Claustrophobia
By: KinomiShadow
Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket...
Prologue
I sat in that dark room again, hold myself a rocking back and forth. I'd done something wrong again, as usual. I had messed up big time. Akito put me in that dark room again.
"A rat like you deserves to live where the rats do," he said to me. "You are a pathetic excuse for a member of the Zodiac. You're even stupider than the cat."
I shuttered at his words. Such a bad person I must be to deserve to lurk it the cold, damp depths of darkness. Such an awful, stupid, rotten person I must be. A no good, useless rat. I sneezed a couple of times and backed up in a corner against a sleek wall. My eyes hurt from how dark it was and my chest began to hurt as I coughed. The cold always hurt my bronchial tubes; I feared another asthma attack.
I tucked my arms into my sleeves to keep warm, and I continued to rock for that was all I could do. I prayed desperately that my mother would come and rescue me soon, even though I was a burden for her. The hours passed and it got colder down there. The white of my breath was visible, it was so cold. My tears that I shed threatened to turn into ice as I shivered uncontrollably, couching the whole time.
Then Akito appeared at the door again, smirking down at me. He yanked me up hard and carried me back to the house.
"So the rat returns," everyone said to me, laughing at me and making me feel small.
I never wanted to return to the dark place, but Akito made me.
I never want to be locked up again...
