OHAYOU MINNA!!! (:P)
Well another chapter in this ongoing story of a cursed family, one odd sickly sweet girl and a whole lot of things going wrong. In this exciting continuation we bring the impulsive, violent, psychotically-controlling hehe sweet and loving family member that at first sight is cute, shy and seems easy to love but after you get to know she may grait on your nerves...or not you know. Anyway so as the title suggest we still haven't reached that happy, fluffy world of cotton candy clouds and rains of gum drops and lollipops. Okay so I'm not that fruity in my writing but we're still in a slight angsty mind of view. We still have some cuteness here and there and the tension and some vistors that are unwanted, unneeded but all the willing to give their two cents...and the plot thickens. DUH! DUH! DUH! Anyway I am going to be teasing a lot and if you want to glare daggers at my screename go ahead right now its a lot of tantalising and that but it will move ahead to better things. I promise it'll get good. They won't be idiots forever. Now my story doesn't follow anything. It has excerpts from all over the anime and manga so there are some spoilers and I have excluded somethings that have happened because they wouldn't fit with my story. Its complicated and I'm probably breaking some author code by doing that but I have so much of my story written out and I really really really don't want to change all of it. SO basically this is kind of like an AU for all of you have faithfully seen the anime and read all the mangas that are currently out. Anyway we haven't seen much of the others this is the chapter where I bring them in. As much as I love Kyou and Tohru you can't write an entire fic with just two characters the whole time. Unless its like a one-shot or a really short story. Not the point Fruits Basket is made more for its relationships then action so you need people for a relationship...most of time. SO now introducing the rest of the Furuba cast. And yes Kyou is very out of character most of the time but thats because he's more than a hot-headed, temperamental jackass that the anime makes him out to be. He's very sweet on Tohru-chan and I'm just bringing out his other side more. Even thought he can be very hot-headed and temperamental...it just wouldn't be Kyou without it. I would really like a few ore reviews then what I have been getting I realize there isn't a lot to review on but maybe just a good job or nice chapter or something. You should probably just ignore my ramblings. Anywsay so we've established this is slightly AU and it's plot has yet to devolop. I do have one though I just don't know how to introduce it right now. Alot of the characters go a tad OOC please don't hurt me. Gomen nasai
Disclaimer: Never have, never can and never will, don't sue
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We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. Author Unknown
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Tohru had been lying in her bed for about an hour before she began tossing restlessly...sleep seemed to elude her and it was teasing her with half enveloping her with peaceful oblivion and then throwing her. She was aware of every cracked window that the breeze whispered through, every creak in the stairs. Tohru was quite exhausted by the multitude of events that had happened in one day, the intensity it held. She was overjoyed Kyou had awoken and that his fever had steadily dropped all day. and was slight now and he was regaining his grumpy, tough guy attitude. She just wasn't accustomed to this slow churning in her stomach whenever she saw Kyou. The racing heart, pounding pulse and sweaty palms were all so new to her. When he was gone she felt empty, and just a little bit lost, it was like everytime he left a little part of her went with him. It was on odd feeling to walk around when you're only half there, but a wonderfully, glorious feeling when that other half wandered back to her. She tossed and turned some more willing her restless mind and body to let the evasive oblivion come. Once again she felt alone, her homely bed felt so strange and huge. The familiar bed clothes that kept her warm through the brisk autumn nights felt thin and dismissive. She reached out for an anchor, a familiarity to reassure her, but all her hand felt was cold dead air. She sighed and pulled the covers tighter around her small fragile body and squeezed her eyes shut tight as though it would make everything melt away. She let her eyes relax and open and a small smile snuck upon her small mouth in reaction to the whisper of a sound she heard from the room beside her. She pushed off her Sakura blossum covers revealing her new rose pink wispy nightgown. It had short layered sleeves and flared to about mid-thigh. Tohru shivered as some of the autumn breeze swept through a crack in the door that led to her balcony. She crept silently out of her room for she did not wish to disturb the sleeping prince and the supposedly slacking author typing furiously away in the last room down the hall. She silently slid the door to the next room open and tip-toed over the threshold to stand by the side of the peaceful sleeping occupant. His bangs rested lightly between his eyes in the annoying fashion they always had, giving the boy a look of vulnerable innocence that suited his inner turmoil. His lips were parted slightly and his breath was whispy and peaceful, his chest methodically rising and fall, expanding ever so slightly when a yawn came along, the scar so obvious againist his sculpted stomach and chest causing her breath to lodge in her throat for a moment. She smiled though as the noise that had called to her escaped from the handsome young man wrapped in the peaceful oblivion she was craving. She placed a hand on his cheek and moved it to brush his bangs away. She brought her head down to his so that her lips were almost brushing his ear.
" Kyou." She whispered. She giggled as he mumbled about annoying Momiji and mumbling for Kagura to get the hell away from him. " Kyou." She whispered. " Kyou koishii."
