Fruits Basket: High Above The Clouds

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters in this Fanfiction except them that you do not know.


Summery: Its been 5 years since the curse was broken; Kagura Sohma An airhostess returns back to Kaibara for the Sohma New Year as she had never been back for a while… what will happen now that she does not love Kyou anymore; but is he falling for her?

Chapter Two

Kagura looked around the plane. It was rather empty, yet this was because everyone else was in First Class. The brunette looked at the people who had just boarded. Six people were seated. There was a family of four, a mother father and two sons and a woman sitting on her own. She looked to the back of the seating area to where a man sat his bright orange hair actually looked quite dull.

She blinked almost instantly as she knew this person. He didn't seem to be paying much attention… Kyou. Her hair was pulled half back behind her ears and she wore her blue airhostess uniform, would he remember her? She walked over to him and sat down on the empty seat next to him. He still didn't move.
"Well it seems you forgot to mention something on Saturday." Kagura sighed to Kyou.

His crimson eyes stared into the front of the plane but he did flinch when he had heard her voice. She sighed as she banged her head against the back of the chair.
"Do you think I want to have to walk all this way, back and forth and hurt my feet, just to be ignored?" Kagura asked not taking a single breath. One of her eyebrows jerked upwards as she placed one hand on her hip. "Because I don't think I will be." She bit her bottom lip gently as she watched him carefully…

"What do you want?" He was still looking aimlessly away from her but at least he had answered. She looked towards the family in the front. The two children were asleep.
"Good lord." She exaggerated. "I try to make conversation… you just seemed so lonely." The brunette spoke as she looked to the ground her eyes closed. "And I thought you could have done with some company." She gave a pressured sound of tears. "I guess I was wrong." She stood up whilst looking at him with a smirk. "I'll come back soon to see how you are."
"Don't bother." Kyou muttered as he closed his eyes and placed his head on the headrest.

Kagura walked towards the two children placing a pillow behind their heads. They seemed to be in quite an uncomfortable position. The mother smiled before nodding gratefully in Kagura's direction. She knew this family; they went to America nearly every four months to visit family.
"I'll be coming back to see how you are in about an hour." The father nodded to this. "If you need anything you know where the button is." Yes they did but she did gesture towards it all the same. It was then that she went towards the last flier on this part of the giant plane – the blonde woman who was looking quite nervous. Yes Kagura had seen this before she was airsick. The blonde looked to her with bright green eyes, she had her light on above her. She was trying to concentrate on her book. "Are you okay, yes?" The woman nodded.
"I could do with a drink of water…" Kagura smiled with a nod of the head.
"I'll be back soon."

It was with that that Kyou had noticed Kagura exiting towards the first class area. He closed his eyes once more trying to rest, as he hated flying. It was uncomfortable but still at least she was gone now. Her little act didn't really impress him very much. She was probably just trying to be nice. Yet he knew from experience that nice and Kagura didn't go together. She wasn't the girl he grew up with. This he knew because he remembered all the times that she hurt him… and he did meant literally, physically. It wasn't long until he had fallen asleep and Kyou was a heavy sleeper so he hadn't heard Kagura come back in with the water for the woman. Kagura only sighed when she had saw him sleeping.

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Kyou muttered something in his sleep as he actually dreamt. It was a while since he had this dream… he saw Kagura. She was the younger Kagura that he knew. Her brown hair around her shoulders and she had bright grey eyes which seemed to narrow when they saw him.
"Kyou-kun!" She nearly screamed as she hugged him. Yes she may have been around eighteen in this dream but he was still the twenty-one year old. "I've missed you!" He was surprised when the girl was then surrounded in a puff of bright grey smoke.
"Kagu-" He was cut off as he moved his hand into the smoke bubble carefully. He felt something… not the boar he expected to feel. "Kagura?" The smoke began to clear as he looked to find her still there in front of him. The difference was this Kagura was the Kagura that was with him the last few minutes before he fell into slumber. She had leant close to him to study his facial expression.

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"Oh so now you want to see me?" He focused and noticed that Kagura was sitting there in that seat next to him again. He was shocked when he had woken up but she gave a weak smile. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine." He muttered something he was lately used to saying.
"You're fine?" She asked not believing him. He seriously looked at her before nodding.
"I'm fine." He repeated with the same tone. All she done then was shrug and lean back on the chair.
"Your dinner should be coming through soon." She told him. He looked out of the window to see it was actually really bright. His orbs focused on the candy-flossed shaped clouds. She looked towards the two young boys they had just woken up. Her lips curved into a smile of sorts as she moved a strand of her hair back behind her ear.
"Kagura?" She turned to face Kyou once more. "It was a shock seeing you again." She looked confused at this. Just what time did he mean? Now or when they met on Saturday?

