Okay, this is my first Fruits Basket fanfic; so don't blame me if it
sucks...This is basically just a set of stories which have no link to each
other, except that they are all about birthdays. As for the time-line for
each story...uh...don't ask me that... Oh, and Flames are not welcome!
Fruits Basket DOES NOT BELONG TO ME!! It belongs to the great Takaya Natsuki sensei who is doing a good job in making me think about the mysteries in the manga...
~O-tanjobi omedeto~
By: XiaoBai
Chapter 1: Onigiri
The minute hand of the clock moved slowly onto the '12' mark as the seconds ticked away.
Tick!
57 seconds.
Tick!
58 seconds.
Tick!
59 seconds.
Tick!
RINNGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!
Honda Touru shot out of her bed immediately and grabbed her clock blearily. She opened her eyes slightly and peered at the clock for another second before climbing out of her bed.
Almost immediately, her stomach gave a weird lurch and Touru blinked. It felt as if Touru had forgotten something important. But after a few minutes of thinking and remembering, Touru still couldn't recall what was it that she had overlooked. Sighing a little, she went into the bathroom and changed.
School life had become livelier than before since Haru and Momiji had enrolled into Kaibara High School and Kisa and Hiro came almost one time a week to play. All in all, Touru feel very peaceful these days.
After Touru tied her hair neatly, she said 'Good morning!' to her mother, picked up her bag and apron and went downstairs cheerfully, wondering what to cook for breakfast today.
Humming a little song, she happily stepped into the kitchen - Only to see Kyou concentrating on the sizzling omelette in the pan. Yuki was in the kitchen too, chopping some vegetables in a rather clumsy but neat way. He was frowning with concentration as he slowly chopped the string beans up nicely. Meanwhile, Shigure was staring at the toaster, with a plate holding three pieces of toasted bread, waiting for the bread in the toaster to pop up.
Just then, Kyou switched off the fire and tossed the omelette neatly onto a plate. He turned around and said to Yuki, " Oei, nezumi. I'm done already."
Yuki nodded and gave the beans a final chop. " I am done too." He handed Kyou the bowl of chopped beans and said, " Cook this up nicely, baka neko. Don't burn it. String beans are very difficult to grow." Kyou glared at the grey-haired teenage for a moment before grabbing the bowl from him. He proceeded to grab another pan and switched on the fire.
Yuki then turned to Shigure and asked, " Are you done yet, Shigure?" Shigure shook his head slowly and continued staring at the toaster.
Touru stood rooted to the spot as she stared in surprise at the three men who were, obviously, attempting to cook a breakfast. Other people might think that this scene should be perfectly normal. But considering that these three men were all young masters of the Souma family, it was very, very unusual that they should be in the kitchen, *attempting* to cook a breakfast.
After swallowing twice, Touru took a deep breath and said meekly.
"Ano...Ohayo gozaimasu..."
The movements in the kitchen stopped immediately as Yuki, Kyou and Shigure froze. Slowly, they turned their heads around and stared at Touru, who stared back at them.
" WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING UP SO EARLY?!" Kyou reacted immediately and his face was alarmingly red. Yuki looked exasperated for a moment before giving Kyou a kick in his shins.
" Concentrate on the beans, baka neko." Yuki said as he made his way towards Touru. Kyou glared at Yuki *again* for a moment, before turning back to the stove grudgingly. Yuki turned back to Touru and smiled, " Honda- san, don't mind that baka. He is always like that when he was surprised or something. How about you waiting in the living room while we finish what we are doing? Breakfast is almost ready." And with that, Yuki smiled again, pushed Touru lightly out of the kitchen and went back to washing the plates. " But...this is suppose to be my job, Yuki-kun..." Touru argued. Shigure then turned from the toaster and smiled at Touru, " It's all right, Touru- chan. Gives us a little experience, you know!"
Blinking slowly, Touru let out a breath she had been holding, walked slowly to the living room and waited.
-- --
Omelettes.
Stir-fried string beans.
Toasted bread.
Instant coffee.
This was the menu for breakfast. And the first thing that came into Touru's mind was...
'Sugoi...Yuki-kun, Kyou-chan and Shigure-san could cook up these...Sugoi...'
Touru suddenly noticed three pairs of eyes were on her. She looked up and saw Shigure, Yuki and Kyou staring intensely at her. Touru doubled back immediately.
" N-nani...?" Touru stuttered.
