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4. Cousin Rivalry
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Kyo collapsed onto his bed. That was the lamest romance he had ever seen. (A/N: BTW, Blue Moon is a real musical, and it is kind of soppy) He changed into his pajamas patterned with cartoon cats and turned off the lights. It was great to be sleeping off a roof again. But still, his thoughts kept on wandering off to the rat...Kuso nezumi...
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Yuki didn't feel like staying up late. He would like to accompany Tohru and Kisa on a late-night roaming around the ship, but his weariness convinced him against it. Sleeping somewhere where the cat wouldn't bother him was pretty new. Baka neko...he thought as he fell asleep.
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"Hmmm, whose room should I sneak into tonight?" Ayame stood in the hall in his snake-skin patterned designer pajamas eeny meeny miny moe-ing the doors. "Hum, my dear little brother would never mind..." he said, carefully trying the door. Yuki had forgotten to lock it. It was going to be easier than he thought.
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Rin sat on the side of the small bed with her head on Haru's shoulder and his arm around her. She felt his eyes on her as she slowly closed her eyes. How long is he going to stay here...she moped silently in her head. I'm not spending the night on his shoulder...she shifted slightly, thinking it over. Although that would be nice. Wait, what am I thinking?! Since when was I madly in love with him?! I am not!
"Isuzu-san?"
"Hm?" Rin was too tired to open her eyes. Haru wasn't that uncomfortable anyways.
"It's getting late, so I'm going to go now, is that okay?" He carefully laid her down on her bed and pulled the covers over her.
Don't go, thought Rin, too tired to speak, I like having you around...WAIT Since when did I—I mean, thank goodness he's leaving I thought he was going to stay here forever! Humph. Good riddance too.
Rin was either too busy arguing with her subconscious mind or just plain weary that she didn't notice Haru kiss her on the cheek before he left.
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Haru straightened up and looked at Rin sleeping. She was too pretty...without knowing it, as if it were instinct; he leaned down and kissed her on the cheek. "I love you," he whispered. Did I really just say that?!
Well, I'm lucky she's asleep.
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THONK BONK BASH BOOM KABAM TOOM THONK GONG DONG KLUNK BOOM BOOSH KABOOMIE
Tohru woke up to strange loud noises coming from the room to her left. "Huh?" she yawned.
She stuck on her slippers and quickly exited into the hall.
Momiji (in fuzzy bunny slippers) was leaning next to the door to Yuki's room with a sheepish look. "What's going on?" asked Tohru.
"Ayame..." growled Momiji sleepily.
"What about Ayame-san?"
"Yuki," grumbled Momiji, ruffling his hair.
"What about Sohma-kun?"
"You'll see," mumbled Momiji, heading back to his own room. Tohru shrugged and knocked on Yuki's door.
"Sohma-kun?" she called.
A bedraggled looking Yuki opened the door. "Creep..." he muttered to himself. Then seeing it was Tohru, he immediately straightened up and rolled his eyes. "Why must I have a creep for a brother?"
"Ayame-san...?" Tohru asked peering in the room. Sure enough there was Ayame with a lot of bumps and lumps and bandages on his head.
"When will he learn that he has his own bed," sighed Yuki, lugging his unconscious brother up by the hair and dragging him out into the hall.
Tohru stared; well, there wasn't anything better to do in this occasion. Yuki came back, dusting off his hands. "Well, with that finished..." he said to himself.
"Hey, Honda-san, do you want to go to breakfast early?"
"O-okay, wait, I'm going to go change and brush my teeth first." Tohru bowed quickly and dashed back into her own room.
Yuki smiled and leaned against his room door, waiting.
"Don't get any ideas, rat,"
Kyo was leaning against his door (on the other side of Tohru's door, remember) with his arms crossed watching Yuki with a scowl.
"Jealous, neko?" smirked Yuki brushing his bangs back. "I advise you not to develop any...feelings...because you're going to lose."
"What are you talking about, you blockheaded mouse?"
"You heard me the first time," replied Yuki coolly, taking the hand of Tohru, who just came out of her room smiling her happy smile, and as usual, completely immune to seeing the cousin rivalry. Well, she knew they fought (no matter how dense she was), but not of what their new winner's "prize" was.
Kyo huffed and took Tohru's other hand. Tohru was too busy smiling to notice Yuki shoot Kyo a dangerous glance and Kyo shoot one back.
"Sohma-kun, Kyo-kun, are you both mad at me?"
The two Sohmas stopped shooting at each other with their eyes. "What?"
"You two are kind of quiet."
"No, we love you as much as always," said Kyo innocently.
"Hai!" agreed Tohru loudly.
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(A/N: I quote Hana-chan: "Honda-chan is a little dense on the romantic side, isn't she?")
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Two heads popped out of a large artificial palm tree.
"Oooh, what are they doing..." said the first 'spy.'
"Hai, how sweet!" exclaimed the second.
"Shhh! They'll notice us!" chided the first, and an arm emerged from behind the tree and whapped the second 'spy' on the head.
"Ouch! Shi-chan, that hurts!"
"Shhh! Quiet!"
The white-haired 'spy' took off his goggles (for disguise). "This is kind of pointless. Besides, it's rude to eavesdrop."
"We might see something interesting!" said the other 'spy,' "Ah, the gallant prince kisses the lovely princess and..."
"I don't belong in palm trees," grumbled Ayame, climbing out of the plant, "and neither do novelists, so I suggest we leave. This is a huge waste of time."
Shigure pouted at his friend's un-enthusiasm. "Fine," he said, stepping out of the plant.
Ayame rolled his eyes and carefully picked the straw from his hair as Shigure tripped while climbing out and landed face down on the ground. This was one clumsy writer.
"What are you to doing this time?!"
Shigure lifted his face off the floor and looked back at Hatori.
"Just keeping a supervising eye over our little sakura,"
Hatori rolled his eyes. Shi-chan, as if.
"You know what? I'm going to do something else," decided Shigure.
"A wise idea, Shi. No loitering outside the women's restrooms this time though."
Hatori turned and left as his two friends stared sullenly back at him.
Aw, darn it...
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Eep...I'm definitely not in a good writing mood...This isn't the last you'll get of Shi-chan and Ay-chan spying! Review and I will send you a lollipop telepathically.