A/N: I apologize for the further use of second POV. I know it annoys some of you, but I'm much to busy to be changing them all to third POV. So I figured I should get this chapter up. And yes! I am completely aware that there's no fox in the zodiac - ; I don't see the problem with using imagination.
Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket, although we wish we could.
"Haa'ri, my house is a war zone. Quick, come heal Shigure's boo-boo" Shigure whined on the phone.
Hatori sighed in exasperation, running a hand through his hair. "Shut. Up. Shigure. Why did you call me? I have work to do," he said stiffly.
"Oooo," Shigure pouted. "Haru and Kyo are fighting again."
Hatori resisted the urge to slap his forehead. "Then break them apart, I have better things to do than split apart the 2 stooges" he feverishly scratched his pen against the form he was filling out.
"Make that 3 stooges" Shigure corrected.
"Not Yuki, too" Hatori sighed, throwing on his doctor's coat, prepared to leave his unfilled forms to rid of the kink in his neck, meaning Shigure.
"Not Yuki. Hi-ka-ru" Shigured pronounced.
Hatori paused, then tossed in a bottle of pills and his medical bag. If Hikaru was in on it, it must be her time to take her pill for her to be in on Haru and Kyo's fight.
"I'll be over soon, try and keep Hikaru under control" Hatori ordered.
"But what about Kyo and Haru, how am I--" he got cut off by the operator. "Haa'ri" he whined, tears dripping down his face at his demise.
Shigure was left to watch in the corner of his living room as Kyo and Black Haru were fighting, you were throwing punches at whoever threw them at you. He was scared; punches were thrown every which way, coming so close to damaging his shelves and precious furniture.
"My furniture!" he weeped.
"Stop throwing punches at Hikaru, you BASTARD!" Kyo yelled, using an uppercut.
"Shut up, you stupid cat. I wasn't trying to punch her, I was just trying to get that fly on her stomach!" Haru said to his defense.
"That's the biggest load of bull, I've ever HEARD" Kyo managed to hit Haru, causing him to fly back and destroy Shigure's shelf.
"My books!" Shigure whined, leaping forward to catch them.
Haru was knocked out, allowing Kyo to calm his temper down and for Shigure to mourn over his books.
"My books, why my books! And WHY the house?" Shigure bawled before getting his but kicked, literally.
You stood there; face with a tint of red from anger and the excursion of energy you displayed in that fight. Before Haru was supposedly trying to get that 'fly', the both of you had a non-verbal argument. Mostly on a book you found on The Cow who Jumped Over the Moon. Apparently that's the biggest offense to Haru's nature, who later turned into Black Haru.
"I walked as fast as I could when I heard the books were being destroyed," Hatori said, opening his bag to bring out the bottle of pills.
"You could've ran a little" Shigure sniffled.
Hatori ignored Shigure before forcing open a refusing mouth, before plopping them in.
You frowned, tempted to spit them out. As much as you hate spitting out blood, you equally hate the taste and what the pill does to your system.
The pill made you feel weak, causing you to stay in bed for a few days while your stomach churned every time you moved just a little bit. And each time you had to take a pill, you were forced to eat healthy food you despised. The healthy food just so happened to be leeks, something both you and Kyo had in common with.
While Kyo with his obsession with fish, your weakness was chicken.
Hatori held a hand over your mouth, enough to keep the pill in so he won't hurt you with his strength.
Finally, after he knew you swallowed. You started to get sleepy, nearly falling to your knees if Hatori didn't catch you.
"1.5 minutes" Hatori sighed, before carrying you like a small child up the stairs.
"Kyon-Kyon, go make Hikaru some leeks" Shigure ordered with a big smile on his face.
Kyo's eye started to twitch, his back tensed as his hair stood on end.
"WHY THE HELL DO I HAVE TO? Get the damn rat to do it, there's no way I'm going NEAR those stupid leeks" Kyo cringed while glaring at Shigure.
"Aww, but then Hikaru would get sicker and sicker, sicker than a dog" Shigure pouted.
"There's no one sicker than you, you pervert. I'll do it, if it's for Hikaru to get well, then I'll gladly accept it if it gets the stupid cat out of the way" Yuki muttered dryly while walking out the door to gather a bunch of them from his garden.
Hatori stepped down the stairs, about to go slip on his shoes.
"Aww, Haa'ri. You didn't check my boo-boo's yet, and while you're at it, stay for some tea" Just as Shigure said that, Tohru came out of the kitchen with a tray of tea.
Kyo growled, tensing up before running up the stairs. The only thing he could do now was to stay as far away while Yuki boils the leeks. You're on your own now, no Kyo to bust you out of the room to save you. The last time that happened, you both ended knocked out with leek overdose.
"You didn't have to run away from my leeks like that" Shigure would've whined since he was the one who boiled them, Kyo was being concerned for your well being and decided you to get away from them.
Haru finally has awoken, sitting up in a confused state.
"Why does it feel like Hikaru's been jumping on me again?" he asked.
No one answered; all looked confused and just weirded out. Since when did Hikaru start jumping on people?
"It's nothing. Hatori gave Hikaru her pill so now she's sick as a dog" Shigure sang the last part.