Kyou gave one more stare-glare and then blushed.
" I told you she will think that omelette, toast and string beans for breakfast is weird...I find it weird myself!" Kyou complained.
Yuki smacked Kyou on his head, " This is the only thing we could cook, Kyou. Shigure don't even know how to switch on the stove, and I couldn't--" Yuki-kun blushed at little as he admitted reluctantly, " And I couldn't cook..."
Shigure looked indignantly at Yuki and opened his mouth to comment on something, but Kyou replied smugly, " Hn! The great Yuki couldn't even cook! Better come out from your little den and learn some daily life chores, nezumi."
" Well, at least it's better than a person who can't even piece two sentence together." Yuki retorted, picking his chopsticks up indifferently.
" Are you saying I am stupid?!" Kyou growled and glared murderously at Yuki.
Yuki reached for his cup of coffee and sipped slowly at it, " ...I didn't say that person was you. You admitted it yourself."
" Why you little--!" Kyou stood up and was about to hit Yuki when Touru pulled at Kyou's school uniform.
" Uh...Kyou-chan, please stop...the breakfast is getting cold..." Touru said slowly, swallowing once.
Kyou blinked at Touru for a moment before flopping back down into his seat. He glared at Yuki and said, " Count yourself lucky, nezumi. I'll let you off today."
Yuki popped a string bean into his mouth and shrugged, " Thank god. Shigure, your house won't be destroyed today."
Touru sweatdropped as Kyou fumed angrily, " Um...we better hurry...we are going to be late."
-- --
" OHAYO, TOURU-CHAN!!!!!!!"
Touru smiled cheerfully back as Momiji greeted her brightly.
" Ohayo, Momiji-chan!" Touru said. Kyou knuckled Momiji's head and said, " You are going to give everyone a headache if you continue greeting people with that volume of your voice."
Yuki sighed as Momiji wailed. He turned to Touru and smiled, " Let's ignore them, Honda-san. We'll pretend we don't know them, all right?"
Touru sweatdropped and was about to replied when Haru patted her head.
" Ohayo, Touru-san." Haru greeted quietly. He then moved beside Yuki and tugged at his school uniform.
" We have a test today." Haru said. Yuki sweatdropped and sighed, " You don't have to report everything to me, Haru."
Touru blinked and said, " You are having a test today? Is it going to be difficult?"
Haru thought for a moment, his hand still tugging at Yuki's blouse, and then replied, " Um...it won't be difficult for me..." He checked Yuki's watch and blinked, " Ah. We have to go now..."
Haru let go of Yuki's uniform and went over to collect the crying Momiji from Kyou and Yuki sighed again. Touru looked concernedly at Momiji and Haru as the two of them made their way back to their classroom and said, " Will they be all right? The test?"
" Oh, they will be all right. The two of them always get 'A's for their tests...at the least, they will get a 'B' or two even though they don't really pay attention in class...I remembered the worst grade Haru got for his high school tests is five 'A's and three 'B's..." Yuki said calmly.
" Nani?!" Touru exclaimed. " If I can get that kind of grades, I will be so happy!"
At this, Yuki smiled sadly at Touru, " That is probably because of the curse, Honda-san. The curse will somehow enable the members of the Jikkan Juunishi to be good in sports and studies..."
Touru stared in surprise at that sentence for a moment before lowering her head a little, " Gomen ne, Yuki-kun..."
Yuki blinked, " What-what for, Honda-san?"
Touru paused a little before shaking her head. She lifted her head and smiled at Yuki, " Um...nothing...just, sorry."
Yuki did not say anything but stared back at her until the teacher came in.
-- --
" Where's the nezumi?" Kyou asked.
" Ah?" Touru turned around and stared at the empty corridor, " I thought he was behind me just a while ago..."
Kyou huffed and began walking towards the main gate, " Who cares where that rat goes anyway. He's probably off to do his students' community business."
Touru nodded and went after Kyou. Kyou gave Touru a side-way look and asked, " You have work today, I suppose..."
Touru nodded, " Un. Momiji-chan said he will be late though...He said he had something on, so he will be there a few moments later."
Kyou snorted and knocked Touru's head lightly, " Don't overwork yourself..."
Touru raised a hand to her head and laughed.
-- --
" Touru-chan!"
Touru lifted her head from the table she was cleaning and smiled as Momiji came running towards her.
