01/02/2006 05:49:00
AN: Ohayo! Thank you to all who have reviewed! I humbly thank thee who have madeth my day
BTW: I was such a loser…
Everyone: Was?
Fruits Basket Does Phantom
Chapter 3: Rehearsals Begin
Yuki looked at Kitto in silence. Was she serious? She wanted to kiss him?
Kitto closed her big green eyes and smiled at him. "I know what you're thinking. And no, I don't want to kiss you." Yuki's heart skipped a beat. Did she just read your…
"Of course I don't want to kiss you.I want to kiss Raoul."
And with that, she moved in, and pressed her red lips against his. Yuki never closed his eyes. The last sentence that had left her lips, entered into his mouth, and whirled around his head. Panicking, not knowing what to think about, Yuki tried to calculate it. One short sentence, five short words, sixteen short letters. One long kiss. His thoughts were going crazy.
Oh God Oh God Oh God what the… Whatcha…Ma...Wha…? What the hell… She's kissing me! Oh god… Make it stop… Getteroffame!
Yuki was panicking, and Kitto was acting. It was like Christine kissing Yuki.
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When the day finally ended, Tohru and Yuki met up. The others had been called back for a meeting about some scenes they had to cover. Tohru and Yuki walked side by side down the street, and she tried to work out what he was thinking.
The expression on his face wasn't giving anything away. Yuki was wearing a stone cold face just as he did normally. Not usually when he was around her though. Especially not when they were alone.
Tohru jumped a little when Yuki suddenly broke the silence.
"Honda-san…I… Don't think me carrying on with this… is such a good idea."
Tohru looked down. "Oh… OK."
There was another silence. Well great. Now you've upset her. Nice one genious. Yuki sighed. Remember, you have NO DIGNITY. "OK… Maybe I will do it."
"Wh-what! Really?" Tohru was smiling so much Yuki was almost blinded.
"Um…Yes?"
Tohru tried to contain her happiness. "Thankyou."
He smiled. Yep. Welcome to the biggest mess of your life.
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Kyo got back a little later, and found the others had waited for him before they started eating. They didn't talk much at dinner, except for Shigure, who decided to talk enough for the three of them.
Tohru sat quietly between the two boys, and thought to herself how strange it was that they weren't fighting. Usually when they didn't fight, it meant that they were unhappy, but they didn't seem to be feeling at all down, quite the opposite in fact. Maybe, they were finally starting to get along?
Little did she know that they were both thinking about her. Thinking… And yearning for her, silently. And as Kyo twisted his thoughts into far more complicated scenarios, he began to hate Yuki more than ever.. So much in fact, that if Tohru had not been there he would likely have already attacked him.
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The next day, rehearsals started getting a lot tougher. Uo had hidden herself in one of the upper rooms, to practice in secrecy. Tohru was practicing her scene, The Angel Of Music, with Shinji on the stage. She'd gotten very shy earlier, and so Shinji had asked that everyone else could disappear too. Now the entire cast and crew save Tohru and the Director had vanished into the depths of the theatre.
Kyo had decided he'd get into character. He started to prowl silently through the upper rooms of the colossal building.
After getting completely lost, Kyo found himself back in his own character, dragging his feet under the dark canopies that shadowed the corridors, in the heights of that gigantic hotbed of creativity.
Kyo leant against the wall. Everyone really had disappeared. They had just… Vanished. Kyo started to consider what it would be like if he lived in that theatre. He would have enough space, plenty of freedom, a lot of privacy… It would be most likely that he could peek at girls when changing, (With that last thought he dismissed it as something that only Ayame and Shigure would have the perverted nature to accomplish) and he'd have an accessible roof, one that didn't threaten to collapse from under his weight every time he stepped on it.
Kyo slid down his back until he reached a crouching position on the floor. Jeez… This place is a helluva lot better than home. Kyo started clicking his little fangs together, and found a pencil in his pocket. Pencil… Pencil… I don't remember putting a pencil in my pocket… That's really weird… Then, somehow, another voice sounded in Kyo's practically empty head. No it's not. You could have put it there months ago. Jeez, if you're gonna be such an idiot, at least warn me so I can get the hell out of here!
"Hey! Don't call me stu…pid…?" Kyo was surprised to hear his own voice echo through an empty corridor. "Aw crap. I'm so bored I'm going crazy."
Idiot.
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Hatsuharu sauntered quietly through the corridors. He too, unsurprisingly, had become hopelessly and unforgivably lost. He smiled to himself sheepishly. He put his hands in his pockets and started sidestepping. He found soon that he was quite enjoying himself. Then he sidestepped straight into someone else.
"Haru, why are you skipping?" Asked the person, who had grey hair and pale skin. (AN: It was Yuki! X3…. Sorry, little author's excitement. Yay! Yuki's here!)
Haru dusted himself off, and collected himself, exaggerating the impact of their collision. "I wasn't skipping… I was sidestepping. And no reason, I am just… Making the most of my little bit of freedom… That's all."
Yuki sighed, and put one hand on his hip. "You don't have to make me out to be such a killjoy you know."
"I wasn't! It's not you that I'm escaping with my little skipping phase." Haru smiled coyly.
"I thought you were sidestepping."
"I was. I was sidestepping the path which leads to my imprisonment in the system which has claimed so many of us already." Hatsuharu said with a serious face.
"You are so ridiculous."
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Haru and Yuki walked through the corridors. Yuki began to feel like he was in The Wizard of Oz, having just picked up a brainless scarecrow for a companion.
The scarecrow and the tin-man eventually came upon a desperately bored 'cowardly lion'.
"Hey Kyo." Haru raised his hand in a salute.
"Have you seen Dorothy?...I mean Honda-san…" Yuki nearly started laughing.
"No…I thought she was in rehearsals." Said the cat.
"But I think rehearsals should have ended like, 20 minutes ago. Everyone's just gotten lost." Said Haru, trying to work out Yuki's 'Dorothy' remark.
"ATTENTION CAST!" A voice like that of God boomed through invisible speakers, and echoed through the halls, making Yuki, Kyo and Haru jump about 6 feet in the air. "WOW, THIS MICROPHONE ROCKS! SORRY…ER THIS IS YOUR DIRECTOR SPEAKING."
"Dammit Shinji!" Kyo shouted, shaking his fist at the floor. (Or the ceiling)
"I AM ASKING THE CAST, NOT CREW, TO STAY LATE TONIGHT, UNTILL 9:45 PM, FOR EXTRA REHEARSALS! IN FACT, CREW CAN GO HOME! GO ON, GET ON OUTA HERE! God I love this thing… OK! SO I'LL CARRY ON WITH TOHRU-SAN FOR ABOUT ANOTHER HALF HOUR! THE REST OF YOU, KEEP PRACTISING! How do you turn off the… Oh right-"
As the transmission cut off, Kyo, Haru and Yuki felt themselves sigh dramatically. 9:45… It was 5:15 now. That meant 3 and ½ hours… Shinji wasn't wasting any time.
Yuki sighed. We're not in Kansas anymore…
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BTW: HAHAHAHA! XD I got that from the fanart in volume 8… I love comparing furuba to the Wiz of Oz… That was one of the first ever furuba piks I drew… Yuki was the tin man, Kyo the lion, Haru the scarecrow (the hair) and Tohru was Dorothy… With Momiji as one of those monkey wotsits…
