Kiss the Dog
By Ayame Kazeai
"Shigure-san..?" Mii asked quietly as she poked her head through the door. Timid blue eyes scanned the room carefully as a delicate hand rolled the door open. The room looked empty, just like all of the others. Empty and incredibly clean. She almost had to do a double check- Shigure's quarters were rarely this nice and clean. From the doorway, she could see a brown envelope sitting on his desk. Could that be the... the manuscript? No way. She made her way slowly to the desk, as if she were a tiger preparing to spring upon it's prey. Once she reached the corner, she placed a lacquered fingernail upon the envelope and slowly slid it closer to her. A note on the front of it read "Dear Mii, Here are your pages! Sorry I wasn't around to irritate you this time, I'm simply too busy! Ta ta! Love, Shigure". She let out a gasp. This was different. Her face twisted into an almost scary look of content, and she turned to head out the door.
"AH! Just the person I wanted to see!" a voice chirped from behind her as Shigure popped up from behind his desk, where he may or may not have been hiding. Mii yelped in surprise, and immediately the envelope dropped from her hands. It was like a bomb being dropped in the desert- the second it had contact with the ground, it exploded in a cloud of white. Papers flew everywhere. She turned around with a look of terror on her face. After two hours of being in a quiet house, the sudden noise caught her completely off-guard.
"Oh...Shigure...san...you...you...startled me..." she replied weakly as she haphazardly crashed upon his couch. And much to her eye's dismay, the killer of her hopes and dreams dropped into his chair and suddenly took a very serious look to his face.
"Now Mii. I've been waiting for hours! What took you so long?"
Steam began to rise from her pretty, blonde topped head as her face took a rather unhealthy red glow of doom. "YOU have been WAITING?! I have been here for TWO HOURS, Shigure! TWO. HOURS. I SEARCHED EEEEEEEVERY NOOK AND CRANNY, and even got my poor little ass KICKED by that horrible, HORRIBLE orange haired boy when I accidentally barged in on him in the bathroom!! AND YOU WANT TO GET SMART WITH ME?!!"
"Oooh, scary!" Shigure said with a mock look of fear as he pressed a balled up hand against his lips. He then waved one hand in the air, as if dismissing her words with a nervous chuckle. His other hand reached up to scratch the back of his head, & a boyish grin crept up onto his lips. "Gomen nasai!"
But Mii didn't hear nor see his reaction. She sat there, twitching in anger as if on the verge of a breakdown while tears ran down her flushed cheeks and silent sobs escaped her lips. Shigure loved to torture the poor gal, but he knew her limits. His face fell solemn as he watched her, and he let out a quiet sigh. Yuki's sermon from earlier about how he needed to grow up and stop being entertained by other people's misfortunes (especially ones that he created for them) rung through his head. So, with another sigh, he ran a hand through his short, chocolate colored hair and went to her side.
"Mii.." he said softly.
Her eyes, brimming with tears and pain, turned up to look at him. And in her time of need...her time of desperation... she quietly spoke, asking "Sh-Shigure?"
"Yes, Mii?" he answered.
"Wh-wh-why do you hate me s-s-s-so much?"
He sighed and brought up a finger to her cheek to dry painful tears away. "Well.."
"Y-yes Shigure?" She stared up at him with an expression only comparable to that of a small child being told that Santa isn't real.
"It's because..." he started, but was unable to find his words. He couldn't tell her. He just couldn't. She wouldn't take him seriously, and she probably hated him anyway. But she looked so desperate. So needy. He couldn't say it, but maybe he could show it. His hands grasped her chin, and his mouth neared her luscious lips.
"Oh...Sh-Shigure..." Mii said quietly as she brought herself closer to him. She always had this feeling that the torture and pranks were Shigure's way to show his love3. And deep down inside, she only put up with him because she enjoyed it as well. She loved him. She loved the way he wrote, and the way he cared so deeply for his family. She even loved the way those big puppy-dog brown eyes sparkled moments before he pulled a new prank
And in a moment of lust and passion and love, she pulled him into her arms and cried "Shigure! Kiss me.." and was instantly met with the kiss that she had waited years for. It was sweet and needy -albeit warm and sloppy- but just as good. And finally it broke, and she leaned back to rest in the arms of her love when she noticed a sound. One that sounded almost like...panting?
Her eyes flew open. She was face to face with a fuzzy black dog. One that gave her another hearty lick across the mouth, and barked happily.
"That...SHIGURE!!!!" she screamed out with a whole new found anger and vengeance. Mii shoved the dog off of her, growled in anger and frustration, then stormed through the house once again in a sort of destructive rage that was only comparable to the tirade of Godzilla in legends. "SHIGURE, YOU ASS!! IF I EVER FIND YOU, YOU'RE DEAD. YOU HEAR ME?! MAKING ME KISS A DOG?!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU??!! YOU SELFISH LITTLE PIECE OF-"
"- um, Mii?" a quiet voice interrupted.
Mii froze in her place, mid-tirade, and slowly turned her head to face towards the voice. One might expect her to start spitting pea soup at any given moment, judging by the look on her face. It was the pewter haired one, and the girl with the long hair and addictive smile.
"Miss Mii, what's wrong?" Yuki asked with a concerned look on her face, and started towards her.
"That...ASS...made me kiss a dog." she replied in a venomous tone.
And with that, both Tohru couldn't help but giggle while Yuki brought a hand up to his forehead and muttered "That idiot."
For hours upon hours after the events of that afternoon, Mii stormed around the entire house, tearing apart everything in search of Shigure...with Yuki and Tohru hot on her tail and attempting to cool her off the whole time. After hours upon hours of searching, she finally gave up, completely forgetting the one thing she came for...which had been sitting on her own desk, at her office, since 8 that morning.
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Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket, darn the luck. But I do own myself, my computer, and the idea to write this, so nyah!
After beginning my Noveltry series, someone suggested that the world might need a ShigureXMii fic. So I took it upon myself to make it be so. You can decide on your own If Shigure did what he did as a prank, or if he did it because of his own feelings. Thanks for reading!