Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ Black & White Heart ❯ Worse Then Yesterday ( Chapter 10 )

Chapter 10: Worse Than Yesterday

---the night before---

"You know I guess it's kinda convenient the Prince got detention after all, other wise we'd be breaking into our own school."

"Hey that's right! Just imagine what would happen if we set an alarm off?"

"Who the heck would alarm a school? 'Oh no, a group of hard tattooed criminals are trying to steal all the Math books whatever shall we do?'"

The group of girls burst into quiet giggles before being harshly shushed by their leader. Motoko looked out of the bush they were hiding in and looked at the front door of Kaibara High. The lights were still on in the main hallway, so it looked like Prince Yuki was still in his detention even at 8pm. The school was open and vulnerable to their plan. Turning around crouching down in the undergrowth, she eyed her companions sternly.

"Okay, quick check over. Torches?"

"Check!"

"Sticky tac?"

"Check!"

"Cellotape?"

"Check!"

"W alkieTalkies?"

"Check!"

Motoko then turned to Miho, "Number 1, you have the, 'special ingredient' yes?"

Miho grinned slyly and took out a large cardboard box from the bushes, "All ready and waiting President!" she said, as she idly tapped the top of the box.

Motoko smiled and closed her eyes, imagining the shrill of victory already, as Yuki would soon return to them. For the moment, she would have to ignore the perhaps over excited girls that would be around Yuki tomorrow. She was willing to sacrifice a little of her love if it meant winning the Prince back to the 'correct' side.

"Okay," she concluded, "I don't know how long we're going to have. I know that Prince Yuki's detention is in the basement thanks to the wonderful information collected by Minami," She shuddered slightly at the thought of her poor Yuki sorting out all that junk down there all by himself, "which as you know the entrance to the basement is right opposite the front door. Therefore work from the outside in understand?" The girls nodded their agreement, "Number 2, I want you to stay here."

"WHAT?"

"If Prince Yuki and whichever teacher is with him should come out of the front door we will be trapped inside, I need you to tell us when they move."

Mai sighed, "Oh, okay."

And so, with the equipment passed around, the three other girls disappeared through the front door of Kaibara High leaving a sulking Mai sitting in the bushes peering through a window.

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"Jeez how much longer is this gonna take!?" Mai whined, wrapping her coat around herself even tighter.

It may have stopped snowing during the day, but it was getting close to 10pm now and everything was starting to freeze, including her gaze which hadn't moved from looking through the window staring at the door that led to the schools basement. She could see the light through the crack under the door so Yuki was still down there.

"My poor Prince," she muttered, breathing into her hands to try and ignite some life in them, before yawning loudly.

"Number 2?"

"WAH!?" Mai startled, snapping around behind her to find no one there.

"Mai are you there?" Mai stared wide-eyed for a moment before looking down at her Walkie Talkie, "NUMBER 2!"

"Aaah yes?" she said nervously, holding the portable radio to her ear.

"The mission has been completed. How does our escape exit look, over?"

Mai took one look back through the window, "They're still down there, so it's clear, over."

Just as she said that her three friends appeared from different doors in the main entrance, all cautiously looking towards the basement door.

Which opened.

All hair suddenly standing on end, the three sprinted to the front door and ran through, just in time to see Yuki's class teacher walk through the basement door with Yuki behind him. The four girls ran into the bushes where they had been hiding before and watched as the lights were turned off and the two figures walked through.

"I expect you bright and early tomorrow Yuki."

"Yes Sir." Yuki replied, calm to his teacher, but a deeper tone that warned trouble.

The two walked their separate ways and when they were far enough away Minami, Miho and Mai did a joint High5.

"We did it!"

"Yey!!"

"There's no way Prince Yuki can get away from girls now, he has to turn back to us!"

As the lower three girls of the club chatted, Motoko got up and placed the last piece of Mistletoe above the school entrance. Yes, they were right. There was no way Yuki was going to be able to hide from girls tomorrow. He'll come back to me...just you watch Hatsuharu Sohma!

---Present time---

No way…is this happening. Yuki stared unbelievingly at the school front doors, a large spring of mistletoe hanging from it. Glancing through one of the windows to his right, he looked with mild terror at the mistletoe hanging above every classroom door down the corridor.

