Another boring disclaimer: One day, after I've over-thrown all world powers and saved the world from complete and corrupt anarchy (yay anarchy) with my genius rule I will, yes in fact, own Fruits Basket and with it every last character in it's realm. I had a dream once that I won Furuba (and all the characters in a roll-a-derby tourney, but the stupid carnie-dude lost my real prize and gave me the rights to the movie Say Anything… then I woke up to the certainly dismal constellation prize of a Mickey Mouse pillow-case, and no Fruits Basket to speak of. Yeah… I have weird dreams, for full details check my lj.

As if anticipating the permission of the bell, the door jittered open.

"Oh Hana-chan, Megumi-san, hello, come in." Tohru waved her hand frantically ushering them over the welcome mat. "What a wonderful surprise!" Megumi wondered where she found the energy to have this much enthusiasm.

As Hana pulled off her black slippers she noticed Tohru wasn't wearing her usual apron. "I apologize for not calling but Megumi suggested we pay you a visit. The idea seemed entirely too delicious to delay with a telephone."

Tohru leaned down to Megumi's height (which wasn't that far) and rested a friendly hand on his arm. "Hello Megumi-san!" her face burst open with one of her priceless smiles, "I'm so happy you came for a visit. Now we can all watch Mogeta together! It'll be like our own little theater!"

"Mogeta…. Yes Saki insisted we rent that anime a little while ago on the premises that you recommended it rather highly. Sounds like a fun idea." Megumi offered the sliver if a smile (he knew it would please Tohru). She beamed back pleasantly.

Saki (as she often did) asked the question which had been burning in his mind, "Tohru, who else is here?"

Tohru turned to face her and answered brightly, "Well there's Shigure-san, Sohma-kun and Kyo-kun like usual there's also Hiro-kun, Kisa-san and Momiji shou-"

"MO-GET-A!" Momiji's sing-songy voice came bubbling over Tohru's, perfectly in sync with the doorbell.

"Momiji-kun!" Tohru called back happily. The door came sliding open as if it had wings. Momiji stood, arm extended to the sky, punctuated by a fist at the end, "Go Mogeta!" The entire front of his shirt was covered in buttons some had little chibi bunnies on them but most sported either Mogeta or Ari. Most of his bushy blonde hair was crammed into a hat that resembled Ari. "Here!" He brought down and opened his hand to reveal another button bearing a defiantly stanced Mogeta shouting at some unseen antagonist.

Tohru dipped her head in a thankful fashion, "Arigato. It's adorable! Ow!" She removed the button from where she had been attempting to pin it and inspected the growing red dot on her finger.
"Tohru! Are you alright?" Momiji moved to help but Hana got there first.

She placed Tohru's upturned hand lovingly onto hers and extracted a small first aid kit from an invisible pocket. Being around Tohru for a few years had taught her how easily Tohru's clumsy disposition collected her scrapes and cuts. She band-aided Tohru's finger gently.

Tohru ,suddenly aware that introduction were due, began speaking a little too quickly as if to make up for lost time, "Momiji-kun this is Hanajima-Megumi, Hana-chan's younger brother. Megumi-san this is Sohma-Momiji."

Megumi stepped toward Momiji with a single solemn stride and bowed. "Pleased to meet you Sohma-kun."

As they both straightened out of their bows Megumi, savoring the fact that he was at least and inch taller than Momiji, looked him straight in the eye.

Momiji's brown eyes flickered in sudden recognition. "Do you go to Inamatsu Junior High?"

"Yes." Megumi blinked in surprise. 'better memory than I thought'

"We've never met but I remember seeing you at school."

'More than likely heard rumors,' Megumi mind delivered placidly.

"One of my friends didn't think you could talk at all. I just laughed and said that-"

Momiji halted in mid-sentence and focused his big eyes past Megumi. "Kisa," and then enthusiastically added, "Guten Taug!"

"Onee-chan, it's about to start."

Megumi whirled around like half a tornado.

He stared into her delicate face for an instant before forcing himself to follow her gaze to Tohru, who now sat calmly while Saki lovingly pinned her new button just below her shoulder.

Ahhh…. Feels good to finally get this done, I a now officially a hardcore college kid (cept for the hardcore part)! dances the happy dance yeah… I've figured out why I love writing about the Hanajima pair…. While furuba has a certain amount of delicious spontaneity to it I can still quench my urge to write eloquently and frivolously at the same time YAY! Peace, love and a boston cream pie!