--Heh heh. I, like, just woke up and I was like "TO THE INTERNET!!!" While eating waffles. Mmm…waffles…Anywho, thanks for your input, Krad's little angel. Uhh…Woo! On to Chapter 10!
Disclaimer: If I owned Fruits Basket, I'd live in an undersea laboratory and the little fishies would be my minions…but I don't, and they aren't, so that's that.
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-Chapter Ten-
Kyo walked outside into a warm summer day. It was around April or May and the trees' luscious green coats of leaves had grown in.
Kyo felt the breeze whisper around the branches and through his hair. He stepped off the porch and onto the sea of green grass.
"Skye?" he called, not seeing the girl. "Where'd you go?"
"Up here," a voice answered.
Kyo looked up, into one of the tall trees, to see the girl's form draped over a branch.
"What are you doing up there?" he asked.
"I dunno," was the response.
Kyo took hold of a low branch and began to climb. When he reached the limb just below where Skye was, he pulled himself onto it and sat there, feeling the wind.
Skye sighed from her position leaning against the tree's firm trunk. Kyo looked up at her.
"What?"
The girl blinked at the question. "Eh?"
"What was the sigh for?"
Skye shrugged. "It's just really nice up here. Relaxing, you know?"
"Relaxing? How much more relaxed can you get?" Kyo laughed. "Any more relaxed and you'd be as lewd as Haru."
Skye rolled her eyes. They were silent. Then-
"So?"
Skye blinked at the sudden vague question. "So…what?"
Kyo looked up at her again. "How do you deal with that?" He nodded toward the house.
Skye raised an eyebrow. "That?"
He nodded. "Emily. I hate to say it, but…" he paused, "…sometimes she can be even worse than Yuki."
Skye chuckled. "You learn to live with it."
Kyo looked at her with a "what-the-hell-are-you-on?" expression.
She shrugged. "It's true."
Kyo looked away, into the distance. "No, you just give in too easily." He looked back at her. "You don't fight."
Skye opened her mouth, paused, then closed it again. She looked away.
Kyo stared at her curiously. "Why don't you fight back?"
"Why provoke her?" Skye didn't turn around. "And besides, it's just not…the way I am."
Kyo didn't say anything. He leaned back on an elbow and closed his eyes. After a moment, he said, "That's stupid…and it's not true."
"What?" Skye looked down at him.
"You're an idiot," he answered, eyes still closed. "You weren't always the way you are now."
Skye stared at him. "What are you talking about?"
Kyo opened his eyes to see her still staring at him, wide-eyed. "I can tell," he said simply.
Something clicked in Skye's head. "You can tell, can't you? When people change?"
He nodded. Then he said softly, "You know some of my past."
It was more of a statement than a question, but Skye still said, "Yes…I read about it."
Kyo smiled ruefully. "In that mysterious other world of yours."
Skye looked down. "Yeah."
"Did it disgust you?" he asked after a minute.
Skye blinked. "No." When she saw his scornfully doubtful look, she continued. "Really, I mean it. I felt your pain…I mean, I sympathized with you."
Kyo looked into the distance. "And Emily?"
"Emily?" Skye thought for a moment. "She didn't say much of anything, but…" she hesitated, then murmured, "…I saw her lip curl a little when she saw the picture."
Kyo nodded. Then he asked, "You sympathized with me, when you didn't even know I was real?"
"Yeah." Skye chuckled, rubbing the back of her neck. "I'm weird like that."
"Idiot," he muttered, looking away. After a minute, he softly added, "You should really learn to stand up for yourself."
"Against Emily?"
"Especially against her."
"Well, maybe. I dunno." She shrugged.
"But until you do," Kyo continued, "I'll look out for you."
Skye stared at him. "Wha-? Are you on something?"
He glared at her. "Shut up. Take it or leave it."
"You really mean it?"
He nodded. "Yeah."
She grinned. "I always wanted a big brother!" she cried, throwing her arms around him.
"Hey!" Kyo shouted, but a smile was already spreading on his lips.
-End-
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--I'm not sure what I was on when I wrote this chapter. It's really kind of pointless and not humorous enough for my liking. I think I did it to better show Kyo and Skye's relationship and to outline the sides. Yes, I did say sides. My vote, you see, is not for Yuki and Kyo to become friends. I love it when they fight. So sides must be taken…uhh…Tohru is the exception, I suppose.
Anywho, I'm going to go get my daily exercise by…playing Guitar Hero! Wooo! Yeah, okay, so ciao.