Disclaimer: I don't own it.

I re-read the last chapter (for the gazillionth time) and I noticed more errors, sorry ..; I hope you can get over them. (Well you probably have if you're reading this xDD). Anyways, whenI was reading the last chapter again, I realised that I'd turned it into a comedy, and I was like; 'Uh-oh'. Remember people, this is supposed to be a Drama kind'a fiction... and, as per usual, I've turned it into a complete mockery of Fruits Basket. That being said, I promptly went and wrote the next chapter (I'm currently working on the seventh), and uploaded it. It gets a lot darker in this one. Whoot! (Although Kyo lives out my dream ;-;. I want to take Shigure's credit card into a manga store.)

Part Six: Worry

"Oh, Kyo-chan, you doing anything today?" Shigure asked, smiling as he entered the lounge area, where as he predicted, Kyo was sitting with typical manga in his hands. Kyo looked up, and simply arched his eyebrows. "Well, seeing as you're obviously not," Kyo looked like he was about to say something in response, but surprisingly restrained the urge, "Come with me for a while. It'll be like a date!"

Unfortunately, neither of them saw or heard Yuki open the door just minutes after Shigure had entered.

"Who the hell would want to go out on a date with you?" Kyo spat, glaring up at Shigure over his book, "And I'm trying to read."

"I can think of a few." Shigure pondered, "Well… if you won't come… I guess I could invite Aya…"

"Don't you dare touch that phone." Kyo glared, putting his book upside down on his knee. Shigure simply grined.

Yuki was completely and utterly confused. If he wasn't mistaken, Shigure had just invited Kyo on a date, and when Kyo had turned him down flatly, Shigure had threatened to call… Aya? And why was there an undeniable hint of jealousy etched into the tone of Kyo's voice? It obviously hadn't gone unnoticed by Shigure, because he looked… happy? He decided to listen in more.

"Oh, I will, Kyo-chan." Shigure threatened, pulling his hardly-used mobile out of his pocket, pushing in what Kyo obviously thought was Aya's number.

"Fine!" Kyo spluttered, marking his page hastily, standing up, and facing away from Shigure. "I'll come, just put the damn phone away!"

Shigure grinned, and promptly turned the phone off, and completely catching Kyo by surprise, he grabbed the boys wrist, turned him around, and before Kyo could react, pulled Kyo into a rather rushed kiss. Of course, Kyo pushed off after he registered what was happening, his face flushed, and glared at Shigure. Shigure replied with; "Kyo-chan is so cute when he's jealous."

Yuki closed the door in front of him, squatting down in the hall. His face was flushed. He witnessed something that he knew he shouldn't have… something that he hadn't even considered. Shigure… and Kyo… had just… His face flushed another shade of red. Not only that… Kyo had appeared jealous of… Ayame? The jealousy fact had made him want to look and listen even more closely than he had before, but… now that he'd witnessed them kiss, he decided that this was something he really shouldn't delve into. But, being the curious… er rat… that he was, his curiosity got of him, and he decided to confront Kyo later that night.

"So where're we going?" Kyo asked, leaning against the window of the car. It had never occurred to him to ask where they were going, then again it had never occurred to him that Shigure would be so direct and kiss him in public either. He was just glad that nobody was there to see it.

"No idea." Shigure replied, in almost a sing song voice.

"… GOD DAMN IT! AT LEAST KNOW WHERE WE'RE GOING BEFORE YOU DRAG ME OUT!" Kyo screamed, causing Shigure to briefly swerve in surprise. Luckily there was nobody on the secluded road.

"Well then, Mr. Know-it-all," Shigure said, side-glancing at Kyo who was slowly de-heating. "Where do you want to go."

"A bookstore. I need manga."

"… You got money?"

"I'll use yours."

"What do I get in return?"

"…"

"Yay! Okay. We'll sleep in the same room tonight!" Shigure sang, ignoring Kyo's cry of;

"WE WILL NOT!"

