Operation: Revive The Princess

Mysteries and Accidents

(A/N: Thank you so much to my two reviewers snoopykid2991 and curlyangle! It really meant a lot for me, so this next chapter is for you guys. .Anyway, I forgot to mention that I've read all of Furuba online, so there might be spoilers or hints referring to later chapters, so I'll warn you if I bring any of that up. Oh, and one more thing that I also forgot to put in the first chapter...)

Disclaimer: I DO NOT own Fruits Basket or anything along those lines. If I did...well, it wouldn't have been so great a series. Besides, I can't draw like that.

Anyway, I hope you enjoy this next chapter.

"We're off!" Tohru called out to Shigure as she, Kyo, and Yuki waited by the door so they could head towards another day of school.

As soon as the trio received Shigure's response, they set off. The sun was out, the birds were chirping, and pleasant conversation bounced around between Kyo, Tohru, and Yuki. Of course, Kyo and Yuki argued, but it was much tamer than it used to be, thanks to Tohru. Tohru, as usual, was panicking over the argument, but stopped when she saw Uotani Arisa and Hanajima Saki up ahead. Tohru ran up to her two best friends and immediately made conversation with them. Kyo and Yuki eventually caught up.

"Hey, Prince, Orangey!" Arisa called out, addressing the two Sohma boys by their respective nicknames.

"Hello, Uotani-san," Yuki greeted respectfully while Kyo just stared off to the side in a daze, like he had come in and out of since the night before. This side of Sohma Kyo got Arisa curious.

"What's wrong with him?" Arisa asked Yuki, knowing that Kyo wouldn't give her any satisfying answers.

"To be honest, I have no clue, Uotani-san. He's been like this since last night," Yuki replied truthfully.

"What happened last night?"

"I don't know that either."

At this last set of questions and answers, both Tohru and Kyo's faced turned bright red. Arisa cocked an eyebrow at Kyo while Saki tried to pry answers (gently) out of the shy brunette. Alas, they failed. It looked like their lips were sealed tight. Well, Tohru not so much, she was just unable to get the words out. Arisa and Saki, being Tohru's best friends, would eventually know what happened anyway. Kyo, on the other hand, just flat out refused to talk. Yuki couldn't help but chuckle at this situation, which brought everybody's attention away from the mysterious occurrence of the night before, and they all entered Kaibara High.

Tohru seemed to be perfectly fine throughout the school day, appearing to have recovered from the previous night. That was more than one could say for Kyo. Every time Kyo's gaze connected with Tohru's, he would turn his head away, blushing slightly. What was his problem? Why was he so stuck on that incident? It's not like it never happened before, but, somehow, that time was just more embarrassing than the others. Maybe that was because he was about to tell Tohru something really important, but wasn't able to and therefore would have trouble bringing it up again, in case something happened like that night occurred once more. Anyway, Kyo just couldn't bring himself to look at Tohru.

"Kyo-kun," Tohru called, and Kyo finally tore his gaze from the window to notice Tohru there with a worried look on her face.

"Huh?" he asked.

"Kyo-kun, it's lunch time. Everyone's left already," she informed, still worried. After all, it wasn't like Kyo to space out like that. Well, he did it occasionally, but this spacing spell was lasting longer than usual. Kyo didn't like it when Tohru looked worried.

"Ah, so you came to get me?" Kyo asked, slight tease in his voice, as he rose from his seat.

"Y-yeah," Tohru stuttered, blushing bright red again. Kyo smirked and grabbed Tohru's hand, startling her so that she jumped.

"Let's go find them," Kyo told her as he led the girl out of the abandoned classroom.

Tohru blushed even more as the orange haired boy brought her down the hallway. She didn't mind it though. Not one bit. Tohru closed her eyes as she allowed Kyo's warmth to overtake her senses. He really was kind to her, and she never wished for that kindness to go. Before her thoughts could even return to that subject, she felt herself almost run into Kyo. Why did Kyo suddenly stop?

Tohru looked past Kyo to see what he was staring at. Tohru blinked as she laid her eyes on a very large crowd surrounding the area in which they usually ate lunch. Kyo, not even bothering to try and disperse the crowd, started dragging Tohru somewhere else. Tohru made small noises of confusion, but Kyo ignored them and refused to tell Tohru what he was doing. Kyo, not wanting to let go of Tohru's hand, kicked open a door. The door to the roof, that is. As the door forced its way open, a small breeze rushed past them, ruffling their hair and clothes.

Kyo led Tohru out onto the roof and picked a spot for them to sit. Then they each took out their bentos which had been lovingly prepared by Tohru. Much eating and talking ensued, but nothing about what happened on the roof of their home was mentioned. At all. Another breeze whipped past them, and Tohru giggled. Kyo raised an eyebrow at her; why was she giggling?

