"COME HERE, YA DAMNED RAAAAT!" Kyo yelled as he rushed towards Yuki. Yuki sighed and easily dodged Kyo's pathetic excuse for a punch. He stumbled and fell to the ground.
"Kyo, have you forgotten that today is Tohru's birthday?" Yuki asked. He was enraged at Kyo for forgetting, which he obviously did.
"Oh, crap!" Kyo exclaimed, jumping up from the ground. His pants were covered in mud now. "Gotta go!" He ran off toward to market.
Yuki sighed. Kyo was so stupid. He turned to see Shigure walking along the hall in a sort of daze.
"High school girls, high school girls, all for me, high school girls!" he sang happily.
"Shigure, where's Tohru?" sighed Yuki, tucking a strand of hair behind his ear.
"Oh, didn't she tell you? Arisa and Saki are bringing her over after they shop." Shigure awnsered.
"Oh, okay." Yuki said. He couldn't wait for Tohru to open the present he got her. He knew she would love it.
Kyo went through the store, trying to find something Tohru would like. He was grumbling to himself and worndering why on Earth he was here anyway. Since when did he care about things like this? Yet here he was, wandering through a store and fretting about what to get Tohru.
No! he told himself. I don't fret. He couldn't deny the fact that he cared about Tohru, but he knew Akito would hate him for it. Not that Akito didn't already hate him for being the cat. Akito wasn't that bad nowadays, though.
Aw, Crap! Kyo screamed in his head when he saw Tohru and her weird friends right infront of him. Saki's hair stood up and she looked directly at him.
"What are you looking at, Saki?" asked Arisa.
"Oh, nothing." Said Saki, and turned away.
Kyo rushed through the store, and found something perfect for Tohru. He quickly bought them and sprinted to the House of Sohma, where he put it in a bag and called it a day.
At the party, everyone sang happy birthday to Tohru, who blushed. She opened Arisa and Saki's pesents first, which were new clothes. Next, she opened Shigure's, which was a small dress with an apron on it.
"Tohru, open mine next." said Yuki, placing himself beside her at the small table they all crowded around.
She opened it. Inside, there was a beautiful necklace with golden chains holding a small bird of blue stones.
"Oh, Yuki, it's beautiful!" she exclaimed. Yuki smiled and put it around her neck.
"I'm so glad you like it." he said with a soft smile.
"All that's left it Kyo's." said Tohru. Momiji and the others sent their gifts there that morning.
Inside were two ahir ribbons. They were blue with streaks of glitter and the ends were made of a fine lace.
"Oh, wow." Tohru whispered. "Thank you so much."
"Yeah, yeah." said Kyo. He was blushing.
At night, Tohru climbed into bed, sighing. She remembered the wonderful day she had, and fell into a blissful sleep.
A dark hand closed around her mouth and pulled her sleeping body out and into the cold, crisp night. The kidnapper smiled. "Oh, don't worry." he whispered to the sleeping girl. "All I need is a talk. Then you can decide what to do."
He darted into the night, intentionally leaving behind footprints for the boys to follow.