Faithless (Fruits Basket fanfiction)

Faithless (chapter 12)

I do not own Fruits Basket.

A few more chapters left, and then you guys can finally get the sequel, Wattpad style!

Until then...ON TO THE STORY!

-Point of View: Kyo-

My eyes focused in on the blade in Akito's hand. I watched as she raised it above her head. She was really going to try and stab me.

You know what they say about when you're about to die? They say that everything around you -goes in slow motion – that your life flashes before your eyes? That's crap. Truthfully, the only thought that enters my mind at that moment was…Tohru. For just a moment, I glanced back to get one last look at her.

I caught a glimpse of her unconscious, bleeding, dirt-covered body. Her brown hair was filled with crumpled snarls atop her head. The blue eyes I loved looking at every day since the day I met her were concealed by her fair-skinned eyelids. I caused this to happen to her. She was never going to love me – not when my actions led to her being the recipient of so much suffering.

Akito, just get it over with, damnit! I thought, tightly closing my eyes shut.

One second passed. Then another. What was going on? Why didn't I feel a knife puncturing my skin?

"No!" a voice bellowed at the head of my family. Behind me, my ears detected a light gasp from the rat. Looking up, a similar sound escaped my lips.

The male in front of me blocked the blade from reaching me. He fell to the ground, standing on all fours. Akito stood above him, her mouth open wide.

"What the hell, Shigure?" both of us screamed at him. The dog stared up at Akito with his puppy-dog face.

"I couldn't let you get rid of Kyo and force me to live with Yuki," Shigure joked with a groan. On his chest, the side opposite his heart, a knife stuck out of his skin. Almost immediately, Akito wrenched it out.

"It wasn't supposed to be you, you perverted canine!" she shouted. With shaking hands, she pointed a wobbling finger at Tohru. "It was supposed to be her."

"Too bad," the author grunted. "Que sera…" Shigure trailed off.

Great, now we had two wounded people. Out of the two, Tohru was my personal number-one priority. I rushed over to her side, only to be shackled by the thin hands of the cross-dresser. Akito held me back, pulling me against her. She brought her lips to my ear.

"How many people have to be hurt today for you to realize that you can't escape from my grasp?" she whispered. In the distance, I heard the pounding of feet, sprinting towards my destination.

It was Kagura. Damn…I never thought I'd see the day – the day when I was actually thankful that the boar was coming. She blew into the small clearing, whipping the green leaves all around us. The leaves faded into the darkness of the night. I winced as she tackled me to the ground beside Tohru.

"Kyo! Shigure told me what you did, you ass!" Kagura yelled. Her hands slapped my cheeks and punched my gut. On most days, this would have pissed me off to the point of fleeing, but I chose to make an exception; just this once, I wouldn't be irascible to her. However, that didn't necessarily mean that she wasn't going to be as belligerent to me as always. She looked over at Tohru and saw her in the physical state in which I was responsible for. "What happened to Tohru?"

"The stupid cat broke her heart and Akito pushed her down a cliff," Yuki said quickly. Damn rat.

"Kyo, why do you have to be such a heartbreaker all of the time?" Kagura sniffled. For once, she didn't hit me after the insult. Instead, she removed her weight from my body and kneeled next to Tohru's.

"Why doesn't anyone worry about the head of the family, whom – if I may add – is doing all of this for you, you goddamn cat?" Akito's voice rose, even though I didn't think it could get any louder than it already was.

"That's simple," I said, standing, "it's because you're fighting for someone whom you cannot have. You won't get me." Out of the corner of my eye, Yuki nodded in encouragement. Next to him, Kagura did the same. She knew I didn't love her. She knew I loved her: Tohru. How girls can realize what people feel like psychics is something I will never find out. Shigure clutched his shirt, getting to his feet and placing the hand that was attached to his wounded shoulder on Akito's shoulderblade, restraining her. They all knew what I was going to say. "I don't love you, Akito. Hell, I don't even like you. The one person I care about in this entire world is lying right there," I said, pointing to Tohru.

'God' breathed in and out loudly and heavily. Shigure directed her away from us, giving us some room. Kagura stood up.

"Kyo…" she whispered. Suddenly, she punched me in the gut once again. "What the hell is wrong with you? You know you love her more than me, so why did you reject her?"

"I—" I tried to say something, but she wouldn't allow me to speak. Her eyes bore into mine, allowing me to see into her mind. In one of our few calm moments together, she told me how it feels to be rejected by using her muddy-green irises. The times that I told her to get the hell away from me… I hurt her. If something like that could hurt Kagura, then what I said to Tohru hurt her more than I thought.

"I don't want to be with you." Those few words shattered her heart into more pieces than I had imagined. But I had heard those words spoken at me so many times throughout my life… I guess I didn't realize the impact of that little sentence.

Kagura crossed her arms.

"This is why we are supposed to think before we act," Yuki said. "If we don't think straight, everyone we care about gets hurt." I stared down at Tohru.

"I'm such a dumbass," I whispered.

"You got that right, orange-top."

You've got to love my crappy cliffhangers.

That sounds NOTHING like Kyo, am I right?

Oh, poor Yuki… I only gave him two lines in this chapter…

R/R/KR!