One morning, Kyo has a bad cold and cannot go to work. How does Yuki handle the situation? (Does he attempt rice porridge?)
Yuki's never given up hope that one day he'll be able to cook at least something, and (much to Kyo's chagrin) that effort only doubles once they're out of high school and virtually spending all their time together.
Kyo has a system in the kitchen and likes things done in the right order, in the right area, with the proper tools. It's the one place where Kyo can't quite tolerate Yuki's sloppiness, and so Yuki is forced to watch most nights when Kyo whips them up something to eat. But Yuki's been doing his best to properly observe--to learn something. Even making his own attempts here and there on his own (Machi will join him sometimes if only to make well-humored but scathing commentary).
When Kyo gets sick, it strikes Yuki how much he wants to take care of him--and how startlingly different it feels from a past desire to hurt him that's still a bit fresh to think about. But if Yuki attempts to make rice porridge himself, he knows Kyo will take over in the kitchen--raging head cold be damned.
Instead, once he's sent her a quick text, Yuki makes a big show out of calling Tohru to see if maybe she can drop something off for Kyo to eat, shooing Kyo back to bed and piling extra blankets on him because it somehow hurts to see Kyo shiver. It doesn't take long (or much) for Kyo to fall to sleep, and in a hushed voice he keeps Tohru on the line to make sure he's doing everything right (he also tells her about 3 times that she doesn't need to whisper).
Kyo's shoulder is warm to the touch when Yuki shakes him awake to give him his porridge. It's presented in a bowl that's a little too full that Yuki had to wipe the sides of to hide how it dripped down. But it looks good--at least, it looks like what Tohru and Kyo have made in the past.
Kyo doesn't look apprehensive in the least when he takes a bite, but when he comments that it's a little bland, Yuki smiles. Kyo would never say something like that about Tohru's food, even if it was. Yuki jokes that Tohru must be losing her touch, and Kyo responds by finishing the meal. Before he takes the empty dishes away, Yuki kisses his hand because he won't let Yuki kiss him on the mouth while he's sick. By the time he's finished the dishes, Kyo is asleep again.
In the morning, Kyo rolls his eyes when Yuki presses the back of his hand against Kyo's forehead. It's winter, and Kyo's apartment is always a bit chilly even with the space heater. Kyo's fever is broken, and Yuki thinks his skin feels as cool as freshly tilled soil in spring.
thanks for the caveat ;))) but gosh I really had to think about this one, most of my furuba polyships besides The One are pretty tiny. Recently I’ve becoming very interested in the idea of Hatori/Kana/Mayu...
🎐 - A moment from the manga you can't wait to see animated?
Yuki, having an epiphany that he had had a crush on Kyo when they were children. "Good thing I hate him now. Also, I'm definitely hetero." And with perfect timing, Kyo enters the house with his shirt off and sweaty. Tick-tock, it's crisis o'clock.
This happened in canon. You simply cannot convince me otherwise.
AU where Kyo does not lash out at Yuki when they first meet. How do they end up: best friends, boyfriends, both?
OMG I AM SO LATE TO REPLY TO THIS but it is because this one really made me think!!
SO OKAY, picture this:
Kyo’s big thing when he’s a kid is that he focuses all of his anger and rage on Yuki and makes him into this big blame outlet. I think for Kyo not to have lashed out at Yuki, that rage would probably have to be directed elsewhere, rather than just dissolve altogether. And for the purpose of this AU (and to maintain as much of their character themes as possible), I think it might be interesting if the person on the receiving end of that was Akito.
So, picture this:
That night when Yuki meets Kyo for the first time on New Years, Yuki is immediately taken with this very pretty boy who looks so angry outside of the estate. They introduce themselves as the cat and rat, and when Yuki asks Kyo why he looks so angry Kyo says it’s because of Akito. The god wants to lock him away, the god is the one who made the cat this outcast, and the god is the one responsible for ruining his life.
Baby Yuki, who has been receiving the brunt of Akito’s instability and abuse, has his feelings validated for the first time in his life. Yuki starts to cry and admits that Akito is really mean to him and that Kyo’s right—it’s all Akito’s fault.
