Chapter 7: Yuki's checkup #1
Yuki smiled as he saw Tohru and Kyo come home through his window. From the look of things the contract deal was a success. His smile faded when he saw the look Kyo always gave Tohru and the small blush upon her cheeks. Yuki wished deeply for something like that. He was close once but it was obvious Kyo won, though he would never admit it. Oh how he wanted it bad. That feeling they shared. Love.
"Yuki we're home!" Tohru called from downstairs. Yuki broke from his train of thought and went downstairs to greet them.
"Hello Miss Honda. How was the meeting?" he asked just to hear her voice.
"Oh it went great! Kyo made a contrct and starts recording next Monday on his demo."
"That's good." he said though his mind was distant.
"Oh! what would you like for dinner Yuki?"
"Anything's good. You should probably ask that stupid cat what to eat since it's his night." Yuki pionted out. Suddenly Shigure popped out of nowhere.
"Ah, my lovely little Tohru, you're finaly home! I was so lonley when you were out meeting that talent agent. And don't even get me started on lunch! I swear Yuki burns everything he touches, and sweet Annick didn't know were anything was so we had to order take out!" Shigure whined
"Oh uh, I'm sorry! I didn't know! I'll get started on dinner right away!" she panicked.
"Don't worry about it Miss Honda. Shigure is just being his melodramatic self. Take your time, no need to rush." but his stomache betrayed his words when a monsterous growl came out of it. "Well mabey you could hurry a little." he mutterd.
"Right." she smiled sweatly and went into the kitchen. Yuki let out a deep sigh as he went back upstairs and into his room. He looked back out the window and saw Annick muttering to herself as she came home. He knew of her feelings for Kyo and felt sorry for her, just as he felt sorry for Kagure. Neither of them shall ever have his heart for it belonged to Tohru. And vice versa, Kyo owned the one thing Yuki never had besides freedom.
"Monsieur Yuki! The dinner is ready!" Annick called out. Releif conquered Yuki at the thought of food as he drifted down to eat.
"Hello Miss Rioux, how are you?" Yuki asked once he was at the table.
"Oh, I am good. Merci Monsieur Yuki for ask. And you?"
"Oh I'm fine. But um, it's asking, not ask Miss Rioux."
"Merci. Asking right! Oh! Monsieur Sohma (shigure) it is time to eat!" Annick called out. Shigure right then and there 'magically' appeared at his eating spot.
"Ah, food food food! Tohru you spoil me so. The heavens must be gracious for they gave me an angel." Shigure said with flooded tears running down his face. "The only thing to make this better is..." he ran with his dinner to his room and shut the door.
"What the hell was that!" cried Kyo. Yuki glared at him for using such language at the table. He opposed of such things until he heard Shigure on the phone.
"See you soon Aya." Click.
"Damn you Shigure!" Yuki screamed as he ran to Shigure's room. He tried to open it but it was locked. "Shigure if you don't open this door right now Your going to regret it deeply." Nothing. "That's it!" He kicked down the door to find an empty room. He ran and opened the front door just as Ayame was about to knock on it.
"Yuki my adorable little brother! It's time for us to bond. For I, Ayame Sohma shall not rest until we do!" Ayame cried smileing hugely, and at that moment the scent of flowers filled the house and it was as if the sound of polka music was in the air. Yuki automatically slammed the door shut and locked it. "Uh, Yuki. You seem to have locked the door." Yuki ignored him and went back to the table.
"Um, Yuki shouldn't we-"
"No Miss Honda we'll just leave him alone. I have no time to deal with that brother of mine for the time being. I have enough trouble at school with Kimi and Kakeru. Which reminds me-" Yuki finished his meal and bid Tohru and Annick goodnight as he headed to his room. Once he was there he pulled out his cell phone and dialed. Rrriiinnngg. Rrrriiinnngg. "Hello? Hi it's Yuki."... "Yes I called you, don't make such a big deal of it."... "Listen, wanna hang out tomorrow?"
