Chapter 14 - April Showers....
It was already near the end of April and Tohru was at the base with Yuki planting the strawberries.
"Hm, looks like rain." Yuki said looking at the sky
"Well, April showers bring May flowers!...Err, strawberries." Tohru said as they both laughed.
"Well, Miss Honda, looks like we're done here. Lets go get some lunch?"
"Sure let's go!" They walked back to the house to see Kyo just coming around the corner from the dojo and they all walked in the house, like old times. (*'seems like old times' plays in head*)
"Lucky Kyo! Yuki! Tohru! How are you all?" (need I tell you who this is??)
"Oh, hello Ayame! I haven't seen you since New Years! How are things with Mine?" Tohru said cheerful to see him as always
"I'm not gonna tell you again, stop calling me that!" Kyo said as he stomped into the kitchen to get water
"Hello brother." Yuki said in his usual annoyed tone when he came around
"Things are great with Mine! We've been working hard on your dresses!"
"That's great how are things coming along? It isn't too much of a hassle is it?"
"Oh, no it's my pleasure! I was so giddy when you asked me to make your dresses!"
"Well, that's good. I wouldn't want to be a burden." Tohru said adding "Would you like to join us for lunch, I was just about to start making it."
"Oh sure! But I can't stay long, I must get back to your dress! Mine made it my special project!" Ayame said followed by his usual obnoxious laugh. Tohru started lunch and finished quickly since Ayame needed to get back to work, it was a simple lunch, yet filling. Salmon and miso soup with white rice. Ayame finished lunch and left thanking Tohru for her 'delicious feast'
"Thank God that babbling fool is gone." Yuki said
"And thank God Shigure didn't see him when he first got here." Kyo said relieved that they couldn't start their regular antics, consisting of a gay act.
"Kyo, no need to hide your jealousy." Shigure said teasingly
"Yeah, you caught me. I'm sooo jealous." Kyo said getting that blank look on his face. Tohru took his face in her hands and looked into his eyes and said,
"You better not be jealous. I can't marry a gay." and then laughed and kissed his still stunned-in-silence face letting his face go.
"Will you guys take it easy? I need my sweet Tohru pure when she walks down the aisle." Shigure said, a little too over dramatic
"Oh like you haven't wished you could do this to her since she walked into our house." Kyo said
"Well, that may have been true when she first came around, but I found MY Tohru." Tohru then blushed profusely at the reference to her in Shigure's relationship.
"Will you stop embarrassing my fiancee?"
"Will both of you shut up?" Yuki said sighing in disgust
"No." Kyo and Shigure said simoultaneously
"Fine. I'm going to Machi's." Yuki said as he walked out the door slamming it a little ludly for emphasis
"Girly boy." Kyo said annoyed at him for being such a kill-joy
"Kyo, you know how he gets when he hasn't seen Machi. He hasn't seen her since school on Friday."
"Yeah, well it's Sunday, boo hoo."
"Well, just think, we get to see each other everyday. He gets to see her when they're at school. It's a little different for him."
"Whatever, he doesn't have to take it out on me."
"Just, let him blow off some steam. It'll pass."
"Fine, but I won't take his crap for very much longer." Kyo said as he walked upstairs adding, "I'm going to work." When he came back down Tohru was waiting for him at the door saying
"I need to go to the store, and the dojo is on the way so, we'll walk together." Adding a smile at the end. Kyo was in no place to decline, so they walked to the dojo together. They arrived at the dojo just aas Kazuma was walking in the door, he waved and said hello, Tohru returned the wave and the hello before Kissing Kyo on the cheek, getting a kiss from him on the forehead, and left for the supermarket. He walked into the dojo and blushed a little to see that everyone in the dojo was at the window watching him. All the kids 'ooh'd' and 'aww'd' at the scene of romance that just played out in front of them and Kazuma said
"So, Kyo, are you excited for your wedding?"
"Well, as you all just saw, I'd say so." Kyo replied as he laughed.
Meanwhile, Tohru finally got finished at the super market and headed home, knowing that Kyo wouldn't be done with training until later that evening. She returned to Shigure's house to find it empty, again. She found a note in the kitchen as she was putting the groceries away reading,
"Tohru,
I went to the main house to see Akito. I understand you'll be alone but you're a big girl right? Take care.
