The Cat House
Summary: Kyou has been locked up for 15 years. Akito is dead so why hasn't Kyou come out yet. Tooru is heartbroken. Yuki is indifferent married with a child and has to deal with the love of a teenager, Petal.
Disclaimer: I do not own fruits basket. I only own Souma Petal and her sister Souma Yoruko. This is a sequel to Just One Little Push.
Pictures That Don't Belong
Waking up was strange. All the things that happened yesterday felt like a dream but the fact that my bed and room was different proved it wasn't.
After getting washed and dressed I went downstairs to have breakfast. No one was up so made some toast to eat in front of the TV. After about half an hour I was so bored no one had gotten up. 7 o'clock was that early. Walking up the stairs I bumped into Yoruko "I was just going to wake you, when are we going to see the other?"
"You're more excited today." Yoruko commented.
"Come on, I want to see Momiji and Tooru!"
"Okay, give me 15 minutes." I went out side and looked around. I remembered walking around the Souma complex before looking for Haru and meeting Akito, both times I felt like I didn't belong but in actual fact I was a Souma after all. "Momiji lives in Hatori's old house, let's go and visit him first because he lives the closest and he will want to see Tooru as well."
"Okay!" I felt a pang in my heart when I heard Hatori's name but I kept on a strong face. "Let's go" we walked along for a little while and we ended up at a house that was near the main house. This was wear I was taken when I collapsed and where I saw Hatori for the first time.
"Yoru-chan! Petal-chan!" Momiji jumped up to us and hugged us. He hadn't changed in personality but he had grown a lot taller and looked mature. It was kind of strange.
"Momiji-san! We brought you pictures." I searched my bag as we walked into the front room. "Here you are!"
He looked at the picture confused. "How did you get these?"
"We were there. We travelled back in time. Look there's me and you and there's Yoruko. We're going to visit Tooru, wanna come?"
"Yay, I haven't seen her in a long time." Momiji said but he didn't seem as excitable as he was before.
"Come on then let's go now"
"No, it's to early Petal you can't go round people's houses at eight in the morning."
"But we went to Momiji-san's" I asked disappointed. We hadn't even left Souma grounds yet.
"Yer but Miji-chan doesn't count." Oh this is no fun. I'm bored. What are we going to do to pass the time? "But what are we supposed to do then?"
"Let's play a game. It's called Rabbit Run." Momiji suggested. He tried to explain us the really complicated rules but we didn't get it and played a much simpler game that we dubbed three and four.
That seemed to pass the time. Yoruko and Momiji were so good and they thrashed me even when we played the much simpler version. Wah, it was so not funny and they were laughing like Hyenas.
When noon came Yoruko decided it was not too early anymore and I vowed to never play that game again. "You know you used to be the unbeatable champion of rabbit run the original game. No one wanted to play you because they knew they would lose."
"So how comes I couldn't even get the rules?"
"Well the rules were a bit complicated…" Momiji piped up.
"A bit complicated? They were impossible." How could have I been good at that game it made no sense what so ever.
"Come let's go" Yoruko intervened.
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Arisa lived in a two bedroom apartment with Tooru. They had been living together for 15 years. Seeing Tooru was disheartening. She looked so miserable even when she was smiling. Behind her eyes held so much misery like she had lost something really dear to her. I showed her the photos and she cheered up a little, soon after we made our excuses and left.
On the way home I didn't say a word all I saw was Tooru's pain. Yoruko went of to her part time job so it left Momiji and I walking in silence. What had happened, how long had she been so miserable? "Momiji"
"Mmm" Momiji looked at me like he knew what I was going to say.
"What's wrong with Tooru? Why was she so miserable?" Momiji's faced hardened.
"It's a long story it happened ages ago." Momiji didn't seem to want to talk so I just left. There had to be someone else willing to talk. Yoruko, did she know?
"Want to play Rabbit Run?" I asked trying to lighten the mood.
