Nightmares

Pairings: Yuki Haru

Disclaimer…Sadly I do not own Fruits Basket…sob

Enjoy this fic. I originally wrote it in my journal but it was going nowhere because hardly anyone read my journal so maybe it'll do better here.

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Yuki was tossing and turning, causing his sheets to twist oddly around him. The cold sweat he had broken out in was dampening the sheets and sticking his silver locks to his face. Living at the main house was doing him no good. In his nightmares he was plagued by visions of Akito and his whip. "No... stop. A-Akito...Unnn, stop." Tears leaked from his eyes as he relived that crack of the whip.

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Haru heard his cousin's muffled whimpers and went to investigate. The walls in this part of the main house were thin; that accounted for the screams the junshuni would hear the nights Yuki stayed over. Haru quickened his pace as he heard even louder cries.
He opened the door gently, hoping that Akito wasn't actually in the room tormenting the mouse. He saw the rat whimpering and crying, it was strangely relieving. The thought that Yuki was only having a nightmare was far better than the thought of having to sooth a bleeding, asthmatic teen.
Slowly, the ox joined the rat in his bed and pulled him into his lap. Yuki stopped thrashing but continued to sob and make noises. "Shhh, it's okay, Yuki. I promise not to let him hurt you." The rat opened his eyes slowly as he awoke to Hatsu's calm voice. The cow pulled him closer allowing his older cousin to hold him a little longer. For this Yun-kun was grateful. He drew a breath to tell him of the terrors hidden in his mind.

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Yuki was only vaguely aware that he was being held in his restless sleep. The only reason the nezumi woke up was that he hit his head on the wall closest the bed. Panting slightly from the gravity of his dream he could only whisper. "H-Hatsu..."

The ox stirred slightly, still holding gently but firmly to the rats waste. Yuki squirmed and Haru's sleep faded away. "Hello Prince." Yun-chan blushed and tried, rather feebly, to get out of his cousin's grasp.

His attempt was in vain, this only made him hold tighter. "Haru I could feel him...and it scared me...but I felt you too." Yuki snuggled closer as he spoke and the ushi rubbed his face against the silver locks.

"Isn't it better that way? Better to feel him when you know someone else is willing to hold you tighter?" He could feel his cousin's nod against his chest. He hadn't expected the rat to prop himself up though. "Yuki lay back down and re-"

"How?"

"...How...?"

" How do I know you'll always be there for me?"
Words aren't enough. Haru tilted Yuki's face up by the chin and nudged him into a kiss. It was soft and reassuring, passionate, but not harsh, not yet. Yuki needed to know someone moderately sane loved him and this kiss would let him know.

The kiss broke when the nezumi needed air. Haru had learned long ago, because of Rin, you need to breath through your nose. Violet eyes starred at the ushi with mixed emotions. Yuji felt relieved that Haru loved him, surprised at the kiss, and terrified at what might happed if Akito found out.

"What about-"

"Shhh, its okay, I won't tell." Yun-chan smiled, only for a moment before nuzzling the ox's neck. The steady breathing and that flicker of a smile calmed Haru. He felt like he'd done the right thing by confessing his love to his cousin. Now Yuki wasn't alone.
Before the only person who dared to comfort Yuki was Tohru. She's nice but she didn't know. She had no idea what the members of the zodiac went through so by some twisted standard she didn't count. (I'm not a Ms. Honda basher; it was just necessary for the story )

"Stmff..ffmf..."

"Hm?" The rat lifted his head slightly form the nape of his cousins neck before repeating himself.

"Stay with me. Tonight, stay with me. I-I don't want to be alone." Haru didn't speak; he just pulled the nezumi back down against his chest.

Yuki slept surprisingly well that night. Haru didn't find sleep easily due to his position but he refused to wake his first love. Eventually though he drifted off and his chin was resting lightly on Yuki's silvery head.

He didn't want to wake up this morning, not that he wanted to wake up any morning but this one especially. He was in the warm and strong embrace of his younger cousin. He felt like he belonged somewhere. He belonged there, in those arms, with that man.

So he acted, something he had become increasingly good at over the years. Yuki nuzzled his nose into the crook of Haru's arms and refused to leave his bed. The ox had woken up almost an hour prior and knew full and well that his nezumi was awake but he too wanted to act.

They staid like that for another hour until a very worried Tohru knocked on the door and drew them away for the welcoming feeling of the bed and each other.