AN: Another story of the couple that was destined to be...a couple ^^;;: Kyo and Tohru! Anyone familiar about Yin/Yang? A brief summary for those who don't know: Yin represents darkness (not necessarily evil), and Yang represents light or the conscience of the human being. Without one, the other cannot function thereby disturbing the cosmic order of our universe. Well, I don't really believe that, but it's great story material. ^_^

Things you might want to know:

Kyo is now a Yin with Yang tendancies. Now, that would sound messed up, but that almost fits Kyo--he's dark and mysterious as well as outspoken...but I'll just go with the fact that he's mostly dark aka Yin. Well, Yuki was right saying that the cat would throw everything off, so therefore, Kyo is now the troubled protagonist with anti-hero tendancies. The fact that he is neither Yin nor Yang plays sooo well with my story... MUAHAHAAHAHAHHA!!!!

Enjoy!

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Our time has reached its terminal. The end is near…for everyone.

"So, why are we doing this? We can't beat them!" Kyo grunted as he turned on his side facing the couch.

"Lazy idiot. We haven't exhausted all the choices yet, and here you are, acting like you're already defeated." Yuki spoke w/o turning his head from his desk.

"Shut up. I don't need to hear anything from you."

"Kyo, you shouldn't talk like that to your teammates. We are, after all, the closest family you'll ever have." Shigure peaked from the other room he was in to check up on the teens in another one of their squabbles.

"Yeah, and the last. This is insane! It's impossible to even think that we can beat them!"

"À coeur vaillant rien d'impossible, (Nothing is impossible for a willing heart.)," Shigure muttered before going back to his work.

Kyo growled and got up. "Feh. I'm going to go for a walk. I don't want to stick around to hear your stupid French rambling." Before he reached the door, he replied under his breath, "C'est une question de point de vue (It all depends on your point of view)." And with that remark, he banged the door behind him.

A minute later, Yuki sighed, "Why is he even on our team? We could do much better if he was on the opposing side."

Shigure shrugged. "Everyone has a purpose in life. But it'll take awhile until we figure out his purpose for this team."

"What was that noise?" Haru asked scratching his oddly colored hair as he entered the room. The white on top was fluffed everywhere while the black on the bottom stayed put. He awoke to a loud bang that rattled the spiritual atmosphere in his room. "My meditation was disturbed by a ...disturbing force."

"Ah, here comes Mr. Lazy #2. I'm surprised that the smallest noise could wake you up from your afternoon slumber," Yuki stated with a hint of sarcasm.

"Where's the pizza we got this morning? ...I was meditating. Not sleeping. There's a difference between the two words both denotatively and connotatively." He found the box of pizza on the trash can. Before he went insane with hunger, he traced his index finger on the edge of the pizza box and closed his eyes as his spine prickled with a chill. "Kyo...ate all the pizza..."

"Well, duh. You don't have to be a psychic to figure that out. He always eats like a pig." Yuki stretched a little and brushed away some strands of purple hair from his face.

Haru ignored that statement and walked to the door. After a few minutes, "What's wrong with Kyo?"

"Nothing," said Shigure as he walked in the room rubbing his neck, "if he has monthly cycles of hormones. But enough about Mr. Grumpy. Did you get what we needed?"

"Oh, yeah." Haru moved his hands to the right, flipped his hands left and right, and pulled out a black box out thin air. "Tah-dah!" he said in his most enthusiastic, passive voice.

Shigure reached for the box and examined it. "You know, if this doesn't work out, you could lead the glamorous life of a magician."

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Kyo shooed away a cat that started to follow him. Anyone--or anything--that got cute around him always ended up making him irritated, nervous, or irritated. 'Damn Shigure. I don't need any of his "pep-talk." Even if everything was coming to an end, I wouldn't--...' Kyo stopped in his tracks to the sound of a scream that pierced the air. "...quit." He turned around and sprinted towards the source.

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"I...please, I don't have anything! Actually, this is all I have!"

A girl pushed a box with the dimensions of a foot around in front of the offender's face. "It's worth nothing to you!" She squinted at the baddy as she nervously backed up against the wall of a storehouse.

The hooligan coughed at what a mistake he had made picking his target. This made his blood curdle. But she wasn't bad-looking either. His eyes traveled up and down her figure. "Well, now, that's too bad. I gotta at least have something for all my troubles."

Her eyes widened as he advanced closer. "No...NO!!" He walked slovenly towards her. Before he was upon her, she screamed as loud as her throat would allow. She opened her eyes when she heard a dull thud and saw orange strands of hair swirl around and met crimson eyes full of concern.

"Are you okay?!" she heard him yell.

She didn't say a word. She looked down and saw the miscreant sprawled with pain clearly written on his features. She looked up and saw her hero waving his hand in front of her face. "Helloo?"


Before she knew it, emotions were building up inside of her and spilled out through her eyes.

"Is anyone in ther--hey! Wh-why are you crying?! What's the matter?!"

