A/n: Hail the almighty queen of procrastination! (Kidding) Yes, I am back and writing for all of you, despite the pain in my left arm (ouch...). I truly am trying to make the deadlines I set for myself, but with injury (The cursed tetnis shot that lead me to pain!) and an evergrowing pile of meaningless homework assignments, I've definitely been neglecting my fanfictions and forums. (cries)

Oh I forgot to tell you about my newly created Fruits Basket forums, Niwa No Doubutsu! It's now my homepage, so if you'd like to chack it out (poke, poke), I invite you to do so. We seriously need more active members...6 is not enough.(continues to cry)

To all my beloved reviewers:

Thank you sooooo much, and please, keep up with your reviewing (poke, poke)!

Disclaimer: Unfortunately, God has played a cruel, cruel joke on me, and gave the idea and rights of Fruits Basket to Natsuki Takaya. Although I must say, you have to be doing something right if you own an ice cream stand. :P

From last time:

"Try it on Kisa-chan!" Tohru gushed, kneeling down to look at the intricate patterns. "It will look amazing on you!"

"Okay onee-chan!" Kisa answered, skipping to the door.

"Yuki-kun and Kyo-kun have been gone for a while. I'm going to go see where they are." Tohru said, Kyo's ice cream in hand. "I'll be back in time to see you Kisa, ok?"

"Okay onee-chan."

And so, the story continues:

"Hmm, let's see. I think they were by the fireworks stand..." Tohru murmured, turning onto Sonkei Street. The place had become very crowded, making Tohru flinch slightly. They must be rather uncomfortable.

Seeing one abnormally orange head, she pushed through the crowds and headed in that direction. How often on Japanese streets do you see such a contrasting hair color?

And, amazingly, among all those people, Tohru's length defying skirt stayed in place.

"Kyo-kun!" Tohru called. In response, he turned around and helped Tohru out of the crazy moshpit.

"Why aren't you back there with the others?" Kyo shouted. The noise from the festival was overwhelming.

"I wanted to bring you your ice cream!" Tohru answered, looking down and realising that the once enticing scoop of cookie dough was now a melted blob of goop, streaming down her hand and becoming sticky in the sun. "I-I'm so sorry Kyo!"

"Eh? Oh, don't worry about it."

"O-Ok," Tohru said, turning bright red. Why had he smiled? And why had she felt that she had the right to stare? "Where is Sohma-kun?"

"Like I care." Kyo uttered. The rift between the two still bothered Tohru, but she knew that no matter how much she wanted to help fix it, the final outcome would always be up to them. Noticing a change in her mood, Kyo decided it was best to change the subject.

"Let's get back to the others. Yuki said he was going to try and find them," Kyo said, grabbing Tohru's hand gently and pushing his way through the crowd. Tohru smiled, but made sure Kyo didn't see. Kyo did theexact samething.

Meanwhile, in the life of Shigure...

"Would you like some ice for that bump, Mit-chan? Banging your head repeatedly against the wall could cause a nice brouse."

"Oh, shut up. Just leave me alone for a while, ok?" Mii sobbed, turning her back on the dog.

"All right, I need to run a few errands anyway. Try not to destroy my house while I'm gone, there's been a lot of that going on lately." Shigure said airily, brushing his long hair out of his eyes and taking off his glasses.

"Mhm, fine..." Mii answered, shooting a malicious look at him before he shut the door. He knew her cellphone number, and deliberately made her suffer!

Still feeling melancholy, she decided to at least see what jibberish he had wrote as an excuse for a novel. She carefully opened the envelope so the page numbers wouldn't get rearranged, and pulled out what lay inside.

...and in typical Shigure style, he had put twenty sheets of paper inside, and all of them were blank.

On the street...

"Where is she?" Hiro said impatiently, a meer two minutes after Tohru had left.

"It's ok, Hiro," Kisa answered, in all her kimono glory."It's a busy day. It probably took a whilefor her to find Kyo."

"With his hair? Hmph..."

"What did you say about my hair?" Kyo said, appearing in the kimono stand (with Tohru in hand) with a menacing look on his face.

"Uh...nothing!"

"Kisa! That looks so beautiful on you!" Tohru said running over and hugging the dolled up tiger. "We have to get it!"

"...but I don't have enough-"

"I'll pay!" Tohru announced, grinning.

"No, no! You don't have to-"

"I want to." Tohru replied.

There you go everyone! I'll be back in a week with a new one, and I'm currently working on a one-shot project which is going to be fabulous!

Love Ya! (creepy right?)