A/N: day two, and guess what, it's raining insanely. At least I didn't have to finish the marsh walk, but it's wet outside. You can't have everything, but still. I hate being wet. Anyway, if you all thought last chapter was so far out of character for those characters, well for one thing, it was when they were children. And normal time Kaiba, well, it's while he's alone, and in his own bed. He can be sad too. He's human. I hate it when there are stories where he's just horrible and inhuman. He's not THAT bad! Well he was, but he isn't anymore. … I sound like the ultimate Kaiba fan girl, but I'm really not, I'm a Karasu fan girl:) So anyway, please don't kill me.

Disclaimer: I own nothing

Pairings: Yuki/Tohru, Kyo/Tohru, Akito/Yuki, Kagura/Kyo, Seto/Tohru, Yuki/Motoko, Hiro/Kisa, Akito/Minami

Learn To Be Lonely

Chapter 6: (Wait!)Learn To Find Your Way in Darkness

"Another day of this nonsense" Kaiba muttered as he strutted into the school building. He'd had at least ten cameras flash in his face before he'd even gotten out of the car. He hated school.

"Kaiba-san!" Called a voice, it sounded familiar.

'Mom?' He thought and turned to have Tohru run face first into him.

"Oh, I'm SOOO Sorry!" Tohru started.

"It's fine, just shut up" Kaiba growl standing up and dusting himself off.

"Oh, I'm sorry." She said looking at the ground. "Its just Shigure told us what happened with Akito. And well. I can't understand how hard to would be there when your parents died, you were there watching it happen. I mean my dad died when I was to little to remember…" 'Just like Mokuba' " And then my mom died two years ago, but I wasn't there she had an accident while I was in school, and well" Tohru started to get teary eyed.

"And your point is?" Kaiba said blandly, though his mind was racing, that was why she was living with Shigure. Her mother died only two years ago, how could she even smile. She was alone.

"Well I wanted to tell you if you wanted to talk sometimes I'd be here. I mean I wouldn't have survived if it weren't for my friends. Because of them I have something to live for." Tohru said.

Kaiba scoffed " Who needs friends?" he turned to leave.

"Wait, Kaiba-san."

"What is it?" He snapped at her, turning to glare at the girl.

"Well it's just that, would you please come take a walk with me after school. Please" She asked hopefully

"Will you let me get to class if I say yes?" Kaiba asked irritably.

"Yes… uh"

"Then fine!" Kaiba said turning back around and walking into the school building.

CILCK!

"These pictures are great!" Minami said examining the pictures that were on her desk. "You are all now members of the Seto Kaiba Fan Club."

All the younger girls squealed with delight, the second year girls were jumping up and down, and the seniors were cheering. All was going well.

Minami Smiled, but behind that happy smile she was in deep thought 'See, I don't need the Prince Yuki Fan Club, I Have this Club, and I love Yuki, so it's all good, why can't Motoko See that!' she thought annoyedly.

Click! There went another camera.

"Jeez look at all those cameras. The guy comes to school for one day and he's already got a fan club" Kyo groused. Not seeming to notice that Kaiba didn't looked very happy.

"I know, It looks like 97 percentof all the girls in school are joining, 56 percent of the boys too." Hana said in reply.

"56 percent of the boys!" Kyo asked flabbergasted.

"Yes, Kaiba-kun's very popular in the dueling world, it's surprising actually that there aren't more boys in the club than that." Hana replied.

"What's really surprising is that Minami's President, I hear she had to give up her position with the PriYuki girls to get it" Uo said while lounging on top of Kyo's desk.

"Really?" Hana asked softly.

"Yeah I hear that Motoko and her had a big blow out cause Motoko got her panties in a wad over loyalty issues." Uo replied smirking. "Always knew that girl's ego would be her down fall"

"Right" Kyo said. "Now would you get off my desk you Damn Yankee!" He near shouted.

