Hey sorry about that, i know its late but...long story!

Any who thank you for the reviews, I love getting them. Don't worry crazy girl of doom you'll read what was in the chest now.

Chapter 11

They pushed the chest (with Momiji sitting on it) back to Shigure's house. All singing, A pirate's life, as they went.

"Oh a Pirate's life is the life for me!" everyone sang.

"Yo ho ho, and a bottle of tea!" Momiji shouted.

Kyo slapped him across the head. "That's not how it goes!"

"I can't say and a bottle of rum! What's rum anyway?"

Haru shrugged, "Probably something bad considering it's pirates!"

They continued to push the chest to the house, all arguing over the lyrics. Shigure and Hatori came out at the ruckus they were making. Shigure clapped his hands together. "My my, what treasure have my labourers brought me today?"

Kyo threw a shovel at him. "They're not for you, you lazy butt! You didn't search for them!"

Haru opened the chest and let Hatori and Shigure see inside. Their mouths dropped at the site of it.

"How much candy is in there?" they asked.

"A lot!" Everyone merrily answered in unison.

Hatori straightened up and smiled, "Well you can have it all, don't worry about us."

Shigure pouted, "Oh, but I want some!" Hatori glared down at Shigure, making Shigure suddenly decide not to have any candy at all. "Do you all want to come in for some tea?" he asked politely. They all nodded and began to follow Shigure in. He was muttering to them and they had to listen carefully because he sounded as though he were pulling a trick. "Now, since I graciously let you have some of the tea I slaved over, I think you can afford to share…"

Kyo knocked Shigure across the head. "No way! You just said back there that you didn't want any!"

"Oh but you can't just have tea! You must have something with it!"

Momiji crossed his arms and shook his head. "Nuh-uh! You can drink tea with the cookies in the cupboard. I think Captain Makoto should decide where the candy goes!"

Everyone turned to Makoto; he smiled weakly at them but didn't know what to say. If he agreed with everyone, he'd sure upset Shigure. He didn't want to upset the host in anyway. He looked to everyone and decided to go along with them. "I'm sorry, Shigure- kun. I do believe that you did not help us look for the candy."

"Oh, they have turned you against me, dear Makoto! That's truly awful!" He turned away from them, pretending to cry. "Well, fine, no tea for you guys."

"They didn't even want it." Hatori informed him as they retreated back into the house. Shigure was leaned over himself as he did so. The gang circled around the chest and began to grab some candy.

Later on in the day Makoto was sitting down on the living room floor. His ankle was feeling much better, and he was sure the candy he was eating was making it feel even better. He had some chocolates beside him as he skimmed through one of Shigure's books. Shigure had suggested it to him when everyone pretty much went to do their own thing. After emptying out the entire chest Haru decided to take little Momiji for a walk into town (so he'd get off of Hatori's back…literally), Tohru was busy with lunch, Kyo was busy telling her not to make any and Yuki had gone into his room to avoid everyone.

Makoto hadn't known what to really do, so Shigure offered him a book to read. Makoto didn't want to offend the author so he picked it up and began to read. It wasn't half bad but Makoto did find the way Shigure wrote about women somewhat disgusting. He also thought the storyline was a bit familiar, in this book there was a young girl moving into a house of a wealthy family, all of whom were males.

As Makoto began to wonder what inspired Shigure's story Tohru cam bustling around the living room and Makoto had to choke on the hard sour drop he'd been sucking on.

"Is something wrong Makoto-kun?" She asked politely.

Makoto shook his head feverishly thinking, 'That sick sick bastard!'

Luckily there wasn't anything in this story about Shigure and Tohru (however he did think rather highly of his character) but he did write some interesting scenarios about Yuki and Tohru, sometimes even Kyo and Tohru. Amazingly Shigure didn't write anything to intimate about the parings, but the way he wrote it really made Makoto think about the pairings even more.

He saw Tohru come out of the kitchen and noticed Kyo behind her, he was ordering her to stop cleaning. At first Makoto wondered why but then he looked down at the book, he really began to think Shigure was on to something at least with Kyo and Tohru, Yuki however was a different story. Makoto waited a bit and soon Yuki came out of his room, he saw Kyo and looked disgusted but then he saw Tohru and his eyes lightened. He gave her a small smile and said something about going to the base. They nodded, as though they had a little secret and Makoto couldn't help but smile at the thought of Ito. He felt he really understood both the relationships the boys had with Tohru.

"Shigure you must apologize!" Hatori ordered as he opened the door to the porch out back. They had been out there for a good hour or so, and now Hatori came in rather mad at Shigure.

"What did I do?" Shigure asked innocently.

Hatori glared down at him, "You said it again! For the last time! I am NOT Ayame's lover!"

Shgiure stopped and shook his head, "No I'm Ayame's lover: you're just his mistress!" Hatori didn't seem to care he picked up his bags and strutted out the door. Shgiure waved him off then turned to sit on the couch behind Makoto.

Makoto looked up at him, "Shouldn't you apologize, he seems mad."

"He'll be back." Makoto looked up at him and questioned that thought but Shigure continued, "He'll be coming tomorrow to give you a ride home."

Makoto gave him a grateful look. "Thank you, I'd been pondering how I'll be getting home but it's not out of his way, right?"

"No, he has to pick up someone in town anyway…and drop someone else off. So, how do you like my book? "

"It's…interesting…" Makoto put the book down and looked seriously at Shigure, "Do they know you've written this?"

Shigure shook his head, "No, sadly they don't take any notice in my work and after I put the roof over their head…" though Shigure was joking as he said this and his voice was in his usual joking manner, he looked very sad. "Actually, even I, the author do not know how that story will end, or even how it came to be. Sounds stupid I know but I guess when I had writer's block one day, I decided to try to put some pieces of this live soap opera happening at my house. I ended up writing it all in full detail, my editor got a hold of it and c'est la vie! It's in the public's hands now. I'm writing the stories exactly as I see them unfold here except I changed the names, Tohru's Kaiya, Kyo's Ishi and Yuki's Kisho, I'm sure you figured that out." Makoto nodded.

Shigure continued, "But even after I wrote the sequel, it doesn't make anything any easier. I still don't know if it's Yuki or Kyo she'll chose or who needs her more. They both need her, sad to say and I don't think either of them will giver her up. I guess I'm trying to say that, I still don't know how the story will end." He gave Makoto a smile and grabbed the book off the ground, he flipped to the last page and handed it back to Makoto, it read:

Kaiya was returned to the Hoto house after the encounter she had at her
family house. She still wasn't sure why both Ishi and Kisho had come to help
her, she was just happy they did. For now she'd found her own family and
didn't feel any need to go out searching. We always search for something
that help us make sense of this world, but Kaiya knows she needs to search no
more, for everything in her life makes perfect sense at the moment, she feels
no need to change it.

Makoto looked up at Shigure and smiled, "Are you still searching?"

"When I read that I always feel like I don't need to search to anymore."

They both stared down at the book, neither of them saying a word.

Sorry I know its not really funny...but therre were non funny parts in Furuba right?