Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ A Rebel's Love ❯ The Scandal ( Chapter 4 )

DISCLAIMER: I disclaim any notion that I own Fruits Basket or Furuba because honestly- I don't own Fruits Baskets so there!!

A/N: Here's where a little bit of drama comes in to play. A little bit of Tohru bashing- not on purpose mind you. So. . .PLEASE DON'T FLAME ME!!!!

The Scandal

(A few weeks after Tohru moves in with Haru)

~Kyo's P.O.V-

That Tohru girl has been here for nearly a month. Her friends have already increased to two other new girls- Saki Hanajima and Arisa Uotani. The Yankee and the Gothic Vibe Detector. Sometimes I wonder if there's more than meets the eye to that relationship.

There's been rumors flitting around that Haru and Tohru are more than friends, and that Hana and Uo are too.

Not like anyone's gonna say it to their faces.

Now we're sitting in class, listening to the teacher. It's really boring, and I find it amazing that Yuki can sit so straight and attentive, learning about. . .what? What is the topic for today?

So, I was just staring out the window, minding my own business when my unusually good sense of hearing catches a few words about Haru and Tohru.

". . .banged a couple of times. I've seen them, too!" I heard Michelle's voice the loudest. "She's shameless to let him fuck her wherever he wants it."

"You're just jealous cuz yo ain't getting' none." One of her friends said slyly.

"Ch." Michelle snorted. "I can get it from the other two if I wanted it. Besides, I bet she's already sucked off the other two. That's why I won't go near 'im. A slut like her? Who knows where she's been!"

Her friends agreed as I sat in silence.

None of it was true of course, but I was tempted to believe.

A couple weeks ago, Haru came and told Akito- the youngest member of the Sohma council, and Head of the Family- that Tohru was going to live with him, or he would move in with her.

Akito wasn't too happy about it, but word never leaked out.

Or did it?

Curiosity killed the cat- but not this one.

~Yuki's P.O.V-

I found it strange. The note in my locker after school. It simply read.

We need to talk about Haru.

Kyo

It was strange, yet I decided to meet him.

Which is the only reason why my arch nemesis and I stood face to face, tension snapping through the air like lightning.

"What do you want?" I asked Kyo.

"Does anyone in your circle know what's going on between Haru and Tohru?" He asked me.

I just stood there in shock.

"What!?"

You know, Tohru was actually a good girl. She was sweet. I spoke to her a few times, and she and I got along fairly well. I only met with her to see what my brother was living like. I even got myself invited to their apartment- while her friends were there. . .all of them (as if I were an untrustworthy pervert like another cousin I know!)

Haru's being pampered!

Although, his home is luxurious, and I never understood why.

That's when Kyo's voice reached my ears.

"What was that?" I asked.

He sighed. "A few girls in our class are tattering her reputation. You know who I'm talking about. Then several of my guys are talking about bangin' her themselves." Kyo shook his head. Then his eyes shot up to me. "Did you go over to the apartment?"

I nodded and blushed when he glared at me. His anger was extinguished in a second. "Someone's gotta be keepin' tabs on her to know both you and I were there."

"I'm in the scandal!?" I asked shocked. Maybe Tohru's friends knew more than I did, their reason for being a little defensive.

Kyo nodded. "That would explain it. And Tohru's friends are being-" He sighed angrily. "Haven't you noticed? Our school's practically overflowing with lies about you, me, Haru and Tohru."

"Do they know?" I asked.

"Probably not." He told me, his hands going through his carroty hair. "And we can't tell him. Hell, I think we ought to just let them find out on their own- but don't let them know we knew first."

"But Tohru-" I started.

"That's why we have to talk." He continued. "She's a sweetie. I don't really want her getting hurt."

His gaze turned to the floor, and I looked across at the scenery before us.

The grasses rolled in the wind as it pushed across the miles of fields that mutated into the city. Kyo and I- enemies turned friends for a moment- stared out at it as we leaned back against the back of the gym. The sky was clear of a single cloud as the sun set, the color reminded me of Tohru's eyes.

"Have you noticed," I said aloud, Kyo didn't make any move to acknowledge my attempt at friendly conversation, yet I knew he was listening attentively to my words. He was squatting beside me now, hunched over his legs while I spoke. "Have you noticed that whenever Haru's black, all he has to do is look at Tohru and he's alright?"

He grunted. "That must've been what saved us from fighting the first day she was here. He looked at her, and was soothed."

