All right, everyone. You're going to kill me after reading this chapter because it's getting so close, and you're going to kill me even more with the next one. LOL. We're getting close to the end. Bear with me. :)

Chapter 15

"So, you've run away to the dojo, huh?" Kazuma said gently as he stared at the boy in front of him, soaked to the bone with rain.

"Master, please, let me come live with you, I can't go back," Kyo said sorrowfully.

"Why is that?" Kazuma asked.

"I don't belong there, I'd just be in the way," he replied.

"In the way of what?" Kazuma questioned, slightly confused.

"Of Yuki and Tohru!" Kyo shouted. Now it fit and Kazuma understood situation perfectly.

"She doesn't return your feelings, does she?" he asked after a period of silence. This was also followed by silence as Kyo refused to answer the question. "It's all for the best, Kyo."

"How can you say that?" Kyo cried. "Tohru was the only on who accepted me for who I really am, a monster. Now she loves that damn rat, that, that damn Yuki!" He clenched his fists tightly. "What I don't understand is how she could say that we were becoming more than just friends."

"You are," Kazuma said.

"What do you mean?" Kyo demanded.

"You will see in time," the man replied mysteriously.

"This has something to do with these dreams I've been having, doesn't it?" he asked.

"Kyo, right now I think you need to go back to Shigure's house," Kazuma said, changing the subject instantly.

"In the rain?" he cried, knowing he wouldn't get anything more out of Kazuma. "Master, you know what the rain does to me."

"I'll drive you," he offered as Kyo slowly consented.

"Tohru, Yuki, you're both sopping wet!" Shigure cried as the two slowly walked into the house.

"Maybe that's because it's raining outside, Shigure," Yuki said sarcastically as he wrapped a blanket around Tohru's shivering body and then threw one over his own back.

"Dinner's ready and it's nice and hot to help warm you up," Kagura announced as she emerged from the kitchen with a tray full of food. Upon looking around the room her face automatically went from a huge smile to a frown. "Where's Kyo?" Tohru's eyes immediately filled with tears again.

"He ran off," she said softly. Surprisingly Kagura didn't seem worried.

"It's all right, Tohru, you don't need to worry, he'll be back, I think I have an idea of where he's gone," she said solemnly, setting the tray on the table.

Shigure had watched the whole scene silently and didn't dare to say a word. In this one moment he had seen a little bit further into Kagura's mind. Most of her actions were due to the fact that she was the boar of the Zodiac and as such her actions were normally aggressive. She never meant to be rough or hurtful; it was just in her nature. Kyo didn't accept that, and Shigure did understand how she could annoy him but if Kyo really tried to see her then he would understand how much se truly loved and cared for him. She also understood him more than he realized and could normally determine his every move. She loved him in spite of his cruelty to her and she ever accepted and loved him in his true form. Tohru had accepted him, she even loved him, but she didn't love him the way he had hoped or the two would have come back together. That only left one other person, Yuki. The wheels began to turn in Shigure's head as he took in this new found knowledge. When Kyo did come back there would be a lot of tension.

"Hatori, I think we should tell them," Kazuma said as he walked through the door of Hatori's office.

"Tell them, you mean Kyo and Tohru?" he asked as Kazuma nodded in conformation. "Why did you decide this all of a sudden?"

"Kyo came to the dojo a few weeks ago and told me about the dreams you said he's been having. I told him they were nothing but dreams and left it at that. He came to me yesterday though, sopping wet, with more bothering him than just the weather. It seems that Tohru loves Yuki and doesn't return Kyo's feelings. I saw pain in his eyes that had never been there before except for the time that I revealed his true form to Tohru. I think he would be able to accept her feelings for Yuki if he knew the truth, and I know Tohru must be in pain for hurting him, this would clear her conscience too. I just think that the pain involved in the truth if far less than the pain and tension the two are experiencing right now," Kazuma explained. Hatori nodded solemnly.

"Tohru had come to me with a dream as well, perhaps it is time," he said. "Where is Kyo now?"

"I sent him back to Shigure's house for the time being," Kazuma replied. "Hatori, what will Akito say?"

"I'll have to inform him of all that's happened before we can tell them," Hatori said. "I have a feeling he'll approve, Tohru's words are starting to impact him for the better."