Thnx again for not killing me! Anyway this story is taking longer because I'm also focusing on my own story which is, to date, 45 computer pages! So I don't own fruits basket nor do I own sexy Haru anymore. But I do own my cosplay bitch Roxas, because I'm AXEL Muhahahaha! (Plot twist) dun dun duh!
Tohru was walking back from the grocery store with bags in hand.
"Oh I hope Yuki calmed down from this afternoon. I hate it when they fight, especially now with the relationship" she thought as she eyed the 'Get well soon' card she got for Kyo, because after the fight Kyo couldn't move a muscle and found that he had a broken leg from falling down the staircase. As she was about to turn the corner she saw a familiar black and white blob holding a multi-colored blob.
"Haru!" she yelled dropping her bags and running to him. "What happened? Why are you all cow-ish? Who's that?" she said finally pointing at Silvete.
Haru simply hushed Tohru and said "I don't know what's been up with me today" he said then motioned his head towards the worst for wear girl on his back. "But as for Silvete over here, she, and a boy at school are foreign exchange students from the states. I caught the scumbag trying to beat a nooner out of her behind the school. I got pissed; beat the shit out of him. Once he ran away I looked at her and saw the fear in her eyes and her struggling to get up, so I had to help her" he said looking at the girl's bruised face.
"You went black didn't you?"
"Yea. But how could I not? Just look at what the son-bitch' did to her." He shifted her to reveal the cut on her lip and the bruises leading down her chest where torn fabric lie. "Okay I understand. Let's just go back to the house so we can clean her up" said Tohru picking up her bags and leading him back to Shigure's. When they got to the house, thinking no one was there, they surprisingly, saw Momiji.
"What are you doing here?" asked Haru.
Flopping back his bunny ears he said "I didn't see you the rest of the day and they said you weren't at the main house so I figured you'd be here. Why are you a cow?" he finally asked, then pointed at the sleeping girl on his back.
"I'll explain la-" Poof! Tohru quickly covered her eyes and turned away. She then spotted Yuki's pajama pants on the couch and threw them towards Haru. He quickly pulled them on and looked towards the couch where Silvete had fallen to when he transformed.
Haru then proceeded to tell Momiji what had happened at school. Momiji understood, but there was something Tohru still didn't get, as per the expression on her face.
"Tohru, what is it?" asked Haru cocking his head questionably at her expression.
"Uh what exactly is a 'nooner'?" Haru looked at Momiji and they immediately fell to the floor laughing. Tohru was even more confused now.
Catching his breath, Haru said "Why don't you ask Kyo?" then Momiji laughed even louder at the idea. "Or possibly Yuki!" said Momiji in between gasps for air. "Mo, that would be classic" said Haru giving his shorter cousin a high five. Tohru still didn't understand, but seeing as she wouldn't get an answer from these hyenas, she decided she would wait until Kyo or Yuki got home. She then went upstairs to change.
"So what's her deal?" asked Momiji motioning towards the sleeping beauty on the couch. "I told you what happened" Haru said opening the first aid kit.
"Yea, but you know that the only time you turn into a cow now is if you have a lot of stress or if you're having a strong feeling. Possibly towards someone", he covered his head in fear that Haru would bop him on the head again. Momiji moved his hands from his head and looked at Haru who had his face down.
"I don't even know if I really love the girl." Momiji store him down with a 'yea right' face. "I mean I'm pretty sure I do. It's just that I keep feeling this pull to stay away from her. Like a threat of trouble" he said correcting himself and wiping the dry blood from Silvete's lips. "You sound almost like you did when Akito was around." Momiji, realizing how he said it, looked back at Haru and said "I mean that you keep thinking that all you will bring the one you like is trouble. You want to be sure she's safe, before you can be with her."
Haru raised his hand as if he were going to bring it down hard on Momiji. He, instead, hit himself on the head and said "I think your right. But you understand, right?" Momiji nodded even though he thought his cousin was just B.S.ing to hide something else.
Tohru then came down with one of her extra shirts with pink flowers and kittens. "I don't know if it will fit her right, but it's the best I can think o-"
"Bring down my black shirt from behind the bed please" said Haru almost pleading with her.
