A month came and went. Everyone was now frantic. It was Tohru's birthday. Uo and Hana had picked her up for school extra early, giving Kyo, Yuki, and Shigure plenty of time to get everything ready. Kyo and Yuki then walked to school. When they got to class Kyo greeted Tohru with a peck on the lips. More than once that little peck lasted longer than planned, causing the teacher to cough politely and start class.

"How's the birthday girl?" Kyo asked

"Great."

Kyo noticed that Tohru had braids in her hair.

'She must've had Wave Girl do them again.'

Tohru was fingering one of the braids. Both of the braids had lilies in the hair ties. Kyo smiled as he reached to touch one of the flowers gently. Tohru blushed lightly. The teacher came in and everyone turned to her.

That day went faster than they had expected. Kyo made sure to stick to the plan and try and keep Tohru away for a while. He had to make sure they didn't get home too quickly. Thank God Tohru didn't notice Kyo was stalling. They walked home hand in hand after Kyo had gone to "talk to a friend". It should be fine to come by now. They reached teh house, went in, and took off their shoes.

"SURPRISE!!!" Everyone yelled as they came in the living room.

Tohru dropped her bag from shock.

"You did all this...for me?" Tohru asked, looking at everyone's smiling faces.

"Of course! Now come over here and blow out these candles!" Shigure insisted.

Tohru did as she was told and Yuki set a cake in front of her. It had "Happy 17th Birthday Tohru" written in pink frosting across the top. Everyone started singing "Happy Birthday"

Then Tohru closed her eyes and blew all the candles out in one blow, making her wish. When she opened her eyes again, her gaze fell on Kyo. She blushed and quickly looked back at the presents that now replaced the cake in front of her.

"Open mine first!!" Momiji said excitedly.

Tohru grabbed the little square and unwrapped it. It was a CD.

"What's on it?" Tohru wondered aloud.

"Put it in! Put it in!" Momiji insisted.

She put it in and instantly started crying. It was Momiji playing "When You Wish Upon A Star" on the violin. Tohru hugged Momiji.

"Thank you. I love it."

"I knew you would." Momiji smiled.

She wiped her eyes and grabbed another present. This one was from Ayame. It was a fairly large box. Tohru opened it to reveal a beautiful yellow sundress.

"It's beautiful Ayame. Thank you."

Ayame smiled. "You must also thank Mine. For I only designed it. She did all the real work."

"Oh yes of course. Thank you Mine."

Mine smiled and nodded.

Tohru then opened a few more presents. She got to Yuki's and opened it. It was a new pink ribbon for her hair.

"Thank you Yuki! It's absolutely adorable."

Yuki smiled. "You're welcome Miss. Honda."

Next was Shigure's present. She unwrapped it to see a book called "When The Sun Goes Down."

Kyo froze. 'He didn't'

Tohru looked at it. "Thank you Shigure. I'm sure I'll love it."

Shigure smiled. "I hope so."

Kyo gave Shigure the "I'm going to murder you" glare.

Tohru quickly moved on to Uo's present. She reached in the bag, first all she got was paper, then she hit a bag. She took it out, finding a bag of chocolates. Tohru smiled widely.

"Thank you Uo. These are sure to last me a while."

Uo nodded. "Just don't eat them all at once. We already dealed with that..."

Tohru blushed and opened the last present, Hana's. It was an orange and pink beaded bracelet. She put it on.

"Thank you Hana. It's so pretty."

Hana smiled.

'I guess he forgot. Oh well.' Tohru thought, a little disappointed.

"Now for the cake!" Shigure yelled as he cut up the cake and passed it out.

Everyone ate and talked and laughed. A couple hours later everyone left and Tohru started cleaning up. Kyo sighed and grabbed Tohru's hand after she had thrown away some wrapping pater.

"Kyo...?"

"Come with me?" He asked.

She nodded, wondering what he was doing.