Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket. All characters and settings go to their respectful owners

*no flames please*

*Faith's POV*

Faith's eyes flashed open and she jumped from her covers, grabbed a small blade from the counter and stood behind the door. She halted her breathing and waited. The door slowly

creaked open. At first it was a small crack then it enlarged to a wider margin thats when she threw the slide door back all the way and shoved the blade up to the intruders neck….Who turned out to be the redhead from last night….Faith relaxed her grip and backed up. She then glared at Kyo. "What the hell do you think you're doing sneaking around in other people's rooms?!"

When Kyo gave her a blank stare she realized she was talking in english. She then translated into japanese "I said, what do you think you're doing sneaking around in other people's rooms?" Kyo looking at her in disbelief, which seemed to be his neutral expression, protested, "I was not sneaking around! And what do you think you're doing shoving knifes into people's throats?!"

She sighed and looked at kyo. She studied him for a bit. She noted his hands clenched into fists. Sloppy, letting an enemy know your feelings. She counted his pauses between his intakes of breath. ! He's breathing fast…...Do i intimidate him?...No he's standing too close for that…. Her eyes widened in realization before smiling coyly. He looked up at her with angry confusion before barking out "What?!"

"Oh, nothing." she said widening her smile into a grin.

Kyo glared at her before noticing her knife.

"Is that a black bear classic knife?" he asked excitedly. She looked at him in surprise.

"You know knives?" she asked warily. Kyo puffed up his chest. "I know almost everything about weapons, although I prefer hand to hand combat, you know what I mean? I was taught by my master, He probably knows everything about fighting techniques and weapons, considering I know almost everything. Although I know quite a bit about weaponry, i'm quite good at martial arts."

"Too bad he can't beat anyone at it." said a silvered haired boy with a girlish face, who was rounding the corner. Kyo glared vehemently at him. He trained his purple eyes Faith. "Sorry, for not being present when you arrived. I had business to attend to." Faith saw Kyo visibly stiffen."So for my lack of hospitality from last night, i wish to introduce myself. My name is Yuki Sohma. Pleasure to meet you." Faith was impressed by his poise. Although something's off about him. "Hello, my names Faith Roush." Yuki smiled at her with that false feeling that made Faith shiver.

Yuki, still smiling looked to Kyo from the corner of his eye. " So if i may be so bold to ask, What was all the commotion that woke me?" Faith blinked "Oh yeah, What were you doing in my room?" Kyo puffed up "I was trying to get your stuff out of the middle of the floor." She then for the first time noticed the bags that Kyo dropped when she assaulted him. She smiled sheepishly, "O-oh thank you." Kyo blushed slightly and turned his head. "It wasn't anything. I just didn't want someone tripping over it in the morning."

For the first time that morning she looked at the clock. It read 7:24. "Well i'm going back to bed." Kyo and Yuki looked at her funny. "Aren't you coming to school with us?" Yuki asked.

Faith looked at them with surprise. "No I told that guy Akito that i was going to take my classes online i thought he would have told you that." Kyo and Yuki gave each other a look. Yuki gave Faith a weak smile. "No i'm afraid he didn't, well sweet dreams then." Faith saw out of the corner of her eye Kyo roll his eyes. She tried not to smile when they started to walk away. That red head...sigh…..he's really something….

*Kyo's POV*

They were on their way to school….with Tohru and Yuki talking in the front….with Kyo behind them…..Again….. Without Faith…. For some reason this depressed Kyo even more.

heh… she sure did know how to handle that knife… not to mention when she threw that bag at me, it did have enough forced to knock me over…..hhmmm I'll have to arm wrestle her some time to see how strong she really is….. ugh…. I'll have to wait til schools over…...gggrrr how can I concentrate without…..without Faith?...what am I thinking? I don't even know her…...I'm just not in the mood for school…thats it. " Hey guys….. I'm not in the mood to go to school today." Yuki and Tohru watched him turn around and walk away. She turned to Yuki. "I hope he's not sick."

"Miss Honda, There is no need to concern yourself with the health of a stupid cat."

He made it home and when to his room. He took off his school shirt and was rifling around for another one. hmm…. do I have any nice ones? He paused Nah not for Faith… I just want to look nice that's all…. AArrrgg nothing...Maybe Tohru washed some last night. He walked down to the laundry room and started digging through the clean clothes. He found a black shirt and a blue hoodie and slipped them on. Feeling pleased with himself he walked out the door to go find Faith….

And he found her alright….well he found her foot...anyway…

Bam, she kicked him in the face and sent him sprawling. He jumped up and tackled her and they fell to the floor and started wrestle each other. Faith twisted his legs in between hers and forced him underneath her. Kyo took his opportunity to twist her arm until she was pinned to the floor with no movement. He grinned at his triumph until he saw her smile. "What?" he asked. Faith looked at him. "Betcha like this position don't ya?" Kyo noticed he was straddling her, blushed bright red and quickly stood up. Faith laughed still lying on the floor.

Kyo looked at her. The way her hair was sprawled out all over the floor. Her smile big and her green eyes that was framed by her acute jawline was shining. He blushed harder and turned away. "Whatever, I beat you didn't I?" he cocked his head and smiled at her. Faith blushed a cute rose color. "I went easy on you." she claimed standing up in the process. Kyo rolled his eyes "Whatever you say." He teased. She laughed. "Why aren't you at school?" she inquired.

"I just didn't feel like going." he said with his hands behind his head. Faith laughed

"Must be a japanese thing." She looked at him and sighed. "So what do you do for fun around here?" Kyo smiled at her. "Well do you wanna go sit on the roof with me?"

"But isn't that dangerous?" she asked he leaned towards her "Not if you're with me."

…

She laid flat against the roof willing herself from sliding of the end. Kyo took one look at her and started laughing. She blushed and threw her shoe at him. "Stop it! It's not funny, this is scary." she tried to sit up and slipped but kyo, who was now behind her, pulled her up to him and held her close to him. He whispered in her ear, "I thought I said you won't have to be afraid if you're with me." she looked at him, the way his orange hair swayed in the breeze and his enticing smell. maybe just this once… She thought. She leaned closer to him.

"KYO ARE YOU SICK?" called Tohru who just came back from school. Faith jumped up…..and almost fell off, if it wasn't for Kyo. He put her on the ladder and watched her climb down. He sat back waiting for Tohru to climb up the roof looking for him. He laughed to himself. Never thought I'd wish school was longer. He thought to himself.