The next day Yuki got up early, and grabbed a peice of toast for breakfast (which he burned). He left a note on the refrigerator door and took off. He waited by a flower shop entrance for an hour looking at his watch irritablely. "Come on. That basturd, what's taking him so long?" Yuki mumbled. Crash! Yuki turned around to see Machi lying on the ground by him with some pots broken all around. "Huh. M- Machi! Are you okay? Are you hurt?" She looked up at him looking as if she was going to speak when the shop owner came yelling.
"Ah! My flowers! My pots! They're ruined! What a horrible day this has been!!!"
"Oh! Ah, I'm sorry. I'll pay for the damages!" Yuki said after helping Machi up. The owner looked relieved and gladly accepted the 3,ooo yen. After escaping the little sinerio, Machi looked at Yuki.
"You didn't have to do that." she muttered.
"Huh? What was that?" Yuki said confused.
"You didn't have to do that! It was my fault I could have done something, not you!" Machi said angry. Yuki stepped back, but recovered quickly.
"Well excuse me for being helpful to a friend." he stated bluntly.
"Well no one asked you to help! And why on earth were you at a flower shop any way?"
"Well sorry for being a good person! And just to let you know I was waiting for someone! But the basturd hasn't showed up yet and I had been waiting for an hour! Good for nothing Kakeru! I actually call him to see if wants to hang out and leaves me by a flower shop for over an hour! He can at least have the decency to call me if he was going to be late or not show!" People passd by cautiously avoiding the two and their spat.
"Manabe? He told me to pick him up a flower today." Machi said a bit more calm.
"What? When?"
"This morning. He asked me to pick up this one rose for him to use in a photo he was doing for his girlfriend. He even gave the exact directions to the store it was at. See?" she said holding up a bag with a rose gentley wrapped inside.
"Did he give you a specific time?"
"Yes. Did he tell you the place?"
"No, I did. It was the closest place from both our places and the shop we went to last time with you and Kimi and Nao. I had liked the shop and I was bored so I called Kakeru to see if he wanted to. After all, I knew Nao wouldn't come and if I asked Kimi she would think it was a date. And I wasn't sure if you were busy or not and if you'd even want to. Plus I only knew Kakeru's number" Yuki said in grave disapointment. Without realizing it, Machi was blushing madly at the fact that Yuki wanted to hang out with her. "Machi? Are you feeling all right?"
"Uh, uh of coarse I'm alright! How idiotic can you be!?" she suddenly snapped.
"It's not my fult that you're as red as a tomato! What am I supposed to think when you're like that!?" Yuki yelled back. "And what's with that idiot comment? What are you Kakeru? He's a bad influence, he's even got me acting weird!" Right then Machi started laughing. She didn't even realize it, she just laughed. "What, may I ask, is so funny?"
"Manabe's got you acting weird? I'm sorry but I think you were past that before you even became president." She laughed even harder (she still doesn't know she's laughing). Yuki embarassed pushed her gentley to the side as if to blow off the comment. In return Machi pushed Yuki forcefully causing him to fall into a wishing fountain (yes people those still exist;).
"Ahh!" he cried as water splashed all around him. Both were at first quiet, but then Yuki demanded assistance. "If you're going to push someone into a fountain, you might as well have the decentcy as to help them out." he stated bluntly.
"Fine" As she reached over to pull him up he had pulled her down by accident (I'm telling the truth, she's that weak). "Ahh!" Splash. Yuki looked at Machi, who was on her knees in fountain. The very sight of her fluster made him begin to laugh.
"Phfff. Hahaha!" Machi at first glared but then, she too got caught up in laughter. They sat there for a long time just laughing, and during the whole time, without realizing it, their hands were still holding onto each other.
Before long the sun looked like it was soon going to set (that's how long there were there, and it's fricken winter/spring people! what's wrong with them! Oh yeah me:). Machi finally realizied that she was holding his hand and quickly let go, but appearing only to help herself up in Yuki's view. He too started getting up and realized how long they had been there and the fact that it was cold. "Well I guess we've been here a while." Yuki chuckles. He looked over at Machi and noticed his coat was safely on the ground compleatly dry. Then something hit him. "Machi? You laughed."
Her face went compleat beat red realizing for the first time too. "S- so! What if I laughed? Huh? It's not a big deal or anything!" Yuki looked at her puzzled.
