AaAahHhHh! Chapter 4 of this fantastical story! I keep getting reviews too, which makes me so happy, so thanks so much! Anyways,

Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket; I'm not cool enough to, though I own this fanfic! Muh HA HA Haaa!

When the Knight met his Squire

It had been 3 months since Kyo became a knight, and there had been so many assignments he could have had, but no, Yuki or some other bozo knight would get it. Why was he even a knight if he couldn't go and do his knightly duties? There were times when Kyo would even volunteer but no; Akito would reply saying,

"I'm waiting for something more difficult to give you Kyo. I know you could have more of a challenge then this"

Well duh, Kyo could do anything! Or so he thought, but still, he was tired of hanging around the castle doing nothing. He had been doing that his whole life, doing mindless tasks in the castle, attending banquets and feasts, and basically being lazy about everything.

Kyo's patience was growing thin (though he didn't have much patience to begin with), and his suspicions were growing too. Whenever Akito would see Kyo, he seemed to bring up Tohru for some reason or another. Like during mealtimes for example, Akito would randomly bring up Tohru saying things such as:

"Tell me Kyo, how is that squire girl of yours? Annoying I presume?"

Then everyone would just stare at Kyo, giving him all the attention…something he hated. Or Akito would say,

"My Dear Kyo, you haven't killed that girl yet?"

So he was a woman beater now?

Last time Kyo checked, he never hit a girl; he never would do something so low but leave it to Akito to say something so stupid. Kyo used to lose his temper when Akito or anyone else would say such things to him, but lately a simple no was all he would say.

Akito would also ask Kyo if he was tired of Tohru yet; random questions such as this would make Kyo more suspicious. Why was Akito so concerned about Tohru? Kyo never did ask Tohru if she was his squire for any certain purpose, but maybe it would be a good time to ask now. He wanted to make sure Akito wasn't up to anything.

Akito wasn't necessarily up to something when it came to Kyo. He didn't have time to waste on such a monster as the likes of him. Though he did want to upset Kyo as much as he could, which apparently wasn't working as much as he hoped it would. Akito didn't want Kyo to do anything at all; he wanted him to be bored out of his mind, like he claims he was his whole life. The boy seemed fine though; Akito would bring up Tohru a lot too, hopefully getting Kyo agitated but that didn't work either.

He knew Kyo was non-social, and the thought of him living with some person would just piss him off. He was calmer now than ever, though he still mostly kept to himself. He would still go off on family members as well, but who could blame him?

Akito thought that by now Kyo would have lost his mind considering he still wasn't assigned any jobs. Not to mention the fact he was stuck living with some strange, seemingly annoying, girl.

Everything seemed backwards.

Akito's plans of destroying these two people were not working. He was starting to wonder if they were becoming close and he had just not been aware of it.

Well that would just be wonderful! Two monster people in his life, starting to fall for each other!

Just the thought gagged the man; he would never allow that in a lifetime. Plus, Kyo would never consider getting with some peasant girl, would he?

Love? Yea right.

Kyo would never find love; that was just preposterous to Akito. He would need to think of something else to mess up their lives but for now he had more important things to worry about, such as the people of his land, his castle, and the stopping of a rumored dragon invasion…

It was early morning when Kyo awoke from slumber to find a certain missing woman. She was always gone when he would wake up, always getting up that early just to clean and take care of Kyo. It used to bother him, a lot, but now he just got used to it. Tohru would refuse to let him do anything anyways. He really couldn't say no to her, whenever she would ask to do something instead of him, like making his bed (something he would have no problem doing) or something as stupid as that, he would just say sure.

Kyo was slowly getting out of his bed, still half asleep, knowing he had to get up and go to a lousy family filled breakfast. First he wanted to go see where Tohru was, or else he would worry about it all breakfast. Kyo had already realized a few months earlier that he was falling for Tohru, though he didn't know much about her, but likewise wanted to get to know her.

The girl was very clueless about things, so he didn't need to worry about her finding out his little crush. The only problem was that stupid Momiji would visit them (another thing Tohru would ask Kyo to allow) and then say such things as "Kyo's really taken an interest in you Tohhhrruu!" or "You and Kyo will be such a cute husband and wife Tohhhrruu!"

And this of course would get Kyo angry (it would also get him blushing but that's beside the point!).

Tohru was nowhere to be found,

"Tohru?" he said, awaiting a reply.

