Authors Note: Hey! This is my first full length fic, for those of you who keep up with my one shots.

I got the urge to write this after reading the first chapter of Volume 12 online. I really do believe Kagura truly loves Kyo, and that he loves her, but he doesn't want to. By the whole mood Kyo maintained, it seemed like what he wanted to feel was so forbidden because of his self proclaimed love for Tohru. (more like infatuation) So he acted indifferent during the whole time, trying to force back the possibility because he "loves" Tohru. Right now, Tohru makes him feel safe, a feeling long missed. He also feels like he is wanted when he is with her, giving him the misconception of romantic love. He can't see Tohru only sees him as a brother, and he so desperately wants someone to be with, that he can't see that a brotherly-sisterly relationship can be just as wonderful as a romantic one. So blinded by this, he can't see that Kagura is waiting for him to notice her. Over the course of the volumes, Kagura slowly learns to maintain herself and be sane, noticing that when you try to love someone you shouldn't force it or scare them into it. She matures, and she herself is now ready for the relationship she always wanted with Kyo. But the indifference of Kyo during her confession confuses her, and she tries to settle for just the memories.

Now that we have a summation of the events, lets continue to Fried Eggs-Chapter One. Enjoy, and remember to review!

Fried Eggs-Chapter One

Mysterious Pains

Kagura had been in a depression for the last week.

Everyone felt the dark cloud that seemed to follow her around the Sohma household, when she decided to exit her room to begin with. But Kagura even knew she couldn't keep this up. The next Monday college started up again, and she would have to go to classes.

She pressed her cheek to the sleek glass, another tear slipping down her cheek on to the window pane. She wondered if one day she would run out of tears as another fell silently, only the soft tune of her radio floating in the stagnant air. She hated herself for being like this, a whimpering mess all because a boy who had been telling her to go away for years finally told her straight he could't love her.

-Can't, he could have meant right now, maybe he just…-

Loves Tohru.

The answer was so obvious, since he came back from the trip he had been acting differently towards her. As if he was hiding something, or more then he usually did.

Well, she got what she wanted, didn't she? He finally told her what she has suspected for years, but that fact brought no consolation to her torn heart. What was supposed to happen was she was supposed to come out of this stronger and with more resolve, ending all of her selfishness and being happy for him. She had seen it in movies and happen to her friends in college. They realize that something just won't work, and after a few days, they were in the world again, living life. But it had been a week, and even the memories of Kyo, the only thing she wanted still, held no consolation. She had fallen apart at the seams, and she knew the only person who could help her couldn't.

For he was in love with Tohru.

And as much as she wanted to hate him for it, hate her for being there, she couldn't. Because above all, she wanted him to be happy. Because when he smiled she knew she was doing something good.

-Is that selfish too? Wanting him to be happy so I can feel good? It seems like it isn't, but then it could be…-

She shook her head, glancing over to the mirror that sat primly on the dresser among her collection of porcelain cats.

-This is what is selfish.-

By being miserable, she was making everyone else hurt, maybe even Kyo if he still cared about such things. So for once, she got up. She dressed. She cleaned her ruby face and her cat covered room, and she went out. She still wasn't better, not healed, and defiantly still in love with Kyo, but she decided something. She could wait. Before she rushed him into things by using black mail or my nearly killing him, but she now knew something.

"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink." She said softly, her voice cracking from lack of use.

She wasn't giving up, not just yet. But one thing she had learned over the past year was patience. It was about time she put it to use.

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There was something off about Kyo.

It wasn't visible to those who did not know him very well, only Yuki and Tohru seemed to even notice, and Shigure, if he did, ignored it.

Downstairs Yuki and Tohru were washing dishes quietly, Tohru being bothered by the somber mood Kyo seemed to have lately when he was daydreaming, and Yuki being bothered because Tohru was bothered. So the resigned unknowingly to silence, both preoccupied with their own thoughts. Meanwhile Kyo was doing the same, staring at the speckled night sky.

He didn't understand why he was so bothered by what had happened. He was free of Kagura, he told her he couldn't love her, and she even took it well, for Kagura standards. But when she said I love you, something seemed different. Despite her previous speech about being selfish, she actually meant it.

And something happened.

It was a feeling of elation, mixed with pain, and a feeling that really confused him. It seemed somehow familiar, but the thing it was familiar to caused his brain to panic.

It was similar to his feelings for Tohru, except stronger. And he immediately felt like holding her close to him, taking back all he said.

But he loved Tohru, right?

Already his mind chastised him for using the past tense. He still loved Tohru. It was only sympathy for her crying and misplaced feelings. That was only logical. But why did he feel so terrible? Things like this are supposed to cleanse you and make you free of the complications that it caused. But this only made him feel rotten inside, and the possiblility that he actually…

No, he wouldn't even think that. Tohru didn't run away.

-Tohru wasn't a little girl.-

Well, if it had been a younger Tohru, she would have done the same thing.

-Kagura had told you she had nightmares about monsters every night.-

He had tried to stop her, it was her fault for taking off the beads.

-Kagura came back the next day crying she was sorry, and your mother locked her out.-

Kyo sighed and rested his forehead on the hot wood frame, the night had not yet cooled the house.

"This is stupid. It's over between me and Kagura, and things couldn't be better."

He didn't notice till after the small slap of tears on the floor that he was crying. His face twisted in disgust and he stomped to the bathroom to take a shower.

This was getting more complicated then he ever would have liked.

End of Chapter One