Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ Could you love me? ❯ The First Time ( Chapter 5 )

[ X - Adult: No readers under 18. Contains Graphic Adult Themes/Extreme violence. ]

Yuki placed himself obediently in his seat beside the window and quietly listened as Kyo sat beside him. Haru and Rin sat across the aisle from them and talked quietly to each other and he listened to the cat breathe slowly.
"What did you want to talk about?", the rat asked softly, laying his head to the side to make it look like he was talking to himself; Kyo leaned back and closed his eyes, "why are you doing this for me?", Yuki looked at him with total bewilderment before smiling gently, tipping himself against his cousin and laying his head on the edge of the headrest. His voice was soft, "I'm being selfish...", he whispered, before letting his head fall to the cat's shoulder, "I want you all to myself..." The cat jumped, "what?!", Yuki giggled, "I'm joking...", the rat said softly as he nuzzled his nose against his cousins neck. Kyo seemed to relax, but somehow Yuki knew that he shouldn't have said that, no matter how honestly true it was.
"Come to the bathroom with me...", he whispered suddenly, opening his eyes to see the cat's reaction and liking the look that came over his eyes.
"Why?", the orange haired boy asked cautiously, Yuki liked that response, it wasn't a yes, but it wasn't a no either. Sliding just a little closer to the boy, the grey haired boy smirked, "to finish what you started of course..." In truth, the rat boy was simply testing the waters, to see how much of his actual feelings he could get away with revealing. Hanging his head, Kyo tried to hide a lecherous smile that infected his lips, Yuki didn't let it escape him however and slowly stood.
"Meet you there...", he whispered, heading away and leaving Kyo there; the cat almost instantly was up once he'd disappeared through the curtain at the end of the aisle. Stomping from his seat, down the aisle and through the curtain, he grabbed the grey haired boy and pressed his mouth over his lips, backing him into one of the bathroom compartments. Yuki didn't back in so much as he did fall as Kyo pushed him in and caught himself on the seat of the closed toilet lid. After closing and locking the door, Kyo pulled the rat boy up and pushed him against the wall of the small space, kissing down his neck as he felt the rat boy wrap his arms around him. His hands made quick work of the rat's shirt and he was forced back long enough to tug it over his cousin's head.
As soon as Kyo got it off, Yuki leapt forward and forced the orange haired boy against the door, kissing him again as his hands clutched to the cat's hair. His tongue dipped into Kyo's mouth, gently exploring as he felt two hands clench around his ass and lift him up to wrap his knees around their owner's hips. Then, the rat pulled back, biting his lip and French kissing his rival one last time before pulling back permanently. The cat fallowed his lips for a second before laying his head back against the door, "what's wrong?" Yuki grabbed his shirt that had been tossed to the sink top and pulled it back on, "we can't do this here...", he whispered, chewing on his lip nervously; Kyo smiled, "of course we can", he said, gently delving in for another kiss. Yuki pushed him away, "no, Kyo, it will hinder this, it will slow us down", Kyo sighed and set him down on the seat of the toilet. His voice was soft, "but what if I want to do this?", he asked cautiously, Yuki flushed pink but didn't answer before he got up, pushed the cat to the side and walked out. Once he had gone, Kyo swore angrily to himself and also left to head back to his seat.
Haru noticed the look in Yuki's eyes when he came back down the aisle and sat in his seat; Kyo wasn't far behind him and was looking rather pissed off about something but Haru didn't know what. He decided to find out, "Kyo? What're you so pissed about?", the cat snorted and turned away to watch Yuki even though he wouldn't look back.
"Something happened...", Rin whispered softly in Haru's ear and pointed silently to Yuki's hand that was pulling on Kyo's fingers and gently working his hand to hold the cat's in his palm.
Akito smirked as Kureno reported in with the latest news, Haru and Rin were now missing as well, and the debt record stated that four tickets to China had been purchased within the last half hour. His voice was soft, "so that's where you are...", a cold glare came over his face suddenly and without warning he smashed both of his fists through the window of his room. Wiping away the blood that dripped from the fresh cuts that the glass had produced, he slammed his fist against the wall, "I want them, bring them back!", he screamed angrily. Kureno nodded and gently picked up the head of the family, "would you like to capture them yourself?", a cunning smile spread over Akito's lips and he licked the rooster's jawbone.
"Of course...", he whispered, "I wont let them escape my grasp, Kureno...I just wont!", Kureno smoothly placed Akito on the bed and crawled over him, "if you wish it, Akito-sama, then it will be..." The head of the family smirked cruelly and reached up to pull the rooster down to kiss him forcefully, "good...", he whispered, slowly unbuttoning the man's shirt and running his slender fingers along the skin he bared.
