Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket. Boo hoo for me. Moving on now…
Here is the 11th chappie. I hope you like it. But before I let you read it, I'd like to thank everyone and everything, starting with my pet cat that ran away, and my other pet cat that we gave away, and my pet fish that now lives in the dirt in my backyard, and my annoying sister for being annoying, and my parents, and my grand parents, and… Ok, fast forward a bit…. And all of my reviewers, who are: Aqua, Kitty Kyon Lover, Nekokazam, moonflower, Amanda, Amandazh94, and Redsarah. Just to hold you up longer, DAMMIT! This stupid thing won't let me put up those line things! Dammit dammit dammit! Ok, now you can go ahead and read.
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Chapter 11
"Tohru-kun, he has Megumi!" Amaya was crying into the receiver of the phone she was holding, for Amaya had found Megumi locked up in a room by Akito earlier. She had seen him, lying in the corner, sleeping in the dark. But nothing looked good about this catnap, he was bleeding a great deal and his breathing had slowed to a lower speed than standard. "A-Akito locked Megumi-kun in Kyo's room, and-"
At Shigure's house, on the other side of the phone line, all the listeners heard the line go dead. Either Amaya had hung up, or she had been disconnected from the cable.
"Oh no, what could have happened!" Tohru was bawling her eyes out when Kyo went over to her and gently guided her head to his shoulder as he stroked her hair, this was the best way he knew how to soothe her without changing.
"Tohru, everything will work out ok, but we need to play our part and help out. Why do you think Amaya called us?" Tohru lifted her head and looked into his eyes, smiling sadly before turning back to the phone.
"Right. I'll call Hana-chan to tell her, and to ask for her help." She dialed Saki and the three men looked at each other solemnly, though Shigure was giving sly looks to Kyo all through the chat between the girls. In a moment, Tohru hang up.
"So, what's the plan, Tohru-kun?" Kyo looked at her determined face shining in the light from the lamps and smiled internally; she was quite a piece of work.
"Hana-chan is going to meet us outside the main entrance. Once we are all there, we will enter and start looking for Amaya-kun, she is strong and we need her help to rescue Megumi-san. Finding Hatori-san will be good, too, since Megumi-san is likely to be hurt, as well as Amaya-kun." Tohru looked at the three men, seeing they were as determined as she was. Perhaps they had all grown attached to Amaya, or maybe they didn't want Akito to ruin anymore relationships. Looking over them, Tohru thought to herself silently. 'I hope that the curse will be broken tonight, too.'
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Amaya awoke to find herself in a dark area. She had no idea to where she was, and she intended to find out, right after he throbbing in her head stopped. Her headache disappeared in a few minutes and only then was she able to focus and use her catlike vision to see the room she was in. The room was empty except for her and a pair of glowing yellow eyes.
"Amaya-kun, you are awake?" A voice came from around the place of the yellow eyes which Amaya recognized immediately to be Rei.
"Yes, unless this is a dream. But I doubt it is, my dreams start out a lot better and end up so much worse." Amaya shifted positions after a long period of silence. This is what she got for trying to lighten the mood up.
"Now that your lame stab at comedy is over, I shall tell you what I must. I went to fetch Hatori-sama for Megumi-sama's health, but I overheard Akito saying something to Kureno. Apparently, Hatori-sama has stopped listening to Akito. He was already tending to Megumi-sama when I listened in on this, which was about half an hour ago. Unfortunately, Akito caught me and put me in here, with chains." Amaya heard a clinking sound as the yellow eyes moved, showing Rei was shifting her weight.
"So Megumi is in good health… that is spectacular!" Amaya jumped up, but she found herself being weighed down, there were restraints around her wrists and ankles, and well as a clamp around her neck. Amaya didn't mind for the moment, she kept on cheering anyway. Her best friend, maybe even love, was safe, and that was all that mattered at the moment.
"I never said he was well, only that Hatori has tended to him." Rei hissed at Amaya's foolishness, they were still in this mess, and nothing at the moment, to her, looked as it had a happy ending.
"What a way to kill the joy and hope." Amaya stared at Rei crossly, wishing Rei hadn't killed her optimism so aggressively.
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"Tohru, we've searched through this entire house, she could be anywhere!" Kyo dragged his feet, following Tohru down the hall impatiently.
"That might be true, Kyo-kun, but we need to search everywhere, and we need to find Amaya-kun and Megumi-san!" Tohru tried the handle on another door, finding it locked. "This one is locked, Kyo-kun."
"Orangey doesn't seem up to knocking down the door, so I will!" Uotani walked up from behind Kyo, kicking the door relentlessly, which fell down after seven hammers of Uo-chan's booted foot.
"I could've done that in four." Kyo walked past the pair and into the room, making sure it was safe. Tohru frowned worriedly, thinking she was the one to cause Kyo to be so irritable.
"Don't worry, Tohru-kun, Kyon-Kyon is just angry he doesn't get to do this alone with you." Uo smiled when she saw both Kyo and Tohru blush deeply. "What has he done to you, Tohru-kun? Before you wouldn't know what I meant. Now, you blush like you've never blushed before! Kyon-Kyon here has taken away your innocence!"
