AN: Yeah.. Okay.. well I'm working on a kinda.. messed up somputer so bear with, kay? Also, my corpaltunnel is really starting to bother me, so bear with the sever lack of updates. I appologize a thousand times, btu I'll try just for my beloved reveiwers! Hacha! Anyway, This chapter will have wuite alot of stuff in one peice so I hope you all like it. Remember: READ REVEIW AND REPEAT!
Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket and I'm sorry if I don't say anythinf remotly amusing this time, it's my coffee break. No pun intended. I'm totally serious.
Tainted Angel Feathers
Chapter 11
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Well it was the middle of the month now, nothing had really changed between Kyo and Tohru.
Kyo now had a small job assisting a Master in a Martial Arts dojo. He worked while Tohru worked, asnd was out 30 minutes before she was so he could get to her work in time.
Kyo would take Tohru to work, go to the dojo. At 6:45 he would wait to pick her up, then walk with her to her second job, and drop her off. Kyo then waited there untill it was time to pick Tohru up again, taking her home. She would cook dinner, they would have thier own personal time, such as watching a movie, cleaning, or just sitting on the roof enjoying each other's company. This was a daily routine for the both of them, unless Tohru was off from her second job. Then they had more time off.
Now it was almost June, so they spent more time indoors to stay cool.
One morning, Kyo had waited outside for Tohru ready to take her to work. She came running out of the house smiling gleefully, "Kyo!"
Kyo gave her a sideways glance, "What?"
Tohru smiled and they started walking to her first workplace, "Guess what tomarrow is!"
Kyo shrugged, "What is it?"
Tohru looked up at him, "C'mon, guess!"
Kyo grumbled, "Tohru I don't wanna guess right now, I.." he looked at the two giant orbs for eyes.
"Please?"
Kyo sighed, she seemed to always win in the end, even though she would never know it. How could he say no to such a sweet face like that, "Um.. it's the end of the world."
Tohru's eyes widened, "It Is?!"
Kyo looked at her, "Uh, no. I was guessing." He inwardly grinned at her silly behavior.
Tohru blushed in embarrasnent, "Oh.. well, no. I don't think so anyway."
Kyo looked ahead in thought, continuing the game, "End of work day?" Tohru giggled, "Nope, but I wish it were."
Kyo sighed and smiled ruffling her hair, "I give up, tell me."
Tohru's smile brightned, "It's Kyoko's birthday!"
"Birthday?"
"Well.." Tohru looked off abit, "Not really, it's the day I found her on the streets." Kyo smiled at her, "You have anything planned for her?"
Tohru nodded, "Uh huh! I'm going to make some salmon and rent her favorite movie!" She smiled again.
"Favorite movie? You've got to be kidding me." Kyo rolled his eyes and Tohru looked down, "I guess it does sound abit silly."
'Shiiit.' Kyo inwardly slapped himself, "I mean, what's her favorite movie?" Kyo sighed in relief seeing her face perk up, 'Safe again.'
"Aristocats."
Kyo laughed when she said that, "Well that would..make sense." He continued laughing and shook his head trying to calm down. Tohru smiled at him as his laughter died out and they arrived at her work.
"Welp, see you at 7." She smiled and waved before wandering into the building. Kyo nodded and turned to go to the dojo.
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Yuki had arrived back to heaven that same afternoon when Kyo picked Tohru up from work.
Flopping down on his couch, Yuki smiled and sighed, "What a month, I'm exhasted!"
Who knew teenagers were so.. wild. He had watched this college student go through 15 parties, have to protect him as he drove down the road like 6,000 times. Helped him stay awake during study hour, and tutoried him in his dreams at night. Overall, not much rest for Yuki.
"I'm glad I'm home and it's all over." He said and kicked off his shoes.
He was about to be in dreamworld, when a deep voice woke him up. Yuki rolled his eyes and dipped his head up to see Haru looking at him from behind the couch, "How was it?"
