Disclaimer: I don't own any of the furuba characters.
Lauren: Hello...um, srry to have taken so long to update. Please R&R and enjoy this chapy. Oh who am i kidding! I'm just going to come out with it. The next chapter will be the last chapter since i couldn't think of anything else to prolong the story with.
Kyo: ...way to be blunt.
Lauren: I didn't know how else to say it. Please enjoy this chapter and contiune to be a beliver of KyoTohru!
The Sparrow's Truth
Chapter 20 – More than just a Dream
As I slowly walk down a long corridor, I can hear a soft whimpering from behind one of the doors. 'Where am I?' I ask myself. Suddenly the soft whimpering becomes louder and more arrogant.
"Will you help me?" comes a voice from behind a door. "Please help me…I don't want to be alone anymore."
"Where are you?" I ask opening the door that is close to me. "I want to help you…tell me where you are!"
The whimpering stops right before a loud shriek echoes down the hall from ahead. I start running towards the shriek until I feel a presents. Evil, cold…eager for something.
"There you are…" comes another voice, evil. I recognize it…Akito.
"What do you want!" I shout in a quivering voice. No one answers, all I hear is footsteps coming closer to me.
"Cara…Akito wants to see you." Hatori says suddenly appearing from behind me. I look at him then to the floor… 'Wait…where am I?' I ask no one. As I look around I'm no longer in the long corridor…but in a small room. As I look around I see Kyo sitting there…along with Tohru, Yuki and…me? Our heads are bowed down as Akito comes in from outside.
"One of you will pay for your betrayal," s he hisses walking in front of Yuki. She stops before him and I can see what's behind her. A sword…no the sword. There is something written on the blade but before I can read it Akito blocks my view.
"Cara…you will pay for what you've and the deal you broke." Akito says turning around to face Yuki. The other me says nothing, just sits there like a doll or puppet. "You will lose the one you care the most about."
Suddenly I'm falling out of the sky…it's not scary but rather sudden and it raining. I see the ground rushing up towards me but as I grow closer to the ground I suddenly feel as if i am flying and realize that i turned into my animal and slowly fly down to the muddy, damp earth.
I'm at a cemetery…people are standing around a newly dug grave.
"I'm sorry Cara." I hear Tohru cry. I look around and spot Tohru bowing her head to me as I look down to the grave. I slowly flutter over to the grave and look in to see …'Who is it? I can't seetheir face,' I think. I look back over to myself and see that I'm staring off into space.
"I'm sorry…" Tohru says this time sobbing. I fly over to her look at her… 'She's been crying.' I thought looking at her face. Suddenly I see a bright light then hear a familiar voice, "Cara…wake up!"
As Cara slowly opens her eyes she sees Yuki hovering above her but she can't see his face because of the sun coming in through the window.
"Yun-Yun…what's wrong?" Cara asked turning over so the sun wasn't in her face.
"Cara…did you have a…dream about something?" Yuki asked looking down at her. Cara sat up and blinked a few time before replying, "Ya…I did, why?"
"I heard you talking…do you want me to tell you?" he asked looking down on her.
"Yes…please." Cara said laying back down closing her eyes.
"You said something about the sword…the one that we were looking for. It's in a room…then you said something about a long corridor." Yuki said.
"It's in the estate for sure…the corridor, it was dark though." Cara said trying to make sense of where it was in the estate. Yuki the leaned in and lightly kissed her cheek.
"Breakfast is ready when ever you want to come down…okay?" Yuki asked standing up and walking over to the door.
"Okay…" Cara said still trying to figure out where the hall was. Yuki went downstairs and Cara sat in his bed still trying to figure out where the hall was.
'I've been there before…but when, and…who was that voice?' Cara asked herself. She shook it off hoping that maybe that some time not thinking about it would help. She stood up and grabbed a towel from its hook and walked down the hall and into the bathroom.
Down stairs Kyo, Tohru and Yuki all heard the water from the shower turn on as they started up a conversation.
"Do you think we can break the curse before we leave?" Tohru asked finally sitting down next to Kyo.
"/sigh/ I'm not sure Ms. Honda," Yuki said picking up some rice with his chopsticks. "She'll probably keep going back there till the day we leave."
"…" Kyo just continued to sit there and stuff his breakfast into his mouth as he thought. Tohru then leaned her head on his shoulder and sighed. For the next few minutes they all just sat there in silence and thought about what was to come.
"What time is it?" Yuki suddenly asked.
"Um…around 11:30. Why?" Tohru replied looking at the clock in the kitchen.
"She's going to want us to go back the estate around noon./sigh/." Yuki replied hearing the shower turn off.
"Who cares…the sooner we find the stupid sword the sooner we can leave." Kyo said finishing off his plate of food. Yuki just glared at Kyo before getting up and going outside for so fresh air.
"Kyo-Kun?" Tohru asked Kyo after Yuki had went outside.
"Hn?" Kyo asked with food in his mouth.
"Have you seen Shigure around lately?" Tohru asked.
"…nope, and I don't really care." Kyo said standing up to take his plate into the kitchen. Cara then suddenly appeared in the kitchen and it looked like she was looking for something. "What are you doing?"
