Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket. I just scored me a Basket of Fruits, is that similar?

To be honest, I was going to upload this last night, but by the time I got the chapter finished it was like... 11pm... and I was like; "Proof... reading... can... wait..." That being said, being woken up by a great big German Shepard with pins in his leg isn't very nice at 6.15 in the morning when you're supposed to get woken up at 6.45. That's like a whole half an hour in between there! Anywho, it's about... 7.50 now, and I've managed to score me a day off school! Babysitting a big baby of a dog has good points after all.

That being said... I proof read the chapter. Aren't you all proud of me? I know you are! And depending how I go with a stupid History assignment, I may be able to write Chapter Twelve as well. Now then. To the... what ever genre this is. Dun dun dun...

Enjoy ! And Please review.

P.S. Don't kill me over the shortness. I'm struggling through a bit of writers block here!


Chapter Eleven; Confusing feelings

Haru bent down, throwing the stone over the water. It bounced twice before sinking to the bottom with a loud plopping sound. All at once, Haru wished he was that stone. You are the stone. He told himself in a rather stoic tone of voice, sounding like some kind of martial arts instructor; You are the stone. Envision the stone. You are sinking to the bottom of the...

"Haru!"

The cow must have jumped three feet into the air at the high pitched voice that Momiji had almost attacked him with. The cow knew that the rabbit didn't mean to be so damn annoying all the time, and it normally didn't catch him by surprise. Normally, nothing caught him by surprise, but seeing he was feeling...

"What ya thinkin' about?" Momiji asked leaning over to look into one of the Sohma's many ponds with wide eyes, breaking Haru out of his thoughts again.

"Nothing." The cow replied, brushing himself off and standing up. He briskly turned around from the rabbit, and walked away.

Nothing my behind. Momiji thought worriedly, looking at the ground; it hadn't been this deluded of stones in three hundred years.


Yuki hit his head on the desk

He was at a loss. He'd completely lost it – everything had gone down in the drain in a matter of seconds. He'd told Kyo that he'd been responsible for everything. Yuki's plan had ultimately failed.

Yuki hit his head on the desk again.

What was he going to do now? He didn't know – everything was so... freaking complicated! He'd never meant for his plan to get this complicated. It was supposed to be straight forward, basically, Kyo and Haru were just supposed to like each other, thus making Haru cling onto Kyo instead of him. Why didn't things ever go to plan?

Yuki was about to hit his head against the desk again, but was – thankfully – stopped by Tohru, who, with her algebra book in hand opened the door. "Sohma-kun! Thank you for helping me today!"

"You're welcome." He said, hiding his frustration under his usual smile; "Shall we get started?"


Meanwhile, Kyo was getting consoled by Shigure.

"Now, Kyo-kun dear-" he ignored Kyo's cringe and jerking body movement, evidence that the next time he said that that his own head would be unhinged in an instant; "I'm sure that Yuki didn't mean what he said."

"Oh yeah? How many people don't mean what they say after they punch you in the face?" Kyo shot back, sitting across the other side of Shigure's study so that he didn't kill the novelist.

"Well... Yuki for one." Shigure said, as if it was pretty obvious. Kyo just gave him a 'are you stupid?' look. Shigure just raised his eyebrows. "Well, I think the first thing you have to be really sure on are your feelings for Haru."

"I don't have any feelings for Haru!" The instant that Kyo had shot back that remark he regretted it. He... did... have feelings for Haru. Shigure just shrugged, turning back to his half-finished manuscript, which was of course due the week before.

"Well, if you don't have any feelings for Haru, what are you doing here?"

"I- you- GAH!" Kyo replied, standing up, and storming out of the room. Leaving a rather amused Shigure behind him who muttered;

"Kids these days..."


"Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. Shigure!" Kyo muttered to himself, sitting cross legged on his bed, staring at the door as if daring somebody to walk in so he could beat the crap out of them.

To say that Kyo Sohma was pissed off was an understatement.

Kyo was confused and thinking about why he was confused made his brain hurt, which made him more and more angry, and, Shigure, humming; "Shigure and Haru, sitting in a tree! K-i-s-s-i-n-g." over and over again at the dinner table wasn't helping. Okay. So he'd only done it once. But doing it once was enough! Of course, Tohru had been confused, and had started singing along because she liked the tune, and that didn't help Kyo's temper either. Yuki had been strangely quiet.

But, that was then and this is now. Or... something like that. And Kyo was sitting in a dark room, pondering over one thing – Hatsuharu. He'd been on his mind all freaking day, and night, and in his dreams – which, by the way, blew the simple kisses Haru had given him straight out the park – and... everywhere else, for that matter. There was only one answer for that; Kyo was infatuated – or possibly more – with Haru, and that was what pissed him off more than anything.

That... and that he knew that Haru – White Haru – didn't exactly feel the same way. He loved Yuki, not Kyo, Yuki. Spelt; Y-u-k-i. Sighing, Kyo's head hit the pillow, and he squeezed his eyes shut. Maybe everything would be better in the morning.


Haru was going to sleep around the same time, although he was sadder than anything else. His head hadn't left the pillow since he'd gotten home and gone straight to bed, and his light hadn't been turned on either, so he was lying in blackness.

Yuki betrayed him. Yuki hated him. Yuki didn't want him. Yuki... Yuki... wasn't what Haru thought he was. And that was what hurt. All of those, and so much more, and then there was the confusion; the fact that his other personality didn't really seem to care.

"Kyo..." Haru paused after saying this, before shooting up like wild fire. What had he just said? "What's... wrong with me?"


A/n: Dun dun dun...