"Well that's true I guess. It's just that, well I never heard you laugh before. I thinks it's cute. Just like when you blow up like you did just now. It's cute." Machi's face grew even redder. Then she felt somthing warm gentely fall onto her sholders.
"?" She turned around to see Yuki had put his jacket on her. "Wh- why-"
"It would be terrible if you caught a cold. And please, don't try to refuse it okay? Just accept it, you could think of it as part of my apology. The rest can be a surprise." (And believe it or not) Machi's face changed to the darkest shade of red possible.
"You're wierd. Completely weird." was the only thing she said. It was enough to make Yuki laugh. 'A wierd person.' "You know, Kakeru's gonna be mad that the rose is broken." she said looking at the water soked bag.
"Too bad. That's what he gets for not showing up himself. If he really needed it he could have gotten it himself. I'm just sorry you wasted your money for nothing."
"Wasn't my money." Machi smiled devilishly. Yuki chuckled again, in an evil way.
"You know, your cute when you smile. Even if it's an evil smile. And you should really laugh more. It's nice." They walked together silently, without even knowing where they were going. Darkness fell over and the stars shined bright. Crickets chirped and Yuki's stomach growled, along with Machi's. "Sorry about that. I haven't had anything since breakfast. Know anywhere good?"
'Again. He asks these simple questions, but I'm too stupid to answer. It's always with him.' Her head was down; too ashamed to look up.
"Mabey you don't? It's okay, this is probably a ways from your place so of course you wouldn't know. Oh! I know. How about that shop? I think we're pretty close, what do you say?" He looked at her with a five year old's wide smile. Machi's heart skipped a beat and blindly, she followed him. It wasn't long until they reached the shop. Luckily it was opened.
They sat themselves down at a table and ordered their drinks. Their waitress blushed madly at the sight of Yuki, and sighed seeing him with Machi. 'It's always the cute guys who are taken.' Machi sat uncomfortably after seeing the way
the waitress looked at them. They didn't realy look like a couple. Did they?
"What's wrong Machi? You seem to be troubled with something." Yuki's eyes narrowed with curiosity and worry.
"It's nothing that concerns you president."
"Well alright. I supose your right but, could you not call me that?"
"Should I call you Yun-Yun?" she said smiling.
"Was that a joke?" Yuki chuckled, "No I rather you never call me that. Ever. How about we stick with Yuki?"
"Aww, and here I was hoping to be just like Manabe." she laughed (She's been doing that a lot today, wierd huh?).
"No. Never. That's a bad idea. One Kakeru is bad enough, I can't handle two. It would be like me being Ayame, impossible." The waitress came with their drinks and took their order. Yuki let out a deep sigh and sipped his tea.
"Who's Ayame?" Machi asked sipping her tea (They got the same thing).
"My older brother. Kakeru is just like him in so many ways. It's probably the reason why I can't stand him sometimes. Be thankful you will never meet him." (And as things would have it) Yuki's cellphone rang. "Hello?"
"Yuki my boy, how are you? You know you should call more. It makes me feel lonley if you don't." came the annoying voice that belonged to one Ayame. The sound of polka music came and Aya's voice rang thoughout the shop.
"Wha- How did you get this number!" Yuki yelled at the really loud voice.
"Ohhoho, Yuki my sweat little brother. That is a surprise. If you really want to know, then we should go out somewhere and continue to repair the gap between us and bond as brothers should."
"The day I do anything brotherly with you is the day of your funeral!"
"Oh, anything as long as we have that special moment of platonic bonding. Even if it's my funeral I will be able to rest in peace knowing you were there, in great sorrow of your precious brother's death."
"On second thought, you can rot away alone for all I care! And why on earth are you even calling?"
"I sneezed and figured that you must be mentioning how wonderful you big brother is."
"It's the exact opposite. I was mentioning how you're the worst brother ever!"
"That's Ayame?" Machi cut in. Yuki tried to keep her quiet but Aya herd.
"Oh! Who is this!? Why Yuki I didn't know you had a girlfriend! I can't wait to tell Hitori! Yuki's on a date, oh what joy!"
"Stop
telling Hitori everything! I'm hanging up on you."
"Welcome
to The Rose Corner (I made the name up sorry but no idea of shop's
name). How may I help you?" said a waiter at the entrance door.
