Tohru approached the building at which her job was located. She smiles and walks in going into the changing room to change into her uniform and put an apron on. Her job was to clean everything. Throw the trash out, clean the floor, and clean the dishes, etcetera. But she had help from Momiji almost every night. His father owned the building so he worked there almost every day and night with Tohru.
She steadily walks over to a large trash bin just outside the building and drops two garbage bags into it. She dusts her hands together up and down to get whatever dirt remained on her skin. Tohru smiles and pulls the apron off and begins to make her way back into the building to change back into her regular clothes.
Upon changing she comes back outside and kind of skips down the sidewalk. Her eyes were some what closed so she was almost going down the path blindfolded at her own will.
A hand covers her face out of nowhere. "Watch where your going you dummy.." a familiar voice informs her. She smiles a little and opens her eyes. Through his fingers she could see that it was Kyo. Nodding she makes a little 'uh humh' sound. "I've told you before that it's not safe for a girl to be walking around here at night. Especially one like you.." He says sounding a little annoyed.
She smiles at him a little and nods. "Okay Kyo-kun." Responds Tohru sounding just as nice and sweet as she usually does, even with his hand on her face.
He pulls his hand off her and brings it up to his forehead. Running his fingers up into his hair a little. "Ahhh, I don't mean it that way!" He slightly yells. Tohru flinches for a second then smiles again. "Do you understand what I mean!" Kyo questions irritation in his voice.
"Of course Kyo-kun," Tohru answers him happily, her eyes closed as she beams, slightly blushing.
Kyo flails his hands around in front of him. "YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND DO YOU!" He questions almost getting angry. She opens her eyes and stares at him. Looking down she shakes her head sorrowfully. "AAHH! No! No, I didn't mean to get like this!" Cat-san covers his face with his hands almost confusing himself.
Tohru looks at him and blushes a little; reaching for his hands she pulls them down gently. She smiles at him, meeting his eyes as she looks up at him. Tohru stood very close to him, as she did have to grab his hands. His face got red quickly as he looked back at her. "I…I… I always get like this don't I…" he mumbles to her shyly.
Nodding, Tohru smiles once more, it was like she couldn't help it. Meeting his eyes she responds to him, her voice soft and understanding, "Kyo-kun…you are you." She tilts her head to the side a little, closing her eyes. "If you didn't act the way you do, you'd be just like everyone else. You'd be like the other juunishi." Opening her eyes she looks up at the sky turning her back to him, clasping her hands together in thought. "Plus, I like you just the way you are. Even if you can't just come out and say what's on your mind some times." She spins around and looks up at him, leaning forward, her hands still closed together. Still looking up at him she stayed in that position. "Your special that way. I feel closer to you then the other members of the zodiac." A large smile crossed her face.
Kyo stares at her, a little taken aback. He couldn't figure out how she comes up with such…nice things to say to him. Was she like this when she talked to everyone else? Special? "Does she think I'm retarded?" He thinks to himself and stares at her once more. A small smile crossed his lips. "Your really confusing sometimes Tohru. But…" he pauses slightly and grins, "you act so nice... that…it kind of masks of the strange things you say."
"Thank you! Thank you Kyo-kun!" She was so cheerful as she said this. Tohru laughs joyfully.
He brings his arm up and hits her on top of the head. "Come on…" he laughs after hitting her. "Hoyi..." she coughs out making that sound only a second time ever. The last time she had made that sound she was trying to take the script from the play back. Kyo grabs her hand quickly and starts walking. "I said 'come on' don't just stand there." He pulls her along and they cut into the forest toward Shigure's house, the whole forest was basically owned by the Sohma Estate.
It took about twenty minutes to get to the house. The entire way Kyo was completely red. He didn't turn to look at her once the whole time. They both just gazed straight ahead of them, as if they didn't expect anything to happen. A loud crack is heard and Tohru jumps and clings to Kyo's arm. No more then a second later did Kyo have a pinkish smoke surround him and he became a cat.
She panics and drops to her knees, her legs spread in almost opposite directions. "I'm so, so, so sorry Kyo-kun!" she was almost pleading with him. Then again, she always got like this whenever she accidentally bumped into him, or hugged him in any way. Could it be that she was that afraid of someone seeing him and having her memory wiped.
"It's okay…" he waves his cat paw around forgivingly. "Um…can you carry me and my clothes?" Kyo asks looking around, he walks and stands on his clothes.
Rubbing her eyes she puts a gentle grin on her face. "Okay Kyo-kun…" she gathers up him and his clothes in her arms and keeps him close. He rested his head against her arm a little and sighed.
"I feel so dumb, having you carry me!" He shouts having those anger marks appear on the side of his head. Tohru just brings her hand up a little and pets his head gently. "Eh…thanks…" he whispers almost silently to her.
Tohru arrived at the house only to see Hatsuharu and Rin sitting on the wooden made ground just before the entrance. They were on the steps and seemed to be in deep conversation. She sighs and realizes that it was the only way to get in. So, she walked up to them, still holding Kyo and tried to get around them.
Haru grabs her by the ankle almost making her fall. "What's that in your arms?" He questions her, his other hand enlaced with Rin's.
"N-nothing!" Tohru replies, her eyes getting small in some kind of new-frightened manner. "It's just my uniform from work! Yeah that's it. My uniform!" She says quickly trying to shake her ankle free from Haru's grasp.
"Let her go Haru! You damn dumbass it's me!" Kyo pops his cathead up from under Tohru's hand. "Okay? Going fricken black on us out of nowhere!" He yells at him catching Haru by surprised.
He grins and blinks a couple of times. Releasing Tohru's ankle he leans against the wooden step behind him that led flat into the house after it. "Can't wait to tell everyone inside about you getting carried around by Tohru…" Haa-chan mocks a little, clearly still in his black form. "The stupid, sleepy cat getting carried around." Looking at Rin he laughs, making her laugh with him.
"You damn idiot! That's it Tohru! Put me down, right…now!" He wriggled around in her arms a little trying to squirm out of her grasp. "I'll tear your young ass apart you got that!" He screams at Haru, his cat form turning red in anger.
Tohru holds him down in his arms. "Calm down Kyo-kun…" She ran up the steps and inside as quick as possible, slipping her shoes off and putting Kyo's shoes beside her's and Yuki's. She sets him down on the ground. Smiling she walks upstairs and leads Kyo to his room, which was just a few feet down the hall from her room. Placing his clothes on his bed she walks out.
"Good night Kyo-kun. Sleep," she pauses yawning a little. "Sleep well." Walking out of his room, she closes the door gently behind her.
Kyo poofs back to his human form and quickly put his change of clothes on. So he was now in his so called 'pajamas' which was a loose white shirt and long loose black pants. He lies down and grumbles on as she tries to go to sleep about how stupid Haru is when he turns black and such. Then…he suddenly felt like he could hear Akito laughing at him, mocking him as well. "She…can trust me to be by her side, but…what will happen if … I don't win. What then… how would she be able to trust me then." As he slept he remembered Tohru's kind words. 'Your special that way. I feel closer to you then I do to any of the other members.' He slept hearing her sweet voice ringing through his mind.