Disclaimer – I do not own Fruits Basket. So stop asking me for money.

Rated T for the word 'sexually'. Yeah, I am that anal. Your point? ('lol')

Dedicated to darthelwig, whom I owed a Kyo/Tohru story – even if I no longer remember quite why. ('lol') I hope you like this, sis, as it's really little more than a drabble...

Anyway, enjoy. Peace, all.

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All The Things You're Not

by Ghost Helwig

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She wasn't the prettiest girl he knew – that honor went to Hana, who had quite possibly the loveliest face he'd ever seen on a girl (the loveliest he'd ever seen on a boy was Yuki's - though he'd die before admitting that to anyone). Nor was she the smartest – that would probably be Kagura, who for all her craziness always did well in school. Not as well as that damn rat, but then, she wasn't an unnatural creature like him, either.

She wasn't the sweetest girl he knew (that would be Kisa), the strongest (Uo), or even the most sexually compelling (Rin). No, she was something else entirely, something he could just never find the words to properly describe...

What Tohru Honda was, Kyo Sohma was determined to find out.

So he watched her, even though all that taught him was that if he was caught watching her (and for all his martial arts training, he often was) the 'pervert' jokes from Shigure would not abate for weeks – and if Yuki was the one to catch him, there would be hell to pay.

But he could not stop, because he had to know.

And then, finally, he stumbled across the answer in the most unlikely of places – as he was watching Tohru study in the living room, her head bent over her books, Yuki stoic and unyielding beside her. She looked up, smiled at Yuki, smiled at Kyo who watched unashamedly from the doorway (blatantly ignoring Yuki's pointed looks with a patience he'd never before exercised), and it just hit him, like a sock to the gut, a punch that hit him harder than that damn rat ever had.

She was... more than all those other girls. More than anyone he'd ever known.

Pretty and selfless, like Hana. Smart and devoted, like Kagura. Sweet and gentle, like Kisa. Strong and self-sufficient, like Uo. Compelling and (in her own way) mysterious, like Rin.

She was everyone. And everything. Just everything he could possibly want.

And one day, he would let her know.

But not this day. This day, he was content to sit and watch her, holding his new knowledge to himself with a smile.

Tohru Honda was special. Kyo Sohma could see it. And one day – one day soon – he'd make sure she did, too.