It's important that the next chapter is just Kyo- so I'm having Tohru's POV in this one as well as Kyo's. Actually, after this you may not hear from Tohru for a few chapters... I dunno yet though :-P I've actually been thinking about how to write that last part and I thought it came out pretty good- Tell me what you all think.

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-Chapter 9a-

Kyo

Kyo cursed at himself mentally for losing to courage to talk to Tohru once again. He tuned Shigure out until he stopped talking and looked like he needed an explination. Kyo opened his mouth, but Yuki took the blame instead. Kyo just stared at him. Was he trying to play the hero or something?

"I'm going to go work on my homework then." He watched Tohru go to her room, wondering if she knew they left their book bags at school.

"I'm going to my room too. I'll call Machi back… She's the only one in Student Council who has a cell phone number I know."

After that, in Kyo's opinion, unnecessary comment (everything was pissing him off), Yuki left too.

"And You?" Shigure asked Kyo. "Why did you-"

Kyo cut him off, knowing he was going to ask about what happened during lunch. He shook his head and said, "I'm going out." He turned around, walked back out the door, and went around to the side of the house, intending to climb onto the roof. He needed to go somewhere that he could think. Alone.

But when Kyo climbed up high enough to see over the top of the roof, he stopped and his mouth dropped open slightly. "What the hell are you doing up here?" Yuki was lying in the same spot that Kyo usually lay.

When he heard Kyo, Yuki stood up. "I can see why you like it up here. It's really peaceful."

"Not now! how did you get up here anyway?!" Kyo was all the way on the roof now. Damnit! He thought. Now I'm going to have to find somewhere else that I can be alone. In the woods I guess, but then if Tohru tries to find me she'll wander off somewhere and get lost. Then it occured to him that Tohru getting lost wouldn't be a problem for him anymore the day after next and he shook his head, getting angrier and angrier. The only ways he knew to take get rid of anger was to ignore it and led it build up and build up, but that always led to the second way anyway: Taking it out on someone. Whether it made him feel bad later or not, Kyo always got angry at the wrong people for any reason at all.

Now Yuki was there and he was giving him a damn good reason to take out his anger on him.

Yuki didn't seem to notice how angry Kyo was, or he was just ignoring it. "It's pretty easy from my I'm not going to come up here regularly or anything, so don't worry. i just wanted to talk to you."

"Well I don't want to talk to you, so get away from me, I need to think!" Kyo walked over to Where Yuki was standing, something challenging in his eyes.

"God, you're even more annoying when you're really angry." Yuki took a deep breath and closed his eyes for a minute. Then he opened them and continued, "Your thinking is what I wanted to talk to you about. Stop being an idiot and tell Tohru how you feel. It's obvious to everyone but her and you're worrying her. She thinks something's wrong. It can't be so hard just to talk to her."

"You have no idea!" Perfect Prince Yuki didn't have problems. Everyone loved him, he was a boring guy, but his life was easy. Kyo felt something like... Jealousy? And that just made him angrier. He didn't want to be jealous of the damn rat with his freaking easy life.

And before Kyo knew what he was doing, he threw a punch at Yuki and they were fighting. It was a typical fight between them except that Tohru wasn't there to try to stop them and... Yuki wasn't winning.

Kyo wasn't winning either, but for once they were evenly matched and Kyo could tell Yuki knew. He looked frustrated and was actually starting to sweat. So was Kyo, but that was beside the point. Just as he thought he was getting the upper hand, Kyo was on the ground... Or roof rather.

"Stupid," Yuki said, panting and looking down at Kyo with annoyance. "You can't beat me."

Kyo stayed silent, just glaring at Yuki until he left, saying, "Talk to her or I will for you."

He wouldn't, was what Kyo thought. Tohru wouldn't believe him until she talked to Kyo herself anyway.

All his anger faded away to nervousness when he heard her voice "Kyo?" It was now or never.

-Chapter 9b-

Tohru

"Ah! It is you!" Tohru climbed the rest of the way onto the roof and sat down next to Kyo. "Yuki told me you two had a fight and I thought I might find you up here. I wanted to ask you... Is there something you want to talk to me about?"

"No." Kyo said quickly, looking away. "Actually... No. Yes? Um. Yeah there is something." He looked in her direction, but over the top of her head so he didn't have to meet her eyes.

"Yes?" She asked, happy she would finally know what Momiji was talking about.

"I- Well- Do-" He seemed incapeable of forming words like he had been earlier. He took a deep breath and when he spoke again, Tohru was happy it was a whole sentance. "Look. This is really hard for me to tell you, so please just listen until I'm finished."

She nodded and he continued, his voice shaking a little, "Tohru... I love you. I don't- It's not family love- I'm in love with you. I know I don't deserve to be, because I cause nothing but trouble and I'm a monster and all that, but still. It's how I feel." He held up a hand when a stunned Tohru tried to say something. "Hold on, I'm not done yet... I need to know... How you feel about me too, but don't answer right away, just think about it." He took another deep breath, finally met her eyes, tipped up her chin with one hand so she was looking up into his face, and bent down and kissed her gently.

Tohru had no idea what was going on. She knew that Kyo was kissing her and that he just said he loved her, but she was so confused. She didn't know how she felt about him, but she did know as soon as Kyo's lips touched her's, her brain seemed to turn to mush.

When Kyo pulled away, Tohru touched her lips, they were tingling, and said softly, "Oh..." She couldn't seem to work her mouth into a smile or a frown or anything.

Kyo watched her apprehensivly and then an expression Tohru couldn't identify crossed over his face. "I- I-" he stuttered, standing up quickly and heading towards the edge of the roof. He managed to get out, "Sorry," before he climbed over the side and left Tohru sitting alone, still a little dazed.