GT: Yello, sorry I've been gone for, like, ever. I had a lot going on and now it is summer so I just sit on my butt all day writing fics. I have no life. Anyway, here ya'll go!

Disclaimer: I do not own anything that can be used against me in a court of law. But I do own Toya and the story idea!

Chapter 4: Rainy Days Like This

It's always like this. Everyone's always silent. And the silence...
Eats me up inside.

Toya walks down the open hallway, rainwater falling in the yard. The smell of Tohru's cooking filling the crisp, clean, wet air. But the air also hid something. The one of the darkest secrets of the Sohma house. A secret that even Shigure hadn't known about, only him and Akito. Toya slowly slides open the door and walks slowly inside the warm kitchen. "Toya, I didn't know you were up." Tohru says happily as Toya starts to make tea, faking a convincing smile.
"Unlike Kyo, I do not get weak when it rains." Toya says with a smile looking Tohru in her eyes. It was a rare sight to see Toya's eyes. But even rarer was having a look into them, seeing only the hint of an eourmous, deep pain. I've never seen such sad eyes, Tohru thinks to herself as Toya leans near her, his hot breath rolling down her spine. "The darkest secret of the Sohma family is not Kyo but something a hundred times worse." He stands up again, his once bright green eyes clouded up something that was hidden deep inside him. He walks off coldly, leaving Tohru's mind to think of what could be scarier than Kyo.
"Oh, Tohru! Good morning!" Shigure says happily walking in, sniffing the air with a huge smile on his face. Not noticing how shaken up Tohru was, she had seen an aspect of Toya's personality that she never knew existed. And deep in her mind, she knew that there might be more to him than he lets on. Tohru smiles slightly at the dog, setting a steamy plate of food. Yuki walks in with a slightly disappointed smile on his face as Tohru sets down a plate of food for him too.
"Thank you, Miss Honda." Yuki says in his regular fashion as the door slides open once more and Kyo drags himself in sleeply. He grumbles something under his breath and then sits in his normal spot. He looks up at Tohru, his eyes lighting up as he watches her. A smile growing on his face as Tohru sets down his plate.
"Thanks," he says to Tohru, still attracting attention for his new behavior patterns. Shigure eyes him carefully before coming to a reasonable conclusion and this sets off a fit of giggling. Yuki glares at Shigure and then at Kyo who just seemingly didn't mind. Since when does he say 'Thanks' unprevocked, Yuki thinks to himself as he looks around noticing that the green-eyed bubbling idiot hadn't come down for breakfest yet.
"Do you what me to go see what's taking Toya?" Yuki asks getting ready to go get the new member of the household. Tohru seemingly freezes at his name and then looks back with an almost convincing smile on her face. Shigure, Yuki, and Kyo immediately take notice about the look on her face.
"No, he already came down before you guys came." Tohru says with a smile; behind her façade she was starting to be afraid of the dragon. Shigure nods slowly, he probably never came in contact with the hidden Toya. Yuki, Kyo and Tohru finish their breakfest and start off for school. Picking up Haru and Momji on the way.
"Where's that Toya guy?" Momji asks happily as they walk onto a seemingly battlefield. "Wow, lookit all the guys!" He points at the street gang lying on the ground some of them in their own blood.
"It looks like they were in a fight with a lawn mower...and the lawn mower won." Kyo jokes as the police take over the scene and the five are escoted to their school.
"And you're sure you didn't see anyone," the police officer asks for the hundredth time. Kyo and all of them nod slowly, still surprised. A witness only saw one person take on the twelve gang members, the witness also said that she never saw anyone lay one hit on him with the expectation of straching him with their knife. "All right, you kids stay out of trouble. Understand?"
"Yes, sir." They all say expect Kyo who huffs about the whole situation. Tohru joins with Uo and Hana who wait for her at the door.
"Did ya see that fight scene? Those guys got beat," Uo says with an almost excited tone in her voice. Hana walks beside Tohru whose mind in backtracking to Toya.
"I'm sensing something different in the air, something's wrong." Hana says as Tohru looks over at her nervously. Hana slightly smiles to give her comforting feeling. "His waves have changed but for better or worse, only time will tell." In the misnt of the crowd of students, Toya makes his way to the trio of girls. His shades once again on his face and the same smile on his face as he had before this morning.
"Good morning, Tohru. How are you? I'm sorry, I didn't see you this morning." Toya says with a nervous smile as he laughed at himself. Tohru looks at him with pure confusion, wasn't he the one who had come in and tell her that the Sohma's had another dark secret.
"Um...huh?" Tohru says her eye slightly twitching. Toya pats her softly on the head before starting a conversion with Hana. Toya gets a nervous look on his face as rubs his right arm softly.
"Is something wrong there, guy?" Uo asks with a smile as she pats his arm where he was rubbing it the most. Toya clutches his teeth in pain, glaring at the Yankee.
"Watch it, I strached my arm against a barb wire on the way her. It still hurts like hell," Toya explains. Tohru's eyes go wide with surprise as Toya rubs his right arm. Toya sets off to class, not before looking back at Tohru with a smirk on his face, licking his lips a little. Something's different, something's wrong. He's not like the other Sohma's, Akito maybe but not the others. Tohru thinks to herself as she watches Toya disappear and a sleepy looking Kyo come into view.
"Tohru, I have something to ask." Kyo says dragging her away by her hand. He looks at her with a smile on his face. "You wanna go to movie. Of course we'd go to dinner first." He smiles throughout the whole process and during this his face turns all shades of red. Tohru blushes as well, she had never gone through this and Kyo was not the first one who came to mind when she thought first date or first boyfriend. But he was certainly a good choice. Tohru nods with a smile on her face and Kyo breathes a large sigh of relief. Oh, thank God. I was certain she would say no, Kyo thinks to himself as they both run to class. They both make it to class out of breath and getting the wrong idea from their peers.
"What were you two during?" A boy asks with a sly smile on his face. Kyo growls something under his breath as they both make their ways to their seats. Tohru looks over at Toya who smiles at her before lying his head on his desk. Yuki gets a disappointed look on his face as thoughts of Kyo and Tohru's relationship run through his mind. He hangs his head in defeat, Kyo might have not realized it but he had won against Yuki in the way he wanted most, by winning Miss Honda's heart.
"Toya fell asleep," Hana says to Tohru who looks over at the sleeping older brother of Kyo. She was suspicous of the wellbeing of Toya, he was hiding something from the world and she knew it must be eating him up slowly in his mind.

