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Chapter 7
"I'm so sorry, I wasn't watching-where did he go?" Tohru swore she fell into somebody. She looked up and to the right and left. Nope, no one there. That was odd. She slowly picked herself up and dusted off her clothes and looked down. "What is that! Oh my god, I turned the guy into a seahorse. What to do, what to do?"
She scooped up the unconscious seahorse and tried to figure out what to put it in. The toilet had water but she didn't want to accidentally flush the animal down the drain. She could toss it into the school fountain but then that was in front of the building and she didn't want to explain how she had come across a seahorse. The sink in the bathroom was out in the open so that was a no go.
What am I going to do? Tohru thought frantically. Maybe, if she peeked around the corner she could Yuki's attention and ask him what to do. She wouldn't have to explain that the guy turned into a seahorse. She could say she had found it just lying around. Yeah, that's what she should do. She almost had her bearings and started to turn around when Yuki's voice came from behind and caught her off guard.
"Miss Honda, I thought you might want some company to buy the drinks. Are you okay?" Yuki asked, unsure why Tohru was just standing still with her back to him. She truly was an odd character but still extremely cute. "Miss Honda?" He reached out and moved forward. He was caught unaware when Tohru spun around and fell forward.
The momentum of moving forward and Tohru falling right at him was a collision waiting to happen. And happen it did, with a loud exclamation at the end.
Tohru took a deep breath at the sound of Yuki's voice and spun around to walk forward but her foot slipped into the same dip as it did before and she felt her body moving forward. This had to be a record, two falls in a matter of minutes she thought as she brought her hands up to her chest to protect the little creature from any damage her fall might do.
She twisted and felt Yuki's body before she landed onto her side with a thump. She sat up with a groan and shook to clear out the birds that were flying around her head. "I'm sorry, Yuki. I tripped over that small dip and it was too late for me to right myself before I fell into you. Yuki? Yuki, where did you go? Oh my god, I flattened Yuki with my weight!" Tohru cried as she finally noticed Yuki's uniform with no Yuki in it.
She grabbed his clothes and lifted it up, hoping against hope; he would magically appear underneath them. What she wasn't expecting was a little white mouse to fall out of his clothing with a plop. "I...turned...Yuki..., my touch turned Yuki into...into a mouse. A seahorse and a mouse. I turned them into animals. I am so sorry! I don't know how I did it!" Tohru scooped up the little mouse and noticed the lavender eyes blinking back at her.
"I'm so sorry, Yuki! Please, forgive me. I didn't mean to do it! Can you understand me! I'm so sorry." Tohru yelled into the little ear. How was she going to turn them back into people? Was that why she never had a boyfriend? Because her touch turned them into little creatures. This was bad.
"Its okay, Miss Honda; no need to scream, I can hear just fine."
"You can talk! I don't know what I did, Yuki. I fell and the next thing I knew, you were a mouse and not to mention the other guy I fell into moments before you came."
Yuki sighed. Well, his cover was blown and now his fate would take another path. He really didn't want Tohru to find out this way, if ever even but the damage was done. Now, he had to await his fate.
No, he wasn't just going to wait and find out what would be taken away. He had made a promise, a promise he was going to fight for Tohru. He wasn't going to lose her. He had to do everything in his power to keep her safe and happy. She wasn't meant for anything else.
Even if he had to make amends to bring in the reinforcements, he would swallow up his pride and do it. Just in the little time he had known Tohru, she was becoming everything to him. She had turned his dark life into a prism of lights and made him realize not all people were bad.
He knew it was considered clingy to need someone so much but more than a part of him longed to spend his life with a girl that filled it with such happiness. Deranged as that may sound, especially for how short of a time span they had known each other but it was as if she was a perfect puzzle piece that fit into his messed up life.
"What other guy do you mean, Miss Honda?" he asked, having decided he was going to be completely honest with her. She already knew the biggest part of the secret, what more could he hide from her?
"This one, actually he's not a guy, anymore." Tohru slowly extended her arm and kneeled down for Yuki to see what she held in her hands. She laid the seahorse gently on the ground. "It's actually very cute."
Yuki felt his eyes go wide and prayed like he never prayed before. Out of all the people to have their curse, she had to run into him! It wasn't that the seahorse was bad but he could do more damage than all the rest of them. "Not good, Miss Honda; not good at all. You ran into Hatori."
Tohru felt confused. She couldn't understand why Yuki would say that with such fear in his voice. This was the first time she had heard terror coming from a guy that seemed cool and under control. What would put him in such a state? "Hatori?" Trying to get him to focus on her words and out of his current state, she didn't think one word would agitate him even more.
