Strip poker! D

HAHAHAHA it's not what you think!!!! the title of this chapter does imply to the story, but trust me, IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WHAT YOUR THINKING OF!!!!

Disclaimer: i don't own fruit's basket or it's sexy characters... other wise they's be in their 20th season, and america would be reciving mangas weekly, not monthly... stupid translaters take too damn long!
lol, enjoy!

Tohru and yuki walked in the rain towards downtown. they held each others hand, and tohru stayed close to him, head resting on his shoulder. Yuki held the umbrella over both of them with his other hand.

"so where are we going?"
"hmm... well theres a sohma resturant here somewhere, it's supposed to be pretty nice..."
"mm....sounds great!"

they continued walking until yuki stopped. Tohru looked up at Yuki.
"here it is."
inside, the couple sat at a small table. a candle glowed between them. Tohru looked around, thinking the place looked familiar. Yuki saw her eyes wandering.

"is something the matter tohru?"
"Iie! i just feel like i've been here before..."
the waitress brought them their food. suddely tohru rememberd.

"Ayame brought me here!" yuki froze.
"what?"
"oh, remember the day i first met him?"
yuki grunted, remembering how rude the hebi had been to tohru; and how perverted he was to climb into her dress... 'damn hebi'...

"yes, i remember." was all he said to her.
"Ah, well this was where he took me to lunch. I suppose it's decorated to look more romantic at night.

"uh.." was all that yuki had to say to that. they returned to their food in silence for a while.

"mm...." tohru finally broke the silence.
"this food tastes delicious!" she picked up some off her plate with her chop sticks and offerd it to yuki. yuki opened his mouth and took the food in.

" mmm.. yes, it does taste very good, but it's still not as good as your cooking." Tohru blushed. Yuki took some of his food and fed tohru as well.

'Aww.... thought one of the waitresses watching them. She watched to the young lovers. EVEN though they wer young, they didn't look stupid. they really seemed to be inlove. The boy, who had a loving gaze that she knew was reserved for the girl that he was with.

Thoru and Yuki had finished eating. Yuki got the waitress' attention to bring the bill.

"I shouldn't make you pay for it all your self..." tohru began to protest, but Yuki put a finger on her lips. She nodded.

They headed outside. the stars were twinkling, and it had stopped raining.

"oh Yuki! you were right, it did stop raining, and the sky is so clear!" she exclaimed, in a voice so cute , Yuki had to give her a kiss. he took her hand in his and they began to walk down the side walk. There weren't many people around at this time of night.

"tohru, it's still kinda early. Did you want to take a walk around before we head home?"

Tohru nodded, and they continued. they passed a few shops, bakeries, and jewelers... a special little costume shop owned by a certain perverted hebi...

they stopped in front of it, looking at the display. there it was, that cute little outfit that he had dressed tohru in the first time they visited the store. Yuki blushed thinking of how adorable she had looked... then how the hebi ruined the moment by popping out of nowhere...

Yuki looked at the other side of the window display, and saw something that interested him... it was normal longerie, a pale pink slipdress with black lace, it wasn't overly frilly, but rather, Yuki liked it. the thought of his princess...in that...well, he didn't feel clean thinking about it. He would never say that to tohru though. well, Tohru could tell any ways.... she saw the way he looked at it...'mmm... there's an idea... i hope hell be surprised...' Tohru smiled to herself.

"Let's go tohru, I think there still open, and i don't want to see my brother at the moment."
"then again you almost never do, do you?" she giggled.
he began to chuckle as well.
" heh, i suppose that true... lets go home now tohru."

"ok Yuki!"

and off they went home...

yuki and tohru quietly walked in, not wanting to wake anyone up.

"hmm...no take out boxes?" yuki glanced into the kitchen. he then heard something upstairs. what was that noise?

"is...that...laughter?" questioned tohru. they both went upstairs. the laughter was coming from tohru's room. they opened the door to find the other two youths on the floor. rika was on her back laughing, the neko laughing next to her. there were cards on the floor scattered. yuki and tohru stood there staring. kyo finally looked up and grinned.

"tohru, your cousin's a loser."
"your mama!" the two continued laughing.

"um...you t wo seem to be having fun. what are you doing?"
"strip poker." rika said with a straight face. but not for long, because it sent her and kyo laughing again.

"nah. its egyptian ratscrew. there was an american who roomed with me...she wa slike half japanese or something. but anyways she taught this to me. and we were playing-"

"yeah," kyo interrupted,
"and your rabid cousin bit me!"
"you're just a wuss!"

"no, you're just vicious!" the two couldn't stop laughing. tohru and yuki just looked back and forth between the two. it was rare to see kyo laugh, especially with someone other than tohru. the couple looked at each other, and mentally shrugged it off. they'd ask later. they didn't wanna ruin the one moment that the two kids weren't arguing or calling each other names. they smiled and yuki waved and went to his room. tohru went to her dresser to pull out pajamas.

"well...i hope you guys have fun playing."
"eh...i think the game's kinda done. we argued over who's cards it was, and then they just...scattered everywhere." rika and kyo had finally stopped laughing...but were grinning.

"ah. well ok. i'm going to get ready for bed." she gave her cousin a hug.
"good night."
"night cuz."
"night kyo."
"night tohru." she left the room. rika looked over at kyo.

kyo, discreetly so that only rika and him could hear,
"tell yuki i said good night too..." this set rika off into a quiet chuckle.

