Seriously how many people base their fanfictions in the middle of the desert? Not many oO;

Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket. No, I don't. Really.


The Great Party Cup Adventure!

We join our heroes at their bleakest hour, in the deserts of … places! They've gone without water for an entire three hours, and things are starting to look bleak for their survival. (Shigure has even started writing love stories in the dirt to Akito.)

In fact, it is only Akito who seems to be holding up well.

"Ah!" Ayame sighed, collapsing from exhaustion, taking Shigure down with him. The pair had been walking hand in hand, following Hatori, who was the most athletic of the trio, and Shigure had been dragging Akito's behind them. "Why is it Akito-sama alright and we aren't?"

Yes, it was true. Akito looked fine, and he wore a very innocent and black expression under his navy hair, but the most recent addition a party cup that he fiddled up and down with, sucking on the plastic.

Hatori briefly looked around. His hair was stuck firmly down on his forehead, and his white shirt was firmly plastered down on his chest. It looked like he'd just stepped out of a shower. "Because you idiot," He stated clearly to Ayame, "Akito's been getting moisture from the party cups."

"Really?" Ayame asked, swiping at the one in Akito's mouth. "Gimme that."

In response, Akito simply raised his head higher, causing Ayame's hand to miss and fall back on the ground.

"And here I was thinking this was going to be a great adventure." Said a crying Shigure. Akito paused to poke the sweaty back of Shigure, tilting his head.

"Shigure is dead?"

"I wish I was."

Akito had been acting more and more childish every day since he'd begun to eat Party Cups. His insanity seemed to disappear whenever he was with Shigure, and Hatori's excuse was that "the plastic had gotten to his brain", and he refused to think that it was just a fondness for Shigure that made Akito happy. It was the cups, damn it, the cups!

"What do you see, Hari?"

Ayame rose himself to his knees, and sat backwards. His hair was now short, having been forced to cut it because of the heat (it had actually cooked the back of his neck, leaving blisters), and it was now cut in a Yuki fashion.

"I see sand." Hatori replied, kicking it with his sand-filled shoe.

"Guys," Akito stated.

"Sand? Is that all?" Shigure sighed outwards, and didn't even bother to sit up.

"Guys," Akito repeated.

"This isn't any fun…" Ayame commented, rolling onto his buttocks, stretching.

"GUYS!" Akito yelled, making all three flinch. "This cup is talking to me. He says I can't eat him! Tell him other wise, Gure!"

"You can… Huh? Talking?" All three were looking at the cup dangling below Akito's jaw in a flash. Sure, they were probably hallucinating, but it wasn't often that a cup spoke – even if it was probably a mirage.

"You worthless humans! I am "Party Cup!"

"Well that much was obvious," mumbled Hatori, prodding the cup – making Akito hiss.

"Silence! I am to be your new god! I can get you out of this place!"

"Well sign me up!" Ayame stated immediately. Anything was better than getting out of this desert – even if it was hailing the almighty god of Party Cups.

"Me too." Said Shigure after consideration. Hatori was unconvinced, but he went along with it anyway.

"Can I be your priest?" Akito asked, prodding the cup that he'd been sucking on for two miles.

It isn't exactly clear how the four of them got out of the desert with the Party cups, but it resulted in Hatori curing himself of so many parasite bites that it wasn't even humanly possible, Shigure writing more romance novels then he had in his entire life time, (his assistant had reported him to the police as a poser, and it had taken four months of court work to prove that he was, in fact, Shigure Sohma), Ayame refused to come out in public with his hair the way it was, and did back work – letting Mine get all the publicity, and Akito brought constant offerings of glass cups to the God of Plastic Cups, and prayed constantly. He still ate them, however, and declared himself openly a "cannibal."


I'm sure Akito really got into all that religion oO;
I hear that in two years it had spread around the globe - Go Akito!