Snow Flake
By: Janxspirit
Disclaimer: I don't own Furuba(Because Momiji thinks I'm against the Lolliepop Gang)
Chapter Five
The mood stone had turned from white to black.
Tohru studied the stone. It was beautiful. The stone was flat, except for one point at the top of it. The black color swirled, an amber streak running through it. Tohru liked the stone, she keptit with her wherever she went. Tohru also liked to sit by the kitchen window and watch the snowflakes bury themselves into the Earth.
Tohru loved the Earth.
Tohru loved the stone.
Tohru loved...someone...
Was it Kyo? Maybe.
Was it Yuki? Maybe...probably...she didn't know anymore...
Tohru didn't like her sisters. For abandoning her. For leaving her. For not caring for her.
Tohru mostly didn't like the collar though. It had been a frightening experience. The collar was a gold chain with a silver bell at the end of it. The collar had been put around her neck at birth. Tohru had found some miraculous way of getting it off when she was kid, but she could never truly get rid of it. The collar was part of her. Part of her soul.
She wore the bell that very day.
She didn't think she had the strength to take it off again. No way.
"What the Hell is that around your neck?" Kyo greeted Tohru as he walked in the kitchen.
"Shut up and sit down." Tohru retorted sharply.
Kyo sat down.
"Good boy." Tohru pat him on the head.
"What am I to you? YOUR DOG!" Kyo didn't like Tohru's attitude anymore. It was getting less amusing everyday.
"Yep. And don't get an attitude, you're the one that wanted me to step up for myself more." Tohru greeted Yuki, ending the silent contest.
"Yeah, but-" Kyo couldn't make a comeback, he was that slow.
"Stupid cat. You can't even answer back." Yuki said, smugly.
"And what would you say to me, Yuki?" Tohru spun around, giving Kyo and Yuki their breakfast.
"What? Um..." Yuki started to think(for once!)
Tohru didn't like the way Yuki acted superior to Kyo just because the dumb rat(no offence to you people that are rats!)had tricked the stupid cat somehow.
"What's wrong, Yuki? Cat got your tongue finally?" Tohru smiled a wicked smile and turned to greet Shigure, who had woken up because of all the ruckuss.
"What's wrong with her?" Kyo asked Yuki.
"Don't talk to me." Yuki started to eat.
"Eh? What the Hell's wrong with you now?" Kyo's ear twitched.
"We both know it, you idiot. Tohru obviously has some feelings for you." Yuki flushed,"But I'll make sure that you two never end up together." Yuki looked Kyo in the eye,"I promise."
Kyo's ear twitched again, Feelings? Yelling at somebody, and telling them off was having 'feelings' for someone? Give me a break.
"You've gotta' be kiddin' me..." Kyo muttered under his breath.
"What? Can't believe the fact that someone finally gives a hoot that you exist?" Yuki finished his breakfast and went to put the dirty dishes in the sink.
No. Kyo answered Yuki's question as he gazed at Tohru, sitting, looking at the snow outside.
"Tohru," Yuki dove into the chance. The silence was over. Kyo was at the dojo. Shigure was at the Main House.
"What?" Tohru looked over her shoulder to catch a glimpse of Yuki's shining smile.
Trying the old knight in armor thing on me, are ya' pretty boy? No way was Tohru going to let this act soften her demeanor.
"I thought you'd like to go for a walk-" Yuki started, but Tohru cut him off.
"No."
"Um, well, would you like to-"
"No."
"Okkkaaaayyy...well, you're not letting me finish my sentences, so, maybe you could-"
"No."
And so thus began the 'no' game.
Yuki must have been losing his touch.
A week later, Tohru was speaking to him again though,"Yuki?"
Kyo was at the dojo more often now.
She had no choice.
"Yes?" Yuki looked up at Tohru, startled.
"Can we talk?" Tohru sat down, then looked at Shigure, who was eyeing them,"...in private..." Tohru grumbled this with such menace that Shigure got up and left, no, make that run, away.
"What's wrong, Honda-San?" Yuki looked at her with concern.
"Yuki, I'm worried..." Tohru trailed off.
"Yes?" Yuki tried to press her for answers.
"It's this guy." Tohru blushed.
"Yes?" Yuki was thouroughly interested.
"I think I might love him." Tohru's face was blinking, just like Rudolph's nose.
"And...?" Yuki wanted to shake and her until she got to the point, but that might start World War III.
"What do guys like? You know, besides sex." Tohru asked him this rather calmly.
Yuki was getting freaked out. Did Tohru really think that was all that guys thought about? Creepy...because she was right,"Um...I suppose...gifts?" Yuki didn't know what to say to Tohru's question. How about if this 'guy' of hers wasn't him? Then what?
"Gifts?" Tohru restated plainly,"Like what?"
"Eh...um..." The silver-haired rat had nothing to say.
"You're supposed to be a guy, and you don't even know?" Tohru remembered all those times in school when the guys would call Yuki 'gay,' maybe they were right.
"NO!" Tohru was taken aback by Yuki's sudden outburst,''THAT IS-UM! WELL! WHO'S THIS GUY! BECAUSE, I MEAN! I DON'T WANT TO PRY! IT'S JUST THAT IT DEPENDS WHO THE GIFT IS FOR!"
"Okay. The guy is Kyo." Tohru was happy that Yuki had decided to shut up. And they called her dense...
"Oh."
Was it just Yuki, or was the room really spinning?
THIS DOES NOT MEAN THAT THIS IS A KYORU STORY! IT MIGHT BE YUKIRU!