-1Helllooo!!!!! Okay you read the summary and now it's time to read the story! And now that you've started I WIL MAKE SURE YOU WON'T STOP! ….yess…well anyways, my inspiration of this story came from the song 'lies' by 'big bang', it's Korean, but I looked at the English translation, and thought it was beautiful, not to mention the video clip, not THAT was a huge impact in my thoughts, so I won't keep you guys waiting, here we go! R&R&E!!!!!!!!!!
I Will Protect Her
Chapter One
Tohru stood in front of the Sohma estate looking at the big gates. The grip on her bag tightened. She took in a deep breath and counted to ten, vowing to herself that once she got up to the number ten she would build up the courage she had in her and enter the gates and walk into Akito's house.
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((Flashback))
She prepared breakfast as usual. Giving each one of the boys their favourite foods. Leeks for Yuki, fish for Kyo, and for Shigure?…well practically anything. She mentally laughed thinking of how Shigure would eat anything and everything as long as it was food. She looked outside the window in front of her, seeing the orange haired boy training in the front yard. Though he was only punching the air, Tohru new they were strong and firm ones.
'Ooooohaaaaiyyooooo' Shigure voice rang through the house. Tohru jumped from where she stood and turned to look at Shigure, her startled look quickly transforming into her bright smile only she could pull off.
'Good morning, Shigure-san,' she did a little bow before going back to work. Shigure looked from behind her looking at what she is cooking.
'Soooo…what's for breakfast?' Shigure said taking his seat on the dinning table.
'You'll see,' Tohru said.
'Nawwww but I wanna no nowwww!' Shigure whined like a little kid.
'Hey! Patience is a friggin virtue old man!' Kyo yelled as he entered the kitchen, wiping his hard working sweat off with the white towel around his neck.
'Good Morning, Kyo-kun!' Tohru said happily, he gave a little grunt, though it was his normal daily greeting.
'W-why? I'm only twenty-seven!' Shigure said, fake tears running down his face, he left the room in full speed leaving a trail of dust behind him. It was silent for a while until a far yell cried, 'OMG! WRINKLES!!!' followed by a, 'shut up!' and a crashing sound.
'Yuki-kun seems to be awake,' Tohru said, a sweat drop on her forehead. Kyo didn't say anything, he sat in his usual spot and waited patiently as Tohru laid his breakfast in front of him. He looked at the fish lying on its plate fried and looking absolutely delicious. It was as if it was daring Kyo to eat him. Kyo licked his lips before grabbing the fish and stuffing it full in his mouth. Tohru watched in amazement. Kyo sighed in satisfaction before a sudden cough came out of his mouth. Tohru gasped, Kyo thudded his fist onto his chest repeatedly, trying to get whatever was stuck on his throat out.
'EEK! He's choking!' Tohru ran behind him and tried patting his back, probably It would help. Kyo waved her off and she backed off, he stopped thudding his chest. His hand reach into his mouth, Tohru looked fascinated but worried at the same time, within seconds Kyo's hand came out of his mouth, this time with a long fish bone between his thumb and index finger. He gave a little smile before throwing it aimlessly somewhere.
Tohru was silent and the only thing came to mind was…clapping? Kyo looked at her oddly and she just looked at her own hands as if they had a life of their own, he shrugged and continued to eat.
'That was disgusting, cat,' Yuki's voice cam from the kitchen doorway. Kyo looked up from his food and glared menacingly at his life long nemesis. The rat.
'SHUT UP! WHY THE HELL WOULD YOU CARE?!' Kyo's voice was louder than he had expected but didn't care any less. Yuki ignored him shaking his head and taking his seat.
'Good morning, Honda-san,' Yuki said. Tohru looked up at her clapping hands and greeted in return.
'Tohru,' Kyo said, Tohru looked at him and noticed him still looking at her still clapping hands.
'Oh, heh heh,' Tohru hands slowly came to a stop, Kyo nodded and went back to eating.
