Hi, hi! So I thought "I've been writing from Samantha's POV a LOT. Maybe I should try some one else's POV. So I'll choose... the lovable Momiji!
Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket.
A Day at the Beach
Momiji`s POV
"The beautiful blue sea!" sighed Tohru opening her arms wide looking at the ocean. She was wearing a cute pink one-piece swimsuit with yellow flowers and her hair was up in pigtails. She looks so cute! I was just wearing red swim shorts.
"Let's go in! Let's go in!" I said taking Tohru's hand and leading her into the water
"Yes!" she smiled, I love her smiles. It makes me so happy! "Are you coming in Samantha? Haru?" I asked.
Samantha just finished putting the towel down, Yuki sat down. He was still wearing a loose white shirt with navy blue swim shorts.
"Coming!" Samantha called. She was wearing a blue two-piece swimsuit with a matching mini skirt. She decided not to tie her hair up like Tohru. Instead, her hair waved making her look like one of those girls in beach magazines (I`ve seen them lying around Shigure`s room). Samantha looks so pretty, she always looks pretty.
Haru stood on the beach watching us. He was wearing his black swim shorts. Kyo was sitting on the sand in jeans and a red hooded shirt. He's so silly, who where's jeans to the beach? :P
Samantha ran in, passing Tohru and I, and jumped into the water. Hehe, she's so adventurous! Tohru and I waded in.
"Cold, isn't it?" I asked Tohru
She giggled, "Yes."
"You'll get use to it." called Samantha dragging us in further. Once we were up to my chest in water I turned around. We were pretty far out.
"Tohru, look!" I said "You can see the house from here!"
Tofu turned around "Ah... You're right!"
"It's so pretty." added Samantha "Tohru, do you like the ocean?"
"Yes!" she said.
"Do you wanna go out more to swim?" Samantha asked
"Okay!" answered Tohru. She started doing the front stroke (or forward crawl, whichever suits you).
"She's really good." said Samantha amazed.
I turned to the beach "Hey!" I called "Look, look, you three! Tohru's amaaaazing! Look at her swim!"
Kyo stopped let go of Haru, he was giving him a noogie, and they all watched. I turned around to see Samantha walking in Tohru's direction. Tohru was swimming toward the rocks lining the swimming hole. Kyo walked up and sat at the edge with an inner tube where Tohru was. I started swimming up. Tohru stopped swimming and took deep breaths. Kyo and her talked but I couldn't hear them. I caught up to Samantha who had stopped 5 meters from Tohru and was smiling watching the two converse. Kyo tossed the inner tube over Tohru and jumped in the water.
"Yo, Momiji!" he called "Teach her how to breathe!" he said pulling Tohru with him.
"Ah ha ha ha!" laughed Tohru with her arms flying up.
"Eh?!" Kyo turned around "Wh-what are you laughing about?!" he asked irritated
"This is so fun!" giggled Tohru "Going "whee!" through the waves. Oh! I-I'm sorry, Kyo-kun. Y-you're in the water... With your clothes on...!" she started panicking "A-are you all right?!"
Kyo turned to her. "You want fun? I'll give you fun!" Kyo smirked and spun her in the water.
"Waaahh!" squealed Tohru
I swam over "I wanna turn, I wanna turn!" I called
"You want some of this squirt?" challenged Kyo
"Here you go Momiji-kun" said Tohru offering me the inner tube once she stopped spinning.
Samantha giggled and swam up to us.
Kyo spun me really hard and we all laughed. We swam in a little closer to shore.
"Yuki-kuuun!" called Tohru
"Come join us Yuki, Haru!" I called
"Ah... Okay!" Yuki called back.
I got a splash from behind me. I turned around to find Samantha trying to keep a straight face, but she kept giggling. I splashed her back and so did Tohru.
"QUIT SPLASHING!" shouted Kyo
"You're no fun Kyo!" I whined. Kyo huffed and headed to the beach. But was pulled back in by Haru.
"I challenge you to a contest." Haru said pulling Kyo in by the arm.
"STOP IT, YOU IDIOT!" yelled Kyo struggling to get back to shore. "ARE YOU TRYING TO KILL ME?!"
"It's pretty cold... The water." said Yuki walking up behind us.
