Hey everyone! I am so sorry that it took me a while to update… and this chapter's not even that long. I had a big history project to work on and I've been sleeping and doing things over the weekend and I've hardly had any time! I'd like to thank you all for your reviews on the last chapter though, and I hope you all enjoy this chapter too! I'll admit it's not much, and I could have done better, but I wanted to get in an update since I only updated about twice in September. I promise I'll try not to exceed over two weeks when it comes to my length in updating. I know once it's winter vacation I'll have more time for writing, but that'll be in December -giggle-

Title: Unexpected
Author: Swaying Cherry Blossoms
Chapter: Worries
Summary: Tohru Honda's mother and Kyo Sohma's father have been friends for thirty years and their children have never met. But on one fateful day, the two teens meet and their lives are changed forever.
Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket or any of the song lyrics I add at the beginning of each chapter.


Ever so sweet, you make this seem

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The way things go, it's not my fault

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And I'll miss, I'll miss you so good

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Through all of those nights

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We lost our way back home

- Ever So Sweet by the Early November

Tohru and Kyo both stared absently at Arisa, completely unaware of the positions they were in. Kyo then realized that he was still holding Tohru, so he quickly scooted over and removed his arms from around her body. He sighed and stared into his lap, twiddling his fingers together. Dammit, he thought. How am I supposed to explain this? That damn Yankee'll probably beat the crap outta me.

"I knew you two had a thing for each other."

Kyo's head jerked up. Did Arisa say what he thought she just said? No offensive remarks or hitting him? And she knew? Since when?

"Uo-chan?" Tohru said. She seemed to be just as shocked as Kyo was. He could hear it in her voice. Arisa sat down in between Tohru and Kyo. "Not necessarily," she said. "I had an idea. Hanajima's the one who pointed it out. After she did, I took a good look at you two whenever you were together and figured she was probably right. Why didn't you say anything, Tohru? Did you actually believe me all of those times I talked about messing with your future boyfriends, or that I would kill the first guy who tried to make a move on you?"

"Well … I … That is—"

Arisa laughed aloud. "Oh, come on!" she joked. "Tohru, I'm happy for you! Why wouldn't I be? What kind of friend would be mad at their friend for being happy with someone else? Sure, we may not be spending as much time with each other as we used to, but our friendship'll still stay the same."

"Uo-chan …"

Kyo got up and stretched out his back. "I'm gonna, uh … take a bath," he said as he walked out of the room, leaving the three girls alone. Hanajima got up and sat next to Arisa. "Tohru-kun, I'm happy for you too," she said. "Your waves … Your waves are very strong around him, and his are the same around you. They've been like that for a long time … But don't worry; we won't do anything to him. Not unless he does something inappropriate or harmful to you. Yes, that'll be different …"

"Oh, um, don't worry Hana-chan!" Tohru squeaked nervously. "Kyo-kun isn't like that. When I'm with him I feel …"

"We know Tohru," Arisa told her. She laughed a bit, ending her laugh with a sigh. "We've talked about this before." Tohru nodded, thinking back to the day after her mother passed away and how she almost confessed her feelings for Kyo to her friends. A smile grazed her lips. "Yes, we have," she said. Tohru then felt a hand on her back and turned to see Saki smiling gently at her. "You both are going to last a long time," she said. "I can feel it."

"Sure, why wouldn't they?" Arisa said. She then pounded a fist into her hand. "But remember, Tohru … If he ever does anything, and I mean anything that makes you upset or uncomfortable, I'll beat him to a pulp."

"Oh, um! That won't be necessary! Kyo-kun's—"

"And if he breaks your heart, I'll kill 'im with my bare hands!"

"Yes, I'll help ..."

"Nya! Uo-chan, Hana-chan!" Arisa laughed and patted Tohru on the head. "Don't worry," she said. "We're only kidding."

The girls talked a laughed until Kyo came back from his bath, and they all ended up watching another movie. This time Arisa and Saki kept their eyes on Tohru and Kyo, just to make sure that Kyo didn't have his hands all over Tohru like he did the first time they watched a movie. The evening resulted in being an enjoyable one, the girls staying up late, just talking and having fun. In the morning after they left, Kyo asked Tohru how they took it.

