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Chapter II - The Truth Is
He blinked a couple of times, still letting the words sink into his head, and then he asked in an incredulous voice,
"What?!"
Tohru held her hands up defensively and repeated with an apologetic voice,
"I'm sorry to have to ask you this but would you please be my bodyguard?"
Kyo felt his shock simmer down to a zero as he felt his cool come back and he started to question her more,
"What do you mean exactly..."
"Well you could walk me home every night to keep me from... well... criminals."
"What, is there someone after you or something?"
Tohru stayed silent at that question and just looked away into another direction, not sure of how to answer that question. She just sighed and looked at him, but now the light had left her usual bright eyes,
"Will you do it? You really don't have to."
She smiled at him, letting him know that she was fine with him not taking the "job." Kyo pursed his lips together and pondered before probing more into the subject,
"How long is this thing gonna last?"
"I'm not sure..."
Kyo raised an eyebrow, knowing that she was hiding something from him. He finally smirked and then said,
"At least tell me your name."
Tohru pale face flushed to a pink color and she gave him a little bow before going,
"Ah! I'm sorry, I am being so rude! My name is Honda Tohru, pleased to meet you."
She lifted her face to meet his eyes and he looked at her for a moment longer before saying his own name,
"I'm Sohma Kyo...now just to tell you, I'm not doing this because I want to, I'm just doing this for the free cake, and that's it. You know that right?"
Tohru nodded cheerfully and answered energetically,
"Absolutely."
Kyo grunted in amusement and then crossed his arms over his chest,
"So what do ya want me to do? Just wait here all friggin day for you until you finish?"
Tohru blushed a deep shade of pink and then lowered her head so that she wasn't looking at him anymore,
"Well... you don't have to do that, you can come back at 8pm, which is when I finish my shift."
Kyo shrugged and then pointed at one of the buttery cakes in the display and said,
"I'd like one of those to go then."
Tohru smiled and scooped it up onto a plate, handing it over to him. He sunk his teeth into it and fell into heaven just like the last time. He then put up a hand and said,
"Later,"
and walked out of the bakery with the cake in his hands. Tohru watched as he walked out of the swinging doors and felt as if a huge weight had been lifted from her shoulders,
Thank you Kyo...
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It was 8pm and Kyo inhaled the sweet taste of the smoke that filled his lungs. He exhaled and watched the smoke screen fill his eyes as he waited for Tohru to step out of the bakery. When he heard the little ring of the bell he took one last drag and then dumped it to the ground, knowing that a girl like her would hate the smell of cigarettes. He got up off of the wall and then asked tiredly,
"Ready?"
Tohru nodded and then they both started to walk up the road in silence for a while, until Tohru broke the silence,
"Thank you for doing this huge favor for me... you don't know how much it means to me."
Kyo just grunted in return, not used to the praise. He stuffed his hands into the pockets of his khaki colored pants and trudged down the silver pavement with his companion walking idly by. He glanced at her and then asked a simple question,
"So why are you in such a desperate need for a bodyguard?"
Tohru's head snapped up and she looked up at him with her eyes practically glowing with the pale light shining upon them. She then flicked her eyes away and they got filled with a sudden emptiness,
"I... I'm just scared to walk home alone all the time. I just moved here and everything, and there is a lot of danger around here...I mean I heard there was a lot of danger and everything."
She put her head down and her teeth dragged against the bottom of her lip nervously as she glanced quickly at him from the corner of her eye. He saw how uncomfortable she looked and decided to just let the subject go for now, and go with the flow until she spit out the secret that she was keeping. After all, he was just in this whole ordeal for the free cake right? They walked the rest of the ten minute walk without any talking but the good news was that there wasn't even a speck of danger in sight on the way there. He walked her to her front porch and then gave out a great big yawn before turning his back and giving a lazy wave to her,
"See ya tomorrow,"
he said and slunk down the stone steps, not noticing that she was staring at his retreating back.
