Canadian Tom-boy: Gawd I love this fanfiction. Time for Kayaking With Kyo!
Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket, but I do own Camp Kichou Chikyuu, and my beloved Danko and Iki.
Italics mean thought, dreams, what a character has written or is reading.
Bold means the arrival of a new character, setting, or something I have created and own.
SCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEECCCCCCHHHHHHHHHTohru's head crashed into the back of the seat in front of her, instantly waking her up from her temporary hibernation. She sat up straight and frowned a bit. "What's going on…?"
"I think we're here." Uo said, leaning over and looking out the window.
"The bus-driver is careless." Hana said flatly, looking at Tohru. "Are you okay?"
Tohru nodded. "I'm fine…" She looked over at Yuki, who was half asleep. The bus had been driving for about an hour and a half, and Danko still managed to stay awake. Unlike Iki, who looked wasted.
She turned in her seat to look back at Kyo as the camp instructor came onto their bus and started giving them… well, instructions. Kyo was feeling ill at ease with a girl talking to him. She had curly blonde hair and hazel eyes, and wouldn't stop talking to Kyo. Kyo was scared out of his wits that she'd try to hug him and he'd be trapped. (A/N: Kyo's name is typed four times in this paragraph…oh, never mind, five now. O.o)
As soon as the instructor told them all that they could get off the bus and get their stuff, Kyo, even though he was all the way at the back of the bus, was the first off the bus.
After some pushing, shoving, shouted, cursing, and more wonderful stuff, everyone had their bags and was waiting to be given the location of their cabins. Tohru stood with her small bag, looking around at everyone that had about three to five bags and wondered what the heck these people could be bringing.
"Hey, you're Tohru, right? Tohru Honda?" Danko asked her with about three fair-size bags over his shoulders.
Tohru looked and him and stared into his eyes behind his glasses. At the moment, she was lost for words, so she just nodded slowly. Danko smiled, "Good." Then he put his bags down, taking Tohru's hand and shaking it. "A pleasure to meet you; I'm Danko Iryoku. Yuki told me a bit about you on the bus."
Tohru's eyes went wide ever so slightly, and she looked around for Yuki. Danko frowned slightly, then laughed. "He's gone to get help carrying his bags. Don't worry about him." He told her, waving his hand a bit in a gesture.
That's when Tohru noticed the bracelet on his left wrist. She grabbed his hand, pulled his wrist forward, and examined the bracelet. "Hey! I have a bracelet just like this! Or, at least I had…until I lost it." She looked up at Danko, who looked a bit confused. "Where did you get this?"
"Iki gave it to me."
"Iki?"
"Yeah; Iki Terahara." He pointed out the blonde boy gathering up his lumpy bags, who was muttering under his breath about how his mom always packed unnecessary things just to torture him.
"Not to be rude, but do you know where he got it?" Tohru asked.
Danko shook his head. "No; you'd have to ask him yourself."
"GET AWAY FROM ME!"
Tohru and Danko turned their heads to see Kyo running for his life with his bags from the girl who always talked to him. "Wait! Kyo! Don't run!"
"GET AWAY FROM ME, YOU STALKER!" Kyo yelled over his shoulder, hiding behind the councilor. The girl, now discouraged, slunk away and sadly grabbed her bags.
"Well, I'm going to go help Iki with his bags. I'll see you soon!" Danko said cheerfully, grabbing his own things and heading over to Iki. Right after he left, Yuki was back. He went up to Tohru, who smiled at him. "Hello Yuki!"
Yuki smiled back. "Hello Tohru. I got the location of your cabin for you."
Tohru blinked. "Really?" She hadn't expected Yuki to do this.
Yuki nodded, handing her a sheet of paper with her cabin's name written in large kanji: BARA.
Tohru stared at it. 'Rose'? Why would someone name a cabin 'Rose'…? No matter! I think it's a wonderful name!
"What cabin are you in, Yuki?" Tohru asked.
