AN: I no I said soon on the update thing, but I do have my stupid school stuff that I wish I didn't have to do! If I could, I would just sit on my comp and read/ write fan fics all day. But alas, I cannot, so off to geometry I have to go. Oh well! Let's move on!

Disclaimer: yea, I wish.

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Yuki kept walking. He felt the presence moving towards him, faster. He kept walking, making sure that he wouldn't show signs of knowing that some one was behind him. He stopped and knelt down for a second. He pretended to tie his shoe laces. The figure slowed, but kept walking. Soon enough, the person was next to him. Yuki prepared himself for another fight.

When he turned around, he was surprised to see a boy about his age there. He didn't know anyone else who held as much power as he had. However, he was wary of what the stranger was doing there.

"Whoa, chill! I didn't mean to freak you out or anything. I just thought that the fight over there was pretty interesting." The boy smiled at him.

"Um… well… that wasn't anything… really. Yea, so how can I help you?" Yuki looked over the stranger, seeing if he could still take him on during his weakened state. After feeling the power radiating from the boy, he was sure that he was too weak at the moment. He couldn't believe that the group of teenage boys had shrunken his energy so much. He would have to train more. His thoughts were interrupted by the stranger's voice.

"Oh, I'm sorry! Where are my manners?" He stuck out his hand, "Hi, I'm Hatsuharu. But, you can just call me Haru. I saw you fighting back there, that was pretty good. Who's your sensei, he must really be awesome. I only wish I was that powerful. Well, either way, why don't I walk you home or something?" He stopped when he saw Yuki give him a weird look. "Oh, sorry man, I didn't mean it that way. I was thinking about your safety, I don't think you could take on Kyo's whole gang at once. And for all we know, they could be coming back right now." He took Yuki's arm and put it over his shoulder. All this time, Yuki was too astonished to really say anything. Finally, reality caught up with him.

"Oh, I'm Yuki Sohma. I just transferred here. Nice to meet you." With that, he gave Haru directions to get to his house. At the door, Yuki thanked him.

"You're welcome. I'll see you in school tomorrow. Gnite!" and with that Haru left, leaving Yuki to think about what had just happened.

I think I just made a new friend.

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The next week at school wasn't really that different from the first day. Yuki still got lost all the time, and Tohru pretended not to care. However, Yuki kept close tabs on her. He did not move his seat in any of their classes together, and Tohru was surprised. She knew that Kyo had talked to him, but it seemed that Yuki wasn't afraid. He had also been hanging out with the weird kid, Haru. She just didn't know what to make of Yuki.

With that thought on her mind, Tohru started to eat her lunch. She was alone in the caf today, since Kyo had had to go to a judicial council meeting. Since Uo and Hana, her two best friends in the world, did not have this lunch, she was stuck eating by herself.

That was until a certain someone came and sat next to her.

"Hello Miss Smith! How have you been? It's a nice day, isn't it?" Yuki looked at her amiably.

Why doesn't he leave me alone? Tohru thought. "Yea… it's fine." Tohru mumbled. She wished that he would get the clue that she didn't really want to be sitting with him. He didn't.

"School's been going well for you I hope. It has for me. All the teachers seem nice, except out homeroom teacher is a bit odd. However, I think it's all the better that I get to sit next to you. Seeing you in the morning just makes my day!" He was slightly blushing at the end of his sentence.

And much to Tohru's dismay, so was she. Why does he affect me like this? She thought. I have to think about Kyo!

"Yea, um… Mr. Sohma, I think I should be going now, class is about to start and I don't want to be late!" with that, she hurried off. Yuki gave her an odd look when she left.

When she reached her class, she realized two things that made her feel worse then she already felt. One, she still had fifteen minutes till class started. And two, Yuki was in this class too.

He walked in and sat next to her. The class was empty so she didn't know what else to do but to stare in front of her. Yuki turned his body so that he was facing her.

