Chapter 5- Happy Birthday Sasuke!
"Sasuke, time to go to sleep now. We have school tomorrow and I don't want you to be exhausted," Yuki requests of him.
"Yeah sure." He yawns and walks up to Tohru's room, gets dressed and everything, then goes to sleep.
"Miss Honda, may I have a word with you and Kyo?" Yuki requests.
"What is it, Yuki?" Tohru asks.
"Yeah, what do you want?!" Kyo nearly yells.
"Shut up, Kyo! I don't want to wake Sasuke. Next Tuesday, the day we're supposed to have another day out, is Sasuke's thirteenth birthday.
"Really? How come he didn't tell us?" Tohru wonders.
"Maybe he didn't want us to go through the hassle of doing a birthday party for him, but what he doesn't know, can't hurt him. We're going to need a place for the birthday celebration, a place where everyone can have fun, and we'll probably do the rest at his home." Yuki informs them.
"So who's going to do what?" Kyo asks.
"Okay, you will be in charge of decorations, Shigure will be in charge of getting two places for the birthday, I'll be in charge of invitations and getting them out, and of course, Tohru will be in charge of the food. Are you up to that Tohru?"
"Of course!" Tohru answers without a problem.
"And you Kyo? Can you handle it?" Yuki makes sure.
"Yeah. I can." Kyo mumbles.
"Great. I'll start making the list of everyone who's coming. This will be a party Sasuke will never forget!" Yuki walks up to his room to get started.
"Yuki wait!" Tohru stops him from going just yet.
"What is it?"
"For the invitations, put down his two best friends and cousins. His two best friends are Megumi, Hana's little brother, Sakura Fujisaki, and his two cousins are Meiling and Tomoyo Kinomoto." After telling Yuki that, Tohru goes into the kitchen to decide what to make for Sasuke's birthday. "A birthday must have a cake of course, but what else?" She looks around for ideas, while Kyo makes a list of decorations. Which for some reason, he's doing really easily. Mean while, upstairs Yuki's working on the invitations.
"Let's see. Okay, Sasuke's family, of course, is coming. Let me run down the list again, Hana, Uo, Megumi, Sakura, Meiling, Tomoyo, Kisa, Hiro, Haru, Momiji, Hatori, Rin, Ritsu. Who else?" He then remembers his older brother. "Ayame? Is that a good idea? He seems to get along with Sasuke, but he's Ayame. Oh well." He puts down his older brother's name, which sends him great discomfort. Then he remembers another name. "Kagura! (if there's going to be discomfort in the party, I'm not the only one to get it.)" He writes down her name, and finishes the list.
During the week, Yuki made invitations to everyone invited. The Toko Family agrees to let keep all the presents in their house and to let Sasuke open them there. Shigure was able to reserve the park and the bowling alley for the party. Tohru prepared a huge feast, which she in change is proud of, and Kyo was able to get all decorations ready in the park.
For Sasuke, the week has been normal as usual for him. In school, he, Hiro, and Kisa are now one little clique, which doesn't please a jealous Sakura one bit.
The day of Sasuke's birthday has arrived and it's a sunny day outside.
"Wake up Sasuke! There's no school today, so we have the whole day to ourselves!" Tohru yells from downstairs.
Sasuke wakes up, "What? Really? Great! I'm coming." Sasuke quickly dresses and runs downstairs. "(Happy birthday to me!)"
"Did you sleep good last night?" Yuki asks.
"Great! I usually have trouble sleeping but not this time!"
"I wonder why. (Most likely cause it's his birthday.)" Yuki thinks. "I've already eaten so if you'll excuse me I'll just get my stuff ready." Yuki walks upstairs into his room.
"Hmm, let's see, the reserved park, with all decorations, Miss Honda's food, and invitations for all invited to come, check. The bowling alley after the park, reserved, check. All presents for Sasuke safely stored in the Toko residence, all checked out. Sasuke's birthday party is ready to go." Yuki checks everything then proceeds downstairs.
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"(Happy birthday to me! No huge party, no huge places for games, and no brother or sister to destroy my life today! Just me, Tohru, Yuki, and Kyo!)" Sasuke keeps singing in his head while eating.
"You seem really happy today Sasuke. Is it because of what we have planned today? (Your birthday party to be exact.)" Tohru asks.
"Of course!" Sasuke happily says as he eats his breakfast. He tries his best to not look so excited but failed as always. He couldn't hide the beaming smile on his face. Today's the day he became thirteen years old, a teenager. The fact kind of made him shiver, since he is one who doesn't want to grow up and be affected by adolescence.
