A/N- So I kept meaning to put an author's note in one of my chapters, but when I write them, I don't write out the note. ^_^ Silly me. So, here is my story, and I want to thank all of you for reading. This is my first ever fanfic that I have put on a site. I've been writing fanfics for me and my friends, though, for a few years now. If you find any mistakes, or have any suggestions for the story, (because, while I basically know what's going to happen, there are lots of little things I don't know) please review. This chapter is a little shorter than the others, but it is an important one.

Disclaimer- I do not own Fruits Basket or its characters, blah, blah, blah. We all know the drill I only own Emiko and Ryuu.

Chapter 3-

Emiko's POV-

She sat up with a groan. She knew she had to get up so she could get ready for school, but she was still so tired. It was probably because of the extremely vivid dream she'd had where she had almost kissed Shigure. She knew it was a dream because she knew herself. There was no way that she could ever summon up the guts to tell Shigure that she liked him. The idea that she had was a little funny. Although it would make breakfast a little awkward, especially if someone asked her what she had dreamt about. Rubbing sleep out of her eyes, she gently shook Tohru, "Wake up, Tohru; we need to get ready for school."

Tohru sat up with a yawn, "Is it really time already?" She crawled out of bed, and walked over to her closet.

"Yeah," Emiko sighed.

"Okay. If you want I can go get dressed in the bathroom," Tohru offered, collecting her clothes.

"No, it'll be fine. We are both girls, after all," Emiko said. She swung her legs of the bed and walked over to her duffle bag. Rifling through it, she pulled out her uniform.

A look of confusion on her face, she turned to Tohru, "Hey, have you seen my book?"

Tohru looked thoughtful, "Um, you were reading when I came downstairs last night."

"Huh?" Emiko asked in confusion. ~Downstairs?~ she thought.

"Yeah, you said you couldn't sleep, so you went downstairs to read," Tohru said with a small smile.

~Isn't that how my dream started?~ she thought.

"Now that I think of it, I thought Shigure was going to stay out all night," Tohru said with a shrug, "You should look for your book downstairs." After buttoning the final button, Tohru left the room.

~So, it wasn't a dream...~ thought Emiko. ~We actually almost kissed?~ She felt the blood drain from her face, then rush back almost painfully fast, then drain again. ~ Oh my god. I can never look him in the eyes again...~

Quickly, she got dressed and put get pajamas in her duffle bag. ~Maybe if I'm lucky, he'll still be asleep.~ She dashed down the stairs, and into the dining room. She instantly froze.

Turning, Shigure smiled, "Good morning, Emiko-chan."

Shigure's POV-

He smiled, happy to see her. After their (almost) kiss last night, he had tried to go to sleep. After being unsuccessful for almost an hour, he had finally fallen asleep. But when he fell asleep, though, he had dreamed of her. They had been sitting on a cliff in front of the ocean. They were talking, though about what, he couldn't say. Suddenly, she laughed, and then stood. She walked to the edge, and leapt. He had woken in a cold sweat, desperate to see her and make sure she wasn't hurt, make sure that she was completely fine.

Her face, already pale this morning, turned red, then deathly white. Her eyes went wide, and, with a small squeal, ran for the kitchen.

"Wow, quite the charmer this morning, aren't we?" Kyo said sarcastically.

"As if you could do better, you idiotic cat," Yuki said with a roll of his eyes.

"What are you saying, rat!" Kyo shouted, leaping to his feet.

"I'm just saying that you, with your extremely limited people skills, wouldn't be able to do any better. In fact, you would probably do much worse," Yuki smiled an annoyed smile. He was always in a bad mood in the mornings, and Kyo had yet to figure out that when Yuki was looking for a fight, he always won.

"That's it, you stupid rat!" Kyo said, leaping across the table. Shigure quickly walked over and opened the front door. Just in time, too, because that's when Kyo went flying through it from the force of the slap that Yuki had delivered.

"Tohru, we have to leave now if we want to be on time!" Yuki shouted, walking over to the door.

"Coming!" Tohru shouted from the kitchen. As she walked to the door, she was closely followed by a blushing Emiko. ~Why won't she talk to me?~ Shigure thought. As she attempted to pass him without saying anything, he grabbed her wrist. With a gasp, she stopped walking, face going pale once again.

"What?" she asked, "I'm going to be late." She glanced around, as if looking for an escape route.

"Emiko, did I do something wrong?" Shigure asked.

Emiko's POV-

~He thinks that he did something wrong?~ Emiko thought in shock, ~How can he think that when it was me who did something wrong?~

"Of course not, Shigure-san," Emiko said, wrenching her hand out of his grasp, and bolting down the path.

She caught up with Tohru, Yuki, and Kyo, and then went through her day, all in a daze. All she could think about was the fact that Shigure thought that he had done something wrong. How he could have that impression, though, she wasn't sure. She knew that her memory of last night was a little blurry, most likely due to exhaustion, but she distinctly remembered that she told Shigure that she liked him, then attempted to kiss him. If Tohru hadn't interrupted, then she not only would have ruined her chances of being with him, but she would have made Tohru angry, which in turn would have made all of Tohru's friends, which were all of her friends, angry with her. So she was glad that Tohru had interrupted.

"Hey! Emiko-san!" yelled a slightly nasally voice.

She sighed. Apparently, she couldn't get through an entire day without having to talk to Ryuu. He had been her partner for a class project, and ever since then had been trying to convince her to go on a date with him. It wasn't that she didn't like him; it was that she thought of him as nothing but a friend.

"Hey, Ryuu," she said with a small smile.

"So, I was wondering, that is, if your, you know, free… well… do you want to go see a movie on Saturday?" he asked.

She instantly looked sad, "Ryuu, you know that I only see you as a friend."

"I... I know," Ryuu said, sounding sad, "So, does that mean no again?"

"I'm sorry, Ryuu, but I just don't see you that way."

"I understand," he said with a sigh, "but I'm going to keep trying. So if I promised to act like nothing more than your friend, would you go with me?"

She thought quickly, trying to find a suitable excuse, "Um, actually, I think that I may have plans with Tohru on Saturday."

"Oh," he said, sounding defeated. Then, he smiled, "Well, maybe next time!"

She forced a smile, "Maybe."

"See you tomorrow, Emiko-san," he said, waving and walking away.

"Bye!" she said as she ran to catch up to Tohru, "Tohru!"

Tohru turned, "Hey, Emiko!"

"If I asked you to do something with me on Saturday, would you?" she asked.

"Yeah," Tohru said enthusiastically, "What did you have in mind?"

Emiko paused, and furrowed her brow, "I didn't really have any ideas."

Tohru smiled, "Well, I have to clean the house this weekend, so how about this. You come over after school Saturday, and I'll clean. Then on Sunday, I have to go shopping. I could do my shopping at the mall, since I need new pants anyway."

Emiko smiled, "The mall it is."