Author's Note: This is purely a Tohru x Yuki fanfic, created out of the mind of a crazed fangirl (ala moi). Those who don't like fanmade couple pairings should stay away from this fic. You probably wouldn't like it very much.
chapter 1: unexpected
Honda Tohru blew on her tea softly to cool it down. It was early, and she was the only one awake. She had trouble sleeping the night before, so she decided to make some tea and onigiri to pass the time.
Tohru looked outside the window. The sakura blossoms were now peeking out in the trees. Spring was most definitely here. She sipped her tea.
A few minutes later, she heard someone coming into the living room. A boy stepped in, rubbing his wet grey hair with a towel. The boy, Sohma Yuki, seemed as surprised as Tohru to see that someone else was up after all. Tohru's heard suddenly skipped a beat when she saw that Yuki wasn't wearing a shirt, and blushed a little. She didn't know why she was suddenly embarrassed to be around Yuki when he was half-naked. After all, it surely wasn't the first time, as she had seen him after he transformed back from his rat form.
"Ah, uh...a-are you just getting out of the shower, Sohma-kun?" Tohru inquired. Yuki nodded. "Yeah; the stupid cat was in the bath for a long time, and I gave up on waiting for him, so I decided to just take one today." Tohru smiled. She wished that Yuki and Kyou would stop calling each other names, but it was now apparent that they weren't planning to stop.
Yuki glanced at the pot of tea and the plate that had onigiri on it. "Oh, so you made tea and onigiri this morning, Honda-san?" he asked. The brunette-headed girl nodded. "Yes, help yourself, Sohma-kun!" she replied. Yuki sat down beside her, and reached for the shirt that was draped over his shoulder. As he put it on, Tohru sucked in a breath. She suddenly thought about how jealous the Prince Yuki Fan Club would be if they had seen her with him just then. The boy was certainly good looking, and it seemed to Tohru that this was the first time she had really noticed.
The two sat in silence for a few minutes. Tohru finally took a bite from her onigiri, and tried to stir up a conversation with Yuki. "Sohma-kun..." she began, when Yuki brought his hand up to his face. "You, uh, have some rice one your face, Honda-san," he said. Tohru blinked. "I do?" she asked. She raised her hand to brush off the rice. "No, no—it's on this side," Yuki said. He reached over to her face the same time she did, and their hands touched. Tohru felt her face redden, and could see that Yuki was trying not to blush as well.
Yuki smiled nervously. "It's...pretty quiet," he said. "You know, without Shigure or Kyou around. Just...the two of us."
"I agree, Sohma-kun," Tohru replied. She then realized that Yuki was slowly moving towards her. He put his hand on top of hers. Tohru could feel his breath of her face. "It's just too bad..." he whispered, "that we can't get closer together." Tohru's heart thumped against her chest. "Y-yes," she found herself saying.
Just a moment later, Tohru and Yuki heard footsteps coming down the stairs. The sudden noise startled the two so much hey fell over. Tohru could feel her heart pounding. 'What, what just happened?!' she thought. 'Did Sohma-kun and I almost...' She tried to shake the thought from her head. The thing that Yuki had said just now popped into her head. "It's just too bad...that we can't get closer together." What was he talking about? Well, sure, he was referring to the fact that he'll turn into a rat if he hugged someone, but...what was really on his mind? Did he really want to get closer to Tohru like that? A hundred things rushed past her head, and she began to feel dizzy. What happened a moment later, however, captured her attention to where she almost forgot what happened between her and Yuki.
"Shigure, I'm going, and that's it!!" a voice yelled. Tohru knew immediately who it was. Orange-haired Sohma Kyou stomped into the living room, with Sohma Shigure following him, shaking his head. Kyou's glare caught Yuki's face almost instantly. "You..." he said under his breath. "Looking at you makes me sick to my stomach."
Tohru stood up. "Wh-what happened, Kyou-kun?" she asked.
Shigure chuckled. "Oh, don't mind him, Tohru-kun," he said, waving her off. "Kyou here says he wants to go back to the mountains to train."
"And don't think I won't!" Kyou said. "Once I do, I'll see to it that I'll finally defeat that damn Yuki!"
Yuki sighed. Oh, how many times before he has heard this. "Don't you ever get tired of saying that, stupid cat?" he muttered. Kyou clenched his teeth, and stepped towards Yuki.
Not wanting yet another fight to erupt, Tohru walked in front of Kyou. "You can't leave, Kyou-kun!" she exclaimed. "What about school?"
For a moment, Kyou's angered face seemed to soften, but then he became angry again. "Bah, I don't care about that!" Kyou said. "I never wanted to go to school with the damn rat in the first place!"
Shigure ran his hair through his slick black hair, as calm as always. "Ah...I told you so, Tohru-kun," he said. "I said the same thing as you, but he just won't listen."
"Shut up!" Kyou said as he rolled his hands into fists. And with that, he stormed out of the house, slamming the door behind him. Tohru's hands hung loose on the side of her body.
Shigure sighed. "Well, I guess that's it," he said. He looked over to Tohru and saw her distraught expression. "Don't worry about Kyou, Tohru-kun. He'll come home eventually. Hey, are those onigiri...??"
"Well, that was certainly eventful," Yuki mused as he and Tohru were walking to school. "Yeah," Tohru replied. She fiddled with her hair nervously.
Yuki glanced back at her. "Oh, are you still worried about Kyou? Don't be. The guy's way over his head if he thinks he can actually beat me. He'll show up again when he feels like it."
Tohru shook her head. "No, that's not it." She paused. "Um, Sohma-kun, what...happened back there before Kyou-kun and Shigure-san came in?"
Yuki stopped, and waited a minute or two before answering. "Well," he said uncertainly, "I suppose what we thought happened...did really happen." He turned around. "Did you....not like it?"
Tohru jerked her head up. "H-huh?! It's not that, it's just...I guess I was just caught off guard. I didn't really have time to think about what happened.
Yuki nodded. "Yes, I can understand that. I'm usually not so forward like that. I'm sorry."
Tohru smiled. "Hey, don't worry about it," she said. "Let's just pretend it never happened, okay?"
Yuki smiled in return. "Okay," he said.