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Fandom: Fruits Basket
Pairing: Sohma Yuki/Manabe Kakeru
Theme Set: Delta
Rating: Uhm... PG-13, I guess
#01 - air
Kakeru had an air about him that drew people in, one that was different than Yuki’s, and he always felt lost in the shuffle.
#02 - apples
Yuki learned early on about Kakeru’s love for apples, and he even tried to plant some apple trees in his garden- let’s just say it didn’t quite work out.
#03 - beginning
When they first moved in together, Yuki laid out the ground rules, which Kakeru always seemed to ‘forget’.
#04 - bugs
“Look! There’s a spider in the fruit salad,” Kakeru proclaimed on a picnic to the park, “and a bee, and a few ants;” this was the last time Yuki was going to allow Kakeru to prepare any food.
#05 - coffee
Yuki didn’t allow coffee in the house; he didn’t like the taste, or the way Kakeru would trash the place after he had had the whole pot, looking for more.
#06 - dark
Never in all his life would Yuki have thought that the fearless, shameless boy obsessed with ‘Power Rangers’ would be afraid of the dark.
#07 - despair
As a child, the only feeling Yuki knew was anguish; all that changed the day Kakeru managed to get under his skin and make him react.
#08 - doors
A major threshold was crossed the day Yuki came out to the head of the family, another was crossed the day he brought his boyfriend back to meet the family.
#09 - drink
When Kakeru told Yuki that he liked him, bluntly and interjected between random comments about some new conspiracy theory, it was over a drink - a Bloody Mary to be precise.
#10 - duty
It was his job to spend so much time around him; they were colleagues, of sorts, and that was the only reason he sought him out during lunch, at least that’s what he told himself as he tried to ignore the butterflies in his stomach.
#11 - earth
They were the perfect Yin and Yang; Yuki was the earth- firm and constant, while Kakeru was like the wind- unpredictable and inconsistent, they balanced each other out.
#12 - end
At the end of the day, Yuki had to admit that he was much happier with Kakeru as his friend, even if he’d never say it out loud.
#13 - fall
Their first fall on their own was spent trying to organize the new apartment so that it complimented both of their personalities, and trying not to kill the other in their sleep.
#14 - fire
“I can’t believe you got fired! You of all people,” Kakeru exclaimed while pacing; Yuki just watched him passively, eyes going back and forth, wondering when he'd become the irresponsible one.
#15 - flexible
“How can you twist like that,” Yuki wondered out loud as he watched Kakeru maneuver his way through the barely opened window of the small, locked, turned-off car.
#16 - flying
He felt like he was soaring, floating on air, it was the most amazing and pleasurable sensation he’d ever felt; “Kakeru…” he started, “you bake the best brownies.”
#17 - food
The quickest way to a guy’s heart is through his stomach; Yuki was no different, Kakeru found out as he gave the boy more cheese.
#18 - foot
The only real complaint Yuki had about sharing a bed with Kakeru was that he moved as he slept, so that Yuki would often wake up to find the other boy’s feet in his face.
#19 - grave
Rolling his eyes, Yuki tried to remember why they were conducting a funeral for an action figure and then remembered that this was Kakeru.
#20 - green
Yuki often found himself lying in the grass, staring up at the sky, and it was during one of these sessions that he found his thought wandering towards a certain Vice President and his feelings for him.
#21 - head
“Sorry, I thought I saw a fly,” Yuki stated calmly after smacking Kakeru on the head.
#22 - hollow
When they first told Yuki the news he hadn’t believed them, he’d demanded to see Kakeru, he wanted the other man to tell him that this was some kind of sick joke; when Yuki finally did see him - pale, cold, peaceful looking, and lifeless - he felt a little part of himself die.
#23 - honor
All of the students of Kaibara - save for Kyo - admired their ‘prince’, and when he came out to them publicly, they respected him even more for putting himself out there, though their image of him was a little tarnished when they saw him kissing the loud-mouthed, obnoxious boyfriend he chose.
#24 - hope
Kakeru hoped the store was open, because he needed to buy a gift for Yuki, because if he forgot again, the other boy would be most displeased and Kakeru wouldn’t get to have sex for a month, and he couldn’t allow that to happen.
#25 - light
Every night, there was a struggle over the bedside lamp; Yuki would want to read, while Kakeru just wanted to go to sleep or have some fun in the dark… needless to say, Kakeru usually got his way.
#26 - lost
Kakeru looked up from the map with a sheepish smile on his face, “Heh heh… It was upside-down;” Yuki closed his eyes and counted to ten before snatching the map and trying to figure out a way back to the trail.
#27 - metal
“Kakeru… I don’t have my ear pierced,” Yuki stated blankly as he opened the box to find a small, gold hoop; he looked up to see Kakeru standing before him, needle and ice cube in hand.