Kyou's eyelids fluttered open and he turned his head allowing his nose to brush Tohru's cheek and met her cute petite nose before he slowly pulled away. " What is it Tohru?" He asked sitting up and letting the covers fall off what parts of his lithe muscular frame they had been hiding slip off to pool at his lap.
Tohru didn't answer for her innocent gaze had again been captured by the sight of Kyou without a shirt. She felt the warmth of the churning lava in the pit of her stomach spread until her toes curled and she was certain he could see her blush to the pale autumn moonbeams that spilled across her face. She swallowed hard wishing she could reach out and hold him. Feel his solid weight holding her petite frame back. Tohru fidgeted and began her nervous habit of clicking her thumbnails together. " I can't sleep."
Kyou chuckled a slight smile creeping across his sleepy face. " Obviously."
Tohru let a squeak of a laugh escape her too as her eyes focused on a point in space. " I...I..." She kept her cerulean eyes averted.
Kyou placed one of his hands over Tohru's hands to stop her nervous fidgeting. " Tohru look at me."
" I...I miss you Kyou-kun." Tohru said softly her gaze enthralled by his deep crimson eyes. So much said in one flash of radiant color.
Kyou raised a quizzical eyebrow at Tohru's bashful admonission.
" I want you to sleep with me."
" You want me to WHAT!"
" We've be doing it for almost a month now."
" We've been doing WHAT?!"
" When you were sick I let you sleep in my bed because yours was so hard and uncomfortable. I wanted you to rest peacefully and comfortably so you would get better quicker. For almost a month we slept together every night Kyou, I was so used to you being there with me. Now that you're awake and feeling so much better there was no reason for you to stay in my room, but my bed it feels so huge, so strange, so cold and empty. I've been tossing and turning ever so restlessly all night, because it just doesn't feel at all right without you, there beside me. Kyou...I...I want you to sleep with me tonight. I want you to be there in my bed beside me so that when I wake up I'll have something to hold onto, when I reach out for an anchor...a reassurance that you're okay." During this whole admonission Tohru had unconciously brought her head so close to his.
Kyou blinked a few times caught off guard at their close proximity. His mind began an instant rewind on all the times they were this close that day. They all end up in an almost kiss and right now he wanted to do just that, but he held himself back. Tohru wanted a protecter right now, a friend she could trust to make her feel safe. What she didn't need was the person she offered to sleep with her to 'molest her'. He would never go that far ever but Tohru was so young and naive to what reality...really was. Who knows maybe one simple kiss would scare her into never speaking to me again. I can't take that chance...I just can't lose Tohru over such petty reasons. That's why he was so hesitant to accept her offer. He loved that she trusted him enough to offer such a thing...but he wasn't quite sure he could trust himself. " I...uh...I...I don't know." Kyou said his eyelids closed a bit so he could hide the obvious want in his eyes.
Tohru looked away a sad, dejected look in her eyes. " Oh well then..." She silently stood up first she looked like she was going to drag herself out the door, then she smiled at Kyou. Tohru gently plodded around the single bed and slipped under his covers as close as she could without turning Kyou into his neko form.
" What are you doing?" Kyou hissed.
Tohru smiled brightly at him. " Since you won't sleep with me, I'll sleep with you."
Kyou growled. " Tohru go back to bed."
" I'll tell Shigure-san and Ayame-san you were purring." Tohru cooed.
Kyou's face contorted in horror. " I wasn't purring!"
" Oh but you were Kyou-kun it was so cute!" Tohru squealed.
Kyou growled again. " Fine! I'll sleep in the damn bed with you!"
Tohru giggled quietly and jumped out of Kyou's bed, grabbing his hands in hers.
Kyou reluctantly let Tohru yank him out of bed. He didn't struggle much, because for all his logical reasons not to give into her. The fact she offered him made every logical reason seem obsolite. As they stood beside her bed Tohru glanced at him and finally noticed what Kyou was wearing. " Oh my...um..." Tohru looked away with a girlish, flirty behavior.
Kyou looked down a little confused at her girlishness. He then noticed he was only wearing his black-knit boxers " Oh...I could...uh...you know..."
" Oh no thats okay." Tohru said she realized she was still holding his hand and she let go of it almost reluctantly. She then glanced sheepishly at her bed as though finally realizing what she had proposed. Not that it was naughty or indecent...it was just awkward. They set sparks off each other hot enough to envelop the sun into an eternal darkness. She looked back at Kyou who sheepishly nodded his head to her bed.
" You first its your bed after all. You should make sure you're comfortable." As Tohru gently pulled her covers back Kyou finally noticed how innocently provacative Tohru's nightgown was. How the pale pink ruffled layered sleeves accented the pale slenderness of her arms, and how the gown tightened around her tiny waist and how it billowed out into a full mid-thigh skirt. Kyou watched the skirt twirl around her long, pale, thin legs as she slid beneath her sakura blossum blanket and comforter. This would be so much easier with her old nightwear, long pants and shirt button up even...whoa wrong direction
Tohru looked up at him, her beautiful cerulean eyes shimmering with the moonlight that blanketed her room. " Kyou you can get in now."
