Nanatsu Doubutsu
Chapter Three: We All Fall Down
A/N: Uploading original back. Almost nothing changed.
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Usa-Chan: All will be clear in time, dear hoppity, all in time...Heh heh heh...
Disclaimer: I do not own Furuba! I am just completely obsessed! Do I own it? No. Do I have a strange obsession with making Kyo's life hell even though he's my favorite character? A little. Am I sure that Momiji must die? According to my dreams.
Claimer: I own the chibi! The chibi are my friends! I own my friends! I also have a mind-link with my friends. It's kinda creepy...
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"Uh...um...w-what just...happened?" Tohru stuttered in shock, blinking many times. She stared at a small rat with purple eyes standing in Yuki's clothes on the floor. Both she and the rat were staring at a pile of clothes with a lump beneath them moving around. A small kitten's head appeared and gazed at the rat. The kitten's short russet fur rustled slightly, before the kitten pounced on the rat.
"Ah!" Tohru grabbed the kitten just before its little paws touched the small rodent.
"Aw, why'd you do that? I almost had him!" the kitten closed her eyes, crossed her paws, and pouted.
"N...Neko-chan?" Tohru asked.
"What?" the kitten still refused to look at her.
"H-how...wh-what's...why are...?" Tohru seemed to be having an 'emotional overload'.
"Why did you turn into a kitten?" the rat asked in Yuki's voice.
"Because I hugged you. This goes to my advantage though..." Neko opened one eye and looked at Yuki. She then leaped out of Tohru's arms and landed gently behind Yuki. Before he could run, Neko had the scruff of his neck in her mouth.
"Huh huff gof fon!" and with that, Neko ran out the back door.
"Wait!"
"Tohru-kun, what's wrong?"
She turned to see Shigure standing behind her along with a boy a year younger then her. He had white hair that turned into black at the base of his neck. Both stared at her waiting for an answer.
"Shigure-san! Haru-san! Neko-chan—she—Yuki—" Tohru turned and ran to the backdoor she stood in the doorway and yelled into the night.
"Neko-chan! Be careful with Yuki-kun! You're bigger than he is!"
"How is little Neko-chan bigger than Yuki-kun?" Shigure asked.
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"Six little Doubutsu, jumpin' on the bed! One fell off and bumped her head! Kyo called Hatori and Hatori said: no more Doubutsu, jumpin' on the bed!"
The five children were jumping on Yuki's bed chanting in unison while Kyo lay exhausted on the floor, face down. Usagi was sitting next to him, rubbing her head and fixing her light-pink hair.
"Five little Doubutsu, jumpin' on the bed! One fell off and hit his leg! Kyo called Hatori and Hatori said: no more Doubutsu, jumpin' on the bed!"
Both Usagi and Ookami sat next to Kyo, watching their sisters and brother jump on the bed. Ookami was checking his leg to see if he hurt it too bad, though his black hair got in the way.
"Four little Doubutsu, jumpin' on the bed! One fell off and landed on Kyo! Kyo called Hatori and Hatori said: no more Doubutsu, jumpin' on the bed!"
Sakana was apologizing repeatedly to Kyo as he held his head to stop the pounding. She was pulling her ginger hair out of her face when her hand got caught. The remaining three continued to jump.
"Three little Doubutsu, jumpin' on the bed! One fell off and went out the door! Kyo called Hatori and Hatori said: no more Doubutsu, jumpin' on the bed!"
Kitsu walked back into the room in a swerved path holding her head with both hands. Her silver hair fell all over the place as she collapsed onto the floor.
"Two little Doubutsu, jumpin' on the bed! One fell off and hit the roof! Kyo called Hatori and Hatori said: no more Doubutsu, jumpin' on the bed!"
Kame was lying in the floor on his back with his legs over his head. He sat upright rubbing his back with his sea-green eyes crossed beneath his bangs.
"One little Doubutsu, jumpin' on the bed! One fell off-"
"-and hit the wall! Kyo called Hatori and Hatori said: I'm cutting my phone service so you can't call me!" The five children chanted the rest of the song as Tora went flying over their heads. They laughed as Sakana fought to free her hand from her hair and rolled on the floor.
