Oh, you guys are so lucky. When posting what is now Chapter One, I had not the least bit intention of making this a continuing story. However, one night, inspiration just came to me, so here it is! Now, don't hold me up to updating. This story could stop at anytime. You have been warned.
Also, major thanks to Haunt-san and fdiw-san for the wonderful feedback! Keep it comin':33
EnJoY!
Yuki carefully yet hastily climbed over the railing, then made his way down the steep wall below using cracks and ledges that had grown out of time and ran along the Falls' calm, muddy shore toward a slumped figure. "Honda-san! Are you all right?"
"I-. . . I just sprained my ankle, that's all," Tohru whispered, tenderly rubbing the said injury. "It's nothing, really-" She slowly began to rise to her wobbly feet, but her knees immediately buckled, sending her falling into the Prince's arms just before hitting the cold ground.
"I am so sorry I did this to you, Honda-san. . ." Yuki mumbled beside her ear, head limply hung down in shame. His eyes suddenly widened as he felt the girl's body shivering against his own. "Your pajamas are ripped to shreds!" Gently setting Tohru against the wall towering over the Falls, he quickly removed his nightshirt and pajama bottoms. A hot blush crept across the onigiri's face as he then held the clothes out to her with a smile and said, "I promise to close my eyes while you change."
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"A-are you sure it isn't a hassle for you to carry me. . .like this?" Tohru asked meekly into Yuki's smooth, bare skin. Now wearing nothing but boxers, the nezumi had her in a piggyback ride while climbing back up the rocky wall, and that blush was tickling her cheeks yet again.
After a few struggling minutes, they were back on safe ground, Yuki hanging his head between his legs, panting heavily from the struggle. Tohru quietly stood off to the side, watching him with thoughts reeling, "Even with his week bronchial tubes, he pushed himself to help me. . . I must let him no how much I appreciate all he's done for me, especially after. . . . .-" The taste of Yuki's lips against hers and the sensation of his hands against her back replayed in her mind, and, turning red, she spoke up, "Y-Yuki-kun." Her feet carefully brought her closer to the wheezing boy until a mere inch was between them. "I j-just wanted. . .to. . ."
Just as the Prince began to raise his head to look at her, the onigiri suddenly flung her arms around him, burying her face into his thick, gray hair. A second later, realizing what she had done, Tohru's eyes flashed wide-open right on cue for a silence-shattering POOF!
As the dust slowly settled, Tohru found herself caressing a small, familiar rat, and sweatdropped. "Gomen nasai. . ."
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The hotel room door quietly creaked open as Tohru slipped inside, transformed Yuki still in her arms. "The way back is twice as long with a sprained ankle. . ." she whispered to herself, groggily inching through the darkness and wearily plopping down onto her single bed, the nezumi snuggled under her chin. In only a moment, sleep had taken over her.
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As the sun's first rays just began peeking through cracks in the blinds across the room's only window, Kyo's eyes fluttered open. Lifting himself from the bed with a stretch, he flung his legs over to the side of the mattress, jumped to his feet. . . . .and fell right back down with eyes bulging out of his chalk-white face. On top of covers strewn every which way, Tohru was dozing dressed in Yuki's pajamas, the latter dreamily cuddling up against her in nothing but boxers! "What. . . . .the. . . . .HELL?"
The sudden outburst caused the two to stir. "Must you be so loud so early in the morning. . .?" Yuki mumbled, slowly sitting up with sleep weighing down his eyelids. He gave Kyo's horrorstricken face a puzzling stare for a second, then his gaze drifted down to the onigiri softly snoring practically under him, then back up to Kyo again. A beat later, his face was pure crimson. "No, Kyo, this really isn't what it looks like-!"
"Y-YOU FUCKING BASTARD!" Kyo screamed with pure hatred dripping from each word.
"Is it time to ruin my day already. . .?" Just as Shigure put a foot out of the aisle between his and Kyo's bed, he suddenly found the room spinning before his back slammed against hard hotel carpet as Kyo whizzed past and out the door.
"Kyo. . .!" Yuki called after him desperately, but it was already too late.
Shigure steadily peeled himself off the floor and onto two feet again. "What has he burst a vein about this ti-" The words froze in his throat as he stood there, staring wide-eyed at the two teenagers wearing things that suggested anything but innocence. "Yuki-kun. . . . . I thought you knew better. . . . . If you're going to have premarital sex, then rent your own hotel room, not do it only a few feet away from your sleeping cousin and uncle!"
The nezumi's face glowed crimson red as he sputtered out, "I-I-I didn't! I. . .I gotta find him!" He then ran out the door, slamming it loudly behind him.
The noise caused Tohru's eyes to flutter open. Seeing Shigure just standing in the middle of the room, gazing at the door, she sat up and noticed the two empty beds on either side of her. "Where has everyone gone?"
"Oh, Tohru-kun, how dreadful. . ." Shigure sighed, touching a middle and pointer finger to his forhead. "Yuki-kun got to you first!"
