There's nothing left for me.
I'm worthless...
Everyone says I'm special...
I'm not...
Yuki Sohma lay in the bath up to his nose and tried to soak his heartache away. It wasn't working. It had been two days since Tohru and Kyo had gotten together...two days since his life felt like it was over.
Is this what it feels like...
To be rejected...
Did Kyo feel this all these years...
No...
This is worse then that...
Am I...
Getting paid back by the curse?
Finally deciding the bath wasn't going to make the stupid cat go away or make him feel any better, Yuki got out and began drying himself off. "Sohma-kun...are you ok? You've been in there for over an hour..." a small, worried voice came from the door. "Yes Miss Honda, I'm getting out now..." he called back to her.
Moments later he stepped out of the bathroom, steam pouring into the hallway. He started towards his room but stopped just short of his door. She was in there, getting the dirty laundry ready to be washed. He would wait.
"Ok, I'll have these clean again in a little while!" Tohru said, stepping out into the hallway with a smile and heading towards the stairs with the full basket of clothes on her hip.
"AH!"
Yuki turned from his doorway to see the onigiri's head start to disappear down the stairs when she tripped. "Miss Honda!" he started to run towards her but noticed she had steadied herself...no... "Careful clumsy...you might hurt yourself, then what would I do?" Kyo smiled, holding her upright with one arm and the basket with the other.
Without a word Yuki returned to his room and plopped himself down on his bed to sulk some more. After that day he hadn't said a word to Tohru about Kyo and her...or how he felt about it. Soon, before he realized it, he drifted off into a horrible sleep.
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"I'm home everyone!" Shigure called from the door, just returning form a visit to the main house. "Oh Shigure-san, what did he say?" Tohru pleaded coming out of the laundry room. The dog smiled and nodded to her in confirmation. "He said he will allow you all to be together for the time being."
"Puh, I still think it's a big crock that just because I'm the cat I can't ask to be with someone myself...damn Akito..." Kyo muttered from the living room. "Just be glad he said it was ok!" Shigure scolded to the unappreciative cat.
'I do wonder why Akito let this be though...' Shigure thought one last time before pushing it out of his mind for good. It obviously didn't matter to the two little lovebirds. He giggled silently to himself. Kyo, a lovebird...
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Yuki woke up to the wonderful smell of homemade dinner, although it wasn't wonderful for him. He would skip it again tonight, yes, definitely.
He rolled over to face the ceiling. How much longer could he stand to live like this? A day? A year? The rest of his life? Hardly...He sighed at the growling of his stomach and rolled himself out of bed to reluctantly go down to dinner.
A pair of dazzling eyes lit right up to see him enter. "Sohma-kun, you're going to eat dinner tonight? Thank you so much!" she exclaimed with a big goofy smile on her face. Yuki smiled back at her in spite of himself and sat down across from her.
His gaze on her did not falter even as she poured the miso soup for everyone. After this went on for several minutes a very irritated Kyo slammed his fist down on the table. "What the hell is your problem?!" he yelled at his cousin. "You are, stupid cat..." Yuki sighed and looked down on his food, deciding now was a good time to eat.
After dinner, Tohru cleared the plates and started washing dishes alone, although there were plenty of people wanting to help her. She was about half way done when a figure entered and walked up from behind her. "I want to help you Miss Honda...and talk..." Yuki insisted, taking her side and fishing his hands into the rinse water.
"How are you and Kyo doing?" he asked nearly inaudibly. "Oh, we are fine Sohma-kun..." Tohru replied, keeping her eyes trained on the dish she was washing more carefully then the rest of them. "It's been a while sine we went to the secret base...will you meet me there when you are done?" the mouse asked, putting the dish he was drying away and walking towards the door. "But Sohma-kun...it's getting dark out..." Tohru warned.
"It's ok," Yuki smiled, "Just because Kyo is your boyfriend now doesn't mean he is the only one who can protect you..."
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Tohru finally tripped over one last root before reaching the destination she had worked so hard to get to. 'Maybe I should have brought a flashlight...' she thought but shrugged it off. 'In the words of Shigure-san: Que Sera Sera!' She smiled at the mental image of him of him dancing around.
"Oh you're here already...if I had known you would come this soon I would have walked with you...I'm sorry Miss Honda..." Yuki smiled, popping his head up from his garden where he was subconsciously pulling a few menacing weeds.
"Is there something important you needed to talk about Sohma-kun?" Tohru asked, cocking her head slightly to look at him better. "Yes...there is..." the mouse muttered, wiping his hands free of unwanted dirt and rising from his squatting position, "I want you to leave Kyo..."
