A/N: Hi everyone, I know it's been awhile since I last updated, but I've been at a loss as to where to take this cute fic. However, I've not only got this chapter done but two more following this one; they just aren't typed up yet.

I also have a good portion of the next chapter for Tamed written as well as the next chapter for Gravitational Problems also just needs to be typed. Scent Awakening is driving me mad, because I know what I want to happen, in fact I have up to chapter 6 outlined and partially written so just be patient, it too will be updated soon.

Thank you everyone that had reviews the first chapter! I like Haru's collar too! And I have a soft spot for these two as well, they are too cute!

Disclaimer: Don't own it, nope, not mine. I'm merely borrowing these cute boys and the rest of Fruits Basket cast for my own little story.

Chapter rating: PG-13 for minor sexual content.

Chapter 2

As the teens arrived to school the Yuki Fan Club, as well as a group of Kyo's and Momiji's admirers surrounded them.

The group of girls and a few guys greeted them, asking them how they were, one brave soul even asked Kyo if he'd go out with her.

Kyo told the girl to get bent and stormed off, while Yuki's eye started twitching in irritation and Tohru tried to calm Haru who was quickly becoming Black.

Yuki schooled his features and politely told everyone that as Student Council President he was ordering them all to get to class. For the most part it worked.

Three ninth year girls approached Momiji, giggling nervously.

"Sohma-kun, who do you think is cuter: me, Kana-chan, or Akiko-chan?" The smaller girl of the bunch asked, smiling shyly.

Momiji smiled brightly. "All of you are equally cute."

Haru saw red. Momiji sensed the dark aura emanating off of his friend, his smile faltered. "Haru, is something wrong?"

"Oh, don't worry about him; he's just jealous because no one wants an emo wannabe." One of the girls said playfully. "Come on, Sohma-kun, you said we were cute, aren't you going to ask one of us out?"

"I—"

"He can't! He's mine!" Haru grabbed one of Momiji's wrists and drug him off to an empty classroom.

Yuki gave all of the girls after school chores for angering an upperclassman, and went in search of his angry cousin.

"That's not fair!" The girls whined.

Tohru being the only person left to hear them answered, "Yes, it is. You went too far, now off to class before you're late and are given more after school chores!"

The girls stared at Tohru in shock, this couldn't be the same airheaded girl they'd all heard about, but she was still their sempai, and so they bowed and ran off.

Black Haru slammed Momiji up against a wall and began kissing the short teen, holding his jaw so that he couldn't turn away. Momiji pushed at Haru's shoulders only to have his hands pinned above his head.

"Naughty boy!" Black Haru whispered against Momiji's lips dropping his hand from the brunette's jaw to his crotch.

Momiji did the only thing he could think of, he kneed Haru in the groin.

Haru let go of the blonde's wrists and clutched at himself.

"Fuck!"

Momiji rubbed at his aching wrists and watched as Black Haru receded and saw the moment that his Haru returned moments before he promptly passed out and became a cow. The horror in Haru's eyes was enough to give Momiji nightmares.

The blonde didn't give himself enough time to wonder whether Haru had forgotten what he'd just done or not, as he leant next to Haru and gently stroked his black and white spotted side.

"Haru...why'd you do it?" Momiji sniffled, and wiped tears away with the back of his hand.

Yuki appeared moments later, "I tried to come as fast as I could, what happened, he go completely black? He didn't hurt you, did he?"

Momiji self-consciously rubbed at his wrists which were already beginning to bruise. "Not on purpose."

Yuki huffed, "Well, we can't leave him here as he is. Call that lazy dog and tell him what happened, and I'll go find the stupid cat."

Yuki left muttering something like, "Who does he think he is, hurting him like that? Just wait 'til you wake up, I'm going to personally kick your spotted ass."

Momiji pulled out his bejewelled cell and called Shigure, explaining in layman's terms what had happened, leaving out his involvement, and then quickly stored his phone away, and continued his petting of Haru's rough coat.

Haru slowly came into consciousness, blinking his eyes several times until an all too familiar ceiling came into focus. He was at the Sohma Compound as he liked to think of it. The main house was more of prison than a home under the cruel rule of Warden Akito. Haru chuckled at his demure musings; Akito would kick his heifer ass if he ever learned of Haru's pet name for the main house.

Wiping sleep from his eyes and sitting up on the side of the bed he'd been sleeping on, Haru wondered idly why he was there and not at home. The last thing he remembered was a group of idiotic school girls hounding his sweet Momiji-kun. His? Haru shook off that notion, trying to remember what happened next. Quick little flashes accosted his psyche. Momiji thrown against a wall, someone kissing him, groping him! Had he done that? Oh, God! How could I? What else did I do while Black?

Haru clutched his two-toned hair, what had happened after that? Everything was a blank, nothing. Had he stopped there, had he forced Momiji, had he hurt him?

