Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ Lost My Sister in San Francisco ❯ Her Reasons ( Chapter 6 )
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By: Inuyoukai Mitaku Kurama 
Round one between Kokoro and Anita begins. Afterwards, Kokoro drags Kyou into her crazy plot and explains her reasons for doing so.
Anime/Manga: Fruits Basket Fan Fiction | Genre(s): / Comedy | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 06.27.2006 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.2K | Visits: 204 | Status: Work In Progress
Round one between Kokoro and Anita begins. Afterwards, Kokoro drags Kyou into her crazy plot and explains her reasons for doing so.
Anime/Manga: Fruits Basket Fan Fiction | Genre(s): / Comedy | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 06.27.2006 | Pages: 3 | Words: 2.2K | Visits: 204 | Status: Work In Progress
And in this chapter Kokoro explains her reasons for why she has to protect Kippei while she drags Kyou into her little plan. Not to mention round one between Kokoro and Anita over Kasumi. Don’t own Fruits Basket, wish I did, but I don’t. I would if I could, but I can’t so I won’t. So here’s chapter six.
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“Where’s Kasumi?” Kokoro asked later that evening as they sat down at the dinner table. “Isn’t she gonna join us?”
“She’s prolly not done practicing.” Anita shrugged.
“Practicing? For what?” Kokoro arched a brow.
“Oh, she didn’t tell you?” Anita blinked, pretending to be surprised. “Oh well, Kassie can’t tell you all her secrets, now can she?” She said with a cold tone in her voice.
“Likewise.” Kokoro shot back with an even colder tone. She had found out from Kasumi a while back that Dawn and Anita had never found out about the curse, and Kasumi didn’t intend on letting them in on that secret anytime soon.
“Kassie tells me everything.” Anita glared. She was getting really annoyed with Kokoro already. Who did she think she was, waltzing in, claiming she was Kassie’s best friend? Claiming that Kassie was like a little sister to her! Kassie was like Anita’s little sister! Not this new girl’s!
“That’s what you think.” Kokoro glared right back at her. Ever since she got there, Anita had been giving her attitude. And why did she always call her ‘Kassie’? A nickname, sure, but has there ever been a time that she called her ‘Kasumi’? Even her teachers and other friends at school called her ‘Kasumi’.
“What do you know about Kassie that I don’t?” Anita challenged. There was no way in hell that this girl could know things about Kasumi that she didn’t.
“What do you?” Kokoro tilted her head.
“Shigure, is it just me or is it getting stuffy in here?” Sachiko sighed, a few seats down from Kokoro.
“It does seem to be getting pretty stuffy.” Shigure agreed. “Kasumi must feel so special, having two people fight over her like this.”
“She’s used to it.” Dawn cut in. “A while after she got here, people have been fighting over her. Miss Cambridge wanted to adopt her, my parents wanted to adopt her. Miss Lear, the lady across the street from the boarding school who owns a shop, she considered adopting Kassie too.”
“But what happened?” Tohru asked, looking to Dawn.
“She turned them all down.” Dawn smiled a bit sadly, staring down at the table. “Two, almost three, chances to have a new family and she said no to all of them. When I asked her about it, she would just smile and tell me ‘I already have a family.’ and that would be the end of it.”
“That must’ve been hard. To turn them down like that.” Tohru frowned lightly. “Especially since she seems to care about them so much.”
“Hey!” Kasumi smiled, rushing into the dining room. “Sorry I’m late, I was practicing.”
“Practicing what?” Kyou asked.
“Oh, I guess I haven’t told you yet, have I?” Kasumi laughed lightly. “It must’ve slipped my mind. Well, let’s see...ever year, at the school, we have a Multi-cultural festival, because there are so many different girls there from different cultures. Sometime during the festival they have like...well not a talent show but...I guess you could call it that. I’ve been in it every years since I was eight.”
“What do you do?” Tohru asked, her usual smile back on her face.
“I dance.” Kasumi smiled.
“Wow! Really? I’d like to see!” Tohru exclaimed.
“Well the festival’s...um...let’s see...” Kasumi began to think. She couldn’t remember how far away the festival was.
“Next week.” Anita reminded, a very slight growl in her voice. Now she didn’t have much leverage against Kokoro.
“Next week?!” Kasumi’s eyes widened. “Ah dammit! I’m so far behind! I barely got done picking my music!”
“Music?” Yuki asked, blinking.
