Tanpopo Yamazaki

12- 10 -04

Chapter 8 – Going back home!

Author's note - Merry Christmas everyone! If you all e-mail me, I'll send you a Christmas present! I wanted to say that before Christmas actually has passed like what happened with Thanksgiving. I've been quite lazy lately. BTW – I figured out an ending for this story, but it won't be on for a while. Plus, good news to those of you who like my story – there will be a #2 after it ends. The ending is kinda sad, not to spoil it or anything, but it's not a happy ending.

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" I…I love you too, Kyo." She said, smiling. She could get used to loving him now.

Kyo stared into her sapphire blue eyes before speaking.

" Y-you do?" He asked. How could she when she didn't remember him? It was one of the strangest things. " How can you possibly love me? You don't know me…" He added. It was quite true, or at least to his understanding. He didn't think she could love him now.

She stared at him for a moment before smiling and giggling at him a little.

" I just have this really funny feeling that I belong to you. I don't know exactly what to say, Kyo. I guess it's just something inside of me saying ' Come on Tohru, go for it! He'll want you too!' But that sounds a little strange, don't it?" She turned to him, still smiling at him. She felt so strongly about him. Was that really love? She wanted to be near him, to hold him, to be his forever and ever.

" No…" He said, turning back to her. He was smiling at her expression, which was disbelief. " I don't think that at all…that's something you would say though."

She looked at him with slight confusion.

" Um…what do you mean by that?" She asked.

" Well, it's defiantly something that you would say. You always used to say things like ' Do your best!' or ' We're all here for a purpose!' So many people believed in you and they still do because of what you do and say. That's what I meant." He said, looking away slightly. It felt so awkward to be hanging out with her at almost 4 in the morning, but it was nice to be there. He had to admit it – He felt closer to her instead of farther now that her memories were erased. He didn't know why though.

" Oh…I see. Well thank you then." She said with her cute little smile still on her face.

" Well, then…I'll see you at school tomorrow, right?" He asked.

She was staring at him for a while. She didn't want him to leave her! She finally knew who he was and to find out, they loved each other. She knew she did…she could feel it with every fiber in her being!

" Yes…that's definite! I'll be at school!" She said, staring at him, trying to smile as best as she could.

" Good…Remember, I'm holding you to that promise! And if we're lucky…maybe you can move back into Shigure's with us. Everyone misses you and Kisa almost went ballistic!" He said, laughing slightly. He wanted her to move back in with them. Shigure always complained about how the chores were pilling up without their little ' housekeeper' and about how much he missed her. He remembered the first time she left and how lost he had felt without her there. It was such a horrible feeling and since then, even being away from her for one day broke him into pieces.

Tohru smiled again. Kisa – who was she? She thought for a few moments before finally getting a few fragments back. Kisa was the tiger! And a cute little one at that! That made her pretty happy that Kisa cared so much about her.

" Did she, well…I'll have to go see her after school tomorrow." She said. " And I also hope I can move in too…but what about Akito? Won't he be really angry?" she added after a few seconds.

" I…I was hoping that no one would tell him…but we can figure it all out later…well…goodnight Tohru." He said, kissing her cheek and smiling at her.

" Good night Kyo. I promise I'll see you tomorrow." She said, turning around to go back inside. She felt bad for Kyo coming all this way for a couple of minutes, but it was worth it to her. She walked inside and upstairs and into her and her cousin's room that they shared.

" Well, well…my little cousin visiting her boyfriend in the middle of the night? Tee hee hee." She said.

Oh no! She was caught by her cousin, Hikaru! (A/N – I didn't know her name, so I made it up, sorry! If any of you know, please tell me and I'll change it.) What was she going to do?

" I-it's not what you think! Its just, he felt like he needed to come over and I happened to wake up from a dream and saw him and -" She was cut off by her cousin.

" No sweat! I'm not going to tell or something. I think it's quite cute. That's the boy that dragged you out of the house that one day, right? The one with the red hair?" She asked, walking towards her in her blue and pink flowered pajamas.

" Uh…Yeah! His name is Kyo. He and Yuki, the other boy, came here." She said, sitting on her bed and taking off her slippers.

" That's cool that you still talk to them then. I thought you were in an argument or something when I heard you were going to move back in. By the way, I'm sorry about the last time you came to live with us. I'm sorry I was so rude. I guess I just got the wrong idea of you is all when I heard that you were living with all of those men in that house." She said, sitting across from her on her own bed.

" Oh…well…um thank you then!" Tohru said, smiling at her and pulling her covers back on.

" Its no problem…for now on…lets be friends, okay?" She asked.

" Okay!" She responded. It made her happy that some of her new family besides her grandfather didn't think she was still a whore. She wasn't, she wasn't at all! And she wanted them to know it too. She sighed slightly and closed her eyes…she was going to need more sleep if she was to see Kyo tomorrow.

WA! And chappie eight is up! The next chappie – chapter 9 – Back to school and going back home! See ya then!