Ok, chapter 13. I'm winging it here people, I am seriously writing what comes to mind, so please don't be too harsh.

WHPIAR: I don't own Fruits Basket and whatnot.

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The next week was distant between Tohru and Kyo. Tohru would make them their morning meal and from there Kyo would go off to the dojo. He would usually come home late. Tohru would always leave out a plate of his favourite meals incase he didn't get anything to eat.

Kyo and Tohru sat a crossed from each other silently eating their morning meal and sipping tea. Very little conversation was passed between the two teens. Tohru picked up her plate and her silverware and headed for the kitchen. Kyo followed soon after. Tohru was at the sink washing the dishes when Kyo came in.

Tohru felt someone's arms wrap around her waist. She gasped, not expecting it. The surprised girl turned around to see Kyo hugging her. She hugged him back. And for about 3 seconds they were able to stand their hugging each other until a poof sounded and instead of Tohru hugging Kyo, she was hugging a forlorn orange cat.

Tohru kneeled down on the tile floor and set Kyo down very gently. Kyo curled up in a little ball and Tohru affectionately petted him.

"I'm sorry," Kyo started. Tohru gave him a questioning look. "I wanted to test something. Did you notice it took a few seconds for me to transform?"

Tohru mutely nodded.

At this point there was an orange poof and Tohru averted her eye's. Kyo quickly got dressed and pulled Tohru up onto her feet. They stared into each others eyes. Kyo once again put his arms around Tohru and she returned the hug.

The room was completely silent. You could hear the ticking of the clock... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... POOF!

Tohru once again set Kyo down on the floor. They repeated the process once more and the clock timed the reaction... 1 ... 2 ... 3 ... 4 ... 5 ... 6 ... POOF!

Tohru looked at Kyo with wide eyes. Her was breathing was shaky, she let out a small laugh. Kyo looked up at her with determined cat eyes.

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Kazuma sat in his kitchen talking to Kunimitsu when Kyo and Tohru burst into the room.

"Shishou!" Kyo yelled out with a mix of excitement and terror.

Tohru on the other hand politely bowed to the two men at the table. Kazuma got up and went to Kyo, "Kyo, what is it?"

"You have to see this! Get ready, time us."

Kyo gently embraced Tohru. The seconds were ticking by... 1 ... 2 ...3 ... 4 ...Kazuma and Kunimitsu stared in complete amazement... 7 ... 8 ... 9 ... 10 ... POOF!

Kunimitsu let out a cry of joy while Kazuma walked up and took the cat from Tohru's arms in a daze. "Kyo, do you know what this means?" Kazuma started with a look of shock glued to his face.

Kyo was ecstatic by this point, "It means that my curse is almost broken!"

Kazuma let out a long breath, "It means that if Akito finds out you'll have even less freedom than you do now. You'll have to live at the main house. He will never let you out of his sight and you will never be allowed to be around anyone else."

The room went dead quiet. Kyo jumped down from Kazuma's arms. After a long moment, Tohru let out a terrible cry and cupped both hands to her mouth. She tried to keep her crying as quiet as she could but was having a very hard time doing so.

Kyo changed back and put his things back on. With staggered breathing he asked, "What do I do?"

"I know how much you wanted this Kyo, and it breaks my heart to say this but," Kazuma shook his head, "the only thing I can think of is to forget that it ever happened."

Kyo had his back to Kazuma. He cupped his hands to his eyes and took a sharp sigh, he slowly turned around to face everyone in the room. His eye's were glazed over with tears soon to fall, "Oh well, it's like it never happened. Right? Uh... I'm going for a walk." With that said Kyo ran out the door.

Tohru started to move after him but Kazuma grabbed her elbow and held her back, they watch Kyo run off to who-knows-where.

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It's been two hours since Tohru has seen Kyo. She was starting to get worried, it was almost 6:30. Kazuma said when she left the house that if Kyo showed up he would call her. So far she has gotten no call. That was it, she was going out to find him.

Tohru put on her jacket and stepped out the door. 'Hmm... I really don't have any idea where to start looking.' she thought to herself. Instinctively she started walking toward the school.

While walking past the elementary school she saw a quick flash of orange out of the corner of her eye. She walked into the gate of the playground and saw Kyo sitting forlorn on the swings. She came and sat on the swing next to him, she could see that his eyes were red and puffy from crying. They started walking into town together. Tohru linked her arm with his, it gave her a very protected feeling.

They walked past a secluded candle-lit restraunt with slow romantic music emitting from it. Tohru smiled to herself and kept walking. Kyo stopped in front of the door and peered longingly into the restraunt.

"Do you like dancing Tohru?"

The question caught her off-guard but she caught what he said, "I love dancing, do you?"

"I've never done it with a girl. I couldn't."

Before he could say another word Tohru was pulling him into the restraunt. Kyo looked around the dark restraunt. It was without a doubt one of those really fancy restraunts where you wear dresses and ties to, Kyo and Tohru stuck out like a sore thumb with their shorts and t-shirts. Kyo was expecting at any minute someone to confront them and ask them to leave.

Despite one or two people giving them dirty looks, Tohru pulled Kyo all the way to the dance floor. When they got there Tohru put her arms up and stared expectantly at Kyo. He had never ballroom danced before, but he's seen a few movies with partner dancing in it. He tried to imitate the people he'd seen on TV. He took Tohru's right hand and put his right under her arm on her shoulder blade. She smiled at him and they started dancing. Even though Kyo wasn't 100 percent sure what "leading" meant in dancing terms but he was pretty sure that he was the one that was supposed to do that and also Tohru had definitely took over on that job.

Two other couples were on the dance floor, a much older one and a pair that looked like they were recently married. The old man caught Kyo's eye and gave him a friendly wink. Cheesy grown-up things like that never move Kyo, but for no reason it made him happy. His extreme confusion/concentration on dancing was replaced by a Kyo that didn't care weather he was dancing right. It resulted in him stepping on Tohru's foot once and the recently married lady foot once, the lady didn't seem to mind, she just laughed and gave him an encouraging smile as her husband spun her in the other direction.

Other people were now getting on the dance floor. Kyo and Tohru were completely absorbed in the dance, people stopped to stare at them. The song came to a dramatic end and the crowd gave either them or the string ensemble playing the music an applause. If their applause was aimed towards the two teens on the dance floor, Tohru and Kyo weren't listening. Kyo gently pressed his lips against hers, "I've decided that I love dancing too." was all he could say while gazing into Tohru's eyes.

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Towards the beginning of this chapter, I had no clue where I was going with it. But soon I knew exactly what was going to happen. I really liked this chapter, I don't know about you... but I definitely liked it.

This is WHPIAR signing off.