#muse: kureno sohma

[nuri148]

Random Musings: Fruits Basket

OK I'm like just past the middle of the 2nd season.

Kyo and Yuki are sexy and all but Haru is sex on legs omg those forearms are aphrodisiac af.

Shigure is hot but dodgy af.

Momiji is not just adorable but also has more balls than all the other Sohma combined, he's so far the only one who's stood up to Akito.

Speaking of Akito, I fucking hate that bitch.

And Momiji's mum. How can she reject that ray of sunshine?! (full disclosure: I'm a rabbit in the Chinese zodiac so I may be biased)

Hana & Uo are the GOAT. Megumi too.

Someone pls kill Ayame, Kagura, and the guy from the student council they're just so fucking annoying.

Kureno has major Moblit (AoT) vibes.

I'm open to discussion but no spoilers pls! 😊

[the-muse-coven]

Muse List!!!

This List isn’t concrete as it is on it’s own! Also not a complete list as Muses may be added and/or removed based on motivation and Drive!

This List also will be the muse, with an icon included, and then a few fun facts

Zhongli/Morax

Tags: Lapis Dei | Zhongli & Adeptal Prime | Morax

Fun Facts!

- Still has his Gnosis as he is Canon Divergent

- The Contract with Fatui failed as Liyue was not able to handle the trial of Osial

- As this happened, the contract fell through, and Zhongli kept his Gnosis and continued to rule Liyue as its Archon

Azul Ashengrotto

Tag: Poor Unfortunate Souls | Azul Ashengrotto

Fun Facts!

- Canon Compliant (mostly)

- Pre & Post Overblot offered depending on thread

- Headcanoned as Autistic

- His Mer Form can show up if he gets too overly emotional

Claude Faustus

Tags: Spider Butler No Longer | Claude Faustus & Golden Venom | Cimeries Faust

Fun Facts!

- True name is Cimeries Faust

- His Season 2 reason for becoming “obsessed” with Ciel is because he was closer to madness and starvation than Sebastian was at the time.

- Was ordered during contract by Alois to not use any magic during the time that he was with him.

- Sebastian wins the duel because as Alois’ soul still exists, he is contractually obligated through the Seal to not use the total sum of his abilities

- After the duel, Claude resurrects himself by scratching runes for a spell into his own skin as the island collapses around them while he’s at the brink of actual death.

Hatori Sohma

Tag: Zodiac of The Dragon | Hatori Sohma

Fun Facts!

- This man is very tired

- Busy practically 24/7

- The injury in canon makes it hard for him to use screens for long periods of time

- Yes, he is the family doctor for the Sohma family, yes he also erases people’s memories of the family if they find out about the curse. No, he is not only isolated to practicing in the Sohma family despite them being kind of loaded

- He doesn’t lose the whole able to erase someone’s memory thing following the end events of Fruits Basket

- He usually avoids touching people’s heads bare handed because of this.

Kureno Sohma

Tag: Freedom From The Curse | Kureno Sohma

- It was really honestly only through Tohru that he figured out why he was the first to break the Zodiac curse. Before then, he had no idea why he was just suddenly free.

- Still very close with Akito, but no longer has to be around 24/7

- Still feels somewhat responsible for how attached Akito became to the idea of the Zodiac Curse binding them all together.

- don’t be fooled this man is just as tired as Hatori

- Does Not Understand Technology

Malleus Draconia

Tag: King of Briar Valley | Malleus Draconia

- Does not understand how human culture works, but very interested in learning!

- Moreso Dragon than Fae, don’t tell anyone though they’ll have too many questions and he doesn’t want to answer any of them

- He does, in fact, have a Dumbass Mode

- because Catnip exists. Dragon Nip also exists. It is the bane of his entire existence.

- The One Housewarden Who Hasn’t Overblotted (Yet)

- Very Disappointed that people keep “forgetting” to get him actual invitations to events.

