Childhood Memories - Chapter 06
Title: Childhood Memories
Author: Viv
Genre: drama/angst/romance/humor
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Fruits Basket [manga]
Pairing: Yuki/Kyo
Disclaimer: Furuba would’ve been completely screwed up since the beginning had it belonged to me.
Summary: “Shi-chaaaaan! Kyon-kichi is so mean to meeee!" [multi-chaptered: (01) (02) (03) ( 04) ( 05)]
Yuki froze for the nth time that day.
And so failed to make a run for it with his small cousin in his arms before his brother could have had the chance to glomp the terrified boy who had been hiding behind Yuki less than a second ago.
The dog he could still handle, but Ayame was from a world of his own!
Kyo immediately tensed and his bright hair stood on end, a nervous hiss escaping his small pink lips before he started struggling and trying to reach his violet-eyed cousin in an attempt to escape from the strange white-haired man clinging to him.
A moment of silence followed as Yuki, Shigure and Tohru staring at the scene wide-eyed, the image of a clearly uncomfortable orange kitty taking Kyo’s place between Ayame’s arms. The snake had a wide, blissful (if not dimwitted), open-mouthed smile plastered on his face and for a moment the three observers thought they could see sparkles appearing around the golden-eyed man.
Chuckles followed sweatdrops as the youngest Sohma finally freed himself, by scratching his cousin’s arm and quickly scampering back to his initial hiding place, behind Yuki, much like a disgruntled young cat.
“Kyon-kichi!” the snake sobbed, dramatically holding his arm, “you’re so meeeeeaaaaaaannnn to meeee!”
And then threw himself over Shigure, burying his feminine face into the dog’s shoulder and sobbing wildly (if not shrieking), “Shi-chaaaaan! Kyon-kichi is so mean to meeee! He hurt me, Shi-chan, he hurt meeee!” and clung desperately to the other man as if the inu was a lifesaver in the middle of the cold wide ocean, “he hates me!”
“Aya-chan,” crocodile tears welled up yet again in Shigure’s eyes as he hugged his cousin, “it’s alright! It’s alright! Don’t say that, Kyo-chan doesn’t hate you! No one could ever hate you!”
“Re-really?” sniffed the other man, still clinging onto the dark-haired Sohma, “n-no one? What about you, Shi-chan? Do you at least care about me in some way?”
“Of course!” Shigure replied loud and clear, large tears still glittering at the corner of his eyes, “I love you, Aya-chan! Nothing could ever take away a single shred of the love I have for you! I’ll do everything I can so that nothing ever hurts that beautiful skin of yours again, Aya-chan!”
“Oh, Shi-chan! You really love me, don’t you? You think my skin is beautiful?”
“I think you’re beautiful, Aya-chan!”
“Oh Shi-chan! Take me away! Take me to your room so that we can- ”
“OH FOR FUCK’S SAKE!”
“Now, now, little brother, you shouldn’t be using such crude words. And especially not by Kyon-kichi’s young little virgin ears! I prefer saying that Shi-chan and I will be showing our lov- ”
“Brother.”
“Yes, my cute little brother?”
“Shut. Up. Please.”
“You hear that Shi-chan?” Ayame continued histerically, “Did everyone hear that? I need to call Hari-chan!”
“Yes, yes, you should,” the dog nodded, “this is quite something.”
Yuki, feeling his fingers twitching and itching to smack his brother’s head off, quickly fisted his hands and suppressed the strong urge to do so.
For the moment.
“What the hell? Call for what?” Yuki yelled, clearly frustrated by his older brother. Tohru kept watching and smiling, though worry was starting to show on her face.
“My darling little brother actually said please to me. You heard that, Shi-chan? He said please!” Ayame cheerfully replied in lieu of answering to the teen, whipping out his cell phone from who knows where among the frills of his long dark green coat with golden stitching.
“WHAT!”
“Hari-chaaaaaaaan!” Ayame squealed, “my adoring little brother and I have just made another giant step in our intimate relationship! He actually said please! He said please, Hari-chan! He finally showed me some respect! Oh, Hari-chan you should have seen the looks in his eyes! I could feel all the tenderness of a papa for his baby boy welling up in me when I saw-” and kept gleefully yapping on as the silence on the other end of the line of his cell phone was finally cut off with a ‘click’.
Yuki raise a hand to his face, two fingers rubbing the area between his closed eyes as he tried to get rid of his headache.
His brother kept babbling away, as if their cousin was still listening.