"If I see another college textbook, I'll scream."
"..Interesting." Haru sat down next to Yuki, "Well, Kyo and Tohru have been doing pretty good, no sign of anything yet. Kisa and Hiro know about this now, and we've come to the conclution that.." Haru looked to see Yuki asleep.
Haru sighed and stood up, "I'll see you later then." Walking out the door, Haru looked at the large moon and shut his fellow angel's door, before flying away to his own home.
"I hope they stay safe another night. Father, what are you planning?"
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It was Sunday, Kyoko's birthday. Of all things Kyo never dreamed he would do, it was celebrate his best freind's cat's birthday. But here he was, standing next to a fat, orange stripped cat and watching it eat the case of tuna and salmon Tohru cooked, while still trying o keep the little party hat on her head.
Kyo looked at Tohru she looked at him in concern. Oh great, was he spacing out again? 'Damnit, she's rubbing off on me.'
Kyo blinked, "Yeah? What?"
"I asked if you wanted some salmon. Are you alright Kyo?"
"I'm fine, yeah I'll have some salmon." Tohru nodded abit skeptical before it washed away and she wandered back into the kitchen. Kyo looked at the cat as she chowed down.
'Well.. I can't beleive it's been around three months since we've met. Kyo sighed in thought...
"Sir?.. Sir are you alright? Please wake up, I'm so sorry. I'm really sorry about this. I-I wasn't paying attention to where I was going and.." her eyes shut tightly, "I really didn't mean to bump into you like this I mean, I didn't want to bump into you at all or anything, I was just going to work and I looked at the clock to see what time it was and-"
Her eyes opened feeling a warm strong hand clamp over her mouth. Her greanish blue eyes met to extreme, ruby eyes.
"Stop rambling, I get the idea." Blushing abit, she felt his hand move away from her mouth and onto the ground. Of course, that didn't stop her from talking, "I really AM sorry though!"
The man's eyebrow ticked, "Damnit, I said I get the point!"
Tohru's eyes widened and tears filled them. The man's angry face dropped dramaticly and he slapped his hands over his face falling back on the concrete, "...Great."
Tohru looked at him again, "Are.. are you alright sir?"
"Yeah.." He pulled his hands away from his face and sat back up scotting back abit. "Sorry about yelling at you. I just can't help it ya know." He stood up and dusted himself off.
Tohru looked up at him, he seemed so nice now. 'I wonder what's troubling him...'
Her thoughts were cut off, "Hey." She blinked seeing his hand infront of her.
Blushing again fro spacing out, she took the hand and he helped her up. The man stuck his hands in his pocket, "No wonder you bumped into me.. you space out too much."
What a way to meet someone. It was like out of those cliche' movies he had seen. He felt someone tap his shoulder and Kyo turned around to see Tohru's worried face again.
'Shit, twice in a row. What is wrong with me!?'
"Kyo, is something wrong?" Kyo took the plate of salmon, "No, nothing's wrong. Stop worrying. Can't I space out once in a while too?!" That came out abit harsher than planned..
Tohru looked down, 'S-Sorry, I just thought."
"Don't!" Kyo started raising his unoccupied hand to stop her before resting it to his side, "..appologize, I'm fine, okay? No need to worry." Tohru sighed. "Okay Kyo."
"Kyoko's eating all the salmon.."
Tohru's eyes widened, "What!? Oh no!"
"I was joking Tohru, calm down." Kyo reassured her before he smiled. Tohru laughed and started to eat. He succesfully changed the subject.
That night, they watched Aristocats. Tohru was right, Kyoko would bat at the screen or purr when they cats were on, and a low growl came from her when the butlar came in to play. It was like she knew what was going on. Kyoko looked up at Kyo and purred bumping her head under his chin. Kyo sighed and sratched behind her ears. He would spoil the cat tonight, it was her birthday.
'I wonder when Tohru's is... I'll have to check that up..'
