OK, I've made it to Chapter 3. Please R/R.

Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket or any of it's fruity goodness.

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"Shigure, have you seen Yuki?" Tohru asked Shigure as he was walking out of the kitchen.

"I think, he said he'd be outside." Shigure said absentmindedly going from the kitchen to his room. Tohru sighed at his useless attempt at helping and went outside. 'He must be at his base' she thought, 'I must thank him again for trusting me enough to take care of his secret base while he's away.' She quickly came a crossed Yuki, picking strawberries.

"Yuki?" Tohru said. Yuki glanced over at her, his silver hair dangling in his eyes, interrupting his vision.

"Tohru," he said, recognizing her voice. "I would like to thank you again, for agreeing to take care of my base. You don't know what this means to me."

Tohru was silent for a minute, letting Yuki's kind words sink in. "It's no problem, Yuki. I'd like to thank you for trusting me enough to allow me to--"

Yuki cut her off, "Tohru, don't just take care of my base, take care of yourself. I am so worried about you, staying here alone. Please, be safe." With that, Yuki picked up the basket of strawberries and walked back to the house.

'I don't know weather to be flattered by Yuki's worry, or insulted' Tohru thought. ' I mean, it's nice to have someone worry about you, but does he think I'm careless enough to be in danger? Well, I can be klutzy at times, but am I klutzy enough to be in danger, am I?'

Tohru came to the side of the house where a ladder lay leading to the roof. Tohru wondered if Kyo was up there. After dinner he went straight up to the roof. when Tohru reached the top of the roof, she saw Kyo. Kyo was sitting there, doing something Tohru had never seen done in real life, Kyo was juggling three brightly colored balls. Tohru sat there, mesmerized by the way Kyo threw the balls from hand to hand.

toss. catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss---

Slowly, Kyo stood up from where he was, still juggling, and continued for a while with his juggling.

catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss---

He took a step back, and another, and another, and another. Suddenly, Kyo threw one of the balls under his legs and continued to juggle.

catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss. catch. toss. ca-drop.-----

The fallen ball rolled down the roof and Kyo let it roll, till it got caught in the rain spout. Kyo retrieved it, sat down, and sighed. He lay back on the roof and threw a single ball up in the air. It was a high throw, Kyo sat there watching the ball fly gracefully into the air, pause for a second remembering it was a ball not a bird, when it came crashing back to Earth, where it was expertly caught by Kyo and thrown again, experiencing once more the joy of flying.

Tohru came over and lay next to Kyo. Kyo looked next to him, obviously not realizing she was watching him. "Ohayo" he whispered.

"Kyo...I've never seen anyone do that before. It was amazing. Where did you learn to do that?" Tohru asked, awestruck.

Kyo was silent for a minute, before he said, "I learned in at the dojo. Shishou told me when I first arrived, that he'd start my training as soon as I learned the three-ball cascade blindfolded. I never thought it could be done, but he showed me. He showed me it could be done." he looked at her and smiled," He said learning to juggle would increase my hand-eye coordination, and learning it blindfolded would increase my hearing."

Tohru stared at him. "Kyo, would you teach me how to juggle?" Kyo gave her a confused look, "I'm sorry, Kyo! I understand if you don't want to teac--"

'That's not it!" Kyo interrupted, "It's just, I'm only here for couple more hours, when you think about it. You don't learn how to juggle in a couple hours." Tohru looked at her feet, sad that he wouldn't teach her and embarrassed that she didn't realize how hard juggling was, Kyo made juggling look so easy. "How about I get you started, and in the fall, when I get back from America, you'll be better than me." Kyo said, smiling. Tohru was so happy. 'I can't believe Kyo's going to take the to teach me how to juggle! I need to do something in return.'

For an hour, Kyo just threw balls at her and told her to catch them. It was getting dark, but the two stayed outside. It was dark, but just light enough to see the shapes and silhouettes An hour later, he taught her how to juggle two balls. The first time she threw the ball into the air she was hit in the head, not with the ball, but with a bird or something. I was caught in her hair.

Tohru screamed and started swatting at her head. Kyo rushed to her from the other side of the roof. Tohru was flailing around when she lost her balance and fell off the side of the roof. Kyo caught her just in time by the wrist. He swiftly pulled her back onto the roof. Tohru lay on the side of the roof, gasping.

"I'm sorry Kyo." she managed to gasp out.

He stared at her, also having difficulty breathing "Don't be sorry. You didn't do anything wrong."

Tohru shook her head, "I dropped the ball into the bushes next to the house." she said.

Kyo just stared at her, "That's okay, We'll find it. It doesn't matter."

Tohru was still in shock, "What was that?"

Kyo was just catching his breath, he started to snicker a bit, "It was a bat."

Tohru paled a bit, "Let's go find the ball and go inside. Are you hungry? I'm hungry." she said, changing the bat subject.

They looked for the lost ball for ten minutes when Kyo said, "Just forget it Tohru. were never going to find that ball in the dark like this. We'll look again in the morning." Tohru sighed and went inside.

"Kyo, I'm sorry we couldn't find the ball." Tohru said, feeling miserable. Kyo shrugged and waved the comment away.

"It doesn't matter. I'll just get some more. Besides, those one's were getting worn out anyways." he said, trying to make her feel better.

"I'm going to make some onigiri. Let me make you some as an apology for losing the ball." she said

Kyo smiled, "I love onigiri."

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Wow, this was long. Well, it seemed long to me anyways. I'm sorry for any spelling mistakes. After reading Fruits Basket, I'd really like to try onigiri. I wonder if it's good? Well, please review. Even if you hated it, tell me. If you loved it...err...wow, thanks. Just, please review.

This is WHPIAR, signing off.