Chapter 14:
Tohru pulled Kyo out of the area with all the fish and into the area with all the flowers, the school garden. The bushes had white lights just touching the surface; Tohru walked up to the weeping willow tree and pulled aside the branches. She dragged Kyo underneath and up to the trunk of the tree.
"Give me a boost Kyo-kun?" she asked. He looked startled as he helped her up into the branches, she took out a knife and Kyo stared in horror. It was just like how his mother had looked the night she'd died! Tohru pushed back her bracelets and the hand with the knife was shaking. In one fluid movement Kyo was up there, hugging her, smothering her with all his might.
"Kyo-kun?" she asked.
"Yeah?"
"What're you doing?"
"Eh? I thought that you were going to… I'm an idiot." He said. Tohru was in his arms, still clutching her knife and smiling up at him.
"Kyo!" she laughed, "How could I kill myself? I have too much to look forward to, to even consider suicide! Kyo, I love you, I just couldn't do that to you."
He looked at her, stunned by the words she had just uttered.
"You know something?" Kyo asked smiling.
"What?"
"I love you too." He said hugging her. He turned into a cat but didn't care; Tohru loved him!
"Oh no!" she cried, then started to laugh, "Kyo-kun, you are wonderful!" Kyo beamed and snuggled up to her. Tohru started to carve into the tree 'Kyo+Tohru' and when she finished, she enclosed it in a heart.
"I think I saw them go in here.'' A voice called a few minutes later. At that moment Kyo changed back, and was frantically trying to get dressed when Uo pulled back the curtain of branches.
She stood there paralyzed. Kyo was standing in his boxers, Tohru's hair was messed up, and some of her bangles were missing. Very incriminating.
"What were you two doing?" she asked slyly.
"Absolutely nothing!" Kyo exclaimed.
"Uh-huh…" she said crossing her arms and quirking a suggestive eyebrow, "You two have been going out for only, what? A month?"
"A month tomorrow." Tohru corrected happily, "It's okay Uo-chan, nothing happened."
"Whoa, really?" Kyo asked about the one-month anniversary.
"Yeah, dumb one!" Hana said, and then muttered, "You're as bad as Yuki I swear."
"Wait…what's Yuki bad at?" Kyo asked interested.
"Telling time and keeping dates right," Hana said rolling her eyes.
"Really?"
"He's asked me if it was Friday, when it was Wednesday once," Uo said.
"If the Prince Yuki Stalker Club ever found out about this…" Kyo said thinking.
"Plot later, get dressed now." Uo ordered. Kyo realized he was in his boxers with three girls staring at him and pulled himself to the other side of the tree trunk.
"So…" Uo asked nudging Tohru, "Nothing really did happen, huh?"
"Nope, Uo-chan! We were…" Tohru didn't know what her friends would say about her carving in the tree, maybe she shouldn't tell them.
"You were what?" Hana asked concerned.
"Never mind, it's embarrassing," Tohru muttered.
"Details. Now." Uo demanded with a smirk.
"I…"
"C'mon Tohru-kun, just tell us!" Uo said.
"Alright," Tohru caved, "WeweresittinginthetreeandIwasgoingtotcarve aheartintothetreeandthenKyowaslike 'ohno!' and then iwaslike 'what' andthenwekissedandthenheturnedintoacat, and then you cameand-"
"Tohru!" Hana shouted, Tohru stopped and looked at her friend, "Slower, much slower. Okay?"
"Yes!" Tohru said, her heart was beating quickly now and she was trying to ignore it. Somehow what happened in the tree with Kyo she didn't want to tell them, just keep it as a happy memory, one that she could slip into in her dreams… yes, that's what she wanted. "But I said it once, and I don't really want to say it again, at any speed in any language…please understand, I didn't do anything, but I just want to keep that moment to myself. You understand, right?"
"Of course Tohru-kun," Hana said smiling.
"Say Tohru?" Kyo asked coming from behind her, his tie was hanging around his neck loosely, and then he whispered into her ear, "Do you want to go dance?"
"Sure," she whispered back. Kyo laced fingers with her and they walked away after Tohru waved goodbye to Uo and Hana.