-Toya's Dream-
"We were cursed to be alone," Akito's voice says, a chill running down his spine as he sat in facing his Mother's casket. "If you didn't do it, he would have." A younger version of Kyo runs towards him with his hands out for him. "But you always think of others before yourself, don't you? But when it comes to me. WHEN IT COMES TO ME!! YOU WALK AWAY! WITHOUT A SECOND THOUGHT! YOU LITTLE BASTARD! I'LL...I'LL MAKE YOU WISH YOU WERE NEVER BORN! I'LL MAKE YOU HURT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE!" Toya just sits taking this verbal abuse, emotionless.
"I don't care, I found what I needed. That is all, Akito, you hold no power over me any longer. Because when I find the one...the one just for me. I'll be free, we'll all be free." Toya says as Akito starts laughing at the opimtist. Then all fades into black and Toya is standing in a spotlight.

Yes, I once truly believed that lie. And it was a beautiful lie.
Everything inside me wanted to believe it.
But...But things never work out the way you want it to. And when that happens you're left in the dark... Left to be consumed by the
darkness in yourself.
And no matter how hard you tried to get to the surface.
You don't and you drown on your way up.
Filled with the sins and disappointments of your past...
You drown.

Someone runs hands down Toya's arms, wrapping themselves around him. Toya looks into the green eyes of the thing that disqusted him so much. That thing that he would rather kill like a roach then be near him. Himself.

And then...you're haunted. By yourself.
What you might have been.
What you could have been.
What you could have done.
What you should have done.
And the worse of all,
What you have done.
And when you're in the darkness...Screaming for help.
Pleading for everything to stop.
It becomes whole.
Your pain becomes an everlasting part of you.
The darkness wins against those who are alone...
And when you're alone...
It comes.