"Oh, they were fine!" Tohru said happily as she was cleaning up breakfast. "They didn't have a problem with it at all! They were happy for us!" Kyo crossed his arms over his chest and leaned his back against the kitchen counter next to Tohru as she cleaned the dishes. They both had something else bothering them that neither of them wanted to bring up.

Kazuma never came home.

Kyo went over to the refrigerator and took out a carton of milk. He took a large sip out of it, his thoughts trailing to all of the possibilities as to why Kazuma never came home the night before. He never left a note anywhere, and he never called. Should he try calling Kunimitsu's house to see if he heard from him? It sounded like a good idea because if anyone knew where Kazuma was, it was Kunimitsu. After all, he was pretty much like Kazuma's personal secretary.

Kyo put the milk back in the refrigerator and kissed Tohru on the cheek before heading out of the kitchen. "I'm gonna … um … do something upstairs, okay?" Tohru nodded as she dried off a wet dish. "Okay Kyo-kun, I'm going to do the laundry so if you need me I'll probably be outside hanging up the clothes!" Kyo nodded to her as he left the kitchen and started up the stairs. Once upstairs, Kyo went to Kazuma's room and to his night table, reaching for the phone that sat there. He dialed Kunimitsu's phone number, his hands lightly shaking, and as the phone rang he couldn't help but pray for someone to answer.

The phone on the other end then picked up, and Kyo almost immediately asked where Kazuma was, but then he realized that it was Kunimitsu's answering machine. Kyo's heart tightened and his hands began to shake more as he placed the phone back on the receiver and sat down on Kazuma's bed.

Where the hell is he?

Running a hand down his face and sighing, Kyo thought of everything Kazuma had said the previous evening. Did he mention he was going anywhere? No, Kyo only remembered Tohru asking him about Arisa and Saki sleeping over, and that's when Kazuma seemed to disappear. Balling his hand into a fist, Kyo slammed it onto the bed in frustration. He wasn't in the mood for this right now.

Meanwhile, in the kitchen, Tohru bit her lip nervously as she put away the dishes. She, like Kyo, was wondering where Kazuma was. Was he okay? Did something happen? What if he got seriously injured and needed help? Then again, he never said anything about going out, so how come he wasn't in the house? Was there an emergency somewhere that he needed to go to and he forgot to mention it to them? It just wasn't like Kazuma to do something like that.

Shishou-san … I hope he's okay.

Tohru looked up at the ceiling, wondering about Kyo. Surely he was probably worried too, but didn't want to show it. Tohru decided to leave him alone, since he clearly went upstairs to do something alone, and she started out of the kitchen and to the laundry room.

The whole afternoon passed and there was still no news about Kazuma. Tohru finished the laundry in an hour's time and when she got inside Kyo was still upstairs. She respected his solitude and didn't bother him, but once she made lunch she decided to go upstairs to check on him.

"Kyo-kun?" Tohru spoke as she gently tapped on his closed bedroom door. When no one answered she knocked a little louder and then heard the sound of rustling on the other side of the door. Kyo opened it and when he saw Tohru he tried to look as calm and cool as he could. "Hey," he said, leaning on the doorframe, rubbing his forehead. Tohru gave him a warm smile. "I made lunch!" she said. When Kyo didn't say anything, but just nodded, she stepped closer to him and he wrapped his arms around her, pulling her into an embrace. "Kyo-kun, are you alright?" Tohru asked him. Kyo sighed and Tohru could feel the rise and fall of his chest against her own. "Yeah, I'm fine," he said to her. "It's just … Shishou. Where then hell can he be? We haven't seen him since last night, and he didn't even tell us where he was going. It's like he just disappeared."

"I know Kyo-kun," Tohru said, nodding. "I-I've been worrying all afternoon … Maybe he just forgot to call though? I know it's not like him, but—"

"Well, he can be forgetful sometimes," Kyo interrupted, trying to make Tohru and him feel a little better. Why was it that whenever he was around Tohru that always came so easy to him? Kyo felt Tohru's head move against his shoulder, indicating that she was nodding. "Would you like to eat now?" she asked him. Kyo nodded and pulled away from her slowly, taking her hand as they made their ways downstairs.

