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A Thousand Cranes

Chapter Six - Follow Your Heart

Yuki could literally feel himself shaking from all of the blood boiling anger that was coursing through his veins. After a long minute of looking at the sickening sight of the two, he tore his eyes away, storming away from that spot and straight into a passing person. Yuki grasped the girl by the wrist, pulling her up to safety and said to her as politely as he could,

"Sorry."

The girl looked down at her dress, smoothing out an invisible wrinkle on her dress, and then she looked up and smiled. She then stuck out her hand to him while introducing herself,

"It's really okay! By the way, my name is Mikuni Sakura."

Yuki blinked a couple of times and looked the girl up and down, seeing that she was extremely beautiful. She had on a fluttering red dress that sparkled with sprays of glitter in every corner. Her face was the shape of an oval and her hair was shining with glossiness. Even her smile was contagious because Yuki found himself forgetting some of his anger and smiling back at her. He took her hand in his and shook it lightly,

"I'm Yuki,"

The girl nodded happily and then she looked around nervously before her eyes landed back on his,

"Um... would you like to go somewhere private?"

Yuki's eyes clouded with anger when the image of the two in the garden together burned in his memory. He clenched his teeth together and then felt a gradual broad smile curl up on his lips as he took her hand in his, leading her out of the prom, clearing all thoughts of Tohru from his brain.

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Just as the music was fading away, Tohru and Kyo slowed down to a subtle stop and he stared down at her glowing features, smiling down at her. She smiled back up at him, coming down from an incredible high that she had never felt before. That's when Yuki's face popped into her mind, wiping out all of her giddiness.

What am I doing out here? Why am I being so heartless...?

Tohru slipped her hands out from his and felt her happy face being replaced with a sullen and morose look. Kyo reached out to touch her face but she backed away with tears filling her eyes as she whispered out,

"Thanks for coming to the prom and all... but I have to leave now..."

Kyo frowned and he asked with a crestfallen face,

"Why?"

Tohru lowered her eyes and muttered under her breath,

"Yuki is waiting for me... I'm sorry."

Kyo opened up his mouth to protest but settled with turning his back to her, feeling the hurt and humiliation fill his body when he answered tersely,

"Fine..."

Tohru sniffed and apologized softly,

"Sorry..."

With that, she rushed back into the prom leaving Kyo standing in the garden, alone. Tohru searched around the huge crowds of dancing people, but she couldn't find Yuki anywhere.

Did he leave? I feel horrible...

Tohru then spotted a group of his student council friends laughing loudly at a joke that someone had just told. She walked up to them and asked,

"I'm so sorry to interrupt, but have any of you seen Yuki-kun?"

The laughter died from all of their lips and they all gave her sympathetic looks. One of them tilted their head at her and said,

"Last time I saw him, he was looking everywhere for you... he probably got restless and left or something."

Tohru's mouth dropped open and she fought to keep the tears from falling down her cheeks. How had she let her feelings get out of control? She stumbled over to the nearest wall and leaned against it, placing a warm hand over her forehead, knowing the real reason to that question. Whenever she was around Kyo she lost all control of herself and she only followed her heart. But wasn't that what she was supposed to do? Follow her heart? She sighed and knew that it was all wrong to have these feelings for Kyo when she was still with Yuki but she couldn't help it. That's when the decision dawned on her, it wasn't something she'd enjoy doing, but she had to. She had to gather up all of her courage and stop pretending with Yuki.

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The morning after

Tohru had spent the entire night before searching and trying to call Yuki, but no one had answered the phone, was he avoiding her? Now it was the next morning and the sun light was pouring through her windows while she was sitting at the edge of her bed, biting he lower lip and staring intently at the light blue phone that was sitting on top of her dresser, just waiting to be picked up. She took a deep breath and reached out a shaky had to pick up the phone, pressing down the numbers to his house very slowly. She listened as the phone rang one time. Two times. Three times. Four times. She felt the beads of sweat piling up at the top of her forehead in the middle of the fifth ring so she smashed the phone down, hanging it up.

Pull yourself together! You can just go to his house and see if he is there... nothing to be scared about.

The phone rang loudly, causing Tohru to yelp, and she held her hand over her heart, wondering if that was Yuki calling. She shakily picked up the receiver and asked with a squeaky voice,

"Hello?"