Kyo sighed. "She gave me warm milk." He said wistfully. I heard the smile in his voice. "It wasn't lumpy rotten milk, but fresh milk that was warmed over the stove for me. She gave me cookies that were fresh from the oven too. I was spoiled that one day I spent with her and your brother, and her two friends playing cards."

I looked over in surprise. He shared something with me. I could only return the favor.

"She gave me sweet cream juice." I said to him as I remembered the creamy taste of the strawberries. "It was her original recipe. It was sweet and creamy, like a sweet milk, but she said she used very little. Her two friends and I played a little game of wits and I won, but my brother left sometime later." I looked to the ground. "It was evening when I went. I only went once, and I never went again."

Kyo stood up. "Let's go tonight then."

I smiled. "Are we walking there together?"

Kyo looked at me and tilted an eyebrow. "Yeah right. We'd be at it in a sec."

He walked away and waved at me as he walked down the hill.

~Tohru's P.O.V-

I know what their whispering at school. I heard them. Them and their cold remarks about the Sohma Clan.

I had to leave.

I couldn't let Haru's reputation shred anymore than it had to. It was already ripped before I got here. . .

I had just left my apartment to go to Saki's house. She invited me earlier today, and even though I tried to decline, she said it would hurt her if I didn't go.

So, here I am walking down the darkening street by my apartment towards her house. I avoided allies, and walked in public places. But, I kept the collar of my coat high to cover my face.

As I walked down the street, I could feel eyes on me. So I walked faster.

"Hey!" I heard someone call out from across the road. "It's that Honda chick!"

I heard sneers and catcalls, but I ignored them and walked faster, nearly running.

But no matter how, I felt hands clasp my wrist and yank me towards a hard body. I felt panic.

"Let me go!" I snapped as questing hands touched my body.

"She says met go." Someone laughed. "Should I?"

Fear made me look into eyes of cold. Fear made the four figures around me shadows. Fear made me quiet as my knees shook.

Yet somewhere, anger bubbled in me. "I said let me go!"

My demand was answered with laughter.

"Fine!" I growled. "Take this!" I kicked my captor in the shin, and was rewarded with a satisfying yowl of pain before I fled.

I felt someone who was quick to react grab my hair, and I screamed. Whether it was fear or pain, I wasn't sure.

"Look bitch!" One of them said as they dragged me to a dark alley. "You fuck the Sohma's, so why not their friends?"

I was silent as one of them knocked me against the wall on my back. I will not give them the pleasure of hearing me scream in pain, or beg for release.

"Answer me whore!"

"Shit, we don't need her mouth to talk!" Someone else added. "Just to suck cock!"
The 'witty' reply was answered with laughter.

"Well if she won't open, how will she swallow?" Another said as if it was a no brainer.

I was terrified.

I am going to get raped.

Then I felt hands roughly pull my pants down, my coat was gone, on the floor of the alley, placed beneath my now naked hips. My shirt was going over my head.

Scream. SCREAM!!! I heard something in me say. Scream or you'll never be the same. You'll lose your innocence. You'll lose yourself!

A face flashed in my mind. A face with warm eyes and a warm smile.

"HARU!!!!"

Something smothered my mouth at that precise moment. Probing fingers found my lower lips and plunged painfully. I screamed again, but it was deep in my throat as I quaked in fear.

"Damn!" Someone said. "She's dry! She's tight, but dry."

"Fuck her!"

I don't remember much else, but I fainted as I felt more probes and touches on my body.

Haru.

~White Haru's P.O.V-

I just got home from work.

The apartment seemed a little more crowded than the norm, too.

My couch was occupied by Saki and Arisa. Saki was in Arisa's arms crying her eyes out as Arisa stroked her wild black hair, her eyes were red and puffy too as her chin rested on Saki's head. Saki was sobbing uncontrollably while silent tears fell from Arisa's eyes.

Yuki was buzzing around my kitchen, busily looking for something. He went from the icebox to the cupboards to the cabinets until he found mug, and filled it with tea from the stove.

Kyo popped out of Tohru's room, anger glittered in his gaze as he glared at Tohru's room, and walk across the living room and go to the kitchen where Yuki was.

Then- this was so amazing- Kyo laid a hand on Yuki's shoulder and whispered in his ear.

Yuki just nodded and took out three more mugs, and poured more tea inside.

Something was happening, and I didn't like it.

"What's happening, you guys?"

They all looked up at me, and I looked at the clock that hung on the wall. "It's only three thirty in the morning." I said to explain myself. "Why are you guys here? This is my normal time coming home-"

"You didn't tell him!?" Kyo suddenly roared at Yuki.