"Sasuke, you look overly happy. We're just gong outside to do some fun outside activities. You make it seem like it's the happiest day of you life, like you birthday or something." Yuki points out.
"No, nothing like that. I'm just happy like I always am." Sasuke stupidly says, like what Yuki just said wasn't true.
"Well, that's nice to know."
Shigure then walks in. "Good morning everyone! Has everyone eaten Tohru's delicious breakfast that she well prepared for us?"
"(What an idiot!)" Sasuke reminds himself.
"(Sometimes I just want to knock him threw the roof, like last week. That was fun.)" Yuki imagines.
"(Stupid dog.)" Kyo, out of no where, repeats in his mind.
"Well I guess I'll eat, then after that, I'm going to see Hatori for something." He winks at Yuki.
"(Does he really have to wink?)" Yuki wonders with a sweatdrop running down his head.
"(Did Shigure just wink at Yuki? I'm must be imagining things.)" Sasuke, letting his thoughts get to him.
"Breakfast time! Breakfast time! All for me! Breakfast time!" Shigure sings while walking to the table.
"(Baka!)" They all yell in their heads.
"So what do we plan on doing today Yuki?" Sasuke asks.
"We're going to go to the park first. Everything else will just come up afterwards." Yuki tells him.
"The park? Okay! (But we went there last week!)" Yuki then goes into the kitchen and gives Tohru the signal that everything is checked and accounted for. His signal is two fingers up. Tohru smiles and finishes eating so she can prepare to go.
"Sasuke, hurry up so that we can have more of the day to look forward to." Tohru tells Sasuke.
"Hai!" Sasuke gobbles up the rest of his food and goes upstairs to get ready. He takes a shower and dresses up. When he goes back downstairs, Tohru, Kyo, and Yuki are all ready to go.
"Come on Sasuke! Ika zo." Yuki says to him. Sasuke nods, runs downstairs, jumps outside after opening the door, and waits for the others to lock to the door.
"I can't wait! Hurry, hurry, hurry!" Sasuke yells, jumping up and down like a little kid.
"(Sasuke looks so adorable by the way he's acting. I just want to give him a hug and yell happy birthday! But that's blow the whole thing. I'll hug him later.)" Tohru plans in her head and sighs.
Sasuke notices Tohru's phasing out and waves a hand in front of her. "Tohru! Hello? Earth to Tohru!"
Tohru then snaps out of her trance. "Oh! Sorry, I was just thinking. Come on! Follow us, we're going to take a short cut to the park." Tohru explains to Sasuke.
"Whatever you say. Just don't get us lost." Sasuke replies.
"So what do you want to do today Sasuke?" Yuki asks him.
"Well, after the park, I want to go maybe, bowling or some tennis." Sasuke suggests.
"(Just as I suspected.) If you want to, we'll go. After all, all of this is planned especially for you." Yuki tells him.
"Hurry up! I want to get there as fast as possible. What are we going to do at the park anyway?" Sasuke asks Yuki.
"We'll figure something out, won't we Miss Honda?" Her looks directly at her.
"Of course!" Tohru smiles at Yuki and Sasuke. Kyo in all of this is just walking and following them.
"(Ever since that boy came, all it's been is 'Sasuke! Sasuke!' how annoying!)" Kyo yells in his head.
"(Kyo's been awfully quiet lately. I wonder what's wrong with him?)" Tohru worries over Kyo's silence. They continue to walk through the forest until they reach the last of the trees that hides the park.
"What's all that noise?" Sasuke asks, completely oblivious to everything, even though he should at least get a clue of what's about to happen.
As they reach the last of the trees, Yuki and Kyo pull the branches out of the way and uncover Sasuke's birthday party. Yuki gives the signal and everyone turns to Sasuke and yell "HAPPY BIRTHDAY SASUKE!!!" Sasuke, quite surprised by all of this, wonders how they planned all of this.
"Who's idea was this?" he asks everyone. They all point to Yuki. "Did my parents tell you?" He puts up two fingers to reply 'yes'. "(Oh well, my idea of having a simple birthday without any huge parties won't be happening this year.)" He thinks as the atmosphere around him is dark. "(But, I know one things for sure.)" This background changes from dark to bright with him extremely happy with a birthday hat on his head. "(Lots of PRESENTS!!!)"