"Moriya." Yuki answered simply.
"The haunted cabin!" Iki and Danko shouted from where they were. Yuki sweat-dropped.
Tohru blinked. "Haunted?"
"It's just a bunch of hoobla." Yuki said.
"You'll probably hear the tale of the cabins at the campfire tonight!" Danko called cheerfully.
"Everyone! Listen up!" The instructor yelled. She seemed rather bored to Tohru. "I trust you all have your cabins now. So now what I need you to do is to go to your cabins, pick your beds, and get your swimsuits on! Meet me at dock three when you're done and I'll tell you what activity we're doing!"
Yuki and Tohru blinked. I wonder what activity…
"Yuki-san!"
Yuki almost fell over when someone latched onto him from behind. His mind panicked. Oh no! I'm going to transform right in front of everyone!
He shut his eyes and waited to transform. But nothing happened. He opened his eyes a looked over his shoulder to see who hugged him. His face went blank when he saw who it was.
"Momiji, what are you doing here?" He asked flatly.
Tohru was blinking as she watched the sight of the half-German in swim trunks let go of his cousin. He smiled brightly. "I came with Ha'ri to camp! " he announced.
Then he looked around Yuki at Tohru. His face lit up. "Tohru-san!" He ran to go hug her, but a hand pulled back on his shoulder.
Kyo gave Momiji a good whack on top of his head. "Not in front of everyone, you idiot!"
"GAHH! KYO HIT ME!"
Yuki turned around to find Hatori looking at Momiji. "It looks like you're doing a bad job in watching over him." Yuki said coldly.
"Akito ordered me to watch over you and Kyo. He told me to bring him along." Hatori glanced at Yuki to see his scowl. "Akito did not tell me what he was planning."
Yuki gave him a disbelieving look, but looked over when the instructor began speaking.
"Now, seeing as you're all here, when I'm done speaking, I want you to go over there-" she pointed, "- and get a life jacket that fits, and one of those paddles. You're going to be kayaking."
Kyo froze, letting go of Momiji. "K-kayaking? You mean…in the water, kayaking?"
"You can't kayak in the sand." Uo said, patting him on the shoulder, smirking.
Kyo got goosebumps. …I hate camp.
When everyone was getting their lifejackets on, Tohru couldn't seem to find one that fit. She frowned, setting the fifth one she tried on back on its hook. "Here; try this one."
She whirled around, almost having a heart attack when she heard Danko's voice. He didn't have his glasses on, and he wasn't very thin and bony like she expected. She blushed when she thought of how cute he was. She stuttered out a thank you and took the lifejacket from him, slipping it on. He attached the clamps for her. It fit. "There you go."
Yuki was watching them the whole time, and felt a slight ping of emotion in hit gut. He ignored it and turned away, taking his paddle to a kayak.
Iki walked past Tohru and Danko. Tohru opened her mouth to ask Iki where he got the bracelet Danko had from, but she decided not to. The look on his face told her he wasn't in a good mood. She didn't find it odd, for she had been asleep on the bus and didn't see how cheery he had been. Yuki would've found it weird, but he wasn't paying attention.
Meanwhile, the girl who Kyo had called a stalker, and another boy were trying to force Kyo down into a kayak. He yelled and struggled, then suddenly looked at the girl. "Hey; what's your name?'
The girl blinked, having been caught off guard. She blushed. "A-ano…Urei Yorokobi."
"Alright then, Urei. LET GO OF ME!" Kyo yelled, pushing her away.
Urei looked hurt. She let go off him, going silent and watching as he pushed the other boy away, going into the kayak slowly by himself. She turned, grabbed a paddle, and held it out to Kyo timidly. She didn't want him to snap at her. He stared at her a moment, mumbled something, and forced himself to gently take it from her. She went to get her own paddle and get into a kayak.
