Hiya! SakuraBubbles here with a brand new Fruits Basket fic! … Okay, so it's the only Fruits Basket fic I have written… but STILL!!
I usually write for Final Fantasy or other video games but I still love anime and manga. OH, and speaking of manga… I haven't read past book 3 of the manga yet, although I know of certain four-legged bitches—I mean horses—who come in later. Until a few nights ago, I didn't know that there was anything between Haru and this wanker. Therefore, SCREW 'ER. She doesn't exist in the anime, therefore she doesn't exist in my happy little world. … stupid friggin…
But! Anyway, before I go on a Rinoa, er, Rin rant, I must say that if you don't like shounen ai… go away. Honestly. Who leaves a review simply to state the "wrongness" of homosexuality??! It's definitely not a good thing to do, especially since I'm a lesbian. So… yeah. No flames just for that.
Also! This has a straight pairing too!! WOOT! … And another also! I won't have any random Japanese words like "hai" and "ohaiyou" because that comes across as poser-ish. They're already speaking Japanese, so why randomly show off what I know? Heh. I have the suffixes because that is how they refer to people in Japan. Booyaka.
Disclaimer: I don't own any fruits or any baskets to hold them in. Nor do I own Fruits Basket. That would be swell if I did though. I'd have Yuki and Haru doing naugh—I mean I would…. ah screw it.
Chapter One: Onigiri
They knew it would one day come down to this. Even Shigure knew. The only one who didn't know was of course the girl they were fighting over.
Kyo had been angry all day—he fell out of bed instead of regularly waking up thanks to Shigure being loud about who KNOWS what, Tohru had promised to have Kisa and Hiro over to have leeks for dinner, that stupid COW Hatsuharu had accompanied the little brats because he had been babysitting them anyway, Shigure was… still SHIGURE, and Yuki…
"You fucking rat! That's the last time I hear you talkin' like she's your own!" yelled Kyo. Yuki had been outside on his way back from his garden, talking with Haru about Tohru. Kyo had been in his usual perch on the roof when he overheard Yuki talking about Tohru very… fondly, to put it mildly.
"Shut up," said Yuki coolly. Haru put a hand on Yuki's shoulder.
"Yuki, let's ignore him and go inside—"
"Go eat some grass you stupid cow!!" Kyo spat. Haru looked over slowly.
"Say that again?"
"Stop it—I'm not in the mood," snapped Yuki. Haru backed off.
"Whatever. You two take care of this—I'll take Kisa and Hiro home or something."
Off he went inside the house, past Kyo. Kyo and Yuki remained stationary, glaring at each other.
"… You stay away from her," said Kyo angrily. Yuki sighed.
"You yell at me to not speak of Honda-san as property and yet now you're saying this?" Kyo just yelled out obscenities in return, so Yuki continued, "Step aside so I can get into the house."
"Fight your way in," ordered Kyo, getting into a stance. Yuki crossed his arms over his chest.
"I'm not in the mood—"
He was nearly punched in the face—Kyo was fast as he went for him. Yuki put his guard back up where it always was and attacked Kyo.
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Tohru looked toward the outside door, hearing yells and shouts.
"Wh-what's going on?"
"Yuki and Kyo have decided to fight again," answered Haru softly. Kisa was helping to put the dishes away as Hiro watched with his big eyes. Tohru looked to Haru, startled.
"Like a fist fight?"
"I'm sure they're kicking, too."
Shigure rolled his eyes up from reading the newspaper. Before meeting Tohru, this would have been no surprise. However, Yuki and Kyo weren't fighting every day—they got along so much better now, so even he didn't understand.
"But why? They never fight anymore," he said. Haru tilted his head toward Tohru and realization painted itself over Shigure's face. In a jump start, he got up and bolted out of the door. Tohru and Haru followed after ordering Kisa and Hiro to stay inside.
"Oh no!!" yelped Tohru. Kyo's shirt had been ripped and the lose strap had been taken off of the back of his pants. Yuki's shirt was missing some buttons so it now flapped open whenever he moved. His lip was bleeding.
"They… haven't…" was all Shigure managed to say. He looked to Tohru, who was staring at them, wide-eyed, ready to cry. Haru was standing uncomfortably to the side. Kyo spat on the ground, his eyes on Yuki.