#28 - new
As with all new relationships, each person tests how far they can push the other one before they snap; however, Sohma Yuki and Manabe Kakeru bring this to a whole new level.
#29 - old
“When we get old, we’ll be the coolest old people! We’ll go to Bingo night, and always win, and we’ll race each other down the street with our electric scooter things,” Kakeru exclaimed one day to Yuki during what was supposed to be a Student Council meeting.
#30 - peace
Yuki decided that, after many arguments and near miss fights, a truce should be formed between himself and his Vice President so that they could all rest easy at the meetings - not that Kakeru ever had a problem resting at said meetings.
#31 - poison
The feeling he got when he was around the other was intoxicating, he was addicted, so much so that he often found himself seeking the other boy out and just sitting next to him, just to get his ‘fix’ for the day.
#32 - pretty
Kakeru learned the hard way never to call Yuki ‘pretty,’ many nights alone on the couch and many cold shoulders were a testament to that.
#33 - rain
Of all the quirky things Kakeru did, Yuki’s favorite had to be when it rained and the other man - even at twenty-eight - would run outside and dance, his face turned toward the sky, smiling.
#34 - regret
Yuki regrets, with all of his being, that Kakeru found him being kissed by Machi -Kakeru’s own sister - but moreso, he regrets that he walked in before he could see Yuki gently push Machi away and tell her he was in love with someone else.
#35 - roses
On their first date, Kakeru brought Yuki flowers, to which Yuki raised an eyebrow to; “Who said I was the girl in the relationship?”
#36 - secret
When Yuki told Kakeru about the family curse the other boy was in stitches, he was beside himself; “I can’t believe you turn into the rat!”
#37 - snakes
Since Kakeru wanted a pet so badly, Yuki finally relented and accompanied his boyfriend to the pet shop, but he put his foot down when Kakeru held a snake under his nose, eyes pleading.
#38 - snow
‘Maybe this won’t be so bad,’ Yuki thought reluctantly as he agreed to go to the park with Kakeru; he took it back when a ball of cold, hard snow caught him in the back of the head.
#39 - solid
Yuki raised an eyebrow at Kakeru, who was currently clutching his head in pain, and simply said, “As much as I know you want to believe otherwise, you’re not a super-hero; you can’t walk through walls.”
#40 - spring
Living with Kakeru was like living with a Jack in the Box that had it’s own agenda, you could never be sure when it would leap out at you, but you knew it was coming.
#41 - stable
“Come on, Yuki,” Kakeru chided gently, “it’s not going to bite you,” he finished with a giggle; Yuki didn’t seem to share his humor, as he glared at the giant beast in front of him - it wasn’t his fault he couldn’t look at a horse without thinking of Rin.
#42 - strange
Their relationship could never be called ‘normal,’ both of them were far too unusual for that; and the way they interacted with each other - carefully treading around nerves all the time, setting the other off (intentionally or not) and then not speaking for days, only to turn around and be lovey-dovey at the drop of a hat - would drive lesser people to the brink of insanity.
#43 - summer
Summer nights were all sweat, heat, and agitation, until they found that skinny-dipping in the lake nearby was a great way to cool down, and that was a perfect excuse.
#44 - taboo
It was an unspoken agreement between them that the subject of Yuki’s family - and, therefore, his estrangement from them - was not to be brought up for any reason.
#45 - ugly
“No, absolutely not. I will not allow that monstrosity into my house,” Yuki firmly stated when he saw Kakeru trying to smuggle his life-sized, cardboard cut-out of the Black Ranger into the house as he was moving in.
#46 - war
Every time Yuki and Kakeru tried to settle something, a mini war would break out, and the rest of the Student Council would just sit and watch, their eyes darting back and forth between the two as though watching a tennis match.
#47 - water
“How can you burn water,” Kakeru asked in amazement as Yuki attempted to cook a celebratory dinner in honor of his significant other’s promotion - needless to say, they ended up going out for dinner that evening.
#48 - welcome
For his own reasons, Yuki had insisted on having a ‘welcome home’ mat in front of their door.
#49 - winter
Because it was so cold outside, Yuki and Kakeru decided to stay in, opting to sit on the couch in front the fire, with a large blanket wrapped around the two of them, and drink hot cocoa, waiting for the blizzard to end.
#50 - wood
Kakeru’s favorite thing to do was slide across their oak floors with only his socks and boxers on, while Yuki’s favorite thing to do was to watch.
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Yeah... No my best work. But this is the first time I've done something like this. I hope to fill out the rest of the sets, too. I broke a lot of rules in this, I think... English rules, the only rules I live by. I give myself an 'F' for that.
