Fruits Basket Fan Fiction by White Wings
Disclaimer : None of the original Fruits Basket characters belong to me. They are copyright Natsuki Takaya.
See: Important Story Notes (previous chapter) for character listings.
The following storyline is made exempting the fact that only one person can be possessed by a zodiac spirit at a time (see Fruits Basket Vol. 11).
Black Butterfly – Chapter One – "Whether good or ill will come of this venture even God doesn't know."
"Kyo-sama! Its time to get up!"
Kyo growled from somewhere under the blankets on his bed.
"Kyo-sama! If you don't hurry they'll eat everything else and leave you the leeks.."
Kyo's head poked out from under the blankets, his red eyes glared at Ashley. She stepped back as the tall man climbed out of bed and stood up. He ruffled the girls' hair gruffly and pointed to the door before growling "Out" in a low voice. Ashley scurried out of the room and ran smack into a tall man with grey blue hair. She stumbled backward.
"Ashley-chan! I'm sorry…Is Kyo up yet?"
Ashley nodded and smiled at Yuki Sohma, a regular in the house she lived in with four other kids, cursed by the zodiac, the former Tohru Honda and her husband Kyo Sohma.
"Go on down and get some breakfast before its all gone." He smiled and gave her a pat on the head as she whisked by him and down the stairs to the dinning room.
"Kyo!" Yuki spoke through the door. "You had better hurry, Tohru-kun is trying to keep Rini and Amy away from the last of the omelet."
"Damn rat" was mumbled through the door before Kyo pulled it open and walked out smirking as he headed for the stairs, Yuki following behind.
"Why are you always here! You have a house of your own." Kyo grumbled as he walked down the stair buttoning up his shirt.
"I simply come by to make sure Tohru-kun is safe in this rickety shack." Yuki said sarcastically.
"Funny, seeing as you bought this house for her as a wedding present... " came the smartass reply.
Almost twenty years since they met Tohru hadn't changed much between the two "boys" that had lived with Shigure Sohma. Except now, Kyo was a working husband and father; Yuki was a CEO at a major cooperation handling imports and exports of Japanese electronic goods instead of two constantly arguing high school students with an odd curse thrown into the mix.
Kyo pushed back the sliding screen door that lead to the dinning room and growled lowly at the seine inside. Yuki sniggered behind him.
Poor Tohur was trying to referee a fight between Rini and Amy while Ashley tried to keep her soup from spilling every time one of the fighting girls hit the table with their foot. David sat in to corner guarding his sketch pad from getting food on it while he tried to finish his own breakfast. Tyler eyed the two girls, smiling wildly.
"Amy, no, don't hit Rini! Oh no Oh no! Rini don't, your going to spill the leek soup! Ack! Stop it you two! Your worse then Kyo and Yuki! Of goodness sake stop! Oh! Ashley watch out!"
Amy and Rini tumbled right into Ashley, and her soup bowl went flying. As if it had all happened in slow motion, Tohur watched as the bowl glided thought the air, turned up side down and then finally landed square on Kyo's head.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kyo roared as he quickly tried to wipe the leek soup out of his eyes and hair.
"AMY! RINI!" He yelled. Yuki sidestepped into the room behind Kyo.
The two young women froze and looked cautiously toward the steaming man with orange hair. Both of them muttered "shit" under there breaths as they made a brake for the door, grabbing there book-bags. Kyo's hand reached out and grabbed the end of Amys' white ponytail, jerking her backwards. Yuki intercepted the fleeing Rini, wrapping his arm around her waist and lifted her off the ground. He set her down next to a dazed Amy and in front of Kyo. Tyler laughed at the girls and received a dark look from his father, after which he promptly shut up.
"You thought you could away from me after something like this?! Kyo pointed at his sticky hair while the two girls looked at the floor. "Your butts are so grou…"
"HHHHEEEEEEEEELLLLLLOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!" rang through the house from the front door.
Yuki and Kyo flinched; Tohru perked up from her defeated position on the floor and got up to answer the font door, leaving the girls to Kyo. She opened the door and was met with a smiling face.
"Shigure-san! We weren't expecting you so soon!"
Amy grinned, ran past her punisher before he could stop her and through the house to the front door. As she came around the corner she peeped excitedly.
"Shigure!" she yelled as she jumped past Tohur and wrapped her strong arms around his waist, sending him faltering backwards.
"Good morning Amy-chan, how's my favorite pup?" He patted her on the head and smiled softly.
Shigures' hair had started to turn gray, his face finally started to showed signs of his age but his eyes were as bright and beautiful as they had been when Tohur met him. A black bag that hung off his shoulder slipped down his dark green kimono sleeve as he reached inside and pulled out a simply wrapped present. He handed the package to his awaiting companion.