Their friendship ends up forming from this. For Yuki, dealing with Akito becomes a lot easier now that he has a friend who can tell him that these things Akito says about him aren’t true (and he ends up relying VERY heavily upon Kyo for that). For Kyo, he has someone who continues propelling his hatred for Akito when he hears about the things he says & does and can more easily form Akito into this monster where his rage can fester.
Kyo gets him into martial arts, Yuki spends more time with Kyo and Haru together, and Kazuma is happy when Yuki is invited over for dinner and to see Kyo making such a good friend. Kyo is still competitive, and he gets easily frustrated when Yuki improves so quickly and starts to beat him in martial arts. It becomes a sensitive topic between them, but not to the point that it is in canon.
This friendship helps Yuki to expand his horizons and there he makes friends with kids in his school. When their memories are erased, Yuki is devastated, and Kyo does his best to try and cheer him up—but he’s at a bit of a loss since this is the first time Kyo comforts Yuki without having Akito to blame. But he does, and he really comes through for Yuki at that time.
Yuki even convinces his parents that if his friends’ memories have been erased, it might be better for him to transfer to a different school. He does not run away (yet). He ends up in Kyo’s elementary instead. He gets closer with Haru, Rin, Momiji, Kagura—and he and Kyo become inseparable. Yuki finds safety in Kyo, and he ends up becoming one of his sole sources of true support and comfort in the aftermath of his friends’ memories being erased. It gets to the point that Yuki won’t really do anything unless Kyo is with him.
Kyo is both happy to cater to this, because it makes him feel like a hero, but also because he does like Yuki. And Yuki is the only one who understands the depths of his hatred for Akito.
Every New Years they meet at the same spot where they first met, so Yuki can escape for a moment from Akito and the two of them can just sit and be together. Yuki also sometimes brings Kyo some of his dinner, and they end up having their own little private banquet. In these moments, they start to realize how special the other person is to them.
In their final year in elementary school, Akito catches them during the New Years banquet. Kyo runs away as soon as Akito is spotted, and Yuki apologizes for leaving and tries to convince Akito that it was just a coincidence that Kyo was here. Akito knows better, ofc, but doesn’t do anything right away.
The next week, Yuki’s mom tells Yuki that he’ll be taking the entrance exams for a private middle school that is separate from where the rest of the zodiacs will go. Yuki is crushed, because his plan was always to go to the same middle school as his zodiac friends (Kyo), but his mom won’t hear it—especially since these were orders from Akito.
When Yuki asks Akito if he could please go to middle school with everyone, Akito gets a little violent. Akito throws something at Yuki that accidentally cuts his cheek. Akito apologizes, hugs Yuki, and tells him that Kyo doesn’t really care about him—he’s just using him to get back at Akito. Akito reminds Yuki how the story goes where the rat was the one who tricked the cat—and how under all of this, Kyo really and truly hates him, too.
Yuki is a complete mess. He’s injured, he’s beaten down, and he feels as though all he does is rely on Kyo. Kyo finds him like this, and becomes infuriated when he sees the scratch on Yuki’s cheek. Yuki admits that he’s being made to go to a different school. Kyo, thinking like a kid with a crush and with no real plan, tells Yuki that the two of them should run away, instead.
It doesn’t take a lot of convincing—Yuki is very easily influenced by Kyo at this time. But Yuki tries to argue that Kyo shouldn’t leave behind everyone he loves. Kyo says that it doesn’t matter, Akito is going to lock him up eventually anyway, and if they don’t leave now who knows what else Akito will do to Yuki.
So they run away together, Kyo not taking as much care with Yuki’s asthma as he should, and they get a ways away when they come across Kyoko talking to the police. Kyo wants to keep moving, but Yuki is sure he saw the girl that the woman is talking about. Yuki decides to switch focus, with Kyo having to trail behind, as he leads Tohru back and gives her the hat that Kyo gave to him.
Yuki transforms, and Kyo panics, but says maybe they can find a hotel somewhere. But Yuki insists they go back to the main house. After seeing Kyoko and Tohru reunited, he realizes he can’t be so selfish as to separate Kyo and Kazuma. Kyo takes it as Yuki giving up and falling back into Akito’s clutches, and is not happy about this at all.
