Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket, and I'm not following the manga.
Chapter 14: The Stirring of Rebellion?
Kyou woke up and yawned as he stretched. When he went to sit up, he found that there was a gentle weight on his chest, and looking down he saw Kagura's head resting there, a few strands of her soft brown hair were stuck to the corner of her mouth. Hearing the birds chirping it registered in his mind that it was dawn, and in that instant, he knew also that they would be looking for him, and that he shouldn't have slept through the night, but should have been walking instead.
Gently he shook the boar awake, "Kagura. Hey Kagura!"
The girl let out a tired groan as she sat up, "Mmm….Kyou?"
Standing, the cat reached out a hand to help her up, "We gotta go. They'll be looking for us. We really should have been traveling last night."
Kagura took his hand and climbed to her feet, blinking against the morning light and stifling a yawn. As soon as they had gotten their bearings, they took off towards the east, not running, but keeping a speedy pace none the less.
"You know…" Kyou said suddenly as they hurried along, hand in hand, and he noticed once again a rather distant look in Kagura's eyes, "You never explained to me, why it is you care."
Kagura sighed, looking at their hands, then at her love's crimson eyes, "Kyou…" She said softly. This was the right time to tell him, she could tell, his eyes were focused on her, and he wasn't going to accept anything less than the truth, "Kyou, when we were young…when we'd play together, and you'd hold my hand…I…believed in those hands, I believed…that they could always protect me, that…we were meant to be together."
Kyou blinked and looked away. Then looked back, with a small smile on his face, "Like you really needed me to protect you."
"In the end," Kagura said with a half hearted smile of her own, "You did protect me, didn't you?"
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"He deserved it," Haru grumbled from where he stood next to Yuki. Once more a search party was gathered at the main estate. Yuki gave Haru a sympathetic look. In honesty, he half agreed with the cow. After all, Akito had made all of their lives miserable at one time or another, "After what he's done…to Hatori, to Kisa," There was a long pause before Haru continued, "To Rin. He deserved it."
Yuki sighed, "As tempted as I am to agree, it doesn't make what Kyou did any better, or smarter."
"I never said it was smart." Haru agreed, turning his attention to the dragon who was now addressing the crowd of Soumas.
"Kyou has attacked Akito…" Hatori said, "Now, he and Kagura have run away together. For their own safety, they must be found. Though I don't believe that Kyou would harm Kagura, Akito insists that he be found…" There was a pause, "And locked away, so that no more harm may be done."
Yuki and Haru looked at each other. They knew that had these not been Akito's orders, Hatori would never have issued them. Kyou may be violent, but he wouldn't harm anyone without what he imagined to be a reasonable cause.
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As was the case before, Momiji had gone to stay with Tohru, in case Kyou tried to make some sort of contact. If that were to happen, he was supposed to contact Hatori immediately and inform him. Tohru, who had just found out what fate was to befall Kyou if he were caught, sat on the couch in tears.
"M-Momiji! How can they just lock him up?" She sobbed, "I understand that what he did was wrong, but…"
"Tohru! Don't cry! They might not catch him!" Momiji offered in an attempt to comfort his friend.
"P-poor Kyou! Oh! I wi-wish I could do something!" Tohru continued to cry, her face buried in her hands, her long hair dangling around her down turned head.
"Kyou and Kagura can run really fast!" Momiji said hopefully, still trying in vain to offer her some relief from her worries, "You've seen How fast Kyou is with Kagura chasing him, and she's fast enough to catch him almost every time! I bet their already far away."
"M-maybe you're right…b-but still…I'll never see them again!"
Momiji found that he had no answer to that, and looked away, out the window.
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Haru and Yuki walked along the edge of the forest, the search had begun. It was only a matter of time before Kyou would be found and brought back.
"Yuki" Haru said softly, "Do we really have to search for them?"
"Akito's orders." Yuki said with a sigh, "All available Souma's were to join the search. And not even just the cursed ones, he's taking this seriously."
"Well, Kyou did hurt him very badly." Haru said, "Not that I haven't thought about doing the same thing myself." He admitted as he looked at another part of the group, further down the tree line, where a girl with long black hair was half heartedly searching.
The cow let out a sigh, and Yuki looked at the girl in the distance, then at Haru, "Talk to her."
"She won't let me." He grumbled, "Yuki, I don't want to do this. I don't want to help Akito…"
"What choice do we have?" The rat replied as he checked a shallow cave between some rocks.
"We could just leave…Akito can't do this to us…if he can't find us." Haru said looking up at the sky, giving up on the search.
"And where would we go?" Yuki asked, turning to face his friend.
"Anywhere…anywhere but here."
"He'd find us, you see how much effort he's using to find Kyou and Kagura…the only way to truly get away, is if the entire family were to turn on him. And that's not about to happen."
Ok, so I know the whole hands thing isn't the real reason Kagura fell in love with Kyou, but like I said, I'm not following the Manga, so I just built of the hands comment in the anime.
