One Week Left
Kyou has one week left until his imprisonment. Will he Confess his feelings to Tohru? Does she have any feelings for Kyou? This story mostly follows the manga.
To those who have read this already, please re-read it- This is a new chapter, and the ideas originally written are subject to change. ...
" An Existence built on other's sacrifices and lives. Stealing everything, trampling on everything until there is nothing left."
Kyou only had a week left. Sitting on top of the roof, he stared out at the rising sun. When he had made that deal with Akito, he had no idea about how many times he would try to renege on the agreement. But now... He closed his eyes. The deal he had made with "god"...
"You will never in your life be able to beat Yuki. That's how you were made from the beginning. It's the course of destiny carved out by those possessed by the vengeful spirits. The fate set by your blood. That's just how it is."
"Shut up! You think I care about fate! I'll smash that fate, I will beat him, I will beat him!"
"Well then shall we make a bet? If you really can beat Yuki by the time you graduate high school... I'll stop calling you a monster. I'll even let you join the zodiac. But... in the case that you don't beat him... I'll put you in confinement until you die. Because if you can't beat him, then you really are nothing but dirt."
Akito's words came back and smashed into him. Was it really fate that kept him from beating Yuki?
Kyou ran his fingers of the beads around his wrist. Was there really nothing he could do? ...
Where am I?...
Tohru was standing somewhere she had been before. She couldn't see, everything was blurred. It was dark. Everything suddenly came into focus. She was at the vacation house.
"That's terrible. Terrible. You're a horrible person aren't you?"
Tohru spun around at the sound of Akito's voice. Where was he?
Akito's voice echoed all around her. It was starting to rain- large drops fell to the ground, touching everything around but her.
"Don't get conceited you little bitch. I'll tell you the truth. Kyou will be confined just as soon as he leaves high school. For his whole life. Until he dies."
Tohru took a step backwards. "No..." she whispered.
"All of them will live and die with me. No one comes in, no one will be stolen away. A happy future, an endless banquet. I won't let you join us."
She slumped to her knees, her arms hanging loosely at her sides. That isn't what any of them wanted. The rain was finally falling on her- her clothes started to stick to her.
" Stop trying to destroy our happiness...be a good girl, or you'll be punished."
"No!"
Tohru sat up, immediately breaking free of the dream. She was covered in sweat. Today was Monday. And Kyou...
She ran a hand across her eyes to stop the tears from falling. Throwing the covers aside, she drew her legs towards her chest, and wrapped her arms around them. Pressing her forehead against her knees, the tears trickled down her face, and she made no move to stop them.
Mom...please...What should I do? ...
" Ah, what another lovely day, and to sit down at the beginning of it to one of Tohru's wonderful breakfasts, I'm in heaven!"
It was breakfast time at Shigure's house. Yuki came in the room, rubbing his eyes.
" Good morning Yuki, are you ready to greet the day with a big smile as you sit down to a breakfast prepared with all of Tohru's heart and soul?" Shigure asked, separating his chopsticks.
" Nnnngh.." Was Yuki's reply as he took his place at the table.
The back door slid open.
Tohru thought he was going to come into the kitchen, but he went past the door and started towards the steps.
"Kyou, breakfast is ready-"
"Not hungry." Kyou said cutting Tohru off.
The house was silent except for Kyou's walk up the steps.
Graduation was yesterday. ... Now that school was over... there wasn't much for her to do. So laundry was the the last thing on her list- she had already cleaned the house. She paused, holding a towel over the hamper. Except at breakfast, she'd hadn't seen or heard Kyou all day. He hadn't even fought with Yuki. Yuki had left the house earlier, saying he was going to meet some of his friends from the student council. The thought of that brought a smile to her lips. Yuki was finally starting to open up to people. That made her very happy. Shigure was in his office, with Mii next to him begging him to finish his manuscript.
"Deadlines were made to be overrun. I don't see why you haven't realized this yet ."
" Do you understand that a writer without deadlines is just an unemployed person? Please! WRITE!"
Dropping the towel in the hamper, she decided to see if Kyou was alright. ...
He didn't want to go down there. He didn't want to see any of them. He just needed to be alone to think. What was he missing?
" You still can't beat Yuki yourself can you loser? And you did all that extra training too."
