DISCLAIMER: I do not own Fruits Basket.
(From the last chapter…)
"Kyo-kun, if you don't mind me asking…" Kagura broke the silence, "What would you do if there will be news that my life is shorter than you think it is?"
(Chapter 2 – Life Cutter)
"If that was to happen," The cat said, "I'll be laughing myself to the clouds because I would be free from the shackles of marriage with you. How I wish that was true."
The boar was saddened at that statement. She began to pick at her food and asked, "Kyo, please be honest with me. Are you… going out with another woman?"
"You know what?" Kyo stood up, throwing his table napkin on the plate, "Too many questions ruin my appetite."
He stomped his way to their bedroom and Kagura just stared at her food and continued eating.
The next day…
Kyo and Kagura were eating breakfast together in the dining room.
"Kyo-kun." Kagura called out, "I'm sorry for my interrogations last night."
"Hn." Was his reply.
"I guess that's a 'yes'?" Kagura smiled.
"Whatever, woman. I'm leaving." Kyo stood up and got his attaché case and left.
Afterwards, Kagura cleaned the dishes and she was startled when someone was knocking on the shoji.
Kagura went to see who it was and with a 'swish' of the shoji, she smiled when she saw Yuki.
"Yuki? Oh please, come in." Kagura greeted.
The fair-skinned man entered the living room and sat down on the green rug. Kagura placed a tea set on the table and served a cup of tea to Yuki.
"So, what made you drop by our humble home, Yuki?" Kagura smiled.
Yuki sipped some tea and commented, "Your tea tastes great as usual, Kagura. Anyway, Shigure and Tohru wanted me to drop by and say 'hi' to you and Kyo."
"Oh, that's very nice of them." she smiled, "Send my regards to them, from me and Kyo."
"Is my cousin causing you too much trouble?"
"Not really." She smiled again.
"I should be telling this to you, since you're Kyo's wife." he sighed, "He's been going out with Tohru."
"I know, I saw them yesterday." She stared at her cup of tea, "It doesn't bother me much."
"I know that Kyo is not very happy with you because you were married against his will. But it was Akito's decision that you two got bound by forever. And how could you say it doesn't bother you much when you are his wife?" Yuki questioned.
"Like what I promised in my younger years," Kagura sipped some tea and continued, "I would never hold anything against Kyo even if he has another woman in his life. I just want him to be happy. Just getting married to him and living together under one roof, I guess I'm complete. And else, aren't you bothered? Tohru is your fiancée…"
"No, not at all." he clarified, "Tohru swore to me that she only loves me and she just goes out with Kyo because of pity. And I know Tohru is loyal to me, so, I trust her."
"Ah, I see."
"And there's one more thing why I'm here." Yuki said as he slid a medical parcel across the table to Kagura.
"What's this?" Kagura opened the parcel.
"It's from Hatori." he eyed her, "He told me he forgot to give you those yesterday. He can't hand it to you personally because Akito has a checkup today."
Kagura saw prescription notes and saw a lot of antibiotics, vitamin capsules, cough tablets and 2 inhalers.
"Kagura, Hatori never told me why you needed a whole set of medicines. He just told me to deliver it to you. So I was wondering if you could tell it to me personally." he said.
"Since the whole Sohma clan knows what killed my grandmother and my mother, then I guess you know it, too, huh?" Kagura smiled, even if she is sad, knowing she doesn't have much time left to live.
Yuki's eyes widened, "You mean… you?"
Kagura nodded, "I have it, too."
"Does Kyo know about it?"
"No, and I have no plans of telling him." she told him, "So don't tell anyone. You may tell Shigure, but aside from him, no one else. Do you promise that no one would hear about my poor condition, aside from Shigure?"
"Don't worry, Kagura." Yuki assured, "Not even Tohru would know."
"And please send Hatori-san my appreciation for these medicines." She bowed to him," And thanks for delivering these to me."
"No problem." Yuki smiled and stood up, "Well, I have to go now. Take care of yourself, okay?"
Kagura stood up and opened the shoji for him. He got out and she smiled, "Okay, then!"
"Of course… There are some cases wherein the clan will know about your sickness under unavoidable circumstances. I'm sure you know what I mean, so you should take good care of yourself." Yuki concluded before he walks to the taxi terminal.
She bowed and smiled again, "Yes, I understand."
That night…
While Kyo was sound asleep, Kagura placed a pillow on her face as she coughed, but tried not to wake her husband up from the sounds she was making. She walked to the bathroom door which was just a few feet away from their bed. She got in the bathroom and opened the cupboard and got a glass and her cough tablets.
She filled the glass with water and popped in 2 cough tablets after dropping her pillow on the floor. She placed the glass on the sink and she dropped to her knees and felt her airways locking up again and her heart constricting once more.
She let out a sound of pain and pounded her fist on the tiled floor, "I think this is getting worse!"
After a while, she felt relieved and went back to bed.
The next day…
Kyo woke up earlier than usual and felt like going to the bathroom to urinate. Now, while he was doing his hygiene in the bathroom, he found a pillow lying on the floor.
When he was done, he flushed the toilet, zipped his boxers and washed his hands. While doing this, he noticed a used glass near the sink. What? Wait, Kagura is always a neat person, whenever she uses a glass; she washes it and wipes it, then places it back to the cupboard.
Sighing, Kyo decided to wash the glass and wipe it. He opened the cupboard and saw a new line of medications. He placed the glass on its respective place and since curiosity got the best of him, he reached for the bottle of the cough tablets. He noticed that it was Hatori's handwritings on the instruction part of the cough tablets' bottle. Not only that, the inscriptions on the new line of medications were all too familiar to him – they were all from Hatori. But how could that be?
Kagura buys medicine from the drugstore near the supermarket. And she only gets medicines from Hatori if something is wrong with her. These medicines are especially made for Sohma family members to immediately have an effect in their bodies but… She's a perfectly healthy woman.
And then he bent down and picked up the pillow. He smelled the scent of Kagura's hair and turned it over and his eyes narrowed at the sight of… blood.
"I mean, with powerful fists like those? Man, she's more than normal. She's hyper!" Kyo thought as he eyed the bloodstain, "I haven't even touched her! It's impossible for her to get pregnant! How could she be sick?"
TBC…