Oh. Em. Gee. It's Chapter 9 of When the Knight met his Squire.

Wow, 9 chapters already, that's A TON!

Ehh, whom I kidding? That's nothing.

You know the two trolls Frodo and Legolas from chapter 8? That's not the only time you'll hear about them! Hehe. Oh and that unicorn Haru was talking about… Oh, I haven't disclaimed since chapter 6… I guess I should re- tell you that before you forget.

Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket. Natsuki Takaya does…just in case you guys forgot! XD

When the knight met his Squire

Tohru and Kyo were walking down to their room; most of the adults were still hanging out at the banquet. Drinking, gambling chickens, and doing weird stuff. That's what happens when people have too much wine. Kyo laughed when he thought back at what Haru told him… the whole unicorn thing.

Kyo was just thinking about stupid things like this because he and Tohru certainly weren't talking. They were just walking. What was she thinking about? Was it as stupid as what Kyo was thinking about, or was she thinking about what he and her almost did. Kiss. Then Kyo started thinking, 'We were going to kiss right?' He kept asking himself. 'Could she possibly love me, like I love her?' He was also wondering. 'Wait, why am I thinking this shit when I could just ask her?'

Kyo stopped walking down the long corridor that was leading to his room. Tohru in return stopped walking and turned to Kyo, obviously wondering why he stopped.

"Kyo? Is something wrong! Did I do something? Are you feeling okay?"

She ran up to him, staring into his maroon eyes.

"Kyo?" Tohru asked.

Kyo looked at her, his face looked very serious.

"Tohru, about earlier, when we were at the Sohma Garden…"

He started to bring up what happened earlier. He watched as Tohru looked down, her bangs now covering her eyes.

"Yes?"

Tohru knew what Kyo was going to say, 'He's gonna tell me that what was going to happen, what could have happened meant nothing… I just don't want to hear it…not yet...' She said to herself, still holding her head down. Kyo continued,

"I brought you there to thank you and all… but there was something else I wanted to tell you. And what we did, or I suppose I should say almost did..."

Tohru's eyes started watering a little,

"It makes me want to tell you much more than I already did want to tell you..." Kyo then put his hands on her shoulders and went on. "Tohru, I…" He stopped.

'Okay Kyo! Stop chickening out and tell her already, damnit! Holy shit…I'm pissing myself off…and yelling at myself…is that even possible...yelling at yourself, who does that?' Kyo thought while confusing himself. (He needs to stop going into these extreme deep thoughts at crucial moments!)

Tohru then did something, she or Kyo would never expect. She pulled away from him, aggressively, and started walking away.

"Kyo, can it just wait until the morning. I'm sorry. I'm tired and I'd rather just go to bed."

'I guess it could wait until tomorrow Tohru, but I'm not going to.' Kyo thought, he stood there for a minute thinking of how he was going to tell her, but realized Tohru was at the door of their room about to open it to go to bed.

"Tohru wait!" The girl stopped with her hand still on the door as Kyo ran up to her and then pinned her between him and the door. His hands were placed on each side of the door, and his arms were barricades, keeping Tohru from going anywhere.

"No, it can't wait." Kyo said to her.

Tohru gulped, a little worried.

"What do you have to tell me Kyo?" Tohru said. Her voice was nervous and shaky.

Kyo's face was now starting to soften,

"Tohru… you have no idea what you do to me do you?" He said and sighed.

Tohru was confused more now than ever!

"Um, excuse me Kyo? Wait! Did I upset you when I just pulled away from you? Oh, I'm sorry! It's just…I'm tired and…Kyo?"

It looked as if he wasn't even listening to her, he just stared into the girl's teal eyes. She was staring back into his maroon his eyes.

"Tohru…" His face grew closer to hers.

"Kyo…" She replied. She placed her hands on his chest and moved closer to him. It was something her body did without her permission if it was possible, and Kyo didn't seem to mind. He smirked.

"Tohru Honda…I don't know how you feel about me, but I know this much."

She stared up at him.

He placed his hands back on her shoulders as he had done before. "You… are the most amazing girl I've ever met. You care for everyone, you are beautiful, and are too selfless…and I love everything about you…I love you Tohru."

Kyo waited for a reply, in fact, he would wait forever if he had to. He wanted to hear the girl say something, anything! She just stared up at him, her eyes were becoming watery.

"Kyo… you, you really mean that?"