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Ten minutes went by, and the Prince came upon a small forest, a trail of footprints sunk low into the damp ground leading deeper inside. "Kyo?" he called out, taking a cautious step into the filtered light. "Kyo?" He slowly followed the manmade path; the trees growing larger, taller, and darker with every step he took. "Ky-" The tracks suddenly took a sharp turn - right into a mighty-standing oak. As he inched closer, Yuki could see the trunk had taken several powerful blows, splinters of thick bark scattered all over the grassy floor around it. "Kyo. . .?"
". . .heartless," came a muffled voice from the tree's other side. The Prince slowly made his way around. . . . .and abruptly stopped at the sight of the redhead lying wearily on the ground, back facing him. Blood trickled down from his knuckles.
"You. . . . .took the only person. . . . .who could make me feel-. . . . ." Kyo mustered up all the strength he had left to turn over and face the other. "I've never hated you more than right now." Angry tears were welling up in his bloodshot eyes.
"Quit drawing to conclusions, you. . .b-baka," Yuki whispered hoarsely, taking a step toward his cousin. "Last night. . .Honda-san and I went to take a look at the falls after dark. But she fell. . .and I gave her my pajamas to stay warm. . .then carried her back to the hotel. Somehow. . .we ended up falling asleep on the same bed-"
"Why. . ." Kyo growled, rising to his trembling arms. ". . .should I believe. . ." He then lifted himself onto his feet, wobbling over to the Prince and taking a tight hold on his shirt. ". . .a dirty nezumi like you?"
Yuki could only stand there, mouth open with gray eyes wide.
In a flash, Kyo let out a wild snarl and sent a fist flying across the boy's jaw. His body whirled through the air and slid onto the ground. "YOU DAMN LIAR!" Eyes burning with blind rage, just as he pulled back for another punch, a booming voice sounded, "FREEZE WITH YOUR HANDS UP IN THE AIR, YOU TWO! YOU ARE BOTH UNDER ARREST!"
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Brrrrrrriiiinng!
"Moshi moshi?" Shigure spoke into the hotel telephone's receiver.
"Shigure, it's Yuki. . ." came a soft reply from the other end. "Kyo and I are kind of. . .in need of help."
"Oh, my. Well, where are you?"
". . .Jail."
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"I'm sorry, sir, but we can't just let you come and take the two criminals with only your word that you are their uncle."
"Please, Officer-san, it was all an accident," Tohru sweetly spoke up from beside Shigure, eyes big with innocence. "They didn't mean to momentarily plug up a natural wonder."
"I'm sorry, miss, but you still cannot pass."
"Hmm," Shigure thought aloud under his breath, rubbing his chin. "Maybe he can't understand the emergency of the situation because of our accents. . ." He then directed toward the guard, "Um, we really need to see, eh, the two boys, eh! We are simply tourists, eh, who would do no harm to this wonderful country! Maple leaves, moose, and all that, eh!"
With an annoyed glare, the officer finally said, "If you insist on being so determined, then there is one way to prove if you were at the scene of the crime: recognize the two boys in a line-up."
"A piece of cake!" the novelist lightheartedly exclaimed. "I think I would know what my nephews, who I live with every day, look like."
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Five "Yukis" stood before Shigure and Tohru: one around the size of a midget with a little tuft of gray hair; one looking stoned with scraggly, gray hair down to his shoulders; one with gray hair just coming to the tips of his ears and eyebrows, a pansy part right down the middle; one who was actually an old man with wispy, gray hair making a crown around his bald head; and one with slightly long, gray hair, clothes spotted with mud, and a large, black bruise on the left side of his slender face.
"Um. . .uh. . ." Shigure looked back and forth between all of them with blank eyes. "Let's see. . . Maybe that one. . .or that one. . . Well, at least we know it isn't that pathetic-looking one all beat up."
Tohru sweatdropped.
"You know, officer," the inu suddenly said with a sly smile. Sneaking over to the guard, he then whispered coyly through the side of his mouth, "I happen to be quite the novelist, and you look like a man who feels a little naughty sometimes, so if you could just let them go. . ." Trailing off, he pulled out Sigh of a Summer Affair from his pocket, waving it in front of the officer seductively.
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"Thank you for. . .bribing us out of there, Shigure," Yuki said as the four of them walked into the hotel restaurant.
"And yet I'm still paying for tonight's meal. . ." his uncle whined with a sigh.
"Well, tomorrow I will cook a big breakfast just for you, Shigure-san!" Tohru chimed in with a smile.
As they all stood at the Please Wait for Your Waiter or Waitress to Seat You sign, Kyo nervously spoke up, "T-. . .Tohru."
"Yes?" she asked, turning toward him.
The neko's cheeks began to flush. "I. . . I just wanted to know. . . That damn nezumi didn't. . .do anything to you last night. . .did he?"
Torhu's eyes were glazed over with confusion. "What do you mean. . .?"
For once, Kyo could not hide the wide smile that spread across his face. "Let's just. . .go eat."
The onigiri smiled, too. "Yes," she said, taking his hand in her own, the blush beginning to spread across the boy's entire face. "Let's go eat." A glare soon replaced his wondrous stare, however, when she took Yuki's hand, as well, and exclaimed, "Like a family!"
The Prince just gave her a confused smile.
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