"Okay" she said then she went upstairs and found a stretched out shirt that outlined the letters 'RENT'. She grabbed it and headed downstairs. She went to hand it to Haru, but Haru drew back shaking his head.
"I think I've seen enough of a girl's pain today to realize why a boy should never try to dress a helpless girl." Tohru understood what he meant and she then sent the boys out.
"Haru, you've seen girls in their roos' before. Why get shy about it now?" asked Momiji while they sat in the guest room.
"I went black real bad today. I actually had to make myself calm down before I could look at her again. I was afraid of what I might have done to her with the fact that I like her, she was helpless and weak, not to mention that my black side, as you know, has no shame." Momiji knew how rambunctious Black Haru could be and that almost nothing could hold him off once he changed.
Momiji took a rice ball and started to head out of the room, but not before he looked at Haru and said "But what are you going to do once her exchange family comes looking for her, and who are they going to believe in the matter? The other student that has appeared as her friend who is like a perfect boy who is, unknown to them, a closet sex fiend? Or the violently disturbed punk rocker Japanese boy with a split personality?"
Haru saw Momiji go up the stairs and, as much as he wanted to throw a rock at his head, he knew he was right. 'The teachers here barely trust me, how is an overprotective exchange family going to? I can't just keep her here, and I can't just release her to that beast. What the fuck am I gonna do?' he pondered to himself.
'Ow! My head hurts. Is this a bandage on my wrist? What happened? Why am I on a couch this comfy? Why won't my knees move?' "Where am I!?" she flopped and tossed on the couch until someone heard her and tried to hold her down to calm her. She couldn't see who it was from her fright reflex making her shut her eyes, because the feeling of someone holding her down made her scared at the thought that someone was trying to control her again.
"Silvete! Silvete! Its okay, your fine now. No ones going to hurt you. Please stop flailing, you'll hurt yourself more!" said the familiar voice of the person gripping her wrists.
Silvete opened her eyes and looked up to see Haru holding down her arms. She stopped shaking, and so he let up his grip. Then, in one movement, she reached her sore arms up around his neck and hugged him as hard as she could.
"Haru, I was so scared" she whispered with tears streaming down her face. He then hugged her back, also crying, so glad that she was okay. He held her tighter and unintentionally breathed heavily on her neck which made her shiver and she also pulled him closer, like a reflex. She pulled back a bit to look into his eyes, as he did the same. She closed her eyes and started to lean towards his face, as he also did the same when suddenly…….
"HARU!!!" screamed two unison voices coming from upstairs, completely killing the moment. The soft glance from Haru's face turned to utter annoyance. Silvete saw some kind of dark, scary, spark in his eyes.
"Stay here under the blanket until I say it's okay, alright?" Silvete noticed the seriousness and rage in his voice. So she quickly jumped under the covers on the couch, a bit confused as to what she almost did.
"What the fuck do you want!?" He stormed up the stairs. There stood Yuki and Kyo with their arms crossed and a glare on their faces.
"Why is Tohru asking me what a 'nooner' is?" asked Yuki. "Also, why is she asking 'him'?!" glared Kyo.
Black Haru started to laugh menacingly. "Maybe if you told your girlfriend stuff that wasn't PG all the time, compared to what you guys do on the roof, she wouldn't have to try to ask Yuki" he snorted. Kyo's ears were sticking straight up in rage, while Yuki looked like he was ready to rip Haru's head off. Black or not.
But before the bloody battle began, Black Haru, as calmly as he could without breaking, said "Listen. There is a girl downstairs hiding under the blanket on the couch, who has been through a whole lot of bull shit today. So we will continue this fight later on, after I've taken care of her and made sure that the police won't come looking for her on a false record that I attempted to rape her, which I didn't. But the bastard who did might tell them that. So, do you understand me?"
Kyo and Yuki exchanged glances and looked back at Haru with unconvinced faces. "I'm serious! She's down there right now half scared and bruised wearing one of my old shirts." Oh, that helped his case.
