Toyko's Finest

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Chapter Two: English


I hurried to my seat, face burning. When I settled in a new commotion arrived. The door banged open, as Kyo-san was dragged into the room with an angry expression. The class watched in fasicnation as Haru-san dumped Kyo into his seat, bowed to Shiraki-sensei, and stalked out the room, mission accomplished. Kyo-san was slouching in his seat, face the same color as his hair.

"Late. Detention after school. You'll clean the girls' bathroom."

Kyo-san muttered a curse word, starting with a b, and ryhmed with witch. "I know I'm one," Shiraki-sensei announce haughtily. "Double Detention. Shall you clean the girls' locker room as well?"

Kyo's mouth might as well have been cemented shut.

"Okay class," Shiraki-sensei announced, smiling an evil smile, "For the new semester, you have and english project. You will each work in pairs." I smiled, thinking of Hana-chan or Uo-chan working with me. "That I shall pick. Anyhow, In this hat," she picked up a top hat and shook it for empahsis, "your name and others or inside. You shall come up here when I call your name and pick a paper."

"Suzu Kagai, come up please."

The class watched as Suzu-san put her hand into the hat and searched around before selecting one. Her eyes were squeezed shut. For a moment time seemed to be held still. "Ryou Kabari." Her face fell.

"Kyo Sohma. Get up here now."

The class giggled at how rude Shiraki-sensei was. We all knew that if she had to choose between a million dollars or killing Kyo-san, it would be the latter. Kyo-san dragged himself to his feet, naturally grumpy, and stuck his hand inside the hat while I was busy battling my emotions. I was losing. They had a nuclear bomb while I had a pistol. I lost. Terribly.

Kyo

And of course, I was called next. If only Haru-chan hadn't passed by where I was talking to Saburo-kun. If only he hadn't been pissed for my reasons for skipping class and hadn't forcefully dragged me there. If only. If only.I got to my feet, grimacing, as I walked as slowly as possible to the front, then looked at Shiraki-sensei's smug face. I put my hand in the top hat and searched around, finally finding a slip of paper. I pulled it out and read it aloud. "Tohru Honda."

She looked up at me, and for some reason, I started to blush. She smiled in one of those corny ways, but on her it looked cute. But just her. She suddenly blushed too, and I flet glad we were partners, and I hadn't been paired with Yuki, or anything, because that would be hell on earth.

I walked back to my seat, taking the long way so I could smile at Tohru-san. She smiled back.

That's when I noticed the goth girl.

She was staring at me intensly, not smiling, not frowning. Just staring. Then something stung my head, and I slapped it, thinking it was a bee. But the stinging sensation continued while the goth girl stared. He friend, the yankee, glanced our way, then cracked a grin. She put a hand on the goth girl's arm, and said something, and the pain stopped. Wait. Had the girl been causing that?

I thougth about it, then shrugged it off. No way. It just wasn't possible.

Suzu

I was about to kill somebody, and that somebody had the stupidest grin that a person could pull onto their face. HOW DID I NOT END UP WITH KYO-KUN? WE WERE SOUL-MATES!

It was that slut, I bet. She had somehow rigged the hat, enabling it that when Kyo-san searched for a name, it would only find hers. The b****! How dare she steal Kyo-san frome me! Well, two could play at that game. When class ended, I found Tohru out in the halls and roughly shoved her, hard enough to send her flying. But she only stumbled, and smiling, she righted herself. "I'm sorry for bumping into you," she apoligized. "I'm so clumsy!"

(* A.N- when Suzu-chan uses Tohru's name without honorifics, it is out of disrespect, not closeness. Sorry if this confuses you.)

I stared at her, dumbly wondering is she was fooling with me. I had obviously shoved her, so why had she apoligized? Was she truly stupid? She then proceeded to give me a small bow, and hurried off to class. Was she fooling me?

Oh, she was. Thinking that I would be dumb enough to fall for her nice-girl act. I seethed, about to stomp off to my next class when a voice spoke behind me. "You know, I could CENCORED CONTENT you with electronic waves."

I was gone like the wind.

Uo

I watched as Hana-chan terrorized the spiteful girl, then followed Tohru-chan to her next class. She was weaving in and out of la-la land, smiling and apoligizing every five seconds to whoever she bumped into. Something wasn't right.

I caught up to her. "Tohru-chan, have you found a new recipe for leeks?" I demanded. "No, but I bet Kyo-san has," she murmured. I stared. "Kyo-san?" I repeated, just to confirm it. She nodded. Oh joy. Anger management boy, that's who she liked? Why not a more... normal person who didn't have to be dragged into class? Like Yuki-kun! Prince Yuki, who half of the school population liked (I wasn't excluding boys, either)?

Tohru

So maybe I was floating on cloud nine. Soon I would have to come back down. I mean, it wasn't like he could ever like me. I mean, why would he? He was popular, and handsome, and a bit of a bad boy. Every girl who didn't like Yuki-kun liked him. And that was a lot, considering that most girls had given up on Yuki now that he was claimed by Machi-chan.

But that didn't stop me from liking him. It only fueled it.

If only love were easy.