Summary: Bad boy Sohma Kyo is a loner and won't let anyone get too close to him. He only uses girls and makes sure never to fall in love, but will that ever change? AU Version of FB. RxR please&thanks. KxT

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Love is a like a disease.

Nobody ever wants to catch it,

But they end up catching it anyway.

And when they do, it causes great amounts of

pain, and destruction 

Just like love.

Chapter I - Bodyguard

"I heard that he robbed a bank one time..."

"Yea, me too. That boy is bad news."

A boy with fire colored hair and crimson colored eyes shot an icy glare at the two girls gossiping loudly nearby. They scampered away like a pair of scared little mice when they saw his icy glare directed towards them. He rolled his eyes and exhaled a trail of opaque smoke that escaped from his lips.

Pathetic bitches...

Kyo took one last puff on his cigarette and then threw it to the ground before stomping on it. He blew out a sigh of disgust and pushed himself off of the red brick wall of Kaibara High. He walked in a slouchy, and sluggish manner into the mustard colored building and through the mustard colored hallways, arriving as late as possible to class, as usual. He slammed into his assigned seat, all the way in the back, ignoring all of the stares that were coming his way. Kyo just chuckled under his breath and looked into another direction when he caught a glimpse of his teacher shooting him the evil eye. The teacher pushed up his thick tortoise shelled glasses and cleared his throat before commenting on Kyo's tardiness,

"I see that you've actually decided to come to class today Sohma-kun."

"Tch.."

was all Kyo muttered in response. The teacher shook his head in shame and then went back to writing problems on the board. Out of boredom Kyo looked to his right and saw a pretty girl that he had never seen before sitting next to him. She had long blonde hair and the bluest eyes he had ever seen. He smirked and leaned over towards her and whispered,

"Hey, I haven't seen you around here before."

The girl turned her head towards him and flushed a deep color of royal red when she looked into his deep and intense eyes,

"Oh... I-I'm new... my name is Hanoru Akira."

Kyo smirked and maintained the eye contact with her and said in a low voice,

"Sohma Kyo."

She shot him a shy smile and her cheeks turned a brilliant hue of pink as she held his stare for a long second.

Got her.

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In a matter of few days Kyo had gotten Akira into his grasp and used her for what he needed her for. Sex.

The next day in school Kyo was standing by his locker when he saw Akira approaching him with a cheerful smile planted her face. She went over to him and planted a kiss on his cheek while he grimaced in disgust. He pushed her away as she tried to cuddle with him and said tersely,

"Look, Akira, we can't be together anymore."

Akira face mirrored pure shock and her face turned completely red as she stuttered out the words,

"W-What do you mean?!"

Kyo shrugged and looked straight through her with a blank expression on his tan face.

"It's just over, so what else can I say?"

She started to sob as the embarrassment filled her heart. She turned her heel and ran away with tears of hurt and humiliation. Kyo rolled his eyes and thought about what a crybaby that girl was as he walked out of the school and through the streets of Tokyo. He stopped in front of a crummy looking building that had a door with graffitti covering every inch of it. He pushed his key in, turned it, and opened the door to the apartment building. He walked up the grimy steps to his "home" and opened the door to room number 218. He threw his keys onto his ratty old bed and then slammed the door shut. He sat down on his bed and sat in the dim room for a moment, that's when his stomach rumbled loudly, making Kyo wince a little. Kyo walked over to the fridge and pulled it open to see that there was only half quart of milk in it. He frowned with anger and slammed the fridge door shut with frustration and hunger. His stomach let out another loud rumble and he groaned while pressing the palm of his hand onto his stomach. He thought for a while and finally decided to just go out and get something to eat before he starved to death. Kyo left the room and descended down the grimy steps again and back to the outdoors. He spotted a bakery across the street that had just opened up recently and decided to settle for that, since he wasn't in a walking sort of mood. He strolled over to the bakery called Ureshii.

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The ring of a bell signaled the entering of a customer and Honda Tohru looked eagerly up from the counter to see a boy with a beat up leather jacket, baggy cargo pants and the brightest shade of orange colored hair she had ever seen, walk through the swinging door. She put on her brightest smile and asked in her best professional voice,

"Hello, do you need any help?"

