Chapter 5 – Another Kiss

Morning came and it was Sunday. Tohru woke up early as usually, but wasn't in her best condition. After everything that happened yesterday, who would? She came out of her room and headed down stairs with her head still in the cloud she caught her leg in a log and she fumbled down the staircase. Kyo rushed down the stairs and held her up. "Tohru! Are you okay?" He asked.

"Kyo, what are you doing here?" Tohru grabbed hold of his hand and stood up.

"I was… um watching for dogs." He replied with a yawn.

"Dogs? But we don't have any." She didn't catch Kyo's drift. She rubbed her hips with one hand while the other hand was still holding onto Kyo's grip; she noticed that Kyo's hand was cold. "Oh my god! Did you sleep here the entire night? Your hands are freezing. Yes! You have to go back in bed now and I'll start breakfast and get you something warm." She said quickly.

"Do you need any help?" He asked. "You don't look too well, either."

"I'm fine. If you weren't sitting there, I'll probably fell anyways. I can be a total klutz sometimes." She couldn't sleep much last night after all the happened. She could might as well be sleepwalking and fell by herself. Tohru gave Kyo a big grin to confirm that she was okay.

'A klutz? Yeah maybe sometimes, but cute in all.' He thought with the smallest smile and went to his bedroom. Since it was morning, he didn't have to worry about the Shigure's naughty intentions. He covered his yawn and snuggled down into his bed.

Two hours later, Tohru had finished with all her cooking and cleaning for the morning. 'Everyone is still sleeping. I should take my bath now and serve breakfast later.' She thought. 'A warm bath should help me wake up and look livelier. I don't want to worry anyone.' Tohru walked back upstairs and felt a little light headed. She managed to get her clothes and went to the bathroom. She heard the water running and thought, 'Did I leave the water running?' She couldn't remember from her fatigue condition. She opened the door and walked inside. She hanged her clothes and towel on the rail next to the door and stripped her cloths. She approached the tub and reached out her hand attempting to stop the running faucet. Before she reached the tub she caught a glimpse of a grayish purple lock of hair at the angle of her eyes; it emerged rapidly up into the air and the bath water splashed onto the tile floor. Tohru froze instantly, her eye wide opened, 'Yuki…' They stood staring at each other for about one second, but the one second seemed to be an eternity. Tohru burned red from head to toes, 'Yuki is bathing… naked… and… I'm…' She quickly turned away, grabbed for the towel vigorously; her grip forced the rail to collapse and she loosed her balance. Her legs slithered backward as her body dropped forward and her hand squirmed for the nearest contact.

Yuki jumped out and cushioned her fall with his moist body and she landed on top of him. He wrapped his hands over her and breathed, "I'm glad that I caught you just in time." Tohru's face was buried on his chest underneath her brown hair. The fall gave her a shock and numbed her body; she couldn't move. Yuki was also hurt; he bumped the back of his head on the tile floor when he broke her fall. Both of them lay there for about a minute before Yuki realized the position that they were in and unclothed. Yuki started to get tense as he pulled his way up and Tohru fell back to a sitting position. Yuki started to touch her face and thought, 'She's so beautiful.' He traced his fingers along her face and down to her chin and noticed her lips turning colored; he rubbed his fingers onto her lips. Tohru blushed and her body shivered. 'She's cold.' He pulled her in and cuddled her in his arms feeling contented he couldn't control himself and little by little he lower his head and explore her lips.

"Tohru, I've heard something clanking. Are you o…?" Shigure sprung the door opened and surprisingly found Yuki kissing Tohru. "Oh…my… I'm sorry!" At that he slammed the door back into its hinges.

The sudden noise of the door closing released Tohru from her numbness and she crawled backward to escape Yuki's arms, "I'm so sorry… I didn't mean to…"

"No, I should be the one that is sorry. I shouldn't have…" Yuki argued. "I'm sorry…" He grabbed his clothes from the top of the hamper by the end of the tub and left the bathroom.

Tohru sat against the wall in silence trying to recollect what just happened. She shook her head hastily and got up to her feet. 'This was just an accident that's all.' She took a deep breath and exhaled.

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Breakfast was ready. Shigure and Yuki were already at the table waiting for Tohru to serve the rice. Kyo came down to join them and sat next to Tohru. Everyone started eating. The room was silent, so quiet that they could hear each other chewing noises. Shigure rotated his dark eyes from Yuki then to Tohru and back to Yuki and Tohru.

Kyo caught Shigure's back and fort movement and it bothered him. "Hell, what is wrong with you?" He asked. "And this silent treatment is driving me nuts! Tohru say something already. Yuki! Anyone!"

No answer. Just eyeballs movement from Shigure, Tohru blushed and Yuki lost in his train of thought.

"This is pissing me off!" Kyo yelled. "Something is going on here and I want to know!"

