melodiesoflife | 002 Umeboshi

Characters: Kyo Sohma & Yuna
Where: Aqures Ixen
When: December 7th, Mid-day
Summary: The curse of the zodiac was always a burden back home, but in Crystallis, this curse didn’t carry over. Kyo will soon realize he’s no longer as unfortunate as he use to be when stumbling upon Yuna. This allows him more bonding time with the kind woman as well.
Warning: Levels of anger, and perhaps mild fluff?

It was December, just about a month after he and Tohru arrive. Kyo still wasn’t totally accepting of what’s been bestowed upon him. At the very least, he had come to terms with most of it. Rather than resist the system, Kyo had become part of it. Crazy things aside, he was actually really excited about having these new powers of his. Being able to execute techniques better than he use to with his monk job. He hadn’t utilized his dark knight as often because of how drained it left him feeling.

Being that it was December meant that Kyo had to get Tohru a Christmas gift. He hadn’t the faintest idea of what to gift her, and pondering over the mystery didn’t help his frustration any. The redhead paced around a nearby outlet trying to think of something suitable for her. She was dumb enough to accept anything from him, but he wanted it to be something more than that. She deserved better.

Without paying attention, his path clashed with another, someone familiar. Kyo had run into Yuna.

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It was another trip home from the hospital for Yuna -- and once again, it wasn't work related. She'd woken up from crystalization just earlier that morning, and was still feeling a little fuzzy on all the details. But the fresh air was helping, as it usually did, and so she decided to take a route through the city to get home.

Everything was as she had remembered it, it was a good sign that she hadn't been suspended in stasis for long. These thoughts, among others, were enough to distract her from paying attention to her surroundings, resulting in a collision with another body. "Oof!" she rebounded slightly, losing her balance from the impact, and lost her footing completely sending her barrelling into Kyo.

The poor coordination of the both of them resulted in Kyo tumbling down onto his back, and Yuna landing on top of him. Kyo was aware of who exactly this was, and the fact that she was a girl. With that in mind, his tension rose as they collapsed onto the ground. He stopped breathing altogether expecting the worse.

After the complexion in his face had lost considerable color, and nothing happened, Kyo waited...and waited. It wasn't for another few seconds that he finally came back to the here and now.

He didn't turn into a cat.

The teen glanced back at Yuna, now realizing they had fell and she was still on him. He wanted to be angry, but he was more in disbelief than anything.

"A-are you okay." Kyo's voice was shaken.

He pressed his hands firmly onto her shoulders and prompted her to move off him.

"Ah..." one of her hands found its way up to touch at her temple, and she used the force of his push to help herself as she pushed back from Kyo, still sitting on the ground. "Ouch," Yuna said simply, though it was followed by a chuckle, as she rubbed the back of her head. "I'm sorry, Kyo, I must not have been paying--" her voice trailed off, as she donned a more serious look.

"Um. Are... you all right?" He was a bit pale, wasn't he? "I didn't hurt you, did I?"

He was only majorly fazed by his lack of transformation. Now that he thought about it, since his change of attire, he didn't have the bracelet of blood and bones around his wrist like he was suppose to. The one thing that suppressed that ugly, disgusting form of his. Suddenly everything was more surreal now than it was when he first got here.

"No." He replied in a flat tone. Like always, he was as fit as a fiddle. "I'm fine." Although he didn't sound all that fine.

Come to think of it, he hadn't seen her awhile...since they arrived. That was almost a month ago, and the city wasn't that big. It was the same group of faces almost every day. In attempt to direct the conversation away from him, he spoke.

"Where the hell have you been?"

The concern didn't leave her expression, something was definitely wrong here, but... it obviously wasn't something he wanted to discuss. Not yet, anyway. "What? I... oh," his question caught her a little off guard, especially since she was so focused on his well-being, but eventually she lifted herself up from the ground, and dusted her skirt off, thinking of how to word it in a way that left out the most distressing details..

"Well, I -- was away visiting the county of Flence, you see. I thought maybe there was a chance someone there had seen the rogue moogle there."

Normally he might have believed that to be the whole truth, but something about how she carried herself reminded him a lot of Tohru. Not to say they were the same person, but he was beginning to see more and more similarities between them. When Yuna told him her reason, he wasn't so inclined to believe it, but it wasn't his place to pry details from her when he refused to share his own.

Unlike her, Kyo chose to remain on the ground, but he was still getting over the shock that his curse didn't trigger upon colliding into Yuna.

"Yeah?" His tone still flat.

Yuna retreated slightly into herself at his scrutiny. More than once she'd been told she was a poor liar, and she supposed that was obvious in this case. Reluctantly, she continued.

"And then I... was in the hospital briefly..." she trailed off. Perhaps the slight revelation was enough to appease him. It wasn't lying if you were just... omitting some truth, was it? "But I'm all right now, of course," the mage was quick to add, looking over his way with a nod. "Ah... here, let me help you up," she offered him an open hand.

Kyo pressed his palm against his face as she continued on with her story. Whether it was true or not, perhaps his tone was too harsh for her. Not that he intentionally scrutinized her.

"No!" He retorted. Kyo had realized just after he said it, that his sharp reaction might been too much. "I can get up myself." He followed, this time with a lower tone, though still stern. He removed his hand from his face so that he could use it to press his weight off the ground.

"S-sorry." Kyo continued, in a more unsettled fashion than before. "I didn't mean--" a disgruntled sigh, "Thanks for the help."

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