"I'm sweeping the balcony Kyo" She answered, that didn't surprise him though, her cleaning.

He walked out to their gigantic balcony, and there she was, sweeping, just as she had said. He stood there silently until Tohru noticed his presence.

"Good morning Kyo! Did you sleep well?"

She always said such caring things to him; those simple questions could really change his mood from bad to good.

"Uh, yeah. Did you?"

"Of course Kyo! Thank you for asking! I have your clothes ready for you and uh, a guard will probably be here soon expecting you to go to breakfast so, maybe you should, if you want to that is… get ready?"

Kyo was such a sucker for this girl, because nobody would ever pick out his clothes for him, except Tohru. She was always the exception for him,

"Yeah…" He sighed and walked back in the room and gathered his stuff and then changed in some other room...

This was routine for Kyo, getting up, saying hi to Tohru, going off to family breakfast, becoming annoyed, coming back to Tohru, and then feeling better. It was like he was bi-polar or something.

So Kyo left after saying bye to Tohru, of course. "See ya later Tohru"

"Bye Kyo!"

The door closed, and Tohru let out a big sigh.

He was gone and Tohru could relax a little more, as bad as that sounded. She always cleaned so much, and pretended to clean so much, so that she would be preoccupied and wouldn't have such a hard time talking with him. She knew it was wrong to fall for a guy like Kyo. He was a Sohma, one of the King's cousins! He was so much higher than her in the class scale. Tohru was a no one, a peasant.

She had liked Kyo for a while now, but it was very unnoticeable because she was always just staying happy and bubbly and always hiding her blushes when he spoke to her. If only she had been born of higher status maybe then could she have had a chance with Kyo? There was so many more woman of his class that he probably liked, no that it was any of Tohru's business but she would always wonder, 'Will Kyo bring a woman here today?'

That would be the day that Tohru would become very upset, which was very selfish, she knew, but she couldn't help it!

Kyo was the kindest person Tohru had ever met! Of course he deserved the greatest woman in the world; he deserved everything in the world, and it really upset Tohru that Akito never gave Kyo anything to do, even when he waited so patiently. Tohru would never say this aloud though, talking bad of the king would be a huge punishment, and Tohru liked living. Tohru wasn't the only one who thought badly of the king, sometimes Momiji or Kyo would say something bad about their cousin if he was brought up.

Kyo sat down at the table where again, he was the last one there, with exception to Akito and Kureno of course). Yuki, Shigure, and Ayame would say stupid things to Kyo and ask why he was late, accusing him of "shacking up" with some woman. Kyo would ignore it and Kagura would accuse him of cheating, which he would deny. He couldn't ignore her, or she would stab him in the eye with a fork! (She had attempted it before, but he luckily just dodged it… barely)

While waiting for Akito and Kureno to arrive, everyone was making conversation while Kyo, of course, sat there saying nothing, bored out of his mind. Haru noticed this, and decided to talk to his older cousin.

"Kyo, you look bored. Rather be up in your room with that girl of yours?" He then smiled as Kyo's eyes shot open.

"No Haru, but wouldn't you rather be in your room right now with Rin or something instead of bugging me?"

In return, Rin shot him a death glare. Haru just smiled, and shook his head with a yes, in return getting elbowed by Rin. They were together, but didn't want Akito or Kureno finding out because Akito wouldn't allow it; the Sohmas tended to keep their relationships secret.

"You never talk about that squire of yours Kyo. You keep her a secret from everyone, is there something we should know about her?" Yuki asked. He seemed a little suspicious of Kyo and his secret squire girl.

"It's none of your damn business!" Kyo shouted while turning his head, hiding the blush he could feel rising from his cheeks. Then of course, Momiji had to start talking…

"Tohru is just the greatest Yuki! She's so nice, and really pretty too! Kyo likes her a lot!"

Kyo hit Momiji in the head while denying the accusation. Then Momiji started crying going "WAHHH KYO HIT ME!" and such, you know, the typical family meal time.

When Kureno and Akito arrived, Momiji, and everyone else, shut up.

It was awkwardly silent, like always, until Akito would normally start a conversation with someone. That didn't happen today; Akito apparently had an announcement to make.

"I wanted to inform you all about a rumor that has been going around. Another dragon invasion is apparently a foot; we need to stop this from happening. We know what happened the last time there was a dragon invasion…" Akito said, referring to when his father had been in battle with the dragons. "I'll need you, Yuki, to gather men from around the land, train them, and go find out what those dragons are really planning."

