Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ Can I sleep with you tonight? ❯ Behind closed doors ( Chapter 3 )

Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket or any characters associated with the anime/manga. Although I do own all four Dvds *wah* The anime was good but it was never finished :'( *wah*

Author's note : Yet another chapter written out of order... this was written after chapter 4 but before chapter 2 was finished ^_^ Oh well, it's ok. This chapter is mainly about Akito, so if you get confused about who I'm talking about... it's most likely Akito. That's enough of me this time so go read the fic.

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Chapter 3 ~ Behind closed doors

Standing at the door, he looked out as he saw Momiji come bounding in, jumping up and down while calling to Hatori.

"Hatori-sama, Hatori-sama! Did you know that Tohru-chan and Yuki-kun are going out now?"

"Really? How do you know that?" he asked, curious as to how the boy had found out.

He had already known about their relationship though. To be honest he had known almost immediately afterward, seeing as Shigure had called him to inform him late last night.

"How did you find out?" he had asked plainly, wondering why his cousin had known so quickly, since according to him it had happened only mere minutes before he had called.

"Well... you see Aya-kun and I were in my room."

"I did not ask about your sexual escapades," he had stated flatly, "I asked about Yuki and Tohru."

"I know, I know!" Shigure had tried to innocent, although if Hatori had not stopped him he would have went into detail about what exactly they had been doing in there.

"Well anyway, Aya-kun and I hear someone going upstairs. So we figured we'd better go and check to see if Tohru-kun were ok."

"Hentai. You were only hoping to see her in her nightgown."

"Hatori, I am hurt. We had only the best of intentions," he said, trying to sound as if he were not what Hatori had said he was, but failing miserably, "We were worried about Tohru-kun."

"Hai, Go on."

"When we got to her door we didn't hear anything. So to make sure no one was strangling her in her sleep, I bravely decided to risk my safety and face any and all possible danger that lie on the other side of that door for our amai Tohru-kun. That's when we heard Yuki-kun pouring his heart out to her. It was so touching that I'm thinking of adding it to my latest chapter, with the names changed of course. But then of course I'll have to prolong the release date. I'm sure that...." he continued to ramble on about his editor and how Yuki was his greatest inspiration and yet the greatest downfall of his newest book, although Hatori had stopped listening long before.

'They should keep quiet about this. Kami-sama knows how Akito will react,' he remembered telling Shigure, but the voice he was hearing now was not that of a hentai inu but of a impatient usagi.

"Hatori-sama, you there? You were talking to yourself," Momiji said, waving his hand in front of his face.

"Hai, Gomen. What were you saying?"

"I said when you dropped me off over Shigure-san's house he said that Kyou had went off into the woods and he thought he was upset. So I went to find him but I found him talking to Uo-chan. He must have really liked Tohru-chan to talk to her, he really ," but he was silenced as Hatori interrupted him.

"Momiji-kun, have you told anyone else about Honda-san and Yuki-kun?" Hatori said, his voice stern.

"Dame. not yet," he said simply, wondering why Hatori had become so serious all of a sudden. Although he wondered if Hatori could be more serious than he normally was.

"Well onegai, don't tell anyone. We wouldn't want certain people to become upset at the news," he said, turning his head, and gesturing toward the door where Akito stood hidden.

"Demo Hatori-koi, thanks to you I already know," his voice quiet as an evil smile played across his face.

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Heading down to prepare breakfast, much to Yuki's disliking, she couldn't help but wonder if life would now be different. She knew that her relationship with Yuki would be different, but what about the other members of the household, and for that matter the members of the Souma family in general. Would Shigure now suggest things to her, things that only would come from the mind of a hentai. Would Kyou end up closing himself off to her, and ultimately dissolve their nakayoshi? But most importantly what would Akito do when he found out. Would he allow them to continue their relationship or would he take the approach he had taken with Hatori?

Reaching the bottom of the stairs, all negative thoughts seemed to vanish as her unusually chipper smile was plastered on her face.

"Ohayo Shigure-sama!" she chirped, unable to contain the happiness that seemed to radiate off her this morning.

"Ohayo Tohru-kun, did you sleep well?" he asked as if he knew nothing, but as she opened her mouth to answer he casually slipped in, "I do hope that Yuki-kun didn't keep you up for too long."

