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disclaimer
I no own. I own dryer lint, candy wrappers, and teh computer. I don't even own teh Fruits Basket anime. I only own a hundred or so badly translated Furuba manga chapters on my computer.
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warnings
none. …except for craziness via rats.
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…and the boy listened to rats.
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When Yuki walks past a pet shop, he feels many things.
First, and /always foremost, he feels caution- because it is never good to show too much emotion. (Of course, he never realizes it is impossible to wipe the interest from his face, as he listens.)
Not that it's strange, of course. It's just another kid with an attachment to animals.
When he listens to the rats in the shop--- (and sometimes the mice, although it's harder because they talk to fast and in incomplete sentences) --- he hears complaints, mostly.
He stops, normally, when they notice him and start talking. They are never puzzled that a /person can understand them. Sometimes, Yuki wonders if he looks like a rat to them. He never bothers to ask, though.
/this food is absolutely terrible!
/why aren't there any females!?
And then, of course, he hears the unlucky ones. The /chosen ones. (Somehow, the rats seem to have thought the rats that were picked to be fed to the snakes, were selected to be taken to the gods. They had a bit of a ceremony, complete with singing and dancing. Of course, to most this just sounded like squeaks, and they would notice the rats were rowdier than usual. Yuki tried to tell the rats that this was /not a good thing, but by the time he had taught one generation a new one was born. And only the tradition was passed down, not the true story.)
(Yuki always shudders when he hears the far-off scream of a rat.)
When Yuki walks past the pet shop, he is not surprised to hear the rats.
He is surprised, however, when he sees a kitten tumbling around playfully with a rat, in the pet shop window.
He stands there, on the street corner, eyes wide.
And blinks, and walks down the dirty sidewalk.
Who would put a rat in with a cat, anyways?
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by T.E.B.E.-sway- completed 1/18/07
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Nnf… just a retarded little oneshot I felt like doing. Sorry if I killed your brain.
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