"Fuck!" Haru got up and kicked an unsuspecting chair, hurdling it at the wall; the poor wooden chair never had a chance as it broke apart into many splintered pieces.

"Tch, tch, tch. What did that chair ever do to you?"

Haru nearly jumped out of his skin, turning his glare onto the sultry woman standing at the door, ignoring the seductive tone to her voice. It would be a long day in hell before he ever found that voice arousing again. "What the hell do you want, Rin?"

"Why does it have to be him?" Rin asked, slowly walking towards Haru, cantering her hips seductively. "We used to be so good together." She fluttered her eyelashes, gently running a manicured finger down Haru's forearm.

Haru growled and jumped away from Rin's advances. "What the fuck, Rin?"

"You used to love me, Haru! When did you stop? When did it become him? When we were still together? When Akito butchered my hair? When, Haru!"

The two-toned haired teen winced at Rin's screeching. "Why are you being like this, Rin? We haven't been together for a long time. Why does it matter to you so much?" Haru shook his head in frustration. He cared a lot about Momiji, and if he were honest with himself, his "love" for Rin had never been love at all. She was merely someone he had clung to when he realised that Yuki would never be his. Of course, Yuki had never inspired feelings in him the way Momiji did, but then, Yuki had been a childhood crush; his Sunshine was so much more than "just a crush", he loved the little guy. Sighing in exasperation, Haru looked straight at Rin and confessed something that he had never told anyone other than Yuki, "I'm gay."

Rin stopped mid rant, her eyes practically glowing in the dimly lit room. "No." It was a whisper, as if she didn't say it too loud it wouldn't be true. "No, you're not. W-we made love! You! No, it's not true, stop lying, Haru, it isn't funny!"

"But it is true, I'm so sorry, Rin." Haru said truthfully, the sorrow in his voice audible.

Rin's face took on a look of absolute disbelief and disgust, before she ran from the room.

Later that day after school, Momiji, Tohru, Kyo, and Yuki were all sat in Shigure's living room discussing Hatsuharu.

Momiji tenderly traced the finger shaped bruises on his wrists while he explained to Tohru, Yuki, and Kyo what had transpired between Haru and him before Yuki had shown up. The three teens listened carefully, all of them taking notice of the way Momiji kept touching his bruised wrists as though he were almost glad they were there.

"Black Haru's never harmed you before, I wonder what's changed? In fact, the one common denominator between Black Haru and White Haru is protecting you. " Tohru pondered aloud. "You usually seem to have a calming effect on him, as well."

"Yea, real calming effect he has alright. The heifer only dragged him off to an empty classroom to have his dirty way with him, that sound protective to you; more territorial if you ask me." Kyo added, earning a thump on the head from Yuki. "Cut that out, Rat, before I kick your girly ass!"

"Stupid Cat, Tohru's on to something. Haru has never retaliated at Momiji when he goes Black. In fact, I've noticed, too, that he seems to calm down in Momiji's presence."

"Whatever." Kyo grumbled, crossing his arms angrily, unable to argue with that fact.

Momiji was about to ask a question when Shigure entered the living room.

"Sorry to interrupt this little love fest but I just thought you should know that I just got off the phone with Hatori and he said that our resident cow is fine and that he is at the Main House resting. Also, Tohru can I get your help with something in the kitchen and there's this scene in my latest chapter that I wondering if you could look over?"

Kyo eyes narrowed suspiciously.

Yuki said, "You better not make her read anything dirty, mutt."

Momiji just watched the display curiously while thinking about Haru. Haru hated the Main House, he saw it as nothing more than a prison. Hopefully, he wouldn't have to deal with Akito while he was there. Momiji shuddered, just thinking about the head of the family made him cringe.

Momiji curled up in his armchair and quickly fell asleep to Yuki and Kyo fighting about something the other had said.

Hatsuharu was currently undergoing one of the worst beatings he'd ever been subjected to from the head of the family. Akito's strength was inhuman.

"Gay? GAY! Who do you think you are? You're only supposed to love ME! You're sick, SICK! First you bed that filthy horse, and now I hear that you've fallen for that pathetic animal?" Akito backhanded Haru, sending the teen crashing to floor.

Haru licked his swollen lip where blood was pooling. He hated this man; he had no right to tell him who to love. Only the power that the head of the family possessed stopped him from going Black. How he'd love to rip Akito to shreds for what he'd put them all through, but he'd learned a long time ago that it was futile to fight back; no one matched Akito in strength or agility.

Akito grabbed Haru by his hair, dragging the teen from the floor and level with his face. "Well, what do you have to say for yourself? Anything? Not going to refute the claims against you? I also hear that you turned and hurt the little rabbit you claim to care so much about. Well, got anything to say for yourself?"

"Fuck you."

Akito reared back as though he'd been hit, dropping Haru onto the floor.

"Get out! GET OUT!" Akito screeched, falling to his knees and clutching at his face manically.

