Author's Note: I know you people probably hate me for not updating for a long time. But this time I have a good reason! And it's not writers block, surprisingly! It was the 6th Harry Potter book. All I did was read it the entire weekend it came out (Good book, by the way). I didn't have time to write or to get on the computer when I had my book. But I finished it, and I can dedicate my time to writing. Although I now have a trampoline, and my mom says if I don't use it, she'll take my computer away (She only bought it so I would quit hanging out on my computer all of the time). So I guess I'll have to take breaks from writing to go and jump on it, or there won't be any updates at all.

Author's Note 2: This is a very short chapter, for which I am sorry. I think the next chapter will be short as well. I could have combined them, but it just didn't seem to fit with having them in the same chapter. But now my story is going to be 12 chapters! I have had so many people begging me to make my story longer than 10 chapters, and now I have! But that means that I have two short chapters. Stupid short chapters!

Chapter 9

Kyo was watching an old anime with Tani in the hotel room they were staying in. It was the second to last day of Kyo's trip, and he had already visited everyone in his family except for Yuki and Tohru. He was dreading that visit the most. Kyo wasn't sure if he could take seeing either of them knowing that he'd caused their divorce.

He was also thinking about whether or not he should bring his girlfriend along on his trip to visit Tohru later that day. Kyo knew that Tohru would want to meet Tani, but what Shigure had told him kept on playing over and over again in his head...

"...I figured it wasn't such a good thing to bring Tani along. If Tohru saw you with someone else before she was ready to, I don't think that would be the best thing for her. I mean, she divorced her husband for you..."

"You know, that guys voice doesn't match his character," said Tani, who was lying with her head on Kyo's chest. She looked up when he didn't answer her. His eyes were glazed over in thought. "What're you thinking about?"

Kyo was snapped back to attention. "Oh, nothing." He sat for another moment, still deciding. Kyo would have to chose soon, because he was planning on leaving in about 10 minutes. She can't come, he thought. I'll go alone. I think it would be more difficult if she came with me. Kyo decided that was his final decision. She wouldn't come with him. He would see how Tohru was, and if Kyo thought she could handle it, he would introduce her to Tani. "Listen, Tani. Why don't you go to the mall today? You told me you wanted to go there before we left. I thought you could go while I went to see Tohru."

She gave him a suspicious look and sat up. "I thought we could go after we got back," she said. "I was planning on us going together."

"Well, I just think it would be better if it was only me visiting Tohru today," Kyo explained truthfully. He realized that if he just told Tani why, she would most likely accept it. "At least until I see how she's handling her divorce. If she's taking it well, I'll call you on your cell, and you can come over to meet her." He could tell Tani was unsure. "I just don't want Tohru to have a breakdown." Kyo then dropped his voice to a mutter. "She divorced Yuki because of me, and I'm not sure she'd be okay with me showing you to her."

"Okay, Kyo," Tani replied after a moment of silence. She stood up and grabbed Kyo's jacket for him. "I'll go to the mall. You may visit Tohru on your own."

"Thanks for understanding, Tani," Kyo said gratefully. He stood up and stepped towards her, tilting her head towards his and kissing her.

She pulled away after a short while and told him, "You should probably get going." He nodded. Kyo told Tani good-bye, accepted his jacket from her and left the hotel room and headed for Tohru and Yuki's home, or what Kyo knew to be Tohru and Yuki's home. He was positive it didn't belong to both of them, anymore. Kyo wished more than anything that Tohru had gotten the house, so that he wouldn't have to talk to Yuki to get Tohru's new address.

But luck wasn't with Kyo. When he knocked on the door, Yuki was the one who answered. And the former rat was not happy to see him.

"What are you doing here?" Yuki asked,with avoicefull ofmalice, after he opened the door.

"Visiting," Kyo replied calmly.

"Why?"

"I wanted to se my cousin," Kyo lied. This is the only way I'll get Tohru's address.

"Come in," Yuki responded in a false positive, disbelievingvoice. Kyo walked into the house. He noted that Yuki's home was a lot less tidy than it had been when Tohru had lived there. Kyo figured either Yuki was, as he was before Tohru had moved in with Shigure in high school, too lazy to clean or not feeling up to it after his recent divorce.

Kyo sat down on the same cerulean couch. Looks like Yuki got everything in the house, too. "So how have you been, cousin?"

Yuki didn't answer. "Would you like something to drink?" He was still forcing a kind voice towards Kyo. Kyo shook his head.

"You haven't answered my question," Kyo said after Yuki had sat down. "How have you been?"

Yuki instantly dropped the polite voice and glared at Kyo. "Shut up! You know how I've been!"

Kyo remained silent. He'd known that if he met up with Yuki, he would be scolded. Kyo decided that he would just let Yuki yell at him, and that it would be best to remain silent. It was soundless in the room for a moment.

"It's your fault," Yuki said quietly. Kyo looked down at the ground. Yuki raised his voice. "She only left me, because you had to remind her of that night!" Kyo glanced up quickly at Yuki to see that his eyes were filling with the beginning of tears. "We were happy until you did. If you hadn't..." Yuki trailed off and Kyo looked up again to see streaks of tears on Yuki's cheeks.

Kyo couldn't take being silent any longer. "I know you're mad at me-"

"Damn right, I am."

"-And you have every right to be. But you don't have the right to yell at me for it," Kyo told him sternly. "I told her to stay with you."

Yuki shook his head in disbelief. "No you didn't. I know you loved her, too. You wouldn't have told her to stay with me when it meant that you couldn't have her."

"But I did," Kyo said angrily.

"Why, then?" Yuki asked. "Why would you do that?"

Kyo was quiet for a moment. "Because I didn't want to put Samantha in the middle of it."

"What does Sam have to do with this?"