"It feels so nice," Tohru explained, referring to the breeze.

Kyo stared. That soft, cool air elevated Tohru's luxuriously brown hair that twisted and twirled around her. The rays of light from the sun were reflected in her melting chocolate eyes. This image halted Kyo's breathing. Beautiful was one way to describe the girl. There he went again. Kyo shook his head in disapproval at himself.

Stopping, Kyo saw a hand come straight in front of his face, and he watched with his orange eyes the hand swoop down with wooden chopsticks. Food clenched between the chopsticks, the hand left Kyo's line of vision. Kyo looked behind him at the sound of loud munching, and that caused Tohru to look at Kyo. Then at the familiar black and white haired second year student standing behind Kyo with chopsticks lazily held in his right hand. A smile rippled across Tohru's face at the sight.

"Hatsuharu-san!" Tohru exclaimed happily. Haru finished chewing and swallowed.

"Yo," he returned. Then he went in for another bite of Kyo's lunch.

"Oi! What're you doing eating my food?!" Kyo exclaimed, whacking Haru over the head. He only lifted his head to stare at Kyo with his usual apathetic brown eyes.

"I was hungry," Haru replied as if that it explained everything. Which it did, to a certain extent.

"What are you doing up here, Hatsuharu-san?" Tohru asked conversationally. Kyo sighed in defeated exasperation.

"When the bell miraculously rang, I rushed out to find you guys. Amidst my quest in searching-"

"You got lost and so came to the roof," Kyo replied, cutting off Haru's narrative explanation. He did this to, one, stop Haru from rambling on about his cover-up for his lack of direction sense, and, two, to make if easier for Tohru to understand why Haru was on the roof.

"Uh-huh," Haru replied, accepting the shorter (and more blunt) version of his tale.

"Wow, and how long have you been here, Haru?" Kyo asked.

"Two years."

"Yeah, so this proves you have absolutely no sense of direction," Kyo concluded.

"My parents do though," Haru replied, not denying Kyo's deduction. "…A mystery."

"Whatever," Kyo said, losing his interest. Tohru continued to smile at Haru.

"So how's your second year at school here going so far, Hatsuharu-san?" Tohru asked. The three continued to converse and eat until the end of lunch, forgetting about the whereabouts of the others.

Coincidentally, Sohma Yuki, Sohma Momiji, Uotani Arisa, and Hanajima Saki had all gathered at the usual lunch spot. However, because Tohru had stayed behind to wake Kyo up from his daze, that caused a bunch of the Prince Yuki Fan Club girls to swarm around them. That was due to Tohru's absence and for Arisa and Saki to not particularly care because Tohru wasn't there to protect. So, all throughout lunch, the four were surrounded by a huge crowd of girls, and were left to wonder where Tohru and Kyo were. Oh, and Hatsuharu whom they had just realized was missing also.

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"Are you sure?" Tohru asked uncertain.

"Yeah, yeah. Just go, I'll meet you at home," Kyo ushered. Arisa and Saki watched with amused expressions.

For about five minutes now, Tohru and Kyo had been discussing whether or not Tohru should leave Kyo or not to clean up the classroom and go grocery shopping. Obviously, Kyo had been unsuccessful in convincing Tohru he would be fine up until now. Tohru flashed Kyo a smile, still worried whether Kyo would be alright or not, and bowed to her friends. Arisa and Saki both had to help Kyo since it was also their turn to clean. With Yuki also off at a Student Council meeting, Tohru walked by herself out of the classroom and into the semi-busy hallway. Tohru smiled to herself as she stepped out under the ever burning sun and into the refreshingly cool wind.

Cheerily standing at the corner connecting the two sidewalks, Tohru waited patiently humming to herself. The only thing on the girl's mind was the dinner she was to prepare and wondering if her "family" would like it. Finally the "walk" signal was given, and Tohru stepped onto the paved and white-striped road. She continued to hum to herself until she got the feeling that she was slightly lighter. Tohru paused, and turned around to see a tiny green book-shaped object lying on the ground. A horrified and worried look overtook her previously happy one.

"Mom!" Tohru shouted in fearful panic. Tohru quickly went to pick it up.

"Damn yankee," Kyo uttered under his breath. Arisa would always tease Kyo relentlessly, but not today. No, she had to tease him to death. Kyo had no idea what set her off to tease him that much more, but one thing's for sure, the teasing was annoying.

