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Chapter 17: Return of the rumour

Kyo was lying in his bed looking up at the ceiling with the back of his hand on his forehead, waiting for his alarm clock to go off. He had been awake already for the past hour, but decided to stay in bed. He looked over at his clock which read '6:48am' "-Sigh- 12 minutes left...I could get up now but I'll probably wake up rat boy and he'll bash me up since it's early in the morning..." Thought Kyo, taking his hand off his forehead.

As he took his hand off, he noticed the one thing that was missing. He looked at his wrist through all sorts of different angles not believing it was finally gone. "The bracelet's off now, it feels great to have it off. I finally feel like an actual person, thanks to her." He smiled thinking about Tohru. He turned his head towards the window and saw dark clouds, with hardly any sun. His smile faded into a frown of how he disliked water, but maybe this time he won't mind it since he's not a cat anymore.

'beep-beep beep-beep' The alarm clock went off at '7:00am' Kyo twirled on his side and pushed the button the stop his alarm clock from making noise. "I really need a new alarm clock...it sounds so much like our school bell." He thought as he stood up. He walked to his closet and dressed in his uniform thinking about Tohru the whole time.

Once he was done, he grabbed his bag and headed downstairs to the kitchen. "I seriously don't feel like seeing Yuki, that pansy will tell Shigure for sure." Thought Kyo, walking into the kitchen. He looked around and only saw Shigure there reading the newspaper but no sign of Yuki.

Shigure noticed Kyo coming in and couldn't help but smile as always. "Good Morniiiiiing!" Said Shigure in his sing-song voice. Kyo completely ignored Shigure as he walked to the fridge and grabbed the milk carton. Shigure lowered his newspaper and looked at Kyo with his perverted smile. It was pissing Kyo off and he couldn't even take a sip out of the milk carton.

"What the hell is your problem!" Yelled Kyo, trying to make it clear he was pissed off.

"Oh nothing...I just REALLY WANNA KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON BETWEEN YOU, YUKI AND TOHRU!" Shigure slammed his newspaperon the desk and his eyes were shimmering in happiness. He never looked so excited like he was now, not to mention desperate. Kyo backed away from Shigure and looked confused.

"Wha? What the hell makes you think this has anything to do with Tohru!" Kyo started sweating out of being nervous because he didn't want Shigure to know about anything.

"Well, early this morning Yuki stormed out of the house whispering "Tohru Tohru Tohru Tohru" the entire time! I think it's the first time I ever heard him say her name...And when I asked him about he was so mean to me!" Shigure started with with his fake tears. Kyo looked at him twitching his eyebrow.

Kyo grabbed his bag from the spot he dropped it on and walked out of the kitchen, only to be stopped by Shigure.

"Oh no you don't! Tell me, is Yuki upset because slept with Tohru before he did?" Ask Shigure with his hand on his chin, smiling his perverted smile. Kyo instantly felt like murdering Shigure. He gabbed Shigure by his collar and tossed him across the room. Shigure fell in the sink, and the water pipe broke causing water to spill everywhere.

"DON'T EVER SAY STUPID THINGS YOU DUMBASS DOG!" Kyo walked out of the house and headed for school. A few minutes later, Shigure regained conscience and looked around, noticed he was in the sink and that the floor was flooded with water. "No! My beautiful home! Oh why oh why must Kyo punish me so?" Cried Shigure.

"It wasn't easy, but it was the only choice we had left." Yuki said, trying to make Kagura understand. She squeezed her uniform, almost tearing it out of angst.

"B...but they'll now know we did it! Kyo won't ever love me if he found out I helped you out with this!" Said Kagura. Yuki looked at her like she was dumb.

"He already hates you! It's impossible for him to EVER love you!" Yelled Yuki.

"It wasn't for him and Tohru, now was it?" Kagura shot back at Yuki. Yuki lowered his head knowing she was right.

"That's...different they wouldn't have hated each other if we didn't interfere! Don't you get it? Doing this again would make them hate each other again." Yuki walked to the door which lead back to the hall way.

