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Chapter 4 I Give In!

Tohru's POV

I had finished telling Yuki what Naomi had told me only moments before, that she would only stay if Kyo asked her to stay and meant it, really meant it. I was the optimistic one, and I knew that chance was slim to none.

"That's going to be hard," Yuki said thoughtfully. "We'll just have to force him to." He stared off into space, devising a plan.

"Poor Naomi. You know, most people would have been freaked out to see people transform, but she wasn't. It didn't even really bother her that much. I wonder why," I commented. It was almost too good to be true, someone actually accepting them without being weirded out by it. Even I was a little freaked in the beginning; heck, I still got a little uncomfortable.

"I don't know, but I think I'll go talk to Kyo; you know, try and talk him into it, yet make it seem like it's his idea. See you in the morning," Yuki said as he headed for Kyo's room, his face set with determination.

About ten minutes later, I could hear the two of them yelling at the top of their lungs as if they didn't care the whole of Tokyo could probably hear them. I waited patiently for Yuki's door to slam shut before I went to find Kyo and talk to him myself. This happened often and I was used to it; I knew the routine.

I found Kyo in his usual spot on the roof. "Kyo? Can I sit with you?" I asked before sitting down beside him. I pulled my knees to my chest and wrapped my arms around them.

He shrugged in response.

"Look, I know you and Naomi don't get along, but you need to ask her to stay with us. She's been through a lot, and I think she deserves it. She's not a bad person, just rough around the edges," I explained to Kyo, looking him in the eyes to show him how much I wanted her to stay.

"Oh, not you too! Why do you want her to stay so badly?" Kyo let out an exasperated cry and hung his head between his knees, angered that everyone was ganging up on him. For a moment, I felt bad. But, Naomi needed a home, and Kyo's pride needed to be deflated a little.

"She lost both her parents in a plane crash, and she was all alone with her brother. Now, he's leaving her too, so now she's all alone with no family. I guess, she reminds me… of me."

He didn't say anything, just stared off into space. I wondered what he was thinking about. Was he actually considering what I was saying? Would he ask her? Could the two of them become friends?

"Couldn't you put aside your pride just once? Naomi did when she lied about you punching her. Be the bigger person."

Naomi's POV

I was walking to school the next morning lost in my own thoughts of what I was going to do if Kyo never set his pride aside and asked me to stay with his family when Kyo stopped me just outside school building.

"Hey, you can stay at our house," he said casually watching two girls giggle as they passed us. I recognized them as members of the Prince Yuki Fanclub, which I had been invited to join but had declined.

I shook my head turning back to Kyo. "No thanks. Tohru told you to tell me that." I brushed passed him and continued on my way.

"So what if she did? It doesn't matter," Kyo narrowed his eyes at me, more angry than ever.

I shook my head. He was too dense to realize I wanted him to ask me because he wanted me to stay, not because people told him to. "You know, Kyo, Tohru has you wrapped around her finger. You're like her little training monkey who can't act proper on his own. Grow up!" I stormed off into the school.

School, being school, was dull and boring. Throughout the day, I tried to forget about the argument we had that morning, I was starting to feel a little guilty. I was angry and upset and took it out on him.

Trying to forget about it before I went to work, Kyo stepped in front of me and blocked my path, "I want you to stay at our house. I mean it," Kyo told me, still unable to look me in the eyes.

I shook my head. "Having told me you mean it doesn't make it true." I pushed passed him once again. I wasn't in the mood to start an argument, and I certainly wasn't going to apologize for earlier.

I never really expected him to mean it. His pride was too high. I was just planning on wearing him done before I would finally accept. Kyo didn't have the heart to mean it. I sometimes wondered if he even had a heart.

He truly surprised me when he jumped out at me when I was on my way home. I screamed like a little baby and knew I was never going to live it down, so I decided to act like I didn't care.

"God, Kyo!" I clutched my chest. "What're you my stalker?" I tried to calm my heart and regulate my breathing. I took out my inhaler and took a deep gulp of it. I had a slight case of asthma, nothing major.

"Ha, ha so funny. Look, I give up. I want you to stay. If I had no where to go, I would hope you'd offer me a place. Sure, we'll probably butt heads, but I'll honestly try very hard not to provoke you," he said quickly as if it would be less painful to get it all out fast.

I looked at Kyo long and hard. It was making him nervous I could tell. But, he had surprised me, and I wanted to make sure an alien hadn't invaded his body and influenced him to say it.

"Was it that hard, Kyo?" I asked with a smile. I let out a small chuckle and shook my head. He was full of surprises it seemed.

"What?" he asked in disbelief. He couldn't believe I had actually accepted his offer. He had been prepared for me to push passed him and blow him off. I had surprised him.

"I give in. I'll move in with you guys," I nodded, my smile widening from ear to ear. I loved it when I won, especially with Kyo, who was so very easy to beat, but it didn't make the victory any less sweeter.

He just stared off into my eyes, uncertain of what to say or do next. Should he lead me home, or should he just leave?

"I'll move in tomorrow. I don't have a lot, so it won't take long," I broke the awkward silence for him.

"Okay," he just nodded and rocked on his heels with his hands in his back pockets.

"Thank you Kyo." My smile softened. He had done me a great deed and I wanted to be as sincere as possible.

He nodded opening his mouth then closing it again before he finally asked, "Can I ask you a question?"

"Sure," I nodded, expecting something I couldn't answer or wouldn't want to answer.

"Why didn't it freak you out when I transformed?" He was looking me square in the eyes now, no nervous avoidance of the eyes or looking away. This was full on.

I sighed. "Well, I've been through a lot, and I didn't chose to have this life, just as I know you didn't chose to be what you are. My brother had said the same thing to me that day you caught us fighting, that he didn't choose to raise me on his own, it just sort of happened. So, it really hit home. If I don't like someone, it isn't because of what they are, it's because of who they are."

He nodded, taking it all in. I wondered if that was what he had wanted to hear, or if there was more.

"Well, I better start packing," I turned to leave, but I stumbled over my own feet, which you only see in cartoons when the girls trip at the worst of times over nothing (cough-Kagome from InuYasha-cough).

I fell backwards into Kyo, and we tumbled to the pavement in a heap, Kyo breaking my fall. I grimaced expecting to hear the familiar 'pop' and then the orange smoke to fill the alleyway.

I frowned. I had 'hugged' Kyo. Shouldn't he have transformed? I waited for a second, but nothing happened. I should have been on top of a cat, instead I was snuggled in between to a very muscular, athletic chest and his toned arms. I had never noticed how in shape Kyo was. I was impressed, though I would never tell him so.

"Kyo?" I asked as I got off of him, I was more than a little disappointed, but it wasn't because I liked him, it was because I wanted to keep feeling how toned and athletic he was.

"I know," he said standing up with a frown on his face.

"Why didn't you transform?" I asked baffled stepping back to give myself some distance.

He shook his head. "I have no idea." He was lost in thought.

Was I special in some way? Was I the only one that didn't make them transform? Why was that? What made me any different from anyone else?

"We should probably go tell the others," Kyo told me as he grabbed my arm and lead me back down the alley.

"Can I try hugging you again? Maybe it was a fluke," I asked, and much to my distaste, I hugged him. I didn't want to hug him any more than I had to. I didn't like Kyo that way, and I knew he felt the same. Still nothing happened- no 'pop' no orange smoke, but why?

"Kyo? Naomi?" came a voice.

We tore apart from each other as if we had been caught doing something very naughty. It was the Yankee, one of Tohru's friends. Great, word was going to get around that Kyo and had been hugging.

How were we going to explain this?

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