Machi and Yuki –A visit to the university

Disclaimer: I don't own fruits basket.. it would never have ended if I did.

Chapter 1 What a kanoe can do

A girl walked towards a big strangely new looking manor in the middle of a park-looking area. She felt a warm summer breeze through her thin dark hair. Yuki sure lived in a weird place.. Machi had spend the last couple of hours to find the location of his house. 'Well I can't really blame Yuki' she thought, remembering that his weird big brother Ayame had been looking for a place for Yuki here. But now finally she was going to visit her boyfriend, that sounded weird.. boy-friend she Machi Kuragi had a boyfriend.. ha.. a few months ago she wouldn't even believe it.. especially that the boyfriend was the popular and handsome Yuki Sohma.. even students that were two or three years older were drooling over his school picture.. of course Machi had never expected him to fall for her. What was so great about her anyway..? "stop right there Machi!" she yelled to herself. No, she shouldn't think like that again.. then she would fall back to that place again..

She walked a little faster now, she was almost there.. the house was pretty big, but the Souma family was rich so that would explain it. For a second she stood still by the door. She heard a very annoying sound.. "CHI-CHAN!!!!!" the door flew in her face and she looked into the over-exited face of Ayame Souma.. his long silver hair and ego big enough to cover the earth.. twice.. were the same as before but what was he wearing..!!!!?? And far worse what had he done to Yuki?? No he certainly wasn't a prince anymore.. the princess-who-looked-like-yuki walked to the door. When she saw Machi she turned bright red and ran away to hide under the couch. "Well I'll leave you two love-birds alone.." the woman looking like Ayame said. "Bye!!" He/she yelled. Machi stared at his back, the green empire-style dress kinda suited him.

"Yuki.." She was in shock when the pretty girl came out under the couch. Her face bright red in shame. "Ehm, this was the payment for the house.." Machi still stood there in shock. "Ehm I'll go change now.." Yuki walked to a door, probably his bedroom. A couple seconds later a soft "..Machi.. could you help me I'm.. stuck.." came out. The still frozen Machi blinked a couple times. "Eh seriously.. my hair.. I can't get the button out.." Yuki's soft voice said. Machi suddenly could move again and she ran to the bedroom. "Sorry Yuki.." she mumbled when she helped him with the button stuck in his hair. He took the dress off. It was actually very pretty, and perfect for Yuki. But that thinking was just too weird.. "Ehh I'll go to the living room now.." Machi walked away from the half naked-Yuki they were both red now.

OMG I can't believe out of all people she came to see me now.. Yuki threw himself on the bed. And then that stupid button! He needed to calm down.. needed to explain to her that Ayame had tricked him into doing this.. Cause that's what it was.. right? Annoyed that he needed to ask himself that question he grabbed guy clothes of a chair. This place was messy as always. Miss Honda was here and cleaned it up a week ago but its all a mess again, not that he was ashamed of the mess towards Machi.. she hated neat things so it was actually good. Sigh He walked to the living room. Machi was sitting there staring at a 12-shi display. He almost burst into laughter, she was so serious.. "So, what do you think about the place?" Yuki asked. "Its on a strange location" she answered. "Yeah Ayame had it build here" "I figured"

Yuki sat next to her on the couch, "About just now, Ayame visited and asked me if I wanted to try this on, and he build this house for me.." "Its okay I understand.." Machi looked at Yuki, his beautiful purple eyes and matching soft hair, her heart suddenly jumped and she made a weird coughing noise to hide her sudden movement, why didn't she still feel herself comfortable around Yuki, because.. he's just too good to be true.

Yuki looked at Machi, that person, that thin delicate girl understood him, she made his loneliness disappear. She was beautiful, how her grey-brown hair covered almost all of her face, how she tried to hide herself behind it. It was perfect, he loved every single thing about Machi. He was so lucky to be with her. Gently he stroke her brown her out of her face and he placed a kiss on her lips. He wanted this to last forever, this feeling of complete and utter love.

