Nanatsu Doubutsu
Chapter Seven: Multiple Attacks
Part One
A/N: Eep! I'm so sorry I didn't post on Halloween like I said I would! I had no time. Then school and all, but this weeks a four-day weekend so I'll try as hard as I can to post before week's end. If I don't, I will rip the pages from volume three and scribble over Kyo's face! That's how determined I am! And this is a one-half chapter. It's suspense! Well, won't keep you anymore. Prepare to ask questions, as the plot unfolds!
Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket. Furuba is the property of Natsuki Takaya.
Claimer: The characters, plot, theme, story-line, and everything that happens here are mine. I worked very hard on all of them. If you want to use them, simply ask me.
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((...I'm stuck...crap! eats two pieces of candy Sugar digesting...shiver Whoo! Hahahaha!))
"Kyon-san! Whee! Hahahahaha! Go red! Go blue! Ohmygawd...who said that? Oh! It was me! Hahahahaha! Whoooooooooooo!"
Kitsu had yet again found the candy, even though there wasn't any, and was on a sugar high.
"Whee! I'm high! Hahahahaa! Whoooo!"
"It's not even Halloween yet..." Kyo said, sweatdropping.
"Que sera sera, Kyo-kun! What ever will happen, will happen."
««Crash!»»
"Oo...sparkly!
"Even if it involves Kitsu-chan breaking into the basement and playing with active wires."
At that moment, the light throughout the house flickered on and off as a familiar 'bzzt' sound filled the air. Kyo continued to glare at Shigure. Uotani, Saki, and the other Sohmas had gone home leaving the chibi to Shigure, Yuki, and Kyo. Arisa and Saki had taken Tohru with them when they saw Kitsu running through the house screaming and completely on fire...again.
Yuki then walked into the living room with part of his clothes burnt through and Kitsu in his arms; she was unconscious.
"Ah! The Prince returns!" Shigure said, smiling dreamily, or as Kyo called it, dementedly.
"How did you know that?" Yuki and Kyo asked in unison.
"Now, now. A novelist never reveals his secrets!" Shigure said, pointing up to the ceiling and stating matter-of-factly. "Here! Let me take the sleeping gem for you, my dear Prince!"
As Shigure reached out to take the girl, Kyo snatched her from Yuki and glared at Shigure as he held her close. He still hadn't recovered from the magazines, let alone everything else.
"Mmm..."
The three looked at Kitsu as she whimpered and punched Kyo. Not that she could do much damage.
"Akito..."
The three stared as the small girl uttered the name. Her eyes suddenly opened but they were empty. Anger suddenly filled them as she glared a deadly gaze into the air.
"Let go of my Eggo, bitch!"
The three didn't seem at all surprised.
"Kitsu-chan...?" Yuki asked through a heavy sweatdrop.
She was asleep.
"Well, now we know Kitsu-chan talks in her sleep." Shigure said as he smiled sheepishly.
"Moo...hahaha...Kyonkichi-sama-san-chan-kun..." Kitsu then opened her blank ice-blue eyes and turned her head 180 degrees to face Shigure. Her eyes were wide and she spoke in a possessed voice.
"The squirrel...he will have his way with you soon enough." And with that, she rolled onto the floor with a thump and snored quite loudly.
"Even when she's sleeping she's strange." Yuki said, smiling upon the girl.
"What does she mean, 'he will have his way with you'?" Kyo asked.
"ZZZzzzZZZzzz...Mini Oreo Bite Size!"
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"Please?"
"No."
"Puh-lease?"
"No."
"Please!"
"No."
"C'mon!"
"No!"
"Pretty please!"
"No!"
"Pretty pleasey cheesy!"
"Sure."
"Really?"
"No."
"Kyooon-saaaaaaaaan!"
"No! You are not going to the fifth universal dimension to buy chimeras then go to Jupiter's counter reality to see the rabid blue monkeys alone!" Kyo yelled over his Calculus homework. Tora, Neko, and Kitsu were standing across the table from him with their hand behind their backs and using the best kitten and pup eyes they could muster.
