WHACK!
"Leave her alone!" Yuki and Kyo yelled at Ayame who was struggling to get off the floor.
"I just wanted to tell her the story about the time I saved all those-"
"I thought we already established that it was Hatori who got you all out of trouble." Yuki interrupted.
"Why are you even here?" Kyo grumbled.
"So I can get to know Ana-chan better!" Ayame replied brightly.
How he knew that I would be at Shigure's house today, I'm not sure, although I was starting to think that he might have planned something with Momiji who had dragged me here after school. Apparently everyone else had also reached this conclusion and started to look from one to the other of the pair in question suspiciously. 'Everyone' consisted of Yuki, Kyo, Tohru, Haru, and Shigure. Well actually Haru looked indifferent (he would probably be in on it if such a conspiracy existed), Shigure looked unsurprised, and Tohru sweat-dropped, so only Yuki and Kyo actually looked suspicious. Rather than suspicious I was more amused by this assumed revelation. Finally Yuki voiced everyone's thoughts and asked,
"Did Momiji tell you that he was going to bring Anato here?"
"He mentioned it."
"And then you decided to use this knowledge as an excuse to come here and bother us?"
"I wanted to see Ana-chan, Tohru, and you, my little brother!" I felt like the only one he really wanted to see was Yuki who said,
"Well you're not welcome here. Get out."
"Awwww, don't be like that, Yuki."
While the siblings argued Tohru had been making rice-balls and at this point they were done. She brought me one of them but before I could take it Ayame grabbed it and said,
"Why thank you, Tohru, for this delicious rice-ball." And he would have eaten it too if Yuki hadn't
WHACKed him and caught the rice-ball out of the air with skill. He handed it to me, and halfway between a sweat drop and laughter I took it and said,
"Um... thanks, Yuki."
"You're welcome Miss Yuhiko." I raised my eyebrow at his return to the formal name but didn't say anything assuming it was just to do with his mood.
Tohru went around the group, giving each person a rice-ball. When Momiji got his rice-ball he jumped up and down saying,
"Thank you, Tohru, thank you so much!"
I smiled. Momiji was just so cute! I feel so lucky to have him as my best friend. I find I have to force myself not to hug him constantly. I'm glad that I found out about the secret here at Shigure's house because otherwise I would have given in to temptation one day and hugged him, most likely at school, right in front of all our classmates. I know that if that happened then I would probably not be allowed to know about them. But then I would probably do it again so either they would let me know or they would find some way to isolate me from him, or something like that.
While I was obsessing over Momiji and rambling on in my head, Yuki and Ayame continued their... conversation. My thoughts were suddenly interrupted when Ayame yelled,
"Oh Yuki! Our bond is getting stronger!"
He jumped forward trying to hug Yuki but the younger sibling just stepped out of the way, their bond was obviously no stronger than it had been before. Of course Ayame kept going because of a funny thing called momentum. And I happened to be standing right behind Yuki. There was a great collision and a poof of dust. If I hadn't been preoccupied trying to figure out what in the world was going on I would have been exited to see what animal was hiding in said poof of dust. I have been wondering what animal of the zodiac Ayame was. When the cloud dispersed I saw a snake lying in a pool of Ayame's clothes. For a moment we all just looked at Ayame. Then Momiji broke the silence,
"Ana-chan! Ana-chan! Guess what animal Ayame is!"
I snickered .
"Hmm... it couldn't be the snake, could it?" I asked in mock deliberation.
"Yay! You got it right!" Momiji cheered.
"Of course she got it right, you idiot." Kyo grumbled. However this comment was largely ignored and there was cry of, "Wonderful job, Ana-chan!" issued from the snake on the floor. I noticed that Yuki seemed to have vanished and guessed that he had finally gotten sick of Ayame and retreated to his room or gone on a walk or escaped by some other means. If I had known about his 'Secret Base' then I would have correctly guessed that he went there. Deciding to alert the others to his absence I asked,
"Does anyone know where Yuki went?" I immediately regretted it, thinking that Yuki deserved some peace. It was too late for peace however because when Ayame discovered that his brother was gone he formed a search party and was halfway through assigning places to look for the poor boy when Tohru seemed to make the decision to tell them him that Yuki was probably working on his 'Secret Base.'
"A Secret Base! My dear Yuki is so dramatic! Where would this fortress be found, Tohru?" Right at that moment there was a great poof and there stood a naked Ayame. I had almost forgotten that he was a snake and I was shocked at the nakedness and completely embarrassed. On the night I found out about the family curse, I had fainted before anyone turned back and Shigure had forgotten to tell me that that they change back naked, but I got the message now.
Ayame got dressed and eagerly started interrogating Tohru about Yuki's 'Secret Base' again. She explained how it was just a garden and how she knew where it was and of course Ayame insisted that she show him. I was also curious so I decided to come along as well. Upon learning this Momiji suddenly was also very interested and so he wanted to come too. Haru, who I noticed had been very quiet today, said that he was also curious. Shigure looked like he was going to the movies, he was even holding a bag of popcorn, when he said that he'd tag along and Kyo was somehow dragged into going too.
And so our large party of seven set off on an adventure that I felt needed the titled, Tohru Honda Leads the Way to Yuki's Secret Base! Or something like that. When we got there is was rather anticlimactic. All it was, was a simple garden which Yuki was watering. It was a peaceful scene for a second but then Yuki looked up. When he saw the huge group of intruders, at first he just froze and stared at us. However he wasn't given much time to do this because soon after arriving, Ayame started ranting and raving. Yuki, who was furious, violently put a stop to this ranting and the chaos that was the Sohma family ensued. Overall it was a good day.
A/N- I don't know whether Ayame knew about Yuki's secret base or not but in my story he didn't. Also I'm begging you to review! Please! I'm begging you!
