NOTE: YUKI AND KYO ARE NOT RELATED IN THIS FIC !! :D I HOPE THAT CLEARS THINGS UP A BIT
ALSO THANK YOU FOR THE REVIEWS EVERYONE :D YAY
A Thousand Cranes
Chapter Four - China Girl
At the airport in Tokyo...
There is a girl with mid-length brown hair and she is boarding off of the plane, gripping on her backpack straps as she surveys the scenery around her. She nods with determination to herself and walks off into the city of Tokyo by herself.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A few days have passed by and Tohru and Kyo had finally finished making the thousand cranes. They both held it up in the light and smiled at their accomplishment, then they both went on their way to the hospital, Kyo carrying the cranes in his hands. When they got to Kazuma's room Kyo set down the colorful bunch of cranes right onto the table next to his bed and looked down at Kazuma who was still asleep with a slight smile on his pale lips. Tohru and him walked out of the hospital with silence and they both plopped down on the front steps where there was a fountain in front of them pouring crystals of water down from the top. Tohru hugged her knees to herself and said to him with assurance,
"He'll be alright, we've done all we can right? So don't worry."
Kyo just stared straight ahead and then said with a cracking voice after a long while,
"Thanks... for helping me make the cranes."
Tohru's eyes widened at the sincerity in his voice and a blush crept onto her cheeks as she spoke softly,
"I just did what my heart told me to..."
Before any more words could be said, the girl with mid-length chocolate hair pushed through the crowd in front of the hospital and spotted the two of them sitting on the front stoop of the hospital doors. She gasped loudly and screamed as loudly as she possibly could,
"KYO-KUN!!!"
Kyo's head snapped up immediately and Tohru looked up to see a cute looking girl with a green sundress running towards Kyo with open arms. A deathly afraid look crossed his face as he got up quickly and backed away from her, but he was too late. She ran up to him and literally jumped onto him, causing him to fall backwards onto the ground while she crushed his bones hugging him. Tohru gulped and watched as the crazed girl rocked back and forth, squeezing the life out of Kyo. Kyo choked out angrily,
"Get... offa me!!!"
He pushed her off of him after a minute of torture and breathed heavily while she watched him with a happy smile on her face. Tohru said to the girl nervously,
"Um... my name is Honda Tohru, nice to meet you."
She seems so... violent, I wonder what kind of connection she has with Kyo.
The girl's doe eyes changed into a look of hatred when she looked at Tohru. She scanned her up and down and then grabbed Kyo's arms possessively,
"Kyo is mine! Do you love him? Because you can't! I love him more than anyone else in the whoooole world!"
Tohru's eyes widened in surprise and she shook her head at the eccentric girl in front of her,
"No, no! You've got it all wrong, me and Kyo-kun are just friends! You don't have to worry about anything like that.."
She let go of Kyo's arm slowly and bowed her head at Tohru,
"I'm sorry, I get a little crazy when I'm around Kyo..."
Wow! She totally changed all of the sudden.
Tohru smiled at the girl and then said happily,
"It's okay!"
Kyo felt his anger boil as he exploded out all of the sudden,
"What the hell are you doing here, Kagura?!"
Kagura shot him a puppy dog look and said to him innocently,
"I just came here to visit Kazuma-san! I had no idea that you would be here! Isn't it such a coincidence though? Now I can stay with you at your house for the night, right?"
Kyo's nostrils flared dangerously and he bellowed out,
"NO WAY!"
Kagura cowered away with a fresh batch of tears forming in her eyes as she said with a quivering lip,
"K-Kyo-kun."
Kyo placed both his hands into his hair and pulled at it with frustration, then he finally gave in,
"Fine! But only one night okay?"
"Yay!"
Kagura latched onto him and snuggled up to him while he cringed away with disgust. Tohru watched the two for a while and then suddenly felt something rise up in her heart. What was it? Jealousy?
How can I be jealous when I'm not even with Kyo...? Plus, it's not like he even likes me in that way... right? Can it be that I'm starting to have feelings for him? I feel so mixed up...
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Later at Kyo's house
Kyo glared at Kagura as she unpacked her clothing and crossed his arms over his chest while admonishing her,
"Now don't you dare mess up the house alright?!"
Kagura stuck out her lower lip at Kyo and asked with a whiney voice,
"Where are you going Kyo-kun?"
Kyo stuck his hands in his pocket and yelled out with exasperation,
"Out!"
He grumbled while walking down the sidewalk with the leaves blowing past him and spotted Tohru sitting outside on her front lawn with a faraway look in her eyes. Kyo walked up to her and greeted her tersely,
"Oy."