"But we won't be alone! Miji-kun's coming with us!" Tora said, obviously thinking this would work.
"Is that supposed to make me feel better?"
"It was." Neko said, glaring at her sister. "But smart-one over here screwed it up!"
"Well, thank you. I know I'm smart but it's nice to—heeyyy..."
"Well...why don't you come too, Kyon-san? You could take a break from your homework and you wouldn't have to worry about us!" Kitsu said, smiling.
Kyo was still unconvinced as he stared blankly at them.
"Fine." The girls turned to leave. "I guess we'll just have to ask Gure-san and Yame-san to come with us."
"I'll come, just stay the hell--"
"Yay! Okay, see you in an hour! Bye now!" and with that, they were gone with a flash of ice, fire, and lightning.
"You do realize you were tricked, right?" came Yuki's voice.
"Better to be tricked by the ones you care for then the one you loath." Kyo said coldly. He shut his book, grabbed his pencil, and walked past Yuki.
It was then that Yuki realized that Kyo wasn't talking about him; that he was the one Kyo loathed. He was talking about someone else.
"Poor boy. And here I was hoping he had gotten over the whole murder thing."
Yuki turned and saw a tall man wearing a black cloak. In his hand was a long sword that still held the stain of the blood from its previous victim.
"Ah, well. It just makes it that much easier to kill my children." He said.
Yuki was horrified by what he had heard. The man noticed the lack of color in Yuki's face and smiled.
"Their powers have developed nicely, don't you think? Only a small wait left...then the spell will be lifted and Kyo will no longer be in the way. This has played out so nicely, it's a wonder nobody even realized it. And that's why you see me now. I'm here to tell you you're part in this fantastic little play of mine."
"You think this is a game?" Yuki asked though his growing rage.
"Oh, I don't think this is a game, I know it is. After all, I'm the creator of it, aren't I?"
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"Kyo! Kyo!"
He was on his knees and shaking. He had his head down with only his weak arms to hold him up as he shouted again and again.
"Kyo!"
"Yuki-kun? Yuki-kun...what's wrong?"
Yuki turned his head and saw Shigure standing in the doorway through his long bangs.
"Where's Kyo?"
"They left already. Are you alright?" Shigure asked. He walked over to Yuki and put his hand on Yuki's back.
"Should I call Haa-san?"
"No. I...it's nothing." Yuki sat upright and brushed his bangs away. He was still shaking as he stared at the spot where he had been.
"I must go to the main house to speak with Akito-san. Are you sure you're okay, Yuki-kun? You don't want to have another attack, do you? Think of what Aaya would say! He would never forgive me which inevitably lead to our separation! It pains me to even think of such a thing!" Shigure put his other hand against his forehead and cried.
Yuki looked away and though about recent events with the cries of 'My Aaya! My poor, sexy, Aaya!' in the background.
'Dammit, Kyo.'
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"You midgets ready yet?" Kyo asked as he leaned against the store wall. Tora, Neko, Kitsu, and Kame stepped out of the warp-hole with their tiny arms carrying paper bags twice their size.
"We're ready!" Kame said, one sea-green eye barely visible between the two bags.
"What the hell is all this stuff, anyway?" Kyo asked. They stepped towards the sixteen-armed man and handed him the bags. In less that a second he handed back a small glass ball to Kyo. He put the ball in his pocket and walked to a black-hole with a ticket register in front. Kyo stuffed the tickets in and he personally made sure the children went through.
"It's for Helloween!" the four children screamed as they stepped out of the white-hole.
"I really don't want to know." The after-effect wind pulled at him and sent his black shirt and cargos awry. The chibis were actually light enough to spin in mid-air.
"She soars through the air with the leastest of ease! It's chibi Kitsu on the flying monkeys! How do you like my song Kyon-sama?" Kitsu said from between her legs as she had landed upside down on her head.
"It's certainly...creative, I'll give you that."
"Sweetness!" Kitsu cried.
Kyo took Kitsu's ankle and held her up in front of him. He stared at her and she stared back. She slowly held out her finger.
"Pull my finger."
