AN: Sup FRUIT-BASKET lovers! Lol. Well, thank you for the reviews. Got some tough ones...it was hard taking them, but I'll live. I guess I'll have to make this one extra long.
Oh yeah. Sorry for the 'randomous paragraphs'. It's because someone requested it to make it easier to read than those super-long ones. I think they might actually make it to Vegas in this chapter! Enjoi hug hug
Tohru looked down at Haru. "Ah! I'm sorry. I-I'll get off now," Tohru stuttered, propping herself up to support herself from falling again. Tohru felt Haru's arm slip around her curvy but slim waist and push her down on him. She gasped from the sudden action. H-Haru...?" Tohru whispered out. "Stay. Stay with me. Please..." Haru breathed out. "Wh-what?! Uh, um, we really should be going to eat...lunch..." Tohru breathed back, getting nervous and flushing from the heat and embarrassment. Tohru realized that Haru was still in his black form.
"I just want you...here with me, Tohru," Haru said, rolling over Tohru's body, now having his body on top of hers. All Tohru could do was make her eyes huge and think a million things at a time inside of her head. Haru closed his eyes and slowly dipped down to kiss Tohru softly on the lips. Tohru's eyes widened even more, getting shifty underneath Haru. Instead, Haru straddled Tohru's hips and slipped his arm back around her back. Haru ran his fingers through her soft brown hair, moaning so softly.
"H-Haru..." Tohru whispered in between kisses. Then everything got more heated. Haru stopped the kiss gently and breathed on the curve of her neck, finding just the right spot to kiss her. He found it and then kissed it so softly that it made her shiver violently.
"Haru...I can't do this..." Tohru said strernly, feeling that his lips and fingers had stopped. "No, we've made a stop..." Haru said, getting up and looking out his window. "We've got a flat tire, Tohru," Haru said, getting out of the room.
"Hey you! What took you so long? Now we've got a flat tire even before you came to eat lunch, you loser!" Kyo yelled at Haru. Yuki just sat there and ate quietly. Shigure sighed and explained what had happened. "Well...I seemed to have run over some nails stuck in the road. I guess Akito had bought some cheap tires, eh? It's going to take about one and a half hours to fix. Tell Tohru to stay in here and us men will fix it, all right?" Shigure said to the three other boys.
Haru said, "I'll go tell her really quick." Haru went to his room and found Tohru sitting on his bed quietly. He said, "Do you think you can fix up the bus? I think some things may have gone out of place during the swerving and stuff. We're going to fix the tire. It might take a while, okay?" Tohru nodded and got up. She cocked her head to the side and smiled, "Good luck!" Haru blushed a little and nodded back. He went out to do his job.
Tohru sighed and decided to start with Shigure's room since he was the driver of this trip. She walked to Shigure's room and opened the door. There she found a couple of things on the floor. There was an open notebook, a picture, clock and a lamp. She placed the lamp back on its stand and hung the picture and clock back on the wall. Before she could pick up the notebook, she saw 'Tohru' written numerous times in it. She was very hesitant to pick it up.
'No! This is an invasion of privacy! I cannot do this. Mom would have never done this. I'm such an idiot!' Tohru scolded herself. She picked it up, trying not to read anything. But she saw one part that stood out.
She read: 'I love Tohru with all my heart, but we can't be together. She is really a nice girl, but she still has a lot to learn. I think I'll stay single for now until we get to Vegas.' Tohru sighed in relief. One less thing for her to think about. She was blushing a little as she closed the notebook and put it on Shigure's side table. Tohru was done here, so she walked out of the room and headed on to Yuki's.
As she opened the door, she was surprised to see that nothing had been out of place. "Well, I guess I won't have to do anything here," Tohru said and sat on Yuki's bed. Tohru sighed and thought to herself. 'Yuki is probably the most wonderful best friend I've ever had, besides Uo and Hana. I'm not sure if I can think of him as more than just a friend...' Tohru wasn't sure whether or not Yuki would accept her thought. 'Wait! I'm not sure if he loves me! What am I thinking? How can I be thinking such arrogant thoughts? How selfish of me.' Tohru stood up and walked to Kyo's room.