Hatsuharu wasted no time stumbling to his feet and running out of Akito's room, nearly colliding with Hatori on his way out.

Tall mirrors surrounded him. Tall, misshapen fun house mirrors. Mirrors filled with misshapen horses and Akito.

Horses neighed, and bucked manically. Akito's distorted face smiled evilly, and laughed.

He crawled backwards away from them.

Akito swiped at him, the horses reared up and tried to stomp him.

They couldn't get him, they were trapped in the mirrors, but somehow they reached out to him from within them.

Like a screwed up 3D movie their limbs, hooves, snouts, and Akito's head could extent out of the mirrors; their bodies trapped.

No matter how far he crawled backwards, they would reach him. He couldn't escape.

His back hit a wall.

The horses reared up, their hooves above him. Akito reached his elongated arms out, aimed for his neck.

The horses neighed, Akito laughed, he screamed.

"Momiji, Sunshine, wake up."

Momiji sat straight up, breathing heavily. The blonde teen took in his surroundings. He was still in the living room but it was now dark, the only light coming in through the windows from the moon.

He felt a hand grasp his shoulder and nearly jumped out of the chair, before he recognised Haru's silhouette.

"Haru, what, I had a dream that," Momiji shook his head. "Never mind, are you okay? Akito didn't hurt you, did he?"

"I'm fine, I'll live." Haru assured quietly.

The blonde was sure if there was light, that he'd see a smirk on the cow's face. Momiji reached out in the dark, feeling along Haru's arms and up to his face trying to gauge injuries the older teen was sure to have.

Haru stopped Momiji's hands' progression just shy of his chin, holding the other teen's hands gently in his own briefly before letting them go. "You can see in the morning, Sunshine. Come join me on the couch?"

They sat in the dark together on the couch in silence. Both teens knew they had to talk about what had happened, but neither knew how to begin.

"Did I hurt you?" Haru finally said. It was his worst fear, that he had somehow maimed the other boy or violated him.

"No. You scared me, quite a lot, but I'm fine."

"Did I...touch you? I have all these disjointed memories and I can't separate my Black side's thoughts from reality."

Momiji stiffened beside Haru and didn't say anything for a long time, too caught up in his own memories and unable to decide what to tell his best friend. Not that there was much to tell. It had ended about as quickly as it began.

The blonde briefly explained what had happened in the classroom while he'd been under Black Haru's "care."

Haru shuddered and was somewhat relieved and yet horrified. He had suspected that he had manhandled Momiji, and it wasn't anywhere near as bad as what his Black side had been thinking, but he had still violated the younger teen, even if said teen had quickly stopped it by kicking him in his bits. Haru cringed, glad he couldn't remember that part, but that didn't explain why Momiji didn't seem to be afraid of him or even blame him, and he should. He had broken some sort of trust; he could feel it through the other's body language.

Haru sighed, and steeled himself. "Can you ever forgive me?" He wanted nothing more than to gather his Sunshine up and take him away from the ugly world and eradicate Black Haru's doings from the younger teen's mind. "I violated you and bruised you." Haru could barely make out Momiji's hands in the dark. The blonde was rubbing his bruised wrists. Momiji had told him about that as well in his recanting. Haru reached out as though to sooth his Sunshine's aching wrists but stopped himself, surely Momiji wouldn't want him to touch him now.

"You didn't mean it, it wasn't you. Not really. You would never knowingly do anything to hurt me. Black Haru hasn't before, either." Momiji's voice trembled slightly. "What changed, Haru? Why'd your Black side do that to me?"

Haru could tell that Momiji was crying. He had caused it; he had never made Momiji cry before, and so he said the only thing that came to mind, "It was the girls." What? Well, on second glance of what Haru could recall, that was true enough, but he was confused about why it had bothered him so much. That damn dream had had him on the cusp of going Black since he'd wakened that morning and so his control had already been fragile and since it was geared towards Momiji that's what his Black side had latched onto, but he wasn't ready for that conversation; explaining to Momiji why his Black half had targeted him specifically.

"What?" Momiji asked, sniffling, confusion plain in his voice.

"Never mind, but you do know that Black Haru is an extension of me, right? He's sort of like my manic subconscious without inhibitions or conscience."

"I don't understand, you want to do those things to me? Haru?" Momiji grabbed Haru's arm suddenly, startling the older teen.

Haru didn't know how to answer that without damning himself further. Instead he gathered Momiji into a fierce hug, if the smaller teen didn't want him to touch him he'd just push him away, and he would let him if that would make the blonde comfortable. "I'm so sorry, Momiji. It won't happen again, I promise. I can't tell you now, but I will, okay?"

Momiji sniffled and hugged Haru just as fiercely back. "Alright, Haru, as long as you promise to tell me when you're ready."

The two teens lapsed into silence and soon fell asleep still embracing one another.

TBC

Chapter 2 End

A/N: Chapter 3 will be up by next week if not sooner.

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