When they return Kyo is severely, severely punished (idk how), and Yuki blames himself entirely. He goes into middle school distancing himself from Kyo (now easier because they’re in separate schools), and is also put under extreme isolation with Akito (as per canon). Kyo is hurt and betrayed by Yuki’s sudden distance, and the two don’t talk for months.
Eventually, Kazuma (who is much closer with Yuki in this AU through Kyo), makes a case with Akito and Yuki’s mother that Yuki should restart his martial arts training. Yuki is grateful, but when he and Kyo reunite, Kyo is now very cold with him because he’s still hurt. And Yuki doesn’t want to push it because he still blames himself. Especially now that Yuki is sure his feelings for Kyo go beyond friendship.
Kyo also realizes his feelings for Yuki are romantic, but since Yuki decided to go back to Akito, he can’t imagine Yuki feeling anything deeper for Kyo than friendship and pity.
And so, Yuki spends middle school completely isolated and without his best friend. He spends it with Akito feeding him those same falsehoods, and without making any other friends at school.
Everything Akito says feels all the truer when Kyo doesn’t meet him for New Years during middle school.
When high school is about to roll around, Yuki is at his breaking point. He feels pathetic that he isn’t able to do anything without Kyo being the one to push him, and decides he wants to try and take his life in his own hands. He pleads his case with his mother to go to a normal school, and makes plans to move in with Shigure to get away. He also wants to confront Kyo and try and work things out between them. But before he can, Akito gets to him.
Kyo hates meeting with Akito because it’s like all this hatred he builds up for him can’t go anywhere when he meets him in person. It just festers and builds inside of him, but can never be released. Akito tells Kyo that Yuki will always love Akito more than Kyo hates Akito. And that their friendship is based on nothing other than Yuki feeling sorry for Kyo. And that Kyo doesn’t belong here at all, and that he should just give up—to which Kyo yells back that Akito is a monster and Yuki is going to see it, too. And that he hates Akito and that he’ll prove he’s part of this zodiac despite all of Akito’s sabotage.
Akito makes the deal with Kyo that she’ll allow him into the zodiac if he can beat Yuki in a fight and prove that that’s all really true.
After this, Yuki tries to approach Kyo to fix things but Kyo—fresh out of his meeting with Akito—challenges Yuki to a fight that Kyo inevitably loses. Once Kyo is defeated, Yuki keeps trying to talk to him, but Kyo snaps saying that Yuki should just stay with Akito, that he should be some useless pawn, that there’s no point in talking to Yuki because he’s never going to stand up for himself anyway—and just generally taking everything out on Yuki.
Especially now that he knows that he loves him, and is so frustrated that he feels as though he’ll never be more important to Yuki than Akito.
Yuki leaves him like that, heartbroken and angry, and after that Kyo disappears with Kazuma for four months.
Yuki does his best not to think about Kyo when he’s missing and continues on with his plan to try and stand on his own two feet in this world. He recognizes that he relies on Kyo far too much, and depends on him for everything—to the point that he felt so useless and dejected when he was separated from him. And now, he just wants to prove to Kyo that he can be his own person, even if he’s still mad at him (both for the things he said, and for leaving out of nowhere).
Yuki meets Tohru, Shigure invites her to live with them—Kyo crashes through the roof, and instead of acting smug, Yuki is completely shocked to see him. But when Kyo starts fighting him right away, Yuki realizes nothing has changed. Kyo moves in with them, and for the first few weeks, his stubbornness makes it so that the only way he and Yuki interact is through fighting and arguing. Yuki, who is also fed up with all of this, falls into that pattern way too easily.
Tohru senses something is up, and Yuki confesses they used to be friends and a lot of what happened. At the same time, her friendship with Kyo softens Kyo’s heart a LOT. Not just towards Yuki, but that overwhelming anger he feels towards Akito, as well.
With Tohru helping to unite them, Yuki and Kyo finally talk and slowly start to become friends again. The three of them become inseparable—and by the end of 1st year, those romantic feelings start to bloom again.
They dance around it for a little bit, until they inevitably end up becoming boyfriends. They haven’t worked through everything—Kyo stills thinks Yuki needs to learn to stick up for himself when it comes to Akito, and Yuki thinks that Kyo’s anger is unhealthy and reckless, and wishes he would understand his situation a little more and stop making things worse for himself.
