Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ Sleepless in Sohma House ❯ Chapter Two: Man with a Plan ( Chapter 2 )

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Sleepless in Sohma House

PART TWO

YUKI *

Yuki stood in his garden watching as the sun rose over the trees. He had made a special effort to get out of bed extra early this morning. He was a man on a mission now, and his carefully concocted plan of action called for him beating Miss Honda, as well as the rest of his housemates, to the kitchen this morning. Satisfied that the sun was safely seated in it’s proper place in the sky, Yuki bent down to retrieve the basket of berries that he had just finished picking.

“This is going to be a good day.” He promised himself, a rarely seen grin creeping up his cheeks, adding a dazzling sparkle to his pretty violet eyes. Humming quietly to himself, Yuki started the walk back to Sohma house.

Sliding open the shoji, and heading towards the kitchen, Yuki was relieved that everyone still remained snug in their beds. Once inside the kitchen the silver haired boy made quick work of washing the berries, arranging them in a pretty lavender bowl, and topping them with a light sprinkling of sugar. Digging through the refrigerator, deep in the recesses of the vegetable drawer, Yuki located the cream that he had purchased especially for the occasion and hidden from Miss Honda. This he poured into a tiny silver dish, with a dainty serving spoon. When the hot water finished boiling he prepared a cup of tea, and placed it along with the berries and cream on a elegant silver tray. This done, he placed a few springs of lilac into a delicate silver bud vase and added it to the tray as the finishing touch.
“See, I can cook.” Yuki gloated, admiring his work, and brushing some spilt sugar off of his sleeve.

Taking a deep breath, Yuki picked up the silver tray and carried it upstairs towards Miss Honda’s room.
‘Breakfast in bed, what a perfect idea, for a change Miss Honda can be waited on. Hatori you are a genius.’ Of course, now that Yuki was actually standing outside of Miss Honda’s bedroom, he wasn’t so sure this was such a great idea.
‘She’s still sleeping, it’s not right to wake her.’ Yuki warned himself.
‘If you don’t get to her before the rest of the house wakes up, she will be too busy cooking and cleaning. Everyone will be around and you’ll never get the opportunity to tell her how you feel.’ Hatori’s voice chimed in sternly, reminding Yuki of their conversation, of their plan.
‘But what if she doesn’t want to know how I feel’ Yuki argued, starting to slowly back away from the door. ‘what if it makes her uncomfortable and she moves out.’
‘Damn it Yuki, don’t be such a wuss,’ The good doctor’s voice taunted, ‘get in that room and tell that girl how you feel.’
With that, Yuki reach out an unsteady hand and slid open the shoji to Tohru Honda’s bedroom.

As Miss Honda’s curtains were tightly closed, the room was still bathed in the evening’s darkness. Taking a timid step inside, Yuki waited while his eyes adjusted. Once they did, however, Yuki had quite a bit of trouble registering what he was seeing.

Inside the giant bed that Shigure had purchased for her, Miss Honda slept, bundled peacefully, beneath a thin summer blanket. At the foot of her bed lay a pool of clothing. Yuki easily recognized the familiar pair of olive colored cargo pants and black T-shirt belonging to Yuki’s orange haired nemesis, Kyo, who laid sleeping on the bed in front of him, his stark naked leg flung casually over Miss Honda’s blanketed form.

In a instant, Yuki felt his entire world spiral completely out of his control. The tray he was holding slipped from his hands and crashed to the floor loudly. Tears of rage and pain pooled inside Yuki’s eyes. Startled awake, and sitting up quickly, Tohru and Kyo caught just a glimpse of Yuki’s tortured face, before he swiftly turned and ran.



SHIGURE *

“Yuki, what were all those crashing sounds I just heard?” Shigure stuck his head out of his shoji, just in time to catch a silver blur as it blew past his room and down the stairs to fly out of the house.
“What is Kyo up to now?” Shigure wondered, and stepped down the hall to peer into Tohru’s open shoji.
His mouth dropped open, and he politely turned his back, trying to hold back the laughter that threaten to spill out, ‘This is serious, Shigure,' he reminded himself, ‘Don’t laugh.’
“Did Yuki, see this?” He questioned the two teens.
“It isn’t what it looks like,” Kyo complained, gathering his clothes to make a quick and angry exit.
“Shigure,” Tohru begged, “I think Yuki got the wrong idea about Kyo and me.” Throwing aside her blanket the girl scooted out of her bed, and stood in front of him, a river of tears pouring down her face.
Shigure noticed that she was fully dressed in the same clothes that she had been wearing the night before.
“I think you might be right, Tohru,” Shigure said with a chuckle, “and although, I am dying to know what did happen between you and Kyo. I think, for now, I better go find Yuki.”
“No, Shigure, let me go. It’s all my fault he’s upset. I need to be the one to explain things to him.” With that Tohru hurried out of the house in search of Yuki.
“Well, okay then,” Shigure called after her, “I guess, I will just clean up this mess.” Bending down, Shigure plucked up a berry from the floor. “Five second rule.” He popped the berry into his open mouth with a smile.

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End of chapter two, hope you enjoyed it.