Chapter 15: Fall Upon Confession

Disclaimer: I do not own Furuba… and I probably never will.

This is most likely the chapter all Kyo x Tohru lovers have been waiting for. Or… maybe it isn't… dun dun dun! I seriously love the chapter now. It has a lot of meaning further in the chapter!

The moment their eyes met, the both of them got red from blushing. Kyo was fishing for the words in his throat. He couldn't find what he was about to say. It was as though he was suddenly speechless.

"Yes Kyo-kun?" She asks as she sees that he wasn't saying anything. When she had heard her name just seconds ago, he sounded as if it was very important. Tohru was getting more and more curious by the moment. Every second that passed that he didn't say anything, made her even more eager. "Is… there something you wanted to ask me, Kyo?" Her tone of voice changed slowly, she wanted to know, but she didn't want to force it out of him, she sounded very soothing.

He continues to stare into her eyes; Kyo was still at a loss for words. Feeling her hand take hold of his, he shakes his head and looks at her hand. It was as though he was in a trance when he was looking at her. Not pulling his hand away he lifts his head back up to meet her eyes once more. "T-Tohru…." He says again, feeling almost breathless.

Unknowingly, Yuki was standing outside his door, in his rat form from him getting so nervous. His ear was gently pressing against Kyo's door, once again, he was eavesdropping on someone. But this time, with her and Kyo alone in a room together, he was under the assumption that he would finally tell Tohru how he feels before he, Yuki, got the chance to. The feeling of barging in before Kyo got anything out of his mouth ran through his veins at an extremely quick pace. His little rat hands push against the door gently, trying to open it a bit.

Carefully, Kyo brings his other hand up and places it on Tohru's shoulder. He smiles at her, seeming somewhat happy and more then likely, nervous. She returns his smiles with her very own cheerful one. "Maybe, Kyo…. Maybe I should go first. " Tohru tilts her head a little, eyes closed as she smiles brightly.

"Okay." Was all Kyo says as she reopens her eyes and moves a little closer.

Looking down for a moment, she lifts her head back up to look at him. "Kyo-kun… I didn't think I'd ever…" she stops for a moment and sees that his eyes were slowly becoming a little glazy. A gentle smile crosses her face and she steps a little closer. On impulse, he steps back and looks at her. Tohru continues to smile, then stops and continues on, "Love anyone… as much as I do… but…" Tohru pauses again and he was beginning to look very anxious.

"But… you like Yuki don't you…" he says quietly, looking down at the ground. Inside him he couldn't help but be furious. She tilts her head and stares at him softly. He kept his head down, flames getting ready to flare up in his chest. He had good reason to hate Yuki all these years, and now, another was added. His hand drops from her shoulder and he walks over to the window in his room. He slides it open.

She reaches out to grab him, but before she was able to grab his shirt he was already opening the window. Finally, she looks down and tears began to swell up inside of her. "KYO!" She yells desperately. "I love you…not Yuki-kun!" Hearing this Kyo slowly turns around and stares at her. Tears were already rolling down his cheek in tiny spheres. She smiles at him and moves her feet to walk closer to him. He was breathing slightly harder then she had ever seen. Clearly he was too nervous to ever say anything, even though he was the one that stopped her from leaving his room.

Yuki stood at the door, still in his rat form. He sighs sadly and suddenly changes back into his human state. Quickly, as if rushing, he puts his clothes on and continues to listen at the door. He couldn't understand why she would love him and not he. It didn't seem right. He was the one that from the beginning respected her. I made sure I took care of her. Wasn't Kyo the one that cut her forehead with a table in anger by throwing his fist through it? Wasn't it Kyo that hurt her feelings so many times by talking to her wrongly? How could she choose him over me? Other then the fact that I see her more as a mother I never had… I love her more then anything and everything. How… why… why is she choosing him? Is there something better about him? Yuki asks himself all these questions in his thoughts. He couldn't believe what was going on. The words that had so smoothly flowed from her mouth were hurting him now. It was the first time in a very long time that Yuki was jealous of Kyo. The last, and still current jealousy is the fact that Kyo can adjust well to his surroundings and make friends quicker then him.

