"By the way, since most of you guys have never even picked up a book, I'm giving you the opportunity to head for the library. Take advantage of this and get goin' or I might just change my mind and make you suffer." Everyone grabbed their papers and took off sprinting, Speedy-Gonzales style.
"No wonder she had us running for the library. Five pages. Five pages on classic mystery novels, plays, and poetry. And their authors, of course. Gee, I'm jumping for joy," Arise muttered. "Look on the Brightside Uo-chan! It has nothing to do with math! It's wonderful to learn new things! I don't know any mystery novels though…do you know Uo-chan?" Arisa shook her head. "Sorry Tohru, I'm as lost as you are." Tohru looked at Hana. "Hmm…I've read a few…they're not coming to mind though…what a shame…sorry I'm not of any use for this…" Tohru sighed but bore a look of determination. "Oh well, maybe I can look in my subconscious and try to see if I've ever seen one!" "I know some."
Tohru stopped her feeble attempt to dive into her subconscious and looked up at Kyo, flashing an appreciative, cheery smile. Arise raised an eyebrow in Kyo's direction, since he had his head down, avoiding everyone's stares. "Share the wealth numskull! We're wasting valuable time here, Orangey." "I'm not going to share anything if you keep callin' me stupid, Yankee." "Fine, moody bonehead, start sharing. Quit with the scrooge act, Kyo, and spill the beans," Arisa jokingly replied. "P-please stop fighting! I really need um, more time for my project, and I will never get it done and fail miserably and break my promise to Mom because I don't know anything about this!" Kyo's eyes saddened at Tohru's desperate, dispirited voice and sighed. "Sherlock Holmes Mysteries like The Hound of the Baskervilles, A Study in Scarlet, and about 40 more by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Trent's Last Case, first modern detective mystery in 1913 by E.C. Bentley, Hamlet, The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, A Midnight Summer's Dream, plays by William Shakespeare, and The Raven, The Haunted Palace, and The City in The Sea are a few poems by Edgar Allen Poe, who has like 40 more or something like that."
Kyo took a deep breath and narrowed his eyes at the stunned expressions on all three girls' faces. Tohru was struck speechless, Arisa's jaw dropped, and though she was silent, Hana was a bit taken aback. "What's with the looks? Shishou made me read some stuff he thought I'd like. So what's the big deal about me opening a few books? I'm not illiterate, dammit!" Arisa started to have a little coughing fit and Hana looked at Kyo with interest. "I must say…that was quite unexpected…but thank you for helping…" Tohru was in a daze, zoning out and letting her thoughts run through her head. 'Romeo and Juliet…that's a play by a Shakespeare, I think! I cry at the end though, it's terrible that they died! I just like to focus on the part where they fall in love…Mom, sometimes I dream that I am Juliet…and Kyo-kun is Romeo…agh! I must focus! I have to get my work done! I must stop daydreaming, I'm actually proud of Kyo-kun, revealing another thing he enjoys, and how wonderful his hobby is! I wonder if I could…stop daydreaming! Focus!' Tohru pushed aside her thoughts and turned her attention back to what was happening. As soon as she had snapped out of it though, the first thing she noticed was a hand in front of her face. She shrieked and fell backwards with her chair, crashing onto the ground. "Tohru!" Kyo, Hana, and Arisa shouted at the same time. Kyo had been waving his hand in front of Tohru's face to try and snap out of her trance, and nearly jumped out of his skin when Tohru screamed. Tohru got the wind knocked out of her, so she was having trouble trying to catch her breath.
Kyo was stricken with panic, concern and guilt. 'What was I thinking? I really, really, really have the worst luck. No, I just find a way to screw up without thinking. Tohru, why do you put up with a guy that manages to just mess up everything all the time?' Kyo took both her hands and helped her stand up so she could breathe easier. Tohru hung her head in humiliation. "Don't be embarrassed, Tohru, Kyo's just an idiot." "SHUT UP YANKEE!" "Kyo, Arisa, calm down, yelling won't help." Tohru sniffed and bent down to try and pick her chair up but Kyo beat her to it and lifted it up easily and smiled softly at her, assuring her that she had nothing to be ashamed about. "Um, so, how about we look for some of the books Kyo-kun mentioned?" Arisa and Hana grinned at Tohru. "Tohru, you always have the best ideas! Let's split up with our partners, and bring some books back in about twenty minutes, okay?"
Arisa winked at Tohru, causing her cheeks to grow pink Hana had a satisfied look upon her face and looked at Kyo expectedly, with a small smile with a hidden meaning that Kyo definitely understood, making his cheeks flush with the color of his eyes. Kyo coughed and cleared his throat nervously. "Um…I think Shakespeare's stuff is in the two shelves in the back…come on." Tohru gave a shy smile, making Kyo gulp, but calm in a sense because she felt the same way he did. Well, of course she did, she did give her first kiss to him…he wanted to do everything and anything to make her smile, and keep her laughing like this morning. His heart was so close to exploding when he heard her laugh. He timidly reached for her hand when they were hidden from the class behind the shelves of endless books. She slid her hand into his out of the corner of his eye he saw a serene, peaceful smile appear once their hands were clasped. "Here they are. Let me find one you'd like." Kyo searched the three shelves filled with Shakespeare's works. Tohru couldn't help but be anxious about what Kyo would pick. Kyo pulled out a small white paperback and sat down, Tohru doing the same. "Umm, you see, Shakespeare wrote sonnets too, like poems almost but longer…so I thought you'd um…like this one." Kyo cleared his throat and started to recite the sonnet softly to Tohru.
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this and this gives life to thee."
When he finished, he put the book down and looked into Tohru's eyes affectionately, his heart melting inside when her radiant blue eyes welled up and a few tears making little rivers down her cheeks. Kyo knelt in front of her and tenderly rubbed her arm on her left as he whispered. "You are my summer day…" He delicately brushed back her hair and caressed the side of her face, and met her lips with his. Tohru's voice disappeared once Kyo whispered to her the sweetest, most precious words that her ears had ever been blessed with. She was drowning, in his lulling voice, his eyes, the way his startling orange bangs fell onto his forehead, the tingling feeling she got when he held her hand or even touched her, for that matter. But once she felt his smooth and lustrous lips on her mouth, there was no tingling.
The tingling had intensified to a surge of sensational fire rushing through her veins. Her mind surrendered to the flames of passion possessing her heart, her body. Tohru lost all self-control and tilted her head slightly before capturing Kyo's bottom lip, his top, and as soon as Kyo returned the favor, tasting each other's lips set them off, long deep kisses that seemed to pour out love to one another, each kiss filled with love and compassion. Her toes curled inside her shoes, the intimacy of their connection sending them both into the illusion of heaven. 'This feeling…her taste is incredible…I have never felt something like this…my being the cat, I never knew something so amazing…even existed.' Kyo gently left her lips and met Tohru's sparkling eyes. "Tohru, I—Kyo was interrupted by a teasingly loud "Ahem." They both jumped and slowly turned, their faces flushed and eyes wide in fear and extreme embarrassment, looking up at the person who had frightened them so.