Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket. Well. I really hope you all liked the first chapter (especially you, Nightfall2525, if not, just let me know.) Well, I hope you find this chapter interesting. Onto the story!
Chapter 2: On Deck and Shipmates
Kagura walked up the steps and through the door. Once she closed the door, she then turned around and shielded her eye's form the blazing sun. After a moment, her eyes adjusted to it, she looked up at the sky. She straitened her shirt and brushed her hair out of her eyes. Then she walked with her head up high. As she walked across the deck, she looked around at her ship mates.
Sitting at the cannons were a teenage boy and a teenage girl. The girl, whose name was Arise but everyone called her Uo, had blonde hair that fell to the shoulders and the boy's hair was orange, and his name was Kyo. At the moment they were playing card and arguing. Kagura smiled at them. Though they acted like they hated each other, they both were highly attracted to one other.
Kagura looked up at the crows nest and noticed Haru, the look out. He barely did his job as a look out, but at this moment he was looking off at the sea, only at the wrong direction. Whenever he was up there, he would usually sit and play with birds or even sleep. But there was always the rare occasion that he did do what he was suppose to, today must have been one of them. And though, he rarely does what anyone asks of him, he was highly respected on the battlefield.
Kagrua kept on walking towards the captain's room until she bumped into Yuki, who was the log keeper. Yuki's soft silver hair was flying allover the place and he was trying to keep it out of his eyes. Yuki smiled at Kagura and apologized to her.
"It's all right," She said with a smile.
Yuki smiled softly back and gave an expression as if he had forgotten something. Then as if it just hit him he opened his mouth to say something. "Ah, Kagura. Hana is looking for you. I'll walk you to her."
Kagura smiled and shook her head. It was obvious that he was madly in love with Hana, whose real name was Saki. It was hard to tell if she felt the same thing for Yuki; she wasn't one to express her feelings much. Kagura fallowed Yuki to the back of the boat, where the driver was. Kagura went up the steps and found Hana standing side by side with Ritsu.
Ritsu was the drive to the ship (that was called: The Worminatious). No one really knew where Ritsu came from. Just one random day while the crew was at port, the captain had come dragging him by the arm and put him as the driver. He was very quiet and he only spoke when he was spoken to, and he barely did at that. He had long brown hair that was always tied up in a ribbon and simply did nothing but drive the ship. He was alike Hana in that perspective.
Hana rarely talked, but once she did, she spoke in strange sentences that no one under stood (but the captain and Yuki and sometimes Ritsu). She was always wearing black and staring at the sky. Hana was the navigator, so she was always on deck, either next to Ritsu, Yuki or the captain or the first mate.
Hana looked over at Kagura and started to say her strange sentences once more. "The winds will blow strangely to the grass, picking up speed in the sea until they are stopped by the powder that comes from the iron wands and bring black and red pain to the wood." And she stared at Kagrua and continued. "And passion fills the white hair and brown."
Kagura looked at Hana then looked at Yuki, who also looked lost as well as Ritsu. "Right Hana, but I should really get going..." Kagura turned and walked down the steps and shook off the strangeness that she just heard. And she made her way to the captain's cabin.
A/N: Well hello. I hoped you liked the chapter and please review. Oh, and just for fun, (you don't have to but) I would like to know if anyone understood what Hana said, and yes it does have a meaning, and you will find out at the ending what it means. So if anyone would like to give it a try, please try and guess. Thanks.
