A/N: This is an older piece that was a writing exercise to cure boredom and the good old' writer's block, but I felt like posting it anyways. If you haven't read almost all of Fruits Basket you may not understand a few pieces. It's basically Yuki and a little bit of Tohru thrown in for good measure. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket. All things in "marks" are direct quotes from Fruits Basket.
What seems to turn slowly and stiffly in time is bound for a change that you cannot see; a change in the future that you dismiss as your wishes and deepest dreams. You sit unmoving, not reaching for the future because you think it is foolish. Because you think you might never be free. Because you know that some dreams don't come true.
Yuki's POV
"So what if you are a tool?"
I begged her for help.
"I want to go home too! Mother…"
All she did was ignore me and tell me how lucky she thought I was.
"Aren't you lucky, Yuki? The head of the family likes you."
Even my own brother pushed me away, ignoring my tiny cry for help.
"Don't tell me you've forgotten his name?"
He was too caught up in his own world to care for his weak little brother.
"Haru begged him to get you out of there."
I didn't care. I accepted his pity blindly.
"Want to come stay at my house?"
Yes, yes, I told myself this person cared about me, I stupidly, desperately believed. All I wanted was to be out of that cage.
"You piece of shit!"
Where all people had looked down on me or turned a blind eye.
"If normal people knew your secret it would sicken them."
To be free from the cage where I was something strange and the only person who would accept me was the object of my greatest fears.
"Let me out"
I wanted to be loved.
"Let me out of here"
I wanted to be cherished.
"Mother please…mother…help me!"
I wanted to change. I wanted to be able to stand on my own two feet.
"I thought everything was over."
If I never escaped, I thought I'd never have another chance.
"I can't go…any further…not…all by myself."
I needed help.
"Hope, possibility…those concepts don't apply to you."
I was crushed, told never to think differently and to sit and quietly accept my fate.
"Don't get any ideas, or think… I will be saved some day."
I never did, until that one fateful day.
"I was very happy to be able to help you when you were lost."
You made me needed that day.
"You made me a necessity."
I felt happy that day; it was the first time in so long. And even now you give me everything, keeping nothing for yourself.
"…I feel it so much that it breaks my heart."
I can't explain what you have become to me. I can't explain…
"I love you."
A/N: A little bit of angsty fluff does a body good. Hope you all enjoyed it, now please review!