Aether (The Traveler)

Tags: The Savior of Teyvat | Aether Umbral Royalty | Abyss Prince Aether

- He can speak just fine without Paimon, thank you

- Kind of Tired of Solving Teyvats Problems but still Willing To Help

- Can Access All 7 of Teyvats Elements

- Can use 2 simultaneously, though it is draining usually if the elements aren’t compatible

[kitxkatrp]

Muse BIO: Kureno Sohma

BIO can be found here. Kureno Sohma is a previous member of the cursed zodiac, previously transforming into a bird when hugged by members of the opposite biological sex. As of the start of the series, his curse had already broke, making him the first of the zodiac to have their curses broken.

[musedbyalli]

Continued from: “It is, it’s so pretty out!” Her hand held on tightly to the other rooster, excitedly smiling up at him. “What’s your favorite season, Kureno-san? Mine is spring!”

@partum-memoriae

The former rooster smiled gently at the younger Sohma.  A part of him always felt guilty that when his curse broke that she got stuck with that burden.  Still, all that Kureno could do was try and be a friend/supporter to her.  

“My favorite season?”  He had never really thought much about what his favorite of much of anything was.  “I like fall.”  The leaves falling could be quite calming to watch.  Spring is nice too though.”

[musedbyalli]

Kureno gestured for the younger Sohma to follow him.  He walked in silence until they got to his front door.  He opened the door, waiting for Fay to enter first.  

“Make yourself comfortable.  I’ll be back in a moment with some bandages.”  With that the former rooster trailed down the hall to receive the supplies.

𝐊𝐔𝐑𝐄𝐍𝐎.   /   𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐓.

A sheepish nod is given to the other, opposite hand finding the wound and pressing down in attempt to lessen the bloodletting. “T-thank you.”

[omneinfinitus]

@dragonblinded​ || Starter Call || Verse: TBA

“What are you doing up so late?” He shouldn’t be surprised, and yet when he had wandered out to grab a few magazines and a few snacks he found himself a little startled that he wasn’t alone. “Did you escape Aya’s clutches?”

[malumarca]

ignore me~ not me adding someone for a friend <3

✧ [ IC ] Kureno Sohma ✧ ✧ [ Canon ] The Rooster ✧

✧ [ BSD Verse ] The Sparrow ✧  ✧ [ Aesthetics ] Kureno ✧

✧ [ Musings ] Kureno ✧  ✧ [ Head Canons ] Kureno ✧

✧ [ Visage ] Kureno ✧

[prettywitchiusaka]

So I’ve been thinking; you know  how we see everyone’s zodiac animal in the new opening except Kureno’s?

I’m starting to wonder if that’s a bit of foreshadowing on the production’s part?

Those who’ve read the manga will know what I’m talking about.

[neokonewman]

Left the bottom part out for the sake of spoilers to the new show watchers, but I’m sure all us manga nerds had this same reaction. Don’t read the tags for dem spicy hot spoilers newcomers!

[grcwingstrcng]

Inktober day 5 - Chicken

[lovcalivc]

Tag Drop: Arisa Uotani

[temporkarus]

[ kureno @ ritsu? ] 🎀

Meme:  Fix My Muses Hair

Status: Accepting 

         Ritsu stills as he feels fingers start to comb through his hair, detangling the tresses that had moved during his latest outburst. He glances over his shoulder half expecting it to be Ayame or Hatori behind him.

        To say he’s shocked would be an understatement. It isn’t often that Kureno associates with the other members of the zodiac. He jolts a bit before settling back down. The overwhelming urge to apologize for the state of his hair is bubbling up inside of him. Instead he bites down on his tongue and does his best to choke it down. Ritsu doesn’t want to scare off the other zodiac member, not when he’s made the first move to spend time with him.

       “Th-thank you, Kureno.” He quickly shuts up before an apology spills from his lips. There, that was close. 

