01/02/2006 05:49:00
AN: Ohayo! I've never had this many reviews before…. This is so exciting! OK, so, I have tried to e-mail as many reviewers as possible, so please say in your review if you don't want to get an e-mail from an insane wench.
Oh, and Miss Myrtle? I tried to E-mail you because you seem to have read Le Fantom De L'Opera and like giving me very nice reviews, but I can't seem to send you stuff, so thankies very much, and have you seen the site; Got Mask? Hilarious. And yes, Erik and Kyo are both equally awesome in they're cool yet spaz ways…
Oh, and Yoshiru, I found out what a yukiru is (Stupid me for not working it out ;;;) And yes, this is definitely a Yukiru. I would never send Yuki into a relationship with a character I invented! I wouldn't dream of it…
And note to all readers, when you imagine the theatre, just think of the Paris Opera house. (The phantom –Erik's- Opera house.)
Fruits Basket Does Phantom
Chapter Four: Getting Into Character
Up in the lofts of the theatre, the entire Phantom cast confined themselves into alarmingly secretive hideaways. Yuki, Haru and Kyo had split up, and gotten lost again.
Tohru had just finished working on The Angel Of Music, and was exhausted. They'd blocked the entire scene with her musical pieces, and rehearsed it thoroughly. Now they were going through it with Kitto.
Now she too had gotten lost in the lofts. It didn't help how all of the corridors and rooms looked exactly the same. It was like some sort of Labrinth. Although she sincerely hoped that no Minotaur was going to leap out from behind one of the many backdrops that littered the upper halls, and give her a severe heart attack.
Tohru kept bumping into people, and tripping over things, and was breaking her record of the number of times she could possibly walk into the same wall thinking it was an open door.
Eventually she bumped into someone, who instead of shaking her head in apology, simply took her by the hand and dragged her away. Tohru was far too shocked to protest.
Presently she was dragged into a little room that she obviously hadn't seen.
"Ok, you are… Tohru Honda, right?" Said Tohru's mysterious yetfriendly looking kidnapper.
"Um… That's right…"
"And you are also… Meg?"
Tohru took a couple of seconds to work out what this statement meant. "Oh… Um, yes, I'm playing Meg."
"Hey."
Tohru looked away from the strange girl, to see Kyo standing in a corner.
"Kyo-kun, what are you doing here…?" Tohru trailed off when she had noticed what he was wearing.
"I'm Ichigo. I'm doing costumes. I thought I'd get ahead and start out early." She smiled proudly at Kyo, who was incidentally looking extremely important, in the long black cloak and white mask that had become so immortal through the Phantom.
Kyo saw Tohru and Ichigo looking at him, and smirked. "Yeah… I kinda like it."
After half an hour Tohru's costume was fitted to perfection. She was wearing a sky blue dress that vaguely resembled a tutu.
Ichigo smiled, and Kyo nodded in dumbstruck approval. Stop gawking you fool! Just smile and nod…But don't look like you're leering…Damn it…!
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Tohru left the room in a daze. She was enjoying herself immensely. She only then realised how much the Theatre resembled that of The Paris Opera House, in which the story itself was set. She almost felt like she was in character, although she didn't realize at the time. She eventually went up a few floors, and found herself on the open roof. Almost to her disappointment, there were no statues of Apollo, but there was someone who she hadn't expected to see.
"Yuki-kun?"
Yuki spun around, and smiled when he saw what she was wearing. She did the same, seeing he had been fully Raoulified.
They stood, bathed in the twinkling starlight, and surveyed the endless night.
"It's pretty… Isn't it?" Said Yuki, softly. Tohru smiled and nodded. "Wait, are you cold?" Yuki suddenly took off his jacket and placed it carefully around Tohru's shoulders.
"Oh, um, thank you." She smiled, and he realised to his horror that he was still holding onto the lapels of the jacket that hung around her shoulders.
"S-sorry." He said, quickly letting go and turning away. Stuttering again? What is WRONG with you!
She turned and looked at him blushing, and smiled again. The smiles were almost permanently stuck on their faces nowadays.
"Honda-san?"
"Yes?"
"What do you think it would be like… If, in the story, Christine did fall in love with The Phantom?"
"Well, I don't know. I mean, I guess, Raoul would probably be quite upset. But then, Christine and The Phantom would probably go away into his lair, and then, Meg would come down, and find Raoul, and…"
She trailed off, not knowing where the story could go after that.
Yuki stared into the sky, and felt the soft moonlight on his face. "Meg, would be the first person Raoul would see… After a defeat like that."
"I guess she would be." Said Tohru.
"What if… Raoul and Meg…"
"Yes?" Tohru turned to Yuki.
"What if…" He put a hand on the top of her head and looked into her brown eyes. "What if they…"
"Yes?" He closed his eyes. Actions always speak much louder than words. The action that followed spoke louder than anything Yuki had ever heard.
When they finally separated, Tohru was blushing. She'd never been kissed by a boy before. (If not a boy, then who! oO)
Yuki was blushing too. He hadn't been acting this time. This felt like a real kiss, not a pretend one. But although when he was with her he felt safer than ever, he had the strangest feeling like someone was watching him. Someone, somewhere, was sending out threats, silently cursing him.
"Come on, Shinji probably wants us back soon."
As the two of them quietly left the roof, a dark figure leapt silently down from the top of the stairwell, and slowly walked to where they had stood, dragging his broken self forward. To stand where the two of them had kissed.
"Tohru…"
And then he let out an almost deafening cry. It pierced through the dark night, shattering the stillness of the stars.
"BASTARD!"
