A/N: You guys don't hate me! And you gave me great reviews! Thanks you guys! It's Friday now, at least in my part of the world. So I'll try to finish it up by today and put it up! It's 2.30 in the afternoon. I'll just spend the afternoon finishing this up!
Chapter 7:
"Ehh… Kyo-kun! I couldn't take lessons from you! It would be too much trouble for you! What if I wasn't able to learn it! Then I would be wasting your time! I can't I can't!" And on and on she went. Kyo sweat dropped. "Shut it will ya? If you will be wasting my time, do you think I would be asking you if you wanted lessons already? Geez, I'm not that busy alright? So do you want lessons or not?" He asked gruffly. She broke out into one of her signature grins. "I'd love to have lessons with you!"
Kyo waited for Tohru outside her locker. They agreed that they would have lessons every Monday, as that was the only day that Tohru would not have to work. Tohru soon came into sight with her psycho friends Uo and Hana. Kyo never really talked to them, he found them weird. But then, he had initially thought Tohru was weird.
"Hello Kyo-kun! Sorry to have made you wait long!" Tohru bounded up to Kyo with a big smile on her face. "Ahh… I haven't been waiting long. Can we go now?" He replied gruffly. "Okay! Bye Uo! Bye Hana! See you guys tomorrow!" Tohru said to her friends.
"Hey you! Don't try anything funny, or I'll see to it that you pay!" Uo said to Kyo. "Yes. Please kindly do not do that. Or you will be sorry." Hana added, in a monotone voice. "Uhh… Yeah. Sure." Kyo added quickly, wavering under their intense stare. Damn they were weird! "Let's go!" With that, he held her hand and tugged her along the hallways. "Bye! Hana! Uo!" Tohru shouted across the hallway. Her friends smiled. " So, Hana, what do you think of this one?" Uo faced her friend. "He'll do for our Tohru. But of course, we won't make it easy for him though." With that, the both of them laughed.
Kyo unlocked the door to his house. "Anybody home?" He called out. His father's head popped out from the kitchen. "Ah, Kyo! You're home!" Tohru ventured out from behind Kyo's back, and bowed. "Nice to meet you, Sohma-san. I'm Tohru Honda. Thank you for letting me into your lovely home" Kazuma looked at Tohru. Then at Kyo, and hastily bowed. "Nice to meet you too. Please make yourself at home." Kazuma looked at Kyo, who by then was blushing like crazy and gave him the Is-she-your-girlfriend look. Kyo blushed even more and stomped up the stairs, dragging Tohru along. Kazuma laughed, and returned to burning up the kitchen.
Kyo opened the door to his room and stared, then closed it again. "Gimme a sec." He went into his room and locked the door. He looked around his room, only to see piles and piles of dirty laundry all over the place. He grabbed everything and shoved it under the bed. Before he opened the door to let her in, he spotted his orange boxers on the chair and threw it in with the messy pile under the bed. He thought for a minute, and then sprayed a can of deodorant around the room. Finally, he opened the door. "Come on in."
Tohru walked into the room, a little unsure of what to do. She had never been in a guy's room before! Amazingly, it wasn't as dirty as she thought it was. She had imagined piles of dirty underwear in the corner of the room. But, apparently, it was quite neat, and it smelt quite nice too! She sat at the corner of his unmade bed and stared at him. He looked at her for a while, and blushed and quickly strode over to the other side of the room and picked up his acoustic. When he turned around Tohru was looking at his posters on the wall. Her gaze landed on him and smiled. He ran his fingers through his hair and brought the guitar to her.
He sat next to her on the bed and started the lesson. "Uhh… Okay, we'll learn chords okay?" "Alright!" She picked up the guitar. He saw her and started laughing. "You're holding it the wrong way!" He said as he adjusted it for her. Tohru only blushed furiously. How many times a day could a girl make fun of herself in front of the same guy? He face frowned in concentration, trying to think of what he could teach her. "Okay, G chord." He took his electric and demonstrated. She stared at his left hand, and tried to follow. He adjusted on of her fingers, his hands tingling at the touch. "Okay, now try strumming it." She strummed downwards. No sound came out. He burst out laughing again. Not many people made him laugh. Even less made him laugh more than twice a day. "Try pressing harder. Try again." Tohru screwed up her face in concentration. She pressed as hard as she could, and strummed again. "Better than the last try, but I'm sure you could do better. You're not pressing hard enough." He adjusted her fingers once more, and again, his hands tingled with a sensation not at all unpleasant.
After much trying, finally, she strummed a chord. "You got it!" He exclaimed in disbelief. He ruffled her hair and she grinned up at him, making him blush. "Let's try another one, Kyo-kun! It's fun!" She said. "Even if my fingers do hurt…" She added. "But I'm sure it'll get less painful!" He gave her a small smile. "It'll get better."
After a while of teaching, Tohru's finger ached too much for her to continue. They sat on the bed in silence, when suddenly Tohru exclaimed "Kyo-kun! Why don't you play a song for me!" She thought for awhile, "If it isn't too much trouble…" Kyo stared at her, then agreed. "Alright. What do you want me to play?" Tohru thought hard, "I don't know, anything you want!" Kyo nodded took the guitar from her. "I'll play Hear You Me by Jimmy Eat World okay?" He started playing the first few chords when she recognized the song, "It's on One Tree Hill!" He laughed and nodded his head, and started singing.
When he sang, Tohru couldn't help noticing how deep his voice sounded, not at all gentle like Yuki's, but not that rough altogether. She also saw how intense his eyes were. And how thick and nice his hair was, and how the fringe covered his eyes when he looked down. She smiled, and when he finally finished the song, she clapped her hands. "It was wonderful, Kyo-kun! I hope I'll be able to play like you one day!" That compliment made him blush. "It was okay… I guess."
He put his guitar back and Tohru looked at her watch. It was almost 7! "Kyo-kun! I had better go… I've got to cook dinner and I'm late!" With that she took off, he opened the door for her and she was about to leave when Kazuma appeared again. "Why don't you walk Tohru home? It's getting dark and it might not be safe for her." Kyo glared at his father, then turned to Tohru. "Wait for me, I'll get my jacket."
Kyo pushed Tohru out of the house, amid her struggles because she did not want to bother him. And together they walked Tohru back to her house, Kyo thinking of what he would do to his father (although secretly liking it, even though he did not know why), and Tohru being her lovable, dense self.
A/N: I think it's the longest chapter I ever wrote! Yay! It's 3.36 now and I'm gonna take a nap. Hope you guys like it, and PLEASE REVIEW! Love you guys.