" Gomen, Touru-chan! I was so late!!" Momiji apologized profusely, " Ja! Leave all the work to me from here onwards, Touru-chan! Oh, and later on, there is a surprise for you!"
With that, Momiji grabbed the cloth from Touru's hand and began rubbing the table enthusiastically. He bristled around happily, whistling a tune as he moved and packed the things neatly, mopped the floor and clean the room.
And when Touru tried to help, Momiji would push Touru back onto a sofa, smiled at her and said, " Leave everything to me, Touru-chan!" And if Touru tried to argue with Momiji, the rabbit boy would give her the puppy eyes and she would surrender again.
When it was time to go home, Touru felt a little guilty to let Momiji do all the work. After all, she had only done 10 minutes worth of work alone while Momiji had cleaned in her place for the rest of the working hours.
Sighing guiltily, she made her way out of the building with the cheerful Momiji and saw Kyou and Yuki standing by the entrance, glaring at each other.
At that moment, Touru was so touched that tears came into her eyes.
Momiji, who noticed the tears, panicked and went over to the two other boys and reprimanded them for making Touru cry.
Touru blinked when she realized she was crying and rubbed off her tears. She smiled a little at her own silliness and said, " It's all right, Momiji- chan. I was just so touched that Yuki-kun and Kyou-chan could come together! This proves that my wish for New Year had come true!"
Yuki and Kyou looked at each other confusedly and jerked when they realized that they had did the same action together.
" Hey! Don't imitate me, nezumi!" Kyou snapped.
Yuki stared at Kyou, and lifted an eyebrow, " You know, for a cat, you had such a thick skin, baka neko."
Kyou was practically glowering now and the air around him was full of anger, " WHAT DID YOU SAY--!!!!"
Just when a fight was about to start, Momiji stopped the two of them and said, " Hey, you wouldn't want Touru-chan to be upset, DO YOU?"
The two other boys stopped and stared at Touru for a moment. Then Kyou turned around and began to walk off.
" Count yourself lucky, nezumi. Momiji saved your skin." Kyou snapped.
Yuki crossed his arms and said, " I seemed to be very lucky today, ne? Being 'let off' by that baka neko *twice* in a day. Maybe I should thank god about it."
The orange hair on Kyou's neck raised significantly but Kyou did not remark. Instead, a funny sound was emitted from Kyou's throat and his footsteps became very heavy.
Yuki sighed and smiled at Touru.
" Let's go home, Honda-san. Momiji, you are coming along are you? Be careful of the pavement here. An elephant had just passed."
Momiji nodded and giggled while Kyou gave a loud growl.
-- --
As Touru stepped into the dark house (someone forgotten to switch on the light) after Kyou, Yuki and Momiji, showers of confetti greeted her. She blinked and the light came on.
" SURPRISE!"
Touru blinked again when she saw Saki, Megumi, Uotani, Haru, Kisa, Hiro, Kagura, Ayame, Shigure, Yuki, Kyou and Momiji standing behind a table holding a very big birthday cake.
"...W-Wha--?" Touru stuttered.
Saki smiled and said, " It's your birthday today, Touru-chan. Don't you remember?"
Uo patted Touru's shoulder and said, " You forgotten about it, didn't you?" She sighed, " I should have stop you from working so hard!"
" If you want, I can help you curse your boss until he agrees to lower your working hours..." Megumi said quietly, smiling at Touru.
Touru sweatdropped, " Uh...I don't think it is necessary, Megumi-chan. But thank you anyway."
Kisa smiled sweetly at Touru and touched her hand, " Hanajima-san and Uotani-san told Shigure-jisan about your birthday, and he organized this..."
Yuki patted Kisa's head and continued, " We figured that you probably forgotten all about it as you have been working so hard these days, so we decided to give you a surprise, starting from helping you with the chores.
" Although Shigure was *very* reluctant about that point." Kyou put in. Shigure smacked Kyou lightly on the head and smiled at Touru, " If it is for Touru-chan's birthday, I'll do anything!"
" Well, why don't you finish your scripts earlier?" Hiro commented dryly and Shigure sweatdropped.
" That will be doing my editor a favor, not Touru-chan."
As Shigure and Hiro argue about the rights and wrongs of finishing the scripts before the deadlines, Ayame grinned and patted Yuki's shoulder, " A good job done, my dear brother! I can never lay my hand on the kitchen knife, let alone do chores!"
Kyou and Yuki stared at Ayame as he rant on proudly on the injustice of his delicate fingers being *wet* by doing a few chores and only one thought came into their mind.