"What's that? Rose Corner? Is that where you guys are? I'll be right over!"
"No you wo-" Click. "Damn it. If we're lucky we'll be gone before he shows up." Yuki sighed and looked at the stunned but blushing Machi. The waitress slowly walked up to the table with their food and nervously walked away, thinking to herself:
'Mabey it's better I'm not going after him. I mean who talks on his cellphone in the middle of a date? And so mean to his brother, sheesh. It's true what they say, beauty is only skin deep.' Everyone else was more or less thinking the same thing, but Machi.
"Your brother really does sound abnoxious. Now I'm worried."
"Well there isn't much to worry about. We might be able to get away before he finds out where this place even-" Yuki stopped. Coming up to the door was none other then that idiotic brother who stunned both the host and hostess with his unatural charm. "What did I do to make Karma hate me so." Yuki sighed.
Machi blinked at him confused but then heard that voice from the cellphone come from behind. "Oh there you are Yuki! Sorry it took me so long, but it took awhile to convince Hitori to come with to see for himself." She turned around to see two young men in their mid 20's come up to them. One had golden eyes and long silver hair, the other had short, jet black hair and brown eyes.
"My apologies Yuki, for the inconvenience of your brother. The only thing I could do to make him shut up was to go with him. Otherwise he would have just dragged Shigure along and I didn't think you would like that any better." The more sensible looking one (Hitori) said.
"It's alright Hitori. I just wished he had brains in that head of his."
"Oh Yuki, aren't you the hilarious one! Ha ha ha. Oh! And who is this lovely flower?" Ayame said leaning close to Machi. She backed away with her cheeks turning crimson red.
"That, would be my friend Machi, and she would apreciate it if you weren't so close to her face. As would I." Yuki stated bluntly.
"Machi, pleasure to meet you. I am Yuki's fabulous older brother, Ayame Sohma. So tell me, how long have you and my little Yuki been seeing eachother?" Machi remained silent. She had no idea how to answer. Any kind of question that wasn't school related she had no answer to. "Come now. I know my beauty and grace may be stunning but there really is no need to be shy. Just as long as you don't dump Yuki for me. I'm sorry but I could never do that to my little brother."
"What on earth is he talking about?" Machi finally said looking over to Yuki.
"I'm not sure. But I do know it's something stupid."
"I think I can see how Manabe reminds you of him. Completely stupid."
"So meeean! You two are perfect for eachother. You're both really mean to me!" Ayame cried with fake tears rolling down his cheeks.
"Be a man and shut up." said Hitori coldly. "Now we disturbed them enough, lets go."
"Okay!" said a now cheerful Ayame.
"How is it that he's leaving now when the cooler guy says so?" Machi whispered.
"He only listens to Hitori. Hitori is Aya's role model. He has characteristics that Ayame really admires. So he does almost whatever Hitori tells him to do. It's been like this since they were in high school." Ayame waved good-bye and Hitori apologized a second time. It really was one exciting day but Machi had just about enough, same with Yuki.
When they left the shop it was about nine-thirty. Yuki walked Machi down the street with her arm looped through his. They passed the school when Yuki noticed the front gate was opened. "That's wierd. Why is the gate opened?" Yuki walked closer to it. "Should we check it out?"
"Your asking me?"
"Well who should I ask?"
"Never mind. What do you think will happen if we check it out?"
"Who knows. Could be that the janitors might have forgot to lock it. Or mabey someone broke in."
"If we go, we're most likely to tell the others. Then Manabe and Kimi will want to know why we were here. Then if we tell them that, they'll think that we were on a date."
"True for the most part, but Kakeru would most likely to know why because it was his fault that this fiasco even came to be. So... wanna go?" Yuki chuckled. Machi walked right past him and onto the campus. At first Yuki was stunned, he wasn't being serious, but then he too walked in.
The darkness of the school sent an interesting aura that sent chills up their spines, but at the same time made Yuki think of Hana (Meanwhile Hana sneezes while sipping tea). They walked around the school for any clues when Machi tripped over near the back door. "Machi are you all right?"
