Our little Spotlight

A Hiro & Kisa fan fiction ^-^
By TobenaiTori - Silver
Chapter 3: Saved X3

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Silver: Made this one ASAP... If there are any mistakes you'd like me to fix, TELL ME! (@o if I offend anyone, let me know... ill try to fix stuff ASAP!) hmm... seems like as every chapter goes by, they get longer. Neh?

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN ANY FRUITS BASKET CHARAS!

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"Hiro... chan?"

There was a short pause in the air. A gentle breeze blew past them. The brown-haired boy glanced down at Kisa, and for a moment, their eyes met. A flower petal from a near by tree flew past gently. As if that were a cue, the children began to whisper again, and that short silent moment was over, gone forever. The tall, buff boy didn't seem to like the idea that this girl knew a boy from his school.

"Hey Hiro, you know who you just helped? A freak of nature! She's cruel too, if you haven't noticed. Bring her over to us! We'll beat some sense into her..."
"Yeah, that she doesn't belong here or ANYWHERE!"

Giggles and sniggers. But Hiro did not respond to them. The boy was leaning down toward her, taking her hand and examining her arm. Kisa, a little confused, followed his eyes until she saw what he was examining. She tried to pull away, but he tightened his grip on her would only relax when she relaxed. He blinked and looked into her eyes solemnly.

"Did they do this to you?"

His whisper was warm and comforting. She looked down at the reddened spot on her arm, where she had been hit by the soccer ball, to the children behind her. She quickly averted her eyes to her ground and nodded slowly. Hiro's eyes quickly went from concern to anger. He let go of her and stood up, eyeing the tall boy.

"I knew it."
"You knew what, Hiro? Get your butt over here! You know nothing! She's a liar and she deserves a beating!"

The other boy called out, warningly. But Hiro didn't move. He just stood there, continuing to eye the boy. Then at the others. His voice, calm as it was, it seemed to slice through all the noise.

"I knew it. You're such a bully. Make that, you're all bullies."

The whispering grew a little louder, the children all looking at Hiro as if he were going to attack them any moment. Hiro didn't mind. But he did shoot terrible glares at some of them, so that they flinched. The tall, buff boy was enraged. His whole body was stiff from it. He clenched his hands into fists, gritting his teeth tightly. Fire danced in his eyes, which were directed toward Hiro and only Hiro.

Time seemed to be frozen for several minutes. The other boy finally seemed to relax a little bit. He blinked, though those eyes still contained the enraged fire, and his mouth formed a small grin. He unclenched his hands.

"A bully, eh? Who do you think you're talking to?"
"A bully."

The boy turned red from rage once more. Hiro continued look at him coolly. This fight was going no where.

"Well, then... So I'm a bully. Who do you think YOU are? Bossing us around... Aren't you a bully yourself?"

A short snort escaped Hiro. The boy turned red once more.

"Wha... what? You ARE a bully! You boss us around, tell us we're bullies when you're a bully yourself!"
"Since when was telling you my opinion 'bossing around'? Since when was not taking orders from someone, such as yourself, 'bossing around'? Feh, this is stupid. How can I argue with someone that doesn't know anything? Gosh, I can be in the gym right now, giving important papers to the teachers."

The bully looked from Hiro to the ground, shaking with rage. He began cracking his wrists.

"Don't know anything? I told you, who do you think you're...."

The boy didn't get any further. Hiro had collected his papers, taken Kisa's hand, and was walking straight for the bully. The taller boy only smiled with satisfaction.

"Yeah, come here! See? I'm the boss around here, you see? You should've known better than to stay on the girl's side! Hurry up! If you do, I'll let you pass and just join us with no harm. See? There's more of us than on that side anyway."

Kisa was terrified. What was Hiro doing? What was he doing? She gripped Hiro's hand tighter. Hiro, jerked her closer to him gently. The others, seeing this as an act of violence, giggled and snorted.

"Poor Kisa-chan thought this was her Prince Charming!"

More giggles and snorts. Kisa looked at Hiro, wishing he'd look at her and smile. But he wasn't looking at her. His eyes were only looking toward the bully's. She felt deeply wounded. Had she done something wrong? Did Hiro hate her? Was he mad at her?

Letting go of Kisa, two meters away from the bully, Hiro walked over to the bully and stood next to him. Kisa began to tremble. There were tears in her eyes. Every since I entered Middle School Hiro-chan's been acting strange. Only recently he was back to normal... and he had become nicer too, every since after that incident during summer! But did I do something wrong again? What was it? What was it?

