EQUAL WAITING
My first FanFiction so please leave me alone with flames! I won't use any manga characters, cause I've not read any of it, although I want to! I will be picking up after the anime finished. So manga people I do apologize.
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Fruits Basket. However cool that would be... I'd have lovely Tohru all to myself!! xD (woof) Yes! I'm a guy.
Note: Story has revised since it has been pulled down.
Chapter 1: Foundations to Feelings
Things have somewhat settled down since Kyo's transformation. Summer is just beginning, school is almost finished and the events with Kyo's true form have fairly passed over.
Momiji looked up at Kyo, following him around school. The rooms inside the corridors were bustling with people playing, talking and throwing paper aeroplanes. "So, is everything alright with Tohru now? Akito isn't still mad at her is he?"
Kyo continued looking forwards, keeping his distance from the girls running past them in the corridor giggling to each other. "I don't know. She's still living with us… like she has been since and she still works and comes to school and, well, she's acting normal…"
Momiji trailed behind him and blinked. "What do you mean normal?"
Kyo looked down at him, "You know, the way she speaks and cooks and that goofy smile of hers, the one she does every time she sees me or Yuki." Kyo tucked his hands into his pockets, gazing through the ceiling into his thoughts for a moment.
Momiji grinned. "Do you really like Tohru's smile?"
Kyo's eyes widened. A slight pink blush descended onto his cheeks.
"Well, you know, it's nice but… well, shut up!" Kyo mixing his words around figured saying nothing was a good solution. Momiji nudged his elbow into his back.
"You just don't want to admit it do you?" Kyo ignored him and continued to walk, a frown and red face etched onto his face.
"You've got the hots again Kyo – you've always got the hots when I mention Tohru!"
Momiji began to snigger only enraging Kyo more. Fuming, he still ignored him only for that one last time.
"Kyo's got the hots…!" Kyo's eyes gleamed from his red face, cat ears up, turned to Momiji only to give a knuckle grinding to his head.
"You just don't know when to keep quiet, do you, huh?! And put on some male clothing!!"
All the other people in the corridor just watched and stared at the little commotion, sweatdrops stamped onto the sides of their heads.
"Waaahhhhhh! Someone!! Kyo's being mean!! Kyo's upsetting me!!"
"I'll give you something to be upset about!"
Tohru turned back to Momiji after looking out of her window at the Sohma property. Her hands resting on the windowsill of her room. She was dressed in her work clothes for that night.
"Oh..! Did he really say that?"
Momiji sat back on Tohru's bed, picking up a plushie of a rabbit from the side, then holding it above him " Yeah… you know how Kyo is like though, all up tight and mad…" Momiji looked at Tohru happily "… but he is silly sometimes!"
Tohru looked back out of the window, her eyes softening up a little. "He thinks my smile is nice." She quietly giggled.
Momiji sat up. "Yeah… maybe you should talk to him more! When you come back from papa's place, speak to him or something. When you get back, he'll probably be on the roof."
"Oh…! I might do." She smiled at the window, leaning her forehead against it. "Where has he gone now, do you know?"
Momiji smirked. "Kyo has gone with Yuki to do tonight's shopping. Shigure made them both go as…"
"… Tohru is a very hardworking young lady; she spends a lot of her time working and all you two do is laze around the house all evening! Both of you go."
Kyo and Yuki stared at Shigure. Shigure was sat by his computer with a pencil hanging from is ear. Shigure coughs. "….… well I'm off to snooze!"
Yuki and Kyo's eyes gleamed down at him, in sync with each other. "You hypocrite!!"
"Oh..!" Tohru smiled yet again out of the window. "They didn't have to, really, that was so kind of them. It's nice of Shigure to try and get those two together more… I hope they're getting along!"
Just down the way, the sound of rasping emerged from Kyo's tongue.
"Why do I have to carry the leeks?! I'm already carrying the rice and salmon!"
"Stupid cat, leeks won't jump out and attack you and it was you who wanted to bring the extra rice and salmon! We've already got that and Miss Honda, I'm sure, would happily prepare more when we get back." Yuki turned away from him, frowning. The two just left the store, carrying groceries on the trail home.
Kyo lit up. "Oh yeah, you had to bring Tohru into this didn't you?!"
"I'm not, I just mentioned her. Besides, can't you take all that weight? You're weaker than I thought." Yuki kept focusing on the next bend ahead of them.
Kyo had his full attention on Yuki, his tail sprouting out like a stuck out root. "No-one asked you to make remarks ya damn rat!"
Yuki's eyes lazily rolled to face him "Oh my, I do apologise…"
"I didn't have to come and help your stinkin' ass, you know?!"
"You're quite right I could have done it by myself."
"Is that so?!"