"I-I...thank you!" She cried all the more and fell on his chest crying on her hands.

He stood there with his eyes wide open as she sobbed. He opened his mouth but stopped because he really didn't know what to say. Words didn't flow out of his mouth like Yuki, so he opted to just wrap his arms around her shaking body until she calmed down.

She pulled away smiling up at him. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to."

Kyo looked down and muttered a, "It's no problem..."

She gazed at his features that softened from his "yelling" look she saw before she collapsed in his arms. It was very...pleasant...

They stood like statues before Kyo became self-conscious of what was happening and started to get nervous. He gently shoved her off and scratched the back of his head looking away. "You should be more careful, you know?" he said; his features hardening like before. "It's not like you can waltz wherever you want."

"I'm sorry...," she said blushing a little. "My name is Tohru."

"Tohru...I think you need to hurry up and get home." With that, Kyo turned around and left the girl with her thoughts.

"Wait! Wait...I don't know...what's your name?"

Kyo stopped a little and turned his head. "You wouldn't remember long enough to call me."

She smiled. "Try me."

He began to sweat a little from all the cuteness that emanated from her smile. Kyo thought for a minute. "Nah," he replied and began walking away again.

"Wha--wait! Really! I want to know your name I--ack!" Tohru almost forgot her box that happened to be resting on the ground. She picked it up and ran behind him. "Please?"

He walked faster. He never wanted to see her smile again. It made him all woozy-like along with the heavy breathing and the tightening of his chest. "No!"

She almost caught up to him but tripped from not carefully avoiding a crack in the sidewalk. "Aaah!" she screamed, but caught herself with her legs barely supporting her unbalanced body. She looked up to see him turn around about to catch her, but it looked like he decided against it since she was fine. Once she got up, he started to run again and turned a corner.

Then, it hit her. No, not a metal pole for once, but a déjà vu.

[Flashback]

Tohru ran as fast as her little legs could carry her. She looked back to see two more boys join the one that she was being chased by. The thought of outnumbering her three to one scared her even more and she started to cry. She turned a corner, slipped, and slid to an alley where she hid behind some boxes. The boxes proved to be a good hiding place that protected her from the sight of the 3 boys. She sighed and started to sob again when she realized that she was lost. All night long she cried her eyes out and finally fell asleep.

The next day, she woke up to see a boy with a baseball cap stare at her. When she got to her feet, he started to run away and she felt the need to follow this mysterious boy. She didn't want to be alone, anymore.

She called and pleaded for him to wait, but he would go on. When she thought that she had lost him, she looked up only to see him wait for her to get close enough.

[End Flashback]

She rounded the corner to check if he was there. He wasn't. Of course he wouldn't be there, 'You idiot,' she thought of herself. The little boy back then led her back to her home. This guy...was obviously trying to get away. She sighed and tilted her head. When she looked up she was surprised he was there again looking over his shoulder. He made a little "oh-no-I'm-shocked-you-saw-me" jerk with his body and started to sprint off. "Well, that was strange."

'Ah, shit. She saw me. Nice going, idiot.' Kyo would have kicked himself for being careless if he wasn't running.

Tohru shook her head and shrugged it off as some sort of a coincidence. Then, she switched to her more serious mode thinking of where she should stay since she had gotten kicked out of her little hole of an apartment.

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Tohru sighed defeatedly as she collapsed on the steps of a cathedral. "I don't know where to go now...Mom...I wish you were still here to tell me what to do..." She pulled out a picture frame of her mother with a peace sign and a big grin. That always gave Tohru the confidence to keep going…but not now. She was tired and she laid her head down to rest a little. But even resting at the cathedral would not even give her a moment's rest because soon, it started to trickle tiny raindrops from ominous clouds above. Tohru sighed again and started to cry.

"What the hell are you doing here?"

Tohru looked up to see a jacket being used as a canvas/umbrella and the same orange hair and crimson eyes staring down at her from the earlier incident with the convict.

"Don't you think you should be in doors, say, like a house maybe?"

Tohru jerked up. "Well, I-I ...the truth is...I'm...," she held her mother's picture tightly, "I don't have a home to go back to." With that said, the tears, renewed and freshly made, came pouring down, mixing with the rain.

Again, Kyo was struck with the illiterate bug as he tried to murmur words of comfort...to no avail. "Come on. This isn't a good place for the both of us," he said while yawning. 'Damn rain...' He held his jacket over the both of them. "We'll have to stay in this church for a little while."

Tohru only nodded her head in response and she climbed up the steps with her orange-topped angel.

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AN: So, did I beat the longest Author's Note in ff.net? lol Sorry, guys, but I felt like I needed to explain where I'm going with this story...and did a bad job. Gomen nasai!

FYI, I've only read the first two mangas and watched the first two DVDs, soooooooo, you can leave the fate of my AU Furuba in my loving, careful hands.

--Knight Basilisk