"Oh...umm, I," she stuttered, unable to find the words. How did he know, had Kyou told him?

As if to hear her silent question, he answered, "Aya-kun and I heard the whole thing last night, It was quite touching. I'm surprised that you didn't hear Aya-kun cheering Yuki on."

The shocked look on her face ,along with the ever recurring blush, couldn't even begin to describe the embarrassment she felt at the moment. It wasn't bad enough that Shigure had heard their confessions of love the night prior, but Ayame-san had also heard and was cheering Yuki on for Kami-sama knows what.

"You heard what we said last night?" she said, still dumbfounded. If Kyou had been there, this would have been one of the times he would have called her the all too familiar name he had coined for these times. Uchuhikoshi.

"Hai , but Tori-kun thinks that you should try to keep the relationship to yourselves. He thinks that some people may not be pleased with it."

"Hatori-sama knows as well? she whispered, unable to grasp how something that had happened less than a day ago could have spread this far in such a short period of time.

Her world was spinning. She could see that Shigure was talking to her, but she couldn't hear what he was saying. But just as quickly as the spinning had began, it abruptly stopped, as her world turned black and was ripped out from under her feet.

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When she had left to prepare breakfast, he groaned having to get up himself. Although this morning was different. Before last night, sleep had barely come to him and if it had, it was restless sleep. He would see images of when he was young, as Akito tortured his poor soul until he bled. But sleep had come easy to him last night, although he would have much rather stayed up longer to be able to admire the face of the sleeping angel next to him. His dreams were filled with loving images of Tohru and himself together. He didn't know if it had been her bed that had the made the difference or if it were in fact her but he had had the best nights sleep he had ever had, and he resolved then and there he would find a way to sleep in her room with her as often as possible.

Walking down the stairs, toward the wonderful breakfast no doubt awaited him, he knew that life would be better for him now. He had told her he loved her and she had said the same, so things could help but be looking up for him.

But what he had expected to find in the kitchen was not there. Instead he was greeted with the site of Tohru blacking out and falling toward the floor.

Racing to her a speeds he didn't know were humanly possible, he caught her moments before she hit the ground.

Frantically looking around, he found a wide eyed Shigure sitting at the table.

"What the hell did you do to her?" he said, without a doubt in his mind Shigure had done something to cause her to do this.

"Irowa towa kankei ga nai sore," Shigure said truthfully, standing to help him with waking Tohru.

"When she wakes up, I swear if she says you did something to her I'll..." his rant about what he would do to him went on and on, while the sound of a phone ringing fell on deaf ears.

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"Akito-sama," Haori called, somewhat relieved, "No one's answering."

"Keep trying," came the calm voice from the other room.

Akito reveled in the look on Hatori's face that morning when he had stepped out from behind his hidden sanctuary.

"Hatori," he remembered saying, intentionally leaving off the honorific, "I couldn't help but overhear your little conversation with Momiji-kun."

How Hatori's face had contorted and seemed to take on a life of its own, as the shock of what Akito had just said played it's way across his face.

"I think that Yuki-kun and Honda-san should come to the house so we may have a little talk."

"Hai," was all he said, knowing that this was bad, very bad.

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"Why the hell hasn't anyone answered the chikosho phone?" Kyou said, walking into the kitchen, oblivious of both Yuki and Shigure, who were struggling to pick up Tohru without transforming.

"Moshi moshi," he said, as he picked up he phone.

"Ohayo Kyou-san, would you please get Yuki-san to the phone?"

"I don't know where the hell that baka is."

"Could you please find him, this is quite important," Hatori said as calmly as he could.

"Hai, hold on," Kyou growled, taking the phone away from his ear.

"Yuki! Phone," he yelled, not wanting to be in the same room with him right now, even though the talk with Uo had made him feel not quite as pissed off.

"Baka neko, I'm right here," Yuki said as he came back from upstairs. How they had managed to carry her up the stairs without dropping her or transforming, he would never know.

"Here," he said shoving the phone into Yuki's hands.

"Moshi moshi," he answered, wondering who would be calling this early in the day, although it was already quite late for the rest of the household.