"I want to hurt them", the god crooned, "and hold them in the very palms of my hands like I do you, Kureno..."
Yuki woke with a start and snapped to attention until he noticed that everyone, even Kyo who was sitting beside him, was asleep; so why was he awake? Rolling over a little in his seat, he lay his head close to Kyo's, so close that he could smell that innate scent that came from the cat boy. The rat wondered when he'd first noticed it, and vaguely, why he was noticing it and depending on it now, "I'm scared Kyo...", he whispered almost inaudibly as he snuggled closer, burying his nose against his cousin's throat, "do you think we're going to make it?" Haru's voice caught the rat off guard, "Yuki? Why him?", Yuki jumped slightly as he realized that he was in fact not the only one awake
"What do you mean?", the boy in question asked softly, Haru smiled, "don't play dumb YunYun, I can see how you watch him when you think no one's looking. Just the way that you talk to him tells the whole story...", the ox's smile took on a sad feeling to it, "so tell me, why him?" Yuki ran his fingers through the sleeping cat's hair, "I don't know...", he said softly, "it just sort of happened one day, I woke up wondering if he was alright as he trained on that mountain..."
"Is that why you're doing this?", the ox asked softly, Yuki smiled, "no...", Haru gave a confused look, "then why-?" Without remorse the grey haired boy rolled back over to face out the pitch black window, "I'm just being a selfish bastard...", he supplied. Haru sighed, the grey haired boy would never give him a straight out answer and he knew it, he wondered why he even tried in the first place, even when it came to Kyo, Yuki was either angry and being mean or he was cryptic and indirect; he never said what his eyes screamed that he really felt. Closing his eyes tiredly, the ox listened to the quiet rustling of the plane as it neared the airport.
Hatori sat watching the boarding gate as he waited; Akito had said that they would be here, but right now he was wondering. But he only wondered until he saw them, they came out in a gaggle and stood there, as though they didn’t know where they wanted to go from here.
Kyou stopped as Yuki did, he could feel the rat’s body tense, every muscle tight under his skin as he went rigid.
“What’s wrong?”, he asked softly as Rin and Haru slowed to a stop and looked back at them. For a second the rat didn’t answer, then he raised a hand and pointed and all three junshii turned so their eyes could follow the path of the silver haired boy’s finger; Kyou stepped back.
“Hatori”, at the mention of his name, as if on cue, the dragon stood and slowly started slowly pacing towards them. With each step the older man took, Kyou felt a cold feeling grow and creep in the very pit of his stomach. Yuki was holding onto his hand tightly, it was going numb and starting to tingle; the steps were echoing in their ears, or at the very least in Kyou’s. They were becoming impossibly loud, closer and closer; his mind was racing, he couldn’t breathe, his heart was in his head. He decided in that moment what he was going to do, what they all were going to do.
“Run!”, time seemed to start again when he shouted and they all split, Yuki going with Kyou and Rin going with Haru. Men appeared, all in the employ of Akito no doubt; one moved to grab onto Kyou and Yuki immediately responded with a violent kick to the groin. Not waiting for the man to fall to the ground, Kyou yanked Yuki hard in a different direction.
“Move that ass, rat!”, he yelled, knowing that he was probably tearing the boy’s arm out of its socket and silently apologizing for it.
“Shut up!”, Yuki snapped, turning his gaze forward again, oh shit! “People!”, Yuki ducked and slid under the crowd’s legs as Kyou leapt with all his might over them, landing a few seconds later and pulling his grey haired cousin to his feet remorselessly before setting off running again just in time for the thugs chasing them to hit the crowd.
“This way!”, Yuki veered to the right, shoving Kyou though an exit. For a long moment, they stood there panting, the grey haired boy’s tongue dipping from his mouth as he tried to catch his breath.
“Where are…Rin and Haru?”, he asked, panting, Kyou opened his mouth to answer but-
“He~y!”, both boys turned to see both of their cousins waving for them from beside a cab, they closed their mouths and headed towards them, intertwining their fingers as they did.
The phone buzzed lightly on the hook at the Sohma estate, Akito didn’t bother to get up as he lifted his head to glare at the offending object. After a couple moments the buzzing stopped and he made his way to his feet and across the room. Reaching for the phone as is started buzzing again, he calmly picked it up and pressed it to his ear.
“Hello?”
“They got away…”, the god was silent, “Akito”, the dark haired boys grip on the phone grew to such tightness that his knuckles were white. He gritted his teeth and pulled the receiver away from his ear as the dragon still asked for him. No! They could not get away! He wouldn’t let them!