And Yuki tensely, but quickly, scooped his redheaded cousin in his arms and stood up before smiling amiably down at Tohru, his voice eerily calm, “Thank you very much for the meal Honda-san. Though it is delicious, as always, I’m afraid we have both lost our appetite due to the presence of some nuisance in this very room. Now if you’d excuse me, I need to go check on Kyo’s wounds.”
A panicking Tohru froze and stared worriedly at the two cousins.
“Wounds? Oh my God! I completely forgot about Kyo-kun’s wounds! He fell down the stairs yesterday! And then he was bleeding from his head! OH MY GOD! I SHOULD HAVE INSISTED ON CHECKING ON HIM! IS HE ALR-”
“Honda-san,” Yuki promptly but gently cut off, “he’s fine. But it’s already late evening so I should get him to clean up and change before I check on him and made sure everything’s healing fine.”
“Do you need any help?”
“We’ll be fine.”
“But Yuki-kun,” Shigure drawled, “shouldn’t you call Hatori just in case? I mean, Kyo-kun did fall down almost half the stairs and now that he’s Kyo-chan, we need to make sure how his body is really taking it after that… um, transformation?”
“Oh,” the silver-haired adolescent nodded once, “I was telling myself last night that I would, but it completely slipped my mind.”
“Well that’s understandable right now,” his brother replied, voice unusually quiet.
Yuki’s violet eyes widened for a moment under the snake’s gentle gaze, before looking away and softly asking him to call their cousin again.
A decision which he quickly regretted.
“Hari-chaaaaaaan!” the feminine man beamed (because he was the only who could do that over the phone) as he pressed on the speakerphone button, “Listen to me, listen to me, listen to me, listen to me Hari-chaaaaan! My adorable little brother and I just took another step further! He actually trusted me enough to make an important call for him!”
“WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? I could’ve asked anyone!”
“Oh, I feel so touched, Hari-chan! He actually-”
“STOP YAPPING AWAY ABOUT SOME STUPID NONSENSE AND GET TO THE POINT!”
“Your brother’s right. What do you want? It’s past supper time.”
“Hai, hai! He wanted to know if- uh, what was it again?”
Yuki felt his eye twitching again.
“Goodbye, Aya-”
“Ha, Hatori,” Shigure finally intervened, “don’t hang up now.”
“And what do you want?”
“You’re so cold, Hatori.”
“… Goodb-”
“Ah hey wait! I wasn’t finished.”
“What do you want?”
“Actually, it’s not just what I want. Could you come by for a bit, we might have a little patient for you.”
“Little? What did you do to Tohru? Did you overwork her?”
Tohru blinked and fell back as the entire room could gape at the cell phone.
“Well?”
“Oh, oh no, Hatori-san! Shigure-san has been treating me just fine! Actually, this isn’t about me.”
“Hatori-saaaan,” the dog interjected, “how cruel of you to think that! Besides, why did Tohru come first to your mind? Are you possibly harboring a secret giant crush on her?”
“…”
The onigiri girl flushed, eyes wide as saucers and confusion spreading through her features.
“Ah! Your silence gives me more of an answer than anything else could, Hatori.”
“Your level of stupidity shocked me and rendered me speechless for a moment.”
“But anyway, enough with the chitchat here!”
“You and Ayame started it.”
“… Right. Could you just come by? It’s a bit complicated.”
“Fine. I’ll spend the night then.”
“Splendid! Hari-chan, Shi-chan and I will have a slumber party! Hari-chan! Buy some popcorn and chips on your way he-”
‘Click.’
“How mean! And I wanted to ask him to buy those little gummy fruits candies that Kyon-kichi loves so much.”
Hearing that, the boy in question suddenly perked up in Yuki’s arms and stared at the older Sohma, who was grinning at him.
“You still like those, don’t you Kyon-kichi?”
Kyo shyly nodded, hands still gripping tightly onto Yuki’s shirt as the older boy slightly released his hold on him.
“Don’t you remember, little kitty?”
“… Yame?” a small voice hesitantly replied.
The older Sohma beamed yet again, this time with roses appearing behind him.
“Come give Yame-sama a hug, daaaarrrling!”
Kyo, now excited, quickly jumped down from Yuki’s arms and scrambled over to jump into the snake’s lap, giggling and struggling as the pale man squished him to his chest.
Yuki, Tohru and Shigure looked on, grinning (and sweatdropping).
Until five minutes later, as Ayame was still squishing the small neko.
Kyo had stopped giggling a good three minutes ago and was now staring glumly at his grey-haired cousin, as if waiting for the adolescent to get him out of the snake’s clutches.
“Ayame.” Yuki finally spat out.
“Yeeeees, my cute otouto?”