"She's not a dog and she's not a pervert. I'm finished, so I'll go give it to Hikaru" Yuki said nonchalantly as he exited the kitchen and circled to the stairs.
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Haru slid the doors open to your room before entering quietly. His emotionless gaze slowly went over the room before landing on you sleeping in your futon with an extra blanket.
Setting the tray on your night side, he pulled a chair close to your bedside before putting the tray on his lap. Shaking you lightly on your shoulder, he watched as your eyes flickered open then closed once more. Patiently, he sat there while you got used to the blurry surroundings, the aftereffects of your pill causing your site to blur even more.
Haru shifted then moved you so you were sitting up, yet being propped up by a pile of pillows.
"Do you think you can eat?" he asked.
Your only reply was a nod and you opening your mouth so Haru would spoon-fed you.
He didn't seem to mind, in fact, he felt great just doing it. Never before was he able to nurse you back to health, since you always have Hatori or someone else to do it. He just felt useless back then.
The room was silent except for the splutters and coughs occurring from your throat from the awful taste of leaks. Haru didn't seem worried at all; he was used to seeing either you or Kyo trying to hack up the leaks, seeing as it was one of their least favourite foods.
Finally once you were done, he gave you some apple juice to wash the flavour down.
No one has ever done that for you before, except Shigure did try to sneak you some chicken since he felt positively devastated that you were in bed suffering. But then he got caught by Hatori and then later scolded for, so Shigure had to live with your suffering through it tore his little canine heart apart.
"But Ha'rii, she's suffering. 'Gure-sama was about to be a superhero to our dear kit" Shigure whined before he got dragged down the stairs, head hitting each step on the way down. "Oooh, play nice Ha'rii, that's my head!"
After finishing the apple juice, you stared up at the ceiling.
Haru just sat there, not saying anything but staring at you. He couldn't help his feelings, for once he was able to tell when he's gone Black Haru on you, but he couldn't be able to remember every detail other than the fact he tried to hurt you.
Sighing, he captured your attention to him by accident. Now you caught him staring at you.
Haru attempted a smile, but it came out as a frown. Now that was a mistake, the attention was away from him now.
You settled on counting the small hairline cracks in the ceiling that no one else would notice without 5 to 10 glances. You've grown accustomed to staring up at the ceiling and discovering any little oddity about it. Since it's your room and you can't help but feel curious about the things you haven't noticed before.
Of course, everything was more of a challenge at distinguishing what was what now that your eye vision was getting worse, near blind.
"Can't you do anything write you damn cow, water is soaking up her bed" Kyo growled out, fixing up what Haru has caused. He titled the glass back on the tray and snatched it away.
Now there was a huge wet circle at the edge of your bed, quickly being absorbed and spread to the middle of the bed at where you lay. It look liked you took a leak in your bed.
Haru quickly started to beat himself up on the inside. Couldn't he do anything right without being a total screw up?
Kyo threw a towel onto the bed and added pressure to the spot, letting the towel absorb up the water. "You can't just doze off while Hikaru's ill, damn it. If you were feeding her, then you'd be forcing a spoon down her throat while you space out" Kyo scolded, before stopping his actions.
Although the blanket was semi-dry, the water spot would take some time to fully dry.
Haru's insides boiled, his calmer demeanor was destroyed and unleashed Black Haru who quickly growled out, "Be quiet you stupid cat, like you can do any better when you can't even win a fight against Yuki!" he threw a punch.
Kyo's eyes flashed and growled; he blocked the hit before kicking him away.
"WHEN WILL IT GET THROUGH YOUR THICK SKULL THAT HIKARU'S SICK!" Kyo yelled, slammed the door shut.
"Be careful with my house, you two!" Shigure warned when he opened the door wide enough for his head to fit through, shaking his finger before closing it once more.
"I WOULDN'T HAVE TO IF THAT DAMN COW WOULD STOP SCREWING UP!" Kyo yelled, begrudgingly sitting at the edge of your bed.
Growling, he sat there brooding.
You blinked, then nudged Kyo a few times.
Kyo lifted his head, although he was glaring, he tried his best not to do so around you.
Pointing to your pillow, you handed it to him before snuggling in your bed, closer to the wall to allow Kyo some room to rest as well.
Kyo was still tired, although he still had the energy to beat the snot out of Haru, he still didn't have the usual energy that the rain always seemed to absorb. And you seeing that; allowed him vacancy in your bed so the both of you could sleep without further disturbance.
Kyo accepted the invitation as politely as he could, snatching the pillow away he buried his head into it before relaxing his body.
"Someday we'll be ahead of the cow AND that stupid rat" he muttered before drifting off.
You sweatdropped slightly, before you too drifted off, but not before catching a glimpse of black and white until your vision ended with black from closed eyes.
Haru's hand still held the door open a crack, standing there for who knows how long, studying how close you and Kyo were, even though the both were like brother and sister, he couldn't help but envy that closeness. Everyone else was able to get close, even Tohru managed to get in there somewhere, while he drifted away from the physical abuse he nearly put you through, and the fact that he always seemed to get ticked off easier when you were around the others.
Maybe he should keep his distance to collect himself. Shutting the door, he abandoned the hall to head on home.