Kyou swallowed and gave a strained and tentative nod. He walked around to the other side and slightly pulled back the top comforter, images of Tohru's nightgown flashing through his mind. ' Why does it feel like I'm taking advantage of her. I feel like a dirty old man.' As he slipped he felt Tohru snuggle herself closer leaving the thin blanket betwen them. Her back againist his chest, her body practically spooned in his. He bashfully and uncertainly draped his arm lightly over her waist.
" G'night Kyou-kun." Tohru murmered contently.
" Yea." Kyou rasped. He sighed mentally. ' Tonight was going to be a long night."
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Kyou's nose twitched as though he were going to sneeze. He just shifted himself, mumbled some unintelligable sleeptalk, buried his face deep into Tohru's rich milk chocolate brown hair and continued sleeping. His eyes soon slowly fluttered open as he felt something shift with him. He looked to see Tohru wiggling to get closer to his new position. He had a light heated blush spread across his cheeks and a small smile snuck its way onto his lips. Sometime during the night she had switched herself around. She was now lying so that she was facing him, with her head lying againist his chest and one hand beneath her head and the other resting on his chest, fingers splayed in an intimate and familiar manner. There had been nights Kyou dreamed he'd wake up lying next to her but always found them fruitless as he continued to treat her rude and distant. He'd always convinced himself that it would always be just a dream. She was so beautiful like this curled up next to him. In his mind he wished that he could wake up like this every morning. He never thought he would see the day that it would actually come true. Kyou bent his head down till his lips rested on Tohru's ear, he nuzzled his nose againist the sensitive skin. " Aishiteru Tohru-chan." He whispered. He placed a brotherly kiss on her baby soft eyelids ripe with sleep. Her watched as her eyelids fluttered until they slowly opened themselves to look up into his crimson orbs with her half asleep cerulean gems.
"Mmm." Tohru snuggled her head deeper into Kyou's chest. " Did you say something Kyou-kun?"
Kyou comtemplated telling her what he said. She was half asleep though. Perhaps she would believe him. perhaps she would just laugh like it was a joke, or maybe think it just a dream. In the end he smiled and shook his head smiling down at her. " Nothing important Tohru-chan. Sleep in today I can make breakfast."
" But...but...but Kyou-kun." Tohru yawned dazedly.
Kyou placed a finger on Tohru's lips. " Now no dirty thoughts Tohru."
" Mmm if Kyou-kun says so." Tohru whispered snuggling closer againist him.
Kyou brushed a strand of Tohru's hair off her face. " In order for that to happen you have to let me go."
Tohru's sleepy eyes flashed with what looked like disappointment but it was quickly sheilded away and she reluctantly let him go.
Kyou stood up and watched Tohru wiggle to find a comfortable spot and pulled the blankets tighter around her. He bent down and placed another brotherly kiss on Tohru's cheek and walked out into the darkened hall. He had it bad.
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Kyou checked the miso soup he had made to pass off as breakfast. He hated the stuff but it was all they really had at the moment until a trip to the market was made. He stirred it absentmindely. He still couldn't believe he spent the whole night with Tohru lying beside him...in his arms. He smiled at the fact she had seemed disappointed that he got up to make breakfast. It was one of the times he gave himself the luxury to hope that he might have a slight chance at winning her heart. It made him feel needed...like there really was a light that existed in the dark reality he grew up in...like someone finally wanted him.
" Hentai."
Kyou jumped and whipped away from the stove coming face to face with Tohru's friends, the wave freak and the Yankee.
" Nice pectorals orangey." Uo said smirking, noticing Kyou's shirtless predicament.
" What the hell are you two doing here at seven in the morning." Kyou hissed obviously restraining his irritation at the two disturbances.
" Whats with the whispering orangey." Uo said obnoixiouly.
Kyou sputtered. " Keh...heh...Tor...grrrr."
" Tohru-chan is sleeping Arisa-san we must be quiet. We would not want to wake her from her serenity." Hana said
Uo peered into the pot Kyou had been stirring when the first arrived. " Miso thought you hated that."
" I do but its all we have for breakfast right now!" Kyou said.
" Well aren't you just the cutest wittle housewife." Uo cooed obnoxiously pinching Kyou's heated cheeks.
" Grrrrrrrr." Kyou growled warningly.
" Someone's awakened." Hana said perking at the disappearence of the serene, tranquil dream aura.
" Kyou-kun." Her soft voice called from the hallway. " Ky...oh. Hello Uo-chan, Hana-chan. I...um...I didn't realize that the two of you would be stopping by this morning." She said softly casting shy glances at Kyou, who in return offered her a shy smile.
