HEY THERE. This fanfic is based off of the anime, not the manga. Includes sooooome sexual hints kinda sorta. So if you don't like it don't read it, kay? Hope ya'll like it though.
The start of a new school year.
As much as cliche new school years go, the cherry blossoms were in full bloom and the sky was a clear and beautiful blue.
The young trio walked happily to school.
The day went by and all was well, of course not without the usual fist-fight and loud arguments from Kyo and Yuki.
Tohru's POV
We opened the door and Shigure greeted us with his usual warm, "Welcome back," and we all said "We're home" in unison.
"Tohru, can you come here please?" asked Shigure.
"Oh sure."
"Your grandfather called asking if you were here, I told him you'd call him back when you came home from school." he said.
"Oh, okay. I'll call him right now then." I replied.
I dialed the house phone number and waited as it rang.
"Hello?" said an old voice.
"Grandpa? Is that you?" I asked.
"Oh Tohru! Yes, it's me. I was hoping to talk to you earlier, but you were at school."
"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, so what did you want to talk to me about?" I asked pleasantly.
"I wanted to tell you that your cousin, Minori is staying with us. And if you wanted to visit and catch up for a while."
"Minori? Oh we haven't seen each other in a long time. Of course I'd like to come over and visit, I'll come on my next day off okay?"
"We'll be looking forward to it then, see you then Tohru." he said.
"Okay, bye grandpa!" I said cheerfully.
He hung up the phone and I set the phone down. I sat down at the table with the others with a large smile on my face.
"Well someone looks happy." said Kyo.
"Yes of course! My cousin is living with my grandpa and I'm going to visit on my next day off. I'm really looking forward to it, we haven't seen each other in years." I stated.
"Oh, whats your cousin's name?" asked Yuki.
"Minori, Minori Honda. From dad's side." I answered.
"Wait, isn't that rude family still living with your grandpa?" asked Kyo.
I thought for a moment and nodded. I looked back at when I moved back to the house after the renovations. Even though my aunt and cousins called me a tramp, I didn't hate them. They just misunderstood my situation, and of course I couldn't tell them I was living with members of the Chinese zodiac!
"It'll be alright though, grandpa and Minori will be there so I'll be fine." I shrugged.
"I think that I should go with you just in case." said Yuki.
"Oh, no, you don't have to, I can-"
"Besides, I want to meet your cousin anyways, seeing how you seem to like each other so much." Yuki said with a small smile.
"If he's going, I'm going too!" said Kyo. "I mean, I can't let those stupid people make fun of you again."
I looked at the both of them with a smile.
"Aw, thank you, but-"
"AND DON'T GET THE WRONG IDEA. or..anything." Kyo shouted.
I giggled as Yuki sighed.
I'm really looking forward to meeting Minori, even better yet, introducing Yuki and Kyo.
4 days later
We went straight to grandpa's house right after school, when we rang the doorbell grandpa greeted us and asked us to sit down. My aunt and my other cousins left for the day.
"Minori is still at school, I think school just ended, so you'll have to wait a little bit if you don't mind." he said.
"We don't mind." said Yuki.
Grandpa nodded and left the room.
"So what kind of girl is this Minori?" asked Kyo.
"…uh…girl?" I asked. "Oh! Minori isn't a girl-
The door opened slightly and out poked a portion of a head.
"H-hel…lo?" said a soft, timid voice.
"Minori! Welcome back. We didn't here you come in." I said.
The door then opened completely to reveal Minori, the timid, and young man. His eyes were dark and normal, and he was around my height, and his skin was slightly tanner than most because he used to live in the countryside. His hair was a lot like Saki's, long, dark and wavy, despite his long and wavy hair, he was rather plain and normal. I smiled and came toward him with a big hug.
"I haven't seen you in forever!" I said. "You look exactly the same when we were kids."
"Unlike you, you seemed to have changed a lot." he said with a slight smile. "So how's school-"
He paused midway his sentence. He completely froze in my arms. I followed his gaze and saw that he was looking at Kyo and Yuki.
"Oh um, these are my friends, Kyo and Yuki Sohma." I quickly said.
"Yo." said Kyo.
"It's very nice to meet you." said Yuki.
Minori remained frozen.
"I…I…I'm sorry…it's just that I-I-I didn't expect any one else to come and v-v-v-isit." he stuttered.
"I see you're still very shy, but don't worry, they're really nice. I'm actually living with them." I said.
"Oh..is that so? Then I guess…I shouldn't be too…s-s-shy…" he said. Yuki held out his hand.
"Tohru said that she was really excited to meet you, and I suppose curiosity got the best of us, so we just had to come and see as well. I hope it doesn't bother you much." he said.