Sasuke looks around to see who's at his party. He finds all the Sohmas he knows, and others who he hasn't met yet. Megumi, Hana, Uo, and his family plus cousins, all showed up. Sasuke grabs Yuki, Kyo, and Tohru, so they can introduce him to the rest of the Sohmas. They first approach the frightful Ritsu.
"Ritsu, I'd like you to meet the birthday boy, Sasuke." Ritsu turns to him and reached out his hand to shake Sasuke's.
"Uh, p..please to meet you and happy birthday. I heard that you have also discovered our secret. Is that true?" Ritsu asks without freaking out over whatever.
"(Is this a guy or a girl? It's hard to tell. Ritsu sounds like a guy pitching is voice high, but looks like a girl.) Um, I don't mean to be rude, but what are you?" Sasuke asks with a little sweatdrop, Yuki, Kyo, and Tohru then sweatdrop.
"I'm the monkey of the Zodiac." He answers without hesitation.
"No, I mean, what gender are you?" Yuki, Kyo, and Tohru smirk at his question.
"Oh, um, I'm a guy. Sorry if I mislead you to think that I am a girl." Ritsu apologizes, for whatever reason.
"You don't need to say sorry, I was just curious, because of your hair, and voice, and clothes for that matter." Sasuke's comment then snaps Ritsu.
"OH! I KNOW I KNOW! THE WAY I'M DRESSING IS NOT FIT FOR A GUY!! I'LL CHANGE RIGHT NOW!!!" Shigure then appears out of nowhere and pokes Ritsu in the side. Ritsu slides down on the ground with his eyes all swirled up.
"The magic touch! Always works!" Shigure announces putting one finger up. Shigure then walks away to pester Hatori with Ayame.
"What was the deal with that?" Sasuke asks Yuki.
"You see, Ritsu is someone who has almost, what am I saying, no self-esteem. So, you have to be careful around what you say around him." Yuki explains.
"Oh, no wonder. So he's like the opposite of your brother, right?" Sasuke asks him.
"Completely. Anything will make that idiot talk about his social life back in high school or how great he is." Sasuke then begins to snicker at Yuki just said. "Let's go introduce you to so more of the Sohmas." They approach Kagura who's messing around with Rin. "Rin, Kagura, this is Sasuke, Miss Honda's cousin." They both bend down and stare at him. Before Kagura notices, Kyo slips away and hides with the kids.
"This is your cousin Tohru! He's so adorable!" Kagura yells, wanting to hug him, but remembering her curse.
"You know about the curse, correct?" Rin asks Sasuke. He nods in return. "Have you told anybody about it?" He nods sideways. "Good, that's a relief. I see your doing as good a job as Tohru. Now, if you'll excuse me, I have some matters I want to discuss with Haru." Rin walks away.
"Bye Rin! Nice meeting you." He turns back to Kagura, then notices that Kyo's disappeared. "Where did Kyo go?"
Kagura then puts her hands together and remembers that her love is here. "My love! Kyo! Where are you?! I've missed you so much!!" She begins running around looking for him, leaving Sasuke, Yuki, and Tohru standing there. Uo, Hana, and Megumi then approach them and begin chatting.
"What's up Tohru! Happy birthday squirt!" She messes up Sasuke's hair again. "Great party you got here."
"Very good, indeed." Hana adds.
"Thank you." Yuki says.
"Hey Megumi, glad you can come! Where's Sakura?"
"She said she didn't want to come. She said that she couldn't bear to have her boyfriend be around the likes of another girl, mainly one who already has a boyfriend." Megumi answers.
"SHE SAID THAT!!" Sasuke yells in, whatever you call it.
"No just messing. She said she didn't want to come because you would've just hanged out with the girl you obviously like a lot instead of her." He responds still not truthfully. He really didn't know why Sakura didn't come anyway.
"WHAT! Not true. I would've hanged out with her if she came. She's probably mad because I've been getting along really well with Hiro and Kisa."
"That's probably it." Megumi replies.
"Whatever, come on. Let's go play with the other kids." They run over to Hiro, Kisa, and Momiji.
"Hana, do you notice how Megumi acts differently around Sasuke?" Tohru asks her cousin's best friend's sister.
"It's strange. Whenever he's with Sasuke, it's almost like his old self is coming back." Hana explains.
"Well, who could be serious around Sasuke." Yuki admits.
"Yeah, that boy is so weird and funny. It's a wonder that you can still be the way you are around him." Uo tells Hana.
"It's because I try not to be around him." Hana admits.
"Can't hold out, so just avoid." Uo explains. "So where's the food? I'm starving here." Uo complains.
