3…2…1…KONNICHIWA! I am really excited about this chapter. It's going to be major Tohru/Kyo fluff and a little surprise is in store for our little group. Anyway on with the fic.
Disclaimer: I, hereby swear, that I do not own Fruits Basket, no matter how much I want to.
Chapter 11 - A friendly visitTohru sat on her bed thinking to herself.
'I wonder why Akito just gave in so easily? Kyo and Yuki make a big deal about it when I'm with him alone, but when I am, he seems so nice, even though the look of hatred in his eyes is still present…Oh my gosh! I forgot to sing to Momiji!' Tohru suddenly remembered. She stood up and ran to Momiji's room.
"Momiji, I'm so sorry. I forgot to sing to you today!" Tohru shouted.
"It's alright Tohru. I don't mind. You're here now. Besides, I think Kyo wants to hear you sing too. He told me it helps him sleep too. But don't tell him I told you." Momiji said putting a finger to his lips. Tohru smiled and giggled a little before nodding.
"Hey, Tohru, I have a really good idea, why don't you sing for all of us!" Momiji said excitedly.
"(Gasp) you really think so Momiji?"
" Well yeah, Kyo likes it and I love it, so why wouldn't everyone else love it? You're a great singer Tohru." Momiji said happily bouncing on the balls of his feet.
"Really? I guess, but you have to dance with me." Tohru bargained. That way, if it wasn't a total waist and everyone hated her singing, she would still have some fun in the process.
"Yes, yes! All right! Come on, come on, let's go!" Momiji said grabbing Tohru's hand and dragging her down stairs. Everyone was somehow conveniently in the living room all facing towards the center of the room. Tohru looked around at the seating arrangements and deduced that Momiji had somehow planned this out ahead of time.
"Okay everyone, Tohru agreed that she would sing to all of us. So lets give her a big round of applause!" Momiji announced like she was going on stage at a concert.
"Oh, but I don't know what to sing. I can't…" Tohru said nervously. Everyone was staring at her.
Yuki got up and went over to the piano and started to play a tune. Tohru looked over at him and he smiled. Everyone started to clap and Tohru blushed.
"It's okay Yuki, I have a little song in mind." Tohru reassured him and he sat back down.
Tohru started to tap her foot. She knew exactly what to sing. She took a deep breath and started to dance to the rhythm of the song playing in her head.
" Mmhmm, mmhmm,
Oh yeah, Just cause I'm small, bet you were all, I'm only a girl what to do,
Let me sing, my song for you,
Not many came, its just my command, I know just how to get to you
Let me sing, my song for you
When you lay down late at night, I'm sorry you can't fight, I know you don't stand a chance,
There is nothing you can do, once I put my spell on you, when I sing my lullaby,
Lullaby, lullaby, lullaby, when I sing for you my lullaby,
Now that you see, it wasn't a dream, reality got the best of you, don't you boy, I will come after you, now it's to late, to hesitate, to hide cause baby, de sha vue, watch out boy, I'm coming for you,
When you lay down late at night, I'm sorry you can't fight, I know you don't stand a chance, boy,
There is nothin' you can do, once I put my spell on you, when I sing my lullaby,
Lullaby, lullaby, lullaby, when sing to you my lullaby,
In your sleep, that's got you so deep, the sweet melody, has captured you, forever more…
Lullaby, lullaby, lullaby, when I sing for you my lullaby, Sing my lullaby,
When you lay down late at night, I'm sorry you can't fight, I know you don't stand a chance,
There is nothing you can do, once I put my spell on you, when I sing my lullaby,
Sing my lullaby"
Tohru finished promptly with a bow and suddenly the room was full of hoots and hollers from her family. They were clapping and whistling. She smiled profoundly and bowed again. She was getting a curtain call as they call it.
"That was beautiful Tohru, bravo, bravo!" Shigure said happily clapping the loudest.
"Yes, it was extremely well sung." Yuki commented. Tohru blushed.
