Fruits Basket © Natsuki Takaya

Kyo ran into his room, tears still falling down from his crimson orbs. He had just managed to get away from Shigure's and Hatori's questioning stares. "Why can't I be happy for once? Am I not supposed allowed to be loved?" Kyo asked himself. Unanswered questions were running through his mind.

"Hmm? Hatori, what do you think happen to Kyo?" Shigure asked his cousin, Hatori. 'I have a feeling that it deals with Tohru.'

"My guess is that it has to do with a certain flower of ours." Hatori replied. Just then Yuki and Tohru ran in, holding hands. "So I was right after all…" Hatori said to himself as he got up from his comfortable chair.

"Hatori, do you know where Kyo has gone to?" Tohru asked the dragon, Hatori. He walked over to the new couple with a calm face. "Please Hatori, I must speak to him right now. It is very important."

"Tohru," Hatori said in a monotone voice. "I see you finally chose who you want to be with." Yuki and Tohru blushed at his statement. "May I have a word with you, alone?" Hatori asked Tohru as she was about to answer, Hatori quickly added. "I hope after our talk, it may make you change your mind about speaking to Kyo."

"Umm…I guess that would be all right." Tohru replied nervously. 'I mean, what harm can it do to talk to Hatori?' She thought to herself. "Please excuse me, Yuki and Shigure." Shigure nodded indicating that she may go with Hatori while Yuki looked as if he wanted to tell her she can't, but Shigure was holding on to his shoulder.

As Hatori took Tohru to the backyard, Yuki was able to break free of Shigure's grasp. "What is Hatori going to tell Tohru?" Yuki asked Shigure, angerly. "Tell me, Shigure!" Yuki demanded from Shigure.

"Everything." Shigure replied as he began walking back to his room to start on his newest novel. "Oh yes, when Hatori comes back with Tohru, please tell him that I said farewell." Yuki nodded and stared at the door that Hatori and Tohru went through.

Kyo looked out his window, seeing hatori and Tohru walked out of the house. "Wonder what they are talking about…" Kyo asked himself as he was about to head to bed, he saw Tohru smiled as if she saw her mother again; a tear fell down his eye once more. "That smile would never be mine. Never in a million years." Kyo laid on his bed and cried himself to sleep, hoping that everything was just a dream.