I almost forgot about the Culture Festival!!! Well, in a pervious fanfic chapter, I said a week had passed, well I lied. Well, only about four days past and the last chapter was on the fourth day. So, picture Kaugra, Kyo, Haru, and Hitoshi going to the Culture Festival... together. HA!!!!!! By the way, since I love India and well, I am Indian, the next few chapters will have some Indian things in it and I'll explain it in the Author's Notes. Just remember that.

Italicized text = Kagura really mad.

Chapter 6- The Festival and Promises

Kyo stared at the doorway in pure horror as Kaugra held her hand up to her tearing eyes and as Haru looked glumly at Kyo. Kagura was the first to step up. Her eyes were watering and she mildly said,

"Kyo-kun, I haven't seen you for so long? Why didn't you call me?"

She then kicked Kyo very hardly and spoke in her dark voice saying,

"Why didn't you call?!!!? I MISSED YOU!!!!!"

Kagura kept beating up Kyo; in fact she was beating him so badly that Hitoshi couldn't even think of committing such damage. As she was beating Kyo up, she stopped for a minute and saw that Kyo was very badly hurt. She stopped and hugged Kyo very close to her saying,

"What sort of evil cruel person would do this you Kyo-kun?!!!?"

Hitoshi turned her face away from Kagura who was smothering herself over a disgusted and severely injured Kyo and turned to Hatsuharu. She smiled and politely asked him,

"So, what's your name? I'm Kawakami Hitoshi."

She quickly bowed and waited for his reply. He glumly bowed back and said,

"Sohma Hatsuharu."

Hitoshi smiled again and said,

"So, that means you're the cow aren't you?"

Haru was surprised at Hitoshi knowing the secret. He asked her,

"How did you know that?"

"It's a secret,"

said Hitoshi as she sneered and winked at him. Haru blushed very lightly and watched Hitoshi walk over to Kagura and try to get her off of Kyo. As Hitoshi was lugging the almost dead Kyo out of the door she asked both Hatsuharu and Kagura,

"So, what brings you here?"

Kagura replied back very happily,

"We've come for the Culture Festival!! Aren't you supposed to be there right about now?"

Hitoshi gasped in horror and dropped Kyo on his head rushing for her room yelling,

"OH MY GOSH!!!!!! YOU'RE RIGHT!!!!! ARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!! I FORGOT MY COSTUME ALONG WITH KYO-KUN'S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Hatsuharu and Kagura watched dumfounded as Hitoshi rushed around frantically, but she stopped suddenly and saw that Kyo was still on the floor injured. She dropped her stuff and shook Kyo awake by yelling in his face and shaking him madly.

"WAKE UP YOU BAKA!!!!!!!! THE CULTURE FESTIVAL IS TODAY!!!!!!!!!"

Kyo sluggishly got up and was slowly walking to his room as Hitoshi zipped past him many times. When Hatsuharu and Kagura slipped away to the living room to wait, Hitoshi stopped her frantic chase and noticed Kyo struggling with putting on his bandages. She softly walked into his room and quietly asked him,

"Hey, do you need any help?"

Kyo was a little surprised, but he nodded in reply. She sat beside him and as he was bandaging his leg, she bandaged his arm. They were quiet for a few minutes until Hitoshi asked Kyo,

"I guess Kagura has a "thing" for you."

Kyo grumbled back obviously very upset,

"That's putting it mildly!! When we were younger, she threatened me by saying if I didn't marry her, she'd kill me!!"

Hitoshi laughed lightly and smiled.

"I think that it's wonderful that your cousin loves you so much, but I'm sure she'll find someone else to beat up."

Kyo looked at Hitoshi and thought,

"Now why would she say that?"

"Kyo-kun, I'm sure that you can tie the rest of the bandages on your own. By the way, there's a giant wound on your back that needs to be cleaned. Come into the kitchen when you're done and I'll help you."

She stepped out of the room leaving Kyo to struggle with the remaining bandages. When he was finally done, he walked into the kitchen just like Hitoshi had ordered and sat on a chair. Meanwhile, Hitoshi walked in with her hair up and away from her face. She asked Kyo,

"Hey, can you turn around so I can see the wound?"

