Title: Join Me In Death
Author: KyouXKagura
Summery: Verity Sohma returns to Kawaia after being in the US for 5 years and comes back with Blade. Verity happens to be Kagura Sohma's sister and she is about to find out about the curse. Whilst things start to heat up between Verity and Blade, a tragic accident happens and by watching Verity's pains and depression, Kagura learns the truth about love. Eventually a KyoXKagura love story - though seen through the Verity's story.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket or H.I.M as there will be many references to the songs in here, though just small quotations, I do own Blade and Verity, please don't sue me.


Sprawled out on his bed, the twenty one year old, known as Blade, blinked his lizard-green eyes once. He looked to his left towards the female lying sleeping on the small navy blue couch at the other side of the room. Blade was from the United States, though his companion was from Kawaia in the first place so she knew her way around. Verity was a relative of the woman who ran the hotel where they were located in at that moment. She was very well known around this part of the town. The Sohma Estate was close by but Verity had shown no intent of going to see her mother yet. A smirk curved on his luxurious red lips because Verity had decided to move slightly and fall off of the couch as she was sleeping.
"Sometimes I don't know why I agreed to come with her…" He trailed off in his masculine and charming voice. His pale skin seemed almost blue from the moonlight as he remembered that it was quite late, seeing as the plane had taken quite a while… so maybe that was why they booked into the hotel. Even though Verity could find time to sleep, Blade just couldn't.

When they first met, Verity didn't seem to like him very much… she just took one look at him and decided – probably because of his good looks – that she just didn't like him. Blade ran a hand through his black hair, usually let curled and let loose towards the wind, Blade had decided to gel it back in place (where it just touched the back of his shoulders.) He had to find some way to get some sleep, even though he did fall to slumber during the flight. Verity stood up and jumped back onto the couch. She seemed to squirm because it was uncomfortable.
"Verity, you can just take the bed, I'm not that tired." The male stated. Though Verity seemed to ignore him – or had she fallen to sleep anyway? Either way, Blade couldn't see because she wasn't facing him anymore. Verity was only seventeen but she did seem mature for her age, she said that it was something that seemed to run through her family but he didn't know. Blade sat up and off the bed as he walked over to the sofa and towered over Verity.

Blade watched the girl's black hair fall over her slightly coloured skin. Her hair was to around her elbows and she had various white streaks through it and she also always wore it up in a high ponytail. When her eyes were open, Verity had crimson blood coloured eyes. She was shorter than he was yet he didn't seem to take any pride to it as he was rather tall. Verity was easier to get close to when she was asleep because she didn't like that much company when she was awake. His question was- why did she ask him to go with her? Funnily enough he was glad she was because his band at home in the U.S. seemed to need a rest because they were playing quite a lot. They did songs from My Chemical Romance, The Rasmus and of course Verity's favourite band H.I.M. It was actually from H.I.M's lead singer, Ville Valo that Blade found inspiration in his music and also because Verity seemed to compare them a lot. Verity had never told him her favourite song so he performed as much of their songs as possible but she just seemed to like them all the same so there was never a more preferred song. Blade had the same tattoo down his arm like Ville did, mostly because he found it cool from the first time he saw the singer. Verity also had a tattoo though hers was on her right arm, at the top and was of a red heartagram which had a black background and had dark crimson thorns around it, like piercing through her own heart. One of the ways she liked to show off the joy of evil and love together.

"Blade, what are you doing?" Verity was awake and she was looking at him with one of her eyebrows raised because she was quite confused of the reason why he was looking at her. She pushed herself up and looked towards her watch: was it really that late. "Listen, can I take the bed, it has to be more comfortable than this sofa?" He felt stupid; he had just told her to take the bed, looks like she really didn't notice. He nodded as he then felt her push him aside and watched her jump on the bed and worm her way underneath the covers so she could snuggle in the warmth which he had made whilst laying there: she almost snoozed off straight away. He just looked out the window and wondered what they were going to do in the morning: he wondered what to do right at that moment. Verity would kill him if he was to go missing and she was to wake without him there… so what to do? Blade had overheard one of Verity's phone calls before she booked the room at the hotel. Either to her mother or her sister, she had said both their names – momma and Kagura… he could remember her sister being called Kagura…

'Kagura? Its Verity, I'm coming home for a while. I know, no, let me talk, what, who's Kyo, great, no, and I don't want to hear about, stop it, and listen to me, Kagura…" To be quite honest it went like that for quite a while. Verity got bored and stopped listening to Kagura completely until she had said: 'Go get momma' Then they started talking and it was quite interesting how they showed they loved each other. He had never had a good relationship with his parents, they had disowned him and threw him out the house when he was seventeen yet he lived with the rest of the band so that wasn't a problem. It was nice to know that Verity had a good relationship. He knew that she was a strong person but he didn't know how it affected her to be taken away from them… maybe he didn't want to know… all he knew that her parents divorced and she went to live with her father in the United States, where he met her.

Blade could remember how he met Verity at the age of thirteen when he was seventeen; it was just after he had settled in with the band…
"Wait a minute, Cressie…" Verity had called out to a black cat that had scurried past Blade. "Excuse me; have you seen a black cat run by?" Blade could remember the first words the young girl had asked him. Blade had pointed in the direction where 'Cressie' had run. Blade looked towards Verity.
"Would you like me to help you find her?" Verity looked grateful as she nodded almost instantly towards where the cat had gone. "What's her name? Cressie?" He had remembered her call.
"Crescent-Moon (Kagura had named her) but we all call her Cressie." Crescent-Moon huh? Well Blade made no comment, though he could have. Crescent-Moon he could remember seeing that symbol around her neck, on her collar. Blade had been the first one to spot the black cat and capture her. "Cressie, why did you run away?" She hugged the cat. After that Blade had seen Verity quite a few times. "Thank you, say, I don't even know your name…"
"It's Blade." Blade replied. There could have easily been a remark there too; Blade wasn't really a name, was it? Well Verity made none and just smiled and told him her name.


KXK: That was chapter one: an insight towards Verity and Blade. Hope you Review!