A/N- This chapter is satisfyingly longer than my last. I've been
considering writing
"Screw You!" to Shiney Bubba, but I've decided against it, since it's so
mean to throw
some random person's name to a bunch of strangers. Oh, wait, I already
did................
...........oh well. On that note, please ignore my most recent (and
pointless) rant, and
enjoy!! ^-^
Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket, but Keisuke Monoe is mine forever and ever to do whatever I want with him.........
~Forgotten Memories~
By Burnt Rice
Chapter 2: Fish and Fights
"Attention, class!", said Mrs. Daisuke, Tohru's the first grade teacher. "We have two new students here joining us today. Cousins, actually." Mrs. Daisuke gave a welcoming smile to Yuki and Kyo Souma, then turned her attention back to her students. "Say good morning, class." The first graders repeated the teacher's greeting quite passively. "I hope that all of you treat them kindly, and make them feel welcome here." She looked down at the two boys. "We're finger-painting right now. Why don't you two grab some art supplies and pick a canvas?" Yuki and Kyo nodded silently, and obeyed the teacher's orders.
~~
Tohru looked up from her desk and eyed the newcomers with newfound interest. One of them, the one with the orange hair, was looking sullen, and his wrist was tightly gripped by the teacher. He obviously did not want to be here, as he kept trying to pull away from her death-grip, and failed, miserably. She only caught glimpses of the other one. He hid behind Mrs. Daisuke's skirt and only peeped out every few seconds, as if anyone were to touch him, he would catch the cooties and die. Tohru could see that the two cousins looked and behaved nothing alike, but she made a firm resolution to become friends with each of them. 'Like my Mom always says,' she thought, 'a friend made is like a new treasure found!' When the teacher called for the finger painting activity, Tohru scrambled to get a canvas next to one of the cousins. She luckily managed to get one next to Orange death-grip boy.
~~
'I don't wanna be here.' ,thought Kyo. 'Why not someone else?' He started with some blue paint, for the ocean, painting whatever was on his mind. 'I'm hungry. I wonder when snack time is....' "Hi!", said a girl's voice from beside him. He chose not to answer. 'Maybe if I don't say anything, she'll leave me alone.' he thought. He got some gray paint on his forefinger, black on his thumb, and brown paint on his other thumb. 'This is for the boat', he thought, and worked for awhile with slight concentration, his tongue sticking out of the side of his mouth, his mind lingered on the prospect of snacktime. He turned around to wash his fingers off, to find that same annoying girl staring at him, then quickly turning around to work on her own almost-blank canvas. "What?" he asked. "Well, it's just that..." the girl mumbled for a bit and Kyo was now thoroughly perplexed by what this strange girl with grayish hair could possibly want with him. "What do you want?", he repeated. "Well, I......I really like your picture." Kyo's face looked suprised. "I mean," she said, "I like your fish." Kyo looked down, not realizing that in the face of his hunger, he had finger-painted multiple fish in an ocean, with a boat floating on the waves above them. "Uh, thanks.", he said, still taken by suprise. Still, the girl went on. "But I think something's missing.", she said, and promptly dipped her finger in orange paint and started to work on his beloved picture. "Hey-wait! St-Stop that!", he said, frantically looking over the girl's shoulder to see what she was doing. Of course, it wasn't as if he could grab her and pull her away without revealing his secret, so he stood there waiting for the final, and surely, horrifying, product. Finally, the girl turned around, blushed, said "Excuse me", and walked away. Kyo looked up to see exactly what horrifying thing that the girl did to his painting. Suprisingly, it lay untouched, except at the very top, where the boat lay, a very crude orange cat was drawn, and could be seen fishing from it. 'That's exactly what I was gonna do!", he thought with amazement. The snack bell rang. He put away his art supplies, and headed to where his cubby lay. But not before turning around to take one last look at his fish painting standing upright next to an almost-blank one.
