Disclaimer: Fruits Basket does not belong to me!
Just a drabbling that I really wanted to write about Akito and what would happen if one of the Sohmas found him helpless and unable to hurt them like he does. Then my mind bounced away with the idea of KYO finding him, the one Sohma he really can't stand. Hope you like it!
--Hatori's thoughts--
{Akito's thoughts}
/Kyo's thoughts/
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"Akito, you haven't eaten in two days. What are you planning?" The dragon asked his superior, peering into the darkness to see Akito's thin frame leaning back against the wall.
"You're going to kill yourself if you keep this up." He said, still waiting for a reply.
"And that would sadden you?" The voice, calm, but always managing to sound mocking as well, said; seeming detached from it's owner. Hatori frowned, opening his mouth as if to speak, but Akito continued before he could.
"It's been three weeks since /that girl/ was here." He said almost off- handedly. He stood slowly and walked over to the open paper doorway, looking out at the evening light from the quickly setting sun. "Do you believe she made an impression on me Hatori?"
The seahorse didn't reply; remaining in his seated position with both legs tucked under him. When Akito acted this way it was dangerous even to be close to him, much less to speak.
"So Ha-san," Hatori almost flinched when he heard that name from Akito's lips, the smile playing in the younger man's voice. "...why do you think she came?"
"She wanted to talk to you." Hatori answered, keeping his tone neutral. "She was concerned."
"What right does she have to be concerned about me?" There was strain in Akito's voice, a hint of the anger he had shown when Tohru had come to the main house. "She shouldn't care, not when she has that disgusting cat and... the mouse..."
--I was hoping we could avoid remembering Yuki this time. It appears I was wrong.--
Hatori thought dismally then looked up as Akito shook his head, the black hair brushing against his pale face.
"No," He murmured. "She wouldn't care." His eyes flashed back to Hatori, as if angry that someone had caught his dropped guard, if only for an instant. "You can go." He said, his eyes gesturing at the door. Hatori stood and headed towards it, glancing back at him.
"You should eat."
"I'll decide what I do." Akito snapped back, his temper already aroused by the thought of Tohru.
{What WAS she doing here? I teased her about the cat's true form, I laughed at her pain, I told her she deserved all this. That little fool! Doesn't she know how to behave?! I think...} He paused, then smiled faintly.
{I think, I'll visit Shigure.}
He stood quietly, looking over at the door Hatori had just left through. The seahorse doesn't need to know, he'd only stop me. But this time I am going and no one's going to keep me here!
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Hatori heard the car pull out and dismissed it offhandedly. Haru had a habit of going out late at night, sometimes to visit Shigure's dojo, sometimes just to get away from Sohma House. He looked back down at his paperwork, only glancing up as he heard someone enter the room.
"Where's Akito going?" Haru asked.
"Nowhere to my knowledge." Hatori responded. "Why would he be?"
"He just pulled out in the car." Haru answered, his grey eyes frowning slightly with confusion. "He didn't tell you?"
Hatori was sitting bolt upright in his chair by this time.
"No he didn't. Did he tell you where he was going?"
"Well, I assumed he would be going to see Yuki." Haru said, shifting slightly. If Hatori didn't know what Akito was doing, could Yuki be in danger? Or Tohru? The ushi didn't know the Honda girl that well but he didn't want anything to happen to her... and almost all of the Sohmas knew that Akito harbored a special dislike for her.
"I'll try there first." Hatori stood, brushing the paperwork aside. Haru looked up from his thoughts quickly. "I'm coming too." He stated bluntly, pulling on his coat.
Hatori didn't protest, merely going to get the other car, Hatsuharu following him.
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Despite all doubts about his mental stability, Akito was an excellent driver. Not that he used this skill much since he stayed in his dark room nine days out of ten.
The sky crackled ominously and Akito smirked.
{As if that could frighten me.}
The black sedan (?) rushed onward over the muddy road, past the Sohma homes. Akito, confident, pressed the gas pedal a little more. It was too tempting not to, with the storm and the freedom of being out of his room. He hadn't talked to anyone besides Hatori for at least three weeks and he wanted conversation. Even though he WAS self-sufficient and didn't need anyone to talk to.
Suddenly a dark form darted out in the road just as lightning flashed, making the thing's shadow giant.
Even as Akito swerved to miss the animal he could tell what it was. A cat.
{Why did I swerve... for a cat?!}
He wondered wildly as he fought for control of the careening car. A tree loomed ahead of it, the branches reaching out as it to bestow a fatal embrace.
Akito stared at it in a kind of calm horror as the car rushed towards it and then...
Impact.
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{I can't... I can't move.} Was Akito's first thought when he regained consciousness. His legs were pinned between the door and center of the car. Upon impact, the sedan had crumpled like a tin can. There were branches covering the windshield and Akito couldn't see a thing.
{No one knows where I am.} He thought calmly.
{I'm going to die here.}
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Kyo was bored. Bored bored bored bored.