'Shigure and Ayame are the same kind of people...'
Anyway, Kagura handed Touru a large paper bag and said, " In this are all the presents from everyone of us. Ritsu-kun's present is in there too-he said he couldn't come as they received a big number of guests at the hot spring. Hatori-san gave you a present too...he wanted to come today actually, but he had something up at the 'main' house."
Touru stared at the bag with a huge amount of guilt in her and said, " I can't take this, Kagura-chan! All of you had done so much for me already! How can I take your presents?"
Yuki pulled himself out of his dark thoughts about the similarities of Ayame and Shigure and smiled at Touru, " You deserve it, Honda-san. Think of it as a salary for all the chores and work you had done."
Haru nodded and patted Touru's head, " You have to accept the presents, Touru-san. Yuki had thought for a long time about what to buy for you. So you have to take it."
Yuki jerked and glared at Haru, " There is no need to mention that, Haru!"
Ayame laughed and patted Yuki's shoulder again, " Isn't Yuki such a gentleman--"
" Shut up!" Yuki deadpanned, grabbing the front of Ayame's clothes and shaking him hard.
" Ah," Haru continued, " Kyou sweated over on what to get for you too, Touru-san."
"HARU! You need not mentioned that too!" Kyou yelled, grabbing Haru in a headlock.
Touru smiled tearfully and thought back to the time when she celebrated her birthdays alone after her mother passed away, and bowed, " Thank you so much. I am very happy!"
The others stopped their chatting and blinked as Touru laughed happily.
Yuki smiled and gave each one of them a meaningful look.
And together, Yuki, Kyou, Kagura, Momiji, Uotani, Saki, Megumi, Haru, Kisa, Hiro, Shigure and Ayame said.
" O-TANJOBI OMEDETO~~~~Touru-chan!!!!!!"
P.s: Yuki said 'Honda-san' and Hiro did not mention her name...
~Owari
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So...how was it? Silly? Or does it really suck... I think the ending kinda suck...everyone seemed so...OOC...-_-;; Anyway, feel free to comment and Review!! Flames not welcome, I repeat...so if you want to flame, go find another fic to flame...
Anyway, there will be a continuation of this story...up next is Yuki's birthday!! What is going to happen to him on his birthday? ^_^ Well, you just have to read to find out!
Till next time then, Ciao! And don't forget to review!! Just press that little button at the bottom of the page. ^_^ Thank you!!
XiaoBai
Fruits Basket DOES NOT BELONG TO ME!! It belongs to the great Takaya Natsuki sensei who is doing a good job in making me think about the mysteries in the manga...
~O-tanjobi omedeto~
By: XiaoBai
Chapter 1: Onigiri
The minute hand of the clock moved slowly onto the '12' mark as the seconds ticked away.
Tick!
57 seconds.
Tick!
58 seconds.
Tick!
59 seconds.
Tick!
RINNGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!
Honda Touru shot out of her bed immediately and grabbed her clock blearily. She opened her eyes slightly and peered at the clock for another second before climbing out of her bed.
Almost immediately, her stomach gave a weird lurch and Touru blinked. It felt as if Touru had forgotten something important. But after a few minutes of thinking and remembering, Touru still couldn't recall what was it that she had overlooked. Sighing a little, she went into the bathroom and changed.
School life had become livelier than before since Haru and Momiji had enrolled into Kaibara High School and Kisa and Hiro came almost one time a week to play. All in all, Touru feel very peaceful these days.
After Touru tied her hair neatly, she said 'Good morning!' to her mother, picked up her bag and apron and went downstairs cheerfully, wondering what to cook for breakfast today.
Humming a little song, she happily stepped into the kitchen - Only to see Kyou concentrating on the sizzling omelette in the pan. Yuki was in the kitchen too, chopping some vegetables in a rather clumsy but neat way. He was frowning with concentration as he slowly chopped the string beans up nicely. Meanwhile, Shigure was staring at the toaster, with a plate holding three pieces of toasted bread, waiting for the bread in the toaster to pop up.
Just then, Kyou switched off the fire and tossed the omelette neatly onto a plate. He turned around and said to Yuki, " Oei, nezumi. I'm done already."
Yuki nodded and gave the beans a final chop. " I am done too." He handed Kyou the bowl of chopped beans and said, " Cook this up nicely, baka neko. Don't burn it. String beans are very difficult to grow." Kyou glared at the grey-haired teenage for a moment before grabbing the bowl from him. He proceeded to grab another pan and switched on the fire.