"But they weren't this close before, now were they?" Said Kagura with sadness in her voice. Her bangs were covering her face and she looked very vulnerable.

Yuki put his hand on the door knob and opened the door and said "That's why we have to try harder." just before he walked out of his student council office.

"Thanks for the lift to school mum!" Tohru waved at her mother as she drove off. She turned around and entered the school grounds. She looked up at the sky as she walked and noticed that there wasn't much sun. "The clouds are dark too...there might be rain today." As Tohru walked into the school building, she started sensing a very familiar atmosphere and was feeling rather uncomfortable.

She gripped her book case tighter and walked abit faster, not wanting to be around those people. "No...what happened! Not again!" Thought Tohru as she embraced her bookcase and ran through the hallway trying to get to her locker quicker. She ran and ran, but she could still hear them.

"Honda's two-timing again..." Whispered a few girls.

"Has she no shame?" More girls started whispering.

"I can't believe Prince Yuki would continue to cope with such a slut that goes back and forth with two guy!" A group of girls said. Tohru's eyes started going watery and she started running faster. "No! Stop it! I was never with Yuki!"

As she ran, it seemed more and more people were in the hallway. No matter how many she passed, more and more appeared ahead. She closed her eyes as she ran, not standing to watch other people point at her and whisper, when she suddenly bumped into someone and dropped her bookcase.

"Hey watch where you're going!" He picked up her bookcase without even seeing who it was. "Here you g-" As he handed her the bookcase he came a loss of words.

"Tohru..." He said. Tohru looked up at him "Kyo..." She thought. She snatched her bookcase away from Kyo and took a step back. Her face had fear written all over it.

"Tohru don't cry anymo-" Said Kyo, trying to reassure her but was cut off.

"No...just stay back..." She then ran passed him and didn't even look back. Kyo stood there not knowing what to do.

"I wanna run after her...but all these people that are staring..." Kyo clenched his fists tight and realized something "Damn it! I didn't want this to happen again...She probably doesn't know what to believe at this moment. But the damage is done...so I don't think anything bad would happen if I run after her..." Thought Kyo

He turned around and decided to do what his heart told him. He started running after her screaming her name. "Tohru!"

Every single person he ran passed was looking at him with their mouths wide open and pointing.

"So the rumours were true!" Whispered some girls.

"Poor Prince Yuki!" Some more girls started feeling sympathy for the prince.

"Damnit...Yuki did this, I know it! Just like 2 years ago eh?" Kyo was still running and could now see Tohru. Lucky for him, there weren't as many people as there was back there, it was almost empty.

"Something's not right." Hana shot her head up as she closed her locker door. "Tohru...Kyo..." In the distance, she saw Uo walking her way. "Arisa! What's going on? I just arrived and I already sense trouble." Said Hana as Uo ran towards her.

"It's happened again, Hana! The rumours, the exact same thing as 2 years ago, except now it's even more hectic seeing as this is the second time it's happened!" Said Uo, trying to catch her breath. Hana's eyes widened as anger grew in her.

"But...but how?" Hana started looking around the locker room as if the answer was written on the wall somewhere.

"Look, we gotta find Toh..." Uo trailed off as she heard footsteps. "You hear that?" She asked. hana paid attention and heard someone running towards them.

"Over there!" Hana pointed in the direction where the footsteps were coming from and there was Tohru running.

"Tohru!" Hana and Uo both yelled out as they ran to her, but Tohru just ran passed them, completely ignoring them. They both turned around and watched her run into the distance. They then started hearing more footsteps and turned to see who was coming.

"Damn it, it's the Sohma kid." Thought Uo, getting a pissed off look on her face. As Kyo entered the locker room, Uo grabbed him and stopped him from running.

"Let me go Yankee! NOW!" Kyo was trying to get out of her grip, but didn't want to hurt her.

"What the hell did you do to Tohru? Why the hell did you spread an other rumour? She FORGAVE you after you spread it last time! She says your innocent but I think that's a load of bullshit!" Said Uo through her gritted teeth. She pushed Kyo away from her waiting for him to answer.

