This story will be more of a set of drabbles, set after "When You Know Everybody's Watching". After all, I had no plans originally to make a third chapter to the tale, but since all you guys wanted a little more, I thought I'd try and oblige.
Kyo never thought he would survive until graduation, but being with Tohru made it surprisingly easy, and even—dare he say it?—enjoyable. The Junishi curse, he now knew, had begun to fade, freeing one after the other of the Sohmas until they were free, and Akito had, ahem, come out to everyone that he was actually a she. It meant the most to Kyo—the fading curse, not Akito—who had more to fear even than Yuki did if the curse had continued strong. But now that it was gone, there was nothing at all for him to be afraid of once he received his high school diploma. He sat with the rest of his class, holding Tohru's hand tightly—he had bribed the person that had been beside Tohru to switch places with him—and even smiling a little.
The two of them had long gotten used to the stares of their peers when they held hands. Shocking everyone who heard, Kyo had been the first to come out openly about he and Tohru, much to the general astonishment of the class. After all, Kyo dating? He had treated girls like a contagious disease upon his enrollment at their school, never getting within arm's reach if he could help it, and all of a sudden he was going out with one? Of course, no one but Tohru and Sohmas knew the reason for his avoidance of anything female.
"Ready, Tohru?" Kyo said in his low voice. She looked at him curiously, tilting her head like a puppy.
"For what?" she wondered. Smiling, Kyo pointed at the students all around them, their hands holding their graduation caps readily.
"They're getting ready to throw their caps," he answered, reaching up for his own.
"Oh!" she exclaimed, taking her cap in her hands at once.
"Wait for it…" he muttered. One of the students in the next row up was counting down. "Wait for it…Now!"
Dark blue graduation caps flew into the air, a huge swarm that for a moment blotted out the sun. As his cap left his hand, Kyo felt something inside him breathe for the first time that he could remember. He was free. There was no cell waiting for him now that his cap was in the air. There were no more disgusted eyes waiting for the horrible cat spirit. He was free to take Tohru and leave, go somewhere far away and never come back to the Sohma residence. And that was exactly what he intended to do.
As the caps began to rain back down on them, Kyo pulled Tohru in close, and pressed his lips over hers, holding her without restrictions as he had been able to do for so long now, and yet every time felt just as shocking as the last. He would never turn into a cat again, never become that revolting monster that sickened everyone around it.
Someone near them cat-called, and another whistled loudly, but neither of them cared. There was only each other, and the knowledge that they were free to control their own futures from that point on. Futures that would be forever linked, twined together with thread as red as the blood in their veins.