Basket of Fruits
A Fruits Basket one-shot collection
Disclaimer: Fruits Basket and all original characters belong to Takaya Natsuki-sensei.
Confesssion
By Ongaku no Usagi
Tohru hummed happily as she slid the last of the cookies from the spatula onto the cooling rack. Taking off her kitchen mitts, she picked up one of the cookies and sunk her teeth into it luxuriously.
Mmmm...
The chocolate melted on her tongue, just the proper amount of sweetness, being made with unsweetened chocolate and cocoa powder.
Double chocolate yum!
"Tadaima," came a voice from behind her, along with the shoooom of the opening and closing of the sliding door.
"Ah! Okaeri, Kyou-kun!" she said, peeping around the kitchen door and smiling widely. "How was your day at the dojo?"
"Fine," he said, the usual monosyllabic answer that Tohru had come to love. Then he stopped still in the act of taking off his shoes and sniffed the air.
"What are you baking?"
"Double chocolate chip cookies," she answered.
He hopped into the kitchen, one shoe still on, still sniffing enthusiastically.
He reached his hand to pick one up, and then hesitated, looking at Tohru. "May I?"
"Dozo! Of course!" she answered happily.
He took a bite and closed his eyes in pleasure. "Mmm..."
"Do you like them?"
"They're great!" he answered. "Not too sweet, still warm, mmm..."
Tohru laughed happily as she clasped her hands together. Finally, she had managed to make a batch of cookies Kyou liked!
Three days later, the cookies have been nearly gobbled up, mostly by the enchanted Kyou.
He comes home that day, smiling, looking forward to one last cookie before the batch is gone.
Then he stops short. Something is definitely wrong.
Tohru is sitting dejectedly by the kotatsu, hanging her head, tears flowing.
He hops next to her, one shoe on again, and puts an arm around her. "Tohru, what's wrong?"
No response, only stormier tears!
He starts to worry. The worst, the worst might have happened! He frantically dashes around in his memory, searching for the cause. Then he gasps. Tohru...she was still in her third month, what if, what if...?
"Tohru," he asks in a hushed tone, "did...did something happen with the baby? Is everything all right."
"No," (sniff), "everything's fine. The baby is fine."
He sighs in relief, laughing a little bit. "Then what, what in the WORLD, Mrs. Sohma, could be the matter?'
She looks up at him, the tears streaming like a waterfall. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to! But...but...my cravings got the better of me, and...and..."
"...and?"
"I ate the last cookie, Kyou-kun!"
Stunned silence. Then, "You did WHAT?"
Author's Note: This one is comparatively normal...you'll see what I mean later.