A/N: Oh it feels like ages since I put up the last chapter. I'd like to dedicate this chapter to Kyo-x-Arisa-fan, that's so cool that I'm in your bio, you get a chapter all to your self, and not just any chapter a chapter that I'm certain you'll enjoy. If anyone else wants to put me in their bio I'll dedicate a chapter to you too if you want, and I'll try to make it one you'll like, just tell me you've done it. I must take the time to say that many assumptions are correct, this in NOT a Yukiru fic, I'm sorry but I don't like Yuki with Tohru so putting them together would make me hate the story and then I'd never update. I like Kyou to be happy, as long as Kyou's happy I'm happy, that doesn't mean that the secret admirer is Kyou though, I still don't know who to make it be. My list of options is still pretty wide open. Haru, Momiji, a random boy from school, Shigure's still in the running, Hatori, Kyou, I even thought of making it Uo for a little while for the very reason that I made her too paranoid about the letters, It could still be a stalker or Akito but that's to a lesser extent now, maybe it'll be a prank or true love.


When they walked in, Shigure was working in his study and Kyou had gone to do something after school. Tohru didn't know where he'd been going, but he'd been disappearing almost everyday for the past two or three weeks. Yuki went upstairs to do his homework, while Tohru went to the kitchen to start dinner.

"Hm... Let's see, I think I'll make miso soup. That will go nicely with a strawberry tart." Tohru was feeling relieved in a way. Knowing who was sending the notes calmed her down. She knew she had nothing to be afraid of, if it was just Yuki. /But I mustn't let him know, that I know he's my secret admirer. I don't want to embarrass him. There's a reason he's hiding his identity, and I should respect his wishes until he's ready to tell me himself/

She reached into the freezer and pulled her hand back, surprised at what she saw. "An ice rose." /It's so beautiful/ She opened the note.

"Your beauty is as magnificent as your purity, before you, my heart was locked away frozen in time, but the love Ifeel for you has thawed my frozen heart.
Thank you"

Tohru put her hand to her chest and a tear formed in her eye. This was the most beautiful thing anyone had ever said to her.

"Is something wrong Miss Honda?" Yuki asked entering the kitchen.

Tohru jumped "N-No, nothing." she blushed, putting the note into her pocket.

He wiped a tear from her cheek, and looked at her "Just some dust, that's all." she said moving to the stove. /I don't want him to get the wrong idea, I'm not afraid anymore. I, I'm falling in love with him too, oh mom, is first love really this complicated/

Yuki stayed at the fridge, he wasn't so sure that everything was okay. "Are you sure Miss Honda? You seem distant." "No, really I'm fine, I was just wondering where Kyou could be. He's been out nearly every night for the past three weeks. I hardly ever see him anymore." She turned to him.

/No, now isn't the time, she's too worried about that stupid cat./ "I'm sure he's just joined a club or made a friend." /I can't tell her where he's been. If she finds out she'll go on and on about how responsible Kyou is./ Yuki hated to admit it to himself, but perhaps Kyou was more responsible then him, and thus more deserving of Tohru's affection. Yuki left the kitchen to wash up.

Dinner was quiet, it had been for the past three weeks without Kyou there. Yuki at least didn't have to worry about a fight breaking out in the middle of dinner, causing his food to get cold.

After dinner Tohru went upstairs to do her homework, and Shigure went to finish his pages, they weren't due for a week but he liked to finish early and pretend he hadn't done them. He enjoyed finding new way to make his editor Mii, suffer. Yuki sat alone in the living room, he had some notes to go over for a test, and a few events to plan.

Kyou got home at eleven thirty, Yuki had fallen asleep on the sofa so he tried to be quiet. He was too tired for a fight. He went into the kitchen and reheated the soup. /Everyone else must be asleep./ He was getting used to eating alone, but he couldn't help but feel lonely. In the past three weeks he's only been home for dinner six or seven days, and those days he ate up on the roof so he could do his homework at the same time. He finished the soup and sighed. He got up to grab a piece of the tart Tohru made, when he heard a sound behind him. Tohru was in the doorway. "Want some company"

"Sure, want some tart?" He asked motioning towards the tart.

"No, that's okay. I think I'll just have some water." She said reaching for a glass from the cupboard.

They sat quietly for a bit, Kyou eating his tart, Tohru sipping her water. "How do you like it Kyou?" Tohru asked.

"It's okay, I'm sure it was better fresh." He said between bites.

"Um, Kyou? Do you mind if I ask you where you've been going? It's been three weeks an-" She stopped herself.

"Don't ask me that." He said with restraint. /It's too embarrassing/

"Okay." She wanted to tell him about her secret admirer, she didn't like keeping things to herself, especially from the Sohma's. She couldn't tell Yuki, she was pretty sure he already knew, and Shigure wasn't exactly the person you'd tell things like this to. "Kyou? Can I tell you a secret?" She asked.

Kyou looked up from his tart, surprised. "You want to tell me a secret"

"Uh-huh." Tohru nodded.

"Okay, but it'd better not be stupid, I don't need you wasting my time"

"I don't think it is, but can we go up on the roof, I don't want anyone else to hear"

"Okay." Kyou put his dishes in the sink and the went up to the roof.

They sat on the roof for five minutes...in complete silence. Kyou was getting mad. "Well? What's the big secret?"

Tohru inhaled and then pulled out the notes. One by one as she continued the story she laid them down before Kyou. She started at the beginning, how they thought it was a stalker at first, and how she knew it couldn't be. About the roses and how they deduced it was Yuki, here Kyou snorted stifling a laugh. Then she lay down the last note, the reason she needed to tell someone about it. "I think I'm in love with him too, but I don't know how to tell him. It'd embarrass him if he knew I knew."

"Why don't you leave him a note, tell him how you feel. That way he won't know you know who he is, and he'll know how you feel about him."

"How? Where would I put it that wouldn't give away I know who he is?"
"How about in your locker? You said two of them were put in there, if you leave it there, it won't give away anything."

"You're right! Kyou that's a great idea!" She kissed his cheek, causing him to turn crimson, it was too dark to notice though. "I'm going right now to write it. Thanks Kyou!" She started on her way down and noticed he hadn't moved. "Kyou, aren't you coming?" She asked.

"No. It's a nice night, I think I'll just sleep out here under the stars." He watched her leave. "Damn!" He whispered.


A/N: What'd you guys think? Did you like it I liked it. Special note to B-chan77 Haru's in the next chapter aren't you excited, I am, I think I'll make him shake things up a bit.