Author's note: I'm sorry it took me this long to update this story, it's ridiculous how long it took I know. Also, my writing style has changed, so the story will be in a different format. Eventually I hope to go back to the first chapter and fix it, but I'm going to update before I do that. Hope you enjoy, and thank you for all of the wonderful encouragement~!

Culture note: Japanese culture frowns on Public Displays of Affection (PDA.) Making out in public is pretty much scandalizing to mainstream people, and nicknames like "Pookie," "Babe," or something else equaly mushy and disgusting, are hardly ever used.

-=Chapter 2=-

"You're insane, there's no way we're going pull this off!" Kyo said, thoroughly convinced that his life-long rival had finally lost it.

"Do we really have the choice of not trying anyway?" Yuki returned calmly, sighing as he leaned back against the wall and shifted on his cushion to get more comfortable. "This is the only chance we have of getting her back, we have tried everything else."

"Not true! We could-"

"Do what?" Yuki interrupted. "We have been through this already Cat, neither of us have a better idea." Kyo looked away and muttered something unflattering under his breath. "I'll take that as agreement then."

"This is gonna to be horrible..." Kyo complained, reaching up to run his hand through his hair as he always did when he was stressed. "We hate each other and now we have to pretend to be dating." With that he shuddered and glanced over at the other guy beside him. "What even made you think of this anyway?" He asked, curious despite himself. 'You know,' he though to himself as he waited for Yuki to answer him. 'This is so crazy it just might work.'

Yuki looked out the open shoji and thought carefully about his answer. "I'm not sure honestly, it just came to me. Maybe I have been watching too many dramas on television." He finally said, then thought to himself, 'Yeah, that has to be it, because no way in hell would I willingly do this if my brain were not a vegetable.'

Taking his answer at face value Kyo nodded thoughtfully. "You do watch too many of those, maybe you really are a girl." He said after a bit, half to himself.

At that Yuki glared over at him, his eyes icy. "I'm not the one still wearing a girl's shirt."

Kyo looked down at Tohru's shirt and winced. 'Shit, I forgot.' He though, thoroughly disgusted with himself as he quickly pulled the shirt off over his head and rolled it into a tight ball before throwing it into a far corner. "At least I can take that shirt off, you can't do much about your face." He shot over to Yuki in retaliation.

"There is nothing wro-!" Yuki stopped himself and took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down before he pounded the idiot into the ground. "If this is going to work we are going to have to stop bickering like this." He pointed out, annoyed. 'That whole "taking the higher road" thing is a crock.' He though with frustration, wanting desperately to put Kyo in his place.

"Yeah, I guess you're right." Kyo said grudgingly, having to force himself to say the words. "How are we going to stop though? We've been doing it for so long that it's habit." Leaning back against the wall next to Yuki he continued. "And just not arguing isn't going to cut it, we're going to have to," he paused to make a face, "hold hands and stuff."

"Hold hands?" Yuki said in surprise, "What are you talking abo-" Then it dawned on him that Kyo was right, and looked even less happy about the idea than Kyo did. "Crap..."

"Yeah…exactly." This time it was Kyo's turn to stare out the open doorway, a resigned look on his face. "We don't have to act as bad as they do, do we? I mean Kai's half American, he's all-" He wiggled his fingers in front of his face, looking grossed out, "Mushy and stuff. They even hug each other hello and kiss all the time."

Yuki turned a little pale at that, remembering a particularly shocking display. "Ehh...maybe this is not such a good idea after all." He said, trying to think about something other than kissing the guy beside him. 'Maybe it won't be as bad as you think.' A small part of him whispered. 'Shut up!' Another yelled back, 'It would be awful, gross, disgusting-!'

Just then Shigure came into the room and raised his eyebrows at the two of them. "Get in a fight with breakfast?" He inquired mildly, a slight grin spreading across his lips. "I do believe it won."

Both Yuki and Kyo glared at him, milk and cereal still in their hair and on their clothes. "Shut up!" Both of them said in unison, surprising Shigure and themselves with the synched outburst.

With that Shigure just raised his eyebrows again and then wandered off to find breakfast. After the older man had left the room the two turned to each other and glared.

"Why not take this outside?" Yuki suggested. "Shigure finding out and trying to 'help' is the last thing this plan needs."

Kyo nodded his agreement and stood up. "Let's go to the river, we can wash the cereal out of our hair."

"Alright." Yuki agreed, standing up and running his fingers though his hair, grimacing at the bits of cereal he had missed in his previous attempt at picking them out. "Are you going to grab a shirt first, or are you trying to get a tan?"

"I already have a tan, unlike you." Kyo retorted, but the comeback lacked his usual bite.

"Tans are highly overrated, and bad for you."

