Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ Conflict, Romance, and Naughty Secrets ❯ Chapter 2

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Tohru throughly enjoyed the walk home. Still holding Haru's hand, she realized how much she liked having him around. For the first time ever, she was sad to see the Sohma summer home. Kyou and Yuki walked in first. Haru stopped Tohru outside the doors and pulled her down the steps so no one in the house could hear them.

"Tohru, there's something I want to ask you. With Yuki and Kyou out of the picture. Will you go on a date with me? We can sneak out tomorrow morning and say we are walking around the place. We can catch a bus and go see a movie if you want." Haru said rather quickly.

It took Tohru a couple of moments to fully understand what he was asking. She giggled, "Of course I'll go on a date with you, Haru-chan!" She smiled widely at him. He brushed a piece of her hair away from her face so that he could get a full image of her face. She played with one of the three necklaces he had on. She was about to give him a hug, when she thought better of it.

"Well, goodnight, Haru-chan."

"Goodnight, Tohru-chan." He kissed her on the cheek and winked at her. She blushed as they walked inside and up to their rooms.

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Tohru couldn't sleep. The horrifing images of Yuki and Kyou kissing, passionatly, kept haunting her. At one point in the night, she got up and walked over to Haru's room (their rooms are right across the hall from each other) so they could talk.She had something else bothering her other than Kyou and Yuki. But when she opened the door he was snoring so loud that she shut the door quickly, hoping that no one woke up.

Tohru was down at the lake at the crack of dawn. She watched the sun rise over the lake. It was beautiful. 'I'll have to wake up Haru tomorrow so he can see this too.' she thought. She started daydreaming about Haru. 'Wow, I never realized how much I like him, or how sweet he is... That is, when he isn't 'Black Haru'.' she thought walking over to the lake so that her barefeet were now in the water. ' I better be getting back. Shigure and Hatori might be up by now.'

"Oh! Tohru! What are you doing up this early?" Shigure said embarassed. He was only in his boxers, he didn't think anyone was awake, or would be awake for a while.

Blushing, Tohru told him she couldn't sleep. She went upstairs to take a shower and get ready for the day ahead of her. She remembered that her and Haru were supposed to go on a date today. 'How are we going to get around Shigure or Kyou? They seem to know everything that goes on.'

"Hey hottie!" Tohru was drying off from her shower in the bathroom when she hear someone's voice. She looked up to see Haru standing in the doorway, eyes wide, jaw dropped, looking her up and down. Tohru screamed and quickly tied the towel around herself and hugged him. Haru turned into an ox.

"Well, you didn't have to go and do that!" Haru said in a rather winey tone.

"Don't come into the bathroom while I'm showering!"

"Onee-san! Onee-san! Are you alright? I heard you scream!" Kisa and Hiro coming running down the hall to see Haru (still in ox form) and Tohru still only in a towel.

"What's with all the yelling?!" Kyou came out of his bedroom rubbing his eyes, sleepidly. He stopped rubbing his eyes and stopped walking whenever he saw Tohru in only a towel.

"Yeah what's going on?" Shigure appeared from the steps, also stopping in his steps towards the camotion. Shigure leaned down to whisper in Haru's ear, "Did you see..?" "Yup, well, not all, but most." *POUF* Tohru turned away quickly and slammed the bathroom door shut and locked it and Kisa's eyes were covered by Hiro's hand as Haru turned back into his normal self. He gathered up his clothes and turned around the corner to get dressed.

"Hey, Yuki! Hi Momiji! Hatori!" Shigure greeted them all as they walked into the hallway.

"Why is everyone gathered here? And why is Haru naked in the hall way?" Yuki asked as he pointed in the direction of Haru around the corner where they just came from.

"Ahh! Haru saw..." Shigure started but was quickly stopped by Kyou's fist going into Shigure's head. At that moment, Tohru walked out of the bathroom, not looking at anyone and walked in the direction of her bedroom. A few moments later, they heard a loud slam, meaning that Tohru slammed her door shut.

"Wow, I've never seen Tohru angry before." Hiro said, looking after Tohru, he kind of felt bad. But not too bad.

Yuki was starting to get angry, "What did you do, dog?"

"For once, I didn't do it, Haru did." Shigure pointed at Haru as her came around the corner, noticing that everyone was glaring at him but Shigure who was pointing.

"What did you do?" Yuki asked again, even more hatred in his eyes than before. He had never expected Haru to do something to upset Tohru. Yuki knew that he liked her, very very much.

"I, umm...."

"Oh, just drop it." Tohru's voice came from behind Kisa and Hiro, scaring them. "Haru walked into the bathroom as I was drying off, it's nothing, I was just startled. I'm going to go make breakfast." and she left, without another word, leaving everyone in silence.

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Tohru made breakfast, there wasn't to much coversation in the house. No one had ever seen Tohru angry, and she had lived with the Sohma's for almost 3 years, now. After she made breakfast, she ate in the kitchen and went up to her room. She was mad at just about everyone, mostly Haru. She was crying hard when she heard a knock at her door.

"Who is it?" Tohru called, trying to keep her voice steady.

"It's Yuki, can I come in?" his voice sounded hopeful.

"Yeah, come on." she sat up. Yuki walked in, looking at her with pity in his eyes, he felt bad about what happened.

"I'm sorry about what happened..."

"Why are you sorry? You didn't do anything. It was all Haru's fault. I haven't been this mad in a while. And it's not helping that today is the 3rd anniversary of my mom's death." She choked out, she started crying again. Yuki made a gesture for her to lay her head on his shoulder. She accepted it, and cried on his shoulder. 'She must feel like she's been betrayed by Haru for him to do that. Poor Tohru. She keeps things so bottled up.'

"Heh, now I'm the one who has to be sorry, Yuki. I made your shirt all wet!" She went on wiping at his shirt, trying to dry it off, but failing miserably. "I'm alright, Yuki. You don't need to worry about me. Tell everyone I'm sorry and that i'm just not feeling well. That they should just go on with their plans for the day. Oh, don't tell Haru I said I'm sorry, because he needs to tell me that." her eyes widened in surprise at her words. She never says things like that. She never feels the need for someone to apologize to her. "Nevermind, just tell Haru what i told you to tell everyone. I just... I just want to be alone, for a little while." She looked up at him. Her eyes were watery and blood-shot from crying. "Just tell everyone, and I'll talk to you later." Tohru laid down and turned so her back was to Yuki.

"Don't worry. I know Haru is upset about this. He has his dumb moments..." Yuki said smiling at her. He bent down and kissed her on the cheek. She blushed deeply, feeling loved. "Feel better soon, Honda-san."

There was a loud crash downstairs and some yelling. Yuki walked over to the door and opened it. Hearing, "Come on you stupid cat!! Come on and fight me!"

"Oh, no. Black Haru is back!" and with that Yuki closed the door and ran downstairs. Tohru could hear all the yelling, things breaking. Tohru reached up and grabbed the picture of her mom and laid it next to her. "I miss you, Mom..." drowning out all the crashes from downstairs with her own thought, Tohru fell into a dreamless sleep.