Sorry for not updating! School and at the moment I'm all spacy from a cold. Thus short chapter. Hope you enjoy the new chapter!

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Disclaimer: I do not own fruits basket ;_;

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By noon Tohru was not feeling well. Luckily the weather had cleared up making the walk home easier. Shigure had come to the school to make sure she wouldn't black out on the way home. By chance she was off that night and she could rest easily. He was in his usual yukata waiting for her outside the gate. Shigure was a little unhappy that it was prior to lunch hour meaning no sightings of highschool girls. He gave a little sigh upon the thought, when Tohru appeared beside him with her bag.

Her face was flushed and fever was obviously the cause. Shigure put his hand to her forehead, it was really warm to the touch. "Honda-san are you alright to walk home?" He asked.

She gave him her usual pleasant face. "I should be able to walk home if we take it slow."She told him. He didn't really believe her on it, but they did manage to make it back without any serious incident. Kyou was up and about by then and was the one to undersee her care.

"You're homemaking skills will make her sicker."Kyou said as he drank from the carton. "I'll do things for her until she's better, that stupid rat is too involved with that festival to be of any help." He then placed the carton back into the fridge and went into the livingroom.

He left Shigure without a chance to say anything. He was now in the process of making her some soup, containing his ever so favourite ingrediant leek. When they came home Tohru had the chance to see Kyou looking as if he was in a volitile area. It caught her off guard, but when she saw the soup she understood. Tohru was immediatly sent upstairs, along with the soup. She instantly fell asleep afterwards.

Kyou had to do some laundry that she would have done after school that day. Unfortunately, it was mostly Shigure's clothes that had to be washed. He went about the mess of a room gathering them for cleaning, he noticed one was lodged inbetween the closet door, meaning he had to open it to get it. As he did so, he noticed something hanging in Shigure's closet that really shouldn't be there. A maids outfit, all in its frilly essence. From a quick analysis, he knew that it would fit only a certain someone.

His face turned into an exceedingly angry look. He ripped the outfit from the closet and started to yell. "You damn perverted DOG!"

Shigure was in the livingroom, and wondering what he did to deserve the intensity of Kyou's screams went to where he was. As soon as his face appeared around the corner, he met the maid's outfit. Fury was all over Kyou's face. "What did you mean to buy this Shigure?" Kyou asked with a twist of his lips.

Shigure gave his usual defensive look. "I-it's nothing! I just bought it as a joke...Aya said she really liked the-"

Kyou stopped him from talking further. "I don't care if the holiest being on earth gave you the dress, you really piss me off Shigure!"

At that moment Tohru was shifting in her sleep. She briefly woke up to hear loud sounds coming from below. She was sure she heard Shigure calling for mercy from Kyou. She wasn't entirely clear on what was happening, but her fever really was taking it out of her and she fell back asleep.

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It was late in the afternoon by the time Yuki returned home. He stopped at the store with some medicine he thought would help Tohru. When he walked through the hall into the livingroom, he felt it rather too quiet. Shigure was not in the livingroom, so Yuki went and checked his study.

He slid the shoji screen open to see Shigure working at his desk back turned to him. As her turned around to see the visiter, the bumps on his head were made obvious. Yuki knew instictively that he deserved what Kyou gave him.

"What did you do to anger Kyou so much?"He asked as he leaned on the door frame. A sweat drop appeared on Shigure's temple. "Ah...I did nothing wrong! Kyou senselessly came down upon me as he was doing laundry!"



"Lying pervert!"Kyou yelled from behind Yuki. He had a towel swung over his shoulder. He had a very irritated look on his face. "I found a questionable outfit in the sick old man's room!"

"Just how questionable was it?" Yuki said as he gave a stern look over to Shigure. "A maid's outfit! One of the frilly things that Ayame makes! He had it in his closet. It obviously was special order for a certain someone!"

"It was just a joke honest!" Shigure flayed his arms in innocence. "I was never going to give it to her-!"

It was now Yuki's turn to extract his frustration upon the perverted novelist. All the noise below only slightly distrubed Tohru in her rest. She turned to her side and continued to sleep facing the door.

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Kyou was watching over the soup on the stove. He had the usual mask on his face considering it was leek. Yuki was poking fun at his attire.

"Shut up you bastard." He said from behind the mask. He was across the kitchen preparing the little tray he was going to bring up to Tohru.

Yuki looked into the pot and began to stir it. Kyou suddenly lashed out at him.

"Get away from there damn rat!" He sped over in moments and pushed Yuki from the stove. "Leave it the HELL alone!" He yelled at him as he checked to see if anything was done to it.

Yuki stood beside his cousin. "I did nothing to it baka neko." He calmly said. Kyou ignored him for a few moments as he turned the pot off and began to empty its contents into the bowel destined for Tohru.

"I doubt that rat, your homemaking skills are lethal to cockroaches."Yuki gave him a nasty look. Kyou ignored him. He finished placing all the meal for Tohru on the tray and picked it up. He handed it to Yuki.

"Here, take this up to her. I have to start dinner and I don't have time to do this." Yuki was slightly surprised at this and nearly dropped the tray.

"Watch it rat, of all the simple things to do can't you at least get this done right?"

"Don't think yourself so mighty Kyou. Only for that Tohru is sick I'm refraining from beating you down. When she's better...watch out."Yuki then left the room and headed upstairs.

Kyou really did not want to let Yuki help Tohru with her meal. He didn't trust the rat.

To be continued...

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