Fruits Basket:
Consumed By Darkness
Chapter Four:
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
Mayura Sohma, Kaori Sohma, Atlas Sohma:
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By: Debbie-Elizabeth Cochrane
aka: KyouXKagura
Mayura looked at her reflection in the mirror, how could she let herself look that bad? Her eyes were red with the tears she had just previously shed, her hair which seemed to loose their curls wasn't as glorious as it was… she just wanted to impress Atlas, it seemed so easy! Though she guessed it wasn't… Mayura hated the thought of her sister with him though, the conniving vixen who she loved so much – she knew how much she happened to love Atlas.
"What the hell was she up to?" Mayura asked as she turned her head to the side she couldn't even look at herself, it was too painful. She couldn't go back down there even if she did tell her mother that she was just washing her face, though it wouldn't be long before they realised that she went to her bedroom and not the bathroom.
'Please Mayura… we can help you more than ever now…' How could they possibly, that was what she felt like screaming… it was so hard for her to do this… why could she go behind their backs and leave? She guessed that they didn't care about her if they were all downstairs comforting Kaori. There was nothing wrong with that of course, she was the one who told Kagura not to comfort her. 'Mayura… this is the time… if you don't come now they'll hurt you even more.' In time it was possible that they could hurt her. Thought Mayura didn't want to even think about it… she hated the thought of Atlas and Kaori as a couple, they seemed to be heading in that direction – seeing as he was holding her in the living room as the male voice inside her head was talking to her.
"Okay." She spoke as she took in a deep breath. "What do I have to do?"
Kaori's eyes widened as her thought bubble popped from finally remembering Mayura's crush on Atlas. She placed her hands firmer on Atlas's chest as she pushed herself back, breaking through his arms that were so warm and loving towards her as she whispered towards him:
"I can't." Atlas didn't comprehend; he didn't know there was something wrong with him holding her, comforting her when she seemed to need it the most. Yet Kaori knew that it was that that caused Mayura to get hurt, the facts that she saw her flirting with him in the first place then catching him hold her as she cried. "It's not right… to Onee-chan." Kaori said as the expression on her face shown fright and sadness.
"What does Mayura have to do with it? Kaori!" He yelled her name as he watched her run out of the living room shouting for her sister as she thundered up the stairs with one thing on her mind: to apologise for her behaviour. Kaori saw no harm in the comforting part of it; she did have a thing for Atlas herself, though the facts that she displayed it so thickly in front of Mayura… well that was what upset the orange haired girl even more.
Kaori stood gaping in the doorway of the bedroom she shared with her sister… though there was something missing, her sister, Mayura was gone!
"Mother, did Onee-chan come down the stairs?" She called down to Kagura who was standing at the doorway quite shocked at the incidents unable to comprehend every little detail. Kagura knew though, that from where she was standing she had a good view of the staircase and she was certain that her daughter hadn't come back down from going up to wash her face.
"No dear, why?" Kagura called up to Kaori when she heard something that felt like a crash. She didn't know what had fallen but she was sure that maybe she didn't want to know, though in the mood that Mayura was in just moments before then maybe that didn't matter and she had to go and make sure everyone was alright! Kagura walked up the staircase with her husband fast on her heels; it seemed that everyone in the household, Haru and Atlas included where wondering what that crash happened to be. Kagura almost shrieked when she saw what the crash was from, it was from Kaori looking frantically in the bedroom for something, in the wardrobe, under the bed whilst holding a matching look as her mother's.
"Everyone, Onee-chan's gone… I don't know where she is but she never came back down stairs and the windows closed…" She said as she pointed to the window before carrying on her search.
Kagura turned to Kyou who nodded; that meant call the police, Sohma Shigure – because he was someone that Mayura knew – and of course the authorities. He went though he wasn't so happy about calling Shigure, which would mean if she was there then she would have to go through the woods and that was something he hated thinking about because there were so many creeps in the woods. Though that still didn't explain the fact she left the house without going through the doors and window… it was unexplainable at that moment but still they were all more concerned with the fact that Mayura had gone… not the reason how she could have gotten out. Atlas had to stop Kaori from getting worn out by searching and searching – putting things back then putting things back… she was wearing herself out. Kaori started crying once more as she lay her head on her bed and sobbed quietly into the cotton covers, Atlas came beside her and waited until she was ready for some much needed comforting.
"It's my fault… I'm so wicked. I let her see us…" She said as she couldn't control her sobs in-between each couple of words.
Mayura though, wasn't even in that world… to what she knew anyway, she was somewhere dark, somewhere where she was alone – though the quiet was nice, she hadn't had a lot of times where it was quiet lately, she was always alone and it was quite nice to be able to think, though the things she thought about where always about Atlas and Kaori… it didn't help that much.
"Why? Why did they have to hurt me so much?" Though her tears were shed, she found herself now very angry, she couldn't let them get away with that could she?
"So you have decided to finally join us, Mayura?" She heard a male said he had such a rough though handsome voice. She smiled knowing that now she was in such good company compared the people at home. The male was the voice that was haunting her head along with the female – the female who also was with male who had spoken before.
"Don't worry… we'll take good care of you!" The female said with a voice so soothing to Mayura that she couldn't help but nod in agreement.