"She knew all along that you and Tohru were fighting," Kyo explained. "It upset her, and I knew that if you two split up, it would be horrible for Sam."

"She knew?" Yuki said to himself.

"Yeah. She's a lot smarter than either of you thought," Kyo replied. "I wanted Samantha to grow up in a complete family. I didn't want to see another Sohma's childhood ruined because of troubled parents."

"She could have had a complete family," said Yuki with a slight hint of annoyance in his voice. "I mean, if you would have taken Tohru a year ago, Sam could have had you as a father."

"Well, I thought that since Tohru and I were both with someone else, we could simplify things by keeping to those people," Kyo explained. "I thought that Tohru would have done something to fix her relationship. But I was wrong. She didn't want to fix it." Yuki's face was expressionless as Kyo told him these things. "She didn't try. She didn't want to try. She gave up. I thought she would have been strong, but she surrendered." Yuki didn't say anything, his face remained emotionless, but his eyes were welling up as Kyo spoke.

Kyo stood up and began to walk towards the door. He stopped as he was about to walk out and turned to look at Yuki, still sitting in a chair beyond the doorway. "Look. I'm sorry that I made her remember about me. That I can apologize for. But I can't apologize for her leaving you. I told her to stay, but she wasn't willing to. You can't blame me for that." He opened the door and walked out of the house.

The only problem now is that I don't know where Tohru lives, Kyo realized as he walked down the street. I suppose I could look it up in the phone book...

He walked up to the nearest phone booth and looked up Tohru's name in the long list of people. Luckily, the book was printed only a few months before, so it gave him her current address. Kyo placed the phone book back on the stand in the booth and continued walking, this time knowing where he was headed.

(Again, I am so sorry for such a short chapter! Please forgive me!)

And a special thanks to my reviewers!

MacDuffyGirl: lol. I find that funny. I have done that several times when something I want to happen in a fic does happen. Then my parents look at me funny and ask me what happened. I then explain the part I liked about the fic without explaining anything else. That only makes them question me further.

Cassie: Well, thank you for the wonderful compliment! I'm sorry your parents split. I don't think anybody should have to go through that. I try to update whenever I finish the editing for the story. I then go straight to FF and post it. So I go as fast as I can. Anyways, so many people have asked me how I come up with my ideas for my stories. I can never give them an answer because most of my ideas just pop into my head while I'm sitting on my couch, doing nothing. But the idea for this story came while I was watching the music video for Simple Plan's song, Addicted. I just thought to myself, "What if Kyo had to go through this?" Then I planned out the background info to the best I could and wrote the story. So it's safe to say that the easiest stories to write are song fics. Just listen to a song, and put whatever character you want into the singers position. The story basically writes itself. That's all the advice I have. Write a song fic if your just getting started. (Wow. That was a long reply.)

Soccergirl869: Yeah, I hate to put Kyo through torture, but it's for the sake of my art. I have no choice... Sorry, dramatic moment, there. Anyways. Yes, Tani is in a rather compromising situation, isn't she? But fear not, for all shall be well in the end.

Fallen Angel: Yeah, I should probably follow that advice. Although, I think I might have a hard time doing so as my sleeplessness is returning. Oh well.

InUyAsHaLuVaH91: Yes, Kyo is great. I love him, too! Anyways, thanks for reading and reviewing, and I hope you like the rest of my story!

Unchained3011: I'm glad you like it! I thought it would be useless to say you'll find out in the next chapter, since all of the answers were in this one. Thanks for reviewing!

Furubaluver: Yes, they're all pity-worthy. I don't know about Tani and Yuki getting together, but it's an interesting idea. Hmm... I'll have to think on that one. It could be a possibility.

Karen: I'm sorry! I wish I could have more chapters, too! But I can't think of a way to make it any longer. It would get boring. I have read several fics in which the author doesn't know where to end the story, and they just drag the story on and on and on. I don't want people to stop reading my story because it gets boring. Unless you can think of a way to make it longer, then it will end in a few more chapters. But I do have other stories I'm working on, and once I finish this fic, I'm going to start posting those ones. So you can still read my work. They just wont be apart of this story. I suppose I could write a sequel to this story...

Aria's Star: Why, thank you. Yeah, knowing that you split two people up would make anybody feel bad. Anyways, if someone tells me to do something, I am one of those people who won't do it because I don't like being ordered around. And after I stopped asking for reviews, I got more. I'm beginning to think that the reviewers are the same way I am. Maybe if you stop asking they'll review more. Just a suggestion...

InUyAsHaLuVaH91: You have caught up to the rest of the reviewers! Yay for you. Anyways. There will be one or two more chapters after this one. Or maybe just one, and then a sequel. But whatever. I'm glad I'm one of your favourites!

Evilinupunk: You really are psychic! That has happened to me a few times. And then I think, 'Wow, I have been here before. De Ja Vu!" Anyways, glad you have your internet back and thanks for reviewing!

RayxJade: It seems like all of my reviewers have difficulty getting to a computer these days. Oh well. Just as long as they read the story eventually, right?

Deathwaitsfornoone: I instead of E in dilemma (Sorry, but you know how I am about spelling). Anyways, yes I did. I was trying to stick to canon (following the original plot lines) pairings. That meant Haru would be with Rin. And I didn't want to make it complicated by adding a character that would never again appear in the story. So I just stuck with Rin. And what does grated cheese have to do with anything?

KinokeGurl: Yes, I felt bad for making them split up, but I had to. As you said, this is a Kyoru fic and if Tohru was married, it would be rather difficult to have Kyo and Tohru end up together without getting adultery involved into my fic and I didn't want to do that.

Escapade08: Thanks for the compliments! You will see what happens in the end and I hope your not disappointed by how I end it.