"Miss Smith, I get the feeling that there is something wrong. If you don't feel comfortable talking to me, you could just tell me, and I'll leave you alone. Kyo has already told me that he doesn't want me talking to you, and if that's what's causing the problem, I'm certain that I don't want to ruin anything between you two." He looked at her eyes, holding her gaze with his violet eyes.

Tohru tried to keep her eyes steady, but she had to look away after a while. That gaze was just too intense for her.

"Whatever, I don't care that you talked with Kyo. I just want you to stop following me around! I mean, come on, you almost walked into the girls bathroom the other day!" She was surprised that she had been so assertive, for it was just not in her personality. She almost smiled when she saw Yuki blush, but she caught herself in time.

Yuki's face grew a slight pinkish shade, but he got over that quickly when he saw the corners of Tohru's mouth move up to a little ark.

"I'm sorry, I didn't realize that I was following you so closely… I think when I put it like that, I sound a little creepy…" Tohru nodded at the statement, quickly looking around the room to see if anyone else was in there… there wasn't. Yuki took one look at her face and realized that he had just called himself a stalker.

"Oh no! Miss Smith, I just want you to know that I haven't been following you around because it's some kind of weird pleasure for me! I just want to protect you!"

Tohru looked puzzled. "Well, if that's all, then you don't have to worry! Kyo is my boyfriend, and when we started going out, he told me that he would always be there if there was any danger. All I want you to do is be my friend." Tohru's eyes popped open. She couldn't believe she had just said that, she couldn't!

Yuki smiled at what she had said, and how she looked like now. "If that is what you want, Miss Smith, then your wish is my command."

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Tohru walked out of the school building, feeling exhausted. She had taken care of her little "problem", and in the process had also made a new friend. Although she knew that she shouldn't be, she was excited. She saw Uo and Hana walked towards her. She felt as if she hadn't seen them in the longest time.

"That is BECAUSE you haven't seen us in a long time," Hana said. Tohru knew she shouldn't be surprised, but whenever Hana used her waves, it still felt like the first time she was told that Hana had this power. She smiled at her friend.

"I know, you guys, and I PROMISE that this weekend, I will definitely do something with you guys, like go to the mall or something." She was interrupted by a loud horn.

"Tohru, come on, lets go! We're gonna be late!" shouted Kyo, in the car. Tohru looked at her friends, she didn't want to just leave the, but then, she didn't want to make Kyo wait.

Hana and Uo saw the look of indecision on Tohru's face. They decided to give her a break. "You can go Tohru, we can talk later," said Hana.

"Yea, you can go," said Uo when Tohru looked at her. Tohru smiled and ran to the car.

"I'll see you guys later!" She screamed.

As the car was pulling out of the school, Yuki saw them and yelled, "Bye Miss Smith!" but got no reply. He didn't seem to mind, from the two friend's perspective. As he walked home, they noticed that he had actually been standing with Haru.

Haru walked over to them and introduced himself. "I noticed that you were talking to Tohru. Are you by any chance her friends?" he inquired.

Uo gave him a weird look but Hana replied, "Yes, we are. How may we help you?" Now it was Hana's turn to get a weird look. But Uo trusted Hana, so she didn't say anything.

"Well, I don't know about you, but I think that Tohru has changed since she started going out with Kyo," Haru said.

"That's true, but why do you care?" Hana replied. "I mean, it is her choice on who she wants to go out with, isn't it?" she asked.

"Is it?"

Haru's answer surprised them both. Then, he soon got to his plan of trying to set up Yuki and Tohru. The friends looked at each other, and thought. They knew that they shouldn't be meddling Tohru's life, but they wanted her to be herself more than anything. This had been almost the twentieth time that she had blown them off, just this week. They knew that this wasn't the real Tohru. They knew that Yuki really did care for her. Thus, they agreed to help Haru.

"But where do we start?" Uo asked.

"Simple," replied Haru, "here." He stuck up a poster that advertised the school trip to Florida in a couple of weeks.

"But do you know for a fact that they both are going to go?" Hana asked.

"That where we come in," replied Haru. They decided to meet up later that day to talk more of their plans.

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Tohru was getting ready to go to bed when she heard the phone ring. She wondered who it was this late in the night, but picked it up any way.