( ft. @praesidii - Kureno )

[ashesandhackles]

META LIST

To help keep things organised, putting a list. Looking at this, I am sensing a larger patterns in things I choose to talk about. It's all about abuse, cults, power and damaged characters here lol.

Fruits Basket:

Shigure Sohma

1. The Multi-Layered Characterisation of Shigure Sohma

2. Shigure and Hatori: Reading into scene in S2E24- 25

3. Shigure and Akito -The Power Play in Beach arc.

4. Shigure And Mayu - Quick Musings

5. Shigure and Akito - Scene S3E2 breakdown

Rin Sohma

1. The Doll Metaphor in S2E18

2. The Narrative Shafting of Izusu "Rin" Sohma

Kureno Sohma and the Arc That Wasn't

Kagura Sohma - Visual Cue On Her Feelings

Thoughts on Tohru and Akito Hospital Scene

Fruits Basket Rejects "Good Guys" vs "Bad Guys" morality

The Hat Is The Literal Embodiment Of "I Wanted To Be You"

The Cat Speech: Manga Vs Anime

Tohru Third Act Content: Kyoko, Katsuya, God

Making A Case For Rehabilitative Justice in Fruits Basket

Akito And "Redemption" Arc

Haru and Akito: Breakdown of S3E4 scene

Harry Potter:

Worldbuilding

1. House elf plotline: A Critique of Author Choices

2. The importance of soul in HP verse with @artemisia-black

3. Dumbledore and Reflections of Himself

Harry James Potter

1. Deconstructing Harry: The Boy We Meet In Philosopher's Stone to man in Deathly Hallows

2. Harry and Personal Conflict: Meta On Evolving Dynamic With Ron And Hermione

3. Resurrection Stone Scene: Culmination of Harry's Emotional Arc

4. Harry and Tom: Parents, Love and Death

5. The Lightning-Struck Tower: "It is My Mercy, Not Yours That Matters Now"

6. A Cold Blooded Walk to Destruction: The Deaths of Harry and Dumbledore

7. Harry and the Dursleys: (Companion Piece to Deconstructing Harry)

8. 'Be Brave Like My Mother Professor': Harry and Slughorn scene in HBP

Sirius Black

1. Shame Of My Flesh: Reading Into Sirius' Thoughts On Crouch Family

2. Snape and Sirius: The Hogwarts Express Scene In Prince's Tale

3. Sirius and Molly: An Alternate Reading Into Their Argument

4. Someone Like A Parent: The Beginning Of Bond In POA

5. Reading Marauder Dynamics At SWM

Remus Lupin

1. The Gentleman Monster: How Marginalisation and Comparitive Privilege Plays A Part In Characterisation with @thecat-isblogging-blog

2. Remus And His Use of Language + Sirius' Dark Humor with @urupotter and @thecat-isblogging-blog

3. The Marauders Map scene: Verbal Fencing Between Snape and Remus

4. Neither Likes Nor Dislikes Severus with @thecat-isblogging-blog

5. Reading Marauder Dynamics At SWM

6. Nearly Always Right: Remus and Harry

Tom Riddle

1. Tom, Peter and Nagini: The Symbols Of Dark Childhood with @pet-genius

2. The Importance of Soul in HP verse with @artemisia-black

Severus Snape

1. The Abandoned Boy and the Problematic Fathers: Snape with Voldemort & Dumbledore

2. Snape and Sirius: The Hogwarts Express Scene In Prince's Tale

3. The Extremely Dysfunctional Friendship of Snape and Lily

4. Spinner's End: The Use Of Truth, Half Truths And Lies

5. Snape and Harry: Flight of the Prince Analysis

6. The Lightning-Struck Tower: "It is My Mercy, Not Yours That Matters Now"

7. A Cold Blooded Walk to Destruction: The Imagery Surrounding Death Of Snape

Musings on Love and Sex in Shoujo Manga

1. Yuki and Nishikado in Hana Yori Dango: A refreshing sex-positive storyline

2. Arimi and Ginta in Marmalade Boy: Subverting scene expectations

3. Takiko's Sexual Desire in Fushigi Yugi Genbu Kaiden

4. Akigure and Kyoru: A Contrast

5. Rimudo Roun: Crafting a Dimensional Characters

6. Buffy: A Horror Rambling

7. Buffy and Willow: Season 6

[musedbyalli]

@jinmeibo liked for a Kureno starter.

