A/N: I hope I can live up to everyone's expectations and if I don't, cram it, this is my moment not yours. Three...Two...One... okay moment up, now it's your turn. (Edited 8/7/05)
A soft breeze blew the hair across her face as she stood in the field. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, the sun beat down on her face, warming her. "Isn't it a beautiful day Yuki!" Sang Tohru as she spun around.
Yuki who had been tending the weeds in his garden looked up." Why yes I suppose it is , I'm afraid with these weeds I was too busy to notice." Yuki rose to his feet and took a step towards Tohru "If only I could embrace her with the ease that the wind does." he muttered, then realizing he had spoken aloud, a blush spread across his face and in a poof a small rat replaced him.
Tohru who had been too busy smelling a flower she had found did not hear Yuki's words or see him change. "Yuki? Yuki where are you?" she stepped forward almost onto Yuki's tail. "Miss Honda, I'm right here." Tohru looked down and saw Yuki in rat form blushing again, because in his haste not to be crushed, he had scurried between her legs and caught a glimpse of the pink panties she had worn that day.
"Oh, Yuki! But what caused you to transform?" Luckily for Yuki at this time he turned back, and Miss Honda quickly spun around, now the one blushing from head to toe. "Perhaps we should head home now Miss Honda the sun is setting, and the leeks I've picked will go bad if we don't rush." Tohru quickly came back to reality gathering up the basket eagerly "Yes, of course!" and they began the walk back.
"Miss Honda?" said Yuki, stopping suddenly.
"Yes?"
"Miss Honda, I was wondering there's a dance coming up, and the senior girls are insisting I come, to bring up ticket sales, Miss Honda will you be... will you go with... you see no one else can know about our secret and I must avoid slow dancing at any cost, if you were my date I could avoid it without suspicion, you don't have to say yes but I was hoping that you would be my date."
Tohru was silent, she had never been to a dance before, she was always working, and no one had ever asked her to one. "I, I would love to go to a dance with you, but I haven't anything to wear."
"I, can take care of that but only if you're sure you want to go with me." /I really don't want to go to him about this but it seems I have no choice/ Yuki thought /but at least there's no way he can mess this up/
"Well as long as everything's set of course I want to go with you Yuki it was so nice of you to ask me" Tohru smiled and went inside the house.
Yuki stayed behind "why do I get the feeling she would have gone with anyone , hmm well I should be glad I asked her before that stupid cat, he probably hasn't even heard about the dance"
Yuki took one last breath before entering the house he knew would be filled with Kyou's anger, Tohru was making stewed leeks for diner tonight and Tohru had forgotten Kyou's adversity towards them.
"LEEKS! I Hate Leeks, your so stupid! How can you possibly forget that we just had this conversation two days ago!" Kyou screamed.
"Relax Kyou, just think if Miss Honda keeps forgetting you hate them and you keep eating them anyway why, pretty soon I'm sure you may even grow to like them." Shigure said in a way that sounded perhaps too light hearted.
Kyou was quickly at his throat his hand balled in a fist "You're just as bad as that damn rat!" and as he was about to land a punch he was interrupted by Tohru.
"But Kyou I didn't forget you hated leeks, I made those for us because Yuki asked me to, I made you these rice balls instead, they're salmon."
/How can she stand there smiling all the time, doing everything right, I can't stand it/ "No thanks I've lost my appetite." he grumbled leaving the room.
"I could have sworn he liked salmon, well it looks like we're havin..." Tohru trailed off, noticing Shigure had already helped himself to half the rice balls. But she wrapped two in a napkin knowing Kyou would be hungry later, and then sat down, and a conversation began.
"Shigure, there's a dance next Friday and Miss Honda and I are going, but Miss Honda doesn't have a dress for it could you ask Aaya to make one?" Yuki knew the answer but he didn't want to have to deal with Aaya himself, not after the last time.
"Why Yuki I'm surprised at you, you're more likely to get it if you ask him yourself, you should both go there tomorrow after school, I know he'd like to se you again Tohru, you're all he talks about when he calls me, well you and Hatori, I'm afraid his idol warship has gotten worse"
"Oh! Alright that'll be fun I guess, um, please excuse me." Tohru didn't want Kyou's rice balls to get cold so she headed for the roof, where Kyou had heard everything.
A/N: Stay tuned for the next chapter, in which Kyou reveals a secret, Fan club girls run amuck, and something else happens but I'm not sure what, it's just these things sound better in three's.