Did he really mean it? Of course he meant it!

"Yes, every word…" Kyo watched as tears started rolling down Tohru's cheeks. "Tohru! Why are you crying? "

She simply smiled,

"I'm just so happy Kyo! I ... I love you too. It's just that, I never thought…" She looked, almost in shame. Kyo really did love her, even though she was just a servant. She looked back up at him smiling again, "I just thought you would never feel the same way about me as I did you… I mean, you're practically royalty. You're a Sohma, Kyo! You're so important…and I'm just…some peasant. But I'm so happy to hear you tell me you love me!" Tohru told him.

Kyo was happy to hear this news; Tohru loved him. But he hated the other shit she said, him…important? Yea, right. Not in this lifetime. And her? She was the most amazing human being on this earth, she just didn't know it.

"Tohru, can I tell you one more thing?" Kyo said, still very close to the girls face.

They both were bushing, and they both didn't care.

"Of course Kyo" She answered, her hands were still on Kyo's chest and she was smiling up at him.

"You are my princess."

He smirked at her.

Tohru couldn't help but grin very widely. Kyo was just the sweetest, and he loved her! Nothing could get better than this!

The girl laughed as she wrapped her arms around his neck while he wrapped his hands around her waist. He brought his head down to her face, and their lips met.

At first their lips were just pressing against each other, but then their kiss became deeper than that. Kyo's hands were down at Tohru's waist, he started to open the door with one hand while the other was wrapped around Tohru's waist. He managed to open the door while still playing around in Tohru's mouth (that ton, ton, ton, ton, tongue), making the girl giggle. Tohru was walking backwards to where ever Kyo was leading. He kicked the door shut behind him making the girl only laugh more. They stopped kissing,

"You're just filled with giggles aren't you?" Kyo said while smiling as the girl nodded and continued to giggle.

A surprise to Kyo, Tohru pulled him back to her lips, reuniting their lips again.

Some first kiss huh?

Well, more like… first few kisses. Kyo was moving her back on his bed. It was huge so they weren't going to fall off or anything (even though that would be pretty funny...), and it was certainly comfortable.

This whole experience was new to Tohru. Her being with Kyo, on his bed, kissing him! She couldn't have been happier. He was lying on top of her, feeling her curves; Tohru gasped. Kyo could tell she wasn't ready for anything more than they were already doing, hell he wasn't sure if he was very ready either. It was his first kiss after all!

Well…kisses.

He moved next to her, both were staring at the ceiling of the room

Tohru took his hand and held it, worried it was all a dream and he would just vanish if she let go.

"Tohru, I've liked you since I met you…" He turned on his side to face her; she turned on her side to face him. She giggled again,

"Really? Right when you met me?"

"Yep."

Tohru thought it was funny to hear Kyo say something like this. He was always so serious compared to now, where he was just goofing off with her and telling her sweet things.

"Kyo, you don't need to say such things, really. I'm already so happy…" She then felt Kyo's lips on hers again, for a brief moment.

"Me too Tohru…" The two fell asleep together.

The next morning, the two woke up to pounding on the door. They jumped up from their current spots, and Tohru ran to the door to answer it. She opened the door; a guard was there saying how breakfast was served in the dining hall.

"Girl, why are you still dressed in the clothes you wore at the banquet?"

Tohru had forgotten she was still wearing Kagura's dress… actually, Tohru forgot to get up this morning…

"Oh, this? I, w-well I was very tired when I got back so I just went to bed without changing first."

"Well just be sure to tell Sir Kyo that it is breakfast, and he is expected down there soon. Got that?"

Tohru nodded, and closed the door as the man walked away. She turned around and saw that Kyo was not in his bed.

"Kyo?" She then watched the boy walk out from the balcony, stretching.

"Just getting some fresh air, don't worry… I didn't run away from you or anything." He laughed as he walked up to her.

"Kyo, breakfast is waiting for you downstairs."

He wrapped his hands around the girl's waist while she placed her hands around his neck,

"I don't have to go. I can stay here with you…"

Tohru smiled at him, he was so selfless. He would miss out on his family meals to be around her.

"No Kyo, that's silly. Go and eat with your family like you always do. Then you can come back and I'll be here like always."

With that said, Kyo got dressed while Tohru cleaned, worked, and shined stuff. Before Kyo left, he kissed the girl one more time, trying to cherish it as if it was the last time he would ever.