For Fay @serastium

“Are you looking for Akito?”  The rooster approached Fay from behind, although he did not make any physical contact.  “If so, I’m afraid that Akito is busy with an appointment with Hatori.”  The God’s frail health had started acting up again earlier, so she was made to see the dragon.  

“If you’d like I could pass a message on for you because I don’t think that Hatori will permit Akito to have visitors for the rest of the day.”  Personally, Kureno had no qualms with Fay and didn’t want the younger Sohma to have to deal with the rage of Akito later today.  “Unless you were seeking company than I could help with that too~”  The man smiled, although he had a feeling that Fay wouldn’t be too enthused by his offer.

[shizekarnstein]

Late night musings bc I can't sleep. Read at your own risk lmao it's past 3 am and i really should be sleeping instead of typing... this.

I spend a lot of time procrastinating my uni work and obligations daydreaming about how I would tackle my let's say least favorite relationships in furuba and I always arrive at the conclusion Kureno and Arisa are a lost cause.

Shigure and Akito are toxic as a polluted river but at least have history together and I can work with that. Kyoko and Katsuya are more or less the same. BUT Kureno and Arisa??? They met like twice, suddenly obsess over each other and... that's all. After Kureno appears all Arisa's character is about is pinning and getting emotional and mad over this weird Tohru alterego she met while working and serving as the driving force to make the Tohru and Kureno meetings possible. She only resurfaces a little as her own woman at the end, when she teams up with Saki to take care of Tohru.

Kureno... is basically the same. He went for a walk, met Arisa, fell in love and suddenly his terrible life choices come crushing down bc of those... meaningless interactions. And he's right they are meaningless. But somehow I am supposed to believe those sudden and brief encounters evolve into an intense love that's strong and important enough to finally make Kureno WAKE UP and realise his inaction has serious consequences and that he has the power and ability to change things for the better in his weird cult like family. I'm sorry but... I don't buy it.

I tried multiple combinations (besides working around the uncomfortable power dynamics tied to the age gaps that's a given and not what I'm taking about here) for Arisa and Kureno. Maybe they could be two strangers than met and after a series of coincidences end up becoming friends? Arisa can see him as a weird guy whos totally lost and sad without any kind of proper... romantic feelings. Kureno could see her as an endearing young girl who kind of baffles him bc she's so different to everyone he knows (Akito) and being awed at how put together she is despite being so young (like Tohru). Idk I guess they COULD BE friends. I could dig it with a lot of work. The problem with this scenario is how close this hypothetical friendship and sharing over coffees could bring Arisa to the whole Sohma mess. She would eventually get mixed up in it, especially after talking to Tohru and realising her weird buddy is someone Tohru knows. This could go anywhere from that point.

The only thing I can say is that Kureno and Arisa as a romantic pairing just... kinda suck. Particulary bc they have like zero MEANINGFULL interactions and development, and the few encounters they have are not only bland af but awfully creepy. And for me it's such a shame. Arisa at least had her moments to shine before meeting him, but Kureno is all about interesting story bad foundation and even worse driving force. If Takaya wanted him to meet Tohru there were other ways than having Kureno fall in love with her classmate. Again why did she did that 😩

[tardytothepardy]

Fruits Basket - Vol 19

Compared to the last few books, this one was actually pretty mild in subject matter. Nothing too heavy, which was a pretty nice break. The heavy stuff is fine, don't get me wrong, but you need a break from it, y'know? These characters certainly need a break.