~~
Tohru sighed to herself. 'I bet he hates it.', she thought, and opened up her lunch- box that held her snack. She sat alone in the corner, by herself. She didn't really mind that the other kids never came up to her, but she did wonder at why they refused to have anything to do with her. The only game they played with her was Fruits Basket, and she always got the role of rice ball, so she couldn't even play with them, not really. 'Maybe I have cooties.', she thought, and took a nibble of her snack. It was then she noticed that death-grip-fish-Orange boy sitting in the corner across from her. 'I wonder why he isn't sitting with his cousin....' Tohru looked down, and wondered whether she should say sorry to him or not, when she eyed her snack. "Of course! I have nothing to lose so......" She marched right up to him, and he looked up at her, eyes wide in suprise. "Can I sit here?", she asked. The boy curtly nodded. They sat in silence for a few minutes. 'It's now or never..", Tohru thought. "I'm-" she was interrupted by the boy. "I'm sorry.", he said.
"Uh....thanks for drawing that cat for me...."
"You mean you don't hate it?"
"Uh, no....I was going to draw a cat there anyways, so.....", he never got to finish. Tohru's smile was wide, and she immediately held out her hands. Orange looked at it uncertainly, until he saw what was in them. "Goldfish Crackers!!", he exclaimed. "Can I have some?!" "Sure!", Tohru brightly answered, and spilt the whole bag onto a napkin so that they could both eat them. Orange's peanut butter sandwich lay forgotten on the floor, they started talking about all kinds of stuff, like how Tohru's and his favorite animal was a cat, and how Orange loved karate, and how he wanted to be a karate expert one day.
"By the way," she asked. "What's your name?" Tohru had secretly been calling the boy "Orange" for the whole morning, and now it just didn't seem right to call him by that name anymore. "I'm Tohru. Tohru Honda."
Kyo was glad she had asked this question, because he himself had been calling Tohru "That Strange Girl"-well, not to her face, of course. "Kyo Souma.", he replied. At that, they happliy went back to their conversation of fish and fights.
~~
Yuki jealously watched the two new firends from the other corner of the room. He rather liked the look of that girl with the gray hair, at least when she wasn't around Kyo. When he first came into the classroom with Mrs. Daisuke and Cat, all he saw were faces staring at him. He hid behind the teacher's skirt, and when he looked out again, the girl with gray hair was the only one smiling. and for some reason, it made him feel safer, like everything was going to be alright. But he banished the thought from his mind. 'If she makes firends with someone like Kyo,' he thought, 'then she doesn't deserve to be a friend of mine...' For some reason, thinking that only made him feel worse.
~~
Another bell rang. Mrs, Daisuke's voice rose over all of the first graders'. "Okay, class, put away your snacks! Time for recess!!" All of the kids scrambled to be the first outside. "Let's go!", said Tohru to Kyo. She ran out the doors, with Kyo following closely behind. Yuki waited till all of the children were outside of the classroom, and then slowly walked out.
~~
"What do you want to play?", asked Kyo. "Everyday, all of us play Fruits Basket!", she said brightly. "Do you know how to play?" Kyo nodded. "Good.", she replied. "I'm sure they'll let you in since you already know how, but first, we have to ask Keisuke."
"Who's that?"
"Keisuke Monue. He's the leader of us first graders."
"What, for today?"
"No, for forever."
"Why?"
"I don't know.....I think it's because he's bigger than us."
"Oh. Okay."
"Keisuke-san!", yelled Tohru. A boy, about 9 inches taller than Kyo, ran up to them. He had sandy-blond hair and a piercing light-brown gaze. "What, squirt?" "Can Kyo play with us today?" He looked Kyo up and down, scrutinizing every inch of Kyo's body, as if looking for a fault. Finally, Keisuke stood up to his full height. "Fine.", and went off. "Yay!", cried Tohru. "I think he thinks you're okay!" "Squirt?" Kyo asked. "I think that's a type of snack, I'm not sure yet..", she answered back. "C'mon! Everyone's coming together! I think it's going to start!" Tohru and Kyo ran off towards the gathering group of children, when she saw that other boy she was planning to meet playing ball, all by himself. "Go on a sec, Kyo. I need to do something......" "Alright" was the reply, and she ran off towards the boy to whom she had donned the nickname, 'Shy Purple'.
~~
"Hi!" greeted the girl, the smiley one. Yuki was taken aback. He had not been approached by a single person the whole day. "Um, hello." he replied. "I'm Tohru Honda!" She smiled, and all of the uncertainty that Yuki had harbored towards her vanished. He smiled himself. "My name is Yuki. Yuki Souma."
