Faithless (Fruits Basket fanfiction)

Faithless (chapter 6)

I don't own Fruits Basket.

Sorry for the wait! (This is - literally - the easiest story to update! I have 4 stories that I'm transferring over to other sites, this being one of them, but I really don't edit this one when I transfer it...Which brings up the question why it takes so long to update...mainly because I don't want to have the same problem with this story that I'm having with my Innocent Girl story...)

Anyway…ON TO THE STORY!

I was in a trance, staring up at the person I had crashed into. My jaw dropped.

"I, uh, was just, um…" I stammered. The figure in front of me placed his hands on his hips.

"Tohru, would you mind telling me what you were doing in Kyo's room in the middle of the night?" Shigure asked, a smirk playing on his lips. Still in shock, I couldn't speak. Beside me, I heard a door slide open. Kyo came rushing out of it, crashing over me in the process. The position he was in must have qualified as a hug of some sort, because a puff of smoke surrounded me. After the smoke cleared, Kyo was hanging over my shoulder in his cat form.

The cat sighed. "I found you! Listen, Tohru –" Once he saw Shigure, who looked completely lost, he paused.

Even in the dark, I could spot Shigure's mouth form an 'O'. He nodded, holding out a hand. I took it and let him pull me up. Kyo still draped over my shoulder. Gingerly lifting him up, I held him in my arms. Although I knew he hated this, he didn't protest.

"Does Yuki know about this little get-together?" the novelist asked. Both of us shook our heads. "So – I'm just curious – when exactly do you plan on telling him?" I didn't know what to say. As I searched my brain for the correct response, a cloud of smoke signaled Kyo transforming back into a human. Gasping, I forced myself to look in the opposite direction. My eyes saw Akito walking around the corner to storm down the staircase.

While watching Akito, I muttered my reply. "I don't know what I'm supposed to tell him," I whispered, turning around to face Kyo and Shigure.

"Just tell him there's nothing going on," Kyo said harshly as he crossed his arms. He glared up at Shigure. "What the hell are you doing in the middle of the night, anyway? Even that damn rat is asleep."

"Well, your little party is just so noisy," he answered. Shigure pouted in fake sadness. "What's a novelist like me supposed to do without any sleep to let me savor my energy?" He glanced back and forth between me and Kyo. "Since you two lovebirds are making so much noise, it's really obvious that there's 'nothing going on.'"

I looked down at the ground. What was I supposed to do? If Shigure found out by accident, it was only a matter of time before another mistake led to Yuki finding out. I couldn't do this. I just couldn't hurt Yuki like that.

Glancing up into Kyo's deep, beautiful, dark, soft, auburn… No! I couldn't allow myself to get distracted. Glancing into Kyo's eyes for just a moment, I swirled around and walked slowly to my room. Nobody followed me. Even if I didn't want them to, since that would only make matters worse, there was that part of me that was disappointed that no one came after me. Maybe Kyo didn't like me as much as I thought.

But…Akito said…

"Why should I? Oh, you still have feelings for her, don't you?" Akito laughed softly. "You worthless bastard. Do you think that she'll return them?"

Anger swelled up inside me. For the first time, I actually felt like lashing out at him – I felt like hurting him.

Kyo didn't respond. Does he really have feelings for me? Is that why he kissed me?

"Hmph," grunted Akito. "I knew it. Now she does, too."

As I reflected on the scene that unfolded just a few minutes ago, I notice something. Akito; his voice seemed to have a sense of jealousy to it. Why would he be jealous?

Then I remembered something else: the first day I spoke with him, he didn't exactly sound…like I thought he would. His voice was a bit feminine, considering he's just a few years younger than Shigure.

What does that mean? Is Akito a –

I didn't think so. If Akito had really been a girl, then was she jealous of me spending time with the Sohmas. I doubted my theory, but as each second passed, that doubt began to fade. Why was it that Akito was angriest when I hung out with the male Sohmas?

Oh, my.

When I originally wrote this, I was deliberating whether or not I would make Tohru find out the same way as in the manga...oh, well, I'll go into that in a chapter or two! And don't worry, the story gets better as it goes along (and as it strays farther and farther from what I planned a year ago...)

Thanks for readin'!

R/R/KR!