Machi slept over that night, on the couch, Yuki had offered his bedroom of course but she refused, to sleep in Yuki's bed would be weird even though Yuki himself would take the couch. She knew that Yuki was the worst in cooking so she wanted to make dinner for him. But she wasn't so much of a chef either. O well, she thought I'll try. So the next morning Machi woke up pretty early. Searching for a cookbook she couldn't help herself.. the cabinet was to neat. The sound of something breaking woke Yuki up, he found a crying Machi in the kitchen. Machi stood up immediately when Yuki hugged her. "I'm so sorry" they both said. "DON'T APOLOGIZE!!" Machi yelled in rage why would Yuki apologise it was her fault!!!
"I should have thought about that trait.. hehe.. its actually very cute.." Machi felt herself melting, Yuki's smile with the intensity of thousand stars.. right at her. Not even a warning. Machi kissed Yuki on his lips and whispered "I love you". "I love you too"

That day Yuki showed Machi round the campus, "so you guys actually drink like this.." Machi looked dazed at a boy that was lying on the ground surrounded by several empty beer crates. "Ehm.. well not me.." Yuki bend over the boy to check his pulse. "He's alive.. I'll tell someone.." "university life eh" Machi said dully. "Ehehe" Yuki's laugh was surprisingly nervous. They walked to a group of first-year students. "YUN-YUN.. MACHI!!" a annoying voice raised from the crowd. Manabe pushed a tall brown-haired girl aside and ran to Yuki and a very shocked looking Machi. Forgot about him.. he goes here too. Manabe hugged his little sister and slapped Yuki on his back. "so you showed Machi our beloved university campus, lovely, ne?" Manabe asked, proud for some reason. "Eh its more.." Machi mumbled. "We found the remains of your party yesterday this morning" Yuki explained. So it was his party "Oh you found Takashi has he woken up yet? No? well I'll check on him later.." Manabe 's babbling was interrupted by a few girls of the group students behind him. "So Yuki-kun this is your girlfriend.." "You are such a lucky lady." "We heard so much about you.." Machi's face went crimson, Yuki introduced Machi to the group behind Manabe . "Everyone this is my girlfriend Machi Kuragi, Machi.. everyone" All of the students introduced their selves to Machi. And then they went to eat in a small lunchroom close to campus. Machi was surprised that all these people were such good friends with Yuki, in high school he only hung out with his family and Tohru Honda and her friends. He had changed so much.. why couldn't she change, be more spontaneous and open to people. Someone like her didn't deserve Yuki. Aarg.. stop thinking like that!!

"anyway.. I have to do something alone now, see you tonight Yuki" The Students seemed to find the 'see you tonight' funny because it was followed with a lot of teasing and laughter. Machi begun to walk away and people yelled goodbyes at her. Although she didn't say much these people were very warm to her, must be because they like Yuki. Machi walked to the supermarket close by, yes tonight she would make dinner, just like Tohru. But what should I make…. Her thinking was interrupted by a loud advertising voice as she entered the shopping area. "Come young lady try this meat isn't it delicious?! Take some home too its dirt cheap today!!" Machi stepped back dazed by the sudden loud noise.

Maybe I shouldn't have bought so much meat…Of course Machi couldn't resist the overwhelming salesman.. At least he gave her a few good recipes and tips. It took a while before she found Yuki's home again. Again Ayame was too blame for this. "Machi!!" A beautiful soft voice called her name, Yuki stood before the door with a worried look on his face. He ran towards her and gave her a hug.. He seemed to like hugging.