"How is it that the police would go after you if you, as you say, didn't try to rape her? Yet she is on 'our' couch, in a house that 'you' stay at, wearing one of 'your' shirts, and the one you said 'tried' to, let me guess, is one of her closest friends?" said Yuki staring down Haru with an agitated look.
He had done the best he could, but no one listens. Black Haru then lashed out at Yuki, then pinned him with a hard shove against the wall. "Now listen, princess! You too pussycat!" he said pointing at Kyo. "I changed into a cow at one point today for no apparent reason. I hid in the broom closet until school let out and I changed back. Upon leaving the school, I saw the foreign exchange students from the states, the girl on the couch and the asshole she was sent here with, behind the school. I saw her shaking with fear as he was trying to have his way with her. He smacked her down, ripped her shirt, then I walked over, more black than ever. I yelled at him, swung him by his hair into the wall, and showed him I wasn't kidding when I punched the wall in, about a foot next to his head." He started to revert a bit.
"Then I saw her crying on the ground, hurt and alone. I couldn't just leave her alone in a town she didn't know. So I picked her up and brought her here to help her out, bandage her cuts, and be sure that she was okay" he said letting up hi grip on Yuki's shoulders.
"Tohru asked you what a nooner was because when I told the story to Momiji, I used the term, and I didn't feel I should tell her."
Then Kyo saw something that he thought must have been a trick of the light. He saw tears rolling down Haru's face. Kyo had no idea what to do. 'Okay he never cries. Well nor did I think he had the compassion to do so' thought Kyo.
Kyo put his hand on Haru's head and said "Look, its okay, alright? Just stop crying, it makes me feel like this is a sign of the apocalypse or something." Yuki and Haru store blankly at Kyo. Kyo didn't look up once, for fear of meeting eyes with Black Haru again. Instead, Haru threw his arms around Kyo, embracing him tightly, and spun him around.
"Put me the fuck down!" Haru obliged him and dropped him on the floor next to Yuki, who was rolling on the floor and gasping for breath with laughter.
"So glad you show some compassion, Kyo-Kyo. Don't worry, I won't tell anyone" said Haru smiling. "And neither will you princess" he said pointing at Yuki.
'Man, this stinks' thought a girl still under the covers on the couch waiting for her savior. 'He must not like me that way. If he did, why would he tell me to hide under the blanket?' she thought on.
Suddenly, she felt a tap or poke on her head. She shifted her eyesight up to see that someone was poking at her through the blanket. After a while, she got annoyed by it and pushed the blanket off of her head.
"Do you mind?!" she asked, looking utterly pissed.
"Oh, sorry" said the shy voice of a boy. "I just wanted to make sure you were okay and awake."
The girl looked at the boy, softening her gaze. Then her gaze turned almost to puzzlement.
"Momiji? What are you doing he-…? Oh, 'Sohma', duh" she said clonking herself on the head from her stupidity. "So you live here too? I mean with Haru?"
"Actually, we don't really live here."
"Huh?" she said puzzled again. "Then why are you guys here?"
"This is actually our cousin, Shigure's, house. We stay here more though because it's closer to the school and were not constricted to our main house anymore. So we will probably spend our school year here, because it's such a drag back home."
"Wow! You are so lucky that you're allowed to do something like that. I was barely able to do this exchange thing, had it not been for……" her voice trailed off as if she were about to cry. She stopped herself sternly, as no tears flowed from her eyes. 'I still owe him something, and he knows it' she thought nervously to herself.
"'Had it not been for' what?" asked Momiji.
"Oh, nothing. I kind of fazed out with that last sentence" she said not wanting to alert her new friend. "So, I hear that the Sohma family is pretty big."
"Yep! Well kind of. It just seems that way because most of the Sohma boys went to our high school. Well more in the last 2 years than any other. I mean that, last year, there were two Sohma seniors, my cousins, and 2 freshmen, me and Haru" he said like a mouthful.
Silvete didn't know how to respond to his confusing story. 'That's a pretty close family' she thought. 'A lot closer than mine is.'
As Momiji pressed on with exciting stories, Silvete listened closely with amazement.
"So what's your Chinese Zodiac Sign?" asked Momiji.
"Huh? What do you want to know that for?"
"It's kind of a thing I ask most people. I'm technically a rabbit" he said.