Toya stands in a field of flowers watching Kyo, Tohru, and all of them having a picnic. Standing beside him are Akito and himself. Akito smiles leaning against him, licking his cheek with a smile on his face. "I hope you die alone," Akito whispers in his ear before he disappears into darkness. Toya starts to run over to the group but is stopped by himself.

And when it comes...
You're doomed to die alone.
You're doomed to die in the darkness.

"Toya, Toya wake up! Its lunch time!" Someone says as Toya stirs in his sleep. His eyes remain closed as Hana takes a seat next to him.
"I'll wait here until he wakes up," Hana says with a smile as all the students leave and the two are left alone. Hana just watches him as he sleeps, sliding her hand under his and gripping it slightly. She slowly starts to fall asleep joining him in dreamland.

Toya sits on top of a hill watching the others below. "Doesn't get boring watching them have fun?" Hana asks in her regular fashion by popping up behind Toya. Toya jumps out of his skin and turns to her.
"How are you in my dream? It's my dream!" Toya asks as Hana just smiles at him and sits next to him. She looks at the clear, blue sky her eyes and clothes contrasting the bright colors that surrounded her.
"You know, no one is ever truly alone. There's always someone who is always thinking of you, even if you don't know it. One person can love a person more deeply than anything in the entire universe and the other person may never find out. The only way you can find out if you're truly alone, is if you ask." Hana says leaning on against shoulder. "And as of this moment, Toya Sohma, you are not alone." Toya's hand slides under Hana's hand gently gripping it. Smiles grow on both their faces and they both wake up.

-That Evening-
Kyo rushes out of the shower and into his bedroom, taking out all his clothes and looking through all his drawers for the perfect outfit. It has to be casual and cool but at the same time like a gentleman, he thinks to himself as he remembers he owns no clothes like that. "Dammit all to hell," he says pulling on a pair of boxers and a robe. He zooms down the stairs and dials up someone he never thought he would call if his life depended on it.
"Hello," the ladies voice says over the phone cheerfully. Kyo looks around to see if anyone in a close vanicty.
"Hi, is Ayame aviable?" Kyo asks almost in a whisper over the phone. The girl over the phone giggles passing the phone to the owner of the store.
"Yes," Ayame hisses happily over the phone. Kyo remains silent for a little before coming up with the courage to do the unthinkable.
"Ayame, it's Kyo. I need your help, right away. Like right now, can ya begin some stuff to make clothes?" Kyo asks going against all of his beliefs and honor for Tohru and his first date. Ayame starts giggling exticdly saying that he'll be there in twenty minutes. Kyo paces impatiently on the porch waiting for the stupid, girly-boy snake.
"Shigure, who is Kyo waiting for in his robes?" Yuki asks looking out the window as a very fimilar car drives up. "No. No. Why is he here?!" Yuki runs up the stairs and hides in his room. Shigure shrugs as Kyo "sneaks" Ayame in through the back door and the two disappear into his room.
"Now that wasn't the least bit suspicous." Shigure says with a sarcastic tone as Toya walks down the stairs in a suit and not wearing his normal glasses. "Even more suspicous." Then Uo walks in from the back door, carrying a big, wrapped black thing over her shoulder. "OKAY, I WANNA KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON!!" He stands up and everyone looks from whatever room they were in.
"Nothing!" All of them shout in unison before going back to what they were doing. Shigure starts to whine as Toya sits next to him with a smile on his face.
"Do you know what's going on?" Shigure asks the dressed up teenager who is still fixing his tie. He looks at Shigure with a huge smile on his face.
"I am going on a date. As is, Kyo and Tohru." Toya explains as they hear pounding and screams of horror. "And I think Kyo is going to die before he gets to his date."
"I've been meaning to talk to you about something, Toya." Shigure says as the door bell rings and Toya stands up, straightening out his suit. Toya looks back at Shigure with a smile on his face.
"I'll be off," Toya says as he slides on his shoes. Shigure looks as a smile grows on Toya's face that was never there before. "And don't worry, we're doing everything right. Things have been started that will in turn end it." A shocked look grows on Shigure's face as Toya opens the door to Hana.
"Why does he always do that mind reading thing? And Hana! You're going on a date with Hana!" Shigure shouts after him as Kyo's bedroom door swings opens and Ayame glides down the stairs. Uo walks out of Tohru's room with sighing a breath of relief.
"Now revealing my master piece!" Ayame announces happily as Shigure sweatdrops and Hatori walks in.
"I took it upon myself to let myself in. What is Ayame doing here?" Hatori asks as Momji pushes passed him with a huge smile on his face.
"Tohru! Tohru! We're here!" Momji shouts happily as Ayame growls and gets a really scary face. "Wow." Momji gets pulled down by Shigure who waits to see Ayame's "master piece"
"All right, let's see this master piece." Shigure says with a smile as Ayame holds up his hands and points in the stairs direction.
"Kyo Sohma, please come down!" Ayame shouts as Kyo opens the door and walks downstairs. His hair resembling Hatori's when he was younger and dark blue jeans with a black shirt and black leather jacket. His right ear red from getting a home piercing and a silver cross necklace dangling from his neck.
"You sure do know how to make a sow's ear into a silk purse, Aya." Shigure says with a smile as Hatori just stares at the redhead, dumbfounded.
"Wow, you look nice Kyo. Are you going somewhere?" Momji asks with a smirk, winking his eye. "With someone special?" Kyo glares at the blond bunny as Tohru makes her way downstairs in a beautiful summer dress with a yellow ribbon in her hair. Kyo looks up at her with a smile on his face and his face turning pink. Everyone just stares at the two of them.
"Who are you going out with?" Shigure asks as Kyo just smiles at Tohru. Hatori sighs deeply as Shigure still does not know who Kyo is going out with.
"Can't you put two and two together?" Hatori asks as Kyo holds out his arm and the two walk out the front door. Upstairs Yuki watches the two disappear down the street, a pain hitting somewhere it has before. Yuki sits on his bed, fighting the tears back up losing ending up to cry himself to sleep. Ayame, Hatori, and Shigure take Momji out to dinner forgetting about Yuki. Yuki lays quietly in the darkness of his room, only to be waken by headlights and the rythmic knocking on the front door. He slowly walks downstairs and opens it some strange girl in a white midriff and blue overalls.
"Hiya, I'm Samantha Childers!" The girl says happily holding up a peace sign and waving to the cab driver to drive away. Yuki just stares at as she looks back at him and smiles, her dark brown hair with blond highlights whipping around her face. Yuki's heart skips a beat as he remembers something about signing to host a foreign exchange student but he never suspected that one would come. But his heart skipped a beat for another reason, just as Hana had saved Toya from the darkness in himself, as well, as Tohru had done with Kyo. Samantha had saved him without even knowing it.
"I'm Yuki Sohma," he says polietly letting her in and the two spend all night talking about things. Just things, nothing specfic.

