Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ Halloween Masquerade ❯ Costume ( Chapter 1 )

We do not own FB! Natsuki Takaya

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She waved the golden leaf over his nose wanting him to give her an answer now her hair was resting on her left shoulder as she sat knelt beside the cat. "Come on please Kyou it'll be fun I think you'll enjoy it I'll make the costumes and everything!" She was very excited as she spoke down to the cat that was pretending to sleep to get her to get away from him and off the roof.

 

Slowly the cat's eyes opened and shifted towards her, "Come on Tohru, who wants to spend time at school when they don't have to? Aren't we a little old to be dressing up in costumes and running around pretending to be something we're not?" Kyou's head shifted a bit as he closed his eyes once more and glanced down, "Fine... I'll go, since you're going to make the costumes yourself... just, make sure that I'm something cool, and not something childish, will ya?"

 

Her face let up as she listened to him. "Thank you Kyou!" She was smiling so brightly as she moved over him to get to the ladder. As she moved to ladder about to go down she looked up to him her hair blowing in the wind. "I'll make you something very cute and cool!" She went down the ladder down heading into the house.

 

Kyou's eyes rolled slightly once the girl was out of his sight, knowing she wouldn't be able to see him. She better not make anything kiddy... I can't stand it when everything is all... 'Cute.' Slowly he pushed himself up into a sitting position and began to stare up at the stars. It'd only be a few more nights before all those kids would be running around with their baskets asking for candy, god how he hated that night.

 

She sat up in her room with a sewing machine she had found in a back room it wasn't that old, but she came out with a few bandages on her fingers from the needles. She laced the black and orange pattern together smiling and humming as she did. 'He'll look so adorable as him I bet he will.' she spoke to herself now before stopping grabbing her finger. She had gotten bit for the tenth time already she was running out of band -aids as well.

 

----October 31st----

 

The alarm clock went off, the sun peering through the window. Slowly, the orange haired boy sat up rubbing his eyes, before reaching over and smacking his clock. The thirty-first... damn I hate today... he thought to himself as he rolled out of bed and got up to go to the restroom, much as he did every morning. She stood outside his door waiting for him to come out her hands behind her back hiding what she had made him. She had been waiting for him since she woke. As his door slid open, Kyou stepped out, almost jumping out of his skin when he saw her there, having not been used to anyone being so close to his door when he woke. "What are you doing..." came a calm voice from the cat as he eyed her carefully, trying to make it appear that she hadn't slightly spooked him.

 

"Boo." She smiled brightly now as she held up the costume that she had spent so much time on her fingers and hands covered by bandages. "I hope you like it I thought the character really fit you." Slowly an orange tail with black strips fell from the bundle hanging down now.

 

Kyou blinked softly as he tilted his head, glancing at the thing in her arms. "What... is it?"

 

"Try it on I want to see you in it go try it on Kyou!" She was very exited from the way she talked to him. Blinking softly still, he slowly took the thing from her and let it unfold so that he could look at it and see what it looked like before slowly turning and walking into the bathroom to change.

 

"I'll be waiting downstairs for you Kyou." She waved her hand heading down the steps to the dinning room.

 

After a few moments, the sound of the bathroom door closing rang out through the air, followed the soft sounds of grumbling and footsteps on the stairs. Kyou slowly walked down them, his head down, hands lightly gripping the front of the outfit. "What... is this..?"

 

Shigure started laughing now unable to hold it in as he hid behind his paper. Tohru looked up from the warm tea she was drinking smiling up to him. "Its Tigger you know from Winnie the Pooh."

 

"No…. I don't know," he said softly as he blinked and sat down on the ground by the stairs, fiddling with the tail of the outfit. "I've never heard of it..."

 

"Kyou you're so cute!" Shigure couldn't keep himself from busting out that comment as Tohru looked down.

 

".... Mom use to read me the books all the time when I was little he was my favorite cat character...."

 

Kyou's eyes narrowed as he glared at the dog, grumbling softly. "I've really never heard of the story..."

 

"We can go to the library today and check out the books we can even wear our costumes." She looked up to smiling.

 

"Is it... cool? Any kind of warriors or anything? Some fighting?" He was hoping that there would be something that interested him in the books, since he was feeling awkward wearing the outfit as it was, finding it to be too cute for his tastes.

 

"No he bounces around and sings." She smiled brightly. "I've read in one book when they group thought hefflelumps and wuzzels were coming for him he grabbed a plunger to fight with."

 

Kyou blinked softly as he, tilted his head and looked at her. "Heffle-what's?" Slowly he stood up and brushed off the costume.

 

"They were make believe creatures I think." She thought about it now. "They kind of look like stuffed elephants."

 

Blinking softly, he shrugged a bit and looked up at the stairs, "I'll go get dressed and we can go to the library if you want."

 

"But I want to go in our costumes all the other kids are doing it."

 

Shigure giggled. "Yes Kyou go in that cute little costume I bet so many little girls will want a picture with you."

 

Kyou blinked softly as he glanced back at the two, glaring at Shigure. "Fine... what does your costume look like..?"

 

"I'll go put it on I want to surprise you." She stood up running off upstairs to change returning wearing a gray mouse costume. "How do I look?" Blinking softly still, he tilted his head and watched her as she walked down dressed like a mouse. "You're going as a rat..?"

 

"I'm not a rat I'm a mouse." She spoke sadly looking down.

 

Blinking a bit, he slowly nodded his head and looked up at her. "I see... Well, as long as you're not a rat." He chuckled softly and turned around, the tail getting wrapped around his feet slightly.

 

She looked up nodding watching him now. "Kyou be careful that tail took a long time to sew onto your costume."

 

Shigure's giggles turned into laughter. "I must tell Hatori about this!"

 

Kyou almost stumbled over the tail, but quickly caught himself, looking down at it. "This will take some getting used to...” Glancing up, and glaring at Shigure, Kyo quickly walked over and smacked him on the back of the head with a big, paw/glove. "What the hell was that dog!?"

 

She giggled now watching him. "Tigger would never do that!"

 

Kyou smacked Shigure once more, narrowing his eyes at the older man.

 

Shigure made a small whimper as he looked down. "That hurt Kyou!"

 

"It's supposed to!" Kyou slowly walked over to Tohru and glanced at her outfit. "Yuki'll love it I'm sure, what is he going as?"

 

"It's a surprise he doesn't even know yet." She looked back up to him. "You don't think my costume's lovely?"

 

"Sure... it's cute... for a mouse," he said softly, knowing he didn't really like cute things but not wanting to make her feel bad.

 

She smiled faintly grabbing hold of his hand. "Come on let's get going."

 

Nodding softly, he went along with her, letting her lead him to the library of the school, not really wanting to wear the costume all day long, but knowing that he'd do it for her.

 

"Thank you for going to the school costume party with me Kyou." She turned to him smiling.

 

"You know I wouldn't make you go by yourself," he said softly as he followed her, his hand still grasping her's as they walked together towards the school.

 

A sound could be heard echoing threw the forest causing Tohru to move close to Kyou. "What was that?!"