Fruits Basket: High Above The Clouds

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Summery: Its been 5 years since the curse was broken, Kagura Sohma An airhostess returns back to Kaibara for the Sohma New Year as she had never been back for a while… what will happen now that she does not love Kyou anymore… but is he falling for her?

Chapter Four

It was so boring. He was just standing there in the hallway waiting for Kagura to show up. It was just because she was ten minutes late for meeting him and it had caused him to worry in case she wouldn't show. The phone call was something that he hadn't expected to do. It was just something he did in the heat of the moment. He really had expected her to jump at the chance to spend time with him and was very shocked when she hadn't agreed to it straight away.

"Hey." She spoke over the phone to him. Kyou had his silver phone pressed firmly to his ear. She had just called him. His ring call had caused passer-by's to stare. He returned these stares with a heated glare. He had blinked as she was speaking so casually. It was as if she hadn't realised that she was late? Kyou shook his head at Kagura. Not only was she absent minded in her youth, she still was now. Or was this just an act? Did Kagura actually want him to think that she had forgotten?

"Where are you?" He demanded over the phone. There was a possibility that he had shocked her with the firmness of his voice. He cleared his voice as he awaited an answer yet all he had received was a confused moan. "You were coming to help me, remember?" He asked as he studied his appearance in the glass window. His reflected acted as a mirror for him. The manager of this meeting had asked him to wear formal clothes for the meeting. It seemed he would have time to show off his moves later. So he was carrying a bag with a change of clothing over his shoulder.

"I was? I thought I was coming for moral support, Kyou. The support committee doesn't have to be on time." Kagura was teasing him over the phone. All he did was surpass a small sigh as his crimson eyes then narrowed. This was really testing his patience. He was going to be late and he knew that she knew it. "Just you go in and I'll see you later." Later? What did she mean by later? There was no later it was either now or never.

"Later? Kagura you have to come here, now!" He demanded over the phone. It was then that he got a lecture from Kagura for shouting at her. Gee, why couldn't she just be like she was when they were younger and just shout back at him? He really wasn't in the mood for a lecture. Not to mention he didn't have to time. "Okay, okay, Kagura. Shut up!" He said this in a softer tone but still with the seriousness that he had previously had. He didn't want to have to shout at her but this wasn't fair on him.

Kagura didn't have to be asked and if he knew she was going to be doing this then he wouldn't have bothered to ask her. He sighed as he scanned over his black suit over his scarlet shirt. He looked really suave. There was nothing more that he could do but go to the meeting without her. So where everyone else had a guest with him or her, he would be all on his lonesome. Well it wasn't like he wasn't used to being lonely. He had been rejected all his life by everyone… everyone that was, but Kagura.

"Listen, Kyou. I'm on my way now." He listened to her, about to shout out to her that she should be. He never got the chance to as a pair of hands came out of no where, covered his eyes, whilst lifted his head up slightly. He just gazed at the soft skin that shut out the world from him as his mouth lay open. "I said I was on my way." The hands moved away from him and grabbed his own as he looked towards her.

Kagura had just moved in front of him. She was wearing a blue top and the same coloured jogging trousers. He thought she was only here for moral support. This dress code was for fighting or training. She must have known that he was going to keep pestering her to show off their moves. He just stared off into space as she pulled him towards the meeting room. Yet her giggles still lingered in his ears. She had found this funny?

"Come on, before you're late." He watched her smile form softly as finally he snapped out of it. He went to shout but was pulled through the door where everyone else stared at them. They were all going to get the wrong impression. They were going to think that Kagura was his girlfriend. How wrong they were. That would never happen. She had tried to force that to happen for so many years and it still didn't happen. Kyou only gave a sarcastic remark to Kagura's sentence before he grasped his hands back from her grip.

"I'm going to go introduce myself. You can sit… over there." Oh yes, he would gesture to somewhere further away to where he was, wouldn't he? He started to go over towards the male who had organised the meeting, Jordan, but his eyes still wandered back towards Kagura. "I brought someone else that Kazuma had taught martial arts to. That's Sohma Kagura." Kyou introduced her with a nod of the head to the male. Jordan was an American martial arts tutor. Kyou was interested in finding out what type of arts he taught.

"I know, Kazuma, only teaches part of the Sohma family. So what in relation is Kagura to you?" Jordan asked as his blonde hair swept to the side of his face. Kyou only gazed back to Kagura because of this, to see that she was sitting by the other female guests that came to this meeting. Which, he had to admit was more like a party than a meeting. Kazuma wanted Kyou to make some friends, didn't he. He bet there would be no training this night, only mingling with other people. Kazuma was always concerned about how little friends Kyou had. Kyou liked not having any friends though, it meant no one could hurt him and he couldn't hurt anyone else.

