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Chapter SIX - Special
It was a Saturday morning and Kyo yawned while padding into the kitchen where he spotted Tohru and his mother talking animatedly at the kitchen table about something unknown to him. They spotted him when he appeared at the door and they both chirped out in unison,
"Good morning!"
Kyo muttered back the same thing with less energy and plopped down onto a wooden chair around the table. He was left in peace until the moment Tohru blurted out,
"Guess what Kyo-kun?"
Kyo looked up at her lazily and snatched the box of cereal off of the table, grumpily pouring the remains into a bowl, not answering her. Tohru cleared her throat, unaffected by his morning rudeness, and continued happily,
"Well your mom said that there is this festival tonight, and that we're going! There are games, rides and everything! It sounds wonderful, don't you think?"
Kyo mumbled out,
"Not really."
Kyo's mother frowned sternly at him and said lightly,
"You two are going together and you two kids are going to have fun, okay?"
Kyo sighed out loud and pushed the bowl of dry cereal away, knowing that he was going to have to agree no matter how many times he refused so he decided to just make life easier by simply mumbling out,
"Fine, whatever."
He glanced up for a moment and caught Tohru smiling brightly at him. Immediately he felt his cheeks blaze with fire as he lowered his head down to concentrate on the wooden table.
Maybe the festival won't be too bad...
Before the Festival. 6:00pm
Mrs. Sohma held up a beautiful white kimono with tiny pink flowers embroidered on the shoulders and edges for design. She grinned as she saw Tohru gasp when she took one look at the kimono being presented to her. Mrs. Sohma's smile grew even wider as she placed the kimono on top of Tohru's bed and told her,
"I want you to wear this, after all you've never worn a kimono before right? And every girl must wear a kimono to a festival, it's a tradition sort of thing."
Tohru's heart warmed at Mrs Sohma's offer, slowly running her fingertips over the silky fabric of the kimono and said breathlessly to Mrs. Sohma,
"Wow... are you sure I can wear this? It's so beautiful. I can't possibly wear this."
Mrs Sohma smiled kindly and shook her head at Tohru, assuring her,
"You'll look beautiful in it. Please wear it."
Tohru ran to Mrs. Sohma and hugged her tightly as she said to her graciously,
"Thank you so much! I'm so glad to be able to wear this kimono."
Kyo was flipping through the television channels downstairs with a bored expression on his face as he waited impatiently for Tohru to come downstairs to go to the festival with him. He let out a big yawn and quickly switched off the television when he heard footsteps coming down the stairs.
Finally... took long enough.
Kyo turned around and asked with annoyance tinging his tone,
"Geez, what was taking so lo--"
His voice instantly died down when he saw her appearance though. She was dressed in a white silk kimono that had these small pink flowers scattered all over on the sides, and her hair was nicely swept up into a neat bun with miniature red roses placed around it. She shyly looked down at her outfit and blushed when she caught him blatantly staring at her. She smoothed down her kimono and walked over to him as she said quietly,
"Um... I'm sorry for making you wait."
Kyo croaked out,
"It's...fine."At the festival.
Tohru was standing at the booth, desperately trying to win a prize from this game where she had to throw a plastic ball at fifteen bottles, and knock them all down successfully. However, after numerous times she seemed to fail at each and every attempt she made at this game. She bit her lower lip and looked up at the prize, a small brown stuffed teddy bear, with determination burning in her coffee brown eyes. She was about to throw another one of the balls, but was interrupted when she heard a voice pipe up mockingly behind her,
"Tyin to win something?"
Tohru turned completely red and nearly dropped the plastic ball in her hand as she stuttered out with embarrassment,
"Well, umm... I was just trying to win that bear over there, but these games are harder than they seem."
Kyo rolled his eyes and swiftly took the plastic ball from her hands, sneering at her as he said confidently,
"Here, let me show you how it's done."
Kyo took the ball, aimed, and threw the ball at the bottles with such power that it knocked each and every one down with just one swift throw. The man at the booth clapped loudly and handed Kyo the soft brown teddy bear that Tohru had been trying to win before. Kyo took the bear from the man's hand and looked at it with repulsion. He then said with his voice dripping with sarcasm,
"Yay... a bear..."
