Hajimemashite and Konnichiwa!!!! I know that the last chapter had a few of you confused and new thoughts popped into your heads! I'm so happy that my story has that kind of an affect on your guys! He he he….wait….I didn't mean it in a bad way though….I'm just saying that I'm so happy to know that you guys are happy to read! He he he, I wanted to give a special thanks to Princess Baka Neko! She has been with me since day one, and is still very happy when I add a new chapter! So thank you very much! And don't think I'm discriminating on all of my other readers! I'm just as thankful to you guys as I am to her! So here is a big round of applause to all of my wonderful readers! And those of you how checked out the first chapter of my new story, Crimson eyes and piercing fangs, Thank you so much!!! He he he!!!
Disclaimer: Sadly….I do not own Fruits Basket……although I do own a very cute little orange cat that looks like Kyou! ...Although it's wooden…..hmmmm…..O WELL!! He he he.
O And I am trying to work harder on my grammar also! So please tell me how I'm doing, you know like in the back on certain cars it says, "How am I driving?", well the back of my story says, "How am I writing?" so please tell me if I need to work on any thing! I am extremely open to criticism! And don't worry, you won't hurt my feelings, or make me freak out so much that I will stop writing! In fact….I actually got a review from somebody that really hated my story…..TT….but I thanked them for the criticism, even if it was a little harsh…it was the truth…and that's why I NEED to go back and fix those first chapters that REALLY sucked! So yea…..note to self, go back and fix suck-y chapters….!
O yea! And I changed the thought sequence a little, now thoughts will only be in italics for every one…..that is one of the things that that person…..with the really harsh review said that I needed to fix……so now all thoughts will be in italics.
Chapter 25 of, In the dawn of night.
"O Kyou-kun this is going to be so much fun!" Tohru said as she skipped along in front of him with a very happy smile on her face. "Yea what ever…" Kyou said as he scoffed and trailed along close behind the bouncing ball of happy in front of him. "Geez, were just going to the beach, there's nothing to get all happy about, we've been their before ya' know!" Kyou said when the beach began to come into view. "Yes I know, but this time we get to spend as much times as we want to, together! And their will be no Akito, or Momiji, or Kisa, or Hiro, or Yuki, or Shigure, or Haru, or Hatori, or Kureno, or Rin, or any one, that can spoil this moment!" She said with a joyful smile on her face. "It's just you and me!" She said as she too finally saw the beach and ran towards the seashore.
"What's up with her I wonder? She only wants to hang out with me now, not that damn rat, annoying Rabbit, or even Kisa…..their's something wrong that she's not telling me…" Kyou said as he ran over to catch up with her. "O Kyo! Look at that beautiful sky! And the ocean, isn't it so beautiful!?!" She said with her dazzling smile plastered on her face. Kyo gave her a loop sided smile in return, "yea I guess." He said as he looked around then looked back to Tohru. "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING!" He said as he tried to shield her body from wandering eyes.
"Huh? What? I'm changing taking off my clothes? What did you thin I was doing?" She said as she lifted her shirt off over her head, to reveal a one peace pink with orange flowers swim suite. Kyo let out a smile when he realized what she was doing. "What, you didn't think I would swim in the nude did you?" She said with a light chuckle as she folded up her clothes and placed them under the umbrella that the had found.
She took a running start then dived right into the water. "Wahh! It's F-F-F-F-FREEZING!" She said as she chattered her teeth together and rubbed her arms. Kyo only smirked at her actions then plopped down on the damp sand. "You don't want to get in Kyo?" Tohru asked as she had finally relaxed to the temperature to the water. "Naa I'll stay out here, were its not wet." He said as he looked away from her for a moment but turned back to a see a very shocked expression on her face. "Kyo." She said in a light whisper. "What?" He said with a cocked eyebrow, not knowing why she was whispering. "Kyo, don't move." She said again in a whisper. "Why the hell not?" He said as he was about to stand up when a VERY large bird pecked him really hard on the head.
"What the hell!" Kyo yelled as he looked up to see his attacker. "What the hell was that for!" He said as yelled at the bird, earning another conk on the head from its massive beak. "Kyo, I told you not to move!" Tohru said with a giggle as she ran out of the water over to where the big bird was beating up Kyo. The bird turned and looked at Tohru, it spread its massive wings really wide and flapped at her. "Kyou!" She yelled as the bird began to run at her. "Hey you stupid bird get back here!" Kyo yelled as he chased after the great crane as it chased after Tohru. The bird stopped then turned around to face Kyo. It looked at him and he looked at him, with an equal amount of shock on his face.
"Boink!"
The bird hit him in the head again with a loud thump. "OWW!" Kyou yelled as he put his hands to his head then swung a kick at the bird who dogged it hit him in the head again, this time hitting his hands, for they were still on his head. Kyou screeched in pain bringing his hands down for him to see. The massive bird had torn up his knuckles, making them bleed. "Stupid bird." Kyo muttered under his breath. "O Kyo!" Tohru said as she rushed over to his side as soon as she saw the blood on his hand.
