Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ Can I sleep with you tonight? ❯ Two blue lines ( Chapter 7 )

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: Yay chapter 7 ^_^ I think I’ve started a thing… I did this chapter before chapter 6 hehe. Well I want to thank everyone who has reviewed. All of the nice comments are greatly appreciated. I also want to thank Rai and Koko for their work as my Betas, you guys are the best. I’m still looking for nice ideas to add to the fic, so if you have any please email me at kawaiiamaiai@aol.com or put it in a review. Arigatou!!

Onto the chapter

Chapter 7 : Two blue lines

There was no possible way that she could be pregnant, no possible way. That's all she had been telling herself ever since her little talk with Uo and Hana.

She just would not believe that she was pregnant although all the signs were there. The morning sickness had started about a week ago. Not even her missing her period had sueded her.

'I can't be pregnant, I just can't. It would mess up our plan. Akito would find out and he... Kami, I don't even want to think about what he would do,' she had thought to herself just after leaving Hana's house that day.

But as she sat on her bed, the idea of being pregnant didn't feel so foreign to her anymore. It felt as if she had excepted it and now only had to be sure.

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On her lunch break, she walked across the street to the drug store where she had been almost a month ago.

She would have loved to go to another store, but seeing as she was never alone, this was the only store in walking range in the short time she had.

That morning was one of the few she didn't feel sick, so she had convinced Shigure and Yuki to let her go to work.

'Good thing,' she thought as she chuckled to herself. She had been on edge a lot lately and she probably would have bitten their heads off if they had tried to stop her.

Momiji had even come over to escort her to work, no doubt the work of Yuki, who had been extremely worried about her walking to work alone.

Once they had got there though Momiji had run off toward the elevator with a quick ja ne. It had been a while since he had seen his mother and sister so it didn't matter much that she was now left alone to stew in her own thoughts.

She had planned to go to the drug store during her lunch break, but time had seemed to pass slowly. It was only ten then and she didn't get a break 'til close to two.

But now as she began her short trek across the street to the long awaited answer to her question, she couldn't feel help but feel a bit nervous. Nervous of the outcome that she knew would be coming, the outcome that would change her life, not to mention Yuki's.

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Standing in front of the display, she felt a bit overwhelmed. Which was the best one? Which would read most accurately?

Finally decided on one in a pink box, she headed toward the register.

To her luck, the same cashier from nearly a month prior was there.

“Konnichi wa,” she had said, hoping that she didn’t recognize her.

“Konnichi wa, back again I see,” the cashier smiled at her.

“Hai,” she sighed placing her purchase on the counter.

“I see what you bought last time wasn’t as effective as you would have thought,” she said, sympathy evident in her voice.

“Dame, it wasn’t,” she replied back.

“Well good luck, hope it comes out the way you want it to,” the cashier said as she handed another bag to Tohru, this one sure to be used.

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Thankfully when she got home, no one was there. Yuki had a class council meeting late today, even though it was Sunday, Kyou was away on a trip, and Shigure had told her before she had left that he would be at Ayame's for the day.

Taking off her shoes at the door, she gently opened the bag that she had held onto for dear life as she had walked home. Pulling out the small box concealed inside, she handled it as if it were the most delicate thing in the world, afraid she would somehow break it.

As she plopped down on a cushion in the corner, she began to open the box saying, "There's no turning back now," not really sure why she had said that once she had. Perhaps, once she took the test and it told her one way or the other she couldn't just say she didn't know and prolong telling Yuki. 'That must be it,' she finalized in her head as she pulled out the instructions and began reading.

As she headed toward the kitchen to pick up the timer, butterflies began to form in the pit of her stomach. Although she thought she already knew the answer to if she were or not, she still didn't know if she were ready to see the proof of it yet.

Setting the timer, she followed the instructions to a T, and headed back down stairs to pace 'til the timer's shrill ring snapped her out of her musings.

Just before she had prayed to Kami, "Let there only be one line.... one line, only one line."

Never had there been so many stairs. Climbing them made her quite tired and just as she reached the top it felt as if her knees would give out on her. Nearly pulling herself the rest of the way to the bathroom, the hall had seemed to grow long as she neared it, just like if she were in some weird sci-fi movie.

Finally as she pulled herself into the bathroom, she grabbed the test on the counter.

As she looked down, she saw two blue lines.

“Kuso!” was all she was able to say.

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Now that she knew for sure, the problem was how to tell Yuki.

She had allowed the news of her being a pregnant sink in for a few hours, and now it was late at night.

Both Shigure and Yuki were home now but she didn't leave her room to say kobanwa to them, because in short she didn't know if she would be able to without breaking down into tears.

Their plan to keep their relationship a secret, her life, his life, everything. Everything was now ruined.

“I’ve ruined everyone’s lives. mine and Yuki’s. Even yours,” she said wrapping her arms around her stomach, “You’ll probably never even get to meet your Otou-san. Akito will probably take my memories and make me go far away,” she sobbed as she began to cry.

That night was the hardest and most painful night she had ever experienced, save for when she loss her mother. Horrifying dreams filled her sleep, what little sleep she did have. Her imagination ran wild with all the things that Akito may try to do to her or the child that lie inside of her.