“Um,” Tohru quickly interrupted, having noticed the trembling in Yuki’s fisted hands, “Kyo-kun is turning blue. I think you’re cutting his breath off, Ayame-san.”
“Nonsense! Kyonkichi-kun is more than happy to be here, isn’t he? Aren’t you, kitty-chan? Aren’t you? Little kitty loves the warmth of my-”
POW! PAF! POW!
“Shi-chan! Did you see that? My little brother actually hit me! Three times at that! He touched me three times! I must call Hari!”
Shigure waved his hand around, “He’ll be over soon, why don’t you tell him then.”
“But I want to tell him now!”
“He’ll turn the car around and go back if you do.”
“… Hai, you’re absolutely right Shi-chan!”
Meanwhile the rat had gathered poor chibi Kyo in his arms and lifted him up in his arms before lightly bowing at his worried brunette friend.
“Honda-san, please try not to remain alone for too long in the presence of those two.”
“Ha- hai?”
“Their stupidity might lead them to emotionally scar you for life.”
He turned around to head for the stairs. Behind him, Ayame and Shigure were both wailing and proclaiming their innocence.
“Oh, Yuki-kun,” Shigure suddenly called out, quieting down, “I bumped into Kazuma-san today on my way to Ayame’s store. He’s thinking of coming by tomorrow, so I told him to bring some of Kyo’s old clothes.”
Yuki froze and slowly turned his head to stare at Shigure, who cheerfully continued, “I do believe he was somewhat confused at such a request, but he did say that he would.”
Yuki finally walked off his head full of dark thoughts and murderous intents as he gently held his small cousin the entire time and took him to get ready for the doctor’s visit.
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October 2, 2006
Author's Notes: Wow, eight months later and I finally appear with a new chapter. I apologize. I’ve been either lazy or busy with school/work.
In other news, I have volumes 18 and 19 of Furuba in French! Yay.
Thank you for the reviews that have been left since I’ve posted chapter 5. I hope you (and also others) will keep leaving comments, constructive criticisms and tidbits of info as you have been doing so since the beginning.
For now, I’ll will have to go back to studying for some upcoming psychology tests, write a new chapter to Kisses (my HanaRu Slam Dunk fic), a Simple Plan RPS oneshot for a friend, a possibly a new xxxholic oneshot, or Viewfinder oneshot. Mmmmmm not sure yet.
A plus!
-Viv
Author: Viv
Genre: drama/angst/romance/humor
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Fruits Basket [manga]
Pairing: Yuki/Kyo
Disclaimer: Furuba would’ve been completely screwed up since the beginning had it belonged to me.
Summary: “Shi-chaaaaan! Kyon-kichi is so mean to meeee!" [multi-chaptered: (01) (02) (03) ( 04) ( 05)]
Yuki froze for the nth time that day.
And so failed to make a run for it with his small cousin in his arms before his brother could have had the chance to glomp the terrified boy who had been hiding behind Yuki less than a second ago.
The dog he could still handle, but Ayame was from a world of his own!
Kyo immediately tensed and his bright hair stood on end, a nervous hiss escaping his small pink lips before he started struggling and trying to reach his violet-eyed cousin in an attempt to escape from the strange white-haired man clinging to him.
A moment of silence followed as Yuki, Shigure and Tohru staring at the scene wide-eyed, the image of a clearly uncomfortable orange kitty taking Kyo’s place between Ayame’s arms. The snake had a wide, blissful (if not dimwitted), open-mouthed smile plastered on his face and for a moment the three observers thought they could see sparkles appearing around the golden-eyed man.
Chuckles followed sweatdrops as the youngest Sohma finally freed himself, by scratching his cousin’s arm and quickly scampering back to his initial hiding place, behind Yuki, much like a disgruntled young cat.
“Kyon-kichi!” the snake sobbed, dramatically holding his arm, “you’re so meeeeeaaaaaaannnn to meeee!”
And then threw himself over Shigure, burying his feminine face into the dog’s shoulder and sobbing wildly (if not shrieking), “Shi-chaaaaan! Kyon-kichi is so mean to meeee! He hurt me, Shi-chan, he hurt meeee!” and clung desperately to the other man as if the inu was a lifesaver in the middle of the cold wide ocean, “he hates me!”
“Aya-chan,” crocodile tears welled up yet again in Shigure’s eyes as he hugged his cousin, “it’s alright! It’s alright! Don’t say that, Kyo-chan doesn’t hate you! No one could ever hate you!”
“Re-really?” sniffed the other man, still clinging onto the dark-haired Sohma, “n-no one? What about you, Shi-chan? Do you at least care about me in some way?”