They were oblivious to the fact that someone had been standing in the doorway since 'two little Doubutsu' staring with one scaly eyebrow raised. He stuck out his forked tongue and slithered closer to the children. Tora was the first one to notice he was there, as he wrapped his cold body around her ankle. She looked down at the snake, and screamed.
"Getitoffgetitoffgetitoffgetitoffgetitoffgetitoff!" Tora took off her small sneaker and began beating the snake with it, hopping up-and-down on one foot. She kicked out her leg and the snake was sent flying and hit Usagi in the face.
"Eeeeee! Creepycreepycreepycreepycreepy!" Usagi was waving her hands in every direction with her eyes shut tight. The snake's eyes however were wide and dilated.
Kitsu took the horror-struck snake off of her sister and curled it around her forearm. She petted the snake while a barely conscious Kyo tried to calm her down. He looked for Tora, and found her curled in a ball underneath the bed. He pulled her out, still curled up, and went downstairs with the rest of the children following him.
"What happened to you?" Hatori asked Kyo. He didn't respond and just set the ball-child next to Hatori, and collapsed on to the floor. Kitsu sat on Hatori's other side and continued to pet the snake.
Deciding he wouldn't get any answers from Kyo, Hatori turned to Kitsu since the others had all run outside.
"I heard screaming and—what did you do this time?" he asked the snake. It looked up at him with an innocent I-didn't-do-anything-but-they-nearly-killed-me look.
"You can talk. They know about the Zodiac curse."
"Curse? What curse? What's a Zodiac?"
Hatori looked at Kitsu with eyebrow raised. She looked back at him unblinkingly and said nothing. Innocent confusion occupied her face as she turned her head to the side.
"Oh! That curse! Oooo...who's he?" Kitsu looked down at the snake smiling while Hatori sweat dropped.
"My name'sssss Ayame. I'm sssssorry I ssssscared you up there. Why can't I talk normally!"
"Hello, Ayame! My name's Kitsu! And you didn't scare me. I'm not sure about Tora..." The three watched as the girl uncurled herself and slowly look around. When she saw Ayame, she pointed and screamed.
"Eeeeeeviiilllllll" she then ran out of the room and outside.
"I should go after her." Kitsu took Ayame off her arm and set him down on the table. She kissed him on the forehead (or rather, the area where his forehead would have been), and ran outside.
"Did you kill the evil-thing?" Tora and Usagi asked in unison. Kitsu shook her head and they groaned. "Shall we never be rid of thy evil-thing!"
"What evil-thing?" asked a white haired boy sitting in the grass nearby.
"The evil-thing! It's got huge evil eyes!" Usagi formed O's with her hands and put them over her own eyes.
"And fangs!" Tora put her pointer-fingers at the sides of her mouth pointing down to show fangs.
"And it slithers!" Kitsu threw herself onto the grass and dragged herself around hissing. "Hisssss name isssss Ayame, hhhisssss!" Kitsu said, still dragging herself around.
"But he was mine!" they heard someone whine.
"Not this time, Neko-chan. And if you're going to do this again, please do it in daylight; we were worried about you." Yuki said. Two figures were walking towards them; the shorter one seemed to be disfigured. When they entered the light from the house, they saw it was Shigure and Neko riding on Yuki's back.
Neko jumped down and ran to her brothers and sisters. Kitsu dragged herself over, and then leapt onto Neko, causing both to fall to the ground. The children didn't say anything and all looked at Shigure, at each other, Shigure, each other, then Shigure again.
"DOG PILE!" Kame screamed.
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It was now Friday and almost a week since the children had come. Shigure had taken them to see Akito, only to find that he was not to be bothered. So they stayed at Hatori's house instead. Kyo was relieved to hear this, and threatened that if Shigure took them to see Akito without him...well...I can't say. This story is only PG-13 after all. Let's just say they children learned a few more nifty words.
As well as everyone else within a 1/2mile radius.