Slowly, Kyo walks towards Tohru until he is exactly a foot away. He looks down at her and places his hand on the side of her face, running his hand down so his fingers run gently through her hair. "I… l-l…la… love you too…" he stutters finding himself almost unable to say the word 'love'.

At the sound of Kyo's voice, Yuki found himself sighing deeply, in a very solemn way. He slowly walks off to his own room, and slams the door behind him as he enters it. For the reason of Kyo telling Tohru how he feels, he felt his hatred for him growing enormously. Carefully he lies on his bed and stares at the ceiling full of despise and sadness.

As if in fear, Kyo leans in, about to kiss her on the lips. Tohru, knowing exactly what he was about to do closes her eyes and waits. Suddenly she hears him take a step back and look at her sadly. Her eyes open and stare at him curiously. "Wha… What's wrong Kyo-kun?" She asks wondering if she was doing something wrong.

He wipes his face with the back of his hand, the feeling of weakness ripped at his hard like a lion at it's pray. How was he going to tell her this? As if being locked away at the end of the school year wasn't enough, he'd have to admit something else to her now. So much in life can block your path. Barriers, fences, gates, people… When you feel as though you are so close, and nothing and no one can stop you, you end up running face first into an invisible wall that has always seemed to be there. Everything is always within your grasp until you mentally or physically find something to stop you. This time there was more then just one thing stopping Kyo from being with Tohru. One was the fact that he would soon be locked away unless he miraculously beats Yuki, which he had actually almost given up trying, and two was the fact that there was something he should have told her the day he remembered it. The day he realized it was her. He hears her whisper his name once more. He looks at her, and another tear rolls out of his eye and onto the floor before him. "Tohru… I'm so sorry…." He whispers sadly. "It's all my fault… that… you've been so sad…." Kyo adds making Tohru look at him with an even more confused expression. He shakes his head gently and decides to finally just spit it out. "TOHRU! IT'S MY FAULT YOUR MOTHER DIED!" He drops to his knees and stares at the ground, pounding his fist into the floor extremely mad at himself. At his choices from the past. "When I was younger…. I knew your mom Tohru…" Kyo says through his tears. "She made me promise to take care of you if anything ever happened… and… I happened. I ran into the middle of the road… HER CAR SWERVED" He yells dropping his head against the ground. "I'm so sorry…." He chokes out almost crying more then earlier.

She stares at him, almost in disbelief. Everything he had just said was beginning to confuse her… but make her sad at the same instant. Slowly, she walks over to him and kneels down in front of him. She looks at him sorrowfully and lifts his head up by his chin, her finger under it. "Kyo-kun… it's not your fault… it…" tears began to drip from her eyes now, "Don't blame yourself… you were younger then." She gently buries her face in his shoulder. She was crying into his almost bare shoulder since he was wearing a sleeveless tee shirt. "You… You can take care of me… just like my mother made you promise Kyo-kun!" She says through her tears; as if her voice wasn't muffled enough by having her face in his shoulder, but it was getting sore from all the talking they've been doing. Suddenly, his other hand touches the back of her head and holds her head on his shoulder. Since they weren't too close to embracing, he didn't transform. "Kyo… I … I love you too much to let something that happened a while ago to come between us. I bet my mom forgives you…." Tohru whispers to him quietly, her tears gradually subsiding.

He rests his head against the top of her's gently. "I hope so Tohru…" he mutters softly, kissing her head. She blushes a little and hugs him, her arms under his arms. Almost four minutes later he finally transforms into his cat form and purrs, nestling into her arms.