Extra training didn't begin to describe what he put into his martial arts. It went far beyond that. It wasn't fair! He had started long before Yuki, and he still wasn't able to beat him. Was it really fate that was keeping him from winning? No, he wouldn't let himself think that. It had to be something else. He was so absorbed in his thoughts he didn't notice Tohru standing behind him.
" Kyou?"
He turned to look at her.
"I'm sorry, I mean if you wanted to be alone or something, I just wanted to see if you were ok, because you didn't eat breakfast and it's almost dinnertime. Or maybe you didn't eat because you didn't want to talk to any of us- " Tohru felt herself blush. Maybe she was talking too much? Even after Kyou responded telling her that he just didn't feel like eating, she still felt the heat on cheeks. Her blushing must be more than the embarrassment of talking too much.
Whenever she was near him... she felt happy and nervous. When she was with him she really felt that she could follow his advice.
" Be selfish... say what you want. It's ok to let yourself be sad."
The silence stretched between them, long and awkward. Kyou didn't know what to say. He couldn't concentrate anymore- all he was aware of was Tohru.
He started thinking of all the reasons why he shouldn't even think of telling her how he felt.
"When did I start telling myself that I would do anything over and over again as long as it made you smile? When did I start loving you so much I couldn't stand it?"
Even though she had accepted the fact that that other form was a part of him, had accepted him as a friend, as the cat of the Zodaic, he didn't think she could accept him as something more. Unless Akito suddenly dropped dead, or by some twist of fate he was able to beat Yuki, he would be spending the remainder of his life in Isolation. If by some small chance that Tohru felt the same about him, he couldn't have her on the outside while he was imprisoned. She had nothing tying her down, nothing keeping her from living a happy life, and he wasn't about to go and be the person that kept her from being happy. Lastly... Akito's reaction.
" You despicable monster! You think you have the right to fall in love! You think you'd be allowed such a thing! I won't allow it!"
He couldn't stand it when Akito called her a monster- he begged him to stop, just so he wouldn't say bad things about her anymore- he definitely wouldn't be able to take it if Akito hurt her because of him. He wouldn't let her suffer for him.
She finally broke the silence. " It's getting late... I guess i'd better go start dinner." She turned to the side where the ladder was, and started to leave.
"Tohru- wait." He grabbed her hand, keeping her from leaving.
He stood behind her. This way, he wouldn't have to see her face. It was easier when he knew that she couldn't watch him. He didn't have to look away from her to hide his face. He didn't have to hide what he was feeling.
"There's something I have to tell you... and you're not going to like it. It's going to be hard to tell you this... and I know I'm not strong enough to tell you right now. But when I am... will you listen?" He closed his eyes. When he told her the truth...
What was so important that he didn't think he was strong enough to tell her?
" Kyou... when the time comes, I'll listen to whatever you have to say to me."
"Thanks."
" Oh... I really think I should go start dinner now." She said.
" I'll be down later."
"Ok." She stared as his hand holding hers, and tingled with hot embarrassment. Slowly, she pulled her hand away. Kyou took a step back, and sat back down. But she didn't leave and he didn't take his eyes off her. He looked at her as if waiting for something, and she did the same although she didn't know what for. Finally he looked away, and she looked down at her feet as she went down the ladder.
Bump Bump Bump Bump. All the way down until, her heart stopped beating fast.
He stretched, looking out at the dying sun. Slowly ticking away the end of first of his last days of freedom. ...
Just so I don't get sued, I don't own Fruits Basket. I borrowed, perhaps heavily, quotes from the manga for this chapter, but I do not claim any part of Fruits Basket.
On another note, the reason I made Kyou have the week after Graduation until his imprisonment is... I'm a very lazy person sometimes. No, ok that's not the only reason, It's also the fact that doing a graduation scene, with a whole ton of angst, and sorrow, and thoughts about being taken away the second the graduation, and or the graduation party is over- it's been done way to many times, and I'd just like to avoid that. So yeah.
For the people who have read this story already, Please re-read these upcoming chapters, I have been making major changes to them, so it will be quite a bit different than the first thing I wrote. I also beg you to review, tell me what you liked better, what you hated...and I apologize if this is a bit short.