There was silence for a while. Kyo still staring at Yuki, without paying attention to anything else, walked into an old redwood. Yuki coughed, embarrassingly, and continued.
"You clumsy idiot."
Kyo, dazzled by the ridiculous impact caught up behind Yuki.
"Shut it! You just had to say it didn't you!"
"And you just had to be so foolish." Yuki uttered.
Silence finally fell back. Yuki coughed again.
"…… impertinence."
Kyo's ears darted up. "You got something to say, freakin' rat boy?! Cause I'll make you hear you say it!"
Yuki turned around to Kyo, reaching into one of the bags. "What starts with leeks and ends with temporary paralysis?"
Back at Shigure's, Tohru nervously smiled to her self over her worrying consequences.
"Eh, he he, I hope they're okay." Tohru looked at her reflection in the window then glancing at Momiji.
"Hey, Tohru, I'm going to head downstairs and get something to eat, okay?"
Tohru turned to him as Momiji slips off her bed. "Okay then. There should be some rice still in the cooker… and there's some snacks in the cupboards if you want."
Momiji nodded gracefully "Alright, thank you!" shutting the door behind him and racing downstairs.
Tohru once again turned back to her window and opened it. The wind was cool and calm, softly fluttering the curtains and her hair. It was night; Tohru looked over the dark woods where the event with her and Kyo took place. She sighed, gliding her fingers through her hair and started staring at the sky.
"It's beautiful." The stars shimmered as if it where crystal in spring water and as if each one was alive. At least Tohru thought this. Then there was the half crescent in the sky, sailing the top of the clouds like a lost ship in a storm.
"I can see how Kyo can admire the skyline so much. He's always spending so much time looking at the stars." She paused for a moment and realised a certain group of stars formed in a certain shape.
"Oh…! Those stars look like the shape of a cat's head! I wander if Kyo knows this; it's so pretty!"
Tohru was alerted by the sound of doors opening and closing downstairs. She heard the sound of footsteps, plastic bags and voices. First, it was Shigure's.
"Ah, you're finally back, Kyo and Yuki!" Shigure took some of the bags away
"Evening Shigure. I've brought the stuff you wanted. Have you seen Miss Honda at all?"
"She's upstairs…. Um…." Shigure looked behind Yuki. "What's wrong with Kyo?"
Kyo was dragging himself a few metres outside from the house with his eyes blank and with half a leek in his mouth.
Yuki chuckled. "Oh, he got a bit… 'outgoing' on our way back so, I knew how much he liked leeks and-"
"Okay, okay, I see now…" Shigure skipped to Kyo, who wandered like a lost ghost on the pathway. "Kyo…? Welcome home Kyo."
"I… hate leeks." Uttered Kyo, his head flopped down in the same position it was a few minutes ago.
"'Nice to see you too Shigure', come on now… it's not that bad, you know. Even some of Tohru's soups with leeks are preet-tiee taste-tiee."
Kyo spat out the remaining leek juice before wiping his mouth. "Ergh, yeah, whatever… jeez, I need sterilise my mouth now."
Shigure, watched him enter the house." Just don't make a mess of the bathroom, Kyo, okay? Little Tohru has just cleaned that out." Shigure followed him in. Yuki stood by the door, had Kyo pass him as if neither existed. He sighed as Kyo entered the bathroom.
"Since when have you called her 'Little Tohru'?"
Shigure grinned. Yuki glared at him "I'm not even going to ask what you're thinking, Shigure." He soon stopped grinning and looked up. "Hmm, sure is a cold night for Summer."
Then there was a lighter voice. "Yuki! Welcome back!"
Yuki turned to him, slightly startled. "Ah, hello Momiji…"
Tohru walked downstairs to see Yuki standing with Momiji. Yuki caught a glimpse of her in the corner of his eye and then turned to her.
"Good evening, Miss Honda!"
"Oh, welcome back Yuki! How was your trip?"
Yuki shrugged a little. "With that idiot, annoying, as usual. Anyway, how was you're day today?"
"It's been great, thank you! I'm just about to go to work."
Yuki blinked "At this time? It's almost 10 o'clock."
"I know." Tohru replied. "They rang earlier saying that one person had become ill and they needed someone to cover for the last few hours… it'll be okay."
"Ah. Okay then. Would you like me to walk you there?" Yuki offered.
"Oh, no thank you Yuki. You've just come back! It'll be fine!" Tohru strongly exclaimed.
"Alright then." Yuki smiled at her till the sound of gargling and brushing suddenly broke out from the bathroom. Yuki twisted and homed onto the source.
"You don't have to be so loud in there, you stupid cat!"
Kyo, holding onto mouthwash and a toothbrush, was leaning over the sink, drowning himself. "Gaaaaahhgggggaaa –spoosh- … well, it's not my fault you jammed that leek down my throat!"
