"Hey."

"Mmpphhmm"

"…Hey."

"Five more minutes, Daddd"

"WAKE UP ALREADY, WILL YOU?!" Kyo shouted at the top of his lungs as he ripped the covers off of Luna. However when he pulled off the covers, he did not expect to see what he did. He looked down and saw Luna lying there sprawled out in nothing but her undergarments. As his nose began to bleed, Luna's eyes snapped open.

"WHAT THE HELL!?" Luna exclaimed as she frantically scrambled to cover herself with her pillow, "What are you doing!?"

"I thought you were suppose to buy clothes yesterday!" Kyo hissed back at her as her face became red in embarrassment.

"I-I had trouble deciding what to buy," she explained with a sigh, "I only got three outfits out of it… but that doesn't explain why you're here!"

"I was… I was just… FORGET IT!" Kyo exclaimed as he headed for the door, but Luna grabbing his hand stopped him, "Ugh, I'm not good at this.,, I just wanted to apologize for yesterday. I figured I could train you in self defense as a way to say sorry."

Luna couldn't help but feel a bit dumbstruck when hearing all of this. It made her smile at the thought that maybe she was wrong about the idea of him hating her. The idea of making a new friend always made her smile. "Well, thanks…" she cocked her head to the side, "so… do you want a tissue for your nose or are you ready to let me put on some clothes now?"

The increasing color of red on Kyo's face was enough to make him realize that he needed to stop staring at Luna and leave. As he headed for the door, he noticed it was opened a bit and someone was looking in. He heard an "oh no" that sounded like Shigure coming from the other side of the door. "YOU BASTARD!" he exclaimed as he chased after Shigure.

"There's never a dull moment here," she said as she laughed to herself and got dressed while trying not to think about what had happened earlier.

xXx

As Kyo was outside beginning a few warm-up excersizes, he heard the door to the house open. He looked over to see Luna and once again was close to having another nosebleed. There she stood in a tight tank top and shorts that came to mid thigh. It was enough skin showing to make Kyo drool a bit.

"So are we going to start or what?" she asked as he stared at her. He shook his head.

"We'll start by…"

Thus begun the long session of what first started to be awkward contact between the two. They started with stretches and anytime he'd look over at Luna he would become a bit like Shigure (who was also watching from a window). She would look over at him and smile a bit at how masculine he'd look. When he'd happen to catch her glance, she would try to look away so fast that occasionally she'd loose her balance and almost fall.

Eventually, things stopped being awkward between them. They were able to make eye contact with one another without blushing. When she'd mess up a move, he'd laugh and smile like she had never seen him do before. She ended up finding herself returning a big goofy grin back to him. Overtime, she ended up with the skill of a… Well, she was still pretty bad at it actually.

"Let's call it a day for now, Loser," he teased as she mocked punched him.

"I guess I need more practice…" she responded while she blushed heavily.

"You'll defiantly need more practice. Since you have no friends, it should be easy," he mocked with a grin.

"I have more friends then you, Loser!" she shouted back as they entered the house.

"Prove it!"

"Yes, bring over any of your friends," Shigure interrupted as he exited humming his classic "high school girls" tune.

"Fine then, I WILL!" she huffed as she grabbed her phone and made the call, "Hey gurrrlllll! Want to come by this weekend and help me with some clothes shopping? Oh, I'm not staying at my house anymore. Yeah, I know. I'll explain when I see you this weekend. I can't wait! Bye!"

She hung up with a sigh and after she stuck her tongue out at Kyo, she headed back up to her room. The urge to be alone had grown a bit more and more though Kyo had no idea why she left with barely a word. He stood at the bottom of the steps staring off at where she left because of that thought.

"You alright, Kyo?" Tohru asked as she appeared from the other room.

"Huh? Yeah… I just, nothing," he stated as he started to head up the stairs.

"Well, whatever is brothering you must be really important to you," her voice seemed to cut through his current thoughts.

"What do you know!" Kyo snapped as he ran off to his room.

A/N:

I apologize for how short this chapter is. I know I promised it would've been done a little while ago, but things came up. In order to explain it to you all, I should start by telling you the story behind this story.

Yes, this idea came to me out of the blue, but the story behind the girl was… well, a method for coping with things going on in my life. Let me explain. I've always been taking care of people. As a kid, my grandmother was ill and had no decent memory. I helped take care of her till she died of cancer. I thought that was the end of my pain, but my mother had a few near death experiences (and I had an aunt who stalked my family for a long while). There were a couple of kidney failures, but this major car accident my family was in almost killed my mom. She was in the hospital for two months only to leave there in a state where she couldn't take care of herself. Not only that, but my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer after they discharged her. I took care of her the best I could and she recovered greatly within the year and became a survivor.

Things looked better then ever till she had a bad reaction to a stress test they did on her. She couldn't breath well and over a month, she just got worse and worse. I made her go to the hospital. Her kidneys failed and a bunch of fluid was around her heart and the rest of her body. They put her on dialysis and sent her home too early. She couldn't even get up on her own. Over what was almost a week, she looked like as if she was doing even better, but she told me she wasn't feeling any better. Last Tuesday, my mother died in my arms as I tried to help her into the car for her dialysis treatment. I watched them work on my mother and I had to choose when they should pronounce her.

When I started this story, it was to just release some stress. When I wrote about Luna's mother's death, I actually cried because I felt as if I would be dealing with the same pain soon, but I tried to ignore it. I hoped this wouldn't be the ultimate tie with this character, but it happened. (Also, my father did use to abuse me as a kid, but he as grown into a strong man who I am proud of now. He shielded me when I broke down as the ambulance came and he's been a rock through the whole thing. I was just using Luna's dad as a means to cope a bit with my past.)

I know you are probably wondering why I am telling you all of this, but I wanted to let you guys know of the delay. This story will not be discontinued. Sure, it makes me think of something sad, but writing has always been a way for me to get through things. I need this. I just hope you guys continue to read this story and find some joy out of it. It's always been my dream to do something like that and with this experience of the past week under my belt, I've learned that I really need to follow that dream and take it as seriously as possibly. I want to make my mother proud. Seriously, I use to tell my mother about all the reviews and original stories I'd write. She was always proud. I want to continue to make her proud. Sorry for how long this is. I just needed to put this out there. Thank you for reading this (if you took the time to. Haha).