I'm having so much fun with this. Thanks everyone whose reviewed so far!
So tired from the previous night. Hopefully I'll be able to get all the things done that I wanted to in this chapter.

I don't own Fruits Basket.
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Chp. 3
School

"Hey Yuki!" Uo yelled from the stairs of the school entrance. "Where's Tohru this morning?"

Yuki looked up. He hadn't realized that he'd already made it to the school. So many things had happened that morning that he seemed to have forgotten where he was. "Oh, Miss Honda was still at the house last time I saw her. I believe she will be attending class today though."

"Yes, I do believe she will too. For it would be unlike our Tohru to miss school, especially so close to graduation. Unless something happened?" Hana looked up into the morning sky and gave a slight glare at Yuki.

He froze and then quickly loosened himself up. "No, I think she'll be coming." With that he made his way past them into the school. I'm going to have to clear my mind of that situation. I have so many things to worry about for the end of the year. Student council is going to be needed everywhere.

"Hana, I think you scared the Prince away." Uo laughed and then looked over to her friend. But she only looked back up at the sky.

"No. His thoughts drove him away. I'm worried for our little Tohru. I don't think these next few days will be as special for her as she intended." She turned and walked into the school.

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"My little dumplings! If you don't get moving you'll end up late for school. I hear that people who miss a day of school have to stay back!" Shigure giggled and then peered into the kitchen to look for Tohru.

Tohru looked up at him and jumped to her feet. "Oh no! If I stay back mom will be so displeased with me! EEK! I need to get going." She wiped her eyes and patted down her skirt so it was less wrinkled.

"Tohru I was kidding. But, are you alright." He gestured to her face. "Your eyes are all red and puffy."

She squealed for a moment. No, if I don't come up with some excuse he'll know I've been crying. "Uh, I-I got something in my eye and you know how i-it hurts so I was rubbing my eyes and they started to water a-and we-well." She through her arms down and began to walk past him. There was no use in explaining.

Shigure put his hand to his mouth and turned to find Kyo standing in the door way of the kitchen. "Kyo, you better get going too. You can't just miss these last days, people will get worried. Especially-"

"Shut up already! I'm going!" He grabbed his backpack from the floor and took off out the door. She was crying that whole time. She was crying because of me. He lowered his head. The he began to walk a few paces slower just to make sure he didn't catch up with Tohru.

Mom I'm so sorry. I need to graduate for you. And I need to find a job afterwards. I know that you've always wanted me to be happy, but I can't live without thinking of you. I can't forget you, so I'm scared. I want this one thing but I can't choose it over you. She began to jog a little just to make sure that she wouldn't miss first bell.

"I made it!" She opened the door and made her way to class.

"Tohru! We thought you'd never make it. What kept you so long?" Uo grinded and put her arms around her. "I don't know what I would have done if you hadn't come!"

"Yes, it would have been hard to make it through the day not knowing you were here." Hana went over to the two hugging and gave only a slight smile.

Tohru only giggled a little and then made her way out of the embrace. "I was kept up by my thoughts this morning. That's all."

From the door came a tap and then someone burst into the room. "Tohru! Tohru!" A tall blonde boy came running through the door. "I'm so excited! You're graduating in a few more days. I'm extremely happy for you!"

"Momiji! This is such a surprise! Don't you have class right now?"

Uo stood jaw open. "Wa-Wait a minute! What happened to Momiji?" She ran over to stand next to him and took a measure of his height. "Damn those boys sprout fast!"

"He's done more than just grow." Hana stared at him. "His waves have completely changed. As if…he's become another person."

The room grew silent until Momiji began to speak again. "So Tohru. Are you going to have a party?"

"N-No I couldn't possibly! I'm already enough trouble just being at Shigure's! I couldn't possibly inflict such a thing like that on him. It would be such a nuisance."

Uo looked at Momiji once again and then yelled. "Wait another minute! You're wearing a boy's uniform! Wow, no way! What's going on around here? Did I miss something?"

Momiji turned to Tohru and lightened his face. "Tohru, may we speak some where else. I have something important to tell you."

She nodded and followed him out the door.

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I'm late. It doesn't matter though; I didn't even expect to show up today anyways. The whole idea of actually being in school these last days is a joke. He pulled the door open to the school and walked to his first class. When he arrived Uo and Hana were standing by a desk. He glanced around the room. There was no sign of Tohru anywhere.

"Kyo, why are you so late? You haven't been doing anything bad have you?" Uo and made her way over to Kyo and gave him a dirty look.

"What the hell! I show up late and you start yellin' at me as if I've been doing something wrong!" He sat himself down on top of his desk. "Is Tohru here by any chance?" He seemed to have mellowed down and looked at the floor when he mentioned her name.

"She just left with Momiji a minute ago." Hana moved towards the window. Kyo gave a sigh of relief and waited for someone else to talk.