" Tohru." Hana said. " You must enlighten me to where you acquired your ensemble."
The three teenagers looked over Tohru. She was clad in her black slippers with an orange star shaped out of sequins that Kyou had gotten her for one of her White Day gift to make up for missing the first year. She wore black pants that hung slightly loose around her slim legs but snug on her hips and waist, a long sleeve black shirt, and her hair was pulled back into a low pontail by a simple black bow. It was an outfit to make Hana drool and certainly nothing they had ever seen and ever thought to see on Tohru. Needless to say though she made it look cute. Still the two girls wondered then where exaclty did she get those clothes.
" Umm...are..." Kyou said
Tohru blushed. " I hope that Kyou-kun does not mind that I have borrowed some of his clothes. I was a little chilly when I woke and I felt like wearing something loose and comfortable...and not a dress. If its a problem though..." Tohru trailed of apologetically.
" No its okay Tohru-chan." Kyou said softly. " I...I don't mind."
Uo smirked. " Well that explains why orangey doesn't have a shirt. Our little Tohru has them all naughty, naughty girl." Uo said wagging her finger in a jokingly chastising manner.
Tohru blushed " I hadn't even noticed it." She did now and she looked over him from his black slippers, to his loose matching black pants, to his shirtless chest...shirtless chest, to his collarbone, up his neck, still slightly tan from the hours of training in the heat of the sun despite his lack there of for a month, all the way to his still slightly mussed orange hair.
" Our Tohru-chan is used to half dressed men." Hana said smirking evily. " I am alarmed."
" So Tohru how did you know it was orangey here. What makes you so sure that it wasn't the Prince or the lecher?" Uo said.
" Yes Tohru-chan do tell us of your assurance in the identity of our housewife." Hana inquired.
Kyou growled in uptmost annoyance at being refered to as a housewife...like he was a kitchen wench.
Tohru's gaze was still captured by Kyou's chest as he growled she watched the play of muscles beneath his paler skin. She swallowed a bit hard and the questions sent to her by her two friends caught her off-guard. She knew because Kyou had told after he rose out of her bed which they had shared through the night. She couldn't tell Uo and Hana that though so she merely blushed speechless. " I...uhh." Tohru giggled nervously her eyes unconciously finding their way back to Kyou's chest her nervous laugh died off.
Uo caught Tohru's eyes and followed their path finding their innocent gaze attracted to orangey's bare chest. " Please tell me that the Prince at least has enough dignity to put a shirt on before he gallavants around the house." Uo said.
Kyou was losing what little control he had left very, very fast. Not noticing that fact that Tohru's eyes where curiously trained once again on the power play of muscles he had been flexing unconciously. He clenched his fist in invitation to the stir he was going to bring up. He had had just about enough of Tohru's friends but he didn't dare do anything because she would never forgive him if he were to lose control. " What the hell do you two think gives you the right to come over to my house and start insulting me."
" Now, now Kyon-kichi do not be so rude to our beautiful if slightly eccentric guests." Shigure blinked at Kyou shirtless. " Trying to deflower our Tohru-chan already I see. Starting on your seducing a little earlier today aren't we?"
" Baka Hentai! I'm not trying to deflower her! Why must you always say that!" Kyou bit out with barely controlled, barely veiled anger.
" Well." Hana said. " The evidence though completely circumatanial on my part still points to a contained conclusion.
"..."
" Huh?" Uo said.
Hana slids of the screen and reappears with a pointer and a chalkboard behind her. " Exhibit A. We come here to find Kyou cooking Miso soup without a shirt to cover his chest. Now he could have been feeling a tad over heated by the fact he had been slaving away over the hot stove, or he choose to sleep the chilly night without one and perhaps other things." Hana said giving his legs a once over also noticing Tohru's now cherry blush. " Or there where some shall we say happenings last night we are unaware of... so some may think. That would explain why Tohru was so assured that it would be Kyou who would greet her in the kitchen. Or even still perhaps it is a combonation of all three reasons that could pertain to why Kyou is parted from his shirt.
Kyou and Shigure leaned in towards Uo and Tohru. " Are you postive that she's sane?"
Hana sent Kyou a hollow glare. " I heard that cat lover."
Kyou felt Hana's waves spark through his system. " God...frigg...dammit! That hurt you psychic bitch."
" Kyou is usually up the same time as me." Tohru said quickly to defend herself. " He usually helps with breakfast."
Hana sent her a pitying glance as she continued with her evidence. " Exhibit B." She said slamming her pointer onto the chalkboard causing them all to flinch. " Tohru-chan seems almost completely unaffected by the fact that Kyou is without proper attire. Her reaction is more of the intense curiousity of an innocent teenage girl fascinated by the makeup of a male body, then that of chastising modesty. I must say our Tohru-chan has been growing and sooner or later would begin to wonder what lays under society's cloth of decency." Hana said noticing Tohru's deepening blush as she tore her eyes away from Kyou's body. " Perhaps Kyou was merely giving our Tohru-chan a release to her hidden built up curiousity. Why not Sohma-kun though or the most likely eager agreement she would meet with the lecher why the cat lover. Is there a bond between the two of you that surpass the friendship you share with the others that makes her less suseptiable to embarresment with a half dressed Kyou then if say I were to ask the hentai over here to take off his shirt." Hana said.
