Disclaimer:still don't own it, but my muse thinks its momiji now.
Foreordained Miracle~~~~ Chapter 3: Hot heads and cool dudes
Tohru had been standing in the hallway, on the phone, when suddenly she hung up and came in. The two boys in the room looked at her, and Yuki immediately knew that something was wrong.
"Honda-san, what's the matter?"
Tohru looked down at her feet. She murmured something inaudible, and Yuki gave her a blank look. Suddenly she burst into tears.
"Oh, Sohma-san! I have to leave! Grandpas sick, and my aunts want me to come take care of him because its my vacation, so I have extra time that they don't, and I really do want to help grandpa, and they have a point, but if I go that means I have to leave you and Kyou-Kun alone! I wont be here to help, and you and Shigure-San will have to take care of him alone and-"
She was stopped by Yukis' hand on her mouth. She looked at him with her big eyes, and closed her mouth. Yuki smiled at her, trying to reassure her.
"Honda-san, your grandpa is sick, ne?"
Tohru nodded.
"and you need to go take care of him, ne?"
Tohru nodded.
"But your worried about leaving us alone, ne?"
Tohru nodded again.
Yuki smiled at her, one of his TRUE smiles, and patted her head. "Honda-San thinks too much of others. We'll be alright, wont we Kyou?" He glanced at the cat on the couch. Kyou, who had no idea what it was like without Tohru, just nodded. He smiled and said "We'll be fine. I think that I can handle it without you for a while. Don't worry."
Tohru smiled, relieved. ~Kyou-kun, without his memory, is a MUCH more open person~ she thought. "alright then! I'll spend tonight making provisions for you two and Shigure- san, and I'll leave tomorrow." With that, she was off to the kitchen.
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Tohru had spent all that day cooking a weeks worth of pre-cooked food, which she froze, and hoped that Shigure wouldn't eat it all before she came back. What little she had to take to her grandpas was packed in under 5 minutes.
"now, I've made enough dinners to last a week, we have cereal and Rice in the cupboards for breakfast, and the rice cooker is easy enough for lunch. I believe that that should be easy for you to do, ne?" She looked at Kyou. He shrugged. "guess riceball making wasn't something you can consider a memory, because I still know how to do that."
Tohru smiled, but she was still worried." You sure you can take care of Kyou without me. I mean, you have so much to do and I don't want to leave you helpless." Shigure laughed. "we are hardly helpless, Honda-san. Besides, if something goes wrong, we always have Hatori (Hotori?) to help. Go help your grandfather."
Tohru wanted to hug him, but restrained herself. "thank you Shigure-san! It shouldn't be more than a week, grandpa always healed fast. I'll come by to check on you if it does, hai?"
"Hai!"
A cab pulled up to the house's driveway, and Tohru hopped in with her bags.
"Ja ne, Minna-san!"
"Ja ne!"
Yuki smiled and waved as she left, but inside he had a sinking feeling that this was going to be disastrous.
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Everything was going alright for a couple days, when Kyou took a turn for the worse. One of his wounds, a large one on his leg, got infected, and before they knew what had happened, he had catapulted into a 104° fever, and Hatori (Hotori?) was as close to panicking as he could come, though you wouldn't know by looking at him.
" He'll need this medicine" he handed a bag to Yuki " and make sure to keep him cool."
Yuki nodded. This. Was. Bad. Big giant periods between each word. THIS. WAS . B.A.D. that's all he could think. Without Tohru to help, there was only him. Of course there was Shigure, but he didn't count. He would just get in the way.
"I wish Tohru-chan was here!" Shigure whined from behind the door. "now we have to take care of Kyou-kun by ourselves!"
Yuki seriously doubted that Shigure would be of any help.
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Kyou went from bad to worse over the course of a day, and by that night, he was almost ready to cook eggs on. Yuki was seriously worried about the cat, and that worry open up a lot of things he REALLY didn't want to confront.
Kyou was lying on his bed asleep when Yuki came in to check in on him. He sat on the edge of the bed, and placed a rag on Kyous' head. Kyou shook his head and shivered, knocking off the rag. Yuki tried it two more times before he gave up and placed a hand on there instead. Kyou felt hot, and Yuki cold against his skin. Yuki stayed there for a while, long past what was nessacery.
