Chapter Ten: Romance for Dark!

Kyo walked into the room, took one look at Dark, and burst out laughing. Yuki did the same as he came into the kitchen. Satoshi tried to keep a straight face and failed.

Tohru looked at Dark and started to laugh a bit as well but just cooked. As Dark stood up, he pulled out a mirror and yelled, "Krad you son of a bleep!"

"Hey, I didn't do it!" Satoshi said truthfully. He had been sleeping. "And why do you always have to automatically assume it was him?"
There was a thump on the roof. (of course Rogueblade has to show up to see him in all his glory lol)

"Because it was you!" Dark said as he got a towel and started to rub the marker off and he finally got it off, but the words "Vampire lover" were still on his forehead.

Someone jumped through the hole in the roof. She stood up slowly and looked around, noticing Dark in the bathroom scrubbing his face, since the door was open.
Kyo noticed her. "Hey...aren't you that vampire!" he said, his voice taking on an edge of terror as a result of the stuff Dark had said to scare him.

Tohru jumped a bit as she looked out the kitchen, "H-hello Rogueblade-san." she said, smiling a bit.

Rogueblade looked at her suspiciously. Shouldn't the girl hold more of a grudge than that after she'd kidnapped her?
"I'm fine...what on earth are you doing?" she inquired, talking to Dark, who still hadn't noticed her.

Dark looked around and jumped a bit, "What in the hell are you doing here?" he said, still trying to rub the letters off his face.

"What do you mean what the hell am I doing here!" she shouted right back. "And why does it say 'Vampire Lover' on your face?"

"Because Krad and Shigure wrote it there when I was sleeping stupid. And WHAT IN THE HELL ARE YOU DOING HERE!" Dark said once again.

"Don't you take that tone with me!" she said angrily before she punched him. "That's for making me think you were hurt before when it was only ketchup!"

"You idiot," Dark said as he fell on the ground wincing, "It was blood," he said as he got on his hands and knees and spit out blood.

"Good! Then maybe now you'll stop messing with me since you know I can hurt you!" she said. Then she turned around and started walking down the stairs before a thought occurred to her. She turned slightly.
"Is it just me, or does it say 'Womanizer' in faint purple on your forehead as well?"

"Shut up girly girl," Dark said as he laughed and sat up, wiping the blood up and laughing.

Rogueblade's face got red with rage. "Do you realize that last time you said that I broke your ribs?" Her eyes started to glow again.
"What a perfect couple they make..." Yuki muttered. Krad, who was standing nearby, heard and laughed quietly.
"You said it."

"So what. I was just a distraction so I had to let you hurt me, "he said as he rolled his eyes and stood up while Tohru came out of the kitchen.

"Umm. Dinner is ready. Rogueblade-san will you be staying for dinner?" she asked, smiling.

"Yes...I suppose so. Though I won't be eating anything." she said in a low voice, still rather angry at Dark.
Kyo got pale again. It looked like it would take a while in the vampire's company to cure him of his fear. Yuki looked over at Kyo curiously.
"What's wrong, stupid cat?"
"What do you mean, what's wrong! She's a--a--! A vampire! How can that not scare the crap out of you?"
Yuki just crossed his arms and looked at him. "Did you not just see Dark teasing her, for goodness sakes? She's not going to bite you."

Tohru smiled, "Okay," she said as she fluttered back to the kitchen and started to serve the food, and Momiji helped as well.

Rogueblade practically materialized next to Tohru without any warning whatsoever.
"Seeing as I kidnapped you...and won't be eating...I'll serve the food. No helpers, either." She said for Tohru's benefit, taking the plates and not allowing for any arguing at all.

"No, it's okay. You're the guest," she smiled, "Its okay, Momiji is helping me even though he shouldn't and he's a guest to but..."she just started to ramble on as usual.

"Did you miss the 'no helpers' bit?" Rogueblade replied, her eyes glowing a bit. She put a little bit of hypnotism into her words to make Tohru go along with it and just sit down. She didn't have bad intentions, really, unless you counted the part where she didn't intend to serve Dark.

"O-Okay," she said as she sat down and Momiji sat next to her.

Rogueblade went around the table and gave everyone their food (except Dark lol). Then she went back into the kitchen with a glare directed at Dark, intending to clean up.

"You little…" Dark said as he sighed. "I'll get it myself," he said as he stood up, walking into the kitchen.

Rogueblade was preparing to do the dishes when she sensed Dark approaching the kitchen. She put up an invisible barrier with her mind to block him from entering without even glancing up from the plates and waited to hear him run into it.

Dark ran into the wall hard, sensing it was there but he just ran into it, "Dammit," he said as he did some magic and walked through it and started to make himself a plate.

"Oops." Rogueblade said in a quiet, fake regretful voice. She laughed mentally when he ran into the wall and cursed, but otherwise gave no sign that she'd noticed a thing. She began to run the water to fill up the sink.

He didn't say anything, either, as he reached over her head, got a glass, and opened the fridge.