Again, Kyo obeyed and turned around. Hitoshi gently put her fingertips on a part of his back examining the wound. Just as gentle as Hitoshi's touch, Kyo's cheeks began to flush when Hitoshi said,

"Oh my god!! You're bleeding badly!!!"

She showed him her hand, and where her fingers had touched the shirt, there was dark blood. Then she too started to blush when she said,

"Umm...you're going ...you're gonna... have to...t...t....t ... ake your shirt off."

Kyo was a little surprised at first, but took his shirt off anyway. Hitoshi widened her eyes in embarrassment, yet she wet a towel and began cleaning the wound. Hitoshi worked diligently and quickly. Every time her hand accidentally touched Kyo's skin, he felt that area tingle and he felt his skin asking for more and more. After a few minutes, Kyo's wound was healed and there was a bandage on it. Hitoshi got up and smiled at her handiwork and said to Kyo,

"Come on now! We've got a festival to go to!!!"

Finally, Kagura, Haru, Kyo, and Hitoshi left for the festival. When they reached the festival, the whole third year class rushed both Kyo and Hitoshi into their costumes. When they stepped out of their respective bathrooms, Hitoshi looked down at her dress. It was a Korean style dress that suited her very well. On her head was some headdress that had pieces of fabric floating across her body with her hair let down. Kyo, on the other hand, had on a traditional Korean outfit and under his orange mess of hair, there was a piece of cloth tied around his head. The whole third year class applauded causing both of them to blush wildly. Nervously, Hitoshi waved her hand asking,

"Um, who exactly are we supposed to be cosplaying as anyway?"

Among the newly arisen giggling, a girl stepped out and pointed to each of them saying,

"You, Kyo-kun are Prince Hodong of Koguryo, and you Hitoshi-chan are Princess Nyak Ryang of Nakrang! The tragic love story of two rivaling Korean lovers and how even though Prince Hodong tried to protect Princess Nyak Ryang, had failed and chose love over life!!"

Both Kyo and Hitoshi's mouths dropped open and they both looked at each other with both of their eyes twitching in synchronization. The whole third year class clapped again and some people shooed Kyo and Hitoshi to their chairs in front of the onigiri booth. When the festival began, Hitoshi and Kyo were still in their dazed position with their mouths wide open and eyes still twitching. As both of them were staring into space, Kagura and Haru stepped in front of them and tried to break them from their stare. Since nothing seemed to break them out of their stare, Haru hit Hitoshi on the head while Kagura did the same thing to Kyo. Both of them yelled in harmony, Hitoshi to Haru and Kyo to Kagura,

"Hey!!! What was that for?!!!"

Realizing what they had done, they stared at each other and they looked away with frowns on their faces. Haru answered back both of their questions glumly as usual,

"You both were staring into space like idiots and I think Kyo was starting to drool."

Kyo paused and looked down at the corner of his mouth and discovered drool. Hitoshi laughed loudly and pointed her finger at him while Kyo growled at her with his cat ears twitching. People walked past the stall wondering what two insane Korean people were doing at the Culture Festival. Haru interrupted the insanely cheerful atmosphere questioning, "Who are you two supposed to be anyway?"

Hitoshi stopped laughing and looked at the ground with a dark cloud hovering over her head while Kyo slumped over his chair and bored holes into the ground with his stare. Sounding like a kid that was punished, Hitoshi grumbled out, "I'm Princess Nyak Ryang and he's Prince Hodong."

Kagura had been quiet this whole time, but when Hitoshi mentioned the Korean couple, her eyes narrowed and she began punching Kyo yelling,

"Why do you do this to me?!!!!!!!!!!!!? I give you my undying love and you betray me like this!!!!!!!!! AAARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!!!!"

Hitoshi managed to get Kagura off of the now seemingly unconscious Kyo.

"Now listen, Kyo-kun did nothing to pair us up. Now you have my word, when I get this costume and I get his, you can force him to wear it and you can wear yours and you can reenact the story of Princess Nyak Ryang and Prince Hodong."

Kagura thought for only a minute and happily agreed. In her mind, she imagined herself in the Korean dress on her wedding day and imagined Kyo having to be forced onto the chapel. While Kagura was fantasizing, Hitoshi helped Kyo up by offering her hand. Kyo groaned as her was massaging his head,

"Why did you promise her that? You know what she'll make me do then!!!"