Shigure, Tohru, Ookami, and Neko were all sitting at the table. Shigure was reading his newspaper, Tohru was making breakfast with her uniform already on, and Ookami and Neko were looking at the time on the VCR.
Since it was Friday, Kitsu, Tora, and Neko had asked if they could go to school with Kyo, Yuki, and Tohru. Kame and Ookami wanted to stay and investigate the forest; Sakana wanted to look through Shigure's library; Usagi wanted to stay, but she didn't say why.
When the VCR flashed 7:30am, the two children out the room laughing quietly. Shigure and Tohru smiled, otherwise ignored them. It was better to not be suspicious this time. They Sohma's had figured out which kind of laugh was which.
A quiet one like they just did was only a small surprise; like when they played Dare or Dare and every single dare was to steal an article of clothing from Yuki. Things got interesting when they ran out of shirts, pants, and socks. Luckily Yuki had woken up when Usagi was rummaging through his top drawer and fell in. Unluckily, Usagi had already grabbed a pair of 'shorts'. She still wanted to know who Joe Boxer was.
They heard shuffling upstairs and a shut. More shuffling...pause...
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"
Running...door slamming open...screaming...yelling...running...
The seven children ran down the stairs as fast as they could, eyes wide and all trying to suppress a smile. Shigure noticed that their hands were blotted with green. They ran into the room and sat next to Shigure trying to look innocent...and failing horribly.
Kyo walked in wearing his dark red pajamas and a black hooded zip-up sweatshirt with the hood up, but they could still tell he was furious. He glared at the children and they flinched underneath his murderous gaze.
Shigure raised an eyebrow at Kyo. Why was he wearing a sweatshirt with the hood up? Yuki walked in wearing a grey sweatshirt, also with the hood up. Kyo and Yuki looked at each other, and the expressions on their faces seem to lighten a little. As if they were imagining something amusing.
"Kyo-kun? Yuki-kun? Why are you wearing sweatshirts? Shouldn't you be getting ready for school?" Shigure asked them.
"Oh! I'll get your uniforms!" Yuki and Kyo's heads shot back to the children, anger replaced with fear. "I set them out to dry last night!" Fear replaced with horror.
"We didn't..." Tora said softly. From horror to relief.
"...only do that..."
Relief to horror/anger/murder.
"Uh...um...Yuki...-kun? Kyo-kun? Um..." Tohru had just walked in and was holding something behind her back. "Y-your uniforms...um..." Tohru held out two school uniforms.
Now instead of being dark blue, the uniforms were dark green. On the white hems were small dancing shamrocks. In the chest of the shirt, was a huge, glittery shamrock. Down the legs of the pants were smaller glitter-shamrocks all in a line.
"Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaa!" Shigure dropped his paper and wrapped his arms around himself as tears came to his eyes.
"It's not funny!" Kyo yelled.
"Uh...um..." Tohru was still holding the uniforms and looked like she wasn't really sure what to do.
"Hallo!" called a voice. Momiji walked into the room with Hatsuharu behind him. Both of their uniforms were still blue, but had shamrocks running down the pant legs and sleeves.
"Momiji-kun?" Tohru stared at the boy's hair.
"Yes, Tohru-kun?"
"He woke up like that." Haru said, eyeing the boy's once all-blonde hair. It now had dark-green streaks in it.
"What about you, Haru?" Kyo asked.
"I had them to, but since my hair is naturally white I just bleached it. And you?" Haru asked looking from Kyo to Yuki, who refused to look him in the eye.
"They dyed your hair too!" Shigure yelled. He then fell on his back laughing like a maniac.
"How did you dye their hair if you were here last night?" Yuki asked calmly.
The children didn't respond and just looked around the room as if they had never seen it before.
"You snuck out in the middle of the night!" Kyo roared.
"No, we didn't!" Neko said.
"We never took one step outside." Usagi said with a nod.
"Then how did you get to Momiji and Haru?" Yuki asked. Shigure was still laughing.
"Like this!" Ice began to form from the floor and surround Tora. It trapped her in a cocoon of solid ice, and then shattered. The shards of ice disappeared as soon as they touched the ground.
Tora was gone.
"Tora!"
