(A/N: I do not own Fruits Basket. Please review!)

Chapter 2

I ran into the rest stop. Tohru wasn't in the main room. There were only two doors in the small rest stop. One that led to the lady's room, the other that lead to the men's room.

"Tohru?" I shouted. I ran into the men's room. She wasn't in there. Idiot! Why would she be in there? I mentally slapped myself.

Without a second thought, I ran into the Lady's room. Thankfully there weren't a lot of women there. There was only two women by the mirrors. One was middle aged, the other a grandma. The middle aged woman looked at me with a confused expression on her face and quickly rushed out. The old lady was fixing her hearing aid and didn't seem to mind me at all.

I ran past all the stalls, calling out Tohru's name. Then I saw one stall at the end of the row with its door an inch open. I heard a soft moaning sound. I ran towards the stall and flung the door open. That's when I saw Tohru on the ground, gripping her side and closing her eyes tightly.

"Tohru!" I shouted staring at her with disbelief. I kneeled down beside her and sat her up gently. "Tohru, what happened? Tell me, what happened?" I yelled.

Her eyes opened slowly and she smiled weakly. "Hello, Kyo!"

"Don't 'hello Kyo!' me! What the hell happened to you?" I shouted. Tears fell started to form in her eyes and I instantly regretted yelling at her.

"A couple of girls… were picking on another girl…. So I tried to protect her…. But it didn't work out how I planned," she said softly. I stared at her in disbelief. She got beat up? Just like that? And worst of all…. I couldn't save her. I made a fist with my hand and was about to punch the side of the stall when I felt Tohru's small hand on mine. She was smiling at me again. She slowly picked herself up and I stood beside her.

I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her into a tight embrace. "How could I let this happen to you? I'm such an idiot…" I buried my face in her hair.

"Shh, Kyo, don't say that," I heard her say. "I love you."

I almost chocked. "I love you too. Let's… let's go."

"Okay," she said with a smile.

She had to lean on me half of the way to the car, but I didn't mind. I gently helped her into the car and I buckled her seat belt.

"Thank you, Kyo," she said softly. I knew she wanted to apologize for causing me what she thought was trouble. But she knew I would just get mad at her apology. I was grateful she wasn't apologizing. I wouldn't be able to control my anger at those girls that hurt her and the anger I had at myself. I was gritting my teeth by the time I sat in the driver's seat and started the car.

I felt her hand in my mine, again, and I was slightly relieved for it. I needed to control my anger.

"Oh, Kyo! Look! We're almost there!" I heard her exclaim. I blinked and I realized she was right. I saw the faint outline of the university itself. I looked at her. She was smiling widely. "Hey, Kyo? Do you think we'll have to have separate dorm rooms?"

I frowned. I hadn't thought about that. "They probably won't let a girl and a boy share a dorm. I think they have separate dorms for girls and boys."

Tohru blushed. "O-oh, okay, but I don't know anyone—"

I smiled and squeezed her hand. "Don't worry. We'll get our own apartment soon enough. And we can always visit each other's rooms."

She smiled. "Okay!"

We had been assigned given our rooms and keys. I was in room five-nineteen in the southern boy's dorm building and Tohru was given room two-twenty in the northern girl's dorm building.

I wanted to help her put her things away but a girl who was going to be her roommate came up and said that she could help her. I didn't like that I couldn't help her but I took my things to my dorm building without any arguments.

When I walked into my room, I saw a kid about my age with short blond hair and light green eyes.

He said something to me but I couldn't understand it. It sounded like he was speaking English… with an accent. And my English wasn't exceptionally good.

I looked at him with a confused look and thankfully he understood and switched to Japanese.

"Sorry, do you speak English?" he said with a smile.

"Not really," I said with a shrug. His Japanese had a slight accent too.

"My name's James Jones."

"Sohma Kyo," I said, unenthusiastically. I put my bag down next to the empty bed and started to unpack.

"Need any help, uh, I say Sohma-san, right?"

My bottom lip twitched. That's what Tohru had called… Yuki… "No, just Kyo. And no, I don't need any help."

"Okay then. So, tell me about yourself Kyo. What do you like to do?" Great. I have a talkative get-to-know-you type of roommate.

"Eh… I do martial arts—"

"Really? Awesome! I play football. My mate did a little martial arts a few years back."

"That's… very interesting." I mentally rolled my eyes. I didn't really care about what some friend of his did.

