Mizu-chan's Notes: Whoo! My first anime fanfiction in.. forever, heh! It's Fruits Basket.. my first Fruits Basket. I hope I don't suck. Thanks to my buddy, Hentai Mollie for beta-ing my story! ~:~huggles!~:~ She's the best.
Oh and Mollie and I decided that.. of course the Grinch is known in Japan! ~:~coughs~:~ He's an international icon!
I hope you like my story.. please review!
The Grinch Inside of Me
Shigure's Suggestion
"Aah! The Christmas lights are beautiful, Shigure-san," Tohru proclaimed, her face filled to the breaking point with a smile. She clasped her hands together watching the older man try desperately to hang Christmas lights around the outside of the house. She gave him an approving nod before turning and heading towards the kitchen.
It had been her idea to decorate the house for the holiday of Christmas. Yuki had given her his small smile and promised to help. Shigure just burst out laughing before agreeing it would be interesting. Kyo, however, rolled his eyes and made a few comments on her "lack of intelligence". She really wished she could help him get into the Christmas spirit.
"Ah, Kyo-kun?" She peeked into the kitchen, watching him battling with the cookie mix. Christmas cookies were an entirely new area of cooking to him.
"What?!" He exploded, eyes flashing with anger and a snarl plastered to his face.
Tohru bit her lips. His angry expression was severely contrasted by the dough that was splattered all over his face. He even had a large drip of it on his nose.
"Ah, ah, nothing!" She hurriedly said, whirling away from the kitchen before she burst into a fit of giggles. Tohru clamped her hands tightly over her mouth, trying so hard to keep it in so as not to ruin Kyo's pride. Kyo was left in the kitchen, puzzled and irritated.
"Eh? What's so funny?" Yuki questioned as he appeared at Tohru's side. In his hands he held a plastic light-up snowman. Tohru removed her hands, her giggles filling the house as she pointed in the direction of the kitchen.
Yuki blinked a few times then set the snowman down and headed for the kitchen. He stood there silently, watching Kyo wrestle with a bowl of dough and a mixing spoon. The boy then cleared his throat, causing Kyo to send an angry glare over his shoulder. Yuki's lips twitched at the sight of boy covered in dough.
"Ah, baka neko," he muttered.
"What did you say?!" Kyo shouted, tossing the bowl into the air and racing to grab Yuki's collar in his hands. "I don't see you trying to cook any Christmas cookies!"
Yuki smirked, swiping a piece of dough from Kyo's nose and tasting it. He then coughed a few times, yanking away from Kyo's grasp. "Are you trying to poison us all?"
"It's not cooked yet, moron!" Kyo retorted, his face flushing bright red as he finally took notice of the mounds of dough he had inflicted upon himself.
"Let's hope it never is," Yuki calmly replied, the smirk never leaving his face. "You look hilarious. Is cookie dough the new trend?"
"Damnit!" Kyo exploded. "Leave me alone!" He then yanked off his apron, flinging it at Yuki before storming out the kitchen and past Tohru. "I hate this stupid idea! Christmas?! I hate Christmas! I'm not going to cook any stupid Christmas cookies!" he screamed at her, causing the girl to back away with a shocked expression on her face. Inside he winced at seeing such an expression on her but he couldn't contain himself.
"Geez," came Yuki's voice as he left the kitchen. "Stop being such a grinch, Kyo. Are your shoes on too tight?" He then grinned over at Tohru, assuming she'd catch onto his holiday joke.
Yuki's expectations were crushed. The girl was staring at him in a confused way but she still managed to force a small smile. She didn't want to hurt Yuki's feelings by not reacting to what she assumed was a joke of his. Tohru nervously glanced over at Kyo, wondering if he got it.
"Oh, that was a great one, damn rat!" Kyo rolled his eyes but then his ranting immediately ceased as he noticed Yuki's expression. His cousin was staring at Tohru in a shocked way. Kyo followed his gaze only to come to the same realization. Tohru had never heard of the story of the Grinch, a Christmas classic.
"Er, Honda-san?" Yuki began.
"Hai!" Tohru yelped, feeling uncomfortable beneath their stares.
"Have you ever heard of a story called How the Grinch Stole Christmas?" Kyo finished for him.
Tohru gasped. "Why would anyone want to steal Christmas?"
"Aahh, that won't do, will it?" came Shigure's voice as he entered from the outside. He smiled in relief at Tohru, silently praying no one went outside soon to discover the mess he had made of what used to be Christmas lights. "The Grinch is a Christmas icon, ne?"
Yuki and Kyo nodded.
"All right!" Shigure exclaimed suddenly, shooing all three towards the heated table in the center of the room. He sat Yuki on the right, Kyo on the left and Tohru in the center. They all stared at the man as though he had lost his mind.
"What the hell are you doing?" Kyo asked, quirking an eyebrow quizzically.
"Yu~ki-kun, would you like to start?" Shigure said sweetly, ignoring the redhead completely.
"Start what?"
"The story of the Grinch! We must inform our dear Tohru of what she has been missing," Shigure then patted the boy on the back. "Begin."
"Ah, uhm, hm," Yuki stuttered. He was not the best person for story telling. The mouse cleared his throat a few times as Shigure moseyed away silently. Glancing over to the glowering Kyo, he got an idea! An awful idea! Yuki got a wonderful, awful idea!
End of Chapter 1