Never Give Up

By Ginta and Hakakku Fangirl

Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket.

A/N: Okay, in answer to those of you who want to know if kyo loves tohru…um, I'm just knot gonna answer that. So ha! Lol, just kidding. But I'm really not going to answer that. What the hell is love, anyways?

Chapter Four: I Am So Sorry

"What?!?!" Shigure stared up at Tohru from his desk, stunned; he held a pregnancy test in his hand. A pregnancy test that bore two bright red lines. Tohru just stood there and sobbed.

"I am so sorry!!!" she wailed. "I don't know how this happened!!!"

"Um, well…When you--" Shigure looked at a complete loss of words, too stunned to come up with a remark. "When did--"

"But we used- we use a-a condom!" Tohru sobbed. "I don't know how this happened!"

Shigure just continued to look dumbfounded as Tohru knelt in front of him. He shook his head as if to clear it.

"Well, you do know that no birth control is one hundred percent effective, right?" he finally asked; Tohru looked up at him, face streaming with tears. She shook her head.

"Well, condoms are only effective about ninety-seven percent of the time. And I think that birth control pills are only ninety-eight percent effective."

Tohru shook her head again. "I didn't know that," she whispered.

Shigure nodded slowly. "My guess would be that it broke. Although," he added, "knowing Kyo, and how rash and impatient he can be, it's also entirely possible that he just didn't put it on right."

Tohru just cried harder.

"You know, Tohru," Shigure said with a sigh, "I honestly never thought that you would do something like this."

"I'm sorry," she whispered.

"I'm going to have to tell your grandfather, you do realize this, right?"

Tohru nodded miserably.

"And…" Shigure suddenly sounded miserable as well. "I'll have to tell Akito."

"What?"

Tohru and Shigure jumped, startled, and looked up. Yuki stood there the doorway, terrified.

Tohru sat at the table with her face in her hands. It had been two days since she had told Shigure that she was pregnant. He had just called her grandfather a few moments ago. Now she was just waiting for him to come out of his study.

Yuki sat down beside her.

"Your grandfather was upset," he said softly.

Tohru nodded. She had barely stopped crying since she had taken the test.

"He says that he'll come see you this weekend."

Tohru nodded again. She was too miserable to actually say anything.

"But--"

Tohru looked up at Yuki.

"He didn't seem angry, from what Shigure told me," he continued. "Just disappointed."

"Tohru."

Yuki and Tohru both jumped and looked up as Shigure came into the room.

"Hitori will be here in a few minutes. He'll need to ask you a few questions."

Tohru choked back a sob and nodded; Shigure was refusing to meet her eyes. Was he that disappointed in her? Would he throw her out?

"He says that you need to go on up to your room and relax. And I would suggest you change into clothes that are a little more comfortable," Shigure added. "I think he'll also want to give you a small examination."

Tohru nodded again and stood up.

"I'll be up in my room, then," she whispered. Oh, Mom! Why weren't we more careful?!?

As soon as she had disappeared up the stairs, Shigure looked at Yuki. His eyes were red and his face was tight with worry.

"Akito isn't going to take this well," he murmured. Yuki nodded.

"If it hadn't been for Kyo, then we wouldn't be in this mess!" he said bitterly. "He probably just forced himself on Miss Honda."

"Yuki!"

Yuki refused to look ashamed. "You know as well as I do how rough that stupid cat can be!" he snapped. "And you also know as well as I do what Miss Honda is like. Do you really think that she would have just agreed?"

"Yes, well…" Shigure looked uncomfortable.

"This is probably the whole reason that he went missing!" Yuki spat out. "He took advantage of Miss Honda, and now he doesn't want to own up to it."
"Now, Yuki. Don't you think that that's just a little unfair?"