"Blondy's got no one to get help from anymore."
"That's why Blonds should stay where they came from."
"Yeah, where they're all stupid and that's the only reason why they understand each other."

(note from author: o_o'' im not trying to be mean... I live in America for goodness sake... Don't hurt me x_x I just need the old "blond" joke to help me on this story... please? Don't hurt me x_x)

Giggles and sniggers. Feeling vulnerable, Kisa fell to her knees. She was trying hard to not show her tears.

"No need to kneel in front of me. I don't want anyone like you in my friendship ring or in the play!"

Kisa looked up just in time to see the tall bully rushing toward her, his fist was in the air, ready to hit her. She shut her eyes tightly. She'd get a beating. Her parents will be worried again. She had failed... to make them happy. That was when she heard a short yelp.

Hiro, with once swift movement, had tripped the bully, who had fallen flat on the ground. His eyes were hard and cold. The sheep walked passed the fallen bully, who was now trying to get up, to Kisa. The tiger slowly looked up and the first thing she saw was the fallen bully. She blinked and rubbed her eyes. What had happened?

"A bully's a bully. Did you know they say that bullies are quite stupid? Let's go, Kisa, I'm sick of this."

The bully tried to stand up, but Hiro prevented this by putting his feat on the bully's head and putting some pressure to it. As soon as Hiro took his feat away, the bully jumped up and aimed a punch at Hiro, who now had his back facing the bully. Kisa, seeing this, could only gasp.

"Hiro-chan!!"
"I GOT YOU NOW, TRAITOR!!"

But the bully didn't get him. Hiro had noticed. He grabbed Kisa and pulled her sideways as he took a step to the side too. The bully missed by inches and was tripped by Hiro's foot once more. Sighing, Hiro made sure he had all his papers before he took Kisa's hand.

"This is REALLY boring me... can't you see that I did that on purpose? Gosh, you must be very stupid if you're dumb enough to fall for that old trick... let's go Kisa."

As Hiro began to walk toward the crowd with Kisa, the children opened a way for them. The crowd had gone silent and was looking at Hiro with fear. Kisa, silent, followed Hiro, staring at the ground. The tears in her eyes were spilling time to time, but she couldn't cry in front of Hiro, who had just helped her. But she couldn't help it. She let go of Hiro's hand and clung to his arm instead.

"?!?!"

Hiro flinched in surprise. He blushed a little. Wha... What was she doing?!?! He turned his head to look down at Kisa when he realized that her cheeks were wet. She looked so small. So fragile. She was shaking, tears falling from her eyes from time to time. The sheep tried to pull free from Kisa's grip. But there was no need. She let go quietly, and fell to her knees once more, still trying to hold back the tears from overflowing. Hiro, now also kneeling in front of her, looked at her from eye to eye, panicking over her.

"K... Kisa?! Is something wrong? Are you hurt? Where?! Leg? Arm? Face? Where?! Or did they do something else to you? What?!"
"Hiro-chan... promise me... that... you'd never... do that again..."
"Eh? Oh... um... sure... er... what?! What's wrong? Did I do something what?! Wait... promise I'd never do what again?!"

Kisa, somewhat comforted by how he was panicked and concerned over her, relaxed and tears began to flow freely from her eyes.

"That you'd never... act like... you've betrayed me..."
"Oh..."

Hiro's panicked expression calmed at once. Fumbling through his pocket to get the handkerchief his mother always fussed about bringing, Hiro smiled gently. He wiped some tears from her eyes as she cried freely and quietly.

"I promise..."

No longer did tears hit the ground freely. No longer did it hit Hiro's handkerchief. Kisa buried her face into Hiro's shoulder, her arms around his shoulders. Hiro tensed for moment and blushed. He quickly relaxed. He wrapped his arms around her shaking body gently.

"I promise."

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Silver: I know their young, but that doesn't give you permission to hit me! X_x I mean, they can hug, right?! Right?! *hides* DON'T HURT ME! But... you can if I offended anyone... did I? SOWWY IF I DID! ;_________;
Neways, when Kisa was thinking about the "summer incident", I mean by Chapter 55. *nodnods* You can find translations all over the place... go find them X3 unless you want me to provide you some XD by the by, stories not over yet x_x MUHAHAHAHA!