Bumps in the Road
Disclaimer: Nope, I still don't own Fruits Basket
A.N. YAY! It's only been a little over a month since I updated! I'm so proud of myself. Again, I'm sorry for the wait. You guys are great for putting up with me. I've recently developed a serious addiction to youtube, but I've figured out a way to use that to my fanfiction advantage. I'll update while the ephisodes are loading, and as I almost always watch at least four ephisodes every day you should be seeing a lot more updates. To everyone who reveiewd, you guys are the best. Thank you so much. You're the reason this story is still alive.
Chapter 5: The Baby Comes
When Kyo got downstairs the following morning he was in an extremely bad mood. He had been having an exceedingly good dream that included him and Tohru on an otherwise empty yacht in the middle of the ocean. Just as the dream had reached its most exciting point, his alarm clock had went off, causing him to sit bold upright in bed. Unfortunately, his shoulder was perfectly positioned under the desk upon which his still-beeping alarm was sitting, causing it to flip over and a sharp pain to shoot through his shoulder. The clock hit the floor with a deafening 'crack', and the impact apparently messed with some crucial button as the beeping switched to an ear-splitting shreiking noise.
Holding his ears in agony, Kyo ejected himself from his bed and made a run for the clock, grabbing the first thing he could, which happened to be his desk, and beating it with it. The clock would not shut up, and it was much to early in the morning for him to think of any more effective plans of action, so he just continued to brutally beat it with the desk. After about five minutes, the shreiking finally subsided. He sighed in relief and slid onto the floor. He looked slowly at the clock on his wall, wondering what time it was. He almost coughed up a hairball at what he saw. It was ten minutes before he was supposed to leave for school.
He hurridly threw all his clouths on and threw himself downstairs into the kitchen. It was silent, and the light was still off. He groaned and turned his head to look at the clock on the walll. His clock was two hours late. He sat down at the table and stared at the wall, certain her wouldn't be able to get back to sleep again.
About an hour later her was woken abruptly up by Tohru, who burst into the kitchen, singing a much-too-happy song. He once again hit his head on the table.
"Oh, hello Kyo!" Tohru said shockedly as Kyo rubbed his pounding head. "Good morning."
"Morning," he replied, grimacing.
"Are you okay?" She asked concernedly.
"I'm fine," he grumbled. It was not even 8:00 and he already knew today was going to be a horrible day.
She didn't look convinced as she turned back to the stove to begin cooking breakfast.
Fifteen minutes later they heard a loud 'thump' outside the door.
"That'll be Yuki," Tohru said happily. She was right, five seconds later the rather disheveled looking boy pulled the door open and thrust himself into a chair.
"Good morning Yuki," Tohru smiled. Yuki just mummbled somthing.
45 minutes later the trio finally made it out of the house. Kyo was thinking maybe his day wouldn't be as bad as he thought it would have been, as Haru hadn't showed up to walk Tohru to school, but he had though to soon. About thrity seconds after they left the house a voice floated down from above their heads.
"Leaving without me?"
Kyo looked shockedly around before looking up. Haru was sitting on the tree above them, his legs dangling aimlessly over the edge. He sighed and shook his head. Haru just grinned at him.
"There you are Haru," Tohru said, the same ditzy smile on her face that always made Kyo's heart melt.
He jumped out of the tree and landed at her side. The way he stood next to her, like he was trying his hardest to get as close to her as possible without arousing suspicioun, drove Kyo crazy. He told himself it was only because he didn't trust Haru's because of his temper, but it was obvious there was a personal cause for his anger.
He smiled for the first time that morning when they finally reached the school and were able to split off from Haru. Kyo and Yuki immediatly took his position next to her.
They were in for a shock when the reached the classroom. Apparently today was the day the would be recieving their 'problems'.
The teacher stood up and gave them a short introduction, but it was quite obvious what they were supposed to do.
When she allowed them to get up, Kyo and Tohru both moved across the room towards the sack of rice that was sitting on a table near the window. Attached to the top was a little tap with a few sentences written on it. Kyo, the first one to reach the table, read it aloud.
"Here is your baby," he read aloud, starting to blush. "Congratulations, it's a girl! Make sure you take good care of it. Either you or your 'spouse', will need to be taking care of it at all times. Remember: The first thing it will need is a name," he finished, fealing once again like a certain orange vegetable. He had been feeling that way a lot lately.
Tohru was blushing as well, but she looked extrememly excited.
"What should we name it...her?" She asked, grinning through her bright red face.
"I dunno," he mummbled into his hands.
"How about Rika?" She asked.
He nodded dumbly, not even really listening. He was thinking about how beautiful she looked when she blushed and trying as hard as he could to keep his mind of the implications of them having a baby.
He sighed, swell at least it wouldn't be as hard as they had thought. It was just rice, it's not like it could actually cry.
Yuki walked over to see what was going on with the two of them. He laughed when he saw the sack.
"Oh Kyo, it looks just like you," he said, trying to stifle his laugh.
Kyo glared at him. "Here, meet my sister-in-law," Yuki said, his eyes shinning with mirth as he held up a barbie doll.
Kyo shook his head and layed it down on his desk.