"Bye Kyo!" Tohru waved from the doorway as he walked away.

Once Kyo arrived at the dining room, some of the Sohmas were there. Kisa, Hiro, Momiji, Ritsu, Hatori, Rin, Haru, Yuki, and Kagura were all there but Shigure and Ayame were not.

"Where are Shigure and Ayame?" Kyo asked as he sat down at his seat.

He watched as Hatori sighed with annoyance, "Let's just say they are not feeling well."

Kyo laughed in the inside after hearing this. Those idiots drank and partied too much. He looked at everyone around the table, something felt weird. Someone's presence here was bothering Kyo, and for once it wasn't Yuki. Then Kyo realized Kagura was sitting across from him and giving him death stares.

'So that's the evil presence I'm sensing. She's starring me down… holy shit is that steam coming from her ears?'

Kyo watched the girl. She looked very, very angry. She was that jealous of Tohru? Well, now that Kyo thought about it, she technically could be jealous of Tohru now that she and Kyo were…together.

'Wait, are we together? Oh, hell! I'm confused…'

"So, Kyo…tell me. Did you enjoy your banquet?" Kagura asked, very stern and serious.

Every single person in that room wanted to leave at that moment, especially Kyo. Everyone turned to him, hoping he would answer and not with a stupid answer. They didn't want to see Kagura throw a chair at him…again. That would have been the third time this year!

"Yea, I guess." He replied, as cool and collectively as possible. When in his mind, Kyo was really thinking, 'HOLY SHIT SHE'S GONNA THROW A CHAIR AT ME AGAIN ISN'T SHE? DAMN! I SHOULDA STAYED HOME WITH TORHU…I SHOULDA! I SHOULDA! I SHOULDA! I SHOULDA!'

You get the point…

"Oh, well that's good. Did that girl enjoy it?"

Kyo was scared. Kagura was definitely the one thing that could ever scare him, he wasn't afraid to admit it either since Yuki and Haru were both a little scared of her as well.

"Uh, yeah. She said she did, I think. I don't really know. I didn't really talk to her afterwards, I went to sleep…woke up, got dressed, came down here…" Kyo hoped that he just saved himself by saying this.

"Oh." Kagura replied, then the doors opened and Akito and Kureno walked in.

"Hello everyone and good morning." Akito said, he looked at Kyo. "Oh, yes and Kyo. I'm sorry I could not attend your victory banquet, I was feeling a bit under the weather, but congratulations." Akito then smiled to him.

Kyo knew he didn't mean it, "Thanks." He replied.

"Yes Kyo, I'm also sorry I missed it. I must always stay with Akito…" Kureno said, and Kyo was just shocked by the fact that the man spoke. 'He speaks? I thought he was mute…I mean, I've never heard him speak before…I wonder if anyone else has?'

After that, breakfast went back to the usual. Akito wouldn't shut up, and once in a while, one of the other relatives would just add some little comment. When everyone started to get up to leave, Akito apparently had one more thing to say.

"Oh yes. Yuki, Kyo. Come to my chambers in a few minutes. You both are given an assignment."

Akito and Kureno walked out of the room after that, as did the rest of the Sohma Clan. Kyo was very happy to hear this, though he didn't show any emotion; just a scowl as usual.

Once he came back to his room he looked for Tohru, who was on the balcony, just sitting around. Honestly, she was bored. She had already cleaned and done everything she needed to do. She was just relaxing and waiting for Kyo to return now.

"Tohru! Akito is giving me an assignment! He wants me to go down to his room right now!"

Tohru heard this and stood up and hugged him. Though she was also a little upset, for this meant that Kyo had to go fight and could possibly get hurt.

"That's wonderful! I just hope it's not something too challenging, I couldn't bare seeing anything bad happen to you Kyo!"

Kyo smiled at her, and put his hands on her shoulders.

"It'll be alright, I'll be back later and tell you about it. Okay?"

Tohru nodded and Kyo started walking out of the door again.

Kyo was now on his way to Akito's room, excited to finally be able to perform the knightly duties he had always wanted to do.

OMG! That was fluffy…fluffier than the fluffiest marshmallow, or pillow, or chicken! Haha, Shigure and Ayame were exhausted from gambling Chickens! I've been thinking, when do I want to end this story? I've been just playing by ear basically, writing what comes up in my head at the moment…so I really have no idea when this story is going to end. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed Chapter 9 and until next time,

Sarah.