Disclaimer: Chaos is mine, the Fruits Basket characters aren't.
Pairings: Kyo+Tohru, Yuki+Kagura
WARNINGS: Some Yuki bashing in this chapter…bloody parts here and there…but mostly there.
Chapter 6: Dreams
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Yuki studied his hands, clothes, and he felt of his face.
'Is this a dream?'
He slowly went back to the spot under the tree where he had been sleeping. Instead of lying back down, he just leaned on the tree as he thought,
'What did we…what did I do to deserve this? Why do—'
"Hi Ayame!" smiled Kagura as she came popped her head around the side of the tree.
"Shigure! I'm not Ayame!" snapped Yuki.
"Huh? But I'm not Shigure…Ahh! I'm back in my own body! You're back in your body too, Yuki?," she received a slow nod from the gray headed boy in front of her, "YAY!"
In her excitement, she jumped onto Yuki, hugging him tightly around the neck. Her face turned bright red when she realized what she was doing; she let go and turned around as she said in a low tone,
"I—I'm sorry!"
She went to run away but a hand reached out and grabbed her wrist; causing her to go in the opposite direction she had planned.
'A dream…or reality?' Yuki thought as he brought his lips to Kagura's.
When he broke the kiss, he prepared himself for a thrashing of rage from Kagura…but it never came. He instead received a hug from Kagura as she began to cry into his shirt. He slowly sat on the ground as he wrapped his arms around her back.
'This must be a dream. This would never happen in reality.' He thought as he laid his head onto hers.
"YUKI! WAKE UP!!"
Yuki jumped, his eyes snapped open quickly and began to focus on what had yelled at him…It was Momiji.
"Wha?"
"You fell asleep over here. I came over here looking for Kagura…I saw you as she and I turned to leave. Everyone's ready to go so hurry up if you don't want to get left!" he turned and ran off towards where the others were packing up.
Yuki couldn't help but laugh at himself.
'Of course it was just a dream…but why did it feel…so real?'
The drive home was a little chaotic since Haru went black and Kagura was angered while talking to Kyo, and Ayame made Yuki angry. Other than that, nothing went wrong. When they reached Shigure's house, everyone passed out before they could reach the door…except Tohru, Kyo, and Hatori. Hatori immediately began doing checks of everyone…They all seemed fine…all of them just appeared to be sleeping. Tohru and Kyo began to try to wake someone up as Hatori finished checking them over. Slowly, one-by-one, everyone started to wake up. The first one to speak was Kagura,
"Hey! I'm back in my own body! Yay!"
Kisa and Hiro looked at each other and both cried,
"I'm back to normal!"
"Ahh! I'm that damn dog!"
"Haru…you're so cruel," whined Shigure.
"WAAAH! I'd rather be Haru than Aya!"
"Well this…was unexpected. What could this mean? Could it be that—"
"Shut up Aya." 'I'm finally back in my own body…'
"Yuki! Ho—"
WHAM!
"Shut up you stupid snake! You sound worse when you have that brat's voice!!"
"Kyo—"
"Everyone shut up!"
Every one turned to see a less than happy Hatori glaring at the new madness that had unfolded.
"Kisa, Hiro, you're coming back with me. Kagura, do you wish to come back?"
"I'll stay here a while longer…now that I'm back in my own body—"
"Alright then. Hiro! Kisa! Let's go," he turned towards Tohru," if anyone else returns to the body they were born with, give me a call.
With that, he started to leave but Kisa wanted to stay for supper and so he agreed to stay until after everyone had eaten. Kagura, Momiji, and Kisa helped Tohru start supper. She realized that she was missing and ingredient for the meal that grew in Yuki's garden. So she asked him to go get some for her.
Yuki sighed as he walked down a familiar path in the forest that led to his garden. He was getting closer when he took a wrong step and his legs collapsed. He rolled down a small hill and landed on his back. He slowly opened his eyes as he sat up, but instead of sunlight, there was darkness. Instead of grass, he was sitting on a bed…his bed.
'What…?'
Yuki…
"Who's there!?" Yuki looked around for the source of the unnerving feeling he was getting…but he saw nothing.
A blue, furry, hand with claws suddenly lashed out to grab Yuki's neck, slamming his head and back up against the wall. He frantically tried to remove the hand with piercing sharp claws that was cutting off his ability to breathe. He kept one eye open enough to catch sight of a glowing gold eye.
"You know Yuki…."
The claws started to prick a little harder into the back of his neck, creating drops of blood,
"…Only half of me will regret this."
Yuki gasped as the face of Chaos became visible. His face looked horribly evil with the exception of his right eye. That eye had a steady flow of tears coming from it while it was glowing silver.