"I think I'll pass." Kyo said, dropping her.
"Wheeeee-ow! Wait, that didn't hurt! Hahahahahaa! Wait, no, never mind. That did hurt. Ah! I'm dying! Nuuuuuuuuu! Good-bye cruel, cruel, monkey world! I shall not miss you!"
Kitsu put the back of her hand on her forehead ((It's Shii-san!)) and fell to the ground. Neko and Tora looked at each other and shook their heads. Kame looked at the cube he had taken from Kyo's pocket while Kyo picked Kitsu up, who was pretending to be dead.
"C'mon." Kyo led the way down the busy marketplace to another black-hole and pushed the children in front of him as they tried to slip away. They stepped through after a walking-bat and before a pencil. The exited at an alleyway and walked down and turned left.
As they walked down the sidewalk Neko continuously poked Kitsu in the cheek.
((You know how Kame is usually quiet and shy-like? Well, remember the chapter title? Go Kame! Whoo!))
"Stop poking me!"
"I thought you were dead."
"I am!"
"Well you're pretty lively for a dead guy."
"This is my spirit talking and I'm not a guy!"
"You sure don't act like it."
"Shut up, Aura!"
"Stop calling me that!"
"Make me!"
"C'mon guys!"
"Oh, be quiet, you little brat!"
"Hey!"
"Don't call him a brat, you bitch!"
"Don't call me a bitch!"
"Go to hell!"
"Stupid people first!"
"Oh, well then after you!"
"Shut the fuck up!"
"Screw you!"
"Guys—"
"Whore!"
"C'mon."
"You don't even know what that means!"
"You guys..."
"Well neither do you, dumbass!"
"That's it! I'm gonna kick some ass!"
And so he did. Kame, who was usually quite shy, launched himself at his sisters and did indeed kick ass. Kyo was helpless to do anything as shock froze him. Kame was always the quiet one and the one who tried to calm others. And here he was, giving new meaning to 'Beat your ass down Tuesday'.
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Yuki sat in his bedroom against the wall below his window. His school things were scattered over his bed and the lights were turned off.
'You're part is to distract the poor boy so he does not suspect me.'
'And what if I refuse?'
'You don't really have a choice. You are sick for a reason.'
'Sick?'
'Yes. You've been sick your whole life; and for good reason. Allow me to explain something to you. Yours and my reality have different streams of time. Though it is against the HigherCouncil, our people may affect the lives of others from different realities. That, is why you are sick.'
Yuki stared down at the floor. Different streams of time...and his people being able to affect others lives...and him being sick...
"He made me sick...but since time works differently, he must have done it before he killed their mother. He's going to use my attacks to distract the others. But I can just tell them. No, I can't. I pass out after every attack. He's going to use that time to strike."
Yuki wrapped his arms around his knees as his room got darker still.
"But before that, Kyo needs to be out of the way. Is he going to kill Kyo too? And what about the rest of us? What about...?"
Yuki didn't have time to finish as a sudden strike of pain gripped his lungs. He fell on his side and gripped his chest. He couldn't breath.
"You midgets better behave."
"We will Kyon-sama."
Yuki could hear the voices of Kyo, Tora, Kitsu, Kame, and Neko downstairs through the beating of his stressed heart in his ears. Then he heard an explosion and screaming.
"Kyon-sama!"
Yuki forced himself to sit upright, still gripping his chest, but felt a strong hand force him back down. He heard a familiar cold voice whisper in his ear.
"Now is not your time. But it is the time of Usagi."
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A/N: Usagi! What does that guy mean! And what's with the explosion? Is the father going to strike now! Is Yuki going to be okay! Gah! You people, as well as me, will just have to find out in the second half of the chapter. That's why there aren't any review responses, 'cuz I wanna do the whole chapter. But all you people get plushies for following the adventures of the chibi. Thanks! I just can't believe that in 6.5 chapters Nanatsu will be over. That's why you should expect longer chapters. And no flaming! You knew Nanatsu had to end sometime, right? And don't worry, it won't really end! Tee hee. Please review!