Tohru looked at him with amazement and laced her fingers together as she stared at him with admiration,
"Wow! That was amazing! Now I'm inspired to try again!"
Tohru grinned at the man inside the booth and asked for another turn. She handed him 100 yen and got two plastic balls in exchange. She took a deep breath and grasped the ball in her fingers, aimed, and then threw it with a little grunt escaping her lips. She stared hopefully at the ball but felt her face burn with humiliation when she saw that she had missed all of the bottles entirely. Everything went silent for a second and then she heard Kyo burst out into laughter at her horrible performance. Tohru turned redder with every laugh that spilled from his mouth and she pouted when his laughter faded away. When he finally finished snickering, he handed her the bear and said teasingly,
"Here, you can have the bear, cuz you seriously suck at this game."
Tohru's eyes widened and she felt her embarrassment seem to wash away as she gasped loudly and ask incredulously,
"Really?! You would do that?"
Kyo looked at her as if she were crazy and asked with disbelief,
"Hey, do I look like a guy who owns stuffed animals?"
Tohru did a little jump and took the bear, hugging it tightly over her chest,
"Thank you so much Kyo-kun!"
She then held it out at arms length, looking at it carefully and wondering what to name it,
"Hmm, I wonder what I should name the little bear."
Kyo answered jocularly,
"How about something stupid and girly like, Squeaky?"
Tohru giggled and said,
"I'll think about that one."
She then looked up and her eyes seem to stick on the sight of a ferris wheel. She looked at the bright lights with astonishment, amazed at its blinking yellow lights, and asked Kyo,
"What is that?"
Kyo looked in the direction that she was staring at and saw that she was gaping at the ferris wheel. He shrugged and said casually,
"It's just a ferris wheel. This boring ride where you go around and around slowly in a circle inside this little booth thing."Tohru tilted her head to the side and asked with a blush crawling around her cheeks,
"Do you want to go on the ferris wheel with me?"
Kyo was taken aback by her question and blushed, muttering out,
"Those rides are so stupid though..."Tohru grinned widely at him and pointed up a finger, her eyes dancing as she stated loudly,
"But it could be fun!"
Kyo stayed silent for a moment before letting out a defeated sigh as he led her to the ferris wheel without another word.
On the ferris wheel
Tohru was staring out of the window, her nose nearly pressed up against the glass window of the booth. She was gazing out at the stars and fireworks that were bursting throughout the night sky, streaking the black sky with a vast amount of colors such as pink and blue.
"Wow... I've never been on one of these before... it's so beautiful outside, look at the stars Kyo!"
"Yea sure..."
Kyo leaned forward and absent mindedly looked out the window, staring out at the blinking stars. He then turned back to Tohru after a second or two, not really interested at the scenery. She finally took her face away from the window and sat regularly on her seat with her eyes downcast, thinking to herself,
Being up here... reminds me of the constant dreams I've been having of being in space...
She lifted her head up and saw Kyo staring at her with his blazing crimson eyes. When she looked into his eyes, she couldn't help but spill out all of her innermost feelings,
"Kyo... sometimes when I look out at the stars, I think that I'm not human."
Kyo's eyes grew wide and his eyebrows drew together as he shot her a weird look and commented with a small frown,
"Okay, now that was random."
Tohru shook her head at him and explained quickly,
"No... I mean where else could I come from? And how come I keep having these strange dreams and flashes of me coming down through space? It all doesn't make sense... nothing does to me these days. I... hate feeling so empty inside, without a past... or knowing anything about... myself."
Kyo stayed silent, not knowing quite how to reply back, so he just stared at her intently, waiting for her to say more. She continued with apprehension in her voice,
"Kyo-kun... I'm really scared. REALLY scared..."
Kyo saw the pain in her eyes and he felt his stomach churn as he croaked out softly,
"Of what?"
Tohru turned her head away and felt the tears spring up in her eyes again as she whispered out softly,
"Of... losing people."
Kyo felt his heart twist in every direction as he prodded her on in a low voice,
"Like...?"
Tohru turned to him, her eyes meeting with his when she answered softly and simply,
"You."
Kyo tightened his fists together and felt his words spill out with truth and strength,
"Okay, you're CRAZY alright? Losing me is the farthest worry you have to think about! I mean how the hell would you lose me anyway? God... that's such a stupid thought."