Every classroom door, which means he would have to walk under it at some point, which meant--

"Yuuuuuki!!"

The front doors suddenly sprung open and nearly every girl in the school was standing inside the main entrance gawping at him. It was like a scene in some very mixed up horror movie. They just stood there like statues, freakish heart shaped eyes just staring, watching, and waiting for him to walk under the door so they could all run up to him and pounce like he was some prize at the end of a race.

"Errrr..." began Tohru, glancing at Yuki who seemed to be frozen to the ground. The second he'd walk through that door every girl would leap at him, which was bad for quite a few reasons.

Suddenly Haru walked behind Kyo, "I know" and pushed him under the door.

"Hey what the--?" but before Kyo could managed another word a group of girls ran from the crowd waiting for Yuki and ran towards Kyo arms outstretched and squealing in delight.

Kyo yelped and turned on his heal, as the girls sprinted after him shouting, "There's no point in running Kyo!! You've already walked under the Mistletoe now you have to be kissed!"

"GET AWAY FROM ME!!!"

Tohru turned to look at Haru as he crept passed the door with Yuki using Kyo as a distraction, "What?" he asked when he met her gaze, "I figured there'd be at least a few Kyo fans in there."

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Today wasn't being a very good day, although compared to yesterday Yuki had to agree that it was marginally better. It was very difficult to avoid girls when they were deliberately following you around trying to catch you walking under a branch of the strategically placed plant hanging up over every doorframe. So, Yuki was quite relieved when lunch came and he had a Student Council meeting to attend to while all the rest of the school stayed in the lunch hall. As he walked down the empty corridor to the meeting room, a boy walked through a door and closed it behind him, turning around to lean against it folding his arms across his chest. Paying no attention to him, Yuki walked straight passed.

"I gotta say I had my suspicions."

Yuki stopped walking and turned to face the boy. His name was Kane Murasaki from Yuki's class. He was around the same height as Yuki, messy short raven- black hair with three bangs that fell in his eyes that all varied in length. He wore a deep violet silk headscarf around his forehead that fed back around his head under his hair, falling down at the back floating lightly over his left shoulder. He was also quite the scruff, with his school shirt half un-tucked around his waist.

"Excuse me?"

The boy tossed his hair away from his eyes, making the silk scarf fall away from his shoulder and fall loosely at his back, and peered over at Yuki, smirking ever so slightly, "My suspicions. I mean come on, you've never let any girl near you since you've been here except that Honda girl, but even then you don't exactly touch her."

Yuki frowned annoyed. He remembered now why he, nor anyone else, never spoke to this boy. When he had first come to this school a few year ago, this guy was always staring at him. No one ever spoke to him, he was like the class freak, and as the thought just entered Yuki's mind he remembered he was also the one who had winked at him yesterday during class.

"Your point being?" Yuki tried to ask as politely as possible.

Kane closed his eyes briefly and chuckled quietly, standing up straight from leaning against the wall. "My point being," he started, walking right in front of Yuki and staring at him with lustful golden eyes, "Is that I knew you were just like me."

And kissed him!

Yuki's eyes flashed wide and he pulled back sharply, wiping at his mouth with his sleeve. Kane just stood there, eyes lowered and smiling as Yuki stared at him in disgust for a moment before turning and running off down the corridor, a complete loss at what to say to him. Kane slowly licked the bottom of his lip as Yuki ran out of sight heading down a different corridor. Turning around, Kane walked towards the lunchroom, a new quest in mind. If the handsome Prince Yuki actually went for guys like he did, then he sure as hell wasn't going to loose such a precious item to Hatsuharu Sohma!

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On second thoughts, today was only a step away from being just as bad as yesterday. The student council meeting had finished and he now had 15 minutes left to grab some lunch. However as watched his fellow council attendants leave the meeting room and he got up himself to walk out, he froze at the doors exit. Ahead of him stood two girls, whispering among themselves and looking over at Yuki hopefully. Yuki didn't really need to look, but he did anyway. Above the doorframe hung an innocent branch of Mistletoe, unaware of the trouble it was currently causing in Yuki's existence. Yuki quickly looked around the room he was in to check that there were no other exits, any doors, window...air vents? But nothing.

"Looks like there's no way out." Mai whispered, as they watched the nervous Yuki look around the room.