“Of course!” Shigure replied loud and clear, large tears still glittering at the corner of his eyes, “I love you, Aya-chan! Nothing could ever take away a single shred of the love I have for you! I’ll do everything I can so that nothing ever hurts that beautiful skin of yours again, Aya-chan!”
“Oh, Shi-chan! You really love me, don’t you? You think my skin is beautiful?”
“I think you’re beautiful, Aya-chan!”
“Oh Shi-chan! Take me away! Take me to your room so that we can- ”
“OH FOR FUCK’S SAKE!”
“Now, now, little brother, you shouldn’t be using such crude words. And especially not by Kyon-kichi’s young little virgin ears! I prefer saying that Shi-chan and I will be showing our lov- ”
“Brother.”
“Yes, my cute little brother?”
“Shut. Up. Please.”
“You hear that Shi-chan?” Ayame continued histerically, “Did everyone hear that? I need to call Hari-chan!”
“Yes, yes, you should,” the dog nodded, “this is quite something.”
Yuki, feeling his fingers twitching and itching to smack his brother’s head off, quickly fisted his hands and suppressed the strong urge to do so.
For the moment.
“What the hell? Call for what?” Yuki yelled, clearly frustrated by his older brother. Tohru kept watching and smiling, though worry was starting to show on her face.
“My darling little brother actually said please to me. You heard that, Shi-chan? He said please!” Ayame cheerfully replied in lieu of answering to the teen, whipping out his cell phone from who knows where among the frills of his long dark green coat with golden stitching.
“WHAT!”
“Hari-chaaaaaaaan!” Ayame squealed, “my adoring little brother and I have just made another giant step in our intimate relationship! He actually said please! He said please, Hari-chan! He finally showed me some respect! Oh, Hari-chan you should have seen the looks in his eyes! I could feel all the tenderness of a papa for his baby boy welling up in me when I saw-” and kept gleefully yapping on as the silence on the other end of the line of his cell phone was finally cut off with a ‘click’.
Yuki raise a hand to his face, two fingers rubbing the area between his closed eyes as he tried to get rid of his headache.
His brother kept babbling away, as if their cousin was still listening.
And Yuki tensely, but quickly, scooped his redheaded cousin in his arms and stood up before smiling amiably down at Tohru, his voice eerily calm, “Thank you very much for the meal Honda-san. Though it is delicious, as always, I’m afraid we have both lost our appetite due to the presence of some nuisance in this very room. Now if you’d excuse me, I need to go check on Kyo’s wounds.”
A panicking Tohru froze and stared worriedly at the two cousins.
“Wounds? Oh my God! I completely forgot about Kyo-kun’s wounds! He fell down the stairs yesterday! And then he was bleeding from his head! OH MY GOD! I SHOULD HAVE INSISTED ON CHECKING ON HIM! IS HE ALR-”
“Honda-san,” Yuki promptly but gently cut off, “he’s fine. But it’s already late evening so I should get him to clean up and change before I check on him and made sure everything’s healing fine.”
“Do you need any help?”
“We’ll be fine.”
“But Yuki-kun,” Shigure drawled, “shouldn’t you call Hatori just in case? I mean, Kyo-kun did fall down almost half the stairs and now that he’s Kyo-chan, we need to make sure how his body is really taking it after that… um, transformation?”
“Oh,” the silver-haired adolescent nodded once, “I was telling myself last night that I would, but it completely slipped my mind.”
“Well that’s understandable right now,” his brother replied, voice unusually quiet.
Yuki’s violet eyes widened for a moment under the snake’s gentle gaze, before looking away and softly asking him to call their cousin again.
A decision which he quickly regretted.
“Hari-chaaaaaaan!” the feminine man beamed (because he was the only who could do that over the phone) as he pressed on the speakerphone button, “Listen to me, listen to me, listen to me, listen to me Hari-chaaaaan! My adorable little brother and I just took another step further! He actually trusted me enough to make an important call for him!”
“WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? I could’ve asked anyone!”
“Oh, I feel so touched, Hari-chan! He actually-”
“STOP YAPPING AWAY ABOUT SOME STUPID NONSENSE AND GET TO THE POINT!”
“Your brother’s right. What do you want? It’s past supper time.”
“Hai, hai! He wanted to know if- uh, what was it again?”
Yuki felt his eye twitching again.
“Goodbye, Aya-”
“Ha, Hatori,” Shigure finally intervened, “don’t hang up now.”
“And what do you want?”
“You’re so cold, Hatori.”
“… Goodb-”
“Ah hey wait! I wasn’t finished.”
“What do you want?”