“Yeah, every year I do a different song.” Kasumi sighed. “I was going through CDs for hours trying to pick one for this year!”
“So that was the music I heard.” Yuki said, smiling lightly. “I thought I heard something coming from one of the back rooms.”
“Yeah.” Kasumi smiled lightly. “I was picking a song. I figured it should be a really good one, ‘cause this year, I wanna go out with a bang.”
“Out with a bang?” Anita questioned. “What is that supposed to mean? Are you not going to be in the festival anymore after this year?”
“U–Uh...” Kasumi began to stutter. “Um...”
“Mm! This food is delicious!” Sachiko said loudly. “Don’t you think so, Kasumi?”
“Uh, yeah!” Kasumi agreed, although she hadn’t even taken a bite out of her food. “Delicious!”
There was a secret amongst them. Anyone could sense it. Kasumi almost let out something that she wasn’t supposed to. But what was it?
“Hey Kyou,” Kasumi called, smiling at her older brother.
“Whaddya want?” Kyou asked, picking at his food.
“You haven’t got to meet Tsuyu yet, have you?” Kasumi asked.
“...Who?” Kyou looked at her.
“Her horse.” Anita said. “She didn’t tell you she had a horse?” Another chance to prove that she knew something about Kasumi that they didn’t. And by they, she meant Kokoro and Kyou. Kokoro just really got on her nerves, but Kyou...something about Kyou made her mad. Maybe it was the fact that Kyou was Kassie’s real brother. But to Anita, he seemed like a pretty bad one. She didn’t think Kyou deserved to have a sister like Kassie.
“Yeah, I was wondering if after dinner you can come with me to take her out for some exercise.” Kasumi smiled and took a bite of some food. “Please?”
“Out in that freezing weather, are you crazy?!” Kyou yelled.
“Tsuyu and I like it when it’s cold.” Kasumi blinked. “Besides, it’s not that cold.”
Kyou sighed, growling lightly. He looked at Kasumi’s pleading face, the face he hated. Mostly because he could never say no to it. Sisters. They were always such a pain. “Fine.” He growled.
“Yay!” Kasumi smiled.
“Kippei, are you okay?” Sachiko looked to her nephew. “You haven’t said a thing throughout dinner.”
“I’m fine.” Kippei shrugged.
“You sure, sweetie?” Sachiko reached over to feel his forehead. “You’re not getting sick are you?”
“I said I’m fine.” Kippei growled, pulling out of Sachiko’s reach.
Kokoro looked down at her food, poking at it with her fork. She slightly looked up at Kippei, feeling a bit guilty. She knew he wasn’t sick, he was just angry. And that was her fault. Some sister she was.
“I’m gonna go lie down for a little bit.” Kippei stood up. He pushed in his chair under the table and walked out of the dining room.
After dinner, Kasumi ran out to go get Tsuyu ready for her exercise. Kyou stayed inside to wait until Kasumi came to bug him about how he said he’d go with her. To hell if he’d stand outside while it took his sister forever to get the damn horse ready.
“Kyou.” Kokoro called, walking into the room where he was waiting. “Can I talk to you for a sec?”
“What is it?” Kyou looked to her.
“I need you to help me with something.” Kokoro said, walking over to him.
“Forget it.” Kyou said immediately. Not another one of Kokoro’s crazy antics.
“It has to do with Kasumi.” Kokoro quickly noted.
Kyou sighed. The one thing that could catch his attention for something. Dammit, why’d he have to have a sister? “What?”
“I need you to help me keep her and Kippei from getting together.” Kokoro said.
“...No.”
“Kyou!”
“ ;It’s none of my business who she dates!”
“W–Well, what if...she was dating some psycho stalking killer?!”
“Is you’re brother some psycho stalking killer?”
“...No.”
“Exactly.” ; Kyou turned around. “Is that why Kippei was mad earlier? Did you say something to him about that?”
“No. Well...sorta. But I have a good reason, Kyou!”
“What is it?” Kyou began to walk around the room, looking at various things.
“Ariel and Akito.” Kokoro said quietly.
Kyou stopped dead in his tracks. He turned back around to face Kokoro. “What about them?”
Kokoro sighed, glad to have gotten his attention. “In a couple more years, Ariel’s gonna graduate. And when that day comes, she’ll be the leader of the Okurimono family.” She began to explain. “Because Kippei is linked to her, he’ll be like...her right hand man. And because Kippei is my little brother, Ariel hates me, and it pains me to see him miserable...Ariel is going to make him miserable.”
