Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ The Journey Home ❯ Emergency ( Chapter 15 )

Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket or the characters. They belong to Natsuki Takaya. (Rather boring this chapter, eh?)

A/N: Uhm yeah, I'm too tired and headachy to write a note, so... thanks to YTR for her help, and thanks to everyone for the reviews! And suggestions! :-)

Warning: There may be OOC moments (I'm told I'm doing good with the characters, yay!) so if that bothers you, this might not be the story for you. (Hey, this is fiction, it's my world and I can do what I want with it!) Also, if premarital sex and/or unwed pregnancy bother you, this probably isn't the story for you.

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"The Journey Home"

Chapter 15: Emergency

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"I can't take this!" Kyo yelled as he paced up and down the emergency room waiting area. He and Yuki had come back from getting milk, a trip that took almost half an hour because of their constant bickering, to find Tohru doubled over in pain and Hana calling for an ambulance. When the ambulance arrived, Yuki had forcefully pulled Kyo away so Hana could talk to the paramedics and ride with Tohru to the hospital.

"But I should go with her..." Kyo had started.

"Why? Hana lives with her and probably knows more about... what's wrong than you do."

Kyo was silent a moment before saying, "There's been something wrong?"

"Baka neko," Yuki had said before grabbing Kyo by the shirt at the back of his neck and dragging him off towards the hospital.

"Kyo, please sit down," Hana said. "The pacing is upsetting your waves."

"No, it's calming," he said and continued to pace.

Hana got up to take Kyo's arm and make him sit down, but moved wrong and *POOF* ended up holding an orange neko instead.

"Jeeze, did anyone see?" Kitty-Kyo asked.

Yuki looked around quickly, "No, no-one saw."

"Let me go, I better wait in the bathroom until I change back," Kyo said and gathered his clothes in his mouth when Hana allowed him to jump down.

"I'll get the door," Yuki offered.

'Great,' Kyo thought, 'as if being a cat isn't humiliating enough, now the rat has to help me... and since when does Hana know about the curse?' Heh. Yuki hadn't been able to keep the secret from her.

"You did that on purpose," Yuki said to Hana when he got back to the waiting area. Of all the things that could describe Hana, clumsy was not one of them. Yuki didn't know if it was her waves or what, but unless she was sleeping, she never transformed him without wanting to. Even then it wasn't often.

Hana smiled, "You know me so well."

"Well, we're alone, what happened?" Yuki asked.

"Akito," Hana said. The one word was enough.

"He called?" Yuki asked.

"No, he showed up, with Kureno. He knows Tohru's pregnant and says the baby is his property, but Yuki, there's more... he thinks it's yours."

"He's not the first one," Yuki remarked, referring to Hana, and her expression grew dangerous. She touched him on the arm, shocking him. He looked into her beautiful, slightly glowing eyes and shivered. "Mm do it again," he said.

"Yuki!" Hana admonished playfully, her cheeks turning ever-so-slightly pink. "I can't believe you! Tohru's rushed to the hospital and you, you're...."

"You're right, I'm sorry. I'm trying not to think about it. I don't want to think about Akito, what he wants, or what that means for Tohru and the baby... and Kyo. And you're always the first thing on my mind." He said and smiled that dazzling Prince smile of his.

Hana blushed deeper. "I know you don't want to think about it, but Akito is very determined and quite unbalanced. His waves are like none I've ever encountered, including yours and Kyo's. If I met the devil, I would expect waves exactly like Akito Sohma's. I love you, Yuki, but sometimes I wish Tohru had never met any Sohmas."

Yuki took Hana's hand in his. "I know... so do I." He appeared sad for a moment as he looked at their joined hands. "What about you? Do you ever wish you'd never met any Sohmas?"

Hana smiled and turned his face so he'd look at her. "Not for a moment. I can defend myself against someone like Akito, but Tohru... she's too good to understand how bad he really is. She would trust him and give him the benefit of the doubt, not realizing that the devil never keeps his promises."

Yuki squeezed her hand. "I love you. What exactly did he say?"

"That he had come for his property, and then he called her a bitch and a whore, warned her to not associate with 'his Yuki' any longer and said he would be taking the baby because all Sohmas belong to him. Tohru was in no shape to talk and I didn't know if it would be better or worse to tell him it was Kyo, so I kept quiet." A satisfied look came over Hana's face. "Then I gave him a little electric therapy." When Yuki looked worried she added, "He didn't know it was me."

'What about that bastard Kureno, he just let Akito say those things?"

"He didn't try to stop it, but he didn't look happy about it, either."

"Don't trust him, he's nothing more than Akito's henchman and probably just as evil as his master."

"I don't know, Yuki, waves don't lie and his were... maybe a little naïve, confused, and sad, but good."

"Kyo's coming back, let's just make sure Tohru's ok, then we can talk more." Yuki said and Hana agreed.

"Someone should call Hatori," Kyo said as he sat down next to Hana.

"Hana already did, baka, I told her to before we even left the house. She called Tohru's boss, too."

"So where is Hatori, then?"

"He wasn't there, I left a message," Hana said. "What about Shigure? Shouldn't we call him, too?"

"No!" Yuki and Kyo said in unison. The situation was bad enough as-is, without that dog's nonsense.

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The nurses were bothered by Yuki, Kyo, and Hana inquiring after Tohru's condition so often that they assured the trio someone would inform them immediately when anything was known. When a nurse approached them, a normal but tired look on her face, all three breathed a sigh of relief. If it was bad, surely the doctor would have come or something about the nurse would give it away.