In this book, we got a lot of backstory on Kakeru, which was pretty interesting. He seems kinda weird, the more we learn about him. Something's off about his ability to emote. Idk.

In the first section (which honestly is pretty heavy), it continues right where vol 18 left off: Tohru saying that they gotta find a way to break the curse soon, for everyone's sake, but especially for Kyo's sake. This seems to throw Tohru into a tiny crisis, because she had promised herself, after her mom died, that she would never place anyone above her mom, that her mom would always be the most important person to her. But she's realizing that is starting to fade away.

When Izusu first asked her what was most important to her, Tohru couldn't answer. She wanted to say her mom, of course her mom was the most important thing to her, but there clearly was another thing that was rivaling for that first place. She made the promise to always keep her mom in mind, to always have her be the most important, so that she would never fade away. It was right after she died, and Tohru had cleared everything out of their apartment, and even then, Tohru felt like Kyoko's memory was fading away.

As she was walking home, caught up in all these memories and thoughts, Shigure pops up, and says that she's heading to the main Sohma house, which is weird. On the way back to their house (should I phrase it as Shigure's house? I dunno), Shigure mentions how both she and Izusu have made it clear that they're trying to break the curse, and Tohru asks if he knew that the curse was already breaking. He said he didn't, it was just a hunch. Apparently, there has never been a time when all 13 members of the Juunishi have been alive, there's always been one missing. Because of this, Shigure thinks that the time for the curse to break is coming near, that it's the "final banquet". Not to mention, things have been watered down a lot through the generations, like Hatori being possessed by the dragon, but he turns into a sea horse. No offense Hatori, but that is kinda underwhelming. Additionally, Kureno's living proof that something is happening, with the way that the curse just,, randomly broke for him, and he wasn't doing anything to trigger that.

Shigure then brings up Kyo, and how time is cutting close for him, and it won't be long before he'll be taken away (something that Tohru is very aware of). He also says that the reason that the Cat has always been hated, is because it's just kinda the most convenient. I mean, the Cat is the only one that has a "dark form", which is all gross and etc., and it's easier to pick on that, than to really sit with yourself and think about how you're a fuckin weirdo who can turn into an animal, not even by choice, it's just something that happens that mostly out of your control, and because of that, it causes you to distance yourself from everyone. It's a burden, it's really just a curse. He really just keeps hammering down on the point that everyone knows that Kyo's the worst of them all, and they use that to feel better about themselves, that at least they're not like that, a disgusting creature. Personally, idk why he's doing this, but it makes Tohru pretty upset. She was upset to begin with, and now he's just putting salt in the wound with an oddly calm demeanor. After she makes him stop saying all that, he asks her if she does love him, and that sends her right back into her initial crisis.

Kyo shows up soon after, and Shigure just says she's upset because she got in a fight with Izusu, and not to worry about it. Kyo tries to console her about this "fight", which only makes Tohru feel worse. She says she doesn't know what to do, and he said that in situations like that, it's best to not do anything. I swear to goodness, these two are just kinda hopeless.

Anyway, the next chapter continues (as it is wont to do), and it's been another year since Tohru's mom died. Kyo didn't go with Tohru and her friends, clearly it all brings up a separate bunch of bad memories for him. Mostly involving when his own mom died, and the shit his dad said to him at the funeral. The stupid thing is, that after his dad said, "You can't get close [to the headstone] because you feel guilty, don't you?" Kazuma said that isn't something you say to a child, and Kyo's dad doubled down and said that's why he said it, because he wouldn't.

