Disclaimer: I never have, and never will own Fruits Basket. I got over it, so you should too.
Sorry I've taken so long to update, but I've been at the shore. The whole time I was there, it rained cats and dogs (not literally, for all you idiotic boobs out there reading). I didn't bring my notebook, though, so I couldn't write. Instead I practiced my game face for Family Feud (I won everytime I wasn't host, but there were only three of us playing, so there was more feud than family). I've also been limboing through three different ideas for this chapter. Before, Amaya was kissing a catamose version of Megumi who she was betrothed to. Then she was flinging goya (a bitter vegetable full of vitamin C) at Shigure, Hatori, Yuki, and Kyo. Now, it's completely different, and less funny. -.- I'm no good at comedy anyway. So, here's the chappie.
Chapter 16
Amaya looked above her, a beautiful purple sky floated up high above her dotted with candy clouds was floating over a field of silvery paper flowers shimmered in the faint light that came off of the moon creating a magnificent view, but the pain the cat girl was feeling destroyed the moment. She felt as if she was being stabbed with millions of white hot knives over and over again. There was also a tremendous pain emitting from her stomach.
"The pain… Where has it come from?" Amaya clutched her stomach as she sat up. There were no cuts or wounds of any kind on her skin, and no blood was to be found. She groaned and struggled to her feet, grabbing her katana handle as reassurance. When she finally tried to walk, an enormous sting stretched throughout her body, and she collapsed again.
"I've got to get up!" Amaya hoisted herself up again, shaking from the pain coursing through her body. She succeeded in getting up and staying up, with much effort. (Dammit! You know that gripz commercial, right? It's nearly impossible to throw those things into your mouth… I'm encircled with fallen ones right now.) "Now where to?"
It suddenly started raining wrathfully; drenching Amaya and making her crumple back down again. "Dammit, rain! Dammit you!" Amaya dropped her clenched hand to the ground, not even thinking of attempting to get up again, the pain was just too severe.
"I guess I'll just lie here…"
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Megumi was watching Amaya intently, seeing her wince and whimper in pain. He was truly heartbroken. First, Amaya avoided him as much as possible, and now she was in a comma from which she might never awake. To add to it all, it seemed as Amaya couldn't escape pain, even in her cataleptic state.
"Amaya, please be alright…" The boy looked upon her once more before walking away. "Goodbye, Amaya." Hatori watched as Megumi disappeared, dragging his feet.
"I don't think he'll be coming back, Amaya-kun. You broke his heart one too many times, and he doesn't want it broken again." Amaya just grimaced, and Hatori continued. "Why do you push everyone away? Why are you so distant?" Amaya winced again and Hatori sighed and walked back to his desk.
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"Goodbye, Amaya." A familiar voice echoed in the field of silver flowers as she laid in the soaking rain, shivering in the cold.
"I don't think he'll be coming back, Amaya-kun. You broke his heart one too many times, and he doesn't want it broken again." Another voice rang down from the sky. Amaya looked up, rain drops streaming down her face "Why do you push everyone away? Why are you so distant?"
Amaya gasped and closed her eyes, wishing she hadn't heard what she had just heard. Who was saying that, and why were they saying that? Suddenly, she remembered her sword going through her middle. Amaya immediately matched the first voice to Megumi, and the second to Hatori.
"Wait, where am I?" The cat girl sat up, ignoring the pain that ripped throughout her body as she did. Looking around, Amaya didn't get any ideas as to where she was, and where Megumi's and Hatori's voices had come from. She stood up, wincing slightly, and, with little hesitation, sped off in a random direction.
After running in the same direction for quite a while, Amaya sprinted off in another direction. She practiced this method of discovery repetitively, but all she found was a never-ending stretch of the same field of silver flowers and purple sky pouring rain.
"How did I end up here?" Amaya asked herself, while panting, for she had run at a high speed (which, for her, is about sixty five, perhaps seventy miles per hour, thanks to her awesome catness, since she gets the powers of all the greatest cats, such as cheetah speed). "I could be sleeping…" The cat girl (who can run really fast) pinched herself, trying to wake herself up, which didn't work.
