Chapter 12

Pairings Yuki Kyo

Disclaimer: As I have said before…I do not own Fruits basket, therefore I own none of those hot guys. So sad…

Hey everyone. Sorry it took so long to update. The cord hooking my computer and phone together stopped working. On top of that I've been really sick. My whole house, except my dad, has been nauseous, dizzy, tired, and feverish. I'm going to have so much work to do when I go back to school…so depressing. I never got that book either, but what can you do?

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(A few months after the 'incident')

It was just before graduation and Kyo had become increasingly clingy to 'his' nezumi. It was like every waking moment that wasn't absolutely needed for something else was spent with Yuki. He had taken to sleeping in the same bed at night, from the beginning, no more sneaking in. Kyo would often lay with the rat in the garden even if the smell of leeks were strong. It was worrying the rat to no end. He liked the attention but he was scared.

"Kyo, why do you spend so much time with me?" They were in the garden again, not harvesting, just sitting. Kyo sat up quickly and tugged on his lovers arm.

"Don't you like it?" Yuki nodded and let himself fall into his lovers lap.

"Of course I do. I love it but why does it seem like our time is ending. You're acting like you won't get to see me anymore." The neko rubbed his cousin's neck up to his ear.

"I won't." Yuki jerked out of his cousin's grasp and looked him in the eye.

"What do you mean you won't?" Kyo started to cry and hugged his lover tightly around the neck. Yuki didn't know how to react. It was usually him crying and needing comfort. "Kyo, answer me, please, I need to know." Kyo continued to cry but answered.

"Akito is locking me up. After graduation, in a cage, the only person I'll ever see after that night will be Akito. Unless he-" The neko didn't finish but Yuki was sure he knew the end of the sentence.

The only way I'll get to keep him, the only way I'll be anything other than Akito's pet is for Akito to die. The nezumi cried along with his lover and they were completely oblivious to the figure behind them.

Akito was appalled to see his 'precious' Yuki hugging and crying with the outcast. He decided instantly to put a stop to it. The head of clan gripped Yuki by the hair and yanked him to the ground behind him. "Stay!"

The nezumi was shaking and began crying harder. "How dare you touch him!" (Late reaction huh?) He grabbed Kyo's hair as well and drug him along to a small creek. All the while a terrified Yuki stumbled behind, whimpering.

When they got to the lake's edge Akito tied the cat up with some vines hanging around a tree. "Yuki, for letting that ugly freak defile you and then sympathizing with him you will have to be purified."

The trembling teen took a step backwards and stumbled slightly on a rock, causing him to fall on his butt with a 'thud'. "P-purify?" Aki took a threatening step forward, ignoring the struggling of the 'monster' behind them.

"Oh yes, purify. Have you ever heard the expression 'a drowned rat'? Yes, that does seem like a sufficient purification process." Yuki could only gasp as frail yet powerful hands grabbed his shirt and pushed his head into the cold water of the stream.

"Yuki! Yuki! Fight back…I can't get out Yuki…Yuki…don't die…I need you Yuki. Please, please Yuki fight back." With each word his voice became less and less forceful until he was just whispering to himself.

Yuki couldn't hear the cries his lover made and Akito was deliberately ignoring him. The rat almost gave up completely. All he could think of was how Kyo was going to be locked up. Then he remembered what he was so frequently told growing up.

(Flashback, located in book 10)

In a pitch-dark room he would listen to pitch-dark words. A trembling Yuki was cowering from Akito in a corner.

"This world is a cruel dark place. Your whole life will be lived in that darkness. Hope, possibility…those concepts don't apply to you. Your fate is to stay on that pitch-dark road until you die. Don't get any ideas or think 'I will be saved someday'."

(End of flashback)

Fueled by the hatred of that memory Yuki found the courage to fight back. He trashed in the water and somehow managed to get out of the water. Akito was only mildly surprised at this. "Well I think that qualifies as purification." He reached out to pet his 'beloved' and was smacked away. "Did you just reject me!"

Yuki stood slowly and cast his God a deathly stare. "You have no right to touch me." His voice was low and preditorial. "Keep your filthy hands off of me. Leave Kyo alone and Ms. Honda. Leave this house and if you come near me again-"

Akito, standing now, was amused. "You'll what? Hurt me?" Yuki took a step forward with his eyes downcast. (Like in the episode when he and Kyo went to save Tohru from her evil family, not her grandpa, he's so nice.)

"Yes." Akito withdrew slightly and took a step back. Bad move, he fell on a slippery rock and fell into the stream. He hit his head in the process knocking himself unconscious. Yuki wasn't fast enough to save him. Akito was swept away.

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A funeral on typically isn't a joyous occasion, but for the junnishi, it was a wonderful time. Even death has its perks.

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Yuki and Kyo were in the garden, for the last time. It was a few weeks after graduation and Tohru had moved in with her best friends, in Tokyo near her grandfather. Shigure had Ayame move in and Mine took over the shop. He still ran it but she was the manager now. Hatori was still going strong with Mayu and the boys found themselves talking about their new lives.

Yuki and Kyo were moving into a dorm at their new college and it looked like a promising future. "All I'll ever be…"

"What are you talking about you kawaii nezumi." Some time during recent weeks it had switched from kuso to kawaii.

"I though that all I would ever be was Akito's pet." Kyo laughed and rested his head in his lovers lap allowing his hair to be petted.

"Not anymore, now all you'll ever be is mine."

"I think I can live with that." Yuki looked to the clear, bright sky and dreamt of what his future would be like without the bounds of his false god.

What a happy ending, ne? I liked it. If you want I could do a sequel, just let me know in your review. In the middle of typing this chapter I had to go to the hospital. I have the stomach flu and I have to get an inhaler. I also got a steroid shot for something.

Well R&R.

Later stories I guess.