"Thank you..."
He couldn't help but look back when she said those two words. He had never met such a person that could be that polite, or that nice. He sighed and walked the rest of the way back to his pigsty of a house and fell right asleep.
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The next morning at school he saw Tohru rummaging through her locker, taking and putting back in her books and such. He walked up to her and leaned against the locker right next to hers, and greeted her with a one word grunt,
"Oy."
The books slipped out of her hands, from the shock that he gave her and she blushed at her klutzniess and immediately went down to pick up the books that lay open on the dusty school ground. She popped back up with her books in her hands and he just watched in amusement.
"G-Good morning Kyo-kun! How are you today?"
Kyo controlled himself from rolling his eyes and just said in a curt voice,
"I'm all right, I just wanted to say hi, that's all. See ya later."
Tohru opened her mouth to say something more but he had already turned his heel and disappeared into the growing crowd. A tap was felt on her shoulder and her books nearly slipped out of her grasp again, but this time she caught herself before she had another embarrassing accident.
"Hey, did I just see you talking to Sohma Kyo?"
Tohru turned around to see herself face to face with Uo.
"Good morning Uo-san! I was just saying good morning to Kyo-kun as well."
Tohru flashed her a bright smile and Uo gave Tohru a little frown before admonishing her,
"Just... watch your back around him okay?"
Tohru nodded quickly and said in a promising voice,
"I'll watch my back, but he is a very nice person Uo-san."
Uo shot her a strange look but she shrugged it off.
"Whatever you say..."
They both walked together to their next classes.
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Seven days flew by, and Kyo had been walking Tohru home for the whole entire week, without any danger in sight. On the last day of the week he stopped at her house and asked her a question that had been on his mind,
"Don't your parents care about this whole thing about needing a bodyguard?"
Tohru froze before touching the knob of the door to her apartment. She then turned to him and shot him a tentative smile before folding her hands together in a morose way.
"....My parents are...dead."
Kyo's eyes averted from her and he felt a lump, that was unfamiliar to him, form in his chest.
"Sorry..."
he muttered under his breath, so that only he could probably hear it. Tohru just gave him a heart warming smile and thanked him like she always did, and gave him one last wave before disappearing into the apartment building.
How can she be so happy?
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On the eighth day, Tohru and Kyo were trudging up the same moon covered road when Kyo felt a sudden strange presence of danger interrupt the peace. He stopped in his tracks and held up his left arm to signal that he felt something bad going on. Tohru stopped and felt her heart skip a few beats as she listened intently for any sort of noise. Kyo whipped his head around and swore that he saw a shadow being thrown across the wall nearby. Tohru gulped and felt her breaths getting shorter and her knees beginning to get shakier. That's when a man jumped from the ledge of the wall with a knife in his hand. Kyo pushed Tohru out of the way and they both tumbled to the ground. The man was dressed in black and had a white mask over his face as he jumped up from the pavement and sliced blindly at the two. Kyo rolled out of the way and tripped the attacker. Kyo easily fended off the guy and punched him out to the ground, with one swift sock in the face. Kyo grabbed Tohru's paralyzed wrist and forcefully pulled her along the road. She felt her legs moving as quickly as they could to follow him and she felt her heart beat faster and faster as Kyo led her to a beat up looking apartment where he kicked open the door and ran up the grimy steps. Kyo opened up the door to room 218 and let her inside, glancing cautiously from side to side before closing the door with relief. He sighed and then looked at the pale girl that stood behind him with so much fear in her that it was nauseating. She sputtered out,
"I-I'm so sorry."
Kyo just stared at her darkly and then finally said angrily,
"...Did you know someone was after you?! Tell me the truth now!"
Tohru felt tears prick the back of her eyes but she blinked them away rapidly and looked down at the wooden floor boards.
"You're right...I haven't been completely honest with you and I'm really sorry,"
She looked up at him with shining eyes and said to him,
"The truth is….."
to be continued
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