Kyo and Tohru ate lunch quietly, exchanging little conversation, their minds flooding with worry. Kyo mentioned that he phoned Kunimitsu's house and that no one answered, and that seemed to make Tohru even more worried. "Kunimitsu-san must been with him them!" she said. Kyo shrugged in response. "I dunno. Yeah, Kunimitsu's almost always with Shishou, but …"

"But what, Kyo-kun?"

"I don't know … I just don't understand."

While Kyo was helping Tohru clean up lunch, the phone rang.

Tohru immediately dropped the plate she was holding onto the table, unnoticing the fact that it cracked. She looked over to Kyo, who had ran out into the hall, and she hurried over to the door and looked out into the hall. She couldn't see Kyo's face, for his back was to her, but she could sense trouble in Kyo's voice.

"W-What do you mean?" he croaked. He paused for a few seconds, which indicated that he was obviously listening to the person on the other line. Kyo then sighed and mumbled something Tohru couldn't make out, and then he hung up the phone.

Kyo stood in his spot for the next few moments, contemplating what he had just heard. Tohru didn't know whether she should go over to Kyo and see what was the matter, or if she should just stay where she was. She followed her instinct and slowly walked over to her boyfriend, placing a hand on his shoulder. "Kyo-kun?" Kyo sighed in response. "I know here Shishou is," he said. "Oh, that's a relief!" Tohru said happily. "Is he okay Kyo-kun? Why didn't he come home last night?" Looking at the lost, almost grim expression on Kyo's face, for he had turned his head toward her, she knew this news wasn't as good as it sounded. "Kyo-kun," she spoke quietly. "What happened?" Kyo picked up his head and looked Tohru in the eye. "Shishou's in the hospital."

Tohru's hands immediately cupped her mouth in shock. Her eyes looked horrorstricken, which caused Kyo to bring her into a warm embrace.

"Don't worry," Kyo told her. "Shishou's really strong, he'll pull through. The doctor was the person I talked to … He doesn't know exactly what happened, just that Shishou was in some kind of fight. But we both know that Shishou isn't the type to fight so it must've been about something really important."

"But … Kyo-kun," Tohru brought her face away from his shoulder and looked up at him with glistening eyes. "How is his condition?" Kyo shrugged, stroking Tohru's bangs away from her face. "I'm not too sure. I was just so stunned that I didn't hear anything he said after that. He said we can go visit him tomorrow—"

"Yes, we should! I would really like to see him!" Tohru said before Kyo could finish what he was saying. "I just hope … It's not that bad." Kyo looked at Tohru for a few moments then kissed the tip of her nose. "He won't, trust me. Shishou's a great fighter and if it just so happened to be a fight that he got caught in, he barely got hurt. I know it."

Just how sure am I?

That night Kyo and Tohru found it a little awkward to be sleeping in the same house with no Kazuma around. They stayed up later than they usually did, but this time they didn't take a walk through the woods and they didn't sit on the roof all night. They had different things on their minds. Things that worried them, yet they didn't want to talk about. Kyo felt like he was going to strangle himself for not listening to the doctor. If he had listened he would have known if Kazuma was in stable condition or not, and he and Tohru would have been a little more relaxed.

And what about Kunimitsu?

That was right … The doctor never said anything about Kunimitsu. Where was he? Was he with Kazuma, or was it just a coincidence that Kyo couldn't reach him at his home?

"Calm down," Kyo whispered to himself. "Kunimitsu probably just went somewhere and you just couldn't get in touch with him … Don't get so worked up about nothing."

"Kyo-kun?"

Kyo hadn't realized that he was talking louder than he thought he was. He turned to Tohru, who was now in her pajamas, and shook his head. "Nothing," he said. He was sitting on the couch and Tohru sat with him, his arms around her. Tohru's head leaned against Kyo's chest and they both sat there together, the lights off, wondering what will come of their visit to Kazuma the next day.


There we go! Well, I'm guessing you all know what's going on in the next chapter. And I'm also guessing that there's at least six chapters left in this story. I'm going to try and make them longer and I'm definitely going to try finding time to write without rushing. Once again, thank you for reading, thank you for reviewing, and I hope you all enjoyed this chapter! I'll see you soon!

xoxo Swaying Cherry Blossoms