'I hate fangirls, I hate fangirls, I hate fangirls" Kaiba mentally chanted to himself. He couldn't even pee without there being cameras flashing around him. Damn those boys hiding in the stalls!

It wasn't like Kaiba didn't have a reason to be pissed. Fangirls (and boys) had been popping up and taking pictures of him all day long! Who would be able to think in all that?

"Kaiba-san"

"Damn" he mumbled. He had hoped she would forget.

"Kaiba-san, wait up" Tohru called running to catch up.

He slowed down, but deliberately kept going. Even still Tohru caught up.

"Hey, Thank you for walking with me, I know your probably busy and all and-" Tohru said, but was cut off

"Where are we going?" Kaiba asked annoyed.

"Um… well…"

"The Park?" 'Figures' Kaiba thought.

"Yeah well there normally aren't many people here this time of day, and um…" Tohru started.

"Let's just get this over with." Kaiba growled out walking forward.

"Oh, yeah well" Tohru followed him fumbling for words. "I just wanted to talk. Like I said, I know what it's like to lose your parents, but not like that… And I can't even imagine how painful it was. Your brother doesn't even remember, and you can't tell him, so you probably keep it bottled up. So You can tell me, cause after a while the bottlepops and then you have a big mess…" Tohru said, smiling softly at her own analogy.

"To late for that, the bottle popped a long time ago, I have the scars to prove it" Kaiba replied.

"Oh…"

"Not the answer you were looking for I take it" Kaiba stated, of course he was only pointing out the obvious.

"… Kaiba-san?"

"Yes?"

"What was your mother like?" Tohru asked. Kaiba mental winced, why did she have to ask THAT question?

"She was nice, she had an interesting way of looking at things" he replied simply,

"Like what?" Tohru asked, at least seeming interested.

"Well… when I was little, before Mokuba was born we had gone to the Sakura festival. Every minute or so she'd take a deep breath. When I asked her why she'd say it was because she wanted the baby to experience the festival too, that she was our channel to the rest of the world, and that she would show of us everything. Of course that was a lie. She died before she showed us anything, and even still she would have only showed us the good things, that's what parents are for, they show you the good things, and comfort you with sugar coded words when you've experienced something bad. That's not how the world works." Kaiba said, even though he had said more than he'd meant to.

"That's not true… Parents are here to show you everything, and they do comfort you, but what they say is true. My mom once told me that all the bad stuff that happens to us is like fertilizer, it feels like crap, but it'll help you grow" Tohru said, quoting her mothers exact same words.

Kaiba almost smiled, that sounded like something his mother would have said.

"So what about your dad, what was he like?" Tohru asked as they continued to stroll through the park.

"Well he liked to tell stories, they would range anywhere from something her made up to myths, he liked legends best." Kaiba replied.

"Was their one he told a lot?" Tohru asked. "I mean did he have a favorite?"

"He told the story about how the Zodiac was put together," there was no way he was going to tell her that he requested that one, that it was his favorite "you know, God called all the animals to the banquet-" He was cut off by her for a change.

"Oh I Loved that story when I was younger, mom used to tell it to me all the time." Tohru said excitedly "Actually when I was little I wanted to be a year of the cat instead," She said a little ashamed.

Kaiba looked truly surprised, he thought he was the only one. And here she was, he disliked her for he stupidity, and utter lack of common since. But she had once held a dream that he too had held. Weird.

"Kaiba-san, is something wrong?" She asked when she saw the weird look he was giving her.

"No. I just have to head home" He replied, grabbing for an excuse to get away. He had to think.

"Oh, yeah, that's for walking with me" she said, smiling happily.

"Right" Kaiba said nodding and strode off in less graceful strides then he normally took.

Tohru sighed. She had gotten anywhere. She wanted to know more about him, she could see he was sad, she'd wanted him to smile.

A/N: FINALLY! WOOT! I finally finished this chapter, it's been sitting on my floppy for like two weeks. Any way it's spring break, so I'm hoping to be able to get up at least one more chapter before the weeks out. Sayonara.