Never Give Up
By Ginta and Hakakku Fangirl
Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket. Or any of the characters…Especially the Rat, Yuki Sohma…
THERE, I SAID IT, ARE YOU HAPPY NOW, AKITO-SAN???? STOP GLARING AT ME LIKE THAT, I SAID THAT YUKI-KUN ISN'T MINE!!! WHAT? OKAY, FINE! NEITHER IS KYO-KUN OR AYA-SAN OR HAA-SAN OR GURE-SENSEI OR HAA-KUN, OR ANYBODY ELSE, NOW STOP LOOKING AT ME LIKE THAT!!!!! Thank you.
A/N: I'm sorry about that. But I just couldn't resist. Anyways, I am so, SO sorry that it's taken me so long to get these chapters up, there were some complications with my internet browser and stuff, it's not a very interesting story, so I just won't even get into it at all. But it's fixed now, hopefully.
Oh, um, a couple of things that I just wanted to mention before I let you read on (although if you wanted to skip ahead, I won't stop you). Um, I just realized that I've only called Kazuma Sohma "Shishou", which is what Kyo-kun calls him in the manga. It's pretty much the equivalent of "Master" in Japanese, which is what Kyo-kun calls Kazuma in the anime. And the for the nicknames that I'll be using will all be from the anime, so as not to confuse people, but if I do decide to use manga names at all, I'll warn you ahead of time, for those of you who have yet to read the manga. Oh, and, uh, with Akito, I like her a lot better as a guy, I have no idea why. I just do. So I'm not quite sure in which sex I'll portray her yet, male or female. Um, that's all that I can think of at the moment, so, enjoy this next chapter!
Chapter Five: Choices
"Well, I heard that it was Kyo who did it!"
"No it wasn't!"
"Yes it was!"
"No, it was that awesome Hatsuharu!"
"You're only saying that because you have a crush on him."
"I do not!"
"Yes you do! But I heard that it was really Prince Yuki!"
"No way!"
"Yeah, the Prince would never do that."
"Well, maybe--"
Tohru sighed and Hana patted her back absentmindedly.
"They give me a headache as well," she murmured as she, Uo, and Tohru walked passed the girls gossiping in the hall outside their class room, Tohru rubbing her temples.
"Yeah, you'd never think that those Prince Yuki fan girls would ever be able to have a conversation that wasn't solely based on Prince Charming," Uo agreed.
The Fan Club girls continued to gossip about- what else?- Kyo. It was now the third of October, and he still hadn't come back.
Once in the classroom, Tohru set her bag down in her chair with a grimace. She wasn't even two months pregnant yet, but she was already in almost constant discomfort. Her morning sickness was still terrible, although since Hatori had given her some medicine for it, she was able to get through school while feeling only a little ill. But the medicine gave her a headache, and her breasts were sore; the hormones were also making her ankles swell, and she had to pee constantly. Tohru didn't know what she was going to do. But she had made one decision already.
"Yuki?"
"Miss Honda!" Yuki immediately stood up as Tohru walked over to him. "You shouldn't be standing up any more than you have to!" he whispered.
"I know, but not so loud!" Tohru whispered back. No one but her grandfather, Hatori, Shigure, and Yuki knew that she was pregnant, and that was how she wanted to keep it, for as long as possible. Not even Hana or Uo knew yet.
"Sorry." Yuki lowered his voice even more as two boys walked past his desk, talking loudly. "What is it? You seem worried." He winced as Tohru bit her lip. Of course she's worried, idiot!
"I've made a decision," Tohru whispered. "About the baby."
Yuki leaned forward a little so that Tohru could speak softer. "Yes?"
"It's not just my baby. It's Kyo's too." At mentioning Kyo's name, Tohru's voice broke a little; Yuki placed a hand on her shoulder. "So," she continued after a moment, "I can't make any major decisions without him. And--" Tohru paused again, taking a deep breath. "I'm not going to have an abortion."
"That's good," Yuki said. "But what are you going to do after the baby is born?"
"I'm not sure," Tohru admitted. "But I just don't think that I'll be able to make a decision until Kyo knows yet."
