Here is chapter 4.
I do now own Fruit Basket.
Enjoy!
Xisto Valentine took the thermometer and looked up to see it was 40.c and instantly felt a wet cloth on his forehead and he smiled at the brown haired girl.
"Thank you, Tohru-san," He said, to the girl who was flushed.
"No problem, Xisto-san" Tohru replied.
"Now can you please explain to me why the others are here?" he asked.
Masal was eating a container full of curry.
Kyo openly glared at him.
Yuki wasn't so much as glaring, but he did have a protective arm on Tohru.
Arisa for some reason was flashing an iron pole with blood stains on it.
"Isn't obvious?" Arisa said.
"IT'S TOO KEEP YOU AWAY FROM TOHRU," All four of them said and Xisto sweat dropped
Ch 4: Getting back together.
Something was wrong with their classroom today.
Everyone could feel it.
It was like the very balance of the class had been disturbed and nobody could figure out what it was until some of the classmates asked the witch of the form room to find out what was wrong
Masal stretched out her hand and felt the waves around her and she began to walk in the direction of Tohru seat and went passed it, to the seat behind her.
After a long pause, she turned around and said, statically.
"Xisto is not here"
We can see that!
It was true, the energetic loud mouth red head wasn't in his usual seat.
"Now that I think about it, there hasn't been any girl squeals today," Yuki said, completely serious while the rest looked on in horror as if it was the end of the world.
Mayuko Shiraki, or 'Mayu-sensei' as she's referred to by the students, walked in and announced."XISTO VALLENTINE IS OFF TODAY BECAUSE OF A COLD SO TOHRU DELIVER HIS WORK TO HIM" seeing most of them were on the verge of crying.
At the mention of Tohru, both Yuki and Kyo volunteered to go with her, there was no way in hell they were going to leave Tohru with a playboy such as Xisto Valentine alone, she would be completely defenceless.
"We'll go too" Arisa announced, for some reason she had an iron pole with her and Masal looking just as deadly standing behind her, there was no way, they were going to leave their cute and adorable Tohru alone with three boys.
That and they wanted to see where Xisto lived while Masal was looking forward to raiding his fridge for meat.
"Um" was all Tohru had to say before she was surrounded from both sides as if she was the president herself with bodyguards, she had no say in this whatsoever and she know this too.
Truth be told, she had missed the redhead, she had grown so used to having Xisto there even though they had only talked for a week that she felt lonely when he ignored her and seemed to even be avoiding the group.
Of course, after a month, Arisa and Masal were about to call him out on his sudden change of behaviour towards Tohru but were fortunately stopped by both Yuki and Kyo who pulled a believable lie out of thin air, which seemed to calm them for now.
This was her chance to see him again and befriend him again, her eyes blazed with determination.
Yuki took the slip that had the address on it and informed the others of which direction they were going, it was an hour away from the school itself, if they walked and since nobody was willing to pay for a taxi and they all refused Tohru so they just walked in silence and watched the scenery around them change slowly.
Dorwald, must be here Yuki thought, turning right and most of them gaped as they met a giant bronze statue of a snake.
Arisa poked the statue, it was really well made and the detail was just amazing while poor Tohru was in the recovery of shock... and was it them or did it feel like the snake was watching them? Yuki and Kyo couldn't help but think, wondering why the eyes were so detailed for that it felt like it was alive.
But that was impossible.
"What's a statue of a snake doing here?" Kyo asked, looking anywhere, but the eyes and so was Yuki who found it beyond creepy.
"NAME!" A voice called shouted and they stopped and stared at the giant snake statue, they were sure it just talked.
"Fricken Japanese" the snake mumbled. "Are you deaf? Who are you"
"T-Tohru Hondo and these are my friends, we've come to deliver some homework to Xisto-san" Poor Tohru stuttered, so scared of the talking snake in front of them while the rest clearly know, it was a speaker in the snake.
There was a pause before the voice came back.
"Very well, you can see the young Master," the voice said and the snake gave way to reveal a large gate which opened to reveal a massive compound.
HUGE! all the girls thought, while the guys were less affected since their family compound was no doubt on the same scale.
"You can find the Young Master in the main house," the snake said and they nodded, wondering if they could ask for directions.
"Everything so big," Arisa said with awe, who know that the playboy lived in such a place.
"I feel bad waves coming from this place," Masal said, something about this place made her feel uneasy and most of that uneasiness was directed at Yuki and Kyo for some reason.
Meanwhile Yuki and Kyo could feel eyes on them, it put them on edge while Tohru was looking around amazed by the crafting on some of the building.
A woman that clearly screamed up tight and no back talk came out of one of the buildings wearing a servant dress.
"E-excuse me" Tohru called, out and the woman stopped and turned towards them. "Can you tell us where the main building is?" she asked.
The woman mumbled something in Portuguese before replying in heavily accented Japanese. "Just follow, that path to the end," she said, pointing to the path on the right and they expressed their thank you.
They walked along the road, again doing a bit of sightseeing before coming to probably the biggest house of them all and were greeted immediately by servants who greeted them in Portuguese and began to direct them to the young master room.
"This house feels blank," Masal said, in shock, the waves in this building were dull and flat, meaning the emotion was at an all time low, she had never seen anything like it not even around her own little brother.