“Gomen…Gomenasai,” were her last words to everyone who's lives would be changed because of this, as she drifted off into a restless sleep.

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When she woke up, she did as she always did. Got up, got dressed, and went down stairs to fix breakfast.

She had decided while she was getting dressed that she would try to act as normal as ever. Plaster a smile on her face, act like her old self. The self that wasn’t filled with worries and doubts about what the future would hold for herself and Yuki.

When she got there though, she was almost immediately turned around. Shigure had been there already, trying his hand at scrambled eggs, although it looked like he had already burned three batches already.

Taking the spatula from him, she began to stir the yellow liquid in the pan, hoping that she wouldn’t get sick this morning.

The spatula was then removed from her own hand, by some unknown person. Turning around she saw Yuki, his eyes a blaze with concern.

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That morning as he walked to school, he wished she could have been able to go as well, seeing as they rarely had a chance to walk together alone anymore without Kyou as an escort, and he was away on a trip with his Nushi. She had been sick the past few mornings and had had to be forced back into bed when she had tried to prepare breakfast for the threesome.

"Honda-san, you must go back to bed. We will be fine, it is yourself that you should be worrying about," he protested, as he took the spatula away from her and led her back to up the stairs toward her room.

"Hai, Tohru-kun must get the rest she needs," Shigure had piped in, calling after them.

"Tohru..." he said as they reached her room, "You mustn't push yourself, if you are sick onegai, rest and don't worry about us. I don't want anything to happen to my chibi onigiri."

"Hai," she said, smiling as she placing a kiss on his cheek.

"Aishiteru Tohru-koi," he said, wondering how even when she was sick that smile of hers always remained brilliant.

"Aishiteru Yuki-kun," she said as she stepped into her room and closed the door behind her, to hopefully get the rest that her body so desperately needed.

But now, when school had ended, as he stopped by one of the flower venders on the way home he picked up a bunch of roses. But as he looked at them further he couldn't help but remember a phrase that she had told him not too long ago as they passed this same vender.

"I love flowers but I think that sometimes a smile can mean more than a dozen of those roses," she had said, pointing in direction of the flowers in question.

"Sometimes a smile can mean more than a dozen roses," he recited to himself, knowing that she would much rather just be able to spend time with him than have these. Putting them back, he headed home hoping that she would be alone.

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When he got home, completely forgetting to take off his shoes, he headed up to her room to see if she were up to taking a walk to the secret base.

The strawberries had ripened enough so that they could pick them now, and he wanted just that. He wanted them to pick them together.

Reaching the door, he could have sworn he heard soft sniffles coming from the other side. Opening it had only served to prove that what he had heard was right.

"Tohru-chan... Daijobou?"

"Yuki!" she sounded surprised, maybe even a little scared. Her face was wet with the tears of some unknown reason and her eyes looked like that of a deer caught in headlights.

Walking over to the bed, he sat next to her, hoping that he would be able to console her like he had been able to before.

"Doushita no?" he asked pulling her onto his lap.

"Gomen... Gomenasai," she sobbed, repeating the phrase over and over.

Hugging her to him, she continued to ramble on about how she was sorry.

Pulling away from him, she began to mumble something else, this time though he could not understand what it was.

"Nani?" he said, still not able to make out what she had said.

"I...I...I said...said Omedeto," but the rest of her words became scrambled as she began to cry even harder, now covering her face with her hands.

Reaching over to the table she opened the drawer and pulled something out, since she was unable to express in words why she had been crying.

"Omedeto for what?" he asked as she handed him the small white stick that would change their lives drastically, all because of two little blue lines.

Looking at the object in his hand, he turned it over trying to figure out just what exactly she had just handed him. Still confused he asked, "What is this?"

"Baka! It's a pregnancy test, you're going to be an Otou-san!!" she shouted with hidden ferocity that he never knew she possessed.

He didn't know what to say, he had never imagined in his wildest dreams that this was why she had been crying.

Taking his silence as a sign that he now hated her and wished he had never even met her, she began to cry harder, just wishing that she could either disappear or die, whichever came first.

Finally recovering his ability to speak, he said and did the only things that seemed right at the moment. Hugging her to him once again, he whispered in her ear, "Aishiteru. It'll be ok."

"Demo, what about Akito? And the others?" she managed to squeak out, her gaze glued to a spot on the floor, unable to look in him the eye.

"We'll take care of it... It'll be alright. You'll see."

Looking up at him with puffy, watery eyes she began to say something but was quieted as he stroked her hair and gently kissed her.

Still whispering, he gently said, "Omedeto, Okaa-san."

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Dictionary :

Arigatou : Thank you

Arigatou Gozaimasu : 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

Aishiteru : 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

Shiawase na tanjobi : Happy Birthday

Doyatte : How

Zutto : Always/Forever

Onigiri : Rice Ball

Kuso : Shit , Damn

Omedeto : Congratulations

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AN : I really hope you liked it. I'm not sure what the next chapter is gonna be about yet cause I'm still not sure what I'm gonna do... oh well I really hope that I can get sum good ideas going before too long ^_^ but onegai if not forgive me hai?? Onegai R&R and if you have any ideas please include them. Ja ne!