Chapter 2:

"Look at all the people!" Tohru cried happily, her eyes wide with wonder.

Yuki, Kyo, and Tohru were all at the dance. It was their last day of senior year, and the air around them was strained. Kyo knew it was his last chance to become closer to Tohru… but he was beginning to rethink that. Really, what exactly could they accomplish in merely a day that wouldn't emotionally scar poor Tohru forever after he was gone?

"Would you like to dance?" Tohru asked Kyo shyly and slowly, stuttering. As Kyo nodded his head shakily, from the corner of his eye he saw Yuki's eyes narrowed in both hurt and anger.

(…Am I being selfish? Though I know it is my last night with Tohru-kun and my family, it may also be Yuki's, and all the other juuinshi as well. What if they resent me forever because I am thinking of only myself on this night…?)

As he held his not-so-secret crush close to him while the soft love ballad played in the background, Kyo felt the first surge of sadness run though his exiguous body, momentarily rooting him to the ground. Though he had known about his fate for a long time, it was only just now seriously hitting him. That he would be… gone from the public eye starting tomorrow and lasting forever. All of a sudden his heat and mind filled with flaring malice for Akito, a malice he had never before felt. His orange eyes lit up with red fire, and his fists clenched up so tight his knuckles turned white. In one swift, angered movement, he had pulled away from Tohru and was sprinting towards the gymnasium doors.

"Kyo-kun! Kyo-kun!" Kyo heard Tohru calling his name from behind him, but he refused to stop for her, or for anyone.

"Kyo-kun! Kyo-kun, please stop!" The voice called for him, disappearing in the wind.

(What am I running from? Tohru? I'm running from my crush when tonight is all I have left… Sounds quite foolish…)

Sighing, the cat spirit stopped dead and waited for his brown haired dream to catch up with him. Soon enough, she came running by, tired and out of breath.

"Kyo-kun!" She exclaimed when she saw the boy. She walked over to him, her sweet brown eyes wide. "You stopped!"

(I was running… from her? This perfect, almost inhuman form? Oh, how foolish I am…)

The cat said nothing, but he walked over to Tohru and put his hands on her shoulders, staring right into her eyes. She, without thinking, wrapped her arms around his body, holding him close. Instantly he turned into a cat, but she spoke nonetheless, not caring if he transformed in her arms.

"This is our last night together, Kyo-kun... and I want it to be perfect. I don't want you to run away... I don't want to waste a minute of chasing you. Tonight is the right time... the only time... we can become close." She said softly. As if on cue, the cat transformed back into a human, but Tohru only looked into his eyes as he, embarrassed, pulled on his clothes, trying to avoid her unusually strong gaze.

Once he was done dressing, Kyo put his chin atop Tohru's forehead and closed his eyes, thinking about what she said. Suddenly he pulled away, as if by puppet strings.

"I... I can't!" He cried almost helplessly. "I can't let us share such a perfect night only to have it taken away tomorrow! You'll never see me again! I'll never see you again! Why should we waste an entire night on a relationship that will never continue?"

Tohru was crying, and she, in an attempt to keep him from out bursting with painful words, she brought his face to hers and kissed him. He felt his heart swim in the warmth, in the happiness he felt even from such a common gesture.

"Tohru-kun..." He began to protest, but she held a slender finger to his lips.

"I don't care if it's only for one night; I want to spend this time with you." Her voice was almost silent, and very hard for Kyo to understand. He brought his ear to her lips as she spoke, but instead of speaking, she kissed it, moving down the side of his face to his neck.

As he kissed her in return, neither of them noticed the light haired boy standing motionless in the shadow of a cherry blossom tree. His eyes were filled with pain, and there were tears streaming down his snow white cheeks.

"Tohru-kun..." He murmured, his lips beginning to tremble.

Kyo and Tohru walked back to the Sohma residence hand in hand, no idea of the pain even that little action could cause someone, anyone. Both of them were wearing smiles, but neither smile was truly authentic. Kyo was occupied with thoughts of tomorrow, and Tohru was thinking of the past, of things that she had said and done that she regretted. And that pale haired boy that was watching the two... he was looking only at the present. He didn't care about the past, nor about the future. The thing that tinged his eyes with tears was walking in front of him, hand in hand like Gemini.

Kyo petted the brunette hair of the sleeping girl next to him, smiling for the first time in a long time a sincere smile. He felt sadness overpower that happiness, however, when he saw that dark shadow leaning against the doorframe.

"Akito..." He sibulanted with malice. "What are you doing here?"

"I've come to take you with me. It's time... for you to be mine." He tossed a glance Tohru's way. "You didn't make love to her, did you?"

"No." Kyo blushed, despite the fearful circumstances. "I did nothing of the sort." Akito nodded, his eyes calm yet infuriating.

"Good. You don't need any attachment, not now, not when you are leaving. Now come with me." Slowly Kyo was pulled away from the sleeping Tohru. He wanted to call out her name, to wake her and just say one final goodbye to her before he left, but as he gazed at her peaceful face, he just couldn't bother to wake her.

(I told her that last night would be our final night, and that I wouldn't be there when she got up. That was my final goodbye, given before it was due...)

He felt so helpless now, as he was dragged to the main house, a place he had been but once. He normally was not allowed there. The cat had always been isolated, always been cast out. And all because of that damn rat!

(It's natural for Yuki and I to fight over things, but is there a reason? Why didn't the rat tell the cat about the banquet? What did the cat ever do?)

Kyo's mind was filled with sad thoughts as Akito led him to an unoccupied room. It was completely dark, with no windows or electric lights anywhere. The cat glanced around with sadness as he realized that this room-if it could be called even that-was going to be his home for the rest of his life. He wouldn't be able to begin a relationship with anyone, and the car spirit seemed in danger of dying out. But Kyo knew that somehow Akito would make a new one, would have someone new to torture.

(It's in his nature to hate me and to make the others stay by his side… but is that what he really wants? Or is he merely following the spirit? It's like our individual selves don't even exist… as if Kyo Sohma and Yuki Sohma and all the other Sohma's live only to house the spirits and we ourselves are nothing. How sad…)

The door shut and locked behind him, and suddenly, Kyo was alone, draped in a seemingly endless abysmal darkness that fed on his sadness.

(Tohru…)

Author's Notes: I apologize for taking so long to update! Most of my focus has been on my original story and some other fanfics, but I figured I could at least put out a chapter of this before the quarter ended! Well, it ended up being finished right at the end of the quarter, but whatever.

Anyway, I do not know when the next update will be-it might very well only come at the end of the third quarter (of school, if you didn't know what I was talking about!), but I think next time I will start on the song itself!

I hope you enjoyed this chapter and please review!