"Hello?" she said to the receiver.

"Hello Tohru!" said Kyo. Tohru was disappointed. She had somehow wanted it to be Yuki. She had felt really bad about ignoring him in the car, but she didn't want Kyo to hurt him, so she had remained silent. But, now she realized what she had just thought and mentally scolded herself for not being happy that Kyo was on the phone, trying to talk to her…. Kyo was on the phone… Tohru suddenly remembered that she hadn't said anything into the phone for the past minute.

"Hi!" she said, trying to sound cheerful, but hating that she had to try. "What's up?"

"Can't I just call you to say good nite?" He asked.

"Of course! Good night then! I'll see you tomorrow!"

"Sure, good night." And with that, Kyo hung up.

Tohru finished getting ready. Then the phone rang again. When she picked up, she heard the voice of her friend, Hana. "Hi."

Tohru felt a little disappointed again, but she replied as cheerful as ever, "Hello Hana."

On the other end, Hana sensed Tohru's disappointment and smiled, saying" Were you expecting someone else?"

Tohru mumbled incoherently into the phone, adding a, "not really" at the end.

Hana smiled again, she sensed Tohru's feelings for Yuki even though Tohru herself had no clue. "I was just calling to ask if you were planning on going to the Florida trip or not."

Tohru thought that this was out of the blue, but replied, "I don't know, I mean, Kyo isn't going because of the fact that he is going somewhere that week with his family. I wasn't planning on it."

Hana was now grinning. That's perfect, she thought. To the phone, she said, "Well, Uo and I were thinking about going, so why don't we go together? We can finally hand out!"

Tohru felt really badly about leaving her friends all the time so she agreed to go. "I'll bring in the papers that they mailed home tomorrow, ok?" With that settled the girls said good night to each other and hung up.

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At Yuki's house, things were a little different. The phone hadn't stopped ringing for a while. Yuki had tried to get them all, but as soon as he hung up, it would start ringing again. However, none of them had been who he really had wanted to hear from. Tohru just didn't want to call him, he thought

The phone rang, and Yuki went to pick it up. "IF you aren't Tohru Smith then LEAVE ME ALONE!" he screamed. He was surprised to hear Haru's voice at the other end.

However, not as surprised as Haru. His ears ringing a little, he replied, "Whoa, wats up with you?"

Yuki sighed, and explained, "These weird girls have been calling my house. I don't know how they got my number, but they keep asking me out. I really am fed up with this. The phone hasn't stopped ringing since I got home!"

Haru felt bad for him, although a little jealous. Yuki had already earned himself a fan club in school, although the girls were a little crazy. "But you do want to hear from Tohru, huh?" He asked. From the silence on the other end, he didn't need Hana's power to know he had been right. "Whatever man, I just wanted to ask if you are going to the Florida trip." he asked.

Yuki replied that he wasn't planning on it. Haru did not like the answer, so he told him that Tohru was going, but Kyo wasn't. When asked how he knew this, Haru just said that he knew. In real life he had no clue if she had said yes, but he trusted the girls to deal with that. "With Kyo, I know that he has a family trip planned that week, so he won't be there to protect Tohru." He added, just to make sure that Yuki would go.

"I guess that in that case, I should go. To protect her, you know." Haru smiled at the reply, His mission had been a success. In a couple of weeks, the whole group would go to Florida and things would be set right. He felt like laughing evilly, but since that would tip Yuki off to the fact that he had something major planned, so he controlled himself. "Well, gnite then, I'll see you tomorrow." He hung up. THEN, he started laughing evilly. Much to his parents' dismay. They had been trying to sleep for the past hour. After a quick, "Shut-up" from his neighbor, Haru did just that.

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AN: Yea, I started this like three weeks ago, and here I am, just finishing. Ahhh... well I hope u enjoyed that, so please review. And if u didn't… could you please not flame me? Cuse I like to keep a happy perspective in my life, and that would SO not help. HA, as if that wasn't random, BANANAS is… so on that note, until the Florida trip!