Hey, I am so sorry I forgot this existed! I want to thank Chefbabe for following this and reminding me that I had to let you guys find out what happens about the messages.
I won't waste your time any longer and I'll let you read, enjoy.
Disclaimer; I don't own Fruits Basket.
"Kyo!" Kagura yelled, latching herself around Kyo's neck.
"Kagura came to see you. She said she was lonely without you," Tohru filled him in quickly.
"Kyo! Why don't you come back to the main house? I miss you."
"Wait a second," Kyo pushed Kagura off him by her shoulders, keeping her at arm's length. "Why are you here?"
"Kyo, you're so mean! I just wanted to see you. I was lonely," she attempted to latch onto him again but Kyo turned and started to run as fast as he could.
Shigure came into the sitting room hoping food was ready, "So, Kagura decided to pay Kyo a visit? And then Kyo just goes and runs away from her? He's so mean." He sat across from Tohru and crossed his arms, "So, is there any food, Tohru?"
"Don't say it like Miss Honda is supposed to miraculously have everything prepared," Yuki shuffled towards the table, taking the seat next to Tohru.
"Oh no, the food's still on the stove!" Tohru took to her feet swiftly and tended to dinner.
"So, do you think you know who wrote it, Yuki?" Shigure lent in, making his voice a whisper.
"No, not yet. The more I think about it the more people I think it might be," Yuki exhaled deeply.
"You mean there's more than just your fan club? How big is your fan club?"
"It's about three or so girls. But even they don't know where Tohru lives. It would have to be someone who knows Tohru lives here and doesn't like it. I can't think of anyone now." Yuki gritted his teeth, thinking hard who may have put in the effort to do such a thing.
"Foods ready. Yuki, can you please help me bring it out?" Tohru brushed aside the fabric that hung a few inches down from the kitchen doorway.
"Sure." Yuki got up and shot a look at Shigure. While he was in the kitchen he continued to think about possible people. He even thought it might be Kagura for a while but denied it quickly. Even if Kagura doesn't like Kyo living with another girl she likes Tohru and Kagura would never tell Tohru to die. He went through each of the Sohmas and ultimately found a clear them all. Hatori, Momiji, Hatsuharu, Rin, Kisa, everyone was cleared (I didn't list them all).
"Are you alright, Yuki?" Tohru asked; a smile still sweetly painted on her face with a tilted head.
"I'm fine, Miss Honda," he replied with a smile forced but believable. He carried out the food and ate it, cursed with maintaining the fake smile. Kyo joined them while they ate. Kagura clung to him as if he would take off the second she did, which was very likely.
Once they finished eating, Shigure convinced Kagura to let Kyo go so he could help with the washing up. Reluctantly, she agreed with a promise from Shigure that he would make Yuki bring him back if he ran.
In the kitchen, Kyo helped Tohru wash the dishes while she put them in their correct places. As he went to put a freshly washed pan on the drying board she grabbed for another object making their hands touch.
"Sorry," Kyo diverted his eyes from looking at her and hid his beginnings of a blush. Tohru looked at him with a hurt expression.
Did I do something wrong? Why's he avoiding me? She continued drying and putting away the objects and wherever she was in the room, Kyo faced the opposite way.
Don't let her see. She doesn't deserve this treatment either. But I can't let her see me like this, 'this' being him blushing. When he felt he had calmed down and was no longer red he went back to washing with his head focused on the water. She's no different; she's treated like a freak by 'him'. He can't stand her. What's so wrong with Tohru that he just can't stand? Kyo compared the way 'he' treated and saw them. The cat and the riceball. No, not the cat, the monster. The outcast. Someone who didn't belong in the Sohma house and the girl who didn't belong in society. A girl who never saw the bad but saw the good in everyone and everything. A girl who the world didn't deserve but it had her right where it wanted her. A place where she'd be born, lose everything, be rejected by people who don't understand and die still not seeing all the bad things around her. A person like that doesn't deserve to get letters like that. A person like Tohru would be the perfect person. She is perfect, he found himself telling the voice in his head.
"Kyo?" Tohru stood next to him with a smile; not on her face but in her eyes. "Are you alright? You've been staring at the empty sink for a while."
"I'm fine I just need to be alone for a while."
"Oh, okay then, I'll come and see you before you go to bed, okay?" Kyo smiled slightly. It wasn't a question but a statement she had given him that she would do it and it didn't matter if he didn't want her to. That was what made him smile.
