"RIOT!"

By: Running to my Heart

Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket or any of its characters. If any non-Furuba-y characters appear, they're my own creation! –mwah- have fun!

SIDENOTE: the inspiration for this chapter came from the song "Riot" by Three Days Grace. And for anyone who does not know them, GO LOOK THEM UP! THEY'RE AWESOME!

Tohru worried at her predicament like a dog worries at a bone until the end of her vacation. [Yes it's been a week already here When the three teens and Hatori arrive at Shigure's house, they find a pile of trash threatening to overtake the whole house, and not a single bit of edible food anywhere. Tohru freaked out and immediately set to work, flashing around so fast, the men were just tired watching her. By dinner time, the house was back in order and food had been bought and cooked to perfection.

"How did the house get in such bad condition in only a week?" Tohru asked curiously.

Momiji started in a long explanation of how Shigure and Ayame had locked themselves up in Shigure's room, doing who knows what and had left him to fend for himself. This was so terrible, he explained, that he absolutely had to throw a party (everyone sweat dropped at this) and this was the source of all the trash and the mysterious disappearance of all the food. Unfortunately, he said with a gloomy expression, he could only get Haru to come over, so they just did whatever til Tohru came back.

"You stupid idiot!" Kyo exclaimed, while both he and Yuki towered over Shigure.

"It's not my fault!" he whined, "Aya made me do it!" At this, the perverted dog cast a huge smile on to his face and Yuki and Kyo dropped him from where they had been holding him, rubbing their hands on towels.

"It's ok, Yuki, Kyo," Tohru said from the stove where she had been cooking and watching everything, "I don't mind cleaning. In fact, I'm happy to!"

"No, Tohru," Kyo yelled, "It's not right! We treat you like dirt, me especially, and I just wanted to say that it's not right and you shouldn't have to put up with us." He wilted more and more as he said this, until he was on his knees in tears (un-Kyo-ish I know, but hey, it's my fic!).

"Kyo!" Tohru exclaimed as she got down beside him on the floor, "I'm happy to do it for everyone because you all take care of me, ad I'm hoping, one day, you could come to feel the same way about me that I feel about you." Everyone in the room, Hatori included, got very quiet until Kyo asked, "How do you feel about us?"

"I love everyone of you with all of my heart, butmostofallyou!" Tohru finished in a rush. Kyo looked at her a minute, not understanding what she had said, and in that moment, Tohru began to freak out more and more inside herself, thinking he didn't love too, but then he put all those fears aside. The young man, reached up with one hand, stroked the tears that had fallen from her eyes from the hopelessness that she felt only a moment ago, and gently, but surely, kissed her on the lips. Everyone's jaw dropped at this, and Yuki stormed from the kitchen, but no one noticed except Hatori. After what seemed an eternity, Momiji began hopping up and down, and hugged Tohru, changing into a bunny in a puff of peach smoke.

"Stupid rabbit!" Kyo yelled at Momiji, now in Tohru's lap.

"WWAAAAHHHHH!!!! Tohru! Kyo's being mean to me!" the boy cried. All of this was in the background of Tohru's mind though, as she thought about everything that had just happened. (Tohru's THOUGHTS are in italics). I never thought this day would come! But there's something I have to do before we can truly be together. Tohru gently sat Momiji, still in bunny form, on the floor, rose, turned off the stove, then, just like that, turned around and walked out. After she got up, Kyo tried to stop her and ask her what was going on, but she would not have her progress impeded. She shoved him aside, little, innocent Tohru, and left Shigure's house. Kyo, and later Yuki, followed her, but they were the only ones. Hatori held the other two back with a simple, "Sit down." And that was exactly what Momiji, Shigure, and Hatori did until the trio came back, sat in silence, each with the company of his own thoughts to keep.

GOMEN!!!! I know this has taken forever to come out but, can I tell you, having cousins all under the age of 7 is killer on the intellect! Where did they go? What will happen next? Only I know! And I'm not tellin til next chapter –evil laugh-!