With love,
Shigure."
"Hm, what should I do." Tohru said to herself. She went into Yuki, Kyo, and Shigure's rooms for laundry and started a load and hung up the rest of the clothes outside. She found a good book to read and waited on the laundry to be done. The load finished and she put them outside to dry with the others, she made lunch and ate it looked at the clock and saw that it was only 2:55, she sighed and said "I think I'm going to be bored for a while." So, she picked up her book again and read for a good, long time. It was almost four o'clock when she heard the door open and in walked Kyo. Tohru greeted him by planting a kiss on his cheek, and getting one in return and she said,
"I've been home all alone since I got back from the store."
"Poor Tohru. Well not anymore." Kyo said he ruffled her hair
"Are you hungry? There's no point in waiting for the rest of them to get home."
"Sure." Kyo said as he followed Tohru into the kitchen as she started their meal. Just as she put the rice on the burner rain started sprinkling down
"Oh no! The laundry! It's outside supposed to be drying!" Tohru said as she ran outside to get the laundry, they brought it inside and Kyo said
"Did you forget it was supposed to rain today?"
"Well, I was just so bored. I needed something to do and the weather completely slipped my mind."
"Oh well. At least its in now." He said as he walked over to the stove to stir the rice. Tohru came around and put her arms around his waist and said
"Kyo, when we get married, can we get a dryer please?" And then laughed
"Sure, why not." Kyo said as he laughed and kissed the top of her head, she looked up at him and closed the distance between them and kissed him on the lips, he kissed her back and she finally broke away taking the rice off the stove and getting the left over fish out of the oven saying,
"We don't want to burn it now do we?" Kyo laughed and took the rice out to the table followed by Tohru bringing the fish out. They finished dinner and cuddled on the couch, the rain still pouring. Kyo's head was in Tohru's lap, she was running her fingers through his hair and he drifted to sleep by the sound of the rain, she kissed his forehead and drifted to sleep herself. About an hour later Tohru woke up to Yuki entering the room "Oh, hello Yuki." Tohru said as she stretched
"Hello Miss Honda."
"If you're hungry, there should be some food in the oven being kept warm."
"Thanks." Yuki said then exited to the kitchen. Kyo stirred in his sleep and woke up a little groggily
"What time is it?" He said still half asleep. Tohru looked at the clock and said
"About 6. 6?!?!?!? I have to work!" Tohru said as she fixed her hair and got up to leave
"I'll come pick you up tonight." Kyo said handing Tohru her umbrella and leaning against the doorframe waiting for Tohru to finsh putting her shoes on
"Okay, I'll see you later." Tohru said as she kissed Kyo and added before she walked out the door "Love you."
"Love you too. See you tonight." And she walked out heading to work, expanding her umbrella walking towards the woods.
It was late, around 9:30 when Kyo got to the building where Tohru worked, it had finally stopped raining about halfway to the building Kyo got there and was waiting outside for her when it started again so he decided to go inside and look for Tohru. He found her coming out of the locker room on the 4th floor and said,
"Hi honey, are you ready to go?"
"Sure lets go." She said and then kissed him, a huge thunder clap tore through the building, turning the lights off startled Tohru and she latched onto Kyo like a four year old
"Looks like we're gonna be here for a while, if people come through the building looking for people we better not move." Kyo said still holding her in his arms
"O-Okay. I would be lying if I said i wasn't a little scared."
"You think I didn't notice? Geez woman you're cutting off my circulation!" Kyo said jokingly
"Oh, I'm sorry!" Tohru said realizing how tight she was squeezing his arms, her fingers were sore when she finally let go just to put her arms around his waist. Kyo took her chin in his hands and kissed her lips as if to say 'It's okay.' In the middle of their lip lock the women Tohru work with came around the corner with a flash light interrupting their romance to them saying
"Oh, Tohru, is this the lucky man we've heard all about from your cute friend Momiji? He really is a looker isn't he?" Kyo and Tohru both blushed, not only at the fact that Momiji spilled their plans and the compliments they were getting but that they had caught them kissing in a dark hallway.