Amaya frowned; she didn't feel the pinch, only the sting that she had woken up with. This was awfully odd… To think of it, she hadn't felt the wind whipping at her face when she had ran, looking for an end to the maddening similarity of the colossal plain of silver flowers.
"I must be in a comma…" Amaya bit her lip, wondering how she could possibly wake up. Then again, who said she needed to wake up? She could stay in a comma, living in this little world of her own, with no worries. And, if this was her mind, she could control it! She could make anything she wanted! As Amaya beamed happily, a huge twinge of pain shook her body, making her fall to her knees. That's right; the pain would be there, even if she stayed…
Amaya wished for unconsciousness in unconsciousness, so that was what she got. Soon, everything went black, and the pain subsided. There was… nothing.
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"Kyo-kun?" Tohru looked up at Kyo's face, which was just above hers, for he was holding her as they lay on the roof, watching the stars. They were enjoying the fact that the curse was broken, and that they could embrace each other.
"Yes, Tohru?" Kyo smiled contently at Tohru, he had all he wanted right here, in his arms. What was that? It was Tohru. All he wanted was Tohru, no matter how bad times were she was all he could ever wish for.
"Do… Do you consider us as… a couple?" The onigiri girl blushed as Kyo looked at her queerly, frowning. Truth be told, he was shocked that she had to even ask that question.
"Of course, Tohru! You do consider us as a couple, right?" Tohru blushed and nodded, smiling as well. Kyo smiled and pecked her lips quickly. When she smiled, Kyo pulled Tohru into a deeper kiss, flipping her so he was pinning her to the ground, making out.
As Kyo was trailing kisses down Tohru's neck, Yuki climbed up the ladder, clearing his throat after not being noted for about five minutes. The two noticed him standing there, and they immediately sat up, unusually straight.
"Now that I've got your attention… I am sorry, Honda-san, but dinner isn't going to cook itself, and neither am I or Shigure…" Kyo scoffed Yuki and Shigure were by far the worst cooks in the universe, no, hold on, make that in the galaxy.
"Yo, rat boy, I thought you were on a charcoal rich diet!" Kyo snickered and Yuki got quite a look on his face. Tohru decided to go off to make dinner before anyone got too hungry.
For a while Yuki just stood there, glaring at Kyo. Kyo just ignored him, until he felt holed being burnt into the back of his head.
"Go away, rat boy! Don't you have someone to make out with? Who was that, Haru? Oh, wait no… He dumped you for Rin… What about Machi?" Yuki blushed and looked away, thinking for a comeback.
"I was never with Haru, and Rin is still ignoring him. Machi has very strict parents, so I can't see her…" Yuki sighed and sat down next to Kyo, who actually looked… guilty! (WTF! The cat feeling sorry for the rat! What's next! Wait, what is that in the sky! It's a bird; it's a plane; IT'S KAGURA! You know, flying pigs. Ok, nobody gets it… '-.- Come on, WORK WITH ME, PEOPLE!)
"Really, how strict?" Kyo looked over to Yuki, who sighed nonchalantly.
"Her parents won't let her have a boyfriend. We were dating secretly, but her parents found out, and she got in trouble." Kyo bit his lip and looked down at the ground.
"Man that stinks…" The two sat on the roof in silence, thinking, until Tohru clambered up the ladder, almost falling and being caught by the two, telling them that dinner was ready.
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For those who didn't notice, Amaya's catamose landscape was a more personalized verion of that described in Imaginary by Evanescence. Here are the lyrics holding the description, which happen to make up the chorus:
In my field of paper flowers
And candy clouds of lullabye
I lie inside myself for hours
And watch my purple sky fly over me
Anyway, I didn't thank my reviewers so far, so thank you to all of my old reviewers, and to my new reviewer, Hend. Domo arigatou gozamaisu (thank you very much)! Anyway, I'll let you be going. Sayonara (goodbye) for now! Neko Warrior signing out!