After a few long moments, everyone was in their kayaks, Yuki beside Tohru on one side, and Iki on the other side. Tohru was going to take this chance (again) to ask Iki where he got the bracelet Danko had from, but a councilor was already steadily pushing him into the water. She doubted she would've mustered up enough guts to ask anyways. He glided out, balancing perfectly with experience. Yuki looked over at Tohru when she was staring at Iki, admiring his timed strokes. Both of their heads turned when there was a KERPLUNK!
Tohru gasped. Oh my God! Yuki just looked ahead of himself as the councilor pushed his kayak into the water. Kyo had been pushed into the water and had tipped over into the lake straight away. His head broke the water just as Tohru jumped over many kayaks to make it over there. "Oh my God! Kyo, are you okay?"
Uo smirked slightly as she too was pushed into the water. Kyo was coughing, having got water in his lungs. The camp instructor went over, hooked her arms under his armpits and lifted him out of the water and onto the deck. Kyo panicked when his body was very close to hers. Shit! I'm going to transform!
And that he did. In his place, there was a cat and a pile of clothes. Kyo's clothes. The instructor looked utterly confused. Tohru, thinking quickly, pointed behind the instructor and yelled. "Kyo! Come back here!"
The cat caught on and dashed, running behind the boys' cabin. Tohru went and ran after the cat. She froze and squeaked for when she rounded the corner. There was Kyo, naked. She turned around; shutting her eyes as he got his the clothes he had just got from the cabin on. He blushed ever so slightly, but Tohru couldn't see it. "Thanks for covering for me." He mumbled.
"N-no problem." She stuttered, peeking over her shoulder. They went back over to the docks, everyone already in the water. The instructor looked at them, wanting an explanation.
"I forgot that I had food wrappers in the cabin from when I was snacking, and I went to go throw them out before raccoons came." Kyo lied smoothly.
The instructor rose a brow, then nodded as Kyo and Tohru got in their kayaks.
The campers had the rest of the day off to fool around until dark, which then they would have a campfire. The boys in one cabin were changing so they could dry off. The girls were applying make-up and such, but not Tohru and Urei. Tohru didn't own any, and Urei was just a tad bit sad, so she didn't want to.
Urei was sitting on the bottom of one of the bunks, looking down at the floor. Tohru went over to her, since Hana and Uo had gone to use the showers, for they had gotten tangled in a patch of seaweed during kayaking. "What are you doing?"
Urei, caught off guard, meeped a bit, and then looked up at Tohru. She then looked back down at the ground. "Nothing." She sighed.
"Is something wrong?" Tohru asked.
Urei stayed silent for a moment, then spoke. "I just wanted to try to make friends with Kyo, but he hates me…"
"He doesn't hate you; he just gets mad easy. You know, I used to think he hated me."
Urei stared at her wide-eyed. "Really? But you guys are such good friends!"
Tohru nodded. "I know. He never really hated me; he just had a bad temper."
Urei smiled weakly. She felt better now.
Tohru smiled too. "What's your name?"
"Urei Yorokobi. You?"
"Tohru Honda."
Just then, Uo and Hana came in, all dried off. They looked at Urei and Tohru. Tohru stood up. "Uo-chan! Hana-chan! Welcome back!" She said, spreading her arms wide. I would like you to meet Urei-chan!" She turned to Urei. "Urei, these are my friends, Uo-chan and Hana-chan."
Urei bowed her head. "How do you do, Hana-chan and Uo-chan?"
Uo just stared at her. Then she looked at Tohru. "We were just going to ask you if you wanted to go for a hike. They have a trail that goes into the forest."
Tohru nodded. "Sure! I'll go! Can Urei-chan come too?"
"Why not?" Hana said. Urei's face brightened.
"Okay then, let's go!"
A/N: I liked this chapter better than the first, but it was a pain to write… I wonder who's going to go missing, because honest to God I haven't decided. But I can guarantee it will NOT be….naw, I shouldn't be telling you this much. You'll have to wait until the next chapter, Missing Possessions, Missing People!