Kyo looked up from the cakes in the display, that he was practically drooling over, and spotted a girl smliing at him from across the counter. She had chestnut brown hair that went down beneath her shoulders and sparkling brown eyes to go with her lustrious hair.

"Do I look like I need help?"

he growled angrily, he was not in one of his best moods. Tohru felt sweat prickle down the side of her head and she apologized good naturedly,

"I'm sorry, sir."

Kyo gave her a cold stare with his blood colored eyes and pointed at a piece of chocolate cake in the glass case,

"Give me that and I'll be on my way."

Tohru took out the cake and said happily,

"Sure, that will be 300 yen, please."

She watched patiently as he dug vigourously into his deep pockets for a a few long seconds. His mind cursed inwardly when he realized that he didn't have money with him.

Fuck, this is a bunch of bull shit.

Tohru saw the panic register in his eyes for a millisecond and she frowned with concern,

"A-Ano... are you alright sir?"

Kyo shot her another icy cold stare that made her sweat a little more. He finally took his hands out of his pockets, empty handed. He put on a scowling face and felt so angry as he stormed out of the bakery, but just as he was about to set foot outside of the door he heard the girl yell out,

"Wait!"

He stopped in his place and turned around to see her standing behind him with a slice of savory chocolate cake on a plate in her hands. She held it out to him and said with a sweet smile,

"Here, please take it."

Kyo looked away angrily and muttered,

"I'm not taking no pity shit from some bakery girl,"

Tohru shook her head furiously and held out the plate right under his nose, making it harder to resist the smell of the tantalizing chocolate. She shook her head and insisted,

"No, no! It's just that I had this extra cake and I wasn't sure of what to do with it, and I'm not hungry at all, so please eat it! You would be doing me a favor!"

Kyo gulped and stared at the cake that was just so moist and delicious looking. He balled his hands into fists and thought to himself,

What the hell is up with this girl?

His stomach let out a loud growl and Kyo felt his hunger possess him as he grabbed the cake hungrily and stuffed it into his waiting mouth. The sensation that filled his mouth was incredible, the last time he had had such a good cake had been such a long time ago, it was nice to feel something so satisfying touch his heart again. Kyo swallowed the cake with his eyes closed and he let out a sigh of satisfaction. When he opened his eyes he crashed back to reality and saw a brunette girl looking at him with that smile again. He felt irritation fill his body and he shot her a dirty look before asking in a accusing tone,

"Hey what the hell are you lookin' at?"

Oh no! He hates me!

Tohru backed away and laughed nervously as she placed the empty plate onto the counter table,

"Nothing sir, I'm just so glad that you enjoyed the cake."

Kyo watched as she flashed him another signature smile that even chipped a bit of the ice that surrounded his heart. He stood there in silence for a moment and then muttered a 'Whatever' before turning around and leaving without even saying a hearty thank you.

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Tohru rushed through the mustard colored hallways, frantically trying to find her first period class.

Great, my first day, and I'm lost!

She nervously tightened her grip on her books and decided to ask the next person that she saw for directions to room 345. She saw the back of a slouchy figure up ahead and raced up to catch up to the person.

"Excuse me, but could you hel--"

She stopped in mid-sentence when the boy turned around with the same cinnamon colored eyes and the tan expanse. Tohru's eyes widened with surprise and asked happily,

"Hey! You're the guy from the bakery the other day right?"

Kyo gave her a bored look and said monotonously,

"Yea, so?"

She felt herself getting overheated with humiliation as she sputtered out the next few words,

"Do you know where room 345 is?"

He raised an eyebrow and then chuckled softly,

"You're new?"

Tohru nodded shyly and scratched the back of her head in embarrassment,

"I was circling the school, and I don't want to be any later then I already am."

Kyo gave her a smirk and then pointed in the opposite direction he was walking in and said,

"It's that way."

Tohru turned her head and nodded then said in a gracious voice,

"Thank you so much!"