"I'm fine. Look." she simply said pointing over to the door. It was creaked opened with a light shining threw. Yuki helped her up and they both walked into the building. Walking down the hallway, they noticed a strange humming noise. Following it they went upstairs and into the student council room. Looking around they found out that it came from next door. And it was the janitor with late night sprucing.
"Well that solves that." Yuki whispered into Machi's ear. She blushed at his closeness and ducked away before the janitor saw them. They quickly hid back into the council room when she (the janitor) came out and headed towards them. In order not to get caught, Yuki and Machi quickly hid in the storage room.
It was at least an hour by the time the janitor finaly left and turned the lights out. When Machi saw the light fade from the door's crack she urged Yuki to open the door. Problem was, the door was locked (of coarse). " What! great, this is just great! How are we going to get out!" Yuki whisper-screamed (that's when you whisper but it sounds like you have a horse voice).
"You could kick it down. I can't because I don't have a chair like last time."
"I can't or else we could risk the janitor finding us out. Plus I might kick the wrong thing. I can't exactly see all to well in here."
"So turn on the light." He tried, but the lights still weren't working.
"You think they would have gotten these lights fixed after I got stuck in here last time. Well we might as well stick around a while." Yuki stumbled around and found a bunch of pillows under one big quilt from the Home Ec. class. "Wow, this place really is a dump. I'm mean why on earth is there pillows and a quilt here? Convenient though." Yuki chuckled as he spread the quilt on a big open space of floor (It was difficult to move that junk let me tell you, oh and if the janitor has time to clean the rooms up this late then why not the storage room! come on). He also found a plugg-in night light that worked. After turning the small light on, he set a couple of the pillows down and motioned Machi to come over. "This can be your bed Machi."
"What about you?" she asked quietly.
"I'll find somewhere to sleep."
"No. You made it, so you can sleep here." Machi was about to rise up but Yuki stopped her.
"No. I made it for you so you can sleep here." Yuki responded annoyed.
"That's fine. I can fend for myself. You don't have to do this."
"I don't have to but I want to! So just accept it and go to sleep!" Yuki raised his voice a little.
Getting red in the face Machi too raised her voice. "I don't want it. So you take it!"
"How can you say that! Stop being so inflexible! You're sleeping here and that's final. Good night Machi." Yuki rose up but she pulled him down. While falling, Machi fell herself lying flat onto the quilt causing Yuki to hold himself up with his hands so that he didn't transform. Unfortunatly, though he did hold himself up, he was sitting on Machi's pelvis while being inches away from her face with his hands near each side of her head.
They both blushed bright crimson red but neither moved for a long time. Finally clicking it all together, Yuki gently rose up and got off her. Machi, however was still in a daze from what almost happened. It puzzled her of how fast her heart was beating and how it sank a little when he got off (Not what you think you little perverts!Cough, cough). Well then I guess I go find myself a spot." he started to move but she grabbed his shirt and didn't let go.
"Lets share." was all she said. She moved over to one side, and left him a big space with a good sized pillow. Machi kept her back to him so he wouldn't see her face.
"Alright." He lied down next to her but also kept his back in her direction. But right before he fell alseep he remembered something important. 'Oh! I should call the house. I'm sure Miss Honda must be woried.' he thought. Yuki dialed the phone and sure enough, Tohru answered.
"Hello?" came her sweet soft voice.
"Hey it's me. Sorry it's late but um... I'm staying with a friend. Hope that's okay."
"Oh of course Yuki! It's great you're hanging out with friends. Oh did you eat?"
"Yes of course I ate. I'll see you tomorrow okay?"
"Yes, no problem. Bye and pleasent dreams."
" 'Night." He hung up and looked over at Machi. 'Well I'm sort of not lying.' "Hey Machi? You need to call home?"
"No." she said quietly. She remained quiet and seemed to have fallen asleep. Yuki leaned close to her ear and whispered gently,
"Good night. Machi." He then too, went into a deep sleep on hopes of a night with no troubles. Machi blushed madly when he had whispered to her and tried her very best to pretend to sleep until she knew he was. Turning over she looked at his rising and falling chest. The soft glow of his pale face with the dull night light upon him made her see why all the other girls seemed to love him so. She quickly shook that feeling off and turned around so she couldn't see him. Then at last without knowing when, she fell asleep.