"I'm looking for Yun-Yun…have you seen him Kyo?" Cara asked looking outside. "Oh and we're going back to the estate today right?"
"Ya I guess…and that damn rat went outside." Kyo replied dumping his plate into the sink. Cara then trotted outside and started to walk around the house looking for Yuki. After two laps around the house and no luck in finding him she went to ask Tohru if he came in.
"I'm sorry Cara-Chan…I didn't see him come in, but he might be at his secret base." Tohru said washing the dishes from breakfast.
"Do you know where this secret base of his is?" Cara asked.
"Yes I do…but," Tohru said letting it drift out there.
"But…what?"
"I'm not sure if he'd want me to show you where it was." She said finishing her sentence.
"Oh…well, then I guess I'll just have to wait for him to come back." Cara said rethinking about what she was going to do, "Better yet…tell him that I went to the estate and to meet me there when ever he wants to, I have something I need to do there."
Cara then walked out and darted off to the estate.
She was out of breath when she got the estate but continued on with pausing to catch her breath. 'I need to find this hall way and room.' She thought to herself as she walked into the west wing of the estate. She felt like something was pulling her in the direction but she didn't know what, nor did she care. She just continued to follow it until she had no clue where she was.
"Hello?" she called out hoping that someone could tell her how to get back to her own room. When no one answered her she aimlessly walked down the hall looking inside each of the rooms, that were all empty. She could feel a cold chill running down her like something bad was going to happen, and soon.
As the three walked down the street there was a long silence lingering between them. Yuki was lost in his own thoughts as he went on autopilot walking down the street. Kyo was walking slowly behind Yuki with Tohru by his side watching the other buildings in not passing by. Tohru was worried that Yuki and Kyo were mad at her about one thing or another.
"HELLO!" someone called from up ahead causing Yuki to come out from within his thoughts and Kyo to look forward.
"Hello Shigure-San!" Tohru called waving to him. The three the suddenly realized that Shigure wasn't alone, walking beside him was Hatori.
"Greetings Tohru. Yuki. Kyo." Hatori said after they were in earshot.
"OH! HELLO HATORI!" Tohru called. Yuki and Kyo stayed quiet knowing that Hatori never came out unless on some kind of business.
"So...what the deal?" Kyo asked Hatori. Hatori just looked at him as if he didn't under stand. "What's you're business?"
"Oh...Akito wishes to see you three and Cara." Hatori said in his low monotone voice. Yuki, Kyo and Tohru all froze exactly where they were.
"When?" Yuki questioned looking at Hatori.
"As soon as possibly! Now that we've found you...where's Cara!" Shigure said excitedly not noticing the doom cloud lingering over the three's head.
"She came back to the estate, she said she had something to do." Tohru said linking her hand with Kyo's.
"Is that why we had to come to the estate?" Yuki asked totally confused.
"YEP!" Tohru shouted.
"So we'll all just go back to the estate." Hatori said staring to retrace his steps back to the estate.
"I've got a really bad feeling about this." Kyo said walking aside Tohru who was walking aside Yuki.
"For once i agree with you, you stupid cat." Yuki said ticking Kyo off.
"WHAT DID YOU SAY YOU DAMN RAT!" Kyo shouted shaking his fist at him. Yuki sighed because Kyo had totally missed the point.
"Haha...Yuki just said he agreed with you Kyo." Tohru said trying to avoid a fight.
"With the 'stupid cat' part too." Kyo huffed.
She had been wandering around the ignoramus house for the past twenty minutes and hadn't seen one other person. Cara let out a loud sigh and let her back hit the wall as she slid down the wall bringing her knees up to her chest and wrapped her arms around her knees.
'I haven't been able to find one person nor can I find that hall.' she thought about to cry feeling tiered as her eyes slowly drooped. She then once more stood up and continued her way down the hall she was presently in to come to another hall. She decided to take a right hoping that maybe she would end up outside.
"She'll come to this room after we find Cara." Cara heard someone up ahead say...or at least she thought it was up ahead.
"Shigure?" Cara asked muttering to herself before slowly walking towards the voice.
"Ah...there you are Cara, Akito wants to see you."
"AHHHH!" Cara shouted quickly turning on her heels only to see Hatori. When she saw that it was only him she let out a sigh of relief. "Oh...Hatori, can you help me? Hehe, it seems I'm kind of lost."
"...didn't you hear what I said?" Hatori questioned. 'I'd like to not have.' she thought.
"Yes...I did." Cara replied shifting the weight from her left foot to her right.
"Follow me then." he replied. 'He's just like a robot,' Cara thought to herself inwardly laughing.
They started to walk down another long hall and Cara felt a shutter of deja vo. This was the long corridor that she had been in, in her dreams. They then stopped at and door and Hatori opened it for her. She walked into the room and Hatori closed the door behind her leaving her alone.
"You will pay for what you have done and the deal you broke." Akito said. Cara couldn't tell where the voice was coming from...it sounded like it was coming from the front but at the same time...every other direction. "You will lose the one you care the most about."