“So where do Kasumi and Akito fit into all this?” Kyou questioned.
“I’m getting to that.” Kokoro said. “Ariel would want to take away the one thing Kippei cares for deeply, whom is your sister.”
“Ariel can’t touch Kasumi. She’s not an Okurimono, she’s a Sohma.”
“And that’s where Akito comes in.” Kokoro nodded. “All Ariel would have to do is waltz right into Sohma house, tell Akito ‘I don’t want my Kippei seeing your Kasumi’, they strike a deal, and Kippei and Kasumi are through.” Kokoro sighed. “Think about it, Kyou. If that happens while they’re already deep into the relationship, that’ll hurt them more than we know. It’ll make them both miserable beyond repair. I know I’d hate to see Kippei that torn apart, and I know you feel the same for Kasumi.”
Kyou looked to the floor. He gritted his teeth and growled. Kokoro had a point, he’d never want to see Kasumi that sad. But he didn’t want Kasumi to hate him for trying to ruin her relationship with Kippei. So he had two choices: ruin the relationship and possibly have Kasumi hate him for the rest of his life, but at least she’d be safe from getting hurt, or let her continue to see Kippei and let it lead to her eventually getting hurt beyond help.
“So? What’s it gonna be?” Kokoro asked, looking to him.
“Fine.” Kyou sighed. “I’ll help. Only because I don’t want to see Kasumi get hurt.”
“Thank you.” Kokoro smiled lightly.
“I just told you I’m not doing it for you, so don’t thank me.” Kyou turned away. “I’m gonna go find Kasumi.”
He walked out.
Kokoro let out a relieved sigh.
“You know, you can’t be a hypocrite about this, right?” Sachiko walked into the room after overhearing the conversation from behind the door.
“What are you talking about?” Kokoro blinked.
“You can’t try to get with Kyou now. Then you’d be a hypocrite.” Sachiko said. “Besides, you wouldn’t be able to for the same reasons. Ariel would want to make you miserable so she’d tell Akito that she doesn’t want you and Kyou to be seeing each other either. And that’s that.”
Kokoro hadn’t thought about that. Not that it mattered much because she figured Kyou would never see her in the same way she saw him. It pained her every time she reminded herself about that. She nodded to Sachiko. “I know.”
“Good. Now then, I shall be going now.” Sachiko smiled and walked out. “Bye bye.”
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And that’s chapter six. The next chapter’s gonna be pretty good too. Kyou and Kasumi get stuck far from the house when a blizzard begins to blow in. How are they gonna survive it out there in the cold? Well you’ll have to read to find out, now won’t you?
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“Where’s Kasumi?” Kokoro asked later that evening as they sat down at the dinner table. “Isn’t she gonna join us?”
“She’s prolly not done practicing.” Anita shrugged.
“Practicing? For what?” Kokoro arched a brow.
“Oh, she didn’t tell you?” Anita blinked, pretending to be surprised. “Oh well, Kassie can’t tell you all her secrets, now can she?” She said with a cold tone in her voice.
“Likewise.” Kokoro shot back with an even colder tone. She had found out from Kasumi a while back that Dawn and Anita had never found out about the curse, and Kasumi didn’t intend on letting them in on that secret anytime soon.
“Kassie tells me everything.” Anita glared. She was getting really annoyed with Kokoro already. Who did she think she was, waltzing in, claiming she was Kassie’s best friend? Claiming that Kassie was like a little sister to her! Kassie was like Anita’s little sister! Not this new girl’s!
“That’s what you think.” Kokoro glared right back at her. Ever since she got there, Anita had been giving her attitude. And why did she always call her ‘Kassie’? A nickname, sure, but has there ever been a time that she called her ‘Kasumi’? Even her teachers and other friends at school called her ‘Kasumi’.
“What do you know about Kassie that I don’t?” Anita challenged. There was no way in hell that this girl could know things about Kasumi that she didn’t.
“What do you?” Kokoro tilted her head.
“Shigure, is it just me or is it getting stuffy in here?” Sachiko sighed, a few seats down from Kokoro.
“It does seem to be getting pretty stuffy.” Shigure agreed. “Kasumi must feel so special, having two people fight over her like this.”