Tohru gasped in delight, "It's your favorite song Kyoko!" Kyoko stopped and turned her attention to the screen where they started to sing 'Everybody wants to be a cat!'
'Untill then...' Kyo thought and Tohru smiled at him.
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Monday afternoon, Tohru was back at the workplace. it had been yet another month. This time, Tohru started having more strange feelings around Kyo then usual. Every time he would hold her hand she would feel light as a feather, yet red as a tomatoe. Unable to cope with these strange emotions, she walked into the locker room and saw one of her freinds, Amaya.
"Amaya!"
The familair girl blinked and turned around then smiled, "Hey Tohru! Just in time, let's get to work before Mr Cranky gets mad." They both new that Amaya meant their boss.
"Um, Amaya.. can I ask you a question?"
Amaya blinked and leaned against her broom, "Yeah, sure."
"Have you.. ever been in love?"
Amaya's eyes widened and she stumbled abit, then looked at Tohru, "Wha?" Tohru's face was red and flustered. Amaya smiled and straightened up, "Yeah, I have been in love before."
Tohru smiled, "What was it like? Being in love?"
Amaya blushed abit and scratched the back of her head, "Well.. When I saw him, my heart would jump in excitiment.. and my body would tingle.. in a good way. When I talked to him, he seemed to know what to say, and i just enjoyed spending time with him.." Amaya looked to Tohru who was smiling, then continued,
"When we held hands, I felt chills up my spine so I felt I would melt into puddy.." she made simple hand movements before trailing off in thought, as if she forgot Tohru was there,
"When he spoke, like saying my name, I would feel those wonderful tingling sensations. I could just listen to him talk about anything, and I would love it. When he held me in his arms, I would feel safe from the world. Secure; warm and.. just happy. Yes, happiness was something I always felt... and when we kissed.."
She stopped there remembering where she was, and looked to Tohru blushing madly.
Tohru, who was smiling tilted her head, "You felt happy?"
Amaya blushed again, "I was more than happy.. I was in.. heaven."
Tohru blinked, "Heaven?"
"Like he was an angel, and I had a taste of heaven, just from a simple kiss. From him though, it was only from him. No one else can give you heaven than the one you truely love..."
Tohru looked at Amaya with eyes filled with emotions. 'What if I kissed Kyo? Would I feel like that? What would he feel? Would he feel that he was in heaven? Would he feel happy? He was in heaven before.. would I make any diffence? Or even compare?'
Amaya patted her shoulder, "Hey.." Tohru looked up at Amaya.
"If he loves you, he'll feel the same."
Tohru smiled before edging on, "Amaya.. the one you love..Is he.."
Amaya's face was shadowed by her bangs and she released Tohru, "He died.. a long time ago."
Tohru coverend her mouth, "I'm so sorry!"
Amaya continued, "I mean.. he changed.. he changed into a horrible person.. even I.. couldn't help him.. All he was, was selfish, greedy and cruel. He just.. became a terrible threat to my world. I tried to bring him back to the light but...he.. pushed me aside...and then.." Amaya sighed, "...Welp! Gotta go to work! See ya later Tohru!" With a smile, she scuttles out of the locker room. Tohru stared ahead in shock.
'Could anyone change like that? So fast? Not even to care of what his love thought? Is it possible?'
Tohru changed into her janitor uniform before going to work.
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"Enter."
Shigure poked his head into the Father's office smirking. He walked over to the desk and bowed polielty. The father looked ta him and smiled, "I take it you figured something out, Shigure."
"Why yes I have!"
The Father quirked an eyebrow, "Well? I know you didn't come here just to say that."
Shigure laughed and took out a large folder, "I did research on our famous Tohru Honda and the infamous Kohaku." The Father grinned knowing Shigure knew, "And..?"
Shigure smiled glad to see the Father wasn't one to break his fun, "I know that Tohru's original gaurdian angel is not dead. She is still alive."
"Ah, and what made you come to that?"
