"Tohru," Kyo timidly ran a hand through his hair,
"Um, I, I need to tell you something."
"Yes, Kyo?" Tohru replied sweetly batting her
eyelashes.
"I...love you, Tohru." He paused searching for a
sign,
"I have for such a long time now, but that damn Yuki
always seemed to get in the way."

"Oh Kyo," Tohru whispered gently, "I love you too!" She smiled

as he embraced her. Kyo was ready for the
transformation but it never came. Shocked and elated,
he held Tohru like he never wanted to let go. Pulling
back he brushed the soft hair out of her eyes and
leaned in. The kiss was careful and soft at first,

but grew into a passionate--
"Kyo, your drooling," Shigure sing-songed as Kyo woke
with a start.
"Must you fall asleep at the table?" Yuki chided
sipping his tea, "It's really annoying."
"No one asked you," Kyo snapped getting up, "I'm
going
outside."
"Have fun!" Shigure replied taking a drag on his
cigarette.

I'm such an idiot, Kyo thought to himself climbing
the
ladder to the roof, Like that would ever happen. Like she'd want me.

Reaching the top his body froze.
Tohru was on the roof as well. She seemed pretty
surprised to see him also.

"Oh um," she said slightly flustered, "Hi Kyo. I didn't know you
were coming up here. It was such a nice day I just
thought I'd come up before school." Seeing Kyo's
blank look she quickly added, "But I'll get down if
you want me too!"

"No!" Kyo said a bit to quickly, "Um, I mean, you
don't have to get down."

"Okay," Tohru smiled back. Silence ensued. Say
something you idiot! Kyo chided himself, Now's your
chance!

"Miss Honda, you should probably come down its time for school!" Yuki absentmindedly called from the house

"You damn rat, don't boss her around like that, she can do whatever the hell she wants!"

Yuki sighed. "Why must you be such a pain" yuki says sleepily, " especially this early in the morning."

"Oh, you wanna start something rat boy, come on right now!" And with that kyo swiftly darts towards yuki. Of course once again he is met with an equally swift punch to the stomach and kick to the head. He is thrown to the ground meters away. He curses to himself! "Damn Yuki! " He mutters as he stiffly gets up.

"Hello Tohru," Hana says in her normal hypnotic voice, "How are you this morning?"

"Yeah kid! What are you up to?" as Uo playfully punches her in the arm

"Oh nothing I'm fi…….HARU! I haven't seen you in sooo long………….What's wrong?" Haru stares at her like she's crazy.

"What do you mean, what's wrong? Don't you know?..." Haru asks. The look on his face for some reason frightened Tohru.

"No I don't. What's going on?" Tohru's voice couldn't hide all of the fear.

Haru looks at Tohru sympathetically. "Momijji has gotten very sick; he's in the hospital right now." It felt like a hammer had just struck her in the chest, the tears swelled in her eyes and then she couldn't keep them back. Hana put her arm around her comfortingly.

"Poor little guy, do you know what's wrong" Uo asks quietly to the silent Haru.

"The….the doctors aren't sure yet, they say it might not be serious, just a bad virus, I think they are lying." And he fell silent again.

The bell rings and to Tohru it sounds like its a million mils away. She looks up and wipes her tear stained face. "Let's got to class," she mumbles. The day went by slowly feeling like an eternity, she didn't talk to kyo or yuki at all!

"You stupid cat what did you do to her," Yuki said quietly after a time when Tohru walked past him.

"Me? I didn't do anything, don't try to blame it in me, you did it you damn rat!"

They had both decided earlier by them selves that they wouldn't tell Tohru about Momijji, not until after school at home.

Tohru walked home that day silently, watching her feet as she walked.

"Poor Momijji, I have to go visit him." She thought to herself. She soon found herself back home, and walked in. Kyo and yuki looked up from their work and upon seeing her they jumped up and walked up to her. Yuki being the first one to her, he gently grabbed her arm.

"Miss Honda…." He had a slight pause," we…we have something to tell you…"

"I want to go see him." she whispered softly without looking up. An astonished look appeared on Yuki and kyo face.

"Who told you?" kyo asked, the irritation showing in his voice.

"I need to go see him." She whispered again. Shigure walked into the room and nodded. He had heard them and walked towards Tohru and looked down solemnly.

"I'll take you" another pause "come with me"

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well thats it Im sorry for all my faithful readers who have been waiting so long!

My faithful now unfaithful editor is a lazy loserhead and kept putting off the editing of my story so I decided to do it myself. Im sorry if I didnt do a good job. Please R&R

Lots of love

MU