Fruits Basket: Memories
Chapter Fourteen

I do not own Fruits Basket, or the characters you all know and love, but I do own Elyon, Lacey, Misty and Misty's un-named Master, who you will all be introduced to in due time! -

Elyon looked down, she was now sitting on a chair in Shigure's house, why they let her in the house they had no idea, and somehow she just managed to get in. Her long green hair snaked around her shoulders and down her face, hiding her eyes to some extent. Her dark red eyes seemed to look right through the ground and into whatever was below the house.
"Elyon?" This was repeated as the last word spoken was when Kagura spoke the female's name in shock. "Ellie, why are you judging me?" It was true, Kagura didn't do anything wrong, she was just cursed and that wasn't her fault… she didn't ask for this. "Look at me, Ellie, please." Elyon's eyes looked through those strands of green hair, this was hard.

Elyon didn't expect it to be easy to say sorry but she didn't expect it to be this hard. She just thought she could say it and she would be forgiven but again she knew how stubborn Kagura could be so she should have known that that wouldn't be the case.
"Who are you? Tell me." Elyon had no idea what Kagura was going on about but she replied anyway because she couldn't think of anything to say.
"I'm Elyon… I'm…" She just spoke, trailed off because she forgot what she was going to say after that.
"You're my best friend, Elyon." Kagura spoke as she looked down at the female. Yes, Kagura was standing above Elyon, as she was sitting. "I never expected us to be enemies." This caused Elyon to stand up, her hair flailed everywhere and out of her eyes, which were revealed to be shedding tears.
"No! We're not enemies!" She spoke as her head moved from side to side. "I never meant to do that to you. Make you cry…"

It was more a shock that Kagura soon found herself in Elyon's arms.
"Suzuki Elyon you should know me better than that." Kagura spoke as she wrapped her arms around her best friend as they both cried. The brunette watched who was around them, Shigure, Yuki, Tohru… Haru and Momiji? Didn't they go home already? Well maybe they wanted to see if there was going to be another row.
"I never wanted to hurt you…" Yes, Elyon did hurt Kagura but if the boar remembered properly, it was Lacey that dragged Elyon out with her… Elyon didn't seem to go of her own accord.
"Don't worry, tell me we're friends and we'll be alright." Elyon shook her head; she couldn't say they were friends. "What? We're not friends?" Kagura asked in quite a bit of shock.
"Friends are the family we make for ourselves, your more than just my friend Kagura… way more… you're more like a sister." Kagura smiled, followed by looking at the door, seeing Kyo there.

They both wore smiles. Kagura let go of Elyon, something was strange there also, she knew that smile but she never saw Kyo smile like that before… like in a loving way… why did that hurt her too?
"Elyon-san, I know that we were going to yours but…" Kagura turned to Shigure and asked him himself. "Can Elyon-san stay here with me instead for tonight?" It might have been for the best so Shigure agreed. Haru and Momiji then officially left and so did Elyon, even just for a bit – she had to get her stuff. She was happy though, she had gotten her best friend back. At least Kagura wasn't alone anymore, she was with Kyo at that moment and they were in his room talking about stuff, he couldn't jeopardise what they were talking about by saying stupid things about the past that connected to her but he could at least tell her a little about him.

"Do you know Kazuma-sensei?" Kagura nodded, she was taught by him in the area of martial arts and she told the orange haired cat that. "Well he taught me martial arts; he's adopted me as a son… I lived with him for a while. I'm in Kaibara High School at the moment and I'm leaving late this year. I don't know what I'll do later but it should be worth it, because I'm hoping to live with my master once again." Kagura just smiled; at least he knew what it was like having a parental figure. She herself couldn't remember having any such people… a mother or a father… all she could remember was being around Shigure and Kazuma all the time, no signal of having a parent at all. Yet then who was that that she remembered telling her about the cat of the zodiac?

Why did that give her such a bad feeling and a harsh headache at that moment?
"Kagura-san, what's wrong?" Kyo asked, he was now confused and placed his hand on her shoulder. She couldn't remember, she couldn't remember much! She started crying, why, if she had a mother or father why couldn't she remember them? Kyo quickly grabbed Kagura and wrapped his arms around her, holding her carefully… he had never done this to her before and it felt good to hold her, though he wasn't really officially allowed to because she no longer seemed to hold any romantic feelings for him. Weird, usually he wouldn't have minded that… but now… he seemed to mind it… he wanted her to remember so badly…

Elyon made sure to keep her hands and arms tightly around her sleeping bag and other items as she ran from the apartments and outside through the streets towards the woods where she would be spending the night in that house which hardly anyone knew about. Elyon's legs stretched out quite a lot as she ran, the water from the puddles which she seemed to jump in went everywhere, soaking through her shoes to her shocks but she didn't seem to mind, she was just happy that she was able to keep her friendship with Kagura.

"Well hello there, Elyon." She stopped running, her red eyes widened as she turned slightly, how come she never ran past anyone and someone just spoke her name? It was shock she guessed as normally she wouldn't have been put into shock by Misty.
"Hello, Misty." Elyon spoke casually to the Chinese female as she wondered, why was the female interested into speaking to her? If she did speak to anyone it would be either Kagura or Lacey, never her… she wasn't considered popular enough to really consider talking to Misty. She had her red hair up into two buns and her brown eyes seemed to really bore into Kagura… what was wrong?

Why did Misty seem so uptight?
"Where are you going in such a hurry?" Elyon knew that Misty seemed to know about the curse but she didn't want to let her know that she knew. Elyon drew the items in her arms closer to her body as she looked serious.
"I left something at college so I just had to go and collect them…"
"You mean your sleeping bag?"
"Oh… yeah I left it after our last trip outdoors." Okay, pathetic because their last outdoor trip was last year and Misty had seen her after that with her sleeping bag but Misty didn't seem to really mind about it as she just smiled, oh yes, Misty always had a mean smile…

Elyon just bowed at Misty and continued running even though the other female still kept her eyes on her:
"This could get bad… Elyon has become Kagura's friend again, master." Somehow all that was seen though was a silhouette of a male figure and two bright green eyes piercing out from the shadows. "How will you be able to complete our mission if we can't get her alone?" There was no answer though, just a chuckle, even nastier than the one that Misty had provided before. Her 'master' seemed to not want to let himself known but there had to be some reason for this… and why did this all involve Kagura?