Hey guys! Yes yes, I know, another one shot? Where're the chapters for my other stories?! Well, here's the deal: I need to get my inspiration back for them. I need to listen to some music, watch some episodes, whatever, and it's easier to write about them when that's all I have. I only have three Mondays of school left, WOO, so I'll get on them in the summer ok?
As for this fic, I heard this song on the radio for the first time the other day (I don't listen to the radio, so sue me!) and thought the lyrics were totally cool, and I youtube-d it and put it on a loop, and really listened to the lyrics, and tadaaaa! This fic is the result! Hope you guys like it!
The story was originally going to be Sanosuke and Serena, but after hearing the song for the 30th time, I decided it sounded a little more like our favorite zodiac cat! *shrug*
Background info: Tohru chose Yuki, ending the curse of the Zodiac. Serena had been dating Darien since middle school, and is now 19, a year younger than Kyo.
Disclaimer: Serena belongs to Naoko, Kyo to Bisco Hatori, and Kelly Clarkson sings the song, none of it is mine! I do use her lyrics directly in the story, but they're not marked in any way; I thought it would mess up the flow of the story, so yeah. The full lyrics are at the end of the fic, so you can tell what isn't mine; especially if you've heard the song before.
Without any more interruptions, here's my fic!
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My Life Would Suck Without You
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Serena sat up from her couch, eyes dry as sandpaper.
It had been three months since she had last seen him.
Three long, unbearable months.
Rubbing her eyes, she stood, stretching, popping every bone in her body. After all, it had been a while since she's moved last. 'Since this morning,' she thought as she glanced at the clock that read midnight. 'Since this morning at five.' Heading to the kitchen, she opened the fridge, frowning when nothing looked good. Making her way to the counter, she got out some crackers and peanut butter. She needed the protein.
She was spreading peanut butter on her first cracker when the doorbell rang. Quirking an eyebrow, she stuffed the cracker in her mouth and made her way to the door. 'Who could be out this late, honestly?' Cautiously, she looked through the peephole, surprised to see a mop of red hair. 'Could it be?' Swinging the door open, her jaw dropped. "Kyo?"
The boy in front of her nodded. "Yeah."
"Guess this means you're sorry."
He nodded, stuffing his hands into his pockets, "Can I come in?"
She opened the door wider for him, still lounging on the doorjamb, eyes following him as he entered. "Guess this means you take back all you said before; like how much you wanted everyone but me."
Kyo flinched at the blasé statement. "About that, I didn't mean it. You know I say stuff I don't mean when I get angry."
"Yeah, don't I?"
(Flashback)
The boy before her was in a rage; he couldn't be calmed. That didn't mean she wouldn't try. "Kyo, just calm down!"
"I won't!" he cried as he threw a vase against the wall, the roses in it falling to the floor below. "Why do you always have to take his side?! You know how much I dislike my cousin!"
"Yes I do," she replied, yelling just as loudly, trying to give herself the courage to stand up for herself. "And for the life of me, I don't see why you hate him so much! Why is that, Kyo?!"
He turned back to her, red eyes dancing in the dim light of their shared apartment. "Because she loved him and not me!"
Both combatants went still; Kyo in shock, Serena in pain. "What did you say? Do you not love me, Kyo?"
As if she flipped some giant switch, his anger was back again, stronger than ever. "Why does it always come down to that question?" He let his voice rise up a few octaves, clasping his hands in front of his chest, "Do you love me, Kyo?" he mocked. "Holy shit, you sound just like Kagura! But even she's not as weak as you are! And you're nothing compared to Tohru!"
Serena's eyes went wide. Her boyfriend was drunk off his ass, and if she didn't calm him down soon, they would both regret what he was going to say. "Kyo, calm down, you're drunk."
"No shit," he replied angrily. "You know," he laughed sarcastically, "I want anyone but you, you weak girl. And you know," he grabbed his coat, his movements jerky, due to the high level of alcohol or his emotions, even he didn't know. "I'll never come back."
(End Flashback)
Serena blinked as she came back to the future. "And yet, after that, here you are again, standing at my door." Leaning against the wall, she shook her head, mumbling, "I was stupid for telling you goodbye. If I loved you as much as I said I did, I would have fought for you. And I was wrong for trying to pick a fight."
(Flashback)
A flaming anger spread through her body then, from her toes to the tips of her fingers. "Well then if that's how you feel, go right ahead! You're always angry because you're jealous of your cousin because he got the girl you both loved!"
Kyo spun back to her, "Shut up!"
"No! It's true; that's why you don't like Yuki! For a while, the two of you actually got along, but when little Miss Tohru picked someone, it wasn't you and you got pissed!"
"I said shut up, Serena!" He'd made his way back from the small entry to her apartment, eyes wild. "You don't know what you're talking about!"
Inside, Serena knew she shouldn't be pushing his buttons like this, but she was just as angry as he was, and she was hitting him where she knew it would hurt the most. "You're just second best to him, Kyo."
In the next moment, Serena found her cheek stinging from the blow Kyo had delivered to the right side of her face. She felt a wetness come from the corner of her mouth, lifting a hand to her mouth, it coming away red.
