Consumed By Darkness
Chapter One:
Fruits Basket
©
Originally By: Natsuki Takaya
(Hakusensha)
"Hana to Yume"
Planning Of The Anime By: TV Tokyo, ASATSU – DK STUDIO DEEN, Fruba Project
Reversioned By: FUNimation Productions
Mayura Sohma, Kaori Sohma, Atlas Sohma:
©
By: Debbie-Elizabeth Cochrane
aka: KyouXKagura
"Onee-chan, its past seven o'clock, you've got to get up!" Kaori told her older sister as she shook her by the shoulders. It wasn't her fault, she could decide to get herself up sometime – it might help. Mayura was the oldest daughter of Sohma Kagura, at eighteen with Kaori the youngest at sixteen. Mayura was the spitting image of her mother at her age except she had a finer and more fragile bone structure, she had wavy brown hair around her shoulders, she also had blue eyes though, the colour of her grandmother. Her skin was pale; like her mothers.
"IT'S PAST SEVEN!" Mayura yelled as she jolted up from the bed. Kaori had long orange hair around her waist, her skin was tanned like her father but she had grey eyes. She was shorter than her sister, but just shorter. She also had the same eyes as her sister by shape but not by colour. Mayura wore nothing but a shirt – barely buttoned – and a pair of underwear as she ran down the stairs.
"Mayura what on earth are you wearing?" Her mother asked as Mayura ran through to the bathroom yelling back:
"It doesn't matter, I've just got to get in the shower… and quickly!"
Mayura stepped into the shower, she had told Kaori to wake her up at six thirty, and she had known that Mayura had fencing practise before class. Mayura pressed on the water, the warm water tickling her bare skin as she thought of the reason why she had taken up fencing, her older cousin – Atlas. He was a distant cousin, his parents were cousins of her parents… but he would never like her, he was more interested in Kaori… even if she was three years younger than him – and she liked him back.
"Sometimes I wish I was the youngest." Mayura sighed as her hair got slightly damp from the water that also started to sodden the carpet of the bathroom, she wished her mother would have listened to her while she told her to get the tiles.
Kaori sighed as she packed her things in her bag. If Mayura had set her alarm clock properly then she wouldn't have had to worry about being late. Atlas was meeting them at the fencing arena today, so she decided to try to impress him a little more than usual. She wore her long hair up in a high ponytail and her tanned skin went a long perfectly with the school uniform being so dark.
"I just wish that I was as beautiful as onee-chan." She complained. She was never called onee-chan back, which was also something else that Kaori wanted, her sister to call her that. Well if she didn't hurry up then they weren't going to pack themselves so she continued with her school things. Sometimes being the youngest had their advantages though; she didn't have to worry about exams though, did she? Mayura had them at the end of this school term. Poor Mayura…
"They were late up again." Kagura told her husband, Kyou. Kagura had brown hair like her eldest daughters which lay down past her shoulders in no effort to look tidy. Her eyes were as grey as her youngest daughter and her skin were rosy but pale. She was wearing a blue satin nightdress but she also had a white cotton night robe on too. A cup of tea was held cradled in her hands. Kyou had orange messy hair and this was as vibrant as his youngest daughter and his skin was as tanned as hers too. His crimson eyes were his only asset that no one else shared.
"So I heard." He replied to her. The whole reason why they married was because Kagura had threatened him to ask her – either that or she was going to kill him. Yet he found it had its advantages, he had two gorgeous children and as Kagura matured so did her anger problem, he was lucky to have her – yet he wouldn't let her know, or anyone else at that matter.
"Haru-chan is coming with Atlas-kun tonight." Kagura smiled remembering them. Yet it was a shame that Haru had to bring up Atlas alone after his wife up and left him after he turned black on her.
"Yeah." Kyou said. He shown no sympathy towards Haru, there was absolutely no need to. He deserved it for being so stupid, he had promised her that he would never go black on her and he did. Yet there was some sympathy for Atlas, he was the one who had to suffer without his mother after that." Kagura was the one who helped Atlas along with Haru. Kyou actually felt jealous there as she was spending more time with them than him – it was weird but he had fallen for Kagura and that's why he agreed to marry her.
"It's not fair!" Mayura yelled as she ran down the stairs, her hair wasn't given any chance to dry after she just pulled on her school uniform and grabbed her bag that was ready since the night before. Kaori couldn't help but sigh at her older sister. "Who needs breakfast, I've got to run!" Mayura said as she ran out the door and started to head to Kaibara High School.
"That isn't good for her." Kagura said standing up concerned.
"I'd leave her; she's actually trying to show dedication in something." Kaori shook her head at that comment. Kaori though was given a sandwich to give her sister once she got at the school.
1 Mayura and Kaori are the main characters and Kagura and Kyou are semi-main.
2 This isn't going by the manga, but going by the anime – so don't expect to see Isuzu or Kureno in this fiction.
3 Title 'Consumed by Darkness' is about Mayura if you don't get it by the end of this chapter.
4 I will be trying my hand at lemons in this fiction so you can flame me if I'm not that good!