When he realized that someone (mainly Shigure) might see him, he started to leave, but something caught his hand. He looked down, and saw that Kyou had been awake. His eyes were half open, and his hand had been what stopped Yuki.
"Don't." Kyou breathed heavily, and it was hard for him to talk. Yuki looked at him, head tilted to the side. He was puzzled.
"Don't, it *huff* It feels nice.. *huff*" Yuki was still confused. "I.feel like I've haven't been.touched.in a long time." Yuki sat back onto Kyous bed. Kyou kept talking. " Have you noticed that Tohru never touches me? I was sitting here a couple days ago, and she bent over to hand me a cup and almost fell onto the bed. She landed in my lap-" he paused to cathch hi breath. "..And.she flinched, and started apologizing. She did that a lot, whenever she got near me.Is there.Yuki" he looked up at Yuki out of fevered eyes, his face red and his breath ragged. Yuki wondered if the fever had made him think of such things. "Yuki.Is there.is there something wrong with me?.I.feel like no one really liked me, when I could remember."
Yuki shook his head. "Its not that. Honda-san is just shy, she likes you a lot."
Kyou shook his head too. "not just her." His voice grew quieter. "You."
Yuki started, but Kyou continued, oblivious. "You.act cold when I'm around.I was wondering if I had done something to you in the past. You seem nice enough, when you talk, especially."he caught his breath again "especially around Tohru.you seem to like her a lot.I do too, for that matter.But were we friends? I don't see anything wrong with you." Kyou sighed, frustrated that he couldn't find a way to say what he was trying to say. He sat there, his hand over Yukis on his forehead, and Yuki said nothing for a while. "we were friends once." He said quietly. "what happened?"
Yuki shrugged. "Rivalry. The family. You got caught up in being accepted and blamed me for you not. I guess that's when we stopped being friends."
"." Kyou sat in silence for a while. He wondered if he had hurt Yuki. That would be bad.
"I'm sorry." He whispered. For some reason the words tingled in his mouth, like he didn't use them very often. He said it again.
Yuki stared at Kyou like a ghost. He hadn't heard those words directed towards him by Kyou since they were little. It surprised him, but he gained his wits in a few short seconds.
"I.I cant say I forgive you. Not yet. There was a lot of things to forgive. But it's a start."
Kyou nodded and relaxed. They sat there like that for a long time, and yuki realized that Kyou had fallen asleep. He gently removed his hand from Kyous, and walked to the door. He turned there, and looked a the sleeping Cat. For a second he smiled, and wondered if maybe this could start them over again, Kyou losing his memory. Maybe this was what they needed to become friends again. His eyes stayed on the cat for a while, and Yuki suddenly realized that the feelings he didn't want to confront had come back. He hastily pushed them down and left the room.
Still, his smile hadn't left his face at all.
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By the end of the week, Yuki and Kyou had started a budding friendship. When Tohru called to ask if anything was wrong and to say that her grandpa still need her care, Yuki replied that everything was fine.
Kyou still hadn't gotten any memory back at all, and Yuki wondered if Hatori had been right when he said he would. But still, it had only been about two weeks. Secretly Yuki wished that he wouldn't, because his old attitude would return and Yuki had grown to like the familiarity without fighting. It seemed nice to him, and he hadn't realized how much he had missed hugging people until Kyou hugged him when he had needed help off the floor after falling down. Kyou was surprised, too, at the unfamiliarity of hugging. Of course, he still didn't remember the curse. After that, Yuki was a little more open, and he regularly helped Kyou when he was walking or doing something by holding his waist or his hand .(*hee hee*)
Kyou, too, was a little ore open, and by the time Tohru had come back, three weeks from when she ad originally left (a/n: this story is set during Summer vacation^_^) they had established a *pretty* good friend ship. But nothing was firm until one night.
Authors Rant:
Heyo heyo peeps, this chapter is a little longer, ne? despite my attempts, I'm not the best yaoi writer. The scene with the hand on Kyous forehead, that was supposed to come out a little more yoai then that, but oh well. Next chapter will have a LOT of Yaoi in it (at least I'll try) so be happy peeps! Well, later people!
