Author: loveoftheblue

Genre: Romance/ General

Pairing: Kyo/ OC (Rimi Takaya)

Chapter Three: Heartfelt Confessions

He knew that she loved him,

He knew that he loved her,

He wanted to say,

"I love you, too",

But could not find the words,

So instead, he sent her a token,

A token of his love…

love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love

…Turned himself into a cat and jumped into Rimi's locker. ( In this fic, the zodiac characters can turn into their zodiac animal by choice, not when they hug the opposite sex. You'll see why later… evil laughter ) just as the voices got closer. And the girls that the voices belonged to got closer, and closer, and closer…and rounded the corner.

Crap! It's her group of friends! Those girls with the funny nicknames! Damn! She's there too! Oh crap. Ohcrapohcrapohcrap. I have got to get out here! Oh no…Kyo wiggled around in the locker, afraid that at any moment the group of girls would open the locker and find him wedged inside. That would sooo not be funny. In fact, it would be horrible. How would she react to a love letter, a box of chocolate, and an irritated orange (Ahh… if only he knew how much she loves orange…) kitty stuffed in the tiny little space. (Hmm… lets see… the locker is about 5x5x10 inches. And the box of chocolate and the letter take up half the space. Diagonally. Which means that the cute little kitty has his faced all mashed up next to the ventilation grilles. Poor little kitty…)

To Kyo's immense relief, the girls went on talking and walked right by the locker. As soon as the girls had walked out, Kyo popped out of the locker, and changed back into his human form. (A/n: Their clothes become part of t hem when they change. Or else it would be disgusting. Really.) then he walked out of the locker room as calmly as he could, leaving behind the gifts, and, unwittingly, three strands of orange hair. ( evil music )

love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love

Rimi turned as she neared the school, then joined her friends by the girls' locker room to talk.

"Hi girls! Guess what I just got?" Rimi's heart was pumping so hard she almost thought that her friends could hear it.

One of her friends, whose nickname was Neko-chan (this has no relation to the author Neko-chan, and actually refers to otneko) asked teasingly, "What? Did Kyo-kun kiss you?"

I wish…Rimi thought, then said, "no, but I did get a mysterious bouquet of flowers, I wonder who they're from…"

"Ooh! Maybe someone has a crush on you, too!" Plum-chan laughed jokingly. (this one refers to me .)

"Or maybe it was Kyo-kun?" Asked Jie Jie, "He might like you, too ya know. You are adorable, according to most of the boys in class…"

Kame-chan, Rika (a/n: not all of the ppl in this fic have honorifics cuz I'm too lazy to type it out), Ce Ce, Pika-chan, Koko, Li Hung, and all the others laughed in agreement. As the group walked past Rimi's locker, she turned and looked closely at it, feeling that there was something inside it. But, the bell was going to ring soon, so she let the feeling pass and walked away.

love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love

Kyo reached the classroom just as the bell rung and the teacher whacked him. "What the heck was that for you stupid teach!"

"Watch what you saw Mister Orenji. I have a box of black dye and I'm not afraid to use it. I'm sure that you wouldn't want to dye your hair any color other than what you claim is 'natural', eh?" the teacher smiled evilly and held up a box of black dye labeled "Permanent color! Won't wash off and lasts for a year!"

Sitting in the back of the classroom, Rimi stared in horror at the teacher. You wouldn't dye his beautiful hair! You can't! she thought, on the edge of panic, NOOO! Kyo!

love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love

Later that day, Rimi was walking into the lockers to change for her P.E. class. She took her time, fiddling with the cute pink lock that she had brought instead of buying a school lock, then took out her keys and unlocked the heart shaped lock. To her surprise, she found a heart shaped box, and a little letter tied to the box on a ribbon.

She took the letter and gently opened it, and began to read…

Dear Rimi,

I'm not sure how to say this, but I've fallen in love with you. I think about you before I go to school, I think about you during school, I think about you after school, and I think about you every waking moment of my day. I know that you may not know, but I watch you from my seat, and I dream about you when I can't see you. I can't think of any way to tell you how I feel so I wrote you this poem as a token of my love.

Hidden in fear, a broken heart lies,

Waiting for his angel,

To save him from the darkness,

That ate at his soul,

That ate at his mind,

To have the chance to love again,

To not be afraid any longer,

To not have to feel the terror

That cast him away from the world of light,

And trapped him in a world of dark.

All these things he found,

All these things that he cherishes,

He found in his angel,

That he found in a girl,

That he found in Rimi Takaya.

With love,

Kyo Sohma

A/n: Is poem of my creation. Please, don't use it for something else without my permission. I'm really, really sorry it took me so long to update. But I hope that you liked this chapter. Arigatou for reading and reviewing this. And please stay tuned! I also have a new Prince of Tennis fic coming out, for those of you who like Ryo x Sakuno pairings. And once again, this fic is dedicated to my friend Kyoluva731 (aka Rimi Takaya in this story) And as this is the repost, i would like to say that I am very sorry for posting the wrong name the first time. Gomen Nasai to my cousin.

Plum-chan