This is the first chapter of a really long story. I have it all typed and its real long. This is the first chapter (sorry! I'm being so obvious!) I hope you enjoy it. as most of my stories are, this is a Kyoru fan fic. It also contains some spoilers, past the anime, and most of it is based on the manga. If you havent read the manga, you should! it's much better than the anime. it's got alot more Kyoru moments...

Disclaimer: Me not owner of Fruits Basket.

Chapter 1: Do You Remember When…?

"Okay, I'll see you guys tomorrow," The young dojo teacher with flame orange hair said to his students. As the young children scrambled out of the dojo, the young shishou of 22 gazed out the window. He watched the children run to their parents, kiss them hello, and walk away with them, laughing. He could only wish for one person to be with like that, to love someone enough to have children together and to spend the rest of their lives together in happiness. Her name was Tohru Honda. But the last time he had seen her was high school graduation, where, for some reason, she ran away. No one knew where she had gone, but she left the Sohma family. They all missed her. But now, most have moved on, and they all seemed to have forgotten the girl that had given them so much kindness, despite their hideous curse. Shigure Sohma once said, "It might be good if we just forgot. No one must be burdened with our curse." But the shishou couldn't forget the girl who had accepted his true form and wished to stay together with him. Luckily, for most of the juunishi, Akito had passed on about two years before, setting all of the juunishi free from their curse. The young shishou just didn't know what to do with his life without Tohru. The ending of the curse had no true effect on him.

"Kyo?" the former shishou, Kazuma, asked, disrupting the young one's thoughts.

Kyo turned his head, looking over his shoulder. "Yea?"

"Kyo, no matter what any of the Sohma's say, you don't give up hope. She still might be out there somewhere. Let your life lead you to places beyond this dojo, somewhere where you can be happy." Kazuma said, wisely.

Kyo turned back around to face the window and sighed. He knew she could still be out there, but if she had cared for him at all in the first place, she wouldn't have run away from them. She wouldn't have run away from him. He leaned his head against the window, wishing he could see her at that moment, her elegant long legs running towards him, with her silk brown hair flowing across her small oval face. Her big sapphire eyes glistening in the light and her smile, that one of a kind smile, that smile on her face only used when she was with him.

Kazuma sighed loudly and walked out of the room, interrupting Kyo's thoughts. "I'm going out," Kyo called to him, grabbing his sweatshirt, putting it around his waist, and walking out of the dojo. He jammed his hands down deep into his pockets, walked down the small front steps and onto the narrow dirt road. The road eventually led to the hard street, with large cars zooming by, going way past the speed limit. Kyo hopped onto the sidewalk, and watched his feet as he walked basically to nowhere. He just had to get away from his worries and fantasies. But the walk didn't keep him from daydreaming. He was deep in thought when he bumped into someone in a hooded sweatshirt.

"Oh, oh! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to…I was just…um…gomen nasai! I wasn't paying attention to where I was going! I'm sorry, it was my fault!" the young woman waved her arms and apologized. Her hair was tied up, so you couldn't see its color and her face was shadowed by the hood covering her head.

"Geez…it was no big deal!" Kyo snapped, annoyed. He looked down at the young woman. "You remind me of someone I used to know." Kyo couldn't see her eyes, but he saw her mouth and cheeks, which were turning a bright red. She was blushing at him! "But why?" Kyo thought silently. "Well, uh…see ya around I guess." he stated and walked past her.

"Yeah…uh…see you!" the girl said. "Uh… you wouldn't happen to know the um…the…"the girl stammered, catching up to Kyo.

"Out with it!" he snapped again. This girl was getting on his nerves.

"Oh, never mind. I wouldn't want to burden you in any way," she said finally, turning her hooded face away.

"Whatever."

They stopped at the crosswalk and Kyo was just about ready to tell her off. But he controlled his annoyance and was silent. The crosswalk turned green and he started walking across, with the girl following behind. He got to the other side, while she stopped in the middle of the street. She hesitated and Kyo turned around, wondering why she had stopped.

"What's up with you?"

"…"

"Hey!"

"…"

Kyo turned around; she wasn't going to waste his time any longer. He started to walk again.

"Kyo…" the girl exclaimed.

He froze. "How does this girl know my name?" Before he could say anything, he heard a screech and a wham! He spun around. The stupid girl had gotten hit by a car, standing in the middle of the street like that, and now people were huddling around her. Kyo elbowed his way through the crowd. When he got to the front, he stared, speechless. The girl was on the ground, unconscious and bleeding from her side, and the hood had come off her head. Brown locks of hair lay across the girl's face, tangled and messy. Her face was pale and her lips held a grim straight line. This girl was Tohru.

Kyo picked her up instantly, and carried her in his arms, being careful not to hurt her any more than she already was. The crowd called and ran after him, trying to tell him the girl needed an ambulance, but he didn't stop. He ran all the way to the dojo and burst the door open. Kyo ran upstairs to his own bedroom and laid Tohru on his bed. He got a large bandage with medicine, and applied the medicine to her side. She moaned softly when the medicine touched her skin, but relaxed after a few seconds. Kyo wrapped the bandage around Tohru's thin waist and made sure she was comfortable. Then, he pulled up a chair next to the bed and sat. He leaned down his head on the bed next to Tohru and breathed a sigh of relief, exhaustion, and hope. Little did he know, as his head lay on the bed almost drifting to sleep, that Kazuma, who was watching from a crack in the door, was smiling.

Chapter 1 is finished...Review please and you'll get the rest!