A/N—Hi everyone! First of all, thanks sooo much for all the reviews! I was really surprised to get so many reviews, I was expecting like two per chapter if I was lucky. Thank you! 3 Oh, and in case you didn't pick it up before, the curse is broken in this one. . Now… on to Chapter Three, shall we? (Hey, that rhymes.)
Disclaimer—Don't own! Yay Natsuki Takaya-san!
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Yuki treaded slowly to school, dreading the inevitable: the sympathetic looks and "I'm so sorry"s he was bound to get from his classmates. He doubted many of them were sorry. To a lot of them Tohru was just… that girl who hung out with Prince Yuki. To the people who knew her, really KNEW her, she was more like a ray of sunshine protruding from behind gray clouds, a bit of hope in a bleak world.
Yuki wondered how Arisa-san and Saki-san were handling this. They seemed pretty broken at the funeral. Uo-chan broke out in tears as she read her speech for Tohru. Hana-chan spent the time either crying into Uo-chan's shoulder or staring off into space, most likely lost in memories and thoughts about Tohru.
Dragging himself back to reality, Yuki found his thoughts had carried him to school. "Here goes nothing," he said. Then he took a deep breath and walked in to school.
Immediately as Yuki walked into class, his peers went into sympathetic mode. In fact, although he didn't show it, Yuki was slowly becoming sick to his stomach at all the people saying "Oh, poor Yuki-kun!" and "Yuki-kun, I'm so sorry."
Yuki struggled through the rest of his morning classes, and then finally it was lunch time. Yuki walked slowly to into the cafeteria, staring intently at his feet. He didn't feel like eating today.
Finally, Yuki dragged his attention to Kyo, sitting alone at a small, secluded table in the corner of the room. "Tohru wanted us to be friends," Yuki thought. "Maybe, now that the curse is broken, we can be."
Yuki slowly approached Kyo. This would be strange, Yuki expected. "For Tohru," Yuki muttered to himself in reassurance as he sat down across from Kyo. Like the start of many friendships, he began by simply saying, "Hey."
Kyo slowly lifted his gaze from the table. Tohru's words ran through his mind. "Give Yuki a chance…" she had said. "Ok," Kyo thought. "After all, Tohru worked so hard to break the curse…so we could get along." But Kyo replied with a rather cross, "Hey."
For a while both Yuki and Kyo just sat there in a content silence, both lost in their own thoughts. But then, Kyo abruptly broke the silence.
"I really miss her."
"Yeah."
"We should really try to be friends…only because Tohru wants it."
"But…how can we be friends when we've been enemies for so long?"
"…I don't know."
So with that an akward silence came, until at last the bell rang, and lunch was over. Yuki and Kyo had separate classes (the teachers had made it so after the third time Kyo started a fight with Yuki…), so they had no chances to try to befriend each other.
The final bell rang, and Kyo had made it through the first day, and trudged home in relief. But Yuki's day was far from over yet. He still had a student council meeting. He knew this meeting would be difficult. He had just barely decided not to quit student council altogether. Tohru wanted him to be happy and go on with his life, and the student council was part of his life. "For Tohru." He sighed, before trudging off to the meeting.
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A/N—That was chapter three, hope you enjoyed! And… can anyone tell me if Yuki and Kimi are in the same grade? Their age difference (if one exists) will become relevant in later chapters. So… as always, please please review, all you gotta do is press a button and type some stuff. It's not too hard to make me extremely happy!