“Actually, it’s not just what I want. Could you come by for a bit, we might have a little patient for you.”
“Little? What did you do to Tohru? Did you overwork her?”
Tohru blinked and fell back as the entire room could gape at the cell phone.
“Well?”
“Oh, oh no, Hatori-san! Shigure-san has been treating me just fine! Actually, this isn’t about me.”
“Hatori-saaaan,” the dog interjected, “how cruel of you to think that! Besides, why did Tohru come first to your mind? Are you possibly harboring a secret giant crush on her?”
“…”
The onigiri girl flushed, eyes wide as saucers and confusion spreading through her features.
“Ah! Your silence gives me more of an answer than anything else could, Hatori.”
“Your level of stupidity shocked me and rendered me speechless for a moment.”
“But anyway, enough with the chitchat here!”
“You and Ayame started it.”
“… Right. Could you just come by? It’s a bit complicated.”
“Fine. I’ll spend the night then.”
“Splendid! Hari-chan, Shi-chan and I will have a slumber party! Hari-chan! Buy some popcorn and chips on your way he-”
‘Click.’
“How mean! And I wanted to ask him to buy those little gummy fruits candies that Kyon-kichi loves so much.”
Hearing that, the boy in question suddenly perked up in Yuki’s arms and stared at the older Sohma, who was grinning at him.
“You still like those, don’t you Kyon-kichi?”
Kyo shyly nodded, hands still gripping tightly onto Yuki’s shirt as the older boy slightly released his hold on him.
“Don’t you remember, little kitty?”
“… Yame?” a small voice hesitantly replied.
The older Sohma beamed yet again, this time with roses appearing behind him.
“Come give Yame-sama a hug, daaaarrrling!”
Kyo, now excited, quickly jumped down from Yuki’s arms and scrambled over to jump into the snake’s lap, giggling and struggling as the pale man squished him to his chest.
Yuki, Tohru and Shigure looked on, grinning (and sweatdropping).
Until five minutes later, as Ayame was still squishing the small neko.
Kyo had stopped giggling a good three minutes ago and was now staring glumly at his grey-haired cousin, as if waiting for the adolescent to get him out of the snake’s clutches.
“Ayame.” Yuki finally spat out.
“Yeeeees, my cute otouto?”
“Um,” Tohru quickly interrupted, having noticed the trembling in Yuki’s fisted hands, “Kyo-kun is turning blue. I think you’re cutting his breath off, Ayame-san.”
“Nonsense! Kyonkichi-kun is more than happy to be here, isn’t he? Aren’t you, kitty-chan? Aren’t you? Little kitty loves the warmth of my-”
POW! PAF! POW!
“Shi-chan! Did you see that? My little brother actually hit me! Three times at that! He touched me three times! I must call Hari!”
Shigure waved his hand around, “He’ll be over soon, why don’t you tell him then.”
“But I want to tell him now!”
“He’ll turn the car around and go back if you do.”
“… Hai, you’re absolutely right Shi-chan!”
Meanwhile the rat had gathered poor chibi Kyo in his arms and lifted him up in his arms before lightly bowing at his worried brunette friend.
“Honda-san, please try not to remain alone for too long in the presence of those two.”
“Ha- hai?”
“Their stupidity might lead them to emotionally scar you for life.”
He turned around to head for the stairs. Behind him, Ayame and Shigure were both wailing and proclaiming their innocence.
“Oh, Yuki-kun,” Shigure suddenly called out, quieting down, “I bumped into Kazuma-san today on my way to Ayame’s store. He’s thinking of coming by tomorrow, so I told him to bring some of Kyo’s old clothes.”
Yuki froze and slowly turned his head to stare at Shigure, who cheerfully continued, “I do believe he was somewhat confused at such a request, but he did say that he would.”
Yuki finally walked off his head full of dark thoughts and murderous intents as he gently held his small cousin the entire time and took him to get ready for the doctor’s visit.
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October 2, 2006
Author's Notes: Wow, eight months later and I finally appear with a new chapter. I apologize. I’ve been either lazy or busy with school/work.
In other news, I have volumes 18 and 19 of Furuba in French! Yay.
Thank you for the reviews that have been left since I’ve posted chapter 5. I hope you (and also others) will keep leaving comments, constructive criticisms and tidbits of info as you have been doing so since the beginning.
For now, I’ll will have to go back to studying for some upcoming psychology tests, write a new chapter to Kisses (my HanaRu Slam Dunk fic), a Simple Plan RPS oneshot for a friend, a possibly a new xxxholic oneshot, or Viewfinder oneshot. Mmmmmm not sure yet.
A plus!
-Viv