Kyo leaned back in his chair with a huff and crossed his arms over her chest. Tohru felt her eyes shed a tear and she protested softly,
"But..."
Kyo held up his index finer at her and argued,
"No buts!"
Tohru couldn't help but cry out with her eyes gleaming,
"But what if I'm really an alien?! Then would you be scared of me?! Would you... hate me?"
Kyo's eyes widened and he shot forward in his seat as he yelled out loudly,
"God, that's like the stupidest question that I've ever heard come outta you!"
Tohru felt her eyes fall downward as she apologized quickly and quietly,
"I'm sorry."
Kyo sighed and put his head down in his hands as he finally said with a voice thick with emotion,
"Look, even if you're green and scaly, I still wouldn't ever hate you, so stop worrying, okay?"
Tohru felt a small smile form on her lips as she looked back up at him and said,
"Thank you for saying that."
Kyo looked back up at her too, and when their eyes met, he smiled back with a lopsided grin and answered tersely,
"It's the truth."
Tohru clenched her teeth together as she felt another tear slide down her cheek, and then she did what her heart told her. She crossed over to his side of the booth, surprising him when she sat down right next to him and buried her tears stained face into his chest, closing her throbbing eyes and making his body tingle all over as he awkwardly put his arm around her petite body. Tohru said in an apologetic and muffled voice,
"Um... I'm sorry for hugging you, but I couldn't help it this time."Kyo closed his eyes and felt his heart flutter he mumbled out softly,
"I guess I don't mind just this once..."
When he realized what he had just said he quickly covered up his sappiness and said in his usually surly tone,
"But no more after this!"
Tohru smiled and nodded as Kyo gazed out of the window, actually enjoying the fireworks and stars, for the very first time.
I've never felt his way before about anyone...
Back at home
It was nearly midnight and Kyo was laying on his bed, still marveling about that moment on the ferris wheel. Ever since the end of the ride, he had been wondering constantly what that whole ordeal had meant to him and what it meant to her...
Does this mean that I mean something... more to her?
He was snapped out of his thoughts when he heard a soft knock on his door. He snapped up from his bed and called out with exasperation,
"Come in."
The door creaked open and he saw Tohru standing there with shining eyes, holding the teddy bear that he had won for her in her left hand. She asked tentatively,
"Can I come in?"
Kyo felt his hands unconsciously go up to his hair and smooth down the rough edges as he answered back nonchalantly,
"Uh-huh."
Tohru stepped into his room and stood there like a stone while holding out the bear at him, asking,
"Guess what?""What?"
She smiled at him and said with excitement,
"I named him!"
Kyo looked at her as if she had another head growing out of her shoulder and he asked with utter confusion,
"You what?"
Tohru pointed at the bear and clarified her last phrase,
"The bear that you won for me today! I thought of a name for him!"
Kyo felt his eyes roll and he leaned back against his bedpost comfortably as he poked fun at the situation, asking jeeringly,
"Oh... that thing. So what is it, Pinky? Squeaky?"
Tohru shook her head at each guess he gave her and Kyo finally said with mock exasperation,
"Well I'm not gonna sit here all day guessing you know..."
She finally blurted out.
"It's Kyo!"Kyo flinched and was completely startled as he asked,
"Wha-what?"
She repeated with laughter twinkling in her eyes,
"I named the bear Kyo."
Kyo blinked a couple of times to let this all register in his head, and when he finally regained his composure he asked slowly,
"...Are you serious?"
Tohru nodded jubilantly and said,
"Yes."
Kyo muttered out with a blush staining his cheeks,
"Great, I'm named after a dumb bear."
Tohru laughed softly and hugged the bear to herself as she said to him,
"But it's not dumb to me. It's special to me... so that's why I named him Kyo."
She flashed him another tooth bearing smile and whirled around so that he couldn't see her tomato face red while she admitted softly,
"I just felt like I had to tell you his name... sorry for bothering you, good night!"After she left his room, Kyo sat on his bed, staring at the open door with a stunned expression on his face as he wondered to himself,
I guess this means that I'm... special to her...? Damn! why does she have to have such an effect on me?
Kyo flopped back down onto his bed and shut his eyes, not even noticing the fact that he was smiling throughout his entire sleep.
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