"We're going to be eating at Sasuke's house later on." Yuki explains. "Didn't you eat breakfast?" he then asks.
"No! Since I was going to this party, I thought that there'd be some chow. Oh well, my fault. I should've known better." Uo blames herself while putting her hand on her head in being such a dummy.
"So Miss Uotani and Miss Hanajima, did you aquatint yourself with the rest of my cousins? If you didn't then why don't you. You might find some similarities with many of them. We're right now going to have a little chat with Sasuke's family." Yuki asks of the two.
"Sure, why not? It might be fun meeting the rest of your cousins." Uo walks off with Hana and talks to Rin first and Sasuke returns. Yuki, Tohru, and Sasuke then walk towards Kimihiro, Hinata, and Shinichiro Toko to talk.
"Hello, how are you Mr. and Mrs. Toko?" Yuki asks and bows to them.
"We're fine thank you." They bow to him. Kimihiro and Hinata go up to Sasuke and gives him a big hug. "Happy birthday son! You're thirteen now."
"Yes mom, yes dad. It's kind of hard to breathe when your squeezing me like that." Sasuke tells them with a shortage of breath. After a little bit, they notice that they are squeezing him too hard and lets go right away.
Yuki then begins to converse with them. "I see that Sasuke's little sister isn't here. Why is that?"
"Uh, she doesn't know that it's Sasuke's birthday today, so we sent her to a friends house to spend the day, because Satski and Sasuke equals chaos." Kimihiro explains to Yuki.
"How about Shinichiro?" Tohru asks.
"'He can actually get along with Sasuke, unlike Satski." Hinata admits.
"Mom, where's Meiling and Tomoyo? Weren't they invited?" Sasuke asks his mom.
"You know you're aunt, she doesn't want her only daughters being close with someone else. You know that she's selfish like that." Hinata reminds Sasuke.
"Yes mom, I remember." Sasuke answers kind of sarcastically with a dumb expression on his face.
Kimihiro then decides changes the subject. "So who's the girl that my son helped how a while ago?" She asks them.
"Oh, Kisa Sohma, she's over there playing with her boyfriend, Hiro Sohma." Sasuke points out and points to Kisa.
"They cousins?" Shinichiro asks, and Sasuke nods. He then whispers to Hinata "Mom, isn't that incest?" She elbows him and tells him to shut up. He gets a little mad and walks away to bug Megumi.
"What'd he ask?" Tohru asks her.
"Nothing important really." She answers with an embarrassed smile.
After getting a pathetic beating from Kagura, Kyo finally returns to the group. "Goodness dear! What happened to you?"
"My cousin was just showing her affection for Kyo." Yuki explains.
"If that's affection, I'd hate to see hatred." Kimihiro points out. The rest sweatdrop and then smile. Kyo, who collapsed on the ground a while ago, completely forgotten, gets up and finally starts talking.
"I thought Kagura would never stop hurting me!" Kyo yells.
"Have you ever tried being nice to her?" Kimihiro asks him.
"That won't work. It's her way of showing her affection." Kyo tells them.
"So I see. So she's always like this, to you." Hinata says.
"Yes! All right!" Kyo yells. "Good God! I'm getting out of here." Kyo walks away and sits on one of the benches.
"He's one hot-tempered boy." Hinata points out.
"It's his way, so don't worry about him." Yuki tells them.
"Sasuke, why don't you introduce us to some of your friends?" Kimihiro asks him.
"Okay!" He runs over to Hiro, Kisa, and Momiji to get them. Shortly after, he returns with them.
"Mom, dad, meet Hiro Sohma," He moves Hiro forward to greet them, "Kisa Sohma," does the same with her, "and Momiji Sohma." The same thing with him.
"It's great to meet Sasuke's parents!" Momiji yells and shakes their hands.
"Aww! What a cute little boy!" Hinata yells and pats Momiji on the head.
"Please to meet you Mr. and Mrs. Toko." Kisa says to them.
"Why, what a pretty girl. Thank you." Kimihiro replies and shakes her hand.
"Hello, glad to meet you both. Sasuke's been a very great friend and is very funny." Hiro announces. Yuki shakes his head after what he just heard sinks into his head.
"(Did Hiro just praise someone? I'm must be hearing things.) Why don't you kids continue playing? Very soon, we're going to go bowling. Does that sound fine with all of you?" Yuki tells them.
"YEAH!" They all yell and go back to playing. Sasuke stays behind to talk to his parents.