Unsurprisingly, Kyo did understand, because ✨news flash✨ kids aren't stupid. They can understand what you're saying, it's not like an adult's words are all garbled like in Peanuts. Especially when they're looking you dead in the eye, accusing you of killing their wife and your mother. They understand. He understood. (Why couldn't have kicked Kyo's dad in the throat he just,, he deserves it)

Anyway, while that particular thing in sitting around in his head, he runs into Tohru's grandfather, who's just kinda sitting there, chilling. He recognizes Kyo, which is what Kyo gets for having bright orange hair (he didn't do it on purpose but he has to understand the consequences of being a main character: he's recognizable) While they're talking, Kyo notices that Tohru's grandfather keeps calling Tohru "Kyoko", and Kyo asks about it. Tohru's grandfather (he doesn't really get a name, but this is also really clumsy ;-;) says it's to remember Kyoko, and shortly after Kyoko died, it was partially for Tohru's sake. He then asks Kyo if he knows why Tohru asks the way she does. I would imagine that if Kyo did think about it at all, he'd just figure it's because that's how she is, but Tohru's grandfather says it's an imitation of her father, Katsuya. This is mostly because after Katsuya died, some relatives started saying that Tohru wasn't anything like Katsuya, are you sure she's his daughter? Disgusting shit like that. Tohru's grandfather mused that they probably said it because they didn't think Tohru would understand them, which kinda makes Kyo go "!!" because holy crap, he was just thinking about that! how crazy!, and Tohru's grandfather says that, if nothing else, a kid can understand if a comment is nice or mean, but they are usually pretty good at understanding things.

After that, Kyo went home and saw Tohru taking down the laundry (do they not have a dryer or was it just more poetic to have her hanging them on a line and having them flutter around in the breeze?), and was thinking about the things that Tohru's grandfather said, along with some times that he was with Kyoko. Apparently, Kyo had seen (not really met) Tohru before they met in the beginning of the series. One time Kyoko was fretting about having to stay overtime at work, and how Tohru would be alone at home for a while, and so I guess Kyo decided that he'd check up on Tohru, and she was just sitting at the table, eating dinner, and he thought she looked pretty lonely.

Jump back to current events, Kyo's just been standing there, thinking about all this stuff while Tohru was folding laundry, and she finally noticed him. Ack! Startlements. Out of the blue, Kyo asked Tohru about her dad, and she froze up. She then said that they didn't really, but according to her mom, they acted the same. Then she retracted that statement, and revealed that she used to think her dad was a bad man, mostly just because as child, she used to fear that he would take Kyoko away from her, despite remembering that he was a kind and caring person. When he heard that, Kyo thought it was stupid, but it was most likely just from her trying to cope with her dad's death, and how her mom reacted so severely to it, and by thinking of her dad as a bad man, it was easier for her? Personally, I don't really follow the train of thought, I've read it a couple times, I'm just kinda confused by it, but it's mostly that she told herself a story that helped her, and it might have made her seem unaware of things (I hesitate to say "stupid"), so that she could push down her pain enough to seem happy on the outside. Tohru felt guilty about it, but Kyo told her that Kyoko probably knew what Tohru was doing, but it was okay, because Tohru helped Kyoko through a really tough time in her life (and he knows that for certain because Kyoko told him that).

Oh also the reason why there was all the billowing sheets and everything turned out to be kinda useful. Reassurance becomes awkward when you go to hug someone and you turn into a cat. So, stupid earlier question out of the way.

After all that, there is some unmistakably painful awkwardness between Kyo and Tohru, they're just stumbling over each other. Having to sit by and watch them is too much to bear for Yuki, so he flies off, to anywhere, because anywhere is better than that. And I mean, I've never been in that situation (because I'm generally not around people) but it's awkward enough just reading it, I think I would wither away or slam my head on a table/wall if I had to be around it, so I don't blame Yuki whatsoever. While he's wandering around, a woman comes up to him, asking if he's Ayame. Hm,, I wonder who this mysterious woman is??