"I hate you! You steal everything from me! First the banquet and now—"
"Get over it, stupid cat!!" Yuki interrupted Kyo's ranting with a swift kick to the stomach. Kyo recovered more quickly than usual and went in for a punch or three.
"Stop it!!" yelled Tohru. This was worse than what they had done around the time she had first met them. What had triggered this?
Shigure knew both what they were fighting over and that Tohru was oblivious to it. She was far too naïve…
Before either Shigure or Haru could realize it, Tohru rushed forward to try to stop them. Yuki was ready to side tackle Kyo over but in a flurry of brunette hair, he knew his target had changed. He tried to stop but couldn't and afterwards, he tripped over her fallen body and lay at Kyo's feet.
Under different circumstances, Kyo would have loved to see Yuki sprawled in front of him. But his eyes were on Tohru, who was now curling herself into a ball, holding her arm. Yuki got up to his hands and knees and rubbed his head, then looked behind him.
"Honda-san!"
She was crying and he hated the fact that he had caused it. Kyo rushed over—as did Shigure—and knelt beside her shaking body.
"Tohru! Where do you feel the most pain?" asked Shigure, trying to get a look at the girl's face. Her hair had fallen almost tragically in front of her face, much like it had when she had discovered Kyo's true form. Haru helped Yuki up, as he had hurt his ankle from tripping and earlier trying to halt his attack.
"A-arm," Tohru managed to tell him weakly, sobs choking her voice. Shigure looked to Kyo.
"Call Hatori."
Kyo rushed off obediently. After watching him go, Shigure hesitantly put a hand on Tohru's head, trying to calm her. She was obviously crying over more than just a hurt arm.
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Hatori had arrived and immediately taken care of Tohru in her room. Kyo had escaped to the rooftop, Kisa was with Tohru and Hatori, worried to death, Hiro was naturally at Kisa's side, and Haru was attending to Yuki's ankle downstairs.
"I can't believe I did that to her…" Yuki said, his hand tangled in his dark gray hair. Haru's eyes trailed up to Yuki's face as he said, "It's not like you meant to. She tried to stop you two from fighting and did it in the stupidest of ways. Shigure and I didn't even see her run to you."
Yuki opened his eyes and looked down to Haru, who was just finishing up wrapping up Yuki's ankle.
"But I saw her before I knocked her down. I saw that she was there… but I couldn't stop moving…"
Haru stood up and framed Yuki's face with his hands. In Yuki's current state of mind, he didn't care.
"I'm sure she's not angry with you. Tohru-san is more forgiving than that. She'll understand."
"… Did she know why we were fighting?"
Haru slowly shook his head. Yuki moved his hands up to Haru's and removed them from his face then let them go. Haru dropped them at his sides and turned.
"You have to let her decide who she wants."
He headed toward the stairs in hopes of seeing Tohru but just then, Kyo came in, a murderous glint in his eye. Haru rushed back to Yuki and plopped down next to him, ready to protect him if need be.
"You… stupid… rat…" he said sourly. "See what you've done?!"
"What I've done?! You were the one who started the fight!!"
"You pushed her down!"
"It was an accident!"
"You idiot! What if you had seriously hurt her?!"
"Keep it down," Haru snapped, teetering from White to Black to White, back and forth like someone balancing on a fence. "Tohru is probably trying to get some rest and it doesn't help if you two are squabbling."
Kyo hushed and Yuki looked away. Haru knew that the tension that the two had between each other used to be really bad, but thanks to, he assumed Tohru, the tension had thinned. But now it had filled the room up so bad Haru swore that everything looked blurry. Hatori came downstairs after a bit and looked to the others with his visible eye.
"She has a broken arm and a few cuts on her leg. It seems like when she fell, she landed right on the elbow and completely snapped the ulna in half."
Yuki winced. I did that to her…
"I'll be coming by again tomorrow and then weekly thereafter. She mustn't do anything with that arm—so no cleaning, cooking, or writing if she's right handed."
"She is," Kyo stated. Yuki sighed.
"No cleaning? Shigure must be depressed."
As if on cue, Shigure appeared behind Hatori.
"I sort of am, but it's okay. Poor Tohru-kun…"
"Why don't I cook and clean for you?" offered Haru. Kyo stared.
"No! Get the hell out of this house!"
