Kyou awoke to find Tohru no longer in his arms. He got up and started looking around the house, but she was nowhere to be found. He started to run to the door to go out and look for her when he ran into Shishou.

"What's the matter?" Shihsou asked.

"Tohru's gone! I can't find her!" Kyou answered.

"Calm down, Kyou."

"I have to go and find her!" Kyou shouted and then bolted passed Shishou. He quickly pulled on his shoes and ran out the door.

Kazuma let out a sigh. Then he walked over to the phone and made a few calls. They would need some help finding Tohru.

After she had been walking for a couple hours, Tohru looked around at her surroundings. She was in the middle of the woods and she wasn't exactly sure of how she had gotten there. She also wasn't sure how to get back.

"Maybe, I should just start walking behind me." Tohru said to no one. She turned around and started heading back the way she thought she'd come. She was hoping that maybe if she stayed on the path, she could find her way home.

After a while longer, Tohru came upon a little stream. "Okay, not this way." She spoke. Then she started walking along the edge of the stream, looking for another path. When She found one she started walking down it. "Maybe this one will lead me home."

She kept walking until she came to a cliff. She decided to walk to the end of it and hoped that maybe she would be able to see the house from the high place. She stood, trying to stay as far from the edge as she could, but also doing her best to see into the darkness. After a while of looking out over the cliff, Tohru gave up. "I'll just have to keep trying paths." Her voice was losing a bit of its determination.

Tohru began making her way down the hill that she had taken up to the cliff. She wasn't looking where she was walking and all her foot found a tree root that was sticking up out of the ground. She tripped and tumbled the rest of the way down the hill. "Ah!" she screamed, as she fell.

She came to a stop at the bottom of the hill, landing on her back. "Umph." escaped her lips. When the world stopped spinning around her, Tohru rolled over on her stomache and pushed herself up into a setting position. Her attention was drawn to a throbbing in her ankle. She started moving it from side to side. It hurt, but the pain was bearable. Tohru decided to stand up. As soon as she put wait on her ankle pain swept through her and her ankle gave way.

Tohru sat on the ground and looked up at the sky. "I'm never going to make it home." She said, as the tears fell down her cheeks and sobs passed through her lips.

Kyou ran through the woods looking for Tohru. I have to find her. He thought as he ran. She could get hurt out here or who knows what weirdos might find her. After he had been running looking for her for a while he heard a scream. That sounds like Tohru. He ran towards the scream. "I'm coming Tohru."

When he got closer to where he thought he heard the scream coming from, he began calling her. "Tohru!" He shouted. He called her name over and over again, waiting for her to shout back.

Tohru sat on the ground, crying. Her ankle was hurt and she was starting to get cold. She had given up all hope. Suddenly from a distance she heard her name being called. She looked up and waited, to make sure she had heard and not just imagined it.

"Tohru!" Kyou called.

"Kyou!" She called back, her hope renewed.

They shouted to each other several more times, each time Kyou's voice getting closer. Finally he came into view and if Tohru could stand, she would have ran to him. Good thing for her, Kyou ran to her. He knelt on the ground beside her and pulled her into his arms. He pulled back and kept a hand on her cheek. He studdied her and looked her over. She was covered in dirt and had a few bruises and scrapes.

"What happened?" He asked.

"I got lost and fell down that hill. I think I twisted my ankle." She answered. Then a shiver traveled down her spine and through her body. Soon she was shaking all over.

Kyou pulled off his shirt and then wrapped it around her. Then He stood and scooped her into his arms. He held her close trying to keep her warm. "We'll be home soon."

Tohru nodded and laid her head on Kyou's shoulder. "I'm sorry." she said.

Kyou's eyebrows knit together in a mixture of confusion and anger. "Why are you apologizing?"

"I made you worry and then you had to come and find me. I should have just stayed home."

Kyou kissed Tohru's forehead. "Yes you should have stayed home, but you don't have to apologize."

"Maybe next time I can't sleep, I'll just climb up on the roof." She said, trying to make a joke to lighten the mood.

The corners of his mouth, lifted slightly and a small chuckle escaped his lips. "Why couldn't you sleep?"

"I was just thinking about U-o and Hana's visit. They said some stuff that bugged me...when they found out that we share a room." she answered.

Kyou had a pretty good idea of what they had said. He had no idea what to say to Tohru though. Frankly, that subject made him blush. "Just don't let them get to you." He said.

Before anything else could be said, they arrived at the house. They walked in the door and immediately heard voices in the living room. Kyou slipped off his shoes and then carried Tohru the rest of the way in the house.

"I hope that we find Sissy, soon." came Kisa's sweet voice.

"Okay, Hatori, you should stay here that way if..." Kazuma said and then looked up to see Kyou walking in carrying Tohru. "Well never mind."

Everyone turned in their seats. As they all saw Tohru, it seemed as if a collective sigh of relief swept through each of them present. Tohru looked back at the crowd. She saw Kazuma, Momiji, Kisa, Hiro, Haru, Hatori, Ayame, Yuki, and of course Jin. Even Nightingale and Mimi were there.

Hatori stood up and picked up his bag. Then he followed Kyou and Tohru back to their room. Kyou gently sat Tohru on their bed and then sat beside her. Hatori pulled a few things out of his bag and then pulled a chair over to the bed and sat down.

"What happened?" Hatori asked in his usual manner.

Tohru let out a sigh and then explained her little adventure in the woods.

Hatori nodded and then started his examination. He lifted Tohru's leg and began examining her ankle. "You definately sprained it." He told her. He checked for any cuts on her ankle and then wrapped it up. "Ice it for fifteen minutes four times a day. It will probably take a couple weeks to heal."

Tohru nodded. "Okay. Should I try and walk on it?"

"In a couple of days." Then he moved on to examine her cuts and bruises. He cleaned and bandaged the cuts and scrapes. "Nothing looks serious here, but I will write you a note excusing you from school for the next couple of days. You need to get some rest."

"Okay."

Then Hatori looked over at Kyou. "I assume you'll want to stay home with her." He said as a statement rather than a question.

"Yeah." Kyou answered anyway.

"I'll write you a note, too. I'll say you have a fever or something."

"No, you can't miss school just to stay home with me." Tohru protested.

"But I want to and I am going to so that is that." Kyou said.

"Tohru's right. You need to go to school, Kyou." came Jin's voice from the doorway. "I'll come over in the mornings and stay with her while you are at school and Kazuma is at the dojo."

"But..." Kyou began to protest.

"Besides, I want to spend some quality time with my little sister." Jin said. "How can you deny us sister bonding time?"

Kyou looked at Tohru. She nodded at him, indicating that she wanted Jin to stay with her. "Fine." he said with a sigh.

Hatori finished his examination and then he and Jin left to allow Kyou and Tohru their privacy and to get some rest. Kyou helped Tohru pull out another pair of her pajamas and then exited teh room to allow her to get dressed.

"Okay, I'm ready." She said.

Kyou walked back in the room and climbed in the bed next to Tohru. He kissed her cheek and then pulled her close. "I love you and I'm so glad that you are okay."

"I love you, too and I'm sorry I made you worry." Tohru said.

"Don't be sorry." He gently chided her. "Just don't go wandering the woods by yourself again...especially at night."

"Okay." Tohru said sleepily.

"Now, let's get some sleep."

"Okay. Good night. I love you, Kyou."

"Good night. I love you, Tohru." Then he softly kissed her lips and soon the pair drifted off to sleep.

A/N: Please tell me what you think of this chapter? It's been a struggle for me to write this one. I have no idea why, but it was. So, I am a little unsure of this one. Please read and review and as always thank you for the reviews :)