" Well I must say Saki if you insist." Shigure said.
Hana sent him a demonic glare. " Keep it on or you'll find your personal life making a sudden drop in productivity."
Shigure took his hand away from the sash of his kimono.
Kyou gave him a disgusted snort. " Not like he has a personal life anyway. What's there to produce." Kyou grumbled.
Hana cleared her throat to regain the attention of her makeshift pupils. " Exhibit C." She said smacking the blackboard again. " Tohru is wearing Kyou's clothing and he does not object. There is most likely an underlying intimatcy there to allow such an action. These two are obviously very familiar with each beyond that of our recognition." Hana said conclusivly.
" So." Uo drawled. " Orangey you are trying to seduce Tohru." She said poking his bare chest.
Kyou growled. " I AM NOT SEDUCING HER!"
" The evidence points againist you Kyou." Hana said. " Case closed." She whispered closing her eyes.
All the occupants of the kitchen gave Hana odd stares.
" Orangey when did anyone ever say anything about Hana being sane in the first place." Uo said.
" Point taken." Kyou said.
Hana's dark head popped between Kyou and Uo's heads. " Final judgment shall fall upon you both when the day of armaggedon comes, but until then I will make do with what I have."
" Dammit that hurt!" Kyou said. " Why didn't you shock her!" He whined obnoxiously pointing childishly at Uo.
" I must spend my day with her. You of course would not want me to put dear Tohru into a tense and awkward situation would you? Hmmm you would not want your Tohru to be left to feel uncomfortable as her two friends plot various ways to avenge the wrongs that had been done to them." Hana said accusingly.
Kyou gritted his teeth and humphed clenshing his fist at his sides. " No." He looked away. " Stupid psychic wave freak!" Kyou mumbled. He squinted his eyes open and passed a glance at Tohru who was blushing like a school girl.
" What?" He asked confused at the looks he was getting.
" Why Kyou you dirty, dirty ca...dog." Shigure said. " That's why you're so possesive of our flower."
" WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!" Kyou shouted.
" Kyou my love!"
Shigure chuckled. " And that's my que to leave." He said before scrambling down the hall to his study. " Don't break anymore doors."
Kyou's flushed face suddenlt drained of all color and his once angered eyes filled with horror. " What's today?"
" The first day of Harvest Break orangey. Why?" Uo asked.
" Oh no! She's coming for me already! Just a day of peace!" Kyou ranted. " Why can't that stupid woman ever leave me the hell alone?!"
" Actually." Tohru interjected. " Surprisingly she didn't come once to visit while you we're..." Tohru trailed of sadly. " You know..."
" Who?" Uo asked.
Kyou growled ignoring Uo. " I was dying in a coma! How the hell was I supposed to enjoy the peace that didn't exist!"
" When were you dying and who are we talking about?" Uo asked again and again she was ignored.
Tohru looked away from Kyou guiltily, mentally beating herself up for forgetting all the horrible things that had happened to Kyou. " Gomen nasai." She let her eyes mostion with tears of disappointment in herself.
" Ahh." Kyou looked guiltily at Tohru's dejected posture and the sad, guilty aversion of her eyes. He placed a hand on her shoulder and another one underneath her chin and lifted her head to face him. " I...I didn't...I'm sorr...well that is I'm..." Kyou sighed a wave of tiredness sweep across him, making him seem mature beyond his years even for a Sohma. It made it seem like suddenly he was no longer the passionate youth but elder man who had given up on life ever leading him down the right path. " I'm sorry Tohru-chan. It's not your fault and I shouldn't have yelled at you. Can you ever forgive me again for being such a jackass?" Kyou asked hesistantly.
" Of course I can." Tohru said blinking away her tears. " I'll always be there for Kyou-kun."
" You know you don't have to forgive me. You should learn to walk away from a lost cause." Kyou said.
" Kyou-kun." Tohru said. " That is a horrible thing to say. No one is a lost cause...not even stubborn you."
Kyou smiled wryly at her. " It really is pointless to pine hopes away on me. I'll just disappoint you again and worse each time. You can forgive me now but there'll be sometime were something I say or do just can't be forgiven." Or something I've done
Tohru shook her head placing her hand on top of the one that Kyou had moved from her chin to her cheek. " There won't ever be a day that Kyou will do someting that will make me abandon him. I'll be here forever Kyou. I promise." She said closing her eyes and leaning her cheek into his cupped palm.