"For the last freakin time, I didn't do it!" Yelled Kyo in defense.

"I think that the best solution is for you to stop messing with our Tohru." Hana walked into the scene.

"Shit! Now they're both blocking my way. No matter what, I WILL get passed!" Thought Kyo when he suddenly had an idea. He took a alot of steps backwards and then ran straight towards them and jumped over them.

"What the hell?" Thought Uo. Kyo landed on the other side and then continued running.

"Oh no you don't get back here!" Yelled Uo as she and Hana started chasing him.

"I can never be happy with Kyo! There will always be something preventing us. I should have known that before I got hurt." Thought Tohru. She was still running through the school and she wasn't intending to stop. As she ran and ran, she noticed she was reaching the end and the only thing left was the door to the School yard where all the trees were. As she approached it, she opened it and ran outside.

She ran through the field of green grass and headed for the tree that she, Uo and Hana always sit at. "I'm a coward! I'm running away from the one person who I need the most. Why?" She thought as she finally reached that spot under the tree. She stopped and dropped down, sitting on her shins and knees, covering her face with both her hands, crying silently, thinking her own thoughts.

She suddenly felt a drop of water hit her head, then two drops and then a whole bunch of drops down her back. "Why does it have to rain now?" She thought, still covering her face. The rain was really pouring down. All that could be heard was the sound of water hitting the ground.

"Tohru, Tohr, Tohru..." Someone said, stepping out from behind the tree. Tohru took her hands off her face and looked up. She wiped her tears our of her eyes.

"Yuki...what are you doing here?" She asked, trying not to cry. Yuki ducked down with her and cut a hand on her shoulder.

"Please don't cry anymore. I'll be sure to make Kyo pay for spreading this awful rumour." He said. Tohru looked straight at him as he mentioned Kyo.

"But Kyo said he didn't..." That's what Tohru believed, but Yuki was trying to convince her otherwise.

"We'll talk about that later, let's go inside. This rain's only going to get worse." He said as he stood up. Tohru nodded and stood up too. "Let's go." As they started walking Tohru heard Kyo calling her voice.

"Tohru!" He yelled. Yuki's face grew angry as he saw the colour orange coming into focus.

"Let's go Miss Honda, he's just going to make everything worse." Said Yuki with venom and disgust in his voice. But Tohru stayed there, not moving and waiting for Kyo to come.

"Finally!" Kyo saw Tohru and ran as fast as he could to reach her. When he was there, he stopped running and tried to catch his breath from all the running. He looked next to Tohru and saw Yuki.

"You can go to hell bastard!" Kyo went to give Yuki a punch but he got out of the way before he could. The rain started getting harder and Tohru sneezed. Kyo looked towards her and he didn't like her expression. It looked so sad and depressed.

"You bastard! Spreading that rumour just like you did before huh?" Said Kyo. Just then, Uo and Hana came running.

"There she is!" Pointed Hana. They both ran to Tohru's side and asked if she was alright. "Tohru! What are you doing out here? Let's go inside, now." Said Uo.

"Tohru, you're all wet. You go inside, I'll take care of ratboy." Said Kyo, getting ready to fight Yuki.

"No! Stop it! All of you!" Yelled Tohru. Everyone went silent and they all looked at her since she had never raised her voice like this. "I'm sick of people tell me what to do all the time. I know you all care about me and what to protect me, and I really am grateful for that. But sometimes I want to make my own decisions!" She yelled out once more. Uo and Hana looked down at the ground in a bit of shame.

"We are always telling her what to do, Hana...she's right." Said Uo. Hana nodded in agreement. Tohru walked towards Yuki and looked up at him. Her stance, her face, her eyes were emotionless.

"Yuki...why did you spread that rumour again?"

A/N: Once again, sorry for the late update! Please review this chapter and tell me how I went:-) Thanks again for your previous reviews, I'm so happy I reached 201! By the way, a little sad note...I'm ending the story soon. I'll probably do 2 or 3 more chapters and then it's the end :-(

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