But as they grow near, the waves became more lively and but they felt off.
She couldn't describe it
"Young Master, guest have come to see you" The servant announced before opening the door to reveal, Xisto sick in bed with a high fever.
"You look shit," Arisa said, looking at Xisto not noticing the horrified expression on the servant's face before Xisto dismissed her.
Xisto ignored the comment and eyes light up when he saw girls had come, he had been dreading what would happen if a guy came, sure two of them were infamous around the school, but at least the third was sweet and adorable.
Both Yuki and Kyo glared at him with a look that said 'I know what you're thinking and it's not happening' making him pout before coughing
Masal immediately wants to his fridge as soon as she spotted it and eyes lit up like a Christmas tree when she saw the stack of meat in there and practically empty his fridge out.
For some reason, Xisto became very aware of Arisa iron rod as she want to sit down not that far from him, sick guy be damn and Yuki was shooting him certain looks while Tohru housewife instincts immediately kicked in and cleared up all of the used tissue and made sure he was nice and warm.
"Thank you, Tohru-chan," He said and Tohru smiled, pushing down the loneliness at how he said it, it wasn't like how it was before, it was said as if he was speaking to any girl and want to get a new box of tissues.
Once gone, Xisto turned to the rest and asked. "Why are you all here?"
"Were here to protect Tohru from a womaniser like you?" Arisa said simply, making Xisto pout.
"Yuki-chan! Arisa-chan is being meant to me!" Xisto wined, with tears in his eyes.
Shigure!
"Die in a hole" Yuki voice, hit him like a soccer punch to the gut and he turned to Kyo who looked like he was going say something that was going to kick him while he was down.
"My, you're so energetic for someone who is sick," Masal said.
"well, of course," Xisto said, "How else would be able to pick up chicks even at home?" as if it was the most obvious thing in the world and what they asked was just plain stupid.
DIE!
"I'm back!" Tohru said, with fresh covers and a cup of chocolate and put it on the table near Xisto who made a show that he couldn't reach it.
Tohru out of pity picked up the cup and helped him to drink it, she didn't notice when Xisto eyes shifted to see the murderous looks on three of his visitors faces at the manipulative move, deciding to milk further before he dies, he said. "Tohru, my pillow is hard can you fluff it?"
Manipulative!
Tohru thinking nothing of it began to fluff the pillow and planted it behind Xisto who smiled and drew closer to Tohru but only met air, as Kyo had removed Tohru from Xisto side and was now glaring at him with his hands scrunched into a fist
"How about, I take care of you?" Kyo said, sweetly, his eyes changing colour.
"No thank you, Yuki-chan is much-"
Yuki had thrown him into the air and left him to land on his ass onto the cold hard floor.
"Call me, Yuki-chan, again and what I just did will be nothing," Yuki said, eyes, turning a different shade altogether.
"Tohru-chan, stay away from him, he's a bad person" Arisa and Masal stopped Tohru advancement.
Xisto started coughing and he started breathing heavy.
"YOUNG MASTER!" A lady yelled, who happened to come by and see the young master, out of bed and looking like he was going to collapse any minute "OUT! ALL OF YOU, OUT!" she shouted, how dare they hurt young master.
They were all forced to comply.
"W-wait, leave Tohru-chan," Xisto said, through all the wheezing, while the others looked like they were about to protest, but a sharp look from the scary murderous lady convinced them to leave Tohru behind who was helping Xisto onto his bed.
"There you go," Tohru said, tucking him in and taking his temperature. "Is there anything you need?" she asked.
"yes, there is one thing you could do," Xisto said, looking at her intensely.
"Will you be my friend?"
Tohru was shocked, she didn't think it would go this smoothly, surely it wasn't this easy?
"You see, I don't really have friends in school, sure I have the girls but they're not really friends and more after my looks and charm, the guys practically hate me and I have yet to make a friend" Xisto confessed before looking down. "It's okay if you don't want to be, we can forget this whole thing ever happened"
"N-no, I would love to be your friend," Tohru said, if only she could tell him, they used to be friends before and Xisto eyes lit up.
"Really?" Xisto said and the hopefulness in his voice made her heart ache, she hadn't realised how incredibly lonely he must be, being moved from all his friends to a school in a completely different county, knowing absolutely nobody.
"Let's be friends!" Tohru said, clasped both of his hands together. "I'm sure the others will come around also" and Xisto smiled with sincerity.
"I look forward to it, for some reason. I think I'm going to be very happy here" Xisto confessed, his seductive tone was back and Yuki and Kyo had appeared and carried Tohru away.
"see you at school tomorrow, Tohru-chan" Xisto shouted, to Tohru who barely managed to do a reply having being carried away, nobody saw the Serpent that slivered into the house when the door was opened and made its way to Xisto room where it stopped in front of him.
Xisto eyes were no longer smiling and were now cold and dead as he reached out to the Serpent and began to stroke it's underbelly
It hissed in approval.
Mission complete.
And scene!
I know I promised parent-teacher day but currently the manga is a mess on the web and I'm trying to sort out the events so bare with me. Please tell me what you think of this chapter, Review/Fav and follow.