Minori took his hand and shook it.
"I-I-It's no trouble…it's nice to know that Tohru has such good f-f-f-riends." he replied.
We talked for a good two hours, and Minori was able to open up a little bit to Yuki and Kyo. We caught up with each other, I learned that Minori moved to the city after his parents divorced, his mom wanted to be left alone for a bit to get over the break up, and Minori went to go after his dad, but his dad shut him out too. So Minori decided to stay with grandpa until things settled down. I asked if Minori was sad about it, and if he wanted to talk about it alone, but he said that he didn't mind, that he already knew that at some point they were going to break up sooner or later.
Minori found the arguments that Kyo and Yuki had were interesting and laughed whenever they got into a disagreement.
We hugged each other goodbye afterwards, and I gave him the house number if he ever wanted to call me.
"He seems alright, he looks like a real girl though." said Kyo as we were walking home.
"Mhm, why does he have such long hair?" asked Yuki.
"I guess he finds long hair comforting, he always fiddles with his hair when he's meeting new people. But I like his hair, it's really pretty isn't it?"
"But he's very shy isn't he? He was stuttering a lot when we first me him." said Kyo.
"Yeah…" I said with a slight smile. "But it's surprising though…he opened up really quickly to you two. I guess he likes you a lot if he's laughing like that only after a few hours."
"He seems cool, how old is he anyways?" asked Kyo.
"He's only a year younger than us, so he's probably Momiji's and Haru's age." I answered.
"Too bad he goes to a different school…" said Yuki.
A while later...
Narrator POV
"Im going out for a bit Minori." said the grandfather.
"Oh…okay."
"I just need to go to the store, so keep watch of the house for me till I get back okay?"
"Okay."
Minori watched as his grandpa left and closed the door behind him, leaving him in the silent house. He sighed and sat down on the couch to watch TV. He didn't really like the show he was watching, but anything to fill the silence, he thought. As he watched he braided his long, thick hair to pass time.
The doorbell rang.
Minori sat up excitedly and quickly walked to the door.
"Welcome back grandpa-" he said.
He caught his sentence. He looked up at the figure before him with fearful eyes. It was his older cousin, Shosuke. Shosuke lifted his glasses with his finger and glared at Minori.
"Do you think I look anything like that old coot?" he asked sternly.
Minori shook his head and then quickly looked at the ground and moved out of the way to let him in.
"I thought…you wouldn't be back until later on…" Minori said quietly.
"What?" he asked loudly. Minori shook his head. "Never mind, hey, I thought that tramp was going to be here."
"She was…she left a while ago." he answered. "I'm going to go…to my room now…"
"Wait a sec." said Shosuke. Shosuke closed the door behind him and quickly grabbed Minori's wrist. "When's that old man coming back?"
"A-any minute now…so please let go…" he answered.
"You know that's a lie." said Shosuke. He tightened his grip around his wrist and Minori clenched his fists. "I saw him leave the house 15 minutes ago and I waited outside for 10 minutes outside, so I know he won't be coming back. any. time. soon."
"You're..hurting…me." Minori cried out softly.
"SHUT UP."
Minori pursed his lips and looked down. Shosuke roughly held Minori's chin with his other hand and then kicked his legs till Minori fell to his knees.
"Please…stop."
"I caught you lying to me. You and that tramp are all the same. Worthless trash." said Shosuke. "I have to deal with trash like you at school. I learn how to deal with worthless crap like you."
Minori closed his eyes shut.
Shosuke hit Minori across the face and threw him against the wall. Minori slid down to the ground in pain.
"And how to dispose of you."
Minori covered his face with his hands to protect himself. Shosuke went up to Minori and sat on his chest.
"I can't…breathe…please…someone…"
Shousuke took Minori's braided hair and slowly unraveled it.
"You're a man and you look just like a girl." he hissed as he took some of Minori's hair in his hand; he then kissed the long hair. "Disgusting."
He put each of his hands right beside each side of Minori's face.
"You…you're suppose to protect people! That's what you're suppose to do! Not..hurt them…" said Minori.
"Shut your trap. I don't wanna hear anything from the likes of you." he said.
Minori felt ashamed, he just wasn't strong enough to push him away, to run out the door and get help. Yet, just like Tohru, Minori know that he couldn't do that anyways, it would cause too much trouble to those around him if he pushed Shousuke away.
He began to cry.
"What kind of a man am I? A man who can't protect himself…is worthless." he thought to himself.
He cried even harder as Shousuke pressed his lips against his.
"But someone…anyone…please…help me."