Akito stays a sore spot in their relationship. And towards the end of 2nd year, Kyo feels himself starting to unravel. He doesn’t want to get locked upi, he has the greatest friend in the world, he has a boyfriend who he cares about very much, and he still hasn’t dealt with any of the anger inside of him that he’s completely redirected onto Akito. An anger that he’s having a harder and harder time holding onto because of Yuki and Tohru.
At the same time, Yuki is at a point where he’s really starting to process and accept the time he had with Akito. And at the New Year’s banquet Yuki tells Akito that he’s sorry for blaming so much on her (just like in canon). Akito hits Yuki with the pot, and when Yuki sees Kyo and Tohru later on, it brings everything to a boiling point.
Kyo gets so mad not just at Akito’s violence, but at the very notion that Yuki could forgive Akito. Meanwhile, Yuki is pissed because that’s not for Kyo to decide—and says that he’s tired of Akito and Kyo using him like some kind of weapon. This fight does not go over well, and they end up breaking up for a brief amount of time while Kyo sorts through his shit.
I’m be real — I don’t know how it ends after all of this. Other that Kyo really confronting and processing his trauma and self-worth issues and realizing that putting it on Akito was an easy outlet for him.
It’ll still be a difficult process — in canon, Kyo had years of living with Yuki and the slow realization that Yuki is not this monster that he made him out to be. But with Akito, it’s not as if Kyo knows or sees any of Akito’s “human sides” which I think would make it very difficult for Kyo to give up all this anger that still feels justified.
Though I think that would also lend to a scene where Kyo goes to Shigure and asks why he isn’t bothered by Akito like everyone else. And Shigure would maybe tell Kyo a story about Akito when she was younger, which also helps dislodge this idea of Akito being just a monster and nothing else. Especially when he realizes that’s how so many people see him.
Kyo realizes that if he chooses to have Yuki and Tohru’s love in his life, he can’t continue to fill himself with the emotions and actions that he himself defines as “monstrous” when describing Akito.
Yuki and Kyo get back together, ready to start their relationship on much more even ground. Yuki stops relying on Kyo as his sole emotional support and strength and learns to validate himself and to move forward on his own accord. Kyo lets go of the idea that Yuki’s relationship with Akito translates to Yuki thinking of Kyo as “lesser.” He also allows himself to be vulnerable by letting go of that toxic anger, and allows Yuki to listen and help him through this process rather than bottling everything up like he did when he was a child.
The StuCo and alcohol. What is their alcohol tolerance like, what do they drink, and what kind of drunk are they? (We're assuming aged up StuCo here).
From worst to best tolerance:
1. Nao - gets buzzed after like half a drink. HATES being drunk so he doesn't do it very often. Drink of choice is beer, he's got Very Intellectual Opinions about like, IPAs. He's a loud, talkative drunk and he doesn't notice when people aren't paying attention anymore so he ends up mumbling to himself most of the time.
2. Machi - has a decent tolerance, but she also doesn't drink very often. She can handle a few drinks before it becomes a problem. Machi is definitely a wine drinker, probably prefers red over white but she's not terribly picky. She's a super spacey drunk. Someone has to watch her to make sure she doesn't wander away. (They once spent 45 minutes trying to locate her at a party only to find her lying in the front yard.)
3. Kakeru - above average tolerance. He'll drink just about anything. He'll get handed a drink and chug it without even asking what's in it which drives Yuki absolutely insane. His college specialty is a mix of four different alcohols and three different juices in a giant plastic container. Drunk Kakeru is pretty much sober Kakeru cranked up to 100, so he's super loud and touchy.
4. Yuki - stellar tolerance. Much better than Kakeru's, which annoys the hell out of Kakeru. He's not super picky about what he drinks, it just sort of depends on the occasion. Wine for a quiet night in, a beer for hanging out with friends, shots at a party. He's a clingy drunk.
5. Kimi - absolutely superhuman tolerance. Can drink the entire stuco under the table. Loves stereotypically "girly" drinks, but the kind that are like 25% alcohol. She’s even more flirty than usual when she’s been drinking, but she also loses any filter she might have had and her sense of humor is killer. Kimi is definitely an instigator when she’s drunk, and she has never woken up with a hangover in her entire life thank you very much.