Tohur smiled as Amy ripped the white paper off the small parcel. The brand new book cover showed through her egger fingers. Amys' eyes lit up and she started dancing around happily as Kyo walked around the corner.
"Thank you Shigure-sama!!" She said energetically as she ran past the orange haired man once again and back to the dinning room.
"I'll never know who she gets all that energy from, it's not me." Kyo said as he watched her disappear around the corner.
"Don't belittle yourself Kyo-kun." Shigure said, taking off his shoes and handing his bag to Tohru. "I remember you having quite abundant energy when you were her age."
Shigure and Kyo walked back towards the dinning room while Tohru climbed the stairs to put Shigures' bags in the guest room.
"Here's hoping they left us some breakfast, hm?"
When the two walked into the room three of the five children where gathered around the book that Shigure had given Amy. Tyler was in a heated, yet quiet, argument with Yuki while Ashley sat at the table trying to salvage whatever was left of the large breakfast.
"Put that away until you're ready for school." Kyo said quietly as he sat down to eat what was left of the meal. Amy put the book in her bag with her homework, Rini and David sat down on either side of her. In unison all three of them put their elbows on the table and rested their heads in their hands. A heavy sigh escaped each of there lips. Everyone looked at them and, in a staggered beat, they started to laugh. By the time that Tohru rejoined them from upstairs they were all laughing, holding their sides and smiling.
Tohru smiled sweetly and looked at the clock over the television. A frown crossed her face momentarily. She clapped her hands.
"Okay kids time to go, come one up, up. Don't forget your lunches."
Giggling all the teens stood, grabbing there lunches from the kitchen and then picking up there bags as they crossed trough the dinning room again. Amy paused to give a hug to Shigure before following the others down the hall and out the door.
The four adults heard the laughter fade and the door slide shut. There was silence for a moment before Kyo turned his gaze to Yuki. He glared at the tall silver/blue haired man.
"Shouldn't you be leaving as well?" he growled darkly
Yuki looked at the orange headed ball of fury that was about ready to pop for a moment before sighing lightly and standing. He said goodbye to Tohru and Shigure before walking past Kyo. He taped the back of Kyos' head lightly and smirked at him.
"Your pair seam to be doing well…" he spoke softly before walking down the hall and out the door.
"Ah. So violent you are Kyo, he was only here to make sure Tohru was alright." Shigure shrugged his shoulder.
"EVERY MORNING!?!"
"hehehe!"
"Ug! We have a test in Topics today!! WHY!!!"
"Your being over dramatic Tyler."
"... oh that's right YOURE the one who isn't good at math! HAHA!"
!!WHAP!!
"OW!!"
"Really Amy did you have to hit him so hard?"
"Morning Eileen!"
Amy jogged ahead of the other four Sohmas'. Behind her Ashley and Rini laughed hysterically at Tyler as he lay on the ground with a huge bump on the side of his head from where his sister had punched him. David had bent down and magically, or so it seamed, produced a twig and was poking Tyler's numb body.
Eileen smiled and waved at the others then looked down at Tyler.
"Awwwww!!! Are you ok?"
Tyler sat bolt upright with a melted look on his face. He smiled dumbly.
"I am now!" He jumped up and hugged the rather surprised Eileen. Amy shook her head as if in shame while the others broke into a new fit of laughter.
They met Eileen on this corner every morning and then they proceeded towards the school. Most of them indulged in mindless chatter (which Amy hated) and a few snide jokes (which she enjoyed). About a block from school a cry rang out from the trees that lined the road. They halted and looked just in time to see Sean jump from a tree.
"NINJA!!!!"
"AIEE!!!!" was the most common response to the sneak attack. Along with a few "WTF's" and an "Oh Shit!"
Rini repeated what Amy had done earlier that morning to Tyler. Punching Shawn with such force that he almost went flying back into the tree he had just jumped from.
"Must you insist on something so easy to deflect?" Rini insisted in a mater-of-fact tone.
"Stupid cat..." Shawn mumbled before brushing himself off and joining the rest of the group on their trek to the school. The rest of the trip to the classroom was uneventful.
Kyla and Cory were waiting for Amy, Tyler, and Ashley in the back of the room by the time they arrived. Kyla immediately began bouncing up and down when they got with in hearing range.
"So did ja get it did ja it it!!!" she squealed excitedly.
"Whats wrong with you! Eat too many carrots this morning?!" Amy said jokingly as she reached in her bag and pulled out the book Shigure had given her earlier that morning. Kyla snatched it from her and jumped up and down a few more times then stopped abruptly and, clutching the book to her chest, glaring at the students around them as if every single one of them was going to steal the book she held. She slinked off into a corner and started flipping pages.
