyone was off finding all sorts of games and prizes…and Tohru was left alone with Kyo.

It was quiet for a moment then Tohru smiled hesitantly.

"Um…would you like to…?"

"Nah…" Kyo mumbled. 'This is so stupid' he thought and sat on a box nearby.

Tohru wandered her eyes around. Her eyes lit up. "Kyo kun look! It's a stand with the 12 zodiacs!"

He looked up and saw her gazing at it excitedly. He couldn't disappoint her when she looked like that. "Fine…what the hell" He sighed and grabbed Tohru's hand, as they walked together to the stand.

" Look a cat Kyo kun!" Tohru pointed to a plush cat. It was off to the right aside from all the other plush zodiac animals. Apparently it was least favorite.

Kyo glared at it before turning around. "Lets get out of here." He mumbled.

" B-but…um…alright.." She turned around. They gazed at each other for a fraction of a second.

Kyo's cheeks burned. She looked slightly sad, with that stupid grin on her face. 'Might as well put of with all of this, she went through all the trouble..' he thought to himself.

He whipped around and shoved a five dollar bill into the owner's hand. "Get me that cat over there." He mumbled.

"Ah…no Kyo kun!" Tohru stammered.

He handed it to her before she could convince him that she didn't want it. She probably didn't want it much but she needed a souvenir, at least.

"Take it. It can be my new years present to you." He sighed. "And no buts. Just accept something from us once in a while. Okay?"

She hesitated then smiled. "Okay. Thank you! Thank you so much!"

He looked at her. She was looking at the cat plushy with a huge smiled on her face…

"Come on, I think Momiji wants you to go fishing with him." He avoided looking at her when he said this. Or else he would go all confused.