Hi! Me again!! Thanks for all the support! I for one really like writing these kinda stories, even though most people would perfer it if I finished up one of my previous stoies, A change of Heart. I only wrote that darn thing to please the fans. But anyway... I've been getting complaints for not put the following DISCLAIMER b.s. on my stories, so I better write it before someone catches a heartattack and dies off of it (thought I wouldn't mind) smiles evilly

DISCLAIMER: I do not own the show FruitBaskets or any of the characters in it. I merely just write the fics and love the show, NOW LAY OFF!!!

And to my other lovable fans, go ahead and enjoy this chap. I never know exactly where I'm going when I start to write, it just comes to me as I go along. So if I sidetrack... please forgive me.

HOPE YOU LIKIE!! )

(p.s. Yes, I did steal that from 50 first dates) Holds head down in shame

Kyou had been swimming so long that he had lost track of time, so decided to call it quits for today. He figured no one would be home since Yuki had that precious assembly today, his little inu Tohru follow right behind him, and... as for Shigure... well... The point is no one would really bother him. He thought about the festival coming to the city today, and had secretly wanted to go there himself. No one would probably be there to notice him anyway.

After getting out and taking a refreshing stretch, Kyou pushed his hair out of his face as the cool wind blew on it. It was so peaceful. He wondered how long it would last... his life here. Everything was too normal, so normal that it scared him. People accepted him here, they liked him and because they didn't know his true form, weren't afraid to touch him. They didn't have the word "cursed" dripping from every sentence said about him. But before his past came back to haunt him... before the nightmares begin to plague his mind again everynight... he wondered.

How long would it last?

It wasn't until he had his pants onn that he heard a strange noise. His sensitive ears picked the sound up from the tree a few feet away from him. He couldn't think of any animal that would make such a (uh... how should I put this?) retarded noise, so figured it had to be a person who got lost on the Souma estate. Or worse... it could have been a theif. Either way, Kyou wasn't planning to be cautious nor pleasant with the intruder, so he silently crept over.

He felt his fist ball up as he pulled back the branch, and before even looking at his prey he let out a yell and swung. He looked down just in time to stop his attack... right dead in Tohru's face, who didn't know wether to be confused or afraid. Her eyes traced slowly from his fist up to his face, and she noticed that he, too, was quite shocked.

"Wha-- what are you doing out here?! Dont you know how dangerous this place is?!" Before Tohru could answer, a worse thought came in to Kyou's mind.

"How long have you been out here?!"

"Well..."

"Well?!"

"Long... enough." Tohru let her eyes fall to the ground, turning fully red. She took a quick glance back up to see that Kyou had turned colors too, and she could for a slight second feel his embarassment.

"I mean! Long enough to see you with you're pants on! I didn't see anything!! I had only come out to check on you and I had just about got here!! But besides that--!" She stood up and bowed to him repeatedly. "I'm very very sorry!! I know you can take care of yourself! Its just that I was worried!"

Kyou didn't know which one to belive more: The fact that she was out here as long as she said, or the fact that she was actually worried about him. Him, of all people. He stood there silent for a little while, and let her went on with her constant gabbering before he decided to put a stop to it.

"Just dont do it again." That was all it took for Tohru to stop bowing, and look up.

"Ha.. Hai."

Kyou walked back over to the lake and fetch his shirt and shoes to put them on. Tohru followed, and sat on a closer tree than where she was at first. She looked down and pulled a side of her hair behind her ear.

"You know, Kyou-kun, there was supposed to be a festival today..."

"So what?" His face plain but his heart skipped a beat to her voice. Did she really wanna go with him somewhere? The two of them... alone? Actually alone like on a date?

"I was wondering if you wanted to go, because it sounds really fun. I used to go every year... with my mother... But its fantastic! Theres fire works and dancing and lots of good foods to eat! I know you'll love it if you come, please?"

Kyou's heart and mind was in the right place, but his judgment and mouth definitely werent.

"What makes you think that I, of all people, would wanna go to some dumb old festival! I'm man, not a child! I hate being around people and I don't feel like filling up the role of your 'mommy'! Go get Shigure to do it! He likes girly things!"