"Hey, you got a girl?"

I paused. "Yeah."

"Girlfriend?" I physically rolled my eyes. This guy was going to bug me.

"Yes. A girlfriend. I have a girlfriend."

"She go here?"

"Yeah."

"What's her name?"

"Tohru."

He smiled. "Nice one, man. I have a girl back in London, but I don't know if we're going to keep our relationship. You know, long distance relationships are hard to keep. You're lucky she's going to the same college as you, huh? Or, is she an annoying bitch you wanna dump that followed you here? Trust me, one of my mates back in London had one of those—"

He just called Tohru a bitch. Honda Tohru. My Honda Tohru. Maybe not directly but still… I started to boil with anger. "DON'T YOU EVER CALL HER THAT AGAIN! SHE IS THE BEST THING THAT'S EVER FREAKING HAPPENED TO ME! DON'T EVER CALL HER A BITCH AGAIN, HERE ME?" I yelled as I reached out and grabbed the scruff of his shirt and shook him.

"Hey, hey! I-I'm sorry! I'm sorry I didn't know-! Please! I'm sorry!" he cried out. I let him go and watched as he laughed nervously and stuttered something about buying groceries and then rushing out of the room. I tried my best to calm down. Sure he didn't really call her… that word… but it still bugged me…

Suddenly there was a knock on my door. I went and opened it.

"Hi Kyo! Did you unpack everything all right?" Tohru said with a big smile.

"Almost," I said smiling back. "You?"

"Yes! The other girls helped me, and oh, Kyo! They're so nice! I'm so happy here!" she exclaimed.

"Well come on in," I said stepping back so she could walk into the room. She giggled when she saw my mostly full suitcase. I guess I didn't really get a good start at unpacking.

"May I help you, Kyo?" she said with a smile. I nodded, trying to hide the slight blush that rose to my cheeks. Why I was blushing the world may never know. In a few minutes we unpacked all of my clothes and I told her not to worry about any of my other stuff like lamps and bedding and such. I could do that later.

"Want to walk around campus, Tohru?" I suggested, putting my keys in my pocket.

Her expression lightened up at the idea. "Oh, yes, Kyo! That would be so much fun!" I smiled and we walked out hand in hand walking out of the dorm. We started walking through the campus and near the boarding line. Tohru was pointing out places that she heard was either good to by supplies at or had really good food and stuff like that.

I grabbed her hand when I eyed a group of guys watching her closely and smiling stupidly as we walked. Dammit… Why can't people back off my woman? I sent a glare in their direction. Thankfully, Tohru didn't realize what had just happened.

We stopped near a movie theatre. "Oh, Kyo! Do you want to see a movie?" She said with a huge smile on her face as she read the titles of movies that were playing. The Hunger Games (A/N: lol just a movie that came to mind) is playing in ten minutes!"

I quickly checked my wallet and sighed with relief. I had money. "Sure, why not?" I've never read the series of the Hunger Games but I heard that it was good. Why not see the movie?

After paying for the tickets, and after Tohru paid for the snacks and drinks, despite my argument of letting her pay, we settled into two seats in the back row of theatre seven. Thank goodness the theatre wasn't crowded.

"Isn't this exciting?" Tohru asked.

I nodded casually. "Yeah. Hey, you read the books?"

"Yes!" she said. "It was amazing and so well written! Peeta is so sweet and kind to Katniss!" I frowned. I had no idea who Peeta was but I didn't like that Tohru talked so fondly of him… even if he was a character in a book…

The movie actually wasn't half bad in my opinion. It was about these kids that were sent into an arena to battle to the death and a bunch of crazy ass people from the Capitol that wore all this crazy getup. The woman, Effie, got on my last nerves. She needed to go and dig a hole and jump into it. The main character Katniss was actually pretty good with a bow and arrow and the ending was nice too. So… Peeta was this bread boy dude. He wasn't all that great…. Hey! At least there was a slightly scary part so Tohru could grab onto my arm and bury her head into my shoulder. I sorta wished we had gone to see a horror…

"Wasn't that an amazing movie?" Tohru said with a smile as we walked out of the theatre.

"Yeah," I agreed.

"Who was your favorite character?" Tohru asked with a smile.

I thought for a moment. "Uh… Let's see…Thresh I think. Or maybe… No, I liked Thresh the best."

"Oh, well I liked—"

"Why hello there, Sweetie!" a voice said. We both turned, my eyes already narrowed.