Hey everyone. How are you? I know, I know. I haven't updated in ages, but here's the next chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own a single character from fruits basket. Because if I did, I wouldn't be writing this fic. Instead, I'd be all over Kyo, Shigure, Haru, Hatori, and I'd be kicking some major Akito ass.
It had been about 15 minutes since Yuki and Hana had gotten to the top of the slope they were planning to ski down. Once Hana had gotten a few practice runs, she was actually doing pretty well, considering. She was about to go down all the way and do the entire slope. They agreed that Yuki would next to her just in case something went wrong. Theywent down, but after about 20 feet down the slope, Hana's ski got caught on something under the snow that she didn't see earlier and she couldn't dodge it in time to miss it. She began to fall forward. Seeing this, Yuki dove forward and landed underneath her. They rolled for a second before...
POOF
Hana opened her eyes and looked down at her stomach, where she saw a white rat with violet eyes looking up at her. 'No, that's impossible, but, those eye's.' "Y-Yuki?" Hana asked in disbelief, yet couldn't deny the color of the small rodents eyes. They were Yuki's.
"Yes, its me Miss Hanajima." The small rat replied to the shocked girl. "Lets go back to the cabin so that I can explain. But first-" He jumped off of her stomach. "Let me change-"
POOF
"-back"
"AaahhH!" Hana screamed turning around quickly at the sight of the nude 'prince'. He dressed quickly and told her she could turn around.
"I'll explain that too. But for now, lets head back." He said as they walked back towards the cabin.
Scene change
"I said answer the question Haru." Kyo said on the brink of killing someone.
'Uh-oh. Kyo never, ever, calls Hatsuharu by his name. I should do something.' Tohru thought as she opened the closet door to reveal herself.
"Kyo, its alright. He didn't mean it." Tohru said trying to calm him down, but failing miserably.
"How do you know? He could just be bluffing." Kyo asked not taking his eyes off of Haru, though he was surprised when he heard her voice from behind Haru.
"If he was going to give me over to Akito, he would've done so before he hid me in the closet." She was getting frantic trying to get him to calm down. She got in front of Haru and put her hands on Kyo's chest as if to keep him from attacking Haru. "Come on, lets just go to the ski lift so you can teach me how to ski alright?"
That calmed him down a little to the point where he would agree and they soon left for the mountain to which they would be skiing down.
Yuki and Hana were now headed to the place Kyo and Tohru were said to be skiing. Yuki was trying to find Tohru so that he could tell her and Kyo that Hana now knew about everything. Yuki was now thinking back about the conversation he and Hana had had about an hour ago.
-flashback-
"So Tohru is the only person so far who can know and interact with you and the rest of your family?" Hana asked after Yuki had explained the details to her.
"Yes, so far." Was his reply.
"What about relationships with someone in your family? Is she allowed to be with someone in your family?" She asked. She had been very curious about this topic when she noticed Kyo and Tohru's waves were acting all giddy recently.
"That's not really a question for me. That's a question for...someone else in the Sohma family." Yuki said getting slightly nervous at the thought of Akito. Hana noticed his nervousness and simply had to ask.
"Who must be asked my question?"
"The head of the Sohma family, Akito." Yuki said loathingly.
"From the way you say this persons name, you make him sound absolutely evil." Hana noted.
"That's because he is. He is the one who decides who gets to keep their memories and who does not." Yuki explained. (He told her about the whole memory erasing thing earlier.) "He has a bad temper as well, so you'd do yourself good to do as he says."
"So he is somewhat like Kyo?" Hana asked trying to understand what this 'Akito' person was like.
"No. Much, much worse." He replied seriously.
"Great, someone with a personality worse than Kyo's. I never thought it possible." Hana said trying to lighten the mood a little bit. She somewhat succeeded. Yuki laughed slightly at her comment.
"I know exactly what you-"
"Here's our stop Yuki." Hana said breaking Yuki out of his thoughts of the earlier conversation. "I believe they said they would be here." She said as she got up off of the ski lift as Yuki did the same.
-Earlier that same day with Tohru and Kyo at the slopes-
After only a couple of falls, Tohru was actually doing pretty well. She and Kyo had a couple of laughs and a couple of quick kisses along the way without anyone noticing. It was about 5 o'clock when Kyo pulled her to a secluded area surrounded by trees where no one could see them from the slopes. Tohru, being the curious person she was asked "Where are we going Kyo?" (Ok people, get ready because its gonna get real mushy and ooc here in a sec. Just thought I'd give you fair warning.)