"I'm right here!"
Everyone turned to see Tora sitting on the bottom stair smiling.
"Whee!" she ran back to the table and plopped down on Shigure's stomach. "We all went like that right inside Haru-san and Miji-san's rooms! So tech-nick-ally, we never stepped outside!" All the children smiled.
"But...how did you...?" Tohru asked.
"Magic! All of us are Casters; that's how we got your hair and clothes green!" Kame said. The children stopped smiling and looked at Kyo and Yuki.
"Are you mad?" Sakana asked quietly.
"I'm not...just-why did you do it in the first place?" Kyo asked. He was finding it was very hard to stay angry at them for long, but he was still a bit mad about his hair.
"Tradition." Kitsu said. When she received confused looks from the older people, she explained.
"Since three years ago, every St. Patrick's day we would sneak into Momma's room and turn all her clothes green. Then when we woke up, we would have green in our hair! Then last year when our Aunt and Uncle visited, we did it to them too. Now it's tradition to turn the clothes and hair of the people you care about green." Kitsu said, wrapping her arms around her knees.
"And since we can't do it to Momma this time, we did it to you." Ookami said looking at the table.
"Well, school's going to be interesting today, but this will come out, right?" Kyo asked.
"You're not mad?" they asked in unison.
"No. Now do you want to go to school with us or not, 'cuz we're going to be late." Kyo turned and left the room.
"Yay!" Kitsu ran out of the room after Kyo while Tora went to Haru, and Neko to Yuki.
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Neko and Tora were riding on the shoulders of Haru and Yuki while Kitsu was riding piggy-back style on Kyo. Both of the older boys had refused to wear their uniforms so Yuki was wearing his sweatshirt over a T-shirt with jeans, while Kyo had his sweatshirt with no shirt and cargo pants.
During their walk to school, the three girls had managed to streak their hair with lime and forest green highlights. They walked into the school and Kyo, Yuki, and Tohru went one way, while Haru and Momiji went the other.
"Don't forget to write!" Tora called down the hall.
"We won't!" Neko and Kitsu said in unison, waving as their sister escaped their view.
"Tohru-kun!"
"Hana-chan! Uo-chan!"
Tohru's two best friends, Saki Hanajima and Arisa Uotani, walked towards her with relief on their faces.
"You're late! We were beginning to—who are they?" Arisa asked, pointing to the two chibi hitchhikers.
"I'm Kitsu!"
"I'm Neko!"
"I'm six!"
"I'm five!"
"I'm psycho!"
"I'm agreeing with her!"
They laughed and jumped to the floor landing gracefully. They had already caught some attention from the students, but gained more as they chased each other around the room.
"Well..." Arisa said. "They're certainly interesting."
"Indeed. They have incredibly strange waves as well. I've never sensed anything like it before." Saki said, watching the two girls linked hands and spin around.
"I bet they're fun to have around!" Arisa said smiling.
"Yeah. Real fun. Especially when they—" Kyo stopped himself as he heard singing.
"Ring around the rosey!"
/A woman, bleeding at an accelerating rate on the floor, as a man stood above her, sword in hand. /
"Kyo? You okay?"
"Pockets full of posies!"
/The woman slowly got to her hands and knees as the man raised the sword. The woman reached out to her children and spoke a single word. /
"You look pale."
"Ashes! Ashes!"
/The men holding them back were set aflame and fell to the floor as ash. The children ran to her. /
"We all fall down!"
"Kyo!"
/The woman was struck again. He heard her speak to him, asking to protect her children. Kyo agreed and was torn away from the scene as the man swung the blade towards her neck. He heard her scream as he was shrouded in darkness. /
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A/N: And so ends another chapter. So sorry I kept you waiting! I got busy with a buncha other stuff. And writer's block. But I have a system to get over that! Bwuahaha! I'll share it with you: If you find you are stuck on a chapter/story...work on a different story! I make a story that has the same characters as the story I'm stuck on. It helps if they are the same genre. Then, you get ideas! Don't know if that helps, but thought I'd share. Please review!
Next Chapter: Powers revealed….somewhat.