Tohru cocked her head even more from shear confusion. Was this the same Yuki? The same prince charming that was always kind? "What are you talking about Sohma-kun?" A look of irritation overcame the normally calm and kind demeanor of the Sohma boy. "I can't take it...I'm leaving this house...I can't stand it Miss Honda...I love you too much to let you be with that stupid cat!"
Without letting her put in a word, he stormed off into the woods.
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"He's gone! Kyo-kun, Sohma-kun is really gone!" Tohru shrieked at the sleeping neko. Frightened by the alien, shrill voice, the neko jumped out of bed in attack mode. "Wha?!...Oh it's you...thank God..." "Kyo-kun, didn't you hear me? Sohma-kun is gone!"
"Well why didn't you go get him..." Kyo muttered, sitting back on the bed ready to sleep more, "Besides, he is probably just pouting..." "Kyo-kun, I tried but I lost him...I think he ran away...he said he wasn't going to live here anymore..." Kyo smirked, "Thank God again..." and he laid back on his bed, covering his bare chest with covers.
SWISH Tohru pulled the blanket off the bed with lightning fast speed before the neko could even think. "Please Kyo! If you love me you'll go find him!" Who could say no to that? Kyo knew he couldn't. Damn the 'if you love me then you'll...' saying!
He quickly threw on a sweater jacket, put on a pair of jeans, slipped a pocket knife in his pock, and walked out of the room and into the darkness outside, leaving Tohru sitting on the bed by herself.
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'I swear to God when I find that lousy rat I'll kill him!' Kyo thought as he stumbled through the woods looking for any sign of rats coming together. 'Maybe I should have brought a flashlight.....nah!' So on he staggered through the woods, in the dark, alone until he finally thought he saw a figure in the distance... only it looked way too big...
Curiosity getting the best of this cat, he decided to take a closer look. When he got close enough to see what the 'huge' object was he rushed over to it.
"Oh my God! Yuki, what the hell do you think you're doing?!" Kyo screamed as he climbed up on a nearby stump to cut his cousin down. It took a moment but he finally sliced the vine apart and let Yuki fall to the ground with a thud, unmoving and not breathing.
"Holy shit man, what do I do now...Yuki, wake up!!" Kyo yelled in the mouse's face as he slapped him several times. When none of the violent techniques worked, the neko knew there was only one thing left to do...no! He wouldn't! Crap, he'd have to...
He closed his eyes tightly, took a deep breath, held is cousin's nose, and placed his mouth over Yuki's. He did this three times, the whole time thinking 'never again...I swear no one will ever know about this...' On the third try, a rasping sound came out of the lifeless Sohma and then coughing.
Yuki woke up to Kyo's mouth over his. WHACK SLAM Kyo was lying face down, about a half foot in the dirt. "That was revolting..." Yuki hacked, still not skilled at speaking yet.
"Damn you! You try to kill me when I save your frickin life?!" Kyo complained as he limped home with Yuki propping him up. "Why the hell did you try that you stupid rat...damn...you didn't have to hit me that hard!" "Shut up...I don't know..."
"Ok, let's make this deal...I won't tell them you were kissing me if you don't tell them I hung myself..." Yuki offered off-handedly. "What?! I wasn't kissing you! I was performing CPR...or something...but, I won't tell anyone...Tohru would go ballistic..." "Deal." The two boys opened the door to the darkened and silent house.
"Don't go anywhere tonight and don't cut yourself or anything....they would all blame me you damn rat..." Kyo muttered as they parted ways at the top of the stairs. "Maybe I will, just so they'll blame you stupid cat..." Yuki smiled and stepped into his room and closed the door.
Kyo smiled and ventured to his own room. He stripped out of his clothes, got into bed, and rolled over.
'What?! Someone's there!' he shivered and quickly pulled the cover down. "Mmmmh....good night Kyo...kun...." Tohru moaned in her sleep and subconsciously grabbed his arm, snuggling it close to her chest.
'Oh well, can't do anything about it now...' Kyo smiled to himself and kissed her on the forehead. "Good night...Tohru..." he mumbled as he closed his eyes. He was going to be in big trouble in the morning...
No Flames about Yuki please! Review Please!! Ok, this was going to be the end of the story but, being the hopless romantic I am and after all the reviews asking to continue the story...I'm putting another chapter in! Besides, I would like to write more love with Kyo and Tohru! (big smile spreads acoss this fan's face)