"Perhaps I should have talked to you…" Kyou seemed to think this was a way of apologising. "I should have said hello." She shook her head. At least he was trying at least.
"It doesn't really matter." A mutter passed her lips in a fashion, which was usually used by him. "I think we have to agree that we're both moved on." Yes he had to agree to that. "I have Lei-kun now." He didn't really understand but again Kyou hadn't known about her boyfriend. "Oh didn't Hatsuharu-chan tell you?" He agreed with a shake of the head. "I've got a boyfriend back home." Kyou seemed to be relieved. Was this because of the fact that it meant that Kagura would no longer be after him? Or could it be a pressured look of relief and he wasn't very pleased to find this out? Well Kagura wouldn't have known because she didn't look too much into it. "Are you okay?" The female asked. He seemed to be looking out into space. She shrugged her shoulders.

"I'm a little tired." Kyou muttered as he rubbed his eye. "But it doesn't matter I won't get back to sleep." Kagura made a slight pout.
"I've got to get back to the others. I'll be back with your dinner soon." And with that Kagura had left him once again.

This had given him the chance to think about how he really felt about Kagura having a boyfriend. Was he really happy with that fact? He hadn't paid much attention to her when they were teens. When she had tried to give him her heart and he just pushed it back to her. She was too clingy and pushy but when he looked at her now she had matured and had this sense of enthusiasm and optimistic-nature that could have given Tohru a run for her money… she was no longer the Kagura he detested. To be honest this was the Kagura he had met when she first started to play with him. She was carefree and happy – when she didn't get angry. But he shook his head she had moved on and he had thought he had done the same when she had disappeared for five years. He wondered though. Why did fate bring them together on this flight today? Was there a reason for it or was it simply coincidental. He didn't know but what he did know was that he'd find out soon enough.

"You seem to be quite close with that passenger." Kagura's attention was taken away from the food trays that she had been preparing for Kyou and the others. She was now looking to a female who had long black hair, which was up in a bun. You could see the bright pink highlights in her hair too. She had bright blue eyes and very pale skin, which contrasted, well with her dark hair.
"He's my cousin, Yumiko." Kagura told her as she placed the food on the trays so she could wheel them through to everyone in her department of the plane. She then looked back to Yumiko and handed her a key, which was to get the kettle from the cupboard. "You couldn't put the kettle on for me could you?" She would have to go around and ask if they would like coffee or tea after she's handed out the trays to them. At least there weren't a lot of people around on this flight so it shouldn't take that long. Kagura brushed a hand through her hair as she pushed the tray through the opening.

Kyou opened one of his blood coloured orbs to see what was happening now. He saw her at the blonde giving her the food. All that Kyou could think was yuck. He had heard tales about how disgusting airplane food was. Or was that just Shigure's opinion, and Kyou knew better than to listen to Shigure. He waited his turn, being so far up in the plane he knew he would be last.
"There you go." He heard her soft voice as she handed the two children their food. She was good with children; all the years he knew her he would have never had guessed that this would be her occupation in the long run. Kyou sat up in his hair and pulled his plastic tray down, there was the section for the food tray and a section for tea or coffee. He knew he would ask for coffee when it would come for that. He put his book on martial arts away as he looked up towards Kagura who was coming over with the cart. She placed his tray down with a smile. "Can I get you a drink or do you want to wait for the tea and coffee?" She asked him.
"I'll wait for coffee, thanks." She would have been shocked if he had thanked her when they were younger. She nodded with a wink then turned and wheeled the cart back down to where Yumiko was waiting for her.

She poured his coffee and then sat down back beside him as she decided to take a nose into his book.
"How is sensei?" She asked as she remembered all the times she had been trained by Kazuma. She knew she had only taken those classes because of Kyou but now she had no real reason for the traits she had learnt. Unless, that was, in case she was to be attacked. She should have known not to expect a reply from Kyou as he was eating. Kagura just skimmed through the book remembering most of it before realising that she had borrowed it from Kazuma when she was younger when she tried to impress Kyou.
"He's fine." Kyou spoke before taking a drink of his coffee. "Could you leave me?" So she was annoying him being so happy? Too bad for him, but she still left him. Yumiko had stopped her going through to first class by handing her the cards. They would have to rate how the flight was – how their hostesses were and such. She sighed and knew she wouldn't get a good one from Kyou but didn't care. She smiled as she had an idea.

It wasn't long after this that the plane took a land in New York and Kyou had just collected his luggage. He hadn't expected to be interrupted once more after that:
"Um… KYOU!" She yelled to him. He turned to see her there; Kagura was standing there her breathing raged. He took one look and guessed that she had run to get to him. "Goodbye." He shook his head as he turned around and waved his hand at her before walking off, looking down at his rating card and smirked. He knew exactly why he hadn't handed it back in, because turning it over and looking at it he saw it again. She had left him three numbers – her home number, her mobile number and her fax. She was really desperate to keep in contact this time. She had written above it "In case you need me". He laughed and put the card in his pocket. There was a time he would have ripped it up and threw such a thing away.