Tohru was crushed at his response, and tears formed up in her eyes, but she got off the tree and began to walk away. "I'm really sorry for asknig, Kyou-kun. Youre right, maybe it is stupid. And I shouldn't have tried to replace my mother with you. I'm just being childish. Forgive me."

Kyou didn't really mean to hurt her... that was just the way he was, a smartallic with a sharp tongue. He really did wanna go with her. He did the one thing he had never done before.

"Tohru, wait."

She stopped, but didn't turn to him "Hai?"

"I'll go... but only if..."

She looked up and turned around to him, who suddenly was right in front of her. He held her chin gently so that shed look at his face.

"...Only if you promise to stop crying.You're too beautiful to cry." She looked in to his dreamy and calm eyes for a moment. Wait a minute, calm? She had never seen a calm Kyou... even when he sat around the house doing nothing there was always such fire burning in his eyes. She could tell it had been burning in his heart too, and for a long time. But right now the fire was gone, and replaced with it was a kind of serenity that she could figure out. It was making her feel all fuzzy inside though. She held his hand with both of hers, and softly nodded to his offer. They stood there in what felt like forever...

The day went by like a dream to Kyou. At the festival, they laughed and played games, and even entered silly contests. Tohru had forced Kyou around the entire festival, trying new foods from all kinds of places and riding on the rides. By the time night had fallen Tohru had Kyou carrying two bags of goldfish (a live one in each bag, so dont get any wrong ideas.) a big teddy bear, a bag of popcorn, 3 ballons, a frisbee (why, when she didn't even play frisebee, Kyou would never know.) and some mini-size firecrackers. Kyou had took a guess at the time and suggested to Tohru that maybe it was time to head home.

"No! Oh please, not yet! Just wait until a little after eight and I promise we can leave. We just have to stay here and watch the fireworks! The fireworks are the last event of the festival before it closes. Oh please lets stay a little longer, Kyou-kun!" She tugged at his should and made puppydog eyes that he couln't resist. "Alright, but then were heading striaght home! Shigure'll cut off my head if I dont get you home at a reasonable hour." Tohru had never heard Kyou use big words before, but figured he was just being protective of her. She beamed a smile and tugged him over to the last ride they hadn't been on... the ferris wheel.

Kyou was ok with it. He didn't have a problem getting on. He didn't have a problem when the machine started to go up. What he DID have a problem with was the fact that the machine stopped... dead in the middle of the air.

"Whats going on?! Are we stuck?! Whats happening!! We gotta get down from here now now now now now!!!" He opened up the door ready to make a leap for it when he looked at how high up they actually were. The mere thought of jumping made him dizzy and he fell back into the seat.

"Kyou!" Tohru pushed him up so he would properly adjust, and closed the door back. "Were not stuck!! This usually around the time the ride stops, so we can get a better view of the fireworks!"

Kyou shook his head being for gaining a full recovery. "Well I wish you would have warned me that we would be... so far of the damn ground!"

Tohru stopped to wander why exact Kyou would want to something so rash. But sooner or later she figured out the equation herself:

cat heights ....

"Kyou-kun, you're afraid of heights?"

"NO! I just... have a problem with being so high up." He turned red and Tohru giggled.

"Whats so funny?!"

"Look Kyou-kun, the fireworks are starting!"

The bright lights and loud noises were honestly no beauty to Kyou, but he looked beside him and seen Tohru happier than she had been in a long time.

I used to go every year... with my mother...

Kyou looked at her and smiled. She looked from the fireworks and smiled at him too.

"Thanks Kyou-kun"

"For this... its was nothing."

"No, for everything..."

There was an awkward silence up until the ride started to move again, which jerked them slightly, sending Tohru's hair flying to her face. They both burst out laughing as they ride delivered them back to the ground. As Tohru pulled her hair back behind her ears, it revealed that she was blushing, but Kyou didn't know why. Her smile... her innonance...

She looks like an angel, tonight...

Got cut short again!!! It wasn't my fault fans, really!! I would write more but I have other things that must be tended to. Anyways, see you next chapter!!