Uo and Hana stared at the two teenagers. It was almost as if they had forgotten they had an audience. It was so obvious that they were in love with each other yet the continued to vehemnatly deny it to anyone who would dare to broach the tender subject. Though shortly after one of their denial sessions they would do something that brought back the accusations of intimacy. They watched though as Kyou so gentle with Tohru as though he were afraid she would shatter in front of his eyes, as he gazed so longingly at her. It was almost like he thought she would disappear if he would blink at that he could do nothing to get her back. Tohru so unafraid of letting herself open and vulnerable to Kyou. Her eyes closed with uptmost trust he would do nothing to harm or defile her. Leaning her face into his hand letting him know someone did care and that he had someone to trust. He did have a friend there to catch him when reality pushed him down. It was a side of Kyou that Uo had never truely seen and that she had never expected to exist in the temperamental martial artist. To Hana it was the side of Kyou she had seen but had no time to anyalaze its depth for as soon as he realized it could be seen by the outside world he hid it away again.
Kyou's ears perked at the sound of rampaging feet and Tohru would have to have been deaf to not hear it. They pulled apart just in time to go unnoticed by their new guest.
" KYOU!"
The kitchen occupants turned thier head to the cheerful outburst that came from the doorway. A beautiful brunette stood in the doorway wearing a green dress with white sleeves, black leggings and beige Kingston boots. Her brown eyes sparkled with a crazed emotion as she stared down the ginger-haired boy.
Hana nodded. " I sense there is tension in the air."
Kyou and Tohru sweatdropped. Well duh! They thought simeoultaneously. They passed a glance at each other Kyou's pleading and Tohru's questioning.
" Kyou! Why didn't you come and greet me when I called. Have you forgotten how much we mean to each other!" Kagura squealed leaping forward at him.
" I'm sorry." Kyou murmered and he lept behind Tohru. " Tohru and I were just going after breakfast. Big project due for the holidays, we have a lot of catching up to do. Looks like you can't come." Kyou spit out hurriedly as Kagura stopped dead short of knocking into Tohru and him. That would have made some major problems if Uo would happen to see him transform. It was dangerous enough that Hana found out at least she could appreciate the gravity of the situation.
For a moment Kagura's gaze was cold and calculating, an expression fit to grace Hana's dark features. Her eyes swept over Tohru's customary bright, friendly smile, Kyou cowering like a frightened child behind Tohru his hands splayed on her hips and waist, his face buried slightly into the small of her back. They seemed so familiar with each other, unafraid to explore one another. She wiped it off though and replaced it with a cheerful look again. " Silly you can't go out in public without a shirt." She giggled.
" Who said anything about them going out in public." Uo muttered slyly underneath her breath.
" Huh?" Kagura asked questioningly. She gave Tohru a once-over and squinted in recognition. " Isn't that the shirt that Kazuma-sensei gave you for your birthday last year? I know that those are your uniform pants." Kagura said. " Why is Tohru-chan wearing your clothes Kyou?"
" Finally some answers!" Uo exclaimed.
" Yes." Hana said. " In documented teenage rituals of mating..."
Kyou and Tohru blushed in shock and embaressement at the mention of such an act in the middle of a kitchen, with Kyou being only half-dressed. It invoked images...improper images that shouldn't be thought about...this early in the morning.
Kyou shrugged his eyes away shifting his face causing his nose to brush againist the sensitive small of Tohru's back.
Tohru squirmed and giggled. " Kyou-kun."
Kyou smirked.
" I mean dating...of course..." Hana corrected herself unconvincingly watching the scene unfold in front of her.
Uo waved her hand shrugging away what she knew to be one of Hana's long twisted speeches. " Bladda De Blah Blah Blah. It's like when some jackass of a football jock gives his whore of a girlfriend his letterman to wear. It's like a sign of ownership or some primative label like that. So..." Uo trailed off.
" So?"
Uo smiled. " There is some kind of a hanky-pank going on over here isn't there."
The kitchen occupants sweatdropped and had to painfully, physically restrain themselves from face-faulting to the floor. Except for Hana of course nothing ever seemed to faze her.
Hana cleared her throat. " What Arisa-san here is trying to say is that Kyou feels he has to express his claim upon our young Tohru. Allowing Tohru to wear his clothing is like a form of marking his territory letting all the other males know that she is taken and that if they were to touch her. They would be viciously mauled, burned alive and eaten. The perfect punishment for a foreigner who dares tread in the paddox of a jealous lion." Hana said. " Another mystery solved. Case closed."
Kagura stared strangely at the obnoxious tomboyish blonde and the ebony haired goth for a second. Who the hell where they and what right did they have explaining to her Kyou's and the entire male populations behavioral patterns when it came to women.Then she began to laugh. She thought that all this psycho babble was absolutely absurd. After all Tohru-chan was what she considered one of her best friends and it of course was only a matter of time before Kyou finally realized how they were meant to be together. She stopped laughing though when she saw Tohru openly gaze upon Kyou with curious searching eyes and a slight realization coloring her confusion, and Kyou blushing under four intense female stares.