"Um, well, yes. This is my fiancee. If you guys would like to come to the wedding, you can. Here's an invite." Tohru said as she fumbled for an invitation in her case and handed one to each of them. Then the light flickered on and Tohru and Kyo went on their way before getting stuck again, but hailing a cab this time. They arrived back home, it was late and they were both tired, Kyo went into his room and changed and went back into Tohru's room to find her fast asleep on the bed, he climbed in and took her in his arms and dozed off to sleep himself. The next week was very hectic, what with work and school, Tohru gave herself a fever and Kyo made her the hateful leek soup again. The next week was sober, Tohru and her friends plus Yuki, Shigure, and Kyo, went to visit Kyoko's grave. Yuki and Kyo were used to them acting all cheerful, but Shigure was a bit dumbfounded.
"Hi, mom." Tohru said as she kneeled in front of the grave "We came to visit you. I can't believe it's already been 3 years.." Tohru added as she felt tears well in her eyes. Kyo wiped them away and paid his respects to her mother, as everyone did. They left to go home and Uo said as they were leaving to Hana,
"I hate to say it, but, I told you so." She said as she laughed
"Whatever do you mean?"
"The first time we came to visit, I told you it was only a matter of time until one of them tells her he likes her."
"Oh, I guess you're right. How predictable." She said in her monotone voice
Tohru and everyone got back home and she made them tea and they all relaxed around the table, until it was time to make dinner.
"What a nice day." Tohru said as she walked into the kitchen
Chapter 15 - What is golden week? Pray tell.
"It's golden weeeeeek!" Shigure exclaimed as he popped into the doorway
"Shigure, please. Shut up." Kyo said
"Well that was rude." Shigure said acting overly-dramatically hurt "Besides, I'm just here to tell you that I'm going on a trip to the lake with Akito, Hatori, Kana, Ayame, and Mine. So you guys will be here alone for a couple days. Do I need to tell you again? Alright. Be--"
"Responsible! We know." They all said at once
"I'm not pregnant yet am I? Who says I'm going to be anytime soon." Tohru said motioning at her midsection
"Tohru, let's not tempt an old man. Old habits die hard." Yuki said non-chlantly
"I'm so hurt!" Shigure said pretending to cry
"Will you just get out of here?!" Kyo said annoyed again.
"Fine, I have to go anyway, Hatori will be here any second with everyone else. I'll see you mean people in a couple of days."
"Bye Shigure!" Tohru said cheerfully as she waved totally oblivious to the annoyance
"I'm inviting Machi over, she'll take Shigure's place at the table while he's gone." Yuki said walking to the phone
"Okay, it'll be nice to have her over." Tohru said. Kyo pulled Tohru into the living room onto the couch and they cuddled. (What else is new) They turned on the t.v. to find that movie that they watched at the lake house on again, and Yuki and Machi joined them, as the movie was starting. When the movie was over Tohru and Machi were a little emotinal when the phone rang.
"I'll get it!" Tohru said as she jumped up to pick up the phone. "Hello?"
"Is this Tohru Honda?" An elderly voice asked
"Um, yes. May I ask who this is?"
"Oh Tohru! I heard you were engaged! I'm so happy for you even though we've only met a few times when you were a child. Oh, how silly of me. This is Kyoko's mother, your grandmother."
"Grandma? I haven't seen you since before you and mom got into a fight. How are you?"
"Oh, don't worry about me. Is it true? Are you engaged?"
"Yes, it's true. I'm engaged, his name is Kyo."
"I'm so happy, when's the wedding?"
"Um, in June."
"So soon? Why wasn't I informed? How long have you been planning?"
"Well, we've been planning this since November. You weren't informed because, well, I didn't know if you still lived where you did when I was little."
"Oh that's understandable."
"You can come if you want."
"Alright, I'll come with your grandfather."
"Okay, I'll send an invite." Tohru said as she jotted down the address.
"Okay darling, I'll see you in June!"
"Okay grandma, I'm excited to see you."
"Love you dear."
"Love you too grandma." Tohru said as she hung up the phone.
"Who was that?" Kyo asked with his head tilted
"That was my grandma, on my mom's side. She wants to come to the wedding so I'm sending her an invite."
"Oh, that's nice."
"Yeah, I haven't seen her since I was little." Tohru said as she settled back into Kyo's arms on the couch, greeted with a kiss on the lips. Later on Machi's mom called and told her to come home and she asked if she could stay the night, her mother didn't trust her but she promised that she'd sleep in Tohru's room and lock the door, or as she thought.
