A/N: Well, I almost updated quickly (for once), but my beta decided to put off reading my fic as she is a MAJOR PROCASTINAOR! GARR! Anyway, I really liked the idea for this chapter, but I just hope it isn't too cliché (pouty face). Well, thanks for reading!

Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket or the characters in it.

CHAPTER SEVEN

Kyo rolled over lazily, the warm sun beating down on his naked back. He made a soft moaning sound, smiling, and then slowly opened one of his eyes. Suddenly, however, upon noting his surroundings, he bolted upright in his bed – or rather, Haru's. Haru slept naked next to him, sprawled across the bed and the bed sheets twisted in his legs. He was snoring softly and there was a little drool rolling out of his mouth.

Kyo rubbed his eyes and pressed the heels of his hands to his forehead. 'What if Shigure noticed I'm gone?' Kyo thought to himself. As his vision became clearer, he suddenly noticed the clock on Haru's end table – there were only ten minutes left before school started!

"Haru, wake up!" Kyo whispered excitedly, shaking his naked lover.

"Nng, mngfasxmsma," Haru muttered in his sleep as he rolled over, taking the covers with him and flipping Kyo to the ground.

"Damn it, Har, school starts in ten minutes!" Kyo cried, crawling back up to the bed and sitting on top of Haru, shaking him energetically.

"I SAID TEN MORE MINUTES!" Haru yelled, and with his eyes still closed, he swung his hand back to hit Kyo. Kyo quickly rolled off Haru and onto the floor. It was time for drastic measures…

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Kyo returned to the bedroom after sneakily scavenging the house for a few supplies. He made it back to Haru's room just before the cow's parents came out of their room. Heart racing, Kyo stared at Haru from the door, gripping a bucket in his hands. Closing his eyes and taking a deep breath, he dumped the ice onto Haru's head and ran as fast as he could out the window, shutting it behind him. Haru twitched as soon as the ice hit him, and quickly opened his eyes and jumped out of bed, looking around for the crazy bastard who dumped a bucket of ice on him. And that was when he saw Kyo standing outside his window, petrified, with a bucket in his hands.

"KYO!" Haru yelled, rushing to the window. He lifted the window open, but as he was climbing out, Kyo hit him as hard as he could in the shoulder with the bucket. Haru fell to the soft earth with a loud thud and stared dazed at the sky above him.

"School starts in five minutes," Kyo told Haru as he stepped over his cousin to get back into the bedroom.

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Kyo and Haru snuck onto the school grounds five minutes late, out of breath from running the entire way there. Kyo still had a small bruise on his forehead from the night before and Haru was rubbing his shoulder. Both had a generally disheveled appearance and looked as though they had spent the night sleeping outside. Kyo fidgeted in Haru's school uniform. Though both were about the same size, Haru's was a lot stiffer than Kyo's. He had to admit, Tohru was a miracle laundress.

"If someone asks, say I ran away from home and you just happened to run into me on your way to school," Kyo explained to Haru grumpily.

"Ay, ay," Haru said, staring with disinterest at the school.

"Oh, Kyo-kun, Hatsuharu-san, I was wondering where you two were!" Tohru smiled, waving enthusiastically at Haru and Kyo from across the hallway.

"What happened to you?" Yuki asked, looking with utter repulsion at the un-cleanliness of his cousins.

"Kyo ran…" Haru began in a practiced tone, starting to recite the lie Kyo had made him memorize on their way to school.

"And what is it to you? How exactly is this your business?" Kyo flared up, glaring at Yuki.

"This is my business because by showing up to school tardy and unrespectable in appearance, you bring disgrace to me because we happen to be cousins, not by choice, I assure you," Yuki smirked.

"Well I don't want to be related to a damn rat, either!" Kyo snarled. "And your girly face brings disgrace to me, in case you were wondering!"

"I was hardly wondering what could possibly go on in that miniscule sized brain of yours," Yuki retorted. Haru sighed tragically, abandoning his cousins to go to class.

"Hatusharu-san!" Tohru called after him. "Yuki-kun, Kyo-kun!" Tohru's head began to spin as she looked between the three, not sure what exactly to do to make the world happy again. Yuki and Kyo continued bickering, not exactly noticing her presence.

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Sometime near the end of the day, Haru found himself meandering down the hallway. Today had been rather uneventful, and though he did not particularly savor school, he dreaded going home alone.

As he bent over the water fountain to get a drink, he saw out of the corner of his eye three familiar figures in the distance. Haru stiffened, and as they approached, he could tell that they were definitely Hatori, Ayame, and Shigure. He sneakily snuck around a corner so that he could find out why they were there before the three could see him.