" THAT'S SO STUPID!" Kyou burst out jumping away from Tohru his fingers tingling at the lack of warm skin beneath them.
Uo smiled slyly at Kyou who backed away slightly at her the spark in her eyes. " Is it now. Well allow me to renact a scene Hana and I witnessed from afar.
Hana shook her head. " We have not enough people."
Uo placed a hand on her chin, a hard thoughtful expression crossing her face. " Well we could always...after all we aren't known for our politeness." Uo said.
Hana leaned towards Uo. " Have you any ideas Arisa?"
" We could wake him." Uo said
" Oh yes I suppose that we could." Hana said dully reeling away from her contemplation with Arisa. A foreign emotion glinted in her caverness eyes. " Wake him."
" WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO TALKING ABOUT!" Kyou shouted very irrtated at the not so secret whispering.
" Shut up baka it's 7:30! People we're having wonderful dreams about a life in a quiet house free of cousins."
" Good Morning Yuki-kun." Tohru said brightly taking a step to greet Yuki when she found herself held back by Kyou.
" Me first!" Uo said grabbing the prince's hand and pushing him to where she had stood beside Hana.
Kagura, Kyou and Tohru paled as they watched an offguard Yuki still slow with the shackles of sleep plummet helplessly towards stoic, emotionless Hana. She grabbed the side of her cloak and pulled it swiftly across her body. Watching her features schooled into a stony silence as she felt Yuki's weight hit her.
" Thank you." Yuki said in a relieved broken whisper.
" It was nothing Sohma-kun." Hana said vowing to remain unaffected by how close he was. The fact that she could feel his hands on either side of her black cloak clad body, practically pinning her to the ground. Restricting the ways she could move that would prevent her from further touching of him.
" Well now that all that drama is over." Uo said completely unaffected by the events transpiring before her eyes. She grabbed Yuki and Hana's hands hositing them from the provacative position. " You two can be our leading stars in this morning production." She lead them to the kitchen wall. " Hana in your position. No...no perk up, smile, act spacey. Get into your character."
" God is punishing me." Kyou groaned.
" It can't be that bad Kyou-kun." Tohru said feigning hope that her friends would not do anything to ridiculous to prove a point.
" Knowing your friends it could be worse." Kyou said.
" Hana take your hair down." Uo said. " You have to set the mood of the scene and story."
" I think Cinderella went to her head." Kyou grumbled.
Hana glared as Uo took the simple black band, that had been holding her thick, wavy ebony hair in a low ponytail, off. " If you weren't one of my friends I'd probably mutilate you for doing that."
" Aww." Uo cooed obnoxiously. " Why so dark Hana-chan. You were in such a good mood this morning."
Hana's glare sharpened. " Do you dare mock me."
" Remind me never to piss her off." Kyou said to Tohru.
" Who are these...people?" Kagura asked.
" Now Hana remember you have to smile to win the part and fair Yuki's heart." Uo chuckled. " Hey guys I'm a poet and I didn't even know it."
The five others groaned at the lame joke. Uo pushed the corner's of Hana's lips up into a gruesome forced smile which immediatly disappeared when Uo let go. " Now Yuki you're part has to..." Uo whispered in his ear.
" Why am I doing this." Yuki asked skeptically.
" Too many questions." Uo said waving her hand and shrugging it off. " Shut up and play your part."
Uo grabbed Kagura's hand. " You and me are going to pretend to be talking about Hana over there. Okay kid."
" I'm not a..." Kagura began to protest.
" Whatever just whisper some random things to me. AND ACTION!" Uo called.
" You people are really starting to freak me out." Kagura whispered.
" Hey shut up," Uo whispered offended, " I'm bigger than you are."
" I'm older." Kagura threw back.
" Yeah well you sure don't seem like it." Uo said
" Are you insulting me." Kagura said.
" No." Uo shot back. " I was being nice."
" Yeah well you could try har...hey wait that was sarcasm."
" How nice of you to notice." Uo said
" I should hurt you." Kagura said.
" Oh I am so scared what are you gonna do pull my hair."
" Uh guys." Tohru interjected.
" WHAT!" They unisioned.
" Nevermind." She said sliding off the screen.
Hana stood their letting a smirk take refuge on her face to shut Arisa up about the smiling and also for the fact she wasn't the only one stuck in an awkward position. She watched Uo and Kagura arguing out of her periphial vision. Letting her senses reach out to touch the alertness Kyou held and the embaressement he shared with her Tohru-chan. She had just wanted to tease them the way any concerned friend would. She hadn't expected and didn't want to renact one of the widely known Kyou/Tohru moments with Sohma-kun of all people. She turned back to focus on him though when she heard Yuki's fist hit the wall above her, saw him shoot a glare at Uo and Kagura then...she saw just him.
