Faithless (Fruits Basket fanfiction)

Faithless (chapter 2)

Hello again. I am Pamela, I'm 14 years old, and I do not own Fruits Basket.

By the time Yuki and I returned to the house, Shigure had come home. He was on the phone with his manager – it was the tenth time this week she had called him. Leaning against the door, awaiting our arrival, was none other than Kyo. The sunset glowed off of his bright orange hair. The wind blew through it.

He looked so...so… What was I thinking?

Shigure pulled the phone away from his cheek for a moment. "Welcome back, Tohru. I trust you had a nice time," he greeted. I nodded. "Not too nice I hope," he joked.

Next to me, Yuki smirked. He wrapped his arm around my waist and pulled me against him - close enough to be affectionate, but far enough so that he wouldn't transform - kissing my neck. As my face flushed, I smiled.

"What the hell?" Kyo shouted with a disgusted look on his face. He rolled his eyes. "Come on, Tohru. I'm starving." The orange-haired boy walked over to us and grasped my wrist. Pulling away from my neck, Yuki grinned cockily. I returned the gesture as Kyo began pulling me into the house.

"Somebody's jealous," sang Shigure.

"Shut up!" Kyo shoved me lightly into the kitchen.

"He's a stupid cat," Yuki began. "He's too stupid to feel jealousy."

"You take that back, you damn rat!"

"Make me."

I could hear the two fighting in the other room, as well as Shigure's whimpering about them breaking the door again. Giggling, I turned my attention to dinner. Since I knew Kyo wouldn't last much longer without something to eat, and he'd go into a tirade if I made leeks, I just made riceballs.

Just as I set the riceballs on the table, I felt a body collide with mine. The puff of smoke enveloped me during my fall. After the smoke cleared, I noticed the orange body in my lap. Kyo's fur stood on end as he growled at Yuki. He stomped over to the gray-haired boy and gave him a hard shove in my direction. Yuki fell on me, and the smoke told us that he was becoming a rat.

"Stupid, stupid cat. What does this change?"

"You're smaller than me now, which gives me the better advantage!"

Shigure turned to me, seeming to be ignoring the argument. "Tohru, these riceballs are delicious," he said.

"Oh, thank you –" I was cut short by the sound of the cat jumping onto the table, noisily and hungrily eating the meal. Looking down, I saw Yuki was still in my lap. "Yuki, aren't you going to eat?"

The rat shook his head, leaning against my stomach. "I'm fine right here," replied Yuki.

"Who's the pervert now, Yuki?" Shigure laughed. I saw Kyo's ears perk up. He turned in my direction; riceball remained stuck on his feline face. His eyes widened. The moment his eyes met mine, he turned back to the food. Almost immediately afterwards, smoke filled the room. Kyo and Yuki stood in front of me, stark naked. Yelping, I turned to face the wall.

After a few seconds, I felt a hand on my shoulder. "Miss Honda, you can turn around now." Whirling around, I noticed that I was only inches from Yuki's face. As my face flushed, he kissed me gingerly on the lips. "Miss Honda, aren't you going to eat?" He smirked. I smiled at him, letting him lead me to the table.

*FURUBA*

Yuki seemed tired at the end of supper. I wanted to take him upstairs and make sure everything was all right, but Shigure insisted he should do it. Shigure brought Yuki up the stairs to his room, where I heard them murmuring to each other. Kyo and I were left alone. There was silence. To ease the atmosphere, I picked up a few dishes and skipped to the kitchen to wash them.

As the water ran and I scrubbed the dishes with the soap, I couldn't help but feel like someone was watching me. Since I was overly curious, I glanced behind me to see a pair of red eyes staring at me.

"Oh!" I pressed my hand to my chest in surprise, turning to face him. Kyo noticed I had caught him and he looked down at the ground.

As moments passed with us staring at each other, he spoke.

"Do you want any help with that?" he asked.

"No, no! I'm fine! You don't have to go through all that trouble!" I insisted. Kyo ignored my plea and began helping me. I knew well enough that I couldn't win against Kyo, so I let him help. With his assistance, the dishes were clean and put away just a few minutes later.

While waiting for Shigure to come downstairs with news about Yuki, I sighed and leaned against the counter. Kyo stood in front of me, hands on both sides of my body. He exhaled loudly, his breath smelling of riceballs. This observation made me laugh softly. Suddenly, he did something I hadn't expected him to.

Kyo pressed his lips to mine, his hands firmly planted on the counter. My eyes widened for a moment, but my eyelids soon dropped. We stood there for a moment, just like that. As soon as he broke away, Kyo seemed embarassed.

Laughing awkwardly, he rubbed the back of his head. "Crap," he muttered. "I'm sorry."

I blinked. Kyo isn't the type of person to apologize very often. "No, it's all right," I said quietly.

"Really?"

Stepping closer to him, I placed my hand on his cheek. "Really."

And that's how I became faithless…

Title drop!

Well, this is where the story gets a biiiiiiit more complicated.

R/R/KR