Tohru, Yuki, and Kyo were led through the burrows of Sohma homes. Their presence was distinctly obvious. You could see pairs of white eyes in the dark homes, following the three of them as they walked.
Tohru got chills up her back, but the boys were use to this.
They were led into the room of Akito. Tohru cringed remembering her last visit here. Akito had attacked her out of anger, but she had some how reached him to sanity with her words, no matter how temporarily they were.
"Welcome to your new home," Akito said. He was sitting at his usual spot; between the open doors of his garden, looking up into the sky.
Kyo crossed his arms in hate, Yuki of course just stood numb, and Tohru just folded her hands in front of herself smiling like an idiot.
"Jasper, my new assistant, will show you to your rooms," a tall lanky pale man stood in the middle of the room. "In case you were wondering, your rooms are located in this house."
Yuki locked up, things had just worsened for the little rat. Kyo just rolled his eyes.
"Follow me please," Jasper slid open a door leading into a dark hallway. The three of them slowly walked over to Jasper. Tohru looked over at Akito as she walked, and for a few seconds he locked eye sight with her. Her heart jumped in fear.
Jasper slid the door behind all of them. "Master Yuki, your room is this one on the left. Akito's room is across on the right." Akito winced thinking of what was to become of him. "Lady Tohru, your room is this one on the right and Master Kyo, yours is on the left. Please summon me if you need anything."
"Thank you Jasper! I'm sure we'll find everything just fine!" Tohru cheered. Jasper just gave her an odd look and disappeared back up the hall.
"All right, well night you two," Tohru smiled and vanished into her room. It was quite bigger than the one she had at Shigure's. There was a large dresser, big enough to accommodate her clothing. She sat on her bed and sighed.
She then noticed two sliding doors on different walls. One she knew to be conjoined with Akito's room, which gave her the creeps, and the other she found out was to the garden. She decided to unpack her things before she went to bed. Luckily her things were brought up to the room.
(Morning)
Suddenly their lifestyles were different. Every morning Tohru had always made breakfast and school lunches for everyone, but here all of that was done by some one else.
The three of them sat around the dining table eating their breakfast. Akito was not present; he hadn't even shown his face all the morning. Yuki was actually glad with this.
"This is nothing compared to your cooking Tohru," Kyo said poking at his food. It was good but Tohru's food was excellent.
"Thank you Kyo," she smiled and took a bite of her food.
After they finished their breakfast they prepared to take off for school.
"Tohru!" squealed the blonde cross-dressing boy Momiji. Followed behind him was the rather handsome Haru.
"Good morning Momiji, Haru," greeted Tohru in her usual gentle tone.
"I heard you three moved here. That's just so great. Now we can have more fun together!" Momiji cheered, and then locked hands with Tohru as they all walked to school.
Haru walked behind Yuki, "So how are you going to deal with Akito?"
Yuki flinched by the mention of Akito's name. "I'm not sure I can do anything. I'm just going to try and avoid him the best I can."
"That damn Akito, I wish he would just choke on his words," spat Kyo. No one really reacted to his comment; they were use to Kyo's angry outbursts.
"So I assume you three were sent there because of what happened at school?" Haru pointed out.
"Yeah, what did everyone at school say after we left?" Yuki asked.
"Well the girls were delighted and the boys just sort of laughed," said Haru.
"Great," muttered Kyo and Yuki.
(School)
As the three of them walked into their class, everyone just stared at them. The boys were laughing and making jokes and the girls were giggling, blushing, and making kissy faces towards them.
Tohru walked over to where Hana and Uo sat while the boys slinked down in their seats.
"Hey Yuki, I guess we can now dub you Princess Yuki after yesterday," laughed one boy.
"What's that suppose to mean?" growled a Yuki-fan girl.
"It means that he's a flamer!" said the boy.
"No he's not! You don't know anything of the situation!" the girl said back.
"Do you?" smirked the boy.
"Well, no. Yuki tell him why you and red head were, well you know," the girl was looking at Yuki now, so was everyone else.
Yuki slunk deeper into his seat, he hated being in the spotlight. He didn't know how to explain why Kyo and he were naked in the middle of lunch.
A huge wave of guilt splashed over Tohru. It was her fault that this was happening. She just couldn't sit back and let them fall into the depths of classroom gossip.
From her seat she said, "They lost a bet to me."
Everyone whipped their heads toward Tohru. They were all wide-eyed and unconvinced. Tohru was a sweet, generous girl who does nothing of this caliber.
"What was the bet?" asked a random classmate.
Tohru quickly thought, "It was on a card game. I won, they lost."
Everyone pretty much accepted this excuse for the boys' behavior and left the subject cold.
(End of School)
Tohru and the boys met up with Haru and Momiji to walk home with after school.
"Thank you Tohru, back there in class," Yuki said.
"No problem! It was after all my fault," Tohru smiled. She had changed a lot since she met the Sohma family. She was still her self-less acting person, but now she had a little more spunk.
