Chapter 7
Memories
I feel like such a horrible person! I just finished watching the last three episodes of Fruits Basket again.. and now I feel bad for making Akito the bad guy! But I already did.. so I'll have to finish it.. maybe.. this can happen.. before.. ya.. it happens before the last episode.. but.. after Tohru.. finds out.. about Kyo? -Confuses herself- Anyway.. I can still make Akito the bad guy.. even if I currently feel a little bad for it after those episodes.. well.. I write about that a lot so.. I can keep it up. I have another FB story with Akito as a bank robber.. if anyone wants me to post it.. I haven't finished it so I'll still have to update itlike this and a few of my other stories, but I have it. Oh I'm blabbering..
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Akito had been treated and was already walking around in a fury. He couldn't believe this! He was ruined! He didn't notice Yuki's form standing in an off hallway.
"That damn cat! That monster! How Dare He! How can he have so much strength in this rain!" Akito growled. Yuki's eyes flashed and he stumbled away as he held his head.
He stumbled around to his room. Somehow he knew where that was... 'That damn cat!' Akito's voice rang in his head. Yuki was flashed with pictures of Kyo.
Fighting him hundreds of times. He got one were a boy with red hair went flying through some door and landed in a garden. He saw the same boy fighting a white haired boy and doing a good job too. He saw them staring at each other.. glaring. He watched as this boy turned into a monster. As he ran off. Some feeling welled inside of him. Hate. A strange hate.
'He the cat and I'm the rat. We were born hating each other. That's the way it's been. And that's how it will always be.'
'Who decided it had to be that way?'
"Cat.... Rat..." Yuki pulled his hand from his head and stared at it once more. "I.."
Gar...den... He remembered.. "What did you serve her?" "Nothin. Leek soup." SMACK!
"I.. hate.. I hated.. him? But.." Yuki clutched his hand again. He didn't remember these things! Were these his? If they were... why couldn't he remember them? Who was this cat?! And who was that girl!
'Kyo is the type who attracts others to him. I've often thought that even though he can't be in the zodiac, he might be able to face normal people in a normal body.... I've always wished that I could be like that.'
New years... sitting on a roof... sunrise... staying with.. Tohru. The girl?! In another flash he had memories of Tohru. Tohru.. So many memories.. Too many.. Yuki groaned. He collapsed on his bed.
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Tohru stirred on her bed. It was the middle of the night but Kyo hadn't fallen asleep yet. When Tohru made noises he thought she was awake. He jumped up to look at her.
"Tohru?" His hand was right by her face, floating above the surface like she was a porcelain doll. She turned her head again. "Tohru.." Kyo said again. She didn't open her eyes.. but she was okay.. at least a little. Maybe... "Maybe you'll wake up... in the morning.." Kyo was trying to reassure himself. But he sat up for another hour or so.. talking to her. He wasn't sure if she could hear him.. but he liked to believe she could. He told her everything he did while she was away.. and how worried he'd been. And if she didn't remember this when she woke up.. He'd tell her a hundred times over.. so she'd know how much he cared..
And I suppose... somewhere.. Tohru could hear him... She wondered if she'd end up like Yuki when she woke.. a lifeless shell with no eyes... or if she'd be herself.. and tell everyone what happened to Yuki...
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"Prince Yuki. Wake up." someone was shaking him. He groaned. "Sir.. are you feeling alright?"
"Who?" Yuki's mouth was covered. "Sir! You're talking! That girl really got to you." It was a young woman. "Mai.. I'm sorry.. I.. forgot your last name.." Yuki apologized.
"Sir.. Yuki. What happened to you? You're almost acting like you did 3 years ago.. and.. you have a fever.." Mai's hand was on his forehead. "Oh! I'm sorry. I touched you.." she bowed her head and turned to the door. "I'll be back.. with your breakfast.. and I'll feed you.." And with that she was out the door.
Yuki didn't have all his memories.. Just some girl and a boy. He tried to remember their names.. the memories.. but the more he tried.. the harder it got. He decided to let his mind wander just beyond the memories and catch what little glimpses he could. All together.. he wished he knew they were his. Such wonderful memories. And he had more in a dream last night.
Mai was back soon with a silver tray and food. The past 3 years came back to Yuki and he sat silently while he was fed. It seemed so strange to him now.. like a distant strange feeling. It was the voice. It was louder now. It was his conscience now. If this kept up.. he might be himself again. But only the voice knew that. And it basked in the memories, wishing to go back to them.
"You still have a fever. Please rest in bed today sir. I shall tell master Akito." Mai bowed. She took the tray and quickly left the room. Leaving Yuki to sit there, thinking of nothing, and returning to the blank stare that he'd kept for 3 years.