hello all... sorry for the last chapter, i know it was short, so here you go, this chapter is a lot longer. When i first wrote this chapter, it seemed fine to me. but when i read it over today, i just thought the development of the relationship between Yuki and Kyou was going too slow, so i edited it. Tell me if you think it's going too fast or that the jump in the relationship between Y&K from last chapter and this chapter is too big, ok? thanks! hope you like it!

- sakurarin

/...../ = Yuki's thoughts

[.....] = Inner Yuki' s thoughts (true feelings)

Chapter Three

That night...

Shigure, Ayame, and Hatori decided to go out somewhere like the old times as the Mabudachi Trio again. Tohru finally had a day off so she was sleeping over at one of her friend's house. So Yuki and Kyou was left alone in the house together.

But it's a great thing that everyone's out today because now Yuki could go talk to Kyou alone without anyone to listening in or disturbing their conversation.

After a few hours of studying, Yuki decided to take a break and also to go find Kyou and talk to him. As Yuki suspected, Kyou was on the roof like always. When Yuki finish climbing the ladder, right when he got onto the roof, what he saw made his entire body suddenly become hot. There sat before him was a half-naked Kyou sitting there with a book of some sort on the lap and he was viciously writing in it. Yuki couldn't think, couldn't speak, couldn't move, all he could do was stand there and stare at Kyou.

/OMG... i never thought that i would ever see someone so beautiful. god... all i want to do now is to touch his smooth skin and hear him moan. ...oh no... i could feel myself getting hard. ok... Yuki, snap out of it, it's just teenage hormores, you DO NOT want your own cousin!/

[In denial again, huh? Can't you already imagine it, Yuki? The site of Kyou naked underneath you, moaning, begging, and screaming from pleasure...]

/oh god, oh god, oh god.../ as the images of a naked neko filled Yuki's mind, He didn't notice when he letted out a soft moan...

Kyou heard the noise and was startled to see Yuki, he quickly closed the book and putted it into his backpack that was right next to him.

/ok. calm down. you can't let Kyou see you like that. anyways...umm... interesting... I wonder what Kyou was writing in that book. Oh my god, could that be his diary? I didn't think that Kyou was the type to keep a diary? I wonder if my name was ever mentioned in there? Oh wait... did he just say something?? /

"huh?" "I said

"Why the hell are you up here for? What?... want to give me another reason to hate you?"

"No... umm... I just wanted to ...umm.. tell you that... umm... I'm sorry."

Yuki saw Kyou's eyes widen and his mouth open but no words came out. Long silence. It was so quiet that Yuki could hear his own heartbeat beating fiercely.

"WHAT?!?!"

"I said I was sorry."

Kyou looked like he was about to faint from shock of hearing that. Kyou can't remember the last time he heard the nezumi apologize to anyone and now the nezumi standing right there in front of him doing exactly that.

"Why are you saying sorry to me? We are enemies and rivals, so why you apologizing to me? You can be so weird sometimes."

"Well... I was hoping that we drop the whole rivalry thing and become friends /or maybe something more/. I think that if we both put away our pride and open up to each other, we would get along really well. Also it is also nice to have someone to talk to that has the same problems as you since they can relate and understand what you are feeling. Well... what do you say?"

Yuki nervously looked at his feet because he was scared that if he looked up, he would see rejection in Kyou's eyes.

/I really can't take it. I mean... even if we don't become friends, I hope that at least he won't hate me anymore. Now that I know I want him to be at least my friend, if he continues to hate me, I don't think I can take it. It would hurt so much... god... he still hasn't reply... maybe he really doesn't agree with my idea. Maybe if I run away now, I might not have to see or hear his rejection./

[Stop that now!! Don't doubt yourself! You can't be sure that he would reject your offer, but if you run away now, you would never know and that would be even worse. Just give him time to decide, this is a big shock to him since you guys were enemies and rivals for so many years. Also... it's good now that you are not lying to yourself anymore... but for now just convince Kyou that you can and will be a great friend to him, ok? it's really hard for him to trust people, so just be patient with him.]

"well..."

"I'm not sure... I mean... it does sound like a good idea but I'm not sure I can change the way I usually act around you since I'm so used to it. But I want to give it a try."

"god... that's good" Yuki silently sighed in relief

"I think the first thing we need to work on is stop calling each other names so I'll stop calling you stupid nezumi and start calling you by Yuki instead. You should do the same with me. But now since we are trying to become friends, I'll admit to you that hearing you always call me baka neko kind of hurts my feelings"

Kyou looked down at his feet, his face was turning bright red with embarrassment of what he just admitted. Hearing that, Yuki was shocked to see that even though the baka neko acts all tough on the outside, he is actually really sensitive in the inside.

"really? Sorry... ok... from now on, I'll try not to"

"me too. = )"

End of Chapter Three