Yuki nodded and Kyo turned his head to Akito, getting annoyed.

What was this! It was as if he wasn't sitting there, as if he wasn't even a knight! He hadn't been assigned one thing yet, why couldn't this be his job! He didn't want to ask Akito about this in front of everyone, it was far too embarrassing for him, but he was definitely going to ask Akito about it later.

After Akito told the news of the possible dragon invasion, he turned to a less stressful conversation.

"So… what were you all talking about before I arrived?" He asked, hoping it would be something to catch his interest.

No one said a word, making Akito a little annoyed. He then turned to Yuki and asked him, because he knew Yuki would tell him what was going on.

"We were talking about the idiot…" (Referring to Kyo)

"Oh, yes. Kyo, how have you been lately?" Akito asked, planning to stir up some trouble.

"…Fine…"

"How is Miss Honda, Kyo?"

"…Fine I guess…"

"Not giving you any trouble right? I mean, I can get rid of her if you'd like?" Akito was trying to figure out what was going on between the two.

"No! …. I mean, she's doing fine, it's not necessary to get rid of her."

Well this made things pretty clear to Akito. The idiot Kyo really did have feelings for the girl.

Akito stopped talking after his brief conversation with Kyo, in fact, everyone was completely and awkwardly quiet for the rest of breakfast. As everyone got up to leave and do his or her own thing, Kyo walked up to Akito.

"Akito, I need to talk to you about something."

Akito said nothing. He just continued walking towards his chambers, Kyo followed after him.

"What do you want?" Akito asked angrily.

"Why am I never given something to do? You give Yuki everything! I could do what you just assigned Yuki to do, and yet you gave him the job! What's the point of being a knight if I still just do what I've always done?"

Akito had a major headache and Kyo just wouldn't shut up; he was getting angrier by the minute.

"Just shut up Kyo." Akito grabbed the nearest object and threw it at him; he threw a chair at him…

"What the hell!" Kyo yelled.

"Kyo, shut up! You're not good enough! You're just a monster and that's why you're never given anything to do! Just let me be you little shit!"

No, Kyo wasn't going to let this be though; Akito could hit him as much as he wanted, Kyo was going to get answers.

"Why did you make me a knight in the first place then?"

"I don't need to answer you! You think you can talk to the King that way? Go back to that slut in your room and leave me be or else I will take away your privileges!"

Kyo was furious, and was afraid he would really hurt Akito if he didn't leave at that moment. Right before he left, he turned around with fire in his eyes,

"Don't you ever call her that again…or so help me…" He then left the room.

Well now Akito was royally (hehe) pissed off. How dare Kyo say something like that to Akito? It was more than obvious now that Kyo had feelings for the little wench. Why didn't he see this coming? Probably because he never, ever, thought Kyo could fall for someone, especially someone of her stature.

Kyo was walking back to his room, pissed off. How dare Akito call Tohru a slut! She certainly wasn't, and just the fact Akito said that made him so enraged. Akito giving him the title of "Knight" when he apparently didn't "deserve" it made no sense at all.

He opened the door to his room, where Tohru was greeting him, as usual.

"Hello Kyo, how was—Kyo! You're bleeding!" Tohru noticed and quickly ran to get water and a towel.

"Tohru it's nothing…"

That didn't stop her from sitting him down and wiping the cut on his face, (from the chair incident). She then pulled up a chair and sat in front of him with worry on her face.

"Kyo, are you okay? Did something happen…"

He didn't want to worry her, because it could lead to her crying or something. He hated when he would make her cry. He had made her cry before; Kagura had beat him to a pulp one day and when he came home and told what happened, Tohru started to cry. She said that she was sorry and that seeing Kyo in that condition scared her.

He didn't want to see her cry again like that, it really upset him.

"Tohru, it's alright really. I just… cut myself on accident." Lying seemed better than telling her Akito had thrown a chair at him…

"Oh… okay. Please be more careful though Kyo, you had me worried." Tohru said, and smiled.

To Kyo, that smile of hers was priceless.

There! This chapter took me like….4 hours for some reason. I kept getting distracted with the music I was listening to and such….

Thanks again for all the reviews! I'm glad that you all are enjoying it! Until Chapter 5,

Sarah.