disclaimer: FURUBA (and Kyo) isn't mine. but i do own the mangas and DVD...

ps: i'm so sorry...i might, no, i will take some time to update this story since i have classes (my holidays were cut off a week earlier! i hate my lecturers......TT_TT....) anyway, i'll try to update as soon as I can (i'm determined to finish it, really..)...i hope u readers enjoy reading this story. oh, and thank you so much to whoever read this fanfic, reviewed it and even add it into their favourite list! i'm so happy..thanks so much. I'll try to make every chapter better than before so my readers can happily read it...but yet...it's still not good enough. anyway...do you guys want to know something? if you do...you have to go through chappy nine first, if not...well =) ...happy reading fellas! -it suck a bit...i know TT_TT-

The Reason I Love You

Chapter Nine

"Tohru?" A young girl turned around to the sound of the voice. "Yes?" she replied.

"What are you doing?" Kyo was standing by the doorway, leaning his side at the door frame with his arms folded in front of his chest. He was smiling as he looked at her. Tohru grinned.

"Oh I'm just about to finish the laundry. Are you hungry? Dinner will be done as soon as I finish the laundry, can you wait just a little longer?" asked Tohru to her fiancé. Kyo shook his head.

"It's okay, I'm not that hungry. Anyway, about dinner...I was thinking, you know. We haven't been outing lately haven't we? So, I just thought that maybe you would want to go out and have dinner outside." Kyo blushed slightly. Even after nearly two years of them dating, engaged even, he still blushed whenever it comes to Tohru. "So, you don't have to cook dinner tonight..."

Tohru beamed and flashed him a smile. "Okay, thank you Kyo-kun."

"No Tohru. Thank you," with that he came to her, wrapping his arms around her waist, making her blush crimson, before slowly leaning down to her, brushing his nose to hers. "I'm the one who owe you everything. It's the least I could do for you..."

Tohru's face was almost purple for blushing too much. Kyo smiled and leaned nearer, closing the gap between them, and kissed her lovingly. "You know, I really like it when you blush..." whispered Kyo after he broke their kiss, still keeping their gap as close as possible, smirking at her.

"Is that the reason?" Tohru murmured.

"Hm? One of them..." Kyo's smirk widened. "...but it's not the actual reason, though." Tohru pouted.

"Then what is it that you like so much about me?" Kyo chuckled seeing her expression.

"You'll know..." he whispered, "... soon enough..." as he tilted her head and kissed her once more.

Tohru's face blushed. "Kyo-kun..." she murmured, as she slept rolling on her bed.

***

Takuma was staring outside his class window, watching the sky above. His teacher was blabbing about the Edo history. He turned at his classmates, most of the boys are dosing behind their books, some even had their mouths hanging as they slept. Takuma turned to his teacher, who had his attention to his book, apparently not noticing that most of his students are sleeping and not paying any attention to what he was saying.

After forty-five minutes later did the bell rang and quickly his class monitor stood up and bid his thanks, followed by some other students. The teacher then walked out after realising that his class had already finished after the class monitor shouted out a loud 'Thank You' for him to hear.

Takuma rose from his chair, heading out of the classroom as he heard a voice calling his name. He turned.

"Takuma-kun!" The voice belongs to a light haired girl, running towards him. "Hi, are you going anywhere? I was going to ask you to eat with us." She pointed at herself standing with a young, smug, proud and bored looking boy beside her. Takuma glanced at the boy. The boy, owner of a light brownish-grey hair glared back at him, as if saying, 'don't you dare join us!' Takuma frowned.

"It's alright Kisa-chan. I'm not hungry," he smiled.

"Oh, it's just that I thought maybe you're lonely you just might want to join us. I mean, we are family aren't we?" Kisa said, hopeful.

"No, it's okay." Kisa looked crestfallen, but the boy, Hiro looked pleased with himself.

"Oh, okay..." she said quietly. "Next time, maybe?"

"Okay..." Takuma said simply. He watched as both Kisa and her good-for-nothing boyfriend left him standing alone at the corridor. He turned around and walked silently to the rooftop. Once he reached the rooftop, he sighed, closed his eyes and inhaled the fresh air sweeping his calm face lightly. He'd be here anytime rather than anywhere.