"What nice friends you've got son. How old are they?" Kimihiro asks.
"Hiro's twelve, Kisa's thirteen, and Momiji's sixteen." Sasuke points out. After hearing the last person's age, Hinata and Kimihiro look at each other, Hinata looks back at Sasuke and asks him a question.
"You're joking us right?" she asks with a lifted eyebrow and a sweatdrop appearing on her head.
"If I was joking, I'd say 'a horse walks into a bar and the bartender says, "Why the long face?"'" Sasuke replies.
Hinata looks back at her husband. "He's not joking." Kimihiro says.
"So you're telling me, that that boy with the blond hair, a voice higher pitched than his little cousin Hiro and you also, with the smoothest pair of legs and arms for that matter, is sixteen. That's what you're telling us?" Hinata explains.
"(Smoothest pair of legs?) Yup! Hey, I don't know either." Sasuke replies.
"If you say so. (I can't believe that boy's only sixteen! I wonder how many souls he had to sell to the devil to keep those big brown eyes.)" Hinata asks in her head. "(But, he's still so adorable!)" she puts her hands together and starts swinging her body around.
"(What the heck is Hinata doing?!)" Kimihiro wonders about Hinata. Then leaves her to chat with some other Sohmas, namely Ayame, Shigure, and Hatori. Hinata goes to gossip with Rin and Kagura. Kyo is still sitting on the table doing nothing, while Yuki, Tohru, and Sasuke are all talking.
"So Yuki, when are we going bowling?" Sasuke asks him, hoping that it'd be soon.
"We reserved the bowling alley from 1:00 to 6:00 P.M., then we're going to be eating dinner at your house that Miss Honda, and your mom prepared. It took the entire week to make this happen, but it was all worth it, for you." Yuki tells him the birthday plan.
Sasuke smiles really big and gives him a big hug. "THANK YOU YUKI!! I can't believe you did all this for me!" Yuki's face reddened a bit, but then smiles back.
"I wasn't the only one, Miss Honda did the cooking, Kyo did the decorations, and Shigure reserved the park and bowling alley." Sasuke turns looks around for Kyo.
He yells out for Kyo and catches his attention. "THANK YOU KYO!" Kyo waves up his hand in saying 'no problem!' he then looks around for Shigure and yells the same thing, except he says Shigure's name, obviously. Shigure puts up two fingers in saying 'why not?!' and then he goes back to Tohru and gives her a big hug also. "And arigato Tohru!"
"Aww, you're welcome! Anything for my little cousin." She hugs him back. Kyo notices this and wishes that he'd have someone that close to him, as a relative, not lover. But he realizes that being the outcast that he is, plus carrying a curse, that will never happen.
AN: I know I'm being mean to Kyo, but don't worry! He's one of my two favorite characters and his big moment is about to come!
One hour later, Yuki announces that it's time to go to the bowling center for the next five hours. In a few minutes, they all reach the bowling center, enter, and gather around the side of the building. Yuki takes out a paper and pencil to mark down everyone who wants to bowl.
"Okay! Everyone who wants to bowl, come to me one at a time and I'll mark down your name." Yuki announces to the party public. He marks down everyone and the list reads: Sasuke, Megumi, Hiro, Kisa, Momiji, Shinichiro, Tohru, Kyo, Haru, Shigure, Ayame, Hatori (Because Shigure and Ayame wouldn't stop bugging him), Rin, Kagura, Uo, and yours truly Yuki (So Kyo wouldn't pester him afterwards). They all get their balls and shoes and starts up the games.
Meanwhile, back at the Sohma Main House a very lonely and not happy Akito is wondering what happened to everyone. He calls for his most loyal servant to find out what's going on.
"Sir, I do not know either where any of the Zodiacs are. If I may guess, I think that they are all together on some trip or something."
"Why didn't any of them tell me! They know I'm their LEADER!!! They can't do anything without my permission!" The servant flinches back at Akito's remark.
"May you request that I go and find out what is happening. I can probably discover what they are doing by retracing any calls that they might have had." The servant suggests.
"Very well. You shall go and discover what they are all doing. I want to know if they are hiding anything from me. Return once you've discovered their activities that have been hidden from me." Akito commands.
"As you wish Master Akito." The servant bows, then disappears in the dark.
Back at the bowling alley, "Great job Sasuke! Third strike in a row!" Tohru congratulates. "If only I knew how to bowl, it looks so simple but I keep getting gutters."
"It's not that hard. Look Rin and Kagura seem to be doing it fine. Why don't you ask one of them to help you." Sasuke suggests to Tohru.