"i'd say me n you had a fun time just hanging out, carrot top. i really enjoyed it." she got up, brushed herself off, and also went to get her pajamas. kyo stood up too, taking it as his cue to say goodnight.

"...i think... that i had fun tonight too. the whole day really. well, anyways, goodnight." he went over to her and gave her a quick kiss on the cheek. even after he had left, rika could feel where he had kissed her remain on her skin. she changed into her pajamas and laid down. she turned on her side and sighed, thinking about that day.

In the room near hers, kyo was in his boxers lying on his bed as well. he looked at the ceiling, thinking about that day. it was the first day that he had laughed with someone that wasn't tohru. and laughed more. he enjoyed rika's company. she made it easy to talk to her. something abo u ther, he talked to her about some things that he would never even tell the onigiri.

(earlier that night)
"so, you're a kitty..."
"yeah."
"do you like it?"
"of course not! the cat's an outsider! you know... that zodiac story about the cat who's left out..." kyo looked down. rika nodded, having hear the story before from kyoko.

"and...cuz of it i normally have to ke ep to myself. tohru...she's the first person to look pass that, and try to be my friend even though...i know i got a bad temper."

"so does kyo have a crush on my cousin?"
"NO! she can STAY with that damn yuki!" he blushed.

"I mean, i guess i might have liked her a little before. but i'm not crazy about her or anything. i'm not into that mushy love stuff. that fily rat is, though. so if they awanna be all mushy together, i don't care long as they don't do it in fron tof me or nothing."

"has kyo ever had a girlfriend?"
"hell no. kagura would kill anyone who'd try. not like anyone would try anyways." rika raised her eyebrows.
"kagura?"
"she's another sohma. she's a psycho, i'm tellin ya. she's all crazy, always telling me she loves me and stuff while tring to choke me at the same time." rika chuckled.

"abusive lover."
"that crazy woman is NOT my lover!" rika laughed.

"ok ok, i get it."
"you better." kyo laid down, placing his head on rika's lap. he faced away from her; rika gently began caressing the tendrils of hair that would fall in his face.

"so..how about you?"
"hmm? well, if you're asking if i'm cursed, no. unles you count my inability to cook..." they both laughed.
"you couldn't be as bad as the baka inu and nezumi. if it werne't for takeout, shigure would have starved before thoru came." rika laughed.

"the only burden i've ever felt in my life is my parents. they really know how to drag ya down. i wish they were more like tohru's mom. she was amazing." kyo nodded.
"yeah, all i hear are good things about her."
"you must not have heard anything from tohru's family then. my parents really didn't like kyoko, they say she was too wild, cuz she was in a gang and stuff. but i loved her. she was so free spirited. growing up, she was like a friend along as being a mother to tohru. and she was like a friend to me too. i didn't see her as my aunt. aunt's are old graying ladies with lotsa cats. kyoko was too cool for that..." rika sighed.

"i bet she would've supported me n my band. i'm just really glad tohru's here for me. she has a lot of qualities like her mother. it makes her lovable."

"but ANYWAYS! a happier topic. i saw you training one day. you were good. not that i know anything about martial arts... but you looked good? i mean, not like...you looked good, but like, you looked like you wre good? um..well. you look good too..." rika had never really stammered like tohru before. kyo just smiled, but rika couldn't see it.

"yeah. one day i wanna go back to the dojo and work there with my...dad."
"that's awesome." a thought struck kyo.
"uh...when were you watching me?"

"oh i went snooping the house and stopped at your window."
"oh." normally kyo would've been mad that the girl had invaded his privacy, but at the moment he was too comfortable to care. at least he wasn't as paranoid as he thought; he really had sensed someone watching him that day.

"this is nice."
"what is?"
"talking."
"mhhm..." replied kyo passively. he was relaxed under rika's touch.

"i think you kinda act like a kitty."
"whatever." a low resonance emitted from kyo's throat.

"was that a purr?"
"no."
"haha...i think it was!"

"oh shut up." kyo smiled again, and once again rika didn't see it. she continued.

"so, tohru must know about the curse too."
"yeah, i told you that on the roof."
"boy, i wonder if yuki transforms in bed."

"WHAT?!" kyo shot up and looked at the girl.
"haha...i guess you didn' tknow. tohru doesn't sleep in here with me. sill carrot top. i mean... i dunno if they SLEEP together, but they sleep together in the same bed... although from their glows i don't think they get muh sleep.." kyo covered his ears. rika giggled and lowered them.

"does that make you uncomfortable kyo?"
"i think i could've lived without hearing that." kyo pulled rika close to him. her back rested on his lap while her head against her stomach, so that he couldn't transform. his arms remained around her. they remained like that in silence for a few minutes.

"you're so warm to cuddle against..."
"um..." what should kyo say in response?
"...thanks?"

"hmm. i can just imagine tohru saying this to yuki too-"
"DAMMIT WOMAN!? you TRYIN to ruin the moment?"
"haha not really. i'm just trying to piss you off."

"you ARE a bitch."

(end flashback) rika couldn't sleep. she sighed...missing all the cuddling with kyo. she got up and walked out into the halway. she opened kyo's door. inside, kyo opened his eyes to see someone at his doorway. the figure walked over to his bed and he realized it was rika. she slipped under the covers.

"i know why i like you better as a cat."
"why's that?" she hugged him, and helda little kitty in her arms.
"cuz you're so huggable!" and kyo curled into her arms and they both went to sleep.

i told you... nothing to do with the title... you and your sick little mind of yours.... tisk tisk... for shame....

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