"Konnichi wa Yuki-kun," Akito's solumn voice rang out from the receiver, making him shiver, "I have recently been informed of your and Honda-san's relationship. I would so like it if you would come to the house so we could have a little talk," although he had asked, both he and Yuki knew that it was not a request.

"You and I, and bring her, of course. I expect you at the house tomorrow afternoon. I shall send Hatori to pick you up after school."

"Hai," he said, what else could he say. He couldn't just say what he wanted to, which was 'Hell no, I hate you and you don't even deserve to see such a sweet person as Tohru-chan,' but of course this was out of the question, although it made a nice thought.

"Ja ne Yuki-koi," was the last thing Akito said before hanging up the phone. He had always hated that name and Akito knew that but he would use it as often as he could just to get under Yuki's skin, knowing that he could nothing about it.

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The next day had been the longest day of his life. Not only had he overslept, got his shoe caught on one of the loose boards on the stairs, left his homework on the desk in his room that he had spent hours working on, and had accidentally yelled at the Sensei, but he had yet to tell Tohru that today after school that they would be going to the main house.

When the final bell had rung and all the students had rose to leave, as she was packing her things into her bag, he lightly tapped her on the shoulder, making her jump and nearly drop the books in her hands.

"Oh Yuki-kun, you scared me," she said turning around, a light twinge of red upon her cheeks.

"Gomen, demo I wanted to ask you something."

"Hai?" she tilted her head as she said this.

"What are you doing this afternoon?" he just came out and said. He never had had much tact at saying things, most of the time others would end up talking for him and when they did not, most things he had to talk about were student council issues, those of which he didn't have to try and be tactful to deliver.

"Umm...I was planning on going over to Uo-chan's house. She has something that she needed to talk to me about."

"Oh, well gomen demo we have been invited to the main house for a talk with Akito. Is there anyway you could reschedule with Arisa-san?"

"Hai, I'll talk to her later and tell her why I couldn't come over."

"Honda-san? Yuki-san?" a voice called from the doorway.

"Hatori-san, Konnichi wa," Tohru said, wondering why he was there.

"I like to talk to you both before we go to the main house. Hai?"

"Hai," Yuki responded, knowing that it must have been important for Hatori to have come to the school to talk to them about it.

"Akito-sama asked to talk to Yuki-san only, he only said that you," he began, mentioning in the direction of Tohru, "Only have to accompany him, never did he say that you would also need to be present to speak with him. So I advise that we leave Tohru-kun out in the hallway while we go in and talk to Akito-sama."

"Hai, I agree," Yuki agreed. He had hoped to be able to leave Tohru out of this, and now Hatori had given him a way to be able to save her from the same fate Kana had suffered when Akito had wanted to have a "Little Talk" with Hatori and her.

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Dictionary :

Arigatou : Thank you

Arigatou Gazaimasu : Thank you very much

Nani : What

Konbanwa : Good Evening

Dame : No

Sensei : Teacher

Nyo : Huh?

Nushi : Master

Doo itashimashite : You're welcome

Hai : Yes, Okay

Matte : Wait

Ototou-kun : Little brother

Ashita : Tomorrow

Nezumi : Rat

Baka : Idiot, Stupid

Neko : Cat

Inu : Dog

Kami-sama : God

Gomen : Sorry

Daijobou : Are you ok?

Okaa-san : Mom

Ja ne! : See you later

Ashiteru : I love you

Mattaku no Baka : Damned Fool

Imouto-san : Little Sister

Nani : What

Ojisan : Uncle

Aniki-kun : Older Brother

Hentai : Pervert

Chibi : Little

Doushita no? : What's wrong?

Ohayo : Good Morning

Doki : Sound of a Heartbeat

Ne : Right

Irowa towa kankei ga nai sore : I have nothing to do with that

Nakayoshi : Friendship

Chikosho : Damn

Koi : Lover, Honey, Darling

Kare wa doko ni minna : Where is everyone?

Kangei ie : Welcome home

Tadaima : I'm home

Demo : But

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AN: Yay it's finally finished It took me a while because as I said in my earlier AN, I sorta worked backwards and did 4 first, then 2, and then 3... odd order huh? Oh well I really hope you like it and I hope that you'll like me posting both 3 & 4 at the same time ^_^ R&R Onegai!! Ja ne!