"Hey."

It was surely a male's voice was on the other end of the line, but it didn't belong to Yuki. It belonged to Kyo. Her heart began to thunder in her chest, because that was the kind of effect that Sohma Kyo had on her whenever she was talking to him, or anywhere near him. She smoothed out her hair with her fingers, even though he wasn't there to see her, and she asked him nervously,

"Um... how are you?"

"I-I'm fine..."

He doesn't sound angry with me... actually he sounds... nervous. But why?

"Are you alright Kyo-kun?"

"I"m fine. Um... actually I just wanted to ask if you could um... meet me somewhere tonight. At six."

Tohru's eyebrows shot up and her grip on the phone tightened, wondering what he could possibly want to meet her for. Was it something urgent? She finally asked out curiously,

"W-Why?"

Kyo paused on the other line and finally answered,

"Just meet me at the school rooftop at six okay? I really need to say something to you in person."

Her breath was caught in her throat and she placed her palm against the middle of her chest, trying to stop her tremoring heart. She was sweating a waterfall by the time she croaked out the words,

"Okay, see you then."

"See ya..."

After those two words hung in the air, the line went dead and she put down the phone, taking many deep breaths. She stared up at her white plain ceiling and decided that she would break things with Yuki after Kyo told her whatever he had to tell her, because right now she was on the verge of having a nervous breakdown.

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6:00 pm: At the school rooftop

The crickets were chirping and murmuring softly in harmony while the darkening sky was beginning to scatter with glowing silver stars. A few smoky clouds were shadowing the moon, but it was shining so brightly that it made the clouds seem translucent. Tohru grasped the metal bars of the ladder and began climbing up the ladder to the roof of the school she attended, her heart still thumping loudly in her chest. She willed herself to calm down, but when she reached the top, she felt her heart thunder loudly in her chest again. Her mouth was wide open as she gaped at the dozens of candles flickering on the ledges of the rooftop. There was a blanket of pink and white rose petals scattered sparsely on the dim rooftop. She placed her hands over her mouth in shock when she saw Kyo standing by the candles with the sweetest look on his face. He approached her slowly and smiled wider when he saw her shocked look,

"Surprised?"

Tohru nodded slowly, and asked with a soft whisper,

"What is this for?"

Kyo blushed and looked away, getting nervous again when he remembered what he had to say to her.

You've got to tell her now!!

She watched as he squared his shoulders and cleared his throat, pausing for a moment before actually speaking,

"Um... I've been meaning to tell you for a long time now... but... I was too scared, so here goes."

Tohru opened her mouth to say something but Kyo put a finger to her lips and said to her gently,

"Just... let me finish okay?"

He pulled her by the hand, leading her to the middle of the rose covered ground, then he took her other hand in his and held them both lightly, making her whole body heat up. He lowered his head down and said in a low and hoarse voice,

"You know the first time I met you, I was so happy to had made a friend in this world... someone to talk to. Everyday that I spent with you, I cherished it deep in my heart and engraved it in my memory..."

He chuckled a little as he continued,

"I thought that it was love, but I was six back then... so when I left Tokyo, I kept telling myself it was just a small crush that I'd get over with, and not love because love doesn't exist when you're six, right? Anyway... when I came back and met you again...god, all of those old feelings hit me again, they blindsided me." He finally raised his eyes up to meet hers and he said with intensity, "And now I think, I mean I know that it's love that I feel for you and nothing else."

He stopped talking and waited patiently for her reaction, but she seemed to be frozen in place, her body stiff with all the information sinking into her mind. She stuttered out,

"I-I can't..."

Kyo's eyes widened when she slipped her hands out of his warm ones, leaving him cold, and she turned away from him with tears streaming down her face.

This isn't right to Yuki... you have to do this! Be strong...

Tohru was about to walk back to the ladder but Kyo held her by the wrist, making her turn back around. Her tear stained face was so close to his that she could feel his breath on her face as he said pleadingly,

"Please don't be scared..."

Tohru shook her head slowly as more tears leaked down from her eyes. Then he slipped both of his hands onto her cheeks, setting her body on fire as she reveled in his touch. That's when her brain screamed at her to leave right then and there. She turned her head to the left, making his face falter and his hands fall limply back to his side. She felt her heart wrench with pain as she said with remorse,

"I can't be with you because I have... Yuki."

