Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket. If I did, the drawings wouldn't be so amazing because I couldn't draw well to save my life, which is quite a predicament.

Tohru walked slowly next to Yuki and Kyo. An easy silence spread between them, and Tohru felt her body relaxing with each step towards the school. She frowned slightly at what Shigure had said that morning. "Tohru, just do what you've been doing all along. In the end, you really just need to be yourself." How could that help her save Kyo? How could being herself end the curse? She felt as though her insides were swirling around in circles, and her heart fell into her stomach.

"Today is beautiful, don't you agree Honda-san?"

Tohru jumped from her thoughts. Forcing her thoughts aside, she smiled. "Y-yes, Yuki-kun! For it being March, it is a very nice morning."

A comfortable silence ended the conversation, and Yuki smiled down at Tohru.

"Where do you think you're going to work after graduation?" Yuki asked nonchalantly.

Tohru stopped walking and was suddenly plunged deep within her thoughts again. After graduation. After Kyo is gone.

Yuki stopped at Tohru's sudden expression of horror. "Honda-san?"

Kyo turned to look at her, puzzlement etched in his face as to why they were stopping. He took one look at her wide eyes and felt his heart leap to his throat. "What's wrong Tohru? He just asked a simple question."

"Ha…" Tohru broke her expression. Putting a hand to her face, Tohru muttered, "I guess I'm just a little anxious, is all."

Yuki smiled down at Tohru. "That's normal. We're all pretty anxious about graduation." For different reasons…

Kyo felt his heart fall into his stomach and turned from Tohru. A dark feeling spread from his chest and numbed his body. "Yea, we're all pretty anxious…"

Both Yuki and Tohru looked over at Kyo.

Yuki felt like an idiot. He felt that he had sounded like he wanted the damned cat to be locked up. But don't I?

Tohru trembled for a moment, and then grabbed Kyo's hand. Kyo turned to look at Tohru in surprise, and all three faces lit up with embarrassment.

Caught again between my mother and her lover, Yuki thought.

"Kyo-kun…" Tohru said softly, "I want to help you."

Yuki watched as Kyo's eyes went wide. Tohru's eyes stayed riveted on Kyo's face, and Yuki found that his eyes were trained on Kyo as well.

"Uhh… To-Tohru, you—"

"No! I want to help. Kyo-kun please. My wish for New Years was to break the curse because I want to help you! I don't want you to be locked up!"

Yuki and Kyo both looked at Tohru, surprise echoing off each of their frames. Tohru's eyes filled with tears, and her lips began to tremble, all the while still holding determinedly onto Kyo's hand.

Kyo's body began to tingle, and a wind felt as though it was breezing into his body, lifting away a dark cloud from his soul… she had spoken about the one thing that everyone had danced around since summer break.

"Tohru…" Kyo breathed. How does she always know what to say? "I wish that you could help me too."

Yuki found his body tingling with surprise. Kyo's revelation shocked him for some reason. He wanted help all along? How could I have been so blind?

Kyo blinked tears away. "But… standing here in the middle of the woods isn't going to help us. We're going to be late for school. We don't want to break that promise to your mom in the last few days, now do we?"

Tohru shook her head. Turning, Kyo kept a hold of Tohru's hand and turned to walk down the path. Tohru kept her head down, and walked along with him. Yuki followed the two, feeling out of place and a little confused as to what he was feeling about Kyo's upcoming imprisonment. Why should I feel any different about Kyo? We all knew that he was going to be imprisoned, just like the other cats from the zodiac… but why do I feel that locking up Kyo is wrong, all of a sudden?

Looking up, he was taken aback to see both Tohru and Kyo looking at him. Following Tohru's arm he found her hand stretched out toward him, beckoning to be held.

"We don't want you to feel alone," Tohru said, a gentle smile on her face.

Smiling, he gratefully took Tohru's hand, and walked with her and Kyo to school.