"You'll get use to it in no time!" I cheered
"Haha, yes! Just dive in!" laughed Samantha
"Uh... I don't think I'll do that." Yuki said sweat dropping. He turned to Tohru "You look good in that swim suit. You're cute." he smiled
"EH?!" Tohru's face turned red "Ah! Um! Th-thank you very much!" she looked away from Yuki. Tohru is always cute. "It's thanks to all you all buying it for me... Eh! Um... That is... But... This really is a wonderful place...! If only everyone else could come, too..."
"Awe Tohru, you don't take compliments well like me." Samantha giggled giving Tohru a hug.
"Ah! Not to worry!" I added to Tohru's earlier comment "I sent letters to Harii and Aya and Ritchan and Kisa and Hiro and Kagura telling them to all come!"
"Even Nii-san? That's almost everyone, all right..." said Yuki blandly
"Nii-san... That's older brother right?" Samantha asked Yuki.
"Yes." he answered with a smile.
"Yuki!" called Haru "Want to compete with us? If you join, Kyo will get into it."
"Like hell I will! I'm not THAT simple!" Kyo shouted still struggling to get out of Haru's grip
T_T ...
"Maybe I will join..." said Yuki looking into the distance and he walked toward Haru and Kyo
"THERE'S NO WAY I'M GONNA LOSE!" shouted Kyo walking to shore to throw his shirt away "I'M GONNA KICK YOUR ASSES!"
"See, Yuki?" said Haru "Wha'd I tell ya?" Yuki just shook his head. Samantha giggled.
"Ah, uh, um..." Tohru started "Please don't push your selves to hard!"
"It would be nice if they'd just swim like normal people." I said, "They're so childish." We all smiled together. And watched them swim. They swam towards the rocks, Kyo pulled ahead and Yuki disappeared under the water. He then reappeared and climbed up to the rocks beating Kyo. They started arguing.
I got another splash at my side. "I got a little ball." said Samantha "Let's play piggy in the middle. You can be in the middle Momiji!"
"Okay!" Tohru and I replied. Samantha swam out a bit and tossed the ball to Tohru. She caught it and threw it back. Samantha caught it and tried an underhand toss; I almost reached it that time. Suddenly Yuki popped out of the water startling Samantha.
"Eeeekk!" she squealed. "What are you guys doing?!" she asked her eyes wide as Kyo popped up behind her
"Dammit!" he said "I almost beat you that time! One more go!"
"Haha, why don't you play piggy in the middle with us?" I asked Kyo.
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"That sounds nice." said Yuki as Tohru tossed him the ball
"Okay." said Haru joining in the circle
"Hey, I have to beat rat boy first!" Kyo said
"Why don't you take a little break, Kyo?" Samantha sweetly asked, "Then you'll have more energy for later." she gave him a smile catching the ball Haru tossed to her.
Kyo rubbed the back of his head. "Fine." he sighed.
So Kyo's relaxed around her too? Hmm...
Samantha tossed Kyo the ball. "Catch!"
Kyo caught the ball and the ball and threw it at Haru.
We had a fun time. After playing piggy in the middle the boys had another race that Yuki won. We swam over to meet them at the rocks. Samantha cocked her head and swam up to Yuki, she put her wrist to his forehead.
"Ah! You're really warm Yuki!" Her eyes filled with concern. "Are you feeling dizzy?"
"Whaa?" panicked Tohru "Are you okay?!"
"I'm fine." said Yuki calmly.
"Well you better get out of the sun." said Samantha firmly "We don't want you getting a heat stroke and transforming."
She took him by the hand and led him out of the water. The rest of us followed.
Back at the house we changed and Samantha put a thermometer in Yuki's mouth like a mother would. It was so cute. It turned out he had a fever so he lay down on the couch. Kyo went to bed early.
Tohru ran into the living room with a cool towel and put it over Yuki's for head. We sat on the floor next to him and Haru sat on the end of the couch.
"To suddenly get a fever like that... I guess the heat really was getting to him." stated Haru "Maybe you should carry around a parasol tomorrow."
"I absolutely will not." Yuki replied
"Y-y-y-Yuki-kun...!" panicked Tohru with tears in her eyes. "H-h-hang in there! To think that while you were suffering so, I was just standing there watching, having fun...! Aaahhh!"
"It's just a slight fever. Don't worry... Calm down." said Yuki
"He's right Tohru." reassured Samantha giving Tohru a squeeze leaning her head on Tohru "If anyone's to blame it's Yuki. He should have been more aware."
Yuki looked at her. Samantha gave him a look like "You know it's true."
"But that was amazing, Yuki!" I cheered "You were first place in the contest!"
"And the shock caused Kyo to go to bed early out of spite." added Haru.
