Title: Million Little Pieces
Author: Keir
Rating: R overall, for swearing, violence, and sexual situations
The Gist of Things: It's so on between Hatsuharu and Yuki now. Place your bets!
A/N: Ah ha, flopping around like a fish writing. XD I'm so bad lately. This is why I hate classes: I'm constantly writing essays and it makes me so stressed out that it turns pleasurable writing into nonexistent writing. Gomen for this chapter not being up to par. ;.; I will make it all better in later chapters, I promise. Oh ho, enter the Shigure next time...
Hatsuharu woke with a start, throwing back the covers on the spare futon. It was dark in Yuki's room but he knew well enough that his cousin wasn't in bed by the absence of his light, rasping breath. He cursed himself and stood; he had meant to stay awake until his cousin had fallen asleep and then planned to go find Kyou, but obviously that hadn't worked out as he had hoped. He made his way hastily downstairs, shoving bare feet into shoes and throwing on his long white trench coat.
The night air was freezing and silent without a breeze. Hatsuharu had seen the cat's jacket still hanging by the door; he had no idea what was going through Kyou's mind, but he was sure if he could find the feisty cat then they could share a coat. The ox smiled to himself at the thought of wrapping a shivering stray kitty in his jacket. He pushed himself clumsily through the brush, wondering where Kyou might have gone. He could feel his pale cheeks turn pink with cold.
He pushed his way through some branches that scratched and clung at his clothes and stopped dead in his tracks. Kyou and Yuki were kissing, the rat bent over his lover, and Kyou looked like he was actually enjoying it. The ox was furious; this wasn't the way it was supposed to work out. Kyou was supposed to be in his arms.
He went Black.
Kyou looked up in alert as twigs snapped in the woods. He was sitting on a boulder and the cold had seeped into his backside. The cold was seeping in everywhere, actually; he'd left his jacket at the house. It had been downstairs by the door, and not wanting to risk running into anybody in the hall late at night, he had gone out his window.
The cat sat frozen by the sound in the forest, his heart speeding up as he prayed it wasn't some of the stray dogs Shigure sometimes called on; they could smell the Cat. Once they had chased him up a tree and Shigure had laughed for days.
He would have breathed a sigh of relief to find it wasn't the dogs emerging from the brush, except it was Yuki. He tensed, pulling his feet onto the rock and wrapping his arms around his legs. "What are you doing here?"
"I saw you leaving without your jacket."
"So what, you're checking up on me now?" Kyou asked petulantly.
Yuki walked closer, kneeling before the orange-haired boy. "You must be freezing. You should take my coat."
The cat blushed. "Keep it."
The rat frowned. "Stop being so stubborn."
"If you get too cold it will aggravate your bronchial tubes. Just keep your damn coat!" Kyou snapped.
Yuki looked taken aback for a moment before smiling. "That's sweet of you, Kyou."
"I am not 'sweet'!"
The rat's smile grew as he leaned up to kiss Kyou. The cat's heart leaped into his throat as Yuki's warm breath hit his face. The rat's lips were on his, tender and soft, then they were gone. "Sorry, I just wanted to know if you were sweet."
Kyou felt himself uncurl his legs almost as if he had no control over them. He reached out freezing fingers and touched Yuki's cheek; the rat's eyes grew hooded as he leaned into the touch. The cat felt a warm feeling crawl through his lower belly and leaned forward to capture Yuki's lips. The rat willingly let him take charge, surprising Kyou. Soon the cat turned away from a tame kiss and his tongue thrust between Yuki's lips. The rat sighed in pleasure, moving forward to slowly force Kyou to lay back; he could have sworn he heard purring.
Suddenly the rat was dragged back and thrown onto the ground, a figure looming over him. "Haru!" Kyou blurted, sitting up. "What the hell!"
"Stay away from him!" Black Hatsuharu snarled, though he wasn't sure which person he snarled it at. Yuki rose to his feet slowly, brushing forest debris from his pants. He calmly shrugged out of his jacket and stood ready with a scowl. "So you want to fight, huh?" the crazed ox asked, bearing teeth and shrugging out of his own coat, ridiculous-looking in Kyou's shirt and a pair of boxers out in the middle of a moonlit forest.
Yuki threw the first punch, fast and dirty without the usual grace of his martial arts training. The ox was slow in sidestepping and caught part of the blow on his cheekbone. He threw his own easily-dodged punch and followed up with a kick.
Kyou sat shocked for a moment that they were fighting, no less fighting over him. He had always seen Yuki refuse to fight Hatsuharu's Black side, always with a look of distaste for the ox's lack of discipline. The cat's initial thought was that the ox would be crushed, but the black and white-haired boy was actually holding his own through his sheer fury. Regardless, Kyou felt he had to stop this nonsense; he fleetingly thought that his life was becoming a shoujo manga again. He stood and tried to come between the two, only to receive an elbow to the stomach. He fell back with a hand on his side and snarled, then jumped into the fray. The cat was trying to block and deflect punches when Hatsuharu suddenly reached out and grabbed Yuki's hair.
