"Ughh," Kyo groaned rubbing his throbbing skull. "My head.... It feels like I've been beaten with a sledgehammer." He looked around drowsily and realized he was tied up in the Sohma's front yard. "What the hell? Why am I here?"

"Well well Kyo!" Shigure said coming outside and looking down at the orange haired boy. "Seems you had quite the night!"

"What are you talking about?"

"Oh... I dunno... let's say maybe... how you tried to rape Tohru? Yup, that must be it!"

"I WHAT!!!"











Tohru woke up, her eyes still wet from crying. She turned to the side and saw Yuki sleeping in a chair beside her bed. "I'm so sorry," she whispered again. Somehow, she couldn't help but feel that what had happened was her fault somehow. She had known that Kyo was drunk and wasn't able to think logically, yet she still hadn't been able to stop him from attacking her. And what about Yuki? Would he think of her differently? Maybe he thought she was easy. Maybe he thought it was her fault too. Would she ever be able to look at either of the guys the same way again?

Tohru wiped at her eyes and sat up in bed. Even after taking a long shower the night before she still felt dirty. She shivered and hugged herself tightly. It was amazing the difference between being held and kissed by the one you loved, compared to being forced into it by someone else. Even if Kyo was her friend, she just didn't feel that way about him. And now, she wasn't even sure she could be friends with him anymore. Just the thought of ever seeing him again sent shivers down her spine and terrible flashbacks of the night before.

Yuki's sleeping body shifted a little in the chair, and he went falling sideways, hitting his head on the floor, and waking him up. "Oww," he groaned opening his eyes. He saw Tohru looking down at him. "Honda-san," he said softly. "Are... are you feeling all right now?"

Tohru looked away again, pulling her covers tighter around her. "I'm sorry," she whispered. "You didn't have to spend the night here. I know that chair couldn't have been very comfortable."

"Honda-san," Yuki said again pulling himself up from the floor. "I asked if you were feeling all right."

"Don't come near me!" Tohru cried turning away. "I'm dirty! I cheated on you!!"

"Please Honda-san," Yuki begged gently, sitting beside her on the bed. "I know it wasn't your fault. You don't have to push me away like this."

"But... but I just... I don't know what to do..." Tohru mumbled tearfully. "I know it wasn't Kyo-kun's fault, but how can I ever face him after what he did to me?"

"You give that cat too much credit," Yuki said bitterly. He wanted to kill that damned cat. He had wanted to shoot him in the head and throw his corpse in the ocean but instead, thanks to Shigure, he had to settle for tying him up and locking him outside.

"No, I know he didn't do it on purpose to hurt me," Tohru murmured. "But, I still don't think I can forgive him. I'd like to but I just can't, and maybe I never will. He....he..." She looked up at Yuki and began to sob loudly. Yuki put an arm around her and she buried her face in his shoulder. "I wanted my first time to be with you and he almost took that from me."

"But he didn't," Yuki whispered reassuringly resting his chin in her hair. "You're safe now. Please don't cry. I promise no one will ever try and force you to do anything you don't want to do again."













Kyo lay in the grass, staring up at the sky, his jaw hanging open. "Please kill me Shigure," he said quietly. "I deserve to die."

"Aww, don't be so hard on yourself," Shigure said patting the boy on the head. "If I were alone with Tohru and had the chance, I'd probably do the same thing! Hahaha!"

"But I don't even remember doing that," Kyo moaned. "What the hell was I thinking?"

"Well, we'll just see what Kagura has to say about it when she gets here."

Kyo turned to Shigure slowly, his eyes growing wide. "You... you didn't tell Kagura did you?"

"Well, since she is your self proclaimed wife, I thought she should know."

"How could you, you dumb bastard!!!" Kyo shouted kicking Shigure across the yard. "Are you crazy?" He stopped when he heard the rumbling sound coming toward him. "Oh no," Kyo whispered, dread welling up in his chest.

"KYO-KUN!!" Kagura cried jumping on the boy. "Say it isn't so!! Did you really attack Tohru last night?" She picked him up and began swinging him in circles "How could you!!!!"

"Put me down damn it!!!" Kyo shouted.

Kagura threw him down on the ground in front of her, tears streaming down her face. "So you did, didn't you. You attacked Tohru."













Tohru's head stayed resting on Yuki's shoulder for a short while, her tears soaking into his sleeve. Finally, she looked up at him, having found the courage to speak. "Yuki-kun," Tohru asked quietly, placing her hands on his face. "D...do I look different to you? Do I look dirty?"

"You look like Tohru Honda," Yuki said bending down and kissing her gently on the lips. "You look like the woman I love."

Tohru closed her eyes, returning the kiss. "Thank you," she whispered.









Kagura sat in the grass beside Kyo, her energy spent after beating him to a bloody pulp. She wiped at her wet eyes and stared down at the ground. "Kyo-kun," she said quietly. "Why would you do something like that to Tohru? If you needed someone to make love to, I would've.... I would've willingly done anything for you, because I love you." Her eyes began to well up with more tears and she covered her face with her hands. "But how could you do that to poor Tohru?"

Kyo didn't answer. He looked away, ashamed. There was no point making excuses. Nothing would take back what he had done, and he couldn't even hope to ask for Tohru's forgiveness.

Kagura pulled Kyo from the ground and kissed him passionately on the lips. She wrapped her arms around his neck, pulling him close against her body. "Please," she whispered hugging him tightly. "Please never do anything like that again. Even if the cat spirit within you takes over and you come to do things that you regret, just remember that you are always you. You will always be Kyo-kun."

"Ka...Kagura," he murmured as tears came to his eyes.







A/N I updated this part pretty fast but it may be a few days before my next one.