'Wow', thought Tohru. 'He's so beautiful......' "Do you wanna play with us?" She held out her hand.
He seriously thought about this. Was having this girl for a friend really worth everyone finding out about his secret? This smiley girl who made him feel better?
"Okay.", he answered, and let her lead them to the group of first- graders while holding hands.
~~
Kyo was furious. 'How could she just grab Yuki and take him with her?!', he thought. He watched with narrowed eyes as they made their way towards the group, HIS Tohru holding the Rat's hand.
"Tohru! What are you doing?!"
"I just asked if Yuki wanted to play!", she answered, unaware of Kyo ever-growing
anger.
"But how could you even touch him?!! Do you even know what he- what he is??!!"
"Um, isn't he your cousin?", she was beginning to worry. What had she done to
make Kyo so mad?
"You shouldn't even be saying that!", Yuki retorted. "If she knew what you were
REALLY like, she wouldn't even speak to you!!"
A crowd of children were now gathering around the two cousins. They had to know
just what this heated conversation/argument was about. Keisuke grinned. He liked
what he was seeing.
"Stop it, you two!" cried Tohru. "What's going on?!"
"SEE? This is all your fault!! If you hadn't agreed to play with us, and just left us
alone, none of this would have happened!!"
"Kyo, that's not really nice-"
"Well, if YOU weren't such a big mouthed IDIOT, then maybe she wouldn't have felt
sorry for you and wouldn't have even talked to you in the first place!!"
"Yuki, how could you say that-"
"WHAT?!!" Kyo pointed at Yuki. "Say that again, you stupid RAT-"
**SMACK!!**
Tohru's face was flushed. She had slapped Kyo. "Stop that, right now!", she cried.
Kyo's face had a red mark from Tohru's hand, but he was still focusing on Yuki's
last remark. So he did the only logical thing he could think of.
..................He slapped her back.
~~End Ch. 2
How was it? Shocked? I was when I wrote this. Do you hate me? I promise that Yuki WILL have a larger role later on, but seriously, it seemed so much easier to make Kyo slap her instead of Yuki (he's so sweet....). It's so friggin HARD. Kyo is drop-dead cool, but Yuki is the sweet, mysterious one. There I go, rambling on again.....whatever. Just review......
Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket, but Keisuke Monoe is mine forever and ever to do whatever I want with him.........
~Forgotten Memories~
By Burnt Rice
Chapter 2: Fish and Fights
"Attention, class!", said Mrs. Daisuke, Tohru's the first grade teacher. "We have two new students here joining us today. Cousins, actually." Mrs. Daisuke gave a welcoming smile to Yuki and Kyo Souma, then turned her attention back to her students. "Say good morning, class." The first graders repeated the teacher's greeting quite passively. "I hope that all of you treat them kindly, and make them feel welcome here." She looked down at the two boys. "We're finger-painting right now. Why don't you two grab some art supplies and pick a canvas?" Yuki and Kyo nodded silently, and obeyed the teacher's orders.
~~
Tohru looked up from her desk and eyed the newcomers with newfound interest. One of them, the one with the orange hair, was looking sullen, and his wrist was tightly gripped by the teacher. He obviously did not want to be here, as he kept trying to pull away from her death-grip, and failed, miserably. She only caught glimpses of the other one. He hid behind Mrs. Daisuke's skirt and only peeped out every few seconds, as if anyone were to touch him, he would catch the cooties and die. Tohru could see that the two cousins looked and behaved nothing alike, but she made a firm resolution to become friends with each of them. 'Like my Mom always says,' she thought, 'a friend made is like a new treasure found!' When the teacher called for the finger painting activity, Tohru scrambled to get a canvas next to one of the cousins. She luckily managed to get one next to Orange death-grip boy.