Despite that, and after all the yelling that had occurred, Kyo still managed to finish his cleaning duty early, making Arisa and Saki finish it up. So Kyo immediately set off leaving, bypassing the Student Council room without realizing, not that he would care in the first place, intent on seeing if Tohru was too far away to catch up to. She shouldn't be since it had only been six minutes since she had left. Among his hasty traveling, Kyo also ran across Hatsuharu and Momiji, who, as it turns out, had also been assigned cleaning duty that day and finished early. Ignoring the two, however, Kyo managed to reach the exit of the school.

Kyo was relieved when he saw that Tohru had only begun to cross the crosswalk. However, it was still quite far for Kyo to catch up. Since he, after all, was still in the entrance way to the school. Kyo was going to call out to Tohru when he saw Tohru drop that wallet of hers that contained a picture of her deceased mother and the same girl to twirl around to pick it back up. As the orange haired teen watched Tohru bend over, something else caught his eye.

Kyo's eyes expanded to their fullest extent and his mouth fell slightly open. Tentatively staring, Kyo saw a huge truck full of some products to deliver at some place hurdling towards the unaware brunette. His heart dropped into his stomach. Kyo, at this moment, seemed to find his voice.

"No. Not again," he whispered. "TOHRU!"

Tohru gasped as she heard her name being called. As Kyo now struggled to catch up to her, Tohru turned her head to now notice the speeding truck. She didn't even get the chance to scream.

BAM!

"TOHRU—!" Kyo cried as loud as he could in his absolute horror. He saw Tohru's body collide with the front of the truck, fly backwards, and hit the ground head first. Kyo's body froze, fear stopping every cell in his body. Kyo's hear sank all the way out of him and into the ground. He then rushed to the fallen girl, mind blank and unable to hear the cries of the other students who were still clearing the school building.

"Tohru!" Momiji exclaimed, just as terror stricken.

Kyo knelt down beside the unconscious girl, noticing the cluttering and seeping pool of blood from the back of Tohru's head and limbs. Tears came crashing down at an impossible rate. Kyo, in his fright, tried to gently wake up the bleeding girl, but failing. Kyo closed his eyes and felt the never ending wave of tears fall, and, consequently, fall onto Tohru's rapidly paling face. Blood continued to drain from Tohru's injured body.

"Tohru, Tohru," Kyo choked. "Why did I just stand there? Tohru!" Kyo was a howling wolf as he drowned in his agony. He only watched Tohru get hit, and now he was watching her die. No, he would never allow Tohru to die.

Kyo turned his head around abruptly and his fierce glare that was much too indescribable hit the frozen students. How could they just stand there like dazed idiots? "DAMN IT, JUST CALL NINE-ONE-ONE, YOU FREAKIN' MORONS!"

At Kyo's angry shout, Haru immediately rushed back into the school. No one in that bunch had thought to bring a cell phone that day apparently. Besides, everyone was too preoccupied of being scared of Kyo; they had never seen Kyo this pissed, and that was saying something. Well, seeing the girl he loved so much get run over by a truck would do it.

While Kyo stayed by Tohru, Haru frantically tore down the halls of Kaibara High. And, Haru being Haru, he got lost within the school in search for a phone. However, instead he ran into Yuki who was just walking out of the Student Council room along with the other members, their meeting freshly finished. It was a very short meeting. Yuki stared in surprise at his panting cousin who had just come skidding around the corner.

"What's wrong?" Yuki asked with concern.

"…Phone…" was the only word decipherable. Yuki adorned his puzzled expression.

"Phone?"

"Where's the…phone?"

"Why do you need a phone, Haru?" Yuki asked, positively stumped.

"Honda…Honda-san…Honda-san was run over…by a truck," Haru managed. Yuki's eyes were all the way open to express his sudden shock and fear at this terrifying news. In an instant, Yuki was in a mad dash, trying to get to the phone as soon as he possibly could, forgetting that the people surrounding him had cell phones. Haru followed right behind him.

Kyo squinted his eyes in hopes that that was going to help stop the tears. Kyo brought up his hands to wipe some of them away, but stopped when he saw them drenched in blood. Tohru's blood. Kyo let out another cry. He couldn't believe what was happening. This wasn't supposed to happen. Kyo very much wanted to cradle the girl but couldn't due to his curse and out of fear of something even worse happening if he moved her. As Kyo huddled over the dying girl, Tohru's blood slowly spread over the cold ground and finally reached Tohru's wallet that was a several inches away from the top of her head. The wallet was open; contents face up in the open. Slowly, the blood trickled over onto the picture of Kyoko Honda, Tohru's mother, and stained it red forever.

(A/N: Sorry about getting this out a day late. I ran out of time to put it up, so I'm sorry. I don't really care if you review, because I can empathize with those who don't. So, it's up to you. Oh, and it might be a while for me to update due to big projects and stuff I have to finish. There you have it. I hope you enjoyed it. )