Ja ne!
Foreordained Miracle~~~~ Chapter 3: Hot heads and cool dudes
Tohru had been standing in the hallway, on the phone, when suddenly she hung up and came in. The two boys in the room looked at her, and Yuki immediately knew that something was wrong.
"Honda-san, what's the matter?"
Tohru looked down at her feet. She murmured something inaudible, and Yuki gave her a blank look. Suddenly she burst into tears.
"Oh, Sohma-san! I have to leave! Grandpas sick, and my aunts want me to come take care of him because its my vacation, so I have extra time that they don't, and I really do want to help grandpa, and they have a point, but if I go that means I have to leave you and Kyou-Kun alone! I wont be here to help, and you and Shigure-San will have to take care of him alone and-"
She was stopped by Yukis' hand on her mouth. She looked at him with her big eyes, and closed her mouth. Yuki smiled at her, trying to reassure her.
"Honda-san, your grandpa is sick, ne?"
Tohru nodded.
"and you need to go take care of him, ne?"
Tohru nodded.
"But your worried about leaving us alone, ne?"
Tohru nodded again.
Yuki smiled at her, one of his TRUE smiles, and patted her head. "Honda-San thinks too much of others. We'll be alright, wont we Kyou?" He glanced at the cat on the couch. Kyou, who had no idea what it was like without Tohru, just nodded. He smiled and said "We'll be fine. I think that I can handle it without you for a while. Don't worry."
Tohru smiled, relieved. ~Kyou-kun, without his memory, is a MUCH more open person~ she thought. "alright then! I'll spend tonight making provisions for you two and Shigure- san, and I'll leave tomorrow." With that, she was off to the kitchen.
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Tohru had spent all that day cooking a weeks worth of pre-cooked food, which she froze, and hoped that Shigure wouldn't eat it all before she came back. What little she had to take to her grandpas was packed in under 5 minutes.
"now, I've made enough dinners to last a week, we have cereal and Rice in the cupboards for breakfast, and the rice cooker is easy enough for lunch. I believe that that should be easy for you to do, ne?" She looked at Kyou. He shrugged. "guess riceball making wasn't something you can consider a memory, because I still know how to do that."
Tohru smiled, but she was still worried." You sure you can take care of Kyou without me. I mean, you have so much to do and I don't want to leave you helpless." Shigure laughed. "we are hardly helpless, Honda-san. Besides, if something goes wrong, we always have Hatori (Hotori?) to help. Go help your grandfather."
Tohru wanted to hug him, but restrained herself. "thank you Shigure-san! It shouldn't be more than a week, grandpa always healed fast. I'll come by to check on you if it does, hai?"
"Hai!"
A cab pulled up to the house's driveway, and Tohru hopped in with her bags.
"Ja ne, Minna-san!"
"Ja ne!"
Yuki smiled and waved as she left, but inside he had a sinking feeling that this was going to be disastrous.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~*~~~~~~~~~~~~
Everything was going alright for a couple days, when Kyou took a turn for the worse. One of his wounds, a large one on his leg, got infected, and before they knew what had happened, he had catapulted into a 104° fever, and Hatori (Hotori?) was as close to panicking as he could come, though you wouldn't know by looking at him.
" He'll need this medicine" he handed a bag to Yuki " and make sure to keep him cool."
Yuki nodded. This. Was. Bad. Big giant periods between each word. THIS. WAS . B.A.D. that's all he could think. Without Tohru to help, there was only him. Of course there was Shigure, but he didn't count. He would just get in the way.
"I wish Tohru-chan was here!" Shigure whined from behind the door. "now we have to take care of Kyou-kun by ourselves!"
Yuki seriously doubted that Shigure would be of any help.
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Kyou went from bad to worse over the course of a day, and by that night, he was almost ready to cook eggs on. Yuki was seriously worried about the cat, and that worry open up a lot of things he REALLY didn't want to confront.
Kyou was lying on his bed asleep when Yuki came in to check in on him. He sat on the edge of the bed, and placed a rag on Kyous' head. Kyou shook his head and shivered, knocking off the rag. Yuki tried it two more times before he gave up and placed a hand on there instead. Kyou felt hot, and Yuki cold against his skin. Yuki stayed there for a while, long past what was nessacery.
