Dun dun dun dun! Here it is! Chapter 4! This chappy doesn't really have Tohru and Yuki together but this is a very important chapter!

Chapter 4: An unexpected visitor

Yuki was the first one to wake up the next morning. It was only 7:00 A.M. not even Shigure was up yet, but he soon would be. He walked past Tohru's room, to find her door was slightly ajar. I shouldn't… Yuki thought to himself. Something came over him and he found himself opening Tohru's door.

He peered inside her room. Tohru was fast asleep. She looks so peaceful. Maybe just one kiss…

Yuki walked over to Tohru's bed and looked down at her. Kneeling down beside her he could barely hear her steady breathing, which had brought a smile to his face. Yuki leaned over Tohru, wishing he could just hold her, just once. That could never happen though. Not with the stupid family curse.

Yuki gently placed a kiss on Tohru's lips. When Yuki pulled away he could've sworn that he saw the faintest smile go across her face. Yuki, still leaning over her, was pining for her embrace. She'll never know… Yuki thought to himself.

He placed his arms around his onigiri and let himself feel the beauty of her embrace. Even if it was for just one second, he felt it. He felt his body against hers. Everything fit together. It was like his body was made for hers. Too bad for him though… he could hardly ever feel it.

A cloud of white smoke filled Tohru's room and the rat quickly hurried out.

Yuki quickly hurried into the laundry room, hoping that no one else in the house would wake up and see him as a rat, while Tohru was asleep. How would that make him look? Luckily Tohru had done a load of laundry a few days before and there was a change of clothes waiting for him.

Yuki was buttoning the top of his shirt as he walked into the kitchen.

"What could you possibly be doing this early Yuki?"

Yuki froze as the familiar voice filled his ears.

"Nothing… just getting dressed." He said as he turned around to find Shigure blocking to doorway to the living room.

"Well by all the noise you made running down here… I'd say that it was pretty important." Shigure said, a smirk on his face.

"I wasn't loud!"

"I guess you weren't… what was going on Yuki?"

"Nothing!" Yuki said, defending himself.

"Whatever you say… listen Yuki. We have to talk."

"What about?"

"About you and Tohru."

"What about us? Shigure…isn't it amazing! Tohru and I are finally together! Everything is so perfect!"

"That's what we have to talk about… I think Akito might have some suspicions."

"How could Akito possibly know anything…? Unless…" Yuki's voice trailed off, "What did you tell him?"

"I didn't say anything to him I swear! I just have this idea where he might think something is going on between you two."

"Shigure where is this going?"

"I just think that… well…"

"What are you trying to say?"

"I think that you and Tohru should slow down a little, you know. Just long enough to let Akito think everything is normal around here okay?"

"I could never possibly do that."

"You have to try."

"It's impossible."

"Just promise me that you'll try?"

Just as Yuki was about to answer Kyo stirred on the living room couch.

"NEVER AGAIN!" Kyo yelled.

"Could you at least be quiet?" Yuki asked, thinking of Tohru.

"Shut up ya damn rat!"

"Kyo… Tohru is sleeping. Why are you yelling?"

"NEVER AGAIN CAN I EVER BE IN THE SAME ROOM AS HER!"

"Are you talking about Kagura?"

"YES!"

"What did she do to you?"

"You don't even want to know!"

"You're right I probably don't." Yuki said.

"Kyo… your arm!"

"What's wrong with it?" Kyo said, frantically searching his arms.

"It's black and blue!"

"THAT'S IT! I'M NEVER EVEN GOING TO LOOK AT KAGURA ANYMORE!" Kyo stormed out of the room, as loud as ever.

Tohru appeared at the top of the stairs, "Why is Kyo yelling so loud in the morning already?"

"Nothing that you should worry about. Did you sleep well Tohru?" Yuki asked.

