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The Game of Life
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Rated : PG-13
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a.n. This is my first Fruits Basket fiction. I'm not sure how the characters act all the time, but from what I've read and the information I've seen, this seems to be close. I hope you like it!
Disclaimer: I don't own any of it. However, if you feel the need to, please sue me. Just know that you won't get anything other than a cute stuffed animal and ten dollars. Oh – the first line is taken from the first season of Digimon.
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"I have now realized that it is fear that feeds the darkness." Haru stated with a harsh tone of voice.
"Yes, well, some may say that is true," Akito looked at his cousin with a menacing glare. "However, it would certainly be in your best interest to disagree. It would be simply dreadful for a death to occur under such easily fulfilled stakes."
Haru's eyes flickered from brown to black and a tension of anger and hate absorbed every atom in the gray room. "Nothing is easy to fulfill in this game." Haru spat out each word with a venomous voice.
Akito nodded once and smirked at the younger boy. "I shall not lessen the rules, especially if it is only the first day of their suffering. After all, what good is a curse if the superior does not attempt to acquire all that is needed to win."
"Win what?" Haru's earlier courage had disappeared from sight, and all that was left was a shaky voice coming from a petrified boy.
"The game of agony, of course."
The wide eyes of Hatsuharu Sohma stared at Akito Sohma and though the two shared a bond of blood, nothing could connect them together beyond that.
"I – I won't let you do this. It's morally wrong. You – you could kill someone…" Haru let his voice falter and trail off into the deep abyss of oblivion.
"Oh, Haru," Akito let his voice mellow into a sickening sweet sound and he continued, "Haru, my dearest cousin, how long will it take you to come to the realization that I am powerful and that you are not? You cannot control yourself, even though it may be your greatest plea in your cursed life. You, my stupid friend, are nothing. I cannot imagine anyone taking the chance to understand your uselessness, your lack of common sense. Foolish boy, no one will ever defend you, why must you be the one to defend them?" Akito finished his speech by roaring his last words at Haru, which succeeded in scaring the boy out of his wits.
"Akito!" Haru gasped in a nervous frenzy, which seemed to come directly from his heart.
"What is it, Hatsuharu?" An icy voice responded with such smugness that Haru knew that the words that had just been spoken could not have been from personal experience. "Are you offended by the words I speak? You should not be, for I will never lie… not to you anyway," Akito looked deep into Haru's eyes with yet another menacing glare, but this one was filled was a soft pity. Haru was not sure if it was true pity, or just a cover. Akito interrupted his thoughts with a statement that he had to oblige with. "Come, Haru. Let me show you what your life could be, had you not come today."
Akito stepped though the doorway leading into the hall, and walked though another which had a staircase leading down, which Haru supposed lead to the basement. Haru followed slowly, and only caught a glimpse at the keypad that gave the steel door a reason to open.
"Haru, please, do hurry up." Akito had a tone of voice that threatened the warmest of things to turn to ice.
"Yes, Master Akito." Haru's eyes grew wide, which gave him a burning sensation, as if he was being punished for not following the rules.
"Master Akito, is it? Oh, Hatsuharu, put up a fight. You are just too trouble-free to control." Akito stated with a smirk.
"You? Control me? You bastard, I will not let you do this. I am my own person, meaning I am not yours to control. I will not let you continue to do this. I –"
"Haru-kun! Get out of here, please, get out! It is for your own good! Look at the screens, they show everything that is happening! Please, leave!" A voice that resembled Tohru's stopped Haru's heated chatter and caused him to look around the room where there were ten televisions. On each television was a live movie of all the members of the Sohma family. It frightened Haru and he immediately wanted to know what was going on.
"Tohru? Where are you? Why –" Once more, Haru's words stopped coming from his mouth, now because of Akito.
"Haru, stand near the door with the mirror on it," Akito bellowed, giving Haru an order he could not refuse to do. "Now open the door and step into the windowless room," He paused and gave Haru a moment to do as he was told. "Good. Close the door."
Swiftly and silently Akito walked to the door and turned the lock.
At that moment Haru was locked in the room.
And at that instant Akito knew that the revenge he was looking for would finally come.
With a loud laugh he began what was to be the end for the cursed Jyunnishi, "The only thing in my way is secured and locked away," He roared with laughter and after a moment, composed himself. "Let the game begin."
a.n. So? What do you think? Review! I like constructive critism, good comments… I probably would like to see a flame too… heh heh… ^_^