Yuki shrugged. "Like I know his work number." he snapped.

"He's your brother!" Kyo growled.

Saki and Arisa who seemed to have already had a shock to their system, nearly leapt a foot in the air.

I felt something grow within me. My looming Black side. "Tell me what?"

Yuki and Kyo looked a little sheepish.

"Tohru might have been raped."

Tohru. . .raped. . .

Those were the only words processed in my mind. I felt my Black side rushing out, trying to overwhelm me. NO! I said. We have to find out. . .

"She's fine." Kyo said hurriedly. "It's just that she's in shock and we-"

"Where is she?"

"In her room."

I ran there, though it felt like forever. She's alright. I told myself.

I opened her door.

Tohru was asleep in her bed. Her pink sheets covered her to her chin, her brown hair fanned around her head like a halo. Her breathing was even, her breaths deep.

I sighed.

Thank God you're safe.

The door to her room was still open, light flooded in through the crack, yet darkness was still there. I walked towards her, and sat on the bed and just watched her sleep.

She seemed so troubled by something. Her brow was creased, her lips were pursed, and fear permeated in the air around her.

I smoothed her brow for a moment, letting my hand stay there on her forehead. Dark and large against a pale and fragile face.

"Haru." Kyo's voice called through the door. "She's sleeping. Come on, she's fine."

I got up, and glanced over my shoulder at her.

I left her room, and Kyo quietly closed the door.

My brother stood there before me, and wrung his hands together. He looked up at me, biting his lip.

"We need to talk about this." Yuki looked around the room. "About Tohru."

~Black Haru's P.O.V-

"I'm going to kill them." I said menacingly slow. "All of them."

Kyo and Yuki sighed, they didn't look fazed. They didn't even blink.

"You can't." Yuki said suddenly. "You'll only get yourself in more trouble picking a fight with them."

"What do you care?" I snarled at him. "You always get me in trouble and don't seem to care."

"You're my brother." Yuki said grinning. "Only I can get you in trouble."

I rolled my eyes. I was not in any mood to play around.

"I say we kick there ass too." Kyo said, his knuckles cracking. "Any man who touches any girl with force deserves it. We are tough, but we don't do that."

I tried to breathe.

It was nearly dawn. None of us had slept. Kyo and Yuki looked and smelled like crap. I felt like I wanted to crawl under the bed sheets and sleep forever. Tohru didn't wake yet, and her friends were sleeping in my room. Last I checked, Saki and Arisa were curled up together, holding each other closer than friends usually permitted.

"You're right." I said. "Thank God it's Sunday. We'll take a trip to the main house. I'll call Hatori. Who knows whether or not they raped her? Her pants were off from what you said, right? And Akito's gonna have to know you guys got into a fight- and were on the same side." I chuckled. "Who knew?"

The two sent death stares at each other. "If it's for a girl." Yuki said.

"Men don't do that to women." Kyo explained and cracked his knuckles. "And those that even try to fuck with one of our friends. . ." He looked around the room and I smirked.

Yuki's eyes plainly promised retribution as it burned in Kyo's eyes.

Hatori arrived on time.

Tohru just woke up, and her two friends had walked off but with much protest. Hatori was definitely not in the best of moods today so we couldn't offer a ride, and tradition plainly stated no one outside of the family was permitted.

Hatori with his one good eye sent a look back at Yuki and I as Tohru sat between us, leaning on me for support. Her mentality was not at it's best since she was tired and emotionally strained. Kyo sat in the front and glanced back at us and smirked.

"The Council's gonna like this one."

Fuck the Council. I wanted to say. But Akito was on the Council, and he was at least one who tried to understand his younger cousins being he remembered he was one of us three years before.

Hatori drove us off, and I could already hear more words that would be passed about Tohru.

Oh yeah, I fucked that bitch. She's a total slut. She's suck you off before letting you stick her ass.

Dirty whore. We all fucked her at once. Nah, she could barely handle us so we just jacked off on her at the end.

Dunno what the Sohma boys like about her. She's a real cutie, but any bitch will do when you fuck their cunt.

I was boiling.

Tomorrow would be hell.

I looked down at her as her warm breath puffed on my chest. I was still unclean, and she was pure.

I clenched her tighter to me, and I wanted to take her and protect her from harsh words and harsh touches.

Yuki leaned up into Kyo's seat and said something to him Kyo merely nodded, but I noticed the smirk on his face before he turned to look out the window.

A/N: Ok everyone. What happened? Was she raped? Was she not? Does anyone know?

Hmm. . .