“She’s used to it.” Dawn cut in. “A while after she got here, people have been fighting over her. Miss Cambridge wanted to adopt her, my parents wanted to adopt her. Miss Lear, the lady across the street from the boarding school who owns a shop, she considered adopting Kassie too.”
“But what happened?” Tohru asked, looking to Dawn.
“She turned them all down.” Dawn smiled a bit sadly, staring down at the table. “Two, almost three, chances to have a new family and she said no to all of them. When I asked her about it, she would just smile and tell me ‘I already have a family.’ and that would be the end of it.”
“That must’ve been hard. To turn them down like that.” Tohru frowned lightly. “Especially since she seems to care about them so much.”
“Hey!” Kasumi smiled, rushing into the dining room. “Sorry I’m late, I was practicing.”
“Practicing what?” Kyou asked.
“Oh, I guess I haven’t told you yet, have I?” Kasumi laughed lightly. “It must’ve slipped my mind. Well, let’s see...ever year, at the school, we have a Multi-cultural festival, because there are so many different girls there from different cultures. Sometime during the festival they have like...well not a talent show but...I guess you could call it that. I’ve been in it every years since I was eight.”
“What do you do?” Tohru asked, her usual smile back on her face.
“I dance.” Kasumi smiled.
“Wow! Really? I’d like to see!” Tohru exclaimed.
“Well the festival’s...um...let’s see...” Kasumi began to think. She couldn’t remember how far away the festival was.
“Next week.” Anita reminded, a very slight growl in her voice. Now she didn’t have much leverage against Kokoro.
“Next week?!” Kasumi’s eyes widened. “Ah dammit! I’m so far behind! I barely got done picking my music!”
“Music?” Yuki asked, blinking.
“Yeah, every year I do a different song.” Kasumi sighed. “I was going through CDs for hours trying to pick one for this year!”
“So that was the music I heard.” Yuki said, smiling lightly. “I thought I heard something coming from one of the back rooms.”
“Yeah.” Kasumi smiled lightly. “I was picking a song. I figured it should be a really good one, ‘cause this year, I wanna go out with a bang.”
“Out with a bang?” Anita questioned. “What is that supposed to mean? Are you not going to be in the festival anymore after this year?”
“U–Uh...” Kasumi began to stutter. “Um...”
“Mm! This food is delicious!” Sachiko said loudly. “Don’t you think so, Kasumi?”
“Uh, yeah!” Kasumi agreed, although she hadn’t even taken a bite out of her food. “Delicious!”
There was a secret amongst them. Anyone could sense it. Kasumi almost let out something that she wasn’t supposed to. But what was it?
“Hey Kyou,” Kasumi called, smiling at her older brother.
“Whaddya want?” Kyou asked, picking at his food.
“You haven’t got to meet Tsuyu yet, have you?” Kasumi asked.
“...Who?” Kyou looked at her.
“Her horse.” Anita said. “She didn’t tell you she had a horse?” Another chance to prove that she knew something about Kasumi that they didn’t. And by they, she meant Kokoro and Kyou. Kokoro just really got on her nerves, but Kyou...something about Kyou made her mad. Maybe it was the fact that Kyou was Kassie’s real brother. But to Anita, he seemed like a pretty bad one. She didn’t think Kyou deserved to have a sister like Kassie.
“Yeah, I was wondering if after dinner you can come with me to take her out for some exercise.” Kasumi smiled and took a bite of some food. “Please?”
“Out in that freezing weather, are you crazy?!” Kyou yelled.
“Tsuyu and I like it when it’s cold.” Kasumi blinked. “Besides, it’s not that cold.”
Kyou sighed, growling lightly. He looked at Kasumi’s pleading face, the face he hated. Mostly because he could never say no to it. Sisters. They were always such a pain. “Fine.” He growled.
“Yay!” Kasumi smiled.
“Kippei, are you okay?” Sachiko looked to her nephew. “You haven’t said a thing throughout dinner.”
“I’m fine.” Kippei shrugged.
“You sure, sweetie?” Sachiko reached over to feel his forehead. “You’re not getting sick are you?”
“I said I’m fine.” Kippei growled, pulling out of Sachiko’s reach.
Kokoro looked down at her food, poking at it with her fork. She slightly looked up at Kippei, feeling a bit guilty. She knew he wasn’t sick, he was just angry. And that was her fault. Some sister she was.
“I’m gonna go lie down for a little bit.” Kippei stood up. He pushed in his chair under the table and walked out of the dining room.
