Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ A new Era ❯ The Customer ( Chapter 1 )

<AN- The prologue is from my story, but I decided not to put my story, so I will just put the prologue of it and write the rest on my own thoughts mixing parts. Okay here is the first chapter I hope you enjoy! >

Ch. 1

"Hey Tohru! Where are you going?! I thought we were going to go to work together, decided to change your mind?!" screamed a young girl running up to the young teenage girl.

"Nah... not today, I can't I need to get a head start, or I won't make enough to handle myself in that little hut already." Said the young woman turning around looking at the girl with an apologetic smile. Tohru is about 5 ft tall. She has light brown hair that travels to her waist and bangs that barely cover her forehead. Her eyes are of a teal color and her skin pale; also she is dressed in a light blue kimono.

She turned back around and began to walk to the restaurant she and the young lady are working at. She finally gets there after about an hour of walking. She walks in and like a button some one pressed on a doll, she began to smile and wave saying "good afternoon" to almost everybody visible in the restaurant. She walks towards the back of the restaurant facing a clothed covered opening connecting to the kitchen, where she walked over and placed her apron on. In the restaurant, the uniform for the women is to wear a kimono under the apron; this was most common during the feudal eras, and other eras such as the Hein, and the Meiji era.

"Hey Tohru, why are you in so early?"

"Heh, I just wanted to get more stuff done"

"Oh, I see, well don't work yourself over too much, your one of the best. Now hurry up, we have a lot to do today, this is one of the busiest, the croquettes are selling like hot cakes."

"Oh thank you Kinmochi! Right away!" she said cheerfully bowing before the male cook.

She quickly ran out to the main door of the restaurant awaiting any oncoming customers so she can welcome and serve them. It is five o'clock, and it is still slow on the customers, but fast on serving the food. Seven o'clock till twelve is the rush hour.

It's eleven thirty at night already and today, it is her duty to clean the tables, fortunately there was a birthday party that night and now she has to clean it.

"Wah…this. this is impossible…aw…." She said groaning; if you had to clean the mess yourself you would feel the same way. The table was filled with beer bottles, trash, cigarettes, and food. But under the table, there was food, trash, and some how, toys and clothes.

"Well this mess isn't going to go anywhere" she said confidently rolling her sleeves up and puts a World War II Japanese style hard hat on her head and pulls out a Mortimer. "AH!!!!!!!!! Be gone you fiendish trash!!!!. " She screamed opening fire on the table and everything surrounding it. "Feel my wrath!!" and after about 5 minutes of screaming and shooting, the table had become clean. Everybody who was still in the restaurant, workers, and customers alike, all shared the same expression… `What the hell just happened?' She quietly turned around and bowed numerously apologizing for her actions.

"I'm sorry I'm sorry, please forgive me." She bowed beads of sweat dripping from the side of her head.

"Funny, that would be something Kyo would pull, not a woman like you" said a male voice pausing.

Tohru's eyes opened and she slowly stood up looking around her. She turned her head looking from side to side seeking the voice that had spoken aloud. Then she looked up in front of her and her eyes met the man standing before her. She was blushing and a little lost for words.

"Since I came in here you seemed normal to me, but what you just pulled, reminded me of Kyo" said the man. He was wearing a plain white yukata with a design of a mouse on his shoulder in brown and a straw hat on top of his head.

"Oh um…I uh… um..I'm sorry sir!" she said bowing before the man. "Um.. can I get you anything sir?"

"A cup of jasmine tea would be nice, and please, call me Yuki" the young man said smiling and walking over to the table she had taken him and seated awaiting his tea. She quickly returned to the man with a teacup and a teapot setting it in front of him.

Yuki began to remove his hat, and placed it right beside him on the table. He then poured his tea into his teacup and began to sip on it. He noticed that the waitress hadn't left since he took off his hat and revealed himself. Tohru couldn't move, she was stunned by how cute he looked; all she could do was stare and blush with widened eyes.

" Um miss… are you okay?" Yuki had asked a bit worried by the way she was acting. But she couldn't hear him; all she could hear were her thoughts.

`~Tohru's thoughts~`

"Wow he is so cute and beautiful. Eh..and he is so young and handsome. But who is Kyo? Is it like his best friend? Or Father? Or Master?" She looked over to his side and saw he had a katana resting on his hips. The pattern on his sheath was a deep viridian red and the hilt of his sword was silver and brown.

"Is he a samurai?! But, he looks so young, or maybe he is in training. I wonder…"

`~Out of thought~`

" Miss…Miss…are you alright?"

"Uh...yeah, yeah! I'm fine," she said smiling tilting her head a bit looking at him. "By the way, my name is Tohru, Tohru Honda, it's a pleasure to meet you Yuki"

"Likewise Miss. Honda" Yuki said smiling a bit. "Please join me, will you?"

" Um…I don't know, I'm still working, I will see", she said excusing herself from him and moving back into the kitchen.

She walked into kitchen with her eyes closed and let out a breath; she then smiled and waved to Kinmochi. "Hey Kinmochi, how are you doing?", she asked him placing the tray down on the counter.

"Hello Tohru, I'm fine, but you know, you can finish early today, after all you did come in early." Kinmochi said to her.

"I know, but I came in early to get more done, and if I stop now, I won't get much done, I don't mind really", she said smiling courteously.

"You are such a hard work and a good child, I know if your parents were alive, they would be very proud of you." The old man said to her smiling.

"Thank you", she bows " I must get back to work now" and with that said, she turned around and went back out into the tables and did her job.

She had walked back to Yuki's table and began to pick up the dishes and she was about to walk away when Yuki had stopped her by calling her name out. "Miss Honda, I would like to order something to eat if you don't mind." "Not at all", she said turning around smiling getting ready to take his order. " I heard the croquettes here are the best".

"And it is not any lie, they are excellent, Kinmochi is the cook here, he is very talented. I wish I was just as good as him."

"So you cook as well?" Yuki asked surprised.

She nodded "Yes, I do".

"If you don't mind me asking, where do you live Miss. Honda?"

She blushed turning her head away to not bee seen by him. "I um...live somewhere…"

"Hm?" Yuki tilted his head and looked at Tohru confusingly wondering what's going on.

"Ah! Yuki! There you are, I have been looking for you, you left me worried", said a man walking over to Yuki leaning down against him sweat dropping. "When you left, I couldn't find you, but now that I see you are here, this is the type of place you like, old and ugly…ah! But who is this lovely young lady?"

"Leave her alone cousin", Yuki exclaimed annoyingly tugging on his cousins gray obi.

"Um…who are you?" Tohru asked inquisitively.

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Well that is it for now, who is this new character coming into play? I'm sure most of you know though, but still it's fun, heh. Please Review !!!!!!!!!!! Thank you!

Zaijian. ^ ^