Hitoshi smiled and motioned Kyo to move closer. She whispered in his ear,

"Who says I'll keep my promise?"

Kyo's cat ears perked up and he laughed happily. Hitoshi smiled and laughed along with him. Meanwhile, Kagura's fantasies were broken by sudden laughter. She looked at where it had come from and saw that Kyo and Hitoshi were laughing together. Kagura felt anger swell up inside of her until she saw Kyo's face. She thought to herself,

"I've never seen him so happy! Even when he was with Tohru-chan he wasn't this happy! What if he... no, that isn't possible. I'll have to talk to him later."

Kagura walked away from the booth dragging Haru with her. The festival went on and on and Hitoshi greeted everyone that visited their booth with great respect forcing Kyo to the same (By kicking him in the leg. By the end of the day, he had a bruise on his leg). Every one was tired when the Culture Festival was coming to a close. Then something odd happened. A large group of people gathered around the third year's onigiri group staring at Hitoshi and Kyo. Kyo, who couldn't stand the pressure shriveled into his seat whimpering while Hitoshi looked at the ground sweating like mad. Meanwhile, a third year boy was walking across the cough cough couple. Hitoshi grabbed the boy's tie and whispered madly into his ear,

"What the hell is this crowd gathered here for?"

"You mean you don't know?"

answered back the boy.

"What do you mean by "You mean don't know?""

said Hitoshi as she glared even more angrily at the boy.

"You're supposed to smack lips with Kyo-kun!!!!!"

Hitoshi dropped her mouth in horror. She then got back to her conversation.

"I'm supposed to kiss HIM?!!!!!!!?"

She pointed to the chair beside her and instead of a person, there was ball that had cat ears popping out of it.

"I'm not going to kiss him even if he was the last man on earth!!!! Anyway who decided this?"

The boy pointed to a group of girls that were running the onigiri booth.

"They thought it up."

The girls laughed nervously at Hitoshi and went back to holding back the Hitoshi fan club and the Kyo fan club. Hitoshi let go of the boy and boy patted her on the back cheerfully saying,

"Good luck smooching!!"

Hitoshi nervously looked to the chair on her left and saw that the Kyo ball had unrolled and he was gripping the sides of his seat with his hands. She spoke to Kyo in a very unstable voice,

"You do realize what were going to have to do?"

"NO!!! I won't do it!!!!!!"

replied Kyo back who was staring at the mob. During the wait, the giant audience had grown restless and they were destroying the festival. Booths were turned over and they were stamping all over everything. Hitoshi pointed this out to Kyo who sighed and said,

"I guess were going to have to do it."

They turned their bodies to face each other taking their own sweet time to adjust small simple things like the chair position or the wrinkles in their outfits until they had nothing else to adjust. They looked at each other, both of them blushing a considerable amount.

"Do you realize that were going to have to divide the house so that we won't see each other?"

whispered Kyo very softly so that only Hitoshi could hear.

"Do you realize that I'm going to have to shoot you after this?"

replied Hitoshi obviously very annoyed.

"Let's just hurry up and get this over with,"

said Kyo. This time Hitoshi didn't argue. She closed her eyes and moved her face closer towards Kyo's who was doing the same thing. Their bodies were far apart, but their heads inched closer and closer by the minute. Both of them were shaking, sweating and blushing and the same time, but the crowd didn't care as they watched with bated breath. Meanwhile, Kagura was annoying Haru by forcing him to buy her all of the food in all of the stalls. Kagura was quite pleased when she walked out of her last stall with food piled onto her arms. Haru looked at her with a sweat drop floating above his head while he said,

"Do you really need all of that?"

Kagura nodded happily saying,

"Of course!!! Half of this is for me and the other half is for Kyo- kun!!!!! By the way, why is everyone going?"

