Here's the second of my promised chapters! Hope you enjoy it, I think I'll start the pairings in this chapter with…well, you'll have to read to find out.

I would like to take this time to thank all my reviewers; you guys are the best! I have so much fun reading your reviews and I'm honored that you're enjoying the story –rambles on and on about the greatness of reviewers while all reviewers look at me weirdly and prepares to leave- ok, ok! I'll stop rambling, but I just wanted all of you to know how much I appreciate the reviews!

Anyhow…here's the story.

Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket; I do not own Pride and Prejudice; I do not own anything.

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Chapter 4 Acquaintances Deepen

Tohru felt extremely uncomfortable working with Yuki on the project. Not only has he refused to say anything to her, but also the room seems to be so tense and cold. Tohru was used to being nice to everyone and trying to please them to the best of her ability, but everything that she has done seem to only receive scorn from the proud prince.

Yuki didn't really care that he was making Tohru uncomfortable, he was only happy that he was succeeding in making Tohru unhappy. He had grown sick of the girls that always seem to form a circle around him and he congratulated himself in making a fan girl as uncomfortable as they have made him. He didn't bother to know whether Tohru was a fan girl or not.

"Tohru?" Uo asked from the hallway, she walked in the room and smiled upon finding her friend.

"Hey Uo!" Tohru said glad to be relieved from the tenseness of Yuki's room.

"The cat and the dog are already in the kitchen, you and the rat boy needs to come down to dinner." Hana said in her monotone voice.

Yuki glared at Hana for revealing his zodiac animal, how does that psychic girl do that?

As if sensing the prince's question, Tohru said, "Hana has special powers."

"Yea, she senses waves and can shock people who aren't nice to our Tohru." Uo said glaring at the prince. She knew that he had a reputation of being the coldest person alive, and extremely proud. Uo didn't like the idea of the naïve Tohru and this insolent person.

Yuki was unaffected at the threat; he had been through much worse than empty threats of being shocked. Besides, he didn't plan to stay near Tohru longer than necessary.

Tohru looked nervously between Uo and Yuki's staring contest, she said, "Um, I don't think that I should stay for dinner."

"Nonsense! Of course you are." Kagura said from the doorway, next to her, stood, or rather, slumped Kyo, who looked a little more torn up than that afternoon. Kagura continued, "Kyo has been so nice to invite all of us!"

"I did no such thing!" Kyo yelled, but immediately quieted down after a glare from Kagura.

"Kyo! Where are your manners? It isn't every day that beautiful young ladies come to our home, and it certainly isn't every day that we have to opportunity to invite them to dinner!" Shigure said, a bit more dramatic that anyone in the room could handle. Tohru blushed at the comment because of her modesty and naïveté. Kagura was about to slam Shigure when someone from behind Shigure spoke up.

"Don't be a pervert Gure-nii." Rin said looking at Shigure.

"Rin! This day just gets better and better!" Shigure said in that happy-go-lucky tone that sickened Yuki.

"Why are all of these people here?" Momiji asked from the stairs.

"I don't know, I thought we were going to the Main House." Haru's voice could be heard, "Why are we at sensei's house? A mystery…"

"I think they're upstairs." A voice said that belonged to Kureno.

"Hallo!" Momiji's happy voice said when he saw everybody.

Kureno and Haru followed Momiji into Yuki's room and noticed the girls.

"What are they doing here?" Haru asked.

"You know, we didn't come to be scrutinized!" Uo said annoyed.

Kureno, being the nice and calm person that he is, apologized, "I'm sorry, it's rude of us to ask when we aren't the owners of this residence."

Uo looked at the man for a moment and looked away. She wasn't used to hearing such polite talk from people other than Tohru, so a boy who was as handsome as Kureno talking to her in such a kind tone surprised her.

"Are you having a party? How come I wasn't invited?" Momiji wined. Being the happy and curious bunny that he was, he requested introductions.

After introductions were made, Momiji took a special liking to Tohru.

"Can I hug you Tohru?" Momiji asked innocently.

"Of course!" Tohru asked.

Momiji shouted a "Yay!" and hugged Tohru tightly before anyone could stop him. He immediately puffed into a rabbit, yet Tohru still hugged him tightly.

"Oh, you're so cute!" Tohru gushed over the cute bunny in her arms.

Yuki's attention was finally caught on the brunette, cute? He hadn't met anyone who was willing to hug a person who transformed into an animal, much less a person who thought it cute.

"Kureno looked at the brunette in alarm. "How?" He managed.

"How long have you guys known?" Yuki asked.

"A while." Uo answered.

"You couldn't expect us to keep such a deep secret from our best friends do you?" Rin said, repeating what Kagura had answered earlier, but Rin added something directed at Yuki, "But then again, you probably don't. Considering how conceited you are."

There was a moment of silence as some people took in a sharp intake of breath. Yuki didn't allow the attack to affect his facial expression and simply said, "Could everyone please get out of my room?"

Everyone in the room realized that they were all still crowded in Yuki's room and they piled out.

Yuki was pained by Rin's words. He had isolated him self, but does his actions make him seem like a conceited person?

Tohru was still in the room, holding Momiji, who was surprisingly silent.

She walked up to Yuki and said, "She probably didn't mean that."

Yuki was startled that Tohru was still there and replied coolly, "No that I care."

Tohru frowned and said in a gentle tone, "You do, don't you? I can see it in your eyes. Caring about your image and how you treat others is good. It means that you do care; it's better than not caring. I think, if we showed a little more care for those around us, then the world would be a much better place."

Yuki looked up at Tohru for the first time, and this time, he saw her. Or at least, he caught a glimpse of her. For a fraction of a second, he thought that she was different, and the locked up place in his heart began to open. But after the moment was gone, he went back to himself, to the cold proud prince.

"You should probably go down before they finish everything." Yuki said.

Tohru saw that Yuki was slightly disgruntled by Rin's comment and wanted to make him feel better, but he'd probably just blow her off. She got up and putting Momiji down, left the room.

"I like her." Momiji said.

Yuki looked at his younger cousin and tried to smile. Even though Momiji ahs been through just as much turmoil and pain as any of the other zodiac members, he still had the ability to smile.

"I think she's right. If he knew how to care, you wouldn't be like this. But it's useless to think about what we don't have, because that clouds up the things that we do have access to. I know that you're still in there, the person that used to care." Momiji said.

Yuki looked at the rabbit in surprise, Momiji seemed so wise at times, Yuki felt immature in front of him at the moment.

"That person's gone." Yuki said after a while and left the room.

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Still a bit of writer's block left so this chapter's not so good. I promise to put up a better one next week.