Yuki then turned to Shigure and asked, " Are you done yet, Shigure?" Shigure shook his head slowly and continued staring at the toaster.
Touru stood rooted to the spot as she stared in surprise at the three men who were, obviously, attempting to cook a breakfast. Other people might think that this scene should be perfectly normal. But considering that these three men were all young masters of the Souma family, it was very, very unusual that they should be in the kitchen, *attempting* to cook a breakfast.
After swallowing twice, Touru took a deep breath and said meekly.
"Ano...Ohayo gozaimasu..."
The movements in the kitchen stopped immediately as Yuki, Kyou and Shigure froze. Slowly, they turned their heads around and stared at Touru, who stared back at them.
" WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING UP SO EARLY?!" Kyou reacted immediately and his face was alarmingly red. Yuki looked exasperated for a moment before giving Kyou a kick in his shins.
" Concentrate on the beans, baka neko." Yuki said as he made his way towards Touru. Kyou glared at Yuki *again* for a moment, before turning back to the stove grudgingly. Yuki turned back to Touru and smiled, " Honda- san, don't mind that baka. He is always like that when he was surprised or something. How about you waiting in the living room while we finish what we are doing? Breakfast is almost ready." And with that, Yuki smiled again, pushed Touru lightly out of the kitchen and went back to washing the plates. " But...this is suppose to be my job, Yuki-kun..." Touru argued. Shigure then turned from the toaster and smiled at Touru, " It's all right, Touru- chan. Gives us a little experience, you know!"
Blinking slowly, Touru let out a breath she had been holding, walked slowly to the living room and waited.
-- --
Omelettes.
Stir-fried string beans.
Toasted bread.
Instant coffee.
This was the menu for breakfast. And the first thing that came into Touru's mind was...
'Sugoi...Yuki-kun, Kyou-chan and Shigure-san could cook up these...Sugoi...'
Touru suddenly noticed three pairs of eyes were on her. She looked up and saw Shigure, Yuki and Kyou staring intensely at her. Touru doubled back immediately.
" N-nani...?" Touru stuttered.
Kyou gave one more stare-glare and then blushed.
" I told you she will think that omelette, toast and string beans for breakfast is weird...I find it weird myself!" Kyou complained.
Yuki smacked Kyou on his head, " This is the only thing we could cook, Kyou. Shigure don't even know how to switch on the stove, and I couldn't--" Yuki-kun blushed at little as he admitted reluctantly, " And I couldn't cook..."
Shigure looked indignantly at Yuki and opened his mouth to comment on something, but Kyou replied smugly, " Hn! The great Yuki couldn't even cook! Better come out from your little den and learn some daily life chores, nezumi."
" Well, at least it's better than a person who can't even piece two sentence together." Yuki retorted, picking his chopsticks up indifferently.
" Are you saying I am stupid?!" Kyou growled and glared murderously at Yuki.
Yuki reached for his cup of coffee and sipped slowly at it, " ...I didn't say that person was you. You admitted it yourself."
" Why you little--!" Kyou stood up and was about to hit Yuki when Touru pulled at Kyou's school uniform.
" Uh...Kyou-chan, please stop...the breakfast is getting cold..." Touru said slowly, swallowing once.
Kyou blinked at Touru for a moment before flopping back down into his seat. He glared at Yuki and said, " Count yourself lucky, nezumi. I'll let you off today."
Yuki popped a string bean into his mouth and shrugged, " Thank god. Shigure, your house won't be destroyed today."
Touru sweatdropped as Kyou fumed angrily, " Um...we better hurry...we are going to be late."
-- --
" OHAYO, TOURU-CHAN!!!!!!!"
Touru smiled cheerfully back as Momiji greeted her brightly.
" Ohayo, Momiji-chan!" Touru said. Kyou knuckled Momiji's head and said, " You are going to give everyone a headache if you continue greeting people with that volume of your voice."
Yuki sighed as Momiji wailed. He turned to Touru and smiled, " Let's ignore them, Honda-san. We'll pretend we don't know them, all right?"
Touru sweatdropped and was about to replied when Haru patted her head.
" Ohayo, Touru-san." Haru greeted quietly. He then moved beside Yuki and tugged at his school uniform.