People all over the room were talking of how they were going to spend their summers and who was accepted into which schools. Uo, Hana, and Kyo sat silently in the back of the room waiting for Tohru.

I can't take this. As much as I want to see her I keep feeling this great pain of guilt every time I look at her. Momiji better not do anything stupid. Last time we spoke he mentioned the craziest things. Yet, at the same time I hope he spends a lot of time with her. I can't stand the pain of being in the same room for so long.

"Kyo, you seemed flustered."

"Nah, I'm just… I'm nothing."

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Momiji pulled Tohru over to an empty part of the hallway. He paused a moment and then without hesitation he gave her a hug.

"Momiji! Wh-what are you doing!" But then she stopped. Nothing happened. Tohru all at once panicked. "But you! You didn't!"

"I know isn't it great! I can be normal Tohru." He tried to put on a happy face but was still slightly disappointed.

"Momiji, when and how did this happen?" Tohru was completely shocked. She now knew of two people who had been released from the curse. It wasn't only Kureno now, she had evidence of both him and Momiji. Is it possible? Does Kyo have a chance?

"It happened a couple of days ago. I felt as if a part of me just disappeared. I felt as if a great weight was lifted from my chest. Tohru, I was so scared. Do you know what this means? I've become different. After all these years of sharing this one secret with my family, I've just been kicked out. As much as I love them, I feel as though we can never be together again as one. And my mother, and Momo, after all this pain of hiding, even though the curse is gone, I can never see them. I can't just go to mother and tell her I'm her son. Momo, she'll never be able to know that I am her brother." He paused and gave a smile to Tohru. "That's why, I've decided to leave. I'm going to go somewhere, somewhere far away. I'm going to start a new life. One where I can truly be happy."

Tohru was still in aw. After all this happiness she felt sorrow. Momiji had been so strong to live with the fact that his own mother and sister didn't know who he was and now after all that, he could have lived a perfect life with them because he was free. Free from the curse which kept him bonded with family which was now gone. Tohru looked in the other direction trying to hide the tears that had developed in her eyes. Mom, why does this week have to be so hard? I keep finding myself crying and I can't stop.

"Tohru, please, don't cry. I have to tell you one thing before I go." He reached his hands out and held hers as tears rolled down her cheek. "Tohru, I've always loved you." He smiled and squeezed her hands. With that he turned and walked down the hall towards the door.

She stood there trying to put all the words back together. Trying to figure out exactly what had just happened but as much as she tried to avoid what she had just heard, she knew exactly what had happened. She wiped her eyes once more with her sleeve and walked slowly back to the class room.

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"Yun-Yun! We need you!" Manabe began to whine as Yuki sat at his desk organizing some papers.

"I've already told you thousands of time not to call me that and you don't need me as much as I need to get these papers sorted out." Yuki rolled his eyes and continued on with his work.

"Aw but Yun-Yun, we can't decide on what to do. We need you to decide for poor Kimi and Manabe." Kimi pranced over to Yuki's side.

Machi was over in the corner of the room trying to remain quiet as she usually did. Suddenly Manabe jumped up and yelled, "Yun-Yun I bet you would have helped us if Machi asked you to! Come on Machi ask him! Ask him!"

"Would you please leave her out of this?" By that point, Yuki had managed to stand up.

Kimi and Manabe looked at each other and gave a devilish smile. Telling by their faces Yuki could sense that Manabe had another prank coming up. He walked over to him and whacked him on the head. "Don't get anymore ideas into your head. It's bad enough Machi had to see my brother already."

"Oh but that was so much fun!" Machi instantly curled herself up even more into the corner. Manabe began to laugh.

"Would you guys please shut up! Do you have any idea how much work we need to get done?" Naohito yelled from the other side of the room.

"Chibi-suke!" Manabe ran over to Naohito. "I forgot you were here!"

"AH! I'm not Chibi!"

"Aw, you are so Chibi! Kimi thinks that's cute"

"No!"

"Kimi still wants Yuki to tell her what to do." She smiled.

Yuki put his hand out to Machi and helped her up from the corner. "Here, come with me, I have a feeling they keep up with this for awhile."

Machi gave a blush and they walked out of the room.

"Kimi, I think our prey has just left! Come, we must continue with the hunt!"

"Yay! Kimi wants to continue!" Manabe and Kimi both ran out the door after them while Naohito sat there in rage.

"We'll never get these stupid papers done with them keeping up with that!"

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Okay so I kind of left you all off in a bad spot. I really didn't want to get into the whole YukiXMachi thing. They aren't my favorite couple. I may continue with them later on though. I just wanted to add in a Yuki part so it didn't seem as though I was leaving him out.

Thank you again for still reading this. I know I'm kind of making Tohru very depressed but it's kind of a tough time for her. Next chapter I hope to get more of the other Sohma's to show up!

Review if you like!