Story: Every Waking Moment

Rating: K-T (it'll vary)

Word count: 364

Pairings (throughout the story): HatorixTohru, with mentions of KyoxKagura and YukixMachi

A/N: ORIGINALLY, my plan was to have J stand for "Jade", and have Tohru talk about her engagement ring being a Jade color instead of a normal diamond color with Uo and Hana. But then I realized that the entire one-shot was pretty bland.

So I changed it and made it stand for "Jealous".

I like my change. I hope you do too!

Enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket.

J is for "Jealous"

He was never like this with other women, but now he was jealous.

He never realized that he could be jealous about a man being near Tohru, much less a man that he's known all his life. He looked over at his cousin—cousin—and wished for him to go away. They were having some kind of a friendly chat, going on about their lives after high school and what they have been up to. Not that he was surprised; she was very close to him.

"Oh, Yuki, I should mention…" Yuki would eye him every once in a while, then smile down at her because he was always so nice to her. Why did he have to come along and ruin their little walk to the park? They were just going to have a picnic—that food is probably getting a little spoiled—and then his cousin appeared. Almost out of nowhere, but he was there (apparently, he was having a little get together with his girlfriend—besides the point).

So Hatori just stood there, watching the two talk about whatever it was they were talking about. He didn't care to listen; he wanted Tohru all to himself. Okay, maybe that was a little spoiled to think like that, but it was true. He didn't want another guy loving her like he loved her—he just wanted her all to himself.

"O-Oh! We should get going!" She looked down at the basket full of foods. She looked up at him with an apologetic smile—and he couldn't stay mad. As much as he hated his cousin, he could never be mad at her, not when she looked like that.

"It was nice to see you again, Tohru," he heard Yuki whisper. The two hugged—Hatori couldn't look at that—and away the cousin went. Tohru turned to him and smiled.

"Well, that was a surprise to see him again, wasn't it, Hatori!" She wrapped her arm around his and he smiled.

"More or less," he replied. As long as she was by his side at the end, he couldn't really be jealous of anyone.

Really, they should be jealous of what he had.

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