"Okay! Thanks Sasuke." She goes to Kagura and she gladly shows Tohru how to hold the ball properly and how to throw it. With the little kids, competition grows between Hiro, Sasuke, and Shinichiro.
"I'm winning! Hahaha!" Shinichiro yells.
"But I'm catching up!" Sasuke yells at him.
"No! I'm going to beat you all!" Hiro yells. Then they all start yelling at each other about who's going to win.
"I'm going to win!" Sasuke yells.
"No I'm going to win!" Hiro yells.
"The winner will obviously be..."
Shinichiro gets cut off by the other person bowling with them, "Me. I'm winning now." Megumi announces.
"What?! Now way!" Shinichiro yells.
"Yes way. I'm beating you all now by twenty points." He then points at his four strikes in a row. The other three shuts up and continues bowling.
On the lane beside them, Kyo, Tohru, and Yuki are bowling. Tohru's losing and Kyo for once, is winning, and for a very good reason, with the score of 89 on the ninth frame. AN: I'm not going to tell you why yet. It'll be funnier when you find out later.
The next lane contains Kisa, Uo, Kagura, and Rin. Uo's losing and Rin's winning. Kagura gets a little annoyed with this and tries her best to catch up. Not much to catch up to since Rin's score is 54 at the seventh frame, and they all have bumpers.
The next holds Momiji, Haru, and Hatori. Hatori's losing and Haru's on the blink of turning black because Momiji's beating him by thirty points. His score is 102 on the ninth frame, and this is the first time he's ever bowled!
And on the last lane holds the two perverts/weirdoes, Ayame and Shigure. Both bowling the weirdest ways possible. Whenever any of the others saw them bowl, they'd sweatdrop then continue without ever thinking of what they saw again. Sasuke's parents began to wonder if the two adult zodiacs line of sexuality was as strait as the lane or as the ball they were throwing on it.
After the first games ended, Megumi, Momiji, Rin, Kyo, and Shigure emerged as the winners of the first round. Soon the second games began. They continue their second game with many laughs and lots of competition. But while they are having fun, they don't notice a dark figure watching what they are doing, taking down everything they are doing, and trying to find out what they are going to do next.
Soon after, the second games end with the results as following: the winners of the second round are Sasuke, Momiji, Kisa, Kyo, Yuki, and Ayame (only because Shigure let him). They are all going to play one more game then head over to the Toko residence to eat Tohru and Hinata's well prepared dinner. The games continue and they all enjoy Sasuke's birthday party.
As the games continue, Ritsu, Hinata, Hana, and Kimihiro decide to have a little conversation while they are waiting for the rest to finish. At four o'clock, all four of them leave to prepare the dinner at their house.
On their way there, the mysterious figure secretly follows them to see what they are up to. When they reach home, he notices decorations, lots of food, and a giant birthday sign saying 'Happy 13th Birthday Sasuke!', from the window. He then realizes that this is all for some kid that the Sohmas have suddenly been attached to and that they've been keeping him a secret from Akito. He quickly reports back to Akito to tell him the news.
Back at the bowling center, Sasuke notices a disappearance of his parents, Ritsu, and Hana.
"Hey Yuki, where did Ritsu, Hana, and my parents go?" he asks.
"They went back to your place to set up everything and to heat up the food." Yuki answers him.
"Okay! So who's winning?" he changes the subject.
"That baka-neko is, and won't shut up about it." Yuki spits out.
"That's funny. Hiro's winning this time. All three of us decided to team up against Shinichiro and try to beat him. He isn't too happy with the fact that he's losing this time." Sasuke tells Yuki.
"Hurry up Sasuke and finish your game so we can all go and eat at your place. I'm beginning to get hungry. We're almost finish with ours." Yuki tells him. Then Shigure and Ayame appear then disappear while blabbing all the way about how good a game it was and saying how better the other is than him. Yuki slaps his head and thinks "(Bakas!)"
Yuki, Kyo, and Tohru quickly finish their game and Kyo wins on the last game. Shortly after, Hatori, Momiji, and Haru finish their game with Momiji winning again. They found out that Hatori had been secretly helping him win. The girls and the boys were still playing and had three more frames to go. With the girls, Kagura finally is leading and with the boys, Hiro's leading with the support of Megumi and Sasuke.
Twenty minutes later, the rest finish and the victors are the ones who were leading the current games. They return all the balls and shoes, then head off to Sasuke's house to eat dinner and to hold the opening of presents. On their way to the Toko Residence, Kyo started rambling on him defeating Yuki at something.