"Huh"
"Well I'm supposed to be the best. So all I have to do is relearn the rules right?"
"But you need at least three players."
"It don't matter come on its not real games anyway. Just practice. Okay."
At about 2PM Momiji said he had to get to work and so I went home. I didn't know anyone in this time, Yoruko wasn't about and I felt so lonely. "Mum, Dad," I called "Is anyone home?"
The house was silent and still. I looked around the house to make sure that no one was home and I was sad to say it was true. I decided to search my room for memories of my old self, I didn't think I would find anything useful but it was better than doing nothing. My room was just how it looked this morning, a bit like my room from twenty years ago. It wasn't fair all I could remember was what happened 20 years ago and I'm not even 20. I wished I had my memories back and the knowledge that they were never going to come made me feel even worse.
I felt like crying but I didn't feel like crying, at the same time. It was so sad that Hatori and Shigure were dead and there was something wrong with Tooru even Momiji quietened at the mention of her. Something happened; Yoruko said something about it happening before we were born. What happened with Shigure and Hatori? Why does no one speak of it was it really that bad? Even if Yoruko's not interested in finding out I want to know what happened.
The doorbell rang bringing me out of my plotting. I went to see who it was, it was a relief that someone was about. I opened a door it was a man and women whom I'd never met before. "Hello. I'm Kisa and this is Hiro" the woman gestured to the man next to her. "Yoru-chan phoned us last night and asked us to visit you this afternoon if we had the time. What happened Pet-chan are you okay?"
"Erm yes, come in." I stepped aside so they could walk into the house.
"We can't stay long" Hiro said.
"That's okay. Do you want some tea?" I offered.
"Okay" I went and made tea.
"How are you, Pet-chan? Are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Did I look ill or something?
"This tea is not warm enough"
"Hiro I think the tea is just the right temperature."
"Come on I think we should go now. Petal doesn't look sick."
"Then why did Yoruko want us to see her then?"
"Erm I just wanted to see you two I missed you." I said to get myself back into the conversation about me. I didn't feel like telling them I lost my memories because I felt that they would go on again like I wasn't there. It was a bit rude even if it was unintentional.
"Okay well we have to go now." Hiro said, with a look as if I had wasted his time. After that they left and I was all alone again.
There must be something to do or somewhere to go. Who haven't I met yet? Or I could go see someone I've met. Who do I know where they live? Wah I didn't know where anyone lived. The door went again. This time it was someone I knew, it was Yuki. "Y… Yu… Yuki" I stuttered. He smiled and came in. "Erm, w… what are you doing here?" I gasped out.
"Yoruko told me to come over today before you left yesterday. Didn't she say anything to you?" I shook my head. "Are you okay? You were acting kind of strange yesterday"
"I'm fine" I found myself saying again. "Want to see some pictures?"
"Okay. Who are they of?"
"Us" I went and got the pictures and handed them to Yuki.
"This happened twenty years ago. Where did you get these from?"
"Yoruko took them." Yuki looked disbelieved. "Look, there I am."
"That's not possible" he half whispered.
"We went back in time…"
"How is that possible?"
"And Yoruko wiped my memories." I told Yuki the whole story and after telling him some facts that I could never know without going back, he believed me.
"Who did you show those pictures to?"
"Erm, Tooru and Arisa was there and Momiji and Mum and Dad. Why?"
"You shouldn't show them to anymore people, you've showed them to too many people already. They're not meant to be…"
"What do you mean?"
"Those pictures don't belong here. I don't know how you managed it but people are not supposed to travel. You should get rid of them."
Yuki reaction was so serious and shocking. What harm could these pictures do? "But I like them!" I exclaimed.
"Didn't the others think it was weird?"
"No" I said stubbornly.
"Well it is. You have to get rid of them all." There was no way I was getting rid of them.
End Note: Well what's going to happen to the pictures? Yuki want them destroyed while Petal wants to keep them. Oh my god you can only have 15 document up at a time!
