Second Chapter…
This fic was formerly known as "Baka Neko?" but now it's "Thorns". I couldn't keep it that because not everything's gonna be about Kyo. So, Yuki.
Baka Nezumi.
So Yuki wasn't exactly the best of the harvest, the cream of the crop, the sharpest pencil in the box. He wasn't perfect. He wasn't pure.
He was twisted. Twisted by Akito, and his many hours of torture in that dark room where he was held so often. Akito was the closest thing he'd ever had to a playmate. Until the day the boy snapped.
Black covered everything after that day, and Yuki could barely remember a day where Akito smiled a true, happy smile. He was a cruel person after and even before he snapped, but still Yuki had held a tiny hope that Akito still would treat him kindly.
His hope was shot down rather quickly.
Yuki didn't have a lot of hopes or dreams, except for having Machi accept him and Tohru become his mother somehow…and Ayame giving up on his quest to become the "Perfect Older Brother". Of course, the latter would never happen, but he still had hope about the first two.
Kyo.
He was rude, harsh, in-your-face, a really angry sort of guy, but one that could easily become your friend, given some time. All Yuki had wanted to do was become Kyo's friend- he loved his soft, orange hair- but the folktale had shaped their fates more than anyone knew. But Yuki and Kyo secretly harbored respect for each other, along with a fair amount of jealousy, not to mention anger. Even though they publicly hated each other with a passion, they both realized that without the other, they wouldn't be complete.
He didn't really know what to think about Kakeru, Naohito, Kimi…oh, god, Kimi…and Machi, the resident Student Council. He really didn't want to be viewed as the head of their little band, but below the surface, they were all really good people. If Kakeru could stop calling Nao "Chibisuke" and actually take his duties seriously for a change. Alas, Yuki knew that that would only happen when pigs flew.
His family was a rather sore subject for the nezumi. Yeah, so his parents were loaded. Yeah, so his brother was too flamboyant for anyone to really respect him. Yeah, so he lived with his perverted, novel-writing cousin. He hated his parents. They were cold-hearted people, money-minded and extraordinarily vain…much like most of the other Zodiac parents. But his mother literally sold him to Akito, which twisted him irreparably. He couldn't forgive that. And Ayame? Ayame was trying to make a difference, and whenever he came over, Yuki couldn't help but smile at the hilarious efforts he tried, just to get closer to his little brother.
His friends at school might call him lucky, and he was. Lucky to be living "outside," lucky to have Tohru and Machi near him, and lucky to be alive, curse or not.
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Next might be Shigure, Kagura, Kisa, or Haru. Review to suggest…
Due to lack of interest/tomorrow is cancelled/ may the clocks be reset/and the pendulums held
-Ruby, Kaiser Chiefs