She raced off into that direction and of the hallway and quickly found 345 around the corner. She breathed a sigh of relief and turned the knob to the room and saw the eyes of many students bore into her skin. Her cheeks were a tinge of pink as she walked stiffly into the room. The teacher smiled and asked her with a warm smile,

"You're the new student joining us right? Is it Honda Tohru?"

Tohru nodded and gave the teacher and the class a small little curtsy,

"H-hello, it is very nice to meet you all."

The teacher smiled and gestured her to any seat in the room. Tohru scanned the room and saw an empty seat next to a dirty blonde headed girl in the back who was doodling on her paper. She hurriedly walked down the row and seated herself down, giving the girl with the dirty blonde hair a half hearted smile. The girl smiled back and said casually,

"Yo, my name is Uotani Arisa, you can call me Uo. Nice to meet ya,"

she stuck out her hand and Tohru was shocked by her sudden friendliness and then smiled nicely back before placing her hand into her palm and shaking gratefully.

"Nice to meet you as well Uo-san,"

After the bell rang Uo and Tohru walked out of class together and Uo started to chatter away,

"So you're new here?"

Tohru nodded and hugged her books to her chest while dodging the many bodies that came flying towards them.

"Don't worry, it aint' that bad of a school, when you get used to it and everything."

Tohru shot her a small smile and said,

"Yea I've met some nice people already, like you and this other boy."

Uo raised an eyebrow and asked curiously,

"A boy?"

Tohru looked thoughtfully up at the ceiling and said,

"Oh, yes, this orange haired boy with these very intense eyes, he showed me how to get to the classroom in the first place."

Uo's mouth dropped open when she thought of the only boy with orange hair and asked incredulously while waving her hands wildly in the air,

"You don't mean ... Sohma Kyo do you?! Orange hair, leather jacket, crimson eyes?"

Tohru nodded at each description and asked innocently,

"Why? What's the matter with him?"

Uo shook her head with shame and said in a low voice as if she were on a top secret spy mission,

"Look, that guy is bad news you hear? You should stay away from him at all costs if you don't want to get hurt. I'm tellin' ya, he uses girls like tissues and treats them like garbage. And let me tell you something, he loves new girls..."

Tohru's eyes widened at the horrible details of Uo's description and she refused to believe such things about any human being. Tohru pouted and said in disbelief,

"That can't be, maybe we're talking about a different person."

Uo frowned when she saw the denial and disbelief in Tohru's eyes and then shrugged,

"Well if you ever meet such a boy called Sohma Kyo, stay far away from him... I'm just warning you...I mean I've seen him beat up a whole bunch of burly men before, for no reason!"

Tohru's eyes had a new glint in them as she smiled gratefully up at her new friend and said with a great amount of gratitude,

"Thank you for the warning Uo-san, but I like to believe in the good of people. Uo-san, I'm so very glad to have met you."

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Two days later...

Kyo sat on his beat up old bed, hungry, and thinking about going back down to the bakery for some more of that cake. His stomach rumbled loudly and he lowered his head with shame as he slumped his shoulders and walked out of the building to the bakery across the street again. He entered the swinging door, causing the bell to echo throughout the small bakery. Tohru's head perked up when she saw a customer come in and saw that it was the orange haired boy again. "...I've seen him beat up a whole bunch of burly men!" Uo's words hung in her head and it wouldn't budge as he neared the counter with his intense glare.

Should I ask him?

She put on her usual happy face and then said to him cheerfully,

"It's so nice to see you again! How may I help you?"

He wondered how anyone on this planet could be so sickly sweet, he had never met a girl like this before. Tohru looked carefully at him for a while and then finally spoke up while he was looking at the wonderful cakes,

"Ano....I"m sorry to bother you, but may I ask you of a favor?"

Kyo raised an eyebrow and looked up from the case to see a pleading face in front of him,

"I barely know you, why would I do you any fa--"

"For free cake,"

she added, making Kyo stop in his sentence and day dream about the cake. When he came out of his fantasy land his maroon eyes met with her chocolate eyes.

"Deal,"

he said finally, making the girl perk up even more.

"So what's the big favor?"

She put her hands together and cleared her throat, then looked down at the tiled floor. When she looked back into his eyes asked in a loud voice,

"Would... you be my bodyguard?!"

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