"I thought you didn't get a chance to read it yet?" Ashley looked at Amy puzzled. Her friend wasn't one to just lend her books out.
"I read the manuscripts while Shigure-sama was writing it." She smiled slyly.
Tyler suddenly appeared over by his sister and Ashley with an odd look on his face.
"I think I'll stay over here." He said in a voice that suggested that he was officially creped out.
"AW, did Hatsuharu say something creepy? HAHAHA!"
"MY NAME IS NOT HATSUHARU!!!" Cory yelled in protest. He hated being called that. Amy and Kyla (being the dynamic duo that they were) had decided it was a good nickname for him even if he acted nothing like the now 28 year old Hatsuharu Sohma.
"That's right. I'm Hatsuharu."
All four of them jumped. As if on cue, the real Hatsuharu Sohma had walked in.
"Sohma-sensei!" they gulped in unison.
"If you four wouldn't mind. I would like to start class now."
Ashley, Cory. Amy, and Tyler sheepishly took their seats as the older Sohma walked toward the front of the room. The rest of the class snickered, earning them a dark look form both Amy and Ashley. They all promptly turned around and faced the front of the room.
Hatsuharu had gone and applied to Tokyo University the year he graduated. Surprisingly, he got in on his first try, finally proving to everyone who had ever laughed at him that he was NOT stupid or slow like the Ox in the legend. When he graduated he had landed a teaching job at the high school he and Momiji, along with Toharu, Yuki, and Kyo, graduated from. Now he was their Math teacher as well as junior class 2B's homeroom teacher. Thankfully Math wasn't till after lunch.
As soon as the lunch bell rang Amy had her food in her hand and was out the door. It amazed some of the other students how she always managed to be first outside to eat on the lawn, thought no one knew were she managed to hide while eating her meal, except maybe for her brother. And she was Always last in the room, usually a few seconds before the tardy bell rang.
Today however she didn't come back to class as she usually did. Hatsuharu had been waiting expectedly for her to burst through the door right before the bell rang so he could say "You run more like a cheetah then a dog." Like he did ever time. To that she usually replied in an out of breath state "Least I'm not a cow." All this was said quietly, no one else heard the exchange. But Haru didn't get the chance to use it today.
He waited for a few minutes half expecting her to bust in and shout "GOMEN NASAI!!" but it never came. He glanced at the class scanning over the other Sohmas who were equally confused as to what could make her so late. As if it would help, he addressed the class.
"Where's Sohma-kun." He said.
"Which one?" a very dull boy in front answered dumbly.
"Amy." He stated with a slight growl to his voice. The other Sohma's in the room tensed. Then a quiet girl in the back row raised her hand slowly.
"Yes Akira-san."
"I think I saw her behind the Gym."
"Your sure?"
"Well there aren't many girls wearing pants with long white hair." Said the girl next to her. Kyla and Tyler flinched. Someone must have made fun of her hair. That would explain it.
Haru nodded and scanned the room again. His eyes settled on Ashley.
"Ashley-san." Come up here and pass out the tests. I'm going to go retrieve our wayward student." And with that, Hatsuharu Sohma left the room, walking quickly down the hall. The situation was definitely not good.
Tyler, Cory, and Kyla got up shortly after Haru left the room to follow him. Ashley raised an eyebrow at her cousins as they winked at her in unison.
Behind the Gym
She really had been just minding her own business, eating her lunch, enjoying the image that popped into her head of Kylas' face every time she bit into an apple bunny. She could practically hear her best friend yelling "WHAAAA!!! Your eating my little brother!!" and then laughing manically as she herself took on of the bunnies and then stopping short of putting it in her mouth. "If I eat this...dose it make me a cannibal??" she would have said.
Amy laughed to her self quietly and then stopped when she heard voices around the corner. She slinked along the wall till she could hear clearly what they were saying.
"Have you seen that junior chick in 2B?"
"You mean the one with white hair?"
"Yea"
"She's creepy man! Or the blonde chick, with the chest! She's got to be foreign, I bet she's easy!"
"Yea, bet she'd be fun!"
"But then we'd have to deal with that Tyler guy, too."
"How would he find out?"
"Naki probably or that weird Ninja guy."
"You mean the Drama Nazi's?"
"Yea. Those two have ears EVERYWHERE! How many Sohmas go to this school anyway?"
"Like...8... if you don't count that weird Math teacher. What's with that guys' hair?"
"Yea I know. Is that natural? You would think that they wouldn't let a guy with hair like that teach, I guess the standards are slipping."
"No kidding! I bet he's…"
DING DONG (bell)
"Come on let's get back to class."
"Oh no you don't. Your not going ANYWHERE for a while. Not until I'm done with you!"
The two senior boys turned to look straight at the portrait of pure fury that was Amy Sohma.