Tohru and the Beast
By: Kinomi Shadow
Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket...
He was hideous and smelled of rotten flesh. Who could ever love some one as ugly as he? He was big and gruesome, cold and cruel. Life had been unfair to him so why should he be fair to anyone else?
Kyo, as he was called, lived alone in a great castle with only his possessions to give him comfort. His most prized possession, a rose, sat on a table in the great hall. It was that rose that was a constant reminder of how he became so ugly and so terrifying.
Why did he insult the witch, Kagura? How could he not have seen how beautiful she was behind that piggish disguise she had worn? Why was everything to him always about one's looks?
Now Kyo was the one who looked ugly. He was very frightening. What was worse was that he smelled so terrible that no matter how much he bathed the stench was still so bad that people would get sick merely by the smell of him.
Kyo always spent his evenings cursing the world and what had become of him. He had only became on the outside how he was inside. Now he was just this monster in body that he had always been in spirit.
However, as the days wore on his heart became colder, frozen and hardened by months of rejection.
Only one small ray of hope lingered for him. If someone could love him even in his True Form before the last petal on the rose fell, he would become human once more.
Of course, like I said, who could ever love someone as ugly as he?