Shigure, on the other hand, was looking at Haru in an all new light.
"You would… do that for us?"
"Yeah—I always clean back at the Main House. And this is all I can do for her, so I may as well do it. She probably hates the idea of being stuck in bed."
"Well, you can do whatever starting tomorrow. Tonight, we're returning to the Main House so you can at least pack up your things and drop Kisa and Hiro off like you were supposed to thirty minutes ago," Hatori sighed, turning away. Haru looked up to the clock on the wall and made a small yelp.
"WHOA! When did… holy crap!"
He got up and rushed into the other room. Yuki sighed and counted down from three on his fingers; once all the fingers were down, Haru appeared back in the room to give Yuki a kiss on the cheek and then again rushed off. Kyo slapped his forehead and Yuki gazed out the window.
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That look in Kyo's eyes…
Yuki had a similar look, but Kyo looked as though he was hurt more than anything, like he absolutely had to win that fight this evening. Tohru supposed that she was somewhat happy that they stopped fighting, but it wasn't like the way she had wanted them to stop. Also… if she couldn't use her right arm, how could she write essays for school or clean up the house? She felt like crying again, but her throat hurt too much to do so.
Mother… I can't write anything right now… what am I supposed to do about school?
She was so worried that she would let her mother down if she couldn't do her schoolwork. She was so worried that she would let her mother down if she couldn't do her schoolwork. … Well! She wasn't about to let that get in her way. She would teach herself to write with her left hand if she must! Or she'd get one of her friends to help her! Yeah, that was it! Maybe Yuki would—
Her thoughts hushed out instantly as she thought of Yuki. He couldn't have possibly done that on purpose. It had been somewhat stupid of her to try to stop them like she had, but she had done it anyway, thinking of nothing better to do. Again, she was grateful that they had stopped or else instead of her broken arm, it would have been one of their broken faces. She sighed, wishing that she knew what had started the brutal fight.
Well! How was that? No shounen ai yet, sorry. Yuki and Kyo are so angsty. Poor Tohru, having the love of those two boys. And poor Yuki, having the love of Haru. ::winks:: Well, the next fun fun chapter should be coming soon, depending on if I have enough reviews. SO if you like it, REVIEW IT!! ::bows and runs away::
I usually write for Final Fantasy or other video games but I still love anime and manga. OH, and speaking of manga… I haven't read past book 3 of the manga yet, although I know of certain four-legged bitches—I mean horses—who come in later. Until a few nights ago, I didn't know that there was anything between Haru and this wanker. Therefore, SCREW 'ER. She doesn't exist in the anime, therefore she doesn't exist in my happy little world. … stupid friggin…
But! Anyway, before I go on a Rinoa, er, Rin rant, I must say that if you don't like shounen ai… go away. Honestly. Who leaves a review simply to state the "wrongness" of homosexuality??! It's definitely not a good thing to do, especially since I'm a lesbian. So… yeah. No flames just for that.
Also! This has a straight pairing too!! WOOT! … And another also! I won't have any random Japanese words like "hai" and "ohaiyou" because that comes across as poser-ish. They're already speaking Japanese, so why randomly show off what I know? Heh. I have the suffixes because that is how they refer to people in Japan. Booyaka.
Disclaimer: I don't own any fruits or any baskets to hold them in. Nor do I own Fruits Basket. That would be swell if I did though. I'd have Yuki and Haru doing naugh—I mean I would…. ah screw it.
They knew it would one day come down to this. Even Shigure knew. The only one who didn't know was of course the girl they were fighting over.
Kyo had been angry all day—he fell out of bed instead of regularly waking up thanks to Shigure being loud about who KNOWS what, Tohru had promised to have Kisa and Hiro over to have leeks for dinner, that stupid COW Hatsuharu had accompanied the little brats because he had been babysitting them anyway, Shigure was… still SHIGURE, and Yuki…
"You fucking rat! That's the last time I hear you talkin' like she's your own!" yelled Kyo. Yuki had been outside on his way back from his garden, talking with Haru about Tohru. Kyo had been in his usual perch on the roof when he overheard Yuki talking about Tohru very… fondly, to put it mildly.
"Shut up," said Yuki coolly. Haru put a hand on Yuki's shoulder.