"I want to ask you something and I wanted to ask you in private." He said with his right hand in his pocket, fingering something. Tohru noticed that he was looking very nervous and unsure of himself, so she took his significantly larger hand into hers and said, "Alright, what do you want to ask me?"
"Um, well...I-I wanted to ask you if you would...wear this." He said as he pulled out a silver band with a pink stone in the middle.
"Its beautiful." She breathed.
"Its not an engagement ring or anything, it's more like a promise ring." He stated.
"Kyo I would be honored to wear it." She said tenderly with tears in her eyes. She then leaned up and kissed him softly on the lips. When they pulled away, he slipped the ring on her wedding finger, not thinking about it.
"There you two are." Yuki said from the trees behind them.
"Oh, Yuki! What are you two doing out here?" Tohru asked. 'Oh no, oh no, oh no. I wonder how much he saw.' Tohru thought now feeling very nervous.
"Miss Honda, there's something...something has happened." Yuki said.
"What? What happened!" Tohru asked fearing the worst.
"When Miss Hanajima and I were skiing, we bumped into eachother and I transformed in front of her." He explained the situation.
"Oh no! Will her memories have to be erased?" Tohru asked frantically.
"I don't know, but we'll cross that bridge when we get to it." Yuki said. "I also need to tell Shigure."
"How much does she know?' Kyo asked.
"Everything. I told her everything." was Yuki's reply.
'Here it comes.' Both Yuki and Tohru thought at the same time.
"You told her EVERYTHING?" Kyo screamed making some birds in the surrounding area scatter.
"Well I wasnt' going to transform in front of her without an explanation." Yuki said matter-of-factly.
"He has a point." Tohru said. "And hey! Maybe she won't have to lose her memory."
"Thats because we won't tel Akito." Kyo said emphasizing the word 'won't'.
"So you are not going to tell the head of your family that I know your secret?" Hana asked now entering the conversation for the first time.
"Your memories aren't the thing you need to worry about right now. Just worry about what he'd do if he knew. He'd hurt you I'm sure of it." Yuki said.
"Alright, so noone is to know about this. Deal?" Kyo said to the threesome.
"You know we have to tell Shigure." Yuki said. "I'll tell him when we get back to the cabins."
"Alright, but other than him, noone Saki," Kyo turned to her. "don't tell anyone about this. Alright?" He asked. (for once)
'He is acting som different to me. I better just go along.' Hana thought to herself. "You have my word. And I don't take my word lightly."
"Alright, lets go back so I can get this conversation over with." Yuki said to the three of them.
"Right." Was Tohru's answer, therefore if was Kyo's answer as well. With that, they were off to the cabins.
The foursome arrived at the cabins around 6 o'clock and gathered around the fireplace to warm up. A few minutes later, Uo walked in.
"Hey guys, when did you all get here?" Uo asked.
"Not too long ago. Where have you been?" Tohru asked.
"I went skiing on my own.It was awesome!" Uo said, her fist up in triumph.
"Thats great! I'm glad you had fun." Tohru said from beside Kyo. The couple was sitting ahead of the group by the fire, Yuki and Hana were sitting on one of the surrounding love-seats together while drinking hot cocoa. Yuki stood when Shigure walked into the lobby where everyone was.
"Hello tohru, K-Kyo." Shigure said to the secret couple. "Ah, and hello to you as well Hanajima, Uotoni, and Yuki."
"Shigure, might I talk to you in private for a moment?" Yuki asked.
"Uh, sure." Shigure said and walked into a nearby secluded hallway.
"Shigure, Miss Hanajima knows about us." Yuki said quietly, so that if anyone was listening, they wouldn't hear what was just said. Shigure was about to change that though.
"WHAT? Are you sure?" Shigure questioned.
"That's not important right now. What are we going to do about this?" Yuki asked in all seriousness.
"I don't know, just play it out for now I guess. We'll talk about this later. I 'm guessing you don't know Akito's here-"
"He's HERE?"
"Yes, Tohru and Kyo ran into him earlier today. They were very shaken up because they thought he knew about them da-" He caught himself before he finished his sentece.
"Go ahead, I know they're a couple. You can talk about it in front of me." Yuki said to Shigure to let him know he knew about the couple seeing each other.
Too bad Yuki didn't know that Akito was behind one of the corners in the hallway he and Shigure were talking in when he spoke those words. Because when he heard this, he became enraged to the brim and ran back the way he had come. The lobby. And Tohru.
Well what do you think about that? Sorry about the cliffie. I get that all the time and I thought I'd torture you guys with one too. Make's you mad huh? It makes you wanna review and beg me to update sooner huh? Well you know what usually makes me go faster, R&R. Go on, click that little button. Do it. DO IT! Thank you!