"Yes, Hatori Sohma, my cousin. I have to talk fast before he regains consciousness, so you have to listen very carefully. Your touch didn't change us, Miss Honda. The Sohma's have been under a curse for generations and twelve of us turn into the twelve animals of the zodiac when we are hugged by the opposite gender. As you can see, I turn into a mouse for the year of the rat and Hatori is the year of the dragon. But that isn't all what Hatori can do, Miss Honda."
"What do you mean, Yuki?" Tohru asked, fascinated with his story. It may sound far fetched but of course she believed. She witnessed it with her very own eyes. It couldn't get more real than that. It was unbelievable.
She couldn't believe Yuki was handsome as a guy and so cute as a mouse. She just wanted to pick him up and cuddle with his soft altered other being next to her cheek. Wow, to think something that sounded like it should be in a fairytale actually happened in real life.
Yuki climbed into her open palm and started to speak again after she had lifted him to her face level. "I'll try to keep you safe, but I don't know how much I can do by myself, Miss Honda. It's up to the head of family to decide weather or not if you can keep your memory. If he decides that you can't keep our secret and if there is a chance you'll tell anyone outside about our curse; he'll get rid of your memory to keep our secret safe. So, you won't ever remember us getting to know each other."
Tohru softly started to run her finger on top of his white head and since he hadn't objected, she figured it was okay. "I won't remember yesterday or the times we talked?" Seeing him nod his little head, she continued to speak. "I see. I can understand where he's coming from. I mean, if people found out about you guys changing; bad people would want to do experiments on you. Promise me one thing though, Yuki?"
"What would that be?" Yuki asked, not wanting to believe Tohru would give up their friendship so fast but from the way it sounded, she had almost confirmed she wanted her memory erased of him. This was why he didn't like to get close to people, they couldn't handle it and he ended up hurting in the end. His heart beat painfully in his chest but he forced himself to listen to the rest of what she wanted of him.
Maybe she wanted him to forget the special place she had showed him. Whatever she wanted, at least she would forget she had him for a slave and not have to hang around him anymore. Yes, that was for the better, not having to see her because it would be tearing him up inside to see her smile at everyone but him.
"I don't want my memories of you erased because I don't want to forget our friendship. Honestly, I would never leak out your secret to anyone, not even Hana and Uo. Do you want to know why, Yuki?" Tohru asked gently. Even for a mouse, his eyes looked sad and lonely. She truly wanted to banish that look from him if she could.
"Yes, I would like to know." Yuki said, memorized with the look in her honest blue eyes. What was she thinking?
Tohru smiled sweetly at him and stroked his furry cheek with a finger. "I would never tell anyone because I don't want anyone to harm you. If that means, I have to get my memories erased to keep you safe then I'll do it. Because in the end, all that matters is keeping you safe." She finally gave into the urge and cuddled him next to her cheek.
"Miss Honda." Just saying her name meant the world to him. She didn't want to forget him. She wanted to keep him safe. Another piece of the wall around his heart fell and Tohru's wondrous spirit occupied his aching heart.
Aching in a good way, though.
With her final words etched into his soul, he made a firm resolve that he had to do everything he could to keep her safe. It shouldn't have to be the other way around.
"I take it, this is the Miss Honda; I have heard so much about from Shigure and Ayame." A cold voice cut between their peaceful moments.
Tohru turned around with a smile on her face but a loud squeak came from her and she spun back around when she noticed his attire. More like his lack of attire. The sea horse was no more, instead stood a tall man without a shirt on and was casually zipping up his pants. "I'm so sorry, I didn't see anything. And I didn't mean to fall into you, either." She apologized, her face burning with embarrassment.
Try as she might, she couldn't help but feel lucky. She had seen two...count that two, Sohma's partially naked. Yuki, yesterday and Hatori, today. She knew it was bad to look but after all, she was a girl and what girl couldn't help but giggle at such two cute Sohma's with their bare chest just out in the open.
She couldn't believe how many of the Sohma's were extremely good-looking. Wasn't it illegal to have that many handsome faces in the same family? Sure, they were cousins but who would think the whole extended family had looks to stop traffic. And not only that, they were guys; she wondered how beautiful the girls in the family were.
If they were as beautiful as the men in the Sohma's were, they had to be knockouts. It was a good thing she wasn't part of their family since it would have been bad if she had found all her male cousins hot. Jeez, when did she start to become so boy crazy?