True to his word, Shigure took Kyo to a bookstore, he wasn't sure which one, handed Kyo his wallet – not before plucking about $10 worth for his lunch, and whispered his pin number into Kyo's ear, Kyo squirmed due to the closeness.

"Eh? You are aware you just gave me your pin number." Kyo muttered, registering the number in his head. To that, Shigure just grinned.

He responded with; "I like to pamper my cat."

Kyo wanted to shoot something back, but he was in no position to complain. He knew for a fact that Shigure's profession paid well, and in his hand, Kyo had Shigure's entire bank account.

"Now then, Kyo-chan, I'm going to get me some food. The food shops just over there, see?" He said, pointing in the direction of a common old garden variety eat out café, "Come join me when you're ready. Oh, yeah, make sure you get two weeks worth of what-ever-it-is-you're-getting, Kyo-chan."

Again, Kyo was in no position to scream back at him.

Before Kyo could forget the pin number, he asked the closest person for a piece of paper and a pen and wrote it down.

In the store, Kyo managed to get all the rest of the series that he'd been meaning to get, but couldn't get, with his lousy Sohma Allowance that always seemed to go into repairing Shigure's house. Needless to say, he would not repeat how much he spent to Shigure.

So, exiting the store with his bags, he pocketed the wallet, and headed over to where Shigure said he would be, completely and utterly surprised to find him with a mug of coffee, pouring over his manuscript. What was even more surprising was how serious he looked, as if he was seriously thinking hard about what he was writing. Kyo found himself not wanting to break Shigure out of his trance, but unfortunately the dog spotted him, but… soundlessly… waved him over. Kyo sat in the chair in front of the dog.

"Get what you wanted, Kyo-chan?" Shigure asked without looking up.

"Yeah." Kyo said, seeing as Shigure wouldn't have noticed if he'd just nodded, "I don't remember you bringing that."

"I never leave without it. Don't want people stealing it, now do we? If it's locked inside the car, and hidden under the dash board nobody can ever find it."

"But why are you working on it here?"

"Mit-chan called and outlined all the horrible things she'd do to me if I didn't." Shigure explained, pausing briefly, propping his writing hand under his chin and looking up at Kyo. "It's not wise to test her to an extreme extent."

Their eyes connected for a brief moment.

"You're lying." Kyo said finally, "You never do your manuscript because Mit-chan told you to, and you know it. What's got you so down?"

In response to Kyo's – surprising – worried tone, Shigure just smiled.

Shigure and Kyo had arrived back at the Hot Springs hours before, with Kyo surprisingly fuming about why Shigure wouldn't tell him who was on the phone and why. He didn't know why he wanted to know, but the look on Shigure's face when he asked was driving him insane, so he had been happy to get out of the car.

Since then, they'd had dinner, and Tohru had left to have another bath in the hot springs, and Shigure had left for his bed earlier than usual. Kyo had decided to disappear too, but he decided to do it outside. Considering this place was almost out in the middle of no where, Kyo had a good view of the stars, and he might as well take the opportunity to look at them.

So, he leant against the building, shoving his hands in his pockets, although his thoughts were focused on Shigure instead of the stars. What had gotten the mutt so upset? Was it something he did? No, that couldn't be it; after all, Shigure had been fine on the drive…

"Kyo."

Kyo's thoughts went blank, as he turned to look at his cousin, who was climbing over the railings of the Hot Springs building. Yuki dropped to the ground with a muffled thud, and Kyo turned his head to look back at the stars, he was to concerned to even care about the rats presence until…

"Kyo."

Why was Shigure so down?

"Kyo."

Who had been on the phone?

"Kyo."

Or was it somebody in the shops?

"Kyo."

"WHAT GOD DAMN IT!" Kyo screamed, turning on Yuki. Yuki didn't even bother to flinch.

"I saw it." He said rather boldly. He'd been playing off how to tell Kyo that he knew through his mind all day, but now that he was faced with the cousin that he'd squashed so many times… the thoughts proved a waste of time.

