Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ Could you love me? ❯ Unseen Escape ( Chapter 1 )

TCould You Love Me?

Kyo sat silently on the couch watching a bird from out the window, he wished he were free, like them who took it so for granted. He wondered how they could se their freedom as a right when he was one of them but he had no freedom, all of his actions were dictated by Akito. The bird flew away, carrying on with it’s own existence to leave him there cold and lonely, his voice was soft, “goodbye…”

Chapter 1. Unseen

Yuki gave a soft choking sound when he saw Hatori coming up the walk, he was coming to get Kyo. His mind was screaming something, but it was incoherent, it meant nothing to him ‘you can’t let them do this to him…’. He knew in his heart that he shouldn’t have, but there was nothing he could do, this was far above him. He silently knew that Kyo’s room would be like his at the family’s main house; cold, dark and condemning. Without thinking much about it, he locked the door and glared at Shigure, “you open this door and I will skin you alive. Is that clear?”, the middle-aged man made a noise of agreement from behind his paper and ruffled the pages lightly to show that he had heard. The Silver-haired boy instinctivly bolted up the stairs, racing to Kyo's room as he listened to Shigure plead patheticly with his friend. Stepping into the bland bedroom, he shut the door behind him, forcing his hand over Kyo's mouth and pushing him against the wall. He was silent, barely breathing as he stared at the door, listening to the doornob down stairs jingle as Hatori unlocked it. Shigure was whining about how Hatori was going to cause his premature demise.
"C'mon, help me get your stuff", Yuki breathed as he pulled away and began to dig in the dresser, tossing clothes into a bag.
"What're you doing?", Kyo whispered urgently, Yuki zipped shut the bag and grabbed Kyo's wrist, "saving your ass!" He wrenched him out the door and dragged him at a run to his own room. Grabbing his own bag, a coat and a jar with his life savings in it, he pushed the cat boy out the window, onto the first roof. His voice was harsh, "jump with me!", clutching Kyo's hand tightly in both of his, they both leapt off that roof, falling to hit the ground. Yuki was up in seconds, pulling Kyo with him and leading him into the small patch of woods that surrounded Shigure's house. Finally they stopped and Yuki fell against the a nearby tree, panting heavilly, his light silver hair sticking to his face. God that had been a rush, scary as hell, but still a rush...
"What the hell are you thinking?! You could've got us both killed! Why would you do something like that?!", grabbing onto Yuki's shoulders, Kyo spun him around to look at him, but his scowl faultered. Yuki panted open mouthed, his hair sticking lightly to his face and in his mouth. His cheeks were flushed slightly and he smiled, looking rather sad and unrequited, "for you, you stupid cat", he breathed adn leaned against the orange haired boy, "I don't know what I'm doing by helping you...but I'm still going to do it..." The distant sound of voices coming closer forced Yuki to pull back, still holding Kyo's hand. And he led him away, away from that house and those voices and toward something else, something even more unwelcomed.
"What do you mean 'you can't find him'?", Akito growled angrilly as Kurino told him the news, "find him", he said sternly as his glare hardened. He stood and leaned against the window, "FIND HIM!", he howled.
Kyo looked at his hamburger skeptically and watched silently as Yuki munched on frenchfries and stared out the window beside him. Was he free? He couldn't answer that, they weren't out of the woods yet...
"Why'd you do it?", he asked quietly, knowing full well that his old rival had heard him for he shrugged lightly. The silver-haired boy looked at him with tired eye's, "I don't know", he said in defeat, "I just did what...", he looked away, "...what my heart told me to..." Kyo looked out the window pinkly, "we better hurry up and withdrawl as much money as we can out of our bank accounts before Akito cancles them to get us to go back", he said quietly, changing the subject deliberatly. Yuki nodded in agreement, Akito probably knew by now that they were gone. His voice was soft, "where do you want to go?", Kyo shrugged lightly and smirked, "this is your plan, where do you want to go?". Yuki watched the rain quietly for a long moment before a soft smile spread on his lips, "I want to go to America", he crooned. Kyo turned pink, he'd never really noticed before, but Yuki really was beautiful. His long grey hair hung down in all the cute places; a picture of the silver-haired boy panting and flushed flashed through his mind. He smiled, "to America it is...", Yuki nodded, it was strange, Kyo being nice to him, but he supposed it was better to get along while they were on this journey rather than fight. Slipping the last of his frenchfries into his mouth, he stood up and begun to rifle through his bag only to pull out an umbrella. His voice was serious, "we shouldn't stay here much longer, we'll be found...", Kyo watched the rain run down the window silently, "sorry I dragged you into this...", Yuki's voice was light, "it's not your fault you were born the cat; you shouldn't be punished for it." Taking Kyo's hand, he placed a folded umbrella in it, kneeling down and smiling up at the orange-haired boy, "don't worry I'll protect you..." With a gentle smile on his face, he stood back up and quietly took care of the remains of thier meal.
Kyo sat there stunned, never in a million years in his wildest dreams, had he ever imagined those words could be directed at him from Yuki's lips. Another picture of the silver-haired boy flashed into his thoughts, his eye's were hungry and he was panting open mouthed; lips swollen. He only spoke one word in that breathy voice, "Kyo...?"
"Kyo? Kyo?", the orange-haired boy jumped sharply as he hit reality suddenly, Yuki was giving him a strange look and asked curiously worried, "is something wrong?" He shook his head mutely, tugging his bag onto his shoulders and standing to join Yuki by the side of the table. He could feel the rat boy's pale eye's not leaving him, had he seen what he had thought? Kyo shook his head again, no, that was just insane, Yuki jsut didn't want his efforts to be for naught. Beginning to walk away he opened his umbrella and froze as he felt something wrap around his shoulders, Yuki's voice was soft and dull, "you better wear this, the rain'll make you sick if you don't..." The silver-haired boy stepped past him easilly, not daring to look him in the eyes.
Yuki pushed open the door quietly, that look, Kyo had had a hungry look in his eyes, a look of sheer want; desperate need. It lit something within him, it felt like in the very pit of his stomach something was burning and the flames were scalding him inside. He wanted something, something new to quench the thirst he felt, falling agianst the door he opened the umbrella that was in his hands. A picture of Kyo, panting and smirking; his skin slicked in sweat, flashed through Yuki's mind and he bit his lip as the strange thirst increased suddenly to an almost painful state. Without hesitation, Yuki slid out the door knowing full well that Kyo was behind him, not wanting him to get suspicious. Something teased his curiosity as he and the cat boy walked together in the rain, why Kyo? Why had such an intimate thought been about him?
Kyo too, was asking himself a similar question, sadly the answer was evading both boys and they would only come to realize it once it was unstoppable.