"Yuki... Is it okay if I go take a bath?" Haru asked coolly
"Huh? Go ahead. You don't have to ask me."
"... I thought you might get lonely." Haru answered nonchalantly
"Go! Now!" Yuki sat up
"We're here with him! Leave it to us!" I called to Haru as he left the room
"Yes!" said Tohru, "P-please leave it to us!"
"'Kay" he answered as he went through the door
We turned back to Yuki, he was lying down again with his hand on his head.
"... I'm sorry." he said looking over at us "I made all of you worry after all. I think the fever will go down soon, so..."
"Please..." Tohru cut off "We're the ones who should be sorry. Hopefully the sun won't be so bright tomorrow..."
"Are we going to the beach tomorrow, too?" Yuki asked
"Tomorrow is a forest expedition!" Samantha and I cheered in unison
"We have to put sugar-water on the trees and catch stag beetles!" I added
"They say that Kunugi trees are good for that!" added Samantha
"I see. Kunugi, is it...?" thought Tohru, I turned to her, "I wonder what kind of tree a Kunugi is..."
"I wonder..." I looked up in thought
"Oh yeah! You know, I bet it's a tree with acorns!" I said
"Like an oak tree?" wondered Samantha leaning over to us.
"I see, acorns..." said Tohru still in thought "Aah! I've never seen acorns in a tree before!"
"Really?" I asked "Come to think of it, I don't think I have either..."
"A bunch of squirrels threw acorns at my friends and I one day." said Samantha casually
"Whaaaa?" Tohru asked wide-eyed
"That's so weird! Why did they do that?" I questioned
"I think it was because we were too close to their tree." she giggled "Why don't we get that book Shigure lent you to find a Kunugi tree."
"Okay!" I answered, "Take care of Yuki, okay?" I said to Tohru
"Okay!" she replied brightly. Samantha and I left the room.
"Why don't we just use your iPod like last time?" I asked her
"There's no wifi here, so I can't get internet connection." she answered simply
"Oh... Okay." I answered. What's wifi? [he doesn't know what the English term is]
I went to my room and took the book out of my bag. We skipped back into the living room. Tohru was sitting quietly and Yuki had his eyes closed.
"TOHRU!" I called happily holding the book over my head
"Uwaah!" she screamed, her hair puffing out "Yes!?" Yuki's eyes flew open.
I gasped and my eyes got big. I did not expect her to scream "You... You startled me, Tohru. What's wrong? Did I scare you that much? I'm sorry."
"N-no, I-it's all right!" she said looking back and forth between Yuki and I "I'm the one that's sorry. I'm sorry to you too, Yuki-kun. For yelling so loudly..." she sweat dropped
"Is something wrong?" asked Yuki
Samantha knelt down next to Tohru and patted her head.
"No..." sighed Tohru calming down and putting her hands to her chest "I just got lost in thought. I'm alright."
"If your sure." said Samantha "Why don't we look for those trees now?"
I opened the book and looked for Kunugi. I didn't see it in the contents
"Maybe it'll be easier to look in the glossary or index?" suggested Samantha while putting the towel back on Yuki's head since it fell off. She is so motherly. :3
"What's that?" Tohru and I asked. Samantha flipped through the pages until she reached the back. It was filled with words and page numbers. "Look for "Kunugi here, it will tell you what page you will find info about it. I can't really read this though..." she answered sadly. The book was written in Japanese.
Haru came into the room and sat back down on the couch with just a towel over his bare back.
"So, you guys find out how to catch these bugs yet?" he asked
"Eh?!" said Tohru shocked
"It's not that easy!" I whined
Samantha walked behind us. "Isn't that a stag beetle on a leaf?" she asked pointing to a picture in the book
"Yes!" smiled Tohru
"So, all we have to do is look for a tree with those kind of leaves." she smiled back to Tohru
"Oh! Yes, that makes sense." Tohru closed her eyes
"Problem solved!" I said pointing my finger in the air triumphantly.
"Dinner should be ready by now." said Haru
"Should we wake up Kyo?" Samantha asked
"I'll go get him!" smiled Tohru standing up.
"Are you ready to eat, Yuki?" Samantha looked over at Yuki
"Yes." he said as he got up.
~~~time skip~~~
Dinner went well, if you say Yuki and Kyo arguing over who's more idiotic well. They were very funny though. Samantha and I went to bed early so we can wake up and go to the forest in the morning! Stag beetles! Stag Beetles! Stag Beetles! :3