Disclaimer: I do not own Fruitsbasket! Or Stardust!

Just to let you know that if this chapter confuses you its meant to :D

Btw, I really haven't decided what way to go with pairings, I have an idea, but if you do as well and it fits with my storyline suggestions are welcome. xxx

When I entered the kitchen I did not expect to see what I saw. Shigure, I imagined, would be in a silent rage, preparing for his day or leaving his editor a message that would set her in a fit of tears or reading one of his 'adult' books, but he wasn't. He was sitting at the table facing away from in a manner like that of Tohru's and his body grew rigid when he'd heard my approach.

"Shigure, what's going on?" I asked direct and to the point, after all I couldn't be bothered to hedge around the issue, I couldn't care less really, but this damn curiosity in me wanted me to press on until I could find out what was really going on, because under the sunny exterior of the Sohma house I could sense a secret. Whether I wanted to know it or not was another thing entirely.

"Nothing, Kyo," He added a shaky laugh to his phrase before waving his hand at me to leave. "You go have a shower or get dressed, whatever it is you need to do." I didn't press. I didn't want to press any more. He had been crying and I'd never seen him cry ever before. Not even at a book. Not even at a film. Not even when Hatori's eye had been scratched out.

I left the room silently and headed up stairs to my room where I grabbed my school clothes and pulled them on before heading back down to the hallway and waited for the others. Tohru emerged soon after me, smiling, but with the hint of tension around her eyes that I knew was because we had a walk ahead of us with Yuki. Yuki did appear, eventually, I guess he must've gone back to sleep because his hair was all tousled and the parting wasn't even. Well, that was the best answer I could come up with then, not that I really cared. Stupid curiosity!

As we walked I out I noticed that Yuki was staring down at the floor, the earlier smirk gone and I saw that Tohru was looking off in a direction to our left and I saw her mouth move every now and then, either sobbing silently or mouthing a small prayer I couldn't tell. The whole walk was completely silent save for our foot steps and the occasional traffic noise. It was a really awkward walk, but when we got to school it didn't get any better.

I sat down at my desk and opened it reaching for the ball of string and finding myself not as distracted as I should be whilst the teacher was droning on and on about a load of crap. I pulled my drawing pad from the desk, replacing the ball of string with a pen, and I began to doodle absent mindedly on the pad. After a few minutes I looked down at it to discover that I'd drawn a little rat and an onigiri snuggled up by a fire and the cat all on it's own in the corner, fangs and claws drawn out. I scrunched it in my palms. Okay maybe it bothered me slightly more than I realised, but my mind couldn't process why. I hated that damn rat and the girl was not really of any importance to me, other than she washed my clothes and cooked for me, she was more like a maid than anything else.

I began drawing on my pad again and the time drifted by when I realised that the lesson was over and I headed out into the hall, only to be followed closely by Yuki.

"I hope me and Tohru didn't disturb you last night we were rather loud." He smiled at me a little knowing smile as though he was able to crawl into my head and feel my discomfort, but I wouldn't give him the satisfaction.

"In fact, I didn't even know what happened until this morning when I heard Shigure yelling at you two." His smile faltered for a second, but soon returned.

"Well, you hadn't said anything I thought you were silently steaming, forgive me cousin." And with that Yuki walked ahead of me, round to his AP science class, whilst I headed straight for the roof, not being able to bear the thought of sitting through a class of Tohru. They were loud were they? Well, I hope they, "Fucking had fun!" I yelled the last bit out loud accidently, causing all the strays that had begun to come towards me stop in their tracks and stare at me cautiously. I laid my head back against the hot tiles of the roof and closed my eyes, trying to block out all of the images that came to mind. I knew that they weren't true images, but I couldn't help thinking about it, my mind raced with the thoughts that hung around at the back of my mind and when I opened them again, I realised it was the end of school, well actually about 20 minutes before the end, but I wasn't going to hang around to see his highness again.

I strolled along to the edge of the roof and leaped off quickly, landing neatly in a spot directly in the middle of the car park (AN: Do they have a car park?) and striding out of the school gates before heading into a run back to the house.

When I reached it, I headed up to my room and passed Shigure's room, the door was ajar so I stopped and peeked in to see him sitting on his bed staring intently at a screen as the camera looked up at the sky and the word 'Stardust' was written there. That's just like Shigure, I thought. Cheer yourself up with a soppy romantic film. I headed to the bathroom and took a quick shower, as a cat I hated the water and I would never get into a bath. By the time I was out and dressed, the Rat was back and I had no choice, but to walk into the kitchen and face him.

"Hello Kyon-kyon." He smiled at me and cocked his head to the side, checking my mood. "You look in a better mood. Where did you go today?"

"I slept on the roof." I told him, walking past him towards the fridge and pulling out the milk carton. I then began to chug on the milk, downing it in one breath. I turned around to face Yuki and his easy smile had disappeared, instead he was staring straight at me with a red flush swept over his face like he'd just run a 200 metre dash. "Something wrong Yuki?" I inquired, unable to keep a grin off my face at the quick change in status.

"No." He told me before turning away and walking to the doorway, but he stopped. "Me and Tohru aren't really together you know." My ears perked and I drew my head up to look at his back facing me. "We just ended up in bed together. We were both really upset and it just happened." I furrowed my brow at the thought of this. This morning he'd been relishing the fact that I thought they were together and that they had a really… good night in bed together. Sometimes I just really didn't understand Yuki Sohma.

Hope you enjoyed it R&R will update soon!

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