"Yuki, let's ignore him and go inside—"
"Go eat some grass you stupid cow!!" Kyo spat. Haru looked over slowly.
"Say that again?"
"Stop it—I'm not in the mood," snapped Yuki. Haru backed off.
"Whatever. You two take care of this—I'll take Kisa and Hiro home or something."
Off he went inside the house, past Kyo. Kyo and Yuki remained stationary, glaring at each other.
"… You stay away from her," said Kyo angrily. Yuki sighed.
"You yell at me to not speak of Honda-san as property and yet now you're saying this?" Kyo just yelled out obscenities in return, so Yuki continued, "Step aside so I can get into the house."
"Fight your way in," ordered Kyo, getting into a stance. Yuki crossed his arms over his chest.
"I'm not in the mood—"
He was nearly punched in the face—Kyo was fast as he went for him. Yuki put his guard back up where it always was and attacked Kyo.
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Tohru looked toward the outside door, hearing yells and shouts.
"Wh-what's going on?"
"Yuki and Kyo have decided to fight again," answered Haru softly. Kisa was helping to put the dishes away as Hiro watched with his big eyes. Tohru looked to Haru, startled.
"Like a fist fight?"
"I'm sure they're kicking, too."
Shigure rolled his eyes up from reading the newspaper. Before meeting Tohru, this would have been no surprise. However, Yuki and Kyo weren't fighting every day—they got along so much better now, so even he didn't understand.
"But why? They never fight anymore," he said. Haru tilted his head toward Tohru and realization painted itself over Shigure's face. In a jump start, he got up and bolted out of the door. Tohru and Haru followed after ordering Kisa and Hiro to stay inside.
"Oh no!!" yelped Tohru. Kyo's shirt had been ripped and the lose strap had been taken off of the back of his pants. Yuki's shirt was missing some buttons so it now flapped open whenever he moved. His lip was bleeding.
"They… haven't…" was all Shigure managed to say. He looked to Tohru, who was staring at them, wide-eyed, ready to cry. Haru was standing uncomfortably to the side. Kyo spat on the ground, his eyes on Yuki.
"I hate you! You steal everything from me! First the banquet and now—"
"Get over it, stupid cat!!" Yuki interrupted Kyo's ranting with a swift kick to the stomach. Kyo recovered more quickly than usual and went in for a punch or three.
"Stop it!!" yelled Tohru. This was worse than what they had done around the time she had first met them. What had triggered this?
Shigure knew both what they were fighting over and that Tohru was oblivious to it. She was far too naïve…
Before either Shigure or Haru could realize it, Tohru rushed forward to try to stop them. Yuki was ready to side tackle Kyo over but in a flurry of brunette hair, he knew his target had changed. He tried to stop but couldn't and afterwards, he tripped over her fallen body and lay at Kyo's feet.
Under different circumstances, Kyo would have loved to see Yuki sprawled in front of him. But his eyes were on Tohru, who was now curling herself into a ball, holding her arm. Yuki got up to his hands and knees and rubbed his head, then looked behind him.
"Honda-san!"
She was crying and he hated the fact that he had caused it. Kyo rushed over—as did Shigure—and knelt beside her shaking body.
"Tohru! Where do you feel the most pain?" asked Shigure, trying to get a look at the girl's face. Her hair had fallen almost tragically in front of her face, much like it had when she had discovered Kyo's true form. Haru helped Yuki up, as he had hurt his ankle from tripping and earlier trying to halt his attack.
"A-arm," Tohru managed to tell him weakly, sobs choking her voice. Shigure looked to Kyo.
"Call Hatori."
Kyo rushed off obediently. After watching him go, Shigure hesitantly put a hand on Tohru's head, trying to calm her. She was obviously crying over more than just a hurt arm.
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Hatori had arrived and immediately taken care of Tohru in her room. Kyo had escaped to the rooftop, Kisa was with Tohru and Hatori, worried to death, Hiro was naturally at Kisa's side, and Haru was attending to Yuki's ankle downstairs.
"I can't believe I did that to her…" Yuki said, his hand tangled in his dark gray hair. Haru's eyes trailed up to Yuki's face as he said, "It's not like you meant to. She tried to stop you two from fighting and did it in the stupidest of ways. Shigure and I didn't even see her run to you."
Yuki opened his eyes and looked down to Haru, who was just finishing up wrapping up Yuki's ankle.