"Kagura-san's my cousin." Yes like Kagura. Kyou had hurt Kagura many times in the past. Though, to be honest, she had hurt him more times physically than he had done to her emotionally. This caused a smile to form on his face. Only now seeing how much Kagura had changed could Kyou see the funny side of what had happened when they were younger? As terrible as it was, and how much it hurt, the way Kagura had snapped like that was rather humorous. Kyou would have to give her credit for overcoming her mental problem. Again though, just showing your emotions too hard couldn't be considered a mental problem so that might offend Kagura. Kyou would have to choose his words carefully.

"Your cousin. I see. Was she the only girl who Kazuma had taught? I had only been told about you, Hatsuharu and Yuki." Yuki, yes there was that name again. The one that made Kyou's blood boil. He could never defeat Yuki and even now the curse was broken he was still really determined to do so. Although Yuki had near enough given up fighting, he was always with Tohru. Yes, many people had thought that Tohru would have ended up with Kyou but Kyou knew there was no way that would happen. He didn't like Tohru like that. She was a good friend, for sure, but in a relationship or romantic way he couldn't. He didn't really like love. He didn't want to love anyone. Everyone he loved had disappeared. That and he didn't want to accept that anyone might love him.

"Yes, Kagura was the only girl." Even though that was true, Kagura wasn't the only girl around Kazuma. Isuzu took refuge there for some time after she became so ill that she tried to run away. Kyou just thought of something. It was then, after Akito hurt Isuzu that Kagura started to drift away from the family. He hadn't really known if Isuzu and Kagura were close but to think about it, they had lived with each other for so long before that. Yet Kagura also knew about how Akito had hurt Kisa and Hatori too. Akito had hurt them all because they had loved. They had found love. Kagura had thought she had found love. She had loved him for so long but was never hurt. Could that be because Akito knew that the love she thought she had didn't happen to be true love? Either way, that was when Kagura had started to change. Looking at her now, it may just be a good thing that she did.

Kyou couldn't seem to tear his eyes away from Kagura as she spoke with the other ladies. After he had figured out the two things about how it was funny when she used to hurt him and about why she had probably changed, he seemed fascinated by her. Jordan had left him to chat to some of the other people there. When Kagura caught his eye she only gave him a simple smile. Kyou wondered though, what would she have been like now if she hadn't changed? She may have been the lovesick maniac who he would have disliked. He had once said that she was like a sister to him. Was that still true now? Was she still like a sister to him or did he wish that she were something more to him?

"Hey Kyou, let's go outside for a moment." Kagura's voice rang in his head like a bell as he looked back to her. She was standing by the glass doors to the balcony outside the hotel room where the meeting was being held. Kyou gave a simple nod wondering what Kagura had to tell him. It wasn't probably that important. She may have been as bored as he was. This wasn't as exciting as he had hoped it would be. Although many knew that Kyou didn't find anything but martial arts exciting. So perhaps Kagura was striking up conversation so they could find some way to be less bored. "It won't take long I promise." Or he could have been wrong as that second sentence was implying they would only be talking about one subject.

Kyou started to walk behind Kagura. The girl had just opened the door to outside. The wind wasn't as strong as he had expected it to be. This he could tell was because her hair wasn't moving from the way she had it styled. He really hadn't taken time to examine her closely but now he could. Her hair, which he had been used to being around her shoulder blades when they were younger, was shorter but managed to be held half back. She held a smile and her hazel eyes were smiling alongside her lips. He walked out beside her into the fresh air. His shoulders loosened, as he felt more comfortable being just with the one person. Being inside there with all those strangers was making him feel a little claustrophobic. He was happy though, to spend this time with Kagura.

"That's a little better. It was a little stuffy in there." She laughed as she leant back against the railing. Her eyes were staring, although at him, right through him. At least this was what he felt like they were doing. He really enjoyed being on his own, up on that rooftop at home, but he liked this too. Being with someone he had grown up with. Actually getting along with that person where no shouting was being heard or given. He didn't feel like he didn't belong. He felt like, now the curse was broken and he was no longer that cat that he had the right to be around Kagura and spend some time with her. So this was what he was doing right now. Making up for time he had lost thanks to the curse. Even if he had to admit that he was going to be doing that with Kagura. He never would have expected this to be the future, back when he was sixteen years old.