DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN FRUITS BASKET! D; but I do own Kiki!
Me: So guuuyss, I haven't been doing too hot, I've been diagnosed with mild depression and been labeled as suicidal, which is awesome
Kiki: No, it's not.
Me: Well, yeah, so now I'm in a loony bin, jk but I am in a boarding school for kids like myself.
Kiki: Point being they limit internet access and monitor what she writes!
Me: Yeah, and internet is a gift! For good behavior.
Kiki: UPDATES WILL BE EVERY WENDSDAY AND/OR FRIDAY !
Me: yeah, well byyye !
(/-.-)/ She's old enough to know but young enough not to say no (/-.-)/
I got out my phone, feeling the vibration in my pocket.
'Hey, it's Conner, from the food place. Is it cool if we just move it to today after school, the rehearsal? We really have nothing to do, plus we already nailed the song.' the text read.
'Yeah, no problem, and don't text me during school!' I reply, hiding my phone underneath my desk. I sat in the back of class, so the teacher hardly noticed me it's a pretty boring period, but I don't have to do much.
"Katsumi Honda? Do we have a Katsumi in this class?" the teacher asks, confused.
"Yes, that would be me." I say, getting up, as he told me to go to the staff office. I grabbed my stuff and walked out to the hallway.
The office is just down the hall right? Oh look Tohru's here too.
"Hey Tor, what's going on?"
"Well, I was in the library checking out some books and a teacher told me to come here because I have a phone call." She says, getting the phone from its holder and holding up to her ear.
"This is Tohru." Tor says, cradling the bottom half of the phone.
"Oh grandpa- hi uh, oh the renovations are done? That's great." Tohru says into the speaker with fake enthusiasm.
The renovations are done huh? My eye's drifted to the floor; they didn't know I was here. It really didn't help when I ran away either, I was basically banished from the family. Tohru had told me how she was going to move in with grandfather, I just shrugged and said 'For now we'll be together, we'll cross that bridge when we get there. Well, here we are, at that bridge.
I ran a hand through my hair and got out my phone as Tohru continued the conversation with grandfather.
'Hey, I got out of school early, want to do it now?' I text Connor, this is what I need right now, something to distract me.
'Yeah, sure just meet us at 436 Housetops (I don't know I couldn't think of anything) Avenue. We're filming there or we could pick you up from school, whichever.' He texts back quickly, I sighed then replied.
'I'll meet you guys there; I have to make a stop first.' I text, just as Tor gets off the phone with grandfather
"So the renovations are done, that's nice, you can move in with them now." I say, faking happiness for her.
"What about you? Where will you go?" Tohru asks, concerned.
"I...Already have friends that will take me in, no worries; I'll be leaving that house before you do! Heck, I'm leaving today, after school. I was just going to wait to say it, you know how I don't like goodbyes and we'll all see each other at school anyway." I lie, it sounded convincing to me, and of course Tohru. She nodded sadly, I could tell she was conflicted, but what about?
(/-.-)/ Her eyes, that's where hope lies, that's where blue skies, meet the sunrise (/-.-)/
I walked back into Tohru and my room, one last time. My bags were packed; I want to be out of here before Yuki, Kyo and Tohru come home.
"You don't have to go you know. You could stay here, we'd be glad to keep you here." Shigure says from the doorway, watching me grab the handle to the outside. I shook my head and gave him a small smile.
"Goodbye Shigure, I'll be sure to visit." I say, walking out leaving the only place since mom died, that I called home. I didn't really have loads of stuff just enough to fill a backpack and a duffle bag.
"Bye Katsumi!" Shigure yelled from the door.
"Enjoy your dinner!" I yell, not turning back. It would hurt too much.
After I got out of the woods, I called for a taxi, not hesitating when it pulled up in front of me.
"436 Housetop Avenue please, and thank you." I say, staring out the window as he started to drive.
There's so many things I want to say, but it's better this way. Knowing Kyo, he'll get mad and him being mad at me is better than feeling sad that I'm gone. Yuki will probably just go to his room and do whatever. I really had strong connections to them. Wow, I really am going soft. What happened to fuck the world, independent Kiki? Where's the Kiki who didn't care if you didn't like her, the girl that beat the shit out of a random person for being sexist? Where is she, the emotionless girl is who I need right now? The one who held no remorse when she fought, or the girl who didn't cried once since her mother died?
"You're here." The cab driver says.