"I beat Yuki!" He jumps up and cheers, then points at Yuki's face with his finger about an inch away. "I beat you!" Kyo's facial expression turns into a half-circle mouth the opens all the way to the chin face. He continues to brag until Yuki gets fed up with it and tells everyone why Kyo won.
"Do you know what Kyo?! The only reason why a baka-neko like you won is because YOU had bumpers!" After hearing this Kyo's face goes from proud to stupid. Everyone then begins laughing at Kyo. Only Tohru, Megumi, and Hatori don't laugh, they snicker instead. The more they laughed, the more stressmarks appear on his head.
"ALL RIGHT SHUT UP ALREADY!!! IT'S NOT THAT FUNNY!!!" Kyo screams at all of them.
"I'm going to disagree with you." Shinichiro announces. Kyo gets really mad and almost hits Shinichiro. Yuki then gets in front of the attack and knocks Kyo away.
"How dare you try to hit a kid!" Yuki yells at him. Shinichiro then corrects him.
"Hey! I'm fifteen you know, almost sixteen." Yuki then whispers to him.
"It doesn't matter. He had no right to try and hit you anyway. Besides, that was kind of funny." Yuki and Shinichiro both snickered a little. Then he straightens up and allows Sasuke to lead everyone to his house for dinner. Kyo gets up and slacks behind, feeling more miserable by the moment. Sasuke looks back to see if everyone's still following him notices Kyo slacking behind. He turns to Yuki and asks him to lead the way if he still remembers. Yuki smiles and nods at him, letting Sasuke go to the back and walk with Kyo.
"Kyo, what's wrong? Are you mad about Yuki hitting you?" he asks with concern.
"No, it's not that. I used to that. It's just that he keeps on proving that I can't beat him at anything! It's not fair!" Kyo pouts in front of Sasuke.
"Why do you so have to beat him? What's the deal between you two?"
"It's because he was always excepted by everyone while I was always shunned by everyone, even my own family. Our leader, Akito, said that I could be accepted as a member of the Zodiac family if I defeat Yuki. That's why." Kyo explains to him feeling depressed at the moment.
"That's sad. Well, I don't care if your and outcast or whatever, I accept you as a friend and there's nothing that would change my mind about that." Sasuke tells him and gives him a hug.
"(Nothing? I wonder. What if saw the real me? What would that do to him? He would probably be traumatized for life. Whatever happens, I can't let him see it.) Thanks Sasuke." Kyo rubs Sasuke's head.
They finally reach Sasuke's house and all the lights are on and everything's set up and prepared. Everyone stares at all the yummy food prepared, except for the ones who cooked it of course, while Sasuke's wondering where all the presents are. After singing 'Happy Birthday' in way Sasuke would describe as, very annoying, they all get settled in and start eating and chatting with each other. Sasuke is very happy to see that everyone's enjoying themselves.
In the living room, him, Hiro, Megumi, and Shinichiro are all playing Super Smash Brothers, with each of them as their favorite character. Sasuke is playing Young Link, Hiro is Roy, Megumi is Zelda, and Shinichiro is Marth. Hiro and Megumi are mostly playing on the side while the real battle is between Sasuke and Shinichiro.
In the dining room, all the ladies, plus Kisa, are all chatting and gossiping. Talking about the latest fashion, or whatever women talk about. In the back of the living room, Momiji waits for his turn to play, while Hatori's phases out Shigure, Ayame, and Ritsu's stupid conversation. Kyo and Yuki in all of this are just watching everyone have a good time. Kimihiro decides to let Yuki and Kyo go and watch TV in his room since they have nothing better to do. Beforehand, they both agreed to not argue or fight for Sasuke and Tohru's sake. This did not please Kyo one bit, but he had to bear with it.
Back in the party, everyone else is having a blast. Shinichiro and Megumi decide to stop and talk about more important matters, like about what games are about to come out and what not about videogames. Momiji finally is able to play non-stop and is very happy about it. Sasuke wants a fourth player and looks for Kyo or Yuki to play with them. He goes into his dad's room and finds them watching some lame TV show.
"Hey guys, we need one more player. Do any of you want to play?" Sasuke asks them without interrupting.
"That's fine. Thank you Sasuke." Yuki politely turns him down, not like Kyo who is acting like he had just been asked to be given the powers to destroy Yuki.
"I'll go! Come on! Let's go play some games!" Kyo and Sasuke run out together and rejoin Hiro and Momiji.