"Fine!" Tohru said cheerfully. Just by looking at Yuki she never would've guessed that he could be so romantic. Thinking back to the night before, she smiled to herself. He looked so innocent, and that's one of the reasons why Tohru fell in love with him.

"What are we going to do today?" Tohru asked Yuki. Shigure looked over at Yuki. Just by the way he stared at him you could tell he was trying to say, remember what we talked about.

"I actually have to help Shigure and Kyo today." Yuki lied. He hated lying to Tohru, but there was nothing else he could've done.

"Oh…" Tohru said half-heartedly, "That's okay. I'll just find something else to do…" Tohru looked at Yuki and put on a fake smile. She really wanted to be with Yuki all day, but if he had other things to do, then she couldn't stop him.

Tohru turned and left the kitchen, trying not to make it clear that she was disappointed. I understand that he has other things to do… I just didn't realize how attached I had become to him. She walked past Yuki's room, and peeked inside. The smell of his room reminded her so much of Yuki, that she didn't want to leave. The sound of footsteps coming up the stairs reached her ears, so she quickly hurried off into her room to pretend that she was doing something.

Yuki knocked on Tohru's door, "Tohru? Can I come in?"

"Of course!" Tohru replied, a little too eagerly. Yuki opened her door and stood in the doorframe. Inside her room, Tohru was busily putting clothes away from the night before.

"Listen… its not that I don't want to spend time with you it's just that-"

"You don't have to explain! It's okay! Family should come first so it's okay… really."

"Tohru, you know that I love you, right?"

"Of course I do… why did you have to make sure that I did?"

"I just wanted to be sure."

"Oh… well… I love you too." Yuki left Tohru's doorframe and walked over to her. He took the dress she was holding out of her hands and tossed it aside. Taking his right hand and intertwining his fingers with her left, he told her, "You are the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me Tohru. I don't want you to think even for a second that anything could happen to us." Yuki was acting strange but Tohru let it go. He was being so sincere that she tried to not notice anything different about him.

Yuki gave Tohru a passionate kiss. Tohru… nothing is going to happen to us, NEVER! You are the first person whom I've loved that has accepted me and loved me back. The only person I want to hold is you Tohru.

Tohru let herself be kissed. There was more passion in this kiss. Was Yuki trying to tell her something? If he was, Tohru couldn't figure it out… she was too transfixed by this kiss to have her mind be on anything else.

Yuki pulled away and brought himself close to Tohru's ear, "Meet me in the park at 7:30 tonight. I can't spend a whole day without you." Tohru nodded and smiled. Yuki backed up looked into her eyes and said, "Until then…" gave her a smile and walked out of Tohru's room.

Until then… Tohru thought to herself and continued on with cleaning up her room, a smile on her face.

"Goodbye everyone!" Tohru said as she left the house to go see Uo and Hana.

"Goodbye Tohru." Shigure said as he went into his office.

"Bye Yuki! Don't forget about later!" Tohru said excitedly.

"How could I possibly forget?"

"I was just checking!"

Yuki flashed her a smile, gave her a quick kiss, and let her go and meet up with her friends.

"There you are Tohru!" Uo exclaimed as Tohru walked up to her porch. Tohru ran up and gave her friend a hug.

"Where is Hana?" Tohru asked, searching the rest of the porch for her.

"Oh… she couldn't come today, she had some other things to do."

"Oh okay!"

"Well come inside… we don't have to stand on the porch." Uo invited.

Yuki stared at Shigure as he tried to convince Kyo to help him clean the house up.

"Why should I have to help clean? Why don't you get Yuki to do it?" Kyo complained.

"Yuki has already helped! All I'm asking you to do is sweep the floors. Is that too much to ask?"

"Why all of a sudden do you care about what our house looks like?"

"Someone is coming over today… this house has to be clean!"

Yuki looked over at Shigure, "What did you just say?"

"Someone is coming over today?"

"Yes… who is coming over?"

"Oh… just people." Shigure was obviously hiding something.

