Author Notes : Sorry for being so busy guys. Continuing now. Of course I own nothing.

Rating : M

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Chapter Five : The First Sprout

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Everyone knows that after the first root comes the first sprout, a small green sprout that comes up from the soil, breaking through. Of course, with Yuki, planting the first seed had been easy, but it would take so much more to make this sprout grow. Kyo still didn't have his life in order one bit. It was during lunch, he was up on the roof, during his classes he'd been quiet for once. Deep in thought and all.

'What's wrong with me!? I'm not turning into Yuki am I!? Gods, I need to stop thinking so much. Tohru would...' that's when he stopped.

It hurt too much to think about her, he tried to pass it off, he was on the roof all alone, no one could see him cry, as he let one tear fall silently, that's when he heard something, wiping the tear away, he put up his act...wow he really was turning into Yuki.

'No way. I'm not that damn fucking rat, this is all his fault anyway! Well...it could have easily happened reversed...gods I'm thinking way too much about this fucking stuff!!' thought Kyo angrily to himself.

That's when Kyo saw Momiji come up and sit down next to him. Momiji gave him a sandwich, Kyo had obviously not thought to pack a lunch, Tohru had always done that, he guessed that old habits always did die hard with him. He ate the sandwich and he thanked Momiji with a small wave, that's when he noticed Momiji was looking up at the sky.

"Hey kid, what's wrong with ya? The sky aint that interestin'." spoke Kyo's always tough guy accented voice.

Momiji snapped out of it and he looked over to Kyo with big eyes, he smiled as always hiding the pain he'd shown not too long before.

"The sky, I saw all of the clouds, and one of them looked like a cat with a rice ball next to it. I wondered...if you miss her so much, just like Yuki. You both lost so much, I know I was never as close to her as you were...and I was wondering, how close were you and Tohru?" spoke Momiji's sweet and saturated voice.

Kyo just looked down at the ground, sometimes tragedies really didn't settle in, Kyo himself was in so much denial anyway over what had truly happened, he and Yuki were one and the same in this situation, but he refused to let himself believe that, after all Yuki and him were mortal enemies, the facts that they'd both connected with the same girl and has her torn away. There was no way in the hells that Kyo was going to allow himself to accept this.

"We were close, we will always be in some parallel universe, after all she was the first to say she liked the cat the best. The facts of it were, sometimes I think she was the only one who'd ever have given me a chance, to be myself. She was my best friend, ripped away from me like everything else, now what do I have? I'm almost eighteen and Akito's gonna lock me up. The only way he won't is if the curse of the cat is lifted. So I got nothin' left." spoke Kyo's usual tough guy voice.

Momiji smiled bitterly as he looked at the ground, he had feelings for Kyo, he'd had them for years, he'd hidden them because he knew the cat was forbidden, and even he was a coward at times.

"I like you Kyo. No matter how much you punch me, or yell at me, you're my friend. You always will be, I like you better then Yuki, or any of the others, because you...even if you hated me, or still get annoyed by me. We have more in common then the others, our mothers abandoned us, and they hated us. Of course yours was worse, but I hold the cat near my heart because even if it's forbidden Kyo, I believe you are a good man deep down and you deserve good things, despite your curse, and Tohru taught us all to respect the cat, she even taught me how to express what I thought of you. I just did it now because I know that she would want me to." spoke Momiji's usually happy voice very seriously.

Kyo looked at Momiji and he was in shock at the rabbit's confession, Momiji was one of the few of the zodiac, almost like Kagura yet sweet who even gave Kyo attention, even if it was sometimes annoying, at least Momiji was staying by his side while Tohru was now gone.

"I appreciate you Momiji, the facts that you respect me, even if you never did before Tohru came along. Which I knew you did even back then, that's something you and Kagura have in common, even though I pushed you both away in different ways, you still hold my hand in the darkest of times." spoke Kyo's rough tough guy voice.

Momiji smiled at him and placed his hand on Kyo's as he leaned into the cat, gently hugging Kyo. Kyo just held him back, if anyone had seen this coming then they'd have had to been psychic. Because this was the beginning of the end of the curse, this was the beginning of something so beautiful yet so misunderstood. This was the first time that Kyo's heart skipped a beat with anyone. However the bell soon rang and they went to their classes. This was the first sprout, of a cure, and nobody knew it yet.

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Author: yeah I've been busy...

Kyo - so the midget rabbit will break the curse? How?

Momiji - I'm confused too

Author : just stick around and reviews would be nice!!!!