'Technically? Nevermind.' "I consider myself the year of the rooster, but I want to be the year of the cat. It's foolish I know, but the cat should have found a way to get back at the rat for what he did. He shouldn't have listened to the rat, he should have said 'screw you liar!' and eaten that little bastard" she said almost sounding mad.
Momiji's jaw dropped. 'Another one? It's like a punk rock Tohru. No wonder Haru likes her.'
"Nice to see your doing better, sleeping beauty" said a new face. "I'm Yuki, Haru's cousin." Behind him stood a strong looking carrot top. "Oh and this is Kyo. More short fused than most but, we deal."
"Who asked you Rat boy?!" screamed Kyo.
"It's important to know, you stupid Cat!" snapped back Yuki.
"Hey!" yelled a different voice, but it wasn't one of the Sohma boys, nor was it Silvete's own. "Don't you ever call a Cat stupid! I hate it when people refer to the cat in a derogatory way!" Silvete boomed ragingly. Everyone looked at Silvete as her chest heaved and her face glared.
"Miss Silvete, what are you yelling about?" asked Yuki feeling scared by her demon like voice. Haru then ran in after hearing her yell.
"What the hell is going on in here? Silvete, what happened?" he asked looking ready to beat someone.
"Haru, it's nothing. I just hate it when people make fun of the cat or use the word in a mean way."
'This sounds familiar' thought Haru to himself. 'Like Tohru on her period.'
Shigure soon arrived home and almost fainted in the doorway. "High school girl, High school girl. She so cute, High school girl" he sang as he skipped in the room towards his cousin. "So Yuki, who is this?" asked Shigure doing everything but wag his tail.
"This is Miss Silvete. She's a friend of Haru's from school."
"Hi. So you're the Shigure I've heard so much about. Nice place you have here 'dude'!" Shigure didn't know whether to feel insulted or complimented from the word.
"Silvete, I don't think he understands American slang. He barely understands that not all high school girls are Lolitas" joked Haru. She got the joke and started to pull the blanket closer to her, cringing with an uncomfortable feeling.
"Don't worry. He knows better than to mess with any of my friends, unless he wants a broken nose." said Haru.
"Well that makes me feel a bit better. No offence Shigure! I just think I've had it with lecherous, perverted bastards for a while" she chuckled unsurely. Kyo then smirked menacingly. "If that's the case, then why are you here with Har- Ahhhh!" His smug remark got him a one way ticket to 'Painifornia', by way of Haru's fist.
"Next time you'll go round trip" Haru said shaking his fist. Kyo nodded and clicked his jaw back into alignment.
"Did he just refer to you as a lecherous, perverted bastard?" asked Silvete looking at Haru while pointing at Kyo. "Yea" said Haru. "He likes to sound like a smartass, but he doesn't realize that when he challenges someone like that, he better be ready to back it up." "Oh, I see. I got a little nervous there for a second" she said apologetically.
Just then, Shigure cut in and suggested "Why don't we let her rest a while? I think she still needs more time alone to heal better." The rest nodded and said they would talk to her later and for her to get some well deserved time to sort out her thoughts quietly and calmly.
"Rest now, brave one" was then unexpectedly whispered in her ear as Haru then kissed her on the forehead. She looked up at him, a bit dazed from the warm breath that circulated through her ear, and smiled shyly. He too did smile and then winked as he left the room.
'Oy Christ! It's bad enough that he brought me here, not that I'm not grateful for his overly generous hospitality and strong fists. But Evon knows his name, class, and the advantage of having the 'innocent, golden boy, exchange student' façade that comes free with the option to use it to your advantage or show your true colors. Not to mention that Haru, be it true or not, has a rep in the school and his word probably won't be believed against Evon's bullshit' she thought while she closed her eyes and pretended to sleep. 'But now I've fucking fallen for him too?!'
End of 3rd chapter. I hope you like. And sry, I had major writers block again and I've been working on my Fantasy/Romance/Mystery story and I finally finished the first half which is now (Da da da da!) 48 pages! If anyone would possibly like to hear about that, ask in the reviews. 6 more for chapter 4. (That was actually unintentional)