"Because, Father, This angel was assasigned Kohaku years and years ago, when Kyo was also gaurdian for him. Also, she isn't here, or anywhere, but Earth."
"So, you know who she is, eh?"
Shigure laughed, "Someone I never would have suspected! Who knew? You are a clever one!"
The Father chuckled, "Of course I am."
Shigure smirked, "It's like history repeating itself, but this time, for the good."
The Father nodded, "It throws people off gaurd alot. Haha!"
Shigure looked at him seriously, "But why?"
The Father sighed, "All accouring to plan, my son." This answer made Shigure pout. The Father chuckled and after Shigure bid him a frendly goodbye, He sighed. Shigure left the palace to keep another secret, this one, though, would be hard to keep.
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Tohru left the building after bidding her fellow workers goodbye. She saw Uo in the workplace earlier, so they spent a while talking. How Uo got into the building withough her knowing though, Tohru may never know. Uo had asked how she was doing and if she was alright, and Tohru reassured her that she was oerfectly fine. After ten minutes, Tohru bid her best freind goodbye and walked outside to see Kyo.
She smiled, 'Now I know.. I AM in love. I love Kyo!' She wanted to shout it to the world but it would risk a restraining order or a ticket for disturbing the peace. Tohru giggled at her silly thoughts.
She wandered out the building and looked around for Kyo.
'Hm. he's not here.. that's odd..'
She looked around once more, from her left she only saw a couple of people walking, on her right she saw the same. No orange hair or familiar shadow against the wall.
"Looking for someone?" Tohru jumped and looked ahead, she knew right away it wasn't Kyo. She gasped.
He looked just like.. HIM! Akito! She took a step back in fright seeing the grey haired man leaning against the railing. He looked at her in concern. His violet eyes held not evil or angst in them. Tohru relaxed abit.
"Don't worry, I'm not Akito."
"How?" Tohru's eyes widened again. "How did you know..?" The young man smiled kindly, "Well, you see, my name is--"
"Yuki."
Tohru and Yuki looked to the left, Tohru smiled, it was Kyo.
"Ah, Kyo. we meet again."
"Shut up you bastard! What do you want?"
"Kyo?" Tohru's questioning voice fell on deaf ears as Kyo charged over to Yuki, weilding back a fist.
When Kyo swong, Yuki gracefully slid to the side and kicked him under his legs, tripping him. Kyo fell down on the concrete, his eyes wide in shock before darkening in anger. He shot up and got into a defence stance, blocking him from Tohru.
"Now Kyo, I came to talk to Tohru, not have a meaningless quarrel with you. I thought we were behind all this."
"The hell?! You're gonna take Tohru away from me! That's why you came isn't it!? To convince Tohru to stay with a sneaky little rat ass like you?!" Yuki sighed and Tohru gasped.
"Kyo, I came because I have important buisiness to discuss with both Tohru, and You."
Kyo's eyes arms fell to his side and he looked on in shock, "With me?"
Yuki nodded, "I can't talk here though, the walls have ears."
Kyo nodded and took Tohru's hand, "We'll show you where the house is then."
Tohru blinked as she was being tugged and walked alongside of Kyo, looking back at Yuki every now and then to see him walking in a calm pace.
'I wonder who this 'Yuki' is... What did Kyo mean? Isn't Kyo my.. gaurdian angel? Why would I be taken away? I'm so confused, mom!'
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A/N: Okay people, that was a long chapter. -sighs- And I have to spell check it manually T.T You people better appreciate this! -sighs- Anyways...
who do you think Shigure meant as another gaurdian angel? And what about Yuki? What will he tell Tohru? Will he lie and say Kyo is a bad angel? Or will he tell the truth hat Kyo wasn't really assigned for Tohru, but himself? Tune in next chapter-- I'm gonna go watch Case Closed (Jimmy/Conan has KYO's VOICE! Squee!) lol!
remember the three r's!
-Amaya