He reached out to her and pat her head for second and left the kitchen through the exit he could avoid Kagura with. Tohru touched where he had patted her and smiled. Kyo went to his usual spot, the roof, but wasn't alone. It wasn't Shigure, Yuki, Tohru or Kagura but one of the last people he hoped to see, Akito. He sat leant back on his elbows watching the stars begin their nightly shine. He looked over at Kyo with a smile that made his skin crawl. "Hello, Kyo."
That was the first time he called him by name, "What do you want, Akito?" Kyo put a hand over the beads on his wrist; just to be sure they stayed on.
"Oh, nothing much," Akito turned his attention to the sky again; "I just wanted to check up on my favourite zodiac. He seems well. But something's bothering him. You don't happen to know what it is, do you?" Akito wiped a lock of hair from his face and gave Kyo a paralysing glare through the corner of his eye.
"If you're talking about that damn rat then I couldn't care less if something was bothering him," Kyo knew this was a lie at the time because they were bothered by the same problem. The letter.
"Did you happen to receive word from Shigure that I requested both Yuki and yourself to come back to the house?" Why would he want me at the house? Kyo asked himself, he'd probably just torture the hideous cat and take away my beads. Akito replied as if he heard Kyo's thoughts, "I wouldn't take your beads or hurt you, much. At least, no physically. I really don't like you but somehow Yuki can put up with you and a human, no less, can accept you. I can't do that. I can't pretend you don't bother me or accept you," Akito stood and stepped forwards a few steps. "You are a monster, you are hideous and the weakest link in the zodiacs. No, you're worse than that. You aren't even a zodiac, are you? You're nothing but a tool to be used by the rat!"
Obviously everyone else heard Akito as he raised his voice to insult Kyo. The first person up the ladder was Tohru. She stood with Kyo, a little behind. Akito started yelling her too, "Why don't you just leave? The Sohmas don't need you. Leave and find somewhere else to stay, you stupid girl!"
"Hey, that's enough," Kyo raised his voice but not enough to let everyone hear, "You didn't come here to insult Tohru. Why don't you just do what you do best, yell at me, Tohru did nothing."
Akito was about to start shouting again but Tohru beat him to talking, "I don't want to leave. I don't want to leave this house," Yuki and Shigure were almost on the roof by this point and could hear everything, "I don't have anywhere else to go. Kyo, Yuki, Shigure; they're like family to me and I don't want to leave them."
"Ha! Do you even realise how much of an inconvenience you are? All of that is just what you want! Have they ever told you that they wanted you here?" Tohru didn't answer. Instead she stood and looked down, her expression finally seeing the bad in life.
Shigure was able to calm Akito down when he started yelling at Tohru again. Her eyes on the verge of shedding tears. Yuki and Kyo helped her back down into the second floor of the house. She got them to go, unwillingly, but when she walked she walked with smaller steps and a gash in her spirit. Kyo lingered to see her enter her room and watch the door close. He couldn't put up with Kagura at the moment.
He walked slowly towards Tohru's room and talked to her through the door, "Hey, are you okay?"
"Yeah, I'm just fine. Maybe a bit tired." As much as Kyo wanted to believe her, he couldn't. He knew it was a lie and she would be crying soon.
"Can I come in?" He almost heard the shock she felt when he asked. Kyo wasn't a person who would usually ask to enter a room.
"Mm-hmm," she didn't open the door for him as she usually would but instead stood in front of her bed, with the fakest smile a person could muster.
Kyo frowned to himself telling himself that he should've made her go inside when she got on the roof.
"Don't worry, Kyo, I'm perfectly fine." As fake as it was, her smile never faltered.
"Don't lie to me!" He said it a bit louder than he meant to, shocking her into staggering back a step.
"Kyo, I'm not," then her smile gave way and fell with a tear. At the same moment, he jumped forward and embraced her. She was knocked to her knees and unable to find the strength, in will or in her arms, to push him away. She didn't want to. What's wrong with being a little selfish sometimes? When you only think of others, like Tohru, you deserve to be selfish. She made no effort to hold him back but instead just stayed in his arms.
Kyo couldn't help but feel that the second he let go, she would crumble. He held on for himself and for her…
They are so adorable!
Is Kyo falling for Tohru?
The next chapter might not be as long as this one. Has your opinion of who wrote the letters changed? (^-^)
Watch for the next chapter soon, I promise it'll be quicker this time!