"Actually, yes it was." Yuki sighed. Tohru frowned yet smiled panicky.
Kyo coughed "Shut up!! Damn rat!!"
Tohru couldn't help get between them. "Kyo, are you alright?" There was a slight pause.
"Uh, yeah, I'm okay."
Tohru smiled. "That's good then!"
Yuki turned to the stairs. "Please excuse me, I'm off to sleep. Be careful, Miss Honda." He walked to his room and closed the door.
Tohru froze at the spot with Momiji, with Kyo and Yuki at opposite ends, Kyo still being in the bathroom, leaning down into his arms over the sink, saying nothing. The moment was broken.
"Hey, Toooohhhhhrrruuuuu, lets play together!"
Kyo, in the darkness of the bathroom, gripped the rim of the basin harder.
Tohru looked by her side to see Momiji tugging onto her dress. She smiled at him "Not tonight, Momiji, it's a bit late and I have to go to work soon, remember?"
"Oh yeah. I'm sorry." Momiji mumbled as he released her. Tohru paused for a moment as an idea popped into her head.
"Hey! We can go to the park tomorrow, Momiji. I promise!"
Momiji blinked. "You will? Yay! Tomorrow then! We could go to the park… and maybe Yuki and Kyo would come too!"
Kyo froze. Tohru thought for a short moment. "It'd be nice if they could both come, but I'd hope they'd get along. Yuki would come if he's not busy. Kyo I-"
The bathroom door slammed open as Kyo stormed past them into the living room.
Tohru glanced at him and reached for him. "Hey, Kyo, are you alri-"The door slammed before her. She stopped, her lips frozen in mid speech, Momiji silently staring at the door Kyo last left from.
"Hey hey hey… you don't have to be so thunderous you know?" Shigure twittered from inside the room. There was no reply from Kyo and just the sound of commercials being aired to the television. Tohru stood up straight, looking down.
Momiji looked up to Tohru. "I'm sorry, Tohru."
"It's not your fault, Momiji." said Tohru.
"I'll go talk to him perhaps. You should get going, Tohru."
Tohru looked at the clock on the wall and then fumbled in panic.
"Yikes! It's that time already! Okay, Momiji, I'll see you when I come back!"
"Okay, bye!" Momiji opened the door for Tohru as she walked outside, waving back to him. Tohru watched Momiji close the door as she continued. She looked up to the early summer stars.
'I hope Kyo's okay…' She thought to herself. 'I wanted to speak to Kyo. We're so close to each other, know each other, live with each other… yet we're so far apart.' She saw the pattern of stars forming the cat's head again. 'Oh, Kyo… I don't know what I'm feeling for you… but I want to know if you feel the same way…'
Yuki had gone to bed as Shigure and Kyo watched the tube. Crazy and explosive Japanese advertisements popped up on the TV when Shigure glanced over to Kyo, who sat still facing the screen.
"So what's bothering you today, Kyo? The usual?"
"… yeah." Kyo uttered.
Shigure didn't reply and a gap of silence cut between them as the fuzzy and fast sounding man on the television continued to explain what Robo-HedgeTrimmer 9000 was capable of.
The door then slid open as a young man in a long red gown slowly walked in. Kyo and Shigure both turned to him. A sudden chill had also entered the room as the man made his appearance. Shigure was startled as Kyo's eyes widened. His arms had turned weak. The man switched of the TV and turned to face them.
Shigure looked up to him. "… Akito." Kyo said nothing at all.
Akito spoke calmly "I need to speak with you Shigure… about our current matters." he turned to Kyo. "Kyo, my friend… this does not concern your attention." Kyo began to shake a little He spoke again, only with a more darker tone. "That means get out."
Kyo glanced at Shigure; Shigure slowly nodded and Kyo got to his feet and walked out closing the door behind him. Kyo made his way outside.
"Damn it…! What does that freak want?"
Kyo looked back at the house and heard Shigure's voice – the living room window was open. He paused for a moment and decided to secret eavesdrop as he began creeping by the window.
"What brings you here, Akito?" Shigure composedly said.
Kyo's nerves got tenser.
"It concerns a little someone around here… I'll be telling you this so that you can prepare for what will happen afterwards… I don't care what anyone else thinks, what I decide will happen…"
Kyo continued to listen. Shigure's replied sounded more startled and shocked. Kyo's eyes had widened from what he was hearing. Finally he began to shake; his mind was in complete anxiety. Only one thing revolved around his head.
'Tohru…!'
Okay, that's enough for now lol. Tell me what you think of it!! Reviews, reviews, reviews, reviews, reviews, reviews…. I need to know what people think of it so far! Thank you!!
Prasopchai.
