:Light in a Snowfall:

Chapter 3

Author of this chapter: Animedreamer240

Disclaimer: Furubaproject6 does not own Fruits Basket or the characters.


The wintry morning had been perfect so far, with Tohru and Yuki gazing out at the wondrous icy land beyond the window. It was a moment they both savored while keeping their fingers intertwined together for so long. In quick time, they were no longer shy to hold hands, so they began to relax, now nearly resting their shoulders together.

Tohru's lips curled up into a small smile...the smile the person beside her simply adored. Eyes floating away from the scenery and down to their hands, a childish question suddenly wandered through her mind. For a moment she hesitated, but when Yuki gazed at her again, her small fear of asking the question faded away.

"Yuki.. Is it okay if I ask you something? It's a little childish, but I would...I would like to ask.." she finally said, her hand gently pressing tighter his.

With strong curiosity now evident from his face, he turned to her more fully, getting extra comfortable while he was at it. "Of course.. You can ask me anything you like. I won't think it's childish. What is it?"

Her smile deepened. "Well.. Since the snow has had time to settle, I was wondering if you..if you would like to play with me in the snow? Just for a little while? We could make a snow man- or or or- go sledding! Or maybe we can throw snowballs! Oh, but this all must really seem so childish.."

Yuki leaned towards her, allowing her excitement to rush into his own. "Miss Honda, I would love to play with you in the snow. We can play all day and do everything before the sun has a chance to ever melt it. Would you like to go outside now?"

His readiness increased hers as she broke free from his hand fairly hastily. "Sure, if-if that's okay with you!" she replied, giving a small laugh while doing so. "I'll go and get ready!" And with that, she jumped to her feet and rushed out the room.

All of this had happened so fast that Yuki had to remain sitting and register what happened in the last five seconds. Soon, he began to get ready as well.


The air was of course, extremely chilling against his face, the only part of Yuki that was exposed. A puffy, warm coat fitted around his body with small mittens to match. His legs were covered by jeans, perhaps not the best type of pants to wear in the snow, and doubled socks certainly helped to warm his toes. And a long, black scarf was securely wrapped around his neck. In fact, it was Shigure's scarf, and the dog didn't mind him borrowing it.

His feet plowed through the knee-deep snow. It wasn't until now that he noticed how amazingly deep the snow was. This might not be perfect for sledding, but it was definitely perfect for building a snowman and throwing snow balls. Coming to a slow pause and taking in the chilly air, his eyes traveled back to the front door he stood feet away from.

Tohru had just finished getting ready and emerged outside. And really, she couldn't look any less adorable. She wore a complete matching set of pink gloves with her pink fur coat -white at the fur-, fuzzy white earmuffs, and a pink scarf. Just as she took her first step off the porch, she slid and fell directly on her bottom.

"Ah! Miss Honda, are you.. are you... Ahahahaha...!" Yuki laughed, unable to suppress the urge. In the back of his mind, he knew she was all right. The thought was confirmed when she stood back up, brushing the snow from the back of her coat.

Her cheeks turned extra rosy, perhaps from blushing, and she began to amble towards him. "Y-yeah, i'm okay! So-" Her legs sank in the deep snow so much to her surprise that she found herself falling forward. The girl hardly made five steps since she left the house, and she's clumsy all ready. This caused Yuki to laugh harder, but he managed to die it down some.

When she lifted her head after falling, she saw a hand stretching in an outreach to her. Yuki's hand. She gladly took it within hers and balanced back on her feet. "Wow! I didn't expect the snow to be so deep!" she exclaimed, her face completely taken over by wonder.

Yuki nodded his head twice. "Yeah, I was surprised when I walked out here too. So, what should we do first, Miss Honda?" he questioned, simply leaving that up to her.

Looking towards the sky in thought, she replied, "Mmmm.. Maybe we can start to build the snowman!" she suggested.

"All right. Let's-" Breaking off in mid-sentence, abrupt pain stung his right check and grew numb within seconds. Something hard had hit him from his right, so he looked over, seeing his enemy shape a second snow ball in his hands.