'Kyo.' Kyo sighed feeling a tang of frustration, he did not like being interrupted while he ate. He looked up and saw Shigure, which kinda freaked him out, he had a serious looked on his face yet there was a huge lump on his head, and he had know idea if he could take him seriously or not.
'What?'
'I need to talk to you in my office, it's important,' Shigure gave him the look that explained 'we-need-to-talk-about-THAT'. Kyo growled before standing up and going into Shigure office, Shigure following him.
'I wonder what that was about,' Tohru said.
'Don't worry Honda-san, you need not worry about such stupid people,' Yuki said coldly. Tohru nodded but wasn't convinced.
'Well, I'm going to start the cleaning, have a good breakfast Sohma-san,' Tohru said, bowing and leaving the room. Yuki nodded and continued with his breakfast.
Tohru didn't like lying but she needed to find out, even if it meant to eavesdrop. Tohru quickly crawled to the front of Shigure's office door, her ear listening contently into the conversation from inside.
'Akito called,' Shigure's voice said. Tohru gave an inward breath but didn't make any noise.
'And?' Kyo's voice said.
'He told me to remind you of how long you have left,' Tohru was confused, but remembered Kyo's fate as being the cat of the juunishi. Shigure continued, 'you have two months left, Kyo.'
'I know,' Kyo grunted.
'What are you planning to do?' Shigure asked.
'What do you think? Beat Yuki,' she heard Shigure sigh.
'And if you fail in doing that?'
'I WILL beat Yuki,' Kyo said, more forceful.
'I see, well to be honest, I wish you luck,' Shigure said. It was silent for awhile.
'No thankyou, I won't need luck for this, I'll use the skill I have,' with that Tohru heard footsteps coming her way, she squeaked and hid in the nearest room, the closet. She heard Shigure's door slide open and then close again, Kyo's footseps was coming closer but soon stopped. Tohru listened more closely, but she couldn't hear his feet anymore, she let out the breath she had held when she had entered the closet. She waited for a while before she knew that it was safe to come out. Wrong.
As soon as Tohru opened the door to come out she immediately bumped into a hard rock chest that belonged to none other then Kyo Sohma. His arms were crossed and his eyes looked into hers. She looked up at him and blushed.
'Hi?' Tohru voiced squeaked.
'Why were you eavesdropping?' Kyo asked.
'I-I wasn't eavesdropping heh heh, what are you talking about? Why would I eavesdrop?' Tohru's voice was high and fast and she knew how terrible she was at lying.
'Uh huh,' Kyo wasn't convinced, 'don't do it again,' was all he said before walking away. Tohru was surprised but relieved. She waited before Kyo was out of sight and then went into her room.
She sat on her bed a blank look on her face, not really caring about the things around her, but about what she thinking in her mind of thoughts. "Two months! Only two months left until graduation and he's gone. NO. I need to help him….I HAVE TO HELP HIM!
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Tohru opened her eyes 'the only option that came to mind was to see Akito, I can't back out now. Not until Kyo is safe.' she thought to her self, her hand raised up to push open the gates.
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The door slammed open, Kyo walked in taking off his shoes and laying his school bag at some random spot, he took a seat on the coach and opened the T.V clicking the remotes buttons with out even looking at what the channel was actually showing. Kyo sat there for awhile waiting for something. But it never came.
'Tohru?' Kyo asked to no-one in particular, but a response didn't come.
'odd. I usually hear her running down the steps, possibly tripping then coming up to me and asking how my training went,' Kyo thought to himself. He looked around the house and only now had he noticed how empty it looked, his ears didn't hear any voices or shuffling around the house. Complete silence and emptiness. Kyo went into the kitchen and found a note left on the table. He picked it up and read it.
'My dearly beloved flower, and the other two, I have gone to visit Hatori, no need to make dinner for me Tohru, I will be eating with Hatori, goodbye then. Don't let kyonkichi rape you!' Kyo growled at the last bit crumpling up the paper and threw it on the floor.
