I do not own fruits basket

I do not own Fruit's Basket.

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Chapter 13 (the unlucky number!)

Poke.

Poke.

"Ryouko." Kyo whispered. "Wake up!"

Ryouko had started school again, but she couldn't do her work because of her hands. But the teachers still insisted that she come to class, if only to listen.

But Ryouko failed to do even that. She was calmly sleeping, paying no heed to the fact that her excuses would not work this time.

"Ryouko!" Kyo whispered again, poking her arm again. "Wake up!"

No response.

"Ryouko!" Kyo whispered urgently. "Wake up!" Now he resorted to kicking her calf.

"Eh? What?" Ryouko snapped her head up.

"Ryouko," The teacher asked. "What happens when you put iron into fire?"

Oh no, Kyo thought. Now she's in for it.

"The chemical reaction makes the fire turn orange." Ryouko said simply. (Ahaha, where did I hear that before, and was it orange, or green?)

Kyo was about to ask how she knew that, when he noticed the slip of paper tucked into the palm of he hand. Kyo glanced at Uo, who was sitting behind Ryouko, and she winked.

Kyo quickly turned away from the yankee, scolding himself for not thinking of that sooner. But before he could say something, the bell rang for lunch.

Tohru, Uo, and Hana's spot under the tree was becoming crowded.

Ryouko, Usagi, Kyo, Yuki, Haru, and Momiji now sat there. (All the grades have lunch at the same time, I guess.)

Haru and Ryouko never sat next to each other. But they always sat close enough to stare daggers at one another. Tohru was the same, loving-everything Tohru that she had been before she had met Ryouko. Uo and Hana were the same, but Kyo had changed. Even Tohru's impact on him was less than Ryouko's.

Finally meeting someone who had the same problems as him, the same fears, and the same ugly bond, he was much less violent than before. And he always was careful around Ryouko, ever since she was released from the hospital; he helped her in any way possible to him.

Usagi and Tohru, being Ryouko's friends, had their suspicions. They knew what was up with Kyo, but neither of them knew how Ryouko would respond if she realized it. They both had plots to push the two farther, but neither had put theirs in action, yet.

Ryouko was the only one oblivious to it all.

Since she had a tough childhood, she became friends with people, but created a mental barrier so that so one could become more than a friend. Having lost Kagura and Usagi, she didn't want to be hurt more than she already had. She had been so close to Usagi, but when he left, she was devastated; it took her a majority of the next year to move on from him. But at the rest of the schools she went to, she didn't find anyone who she would become friends with, making her leaving all that more easy.

She had never loved anyone in her hard life, and knowing her luck, she wasn't about to start any time soon. But after being at her current school, with so many friends, an idea was always at the back of her mind.

Maybe she should take a mental sledge hammer to her mental wall. (Don't you just love mental stuff?)

Author's note:

Sorry for the short chapter again, I just thought that I needed tell why she tried not to get too close to people. Good old mental sledge hammers.

I have a question for you reviewers!

What topic should this be? Right now it's Romance/Drama, but i don't think those really cover it, what do you guys think it should be?