Nobody ever dared to grab the Prince's hair.
Maybe that was why it worked so well. The surprise of it unbalanced the rat and they all went sprawling. The breath left Kyou painfully and he sucked in air. He tried to orient himself, taking a moment to absorb the feel of twigs digging into his hands to gain his bearings. A bracing arm wrapped around his chest, a hand curling around his shoulder. His eyes focused to find Yuki laying underneath him. Purple eyes stared into his before he tried to stand up; something warm was at his back.
Black Hatsuharu nuzzled the cat's ear, looking over his shoulder at Yuki. "Ne, Kyou, doesn't it feel good to be on top of the rat finally?" Yuki scowled and Kyou made a startled noise. "Admit to our dear Prince that you dream about fucking us both, kitten. I can see it in your eyes," the ox growled. The cat panicked and struggled, uncomfortable that Hatsuharu would know something like that. The ox tightened his grip on his prey as Yuki stared in shock. "See, Yuki-chan? He's completely guilty. I know you better than you know yourself," he whispered in the cat's ear.
Kyou had finally had enough and snapped his head backward into his cousin's face. Hatsuharu fell backward with a cry of pain, turning White again. The orange-haired boy scuttled through the leaves and bracken, laying on his side panting. He scowled at the ox. "You're such a dick," he hissed.
"Kitten, I didn't mean to—"
"Shut up! And don't call me that!" Kyou clenched his fists.
Hatsuharu gently touched his tender cheekbone. "Kyou, I didn't mean to. I...I can't control my black side around you," he said helplessly. "Please...I just get so frustrated..."
"You think I care about your excuses?" the orange-haired boy hissed. "When we did that that one time—" He caught himself and glanced over at Yuki.
Yuki raised a brow and frowned at the ox. "Well, Haru, it seems as if Kyou doesn't want you here," he said coldly.
In an instant Hatsuharu was Black again. "Is that so, pretty boy? Maybe Kyou wouldn't want you around if he knew your exact feelings," he snarled, his eyes catching Kyou's. "When Rin left me, Yuki came over to comfort me at Hatori's suggestion. I was already into a bottle of sake. Poor little rat thought I couldn't hold my liquor. Did you think I would forget what you said to me in the morning, Yuki-kun? He confessed to me that he wondered what kind of fuck you'd be like. He got jealous when I commented I'd do you, didn't you, Yuki? You swore you'd be the first to get him." The rat looked furious, his shoulders stiffening. "I bet you remember that night well, Yuki."
Kyou's livid eyes shot over to the rat. "Is that true?"
"I...my feelings have changed, Kyou."
Black Hatsuharu opened his mouth to say something else spiteful when Kyou spit," I think you've said enough already. You already got what you wanted from me."
Hatsuharu gave him a mournful look, White side taking over again. "I got sex, but I want you, Kyou."
"And just how long do you think Kyou should put up with your black side if you really can't control it?"
The ox was back to his Black side in a blink; Kyou was having trouble keeping up with the changes. He'd never seen his cousin switch so easily and constantly between his personalities. "Then make a bet with me, Yuki. I'll have a set time to get my black side under control, and at the end of the limit Kyou can choose between us."
Yuki clenched his jaw. "Fine. Kyou can decide between us at the spring festival a month from now."
"You can't just put me in a barter like some stupid property!" Kyou yelled but the other two ignored him.
"Any date, anything one of us does with him has to be reciprocated by the other so that it's even," the grey-haired boy said, eyes flashing angrily.
Black Hatsuharu's smirk widened. "You have a deal."
"You can't just—!" Kyou's protest was cut short as the ox grabbed him by the shirt and pulled him into a kiss. The ox's tongue felt blazing hot as it ran over his lips; his skin was so cold. Hatsuharu shot a feral grin at Yuki. "That was to even us out for tonight."
Kyou smacked Hatsuharu in the face. "Asshole!" A tense feeling roiled in the pit of his stomach; there was no way he could talk those two idiots out of some stupid bet he'd never agreed to in the first place. And maybe at the end of the month he'd feel better after making a decision.
Right?
A/N: homg, so I was looking at the account thing on FF and I realized there's a Stats button. XD I feel so old for not noticing this before. ;.; I was so surprised to see my numbers, they were so good. X3 It made me so happy. Also, I had NO CLUE what a c2 was, and I was surprised to see a couple of my stories added to people's c2s, so yay!
Anyway, I am DESPERATE to write some one-shot smut to get my brain back into pulsating and doing whatever it is brains do in our heads when no one is looking. So PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE if you feel like it, request something smutty from me. X3 All I ask is that it be super ghey, because I still don't do hetero. And that I at least sort of know the characters/anime/whatever. XD It doesn't have to be Fruits Basket, but I'm sure a lot of people would like to request FB stuff anyway!
If there is some sort of smutty PWP you've been dyyyying to read/see with your favourite pairing, let your wishes be known! Give me a setting, a "plot" (lolplot), something you want to see and I'll make it happen. Either leave your request in a review or write me an e-mail/PM!