Sliding Doors
kyouxkagura

"Dedicated To Both: Promise Keeper & Nareda”

Disclaimer: I thought you’d realise that this is a ‘I don’t own Fruits Basket’ because you are all probably at least familiar with my other works if you’re reading this. Well anyway, on with this piece of work: Sliding Doors.

Summery: The split-second decisions we make can take a life down one road instead of the other road… this forms the enticing phrase – what if? So what if it was Haru that Kagura feel for when she was younger… what would happen to Haru and Rin’s relationship and what would happen to our lovable Kyou? Find out in Sliding Doors. KXH & KXK, RXH.

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She looked towards the young male, he had orange hair and garnet eyes, he seemed to be lonely, he was playing by himself and didn’t seem to be wondering about the world around him. Twelve years old, that’s all she was, a twelve year old girl with a curiosity gene. She wanted to play with the boy – she had heard the adults talking once, they were saying that this boy was the cat of the zodiac. Even though she didn’t want to think about it… the old saying was… curiosity killed the cat… she didn’t know if it would be a good idea if she actually went over and talked to him… what would her mother say? Yet her parents were in the middle of another argument and it was the reason why she went outside to play. She sighed, her mother would only get angry with her and that was all she would need. Kagura Sohma saw the other two boys near her… they were practising martial arts… she recognised them easily because they were both from the zodiac banquet that they had to go to every New Year. The boy with the black hair was Yuki, he was younger than her by two years and the one with the white and black hair was Hatsuharu, he was younger by three. Even though Haru was younger than her there was always something about him that made him seem much older.

Kagura wondered if they would want to play with her.
“Konichiwa.” The boar smiled as she waved towards her younger cousins.
“Konichiwa Kagura.” Yuki smiled as he watched the brunette stop in her tracks in the middle of both him and his fighting partner.
“What are you doing?” Kagura asked innocently as she placed her hands in front of her curling her fingers around each hand.
“Fighting.” Haru was the one who told her. Kagura’s brown eyes found way to his and she smiled then… she guessed the saying her mother told her was true – if you smile then you cause the rest of the world to smile… this was because Haru smiled back.
“Can I try?” She asked as she looked back towards Yuki. It was of course up to Master Kazuma, the person whose dojo they were at, they were up at the mountains and Kagura had went up there to see her friends. Kazuma had agreed to let Kagura train with the boys. Kagura was thrilled but also a little cautious when she learned that the boy with the orange hair was also going to be there during the training.

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She looked towards the young male, he had orange hair and garnet eyes, he seemed to be lonely, he was playing by himself and didn’t seem to be wondering about the world around him. Twelve years old, that’s all she was, a twelve year old girl with a curiosity gene. She wanted to play with the boy – she had heard the adults talking once, they were saying that this boy was the cat of the zodiac. Even though she didn’t want to think about it… the old saying was… curiosity killed the cat… she walked over to the boy with a welcoming smile.
“Why are you playing all by yourself?” Kagura asked the boy as she knelt down beside him. Though the boy ignored her, he turned around and faced the other way. “I’ll play with you.” It was a natural request and the younger boy turned towards her slightly.
“You’ll really play with me?” He asked. “Doesn’t it matter to you that I’m the cat?” Of course it didn’t, Kagura didn’t really know why it was such a big deal being born in the year of the cat… She shook her head and the boy turned completely back. “My name’s Kyou.” Kyou introduced himself earning Kagura another smile.
“My name’s Kagura.” She returned as she looked down at the game that Kyou was playing.

It wasn’t long after that day that her mother ushered her in quickly and told Kagura why she wasn’t to go around with Kyou but at the end it was up to her, the rest of the family didn’t like Kyou because of the old folk tale? Just because the rat decided to play a trick on the cat and not let him go to the banquet… yet it was true, Kagura had never seen Kyou at the banquet. She wanted to play with Kyou anyway, not because he was the cat… but because he was worse off than she was and needed a friend. She wanted to make sure he was alright and she hoped she would even one day fall in love with Kyou. She would love to do that because it seemed natural at that age… so naïve… she smiled and looked for Kyou that day and they played, Kagura even read Kyou a book.
“Kyou; its time to come in.” Kazuma told the boy. He was standing next to Yuki and Haru. “You’ve got practise.” Kagura stood up then.
“Practise… what practise?” Kagura asked her elder. Kazuma looked towards Kagura, he didn’t realise that she was the one with Kyou, it was actually quite shocking to say the least.
“Oh the boys have martial arts to practise for.” Kazuma replied to Kagura’s question… yet he didn’t know straight away if he had a reply for her next question.
“Can I do martial arts?” To be honest Kagura just wanted to be as close to Kyou as possible.

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