She entered Kyo's room and found that only one thing was left out of place: a stuffed animal cat. Tohru looked at it and found it very familiar. She bent down and picked it up. She studied it, turning it in her hands. Then her head shot up. She gasped. 'I can't believe he still has this! I was thinking for sure he might have lost it by now!' Tohru thought. She remembered that one Valentine's Day she gave Kyo an orange stuffed cat. Kyo had criticized her, saying it was an insult to him, but he seemed to have kept it. Tohru smiled. She dusted off the cat with her hands and carefully put it on his bed. She walked out of this room and went into the kitchen.
She sat down and grabbed a plate of food, starting to eat. She sat in deep thought, not even knowing what she was putting in her mouth. 'Well, Shigure only thinks of me as a friend, and I only think of Yuki as a friend...is this bad? I can't think selfishly, but, does that make things better for me? Oh, what am I saying? I'm being so self-centered right now.' Tohru argued.
She still sat, eating and listening to the faint voices outside of the RV. "No, stupid dog! That's not how you do it! Damn, if you want something done, I guess you have to do it for yourself!" Kyo screamed at Shigure. Tohru found herself smiling and almost laughing. "Oh, what am I doing? That was rude. I should go help them..." Tohru said as she cleared her plate and put it in the sink.
She stepped off of the bus to find four exhausted boys lying on the ground. "Eeeep!!! Oh no! I-is everyone okay?! Do you need water?!" Tohru panicked. Kyo was the first and only to answer. "We're not okay! Look at us!!!" Kyo screamed. Tohru backed away quickly and retrieved a small glass of water. She was in such a hurry that she splashed the water on Kyo's head.
Kyo looked at her plainly. Then his expressionless face turned angry. "Do you think that's enough water?!?! We're dying!" Kyo yelled. Tohru looked around her, trying to find enough cold water for her to bring to Kyo and the others. Then she came up with an idea. "Ah! I know! We have an emergency water hose!" Tohru said as she went back inside the RV. She grabbed the hose and hooked it up to the sink faucet and turned it on full blast.
She walked back outside to the boys and pointed it towards them. Then a gush of water blew out at them. "AHH!!! Turn it off!!!" They all screamed. "Ah! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean it! I-I'll go turn it off," Tohru said as she dropped the hose and ran back inside to turn off the faucet. She did so and came back out once more.
She saw everyone standing, dripping wet. "Th-thank you, Tohru. Um...can you hand us some towels?" Shigure said. Tohru went inside as fast as she could and brought out four towels. After a while, everyone was settled once again inside the RV and ready to go.
"You know, we could have just stopped by a gas station and ask them to do it," Yuki explained. "Well, how much longer would it take to get to the nearest gas station, let alone a sign of civilization?" Shigure sighed and started the engine.
"He's right, Yuki. We're in the middle of nowhere. Well, to be more specific, in the desert in the middle of nowhere," Haru said nonchalantly. He sat down at the eating table and relaxed. Yuki had taken himself back into his room and Kyo sat down to eat. As Kyo was eating, he stared at Haru, laying down on the bench for the dining table.
"Hey, if you're so tired, why don't you go in your room so I won't have to hear your annoying snore?" Kyo snapped at Haru. Haru sat back up and simply stared back at Kyo. "Don't tell me what to do," Haru said sternly as he walked up and out to his room. Haru passed Tohru in the RV isle and he didn't even look at Tohru.
'Eh...Oh, that's right...he forgot what had happened. What am I thinking? I don't like Haru...well, not that much at least. I do know that I love him as one of my dearest friends,' Tohru told herself. She blushed at the thought of what happened earlier. One small part of her urged on Haru, but the majority of her wanted it to stop. It didn't feel right with Haru.
