Like a Switch [Fruits Basket]

Chapter 3

Like a Switch

Chapter Three

As he sat down at the table, he leaned back on his hands. It wasn't long before an exaggerated sigh filled the entire room. Shigure had been heartsick after seeing the bill he had received just to spend those few minutes with you. Right up until that point the young, aspiring writer had been fully committed to spending each and every night at the Hostess club until he found out what you remembered. When he did or when he earned your trust by being the wonderful, devenir man that he was he would whisk you back to the house on his white horse. There you would live surrounded by family and friends for the rest of your life! He would make sure you needed for nothing, especially companionship! And in the winter when it got colder you and he would snuggle under the blankets doing whatever it took to keep up circulation. Shigure could see it all in his mind's eye as he smiled widely, humming to himself some happy thoughts.

"What are you doing now?" Yuki grumbled as he found his way to the main room.

Shigure opened one of his eyes and stared at his rather disheveled cousin. It was true that Yuki often had a hard time waking up in the morning; Shigure had never been sure if being a night owl was a rat thing or just a Yuki thing. Either way it meant that more often than not, Yuki woke up as late as he possibly could. If one could call this half zombie like state awake that is. Shigure did note that today he seemed to be extra unready to face the world. Not that he was much better off himself. After everything was said and done, Shigure had gotten home at one in the morning and had still taken a shower before going to bed. Only unlike Yuki he woke himself up about an hour ago.

"Just thinking," Shigure answered, nearly in singsong.

"About what?"

His grin might have been infectious if Yuki didn't know him very well. As it was just based on his smile, the gray haired teen already regretted his question. Unfortunately it was too late to take it back.

"About how fun it will be to have the family all together again," the older man said with a pleased tone in his voice.

That was not the answer that Yuki had been expecting. He stared at his cousin with a tired yet critical look. Shigure's pleased expression practically closed his eyes as he fantasized aloud.

"Having Anita here will be wonderful. We can do all the things families are supposed to do together! Eat dinner together, play games, watch movies, it will be wonderful."

"We already do all those things together thanks to Miss Honda."

Shigure's pleased expression still didn't fade. "Yes, you're right. Miss Honda has been everything we could hope for. Which is exactly why she will make the perfect daughter. You and Kyo will be the sons of course. Ah, we already have such a large family to take care of. "

Yuki decided that Shigure had officially lost it. He was making it seem like you were just going to step right into their lives and go with the role that Shigure had already envisioned for you. Which apparently was the mother of the house. While Yuki would personally like to know how having a loving mother who he could have actually hugged and clung to as a child felt, he was nowhere near as delusional as Shigure. There was no way that you were just going to step in and play house with all of them. Besides it would be weird - he didn't remember you looking nearly old enough for that. In fact, you looked somewhere between his and Shigure's age though the violet eyed teen knew that sometimes looks were deceiving so he didn't want to rule anything out just yet.