"It was wonderful." Haru said.
"You are a beautiful singer Tohru." Hatori and Kazuma both said. Kisa and Hiro agreed. Kisa wanted to do another song, so Tohru started moving again and Kisa and Momiji followed. She started to sing one of the first songs she sang to Momiji, Miracle.
Tohru twirled Kisa around and danced with Momiji, though they couldn't get as close as Kisa and her could. Soon everyone started to join in, except for Kyo and Akito. Kyo, because he wanted to tell her it in person, and Akito, because he still thought that Tohru was a nasty, ugly girl, who didn't belong. But was he wrong. No other person could ever fit more perfectly with a family.
Here she could laugh, cry, share her troubles with everyone and they wouldn't cast her away. This fit, and it fit well. And Akito was not going to let it happen.
Later that night, after Tohru had finished taking her shower and put on her silky pajama's she took a short stroll through the house.
"Your singing was beautiful." Tohru jumped and looked around, till her eyes fell on Kyo, sitting patiently on the couch.
"(Gasp) Kyo, you startled me. Are you alright?" Tohru asked walking over to him.
He faced her and nodded.
"Of course I'm all right. I was just saying is all."
Tohru smiled softly at him and kissed his cheek.
"Thank you. I didn't think that anyone would like it. I really didn't think it was that good."
"I think you're crazy for thinking that."
"Huh?"
"Tohru, you…" Kyo started but he blushed and looked away.
(Little does everyone know, they have eavesdroppers. Hint, hint: Shigure, Kazuma, and Hatori -)
"What is it Kyo? You can tell me." Tohru said, urging him to go on.
"I think, that you sound like an…"
Around the corner of the stairs listening, (going through all of their minds)
'Tell her!'
" A what?" Tohru persisted innocently.
Kyo looked over at her and blushed again. His cheeks felt like they were on fire and he was starting to sweat.
"An…an Angel." He said quietly. (Shigure/Kazuma/Hatori: "YES!")
Tohru blushed at his words and looked at the ground.
"Thank you Kyo." She said softly.
He looked over at her.
"You saying that, really means a lot to me." She said quietly. He smiled at her.
"Well, I better go to bed now, we have a lot to do tomorrow." Tohru said childishly getting up. Kyo looked almost sad and disappointed. But Tohru bent down and kissed his cheek.
"Tohru I…" Kyo was about to say something when he noticed our three little eavesdroppers. Anger boiled up inside him.
"YOU PERVERTS!" Kyo jumped off the couch and ran after the three men, all of them screaming bloody murder and running for their lives.
"I EXPECTED THIS FROM SHIGURE, BUT YOU SHISHOU, AND EVEN YOU HATORI!" Kyo shouted running after them.
"IT WAS SHIGURE'S IDEA!" Kazuma yelled.
"WAS NOT, I WANTED TO SPY ON THEM FROM THE KITCHEN!"
"SHIGURE!" Kyo shouted chasing after mainly him. Tohru stood in the living room dumbfounded. She had no idea what was going on so she just stood there like an airhead watching her father and two uncles getting chased by Kyo.
"I didn't know that Hatori and Shishou-san could run that fast, even Shigure." Tohru said airily
The next day…Tohru dove into her suitcase and pulled out the swimsuit she had bought.
It was a hanker top (ties behind the neck) swimsuit, low cut and a rain drop shaped hole, revealing her abdominal area. It was also cut in the back. The swimsuit was whit with two black stripes diagonally criss-crossing her chest in an X pattern.
She wrapped a towel around herself and went outside to the deck, waiting for Kyo and Yuki to come out. Shigure lay on a chair, bathing in the sun. Hatori sat on a blanket near the beach with an umbrella over head, reading a book. Haru, Kisa, Hiro, and Momiji had already gone into the water and were calling her in. Kazuma, sat near Hatori and lay on his stomach, letting the sun's rays tickle his back. Akito on the other hand, was not outside, he was standing by the window watching everyone else have fun. Tohru looked sadly over at him. She slowly made her way towards him.
