Title: April Showers Bring May Flowers
Category: General/Romanceish
Rating: K+
A/N: I don't like this one quite as much as the last one, because this isn't really romance or anything, but it's alright I suppose. Enjoy! And I'm still open to prompts/suggestions.
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It was raining. The sky was opened, and water was falling from the clouds. Some may have called it a miracle, but Kyo Sohma regarded it as a weather pattern the world would have been better without. So, some may have asked if they saw him on April 30th, why he was staring out the window at the allegedly useless rain. It was simple, actually. He wanted to be the first to know when it stopped.
"Kyo-kun, Kyo-kun! Guess what day it is tomorrow!" Kyo didn't turn around to face the girl who was talking to him. He would just end up glaring at Tohru or snapping at her and hurting her feeling. She should know to stay away from him by now.
"Saturday," he grunted.
"Well... Yes..." Tohru faltered for a heartbeat, but continued quickly. "But it's also May first!" Kyo shrugged and glowered out at the gloomy day. Stop raining already, he thought.
"You're predictably surly, Kyon," Shigure laughed. "Be nice to Tohru-kun. What's so special about the first of May?" Kyo did turn to glare at the novelist. He wasn't being mean, he was actually avoiding getting cross with her.
"April showers bring May flowers," Tohru sing-songed. "If it's not raining, Yuki-kun and I are going to look and see if any flowers are blooming. Will you come, too, Kyo-kun?" Kyo's gaze flicked over to Tohru. She was smiling, oblivious to his bad mood, and she looked like she actually wanted him to come, so how could he say no?
"Whatever," Kyo sighed. He didn't actually want to go anywhere with the Rat, but he couldn't refuse Tohru.
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The next day the rain had stopped, and Kyo, Yuki, and Tohru were off on their flower-finding expedition. The day after rain was almost as bad as the actually thing. The pavement smelled like wetness, everything was damp and muddy, and Kyo didn't have all his strength back, but he still left the house with his worst enemy and Tohru on some, in his opinion, ridiculous quest. The flowers weren't going to magically start blooming because it was the first of May.
Tohru took a hand of each of the boys as they started down the sidewalk, and Kyo narrowed his eyes at the Rat. If Yuki wasn't there, she would only be holding hishand. Tohru was chattering happily as they walked down the sidewalk.
"Mom and I used to do this if it rained on the last day of April," she told them. Kyo suddenly felt guilty about not wanting to come with before, of course he would if Tohru mentioned that she used to do this with her dead mother. He sighed softly and looked down at the ground half-heartedly. As he expected, he didn't see any flowers that had magically bloomed overnight.
"Did you two usually see many flowers, Honda-san?" Yuki, the polite one as always, asked.
Tohru laughed. "Not really. We usually just looked because of the rhyme." Well, that was a bit of a relief. At least Kyo knew Tohru wasn't completely stupid and through April showers immediately brought May flowers.
"Look!" Tohru gasped like a happy little kid and pointed to a tiny rosebush in someone's front yard that Kyo would have walked right past on any other day. She knelt down in front of it, and in doing so pulled Kyo down with her- They were still holding hands. "See? It's flowering." And it was. Small, red rosebuds had formed on the bush. While it probably didn't happen overnight, Kyo couldn't bring himself to point that out.
Yuki knelt down next to them as well and Kyo realized Tohru must have let go of his hand to point. Even though the act was probably coincidental, Kyo couldn't help but feel a little triumphant.
Take that, Rat, he thought. She's holding my hand. To be honest, Kyo wasn't sure how Yuki felt about Tohru, but he was still considering this a victory, however slight.
"It's beautiful," Tohru said, and Kyo looked away from the roses and at her shining face. "Yeah," he agreed softly so Yuki couldn't hear him, but he wasn't really looking at the flowers anymore. Well, he was looking at a flower.
As he knelt uncomfortably in the wet mud next to Tohru and the other person, who he hated, he decided- with a quick look down at his and Tohru's hands that were still clasped together- that this expedition didn't turn out so bad at all.