Finally, the finale! This is the final chapter of the story; I hope you guys enjoy it! Please R&R! P.S. Hatori finally appears! Yay! Hatori!

Chapter 5

For the next week or so, Kyo and Tohru seemed to be avoiding each other. They only spoke to one another when absolutely necessary, which was hardly ever. Kyo kept trying to apologize to Tohru but she always seemed to find an excuse to leave.

Now Kyo was trying to think of a sure-fire way to get Tohru to listen to his apology. It wasn't going to well. Then, he saw an ad for a local jewelry store and decided to check it out.

Kyo felt that it was a success and was certain he had found the perfect gift for Tohru. But he decided to get a second opinion anyway. He couldn't ask Yuki because he'd just beat him up again, so he decided to ask Shigure since he was the only other person there (besides Tohru, of course). "Shigure, I need your opinion on something", Kyo said.

"You're actually asking for my opinion? My, my this is an occasion!" Shigure exclaimed.

"Will you take this seriously!?! I want to make it up to Tohru, so I bought her something and I want your opinion. Remember, this is serious. And a surprise, so don't tell her!" Kyo shouted.

"Don't worry Kyo, I won't tell a soul. What is i-"Just then, Kyo pulled from his pocket a velvet box with a beautiful diamond ring in it. "What do you think?" Kyo asked.

"Are you proposing!?!" Shigure asked, almost laughing his head off.

"NO! What the hell is wrong with you!?!"

"Well, it's just that you bought her a ring. You know what that usually means!" Shigure said, recovering from his laugh attack.

"Well, I'm not proposing you perverted disgrace of a dog (I love that saying, I also say that Ritsu is a disgrace to monkeys everywhere)!" Kyo shouted as he walked out of the house.

He decided that he needed a second opinion, so he went to the main house (like anyone there would be of any help). He decided to go see Haru because anyone else would either make fun of him, beat him up, or annoy him to death. Haru was surprised to see Kyo at his door, but not completely disappointed. "Kyo? What are you doing here?" Haru asked.

"I need an opinion on something. Shigure was no help and I figured the only other person to help me would be you", Kyo explained.

"I'll try. What's up?" Haru asked.

"Tohru's mad at me for some reason and she won't listen to me long enough for me to apologize. So I got her something to make up for whatever I did and I want your opinion on it", Kyo explained.

"Okay. What did you get her?" Haru asked. Again, Kyo took out the ring and got the same reaction as before, "Are you proposing?" Haru asked.

"No! Why the hell does everyone think that? Wait. Don't answer that. Just give me an opinion", Kyo said.

"It's alright. But I think she'd like one of those magical cleaning fairies better." (Sorry, ever since he talked about those in the book, my friends and I talk about them all the time)

"A magical cleaning fairy?"

"Yeah, then she'd never have to do housework for you pigs again", Haru explained.

"Thanks, but I think I'll stick with the ring", Kyo said.

"Suit yourself. See you later."

"Yeah, whatever." So that was a bust. But Kyo still had confidence that the ring would work and decided to give it to her tomorrow for Christmas.

The next day, Tohru decided to have all the Sohmas over for Christmas dinner (well, the ones that would come anyway). Ding-Dong

"The guests are arriving!" Tohru exclaimed as she went to answer the door with Shigure trailing behind her. "Hatori! I'm glad you could come! You're the first one hear! Come on in!" Tohru said.

"Thank you. I appreciate the invitation. It gives me yet another reason to visit", Hatori said sarcastically.

"Oh, Hatori, I know you love to visit me. By the way, will Akito be dropping by at all?" Shigure asked.

"He would have come but he had a fever so I told him to stay home", he replied.

"Oh", Shigure said, rather downheartedly, "Let's get on with the party then, shall we?"

More guests arrived and everything went on as it usually does…in chaos. Ayame and Shigure wouldn't leave Hatori (or each other) alone, Kyo kept picking fights with Haru and Yuki (who happily obliged), Momiji and Kisa were spending time with Tohru (which ticked off Hiro), Kagura was upset that Kyo wasn't paying any attention to her, and Ritsu kept apologizing to the world for…nothing, really.

So when all the guests left and the cleaning was done (which was a lot, by the way), Tohru went back to her room. "This is my chance" thought Kyo and he went upstairs and knocked on Tohru's door. "Tohru? Can I come in? I really need to talk to you."

"Yeah, sure, come on in Kyo", she replied. Kyo opened the door and as he did, he said, "Thanks. I've been wanting to talk to you, but you always ask if it can wait. Why is that?"

"I don't know. I thought-"she was cut off by Shigure shouting, "Kyo! Tohru! Where are you?"

"Come on", Kyo whispered to Tohru.

"Where?" she asked.

"Trust me, okay?" Kyo said. Tohru nodded her head to say that she trusted him and together, they climbed on the roof. "Before you say anything, I got you something", Kyo said as he pulled the box with the ring in it from his pocket. "Merry Christmas, Tohru", Kyo said.

"Kyo, you didn't have to-"Tohru started to say as she opened the box, "Are you-", she was cut off by Kyo practically shouting, "No, I'm not proposing, okay?"

"Okay", Tohru said, "I can't accept this, it must have been really expensive, why would you spend so much money on me?"

"Why wouldn't I?" Kyo asked as he tilted her head up so she was looking at him, "I love you, Tohru."

"I love you too, Kyo", she replied.

Then, Tohru and Kyo leaned towards each other and shared their second kiss and they stayed on the roof for the rest of the night, enjoying each other's company for the first time in what seemed like forever (well, at least to them, anyway).

THE END

Hope you all enjoyed the story! I really feel like I put my heart and soul into this one. I want to thank my good friend, Ember1406, for all her help with this one. I really appreciate it. And I'm also grateful to everyone who has read and reviewed this and I really, really hope you liked it. Thank you!

P.S. Keep an eye out for the sequel, The "Perfect" Plan, coming soon!