"People… or a person?" Yuki questioned. Kyo had stopped complaining because he wanted to know what this was all about.

"Nobody important!" Shigure was a terrible liar.

"It-it-it's him isn't it? Akito is coming over isn't he!"

"Now Yuki… just calm down. He just wants to talk."

"Hell he just wants to talk!" Yuki yelled. No way was Yuki going to talk to Akito. For all Yuki cared, Akito could die tomorrow and he wouldn't mind a bit. Yuki ran to the front door and quickly opened it.

"Well hello Yuki. Aren't you going to let me in?" Akito asked.

"So what have you been up to Tohru?" Uo asked her best friend.

"Nothing!" How am I going to tell her about Yuki? Tohru thought to herself.

"Has everyone been treating you okay over at Yuki's house?"

"Of course! Everything is perfect!"

"Wait a second… you never say something is perfect… what's going on?"

"What do you mean?"

"Something is going on with you that you haven't told me! So tell me!"

"Well… " Tohru started.

"Does it have to do with Kyo?"

"No…"

"How about Shigure… if it does deal with him, I'll kill him!" Uo said defensively.

"No! It doesn't have anything to do with him."

"Then it's Yuki isn't it?"

"Yuki?" Tohru blushed at the sound of his name.

"It so does! Tell me everything!" Uo said happily. Tohru sat down next to her friend and began to tell her everything.

"Why the hell are you here?"

"That's not a very nice way to greet your family is it now Yuki?" Akito spat.

"I wouldn't use that word like that." Yuki said, referring to the word family.

"Aren't you going to let me in?"

"No. You can just sit outside. No one is going to miss you."

"My, my Yuki. You have quite the anger built up in you. Maybe you should let some of it out." Akito challenged.

"Akito… I think you should just leave right now before I do something I may regret!" Yuki warned.

"Who is it Yuki?" Shigure asked as he walked over to the door in his usual kimono.

"Nobody important." Yuki replied. Shigure invited Akito in and told him to make himself comfortable. Akito brushed by Yuki's shoulder and Yuki could've sworn that he heard Akito whisper to him, "You better watch yourself Yuki… you wouldn't want anything bad to happen to your precious Tohru would you?" Yuki gave Akito a dirty look and thought to himself: Well we'll just see about that. Nothing is going to come between Tohru and me!

Uo looked at Tohru in awe, "He kissed you!"

"Uh-huh! I've felt so good when I'm with him too!" Tohru wondered why she left the part about Yuki telling her that he loved her.

"Aww! My little Tohru is growing up so fast! Since when have y'all been going together?"

"Not for too long. About 2 days."

"He better be treating you with respect!"

"Of course! He really is amazing Uo."

"These are the times that you are going to remember for the rest of your life!"

"What do you mean?" Tohru asked.

"You're going to look back on this and always remember that he was your first love."

"Do you really think so?"

"Of course! You never forget your first love. Haven't you ever heard that before?"

"No. I haven't." Tohru admitted.

"You didn't tell me what you wore for your first date… what did you wear anyway?"

"It was this pale yellow color skirt that came just below my knees…" Uo's mouth formed a smile. Tohru continued, "There was also a white halter top with-" Uo cut off Tohru. "Rhinestones in the shape of a butterfly in the corner." Uo finished her sentence for her.

"How did you know that?" Tohru questioned.

"Haven't you wondered who put that there for you?"

"Of course! Was it you?"

"I did put it there, yes. But the gift wasn't from me."

"Who was it from then?"

"So Yuki… I've heard some news about you and Miss. Honda. Would you care to say if any of it is true?" Akito asked.

"It depends. What have you heard?"

"Nothing false I believe. Tell me about Tohru, is she really your girlfriend?"

"I don't have to listen to you."

"Answer the question… is she your girlfriend or not?"

"Leave me alone!"

"That's okay… I already know the answer."

"You shouldn't believe everything you hear from people." Yuki snapped.