" We have a test today." Haru said. Yuki sweatdropped and sighed, " You don't have to report everything to me, Haru."
Touru blinked and said, " You are having a test today? Is it going to be difficult?"
Haru thought for a moment, his hand still tugging at Yuki's blouse, and then replied, " Um...it won't be difficult for me..." He checked Yuki's watch and blinked, " Ah. We have to go now..."
Haru let go of Yuki's uniform and went over to collect the crying Momiji from Kyou and Yuki sighed again. Touru looked concernedly at Momiji and Haru as the two of them made their way back to their classroom and said, " Will they be all right? The test?"
" Oh, they will be all right. The two of them always get 'A's for their tests...at the least, they will get a 'B' or two even though they don't really pay attention in class...I remembered the worst grade Haru got for his high school tests is five 'A's and three 'B's..." Yuki said calmly.
" Nani?!" Touru exclaimed. " If I can get that kind of grades, I will be so happy!"
At this, Yuki smiled sadly at Touru, " That is probably because of the curse, Honda-san. The curse will somehow enable the members of the Jikkan Juunishi to be good in sports and studies..."
Touru stared in surprise at that sentence for a moment before lowering her head a little, " Gomen ne, Yuki-kun..."
Yuki blinked, " What-what for, Honda-san?"
Touru paused a little before shaking her head. She lifted her head and smiled at Yuki, " Um...nothing...just, sorry."
Yuki did not say anything but stared back at her until the teacher came in.
-- --
" Where's the nezumi?" Kyou asked.
" Ah?" Touru turned around and stared at the empty corridor, " I thought he was behind me just a while ago..."
Kyou huffed and began walking towards the main gate, " Who cares where that rat goes anyway. He's probably off to do his students' community business."
Touru nodded and went after Kyou. Kyou gave Touru a side-way look and asked, " You have work today, I suppose..."
Touru nodded, " Un. Momiji-chan said he will be late though...He said he had something on, so he will be there a few moments later."
Kyou snorted and knocked Touru's head lightly, " Don't overwork yourself..."
Touru raised a hand to her head and laughed.
-- --
" Touru-chan!"
Touru lifted her head from the table she was cleaning and smiled as Momiji came running towards her.
" Gomen, Touru-chan! I was so late!!" Momiji apologized profusely, " Ja! Leave all the work to me from here onwards, Touru-chan! Oh, and later on, there is a surprise for you!"
With that, Momiji grabbed the cloth from Touru's hand and began rubbing the table enthusiastically. He bristled around happily, whistling a tune as he moved and packed the things neatly, mopped the floor and clean the room.
And when Touru tried to help, Momiji would push Touru back onto a sofa, smiled at her and said, " Leave everything to me, Touru-chan!" And if Touru tried to argue with Momiji, the rabbit boy would give her the puppy eyes and she would surrender again.
When it was time to go home, Touru felt a little guilty to let Momiji do all the work. After all, she had only done 10 minutes worth of work alone while Momiji had cleaned in her place for the rest of the working hours.
Sighing guiltily, she made her way out of the building with the cheerful Momiji and saw Kyou and Yuki standing by the entrance, glaring at each other.
At that moment, Touru was so touched that tears came into her eyes.
Momiji, who noticed the tears, panicked and went over to the two other boys and reprimanded them for making Touru cry.
Touru blinked when she realized she was crying and rubbed off her tears. She smiled a little at her own silliness and said, " It's all right, Momiji- chan. I was just so touched that Yuki-kun and Kyou-chan could come together! This proves that my wish for New Year had come true!"
Yuki and Kyou looked at each other confusedly and jerked when they realized that they had did the same action together.
" Hey! Don't imitate me, nezumi!" Kyou snapped.
Yuki stared at Kyou, and lifted an eyebrow, " You know, for a cat, you had such a thick skin, baka neko."
Kyou was practically glowering now and the air around him was full of anger, " WHAT DID YOU SAY--!!!!"
Just when a fight was about to start, Momiji stopped the two of them and said, " Hey, you wouldn't want Touru-chan to be upset, DO YOU?"
The two other boys stopped and stared at Touru for a moment. Then Kyou turned around and began to walk off.
" Count yourself lucky, nezumi. Momiji saved your skin." Kyou snapped.
Yuki crossed his arms and said, " I seemed to be very lucky today, ne? Being 'let off' by that baka neko *twice* in a day. Maybe I should thank god about it."