-Later In the Night-
"Yuki! I'm home!" Shigure shouts walking into the sitting room where Samantha and Yuki leaned on each sleeping. "Ohhhh, naughty little Yuki." Then Shigure looks closer at Yuki whose arms are wrapped around the girl. "He-he's holding her. He's hugging her."
Upstairs Kyo dreams of going on another date with Tohru. Her sweet scent one of the many beautiful things about her. And Tohru dreams of how happy her life is going at the moment. How the most unexpected things can happen, when you wait for it.
In a beautiful hotel room, Hana's head rests on Toya's chest. Toya kisses Hana on her forehead with a soft smile growing on his face. A recollection of newly made memories running through head. Their clothes littering the carpet. Both of them slowly falling asleep, only meet again in each others dreams.

GT: I never expected it to go like that. I am going to have one last chapter. I'm really going to like the last chapter I can tell. Anyway, I hope you all liked this chapter. It was really, strangely natural to me. It was kinda creepy writing this chapter. Please review! It would be nice to here your thoughts! Buh-bye!

Notes about this chapter: -Samantha was never planned she just came up because it was mean to leave Yuki alone like that. -Kyo never found out who his brother was. -----We found out(only if you read into it) that Akito was jealous of Toya. He didn't want him to be happy, so he made Toya kill his mom. In Toya's fragile state Akito crushed him like a little buggy. That is why Akito hates Toya because he remains alive. - ----Hana and Toya(if no one can guess) broke the curse. In the next chapter, you'll find out how.