"And when you told me that he had gone missing, well, a light bulb just went up in my head and I told myself, 'he must be visiting his dear…'" Ayame explained, utilizing dramatic hand gestures that served absolutely no purpose.

"Aya, Aya, Aya, I feel you have embarrassed Kyo enough already, and he's not even here!" Shigure chuckled.

"Oh, dear me," Ayame sighed, making an odd gasping face. Hatori just shook his head exasperatedly.

'They're coming for Kyo!' Haru though to himself. 'No, they can't hurt him, I won't let them!'

Thus, a devious and cunning plot formed in Black Haru's young and frightening mind.

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Haru raced through the hallways, exasperated, when, alas, he spotted one of the two people he wanted to see most.

"Tohru!" Haru called. (AHA! I threw you a curveball there, didn't I? Admit it!)

"Oh, Hatsuharu-san, how are…" Tohru began her pleasantries, but Haru did not have time for this. Black Haru does not make time for pleasantries.

"Give me your uniform!" Haru demanded, tugging on the sleeve of her uniform shirt.

"Eh?" Tohru asked, confused.

"ARE YOU AN IDIOT? I NEED YOUR UNIFORM!" Haru yelled, dragging her off to the bathroom.

"Oh… okay," Tohru smiled, nodding but still more than a little confused. People in the hallway kept giving them weird looks, but Haru hardly noticed them. When he was on a mission for his kitten, nothing could stop him.

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Haru approached Kyo at the end of the day, a small bundle in his hands.

"Hey, Har, what's that?" Kyo asked, gesturing to the concealed items in Haru's hands.

"Tada!" Haru smirked, revealing Tohru's complete school uniform and a long brown wig.

"Er…" Kyo muttered, confused. "Where'd you get all this?"

"I have connections," Haru snapped. (He had gotten the wig by threatening a random girl in the drama department.)

"Okay, so why do you have all this again? Planning to build a Tohru clone?" Kyo asked, picking up the shirt.

"Close," he told Kyo elusively. 'Perfect fit,' Haru smirked to himself.

"What's going on?" Kyo asked, setting the shirt back down in Haru's arms.

"I want you to wear this," Haru told Kyo. When Kyo just stood there staring at him, he elaborated by saying, "Now."

"But… but…" Kyo sputtered, backing down the hall.

"Remember our little promise? The one where you said you'd do whatever I want?" Haru smiled, pushing the clothes towards Kyo enticingly.

"But, that's not fair!" Kyo whined.

"Life's not fair!" Haru snapped. "You'll get over it."

"But… but…" Kyo whined, realizing he was cornered. "PERVERT!"

"You're just realizing this? Now do as I say, slave boy!" Haru cackled, taking sadistic pleasure in his control over his lover.

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"Haru… I'm not coming out," Kyo whined from within the bathroom stall. Haru was leaning against the door, examining his nails and smirking.

"Come out, come out!" Haru called, and then giggled upon realizing the double meaning.

"Damn you, Har," Kyo grumbled. He shoved open the door with such strength that Haru was knocked onto the ground. Kyo strode over to Haru, fire spewing from his eyes, hands on hips, and straddled his lover.

'The skirt's even shorter on Kyo than it is on Tohru…' Haru noted dreamily, staring at Kyo's long legs.

"Kyo, I can see your panties!" Haru sniggered, looking up the short blue skirt.

"Shut up!" Kyo whined, quickly snapping his knees together. A bright blush crawled across his cheeks.

"Aw, you look just like a little school-girl virgin!" Haru smiled, sliding out from under Kyo and sitting up against the wall. "My, my, how looks can be deceiving."

Kyo narrowed his eyes, and then spun around to look critically in the mirror.

"Do you really think I look anything like Tohru?" Kyo asked, twisting a long brown strand of his wig around one of his fingers.

"Sure, why not? You're wearing the uniform, you have the hair," Haru said, circling Kyo like a hawk, stalking its prey. "The only thing is, Tohru doesn't have this ass." Haru slapped Kyo on the butt, and Kyo quickly spun around, clutching his ass.

"Don't do that!" he hissed.

"Why not?" Haru asked, moving into Kyo and wrapping his arms around Kyo's slender, feminine waist.

"Because…" Kyo whispered, blushing and averting his eyes. He wanted Haru so bad… but then he found his voice. "Because it's weird. It's like… you're hitting on Tohru."

"Do you think I could honestly ever fall for that fucking little spotless ray of virginal sunshine? Hardly," Haru scoffed. "She's better suited for a nun. Or a lesbian."