"Well, who wants dinner?" Tohru said getting up to head to the kitchen
"Tohru, why don't we go out? All together." Machi suggested
"Yes, it would be nice to take a break from cooking all the time wouldn't it Miss Honda?" Yuki chimed in
"Sure." Tohru said "I'll get my wallet and we can go." So they left to go out to eat, the first place they saw, they didn't care as long as it was food. They got to a local restaraunt and went in to get food. They didn't talk much but when they did it was just small talk. They finished and Kyo said,
"Hey, let's go check out that book store across the street."
"You go ahead, I'm gonna check out the clothing store next door." Machi said adding "Tohru, you wanna go?"
"Sure. You guys go ahead. But behave please. We'll meet out front okay?"
"Okay." Kyo said as he and Yuki went into the book store and Tohru and Machi went into the clothing store. They met outside after about a half hour and Tohru came out with a bag as well as Machi. "What's that?" Kyo asked as he tried to sneak a peek into Tohru's bag she said,
"That'll have to wait until June swenty-seventh mister." Tohru said playfully slapping his hand away "I got a couple other things you can see before then."
"I got a pretty dress." Machi said, obviously talking to Yuki
"I like it." Yuki said admiring the dress, imagining her in it. (it sounds creepy, but it's totally not ment to be .)
"Alright, well let's go. We have homework to finish." Kyo said
"Oh, right. I forgot." Tohru said walking with Kyo towards the house followed by Yuki and Machi a little out of earshot
"Have I told you how much I love you lately?" Kyo said kissing Tohru on the cheek taking her hand in his
"Just about, oh I don't know, every day," Tohru said smiling "But it's not a bad thing." She added They arrived back home and Tohru went upstairs followed by Kyo. She got into her room hiding what Kyo wasn't allowed to see and keeping out what he was. She pulled out a dress, an orange sundress.
"And what's this for?" Kyo asked holding up the short dress cocking an eyebrow
"Well, we're honeymooning in America, in the summer, so I bought a dress to wear. I also got a tank top and shorts outfit."
"I think they're cute." Kyo said kissing her forehead taking their homework downstairs to the table. They finished homework and went to bed.
They woke up the next morning and Tohru got in the shower as Kyo went downstairs to make rice balls. Tohru came down and hugged Kyo from behind, he turned around and kissed her sweetly on the lips and said,
"Good morning."
"And a good morning to you." Tohru replied with a smile The rest of the day was a lazy day, there's not much to do. Yuki took Machi to his base to show her the stuff him and Tohru were planting and invitied her over the next time they were going to plant something.
The day after that was the same except they were graced with Shigure's presence yet again along with Akito, so he was less obnoxious. Tohru invited everyone over for dinner including Hatori, Kana, Ayame, Machi, Kureno and Uo, and Hana and her boyfriend. She decided to try a new recipe for the big dinner party. (I don't wanna figure one out so fill in the blank yourself. lol) Everyone talked and laughed and ate, it was really fun it was a good end to Golden week.
"Tohru, we should make this annual. A tridition to have at the end of Golden week every year." Uo said
"That would be fun!" Tohru said quickly agreeing to her suggestion, she loved it when her best friends and her future family were all together all happy and such. Guests started leaving, and people started going to bed so once Tohru finally walked her friends to the door saying goodbye she trudged up the stairs. 'I cannot wait to just get into bed. It's been a whirlwind of a week, filled with boring-ness, but also a lot of fun.' Tohru thouht to herself as she entered her room to find Kyo lying in bed reading a book. She climbed into bed barely even being able to gather enough energy to change her clothes and kissed Kyo and said,
"Goodnight, I love you."
"Love you too babe." Kyo said and kissed her forehead before she drifted into a deep sleep, not soon followed by Kyo. Yuki had walked Machi home and finally went upstairs to his bed and Shigure and Akito were still up watching t.v. and talking. Akito decided to spend the night since it was much too late for her to walk home on her own. so she borrowed one of Tohru's pairs of pyjamas and slept in Shigure's room. Everything was good, everything was going as it should, and everything stayed that way.
A/N: Okay so I had to combine the last 5 chapters to be able to fit them in so, that's why the last ones will be so long. thanks for reading! reviews!