~~
'I don't wanna be here.' ,thought Kyo. 'Why not someone else?' He started with some blue paint, for the ocean, painting whatever was on his mind. 'I'm hungry. I wonder when snack time is....' "Hi!", said a girl's voice from beside him. He chose not to answer. 'Maybe if I don't say anything, she'll leave me alone.' he thought. He got some gray paint on his forefinger, black on his thumb, and brown paint on his other thumb. 'This is for the boat', he thought, and worked for awhile with slight concentration, his tongue sticking out of the side of his mouth, his mind lingered on the prospect of snacktime. He turned around to wash his fingers off, to find that same annoying girl staring at him, then quickly turning around to work on her own almost-blank canvas. "What?" he asked. "Well, it's just that..." the girl mumbled for a bit and Kyo was now thoroughly perplexed by what this strange girl with grayish hair could possibly want with him. "What do you want?", he repeated. "Well, I......I really like your picture." Kyo's face looked suprised. "I mean," she said, "I like your fish." Kyo looked down, not realizing that in the face of his hunger, he had finger-painted multiple fish in an ocean, with a boat floating on the waves above them. "Uh, thanks.", he said, still taken by suprise. Still, the girl went on. "But I think something's missing.", she said, and promptly dipped her finger in orange paint and started to work on his beloved picture. "Hey-wait! St-Stop that!", he said, frantically looking over the girl's shoulder to see what she was doing. Of course, it wasn't as if he could grab her and pull her away without revealing his secret, so he stood there waiting for the final, and surely, horrifying, product. Finally, the girl turned around, blushed, said "Excuse me", and walked away. Kyo looked up to see exactly what horrifying thing that the girl did to his painting. Suprisingly, it lay untouched, except at the very top, where the boat lay, a very crude orange cat was drawn, and could be seen fishing from it. 'That's exactly what I was gonna do!", he thought with amazement. The snack bell rang. He put away his art supplies, and headed to where his cubby lay. But not before turning around to take one last look at his fish painting standing upright next to an almost-blank one.
~~
Tohru sighed to herself. 'I bet he hates it.', she thought, and opened up her lunch- box that held her snack. She sat alone in the corner, by herself. She didn't really mind that the other kids never came up to her, but she did wonder at why they refused to have anything to do with her. The only game they played with her was Fruits Basket, and she always got the role of rice ball, so she couldn't even play with them, not really. 'Maybe I have cooties.', she thought, and took a nibble of her snack. It was then she noticed that death-grip-fish-Orange boy sitting in the corner across from her. 'I wonder why he isn't sitting with his cousin....' Tohru looked down, and wondered whether she should say sorry to him or not, when she eyed her snack. "Of course! I have nothing to lose so......" She marched right up to him, and he looked up at her, eyes wide in suprise. "Can I sit here?", she asked. The boy curtly nodded. They sat in silence for a few minutes. 'It's now or never..", Tohru thought. "I'm-" she was interrupted by the boy. "I'm sorry.", he said.
"Uh....thanks for drawing that cat for me...."
"You mean you don't hate it?"
"Uh, no....I was going to draw a cat there anyways, so.....", he never got to finish. Tohru's smile was wide, and she immediately held out her hands. Orange looked at it uncertainly, until he saw what was in them. "Goldfish Crackers!!", he exclaimed. "Can I have some?!" "Sure!", Tohru brightly answered, and spilt the whole bag onto a napkin so that they could both eat them. Orange's peanut butter sandwich lay forgotten on the floor, they started talking about all kinds of stuff, like how Tohru's and his favorite animal was a cat, and how Orange loved karate, and how he wanted to be a karate expert one day.
"By the way," she asked. "What's your name?" Tohru had secretly been calling the boy "Orange" for the whole morning, and now it just didn't seem right to call him by that name anymore. "I'm Tohru. Tohru Honda."
Kyo was glad she had asked this question, because he himself had been calling Tohru "That Strange Girl"-well, not to her face, of course. "Kyo Souma.", he replied. At that, they happliy went back to their conversation of fish and fights.
~~
Yuki jealously watched the two new firends from the other corner of the room. He rather liked the look of that girl with the gray hair, at least when she wasn't around Kyo. When he first came into the classroom with Mrs. Daisuke and Cat, all he saw were faces staring at him. He hid behind the teacher's skirt, and when he looked out again, the girl with gray hair was the only one smiling. and for some reason, it made him feel safer, like everything was going to be alright. But he banished the thought from his mind. 'If she makes firends with someone like Kyo,' he thought, 'then she doesn't deserve to be a friend of mine...' For some reason, thinking that only made him feel worse.