Yuki nodded. Not two days after Hatori had given Tohru her first examination and predicted her due-date, Kazuma had called, apologizing for keeping Kyo out of school. He had been in a rush, telling Shigure that he would be home schooling Kyo until they got back, which might not be until after Christmas, but that Kyo would be able to graduate with his class at the end of the year Shigure had told all of this to Yuki while Tohru had been taking a nap, and called Hatori about it as well. They had decided against telling Tohru about this; Shigure said that it would just upset her, and Hatori had agreed, saying that if she were too stressed, it could hurt the baby. And although Shigure had heard Kyo yelling in the background, he hadn't been able to say anything to Kazuma other than hello, as the martial arts master had been speaking so rapidly, and having hung up on Shigure so quickly. And so, despite finally being able to talk to either Kazuma or Kyo, neither the master nor his pupil knew about the baby now growing rapidly inside Tohru's womb.
Sighing, Yuki took Tohru by the hand and led her back to her chair. Needless to say, the girls in his fan club glowered.
"Okay, deep breath." Hatori frowned as he listened to Tohru's breathing. "Alright, once more. Hmm…
"Well," he said, placing his stethoscope once more around his neck, "your breathing is normal, your heart rate is fine. Now, if you'll just lay down. If you'd like for Yuki to leave the room, it's up to you."
"No." Tohru shook her head. "I want Yuki to stay."
Hatori nodded. "Are you sure that you don't want to know the sex of the baby yet?"
Tohru shook her head no and Hatori nodded his understanding.
He and Yuki had taken Tohru to Hatori's office for her first ultrasound.
Tohru was now almost four months pregnant, a little later than expected for a first ultrasound, but Hatori had wanted her to wait until she had made a solid decision on going through with giving birth to the baby, the main reason being that he didn't want Tohru to change her mind if she had finally made her choice. Personally, however, Hatori was very glad that Tohru had decided against an abortion, for several reasons: One was that he knew she would instantly regret it; two, she was right about the baby being Kyo's child as well; and three, Akito. Akito would be upset no matter what the decision, but there was always the fact that Tohru aborting a Sohma baby would enrage Akito more than the simple fact that the baby she was carrying was, of course, Kyo Sohma's child, the spawn of the cat.
Tohru lay back on the examination bed, and Hatori waited for her to cover her legs with a blanket before he lifted up her paper gown so that he could apply a lubricant to her abdomen; Tohru squirmed a little, uncomfortable.
"Are you alright, Tohru?"
"It's cold," she murmured.
"Yes." Hatori glanced up at her. "Do you want another pillow?"
"Yes, please."
"Yuki?" Hatori nodded towards the door. "Do you mind?"
Yuki nodded and left. He came back just as Hatori brought a monitor closer to the bed so that he would be able to see the screen better.
"Thank you," Tohru smiled at Yuki as he slipped a second pillow beneath her head; Hatori had positioned the hospital bed so that she could sit up, and she had placed the first pillow behind her lower back, as that was the area that seemed to bother her the most lately.
"Okay…" Hatori turned on the monitor. "Are you ready to see your baby, Tohru?"
Yuki jumped, startled, as he felt Tohru suddenly grip his arm.
"Miss Honda?"
"I'm nervous," she whispered. "Shigure said that he was going to be telling Akito today."
"Don't worry about that right now, Miss Honda."
"Yuki's right." Hatori ran the scanner across Tohru's abdomen. "Let's just concentrate on this right now. Do you see this?" He pointed up at a spot on the screen of the monitor and Tohru's breath caught in her throat.
"The baby's hand?" she breathed.
Hatori nodded with a small grin as Tohru's face broke out into a teary smile.
"You came to see me, Shigure?"
"Yes." Shigure sat down next to Akito.
"And to what do I owe this pleasure? Is it about Kyo?"
"Yes." Shigure sighed. "But it's also about Tohru."
"Tohru?" Akito whispered.
"Yes." Shigure looked suddenly a little reluctant, but he continued nonetheless. "You see, it seems that she and Kyo, erm… 'succumbed to their hormones', to use a slight euphemism," he admitted.
Akito's hand's tensed. "And you're telling me this because…?"
"Well…"
A/N: Okay, and I'm just going to leave it at that. No flames for not revealing the baby's gender. Don't worry, it comes up in the next few chapters, it's kind of essential to the story that no one but Ha'ri-kun and I know right now. Sorries to disappoint you all again but, heh. I guess that's just how it goes sometimes, eh? Oh, and the reason that no on is able to get ahold of Kyo or Kazuma is because they aren't at the dojo or at Kazuma's house; they've gone off on another of Kyo's "disappearing acts" again.