"And you're second best to your best friend, Serena."
She snapped, hand fisting, uncaring of the blood, "Don't go there, Kyo."
"Why not? We seem to be dragging out our pasts, so why not yours? Darien and Raye just had a baby boy, didn't they? Her eyes, his hair-"
"Shut up Kyo!"
"I won't!" he shouted, poking her on her chest, "You're just as bad as me," he hissed, his canines lengthening, "but your ex had to see your best friend behind your back because he didn't want to hurt you, you poor baby!"
"Kyo," she said lowly.
But he laughed and kept going, "And then, ha, you had to find out on your anniversary, your five year anniversary, that they had been seeing each other behind your back, and what's worse is that she was already pregnant with his bastard child!"
"That's enough!" She gathered her strength and somehow managed to shove him out the door. Sliding down it after she'd locked it, she let herself dissolve into tears.
(End Flashback)
He smiled gently in response, taking his hand and caressing her where she had a scar on her lip. "I know that I've got issues, but you're pretty messed up too."
"Yeah, we're a real pair, aren't we?"
"Either way," he continued, hugging her to him, "I've found I'm nothing without you."
(Flashback)
Kyo stood outside her apartment door for a while, but was broken from his angry haze when he heard her begin to cry. 'You deserve it,' he thought, his soul ripping apart as he heard her sobs of dispair. 'You deserve to listen to her pain.' His eyes dropped to his hand, seeing the blood there.
'I hurt her,' he thought in pain and shock. Slamming his head back into the door, he took off into the rain.
He tried training to forget her, drinking, everything. But somehow, every little thing around him reminded him of her. The blue sky reminded him of her eyes, the cherry blossoms reminded him of her perfume, even the rain reminded him of her. 'She loves dancing in the rain,' he remembered.
Sighing in frustration, he stood up under the tree he'd sat under for a week. He never knew how much they took care of each other's pain until they were apart from each other. Whenever he felt lonely, she was right there for him, ready with a blanket and a stupid corny action flick. Serena always gave him her undivided attention, like there was no one else in the world but him.
And he was always there for her, ready with an umbrella to take a walk through the rain in the spring storms, or with a tissue and a gentle, "Who do I have to beat up today?" The line always made her laugh, say it was nothing, and dance off, a smile on her face all because of him.
But the question was…would she take him back?
(End Flashback)
"What did you just say?" she whispered in disbelief.
Kyo shifted uncomfortably. "You heard me," he said, gruffly, yet gently. "I'm nothing without you. I missed you so much, all the little things we did for each other became so routine, I found I missed them when they stopped."
She laughed, "I told you that you would like those corny action flicks."
He relaxed when her laughter gently caressed his ears, sighing in contentment. "I love your laugh," he gently whispered into her ear.
"Being with you is so dysfunctional. One minute we're yelling at each other, and the next we're…like this." She squeezed his waist to emphasize her point, burying her face into his chest, smiling when he almost started…purring.
"Gods, I'm so glad the curse was lifted," he groaned against the top of her head, giving it a kiss.
She shrugged into his arms, "I don't know; I think it would have been cute to see you as a little orange cat." She nuzzled into him closer, sighing. 'It's been so long since I've felt like this,' she thought. 'I missed it.' But there was one thing nagging at her…why had it taken him so long to come back? That fight had been in February, and it was June now, just a few days before her birthday. "Kyo?"
"Hm?" he responded groggily.
"Why did you wait so long to come back?"
Heaving a great sigh, he pulled back, putting their foreheads together. "You really wanna know?"
She nodded, keeping eye contact.
Kyo looked away before looking back into her eyes. "I was afraid you wouldn't want me back. We did say some awful shit to each other."
"Watch your mouth," she said playfully, tapping his cheek with her finger. "But yeah, our fight was pretty bad." She paused. "I really shouldn't miss you, but I can't let you go."
He smiled, "You can't get rid of me that easily, woman," he said before catching her lips in a gentle kiss. "And for the record," he took her face lovingly into his hands, "I love you."
A bright smile crossed her face. "I love you too, Kyo."
"Yeah, cuz we belong together now, and honestly?" He smiled as her expression became confused.
"What?" she asked, delicately lifting a platinum blonde eyebrow.
"My life would suck without you."
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Lyrics:
Guess this means you're sorry
You're standing at my door,
Guess this means you take
Back all you said before; like how much you wanted anyone but me,
Said you never come back but here you are again
Cuz we belong together now, yeah
Forever united her somehow, yeah
You got a piece of me
And honestly
My life would suck without you
Baby I was stupid for telling you goodbye
Maybe I was wrong for trying to pick a fight
I know that I've got issues, but you're pretty messed up too
Either way I've found out I'm nothing without you
Cuz we belong together now' yeah
Forever united here somehow' yeah
You got a piece of me
And honestly
My life would suck without you
Being with you is so dysfunctional
I really shouldn't miss you
But I can't let you go yeah
Cuz we belong together now yeah
Forever united here somehow yeah
You got a piece of me
And honestly
My life would suck without you
(chorus repeat)
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Hope you guys liked it; as always, read and review! Thanks!
-MoonFace01