So he was sitting on the roof, looking out over the sunset. Tohru was off at a slumber party at Hana's house with Uo and her new friend Matoko. Shigure was in his room on a writing streak and yelled at everyone not to disturb him lest he lose his train of thought.
... then of course the Dog kept sneaking out of his room and getting more snacks for 'inspiration'. At this rate he'd be in his room all NIGHT 'thinking'.
And the kuso nezumi....
...who knew and who cared? Kyo sure as heck didn't. A storm was rolling in anyway so the Cat slipped off the roof, landing lightly on the ground. His other form was stirring but he didn't want to go inside.
Feeling irritable, he started off into the forest. No sense in wandering around the house doing nothing and sitting on the roof he made a little too easy a target for lightning.
Kyo suddenly had a vision of himself crispy-fried, orange hair turned black with ash. He sweatdropped.
"Stupid imagination..." He kicked at a rock listlessly, sending it skittering ahead on the path harmlessly into the darkness.
--Until it clunked against something metal in the bushes.
The cat's sensitive ears pricked up and Kyo turned to stare at the dark where the noise had come from.
/Let's see./ He thought boredly. /Trees do not go clunk. The ground does not go clunk. Water does not go clunk. So what does go clunk is.../
He climbed over a fallen tree that he hadn't noticed before, brushing away branches to stare at what he had just found.
/...Akito's car?!/
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To a rather grumpy head of the Sohma family, waking up to a orange-haired catboy sitting on the windshield of your (wrecked) car is not the most pleasant thing in the world.
And Akito wasn't about to make an exception of himself.
"Cat. Get off. Now."
Kyo stared, unmoving. "What the heck are /YOU/ doing here?"
"If it is not painfully obvious cat, then I did right in giving up on your sanity a long time ago."
"What'd you say?!"
Akito rolled his eyes. "Never mind you stupid cat. I'm not about to repeat myself for YOU." He shifted, still feeling his legs trapped by the crumpled car. He was caught between hissing at Kyo to help him, but this would admit that he needed Kyo and he DIDN'T want that; or continuing to try and free himself. Of course this would look rather odd and Kyo sitting on the windshield would obviously notice and either try to help or watch in bemusement.
...
This was a problem.
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The cat had already noticed Akito's dilemma and was currently trying to stifle any comments rising in his throat. It didn't really bother him to see Akito in pain, what with all the pain he'd caused for the other Sohmas and the kuso nezumi.
Then again, if he just left his senior here he'd probably catch it...
"Need any /help/ Akito?" He asked, knowing full well what the word meant to Akito. The Sohma head glared at him.
"/Why/ would I need /any/ help from you CAT." He hissed. Kyo smirked.
"Well there's the minor detail that you're in a totaled car and can't get out and I'm the only person who knows you're here and actually might ASK that little question."
"You OWE it to me cat." Akito said, his dark eyes daggers.
"I don't owe you anything! This is the cat remember? Not your precious rat."
"I have to die for all you idiots." The older teen spat, straining to move. "You owe me just as much as they do."
"Yes, but I'm just the unfortunate addition. It's always been that way hasn't it?" Kyo asked sarcastically. Akito stopped moving, the smirk still there, as if he had the upper hand.
"Yes. As it always will be cat."
"Yeah, and you'll probably always be a--" Kyo's insult was interrupted as he smelled something. He frowned, sniffing the air. Akito looked at him through narrowed eyes, annoyed at being ignored.
"You smell that?" Kyo asked, still sniffing. "It smells like blood..."
Akito froze, feeling the betraying drip drip of blood coming from a gash in his right leg. Now he'd have to admit it... that he needed the cat to help him. It was already more then obvious with his injuries but now it was time to put an end to the cat and bird (pun intended) game they had been playing.
{I don't want to!} He pleaded in his mind. {It's the CAT. He'll never respect me again! I can't show weakness, not to him!}
Kyo was already looking at him suspiciously and Akito met his eyes squarely.
{Show no weakness other then what I need to.}
"Cat, I need..." Akito took a small breath, forcing himself to do this.
"I need your help."
Kyo looked at him in silence for a moment, his red cat eyes understanding every word and the weakness it implied. Akito had never done this before; it was obvious by his tone.
/So how would he react if I refused?/ Kyo wondered, already knowing that he wouldn't but wondering what would happen if he did. (That is, besides Tohru biting his head off of course.)
He nodded, sliding gracefully off the hood of the car. He took a hold of the driver's door, straining to pull it off. It had crumpled inward when the car crashed. With slight difficulty Kyo tore it off, tossing it away then he heard Akito's hiss of pain. He dismissed it, stretching.
"There sickly bird, I've let you out of your cage. Be happy."
When Akito didn't move, Kyo stuck his head in the car and then moaned.
The older teen had passed out again.
"WHY?! WHY ME? Why do -I- of all people hafta get stuck caring for HIM!?" Kyo yelled, already knowing that his next step had just been planned out. He had to take Akito back to Shigure's.
Wasn't this going to make Yuki happy....
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I don't know if I'll continue... hmmm.... btw, it's not a Kyo/Akito pairing. No da. Please review!!!!!!!!