Disclaimer: I really don't enjoy typing out disclaimers for each and every chapter, so I'm only going to say this once: I do not own Fruits Basket.
Chapter One: Unfortunate Accident
She walked at a normal pace down the street, while carrying her two grocery bags against her side. She wasn't set on speeding up; after all, didn't Yuki say that he was going to meet her just around this corner? Come to think of it, she began to wish she had her cell phone with her so she could call him to let him know that she was doing fine with carrying the grocery bags all by herself. Tohru sighed as she turned around the building. Yuki is way too nice to her; even though she gets rather careless every once in a while. Why is it, that he can appreciate her so?
Tohru came to a stop just behind the street lights and lowered her bags to the ground. She put a hand above her eyes to shield the sun light as she stopped to look around her. No sign of Yuki anywhere. "Where could he be?" Tohru thought, regaining her posture to tighten her hair ribbons.
She waited for a bit longer, before deciding to head off home. Maybe she would spot him on the way back? Tohru picked up her bags and stepped onto the street, just as the light turned red. "I really hope nothing bad happened to him..." she forced herself to think. If anything were to happen, she'd never forgive herself. That went for everyone else in the zodiac family as well. Just the thought of loosing any one of them made her wince. Her thoughts distracted her from noticing a carelessly driving car.
Tohru immediately halted, just as the sound of a loud, honking horn blared from behind her, clearly breaching her train in thought. She looked up just in time to notice an intense light. It burned her eyes to the point where she thought it had completely damaged her retinas. She had no time to react. The swerving car collided into her, sending coursing jolts of unbearably sharp pain through out her entire body. She felt herself falling, just as everything around her began to disappear into a giant blurry mass.
"Ugh-?"
Yuki slammed his fist on the desk as he quickly forced himself up from his chair. A pang of sudden realization had struck him hard. "Tohru," he exclaimed, paying no mind to the baffled looks of the Student Counsel Members.
"I completely forgot about Tohru! Rrgh, how could I?!"
Yuki grabbed his books and shoved them in his book bag. Silence pursued as everyone continued to look at him curiously.
"Is something wrong, Yuki?" One of the high school boys asked, adding a bit of concern to his deep tone of voice. Yuki shook his head and smiled. "I'm fine, really. I just realized that there's a place I have to be right now. Sorry for leaving in such short notice," he apologized in his famous, friendly voice. The students nodded, allowing Yuki to leave the classroom.
Yuki felt like literally punching himself, as he quickly walked through the halls. He had stayed too long at the council meeting and had completely forgotten all about Tohru! For all he knew, she was probably walking home alone, struggling to carry those heavy grocery bags. He gritted his teeth, realizing that he had promised to help her with the bags. Yuki had actually broken a promise.
As he neared the provisions store, he stopped to notice a group of ambulances and police cars just across the street. Had someone nearby gotten hurt? Yuki gave a short, misfortunate frown as he noticed a rather damaged looking car and what he presumed to be an injured person behind the group of police officers and emergency drivers. He continued to walk ahead, however. It was truly a shame that some innocent life had to be taken away by some drunk driver, but he couldn't worry about that now. He had to find Tohru and apologize to her.
As he continued to walk past all the chaotic apprehension, he came to a stop, noticing a rather familiar looking car heading down the street towards the incident. His mouth slightly opened, just as the car stopped and a familiar set of faces appeared through the windshield.
"Yuki! We were just about to get you! Hurry and get in the car!" Shigure told him, rolling down the window. There was a strange look of worry and misfortune in his eyes that seemed absolutely uncharacteristic to Yuki. Realizing this, he nodded and quickly got into the car. He didn't even have to ask what was going on. Shigure answered for him.
"There...there was a car accident just beyond here," he began.
Yuki's eyebrows furrowed in question. "Yes, I know. I passed it up a little while ago..." Why was this so important that he had to get Hatori, himself, and even Kyo into the car? What was Kyo doing here anyways?! Yuki looked back at Shigure in perplexity. Shigure opened his mouth to speak again, but Hatori had already pulled to a rather violent stop.
They all got out of the car and rushed to the awaiting ambulances. Yuki had to follow behind the three (though he carefully distanced his way from Kyo. Why was Kyo even looking so concerned? It was freaking him out). He really didn't know what was going on. Was it that a family member was involved in this...?
As he weaved in and out of the large crowd, he eventually came to a halt, realizing that he was now in front of all the commotion. Yuki slowly walked towards the stunned Sohmas, afraid of what lied ahead of them. Just as he approached the emergency bed, his eyes widened as he saw who had been the one to be injured.
Yuki's heart stopped. He thought he would have suffocated from holding his breath so long. The thought of him and Tohru being able to plant the new strawberries in his garden this season, painfully shattered all over the floor. As he watched the police officers lift her up onto the back of the ambulance, he couldn't help but think that this had to be a dream...Tohru didn't deserve it...
...Yup. This ends the first chapter. This was actually my first attempt in creating a drama fic. I first typed this chapter a year ago... but as I looked through my story file recently, this one caught my attention. I really liked the story idea, so I did a few tweaks to it before deciding to post it. I really hoped you liked it! Please review!