As Haru walked towards his bedroom door, he felt Tohru's stare upon his back. He turned his head around and said, "Hm? Need something, Tohru?" Tohru snapped out of it as quickly as she could and shook her head no. Haru turned back to his room and went inside.
Tohru walked down to sit across from Kyo in the little kitchen. "I'm sorry I couldn't help you guys. I just caused more trouble. Maybe I shouldn't have gone on this glorious trip," Tohru told Kyo and looked down. Kyo sighed. 'Here she goes again with one of her put-downs.' "Look, Tohru. It's okay. I thought I told you to stop apologizing so much. Shigure said that this trip was a break. You don't have to do everything. Hell, you don't even have to do anything," Kyo told Tohru as he continued eating. "Just...Yoo know. Relacks and chill out," Kyo said with a full mouth.
Tohru tried to stifle her giggles as she looked at Kyo's face stuffed with food. Kyo looked up confused. "What? What's so funny?" Kyo demanded. Then Tohru just let it out. 'I can have fun, right Mom? You'll be with me all the way,' Tohru thought as she laughed out loud. "Kyo! You're so funny! You shouldn't be talking with your mouth so full," Tohru laughed.
'Damn. She's really cute when she laughs like that. What the hell am I thinking?! She doesn't think anything like that towards me,' Kyo thought. He swallowed hard and started blushing. He laughed a little nervously and smiled a bit. "Yeah, whatever."
Shigure's head tilted up to his rear-view mirror. He saw the back of Kyo's orange head and Tohru's smiling and laughing face. 'Hm...those two are very interesting to observe. I wonder if something will come of it. It will make a nice romance novel...two teenagers liking each other without knowing it. Hah! I'm just getting to good at this,' Shigure smiled to himself as Kyo and Tohru sat in silence.
"So Kyo?" Tohru asked. "Hm?" Kyo responded. "Are you excited about going to Las Vegas? Just wondering," Tohru said out of curiosity. "Hm, yeah. I guess you could say that. I just hope it'll be more exciting and less boring once we're there," Kyo said, finishing his lunch. The word boring stabbed into Tohru's head like a dagger. She perked her head up and looked at Kyo.
"Boring...Are you bored, Kyo?" Tohru asked, a bit of disappointment in her voice. Kyo looked at Tohru for a second, then sat up to take his plate to the sink. "Uh, sort of. There's really nothing to do in this RV. Oh well. Rat boy and cow aren't fun, so guess it's not much of an excitement to be in here," Kyo replied. "Oh, um, we could do something together! B-because I'm a bit bored myself! I mean, if you don't want to, that's perfectly fine!" Tohru stammered.
That definitely caught Kyo's attention. "Um, sure. What exactly do you have in mind?" Kyo asked, trying not to sound TOO friendly. Tohru thought for a second. "Um, well, I brought a couple of fun games that Uo and Hana and I play together! W-would that be okay?"
"Uh, sure," Kyo said, unsure of what kind of girly games they would 'play' together. Tohru clapped her hands in excitement and walked to her room followed by Kyo. Tohru walked into her room and pulled out of her backpack a stack of normal looking cards. They were cased in a pink and blue polka-dotted card case. It looked VERY girly to Kyo.
Kyo followed Tohru out of her room uneasily. He wasn't sure if he wanted to do anything with her right now. They both sat back down in the tiny kitchen across from each other. They both sat for a few seconds before Kyo said, "Um, do we start now?" "Oh, yes. Sorry! It's just that I think we need more players. We need about four," Tohru said. "Ah! We can get Haru and Yuki if that would be okay," Tohru informed Kyo.
'No, it wouldn't be okay at all,' Kyo thought. "Fine. As long as I go against Yuki to beat him," Kyo said. Tohru stood up to go get Yuki and Haru and said, "Oh, it's not a competition! It's called 'Truth or Dare'!" Tohru called from where she was heading.