Well! Tell me what you thought!
Pairing: Sohma Yuki/Manabe Kakeru
Theme Set: Delta
Rating: Uhm... PG-13, I guess
#01 - air
Kakeru had an air about him that drew people in, one that was different than Yuki’s, and he always felt lost in the shuffle.
#02 - apples
Yuki learned early on about Kakeru’s love for apples, and he even tried to plant some apple trees in his garden- let’s just say it didn’t quite work out.
#03 - beginning
When they first moved in together, Yuki laid out the ground rules, which Kakeru always seemed to ‘forget’.
#04 - bugs
“Look! There’s a spider in the fruit salad,” Kakeru proclaimed on a picnic to the park, “and a bee, and a few ants;” this was the last time Yuki was going to allow Kakeru to prepare any food.
#05 - coffee
Yuki didn’t allow coffee in the house; he didn’t like the taste, or the way Kakeru would trash the place after he had had the whole pot, looking for more.
#06 - dark
Never in all his life would Yuki have thought that the fearless, shameless boy obsessed with ‘Power Rangers’ would be afraid of the dark.
#07 - despair
As a child, the only feeling Yuki knew was anguish; all that changed the day Kakeru managed to get under his skin and make him react.
#08 - doors
A major threshold was crossed the day Yuki came out to the head of the family, another was crossed the day he brought his boyfriend back to meet the family.
#09 - drink
When Kakeru told Yuki that he liked him, bluntly and interjected between random comments about some new conspiracy theory, it was over a drink - a Bloody Mary to be precise.
#10 - duty
It was his job to spend so much time around him; they were colleagues, of sorts, and that was the only reason he sought him out during lunch, at least that’s what he told himself as he tried to ignore the butterflies in his stomach.
#11 - earth
They were the perfect Yin and Yang; Yuki was the earth- firm and constant, while Kakeru was like the wind- unpredictable and inconsistent, they balanced each other out.
#12 - end
At the end of the day, Yuki had to admit that he was much happier with Kakeru as his friend, even if he’d never say it out loud.
#13 - fall
Their first fall on their own was spent trying to organize the new apartment so that it complimented both of their personalities, and trying not to kill the other in their sleep.
#14 - fire
“I can’t believe you got fired! You of all people,” Kakeru exclaimed while pacing; Yuki just watched him passively, eyes going back and forth, wondering when he'd become the irresponsible one.
#15 - flexible
“How can you twist like that,” Yuki wondered out loud as he watched Kakeru maneuver his way through the barely opened window of the small, locked, turned-off car.
#16 - flying
He felt like he was soaring, floating on air, it was the most amazing and pleasurable sensation he’d ever felt; “Kakeru…” he started, “you bake the best brownies.”
#17 - food
The quickest way to a guy’s heart is through his stomach; Yuki was no different, Kakeru found out as he gave the boy more cheese.
#18 - foot
The only real complaint Yuki had about sharing a bed with Kakeru was that he moved as he slept, so that Yuki would often wake up to find the other boy’s feet in his face.
#19 - grave
Rolling his eyes, Yuki tried to remember why they were conducting a funeral for an action figure and then remembered that this was Kakeru.
#20 - green
Yuki often found himself lying in the grass, staring up at the sky, and it was during one of these sessions that he found his thought wandering towards a certain Vice President and his feelings for him.
#21 - head
“Sorry, I thought I saw a fly,” Yuki stated calmly after smacking Kakeru on the head.
#22 - hollow
When they first told Yuki the news he hadn’t believed them, he’d demanded to see Kakeru, he wanted the other man to tell him that this was some kind of sick joke; when Yuki finally did see him - pale, cold, peaceful looking, and lifeless - he felt a little part of himself die.
#23 - honor
All of the students of Kaibara - save for Kyo - admired their ‘prince’, and when he came out to them publicly, they respected him even more for putting himself out there, though their image of him was a little tarnished when they saw him kissing the loud-mouthed, obnoxious boyfriend he chose.
#24 - hope
Kakeru hoped the store was open, because he needed to buy a gift for Yuki, because if he forgot again, the other boy would be most displeased and Kakeru wouldn’t get to have sex for a month, and he couldn’t allow that to happen.
#25 - light
Every night, there was a struggle over the bedside lamp; Yuki would want to read, while Kakeru just wanted to go to sleep or have some fun in the dark… needless to say, Kakeru usually got his way.
#26 - lost
Kakeru looked up from the map with a sheepish smile on his face, “Heh heh… It was upside-down;” Yuki closed his eyes and counted to ten before snatching the map and trying to figure out a way back to the trail.
#27 - metal
“Kakeru… I don’t have my ear pierced,” Yuki stated blankly as he opened the box to find a small, gold hoop; he looked up to see Kakeru standing before him, needle and ice cube in hand.
