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A/N: La la la, I hate work. It's making me a dull boy – er – girl . . .

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"Wake up, you stupid woman!" Kyo screamed at Uo, fanning her face. "Uo, I really need you to wake up before I turn back or you crush me!"

When she had fainted he had jumped underneath her head to prevent a head injury, but now he was stuck and trying frantically to wake her up.

After a few minutes of pointless yelling and struggling, he realized he was still a cat. 'Maybe me under her head counts as a hug. . .' he thought.

Twenty-eight minutes later he was sure it was.

Uo groaned, sitting up. Not prepared, Kyo yelped and dashed away before poof!

"Wha-" Uo said, holding her head, confused.

"Uo, could you toss me my clothes?" Kyo said from the darkness of the forest.

She felt around for them, then threw them in the direction his voice had come from.

"So, you weren't lying. . ." she said, amazed.

He came out, fully dressed once again, nodding.

She watched him for a moment before standing up. "So, I'm guessing Tohru knows about this."

He nodded, "She's the only one outside the Sohma family that knows. Well, except for you. . ." he scratched his head. Realization dawned on him.

"You can't tell anyone you know. Besides Tohru, Yuki, Momiji, Shigure, and Haru, anyone else would freak out. " he took her hands, looking her in the eyes. "Promise me. You don't know what would happen if Akito knew you knew . . ." his voice became hushed, eyes darting around.

"Don't worry Kyo, your secrets safe with me," she gave him a reassuring smile.

He seemed to relax a bit.

"So," Uo said, letting go og his hands and starting to walk down the path, "When are you going to tell Tohru you love her?"

"WHAT?" Kyo fumed. "What are you talking about?"

She laughed, "You're so obvious."

He chased her down the path.

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Tohru woke up to the smell of bacon and the sound of clanking dishes. She sat up in bed, 'I'm late for breakfast! I overslept and now they're forced to make themselves breakfast! I'm a horrible maid!' She jumped out of bed and darted downstairs.

When she walked into the kitchen, the table was set, fresh flowers were in a vase on the counter, and Yuki, Kyo, and Shigure were all at the stove cooking. Well, Yuki and Kyo were cooking, Shigure was smelling the food obnoxiously.

"Good morning Tohru!" came a high pitched voice, followed by a body pouncing on her back. She heard a pop! Turning to look she saw a small rabbit on the floor, looking up at her.

"Good morning Momiji," she said, smiling at him.

"Good morning, Ms. Honda," Yuki said, turning from the stove. He had flour smeared across his face and clothes.

"Yo," Kyo said, with a mouthful of sticky rice.

"Tohru!" Shigure said, finally noticing she was there. He strode over to her.

"The princess finally awakes!" Shigure shrieked, making her blush.

"What are you talking about?" she asked, confused, "I should be making breakfast. I'm sorry for sleeping in and forcing you to make your own meal!" She said, bowing ferociously.

"Don't be silly, Tohru," Momiji said, springing back to his normal form. "Today is spoil Tohru day!"

She sat down on a chair, looking at them all, "Wha?"

Yuki smiled. "Momiji thought that since you take care of us all the time, you deserve to be spoiled every once in a while. So he declared today 'Spoil Tohru Day.' So, for the rest of the day, don't do a thing. We will. Any thing you need, just ask."

She gave them a skeptical look, "I couldn't possibly-"

"Would ya just let us spoil you for once?" Kyo said, stirring something on the stove.

She started to protest, but all four of them stopped and stared at her, so she just gave up.

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Around noon Haru stopped over, with a bouquet of flowers. Handing them to Tohru, he pulled her aside.

"Haru, they're beautiful!" she said, beaming at him.

"I just wanted to thank you for taking care of him," he said, glancing to Yuki, "I don't know how –"

"Don't worry Haru," she said, cutting him off, "I won't let anything happen to him."

She walked away, cradling her bouquet. He smiled, glancing at Yuki, who quickly looked away.

Throughout the day Tohru was surprised with breakfast from the boys, flowers from Haru, a stuffed bunny from Momiji, a "dress" from Ayame, and a pillow from Kisa. She defiantly felt spoiled by the end of the day. Part of her wished she could stop getting so much attention.

At the end of the day, she went outside and sat on the porch to watch the sunset.

"Shigure, where's Kyo?" Momiji asked. He had been missing since dinner, nearly two hours.

Shigure shrugged. "When you see him tell him to throw his dirty laundry in the laundry room, it's starting to stink up his room. I'm going to bed, don't stay up too late." He stopped walking, "I sound like my father. Stay up as late as you want, eat whatever, and have fun! Don't worry about any of the consequences, just have fun in the present." He said, trotting upstairs.

The rest of the guest dwindled out slowly, leaving only Tohru, Haru, and Yuki.

The two boys watched Tohru from inside the house. "I think she had fun, don't you?" Haru asked.

"I hope so. Knowing her, all the attention was too much. She probably wished she was someone else, so that she could help spoil them instead of herself."

Haru studied him for a moment. "Yuki, why are you so scared of everything?"

Yuki looked over at him, confused. After a moment, he sighed, "I don't know . . ."

"You don't have to be, ya know."

"Yes I do, I can't even stand up to Akito. He's dying, and can still beat me to within an inch of my life. God I'm pathetic . . ." he mumbled off, looking away from Haru's judging glare.

"Yuki, for most of my life I hated you. After all, you were the rat. You used me, riding on my back to the great feast. When I was about eight, I started watching you. I studied you, tried to know everything about you. I though, 'the better I know my enemy, the easier it will be to defeat him.' But while I watched you, I noticed that I wasn't the only one watching you. I started to feel bad, like, 'why do I hate him? Because of some stupid ancient reason that has nothing to do with who we are as people?' After that, I started to admire you. No matter what happened to you – that incident with the other kids, Akito, your parents . . . you always put other people first. When someone ran around a corner and ran into you, even though you hit the ground, you got up to see if they were okay. You're one of the least selfish people I know of, but you don't give yourself enough credit. You're so paranoid; it keeps you from lightening up and having fun. To be honest, I'm a little jealous of Tohru. She can make you happy like no one else can. Around her, you have fun. I just wish that I could make you smile like she does. I just want you to be okay." He finished, taking a deep breath and staring out the window.

There was a long, silent pause until Yuki spoke. "Thank you Haru. But you're wrong."

Haru looked at him, starting to protest.

"I have fun with you too." He smiled at Haru.

Haru smiled back, turning to look out the window again. Tohru still sat there, even though the sun had gone down.

"I wonder what she's thinking about," Haru said, thinking aloud.

Yuki shrugged, "I don't know, but she should get a jacket, it's starting to rain."

"You really care about her don't you?"

Yuki stopped, turning slowly to face him. After a moment of thought, he replied simply, "I love her." With that, he grabbed his sweatshirt laying by the door and headed outside.

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A/N: Well, I think we all saw that coming. I can't wait for the next couple of books!