"(Those two. I guess Kyo's finally found someone he could actually be with. That baka.)" Yuki thinks with a weird feeling, like he's happy for Kyo or something he ate. He just continues to watch TV until something more interesting is offered to him.
Back with the videogame kids, and Kyo. Sasuke and Momiji has joined forces against Hiro and Kyo. Sasuke only teamed up with Momiji, because he's the best and Momiji seems the be the suckiest. In the back, Hatori is now reading a magazine, Shigure and Ayame are doing Lord knows what, and Ritsu is spacing out. In the dining room, 'all' the girls are still talking, mainly because of Hinata who almost never has nothing to say.
At seven, everyone comes back into the living room and Yuki and Kimihiro brings in all of the presents they got for Sasuke. It wasn't hard to bring in since he is thirteen and there on it gets hard to know what to give a teenage boy, so most of it is money. The present presents he got were from the younger folk, Momiji, Megumi, Hiro and Kisa, and surprisingly Shinichiro. From the older Sohmas, Sasuke gets 2,000 yen, from his parents, he gets 5,000 yen, and from Tohru, Uo, and Hana, he gets 2,500 yen. Rich boy he is now, and from the kids, he got a game from Shinichiro, that Shinichiro intends to play not Sasuke, who's not surprised, and from Momiji, some odd clothes, that looks like something only Satski would wear. From Hiro and Kisa, Sasuke gets a DVD movie of one of his favorite animes. "(I wonder how they knew I like this.)" and from Megumi, he gets a book. "(Who is this Harry Potter? Maybe Tomoyo and Meiling would like this. They're in to books, not me!)"
Everyone resumes their normal activities, except now Shinichiro wants to play the game he got Sasuke. They all enjoy the rest of the party for the next two hours. At the sound of nine o'clock, the Sohmas, with Sasuke, Tohru, Uo, Hana, and Megumi, all decides that the party is now officially over and to go home and get some rest. Uo, Hana, and Megumi split with them right after leaving the gate and all the rest goes back to their respected homes. Sasuke, Tohru, Kyo, Yuki, and Shigure say farewell to the rest of the Sohmas, then head home themselves. Sasuke realizes that he only has two more weeks left with Tohru, and the Sohmas, and decides to now find ways he can make the most of his stay.
Back at the main house, the very loyal servant of Akito's returns with bad news, bad news for Akito that is.
"Well, tell me! What did you learn?" Akito orders him to answer.
"I have discovered that they had been hiding a boy, and seems to be very fond of him, like Miss Tohru. They were at the bowling center, then they went to the boy's house and I think celebrated his birthday. All of them must really like him, and I also sensed that Kyo is becoming close to this youngster." The servant tells Akito.
"Are you absolutely sure about all this?!" Akito's anger was growing the instant he heard his servant say 'hiding a boy', and wanted to know if everything he heard was the absolute truth.
"Every word of it." The servant answers.
"Leave! And don't tell anyone about this! Do you hear me!" Akito commands.
"Uh, yes master. I shall leave now." He bows and disappears. Akito turns around, squeezes his hands then punches the wall.
"(I WILL not let any 'girl' or 'boy' take them away from me! They will all be mine!)"
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AB-Angel: What a way to end the chapter!
Haru: I just noticed that I was in the party, but you never mentioned me after the bowling center. Why is that?
AB-Angel: Crap! I completely forgot about you. I don't know, there's something that always makes me forget you for some reason. Sorry Haru fans! Now can you leave?
Haru: Yeah, sure. He leaves
Sasuke: Who was that crazy man?
AB-Angel: None of your concern. I told you already that I don't want you to know who he is. All I'll tell you is that he's an evil bastard who likes hurting Tohru.
Sasuke: That bastard!
AB-Angel: Hey! Don't say that!
Sasuke: But you said it too.
AB-Angel: I'm sixteen, you just turned thirteen. I want to be twelve!
Sasuke: Ha! I'm still young and you're not!
AB-Angel: Shut up! Now, to readers, I know I have been kind of mean to Kyo lately, but that's all going to change now. The next chapter is probably the highlight of my story, in its drama part. I'm very excited to write this chapter, but I may get discouraged, so the more reviews I get, the more inspired I get. Review if you want to read chapter 6- Brother's Trust. Bye for now! Also, I'm doing an advertisement for my DN Angel story, it's called Dark Downfall, please read and review that one too so I may be inspired and continue on through the second and third chapter of that one.