Okay, she wasn't that boy crazy to the other guys; just one certain lavender hair male. The other ones she felt more attachment as brother wise but Yuki was something different. She liked him a lot, she shyly admitted.
She looked down at Yuki still in her hands and smiled. He really was cute in his mouse transformation. He really shouldn't have been ashamed of who he was. It was a part of him and she liked him even more because of that. She lifted him to her face and leaned down to whisper in his tiny ear, "If my memory does get erased; I just want you to know, Yuki, never be ashamed of who or what you are. You're just more special than the rest of us ordinary people are. And, especially cute in either form." She teasingly told him.
Yuki was speechless. She wasn't the least bit frightened or repulsed by him. He smiled as a mouse could smile he guessed, she found him cute. He placed his two paws on her cheek and rubbed his nose against the softness.
He was too shy to try this in his human form but at least he could be bolder in his mouse state. He really had to warn her what would happen when he changed back but at the moment, he was too content to move his nose from her cheek.
He could stay cuddled like this for hours on end. She was so nice and soft and she didn't mind him being there. He had waited so long for someone to accept all of him. He almost wanted to cry but he was a Sohma.
And Yuki Sohma didn't cry.
He had cried once and that had been a big mistake. He had almost been nearly destroyed for showing such weakness. He had promised never to shed a tear in this lifetime. Maybe, in the next but never this lifetime again.
He didn't think he would survive the next time around.
No, that wasn't right either. He had something...no...someone to live for. He had the strength to protect someone so innocent and worthy. If not only for her, then for his younger cousins that were too frightened to speak up.
He would survive the next time and the time after that. The darkness wouldn't descend into his life ever again.
"Miss Honda?" He asked contently.
"Yes?"
Yuki breathed in her perfume of cherry blossoms and a hint of peppermint. Peppermint? "I should warn you...Hatori...clothes...me...poof..." He couldn't make a complete sentence and was about to try again when the poof sounded and Tohru scream shook him out of his daze. "I meant to say, when we change back into our human form; we're completely naked." He finished and went to gather up his clothes.
He really was glad Tohru had picked a deserted spot to take or they would have a lot of memory erasing to do.
Tohru had felt so startled at Yuki's nakedness; she had spun around and ran. And smacked right into the building wall as she fell on her butt. "Owe." She rubbed her forehead but still didn't turn around. Why was it, when she was around the Sohma's, her clumsiness tripled?
"Miss Honda, are you okay?" Yuki quickly tossed back on his clothes and rushed to her side. He kneeled down and gently touched her chin to turn her face this way and that as he inspected for any injury.
He knew Hatori wasn't going to check her since he only reserved his care for the Sohma's but that was okay. From the looks of it, she didn't look to be injured; bruised maybe but not injured. "Everything, looks okay. No harm done." He smiled as he looked into her clear eyes and remembered how soft her cheek felt.
Tohru blushed at Yuki's close inspection. "Its okay, Yuki. I'm use to bumps and bruises. One time when I was with my mom, I fell into a fountain when I tried to make a wish. Mom told me it was okay because if I never did anything weird; I wouldn't be me."
Yuki laughed and nodded. "Yes, you wouldn't be you and that would be a shame." He was about to say more when Hatori coughed to get their attention.
"Sorry to break this moment, but, now we have a problem. She knows about the curse and you know what that means, Yuki." Hatori voiced coldly. He ignored their display of affection since it reminded him of past days. Days long passed but not forgotten even how hard he tried. He wanted to get away but no matter how far he got, it always came back to haunt him.
Yuki shook his furiously. "No, Hatori. I won't let you erase her memory. She doesn't want it erased and I won't let you get to her. She won't tell, Hatori. I know she won't." He stood in front of Tohru, making sure Hatori couldn't grab her.
Hatori raised his eyebrow at Yuki. That was the most display of defiance he had seen from his cousin in a long time. Try as he might, Hatori couldn't hamper down the approval he had for his younger cousin, not that he would actually show any of it but it was still good to see Yuki still had spirit.
"You know we have no choice on what happens, Yuki. If you had just come to the main house for your check up; this all could have been avoided." He said, waiting for a response.
"I've been feeling fine, Hatori. I didn't need a check up at the moment." Yuki scowled.
Tohru looked from one to the next. "Are you sick, Yuki? And I made you do all those things last night; you should have been in bed if you don't feel good." She touched his forehead to see if he had a fever and gave a sigh of relief when it felt cool.