After dinner, Kasumi ran out to go get Tsuyu ready for her exercise. Kyou stayed inside to wait until Kasumi came to bug him about how he said he’d go with her. To hell if he’d stand outside while it took his sister forever to get the damn horse ready.
“Kyou.” Kokoro called, walking into the room where he was waiting. “Can I talk to you for a sec?”
“What is it?” Kyou looked to her.
“I need you to help me with something.” Kokoro said, walking over to him.
“Forget it.” Kyou said immediately. Not another one of Kokoro’s crazy antics.
“It has to do with Kasumi.” Kokoro quickly noted.
Kyou sighed. The one thing that could catch his attention for something. Dammit, why’d he have to have a sister? “What?”
“I need you to help me keep her and Kippei from getting together.” Kokoro said.
“...No.”
“Kyou!”
“ ;It’s none of my business who she dates!”
“W–Well, what if...she was dating some psycho stalking killer?!”
“Is you’re brother some psycho stalking killer?”
“...No.”
“Exactly.” ; Kyou turned around. “Is that why Kippei was mad earlier? Did you say something to him about that?”
“No. Well...sorta. But I have a good reason, Kyou!”
“What is it?” Kyou began to walk around the room, looking at various things.
“Ariel and Akito.” Kokoro said quietly.
Kyou stopped dead in his tracks. He turned back around to face Kokoro. “What about them?”
Kokoro sighed, glad to have gotten his attention. “In a couple more years, Ariel’s gonna graduate. And when that day comes, she’ll be the leader of the Okurimono family.” She began to explain. “Because Kippei is linked to her, he’ll be like...her right hand man. And because Kippei is my little brother, Ariel hates me, and it pains me to see him miserable...Ariel is going to make him miserable.”
“So where do Kasumi and Akito fit into all this?” Kyou questioned.
“I’m getting to that.” Kokoro said. “Ariel would want to take away the one thing Kippei cares for deeply, whom is your sister.”
“Ariel can’t touch Kasumi. She’s not an Okurimono, she’s a Sohma.”
“And that’s where Akito comes in.” Kokoro nodded. “All Ariel would have to do is waltz right into Sohma house, tell Akito ‘I don’t want my Kippei seeing your Kasumi’, they strike a deal, and Kippei and Kasumi are through.” Kokoro sighed. “Think about it, Kyou. If that happens while they’re already deep into the relationship, that’ll hurt them more than we know. It’ll make them both miserable beyond repair. I know I’d hate to see Kippei that torn apart, and I know you feel the same for Kasumi.”
Kyou looked to the floor. He gritted his teeth and growled. Kokoro had a point, he’d never want to see Kasumi that sad. But he didn’t want Kasumi to hate him for trying to ruin her relationship with Kippei. So he had two choices: ruin the relationship and possibly have Kasumi hate him for the rest of his life, but at least she’d be safe from getting hurt, or let her continue to see Kippei and let it lead to her eventually getting hurt beyond help.
“So? What’s it gonna be?” Kokoro asked, looking to him.
“Fine.” Kyou sighed. “I’ll help. Only because I don’t want to see Kasumi get hurt.”
“Thank you.” Kokoro smiled lightly.
“I just told you I’m not doing it for you, so don’t thank me.” Kyou turned away. “I’m gonna go find Kasumi.”
He walked out.
Kokoro let out a relieved sigh.
“You know, you can’t be a hypocrite about this, right?” Sachiko walked into the room after overhearing the conversation from behind the door.
“What are you talking about?” Kokoro blinked.
“You can’t try to get with Kyou now. Then you’d be a hypocrite.” Sachiko said. “Besides, you wouldn’t be able to for the same reasons. Ariel would want to make you miserable so she’d tell Akito that she doesn’t want you and Kyou to be seeing each other either. And that’s that.”
Kokoro hadn’t thought about that. Not that it mattered much because she figured Kyou would never see her in the same way she saw him. It pained her every time she reminded herself about that. She nodded to Sachiko. “I know.”
“Good. Now then, I shall be going now.” Sachiko smiled and walked out. “Bye bye.”
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And that’s chapter six. The next chapter’s gonna be pretty good too. Kyou and Kasumi get stuck far from the house when a blizzard begins to blow in. How are they gonna survive it out there in the cold? Well you’ll have to read to find out, now won’t you?