"AGH!" Kyo gasped as he was attacked by leeching cats.
They laughed at him as he tried to wrestle the cats off. Tohru scooped down and began to play with an orange tabby kitten. Kyo looked at her in a bewildered look. Her being so near to him made him warm in the face. She smelled wonderful. He had no idea where this was all coming from, but he just all of a sudden felt really attracted to her at this moment.
"Come on, we can't be late. Akito will be angry," Momiji chirped, breaking Kyo's trance.
They managed to shoo away the cats and make their way home.
"Tohru I want to show you around!" Momiji said enthused as they entered the Sohma courtyard.
"Sure Momiji, that sounds great, I'll see you two later," she said referring to Kyo and Yuki.
They watched Tohru and the giddy boy walked away with him pointing at everything.
"I don't know how she can be so happy all the time. Moving here is like jail," Kyo said now walking with Yuki and Haru.
"I know what you mean but it's something to admire," added Yuki.
"She's cute. Have you two made any moves on her?" Haru said plainly. Yuki and Kyo both jumped and looked at him.
"Of course not!" they shouted.
He laughed, "Do you two have any interest in her at all?"
They went quiet and then like gentlemen said, "Not at all."
"Right, well if you two don't mind I'm going to go make my own move," Haru smirked.
"WHAT! NO WAY!" exclaimed Kyo and Yuki.
"I thought you two have no feelings for her?"
"We don't but you still shouldn't go after her?" Yuki said.
"Why not?" Haru asked.
Kyo spoke up, "Because you couldn't have a relationship with her. Every time she hugs you, you would turn."
"There are many things I can do to her without her touching me," Haru grinned. Black Haru was starting to rear its head out.
Grossed out, Yuki and Kyo both punched Haru in the shoulder.
"You're such a pervert Haru. Now don't go touching Tohru or I'll go break your arm," Kyo meowed.
Haru took a high kick at Kyo. "Really and how do you suppose you're going to do that?"
Yuki walked away from them. He didn't want to be around Black Haru, who seemed to have a weird attraction towards him.
Yuki walked into his new home, still hearing the yells of Haru and Kyo.
He immediately saw Akito lying in his observing spot, a bird floating on his finger.
"Yuki, come here," he hissed softly.
Yuki reluctantly walked over to him, his hands a bit shaky.
Akito let the bird fly away and he looked up at Yuki, the sun bouncing off his face.
"I wish to know what they are fighting about, Kyo and Haru," Akito spoke in a hoarse whisper.
Yuki wasn't sure he should say, it would look horrible for their situation, but he couldn't lie to Akito, "Well it seems that Haru has taken an interest in Tohru and Kyo did not approve."
Akito raised his eyebrows, "In that girl? That's just laughable; I'll have to talk to Haru about where he puts his interests."
Yuki knew what happened when you had a talk with Akito about anything. He couldn't allow a talk to happen with Haru, "Honestly there's no need to talk to him about it. I think he was joking anyways."
"Do you?" Akito eyed him suspiciously.
"Yes I do," Yuki sternly said as best as he could. Akito looked at him long and hard.
"All right, I won't. You can go now," he turned from Yuki and looked out towards the sky.
Yuki quickly took his escape and went to his room. He sat at his desk and did his homework. An hour passed and there was a tap at his door. "Yes?"
Tohru entered his room with her dopey smile. "Hey Yuki, I was wondering what happened to Kyo. Did he and Haru get into a fight?"
"Yes they did," Yuki replied.
"Over what this time?" she giggled.
"The usual," he stated. He did practically lie to her, and he felt bad about that. Surely she shouldn't know about Haru and Kyo's reason for fighting.
"I see. Are you doing tonight's homework?" she asked leaning towards his desk looking at the papers.
"Yes I am, did you need help with it?" he knew Tohru wasn't the brightest student.
"Actually I do, but I have to get ready for work," she pointed out her work outfit.
"Well Miss Honda I'm sure I can help you after work," Yuki smiled.
"Thank you Yuki, by the way you can call me Tohru. You don't always have to be so proper, you know me well enough by now to be on first name bases," she tapped her head bandana.
"You're right Tohru," he smiled, "Have a good time at work."
She nodded with a grin and left. Suddenly the image of her from the bathing incident appeared into his head. He wasn't sure why he was thinking about it, but he just was.
He knew Tohru was cute, he thought that many times about her. His feelings for her were quite a battle in his mind. Because no matter how much he liked her, he could not be with her. It wasn't the whole zodiac thing, he could work around that, it was Akito.
Whenever Yuki had found some happiness in his life, Akito was always there to crush it down. So for this reason, Yuki had always kept his distance from anyone that he was attracted to, for their safety.
Yuki pushed back his thoughts of Tohru and finished his homework.
A/N:
Ok well I didn't have time to re-read this, so if there are mistakes in it, I'm sorry. Also I probably won't update for a little over a week because I'm going out of town with the family. Sorry! But you can hang in there right? Thanks for reading/reviewing!