Ok, ok. I should probably start writing Yuki and Tohru together, so here goes! Their romance starts in this chapter…enjoy!

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Chapter 10 Tomomi

Yuki was persuaded to go back and live with Shigure again; he didn't entertain his family and friend with where he had been living for the past month, simply saying 'here and there'. Yuki got his room back and looked out into the starry night. He remembered his garden and walked into the forest.

When he got to the clearing, he was surprised to see that his garden was in excellent shape; he smiled as a name flashed across his mind, Tohru. He had loved gardening, and wouldn't have minded becoming a botanist; he had tried to create a garden within the yard surrounded by Sohma Corporations, but Yuki had come to realize that he never had time to do the gardening. Besides, he wasn't exactly comfortable gardening in broad daylight with people staring at him. He remembered fondly of the time he had spent here, time with Tohru. He shook his head to relieve himself of the pain, Tohru…

"I thought I'd find you here." Tohru said coming behind Yuki.

Yuki turned around and stood face to face with the brunette. He smiled, but Tohru could sense that it was full of sadness.

"Is something wrong?" Tohru asked, eyes full of concern. Her gaze traveled to Yuki's garden and she apologized, "I'm sorry! The plants were wilting and I couldn't just watch, I'm sorry that-" she was cut off by Yuki's thumb on her lips. She gasped slightly and Yuki, who seems to just realize what he was doing, immediately let go.

"I'm sorry." Yuki said avoiding her eyes, "The garden is perfect, I'll never be able to match your ability."

Tohru blushed and said, "Oh, no! I'm sure that you're much better at it than me."

Yuki looked into Tohru's eyes and smiled, "Thank you. You probably had a lot of work for school, yet you still worked on the garden."

"Oh. It was nothing, I tried to do my best, although, it probably wasn't that good. And Tokyo University isn't so challenging before winter break."

"Tokyo University is a fantastic school."

"You went there? How come we never saw each other?"

"I was probably just on a different part of campus, it's very big."

Tohru smiled. Yuki walked up to a log and sat down. Tohru sat down next to him and sensing the sadness that Yuki seemed to emit, she took his hands and held them. Yuki jumped slightly at the gesture, such a familiar gesture, the last time he had been here with Tohru, Tohru had done the same. At that time, his world was full of possibilities. At that time, Yuki, along with the rest of the zodiac, had learned that there was a temporary cure for their curse. At that time, Yuki had felt that he and Tohru could be together. No, we couldn't. The cat had her, and now Kakeru. Yuki thought bitterly, his heart had shattered too many times, for so long, no one was able to reach out to him, but now, a simple gesture from Tohru is opening his heart again.

"We missed you." Tohru said looking up into the sky.

Yuki looked at Tohru gazing up at the sky and replied, "Really? I didn't expect that."

Tohru looked into Yuki's eyes and said, "Don't say that. You know very well that we did. You may not believe it, but we love you. We all love you, you have no idea how much sadness consumed us when you left."

"I find that hard to believe." Yuki said acutely.

Tohru's eyes began gathering tears; "Don't close yourself off to your family. They're the ones that'll always be there for you." Tohru said.

Yuki remembered Ayame saying how he'll be there, how everyone will be there for him. Yuki closed his eyes for a moment and looked at Tohru again, realizing that a tear had slid down her delicate face; Yuki immediately took his unoccupied hand and wiped it away. He looked as if he was about to kiss Tohru, and Tohru's heart sped up, but Yuki controlled himself, remembering Tohru's boyfriend. Tohru scolded herself for being disappointed that Yuki didn't kiss her even though she had a boyfriend.

"Thank you, Tohru for everything." Yuki said looking into her eyes.

Tohru smiled as Yuki called her by her first name, and replied, "I'm glad I could help Yuki-kun."

Yuki helped Tohru up and kissed the back of her hand, like a gentleman. Tohru blushed and she held his hand as they walked back to Shigure's house.

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A week later…

It has been a week since Yuki moved into Shigure's house again, and everything has been going normal…however…nothing is every normal in Shigure's house.

Tohru had brought Kakeru back a few times due to a project assigned for over winter break. Yuki had come home one day, and to his horror, found the person who reminded him so much to his older brother. But it was worse than that, because Kakeru now was also Tohru's boyfriend, Yuki found that he could barely stay in the same room as him. It hurt more and more to see Tohru with Kakeru. Yuki was angry with himself, he wanted Tohru to be happy, but he was hurting so much inside.

He began to work more, spending more time at his company, where he met with a surprise visitor today.

"Hey Yuki, you know Tomomi-kun? She's coming today." Kureno said to Yuki, he was just about to leave Yuki's office after the meeting with all the co-presidents in the morning.

"Tomomi-kun? Come here?" Yuki asked raising his eyebrows.

"Yea. I think her father wants to combine to companies." Kureno joked.

"What?" Yuki asked confused, Tomomi's father was a sponsor of Sohma Corporations; he didn't understand Kureno's point.