“Find them!”, he snapped into the receiver before slamming the phone back down on the hook; ultimately hanging up on the doctor. He was angry, he was beyond angry; grabbing the phone, jack and all off of the table, he threw it with all of his strength against the wall. Running over to the object that had the attention of his entire temper at the moment, he picked it up again and started ramming it over and over into the wall until a rather large hole was produced. No, no, no, no, no! This wasn’t happening! This couldn’t be happening! This family was under his control! It had to be! An assistant came in a few moments later and when asked about the hole in the wall, he replied that it had been an accident, knowing that she wouldn’t pursue it if only because she was scared of him.
“Not another hotel”, Yuki whined as the cab pulled into a low class looking hotel who’s sign blinked ‘vacancy’. It had taken quite a bit of trouble to get the cabbie to understand where they wanted to go as none of the four of them spoke Chinese; but in the end they had done it and they had finally arrived at the skanky little building two hours and a hundred dollars later.
“Sorry rat, you’re just going to have to deal with it.” The silver haired boy all but sulked and the cat got the feeling that he really didn’t like hotels, especially ones of the lower price range. So, while Haru and Rin paid for the rooms, Kyou pulled Yuki aside curiously.
“So, is there a reason you don’t like hotels?”, he asked, the rat didn’t look at him as he cringed.
“They just don’t come off to me as clean places”, he replied; Kyou could see his point, the cleaning staff could only do so much, he was suddenly double thinking about staying here as Haru threw their room key at him yelling something about only having enough money for two rooms and not four. At this point, he couldn’t have cared less, he doubted that he and Yuki would be sleeping tonight anyway due to the unknown cleanliness of their room. Biting down a grimace, he took the rat’s hand without a second thought and led him down the adjoining hall to their room.
It had been a mistake to check in here as it turned out because when Kyou opened the door to the room that he and Yuki would be sharing they saw the most horrifying thing. Plaid! Everywhere! On the bed, on the walls, even the carpet was plaid, and it made the cat wonder how the hell the little establishment had found plaid carpet in the first place.
“I’m sleeping in the car”, Yuki stated at the sight of the hideous room.
“You can’t sleep in the car”, the cat said lightly, “we rode here in a cab”, again Yuki sulked and-taking nervous steps- he made his way into the ugly room, acting like the place was diseased. Kyou wanted to laugh at him, but he knew that if he did he would probably be sleeping outside, and it was far too cold to be doing such a thing; even when something as trivial as that wouldn’t have bothered him in the summer. So, he silently followed the rat, closing the door and rubbing his arms to warm them.
“I suppose we will have to go shopping at some point”, he said lightly, trying to make idle conversation to distract them both from the fact that there was-yet again-only one bed in the room.
“I suppose we will”, the rat replied, “I’m sorry that we lost all of your clothes”, the cat shook it off, it wasn’t that he was not sad about losing his clothing, but at the time, he hadn’t been thinking about his clothes, he had been thinking about getting them both out of there alive and free. His clothes had been an after thought, in fact he hadn’t really thought about it until just now when it was brought up, after the incident at the air port and the arguing with the cabbie; he hadn’t had time. Yuki gave a gentle smile then, pacing closer to his orange haired cousin and ambled his hand up to tug a few strands of Kyou’s hair away from his face.
“We’re really going”, he said, a tone of happy disbelief in his voice, the cat’s face cracked into a smile and he reached to grab the silver haired boys wrist.
“We’re really going”, he confirmed, kissing the other male’s palm gently, soft enough that unless Yuki had been watching him, he would never have known that he had been touched at all. Kyou pulled his cousin close to him, wrapping one arm around his waist to hold him against his body, his face dipping low against the rat’s.
“Together”, Yuki smiled, and before he knew it, he was kissing his cousin, his mouth pressed feverishly to the cat’s, his hands knotting in the orange haired male’s shirt as he pulled him back. The bed hit his knees and he tripped, falling onto it, Kyou falling on top of him as he held to him for support and feeling him fail. A laugh escaped him and without a second thought, he held onto the taller male, wrapping his arms around him as though it were only natural. He was sorry for what he had told the other boy on the plane, he was sorry that he had said it would be a hindrance; but- he’d meant it, hadn’t he? Oh he didn’t know~! He didn’t know what he meant anymore! All he knew was he didn’t want to let go of the other boy, he didn’t want to let him leave and say that this was nothing because it felt like so much more than nothing.