She then heard a sudden shout of pain from just outside the door. Her eyes widened as she realized who it was. "YUKI!"
She ran to the door and try to open it but it was locked, tears started streaming down her face. Suddenly a sharp pain hit her in her chest and she could feel a warm liquid running down her chest. When she looked down though she only saw her blood red stained shirt. Her breathing quickened as she pulled off her shirt to see what happened only there wasn't a wound and the blood seemed to come out of no where but continues to roll down her body.
"I'll make you pay." Akito hissed.
Cara sat up panting with thin layer of perspiration covering her whole body. She quickly glanced around taking notice that she was curled up on the floor with her knees tucked in against her chest. 'I-I must have nodded off.' Cara said pushing herself upright against the wall. She then felt the spot on her chest where the blood had been coming out of in her dream. It tingled at her touch as her shaky hands pushed her up so she could stand.
Despite her wobbly legs and hands she managed to walk down the hall to where there was another hall. Taking a right following what she did in her dream she started to pick up her pace. She needed to find Yuki.
"He'll come to this room after we find Cara." Cara heard Shigure said from ahead of her. Suddenly after she rounded a bend, to where she heard Shigure talking, and she ran right into someone. In the end after trying to gain her balance she still ended up on her butt.
"Ah…no need to find Cara now." Cara looked up to see that she had run into Hatori.
"Uh…u-um, h-hello Hatori." Cara said wobbly pushing herself up off the ground. She then nodded to Shigure who sent her a half hearted smile back.
"Cara…Akito wants to see you." Hatori said opening the door for her. She looked inside to see that Tohru, Kyo and Yuki were all sitting on the ground before she entered.
"Hey…" Cara said entering the room hearing the door behind her close. Tohru sent her a smile, Kyo nodded and Yuki also sent her a smile but also patted the ground beside him. Cara sat on the ground just as the door behind them quickly, sharply and loudly opened and closed.
He walked in front of the four and looked them over thoroughly, "You three get out." She spat at Tohru, Kyo and Yuki. They hesitantly got and waited outside the door.
He smirked before saying, "You broke your part of the deal."
"…" it took her a moment to remember what deal he was talking about.
Flashback
'I've come to reason with you.' said Cara, 'You leave the Zodiac alone, and that includes the cat, and I'll leave you alone.'
'What do I get out of it?' Akito steamed.
'You get to live.'
'Fine,' Akito hissed, 'but stop pairing the Zodiacs up.'
'After tomorrow.'
'Fine!' Akito screamed in his head. A golden document appeared in front of him along with a pen. Then as soon as he signed the document it vanished and he drifted to sleep.
End Flashback
It had been awhile since she had thought about that, "Ya…and your point."
Akito glared at her with all the hatred that she could muster but it didn't seem to effect her. Then again…she knew what would. She walked over to Cara and bent down to her ear, "You will pay for what you've done."
Cara froze as Akito called Yuki into the room. 'There,' Cara thought. The sword was hanging from the wall with the words 'Eternal Death' inscribed into it. Cara's heart rate picked up as Yuki walked into the room and noticed the sword too.
"Is that it?" Yuki muttered under his breath to her so Akito couldn't hear. Cara just nodded and tried to regulate her breathing as much as possible.
"Now…I notice that you, dear Cara, saw the sword…do you want to explain it to Yuki? Or should I?" Akito said letting the words roll off her tongue enjoying every word. When Cara didn't answer Akito bitch slapped her and started to explain.
"This sword…the 'eternal death' is very special. As you can see I keep it only for those who have been exceptionally bad, and Cara here, has done just that. You see, when one of the zodiac animal's hosts, or for any person at that, is slain by this sword…they will not be reincarnated. Now…I would use it on Cara you see but how would her death be punishment enough for me?" Akito hissed enjoying the horrified look on Yuki's face and the I-about-to-cry look on Cara's. "So…to punish her, I have to take away the thing she cares about the most. Which just happens…to be you."
Akito took the sword from it's holder on the wall and ran a finger over the blade, "And you know who ratted you out?" She asked gather the attention from Yuki and Cara, "Kureno."
Cara felt like she had just been stabbed in the back and Yuki wasn't really surprised. He had been by Akito's side ever since she was born…he was her henchman, the one who did most of the dirty work.
"Now…" Akito said before turning around to face Cara and Yuki. Suddenly Akito trusted the sword forward towards Yuki's head and Cara jumped in front of Yuki. The sword he been embedded into her chest going the whole way through just missing Yuki's head by a few inches.
Lauren: Way to end the chapy i know(scarcasum). I had to end it this way. And i have to end the story the way that't i'm going to end it. If you want a hint on what's going to happen then look to Cara's first dream. It has the ending hidden in it so look really closely at it.
Tohru: Are you going to be writing any more Fruits Basket storyies?
Lauren: ...sigh...to tell you the truth most likey not. I hope that you enjoyed this chapter and won't totaly hate me for the way i'm going to end it. But it's been a really peaceful story...so i had to add some crule twist. It's just who i am. Please Review...it will bost what little confidence i have in myself. Seriously.I don't have all that much.