Family. He heard that word countless of times, but he never felt like having any, except for his mother. True, Kisa and Hiro were both his cousins from his father's side. But frankly said that the three of them had just met a year ago, the day he enrolled high school. In Hiro's case, it's only a few months since he first met him, thanks to Kisa, but neither of them wanted to talk to each other, even for how hard Kisa tried to make conversation between him and Hiro. Takuma heard a lot about his father's family, the said famous Sohma. Even this school, Kaibara High, was once filled with some very popular Sohmas before Kisa and Hiro.

His father never talk about his family to him. Every time he asked he'd either be scolded, or his father practically changed the subject. He asked his mother, but she too never speak any word of it. He was young by then, maybe five or six. As he grows up, he stopped asking his parents, until there's one time when he met Sohma Kisa, and she told him about her family.

He had asked her whether she knows his father, but then she said she didn't. She also said that the Sohma consists of a very big family, there's some she never spoken to before, some that she never even heard of. '"That's why when I met another Sohma; I'm thrilled to get to know them."' He remembered her saying, with her cute smile plastered on her face.

"It's like having a reunion, you know. Even if we don't know each other..." she said.

They have been best friends since then. But a few months ago, earlier in his second year, Kisa introduced him to Hiro, her boyfriend. He's a first year, and the most famous by far, because of his good looks. But to Takuma, Hiro is the biggest jerk ever existed on the planet!

It's not that he's jealous of him because of Kisa, he didn't even like her that way. But ever since Hiro came, his chances of speaking with her are getting very slim. To him Kisa is his best friend, almost like his own sister. He always knew she's in love with Hiro since she always talks about him, but never had he thought that that guy she loves would turned out to be a complete jerk, just because people thinks he's cute!

He had seen the older Sohmas who had already graduated from the same high school he was in from the annual schoolbooks Kisa showed him. There's Sohma Yuki, the former president of the school nearly four years ago. He, in Takuma's opinion, looked more like a girl than a boy and that he was once the school 'prince'. The others were Sohma Kyo; a red-head, almost as orange as Kisa's, but brighter. Kisa told him that this Kyo guy is a martial artist, and he's engaged with a girl from his class. She also told him that this guy is currently unconscious due to an accident. Kisa looked so happy when she told him about the girl, Honda Tohru, saying that she's her elder sister. There's also Sohma Hatsuharu. He is, by far, the coolest looking guy Takuma had ever seen and lastly, Sohma Momiji, the bubbliest and childlike looking baby faced guy Takuma had ever thought existed.

The Sohmas were those who inherit pretty good genes in them, judging by their looks and their physical ability. It's no wonder that that little punk was so pretty looking. Not to mention Kisa's beautiful face. Almost all the boys at school were head over heels for her.

Though he himself acted blunt, he knew that he got admirers too. He wondered why though...

"I guess, being a Sohma wasn't so bad..." he smiled, "...I can at least be just like them..." and laid down on the floor with his arms behind his head as he watched the sky above him.

***

Tohru woke up from her slumber. She overworked herself that Kazuma told her to take a rest for her own sake. Kunimitsu told her that they would order take out bentos so that she would have her rest for the day. Though she protested, the two of them won't budge until Kazuma pushed her all the way to her bedroom and smiled before shutting the door right in front of her face, talking behind it, "sleep and get some rest now. I'll handle things from here." Then he left.

She had been dreaming about Kyo and herself so often these days. And just now she had one about her and Kyo in the kitchen back at Kyoto. Then she realised it wasn't a dream, it was one of her very beautiful memories with him. Oh, how she misses him.

She decided she will go to Hatori's place in the afternoon to visit Kyo. She beamed as she walked to the bathroom to get herself ready.

***

"Yuki," Hatsuharu walked charmingly, oblivious to the stares he earned from the girls at the coffee house as he approached his older cousin, who sat elegantly, reading a newspaper at the corner around a rounded coffee table. "Sorry I'm a little late; got lost at the corner nearby the central park just now."

Yuki sighed deeply as he put down his newspaper on the table. "I thought so; I've waited nearly three hours." He sipped his seventh-filled coffee. "I thought you'd come with Rin."

"Oh, she's angry with me today, so she refused to come with me. She thought I set out a date with you today, so I think she's pretty jealous." Yuki grimaced.

"Haaaruuu..." Yuki sighed again, exasperated. "Stop toying Rin's feelings why don't you? If you keep on like this I wouldn't be surprised if she dumped you again." Haru beamed. "She won't. She loves me, I know." Yuki rolled his eyes away from him, shaking his head wearily.

"Say, Haru. Why did you call me?"