Rogueblade twitched but made herself remain calm. That little...he's trying to make me react! She turned off the water and started washing a plate.

Dark poured some milk as well but he decided that he already had to help do dishes. He didn't even feel like arguing with her.

Rogueblade put the first plate over on the other side of the sink and started on a bowl. She knew he was still in the kitchen, but what she didn't understand was why.

He also started to wash dishes and washed his cup and dried it off.

Rogueblade looked up, startled.
"What are you doing?" she said.

"Washing dishes," he said blankly as he started on a plate and put it up.

"Why...?" she said suspiciously as she went back to washing the bowl.

"Because one, I can, and two, it's the nice thing to do. Yeah, nice, something you know nothing about," he said as he started to wash them with his eyes closed then opened them and put a dish up.

Rogueblade glared at him again. "I know plenty about doing nice things. Don't judge me based upon the time I spent serving that slime Akito." Regardless of the anger she appeared to be feeling, she still passed him the bowl to be rinsed.

Dark didn't say anything as he rinsed the dishes, "Whatever," he said as he winced a bit as he felt his ribs start to throb.

Rogueblade noticed him wince and muttered some curses in her head before looking at him.
"You told me you were completely healed." she said accusingly.

"I do that a lot. So people won't worry about me," he said as he just continued to wash, rinse, and wash dishes.

Rogueblade blushed suddenly. What? He didn't want me to worry about him? She looked away quickly and as she washed the next plate closed her eyes and healed him the rest of the way.
"Stubborn..." she muttered before opening her eyes.

He felt his side get better, and he smiled a bit. "Hey. I feel better. Thanks, "he smiled, closing both of his dark purple eyes, tilting his head to the side and smiled.

Rogueblade blushed again and once more looked away, glad his eyes were closed because he would have surely teased her.
"No problem." she muttered, washing the last dish.

He smiled as he opened his eyes and finished up the dishes and stretched. "All right then, all done." he said as he yawned a bit.

Rogueblade nodded and looked out of the window. The moon was reflected in her eyes for a moment and colored a brilliant violet before she returned her gaze to the kitchen and drained the water from the sink.

Dark clasped his hands behind his back and looked at her and smiled, "Your eyes are pretty."

Rogueblade blushed again and cursed herself for it, knowing he could see this time.
"They-they're just like yours, though..." she said lamely, stumbling around the words that usually came so easily to her, even stuttering.

"No. Yours are different, prettier than mine," he smiled again.

Rogueblade felt her face get even redder and she looked hastily away, though she had a feeling that might only make him realize just how much he was getting to her.
"...thank you." she said finally.

"So you are nice after all?" he said joking around, "Kidding. I knew you were nice."

She made the mistake of looking him in the eyes and soon found herself unable to think properly. oh, crap... she thought to herself.
"I already told you not to judge me based on Akito," she heard herself say.

He looked at her and came a bit closer to her and pressed his lips to hers. Quite unlike Dark usually was, he was not calm about this; his heart was racing.
What…What am I doing? He thought.

Rogueblade found herself panicking when he came closer but when he kissed her, her mind became utterly blank, unable to focus on anything else. She even actually kissed him back.

Dark was going a bit crazy but he didn't mind as he stroked her face softly and pulled away, "Well, well." he said but if you actually looked under his eyes he was blushing a deep red.

Rogueblade wished she could turn away and run. She was more scared than she'd ever been in her whole life, and she couldn't understand why. But she was still trapped in his eyes.
"...why?" she said softly.

He stopped smiling, "Sorry." his face started to turn bright red as he turned away from her.

Rogueblade's heart was still thudding in her chest when he finally looked away, freeing her mind. She blinked and shook her head as though trying to loosen the hold he'd had on her. When she opened her eyes again, she was trying to decide whether or not to make a run for it.

Dark sighed a bit s he turned to her again, "Sorry," he said once more as he walked out of the kitchen, his face normal one more.

Now that he was gone, she kind of just collapsed on the kitchen floor, at a loss for what to do and what to say. She was sitting there on her knees when Kyo walked in.
Still a little afraid of her, his first reaction was of course to get pale in the face. But then he noticed the look on her face and got more concerned.
"Hey...are you alright?" he asked hesitantly.
She looked up, having not noticed him walking in. Always having to put a strong face on, she wiped the single tear off her face and stood hastily.
"I'm fine," she said roughly. "Tell Tohru...thank you for inviting me over. But I must leave now."
Kyo took a step back as she walked past him, making for the nearest exit.

When she was gone, Kyo stuck his head back into the dining room.
"Hey, Tohru, Rogueblade says thanks for inviting her over, but she had to leave."

"Oh, okay," she smiled. Who did the dishes? She thought to herself but she guessed that it was Rogueblade.

Why in the world did I do that? Dark thought to himself. Tomorrow I'll find her myself and apologize.

Kyo helped to clear off the table and then walked over to Tohru.
"Tohru...there was something wrong with Rogueblade when I walked in. She looked upset. Did something happen that I missed out on?" he asked, whispering.