"Saw what?" Kyo asked, arching his eyebrow.

"I saw…" Okay, this wasn't as easy as Yuki had thought. The idea of Shigure and Kyo… was… he couldn't even describe it in words. He gulped, "I saw you and Shigure."

The hair on the back of Kyo's neck bristled, and he whirled around to face his cousin, who had now lost all his nerve, and was rubbing his arm, trying to get the uncomfortable feeling away from him. "What did you say?"

"I said, 'I saw you and Shigure', you… stupid cat." The 'stupid cat' bit was said in an almost silent tone of voice, his eyes now not meeting the cats. "This morning… I saw when… Shigure… when Shigure… k-kissed you." That had been harder to say than he'd anticipated. Since when did he care about Kyo? Of course, after he said that, he knew he'd delved into something so complicated that it would have been better to have just stayed silent. Too late now. Yuki dared to look up at his cousin's face, only to come face to face with horrified expression.

Kyo was devastated. He'd told the dog to grow a brain so many fucking times. He thought savagely, and now, none other than Yuki had found out. Oh… all the horrible things that Yuki could black mail him with, with this subject made Kyo feel sick at the thought, but, the thing was, Yuki didn't look too triumphant about finding out their secret… he looked… uncomfortable.

Finally, finding his voice, Kyo said; "So… you… you saw us?"

Yuki nodded.

"If you tell anybody… so help me god I'll…"

"I won't tell." Yuki said, cutting in front of Kyo's threat. He'd never seen Kyo look so dead-set about ripping Yuki up, and Yuki himself didn't know why he wasn't going to tell anybody.

"You… huh?" Kyo blinked, utterly astonished.

"I said; 'I won't tell', stupid cat."

"Good. Then I won't have to tie your balls in a knot." Kyo stated, and Yuki raised his eyebrow but looked down at the ground again.

"But… Kyo… if Akito was to ever…"

"I know, I know." Kyo brushed off the subject. "But, as you can see, even if that stupid mutt won't grow a brain, I don't think he'll be stupid enough to provoke Akito."

Surprisingly, the two hadn't realised it up until now, but the bond they had been (unwillingly) forming had somehow turned into some bizarre kind of friendship, that had been registered with Kyo and Shigure's relationship. If that wasn't warped, neither of them knew what was.

Yawning, and suddenly feeling rather tired, temporarily forgetting his issue with Shigure, Kyo walked down the hallway and opened his room, completely forgetting that he'd locked it. Shutting the door behind him, he moved over to get his pyjamas on, and he'd been completely out of it, because he hadn't noticed him perched on the window sill until he was half way to taking his shirt off.

Shigure had noticed Kyo enter his room, and had turned to look at him for a brief moment, before turning his attention back to the stars. It was nights like this, after receiving bad news, which Shigure disliked being alone the most, so it was only natural that he'd sneak into Kyo's room, right?

Kyo blinked. Shigure was completely out of it. If he'd been the normal Shigure, he would have swooned over the fact that Kyo had almost gotten changed in front of him. However, Shigure hadn't given that a second thought. Now he knew there was something seriously wrong. Had Shigure noticed Yuki this morning…?

"Yuki knows." Kyo said, thinking it was better to tell the mutt straight out. Shigure turned briefly towards him and arched his eyebrows. "About us."

Shigure turned his attention back to the stars.

"He saw us this morning, but he agreed not to tell anybody. I really think…"

"Kyo, that's the least of our worries."

'Kyo'? Since when did Shigure not put the 'chan' on the end of his name? Shigure was just making Kyo feel more and more worried. Of course, the next thing that Shigure said would make Kyo feel nauseous.

Shigure sighed, turning to face Kyo. "This afternoon… Ha'ri called."

"And…?"

"And… Akito is coming here to the hot springs. He's apparently very curious as to why… we're spending so much time together."

And... the dreaded Akito is going to emerge! -Jaws music plays in the background- Go Akito!