Hate or Love?

A/N: Here it is, as promised! I was going to post this last night but my dad was on the computer... Thank you SO VERY MUCH for the reviews, I've never had so many reviews before! Anyway, here's the next chapter.

Disclaimer: I don't own the fabulous anime/manga Fruits Basket.

Chapter 8: Such a love triangle

Monday had finally come and everyone was back at school.

"This is bad. What am I going to tell Sensei? She's going to kill me and Kyo for not doing that report on the beach!" Thought Tohru. She was on her way to homeroom, hesitating to take the next step. She really did feel nervous because she didn't want to get embarrassed, but most importantly she didn't want everyone to know that she and Kyo went somewhere, together, alone!

"Almost there..." She said, followed by a sigh. Tohru stood there facing the door, she just didn't have enough guts to slide it open and have to face Sensei. "-Sigh- Oh well, here goes!" She said. Tohru put her hand on the door knob to slide it open, when suddenly the door slid by itself. "What the-" She thought.

"K...Kyo!" She said half angry yet half happy. "You scared me! I thought it was a ghost or something." She explained quickly. "Well you're sure stupid! Hurry up and get inside!" Said Kyo, back to his crude voice.

Tohru was about to walk inside when a sudden question popped into her head. She looked at Kyo and asked him, "How did you know I was on the other side of this door?" Kyo smirked and whispered, "Call it a cat's instinct." He then went and sat down at his desk. Tohru smiled as she remembered about when he transformed into a cat.

She then came back to reality when she noticed half the class giving her looks that read "What are you still doing at the door?" Tohru turned red from embarrassment and walked in to take her seat.

Five or so minutes later, Sensei came in. She sat down at her desk and started doing some paper work, as always. Then Tohru remembered why she was nervous. "Oh no! She's here! I'm going to get into so much trouble!" She thought as she bit her nails.

"Alright class, settle down." Said Sensei, slightly annoyed of how loud her class was. "Now, where's Tohru Honda?" Tohru looked up at the call of her name "H...Here Sensei." She said, lifting her arm up a few centermetres from her head. "I'm dead, I'm dead, I'm dead!" She squeezed her eyes shut as she thought..

"Ah, there you are. I'm sure you're very worried right now, but your partner has explained everything to me. So it's alright. he asked me not to say his name, so I won't." Said Sensei, just before she started calling out the role. Tohru was staring blankly at the ground, shocked that Kyo would even help her. "Kyo...H..he did it for me." She thought. She smiled and looked to her left to face him. He was busily tapping his pen and looking out the window.

"But why? I thought he hates me. Still, whatever the reason, thank you Kyo." Thought Tohru.

It was already lunch time and everyone was outside, going on with their daily lives. "Man, where is Tohru? I'm staring to get worried about her." Asked Up. She was sitting with Hana under the same tree they sat everyday. "Calm down Arisu. Tohru is fine. She's probably with that boy." Said Hana, emotionless as always.

Uo put a hand over her mouth, shocked from what Hana just said, "No way! She and orange top are like...cat and mouse! They just don't go together." Hana looked up to face Uo, who was now standing up. "Cat and mouse you say? What an interesting way to put it." She said. Uo looked back at her in confusion.

"-Puff- Almost -Puff- there." Tohru was on her way to the roof, on a ladder just like her and Kyo planned the night before. "Ah, made it!" She said as she climbed off the last step and onto the roof. "Took ya long enough." Said Kyo, turning his head to face her. Tohru walked over to Kyo and sat down. it was silent for about five minutes when Tohru spoke. "Thanks Kyo." Kyo sat up from his lying position. "It's about time you say something..." He said, although he was just teasing her. "By the way, it's alright. Just don't be so careless next time!" Said Kyo. Tohru looked at him and nodded.

"Tohru, I'm sorry about yesterday." Said Kyo, softly. "He's apologizing? For what?" She thought. Kyo noticed her confused face, "Geez Tohru, you're slow! I'm sorry that I said I still hate you, even if...Even if you hate me, I don't ok?" Said Kyo, as he started speaking louder after every word. Tohru looked down, staring blankly at her lap. her eyes went wide as she got things straight in her head. "Okay, so he doesn't hate me and he thinks I still do, but I don't. "Does this mean I like him and he likes me? Owww...my brain hurts." She thought, still not saying anything.