Kyo smirked, tossing the second snowball up and down after shaping it perfectly. "Ha! Got you there, you damn rat! I bet I can totally win against you in a snowball fight! You and Tohru teamed together!"

"Oh, you want to be beat up by snowballs now, is that what you're saying? If that's so, then so be it." Yuki replied, bending over quickly to gather some snow in his hands. Tohru had done the same, excitement crossing her face once more.

Before any of them realized it, they had broken in to snowball war, two against one. Although, Tohru was hardly targeted by Kyo, and her snowballs hardly flied in his direction, nearly hitting Yuki each time. Their laughs filled the air, even Kyo's, considering he was hitting Yuki better than Yuki was hitting him. In time, Yuki's movements were noticeably getting slower, and eventually, cease all together.

Yuki huffed and puffed while resting his hands against his knees.

"Wow, giving up already? We just started!" Kyo muttered. "Getting tired already?"

"You really are...you really are a stupid cat.." he replied beneath his heavy breaths. "Tohru and I were...we were just about to build a snowman when you..when you interrupted.."

Kyo raised an eyebrow. "A snowman? You're seriously gonna build a man outta snow? How the hell are you gonna do that? You gonna carve the nose out or somethin and all that crap?"

"No, you idiot. A snowman consists of three big snowballs stacked together. The bottom one has to be the largest to support the two on top, and so on. The nose is usually a carrot, and the eyes are the buttons. Then the snowman is decorated with a scarf and...i'm wasting my time explaining this to you, aren't I?"

The cat didn't look at all interested. "Yeah, you are. You two have fun building your snowman with a carrot for a nose and buttons for the eyes. Ha!" And with that, Kyo left the snowball arena, and the war met its conclusion.

Yuki turned his attention quickly back to Tohru, whom he hadn't paid very much attention to ever since he started throwing snowballs at Kyo. "Ah..so shall we get started?"

She didn't nod right away. Instead, she looked worried. "O-okay.. But should we take a break first? We've been out here for an awfully long while.. I can make us both hot chocolate with marshmallows!"

"That sounds very delicious, Miss Honda.. But if you don't mind, I'd like to build the snowman now while we're already out here. It shouldn't take us too long." he told her, his frozen lips forming into a small smile. Getting her to agree with him, they dived their protected hands into the snow and started build their very first snowman together.


An hour had passed without them realizing, and they only got the first two giant snowballs stacked. Tohru took a small break by sitting in the snow as she watched Yuki continue to get the third snowball started. Even though she wore mittens, her fingers were starting to feel the frigid effect of the snow. Perhaps it was time to head inside, she thought.

"Um, Yuki..?"

He didn't appear to hear her at first, but eventually he replied, "Yes Miss Honda?"

"I'm going to go make us our hot chocolate now.. Are you going to come inside with me or stay out here?"

"I think i'll finish the last snowball so we can go ahead and decorate it. That's the really fun part!"

She nodded her head slowly at this. "Well, okay.. I'll be right back with the hot chocolate then! Oh, and the things to decorate the snowman with too!" Her feet rushed her to the warmth of their home. Tohru then began to make their hot chocolate.


When she had finished, she carried two steaming jugs by the handle as she reentered outside. "Yuki, I made the hot chocolate!" she yelled out to him, though she gained no response at all. She looked around, seeing Yuki absolutely nowhere. "Yuki..?" he called softy again, searching for a place to set their jugs before walking off into the snow.

The porch was good for now. She sat the jugs there and wandered to where their unfinished snowman was. The snow was completely dug up all around it, so she wouldn't have been able to get a good view at first of what she was about to see..

Suddenly, her eyes spotted a body sprawled out in the snow and unmoving, the person's face pallid and his eyes glued shut...

Yuki had collapsed..

To be continued...


Mwahahaha, the third chapter is finally up! Yes, this is Mimi here, and I LUV cliffhangers. Mwahahaha! Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed the playful snow scenes. So, what has happened to Yuki? One would assume it's a fever of some sort, but maybe...this won't be so predictable as that..

Please give good reviews! This fic will be continued by another member of Furubaproject6, hopefully sooner than I updated! XD