"Thanks, how much do I owe you?"I say, getting out my wallet.
"Nah, it's on the house, I'm off my shift anyway. You remind me a lot of this girl I used to know, look a bit like her too. Kyoko, she was a strong one I'll tell you that, she passed away not too long ago. She had the same look in her eyes when she left her parent home. You just take care of yourself." The cab driver says, giving me a smile.
"Kyoko was my mother, thank you." I say, getting out of the car, making sure to leave $30 in the backseat, for him to find. I ran inside the house, seeing as the door was wide open.
"Don't worry everyone, your savior is here!" I yell, coming through the door. I saw Dave and Jason round the corner and smile when they saw I was here. (If you don't remember Dave is the flirt with brown hair and hazel eyes and Jason has blonde hair and blue eyes. Conner of course is the red head with green eyes and Warren has black hair and light brown eyes.)
"Hey Kiki, what's your full name?" Jason asks me randomly as we all walk to the recording room.
"Katsumi, but don't call me that." I say, shaking my head.
"How about Kat then, since we can't call you Katsumi?" Conner asks, Dave and Warren nod their heads. I shrug and roll my eyes, mumbling a 'whatever'.
"So let me hear the song, then I'll decide what dance type I want to use, then we'll work from there." I say, taking off my pea coat, revealing I was still in my uniform.
"Nice outfit didn't know you were into that kind of stuff." Dave says, laughing along with the other guys.
"Oh ha-ha, real funny, this is my school uniform okay? Gosh, I'm changing now." I say, taking of the bottom half of my uniform, showing I had shorts on under and put of a tank over the top half then slip the rest of the uniform off. I'm way too lazy to change in a different room, and it's not like they saw anything, at all.
They all sweat dropped before going to their positions.
Connor- Vocalist
Dave- Lead guitar
Warren- Bass and back up vocalist
Jason- Drums
-Linkin Park-Numb-
I'm tired of being what you want me to be
Feeling so faithless, lost under the surface
I don't know what you're expecting of me
Put under the pressure of walking in your shoes
(Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow)
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
(Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow)
I've become so numb I can't feel you there
Become so tired so much more aware
I'm becoming this all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you
Can't you see that you're smothering me?
Holding too tightly, afraid to lose control
Cause everything that you thought I would be
Has fallen apart right in front of you
Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow)
Every step that I take is another mistake to you
(Caught in the undertow just caught in the undertow)
And every second I waste is more than I can take
I've become so numb I can't feel you there
Become so tired so much more aware
I'm becoming this all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you
And I know I may end up failing too
But I know you were just like me
With someone disappointed in you
I've become so numb I can't feel you there
Become so tired so much more aware
I'm becoming this all I want to do
Is be more like me and be less like you
I've become so numb I can't feel you there
I'm tired of being what you want me to be
I've become so numb I can't feel you there
I'm tired of being what you want me to be
My eyes widened, they're amazing. But they are lacking something, ah I got it.
"You're missing a rhythmic guitarist." I say, scrunching my eyebrows together.
"Yeah, Madison bailed last second, so we're missing her. We're not sure where we'll get another person for the recording." Warren explains, smirking.
"Oh, that sucks, I'm sure you'll find someone. I'll keep an eye out too." I say, before we dived into my ideas and got it finalized.
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(The beginning was that^...It's not mine, but I liked that routine, so yeah. The link will be on my profile too)
"Don't you have to be getting home soon? It's already 11:30?" Jason asks, sipping some of his soda. So we've been done for a while now, but call me crazy, they actually are pretty cool.
"Ah, I don't live anywhere in particular anymore, my sis moved out, so I did too."I say, shrugging, They looked at me wide eyed.
"Ya can stay with us for the night; we're goin' ta head to that hotel ya' told us to go to now so go getcha stuff!" Jason says in a ridiculous accent.
"Thanks guys, I love you all!" I say, hugging them each, of course Dave ruins the moment by saying something that gets me all worrisome, though I don't show it.
"You do know we have a 2-bed room, right." Dave says, laughing when I turn a light shade of pink.
"Shut up Dave, I'm not sharing a bed with you, ever." I say, before gathering my stuff from the other room.
(/._.)/ Do you ever feel already buried deep? Six feet under screams, when no one seems to hear a thing? (/._.)/
My phone rang for the 8th time that hour, I groaned along with the guys. It was always either Kyo or Yuki calling, I don't know why they would want to call me; they probably just want information on Tohru.
