Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket. I own a case of sore throat, though. I wish I didn't.
Thank you to all my reviewers. I've gotten no new names, so you can just look back at previous chapters to see the list. I'm getting tired of writing everybody's name down, gomen nasai. Anyway, here's the 14th chapter. This story is coming to a close soon. I know I can't write another 4 chapters to get 20 (of all the posts on this story I made, not actual chapters, I'm not that bad at math...), so I've decided to end it where I end it. Just letting you know that. Now, on with the story!
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Chapter 14
Two red cat eyes stared out into the dark of a barred jail cell. They were shining with sorrow and hopelessness.
"Catch me as I fall, Say you're here and it's all over now, speaking into the atmosphere, no one's here and I fall into myself, this truth drives me, into madness, I know I can stop the pain, if I will it all the way…" A sigh was heard, and a rustling of cloth as well.
The same voice rang out, singing. "Don't turn away!"
"Don't give into the pain…" Another voice, rougher around the edges than the other, sang in the background.
"Don't try to hide!"
"Though they're screaming your name…"
"Don't close your eyes!"
"God knows what lies beyond them…"
"Don't turn out the light!"
"Never sleep, never die…" The sad duet was over; both he vocalists didn't want to continue the mournful song.
"You're a pretty decent singer, Tohru-kun." The red eyes, which belonged to Amaya, floated over to the bars on her right side. Through them she could see Tohru, broken and blood-covered. Her comfortable room had been taken away and replaced with a dank prison cell when Akito had caught her wondering about the house. Amaya on the other hand, had been given the cell she was in since the first day the others were forced to leave, which was about three weeks ago.
"Thank you, Amaya-kun." No matter how much Amaya tried, Tohru wouldn't say a lot, simply enough to be seen as respectful.
"You're losing hope, Tohru-kun. I assure you, something good will take place, sooner or later. You just have to wait until then." The cat girl grabbed the bars and moonlight danced on her arms making her pale skin look as if it was glowing; the moon was shining through the only window in the cell area, which was in Tohru's chamber.
The other, older girl nodded, feeling her heart lift. If Amaya, the pessimistic one, could believe something good would happen, then she sure could. Plus, it was touching to see the girl who had been shown no affection in so long trying to make her feel better.
"I will try, Amaya-kun." The two girls smiled at each other through the bars. "It's just that I can't stand living without him by my side. I love him so much, I can't be without him." Amaya knew perfectly well who Tohru was talking about.
"I know how you feel… Knowing you can't be with him, it tears you apart. It is like you aren't good enough and you don't deserve to be with them. It is a terrible feeling." Amaya hung her head, remembering the pain she felt for a long time when she was isolated because of her differences.
"I miss him so much…" Tohru's eyes filled with tears, and she slid down to the ground onto her knees, trying to keep the tears from falling. Amaya's eyes softened, Akito was very cruel to reduce this once bubbly, optimistic girl into a sobbing heap.
"Akito-nii will regret this, someday." Amaya sighed and collapsed as well, looking over to Tohru sadly, where had her brother gone?
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Kyo sighed and looked at the place Tohru once sat every time they ate a meal together. Shigure and Yuki were also staring at the empty area; they all missed her so much.
"This food is crap; I'll be on the roof if you need me…" Kyo got up and walked away. Yuki and Shigure stared after him. They were all sad, but he was the most depressed and the most affected by Tohru's absence.
Up on the roof, Kyo laid down and stared at the stars, he remembered all the times he and Tohru had looked at the very same stars together, and he wondered if she was looking at them right now. As he looked at them, the little lights seemed to form Tohru's face. As Kyo shook his head, the image went away, but when he looked at the balcony below him, he saw Tohru hanging up the laundry.
"Dammit, why can't I forget her!" Kyo slammed his hand into the roof, creating a hole in it. He knew why he couldn't forget her, he loved her. He was in love with her.
He scowled; it had been like this since he had left her at the main house. Her voice relentlessly rang throughout his head, and her face haunted his dreams. He was often woken up at night by Yuki or Shigure, because when he slept he screamed her name.
"That's it; I'm breaking her out of there, now." Kyo leapt down off of the roof and ran into the forest. Little did the cat know he was being watched by extremely girly eyes.
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Amaya looked out the window, glaring at the moon in all its freedom. She wished she could be free of this terrible, dank, gory cage she was in. Suddenly, she saw feet rush by. She jumped and yelled for them to stop.
