Disclaimer : I might not own Fruits Baskets, now (glares), but maybe if I tap my heels a few times…. Perhaps I can! …. Wait that's to get home! (Pouts and snaps fingers)

Quote : "In truth, you can't get what want by just hoping…. Sometimes you also have to take action" - Me

oOo Love Blossoms within Time oOo

A large land, full of plenty of gorgeous and ravishing Japanese Gardens and strikingly Beautiful Japanese Buildings, Flourished the Estate, which belonged to the Sohma Family. Footsteps echoed through the halls of one of the main buildings in the Sohma Estate.

Shigure, wearing a long olive-colored yukata and white slippers, walked through the main building, where all the important people in the Sohma family boarded, without being confused what-so-ever walking in such a WIDE building. All those rooms and halls and such… It's like a Maze!

He had just left from a meeting with Akito on the other side of the main building. Akito had spoke of the reason he had Yuki spend his summer in the estate, although to Shigure it seemed as if he was hiding something.

Shigure had tried to sneak his way trying to persuade Akito to tell him but to no avail, Akito had found out his plan and lashed out at him verbally. Shigure winced, his hearing had almost gone deaf with the noise.

Akito told him to keep quiet of his decision but tell only Yuki, for some odd reason. He had also told Shigure that he will what he is hiding from Hatori.

Soon after Shigure left, Hatori had sneaked into Akito's room. Surprisingly, Shigure had just ignored him as if he had not seen him and continued to Yuki's quarters to report the update.

"Kokoro ni hane wo motte tsutate mu-," Shigure recites a favorite song of his happily, turning a corner every 5 doors that pass by, 'Ok, then, time for me to check on Yuki and of course…'

He spots Yuki's room a few doors down and quietly, like the 'ninja' he is, skips in, ever so happy-like. Although, that was his mistake-

"Gah! Uh… Oh dear! Yuki, I'm falling! Ah-!"

"Oh, dear, it seems that I might've slipped, hah," Shigure was on the floor, on his belly, where his foot was now wearing a new fashionable shoe called…. 'The bucket'. 'It almost seems like Yuki left the bucket there on purpose. Just for me? …. Nah,' Shigure shrugged.

Shigure looked up from the floor, "Hello-o? Yuki, Are you there- Oh, there you are! Hah! I couldn't see for a second, in the dimness of the room," He spotted Yuki sitting at the windowsill, looking at him curiously.

"What are you doing here, Shigure?"

Shigure looked at Yuki's attire, a blue yukata adorned with scattered snowflakes and several bright red Sweet pea flowers that sat on the left shoulder and on the bottom sleeves. The yukata was long and seemed that it would never end.

'Thank You for A Lovely Time,' Shigure raised an eyebrow, 'The meaning of a Sweet Pea flower… Now, what does he think will happen during his stay here?'

"Oh, me? Well to check on you of course! Being in this huge estate a-all alone, I just wanted to provide you company-" Yuki cut him off, "State the real reason, Shigure…"

He got up, from the floor, sat down, and positioned himself in a comfortable spot, on a close by pillow. Shigure's eyes turned serious, knowing that the information will be important to Yuki to hear.

Shigure hesitated rethinking if he should tell Yuki the news. He looked at Yuki, noting the similarity to Akito.

He nodded his head 'no', they may look the same on some grounds but Akito's fury is unmatched by no one but his mother. Yuki has a quiet demeanor and knows when to be silent, nevertheless, when he is angry is likely to shoot his enemy out of the window.

Akito is unable to do that, with his weak body. Akito has different tactic, he attacks the mind and spirit.

"Akito had wished me that I tell you… Tohru is not aloud to visit you or anyone here and that you cannot communicate with her by any means necessary,"

Yuki, accompanied with a forlorn expression, faced outside the window, where the flawless horizon and a beautiful Cherry tree's petals and leaves, softly, blew in the wind. He turned his attention back to older cousin.

"Shigure…?"

"Yes, Yuki?"

"Did you, at all, realize that today was so gorgeous…? Where it almost seems like a Heaven outside? Have you ever thought that the Sohma family may never truly recognize such a feeling because we have never felt it," he questioned in a low yet, stern voice.

"Yes… Yuki, I did see that. Where are you going with-" Yuki cut him off again, "That we never will as long as Akito haunts this poor scarred family," his voice hissed full of venom.

Shigure was silent. He knew that his reaction would be so, considering the circumstances and that perhaps he knew.

"So, Yuki… How did you know that it would come to this," Shigure question, apathetically.

"It was obvious… Although, I hoped I didn't have to hear it," Shigure nodded," I wished that I didn't have to pass on such a devastating tiding." Yuki turned his toward his older cousin," It's better than Akito discussing it with me," Shigure agreed.

"Do you know why he caged me back to the Sohma Estate, for the summer?" Akito told Shigure exactly how to reply to this question, knowing that he would be curious to as why he was there.

"…I'm not so sure myself," Yuki eyed him suspiciously, "Are you su-"

Shigure had cut off Yuki. Well, not that Yuki hadn't been cut off a thousand times before, he thought as he thought back to that stupid Student council kid.

"Well, then," referring back to his peppy-self, and getting up retreating to the slidedoors, "I should leave now, it was nice talking to you, Yuki! Sayonara!" He waves and completely scrams from Yuki's sight.

'Whew! That was a tiring discussion,' he takes out a handkerchief and wipes a few drops of sweat from his forehead. He looked to the hallway and saw Hatori in his normal attire, of the doctor he is.

"Ah! Hatori, what a coincidence that I meet you here," he opens his arms wide for a hug, knowing well, he won't oblige, "Good afternoon, Shigure. I have news to tell you, of Akito. I am sure he had told you that I would be the one to recite it to you, am I correct?"

"Oh, but of course! You know our bud Akito," He patted Hatori's shoulder and smiled, "He is always on the mark!"

oOo A/N : I wonder if anybody caught what song Shigure was singing? Well, he was singing the ending song from AzuManga Daioh! Hey, if he actually watched the anime (or read the Manga) I bet his favorite character would be either Sakaki or Kimura-sensei…. Well, Review or not! Bai-bai! (Waves)

P.S. I do not own 'Raspberry Heaven'