She touched the bars of the ladder and was in the middle of climbing down when his voice stopped her,

"Do you even love him?"

Tohru let the question linger in the air but she didn't answer and just continued to climb down the ladder, crying her eyes out silently.When she reached the bottom and onto the ground, she broke into a run, feeling the brand new rain drops that had just fallen from the sky. More and more drops spiraled down from the sky and onto her face but she still ran and ran and ran until she reached the front of Yuki's house. She stopped at a street light and leaned against it to catch her breath from all of the running. While she was standing there she saw a shadow. Yuki's shadow. She got up off from the pole and was about to call out his name, but she lost her voice when she saw a second shadow. A woman's shadow. She stayed at the street light, unnoticed by the two, watching Yuki hold her hands in his in the pouring rain. He asked her,

"Wanna go inside?"

The girl giggled and nodded as Yuki pulled the girl in for a passionate kiss on the lips. Tohru's eyes widened, paralyzed from the sight that she saw. She felt like puking when she saw him open the door for her to his house. Please don't let him see me... As he was turning to close the door behind him he caught a glimpse of Tohru's pale face of terror standing at the streetlight. Once Tohru felt her legs have feeling again she did the first thing that came to her mind. Run. All that she could hear were the faint screams of Yuki going,

"Wait!"

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Tohru stopped running when she reached the local park near her house. She didn't want to go home just yet. She saw that the park was still open so she walked in, hugging herself before sitting on the swings by herself. Salty tears mixed with the clear rain drops falling from the sky that were now slipping down the sides of her cheeks. Her shoulders shook from all of the pain she was experiencing in this one day, she didn't know what to do anymore but break down and cry. That's when she felt a presence other than herself nearby. She turned her head to the left, and surely there was a boy standing behind the fence, drenched in the rain, with his fingers looped through the holes of the wirey fence. It was Kyo. She sniffed and shakily got up from the swing and went over to where he was. The wall of the fence acted as a barrier, separating their bodies from touching. She whispered out to him after a long silence,

"I thought you were mad at me..."

Kyo shot her a lopsided smile and leaned his forehead against the fence, whispering out to her tenderly,

"I can't ever be mad at you..."

Kyo pushed back from the fence, locking eyes with her before walking around the fence to actually get inside of the park. When he entered, he walked right up to her until he was standing face to face with her tear streaked face. He shakily lifted his thumb and wiped off each and every tear that fell from her eyes, making more fall down. She bit her lower lip and then stared into his beautiful crimson colored eyes. That's when she listened to her heart and buried her face into his chest, throwing her arms around his neck while crying uncontrollably. She gasped between tears and hiccups,

"I-I was so stupid...Y-Yuki was cheating on me... I feel so stupid."

Kyo carressed her soft hair and his cheek touched her wet brown hair as he said with as much comfort as he could muster,

"You're not stupid... never say that okay? Yuki is the dumbass that didn't realize what a beautiful and wonderful girl you are..."

Tohru said with a shaky voice,

"Th-Thank you."

Kyo stroked her hair with his fingers and whispered to her,

"No problem..."

Tohru closed her throbbing eyes and said to him sorrowfully,

"You are always the one that is making me feel better... even though I've been so horrible to you... I'm so sorry...so so sorry."

Kyo pulled back from the embrace, staring at her with intensity, and he said to her sternly,

"Don't even apologize! You were just being a good person, and that will never change, okay?"

Tohru felt a small smile tug at her lips as she said with a soft voice,

"I'm so lucky to have someone like you by my side."

Her half hearted smile then turned into a grin when they both turned their heads up and looked up at the clear sky. The rain had stopped falling. They both looked back at each other, grinning widely. Out of the blue, Kyo grabbed her hand in his with a blush stained on his cheeks as he pulled her forward calling out,

"C'mon! Let's go before we get rained on again!"

Tohru nodded and felt a huge silly grin form on her lips as Kyo and her raced through the dark and damp night, feeling the moist air blow by the both of them. It was a beautiful day.

I've learned a lesson today... I learned that if you follow your heart, it will lead you to the right places.

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