"Mr. Akito? Don't you want to come out and play in the water with us?" She asked innocently.
"Don't you think I want too." He said coldly. Tohru was taken aback by the tone in his voice. She had never heard him speak that way.
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have asked." She said softly and started for the door when a hand wrapped itself around her arm.
"Uh? M-Mr. Akito?"
"Tohru Honda, why…why do you insist on saying things that are obvious to the entire world?" He said in his calm voice again only this time his eyes were full of hatred, even more hate than before. He seemed to be angry and was trying to control it.
His grip on her arm tightened and he squeezed it tightly. She winced at the slight pain her arm was now feeling.
"Tohru what's going o…" Kyo came down the stairs and stopped mid sentence at the scene he was beholding. Akito had Tohru's arm in a death grip with his hand. Holding her close to him.
"Akito, let her go." Kyo said in a low growl.
"And if I refuse?" He was egging him on. Akito wanted him to get angry, he wanted him to attack.
"If you don't let her go right now…" Kyo shouted, causing Shigure and Kazuma to come in.
"Akito, let her go, she has done nothing wrong." Shigure said in his usual airy tone.
Akito smiled and let Tohru go.
Kyo ran over to Tohru and looked her arm over briefly before turning back to Akito. He was about to say something when Kazuma nudged him in the side.
Akito walked up the stairs and into his room.
"What was that for Shishou!" Kyo asked in a frustrated tone.
"To stop you from making a mistake. Are you alright Tohru?" Kazuma asked.
"Uh? Yes, I'm fine thank you." Tohru said distractedly.
Kazuma nodded and went back outside. Shigure walked up to Tohru.
"Are you sure you're alright flower?"
"I'm fine. Don't worry Otou-san (father) I'm fine." Tohru said.
Shigure looked at her for a minute and then swelled with happiness.
"You called me Otou-san."
"Is that bad?"
"No, I'll just have to get used to it." Shigure said smiling and he went back outside to his nap.
Finally, it was Kyo's turn to speak.
"Tohru, are you alright?"
"Yes, Kyo, I'm perfectly fine." Tohru said. He looked at her skeptically and nodded. A second later Yuki came down in his blue trunks and they made their ways to the water.
"What took you so long cat?" Haru called.
"It wasn't my fault, you stupid cow! It was Yuki who took forever to change!" Kyo yelled.
Tohru laughed out loud. Kyo (cat ears perked) looked back at her confused.
Tohru shook her head and laughed again.
"So, are we going to have some fun or what?" Tohru asked running through the water. The cool waves splashed against her legs and she shivered slightly.
"Oh, this is cold!" Tohru said jumping up and down. It was the boy's turn to laugh now.
"WATER WAR!" Momiji shouted and made a huge wave of water splash Haru. Haru, being the way he is, glared at Momiji.
"Momiji." Haru said in a calm voice. But then broke out and started to chase after him.
"Yuki, you might want to watch out." Momiji said slowly, but it was too late, Tohru had already splashed him.
The only one who was free from the splashes was Kyo. But that didn't last long.
"GET KYO!" Momiji yelled and he started to run over to him. Water splashed everywhere as he came closer and closer to the cat, and as you all know, cats hate getting wet.
Tohru, being aware of this decided to play a little game. It was going to be funny, but she would have to be extremely careful not to let Kyo catch her.
"Here it comes!" Momiji shouted. Tohru ran to Kyo, and as Momiji released a giant wave upon him she dove in the way and got the gist of the wave. Little droplets hit Kyo's face and Tohru fell into the waves of the ocean.
"Tohru?" Kyo called. She came up out of the water and gave the thumbs up.
"All right now, I think you all need to settle down. Come up and get some ice cream!" Shigure called from the deck. The boy's sighed and nodded, wrapping a towel around themselves and walking up the stairs to the deck. All though, Tohru and Kyo stayed behind. Tohru begged to stay a few more minutes in the ocean. This was her first time ever seeing an ocean, let alone swim in one.