Tohru looked up at him, her eyes filling with happiness when she saw him approaching her as she greeted him back with energy,
"Hey!"
Kyo sat down next to her and sprawled his legs out onto the grass freely. He then leaned his head back, gazing up at the traveling clouds against the light blue sky, and asked gruffly,
"So what are you thinking?"
Tohru looked at him with her hands folded together and she just shrugged casually and answered,
"Oh I was just thinking about you actually."
Kyo felt his heart pump quickly, and his body burn with tingles as he sat up instantly and asked incredulously,
"What?!"
Tohru laughed at his alarmed tone and said to him,
"I mean about what you've been doing in China. I just realized that I really don't know what you did in China and I was just thinking of how you met... Kagura-san."
He grimaced and then said with repugnance,
"Oh... her..."
She asked curiously,
"What is it that you hate about her?"
Kyo sighed and put his hand to his forehead and grumbled out,
"I don't hate her... it's just that she's so damn annoying though. Back in China Kazuma had another student that he had to train along with me. It turned out that it was her... at first she seemed okay, but thn there was this time when she had nearly fell off of this mountain and I helped her up. After that whole incident she was always hanging around me! It irritated the hell out of me... I couldn't get a moment of peace! And now she's here to torture me...she's so damn annoying...."
Tohru stared at him for a while and then said simply,
"I don't know... but isn't it amazing that she's able to love you for this long though?"
"No!"
Tohru laughed under her breath and then stated,
"She's in love with you, it's flattering isn't it?"
Kyo sighed and bowed his head down while muttering,
"Whatever..."
Tohru patted him on the back with comfort and said,
"It'll be okay."
Kyo looked up with a small blush and gave her one of his rarest smiles, making her mirror his smile back at him while the sun showered the both of them with its warmth. However, they weren't aware of a girl from behind the tree across the street, watching them with tears in her eyes. It was Kagura.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Back at Kyo's house
Kyo entered the house and threw his keys down onto the table next to him, then he walked into his room where he saw Kagura packing up her stuff with tears in her eyes. Kyo felt his heart churn since he hated to see girls cry and he gulped, asking her after a long pause,
"What are you doing?"
Kagura wiped a tear away with her sleeve and said with a shaky voice,
"Packing..."
Kyo went over to her and bent down across from her, demanding an answer,
"Why?!"
"Because..."
More tears leaked out from her eyes and she finally blurted out loudly,
"Do you love me?!"
Kyo was taken aback by her forward question and he stuttered out sadly,
"I-I don't...sorry."
Kagura sniffed loudly and then accused him bitterly,
"You love her right?"
Kyo's eyebrows scrunched up together and he asked with ignorance,
"Who?!"
"You know who... the girl you were with at the hospital."
"Tohru?! NO way..."
Kagura threw her luggage down onto the ground after zipping it up and then yelled at him,
"Can't you just admit it?! Stop denying it... and just say it."
Kyo shook his head at her slowly and said with his eyes cast down in denial,
"I... don't..."
Kagura walked up closer to him and said with a softer voice,
"I see the way that you look at her, the way that you smile at her, and the way that you talk to her... it's all different from the way you talk to anyone else. That's how I know."
Kyo sat down onto the bed from the shock of realization hitting him like a stone to the head.
I... do love her
Kagura sat down beside him and smiled a sad smile as she told him quietly,
"Tell her... tell her how you feel before you regret it all, because this is a once in a lifetime thing, you know?"
Kyo raised his head up and stared her right in the eye to see the pain that she was in just by telling him to be with someone else. He took out a tissue from the box on the desk nearby and handed it to her gingerly. She took it from his helping hand and wiped the tears from her eyes and then Kyo said to her with pure honestly,
"Thank you... for everything."
Kagura sniffed bravely and then grabbed her luggage, walking to the doorway and said finally,
"I'm leaving."
"What? Just stay for tonight, it'd be stupid to leave now."
Kagura laughed a little and then she turned to him with a genuine smile,
"It's okay... just promise me that you'll tell her how you really feel."
Kyo followed her to the front door and then muttered out,
"I'll... try."
She put one hand to her hip and demanded,
"Promise!"
He rolled his eyes at her and then said,
"Fine, fine... I promise."
Kagura giggled and then waved goodbye to him before walking back to the airport to China. Kyo closed the door and leaned against it, thinking to himself,
How the hell am I gonna tell her? Oh great...
REVIEWS WOULD BE WONDERFUL PLEASE :D THANKS