'Perverted bastard,' Kyo walked outside, no one. He turned around again to go back inside but found a note on the door.
'Miss Honda, pervert and cat, I have a student council meeting that will go up to late, so don't wait up for me in dinner. Yuki. P.S DON'T RAPE MISS HONDA CAT!'
'What the hell?!' Kyo yelled he did the same thing to Shigure's not and stomped inside, mumbling a few curses. He walked upstairs and knocked on Tohru's room. Nothing. He opened the door and found an empty, tidy room, he looked around for any notes but he still couldn't find anything.
'Where is she?' Kyo said ruffling his hair up in frustration. He sighed and sat on her very big pink bed.
'Wow…comfy,' Kyo said patting the bed, then something caught his eyes. He looked up and saw an orange little book, he reach out and grabbed it. 'Tohru's…diary?' He saw the word 'secret' written all over, so it must've been her diary. Kyo opened the book, but quickly shut it as soon as he saw the words 'dear diary'.
'I shouldn't!' he said to himself, 'but…soo…tempting,' Kyo's hand was having a mind of it's own, it slowly opened the book once more, but closed it…again. 'okay, okay, okay, what if she walks in on me reading her diary what will happen then? She'd kill…no she wouldn't she just wouldn't trust me again, dammit! No, it was fate, that's it. Fate! It's like I was MEANT to read it, it just so happened to be right in front of me, one hundred percent fate!' Kyo who had been so lost in his head had no idea he was making weird hand movements and when he snapped back to reality he was standing up on leg on Tohru's bed and his right hand up and his thumb up. He mentally slapped him self and sat back down, eyeing the diary in his hand. He took a deep breath until finally, but slowly opened the page.
Dear Diary.
Today I met new friends! And guess what? They have a family secret too! When they get hugged by a girl they turn into an animal from the chinese zodiac. Their names are Shigure, he's the dog, but he is also the oldest. Yuki is the rat, and all this time I only knew him as a school mate but I've gotten to know him more, he is really polite! And then there's Kyo, the cat! As soon as I heard he was the cat of the zodiac I was ecstatic! The cat of the zodiac has always been my favourite and then actually meeting one in real life I couldn't believe my eyes. He seems to be short-tempered rude but that won't stop me from becoming good friends with him! Just yesterday I saw a shooting star, I made a wish. That Kyo and I would become great friends one day! That Kyo will trust me and open up to me. I know it's going to be hard work but I won't give up until my wish comes true!
Kyo stared at her writing, he had no idea what to think. When he had first met Tohru he had given her his full bad-boy attitude, but she still wanted to be his friends. Kyo smiled warmly, he was touched, no one had ever really wanted to be his friend that badly. He flicked through the rest of the pages. He was astonished to see how much Tohru wrote about his family and his cursed, but every time she wrote about them she had always wrote in such optimistic words it was as if meeting his family was the best thing that has ever happened to her. He had reached the last entrance of her diary that was just yesterday. Kyo read it intently, his eyes widening at the last few words Tohru had written.
'No,' Kyo whispered to him, he shut the diary closed and stood up, he bolted out of Tohru's room, bolted out of the house running as fast as he can. He didn't have a plane, he didn't know what he was going to do there, all he knew that Tohru was in danger and that she needed him.
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'Come in,' a cold voice came from inside the room. Tohru slid open the paper door and knelt in front of the dark shadow in front of her, she knelt there silently waiting for him to talk, the wait was killing her but she didn't say anything.
'Tohru Honda,' Akito's said her name in a way that was definitely bad, 'why have you come so unexpectedly, tell me what you are here for, this better not be a waist of my time.'
'A-Akito-sama, I'm here to ask for a request,' Akito's eye brow rose up in curiosity, 'about Kyo's imprisonment.'