~~
Another bell rang. Mrs, Daisuke's voice rose over all of the first graders'. "Okay, class, put away your snacks! Time for recess!!" All of the kids scrambled to be the first outside. "Let's go!", said Tohru to Kyo. She ran out the doors, with Kyo following closely behind. Yuki waited till all of the children were outside of the classroom, and then slowly walked out.
~~
"What do you want to play?", asked Kyo. "Everyday, all of us play Fruits Basket!", she said brightly. "Do you know how to play?" Kyo nodded. "Good.", she replied. "I'm sure they'll let you in since you already know how, but first, we have to ask Keisuke."
"Who's that?"
"Keisuke Monue. He's the leader of us first graders."
"What, for today?"
"No, for forever."
"Why?"
"I don't know.....I think it's because he's bigger than us."
"Oh. Okay."
"Keisuke-san!", yelled Tohru. A boy, about 9 inches taller than Kyo, ran up to them. He had sandy-blond hair and a piercing light-brown gaze. "What, squirt?" "Can Kyo play with us today?" He looked Kyo up and down, scrutinizing every inch of Kyo's body, as if looking for a fault. Finally, Keisuke stood up to his full height. "Fine.", and went off. "Yay!", cried Tohru. "I think he thinks you're okay!" "Squirt?" Kyo asked. "I think that's a type of snack, I'm not sure yet..", she answered back. "C'mon! Everyone's coming together! I think it's going to start!" Tohru and Kyo ran off towards the gathering group of children, when she saw that other boy she was planning to meet playing ball, all by himself. "Go on a sec, Kyo. I need to do something......" "Alright" was the reply, and she ran off towards the boy to whom she had donned the nickname, 'Shy Purple'.
~~
"Hi!" greeted the girl, the smiley one. Yuki was taken aback. He had not been approached by a single person the whole day. "Um, hello." he replied. "I'm Tohru Honda!" She smiled, and all of the uncertainty that Yuki had harbored towards her vanished. He smiled himself. "My name is Yuki. Yuki Souma."
'Wow', thought Tohru. 'He's so beautiful......' "Do you wanna play with us?" She held out her hand.
He seriously thought about this. Was having this girl for a friend really worth everyone finding out about his secret? This smiley girl who made him feel better?
"Okay.", he answered, and let her lead them to the group of first- graders while holding hands.
~~
Kyo was furious. 'How could she just grab Yuki and take him with her?!', he thought. He watched with narrowed eyes as they made their way towards the group, HIS Tohru holding the Rat's hand.
"Tohru! What are you doing?!"
"I just asked if Yuki wanted to play!", she answered, unaware of Kyo ever-growing
anger.
"But how could you even touch him?!! Do you even know what he- what he is??!!"
"Um, isn't he your cousin?", she was beginning to worry. What had she done to
make Kyo so mad?
"You shouldn't even be saying that!", Yuki retorted. "If she knew what you were
REALLY like, she wouldn't even speak to you!!"
A crowd of children were now gathering around the two cousins. They had to know
just what this heated conversation/argument was about. Keisuke grinned. He liked
what he was seeing.
"Stop it, you two!" cried Tohru. "What's going on?!"
"SEE? This is all your fault!! If you hadn't agreed to play with us, and just left us
alone, none of this would have happened!!"
"Kyo, that's not really nice-"
"Well, if YOU weren't such a big mouthed IDIOT, then maybe she wouldn't have felt
sorry for you and wouldn't have even talked to you in the first place!!"
"Yuki, how could you say that-"
"WHAT?!!" Kyo pointed at Yuki. "Say that again, you stupid RAT-"
**SMACK!!**
Tohru's face was flushed. She had slapped Kyo. "Stop that, right now!", she cried.
Kyo's face had a red mark from Tohru's hand, but he was still focusing on Yuki's
last remark. So he did the only logical thing he could think of.
..................He slapped her back.
~~End Ch. 2
How was it? Shocked? I was when I wrote this. Do you hate me? I promise that Yuki WILL have a larger role later on, but seriously, it seemed so much easier to make Kyo slap her instead of Yuki (he's so sweet....). It's so friggin HARD. Kyo is drop-dead cool, but Yuki is the sweet, mysterious one. There I go, rambling on again.....whatever. Just review......