This disclaimer applies to all chapters: I do not own Fruits Basket.

Summary: Kyo and Tohru have now arrived in Hawaii. They start a new life there, and all seems to be going fine. They have no idea what's happening back in Japan, but whatever it is, it's nothing good. Now, Kyo and Tohru struggle to finally break the curse once and for all.

Pairings: Kyo and Tohru - Kyoru

Rated T: Rated T for all the drama and language.

You’ve waited, and waited and it’s finally here! This is the sequel to the FanFiction, “Simple Words.” So if you have not read that please read that first before proceeding. It took me a month to start it off and type this chapter up, and I hope that you will all enjoy it!

Volume 2: Holding on - Chapter one

“Tohru we’re going to be late for school if you don’t hurry up!” An impatient orange haired boy by the name of Kyo called out.

A month has passed since they arrived in Hawaii. They started a new life, and things weren’t going too well for them. They rented a diminutive apartment room that was just a few blocks from McKinley High School where they were in their sophomore year, and beyond that was Ala Moana Shopping Center where they both had a part time job at Jamba Juice.

“I’m coming Kyo!” A voice came from across the room as Tohru came out wearing a white mini skirt and a green top. She picked up her bag and walked over to him. “Ready.” The couple headed out of their humble home and walked over to school.

“So, how do you like Hawaii so far?” Kyo asked.

“It’s good here but I just miss the others back in Japan.” Her voice turned into a whisper in the end as she bit her lip to avoid tears to come down her face.

“Hey why are you crying? You made it through for a month so don’t give up now.” Kyo reassured and gave her a pat on the back. “Everything is going to go well in the end.”

“I love you Kyo.” Tohru held onto him cautious as to not touch his chest so he wouldn’t transform.

“I love you too Tohru.”

They walked across the street as the lights read the word, “walk” and turned at the following corner. The campus came to view as they walked a little farther. They arrived just in time as the bell rang to indicate class began. Parting ways to go to their own class Tohru flashed a smile at Kyo before she went up the stairwell to her homeroom.

“See you at lunchtime Kyo.”

Kyo gave a nod with his head, walking the opposite direction once Tohru was out of sight and into a classroom on the first floor. As he entered the room all eyes of the girls in class darted towards him. Hoping to see a broken hearted Kyo to signify that he and Tohru had broken up. But, to their dismay he came in like every other day and his face showed no sign of a break up. Broken hearted they looked away from him and returned to their matters.

For Tohru Honda it seemed she received the opposite of Kyo’s morning greeting from the class. As she walked over to her seat the girls gave her nasty looks of hatred and rolled their eyes at her. Some of them were looking for any sign that Kyo broken up with her. But to their disappointment like the girls in Kyo’s class today was like any other day with a happy and perky brunette.

Although they just arrived at Hawaii it seemed that Kyo came out to be really popular, and as for Tohru she was popular as well, but not it a good way. It seemed that every moment that Kyo wasn’t around her the girls would bully her around, and they stop when Kyo came and gave him excuses that Tohru started all the commotion. Not believing any of them he would walk over to the frightened girl, and put his arm around her waist pulling her closer to him, and walk away making the girls even the more jealous as they yearned to be the girl in his arms.

As class took a start from the second bell, the noise level went down. The teacher, wearing her usual red Hawaiian dress, paced around the room as the lecture of the day began. Everyone’s pencil tip melted as they took intense notes that is except for Kyo who didn’t really care and looked out the window. What exactly was this teen thinking about? He was thinking about all that he and Tohru have gone through and what was yet to come. His thoughts were interrupted as the teacher walked in front of him and cleared her throat.

“Mr. Sohma,” She called to him. “Are you listening to what I was saying?”

Kyo looked away from the window at the sound of her voice and up at his teacher who stood in front of him. Her old wrinkled face looked hideous from up close and he gave off a look of confusion in which the teacher took as a “no.”

“Why, can you tell us what was so important for you to think about that you didn’t have to pay attention Kyo?” Eyes turned towards him as the class awaited an answer. Hesitant to answer he spoke up to avoid detention at lunch.

“I was thinking about Tohru.” He confessed. The girls in the class looked wounded as one of them gasped out in pain and clutched onto her aching heart. The teacher not so happy with his response deepened her frown and let him off the hook.

“I don’t want to see you dazing off again Kyo. If you must think about your social life, please do so at lunchtime and not in my class.” The teacher continued on with her lecture and Kyo took his notebook and pencil out, but left them untouched, and pretended to take notes when the teacher came by him.

Up in Tohru’s class the teacher also gave a lecture, and unlike Kyo she took notes. Concentrating hard on her work she was startled when the girl in back of her tugged down on her hair. “Excuse me, but why did you just pull my hair?”

“I pulled your hair because I don’t like you. You’re going out with the hottest guy in school. How could he have ever fallen in love with someone as dim-witted like you?”

