Kyo walked into the room and tried hard not to look over at his cousin. Yuki was sitting on the edge of a desk next to Tohru, and Kyo really didn't want to see either of the. For one, Yuki just pissed him off, and two, it hurt every time he looked at her. The words she cried that night were still fresh in his mind.


She clung to his arm for dear life as he flung her around like a rag doll. Her body hit the muddy ground and some of the rocks around them. Yuki tried to hold him down and keep him from running away.

"I'm sorry." She had said. "I'm such a fool. I'm scared, Kyo. Right now I'm scared of you." Of course she was scared. Who wouldn't be scared of his ugly true form? He was hideous and smelt of rotting flesh. "But still," Tohru continued. "I want you to come back with us. I want you to stay in that house with us, and study with us, and eat meals with us, because...because, Kyo..." His eyes had widened. He could feel his heart pounding beneath his leathery skin. "Kyo, your friendship is something I treasure so much." His heart had skipped a beat when she said that. Friends? Was that all they were? She had come into his life with a smile, made him feel like someone cared for him, and all she wanted was to be friends? "Kyo, you're my best-" Kyo had swung her off of his arm, and kicked Yuki away with such strength. He wanted more than anything to be away. He didn't want them to see him while his heart broke into a million pieces. Maybe Akito was right. No one could ever love a monster like him.


A body moving in front of him broke him from his painful memory. Kyo looked up to see a group of girls crowding around a blonde girl. She was a thin girl, but she wasn't overly skinny like some of the others. Her bleached hair rested at her shoulder, and her honey brown eyes had a hopeful glint in them. Her bangs were pushed to the side in a side sweep like some of the American girls they saw in model magazines. Her skin was slightly tanned. She let one of her arms rest by her side while the other hand was resting on her hip, and a smile was on her lips. She was very pretty, but Kyo really didn't seem to notice.

"What the hell do you want?" he said with an acidic tone. Some of the girl's smiles faltered, but the one in front didn't let any fear show. She leaned over onto the desk to bring her face closer. The top on her school uniform was pulled down a little so that her cleavage would show. Kyo kept his eyes locked with hers.

"I like you." She said abruptly. So much for beating around the bush. "Let's go out." What was this, somekind of joke? Sure, Kyo had been told by a few of his girl classmates that they like him, but never like this. Usually, the girls would be blushing like crazy as they stutter to get what they had to say out. Then they would thrust a letter, or some kind of trinket at him, and then he would turn them down. So why was this girl being so forward?

"I'm not interested." Kyo said just abruptly as the girl had said she liked him. Many of the girls behind her made sounds of content at the blonde's rejection. The blonde leaned in closer.

"Aw, don't be like that." She cooed. "Just get to know me. I really do like you." Some of the girls behind her growled. She went to put her hands on his shoulders, but then he suddenly got up. His body swerved a little to escape the girl's touch.

"I said I'm not interested!" Kyo snapped. "Now just leave me alone!" He moved quickly around his fanclub and headed towards the door where he bumped into someone.

"Oh, sorry." said the girl he bumped into, and when Kyo got a better look at her, he realized it was the same girl he ran into the night he came out of the Sohma Main House. She had slightly pale skin that looked like it had just a little peach tint to it. Her dark brown hair went past her collar bone and curled inwards. She had dark blue eyes that blinked in surprise. "Excuse me." she said in a meek tone and she rushed to her seat by the blonde girl who was just hitting on him.Kyo watched her walk to her seat, and when she finally sat down, he left the room. Who was that girl? Her name started with an N. N-something.


Nana came to her seat near Kira. She could still feel Kyo's eyes on her back as she walked to her friend.

"Nana, Kyo Sohma is staring at you." Kira whispered as she eyed the orange haired boy. Nana wanted to turn around and look, maybe even smile at him, but she was nervous. She didn't want to look like the girls who were falling all over him. He got really annoyed with them. "Oh, wait. Nevermind. He left already." Kira had a light smile on her face. She kept staring at the space where she said Kyo had been standing. Nana turned around to see if the Sohma was there, but it was just as the Arukawa had said: he had already left.

"Kira, what are you-"

"I confessed to him today." Kira said suddenly causing Nana to stop mid sentence. "I told Kyo Sohma that I liked him."

"R-really now?" Nana stuttered. Surely Kyo wasn't interested. Nana prayed that he had turned Kira down.

"Yeah. He turned me down though." the blonde Arukawa said as she brought herself to look at Nana. "Looks like you might have some competition."

"Wha-what?!" Kira giggled a little.

"Oh, nothing." She said with a smile. That smile made Nana nervous. Was she really going to fight her best friend for the affection of one guy? Was it really worth it it? Kyo never liked anyone at the school, and he was really like a bad ass at the school. At least until a hoard of cats came by him that is. But lately, he had seemed to have fallen into a stupor, and he was even more on edge. Did she really want to compete against Kira for him? Would Kyo even like her? He probably just thought of her as that stupid girl who couldn't watch where she was going. He probably didn't even know her name.