Hi, my name is Mizuki Cross. I am fifteen years old and I attend Kaibara High with my friend Kanna Tang, and Zekna Ohenji. My mother died when on the day of New Years at the exact moment of the morning of the first day of January, leaving me alone since six months ago. Since then I have never cried or shown much sadness and Kanna and Zekna tell me that they worry for me because of that. I live with a fellow student, who is sixteen and lives on his own, besides me, and his name is Rei Colium and he looks over me as if he were my guardian or something with a very nice behavior, yet time to time he can go crazy. Those are the times I try to stay away from him. Anyway, I am in my second to last class and we are being handed back out test scores..
"I.." She breathed as she stared at the paper in her hands with disbelief as a look of disappointment spread across her face and swirled around in her pale blue eyes, "I really...failed." She couldn't believe her eyes because she never failed a test. She was expecting this to come, she tried and tried but she just couldn't understand the math lesson she was being taught. Hours and hours she studied but the words looked like a foreign language that couldn't be classified even with a language dictionary in front of her eyes, which added to her disappointment. She was one of the only few students in the class that were known as the intelligent individuals but after this grade her reputation would be ruined forever!
"For those of you who failed this test, there shall be a make up test on Sunday so I want to see all of your faces here with knowledge in your head." The teacher announced as he handed back the students their test. Knowing that Mizuki was able to get a second chance, she sighed in relief and set the paper down on her desk with her grade facing the wood. Thank goodness that my teacher is so worried about our grades. I am truly sorry, mother, father. I know you want the best for me and if I walk the roads of 'F' like this I'll never live a happy and long life in your honor, Mizuki thought as a small frown tugged the corner of her lips. "Now, those of you who seek to return on Sunday, please raise your hand." The teacher asked which made her blue eyes widen and a loud gulp be swallowed down her tightly closed throat which made her feel like she was suffocating as a shaking thin arm was raised into the air, making a few students gasp.
"Damn, could you be more dramatic? C'mon, Mizuki is a normal human being too y'know!" Kanna's annoyed and protective voice shouted at the open-mouthed students, Kanna grunted and crossed her arms over her big chest and grunted. The brunette girl with blue eyes stared back at her friend and they both met each others gaze and the blue eyed girl mouthed the words 'Thank you' while the other black haired girl smirked and mouthed back, 'Any time, kid'.
Kanna was a year older than Mizuki and she looked more, "womanly", with her giant chest and shaped thighs and a small stomach which wasn't a good match for a sixteen year old female but the brunette girl thought she looked beautiful. Kanna had long black hair that fell to her hips in a cone shaped fashion and her skin was lightly tanned that seemed to shine everywhere, and her dark green eyes were the same color as the waves in the ocean. She was taller than Mizuki and she was more boy-ish than the younger female. Kanna's personality was very protective over her friends, very caring, she was very sweet, though she could be an ass sometimes, but Mizuki and Zekna still loved the gambling girl.
Everyone groaned at Kanna's protest but grew silent after it because they have seen the black haired girl beat up a person before and that person was in for a major visit to the hospital. The teacher began to write the names down on the chalk board and Mizuki nearly fainted as she watched the teacher right down her name on the board, it seemed to be happening in slow motion for the brunette's point of view. The bell rang and alarmed the students to know that it was time for there last class so they all got up and packed their stuff quickly before separating to their next and final class. "Hey kid, hurry." Kanna said playfully yet calmly as she walked over to the brunette. "Please or we shall be late." Zekna joined up, next to the black haired girl.
Zekna had beautiful and long red hair that fell to her knees when it was down, but since it's in a ponytail it went up to her waist with beautiful ember red eyes and peachy skin that looked softer than a cloud. She was about Mizuki's height but she was about an inch taller and she had long and slender legs with matching arms, a very small chest and stomach. Zekna seemed more delicate and she was more girly than the trio so her personality matched her appearance. Zekna was nice, sweet, poliet, honest but she could lie sometimes, and loved to do girl things which her definition of "girly stuff" seemed to change each time the brunette and raven haired girl let the red head do an "experiment" on them.
"Oh, sorry. You can go to the next class, if you'd like. I don't mind at all." Mizuki replied to her friends with a small smile to let them both know she was alright. Zekna and Kanna stared at the smiling girl with wonder before the black haired girl shrugged her shoulders and began to walk out the door after throwing the brunette a small wave. "Okay, goodbye." Zekna said before catching up with Kanna, out the door.
"Hey, are you okay? You've never gotten a failing grade before, so I just thought I might ask how it is." The blue eyed girl turned around and saw one of her classmates standing behind her, Tohru Honda, with a comforting facial expression that seemed to make the failing brunette uncomfortable. "Um, yes I am fine, thanks. It's okay, really. It just means I gotta study the stuff more better, even though I hardly understand what I am supposed to be doing." Mizuki replied with a nervous smile.