Hurt by her words Tohru looked back at her work as her eyes started to well up with tears, and chocked through her sentence. “I’m sorry that he doesn’t love you.”

“If you were really sorry you would have said “no” and let some other girl that’s actually worthy go out with him.”

“Look I don’t care about what you think of him, but I love him. You don’t know what we’ve been through together, and you would never understand him.” Shocked at what she had just said tears poured down the brunette’s face. Attention drew towards the two girls now, and the teacher looked towards them.

“Ladies is there some problem we have there?”

“The problem is her.” The girl who caused Tohru to cry said as she pointed straight at her. “She thinks she is much more special than all of us and deserves to go out with Kyo Sohma.” She added emphasis on the word “deserves” which cause Tohru to cry even harder.

At this point Tohru ran out of the classroom, and dashed down the stairs passing Kyo’s class on the way, and stopped right outside the girl’s bathroom ignoring all the calls of her name from both teachers and students. Tohru fell to the ground landing on her knees as her arms spread apart on the floor and grasped it. Her hair was messy and it covered her face as she looked down at the dirty brown floor. Tears slowly made its way down her cheek, and landed on the ground. They soon collected and turned into a small puddle of water as time passed.

Kyo, who was staring at his sheet of blank notes looked up when he heard what seemed like Tohru crying from far-off and ran out of the room when he was sure it was her. Swinging his head vigorously from left to right, he found her and ran over to her. Once he approached her, he kneeled down on his knee and lifted Tohru’s chin up with his right arm and wiping her tears away with his left. Looking at her eyes, he found that they were puffy and anger rose in him.

“Who did this?” He exclaimed as Tohru continued crying. “Who put you through this much pain?”

Trying to talk through her tears, Tohru answered back. “First, I want to say I love you Kyo. You know that right?” Another tear made its way down her cheek in which Kyo caught and wiped away. “You know that I would never leave your side and that I care about you.” Tohru looked into Kyo’s eyes which now softened up a bit and she stopped crying.

“Tohru, of course I know that. Look, why don’t you clean yourself up and head on back to class? You need to make your mom proud; she wouldn’t want to see you sad.”

Collecting herself, Tohru gave a soft nod with her head and walked into the bathroom to wash her face off, as Kyo waited for her outside. The bell rang to say that first class was over and she finally came out. Her hair all fixed up and everything back to normal, except for her eyes which were still puffy and red.

“You feel better?”

“Yeah, I feel much better Kyo. Thank you.”

Kyo grabbed Tohru’s head and gently held it in his hands as he gave a soft kiss on the forehead.

“Come on, we better get our stuff and switch over to our next class before we’re late.”

Getting up on her feet, Tohru and Kyo held hands as they returned to their class.

“Hey, wait out here for me and I’ll come up with you to get your stuff. We have our next class together anyways.”

Kyo walked into the classroom and picked up his bag and returned to Tohru who was patiently waiting outside. They then went up to Tohru’s class. Kyo waited outside as she went in to get her bag. After they were all set, they rushed to their next class so they wouldn’t be late. The halls were nearly empty by now and the bell rang the moment they walked into class, hurrying to their seats before their teacher turned around.

They took their seats just in time, as the teacher turned around to start the day’s lesson. Kyo grinned at her as she looked at him with a smile on her face. They sat towards the back of the room, holding hands as they sat next to each other.

The teacher, Mr. Wesley, was a very old man with wrinkles all over his face. He had glasses on and he still needed to squint when reading. Today’s lesson was on the periodic table and he announced that we had a pop quiz.

Tohru panicked at the word “quiz.” She never really had time to study since she was always busy at work.

“Hey, don’t worry about it. I’m right here.” Kyo gripped on her hand tighter. “I’ll hold your hand all the way through, okay? So that you know you aren’t alone.”

Tohru smiled at what he said and was confident by the time she had her test. Of course they had to let go of each other’s hand since Kyo wasn’t left handed, but he soon finished the test in minutes and was one of the first to finish. Tohru was still having a hard time and Kyo held his hand out to her. Tohru held onto it throughout the test, and when she had a hard time, she would tighten her grip on his hand and he would massage it, which made her relax and not panic so much.

By the time the bell rang, Tohru dropped her pencil as she completed the test.

“Thank you so much Kyo! You’re really sweet!" She released his hand, and massaged her right hand with her left, which was sore from the intense writing she had to do. Kyo picked up her test and his and dropped in the bin at the front of class, and together they went off to recess.

The rest of the day went smoothly and no more tears were shed from Tohru’s eyes. She wasn’t being bullied for the rest of the day, basically because Kyo was with her. By the time school was over, Tohru felt well, and it was all thanks to Kyo.

So that’s the end of chapter one. Just to let you know that I will try to update every week. Please review. Thank you.