"Umm NO Kyo-san. Nothing that I know off. The only one in the kitchen at all tonight was Dark-san." she said turning to Dark, who was sleeping on the sofa.

Kyo scratched his head; not knowing exactly what had gone on but all the same a little suspicious. He decided to let sleeping dogs lie (in this case almost literally) and left Dark alone, going upstairs and sitting in his room, staring at the night sky.
Today was crazy, he thought to himself. So many things happened...
Eventually he fell asleep, and morning came upon the Sohma's home at last.

Tohru was up as usual, breakfast was already cooked but she was hanging laundry. She was humming (Fruits basket theme lol) as she pulled out some of Kyo clothes and smiled a bit as she started to hang them as well.

Yuki awoke to the smell of pancakes (yum!) and sausages. He blinked his eyes sleepily, still not quite awake, and went downstairs to watch the news. He sat down on the couch...and on Dark.

Dark yelled, which made Tohru yell as well. "Yuki get off me will ya. You may look like a prince but you're heavy," Dark said.

Tohru looked around, "Oh. Good morning Yuki-san." she smiled, " Breakfast is ready if you want some."

Yuki stood up with a yell and was now fully awake.
"What the hell are you still doing here!" he asked, visibly shaken. It's not every day that you sit on somebody unexpectedly.

Dark looked at him, "I guess I fell asleep here," he said as he stretched, "Oh I smell pancakes," he said as he jumped up and started walking like a zombie to the kitchen.

Satoshi, who had already been awake, looked up as Dark entered the kitchen.
"You slept all night in that form?" he asked. "Poor Daisuke."

Yuki was finally calming down when he got run over by Kyo in his haste to get to the food before Dark.
"THIS HOUSE GETS CRAZIER EVERY DAY!" he yelled, still grouchy.

"Good morning Hiwatari-san. Good morning Kyo-san," she smiled as he just started to hang more clothes. This house is so much fun, she thought to her self.

Yuki was at last able to enter the kitchen, and tried not to look at how little the amount of food left over was. He just dished himself up and sat at the table with everyone else and began eating breakfast.
Kyo, of course, finished first and headed out of the door. It was a weekend, and he was going to go train in the woods beside their house. On the way there he stopped and gave Tohru a quick goodbye hug, and then continued on until he was out of sight.

Tohru hugged him softly back as she finished doing the laundry. She finished and walked back to the kitchen and cleaned off the table and started to do dishes.

After him, Satoshi finished, and he walked over to say goodbye to Tohru.
"Krad says bye, too..." he said, not mentioning the fact that Krad had exploded when Kyo hugged her.

Yuki also stood and walked outside, but he informed Tohru that he was going to the secret base and that she could follow if she wanted too.

She nodded as she finished up and Dark stood. "I'm going to find her house. Bye Tohru," he said as he kissed her head softly and walked out as well.

Tohru saw that it was about lunch time so she made to lunches filled with rice balls and curry. "First Kyo-san," she said as she held them in both hand and started into the woods, looking around for Kyo.

There was a crashing sound nearby as Kyo destroyed a tree. He was testing to make sure he hadn't gotten any weaker since the loss of his curse.

"Ah!" Tohru yelled as she followed the noise and found Kyo. She smiled a bit as she rested against the tree and just watched him for a bit.

It was a few minutes before he noticed her, but when he did he walked over and kissed her softly.
"Good morning," he said, smiling gently.

She blushed a bit, still not us to the whole love and kisses thing, "Good morning," she said as she pulled away, "I made you a lunch Kyo-san," she smiled as she raised the lunch in her right hand.

"Thank you!" He exclaimed, taking the lunch and setting it aside where he'd be able to get at it later. "You didn't have to do that." he said, smiling and giving her another hug.

She smiled and hugged him back, "You've been out here a long time so I just wanted to," she smiled. "Kyo-san I have to give Yuki-san his lunch, so…I'll see you back at the house?"

"All right," he said kissing her goodbye. "I'll see you later." He went back to attacking the trees after saying goodbye.

She smiled a bit as she walked to the base and found Yuki working hard, "Yuki-san!" she smiled as she walked up and sat on the ground next to him, "I made you a lunch," she smiled.

"Thank you, Honda-san," Yuki said, smiling back at her. "How has your morning gone so far?" he asked as he took off his gardening gloves.

"Good, thank you. I'm sorry I wasn't here sooner. I had to give Kyo-san his lunch as well," she said as she did the same.

"Oh?" Yuki said, for once a little interested in Kyo, if not for the sole fact that he still didn't quite know if anything was going on between him and Tohru. "How was he doing?" he said, interested enough even to make Tohru suspicious.

"G-Good I could say. He kicked a tree and it broke and I yelled a bit," she said, laughing a bit.

"He broke a tree?" Yuki said, also laughing a little bit, albeit weakly. (Mwahaha, big words)

"Yeah," she said as she smiled a bit.