"So that's your excuse." Yuki opened his mouth to tell Kyo off, but Kyo just walked out of the house, continuing over his shoulder. "But I don't need a shirt, It's still warm enough and I'd just get it wet anyway."

Yuki grumbled under his breath and followed Kyo out of the house and down the path to the river.

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The two walked in silence down the path to the river, both lost in their own thoughts. But as they came to the final turn in the path before it Yuki had a thought that he couldn't keep to himself. "How are we going to keep this from Shigure?" He asked. "He is remarkably smart for an idiot."

Kyo nodded as they came up to the river. "Good point." He finally said after a few seconds of thought, then sat on a rock next to the water and began scooping up water in his hands and pouring it over his head to rinse off his breakfast. "Maybe we shouldn't bother to keep the fact that we're 'dating' from him."

"We are not da-" Yuki started in a huffy manner.

"But he won't know that will he?" Kyo interrupted with a grin. "We just have to keep him in the dark. He's going to find out anyway, so all we have to do is make sure he believes it."

Yuki knelt down by the water and scooped up water in booth hands, looking thoughtful. "True," He said, bending over and pouring the water through his hair. "And that would make the charade more believable to Tohru."

"Exactly, we'll just pretend at home as well as school." Kyo poured more water over his head. "How do we explain how we started dating though?"

Yuki paused while scooping up more water, the thoughtful look returning to his face. "Good question, everyone knows we hate each other. Hmmm…" While he though he poured the water through his hair, rinsing bits of cereal into the river.

After a minute or so of silent pondering Kyo stood up and then jumped off the rock and into the deeper part of the river.

Yuki had just enough time to let out half a yell as the water from Kyo's plunge reached him and soaked his clothes. "You STUPID Cat!" He yelled after spitting the water out of his mouth. "You could have warned me you inconsiderate-!"

You needed to rinse your clothes off anyway." Kyo called from the middle of the river. "Might as well take a swim and rinse them at the same time." With that he grinned and dove under the water.

"I HATE that stupid cat..." Yuki grumbled to himself as he dove into the water to go strangle the idiot.

Kyo, having watched Yuki dive in with murder in his eyes took off for the other bank. 'Not sure if I wanted to piss him off this bad, but hey...why not have fun with it.' When he reached the other bank he came up for air and turned around to face off with Yuki, the water up to his waist.

Yuki was right behind him, surfacing a few feet away at the same depth. "Why do you insist on pissing me off?" He demanded, launching himself at Kyo.

Just as Yuki's hands locked around Kyo's throat the two heard a gasp from the bank and looked over. To their horror it was Tohru, with Kai following behind her through the brush.

Yuki immediately shifted his grip on Kyo's neck to look, well...like less of a stranglehold. "Tohru," He said nervously, "What are you doing here?"

"Yeah," Kyo managed, wrapping his arms around Yuki's waist. "I thought you were going to the mall."

"We, um...decided to go swimming instead." Tohru said weakly, a look of surprise and uncertainty on her face. "What are you two doing?"

Yuki and Kyo looked at each other and nodded slightly, both taking deep breaths and steeling themselves for the next few minutes. "Well," Yuki started, "We had the same idea, we did not think someone would find out." With that he looked down and tried to look embarrassed. It wasn't hard.

"'Find out?'" Tohru repeated blankly.

"Yeah," Kyo added, "We just wanted to take a private swim. Just the two of us, alone- OW!"

"Don't over do it you idiot!" Yuki whispered in his ear, having kicked him under the water to get him to shut up. "We were going to tell you Tohru." He said, turning back to the couple on the bank. "But there never seemed to be a good time."

"Tell me what?" She asked, looking confused.

"Me and Yuki are dating." Kyo said, leaning forward to kiss Yuki on the cheek. He lost his nerve at the last second though and covered it up by just hugging him closer for a second.

"WHAT?!" Tohru and Kai asked in unison, twin looks of incredulous disbelief on their faces.

"Kyo and I are dating. We were hoping for you to find out another way Tohru, but I suppose it is too late now."

With that Tohru promptly looked between the two in the water, to her boyfriend, then back again. "I-...wha-...no-..." Then promptly fainted.

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Author's note: So, I will try and update more often, so don't hate me please. I update on whichever story is more popular though, so if you want more comment~! And Please bear with me though because I am moving soon and there for might not have much time. But when I get settled and stop crying I will update. And I mean crying only half jokingly, I'm moving to freaking Utah. Middle of nowhere, no culture at all, I can't even find a Japanese district anywhere. So if anyone lives in Utah or has visited and knows somewhere I can reach civilization please tell me. I'm going to be stuck there for at least a year, until I finish the Business Technology program at the school I got into. Makes me sad T.T