Kureno smiled and said, "I think her father wants you two to get married so the companies can be merged."

Yuki glared at Kureno and said nothing. Kureno suggested, "Oh yea, Arisa came back yesterday and we were all going out to hang out, you should bring her."

Yuki shrugged and went back to his stack of paperwork; Kureno took the signal and smiling, left the room.

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That afternoon, Kureno, Uo, Haru, Rin, Kyo, Kagura, Kakeru, Tohru, and Momiji were in a warm and cozy diner hanging out. They had planned to see a movie seeing as to how it was winter break. It had taken some time to convince Tohru that she needed some time off from work, she decided to go after much convincing on Uo, Kagura, and Momiji's part. The group had become close friends, with the exception of Kakeru, who didn't really fit in, which was probably why he left early.

They were chatting when Haru looked out the window and spotted the motorcycle on the street. It was a black motorcycle with matching red striped above the back wheel, it looked very pleasing to the eye. (a/n I really have no idea about motorcycles, so please bear with me.) The rest of the group followed Haru's gaze and traveled to the motorcycle, they watched it pull into a parking space in front of the diner. They knew that Haru wanted a motorcycle because he was tired of riding a bicycle everywhere. However, they didn't know if they could trust Haru with a motorcycle because he consistently got lost.

"Nice bike." Rin commented.

The two riders got off the motorcycle. The one that was sitting in the back removed her helmet first revealing a very pretty girl. The girl had brown hair with blond highlights and had brown eyes and features that seem to support childlike innocence. The front rider got off the bike and removed his helmet. The group within the diner gasped, it was Yuki. Yuki was looking at the girl that he came with and seem to be rolling his eyes at her. The girl laughed and pointed to the diner. Yuki shrugged and followed.

Tohru was watching the whole scene as her insides turned. The two came inside the diner and Kureno waved them over. Yuki asked the girl something, which she happily nodded to and ran over to their table.

"Hi!" she said enthusiastically, "My name is Tomomi, but most of my friends call me Mimi."

Momiji was ecstatic to make another friend and smiled brightly like a little kid and said, "My name is Momiji."

Tohru smiled and introduced herself. Introductions were made around the table and Yuki and Tomomi sat down. "I met Yuki while he was studying in America. My father sponsors part of the company and we became friends. Yuki's so serious!" Tomomi explained after being asked how she knew Yuki, "I'm moving here for my studies and Yuki's showing me around. I'm starting at Tokyo University after winter break."

"I go there too!" Momiji exclaimed and he and Tomomi launched into conversation.

Haru asked Yuki, "Where did learn to ride a motorcycle?" Yuki didn't seem like a person that would ride a motorcycle, yet his riding skills didn't seem like a first timer.

"In America. It was more of a dare." Yuki responded.

Tomomi, who has been in a very animated discussion with Momiji, turned around and asked Haru, "Oh! Do know how to ride? You can ride it if you want."

Haru raised his eyebrows, Tomomi didn't seem to fit with a motorcycle. Tomomi smiled sheepishly and said, "It's my bike, but I don't know how to ride it. I bought it because it looked so pretty!"

Momiji agreed, "It's very shiny." Kureno laughed and the whole table smiled.

Rin looked at Tomomi and asked, "Are you and Yuki together?

Yuki coughed on the hot chocolate that he was drinking, Tomomi burst out laughing and said, "Goodness, no! Yuki's too boring for me." She joked.

"That damn rat's always boring." Kyo said earning himself a glare from the rat.

"At least I'm not always stupid like someone." Yuki retorted.

Tomomi smiled widely and went back into conversation with Momiji, whom she seem to have a lot in common with, especially the childlike hyper attitude.

The cat and the rat went into a series of banter that was joined in by Haru and was only interrupted by Uo, who shouted, "We get it ok? You don't like each other. Now shut up, I'm getting a headache."

Kureno looked fondly at Uo and asked whether she was ok, to which Uo replied with a blush and a nod. Tohru looked happily at her group of friend and smiled. It was too bad that Hana's family still wasn't back from their winter vacation.

The group of friends talked, eventually joined in by Momiji and Tomomi. They talked about how they used to be; they talked about Tomomi and Yuki's adventures in America. They caught each other up on what was going on in their lives. Yuki talked more about what he's been doing these years, but it seemed like he was only talking to Tohru and vise versa. Tohru and Yuki seemed to drift off into their own conversations, just like Momiji and Tomomi. By the end of the day, they had become closer friends than before. Tomomi was wrapped up in this circle of friendship.

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Chapter ten done! I better put Yuki and Tohru together soon or else I won't be able to finish with fifteen chapters…tell me what you think! Tomomi is OC, I wanted another hyper character to put together with Momiji, sorry if anyone doesn't like the character!

Thanks to my wonderful reviewers! I'll try to finish this story soon and I'm so happy that you like my story! The reviews just makes my day! Please keep on reading and reviewing!

Oh yea…can someone tell me what Shigure's editor's name is? I put her in the last chapter but I don't know if that's her name or not…