A Ramen Bowl in a Fruits Basket
"Eat. The. Soup." Yuki said in a menacing tone.
"I don't care how much you tell me that, or how good this soup might be, or even how nice the cook might be, I'M NOT EATING THIS!" Kyo screeched.
At that moment, Naruto came walking groggily down the stairs. "Need…ramen…haven't…had…for two days…"
Everyone at the table was puzzled at the strange, orange-clad boy walking down the stairs. Shigure peeked in and said in a delightful tone, "Ah, you're awake Naruto! It's almost noon, I was wondering when you were going to come down finally."
Kyo and Yuki both glared at Shigure. Kyo spoke first, "Who the hell is this guy!"
"Oh, you mean the short little blonde haired one?" Shigure asked.
"I don't think he was referring to anyone else here." Yuki said calmly, yet also asserting that he too wanted to know who this strange person was. For that matter, he also wanted to know what his freaky looking symbol on his headband was. It sorta looked like a tipped over snail to him or something.
As Naruto kept mumbling about his extreme ramen deficiency, Shigure explained, "Well, you see, he's from another world. He says he's from Konoha, wherever that is, and that he needs to get back to the Fire Country. Poor boy must have lost his way and stumbled over here. I looked up what I could on his location, and all I get is some manga named after the kid. I couldn't just leave him out there to die, so I took him in last night."
Kyo was trying to process this all. He just looked at Shigure. Finally, he slowly said, "So…you're telling me…"
"…yes?" Shigure responded
"…that you brought in someone from another world to this house…"
"…yes…"
"…and you don't know how to get him back to his own world…"
"…yes…"
"…and you're letting him stay here…for how long?"
"Well, I couldn't just dump him on the sidewalk now could I?"
Kyo finally snapped. "ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND SHIGURE! TOHRU'S FINE, BUT ANOTHER OUTSIDER THAT ISN'T EVEN FROM THIS WORLD! WHAT ARE YOU THINKING!"
Shigure, in response, said, "Oh you think this is bad? There were two others with him that are sleeping upstairs right now; a blue haired one with weird eyes and a redhead with a good sized gourd on his back.
If Yuki hadn't held Kyo back, they would have been attending Shigure's funeral in a week or two.
Naruto spoke up for a moment; pitifully, he said, "Could you please keep it down…I have a headache from not eating enough ramen…"
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I'm probably not going to do this in a formal story fashion. Rather, I'm thinking this will be a compilation of Fruits Basket/Naruto crossover one-shots, but at the same time, there will be a little bit of storyline going on. I dunno. Maybe this'll be the only part in it. I'll figure it out at some point.