'Oh shit...' Kyo thought. The game he always dreaded and avoided finally came. There was really no way he could avoid it anyway. Yuki and Haru would call him a chicken. Kyo waited there in misery as he heard footsteps becoming louder and louder until he saw Tohru walking with Yuki and Haru on either side of her. Haru and Yuki didn't know what was coming.
Haru sat down next to Kyo and Yuki sat down next to Tohru. "Okay, let's start! The game is called 'Truth or Dare'! I'll explain the rules in a second," Tohru said. Right when she said the name of the game, Haru and Yuki got a bad feeling about this.
"Okay. You pick up a card and read it to yourself. It either says ask the person on left, right or across from you. You ask them truth or dare and you ask them the question they pick. Are you guys okay...?" Tohru said.
She saw that all three boys had their heads down, beginning to regret the acception of this game. Tohru sensed it. "Um...we don't have to play this game..." Tohru assured them. All three of them heard disappointment in Tohru's voice.
"No, no, Tohru. It's all right. It's just that we feel a bit...tired from today. Go on. We'll play now," Yuki explained. Tohru's face predictably brightened up and she placed the cards in the middle of the table.
"Y-Yuki, you can go first if you'd like to," Tohru said, unsure. Yuki gulped silently and picked up a card. 'Let's see. Ask the person on your right. Okay, that's Tohru,' Yuki thought to himself.
"Tohru, truth or dare?" Yuki felt childish playing this game, but if it made Tohru happy, he would do it. Tohru's face all of a sudden changed from happy to nervous. Obviously she wasn't used to playing games with boys.
"U-um...truth," Tohru managed to get out. Yuki read the question to himself and then out loud. "What do you think the person across from you will be when he or she grows up?" Tohru was in deep thought. She had no clue what Haru was going to be, let alone if he wanted a career. "Ah! I know!" Tohru exclaimed.
"Haru will be a veterinarian!" Tohru shouted. Kyo started laughing immediately. "HAHAHA!!! Did you hear that, you cow? A VETERINARIAN!" Kyo laughed so loud and so much that Yuki almost started laughing.
Yuki tried to make it not seem that he was trying to hold in his laugh, but it was impossible. Tohru was just too clueless. Yuki smiled and just laughed a little. Even though Kyo was laughing, he saw Yuki and almost stopped abruptly. Fortunately, he didn't.
'Woah, what the hell?! Yuki?! LAUGHING?! That's a change...' Kyo thought. Meanwhile, Haru was just sitting there half insulted but half amused. "Tohru, do you really think I'd turn out to be a veterinarian?" Haru asked in thought.
"U-um, well...I don't know. It was just a guess," Tohru said, not knowing why everyone was laughing. "Well, you could always be a...a...gardener?" Tohru asked Haru, not sure if this was a good choice for him.
That made Kyo laugh even harder and Yuki try more to keep in his laugh. "BWA-HAHAHA!!! A gardener!!! HAHAHA!!! I mean, think about it...Haru wearing gardening gloves, with like, flowers on them!" Kyo laughed.
Shigure heard the laughing. 'Those kids must be having a lot of fun. Just think about what'll happen when we get to Vegas...' Shigure thought, steering the RV and turning on the headlights, for it was beginning to be evening time.
Haru was now insulted. "Well, I already wear gloves, you know," Haru said quietly. Tohru felt that she had ashamed Haru and felt bad. "I-I'm sorry, Haru!" Tohru shouted. Yuki said, "Um, l-let's move o-on, okay?" Yuki was still trying to stifle his laughs.
Tohru picked up a card. It said 'Ask the person diagonally from you.' Tohru was unsure about the question and was nervous about asking it. "Kyo, truth or dare?" Kyo thought a moment. He didn't want to do anything drastic or embarrassing, so he picked truth. Tohru began to look nervous.
She started to read the question aloud.
"Um...name one good quality to the person diagonal from you," Tohru said quietly. Kyo started sweating a little bit. 'Damn. Now I have to be honest in front of these guys...' Kyo screamed in his head. "Um...you're really...nice," Kyo tried to say quickly.