#28 - new
As with all new relationships, each person tests how far they can push the other one before they snap; however, Sohma Yuki and Manabe Kakeru bring this to a whole new level.
#29 - old
“When we get old, we’ll be the coolest old people! We’ll go to Bingo night, and always win, and we’ll race each other down the street with our electric scooter things,” Kakeru exclaimed one day to Yuki during what was supposed to be a Student Council meeting.
#30 - peace
Yuki decided that, after many arguments and near miss fights, a truce should be formed between himself and his Vice President so that they could all rest easy at the meetings - not that Kakeru ever had a problem resting at said meetings.
#31 - poison
The feeling he got when he was around the other was intoxicating, he was addicted, so much so that he often found himself seeking the other boy out and just sitting next to him, just to get his ‘fix’ for the day.
#32 - pretty
Kakeru learned the hard way never to call Yuki ‘pretty,’ many nights alone on the couch and many cold shoulders were a testament to that.
#33 - rain
Of all the quirky things Kakeru did, Yuki’s favorite had to be when it rained and the other man - even at twenty-eight - would run outside and dance, his face turned toward the sky, smiling.
#34 - regret
Yuki regrets, with all of his being, that Kakeru found him being kissed by Machi -Kakeru’s own sister - but moreso, he regrets that he walked in before he could see Yuki gently push Machi away and tell her he was in love with someone else.
#35 - roses
On their first date, Kakeru brought Yuki flowers, to which Yuki raised an eyebrow to; “Who said I was the girl in the relationship?”
#36 - secret
When Yuki told Kakeru about the family curse the other boy was in stitches, he was beside himself; “I can’t believe you turn into the rat!”
#37 - snakes
Since Kakeru wanted a pet so badly, Yuki finally relented and accompanied his boyfriend to the pet shop, but he put his foot down when Kakeru held a snake under his nose, eyes pleading.
#38 - snow
‘Maybe this won’t be so bad,’ Yuki thought reluctantly as he agreed to go to the park with Kakeru; he took it back when a ball of cold, hard snow caught him in the back of the head.
#39 - solid
Yuki raised an eyebrow at Kakeru, who was currently clutching his head in pain, and simply said, “As much as I know you want to believe otherwise, you’re not a super-hero; you can’t walk through walls.”
#40 - spring
Living with Kakeru was like living with a Jack in the Box that had it’s own agenda, you could never be sure when it would leap out at you, but you knew it was coming.
#41 - stable
“Come on, Yuki,” Kakeru chided gently, “it’s not going to bite you,” he finished with a giggle; Yuki didn’t seem to share his humor, as he glared at the giant beast in front of him - it wasn’t his fault he couldn’t look at a horse without thinking of Rin.
#42 - strange
Their relationship could never be called ‘normal,’ both of them were far too unusual for that; and the way they interacted with each other - carefully treading around nerves all the time, setting the other off (intentionally or not) and then not speaking for days, only to turn around and be lovey-dovey at the drop of a hat - would drive lesser people to the brink of insanity.
#43 - summer
Summer nights were all sweat, heat, and agitation, until they found that skinny-dipping in the lake nearby was a great way to cool down, and that was a perfect excuse.
#44 - taboo
It was an unspoken agreement between them that the subject of Yuki’s family - and, therefore, his estrangement from them - was not to be brought up for any reason.
#45 - ugly
“No, absolutely not. I will not allow that monstrosity into my house,” Yuki firmly stated when he saw Kakeru trying to smuggle his life-sized, cardboard cut-out of the Black Ranger into the house as he was moving in.
#46 - war
Every time Yuki and Kakeru tried to settle something, a mini war would break out, and the rest of the Student Council would just sit and watch, their eyes darting back and forth between the two as though watching a tennis match.
#47 - water
“How can you burn water,” Kakeru asked in amazement as Yuki attempted to cook a celebratory dinner in honor of his significant other’s promotion - needless to say, they ended up going out for dinner that evening.
#48 - welcome
For his own reasons, Yuki had insisted on having a ‘welcome home’ mat in front of their door.
#49 - winter
Because it was so cold outside, Yuki and Kakeru decided to stay in, opting to sit on the couch in front the fire, with a large blanket wrapped around the two of them, and drink hot cocoa, waiting for the blizzard to end.
#50 - wood
Kakeru’s favorite thing to do was slide across their oak floors with only his socks and boxers on, while Yuki’s favorite thing to do was to watch.
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Yeah... No my best work. But this is the first time I've done something like this. I hope to fill out the rest of the sets, too. I broke a lot of rules in this, I think... English rules, the only rules I live by. I give myself an 'F' for that.
Well! Tell me what you thought!