"So what exactly is it that you want to do?" Kyo asked her.
"Well, I want to…sit in the ocean, I want to swim in it, explore it and it's underwater wonders. I know that we can't do it all today, but I would like to accomplish all of that before we go back to home. But for right now, I just want to sit here and enjoy the clear blue sky and the warm sun rays." She replied. He smiled and sat next to her.
"I've only been here once as well. Shishou took me one time, over the summer. One of the first summers we spent together. I had never been allowed to go outside or see anyone when my mother was alive. She would say, "You have to stay in your room Kyo. I won't let anyone see you. Mommy is the only one who loves you." But I had to see it. She closed me off from the world. I didn't know what a lot of things were. I mean, sure I knew what a tree was and flowers, but I didn't know what a train was, or what an ocean looked like, or anything like that. And when she died, people blamed me for her death. They said that I killed her. I drove her to commit suicide…" Tohru gasped. She hadn't known that Kyo's mom committed suicide.
"I had just got tired of hearing it so I ran. I ran to the garden and hid by the small pond. That's when Shishou found me. He didn't blame me. He knew that I didn't do it. But he was the only one who didn't say it. At the end of the day he took me home with him, some ladies were talking about him and me. So, he picked me up and put me on his shoulders. Said you'll have to learn to start breathing air from higher places. He believed in me and showed me things that I had never seen before. He cared about me and all, he is a great Shishou." Kyo finished. He looked over at her and was taken aback by her expression. Tohru had tears in her eyes and a smile planted on her lips.
"Tohru….uh?" She had lunged forward and wrapped her arms around his neck. Forgetting about the curse entirely. All she knew was that Kyo had experienced pain that he hadn't deserved to feel.
She had held onto his human form for as long as she could before a puff of smoke and a cat in her arms.
"I'm sorry Kyo. I forgot about the curse. I just…" Tohru cried hugging the cat tightly to her. Kyo, confused and aggravated as ever, didn't know what was going on but her holding onto him was a wonderful feeling.
"It's alright Tohru. But could you let go of me?" Kyo asked. Tohru let him jump out of her arms and her tears were coming down. She had not stopped crying, but the smile had not left her face either. She turned around as smoke came and Kyo quickly put on his swim trunks. He knelt down next to Tohru and she looked at him again. There were still a few tears left, sliding down her cheeks.
"Please stop crying. Why are you crying?"
"Because, for a multiple of reasons. One of them is, because I'm happy you opened up to me a little more. Another because I feel sad for the way people treated you about your mother, another because, I couldn't have been there to comfort you and to help you, but I guess Mr. Shishou did that for me." Tohru said happily. Kyo wiped away the few remaining tears from her face.
"You shouldn't cry because of that."
"why?" Tohru asked innocently.
"Because your face is too beautiful to be stained with tears for my sake." He said. Her breath escaped her with the words he spoke just then. She looked at him happily and with loving eyes. She leaned over and kissed him gently for a few seconds then broke away.
(Smooth talking there Kyo. Oh and he did kiss her back for all of you wondering)
" I love you Kyo."
"I love you too." Little did everyone know that Akito was watching them the entire time from the upstairs window. He gritted his teeth as he watched them. He had never been angrier in his entire life. That little girl was going to pay. He knew exactly how.
I know that this was short for my standards but I had to end it here. Don't be alarmed, he is definitely NOT going to erase her memory. I would never do that to my story, even the thought of it makes me sad, so don't be alarmed. But he is going to do something really mean and nasty, I just got to figure out what. Hmmm, why don't you all help me out, give me some ideas OR you can vote for one of these…
Akito summons her to his room and tries to seriously hurt her.
He has Yuki do something dirty in exchange for his free roaming of the world.
Or he sends her on some journey through (tell me where you think she should go here).
3.) Tohru saves him from a life or death situation.
Review and tell me what you think. Until next time, Sayonara. -