Kagura by now had noticed the crowd in front of the third year's onigiri stall. She pushed through the crowd very easily with Haru following behind her. She finally reached the front of the crowd with an annoyed Haru right behind, but Kagura stopped dead when her eyes saw the scene. Kyo was almost touching Hitoshi's lips and Hitoshi was shaking madly, afraid. Rage began to build inside Kagura and Haru could see the black aura that began to surround her. Haru noticed this and he looked in the direction that Kagura was looking and he saw the couple. At first, his body froze and he suddenly looked down and a dark cloud seemed to loom over him. Then he suddenly looked up at the couple with a fearsome Kagura behind him saying,

"Hitoshi-chan, you're mine."

Almost at the same time, both Kagura and Haru pounced on the chairs that contained Kyo and Hitoshi. Kyo and Hitoshi both snapped their heads away from each other to see Kagura lunging at Kyo while Haru was lunging at Hitoshi. Both Kagura and Haru managed to pin both Kyo and Hitoshi to the ground. Kagura chose to slap and punch Kyo while Haru just stared at Hitoshi wickedly. The girls at the onigiri booth noticed this and one of them gasped,

"What are we going to do about the girl that's attacking Kyo-kun?"

One of Kyo's fanclub replied back unusually careless about Kyo,

"It's his cousin. She always beats him up like that. There's nothing we can do."

The girls then moved to Hitoshi yelling to her,

"Hitoshi-chan!!!!!!! Let us help you get that man off of you, or you'll get hurt!!!!!!!"

Hitoshi replied back surprising calm,

"Don't worry about me! I got it under control. Watch and learn!"

She moved her head back to look at Haru and she asked politely,

"Would you kindly get off of me Hatsuharu-san?"

She sweetly smiled to accompany the plea. Haru smiled back wickedly and said,

"Here's your answer."

He motioned closer to her face until his mouth about one inch away from hers. She delicately whispered,

"Fine then, that's perfectly O.K."

She kicked Haru in the stomach and kicked him again to get him off of her. While Haru was groaning in pain, she took the opportunity by taking out two of the sticks from her headdress and throwing them at him like darts. With great speed, the sticks managed to pin Haru to the onigiri booth where the girls were watching with awe. She stormed over to Kagura who was still beating up Kyo and took out the last two sticks in her headdress and pinned Kagura to the wall as well. She them screamed at both of them saying,

"What the hell is up with you two?!!!!!!!? There is no need to beat up anyone or molest anyone for that matter!!!!!!!!!!"

Kagura them replied back, looking badly beaten,

"What do you mean by that?!!!!!? I've known Kyo longer than you have and then you just take him away from me and almost kiss him in front of all of these people!!!!!!!!!!"

"Woah!!!! I didn't want to kiss that idiot!!!!"

said Hitoshi as she pointed to the pitiful lump that used to be Kyo.

"I was forced to by the onigiri stall operators, but don't you think of anything painful for those girls!! I want to hurt them as much as you do, but two wrongs don't make a right. Now, Kagura-san, I want you to help me with carrying that hentai over that and I'll go wake up Kyo."

The whole crowd was still watching and Hitoshi suddenly realized this when she felt millions of pairs of eyes staring at her every move. After freeing Kagura from the sticks, she them angrily motioned to the crowd,

"Come on!!! Move out!!! The Culture Festival is over and that means OUT!!!!!!"

She pointed to the door and everyone followed her order like punished children, moaning and groaning. She then moved to waking up Kyo. At first she gently tapped Kyo and said very gently,

"Kyo-kun, it's o.k. now. Kagura-san is pinned to that wall over there, so wake up now."

As she gently prodded Kyo, he groaned and rolled his face to face Hitoshi's. He moaned painfully and pitifully saying, "Eerrrgghhh. Hitoshi-chan, is there a light coming from somewhere? It's getting so bright!!!! Help!"

Kyo's moaning continued and continued and Hitoshi was getting more and more annoyed. In fact, her face had mutated into something that looked like it was about to murder Kyo. Suddenly, Hitoshi couldn't take it anymore. She bashed her fist against Kyo's head propelling his head to hit the ground. Miraculously, Kyo jerked up nursing his head and yelling in Hitoshi's face,

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT FOR?!!!!!!!!!!?" "YOU AND YOUR ANNOYING MOANING!!!!! RIGHT NOW I'M IN NO MOOD TO LISTEN TO STUPID IDIOTS MOANING CAUSE THEIR COUSIN CAN BEAT THEM TO DEATH!!!!!!"