Machi was so cute when she was like that.. looking all dazed. Yuki thought, but she was away for hours so he was kinda worried. Glad to have her back in his arms, smell her scent and run his fingers through her hair. It was two o clock, the sun shined on their skins and birds were singing. Back in the house Machi began to put the stuff she bought in the fridge. It was food, meat and dinner stuff. But why? She was planning to cook for him? A warm comfortable feeling ran through his body. Maybe he could take her out this afternoon.. but what place would she like? "Machi, would you like to go some place with me?" those weird words came out, almost like a first date kinda thing. "Which place" Good question "do you know a fun place?" He could guess the answer..
"rent a boat"

Yuki could 't hide the surprised look on his face, yes She needed to be more spontaneous have ideas of her own. And it was really funny seeing that look on Yuki's pretty face. A sweet purple surprise. When at the supermarket Machi had seen the boats. She thought about renting a boat with Yuki. "Oh I know the place, next to the lake. Lets go then!" Yuki recovered fast and grabbed a few things in a rucksack. Machi walked through the door as Yuki held it open for her. A warm feeling twirled in her stomach.

"What kind of boat do you youngsters want?" Yuki looked around and saw Machi looking at a kanoe, "That one" He told the man. Machi woke up from her daze, and nodded. The kanoe was for two people Machi got in the front Yuki in the back. "I've never done this before so we might get wet.." "Me too" Machi answered.
The view was beautiful, the sound of life all around them. Very peaceful..
They were almost in the middle of the small lake when a peddle hit a piece of floating wood. Machi dropped her peddle and the boat started spinning, Machi couldn't keep her balance and she fell.. "Machi!" Yuki called her name but before she knew it she fell in the cold water. Yuki, heroic as he is, jumped after her and pulled her up, for a moment they looked at each other, he started laughing and Machi splashed the water in his face as an answer, she couldn't hold back her laughter anymore and a beautiful happy laugh came out, one that Yuki had never heard before..

After a lot of fun and an boat-renting guy who was not too pleased to see his boat, they came back to the house.
Machi took a shower first. Yuki had abeautiful bathroom, everything was made of a dark-wood-like stuff. A big bathtub (with bubbles) used up most of the space, but luckily Yuki had broken the perfect white soap and messed up the stuff in the cabinets, some toothpaste marks still showed in the sink. He was so sweet.. (or he's just really messy) she grabbed her suitcase, striking the wet hair out of her face. Enough stuff for two weeks was packed in there, it was the summer-break anyway. Machi pulled a frilly white blouse, a jeans skirt and a some underwear out of the suitcase and threw it in a corner of the bathroom. She undressed and got in the shower.

A couple minutes later she got out and stood in front of the mirror looking at her body, hmm am I feminine enough?, but things like that aren't really important. Looks... only mom cared for that sort of thing.. "I'm done" Machi yelled in a monotone voice. Time to make dinner what a weird thing to think, so family-like, cosy, she thought while walking to the kitchen, Yuki was a evil cook right? Why would there even be a kitchen? So how to do this… A cooking manual would be nice, even though Machi lived alone her mom still brought food and called every day to check on her so the only thing she could make were the stuff they had to make at school, nothing special. But the meat-selling-guy had told a few tips how to cook the food. I'll just try we will see how it turns out.

In the end they went out to eat somewhere while in the meantime the house would get .. less smoky. Machi felt really bad about it, she was more silent then ever. "It doesn't matter I really appreciate that you planned to cook, I'm really happy about it!" Yuki said trying to cheer Machi up. But it didn't work. "Okay then lets take a cooking course together!" The idea freshly thought up by Yuki was well received, Machi nodded and a faint smile crossed her face. They were having the conversation on the way back from the restaurant. The area looked familiar now. A whole lot of cars and bicycles were parked in front of the house. and when Yuki opened the door a terrible thing happened.

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee its me! i actually wrote a story.. so happy.. I'll write more, and my english (yes I know what your thinking, it sucks right now) will inprove or at least Ill try. I really hope that you liked what you read and will comment.. saying "hi" is enough I'll be even happier

If I did anything wrong please tel me too because only then I can improve it

See you next chapter if I ever find out how to make a second chapter..