A/N: I would like to thank everyone for their reviews. I would also like to say that even though I would love to, I do not own Fruits Basket or its characters. Of this story I only own how it is going and Tristan and Suki. Everyone end everything else belongs to Natsuki Takaya.

The next three days passed, and Tohru seemed to be getting better. She still wasn't quite herself yet, but she was getting there. She joined the other teens in games and was smiling more. The smiles still weren't quite the full grin, but they were getting closer.

On the fourth day Tohru woke up and couldn't make herself get out of bed. Her limbs felt heavy and unmovable. All she was able to do was open and close her eyes. She just felt heavy all over and couldn't figure out why and then the waves of realization hit her hard. She remembered her dream. It was back at the day the picture of her and Suki first surfaced. In her dream she ran from school and to her old house, where she had lived with her mom. She had run there and looked for her mom only to be hit with the realization that she was dead. Silent tears slid slowly down her face as her dream cut her like a knife.

"Tohru's been asleep for a long time." Kyou commented worriedly.

"Yeah, she has." Kagura agreed.

The other teens in the common area nodded in agreement.

Suddenly Kyou stood up and started walking towards the door to the girls' room. "I'm going to check on her."

Tohru laid in the bed unable to move and unable to stop the tears from falling. She needed a hug. Suddenly Tohru felt her bed move at the end and a hand on hers. She looked down to see Kyou setting there looking at her, his ruby eyes worried. "What's wrong?" he asked.

Tohru sniffed. "I had a horrible dream." She said and then she went into detail about her dream.

Kyou sat there holding her hand while she told him about her awful nightmare. When she was finished, Kyou reached down and pulled her into his arms. He stroked her hair and held her as she cried.

As Kyou held her and she cried, Tohru could feel her limbs wanting to move. She could feel them lightening. She wrapped her arms around Kyou and held on tight. I can move again! She thought as she embraced her love. Soon she held no more tears and just sat there in Kyou's arms.

Kyou pulled back and took her face between his hands and kissed her forehead, then her nose, and then her lips. "I have an idea." He told her. "You go and get ready and then we'll go for a walk."

"Okay." Tohru said, readily agreeing to anything he suggested.

Tohru went into the small bathroom and changed into a purple sweater dress, with a yellow ribbon around the waist and yellow tights. She pulled her hair back in her usual way with yellow hair ribbons. She came out of the bathroom and Kyou stood up and took her hand. They walked down the hall and to a small gym area.

A look of confusion came over Tohru's face as they entered this room and started walking over to a punching bag. "Why are we coming here, Kyou?" She asked her brow furrowed.

"We are coming here for you." He answered.

Her brow furrowed further. "What do you mean?"

"Ever since this whole thing happened you have been depressed, you have cried, but you have never gotten angry." He answered her.

"I still don't understand…" she trailed off as she looked at the punching bag.

"You need to get angry, but I know you won't show it to those girls, so I figure you can pretend that this bag is them and get angry." He told her simply.

"I…I… don't think I can." She said her eyes widening as she started to back away.

"Yes, you can and you need to." He told her. "Just try."

Tohru stood there staring at the punching bag. She couldn't believe what Kyou was asking her to do. She'd never once in her life gotten angry.

"You don't have to hit it. Just pretend that it's those stupid fan girls and say what you need to say to it." Kyou told her.

Tohru nodded. I can do that. I can talk to it. "I don't understand why you did this to me. I mean I've never been mean to you." Tohru began meekly, feeling a bit silly talking to a punching bag, but she continued to speak to it. "Plus why is it any of your business who Yuki is friends with?" She spoke her voice getting louder. "I mean you aren't in charge of people!" She said now yelling. "And are you so obsessed with him that you think just being with his family members just to be close to him is right? Is normal? I mean where would you get a messed up idea like that! I've never done anything to you! I've never hurt anyone or anything in my life! Why do I deserve this?" Tears began to well up in her eyes, but she continued to shout and get angry. "Haven't I been through enough? My mom died! Why do you have to torture me? Isn't that pain enough?" Without even thinking about it, Tohru balled up her fists and began hitting the punching bag.

She no longer shouted at the bag, she just punched it, letting out the anger and the tears from the bullying and from her mother's death. She just continued to hit the bag, even when her knuckles began to hurt. She pretended the bag was the fan girls and then she pretended the bag was her parents. "Why did you two leave me?" Se shouted at the bag as she pretended it was her parents. "Didn't you know that I would need you?" Then she ceased her shouting and continued to hit the bag.

Soon she was panting, while her fists slammed into the bag. The anger she felt towards her parents for dying finally came out. Soon her punches lost their force and her breathing came harder. Then her fists fell to her sides and she came down on her knees, having exhausted her anger and her body. The tears continued to fall down her face.

Kyou knelt down beside her and pulled her into his arms. He stroked her hair and kissed her forehead.

"Kyou?" She asked looking up at him.

"Yes?"

"How can you love a horrible person like me?" She asked her voice soft.

"What are you talking about?" He asked confused. "You're the furthest thing from horrible!"

"I just got angry at my parents…for dying, Kyou!" She said, guilt tearing at her gut. "I mean, they couldn't help what happened, but I'm still angry with them."

"That doesn't make you a horrible person. It makes you human." He told her.

Tohru blinked and her brow furrowed.

"I was angry with my mom for not being able to accept me and really love me. That wasn't her fault, though. It was the stupid curse. I was angry with her for dying, but that wasn't her fault either. It was the curse." Kyou told her. "Everyone gets angry at their parents when they die. It's part of being human."

"But things are different for you, Kyou." She began. "You had a right to be angry with your mom."

Kyou shook his head. "Because my mom tried to love me, but she couldn't? I think you have even more right to be angry because your mom loved you so much. I'm sure even though you didn't really know you dad, that he loved you, too. You had parents that really loved you and they were taken away from you. Your world had been shattered. You have a right to be angry."

Tohru had never thought about it that way, but she still felt guilty. "But I have you and Yuki and Shigure and everyone, but I still wish that Mom were alive."

"That's not horrible at all. That's normal. You're glad for what you have, but you still wish you had your mom. You are only human."

Tohru didn't know what to say. It was like Kyou understood everything she was feeling. He knew exactly what she had needed. Instead of saying anything, she just threw her arms around his neck and kissed his lips.

When they broke apart, Kyou took Tohru's face in his hands and leaned his forehead against hers. "I love you." He told her smiling.

"I love you, too." She said back, smiling her biggest and brightest smile, whole-heartedly.

A/N: I know that this is out of character for Tohru, but I wanted her to get angry. I also wanted her and Kyou to have this special moment. I also wanted to show how much their love has not only changed Kyou, but it has also changed Tohru.