The orange hair on Kyou's neck raised significantly but Kyou did not remark. Instead, a funny sound was emitted from Kyou's throat and his footsteps became very heavy.
Yuki sighed and smiled at Touru.
" Let's go home, Honda-san. Momiji, you are coming along are you? Be careful of the pavement here. An elephant had just passed."
Momiji nodded and giggled while Kyou gave a loud growl.
-- --
As Touru stepped into the dark house (someone forgotten to switch on the light) after Kyou, Yuki and Momiji, showers of confetti greeted her. She blinked and the light came on.
" SURPRISE!"
Touru blinked again when she saw Saki, Megumi, Uotani, Haru, Kisa, Hiro, Kagura, Ayame, Shigure, Yuki, Kyou and Momiji standing behind a table holding a very big birthday cake.
"...W-Wha--?" Touru stuttered.
Saki smiled and said, " It's your birthday today, Touru-chan. Don't you remember?"
Uo patted Touru's shoulder and said, " You forgotten about it, didn't you?" She sighed, " I should have stop you from working so hard!"
" If you want, I can help you curse your boss until he agrees to lower your working hours..." Megumi said quietly, smiling at Touru.
Touru sweatdropped, " Uh...I don't think it is necessary, Megumi-chan. But thank you anyway."
Kisa smiled sweetly at Touru and touched her hand, " Hanajima-san and Uotani-san told Shigure-jisan about your birthday, and he organized this..."
Yuki patted Kisa's head and continued, " We figured that you probably forgotten all about it as you have been working so hard these days, so we decided to give you a surprise, starting from helping you with the chores.
" Although Shigure was *very* reluctant about that point." Kyou put in. Shigure smacked Kyou lightly on the head and smiled at Touru, " If it is for Touru-chan's birthday, I'll do anything!"
" Well, why don't you finish your scripts earlier?" Hiro commented dryly and Shigure sweatdropped.
" That will be doing my editor a favor, not Touru-chan."
As Shigure and Hiro argue about the rights and wrongs of finishing the scripts before the deadlines, Ayame grinned and patted Yuki's shoulder, " A good job done, my dear brother! I can never lay my hand on the kitchen knife, let alone do chores!"
Kyou and Yuki stared at Ayame as he rant on proudly on the injustice of his delicate fingers being *wet* by doing a few chores and only one thought came into their mind.
'Shigure and Ayame are the same kind of people...'
Anyway, Kagura handed Touru a large paper bag and said, " In this are all the presents from everyone of us. Ritsu-kun's present is in there too-he said he couldn't come as they received a big number of guests at the hot spring. Hatori-san gave you a present too...he wanted to come today actually, but he had something up at the 'main' house."
Touru stared at the bag with a huge amount of guilt in her and said, " I can't take this, Kagura-chan! All of you had done so much for me already! How can I take your presents?"
Yuki pulled himself out of his dark thoughts about the similarities of Ayame and Shigure and smiled at Touru, " You deserve it, Honda-san. Think of it as a salary for all the chores and work you had done."
Haru nodded and patted Touru's head, " You have to accept the presents, Touru-san. Yuki had thought for a long time about what to buy for you. So you have to take it."
Yuki jerked and glared at Haru, " There is no need to mention that, Haru!"
Ayame laughed and patted Yuki's shoulder again, " Isn't Yuki such a gentleman--"
" Shut up!" Yuki deadpanned, grabbing the front of Ayame's clothes and shaking him hard.
" Ah," Haru continued, " Kyou sweated over on what to get for you too, Touru-san."
"HARU! You need not mentioned that too!" Kyou yelled, grabbing Haru in a headlock.
Touru smiled tearfully and thought back to the time when she celebrated her birthdays alone after her mother passed away, and bowed, " Thank you so much. I am very happy!"
The others stopped their chatting and blinked as Touru laughed happily.
Yuki smiled and gave each one of them a meaningful look.
And together, Yuki, Kyou, Kagura, Momiji, Uotani, Saki, Megumi, Haru, Kisa, Hiro, Shigure and Ayame said.
" O-TANJOBI OMEDETO~~~~Touru-chan!!!!!!"
P.s: Yuki said 'Honda-san' and Hiro did not mention her name...
~Owari
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So...how was it? Silly? Or does it really suck... I think the ending kinda suck...everyone seemed so...OOC...-_-;; Anyway, feel free to comment and Review!! Flames not welcome, I repeat...so if you want to flame, go find another fic to flame...
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