"Everything looks fine, but we'll be keeping Miss Honda overnight for observation. Which one of you is -"

"He should go see her," Yuki interrupted and gestured to Kyo. Tohru would want to tell the cat herself.

"Alright, you two can visit when she's moved to a proper room. Follow me, sir." The nurse said and headed through the double doors at one end of the room.

'The rat saying I should go see her?' Kyo wondered, 'Why is he being so nice all of a sudden?' It didn't add up, but there were more important things than that kuso nezumi to think about. Hell, everything was more important than that rat.

The nurse pulled a curtain back and motioned for Kyo to enter saying, "If you need anything, I'll be right down the hall at the nurse's station."

Kyo nodded and closed the curtain before turning to look at Tohru. Upon seeing her, his heart clenched within his chest. She was even beautiful here, sitting in a hospital dress, leaning back against the bed that was adjusted to a seated position. What would he do if he ever lost her? He walked over, sat on the bed next to her, and took her hand. She shifted, moving her thighs to allow him more room, and looked at him, but didn't say a word.

What was it that he'd been thinking just yesterday? It seemed like so long ago. 'Just ask her,' he told himself, 'you want to and it's the only way to know her answer.'

"Tohru, I... um... I... will you marry me?" There, he'd said it.

Her eyes filled with tears. 'Is that a yes?' Kyo thought, 'please let it be a yes.'

"Kyo, you don't have to... I don't want to force you into anything. We'll be fine." She wanted to say yes, but did he know? Was he asking out of duty?

"No-one's forcing me," he said.

"Would you ask without...?"

"Without what?" Kyo wondered and at that moment two things registered. One was something she'd said and the other was the heart monitor. Kyo didn't know much about medicine or anatomy, but he knew his heart didn't beat that fast... and there were no wires attached to Tohru's chest.

"Tohru, why is your heart beating so fast?" Kyo asked, his eyes beginning to go wide.

She looked at the monitor with a small smile. "It's not my heart," she said as she moved his hand to lay flat on her slightly rounded stomach, "it's our baby's."

Kyo looked at his hand and blinked. Then he looked up at her face and blinked again. He remembered yesterday, just before Kagura had barged in, Tohru had been talking nonsense about Kazuma. Well, that made sense now. Kyo moved his hand on her stomach, feeling the shape of it and listening to the steady, quite rapid "b-bump, b-bump, b-bump" coming from the monitor. 'Tohru's pregnant,' he thought, 'with my baby. I got Tohru pregnant. Tohru's having my child... and keeping it. I'm going to be a father.' His eyes filled with wonder as he suddenly leaned forward to kiss her, his hand still on her stomach.

"I think that's the most wonderful sound I've ever heard," he said when he pulled back a moment later, smiling. Then his smile faded. "I'm so sorry, Tohru."

She looked at him, puzzled, "For what?"

"All this time and I didn't know. I should have talked to you right away instead of acting the idiot Yuki's always calling me."

"I'm the one who didn't have the courage to tell you for three months, and it wasn't even my idea to come see you yesterday," she admitted.

Something niggled at the back of Kyo's mind. "Whose idea was it?"

"Kazuma's," she answered and Kyo laughed.

"He just had to mettle. Why that tricky old man, I bet he left just so I'd be alone when you came. Well, I'm glad he did."

"So am I," Tohru said and smiled brightly. Kyo's hand was still on her stomach and he had smiled when he'd found out. 'He wants the baby! And he wants me,' she thought, 'he asked when he didn't even know.'

"Kyo?"

"Yes?"

"I didn't really answer you. I-If the question still stands... I would love nothing more than to be your wife."

Kyo grinned from ear to ear and couldn't help himself, he hugged her and *POOF* for the second time today found himself on all paws.

Tohru picked up the orange cat and hugged him to her chest. She stroked his head and Kyo, to his immeasurable embarrassment, began to purr. "You're so soft," she whispered to him and smiled, "and I get to hug you this way."

Her fingers on his head and down his back did feel good, and there was definitely something to be said for being smaller, completely surrounded by her warm arms and soft chest.

"Yes," Kyo whispered back, "just don't tell anyone. Especially that damn Shigure, I'd never hear the end of it."

"But Shigure loves to be petted when he's a dog, why would he say anything?" Tohru wondered.

"How do you know that?" Kyo asked as she continued to stroke him and he continued to purr.

"Ano... sometimes when Shigure transforms I pet him. He always asks for more and wags his tail, and Ayame loves to be scratched since snakes have very itchy skin, so you're not the only one who enjoys being petted."

"Who said I enjoy it?" Kyo said angrily. "No more, all right? You're going to be my wife and I won't have you petting other men, whatever form they're in. And, um, thanks."

Tohru smiled and kissed the top of his furry head before letting him go so he could change back.

No cliffhanger this time, and now Kyo knows. See, I'm not completely evil. ;-)

I like the way one author put it, I hope s/he doesn't mind if I quote "if you've come this far you've obviously read, so please review". I will add, though, please be kind since this is my first fan fiction and I'm very sensitive. Bad reviews... "I just don't think I can take that kind of rejection!" (Toy Story... never mind, I'm crazy.) Please let me know of any glaring errors that me or my Master have missed and I'll fix 'em. ;-)