Then everything turned into a blur and Yuki felt nothing but severe pain as Chaos began his thrashing by throwing Yuki into the opposite wall of the room. Yuki was then tossed back onto his bed and Chaos jumped onto the bed, pinning him down. He ran a claw down Yuki's face, leaving a river of blood in its wake. Chaos then ripped off Yuki's shirt ((AN: Sounds like it's getting into yaoi, but it's not. It just seems that way.)) and ran his claws down his chest and stomach. Light at first but then he clenched Yuki's arms so tight that blood sprayed and, you couldn't hear it over Yuki's screams, bones began to crack and break. The bed was red from all the blood and the walls had blood on them too. A pool of blood was forming on the bed.
Finally, after a few more minutes of bloody torture, Chaos put his claws up to Yuki's neck and, with a quick swipe, put a deep gash in it and his chest. Yuki screamed out in pain and when he opened his eyes, he was in his bedroom with the sun shinning brightly into his room and Chaos was nowhere in sight.
'A dream…?' he thought as he slowly sat up.
"Yuki!?" yelled Tohru as she ran into his room. She looked at him and screamed. The words that then came from her were,
"H-hatori! HATORI!!!" as she turned and ran downstairs.
Yuki looked down as he sat up to see what could have put such horror in her eyes and such terror in her voice. His bed was red…he was sitting in a pool of blood…the walls had blood sprayed onto them…his shirt was gone…but he had no wounds.
"Reality…or a dream?"
He looked down at his shaking, blood-covered hands and Hatori, Tohru, and some of the others came in a few seconds later. Hatori's eyes widened as he saw the scene,
"Yuki…what…how did this happen!? Where are your wounds?"
Yuki lowered his hands back into the pool of his blood as he turned to Hatori and said,
"I don't have any…I'm not hurt…anymore…"
"I don't understand. Explain."
"It was…a dream…"
"What? This blood is very real a dream couldn't do this."
"It was a dream…"
It was real.
"Look…I'm fine. Don't worry about me anymore. I'll clean this up."
"I'll help!" shouted Kagura, Ayame, and Haru.
Before Ayame could say anything else, Kagura, Yuki, and Haru yelled,
"NO!" and Kagura promptly showed him out the door…and down the stairs.
She came back satisfied and Hatori left to take care of Aya's injuries as the others followed him in fear of Kagura taking her wrath out on them too. Haru went downstairs too in order to get the supplies needed to clean the room and bed.
Kagura turned to talk to Yuki but quickly spun back around when she realized he was changing.
'Had that really just been a dream…?'
"Umm…Yuki—" she spun around when a hand was laid on her shoulder and she found her face a few inches away from Yuki's. He smiled at her then said,
"Don't worry, I'm fine…but is anything wrong with you? You're not acting quite yourself." He took a step back as he heard Haru coming up the stairs, still waiting for an answer.
"I'm fine…a dream…I had earlier today is just bugging me…that's all."
"Really? What happened in the dre—"
"I'm back. Here's the stuff…What's wrong?" he looked back and forth between the two. The air between those two wasn't quite right…but he just couldn't put his finger on what could be wrong.
"Hm? Nothing's wrong. Kagura was just telling me that she had had a dream that is bugging her. That's all." Replied Yuki as he grabbed a scrubber and began scrubbing the walls. After several hours of cleaning, the group finally got everything in the room clean—with the exception of Yuki's mattress…They had to just throw it out. They gladly went downstairs to eat when Tohru called everyone for supper. Kisa and Hiro left with Hatori right after they finished.
Yuki sighed as he laid down on the futon the three had set up in his room as a temporary replacement until they could get another mattress. No one had known how he had gotten back in the house and into his bed. Tohru had sent Momiji to look for him and a few seconds later, everyone heard screams coming from his room.
'Had it really been a dream?' he thought as sleep began to over take his thoughts.
He sat up suddenly…something wasn't right. He slowly scanned the room and when he saw nothing, he laid back down…Only to find Kagura sleeping right beside him.
"Ahhh!" he yelled out of immediate shock. His yell woke her up and she yelled too,
"What are you doing in my bed??"
"Your bed? This is my bed, in my room!"
She looked around the room and then looked at how she was positioned next to him in his bed and blushed as she said,
"Well, I didn't come in here! Honest!"
Yuki sighed as he said,
"Well…whatever…are you at least gonna go back to your own bed or are you going to stay in my bed all night?"
"Ah! Sorry!" she cried as she started to hop out from under the covers, but Yuki's hand stopped her. She felt her face flush a little as she turned to look at him.
"Get back down here, now!"
She yelled as he pulled her down to the bed and put himself on top of her. He held her tightly and cried out in pain a second later as four deep gashes were made in his back. Kagura screamed as she saw blood spray and felt Yuki's warm blood trickle onto her nightclothes.
Kagura shot up screaming in her bed. She looked around and just as she was about to tell herself that, 'it was just a dream…' she heard screams coming from Yuki's room once again. She ran to Yuki's room with Tohru and some of the others on her heels. When she opened the door, she saw Yuki thrashing around as he let out horrible screams. Blood was spraying from nonexistent wounds and a puddle of blood had already formed underneath him.
"YUKI!!"
((AN: Good? Bad? …Sorry it took so long for me to get this chapter up. Reviews please!))