Yuki smiled at her. She really was caring. "No, I'm not sick, Miss Honda; it's more like I had problems when I was younger and Hatori's the family doctor that checks me out. I haven't had any attacks recently and I feel extremely fit." The last sentence was more directed at Hatori for his sake.
"Attacks?" Tohru echoed, feeling lost. What did he mean attacks?
Hatori sighed at the sheer stubbornness of it all. "Yuki had problems with his bronchial tubes when he was younger and frequently had asthma attacks, but, they have lessened the older he's getting. I just do regular check up to make sure he's in working order." He finished, having gone over and listened to Yuki's heart. "Done. As I said before, Yuki; it's not up to me to erase her memories. I'll gather up Ayame and Shigure and discuss it before we head to the main house. I'm going to find Momiji and head back. We'll figure this soon. Good-bye, Yuki. Miss Honda." Hatori nodded and made his exit to find Momiji.
He may have sounded cold but he really was hoping he didn't have to erase Tohru Honda's memory. He remembered the last time he had to erase all those children memories when they had found out about Yuki's curse. Yuki had been so devastated and had seemed to lose his life bit by bit after that.
There was so much bleakness in the Sohma family as it was; Hatori didn't want to add fuel to the fire. There were times he hated being double cursed. Why did he have to be the one to bring more sadness into a family that was already was doomed from the start?
With a weary sigh, Hatori found Momiji and exited out of the school grounds, intent to discuss the serious situation on hand with Ayame and Shigure.
Minutes after watching Hatori Sohma leave, Tohru turned back to Yuki and smiled. She gently grabbed his hand and said, "Don't worry, Yuki; everything will turn out alright. I have faith that it will; come on, let's go back to Hana and Uo."
"You forgot the napkins, Tohru. Yuki, you were supposed to remember it, if Tohru forgot. You, also forgot. They make a wonderful pair; I think I need a tissue." Hana sighed when the two of them returned to the group, hand in hand. They really were such a lovely couple with their electrical waves almost in tune if it wasn't for the strange vibe the prince gave off.
She had a feeling the moments they were gone, something big had happened and it was for the better. It was always nice to see a pair connect the way Tohru and her prince had connected.
"Don't worry about it. Since the one that needed it left, I don't think it was that important. Come on, let's finish eating before the bell rings and we have to get to class. By the way, why are you so red, Tohru?" Uo asked.
Hana smiled. "Come on, Arisa; I think they stole a kiss to proclaim their feelings for each other. We all know they couldn't have done it here, since that weird man Shigure was trying to steal Tohru's attention. So, they had to find a private place to inner connect." She teased the two red-faced people.
"No, we didn't do anything like that. We just talked, that's all. Nothing happened." Tohru protested, her face turning at least three shades of red. Not that it was bad to do anything like that with Yuki but she preferred to do it in private if she would ever do anything remotely close to that.
Yuki reached over and tipped Tohru's chin up. "Its okay, Miss Honda; our cover is blown. We have to confess how steamy we both felt at what we had done. We should come clean and tell all the details."
Tohru shook her head as she pleaded with him. "I don't think that's a good idea, Yuki. Remember, I promised not to tell." What could he be thinking? If anyone found out about his curse, he would end up hurt.
"Hmm...this sounds juicy. Do spill." Uo leaned closer to the pair. If Tohru went anywhere, the prince was good as any to begin with. But if he ever broke her heart, she would personally beat the living crap out of him. Her close friend was too fragile to be played with.
Hana nodded her head in agreement. "Yes, spill now or..." She left the sentence unfinished and let them figure out the rest. Tall like their father, the boys would have lavender hair and the girls would have their mother's features. Boy or girl, Tohru and Yuki's children would be extremely beautiful.
Yuki leaned in a tad bit closer and started to whisper, "Well, first we met in a deserted area. Then, she yelled at me after she got me out of my clothes. After that, she let me cuddle up next to her, then..."
"Yes?" Hana and Uo both impatiently waited.
"Alright, Tohru. Getting some action from the prince. I'm so proud of you." Uo clapped Tohru on the back.
Tohru started to reach over to cover Yuki's mouth before he spilled the beans. "No, Yuki!"
Yuki let the tension build before he finished his thought. "Then...she ran into the wall." He said then laughed at their crestfallen faces. Not to mention, Miss Uotani and the ever scary, Miss Hanajima had crumbled to the ground.
