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Chapter III - I'm Here
She hesitated a little and then fiddled with her thumbs while sitting on her knees in the dim room.
"The truth is... that my mother used to be a part of this gang in her past, but when she had me she wanted to get out of the gang... but they refused to let her out of it, and so she fled from them with me to several places."
She glanced away and blinked rapidly a few times to stop the tears from falling and continued,
"But they kept chasing after us and they just wouldn't let my mother off the hook. They told her that she was a traitor for wanting to break away from them and that she needed to be killed. I was about thirteen when my mother told me one night to stay home because she was going grocery shopping... but that night she never came back."
The tears were already slipping down from the sides of her eyes and she sniffed long and hard,
"T-They killed her, and now they want to kill me too... I've been running for so long and I don't want to run anymore. I'm so scared..."
Tohru buried her head into her knees and cried in the dark room while Kyo gawked at her, not sure of what to say anymore. He felt an emotional sensation pass through his heart but he dismissed it quickly, not knowing how to deal with these feelings because he hadn't had to deal with them for so long. He stared long and hard at the crouched girl in the corner, crying, and finally said in a low voice,
"I'm here... so stop your damn worrying."
He started to blush furiously as he suddenly started to concentrate on the wooden floorboards. Tohru looked up at him and her lips parted as her emotions began to stir. She leaped up from her spot and circled her petite arms around his waist, giving him a warm embrace. His eyes widened at the foreign feelings that burst through his veins and as if on instinct he pushed her off gently before muttering out,
"Don't get all lovey-dovey now..."
Tohru blushed and shot him an apologetic smile,
"Sorry, I'm just so thankful. So thankful to be able to stop running,"
Kyo gave her a lopsided grin and then scratched the back of his head and said,
"I guess I should walk you back home."
Tohru nodded in agreement and smiled happily,
"Thank you Kyo-kun."
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A month had passed and he had been walking home with Tohru every day from the bakery, not running into anymore danger... for the time being. After a while Kyo even felt himself beginning to enjoy himself more then he thought he would , he didn't even realize the bond that was growing between them until one Friday afternoon while he was smoking by the brick wall behind the school. He closed his eyes and let out the trail of smoke that diffused into the air. When he opened up his eyes he saw an annoying pair of green eyes sneering at him from the fence across the red brick wall. He glared at the annoying looking boy who was giving him a dirty look and snarled angrily at the kid,
"What the fuck are you looking at?"
The kid just smirked and walked up to him as if he were some tough guy and asked in an annoying voice,
"So Sohma, what girl are you fuckin' lately huh?"
Kyo just ignored him and blew a whole bunch of smoke into the boy's face and said tersely,
"None of your fucking business."
The kid didn't seem to be intimidated because he just stood with his feet planted onto the floor, not even affected by the smoke being blown into his face. He just continued to smirk and said to him with an overly annoying voice,
"I heard that you've been seeing that new girl Honda Tohru, so how long have you been with her huh?"
Kyo threw his cigarette to the ground, getting seriously irritated and asked bitterly,
"Don't you know when to shut the fuck up?"
"I think that Mr. Bad boy is fallin' in love!"
"Shut...UP!"
The kid let out the most horrendous sounding laugh in the universe that made Kyo grimace,
"Well if you're not then maybe you can toss her my way when you're finished with her."
That was the last straw; his anger had reached a new maximum as he punched the guy in the face, sending him all the way to the fence. Passing strangers gaped at the fight and walked away from the dangerous scene as quickly as possible. Kyo glared at the fainted figure on the weeded grass and walked off with his hands in his pockets, thinking about what the guy had said and what had set him off. He walked all the way to the bakery and stared through the glass window, watching as Tohru talked to a customer with a smiling face, as usual. He felt his heart beat faster and that was when he realized that he was beginning to get attached to her and he had to detach himself as fast as possible. He didn't want to go through the pain that he had endured in his past. Never again. He walked quickly away from the bakery as fast as possible and into his apartment building before she could spot him.
What're you gonna do, avoid her forever?
He closed his eyes with anguish and knew that he couldn't go back to love ever again, or anything even close to it... He sighed and pulled at his orange hair with frustration when he knew that he had to stop seeing her or he was bound to love again. He went up to his room and sat there, contemplating about what to do... if he left her she might get attacked, but if he kept being with her then he would go through pain.
What happened to you? You've grown soft...
He got up from his bed and decided on the avoidance plan. He was now going to go back to his old ways of cutting class, having sex, smoking whenever the hell he wanted, and not having to have a care in the world. The way things used to be, before her.
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It was 8pm and Tohru was waiting outside of the bakery while the wind played with her chestnut hair. She glanced nervously around for Kyo, he was usually always waiting outside for her before she even came out. Twenty minutes passed and he still hadn't come yet. She began to get worried and wondered if something had happened to him, or if maybe she had done something to seriously offend him. She saw the sky darken to a midnight color and the moon was now a complete circle now. She gulped and stared down at her black, polished shoes and waited for fifteen more minutes before finally deciding that she would just have to go back home herself.
Stop being such a coward Tohru! Have strength, Mother wouldn't be this scared...
She closed her eyes and let out a shaky breath before heading home as fast as she could.
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Kyo had taken a walk and looked at the clock outside on a store window and saw that it was 8:45pm. He sighed when he passed by the bakery, unable to control the guilty feelings that began to surface.
What if she's been attacked?
His crimsons eyes widened at the thought of her bloody body and he suddenly felt his legs walk him up the road that led to her house. In a few moments he heard a blood curdling scream that made his pupils dilate and his legs run like mad into the direction that the scream originated. He stopped in his tracks when he saw Tohru lying on the ground, clutching her bleeding shoulder. His eyes moved and he saw that there was a man dressed in the same attire as the last attacker, except this time he had a blood stained knife in his hand. The man raised his knife in the air to take another slice but Kyo kicked it out of his hands before any harm could be done and screamed out,
"Get the fuck away from her!!"
Kyo dodged the flying punch that came his way and he kneed the mystery attacker in the stomach, sending him flying a few feet away. That's when a few more men in black jumped from the trees, with knives in their hands.
Shit...
They surrounded Kyo and advanced towards him slowly. Kyo jumped up and left a shoe mark on one of the men's hockey masks and ducked as the others tried to slice at him while he tripped two more men. He then rolled out of the way of a flying knife and then roll punched a guy in the stomach. The last guy lunged at Kyo and he back kicked the last guy. The adrenaline in him was pumping as he stared at the pile of knocked out men that lay on the street. Tohru watched with awe and her mouth dropped open when she saw the pile of unmoving men on the sidewalk. Tears filled her eyes as she ran up to him and threw her arms around his waist again, but this time he didn't push her way. Instead he just gulped and awkwardly patted the back of her head. Her tears glistened in her eyes as she let out a loud sniffle and said with a breaking voice,
"I was so scared...I thought that you weren't going to come..."
Kyo felt his breathing get heavier as he held her closer to him in a more protective manner and he gulped as he uttered out,
"I'm here..."
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