When he realized that someone (mainly Shigure) might see him, he started to leave, but something caught his hand. He looked down, and saw that Kyou had been awake. His eyes were half open, and his hand had been what stopped Yuki.
"Don't." Kyou breathed heavily, and it was hard for him to talk. Yuki looked at him, head tilted to the side. He was puzzled.
"Don't, it *huff* It feels nice.. *huff*" Yuki was still confused. "I.feel like I've haven't been.touched.in a long time." Yuki sat back onto Kyous bed. Kyou kept talking. " Have you noticed that Tohru never touches me? I was sitting here a couple days ago, and she bent over to hand me a cup and almost fell onto the bed. She landed in my lap-" he paused to cathch hi breath. "..And.she flinched, and started apologizing. She did that a lot, whenever she got near me.Is there.Yuki" he looked up at Yuki out of fevered eyes, his face red and his breath ragged. Yuki wondered if the fever had made him think of such things. "Yuki.Is there.is there something wrong with me?.I.feel like no one really liked me, when I could remember."
Yuki shook his head. "Its not that. Honda-san is just shy, she likes you a lot."
Kyou shook his head too. "not just her." His voice grew quieter. "You."
Yuki started, but Kyou continued, oblivious. "You.act cold when I'm around.I was wondering if I had done something to you in the past. You seem nice enough, when you talk, especially."he caught his breath again "especially around Tohru.you seem to like her a lot.I do too, for that matter.But were we friends? I don't see anything wrong with you." Kyou sighed, frustrated that he couldn't find a way to say what he was trying to say. He sat there, his hand over Yukis on his forehead, and Yuki said nothing for a while. "we were friends once." He said quietly. "what happened?"
Yuki shrugged. "Rivalry. The family. You got caught up in being accepted and blamed me for you not. I guess that's when we stopped being friends."
"." Kyou sat in silence for a while. He wondered if he had hurt Yuki. That would be bad.
"I'm sorry." He whispered. For some reason the words tingled in his mouth, like he didn't use them very often. He said it again.
Yuki stared at Kyou like a ghost. He hadn't heard those words directed towards him by Kyou since they were little. It surprised him, but he gained his wits in a few short seconds.
"I.I cant say I forgive you. Not yet. There was a lot of things to forgive. But it's a start."
Kyou nodded and relaxed. They sat there like that for a long time, and yuki realized that Kyou had fallen asleep. He gently removed his hand from Kyous, and walked to the door. He turned there, and looked a the sleeping Cat. For a second he smiled, and wondered if maybe this could start them over again, Kyou losing his memory. Maybe this was what they needed to become friends again. His eyes stayed on the cat for a while, and Yuki suddenly realized that the feelings he didn't want to confront had come back. He hastily pushed them down and left the room.
Still, his smile hadn't left his face at all.
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By the end of the week, Yuki and Kyou had started a budding friendship. When Tohru called to ask if anything was wrong and to say that her grandpa still need her care, Yuki replied that everything was fine.
Kyou still hadn't gotten any memory back at all, and Yuki wondered if Hatori had been right when he said he would. But still, it had only been about two weeks. Secretly Yuki wished that he wouldn't, because his old attitude would return and Yuki had grown to like the familiarity without fighting. It seemed nice to him, and he hadn't realized how much he had missed hugging people until Kyou hugged him when he had needed help off the floor after falling down. Kyou was surprised, too, at the unfamiliarity of hugging. Of course, he still didn't remember the curse. After that, Yuki was a little more open, and he regularly helped Kyou when he was walking or doing something by holding his waist or his hand .(*hee hee*)
Kyou, too, was a little ore open, and by the time Tohru had come back, three weeks from when she ad originally left (a/n: this story is set during Summer vacation^_^) they had established a *pretty* good friend ship. But nothing was firm until one night.
Authors Rant:
Heyo heyo peeps, this chapter is a little longer, ne? despite my attempts, I'm not the best yaoi writer. The scene with the hand on Kyous forehead, that was supposed to come out a little more yoai then that, but oh well. Next chapter will have a LOT of Yaoi in it (at least I'll try) so be happy peeps! Well, later people!
Ja ne!