She immediately ran him over to were their things were and pulled out a bottle of water and a towel and began to clean off his hand, then stood up to have a look at his head. "Kyo!" She said as she found a deep cut that was oozing blood. She grabbed another water bottle, and without thinking, poured it onto his head, drenching him in the water. She the grabbed the towel she had used on his hand and began to clean out the cut. "Tohru, Tohru its ok I'm fine!" He said as he grabbed her hand that had nearly created a bald spot on his head already. "But, Kyo!" She said as she tried to help him again. "Tohru, its ok, I'm fine." He said as he stood up and walked back over to the shore with her in hand, making sure that the crazy bird was no were to be seen.
Tohru plopped down on the moist sand, followed by Kyo. Kyo watched her attentively as she began to form a little mound in the sand. "What are you doing?" he asked, not being able to contemplate what in fact she was doing. "Making a sand castle!" She said with a perky smile as she formed another little ball of sand in her hand, then patted it down on her little mound in front of her. "It doesn't look like a sand castle to me?" He said with a cocked eyebrow. "O…..Kyo…have you ever maid a sand castle?" She asked with a smile.
Kyou thought for a moment the nodded. "no…..I can't say I have." He said as shrugged his shoulders. "I could help you make one!!!" She said with a happy smile on her face as she clasped her hands together under her chin. "Ok…" He said with a crocked smile. "Kyo….does….does this mean….I'm your senpai!!!!" Tohru said with much joy in her statement, as she clasped her hands together in glee. "Yea….I guess." Kyou said as he tried to shape a small dome like she had done. "Ummm….Kyo, what are you doing?" she said as she watched him intently. "Trying to make a god damn, sand castle, what do you think I'm doing." He spat out making it sound a little harsher then it should, but Tohru only smiled, when he turned to her with apologetic eyes.
"Well here, let me help you." He said as she grabbed his hands in hers and began to form parts of the sand castle, both of them blushing madly from the contact. Tohru let her hands drop from his when she felt that she couldn't stand the heat on her face any longer, "Umm…I think you get it now….right?" He said with a weak smile. "Yea…" He said as he scratched his now very red ear.
"Their!" Tohru said as she added the finishing touches to their little loop sided mound of sand. "What is it?" Kyo asked with a wrinkled nose. "It's our very own sand castle!" Tohru said with a big smile as she put a shell on the top of it. "You know it's kind of loop sided and crocked." Kyo said as he pocked at it, making a little sand fall from it. "Well….then it's our loop sided crocked mound of dirt!" Tohru said as she took his hand in hers and lay back on the nice sand. She looked up into the sky and noticed that it was already a little past noon. She smiled then closed her eyes with a sigh of complete and utter contentment, as Kyo laid down beside her. "O NO!" Tohru yelled as she sprang up.
"What!" Kyo said looking a little confused as he propped himself up on his elbows. "I forgot that Yuki-kun was brining is friend Riuchi-chan over for dinner today! O NO I HAVE TO GO GET IT READY!!!" Tohru said as she began to go into panic mode. Kyo only shock his head and got up, he held out his hand for the panicky girl in front of him. "Well, come on." He said as she finally came back out of her thoughts and reached for his hand. "Thank you, Kyo." She said as they walked back to the house in silence, neither of them saying a word, not wanting to roughen their little bit of happiness.
They got to the house and walked in side after shaking off their shoes out side, from all of that sand, then placed them by the door way. "We're home!" Tohru yelled as she ran into the kitchen to get dinner ready. Kyo shock his head then ran up stairs to the bath room to take a quick shower before dinner.
Tohru was cooking away when it never occurred to her that nobody else was home. Kyo had already finished getting cleaned up and walked down stairs to the kitchen to great Tohru, who he found had already finished making four different dishes. "I wasn't in the shower that long…was I?" He said as he walked over to her and snatched a dumpling away before she could even turn around to see. "Kyou, you know that you should wait till it's done." She said as she turned around already knowing what he did. "Hey, you go ahead and get ready; I can finish up in here." Kyo said as he picked out a rice noodle from a pot and slurped it down quickly.
Tohru giggled, "But Kyo, if I go then you might end up eating every thing before I can set it out!" she said, trying to be persistent. "No no no, I promise, I will not eat every thing while you are taking your bath." He said as he held his hand up in the air while he had the other one over his heart. "Ok….but please…..I want Yuki-kun to try and make a good impression with Riuchi-chan." She said with pleading eyes. He smiled and got back into the same stance. "I promise." He said as he watched her nodded with a smile and walk away. He smirked and reached back into the pot for another rice noodle, "A, ha!" Tohru said as she jumped out from the door way, catching him red handed. He chuckled, "Alright, you caught me…..but I did promise I wouldn't eat every thing I never said I wouldn't eat any thing." He said with a cocky smile.
