A/N: I'm done with chapters for a while. So I just decided to make a nice short prom story of Fruits Basket. I had fun writing this. This is such a great show! Sadly this Anime had to end so quickly and I was JUST getting in to it… D:

Prom Date?

Part one: The problem

She groaned slightly… "Awe, it's Friday already." She knocked her head on her locker. "What will I do? Just one week left." Tohru's simple teenaged mind drastically started thinking of a way to avoid her dilemma. "Awe, I can't just ignore them I live with them." She knocked her head once again…

"Miss Honda?" Yuki looked puzzled to see her so stressed. " Why are you-?"

She threw him a big grin of enthusiasm. " Yuki!" Oh my what will he think… I look horrible… I shouldn't be acting this way I should looking happy. Despite of everything, she giggled. "I was just thinking…"

"Of what?" He calmly asked walking up to her, reading her face. He raised a brow she looked fine didn't she?

"Oh nothing really. Hehe…"

"Well that's too bad. I had a question for you… More like a favor, you see, I was wondering-"

She tugged on her uniform nervously, noticing the time. "GEEZ look at THAT… The professor will kill me if I'm late again. Sorry Yuki." She left a confused boy like the speed of light in the middle the hallway.

"W-wait?"

"Oh… I do hope he can forgive me for ditching him like that. I just can't, I can't let him ask me." She slid around the hallway, letting out a sigh of relief. "If I can just stay hidden until school releases then I can hurry home, start dinner early and go to bed. That will do it until next Friday, I suppose. I hope they can forgive me."

"Forgive who!"

Just when she thought she was safe… "Awe no."

Kyo crossed his arms. " Forgive who Tohru? Has someone hurt you?"

"No, no…"

"Just tell me the name. I'll smash em'." Kyo changed poses so quickly, it had taken her by surprise. His hand was balled so tightly into a fist, his anger pouring out uncontrollably.

"No really. Forget what I said. It's alright. Hehe, I was just rehearsing for English."

"Hm, is that all?" He frowned. "You should learn not to talk to yourself in public. People will think you are crazy if they don't already."

"OMG SO HE HEARD EVERY WORD! He knows!" Her heart raced. "I didn't mean for anyone to hear. I was just-" She was breaking out a sweat now. "Now, he will think something is wrong with me."

"No worries. I don't care." He smiled lightly. "I do have a question though. That's if that damned rat hasn't beat me to it."

"OH CRAP!…"

"You wanna go to the dance with me?" His voice was suitably low when he asked and swiftly cleared his throat. "I'm too late aren't I?" He hit the wall in frustration.

"N-No your not." She sighed. "Actually, he hasn't asked me at all."

"Great, so you will? I mean if you want too."

This was not part of the plan. As useless as it was to worry about such a thing, she couldn't help it. Instead of just fixing her problem, instead she made it worse by creating her most terrifying fear, rejection to her friends. It was all her fault.

Saki was right. "Tohru. You can't run forever. They will come for you. After that, you can't hide."

"You might as well call it a day and say that they like you or even love you… Yuk." Arisa laughed.

"Oh…Right, I almost forgot. I will be right back." She beamed another one of those darling smiles before speeding off to get away from it all.

"Huh?"

Throughout that whole school day, she managed to doing something that she wouldn't never consider doing when she was in a bind , run away from her problems. How amazingly easy was it to avoid both boys for the rest of the afternoon. When it was lunch time she sat by herself and walked to her last class alone. She had to have a plan to go on by tonight since the other one didn't work well.

Yuki finished with last of his meeting with the student counsel waiting for Tohru to show her face but that never happened. He didn't think she would get herself in any harm but you could never tell with her personality.

"I won't worry."

On second thought… She would more or less chat with the bad guy on her way home. "It would help to be a bit concerned…" He quickly got his things and headed to the door. If he could get home then he could ask Tohru what he had been meaning to ask.

"Where do you think your going?"

That voice made him twitch. He turned around. "Home. Why?" Yuki frowned.

"You just seem in a rush like… you gotta do something…"

"So? Go away?"

"Nope, I have to wait for Tohru. We have to talk about next Friday." The other boy chuckled.

"Tohru? WHAT PLANS?"

"I hope I didn't make them mad." And foremost, she trusted that they both didn't think she was horrible for ditching their walk home from school. That was like their down time in which they would talk deeply about their feelings or go in detail about the school day.

She couldn't believe she ditched a time like that, to learn more about Yuki and Kyo. Imagining the awkwardness with them walking side by side and knowing that they fight over who would take Tohru to the dance almost scared her. Though the arguing wasn't all that dramatic anymore, that would be the perfect topic to get them started again.

She remembered seeing the stupid flyers that started it all. "So who will you pick, Tohru?", her Friends asked, blockading her in a corner.

"Huh…"

"Haha she's clueless."

"Your date, Tohru. Who will you pick?" Saki uttered softly.

Tohru blushed. "Oh don't be silly I don't have one." So silly they were to think that.

"Uh oh… That means its going to be hectic. Let the wars begin." Arisa assured her.

"Tohru. You can't run forever. They will come for you. After that you can't hide."

"Well I could find another date." She wondered. That way she wouldn't have to reject them. She could just tell them that she has someone else. Wait, that would still be rejecting… She sighed.

"You might as well call it a day and say that they like you or even love you… Yuk."

"Yah right." Reality came to her as soon as she reached home, realizing that it was quite vacant. "Shigure?" Where he had gone off to. Its not like she was trying to avoid him. Never mind that; its dinner , homework then bed. Which by the way couldn't be done in time she wanted but she began cooking reguardless.

"That does smell wonderful…" Shigure whined like the little child he was inside. She gasped. "Oh, it's just you… I thought you were gone."

"No, no… just reading. I need new ideas before my next book. But I couldn't help but pull away from it for that delightful aroma. "

"Haha, stop. It's not that great."

"If it's one thing I love, Tohru, it's the smell of a woman's cooking." He stopped as though thinking another thought through… "Or do I love the smell of women more…"

"Wha-"

"Nothing dear, don't mind me."

"I said GO AWAY…" Yuki screamed outside.

"Uh oh…"The brunette sighed, trying not to show emotion towards the boys' menaced voices. Shigure rolled his eyes laughing. "Seems they argued all the way home sounds like they would do that."

"NO I WON'T AND I SAID I WAS GOING TO TAKE HER." Kyo screamed back.

"NO, I WILL."

"STOP BEING A BASTARD! YOU'RE JUST DAMN JEALOUS."

"LIKE HELL YOU ATROCIOUS CAT."