"Hm? Why was it again?" Haru said as he stared at Yuki, expressionlessly wondering.

"Don't tell me you forgot that you even call me to come all the way here..." Yuki whined, "...after nearly three hours I waited..." Haru smiled.

"Don't worry. I'm not that forgetful." Haru said as he called a waiter to get his order. "But first, I think I would like a drink. I've been walking for hours, haven't I?" He smiled again. "You wouldn't mind would you Yuki, you know you can always share my drinks." Yuki shot his eyebrows upwards.

"No thanks." The waiter came to their table and took Haru's order which he then brought a few minutes later.

"Good service," Haru said as he took a sip of his mocha. "Anyway Yuki, about today, I was thinking of showing you something." Yuki stared at him as he waited for Haru to continue. "It's about Kyo." Yuki leaned closer to his younger cousin. Waiting.

"Well, it's not exactly about him, but about the possible driver who hit him." Haru continued softly. "I met Sensei the other day, and he showed me something rather peculiar yet pretty much amusing."

"What is it?" Yuki asked, a little eagerly. Haru's right hand crept into his leather jacket, pulling out a piece of paper and prompts it onto the table. "Here, read it," he said.

Yuki took the paper and stared at it for a full minute, frowning. The paper he noticed was a little crumpled and patched up. His eyes trailed back and forth the letter as he read the contents. "What is this?" he asked as he looked away from it, disgusted. Haru smirked.

"Sensei told me this letter was sent to Akito months ago," Haru said, taking the letter from Yuki's hand, "a week before Kyo's wedding should be held actually, when they were busy preparing and stuff..." Haru paused and took a sip. "...a few days before Kyo was hit."

Yuki gawped at him. "Why didn't they tell us about this?"

"Well, apparently Sensei thought that this is just some lame joke somebody played so he and Akito decided that this letter," he waved the paper lightly, "is not to be taken seriously as it should." Haru paused again, staring at the letter. "After all the commotion, it seems that both he and Akito had thoroughly forgotten about this until recently."

Yuki took the letter from him and read it once more, mouthing the words silently. "Who else knows about this letter?"

"I think Hatori-san knows." Haru stared at the back of the letter with a frown. "That guy knows everything." Both he and Yuki nodded.

"Yeah," Yuki paused. "But this letter...the person who sent this must have known that we were busy preparing for Kyo's wedding, by the looks of it." Haru nodded agreed.

"Yup. But who do you think sent this?" Yuki shook and shrugged.

"It says here to stop whatever we were doing...that means, he must have wanted the wedding to be stopped, right?" Haru nodded. "So...who does want to stop Kyo and Tohru-san's wedding? Does Kyo have any rival on Tohru-san or something?" Haru shrugged.

"Dunno. That's very unlikely since the only rival I know Kyo got is you. Unless it's you who want to take Tohru-san away from him," Haru smirked.

"I will not do such thing!" Yuki scowled. "How dare you Haru!" Haru laughed heartily. "Maybe Kyo has some guy who hated him back at Kyoto. Who knows?" Yuki pouted.

Haru smiled, "I don't think so. I met Tohru-san the other day and she told me that Kyo's quite an idol there." He smirked. "He's the one, by the sound of it, who has bunch of admirers I'm sure even he didn't notice."

"He's too dense..." Yuki said, nodding. Haru nodded as well. "Does anyone else we know hate him?" asked Yuki.

"Other than you?" Yuki grimaced as he stared at the smirking Haru. "I don't hate him...I envy him." Yuki paused as he stared at the cup in his hand, "I still do...a bit." Haru smiled knowingly at his cousin.

"Well, I think I can tell..." Haru sighed. "Anyway, about this letter...what do you think we should do about it?" Yuki looked up at him.

"Send it to the police?" Haru nodded briefly.

"Well. I'm sure the police would be interested to know about this letter. And also—" Haru was cut off as Yuki's phone rang. Yuki answered and there, for a few seconds, was a short pause as Haru sat quietly, listening to Yuki's voice.

"What?" Yuki almost yelled. "Alright! I'll be right there." A pause. "Yeah, okay... He's with me now. Okay, bye!"

"Who is it?" asked Haru as he stared emotionless at his beaming cousin.

"Shigure. He told me Akito's on labour! They're at the hospital right now!" Yuki and Haru both stood up from their chairs. "Let's go."

ps: our cutie hero's coming back!.......very soon......;)