"Uo-chan, Kyo-kun didn't do anything to me. He wouldn't do such a thing, anyway!" As Tohru rambled on about how nice Kyo was, and how he wouldn't do anything, he walked out of the room.
"Nothing's in there but dust, dust, and more dust. Oh, there's a flower pot in there, too." He walked past Tohru, kissing her forehead gently before heading to the next door. Uo rolled her eyes and looked to Tohru, who was embarrassed and knew her point had just been proven… wrong.
"Right…" The best friends walked over to the door where Kyo stood, turning the handle to see if it was locked. And guess what, it was, big surprise there, every door in the house was locked.
"Again!" Between Kyo and Uotani, who were seeing who could knock down the door first, the door was splintered apart within a few seconds. The trio peeked into the room and saw to pairs of glowing eyes. The first was low to the ground and was shining a gold-yellow. The second were higher up and were a glowing blood red.
The red pair blinked, and the yellow pair moved as a sound like jingling chains was heard. Suddenly, the red pair rose quite a bit and moved forward. The clink was heard again, and the red eyes stopped a foot away from the doorway. By this time, Tohru was freaked out beyond all reason and was shivering behind the shielding figures of Kyo and Uotani.
"Hello, Tohru-kun." Tohru's eye's widened, thinking the eyes belonged to some monster.
"EEK!"
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"Honda-san!" Yuki turned as he heard a girlish scream ring through the air. Shigure and Hana-chan also turned toward the sound. The group took off down the halls, turning constantly, trying to follow the still sounding scream to its place. In a minute, the group arrived, out of breath but alert, to find a brunette girl on the ground, an orange cat licking her cheek, a blonde yankee looking back and forth between the other girl and the cat confusedly and two pairs of glowing eyes from inside a dark room staring apprehensively at the fainted girl.
"Oh my… Kyo turned into a cat, didn't he?" Hana-chan was staring at the orange cat, who, like everyone else, was staring at her. Even Tohru, who had woken up, was staring at her.
"What!" Uotani picked Kyo up and held him as far away from her as she could, staring at him intently.
"Let go of me!" Kyo clawed the yankee's arms and she dropped him. He crept noiselessly over to Tohru, who held him to her chest to keep him from changing.
"So, Kyon-Kyon did turn into a cat." Uotani stared at the little orange kitty in Tohru's arms. "Why are you holding him, Tohru-kun?"
"H-he turns back into a human unless he is held. We don't want him turning back just yet..." Tohru trailed off and blushed, remembering the first time when he and Shigure and Yuki had turned back into humans, she had been so shocked.
"Why?" This question caused Tohru to blush harder and look down at Kyo's puddle of clothes. Uotani got the drift and blushed as well. It was silent for a while, but Amaya was getting impatient, so she decided to but in.
"You know, my wrists are starting to bleed here." Tohru looked into the room, which was now illuminated, and she saw that the crimson eyes that had scared her so much had belonged to Amaya.
"Oh, Amaya thought you were a demon! I can't believe how wrong I was!" Tohru smiled, but Amaya frowned.
"I am a demon, a cat fiend." This caused Uotani to look over, and she saw Amaya's cat ears and tail.
"The things I see…" Uotani shook her head before bending down to help Amaya with her shackles, which were too tight. As Uotani and Amaya tried to free her hands, they became bloodied and slippery.
The sight was a gruesome one, but everyone looked anyway. Suddenly, Yuki had an idea. "If her hands get slippery enough, Amaya will be able to slip them out." Amaya nodded but grimaced. That meant that she had to shed more blood.
"Ok, I'll get to it." And so for the next ten minutes, Amaya wounded her hands in any way possible and finally managed to slip them out. She did the same with her ankles, which was more difficult. Before all of the blood dried, Amaya spread some of hers over Rei's paws; she didn't want her feline friend to bleed if she didn't have to.
"You know, this won't work for my neck, unless you plan to chop my head off." Tohru gasped at the thought, while Amaya scowled, she couldn't be free of her binds without taking the neck clamp off.
"Then we'll just have to get the key. These chains are iron, we can't cut through them." Shigure walked up to examine the chains and decided Yuki, who had said the previous statement, was right.
"Do you know where it is?" Rei hung her head, thinking.
"Yes, I do." Everyone looked expectantly at the cat. "Akito gave it to Kureno, who wears it in the folds of his yukata." The whole group groaned, they were never going to get it from Kureno, he was too loyal.
"Wait, did you say Kureno?" Uotani looked over to the black cat, who was grooming herself.
"Yes, I did." Uo-chan grinned; this was going to be easy.
"Good, I have a plan."
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So, what is Uotani's plan? Does anyone want to guess? Anyone? I guess not. Well, hope you liked this chapter. I think it's the longest one yet, but I'm not sure, and I'm too lazy to check. Sayonara until next chapter, or when you review if you do at all!