"Have I said something to offend you?"

"Listen! You are not just going to walk into my house like this and insult me!"

"But Yuki… I think I can." Akito smirked.

"What is that supposed to mean?"

"How much does Miss Honda mean to you?"

"What?"

"How much does Miss Honda mean to you?"

"I heard your question… why do you ask?"

"Just answer me…"

"More than you'll ever know."

"Good… that's what I thought."

"Who gave me it?" Tohru pleaded, wanting to know who gave her such a thoughtful gift.

"Your grandfather said that your mom left it for you. Well actually, she just kinda forgot about it after she had you. He found it stuffed in his closet is the way back. I think she left it there on purpose but your grandfather said that it was because she wanted to forget everything about her past." Tohru's eyes started to tear up.

"I didn't mean to make you cry…" Uo hugged her crying friend.

"Oh! You didn't make me cry… I was just thinking that's all."

"What about?"

"Nothing important. How long have you had it?"

"A little over 2 years now."

"Why didn't he just give it to me?"

"I don't know Tohru… but he really made it important to have it given to you when the time was right."

"How did you know when that time came?"

"I just knew when I saw how happy you were at Shigure's house, it was time that it was finally given to you. Your mom would've been do happy for you."

"I hope so…"

"I know so." Uo's smile gave Tohru a comforting felling. "C'mon, let's go make something to eat… I'm starving!" Tohru looked up at her friend. With a nod the two walked into the kitchen together.

"What's that supposed to mean?" Yuki demanded.

"You'll see in time." Akito promised. Akito got up from where he was sitting and spoke in a very quiet voice that was only loud enough for Yuki to hear.

"You can count on that promise. When I say something I mean it." Akito snickered. With a look of satisfaction, he left the same way he came in, unnoticed.

Yuki wanted to punch Akito right through his skull but he refrained. He knew that would only get him into deeper trouble with him. One day I'll be able to strike you, and I won't have any problem doing it either. It'll be for everything you have done in the past to me, and for whatever you're planning to do to Tohru.

Shigure walked into the room where Akito once was. "Where did Akito go?"

"Does anyone really care?" Yuki asked.

"I guess not…" Yuki walked right past him and went straight upstairs to his room.

Shigure walked outside after Akito, "What did you say to him?"

"Nothing that concerns you… now Shigure, why don't you mind your own business?" Akito sneered.

"You can't-" Shigure started.

"If you really want to know, ask Yuki. Although I doubt he'll tell you." Akito didn't even bother to look back. He continued to walk down the steps as if nothing had happened.

Yuki looked out his window as Akito made his way back to the Sohma house. This isn't happening… why does things have to end up this way? I just want to be happy with Tohru but everything and everybody, it seems, are just getting in the way. Yuki couldn't figure out what he was going to do. He had to keep his promise, he would never let anything bad happen to Tohru.

"Goodbye Uo!" Tohru called as she walked out of her house.

"Don't forget about what I told you!" Uo called back.

"What was it again?"

"Heh… how are you supposed to remember it when you can't even remember what I said?" Uo giggled. Tohru blushed but shook her head.

"You can never forget your first love." Uo reminded.

"Okay…!" Tohru said, not really knowing why Uo had made it such a huge point.

Uo watched her friend leave her house and walk down the street. There was something different about her, but Uo couldn't exactly figure out what it was.

Tohru walked down the street not really paying attention to where she was going. All of a sudden Tohru felt herself bump into somebody really hard. Tohru lost her balance and fell down to the pavement. Looking up, and ready to apologize, she recognized the face, it was the face of Akito Sohma.

A/N: AHH! A cliffhanger! Mwhahah! lol I'm sorry.. y'all can forgive me right? I'm going to be kinda busy this next week but about ½ of chapter 5 is already written, but I'm really going to try to be post it next week. Thanks to all of those who reviewed! Send questions! I'll answer them