"Do you really want to know? I think that you better off not knowing." Shigure finally smirked out an answer.

"Does it have anything to do with Tohru?" He asked.

Shigure nodded, "Uh-huh."

"Then spill it!" Kyo demanded.

"No." Tohru said softly. Just this one word startled Kyo; his eye widen as he looked at her shock expression.

"It's none of your business." Yuki replied bluntly.

"You ugly rat! So, you think that I'm not good enough to know. What is going on?" He turned over and grabbed Tohru's shoulders. "Is there something that you're not telling me?"

Tohru looked into his red eyes; he looked furious. 'Should I tell him? It only an accident and nothing happened. Nothing really happened except that Yuki and I were both naked and we were… we were… kissing and hugging each others bared body.' Tears started to run from her blues eyes.

"Get you're hands off her!" Yuki shouted seeing Tohru being tortured.

Kyo withdrew back and slammed his fist onto the floor; red fluid busted out from his knuckles and soaked the area rug.

"Kyo, you're hurt." Tohru quickly held up his arms.

He pulled away from her and fiercely glared at Shigure. 'He must have done something to her, but what and why won't she tell me, am I not good enough for her to trust me?'

"Please Kyo we need to cover that wound." Tohru begged.

He sighed heavily. "No. I'm leaving!"

"Where?" She asked.

"Out of here… I need some air…" He looked at Tohru's depressing face and said with a flat tone, "Don't worry, I'll be back." He left the house with his bruised hand unattended.

"Tohru, are you okay?" Yuki rested his hand on her shoulder.

She looked up and he gave her a warmed smile. Her lips creased together and formed a small grin. "Thank you."

"I'm sorry. It's my fault." Yuki said.

"No, you had nothing to do with it!" She exclaimed. "It was an accident. It was me who walked in. You don't have to apologize. I should have told Kyo."

"Why didn't you?" Yuki asked curiously.

"I don't know." She said, but thought to herself, 'I was… I was scared. I was scared to find out what kind of reaction Kyo would have if he found out what happened.'

Yuki kneeled down in front of her and pull her into an embrace. "Tohru, after what happened... I want you even more. I want to be closer to you and to be able to see you and love every detail of you."

'Yuki, he is always warm and gentle with me. He always managed to get me smile.' She thought.

"Tohru, I need an answer from you."

"Yuki, I…" She paused and thought, 'Should I? He looked so determine. If I choose him, then everything will be over with. I don't need to marry Shigure and I won't worry Kyo either, but…' Tohru was still indecisive as she replied to Yuki, "I need more time."

He squeezed her tighter as he looked into her weary eyes. "I understand and I'll wait for you… until you say yes."

"Thank you." She whispered into his ears.

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Back Stage Discussion:

Shigure: Wah! I was totally ignored in this chapter!

Yuki: The stupid dog came in at the most crucial moment and ruined my kiss with Tohru, and he said that he was ignored. What a jerk!

Tohru: Wow! Look at this; we have 13 reviews from our last posting!

Smile: Hey, it looked like you have another fan, Shigure. Her name is Starskysea.

Shigure: Great! Is she better looking than the other one?

Yuki: How would we know?

Tohru: Yeah, hyper-writer14 had a great question in her last review: How was Shigure brought up? Do you know?

Smile: Let me think.

Shigure: Why ask her? Ask me?

Yuki: Like you would give us a straight answer?

Shigure: Of course, I am who I am and Smile just interpreted me the way that she thinks who I am.

Yuki: Oh great! A long speech is coming.

Ayame: If you need to ask anyone, then ask me. I know every intimate detail about Shigure.

Everyone: Where did you come from?

Ayame: I missed Shigure; he hadn't called me for a while, so I thought that I'll visit him in the discussion.

Tohru: About Shigure?

Ayame: Yes, I thought you all knew. Shigure, Hatori and I grew up together in the Sohma's house. We eat together, we sleep together and we go to school together.

Yuki: We already know that? What we wanted to know was how he became such a trick.

Ayame: Well Hatori was the smart, quiet and serious person. I in the other hand was out going and spunky one, so that left Shigure to be the clever and sneaky one. Shigure and I would get together and play prank on Hatori and other people. It was our way of fun, to kill time and to forget all hardship and bad circumstances from our curse. After a while, we grew custom to our fun and it became part our personality. Sometimes, Shigure can play very bad pranks, but he has a very good heart and he means well.

Shigure: Oh, Aya… You're the only one who understands me. I guess that's why I love you.

Yuki: I thought you said that you love Tohru.

Shigure: Oh, yes, I love her too.

Ayame: Shigure!

Shigure: Shh… I'll talk to you later tonight…

Smile: Kyo, why are you so quiet tonight?

Kyo: (no answer)

Smile: I guess that he is still mad.

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