'Oh, I see now,' Akito's voice spat out like acid, 'you want Kyo to be free don't you?' Tohru nodded furiously, 'you think I would actually fill your request that easily?!' Tohru flinched as the pitch of his voice began to get higher, 'you think you can come here, ask me to let Kyo free and say yes as if it's the most simplest thing in the world?' Tohru didn't know what to do anymore, she broke down in tears.
'ONEGAI! Please let Kyo be free ONEGAI SHIMASU!' Tohru bowed lowly on the ground, 'ongegai, onegai, onegai, I- I'll do anything!' Tohru yelled. It was silent for while then she heard Akito's muffled laugh, she looked up from her bow and saw Akito covering his mouth has he started to laugh, soon becoming maniacal. Tohru looked at him confused but didn't say anything, instead she bowed lowered and began to beg once again. Akito's laugh suddenly stopped, he took a step toward her. He knelt beside her and grabbed her chin in between his thumb and index finger, he lifted her head up so he stared into her eyes.
'anything eh?' Akito's repeated her words. She nodded, 'if you do this one little thing for me I will let Kyo be free after graduation,' Tohru's eyes widened in excitement.
'Yes!' she said, Akito grinned evilly.
'Then don't keep me waiting, Tohru Honda,' Akito's face was leaning closer and closer to Tohru's. Tohru was confused, what was he doing?
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Kyo ran across the road, almost being ran over by a car that beeped, Kyo ignored the drivers curses and kept on running, 'almost there, almost there, almost there, almost there,' Kyo kept repeating to himself.
'Tohru you idiot! Why?' Kyo yelled, he knew why.
Dear Diary,
Today I had eavesdropped through Shigure-san and Kyo-kun's conversation. I know I shouldn't have and that mum had always told me that eavesdropping was bad, but I had a big feeling that I had to! They were talking about Kyo-kun's imprisonment, Kyo-kun doesn't know I know yet but I know he will tell me when he wants to, but I will not push him to do so. Kyo-kun only has two more months, and it breaks my heart so dearly to think he'll be kept away from us, most importantly me. I know it may sound selfish, but I don't think I can handle Kyo-kun being gone from my life after I had gotten to know him and had become so close to him. I don't think I can ever live with out him. That is why I must see Akito. I don't know what I will do, what I will say, what I know is that I will do anything to get Kyo-kun's freedom! I care so much for Kyo-kun, maybe even more then the other Sohma's. Could it be that I love Kyo-kun? It's times like this I wish my mum was here.
'could it be that I love Kyo-kun' the words were still stuck in his head, he couldn't believe it, he knew he had fallen for Tohru but he had never thought she felt the same way. Kyo saw the Sohma estate come into sight. He ran faster ignoring the pain in his legs and thighs. He slammed through the front gates and headed towards Akito's house. As he ran in the hallways he head numerous gasps from passing maids, probably surprised to see the cat in Akito's part of the estate let alone the whole estate itself. He came to a halt in front of the paper doors that lead to Akito's room. A maid stood in front of him.
'I'm sorry, but Akito is busy at the moment, please leave at once, you are causing a great deal of disruption,' the maid said, giving him a low bow. He growled at her.
'No! he has Tohru in there I won't leave until I know she's safe, now if you excuse me…' The maid cut Kyo off.
'leave,' she said, this time her voice was more firm and demanding.
'Your not listening to me are you?' Kyo yelled at her.
'No I am not, now please if you do not leave I will have to call the police,' the maid said, ignoring what Kyo had to say. Kyo glared at her and pushed her out of the way and onto the floor and went inside the room slamming the paper doors behind him.
'Yumi!' the maid called, picking herself up from the ground, 'call the police!' a younger maid from the corner nodded and hurried off.
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'TOHRU!' Kyo yelled, he looked around the room until his eyes widened in the corner. He saw two figures, one was stooping over the second figure that lay unmoving. Kyo was wide eyed he slowly walked towards it. When he was close enough to see what was really happening he froze.
'Tohru?'
OMG! …. I hope you like it so far! Please review to tell me what you think, and I think I have time to write the next chappy, so you don't have to wait much!