"Oh my god, Kat go pick up your phone. We'll start the game over, again." Warren says, untangling himself for everyone
"Man, we can't just get though one game of Twister can we?" Dave asks, exasperated.
I walked over to my phone that had just shut off, they we're bound to call again, probab-
-No jkjkjk lololol I 3 your fucking make-up
Oh my god I love your hair. Is that a new tattoo?
Did that piercing fucking hurt? No jkjkjk lololol
Take off-
(^that's my ringer in real life it's by metric droid or something like that)
I harshly hit the talk button and put it on speaker.
"Yo, yo, yo this is Kat!" I say, walking over to the guys and sitting between Connor and Jason.
"Who's Kat? Kiki, is this you?" I heard Kyo ask from the other line. I looked over to the guys who were silently laughing.
"Yeah, this is she." I say, putting my legs across Jason's lap and resting my head on Conner's legs. So basically I'm lying across them, like a smart person.
"Where are you? Tohru says you didn't move with her to your grandfathers. Where did you go?" Kyo screams into the phone.
"Oh I see Kiki picked up the phone finally, judging by Kyo's screams." I heard Shigure say in the background.
"Yes, it does seem that way." Yuki adds he must have me on speaker because I usually can't hear all this stuff.
"I'm around, you know, chillin like a villain." I say, sighing.
"Babe, get back in bed!" Jason says in a deep voice.
"Kat, go put your pants on, or at least some underwear." Warren says, holding back laughter.
"Oh is it my turn yet? Let me just go get the condoms." Dave says loudly.
"Awe, I thought I was next." Connor says, whining.
My head exploded the end.
Just kidding, but I was super pissed.
"Who? What?" Kyo yelled into the speaker.
"Whose turn doing what?" Yuki says, in a frightened tone.
"I got to go, do some…stuff. I'll see you tomorrow at school, bye!" I say, before slamming my phone shut and getting up from the couch.
"I hate you all with the passion of a thousand suns; you will each die a horrible death, going alphabetically." I say menacingly, smiling sweetly. They all exchanged looks of horror.
"The worst is, you'll never know when it's coming, it'll be when you least expect it." I continue, going into the bathroom to change into my pajamas.
(/-)/ Baby, you're a firework! Come on show 'em what your worth! (/-)/
"Wake up!" Jason screams in my ear, I jump up at least a foot in the air and fall of the bed. After, he laid back down on the bed.
(If you're wondering it ended up going like this Warren + Conner- 1st bed Me+ Jason- 2nd bed [Jason has a girlfriend, so yeah] and Dave- couch.)
I glared harshly at him before grabbing my bag and going to the bathroom to change. After I took a shower I changed into my uniform and tied my black uneven hair up in a ponytail. Some fell to my face; I put on my eyeliner and sighed before exiting the bathroom.
"Come here after school, we don't want you wandering around." Warren says, staring intently at a coffee maker, trying to read the directions. I guess he got up when I was in the shower, Dave was also up, watching tv.
"I will, tell them I'm going to school, would you?" I say, grabbing my school bag from the chair.
"Yeah, no problem." He says, I grabbed the bag of coffee from his hand and set it up in the maker.
"It'll be ready in 4 minutes, though coffee really isn't good for you." I say, before leaving, the warm sun hitting my skin.
I started my walk to school; I'd be lying if I said it didn't feel sad not seeing them. Somehow I got accustomed to Yuki's grumbles when he's half asleep, Kyo's complaints about school and Tohru, being hyper and well…Torhu-ish. And who can go a day without Shigure's perverted innuendoes? I looked down at the sidewalk and continue to walk.
"It won't be the same." I say to myself, not noticing I was already at the school. I went inside and saw Tohru at the lockers, putting her shoes away.
"Oh, hi Katsumi! Good morning!" Tor says to me, smiling brightly.
"Hey Tor, how's grandfather and the rest?" I say, putting on my indoor shoes (I'm a bit confused on the indoor/outdoor shoe method, if anyone wants to explain to me, that'd be great) I decided to let it slide that she called me Katsumi, I hate that name.
"He's good; everyone has been treating me nicely since I moved in." She says I hear a bit of sadness in her tone.
"Yeah, grandpa was the only one against the whole 'disowning' thing, so I can't say that I doubt he's treating you well. But, if anyone gives you trouble let me know, we are sisters after all." I say, side-hugging her. I'm not really into the whole mushy scene, but I know it cheers Tohru up.