"I would help you, if I understood it well enough to explain. But I just can't. But, you might wanna ask Yuki Sohma for a tutoring lesson or something. When he explains it to me, I understand it clearly." Torhu suggested while throwing her thumb over her shoulder to the guy with gray hair and purple eyes, who was placing his math books in his bag. How is he explaining it to her? Ever since she and that guy have gotten closer, she has seemed to be passing most of her quiz's and understanding her homework more so I guess he has an affect that works. Mizuki thought.
"Oh, thank you Tohru. I shall see you later then?" Mizuki asked the beaming girl who nodded her head in response and literally skipped out the classroom, leaving Mizuki give a small smile to see another girl's happiness. She wasn't actually planning on asking Yuki Sohma to tutor her because she barely knew the guy, so she found the idea of going to his house for some lessons, quite awkward. She shook the idea out her head and finished packing up her last book and began to head to the door, but she didn't even manage to take one step away from her desk.
"Um...Ms. Cross?" A gentle and caring male voice called from behind her, making her turn around and face the "Prince Charming" of her class. He smiled at her with a friendly yet shy expression that made Mizuki feel uncomfortable, just like when she was talking to Tohru. "I understand you did not pass your test, so I just wanted to offer some help that I can provide, if you would care to accept? It will be at my house." He spoke softly and his expression never changed which made Mizuki turn her head to the side and her gaze along with it, something she was about to do when talking to Tohru. When she did that, Yuki softly gasped and expression changed to one of apology as his head slightly moved forward, thinking she was about to run or something of the sort.
"Yes, please? I'd like that." She replied with a gentle shyness that made Yuki's faded smile return on his lips. Her head quickly turned back to the gray haired man as she realized that she was about to be late for her class, but she needed to ask him something. "May I come over after school? I really want to pass the make up test so I'd like to start practicing as soon as possible." Yuki nodded his head once and smiled with his eyes closed. "Of course, Ms. Cross. Now you don't want to be late for you last class, now do you?"
"What the hell? Why is girly-boy gonna be tutoring you? At his house to make the situation even better!" Kanna whispered harshly to her friend as the last minutes of school began to slowly grow into smaller numbers. They all took notes while some whispered to each other like the black haired girl, while others had their heads flying up then falling down with quick movements of their hands, like Mizuki's.
"It's only temporary, Kanna. You are worrying over nothing. I promise it's only for today and then tomorrow then that's it. No more talking to Yuki." Mizuki whispered back as she moved her head up and down, trying to take notes while talking and listening.
"That's fine with me Mizuki. Just make sure his fan club doesn't hear about it otherwise they'd have your head for sure. And if they did that we'd have their heads then Kanna and I will be in jail. Do you want your two best friends to end up in jail for murder?" Zekna asked before Mizuki shook her head in reply. "Of course not. You, Kanna and Rei are like family to me."
"Good, now get ready to go because the bell is gonna ring in one minute." Kanna warned as she closed up her note book and began to tap her pencil on the desk as Zekna slowed down her writing due to the news, but Mizuki kept writing until her wrist began to hurt. What the black haired girl said had been true because after sixty seconds passed the bell rang and all the students rushed out of the classroom, happy that it was a Friday. Kanna, Zekna and Mizuki were the last ones to pack, and the three of them knew that their friend Rei stood outside the class room because they heard all the girls cheer his name followed with a 'hi', then they heard his maturing voice say a 'hello' in return and they all squealed.
"Looks like the Rock-O-Holic is standing outside waiting for you, Mizuki." Kanna said before the brunette giggled at the nickname her friend had given her housemate, "Indeed he is." Zekna agreed before the three of them made their way outside to find a group of girls surrounding an area of the wall, which they all assumed that was where Rei stood.
"Oh, Mizuki! Hold up!" Rei's suffering voice shouted over the cheering girls as he made his way past them and as soon as he was out of the crowd he grabbed onto the brunette's wrist and began to run with Kanna and Zekna chasing behind and left all the whining girls in that one area. "Where are you going, silly?" Mizuki asked before quickening her speed so that she was running in front of Rei and she led them all outside. Once the fresh air and smell of the city hit their noses, they all stopped and began to breathe for air, bending over their knee's or falling to them, or held their chests in attempt to stop their racing hearts.
Kanna opened one of her eyes and moved them to the right, where the front gate was, and asked, "Hey, weren't you supposed to meet up with Prince Charming?" Mizuki gasped and opened her eyes before standing up from her bending position and looked around frantically. "Oh, yes. I am. No, what if he left without me?" Mizuki panicked as she grabbed the sides of her face and began to breathe fast.