"So, close, Tohru; you were that close and then you ran into the wall! Just think of how jealous his fan club would have been if they heard how close you were to him. Ah! Let me go find their sorry asses and tell them the wonderful news; that our Tohru hooked the mighty prince!" Uo raised a fist in air with glee. She loved to knock those girls down a peg or two. They seemed to have a problem with Tohru now that she had required a prince for a slave.
Hana slowly stood up and dusted off her skirt. "I guess being an auntie to Hano and Hannie will have to wait for another day. If you need any advice on certain positions, you should ask that cousin of his. I'm certain he would know."
Tohru let out an embarrassed laugh. Her friends could really be too much sometimes. "Really, you guys. Yuki doesn't see me in that kind of way. Actually, I'm not sure if anyone sees me in that kind of way. Let's clean up and get to class before I really die of embarrassment." She gathered up all the dishes to put them away. She started to object when Yuki took them from her hands and carried the dirty dishes as they walked but gave up with a smile when he raised his eyebrow at her.
"Hush, Miss Honda. You should really learn to have your slave do some work with a smile. Don't worry; I haven't broken any bones just by carrying things around. Come, let's get to class before we're late and the teacher decides to give us extra homework." Yuki said, taking Tohru's hand with his free hand.
Even though he couldn't hug her close, their little touches had done more for him than she could ever know. He had more contact that meant something in the past couple days than he had in his whole pathetic life.
Every time, Tohru would hug Miss Hanajima or Miss Uotani; Yuki yearned to be one of them even if it was for a few moments. To be hugged tight, to know you were loved was a feeling he wanted to experience. He didn't want to be on the sidelines looking on alone. Was it really so wrong to wish to be accepted with open arms?
He never knew how open friendships could be since his home life was the opposite of everyone else's but that didn't mean he couldn't start to change for the better.
He knew he could do it but there was a small part of him that was still frightened on not being accepted. That feeling would stay with him until he could finally break free from the hold that dragged him deep into the darkness.
Yuki didn't know if there would ever be a time he could be free from the horror. But until that time when friendship would be tested, he just had to smile and embrace what was bestowed upon him.
The gift of second chances, the gift of happiness and the gift of friendship was staring at him in the face and he was going to give it all he had. With that positive thought in his head, Yuki tugged his first true friend into the classroom and sat down next to her.
I wonder what Yuki would say if I asked him to come to school tomorrow in that? Tohru wondered as she chewed on her pencil. No, she couldn't ask him to do that; that was a little too crazy. She peeked over at him and smiled. He really did have a thing for looking out the window from the classroom.
Her smile faded as she realized what it reminded her of. He was looking out as if he was trapped in a cage; yearning to be outside yet no one was bothering to take notice to his wants.
A mouse trapped in a cage with the doors barred shut.
Yes, that's what he was. A man yet a mouse, wanting to be free from his confinement but too scared to wander out too far.
The sadness, the loneliness was the existence of his at the moment. The walls he had put up to block out people from getting close to him, in fear of having to be found out.
He was still a mystery to her but few pieces of him were starting to fall into place. She noticed the fear in his eyes after she had discovered his secret as if she would jump to the chance to forget about him because what he was.
She wasn't like that; she would never give up her memories of him even if it did get rough at times. She had to get him to realize that on his own. She could pound that fact into his head until she was blue in the face but he would never believe her unless he believed it himself.
And she was going to make him believe.
First, she had to get his attention away from the window. Fold it this way, then fold it over; Tohru worked quickly and diligently as she completed her project. She really needed to pay attention to the lesson but she figured she could read up on it later. Her mom wanted her to graduate but she also said friends were more important.
Tohru figured her mom would forgive her for this little splurge.
Okay, now on to phase two. She rolled up a piece of paper in a ball and threw it over to her left. Oops, a little too far, she smiled apologetically to one of Yuki's fan club girls as she hostilely stared at her, all the while flicking the paper off from her head.
Another piece went flying and landed on the window sill. Okay, she knew her aim was bad but really, it had to be that bad? Tohru was about to throw another one when a second one came flying and hit Yuki right on the side of his face.
Tohru quickly looked over to figure out where it had come from then smiled. Hana was always there for her she thought as she watched Hana direct Yuki's gaze in her direction. Thank you, she mouthed before she turned to Yuki and found him staring at her with a raised eyebrow.
She noticed he liked to raise his eyebrow a lot but in a way it was kind of...kind of sexy.
She really had to get her thoughts out of the gutter or she was going to get flustered and nervous. She mimicked his eyebrow raise and smiled brightly at him. After getting his complete attention, she raised her hands and showed him what she made as she waited for his reaction. She wasn't disappointed when his face broke out into a smile that made his eyes come to life.