"But I saw her before I knocked her down. I saw that she was there… but I couldn't stop moving…"
Haru stood up and framed Yuki's face with his hands. In Yuki's current state of mind, he didn't care.
"I'm sure she's not angry with you. Tohru-san is more forgiving than that. She'll understand."
"… Did she know why we were fighting?"
Haru slowly shook his head. Yuki moved his hands up to Haru's and removed them from his face then let them go. Haru dropped them at his sides and turned.
"You have to let her decide who she wants."
He headed toward the stairs in hopes of seeing Tohru but just then, Kyo came in, a murderous glint in his eye. Haru rushed back to Yuki and plopped down next to him, ready to protect him if need be.
"You… stupid… rat…" he said sourly. "See what you've done?!"
"What I've done?! You were the one who started the fight!!"
"You pushed her down!"
"It was an accident!"
"You idiot! What if you had seriously hurt her?!"
"Keep it down," Haru snapped, teetering from White to Black to White, back and forth like someone balancing on a fence. "Tohru is probably trying to get some rest and it doesn't help if you two are squabbling."
Kyo hushed and Yuki looked away. Haru knew that the tension that the two had between each other used to be really bad, but thanks to, he assumed Tohru, the tension had thinned. But now it had filled the room up so bad Haru swore that everything looked blurry. Hatori came downstairs after a bit and looked to the others with his visible eye.
"She has a broken arm and a few cuts on her leg. It seems like when she fell, she landed right on the elbow and completely snapped the ulna in half."
Yuki winced. I did that to her…
"I'll be coming by again tomorrow and then weekly thereafter. She mustn't do anything with that arm—so no cleaning, cooking, or writing if she's right handed."
"She is," Kyo stated. Yuki sighed.
"No cleaning? Shigure must be depressed."
As if on cue, Shigure appeared behind Hatori.
"I sort of am, but it's okay. Poor Tohru-kun…"
"Why don't I cook and clean for you?" offered Haru. Kyo stared.
"No! Get the hell out of this house!"
Shigure, on the other hand, was looking at Haru in an all new light.
"You would… do that for us?"
"Yeah—I always clean back at the Main House. And this is all I can do for her, so I may as well do it. She probably hates the idea of being stuck in bed."
"Well, you can do whatever starting tomorrow. Tonight, we're returning to the Main House so you can at least pack up your things and drop Kisa and Hiro off like you were supposed to thirty minutes ago," Hatori sighed, turning away. Haru looked up to the clock on the wall and made a small yelp.
"WHOA! When did… holy crap!"
He got up and rushed into the other room. Yuki sighed and counted down from three on his fingers; once all the fingers were down, Haru appeared back in the room to give Yuki a kiss on the cheek and then again rushed off. Kyo slapped his forehead and Yuki gazed out the window.
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That look in Kyo's eyes…
Yuki had a similar look, but Kyo looked as though he was hurt more than anything, like he absolutely had to win that fight this evening. Tohru supposed that she was somewhat happy that they stopped fighting, but it wasn't like the way she had wanted them to stop. Also… if she couldn't use her right arm, how could she write essays for school or clean up the house? She felt like crying again, but her throat hurt too much to do so.
Mother… I can't write anything right now… what am I supposed to do about school?
She was so worried that she would let her mother down if she couldn't do her schoolwork. She was so worried that she would let her mother down if she couldn't do her schoolwork. … Well! She wasn't about to let that get in her way. She would teach herself to write with her left hand if she must! Or she'd get one of her friends to help her! Yeah, that was it! Maybe Yuki would—
Her thoughts hushed out instantly as she thought of Yuki. He couldn't have possibly done that on purpose. It had been somewhat stupid of her to try to stop them like she had, but she had done it anyway, thinking of nothing better to do. Again, she was grateful that they had stopped or else instead of her broken arm, it would have been one of their broken faces. She sighed, wishing that she knew what had started the brutal fight.
Well! How was that? No shounen ai yet, sorry. Yuki and Kyo are so angsty. Poor Tohru, having the love of those two boys. And poor Yuki, having the love of Haru. ::winks:: Well, the next fun fun chapter should be coming soon, depending on if I have enough reviews. SO if you like it, REVIEW IT!! ::bows and runs away::