“I will get you there Kyou, if I have to die trying, I will get you to America”, the cat smiled above him and dipped his head to kiss his companion. Akito would probably shut down both Haru and Rin’s accounts soon if he hadn’t already done it; as optimistic as the rat wanted to be, he could already see the head of the monster that they were going to have to face. Lack of money and ground to cover were adding up and there was no light at the end of this tunnel that was surrounding them. He would have to find a flashlight.
“Why do you think that their working so hard to save each other?”, Rin asked curiously as she stripped off her dirty clothes and tossed them onto the floor before crawling into the bed. Haru shrugged from where he was sitting at the edge of his side of the bed.
“Dunno”, he said lightly, “why would I work so hard to save you?”, the horse rolled onto her side and watched him silently for a moment before rolling back over and facing away from him. She hated it when he put things like that and he knew it, that was the main reason he did it though. Giving a gentle smile he leaned over and kissed her.
“I think it’s because they’re drawn to one another”, he said gently, “because they can’t very well live without the one another, they are a circle, they are complete only when the other is near. Because they are Yin and Yang, they are separate poles; they touch and it’s magnetic, it’s electric. Without really realizing it, they became precious to one another; they aren’t able to be without the other. Yuki gives Kyou something to hate and Kyou gives Yuki something to compete with. They only live so long as they are together, so long as the other one is in their lives.” He petted her hair gently, watching absently as the strands flowed over his hand like ebony water.
“That’s probably why Yuki is doing this, he wont be able to go on once they take Kyou away from him”, though he did well to hide the revelation in his voice, Haru was actually surprised by what he was saying, not only because it made sense, but because he was a bit jealous. He’d loved Yuki, he’d cared for the rat more than anyone at one point, to think that Kyou had always had the silver haired boys attention was a bit difficult to swallow; to think that, even as he tried to get the boy to look at him, to notice him, to love him back, all that Yuki had really wanted was right in front of him the whole time. The ox had just not seen it because he had always written it off as hatred and nothing more. It hurt, even though he no longer loved Yuki like that, it still hurt; it made him seem a fool for even trying to get the attentions of someone who was already preoccupied so thoroughly with someone else. But he hadn’t been able to see that at the time.
“But how can the rat and the cat be-”, Haru smiled at her then, the barest of grins that slowly broke it’s way to being a smile.
“Don’t you see?”, he said softly, “It’s because they are the rat and the cat; it’s because of that that they can even be like this.”, Rin gave him a confused look, he wasn’t making sense anymore, but he didn’t care, he understood, just like he and she were the ox and the horse and were naturally attracted to one another; such was the same with them.
“They were made for each other, it’s why the cat is always locked away, it’s why Akito told them that they were to hate each other, she hates that they are the other’s reason for living.”, the horse seemed to understand what he was saying, but then again it seemed like she was lost, her eyes reflected some semblance of knowledge, but her face was contorted in misunderstanding.
“Why?”, she asked finally and Haru shrugged; it was a question to which he had no real answer, he didn’t truly know why Akito was the way she was, why she did the things she did, he could only guess at such.
“Maybe because she fears being alone”, he said in soft revolution, “maybe she is so scared about having no one to care for her like that, that when she sees it in those that she reigns over she wants desperately to distinguish it. That way they can’t leave her for that other person. That might have been why she hurt Hatori so badly.” He concluded his little speech on a note of discovery, it all made sense with that explanation behind it; feeling a chill run up his back, the ox rubbed his arms and stood up, pacing around the room as Rin watched him. This little revelation made their journey a bit more urgent, they would have to get Kyou out of Akito’s jurisdiction as soon as possible, granted they were away from it, but they weren’t safe. They would have to get the cat somewhere safe; but what then? He didn’t know.
“What do you mean you can‘t find them?!”, Akito screamed into the phone as Hatori reported in.
“The men that were hired bungled it completely”, the doctor replied lightly before falling silent and listening to the head of the family fume silently. It was a long moment before he spoke again, “If I may”, he started, “perhaps we should wait to see where they were going?” Silence. This was not good.
“Wait?”, came Akito’s short reply, “Wait?!”, the dragon heard something crash and break on the god’s side of the receiver, “I will not wait! I want them back! Bring them back!”
“Yes sir” The phone hung up and Akito stood there for a moment, containing the tantrum that she so desperately wanted to throw, it wasn’t lost yet, but- She fell onto her bed and screamed into the pillow, wanting to take it out properly on the people that were causing her such agony but knowing that she couldn’t.