She smiled and left back upstairs to take her shower. He smiled then turned back to the cooking. Shigure walked into the front door eyes closed, with dropping shoulders. "O Tohru, were are you…." He said as he walked into the living room to find it spot less, but with no sign of Tohru. He caught a whiff of something lingering in the air and perked up a bit. "Ah, I see that my lovely little house wife is right at work!" he said as he pranced into the kitchen and put with his arms around "her" waist, although he was in for a very rude awakening when he opened his eyes to find not Tohru but Kyo. "WHAT THE HELL!" Kyo yelled as he broke the grasp around his waste and pound Shigure right in the head.
"O Your not my little house wife, although you could be if you really wanted to." Shigure said with a devious smirk as he rubbed the forming lump on his head. "Shut the hell up and go get cleaned so you can hurry your ass down here for dinner." Kyo said dangerously calm as he continued to stir the big pot of fish stew. Shigure looked at the fiery boy in front of him and examined his features. Their was something different about the boy for some reason, yet he couldn't put a finger on it. He looked him up and down, he had is fiery orange hair, his black shirt that stopped right at the navel, his baggy khaki pants, bare foot, a hand on his hip as he stirred, a hicky on his neck under the ear that he could only guess was caused by Tohru. Yet Shigure could not see any thing different, yet for some reason, Kyo had a different air around him, it felt more mature, more caring, more…loving….yet he new that Kyo would never admit it if he even new.
Another sly smile formed on the dogs lips as he continued to study the boy, "So….were is our little flower?" He said in a perverted tone. "She taking a shower, and I already told you she's not your little flower." Kyo retorted. "O I better go check on her, to make sure she's ok." Shigure said as he pranced over to the stairs that led to the second floor were the bath rooms and three teens bed rooms were. "You take one more step and, and….well I don't know what the hell I'm go'na do but I know you will regret going up those stairs!" Kyo said as he swung a spatula at him. "Calm down now, you don't want to do any thing drastic now do you?" Shigure said in a cocky tone. "Like hell I do." Kyo said as he took a step forward already getting into a fighting stance.
"Stupid cat can't you ever just warn somebody instead of automatically going straight for the beating?" Yuki said as he maid his way threw the door as he took off his coat and shoes at the entrance. "Why the hell would you care what I do, yea damn rat." Kyo said as he averted his attention from Shigure to Yuki. "Because if you keep fighting like this, then the wonderful dinner that Miss Honda has prepared for us will be burned and go to waste, you wouldn't want to do something like that to her, now would you?" Yuki said with a smirk that set Kyou off right their. "THAT'S IT RAT BOY YOU WANT SOME! WELL THEN COME AND GET ITTTTT!!!!" He yelled as he lunged forward at the rat, but only see that he had stepped aside sending him threw and out of the rice paper door.
"Why do you have to break my house!" Shigure whined as he scampered away to his study to do heaven knows what. Yuki only sighed and shrugged as he left to go up to his room to get ready for his visitor. Tohru was just coming out of her room with fresh clean clothes on and a happy refreshed smile indented on her face. "O hello Miss Honda, I'm sorry for leaving you alone with that stupid cat all day, I hope you can forgive me." He said with apologetic eyes as he held her hand in his. Tohru's eyes grew wide at his comment, "O no Yuki-kun, not at all! You don't have to apologize! I was so happy to go to the beach with Kyo, you shouldn't feel the need to apologize." She said as she pulled her hand away from him, for some reason not wanting for him to touch her.
Yuki quirked an eyebrow at her action but let it brush off as quickly as he thought of it. "O and don't worry, Riuchi should be getting here soon, so I will be in the shower right now getting cleaned up ok." Yuki said as he looked at her, but for some reason he found that she wasn't even listening to him, in fact, she was looking down the stairs to were Kyo was. She looked back up at him, noticing that he wasn't talking any more. "I'm sorry Yuki-kun, but yes, you go take a shower, I need to go see if Kyou's ok." She said as she ran down the stairs to were he was laying sprawled out on the floor of the front porch. "Kyo are you ok!?!?" She yelled as she ran over to his side checking him for any major wounds. "Naw, I'm fine." He said as he sat up and rubbed his head. "O thank goodness!" She said as she threw her arms around him, not even noticing that their was no poof.
Well their you go! He he he, sorry for the cliffy, but it had to be don, also. I found that I had used a wrong word in the stories title so I am going to fix it ok! It should be dawn, not don. He he he, Also I should be getting the next chapter and the next chapter for the other story up soon! He he he, thank you for reading and I hope to see you guys again soon! Remember, keep reading, review, and smiling!! ;D