"No," Yuki said bluntly. "And do you honestly think that if he hadn't have already left, he would have disappeared the very instant Miss Honda told him that she was bearing his child?" By now, Yuki was getting angry. "If he hadn't come back when she came to live with us, then we wouldn't have to tell Akito any of this! It would have been bad enough if an 'outsider' like Miss Honda were carrying the baby of a member of the Zodiac, but she's not! She's carrying the baby of that damned cat!" Yuki slammed his fist down on the table and Shigure winced as he heard it crack. "It's bad enough that he molested her and then took off, but now she has to carry the spawn of the cat? If being the cat of the Zodiac legend is a double curse for Kyo, then what does that make it for her, to have to carry that-that thing's child for nine months! And what if it's cursed as well?" Yuki demanded. "Then she'll have it at seven months, and be worried the entire time!"

Shigure sighed as Yuki finally finished his rant.

"First of all," he said, "I highly doubt that Kyo would ever intentionally hurt Tohru. And second, please stop calling the baby 'it.' A baby is a baby, Yuki, no matter who the father may be, and no matter what Tohru decides to do."

Yuki looked stunned. "What do you mean? Do you really think that Miss Honda would ever even consider having an abortion?"

"I don't know," Shigure murmured.

"Now just try to relax."

Tohru nodded as Hatori lifted her shirt up just enough to reveal her stomach as she lay in her bed, flat on her back; he ran a hand across her abdomen.

"Does this bother you?" he asked. "Any discomfort?'

Tohru shook her head. "No."

"Have you had any other symptoms since I saw you last?"

"Symptoms?" Tohru sat back up and leaned back against the propped-up pillows. "Like what?"

"Do your breasts seem sore?" Hatori asked bluntly. "Are your ankles swollen? How's your morning sickness?"

"Um, I'm not throwing up as much anymore," Tohru said, before blushing. "My breasts are a little sore," she admitted.

Hatori nodded. "And how many times?"

"Huh?" Tohru looked confused.

"How many times have you and Kyo had sex?"

"Oh!" Tohru blushed furiously. "Just once," she whispered.

"Mm-hm… and Shigure said that you used birth control. A condom, right?"

Tohru nodded, turning an even brighter shade of red.

"And when did this happen? When did the two of you-"

"Fifteen days ago," Tohru whispered. "The night before he left."

"Alright." Hatori thought for a moment. "Then your due date would have to be…about May sixteenth. Now, about your options."

Tohru looked up.

"It is highly unlikely that your child will be cursed by the Zodiac," Hatori said, "unless one of us were to die, which is also highly unlikely. And as this is the only way this baby would be cursed, you should be able to carry the full nine months. And Akito isn't going to die anytime soon, either, so the baby won't have to be cursed in the way that he is, either. However," Hatori added, and Tohru bit her lip. "There is still a possibility that the child could be cursed. If that is the case, then adoption would be impossible, unless it were to another member of the Sohma household, one who knows about the curse of the Zodiac.

"Another option is that you keep the baby," Hatori continued. "You would have a baby to look after straight out of high school, so working would be out of the question, at least for the first month or so. But," Hatori sighed before continuing. "An abortion is also another option."

"Oh." Tohru looked down at her hands, clenched around the blankets.

Hitori stood up to leave.

"I've already spoken to Shigure on the matter," he said. "And he says that, whatever you decide, it is entirely up to you. And, that he will support you in that decision. Don't worry, Tohru. You don't have to make up your mind right away."

Tohru just nodded as Hatori left, closing the door behind him. She just wanted to sleep…

R&R, please.

Oh, and in answer to the questions about Kyo loving Tohru, well, I actually haven't the slightest idea what his feelings about her are right now. Jk! I know, but im just not going to tell!!! Oh, and, just to let you all know, Kyo would have left immediately if Tohru hadn't asked him to kiss her again. I'm not saying that the sex was all up to Tohru, because it wasn't, but it wasn't all Kyo, either. So Yuki is wrong about Kyo forcing himself on Tohru, it was kinda mutual.