replied Hitoshi yelling back in Kyo's face. The argument continued as the students finished cleaning the mess the crowd made and as Kagura waited patiently for the arguing to stop. After what seemed like days (it was more like an hour of insulting each other), both of them stopped arguing and with Kagura and the still unconscious Haru, they left the now finished Culture Festival. The journey back to the house was quiet partially because Kyo and Hitoshi were massaging their throats from yelling so much. Shigure who tired to bring smiles to their faces greeted them (although he wasn't very lucky with the smiling part ). Kyo, Hitoshi, Haru (who is now normal and in pain), and Kagura collapsed in the living room all of them (except Haru and Kagura) glad that winter break had now begun. Slowly, Hitoshi got up and went to her room and Haru walked into the kitchen to get some ice and a bandage while Kagura and Kyo still sat down. Quietly Kagura asked Kyo,

"Kyo-kun, do you hate me?"

Kyo opened one eye and looked at Kagura saying,

"No, I just wish that you would leave me alone!"

"But, Kyo-kun, I love you!!!!"

replied Kagura on her knees.

"That's wonderful, but you don't have to hurt me and do all of that kissy kissy goo goo stuff!!"

"That's how I show my love!! Anyway, you don't listen to me, so I have to threaten you!!!!"

"But, it's painful if I don't want to listen to you!!!!"

Kagura was nearly in tears and Kyo was sitting up looking very serious.

"Fine then!! You must make this promise!!! If you don't find someone else to love and if you don't confess your love to that person, then you will have to marry me. Understood?!!!!!!!?"

Kagura motioned Kyo to agree, but he said, "No. If I make a promise, you'll just break it."

"DO IT."

Nervously, Kyo agreed with Kagura and she happily skipped to the kitchen to wait for the dinner that Hitoshi was supposed to cook. Meanwhile, Hitoshi was in her room still in her Korean outfit planning something on a piece of paper. She stared at the paper for a second and she leaned her head against her arm deep in thought until Shigure burst into the room with a bowl and chopsticks,

"Hitoshi-chan!!!! It's time to make dinner!!!!!!! The rest of the family is getting restless."

In the background, Hitoshi could see Kyo fighting with both Black Haru and Kagura at the same time. A sweat drop formed on her head as she said,

"O.K. I'm coming, just give me a minute."

Shigure curiously stepped up to Hitoshi and like a little kid peeking at something he looked at the plans saying,

"Are you almost done? Do you need me to get the stuff?"

Hitoshi replied back covering the plans with her schoolbooks,

"Yes, you're going to have to get the stuff in a few days."

Shigure happily jumped and skipped to kitchen with Hitoshi following closely behind him.

Author's Note

Well, that was an interesting chapter!!!! It took me forever to write it!!!! (Four and a half pages on Word!!!) I should probably explain the legend of Prince Hodong and Princess Nyak Ryang, but I found a site that would. Here's the address, http:www.nis.go.kr/eng/activity/intelligence07.html. It gave me all the info I needed. If you want to see a manga pic of this couple and imagine Hitoshi and Kyo in their place, go to this site. I can imagine Hitoshi in that dress, but Kyo next to her is a littler harder. I really think I should become a mangaka instead of a writer cause my friends say that I draw really well and I want to become one. I know, when I can draw setting and guys, the first thing I'll do is create an online doujinshi of Fruits Basket!!!! I'll expect all of you to read it!!!!! (Even though it might take a while.) I've decided to Japanese next year in my sophomore year of high school!!!!!!!!! I love that language!!! Look, I can say it is crazy, it isn't crazy, I was crazy, and it wasn't crazy!!!!!!

Toppyoushimonaidesu. Toppyoushimonaku nai desu. Toppyoushimonakatta desu. Toppyoushimonaku nakattadesu.

I swear that this is Japanese!!!! Look, I'll say "It's cute."

Kawaiidesu!!!!!!!!!

In Japanese all adjectives end in "I" and to conjugate it, you have to add endings. A friend of mine told me this and I am ever thankful!!!!!! Well, it'll be a while before I update cause I'm going to India for the summer!!!!!!!! (In July, I might be able to put up a chapter in June.) Just R&R!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!