The kisses were maddening and Yuki found that he couldn’t get enough when Kyou gave them to him; his fingers were shaking, his body was shaking and all he could do was hold onto the boy’s hair as that silken mouth took him in and out. He had never felt such feelings, they were so wonderful that he was sure he was about to die just from the feeling of them. Up and down, in and out, Kyou’s tongue was running over his shaft, teasing the ridge of his tip; once he pulled away entirely and the rat had only protested until the boy flicked the little eyelet at his head with the tip of his tongue. The moment that Yuki had felt that, he had moaned and rocked his hips up, earning a pleased chuckle from his cousin below him before the orange haired boy had taken him back in to occupy his mouth.
“I’m going to die”, he whimpered, closing his eyes and tipping his head back before the cat parted with his phallus and crawled back up to kiss him deeply.
“Then I suppose I will have to take you to heaven with me”, he said softly, unbuttoning his pants and pushing them laboriously off of his legs to reveal his own standing proof of arousal. Yuki swallowed hard when he saw it, it was like some strange beast ready to devour him; not of overbearing size, but still both exciting and frightening.
“Have you done this before?”, he asked nervously, feeling a tiny pang of suspicion cut into him. To his surprise, Kyou shook his head.
“No”, came the reply, “Kagura wanted to, I know that she did, but I never wanted to”, he leaned close to the rat and ran his hand up both of their phalli, his mouth coming down to the rat’s lips in a hungry kiss. The rat’s body arched up, he had no control anymore, he was a blind mouse, feeling it’s way through the world and was falling prey to a predator. It was so slick, it was becoming so hot, they were both covered in pre-come and it wasn’t long before his cousin pulled away, lifted him up and he felt that blunt object that was the cat, positioned, gently nudging, at his lower most opening.
“Is this okay?”, came Kyou’s soft question and Yuki shook his head.
“I don’t know”, he panted, “don’t ask, just do it!”, without another word, the cat sheathed himself inside the rat’s body and Yuki was left trembling, so full that it almost hurt, his erection so excited that it did hurt, he could have just fallen and died when the orange haired boy moved. Trembling, rat arms reached for the cat and pulled him down so hard that he was sure neither knew where the other’s body ended and their own started.
Kyou held as still as he could manage, watching those pretty gray eyes, those luscious pink lips and that sweaty princely face all focus on him. It was all he’d dreamed and more, he could remember the dream, this overshadowed it completely. When he thought that his cousin was ready, he moved, biting down a groan at the tight feeling of pleasure that was gathering in his erection. At this rate he was sure that he would come before Yuki would and his hand came down to supplement, rubbing up and down the boy’s slick shaft, jerking his hand in time with his own thrusting.
A squeak escaped the rat and his eyes pinched shut, he was so hot, both of them were going to burn together, it took only seconds before both of them arched and rocked, their come spurting from within them. How Kyou held himself up he would never know, he felt limp, weak and soon he had laid down beside the rat, pulling a blanket up over them before pulling him close and falling into a relaxed sleep.
Yuki was sure that he needed it, he hadn’t really slept right in so long; he was sure that he needed it too. A swelling sense of comfort and relaxation was swamping over him as well as he lay there in Kyou’s arms, but before he could succumb to it, a knock came to the door and he pushed the cover off of himself enough to slip away, pulling on a robe and tousling his hair a little before opening the door.
Haru was slightly surprised, and just a tad jealous when the door opened to reveal a very disheveled looking Yuki, wrapped up in a bathrobe and a sleeping Kyou in the bed; whether he was clothed or not the ox couldn’t tell thanks to the blanket that was pulled up to his ears.
“Woah, what’s with the plaid?”, Haru asked, finding that it was the first thing out of his mouth; Yuki seemed unimpressed by the comment but smiled anyway.
“Did you need something?”, the rat asked, bringing the ox back to his senses.
“I was just wondering where we’re headed to tomorrow”, Haru quickly answered, he couldn’t remember why he’d come here in the first time, but it was a relative question, right?
“I hadn’t thought of it”, the silver haired boy admitted pinkly, Haru ran a hand through his two toned hair.
“We could go northwest into Mongolia and Russia, or we could go southwest into Nepal and then India”, the rat nodded, he’d already known that, Haru knew that he had, but it was the only thing that he could think to say.
“Do you think that the four of us could talk about it in the morning?”, Haru quickly nodded, wanting out of this situation as quickly as possible. Giving a smile, Yuki nodded to his cousin.
“Good night, Haru”, the ox barely managed a ‘good night’ before the door of the room closed. And somehow, it left him feeling slightly, just ever so slightly empty, like-
“I’ve been replaced”, he said softly to himself, then he turned and walked away back down the hall.