"Kyo…." She smiles and kisses his forehead. "You should go to bed now…. I'll… see you tomorrow. I'm going to go downstairs and take care of Katsuro." Tohru smiles at him and lays on him his bed and places his clothes on top of him. Petting his head gently she leaves his room slowly as if at any moment she'd run back to him and continue to spill out her emotions. She felt, now, that she could literally tell Kyo everything and anything she wanted. She now knew that she was in love with someone that cares about her very deeply. Suddenly, she comes to a stop just at the edge of the staircase. I wonder what Uo-chan and Hana-chan will say when I tell them that I love Kyo and that he loves me…. For now, she was going to put those thoughts on hold and ask Kyo some other time if he would mind her telling Arisa and Saki. Carefully, she makes her way downstairs and sees Katsuro playing Dai Hin Min with Haru who had come over without notice. Approaching them a smile gently crosses her face and she sits down beside Katsuro. He was at her bedside the whole time while she was hurt over the vacation to see if she needed anything while anyone else was out. Katsuro was gradually adjusting to life without parents, but he just acts as if they were his family and Tohru and Kyo were his parents.

After a few more turns in the game it ended and Haru and Katsuro begin to insist upon her playing with them. Haru, without saying anything or showing that he knew, was able to tell that Tohru was crying earlier. But… something about her dully-damp face was telling him it was nothing to worry about. They played for nearly an hour before she had to stop and go into the kitchen to make dinner.

At the kitchen table sat Shigure who was on the phone talking to his editor again. She giggles a little while she's making dinner being able to hear what the editor was saying since Shigure had the phone on speaker. "Yes… Yes… you keep telling me about the deadline…" he says sighing a little.

"YOUR THREE MONTHS PAST YOUR DEADLINE SIR! PLEASE! WRITE! I'LL GO OVER THERE AND HAND YOU A PEN!" She exclaims pleading with him. He waves his hands around as if she could see she says, "Your hands….they're moving!" her voice was almost expressing astonishment. Shigure slaps his forehead and presses the 'off' button on the phone.

Sighing a little he glances at Tohru. "Ah.. Toh-ruuu!" He says almost singing out her name. She smiles and looks at him wondering what he was going to say. He gets to his feet and walks over to her, opening the refrigerator to pull out a half empty package of fish and container of left over fried rice. "How is that dumb old cat?" Shigure asks curiously, noticing a few different things about Tohru. She was looking even more happy (imagine that) then usual. It was as if almost nothing could upset her. What did Kyo-kun say? He asks himself curiously.

"You mean Kyo-kun!" She says almost sounding angry, but then again, maybe she was just trying to cut the fish that Shigure had taken out of the fridge. "He's doing fine…" Then, without warning, she stops and drops the knife on the ground incidentally. "I'm so sorry Shigure-kun…" she says quickly, the knife sticking out of the kitchen floor.

He waves his hand slightly and says, "It's okay Tohru-chan!" There was something he was hiding now, and if she found out everything could possibly get crazy. Especially if she was to tell Kyo about what he knew. It slowly came to his mind that Yuki had to have known by now. By the way Akito brutally beat him, it must have been about him questioning her decisions. A smooth grin appears across his face and he leaves the kitchen without so much as helping Tohru get the knife out of the floor.

She watches him leave in complete suspicion. There was definitely something he was hiding from everyone. And, no sooner had Shigure left the room, did Yuki walk into the kitchen and tug the knife out of the ground and place it in the sink. A soft smile crosses his face and he walks to the table and sits down in a chair. "So… you like Kyo…." He says practically out of nowhere.

In utter surprise, she looks at him and tried to decipher his expression. Was… he listening in on our conversation…? She asks herself in her confused thoughts. Slowly she stops frying the fish and turns the stove off, carefully slipping into a chair across from Yuki. "Were you… listening to me and Kyo talking…" she asks curiously. He sighs and stares down at the table becoming very ashamed. Sighing as well she adds quietly, "It's okay." Then, she comes to the conclusion that she will answer his question. "Yes… I like Kyo-kun…" her voice trails off as she sees Kagura walk into the kitchen and sit between the both of them. Clearly she must have been able to hear what Tohru said but it was as though she wasn't paying attention when she heard Kyo's name spoken.

