Thanx again to everyone that reviewed. I got a few people that tottally helped me get off the block and start writing, so thank you very much. I needed help and you guys came through, so again thanx.

This one here goes out to Mandie who tottally helped me figure out a way to take what she gave me and make it flow with what i have planned.I'm gonna use the rest in the next upcoming, so don't be mad that it's chopped up! And this is also for TatianaSaphira who told me that i was a meanie for leaving a naked Kyo, and she was right, I am a meanie for doing so but think of how much easier it'll be Tohru later? She doesn't have to do anything about his clothes! -

Disclaimer: No matter how long I wish, It's not happening is it?!?


Chocolate

Chapter Eleven

I can't breathe. I . . . what did he say? Did he say . . .?

She's still staring into his eyes. Not sure of what she heard. Her breath is shallow as she tries to breathe past the lump in her dry throat. If you thought she was red before, one look at her confirms that the previous blushes were nothing compared to this one. She felt hot both from the rush of blood as well as the hot look that Kyo was giving her. He hasn't once looked away from her since he turned back. It's something that only he's done. No other boy has ever given her the attention that he does or maybe she's never paid attention to any one else but him. There's many things about him that caught her awareness a little at a time but he caught it nonetheless. She knows that people think she's a ditz and maybe in some way she is. She was never told that being the way she is was bad, just that it was who she was. So having a boy talk to her as well as look at her with so much intensity was something that Tohru Honda was definitely not used to. Having a boy that was hot as Kyo be interested in her was definitely something that she's not used to.

Although it looks like something that she's not having an issue with right now.

Her only issue was that she wasn't sure what to do from here. Did he say what I think he said? There's no way that he's thought about it? Maybe he has? It would be nice to be with him I think? I could touch him whenever I wanted right? I could go to school with him and we can hold hands like they do in books!

She thought about it and realized that with Kyo, that probably wouldn't happen. Not that it could it's just that the image doesn't fit him. Being with Kyo would involve a lot of rooftop talks where he could hold her in his arms as he talks about the months that he was up in the mountains or about living with Sensei. The more that she thought about it, the more she realized that it might not happen with the curse still on them.

"Tohru?"

She shakes her head a little to clear out the thoughts and takes a really good look at him. She can see that her non answer has scared him a little. There's worry there on top of the heat and she really likes the way that her blood rushes when he's kissing her. She likes the way that his breathe catches when she nibbles on his lower lip.

"You're not joking are you? Because I don't think that I could handle it if you were."

She takes his hand in hers as she continues "I don't want to think that you're saying it out of pity or anything but if you're joking please just stop."

"Why would you think that? I never once saw you like that. Just the other way around. You're the only reason that I stayed in this house. At the beginning this was the last place that I would have thought of as home but since then . . ." He shrugs, unsure if it's something that should be said. He's so used to keeping everything to himself that sharing any information makes it a lot harder than usual.

"Since then . . ."

"Since then . . . I wanna get here before you sometimes so that I can open the door and you smile. Yeah, I know that it sounds dumb but it's there. It's something that's not going away" He says as he smiles down at her. "Sometimes I want to be the last one here so that when you open the door with that smile of yours, I can be the one that keeps putting it there."

He blushes a bit at that, realizing that he sounded like just the dumbest dork out there but this is Tohru that he's talking to so it doesn't make it sound so bad. He figures that around her, he can start to relax a bit more. Smile a bit more, maybe, although smiling isn't really something that he does and he knows it.

"You really don't know do you?"

He looks at her a little funny, unsure of what she's trying to get at.

"You're the reason that I've been smiling a lot more than usual. It's been hard for me but since you moved in . . . . you listened to me when you never had to or when I know that you had other things to do. You helped me out in the house when you didn't have to. You told me things about you just to make me feel better." She stops bit, takes a breath and continues "You know that growing up my mom used to tell me the story of the zodiac and I was always cheering on for the cat. I always believed in the cat from the zodiac. I even told her that I would stop being a dog just so that I could belong with the cat."

She stops as she takes his hand to move to her lips as she kisses his knuckles. She looks up from his knuckles to say "Now I feel like a dork for saying that." She chuckles a bit and continues "I always wanted to know what the cat would look like if he were real. I'm really happy that it was you."

"I never wanted to be the cat. I cursed at this stupid thing everyday because there was nothing good about it. All it ever brought me was more headaches than anything. I felt that being the cat ruined everything I possibly could have had if I were normal. Now that I said that, let me just say that this is the only great thing about being born with the spirit, is that want to be with me . . . as much as I want to be with you. I love you. It took a while cuz I never wanted like this." He whispers into her hair as he leans down his mouth barely grazing the top of her head, breathing in as much as he can of the one girl that has ever made him notice.

"you...love me?" she asked a little unsure of herself and of him and of what she felt pounding in her chest wanting to be released as it had been from the moment she met him. She desperately wanted to beg him to say it again.

"Yes . . . I do" He replied trying to sound more confidant then he truly was as his own heart burned with his want for her as his eye's silently begged her to love him to. To take this chance with him as he did for her. He needed to hear just as much as she did but he knew that she would have to do it on her own. He didn't want to force her in anything or rush her as he felt he has lately.

"You don't have to say—"

"I love you too I was just too scared to say it because I didn't want you to feel like you had to say anything just because I did when you didn't even like—"

That was the last thing she said before he kissed her.


I know that this is gonna leave you guys in a sucky place to be and I'm gonna get some complaints but it's okay ::: as I roll up my sleeves::: because the next one is already in works and it literally picks up where this one ends. So for those wanting some spice, since I'm hispanic, and we like our stuff spicy, you will get some!!

I AM a dork!!!!!