"Thank you Katsumi, have you seen Yuki yet?" she asks me, hugging me full on. After I pried her off me, we started to walk to class.
"Nah, I haven't seen him, and Kyo?" I ask her.
"Yeah, he was putting his shoes away; he left right before you came." She says, walking into the classroom. Tohru went over to talk to Uo and Hana, I went straight to my seat and turned so I'd be facing Kyo, his seats behind me.
"Hey." I say, smirking.
"Oh, hi." Kyo says quickly.
"Attention Class, take out your textbooks and turn to page 368!" the teacher hollers.
I didn't get a chance to talk to him after that, but he seemed a bit uncomfortable being near me.
~END OF THE SCHOOL DAY~
"Hey Yuki!" I say, running up beside him.
"Kiki, how are you?" he asks, politely.
"I'm fine, and yourself?" I ask, swinging my bag.
"I'm fine, if you don't mind me asking, where are you staying?" Yuki asks, and stops walking to face me.
"Oh you know, relatives, friends..." I lie; he saw straight through it and gave me a look that clearly said 'Really? That's the best you could do, now let's hear the truth.'
"I…haven't found a place yet, I slept at a hotel last night with some friends. The people you heard on the phone, and just saying I did have pants on, I wasn't sleeping with anyone, and no one was taking turns with me of anything that involves condoms or any sexual activity." I say, shaking my head at them.
"You haven't found a place to stay?" Yuki asks, shocked. I nodded, looking up at the sky.
"Why did you leave then?" He asks, baffled.
"The only reason I was there, was for Tohru. It would feel like I was invading if I stayed while she was somewhere else." I say, sighing.
"Move back in." Yuki says simply, as if he was just asking 'how are you?'
"I…can't do that, as much as I'd love to, I would be asking for too much. You already let me stay so long, and you treated me so well, I really can't ask for anything more." I say, shaking my head, Yuki started to say something but I saw a crowd of girls surrounding some people. I try to look over the girls, to no avail. But then 3 people emerge from the crowd, can you guess who?
Conner, Warren and Jason, all three running towards me, at full speed.
"Kat!" Warren wails, tackling me to the ground.
"Ow! What the fudge monkeys! Get off me!" I yell shoving him off and getting back up.
"Aren't you happy to see us?" Jason asks, faking hurt.
"No, why are you here?" I ask, brushing dirt off my uniform.
"We came to pick you up!" Conner answers, happily. These boys… I thought to myself.
"Yuki, this is Conner, Jason and Warren. Warren, Jason, and Conner, this is Yuki. These are the people I spent the night with, well and Dave. Where is Dave?" I ask, looking around. Jason pointed towards the crowd of girls.
"Where do you think?" he asks, sarcastically. I roll my eyes.
"I got to go Yuki, but tell Shigure I said hi." I say, smiling sadly before leaving with the boys, they waved bye to him.
"Bye Kiki." Yuki says, turning to walk back to my old home.
(/-.-)/ Am I a man or am I a Muppet? If I am a man, I am a Muppet of a Man (/-.-)/
"Thank you, your food will be right out!" I say, pushing up my 'nerd' glasses. Yes, I was at work, and yes it was nerd week, fun right? I have on red shorts, a plain white t-shirt, and black and red suspenders on. I also have my hair up in 2 pigtails, on either side of my head, and white vans. I hate my boss.
"Thank you." The lady says, before going back to her conversation.
I walked near the cash register, hopping over the counter. Apparently, Mori wasn't doing his job, because there were a couple people just lounging around. I took care of a couple people before my food for my tables were done. Juu took over for Mori, who was on an important phone call. I gave out the food to my tables.
"Here's your food, I'll be back in a couple." I say, placing down the dishes.
"Kiki, come over here for a minute!" Juu says from the front. I walked over, adjusting my suspenders,
"What is it, Juu? My shifts over in like 5 minutes and I'm not doing you any favors." I ask, annoyed. He rolls his eyes and nodded to the left. I follow his gesture and see Kyo, Yuki and Tohru standing there.
"Hey, you guys eating here?" I ask, confused and a bit hurt, if they were all going out to dinner, it would have been nice to get invited.
"No, we're not here to eat. We're here to bring you back home." Yuki says, warmly. I feel my eyebrows scrunch up in confusion.