Haru patted Kyo hard on the back saying, "Now that wasn't so tough, was it? Especially because you had told Tohru that you loved her." Everybody went quiet. Haru knew he had said something wrong, but didn't feel bad about it.
Yuki was silent with his lips shut tight. Kyo started to almost drip in his sweat. Tohru blushed furiously and looked down. Shigure was driving, and even the RV seemed quieter than usual.
Kyo didn't want this loud silence to continue, so he reached his hand out to pick a card. He read the card in his mind, then out loud. "Yuki...who do you have a..." Kyo felt stupid saying this childish word out loud, "crush on," Kyo finished.
It was Yuki's turn to get unbelievably nervous. He loved Tohru, but he's not sure how. His mind was thinking of more than 90 miles per hour.
'Ah, what should I say? I love Tohru, but...I'm not so sure if I really do...maybe I just like her a lot...just as a friend. If I thought about it, me loving Tohru is a bit...strange and it just doesn't fit. But it might offend her...I'll just say...Satsuki." Yuki thought quickly.
Satsuki was a girl in his class that was beautiful, but quiet. He talked to her often, but didn't think of her that way. He just needed an excuse out of this one time.
"Um...S-Satsuki," Yuki said, trying to make it sound convincing although it looked as though everyone would see right through him. Kyo screamed, "WHAT?!?! You LIKE her? HAHAHA!!! That's so funny! I'm gonna tell her when we get back to school!" Kyo pointed and laughed until it wasn't funny anymore.
Yuki kept a straight face. He didn't care. Tohru looked only the tiniest bit disappointed because Yuki didn't say her name. 'He said that he loved me...it must have meant as just a friend...but, that means nothing more to think about...I think I know who I love,' Tohru said doubtfully.
Yuki sensed her disappointment and placed his hand on hers. She jumped a little because of the shock. Their hands were on the seat so they couldn't be seen. Yuki squeezed her hand in assurance. As if Tohru understood exactly what Yuki meant, she smiled at him.
Haru and Kyo noticed that Yuki and Tohru were staring at each other. "Hey you lovebirds, quit it. I'm hungry. Shall we eat, Ms. Honda-san?" Haru said. Yuki shook his head in amusement and looked at Tohru once more. "Oh, yes! I completely forgot! I'm sorry! I'll get on that right now," Tohru said as she stood up to prepare dinner early.
Haru stood up and said, "I'll help you, Tohru." There was only Yuki and Kyo left. "So...what was that all about, huh? You guys flirting?" Kyo asked in a hard voice. Shigure looked up into his rear mirror once more. 'Wow. This is getting good,' he thought, smiling and listening intently.
Yuki sighed. "Can't you see, you stupid cat? I love Tohru...as a friend. She's my...best friend. I don't really like Satsuki. I just said that because if I said no one, then you would surely have said something stupid," Yuki said, shaking his head again. Kyo looked at Yuki, unsure if he was being honest.
Kyo eyed Yuki. "You better not," Kyo said very bravely. Yuki was surprised at Kyo's boldness. Then with the faintest voice, Kyo said, "Because Tohru's mine." Yuki heard that and smirked, wondering what would happen next on this crazy trip.
AN: What that long enough? I worked my butt off, what with all the homework. Lol. Nevermind. I'm sorry it took so long!!! I'm so very sorry. I tried my best. And I'm sorry if you don't like my story. I'm also sorry if people are out of character. As I mentioned before, I have never seen the anime. I'd like to thank these people SO much:
Inuficcrzy, kamyan, Sachi-Kohana, Sesshies lova, Enkai-Michelle, AnimeBouricuaPrincess, sweetiegurl23501, dreamcaster555, Kawaii Usagi 007, and Amaya Hanyou, who, by the way, gave me a very tough comment. Look, I know people are out of character. I don't know how many times I have to say sorry!!!!! And plus, I'm just experimenting with the characters, so sorry if you don't like it. I'll try my best to update soon! I love you all