Kagura looks at Tohru and smiles happily. "He told me… just before you got home Tohru-chan." She didn't sound the way Tohru had expected she would upon hearing that Kyo didn't love her and instead loved Tohru. "I'm happy for both of you. You're so lucky Tohru-chan. He's so nice after a while. It … just takes him a little while. " Kagura says this trying to act as though none of them except her knew this. She truly was very happy for them. It was as though she knew that as much as she was to try, Kyo would always love Tohru and choose to be only her friend and not her love. "I envy you Tohru-chan!" She says making the both of them laugh. They joked around a little after that, leaving Yuki to just sit there as if he were invisible. Though, whenever Tohru spoke to him he ignored the both of them.

Quietly, Tohru gets up from the chair she was originally seated in and walks back to the stove and continues to cook the fish, putting the rice in another bowl and into the microwave. The fish began to softly sizzle, the sound making Kagura's ear twitch a little, making her giggle quietly and slowly walk out of the room saying an almost silent, 'Good-bye' to Tohru.

The food was on the table set up in seven separate plates neatly. Haru and Kagura were over so they ate as well. Katsuro was permanently staying there unless he was to decide otherwise. All of them ate peacefully, not a word flung at anyone. Katsuro was very polite to everyone as always. From right to left around the table sat: Shigure at the head of the table, Yuki, Kagura, Katsuro, Tohru, Kyo, and at the opposite end of the head of the table was Haru. Each of them eventually got out and either dumped the food they didn't finish into the garbage, or just placed the plate in the sink after cleaning it off. Either way, the plates went into the sink to be later cleaned that night by Tohru and most likely the very helpful people: Katsuro and Kagura.

Kyo sat on the roof, staring out at the sky calmly. His left leg was pulled up a little so his foot was placed completely on shingles of the roof; his other leg however was completely outstretched in front of him. A soft smile leapt onto his face until he saw someone circling the area in the trees.

I wonder if I just made this chapter end in a slight Cliff Hanger. I don't know. But nonetheless I hope everyone enjoyed. It took me a while to begin this chapter. Have no fear as I obviously finished! Mwahhaha! And I got like five reviewers to thank that reviewed my 14th chapter! I'm curious… does anyone even like the chapter titles I choose? (laughs) Oh, and this is the most reviews I've ever gotten on a chapter! Yesh!

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Tohruismyoneechan: Exciting huh? Thank god I changed the genre to Romance and Suspense, ha ha. Well, here's that update! Please enjoy and continue to R&R

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Purejoy: Yes… Yes… the dreadful cliffie appeared! I'm sorry about that, I just felt it was the perfect way to end the 14th chapter so that I can pretty much type whatever I felt like in the 15th. I think this one sorta ends in a cliffhanger… not sure really. Thank you for enjoying this story so much! Please continue to R&R

KCscooter: Thank you as well, lol. And you are definitely another person that wants a Sequel. What am I going to do with you and Ultimate-Furuba-Freak….. :thinks: Okay… I guess I'm going to type a sequel. I should come up with the name now. And this chapter is what happens next! WoOT!

K40Sohma: Whoa…. Lots of 'No No No'. Ash-chan…. You sound like Tohru when she repeatedly…. Um… repeats herself, lol. Well! You didn't have to wait long cause this is chapter 15! Lol. Hope you enjoy the rest of the story; please continue to R&R

YoukaiOnigiri: Get this… I finished this chapter at 12 Wednesday night! Lol. I couldn't stop typing! Don't worry…. we all hate the gender bender known as Akito. It's like a permanent feeling (laughs). Continue to R&R. And I love the Kyo X Tohru pairing. For some reason when I type these chapters… I feel like they get a lot of depth….