"Please, help! Whoever you are you must…" Amaya trailed off when Kyo's head appeared on the other side of the barred porthole.
"Where is Tohru?" Amaya scowled, he was only here for his love, he didn't even bother to consider helping her, how inconsiderate. Her tail wagged back and forth, anger rushing through her. She swiftly realized she was being a bit grumpy from her lack of food and sleep and cooled down.
"She's in the cell this window is in; I'm just close enough to look through it. All you have to do is go through a door a few windows down. There will be no one to inconvenient you, we're the only ones in here, and this building is for prisoners of Akito only." Kyo nodded, and in a minute or so, he ran into their section of jail cells.
"Tohru, Tohru wake up!" He rushed over to her cage and rattled the bars. Amaya rolled her eyes and prodded Tohru lightly, for she was close enough to the bars that divided their cells to do so with her tail.
"She's not dead, God dammit. Hold your horses, cat dude, she's coming around." Tohru at that moment sat up drowsily and rubbed her eyes cutely. As her eyes adjusted to the dark, she saw Kyo and crawled over to him.
"K-Kyo? I'm so glad to see you! Why are you here I…" Tohru stopped as Kyo planted his lips on hers, and they continued kissing passionately, until Amaya cleared her throat.
"You know, I am still here." Amaya grimaced and the couple blushed fiercely. "I don't want to be left out, you know. Perhaps Megumi is here with you?" The cat girl looked around innocently and Kyo and Tohru smiled, laughing at Amaya's stab at an adolescent romance joke.
"Megumi might not be here, but I am." The three turned to the door, seeing a profile of someone in a yukata. They all wondered who it was, until Kyo was sent hurdling into the cement wall of the narrow hallway.
Amaya became infuriated, how dare her brother, who ruined her life, as well as Tohru's, butt in any further than he already had! "Hiya!" Yelling the time-honored martial arts cry, Amaya flipped into the barred wall and broke it down, as well as snapping her chains. She landed on her feet, standing on the swinging door she had knocked down. This commotion caught the attention of all the four occupants of the room.
"How-!" Kyo didn't finish his sentence when he saw Amaya charging directly at Akito, screaming. The small girl rammed into the god of the zodiac, knocking him to the ground. Akito got right back up, and slammed Amaya into the wall, gripping her kimono while pressing her against the wall. He went to punch her, but she slipped out of his grasp and kicked his stomach, which sent him flying back into Tohru's gated barrier, which fell down on top of Akito from the sheer force put on it.
Kyo decided to take this fight to his advantage and help Tohru. It took him a good ten minutes to snap all the chains, but he wasn't stopped. Once Tohru was free, Kyo had her run and hide. Now the cat boy eyes lingered over to the fight, Amaya was losing; she had used up too much of her chi and was now making a slow switch to self defense only.
Amaya started to block fewer and fewer of Akito's attacks, she couldn't keep in the fight for much longer, and her chakra was wearing down. She fell to her knees and saw Akito's fist flying to meet her face, but when she looked over his shoulder, Kyo was about to kick him. She decided what action would be best, then dodged Akito's fist and rolled to the opposite side she had swayed to before, just as Akito was slammed into the wall.
Tohru watched from the shadows as the battle raged on. Akito called his guards to help him, and little by little Kyo and Amaya were being overwhelmed. The brunette had tears welling up in her big blue eyes, she knew that Kyo, she and Amaya would be entangled in Akito's spider web of lies and pain again, and she couldn't stop that from happening. They were little flies, surrounded by the giant cobweb, the only way out was through it, and they would get stuck, only to be the lunch of a great black widow spider of depression. Only a miracle could stop the madness.
"Why do you keep bothering me you little…" Akito was staring at Kyo and Amaya who were being held down by Akito's minions, ready to end the fight, when a familiar voice called out.
"Akito, stop!"
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Ok, so that's it for now. Sorry about the cliffie, they're just so fun and easy to end on! I wonder who those girly eyes belonged to... I hope somebody comments on that. It doesn't take a genius to figure it out, you know... Just because it's summer doesn't mean your brain is supposed to go kaput! Only one reviewer (cough cough Kitty Kyon Lover Cough cough) pointed out a detail that everyone prolly oversaw. Oh, yes, even though no one asked :-( bamboozled is a word. Sorry, I;m in a bad mood today, my throat hurts. Anyways, sayonara.