Yuki looked down at Hana. Her eyes were so dark and unwelcoming to all who would catch their hardened gaze. Yet at times they were so open and vulnerable...so easily crushed...always so sad. Like the cloak of darkness all the light was reflected away and none was left to enter the shadowed soul. She didn't deserve the bitterness people had for what they could never comprehend...a life they didn't understand. She knew what it was like to want to have friends but to have the inability to actually attain them. She knew what it felt like to be shunned for reasons that she couldn't change. She had felt the feeling of resignation when you finally give up and lose hope. Of when you just let the waves of oblivion drown you in loneliness and apathy...and she knew what it was like to have Tohru there to believe in you.
Kyou, Tohru, Kagura, and Uo watched in confusion at the seemingly tender scene unfolding before them. Uo had said the could cut it about three minutes ago. She had felt merciful enough to let orangey walk away with some dignity. Her main reason for coming here was to annoy him and make him blush over Tohru. That goal had been accomplished the minute they stepped into the kitchen. She figured why not put the icing on the cake and show the two dweebs how exactly they looked to the outside world, maybe then Tohru would realize who exactly made her so happy. She figured Hana and Yuki would be the perfect people to do it because they would be short and to the point, but they just kept staring at each other. In all honesty it was really starting to whig her out because it was exactly the way Tohru and Kyou acted but it was Yuki and Hana participating.
" Well this is an intersting devolopment." Uo said.
Hana looked up at Yuki. When did these Sohma boys get so tall? When did he get so close that she could see the different shades Yuki's eye held. The darker shade riding around his pupil, and the lighter thistle color skimming its edges. His true eye color confined to the center of his iris. So close she could see that his face was not as flawless as previously claimed, but littered with scars from his childhood. She didn't know what she was doing this being wasn't her, whatever this power that had taken over her body. It was merely a stranger with her face. She couldn't control herself though as she watched her hand float up tracing a scar that ran under his eyes. She heard his shakey intake of breath and felt her eyes begin to grow heavy againist her will. She felt Yuki's hand reach out and she felt it sift through her thick ebony hair. She was so angry now, she hated her self with a burning passion for feeling so helpless and vulnerable to him. She squeezed her eyes shut trying to block it all out, take refuge, hidden away in the stale prison she made in the shadowy curatin of her dark mind. The same thing she always did and succeded with but now she just couldn't. She hated how a slight shiver tingled its way up her spine as Yuki's fingers brushed tenderly across the nape of her neck. She began to sigh in relief as she felt Yuki's hand leave her hair, but qucikly opened her eyes as she felt his presence almost smother her. He was pressing his forehead againist and his nose brushed hers. His violet locks a transparent curtain, his ragged breathing tickling the edge of her nose. She felt the urge to wriggle her nose to fling off the sensation but to do so would show her weakness to him, and weakness was one emotion she could not afford to be plauged by. She raised her hand and felt for the first time a pang of...regret at what she was planning to do. This spurt of emotion though only pushed her further into executing her plan. She saw Yuki freeze as though he was slightly afraid of what she may do, for a raised hand could mean anything.
SMACK!
The entire kitchen stumbled and flinched at the resounding sound of pain. Though they hadn't been quite certain what to expect...the hadn't quite expected that. Hana was never the physical type, she used her words, her blank eyes and her lifeless tone to break people down...including herself. Just now though she had drawn her hand across Yuki's pale cheek leaving a noticible shade of red.
" I...I won't apologize for what I have done." She whispered before grabbing the edge of her black cloak and whipping it around her as she walked quickly out of the kitchen.
Yuki merely stared after her lifeless rejection shading his weary violet eyes.
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So I know this chapter here really sucks and this story is really confusing but I wanted to give you guys something after you have been so patient with me. I'm trying to revamp this story but I couldn't keep track of what I changed and I what I haven't so that will have to wait but I wanted to finsh this chapter because I haven't updated in like a year. My sincerest apologies to all of you. Woohoo! Germany is making it to the World Cup semifinals. I know this is an awkward place to end a chapter and there really is more that goes along with this but I felt it was dragging out. I also know that it is highly improbable for two people to be thrown together as much as I'm throwing Kyou and Tohru together and that not all of my points make complete sense and I apologize for that too. Anyway thanks for hanging in there it does get better I promise you my miserable life it does or may I be struck with life for another thousand years. For all of you non Yuki/Hana friends this isn't really a big part of the story just a filler. I have this thing for Yuki/?someone else? keep on reading to find out. Yeah it suxs al lot but after the first couple of chapters i didnt make enough time to plan my chapters out as well so it was just whatever i wrote at the time ill probably end up rewriting the whole thing and forgive my mistake in an earlier chapter i kept putting onii-chan down when i was talking about tohru it should be onne-chan ill change it later, This isn't a yuki/hana fic