Author's Note: Special thanks to Different Child for beta-ing this chapter. I owe you. And happy birthday sis.
Eternal Darkness
Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket.
Chapter 2:
Both young men jumped. Yuki almost hit himself for being so scared. The phone kept ringing as Kyo got up and walked over to it before answering. Meanwhile Yuki was rubbing his chest in a circular motion trying to calm himself down.
"Moshi-moshi," Kyo said as he answered the phone.
"KYO-KUN!! Thank goodness I finally got a hold of you! I was afraid that you would have been asleep by now! But you know, Shigure-nii said that you'd be here. So did Shihan!! Oh!! I have something to—" the voice on the other end started.
"Kagura." Kyo said suddenly and stopped the woman on the other end. "What do you mean by 'finally'? Did you call…earlier?"
Yuki froze at those words. Had the phone rang earlier?
"Eh? I thought you knew…" Kagura said on the other line, "I called twice already… I thought you picked up, but all I heard was static," she explained.
Both Yuki and Kyo froze. "What…do you mean…twice already?" Kyo asked in a slow manner.
"You mean…You didn't…hear," she asked in the same manner.
Even though Kyo knew that Kagura couldn't see him, he nodded. After realizing that she couldn't see the movement he quickly added a response. "I didn't hear the phone ring…" he glanced at Yuki, who was staring at the table with wide eyes, "and I don't think Yuki did either…"
"What—" she was cut off.
The phone went dead.
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A sinking feeling crept up her spine as she slowly lowered the phone that she had just been talking on. The phone had gone dead without her realizing it. She had only just noticed. How long had it been out?
Wait…she realized Kyo told her that neither he nor Yuki had heard the phone ring earlier. She blinked and nodded, agreeing with herself. When she had tried to phone them, someone had picked up before the first ring but all she heard was static.
Static…
Why was she even calling them so early? Simply because she felt that something was wrong and, of course, the first person she would call would be Kyo-kun! Who else would she have called?
She frowned, staring at the dead phone in her hand before placing it in the receiver. She groaned at the sudden sharp pain in her head that came so quickly. And as quickly as it had come, it went away just as fast. Her face turned to puzzlement but quickly changed to surprise when a sudden ring from the phone was heard.
Wait…
Did…z
…the phone…
…just…?
…ring?
It did.
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Kyo stared dumbly at the now-dead phone in his hand. "Wha…?" he asked himself as his mind finally began to process on what had happen.
Yuki too was staring at the phone with an unreadable expression. Finally he spoke, breaking the silence in the air. "K-Kyo…" he asked, stuttering at the name.
At first, Kyo seemed like he wasn't going to answer at all, but soon afterwards he finally mouthed out three words.
"Kagura's in danger!"
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They didn't know what overtook them to do such a thing. That thing being working together to save a cousin. Despite the fact that they hated each other to their very deaths… But… Did they really hate each other? Or was that just the curse?
As Yuki was putting on his jacket, Kyo tossed him Yuki's cell phone and they worked together. In a quiet manner, and in unison, as if they were twins, they left to get out the door and hurry to her house.
Though…Yuki thought as he and Kyo ran through the darken skies of the night with no light but the beam from the moon, wouldn't Kagura's mother hear of this? Wouldn't she…? Unless…!!
Yuki turned to face Kyo as he became breathless. "You… -pant- don't think that –pant- Kagura's mother…is…" he managed to stammer out as he became more and more breathless with each passing minute.
Damn this asthma thing, he shouted mentally to himself as he awaited Kyo's response.
Kyo's eyes widened and his pace became much quicker. "Let's hurry!" After Kyo saw Yuki nod, both rushed to get to their cousin's house.
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The room was dimly lit and the soft pink blanket wrapped around the frail body suddenly moved slightly as the person underneath the warmth sleepily awoke. She lifted her body into a sitting position and rubbed her eyes from sleep quite daintily.
"Kyo-kun…? Yuki-kun…" she asked herself as if she was waking up to make sure that the two males were there just in case her nightmare had been real.
After all, dreaming of the fact that they picked up a phone call from her and then rushing to Kagura's house, seemed too real to her. She yawned and stretched a bit before looking over at her desk to see the flashing red numbers telling her that it was five a.m.
It was about the time she would get up and start breakfast anyways, she thought to herself as she smiled and got up. She quickly threw the pink blanket off her and gathered the things she needed.
Soon, she was showering before climbing down the stairs with her eyes closed, happy and smiling. She hummed and opened her eyes when turning into the kitchen.
Her eyes widened with shock briefly before smiling in happiness once again.
The scene in front of her was one of the cutest things she had ever seen. Both Yuki and Kyo had fallen asleep on the couch, side-by-side, wearing pajamas.
How cute…Tohru thought as she then went into the kitchen to start breakfast.
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Yuki jerked upright, breathing heavily as though he had just had a nightmare. He lifted a hand to brush his sweaty bangs out of the way and wipe some sweat off. He sighed and leaned back into the couch…
Wait, couch?
Wasn't he at Kagura's?
He jerked up again and looked at his surroundings.
Black, okay, now open the eyes!
He tried to open his eyes again – more black…
No…No…It…couldn't possibly…be…?!
He was blind!!
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Author's Note: I am evil, I know. I kind of rushed a bit but here's the chapter. An extra treat. Heh. SPECIAL THANKS TO DIFFERENT CHILD FOR BETAING THIS!! I'll be posting the next one as soon as I can.