A/N: sooo sorry for the long, long wait! I just did not know what to do with this story! And I didn't know what to write. I'm gonna try to finish this and get this up today. Thank you guys so much for your patience and great reviews even though I've been such an ass. Thank you guys so much! Here's chapter 9!

Chapter 9:

Kyo was at a lost. He had been sitting at his desk for the quite a while now. He was trying really hard to think of something worth writing a song about. Kyo never was one to be in touch with his feelings. Heck, he even had guys calling him insensitive before. And now he had to write a song? What kind of sin had he done in his previous life to deserve punishment like that? Kyo had never hated his band mates as much as he did that very moment.

He closed his eyes, and took a deep breath. In his thoughts, he saw a picture of a girl. Tohru. She had unconsciously infiltrated his mind. He admitted, he had never thought of a girl that frequently before. Hell, he had never thought of any girl that way before. Except maybe for Angelina Jolie, but that was in the past, it was all behind him now. He opened his eyes and wrote down the first thing that came to his mind.

A few minutes later, he tore away the first sheet of paper from his already thinning note pad and threw it in the already overflowing wastebasket. He sighed, this song writing business was getting nowhere, and his frustration had reached its maximum. He stripped down to his boxers and got into bed. It was already close to 3 and he had school the next day.

Tohru was visibly worried the next day when Kyo didn't turn up for his first class of the day. Hana and Uo definitely noticed that something was wrong.

"You 'kay Tohru? You look worried over something… or someone." Uo looked at Hana knowingly.

"Don't worry. I can feel his signal. He is currently running away from someone." Hana added monotonously.

Tohru gave her friends a confused look. In all honesty, she really did love her friends, even though every now and then they freaked her out a little. Uo smiled at her. "Don't worry. There he is."

Tohru looked at the direction that Uo was facing and saw Kyo running away from… some girl who looked almost ready to rip his head off. "HI TOHRU! BYE TOHRU!" And off he went, running desperately as he tried to outrun Kagura. Kagura stopped at her though. "So, you're that Tohru, huh? What are you to MY Kyo-kun?" Kagura asked her menacingly.

"I'm… I'm just his… friend." Tohru asked. She felt her heart give a little suffocating squeeze as she said that sentence. She really was only a friend to him. She had to admit though, she had thought about him a lot recently. Perhaps she could be even more than a friend to him? She shook her head mentally. What did this girl mean by her Kyo-kun? Were they more than friends? What did she mean by that Tohru? Why did it sound so mean?

"Good, and it better stay that way." Kagura said to Tohru curtly and stalked off, looking for her beloved Kyo-kun.

Kyo was lazing under the sun on the rooftop. Nobody except Tohru knew that this was where he escaped. Kagura had met him at the school gate today and asked to speak to him. Physically threatened was more like it. She then told him about her positive feelings toward him. As if he did not know. Kyo might have been dense about love and stuff, but her affection toward him was way obvious. Kyo personally thought that even a blind man would have been able to tell. He waited until the whole speech was over and told her that he was not interested. Kagura then proceeded to call him cold and distant, and almost tried to beat Kyo up. If not for Kyo's fast running, he would have been in the ambulance by now.

He opened one eye as he heard someone call his name from the door of the stair. He recognized that voice anywhere. He had heard it in his dreams for quite a while now. He sat up at Tohru walked over towards him and she settled herself comfortably beside him.

"What was that all about, huh?" Tohru laughed nervously.

"What is it? Why are you laughing like that? It's kinda fake, you know." Kyo looked at her expectantly, waiting for an answer to her peculiar actions.

"Is she your girlfriend?" Tohru blurted out. Her eyes widened at horror at what she had just asked and she slapped her hands over her mouth.

Kyo looked at her as if she had some kind of contagious disease. His expression changed to that of horror as he realized whom she was talking about. "No way! She is the most horrible, irritating, little pest I have ever met in my entire life!" Kyo looked at her and saw her expression. Tohru looked relieved. He frowned, for whatever reason should she be relieved? "She was the one who acted all lovey dovey with me. I was trying to run away from her!" He added, just in case.

Tohru smiled, "I see, sorry for being so forward Kyo-kun." Kyo gave her a small smile, "Just to be clear, I have no interest in her whatsoever."

"Then who do you like then?" Tohru asked suddenly, after a few minutes of silence. She really did want to know. She knew she was intruding into his privacy but curiosity got the better of her. Tohru looked at him, waiting for an answer she wasn't sure would come at all.

Kyo was shocked at how bold she was today. Was something wrong with her? He thought about her question. Then he finally realized. He liked her. He really did. He thought about her all the time. He was coming to school now, just to see her. He had even started going to the cafeteria for lunch instead of hiding on the rooftop just so he could be near her. He opened his mouth to answer her question when the bell rang, signaling the end of school.

"I gotta go! Sorry Kyo-kun! Hope to see you in school tomorrow!" Tohru snapped back to being the ditzy Tohru she was before the whole incident. Her heart was beating erratically though; she wanted to know if he felt the same way. But at the same time, she was dreading the thought of finding out that he fancied some other girl and not her.

"Ahh… yeah. Bye." Kyo answered dazedly. She ran off so quickly that he got quite confused. He lay down on the warm concrete again and closed his eyes. "You." He said softly to himself, the answer he wanted to give but was too late to.

He got up after awhile, and crept around the school, not wanting to meet Kagura again. He went home, thinking about that almost-confession of love.

A/N: So how's it? Sorry to portray Kagura as some bitchy girl, but I guess it was kinda necessary for the rest to happen right? So review and tell me what you think! Thanks lots!