Fruits Basket:
Memories
Chapter Ten:
Fruits Basket
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Originally By: Natsuki Takaya
(Hakusensha)
"Hana to Yume"
Planning Of The Anime By: TV Tokyo, ASATSU – DK STUDIO DEEN, Fruba Project
Reversioned By: FUNimation Productions
Elyon Suzuki, Lacey Valance & Misty Jamieson
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By: Debbie-Elizabeth Cochrane
aka: KyouXKagura
She ran, through the woods, the rain that had fallen before had caused the dirt to form into mud. It stuck to the bottom of the heels, she just had to get out of there, how couldn't she stop it, it hurt her, not knowing what was going on… she called him Kyou-kun… kun! It rolled off her tongue as if she had said it hundreds of times before. She was nearly there – out of the woods, she could see the path, though something happened as she tripped over a rock and landed in the mud, the water and substance sticking over her new and clean clothes as tears fell from the corners of her colourless grey eyes. How was it bad to call him that? She didn't know but she didn't know what to do. She was crying and she didn't know why. It was as if she had to get to know him but she couldn't if she kept running away – this made her cry harder.
"I want to get to know Kyou better but I want him to be friends with Yun-chan too." Kagura muttered as she held her head up from the mud with her arms which were at the moment completely filthy.
Elyon sighed as she walked down the path with Lacey, something had told her that they had to go down that path, after picking Lacey up from work she knew that Kagura needed her – it was their bond, you could say it was similar to Arisa's bond with Tohru… or Saki's bond with Tohru… they were close, since the day they met – the day that Kagura became her first real friend…
"Miss Suzuki, you've got to get up, come on, class started ten minutes ago." Though they're teacher couldn't make the twelve year old get up – ever since she started middle school she found it hard to make friends. Elyon's wavy green hair fell around her knees as her fringe over-shadowed her crimson eyes. She had been crying and that was obvious through the try tears down her cheeks. She had her head down on her arms which were leaning on her knees.
"Elyon…?" She shook her head as she felt a hand on her shoulder and a smile looking at her.
The girl had brown hair around her shoulders which the locks were very messy, she had a smiling face. She knew this girl from her class, Sohma Kagura. What was going on? Why was she sitting next to her? It wasn't like Kagura to come and speak to her… she was trying to make her feel better – trying to cheer her up.
"Why don't you come and sit next to me and Lacey-san?" Kagura had asked as she reached her hand out to Elyon. The green haired girl looked up to see Kagura fully as she took her hand and stood up along with Kagura.
Kagura smiled as she pulled Elyon into the room, she sat down next to Lacey who smiled back. It took about five minutes for Elyon to actually sit down. She wasn't ready for it, it shocked her slightly to make friends like Kagura and Lacey but yeah, she gave in and wanted to be the best friend to Kagura because she was so kind to her. Also sitting in the back of the class, to which no one was talking to, but, wasn't making a big deal of it was Misty Jamieson, though she did come to be the three girls friends… but it took a while for that to happen.
Elyon's crimson eyes looked up from remembering that day sorrowfully. She spotted a lump on the ground, it was a person, it took a minute for Elyon to realise it was Kagura:
"Kagura!" She called as she ran over to her, followed closely by Lacey. They couldn't leave her crying like that. It wasn't fair – what had caused her to cry like that. Elyon placed her hands on Kagura's shoulders and tried to lift her up though Kagura made no effort in taking the help, she just squeaked:
"Leave me alone." Though to this Elyon couldn't let her - no Elyon just wouldn't let her be alone. Kagura never let her be alone when she was upset, she had to do the same – or she couldn't call herself Kagura's friend.
Lacey helped Elyon get Kagura up, Kagura made an attempt to get the girls away from her but of course the girls wouldn't let her. Lacey needed to help Kagura; it was hard for them not to when they were best friends like that.
"Kagura please..." Lacey called this time. Her pure pink hair was then patchy brown from the mud covering Kagura's body. "Kagura we love you and can't leave you." Kagura calmed down – she had to do this… she had to be strong or else she'd never get to know Kyou.
"Do you want to come back to mine, Kagura?" Kagura shook her head. "Why not?" Elyon was worried.
"Can we go back to Shigure's? I have to get washed and changed… then I'll go to yours." Elyon and Lacey smiled… there was their Kagura again.
Kagura and the girls then decided to walk down to the house that Kagura then ran away from because of Kyou and Yuki but yeah, she was ready to face them again and with Elyon and Lacey there she should be able to see them. She could maybe convince them to become friends again.