"Prince Charming?" Rei asked while raising an eyebrow, getting a feeling he wasn't about to like what he was about to hear.
Rei is a tall sixteen year old guy with jet black eyes that sparkled more than the boy even realized, and he had a fit body that wasn't too muscular but wasn't too wimpy either. He had pale skin and jet black hair that was sorta long and it was spiked to the right. He had pins of different bands that Kanna and Zekna haven't heard of, pinned to his bag and he had chains hanging loosely from his pockets and he wore his uniform in a more punk style. His personality was nice and caring, overprotective and polite, yet there was moment when he would go insane and do things he would later regret, but Mizuki, being the nice girl she is, still loved him like her other friends Zekna and Kanna.
"Yes, I am going to get help in my math class from Yuki Sohma, you remember him? The boy with the highest grades." Mizuki explained before Kanna pointed her finger over to the gate with a smirk on her face. "Well, better not keep his highness waiting." She said in a teasing tone as the brunette and rock loving guy turned their gazes to the gate. Standing there and staring back, was Yuki Sohma with a greeting smile on his face which made Mizuki's smile grow from ear to ear. There's still hope for me yet, mother and father! She thought happily.
Rei glared back at the gray haired boy, who found it odd considering he hasn't even done anything wrong to him, a guy he didn't even know, or Mizuki, a girl he's hardly ever talked to. Rei pulled Mizuki in his arms and kissed her forehead lovingly which made Zekna and Kanna gasp while the brunette blushed and he let her walk out of his grip. "Come home safe, I will be waiting for you." He said with soft eyes and a soft voice which made Mizuki's eyes shake in confusion and her blush darkened in embarrassment while her mouth stood opened, unable to reply. Without saying goodbye, she turned around and began to run to the gate where a curious Yuki waited.
"Um..shall we go then?" Mizuki asked and Yuki nodded his head before they both turned around and began to head for the forest that skirts the town. The walk from the school, across the city, to the forest was nothing but dead silence that was awkward. The only sounds being the talking, or honking, or other types of sounds around them. Once they were to the forest a sharp pain hit Mizuki's shoulder which made her knee's buckle slightly and she stopped in her tracks, lowering her bag slightly as she winced in pain. The moment the brunette stopped was the moment the gray haired guy stopped too. He turned around and saw her struggling with her bag so he walked closer to her and took her bag off her shoulder and into his own hand.
"I apologize for not offering early, but allow me to carry your bag for you, Ms. Cross." He gently said and held her bag for her like a true gentle men would.
"Oh, no, that's not necessary Yuki. I can handle it," She said before clutching her right, and pained, shoulder before looking to her left one. "I still got this shoulder." She said as she grabbed back her back and slipped it onto her shoulder, feeling the awkwardness of having her bag on the opposite shoulder. This time, the bag was carefully slid off her shoulders by a different set of hands, other than her own, and fingers wrapped themselves around the shorter loop of the bag.
"Please, Ms. Cross, I insist that I carry this for you." His eyes matched his concerned and soft voice so she allowed him to carry her bag. On the outside she was troubled that she would be a burden to him, but on the inside she was relieved that all of that weight was took off her shoulders and carried easily in the hands of another. She was also delighted and flattered that he offered to hold her bag for her, she kinda felt like a princess.
"So, are you an that man who laid a kiss on your head a couple?" Yuki asked as the two of them made their way through the forest. Mizuki blushed at the memory of Rei kissing her head and holding onto her, even speaking to her, as if she was his girl. She didn't know what to say or do back then so she just ran off, not even saying bye to her friends. She didn't even want to know how it was going to be like when she got home and saw the black haired boy again. It would be to weird. Snapping back to reality, her blush slightly went away as she shook her head.
"N-No. That was...you can call him a guardian to me, his name is Rei Colium and he is sixteen. He just acted so strangely at the moment." She replied as she fidgeted with the rim of her uniform shirt. Yuki nodded his head in understanding. Not realizing how far they had walked in such a short amount of time, Mizuki gasped as she realized she was standing in front of a beautiful home, hidden deep in the heart of the forest.
Hello! I just wanted to start off by saying I put a lot of effort into this, so please no harsh comments, but nice comments, on what you liked or what you wanna see. I might want some simple and friendship building or funny moments that may happen when Mizuki walks in the house, so let me know!
I do not own any of Fruits Basket's characters of schools or anything except for my own characters, Kanna, Zekna (who is my main character in another story for Bleach), Rei, and Mizuki and the plot of this story.
I really hope you like this and stick with me until the every end so, yeah(: I hope you shall enjoy the following chapters!
~Liz