"I resent that," Kyo said, glaring at Haru. "I do like her, no matter how annoying she may be."

"You only like her because she cooks and cleans for you," Haru smirked, pressing more into Kyo.

"Haru… this is too weird…" Kyo protested, though his voice was filled with more longing than conviction.

"Fine," Haru sighed begrudgingly, letting go of Kyo snappishly. He had more important things to do, anyway. "Let's go."

"Where are we going?" Kyo asked, panicked, as Haru dragged him along by the wrist.

"Nowhere important… the supply room, the gym, the principal's office…" Haru smiled happily, imagining the exciting sexual extravaganzas that could potentially occur in the aforementioned locations.

"HAR-!" Kyo began to yell, when suddenly he stopped dead in his tracks. Just ahead, he could see a man with blonde hair, a feminine figure, and a purple coat. (Was it Tohma? NOOOO!)

"Haru, it's Ayame, and Shigure, and Hatori!" Kyo whispered nervously, frantically looking for a hallway to dart down.

"Oh… oh no!" Haru screamed over-dramatically, waving his hands in front of him.

"I know Ayame and Shigure can be really, really stupid sometimes, but not that…" Kyo began to say, but cut himself off. "Well, Hatori's not stupid!"

"This is turning out to be quite a predicament," Haru agreed.

"Haru! Tohru!" Shigure greeted upon seeing them.

"Hello, sensei," Haru greeted. Kyo just shuffled nervously in his skirt.

"My, Tohru, you've seem to shot up in just a few days!" Ayame gasped excitedly.

"Nng… yu-huh," Kyo giggled in a frighteningly high pitch voice.

"You haven't happened to see Kyo around anywhere, have you, Haru?" Shigure asked, tapping his chin impatiently.

"No, not at all!" Haru smiled.

"Nyu-huh," Kyo giggled.

"What a shame," Ayame sighed. "Ah, well, we shall be departing!" With a flourish, Ayame and Shigure departed. Hatori just walked slowly behind them, sighing.

Suddenly, a light bulb went off in Kyo's head.

"You were looking out for me, weren't you!" Kyo squealed, his girly voice still present.

"Yeah, well… shut up!" Haru snapped, turning around annoyed.

Kyo quickly followed him and grabbed onto his hand. "Thank you," he smiled. Haru didn't say anything, but he laced his fingers through Kyo's. "And here I was thinking you were being really creepy!"

"And if I was?" Haru said, glaring at Kyo.

"Sorry," Kyo mumbled. "Hey, I want to get out of this uniform! The panties are really riding up on me."

Haru let go of Kyo's hand and stared at him carefully. Finally, he decided, "You should take the wig off. You look terrible with brown hair. But keep the uniform on – I like to look at your sexy little butt in that skirt."

"You know what…!" Kyo yelled, but Haru was already walking away. "W-wait! Haru!" Kyo screamed, tearing the wig off as he raced down the hall.

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"Oh, good afternoon, Hatori-san, Ayame-san, Shigure-san," Tohru smiled politely as she walked home from school in her gym uniform.

"Hello, T…" Hatori began to reply.

"GAH! WHO IS THAT! THAT IS SOO NOT TOHRU! I JUST SAW TOHRU AND SHE DEFINITELY DID NOT LOOK LIKE THAT!" Ayame screamed.

"It's an imposter!" Shigure concurred, pointing accusingly at Tohru. Tohru just stared at them wide-eyed, utterly confused.

"Run, Aya!" Shigure screamed, grabbing Ayame and running away as fast as he could.

Hatori and Tohru stared at the two fleeing men for a little while in silence, then Hatori turned to Tohru and replied, "I am terribly sorry for the confusion." He walked away, shaking his head dejectedly.

'Do they always have to be such idiots?' Hatori thought to himself. 'Why do I still associate with them?'

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"Haru," Kyo moaned, pressed against a locker. Haru ran a hand up Kyo's thigh and under the cotton panties Haru had confiscated from Tohru.

"I told you that you would like it," Haru grinned, licking Kyo's collarbone.

"Shut up," Kyo snapped, tightening his grip on Haru's shoulders and pushing his legs higher up Haru's waist.

Haru smirked and wrapped one arm around Kyo's waist, slamming into him and locking their lips together.

Maybe he and Kyo would never be accepted as a couple by the majority of the Sohma family, but who the fuck cared? Not Black Haru, that's for sure.

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A/N: Gah! That's the end of Chapter 7. (wipes off sweat… nehe just joshing) Anyway, thanks for reading. Please leave a review, I lurve constructive criticism! Okay, so I also like compliments, but who doesn't? Gosh. (sniff)