"He can't escape, this is finally our chance to show him what he's missing." Said Motoko, as they both began to advance towards him.

Looking back to the girls Yuki began to panic. Even if he wanted to kiss them they can't get close to him, or something a lot more shocking than that photo would happen. All rational thoughts leaving, Yuki prayed he'd be able to loose them in the lunch hall if only he could get there. So, bracing himself, he ran through the door and sprinted down the hallway, the two girls in strong pursuit. They had of course seen him under the Mistletoe, even if it was for half a second it was enough of an excuse for them.

Skidding round a corner like on ice, Yuki continued running, ignoring one of the teachers calling out to him to stop running in the hallways. Suddenly from his left, a hand appeared from an open door and Yuki was yanked inside, the door shutting quickly behind them. Yuki listened as the running footsteps of the girls ran straight past the door and he let loose a small sigh of relief. Turning around to say thank you to his saviour, he found himself staring into the shimmering golden orbs that belonged to Kane.

"Your welcome." Kane smiled all too sweetly, not that Yuki had said anything.

Yuki glowered at him for a moment before turning back to the door, "Yes, thank you." He said flatly, placing his hand on the door handle.

"Wait a minute."

Kane walked up behind him and placed his hand on the one Yuki was about the open the door with. Yuki quickly snatched his hand away defensively and stared challengingly at him, "If you don't mind I have to go lunch."

"Just give me a second." Kane said, standing in front of the door, his crafty eyes obviously knowing what he was doing, "I only want to ask something, that's all." Yuki eyed him carefully. He apparently wasn't going to get out until Kane had said what he wanted, so he just nodded. "What would you say if I asked you out for a meal tomorrow evening?"

There were a lot of certain words that came to mind to answer that, but politeness taking over him as usual, Yuki simply replied with, "I'm sorry Murasaki but I don't like boys like that."

Kane scoffed at that, "Oh really. So what's Hatsuharu? A girl?"

"I'm not with Haru." Yuki said calmly. He could see the automatic comeback that was going to have, so quickly elaborated, "That photo was an accident taken by my idiotic cous-"

"It's just one meal." Kane interrupted; slightly annoyed that Yuki was saying he apparently wasn't interested in boys after all, "I'm not gonna do anything."

"You already have." Yuki said, referring to the kiss he gave him. Kane looked taken back slightly, but then frowned annoyed inside.

"Fine." He said begrudgingly, taking a step away from the door.

Which is when it came flying open from the other side, banging straight into the back of Kane who stumbled forward, grabbing onto Yuki's shirt to steady himself, but instead ending up ripping it straight down as he fell to the floor. Yuki stood there half stunned as Motoko stood at the door out of breath, Mai behind her staring at a once again half naked Yuki. Yuki looked down to see Kane was kneeling right in front of him where he had fallen, his arms resting around his thighs where he had tried to stop himself from falling, and his head…well…at a reasonable level of suggestion to make Motoko stare unbelievingly as Mai fainted behind her.

Yuki suddenly gathered what they thought was happening.

"No, no no you don't-"

"What's going on in here?"

To make matters worse, Yuki's class teacher walked into view. The look of mortified shock on his face told Yuki he too thought they were doing....something else. Why the hell isn't Kane moving!?

After a far too long pause, Yuki's teacher decided he'd better say something, "Murasaki." He said sternly. Kane then decided to move, slowly getting up from kneeling in front of Yuki and turned around to face the teacher. "Go back to your class." He said, not taking his eyes of Yuki who wished he could be anywhere other than here at this moment, as Kane walked past them through the door, stepping over Mai, and out of sight without a word or glance. The teacher moved forward and picked up the torn piece of Yuki's shirt that had fallen to the floor and turned away, stopping as he went through the door,

"I think it's time I had a talk with you Yuki."

On third thoughts, this day was definitely much worse than yesterday.

To be continued...

AN: Ah, introducing the character of Kane Murasaki. I suspect how you really pronounce Kane is like, Kain, but for some reason I've always read it like Kan-ay, it just sounds cuter. As for the name, Kane means golden (like his eyes) and Murasaki means purple (like Yuki's eyes). hehe, for some reason I just thought that name suited his character, its like he already got the gold now he's after the jewels :)