Fruits Basket Zodiac|| Secret|| Ch.1
I guess I hadn't really given it much though, the rules were always the same. 'Don't tell the secret, Don't expose the secret, and most definitally, no hugging.' I had gotten use to the fact that Yuki couldn't be hugged. By his fan girls or me, if you don't know who I am, I'm Tohru Honda. I moved in with the Sohma family a while back. Yuki and Shigure were the ones who invited me to live with them after discovering me in the wood, living in my quaint little tent that was later destroyed by a mudslide. But enough dwelling in the past, I'm ready to talk about the now.... Well it's not really the 'now', it was about three days ago when it happened...
"You damn Rat!", Yelled Kyo, with a loud THUMP coming after the statement.
"You think you would learn by now you stupid Cat, you can't beat me, just give in.", I heard Yuki's sweet monotone voice reply.
"Errrrg! You think you're so much better than me Yuki, but you're not! You just wait!!", stomp, stomp, SLAM.
" -_-'; Now why can't anyone ever clean up the mess they make in my house?" Shigure stated."
"Oh that's an easy fix ^__^", I said to Shigure while I prepared dinner. "By now, that little mishap will only take about 10 minutes to fix." I've fixed that door hundreds of times, what is a hundred more?
"I'm quite sorry Ms. Honda...", Yuki whispered with red cheeks. "I'd like to help you if you allow me?" How could I say no to that face?
"Well of course you can Yuki ^o^, after dinner we'll jump right into our new, but yet, old project." I stated with a goofy smile across my face. I really don't know how that door is even still together. The entire thing looks like it's made out of tape. I wonder what would happen if we had a steel door.. As I thought about that, my mind began to wonder. 'Ahhhg! STUPID RAT!' Imaginary Kyo stated running for the door, DONG! The steel door layed Kyo out, poor guy. Next thing I knew, Shigure was snapping his fingers infront of my face.
"You know Tohru, you do that alot.", He said with a smirk on his face. I could't understand what he was talking about.
"Oh uh... What do you mean Shigure?", I asked sheepishly as I mixed the rice. Shigure just got a blank look on his face and pointed. I just stared at him, an eyebrow raised up in confusion.
".... Oh my dear sweet Tohru, you're so cute and innocent, how could I ever make fun of you. What point I was trying to get across was, you tend to space out alot." He admited with a grin on his face.
I couldn't help but smile. "Makes you love me all the more with my cute simplemindedness ^__^" I teased as I put the finishing touches to our dinner.
"Not to mention your not-so-simpleminded cooking skills." Yuki pointed out. I blushed, I almost always blushed when Yuki spoke to me. I don't think that he really knows how I feel about him... My mind started to wonder again but was quickly interupted with a loud, "TOHRU!!! ^.^" That was little Momiji's distinctive voice. He was so much shorter than all the other boys, it was hard to believe that he was only a year younger. Along side Momiji was Hatsuharu, it was rare to see those two apart.
"Just in time for dinner Momiji! Haru, you can join too. There is plenty for everyone!", I learned a while back to prepare for the masses.
The boys took their places at the table as I served their food to them. I didn't mind it so much. I felt like a little house wife taking care of her family. Weird, but I like it. As I got my plate and sat down, I saw Haru lean over to Yuki, Haru had a serious look on his face and Yuki's face seemed to light up but also look worried at the same time from the word Haru shared with him. I could't really tell what they were disscussing but, it's best not to gossip. I enjoyed my meal along with Momiji and Shigure, who took delight in enjoying seconds and thirds, I guess boys will be boys. Everyone went to their assorted rooms with the exception of Haru and Yuki who went outside, I'm guessing to discuss their dinner issue further. But never the less, there were dishes to be cleaned and left overs to be put away for Kyo, when he comes back. I quickly washed up the remaining dishes and looked at the clock.
"Ahh just enough time to do my homework and have a quick washup myself." I thought.
While I walked to my room to do my homework, I saw Yuki and Haru standing outside of Kyo's window, which happened to be open. Against my better judgement, I walked into Kyo's room to evesdrop. I know what you're thinking! But everyone usually tells me what's going on, and well, it bothered me some that Haru was keeping this from me. So there I krept quietly and under the window, trying to hear what they were saying.
"What do you mean Haru?! Are you trying to tell me that it's possible? After all these years, no one thought it best to tell us?!", Yuki sounded angr.
"I just learned myself Yuki, Akito himself doesn't even know, and it would be best if he didn't. I know you have wanted this for a long time, and well. I thought I would tell you before anyone else. Specially Shigure, you know him and his High School girl fetish.", Haru stated, exagerating the 'High School girls' point.
"Yes... but if this is true Haru, you must tell the others. They all have the right to know as well as I." Yuki sounded so modest.
"You really want me to tell Akito too? This would drive him to almost the point of killing off the Zodiacs." Haru sounded shocked.
"Well...."Yuki trailed off. I hoped whatever it was that they were discussing didn't have to do with Akito. I'm not one to judge but, I really honestly, am not too fond of Akito. "Tomorrow we shall tell the other, but keep this from Tohru... I don't want her to know just yet."
That upset me just a bit. Yuki usually told me everything, and him not wanting to tell me 'just yet' might drive me absolutely bonkers! Maybe he thinks he can't trust me... ;__;, OhYuki, you know you can trust me! Lost in my thoughts I didn't even notice the light flick on nor did I see Kyo giving me a weird look.
"What the hell!?" Kyo shouted, the leftovers in his hand. Quickly I changed the subject.
"Oh! I'm glad to see that you have found the leftovers Kyo. Do you like them? I made you special ones. No leafs ^o^" I started walking to the door. "Well it's late, enjoy dinner! I'm going to work on my homework!" In my hurry to run out of Kyo's room, I didn't even get a chance to see Yuki standing at the door before it was too late. Yup, I ran right into him...POOF! "Oh Yuki! I'm sorry, I didn't see you, I was in a hurry to do my homework and take a shower before the night was over that I really didn't notice where I was going and....", Yuki interupted me.
"Tohru, it's fine. Do you need help studying?" He asked politely in his cute little rat form, his big purple eyes staring up at me.
"Oh... Uhm no thank you. It's just a little bit of work! Sorry I ran into you again!" I said, sprinting off to my room and locking the door. I calmed my nerves and focused on my homework. About an hour and fifteen later. I decided that my answers were as good as they were going to get, Mom would understand, I'm under alot of stress, and with Yuki hiding something from me, it didn't help me focus at all! I closed my books and put them in my bag for school tomorrow. I rummaged through my things and found my nightgown and a towel.
As I layed in the bath tub. My mind again began to wonder off into it's own little world. It tried to think of the most horrible things it could, it was thinking of what Yuki was hiding from me, and it's imagination was scaring me. It came up with, he wants me to move out, he is over me living here, he has found someone else. All stupid thoughts really, Yuki would never do that to me...but he would also never hide anything from me either. I opened my eyes and snapped my brain back to reality, my fingers had turned pruney. I must have been in la-la-land for a while. I drained my water and went back to my room. Finally I laid my head down on my pillow and tried to put my curiosity to rest. It worked for a while. Until I fell asleep, where my mind once again went off on the tangent of what the secret could be. I knew I wasnt going to get a good nights sleep until I knew just what it was the Sohma family was hiding from me.