Kyo was looking at Tohru the whole time, waiting to hear what she would say. "She probably doesn't wanna make me feel bad by not letting me know that she still hates me." Kyo told himself. "I know what you're thinking. I know you still hate me and won't forgive me or whatever-" As Kyo continued talking so negatively, Tohru couldn't take it anymore. "Stop!" She yelled at him.

Everything went silent.

"Kyo, I...I don't hate you either so please, please stop saying that I do." Said Tohru. the grip on her bookcase grew stronger, she really was speaking the truth. "Well this is wierd, we don't hate each other." Thought Kyo, staring up at the sky.

"So, Tohru." Tohru looked up at Kyo. Kyo smirked and said "Does this mean you love me?" Said Kyo, full on smiling. Of course, he was just teasing and joking around. Tohru immediately looked the other way and turned red. Kyo caught a glimpse of her blushing face. "Ha! You're blushing! Yelled Kyo. Tohru looked back at him with her panic expression on her face. "N...n...no I'm not!" She yelled back. She took a better look at Kyo and noticed something herself.

"Ha! you're blushing too!" Said Tohru victoriously. "What? No I'm not liar!" Replied Kyo shaking his head left to right. Tohru raised an eyebrow as she took out a small mirror from her bookcase and put it infront of Kyo's face. Kyo looked at the mirror and his expression went from disbelief to surprised. "Ah, hell!" Shouted Kyo and looked the opposite way before something worse would happen.

After a while of cooling off, both teens decided to talk about the reason why they met up like this.

"So anyway...About Kagura coming yesterday, why do you think she followed us?" Asked Tohru. "Is it really that hard to figure out?" Kyo asked her, hoping she would understand what he meant. She just simple blinked in confusion. "Still as slow as ever." "Tohru! She was JEALOUS!" Said kyo, angrily.

Tohru gasped because a sudden memory came to her head. "Try not to make Yuki or ME jealous, understand bitch?" Kagura now started walking and didn't even bother to look back at Tohru."

What's up with you? Asked Kyo, curiously. Tohru looked at him. "That means Yuki must be jealous too!" She exclaimed. Kyo was taken back by her quick-wittedness. "She figured that out on her own?" Kyo thought, rather amazed. "That's right, I remember Kagura was telling me!" Tohru said proudly. Kyo grew a sweat mark on his forehead. "Guess not..."

"Wait, what did Kagura say?" Kyo asked wanting to know more. Tohru looked down in feeling guilty and sad. "She told me not to make her or Yuki jealous." She explained. "Damn that Kagura..." Thought Kyo. "I guess, I guess Yuki does love me." Said Tohru softly. "And Kagura loves you, Kyo."

Kyo raised an eyebrow. "Well duh... She's been like that since we were little kids." Said Kyo. Tohru was surpirsed at what he just said. "You two know each other since you were small!" Asked Tohru, brightly.

"Yeah, she is a Sohma, all the Sohma's know each other."

"Oh! What animal is she?" Tohru asked getting excited. Kyo thought it might be obvious, but he had to tell her or else she might never get it at all. "Dummy, she's the boar." He said. Tohru nodded understandingly. "The Boar x The Cat?" Thought Tohru, but then an other question came to her mind. "So Kagura was there because she was jealous. Does she really think me and Kyo might fall in love with each other? Is she...right?" Thought Tohru.

She looked over at Kyo and noticed that he was in deep thought too.

"Damn Kagura. She get's jealous too easily. Does she really think me and Tohru will fall for each other? I doubt it... Doesn't Tohru already love rat boy? Wait...does she?" Kyo felt a little jealous at the thought of Tohru loving Yuki. Kyo slapped his forehead for being jealous. "Damn hormones!" He thought.

Tohru looked at Kyo again and curiously asked. "Umm, Kyo why did you just slap yourself?" Kyo grew a huge sweat mark on his head. "Eh..." He said before clearing his throat. Tohru continued looking at Kyo and waited for him to continue. "Ask her, ask her, ask her!" He thought. "Tohru...do you..." "Damn it, ask her already!" "Tohru, do you love Yuki?" There. Kyo finally said it.

Tohru's eye's widened.

A/N: Sorry... I left it at a little cliff hanger... (I did that on purpose, hee-hee!) Hope you liked this chapter, please review and tell me how I went:-)

-Until next time!

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