Title: Going Crazy
Author: Lacey
Rating: M
Words: 1121
Pairing: HaruKyo
Summary: Kyo has entered the age where he goes through heat. What happens when Haru gets caught up in the middle of it?
Warnings: Slight AU to the manga/anime, ignoring anything that happened after the eleventh volume. I haven't kept up. ^^;;; Possible OOC.
AN: Alright, I was getting tired of my only Furuba story being a pairing I hate. So…this had to come about. This is based around the roleplay I did with the friend I wrote the other one for, and now this is all I can think of for the moment. I'm definitely going to love this story like it's my own child because I'm so stuck on this pairing and, the last time I checked, there isn't much for it. Anyway, this has been enough rambling. On with the story!
Chapter One: Through The Monsoon
As the thunder roared across the sky, silken ripples among the clouds were ripped to give way to many electric snakes, twisting and dancing to the rumbling purr of the skies that housed them. No rain had fallen yet; though the clouds would soon be clean-cut enough to allow the most violent downpour to ensue, taking out its vile anger on the only things around it that mattered. After another ten or twenty minutes of angry growling, the sky took a brief moment to pause before tearing a deep gash in itself, drenching the earth below with its watery blood.
If there was one person in the whole house that hated the rain, it was Kyo. He couldn't stand it; it was wet and cold and wet. He was the a-typical cat, it seemed, and he hated the rainy weather. On top of that, he had come down with something that seemed like a cold, but was, in fact, something far more dangerous than that. He sat among the other people currently in the house, sneezing and shivering in his cocoon of blankets, looking just as angry as he always did. His orange eyes blazed with something nobody else really took into account as something other than anger, and finally Tohru turned again.
"Kyo, aren't you going to play with us?" She questioned the cat who remained up on the couch. He growled a little, but the calm look on her face had him crawling over and dragging the blankets with him.
"Fine. What are we playing?"
"The usual." It was at this point that Kyo really took in the whole group he was surrounded by. On his left was Tohru, then Kisa, Hiro, Yuki, Shigure, Momiji, then Haru was directly on his right, and then there he was. He huffed a little; this game would definitely drive him up the wall. He could smell himself, and he was sure that someone would comment on it, soon. The game went on like usual for a while, Kyo getting competitive with Yuki and nearly throwing a fit, but it wasn't until a loud crack of thunder startled the cat that he leapt into the air and, suddenly and without any real reason, he was a cat, clinging tightly to Haru's head with his eyes wide.
"Kyo!" The dual-tone headed male snapped, eyes narrowed as he attempted to remove the orange fuzz ball from his head, but that only seemed to make him cling tighter. Small droplets of blood began to drip down his forehead from how tightly the claws of those little paws stuck into his head. "Kyo, get off! It's just thunder!" He was tugged and tugged before Shigure got up and reached behind Haru to tug hard at the cat's tail. While he suffered a surface scratch, he simply chuckled as the angry cat leapt away and looked back with a growl. Haru didn't like that face and he gave chase, the orange one running up the stairs and for his room.
Once up the stairs, the house was dark. The lightning shining in through the windows made it look like a stop-motion movie, and watching his tall cousin pound up the stairs after him nearly gave him a heart attack. When he realized he wasn't getting in his door, as it had been shut, he bolted to the end of the hallway to find himself trapped like a rat. Not that he really wanted to think about the rat, but that was beside the point.
Hatsuharu approached in a semi-frightening way, gray eyes narrowed and hands ready to snatch up the sick cat. While Kyo tried to bound off, his scruff was snatched and he was lifted a limp kitty. His eyes looked dull and foggy as the pale male before him looked him over, then sighed.
"Kyo, what's gotten into you?" He questioned, rubbing at his head. "I really didn't need anymore holes in my head." The only reply he got was a sudden sneeze that sprayed, almost purposely, in his face. He sort of blamed it on the hold he had on him, though; but it didn't stop his commentary. "Ew! Kyo, turn your head! That's gross, you'd better not get me sick." After making the cat suffer a little longer, his heart panged a little and he pulled Kyo up against his chest and held the small animal there where he was warm and felt safe, smiling a little. "You sure you're okay?"
"Can you take me to my room?" Kyo sounded a little strange, but Haru didn't think much into it. He did as he was told, opening up the door and seeing an open window. Knowing that the orange-haired male hated water, he set the cat on the bed and moved over to shut it, smiling a little at the fact that it had been fixed.
"Mm…Kyo…you want me to go and get your covers?" He hadn't heard the tell-tale noise that meant the cat had returned to his human form, and when he looked back he saw him with his face down, rear up in the air. Raising a brow, he started to speak but was briskly interrupted by an odd yowling noise. In an instant, Shigure and Yuki had come for him.
"Kyo's sick, Haru, it isn't smart to be around him so much." The dog told him with a smile, trying to hide his nervousness. The three men left the room before much could come of their being there, leaving Kyo locked up so that he didn't do anything bad.
"What's wrong with him? He didn't look right." That look on Kyo's face stuck in his mind.
"Nothing much is wrong…he just needs to get over his cold before he gives it to everyone else." Yuki tried, chewing his lip a little. "I don't want to get sick."
"You and the others should stay the night tonight." Shigure changed the subject quickly. "It's raining far too much and the lightning strike that had Kyo on your head caused a fire outside. It cut one of the trees down, and not very cleanly."
"Oh…alright." Haru nodded; being the oldest of the family that was just there visiting, he had that decision to make for more than just himself. "We'll stay, then."
The game went on from there, everyone playing and only Yuki and Shigure aware of the true reason why funny noises came from Kyo's room. By bedtime, the boys were shut up in Yuki's room and Tohru and Kisa shared her room. Even the storm seemed to have calmed down. Everything seemed quiet, peaceful…until a door creaked open and a little line of light was let into the otherwise dark hallway.
AN: Alright…this was all written during one hour of class. :3 I hope you guys like it. Also, this chapter will go unbeta'd until someone is nice enough to offer to beta my stories. See you in the next chapter!