Yuki stared out the window and tried to concentrate at the same time but found it hard when his thoughts kept coming back to a certain brown haired beauty. How could someone like her, really accept a guy like him? She knew what he was but was she going to run in the end?
He had heard what happened to Hatori and how his story ended. He didn't want to be like Hatori; alone and a personal assistant to the worse person that could ever live.
Yuki hated the doubt that kept coming back to him but he couldn't help feeling as if Tohru would eventually get frightened off. Honestly, she had known him for two days and just found out about the curse. He had known about the curse his whole life and there so many times he wanted to run away from his own self.
He didn't want to drag her into a place that would bury her light. She deserved to grow and bloom with someone that could be her light, not darken her like a shadow. He wanted to believe in their friendship but he didn't want to get his hopes up then have them crushed underneath the weight of it all.
Why was he feeling this way, why? He didn't want to but growing up with fear; the fear stayed with him. Would he ever break free?
Yuki grimaced and tried to keep his heart open but the darkness was slowly started to descend once again. He was having an inner battle with the light and dark and knew the darkness was winning when he got smacked in the cheek by a flying paper.
He looked over and met Miss Hanajima's big black eyes. It was weird actually; she represented darkness but there was a light about her that Tohru had. She wasn't the bad sort, just scary.
He followed her eyes and noticed they were on Tohru, so he figured it was Tohru that wanted him. Ah, that must explain the paper I saw flying to the window sill, he thought as he waited to see what she wanted.
Yuki felt his breath catch when their eyes met and her smile was solely directed at him. He watched her raise her hands and for a moment, time seemed to stand still at what he saw.
Somehow...somehow she had made two people. One with light purple hair and purple eyes and the short one had brown hair and big blue eyes. They were holding hands and smiling but that wasn't the part that stopped his heart.
In the girl's other hand, she held a little mouse next to her cheek.
A ray of light busted up the darkness in his heart and a smile flowed to his lips. Even if she had just found out, a part of him was starting to believe she could live with it. He knew the fear was still there but a little part of the fear had washed away to let a little hope in.
He knew he had to protect her before but now, he wanted to believe in her. Believe that maybe, just maybe she would be able to share the burden that he had lived with for so long.
Yuki leafed through his notebook for a clean sheet and started move his pencil around the blank page. After he finished, he held it up and waited for her reaction.
He grinned when she let a giggle escape. No one ever said he was talented at drawing.
Tohru almost let the full laughter come up but it had taken will power not to let go. Yuki really had a knack for drawing.
Stick figures that was.
Yep, Yuki had drawn a brown haired girl with an awfully huge head and the biggest blue eyes she had ever seen and the male was just great. Big purple eyes but not as big as hers and purple hair. But he drew the hair enormous about the biggest afro that had been zapped through a lightening storm.
He really was fun; Tohru smiled and gave him a thumbs up sign. She really needed to get back to work or she was going to be so lost even if she read up on the chapter later.
After the bell had rung and school had let out, Tohru waited patiently for Yuki to get done with his meeting. He had told her he needed a command to do tomorrow and so she stood there, biting her nails and trying to figure out what he could do.
She was scared out of her wits when a body jumped down and leaned against the wall next to her. "Kyon-Kyon." She said as she finally recognized the orange haired Sohma.
This was it. It was finally the time to talk to the one that didn't seem to like her and maybe they could start again on the right foot. Tohru looked over and smiled at him, catching him off guard as he watched her. "I'm so glad to finally get to talk to you! I want to say how sorry I am about yesterday and I hope that you're okay. Whatever I did to make you dislike me, I truly am sorry and I hope you can forgive me." she said as she leaned closer, making him blush a dull red.
"It's not Kyon-Kyon, just Kyo. That damn guy doesn't know his head from his butt, it's just Kyo. Since, that damn rat isn't with you at the moment, I just wanted to say...what I mean to say is that I wasn't mad at you, yesterday. The damn rat caught me off guard and you were there at the wrong time. I mean, not that I care what you think or anything; so, don't get the wrong idea. That's all-" his sentence was interrupted by a high voice.
"Oh! There you are, my love! Kyo, it's me! I've been looking all over for you and I finally found you! Why didn't you tell me where you've been! I've been so worried about you!" Tohru watched in awe as a small petite girl with black hair and gray eyes came running up to grab the startled guy and launch him into the air.
Another chapter down and more to write. Sorry for the late update but thanks for being so patient! See you at the next chapter!
StarlightAngel