"Yeah, now come on. It took us long enough to find you, first we had to track down those 4 psycho boys you were with, and then they gave us wrong information! We wondered around until Tohru remembered your work schedule!" Kyo says, obviously frustrated.
"You…both want me to move back in?" I ask, almost laughing that they wandered around for who-knows-how-long.
"Of course, if you'll come. Miss. Honda is also staying with us now, after a bit of a…spat with her family." Yuki explains, smirking at 'spat'.
(For those of you, who don't remember, Tohru's aunt had an investigator on her, so they got the report back now, and they saw she was living with 3 guys, alone. So, then her cousin called her a whore and stuff and accused her of 'shaking up' and such. Yuki and Kyo showed up, Yuki punched a guy and went all evil and they took her home, with her grandfather's permission.
Only difference in my story is that they also saw that Kiki was there and accused her of being a whore too, and a disgrace, Yuki and Kyo also heard this and didn't fully understand since they don't know about the whole disownment and run away stuff.)
I felt excitement build up inside of me, bubbling up. If happiness was liquid, it'd be oozing out of my pores. The only thing really that was stopping me from going back to Shigure's was that Tohru wasn't there, I'd feel like I'm taking advantage of them, but now. I nodded then hugged Tor tightly, since I couldn't hug them in public.
She seemed shocked for a few seconds, before she hugged me back, just as tightly.
"Of course I'll move back in!" I say, smiling at both of them.
"Good, after we did all this, you better." Kyo says, crossing his arms across his chest.
"Oh, shush Kyo. Don't you dare ruin this moment for me." I say, pushing him lightly. I saw him smirk, but of course, being the unemotional boy he is, tried to fight it. I roll my eyes before turning back to them all, after releasing Tohru from my monstrous hug.
"I'm going to go change, and then we can go, my shifts basically over anyway." I say, looking at my watch. 2 minutes early, big deal, I bet I'll still get employee of the month, for the 3th month in a row. They all nodded and sat down at the waiting booth.
I changed into my regular clothes, which at the time is white ripped jeans, converse and a black slipknot shirt. I grab my plain black sweater off the hanger in the employee room and leave, checking out and my way to the door, where they had all gotten up to wait for me.
"Let's go home." I say, smiling as we started walking. Everything was back to…well the normal that I knew, Kyo and Yuki started to argue and Tohru gave me worried looks once in a while when I laughed at the stupid insults they came up with. All and all, it may not be the ideal home for most people, but it was definitely mine, and I wouldn't trade it for the world. Oh god, I'm turning into Tohru…
(/.-.)/ Baby let me love you down. There's so many ways to love ya. Baby I can break you down (/.-.)/
REVIEWS:
Khi: hi there! They are coming every Wednesday and/or Friday!
ChiyukiLuvs2Glomp: loving the name! AND thank you for the songs, I used some of them! Thank you for the compliments, encouragements is my favorite reviews to get! And, thank sugar cookies; I haven't got any bad reviews yet!
Babbit2: I love getting your reviews, sorry I haven't updated much but, I have a valid excuse (check above, under the disclaimer) Please continue to read, I'm trying to get into a schedule now!
Owlcity89: thank you! I'm glad you like it, and thanks for the lyrics, I was kind of in a rut, I used some of your suggestions though, thank you again!
Snowlily246: hi! Thank you, I kind of made Kiki to be that kind of sarcastic, funny girl, I'm glad you like her!
Echo: Thank you for reviewing, and I am, I was just in a tight situation where I couldn't for a while! But I will now, please continue to read!
CONTEST THINGS/POLLS:
NUMBER ONE:
It's not really as much as a contest as I'm lazy.
As you read, the band needs a rhythm guitarist! I was going to pair them up with either Warren, Dave, or Conner.
I was going to make a character of my own, but since I haven't updated I thought this would be a cool 'gift'.
So, first person to submit a review or a pm saying the following will be in the story *gasp* I KNOW RIGHT!
Name:
Gender: (I don't judge)
Age:
Appearance:
Personality:
Catch Phrase:
Crush or Pairing: (So either Conner, Dave, or Warren)
Thanks!
NUMBER 2:
So, if Kiki were to have a slight crush on one of the band mates, who would you want it to be?
Conner (red head, green eyes, sweet)
Warren (black hair, blue eyes, funny)
Dave (brown hair, hazel eyes, 'charming')
None of them keep them as friends!
Answer in your review or on the poll on my profile!
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