(But first, a short peek back to the house and-- oh of course Kyo and Tohru are still struggling to exist around each other cool cool, and oh! Tohru just said something very cute and endearing and Kyo had a heart attack nice move my dude, and off in the distance, Hanajima senses their struggles and general pain)

Okay, back to Yuki. He went to Ayame's store to ask about that woman, and Ayame tells him that she was someone that he went to school with. He was the student body president, and he came to be friends with (or at least, he was friendly, there's a difference) another president from an all-girls school. Unbeknownst to him, she had fallen in love with him, but when he was younger, he didn't really seem to give a shit about people. Like, he seemed to be a raging asshole, not even on purpose. He just never took the time to consider and understand other people's feelings, and was just flippant to everything. So when this girl confessed her feelings to Ayame, he was decently surprised (kinda. If he was anywhere as popular as Yuki is in school, he probably had people confessing to him all the time, but unlike Yuki, Ayame probably just used that to boost his ego. What I'm saying is that it wouldn't really be a surprise to him; I have a feeling that he'd heard it a lot throughout high school), gave a "Oh, that's nice. What's your name again?" which was a huge blow to the girl. They'd been friends for a while, which she said. He then proceeded to say, "Oh, well then I guess your personality was so dull that I couldn't be bothered to remember!" Holy fuck. This is just getting worse and worse. Never mind the fact that Shigure and Hatori were there too, this wasn't just Ayame and the girl, and Shigure was snickering and poorly attempting to hide it. Hatori finally made them stop while the girl ran off, and Ayame had the gall to ask why. Dude. Wow.

It took him a while to fully understand what had happened, and how acting that way can really hurt someone, until he met Mine, the girl who works with him in the costume shop. (She's pretty distinctive in that she's always wearing a maid costume. She's enthusiastic about costumes) Yuki asked if Mine was Ayame's girlfriend, and Ayame said that she was, though they didn't make the biggest deal out of it. After going through his few minutes of Intense Retrospective, Ayame said (dramatically, you know him) that he hopes that moment hasn't traumatized her or affected her poorly, and Yuki said that she actually seemed pretty happy, if anything she was embarrassed, but it seemed like she had a husband and kid, so it could be guessed that she moved on from that incident. Yuki then tried to ask if Mine knows about the curse, but Ayame skillfully swerved around that by entirely ignoring the question, and Mine had come back from the store, so that conversation was over. But, when she came back, another followed, none other than Kakeru, who apparently is pretty friendly with Mine and Ayame, since the two of them came to the school during the "Sorta Cinderella" play to provide costumes.

While Kakeru was there, he briefly brought up Machi, and so she was brought over as well. That's only significant because she saw something she liked, and it pops up again later. Slightly later in this book, but more later in the series. It's a whole thing.

We also get a short little peek at what Kyo and Tohru are doing at the end of the chapter. I guess they just went out for shopping and stuff, and came across a place with lots of cats, who were quite excited to see Kyo. (Kyo was less excited to see the cats, it's probably for the better that they're separated by glass.)

The next chapter starts with Shigure at the main Sohma house, where apparently Akito has been stuck in her room for so long, asking if she thinks the world will change around her if she just stays in there long enough. He then leaves, and Akito says, "Fine! I don't care anymore!" (which, statistically speaking, almost always means that they still care), but Shigure doesn't bother with it. Being stubborn in this situation isn't going to help anything, but it's just not worth arguing over.

The scene jumps to school, and apparently Momiji's gotten a hell of a growth spurt, now he's all tall and tall, and he doesn't wear as much cutesy stuff. It also looks like he got a crush on Tohru, but Tohru would most likely quietly tuck Momiji into the friendzone like, so fast. I honestly doubt Momiji would actually try anything to get Tohru's attention, but later in the book he taunts Kyo a little bit, basically saying, "You better figure out your situation with Tohru bc I also l-l-like her lots <3" (After which Kyo has a mild crisis like "Holy shit does everyone know?? What the fuck??")

Tohru and Momiji run into Yuki and Haru at school, and for some reason they're all gonna go back home and get ice cream. Idk why, I guess they just felt like it.

Back at home itself, Kyo walks in and just finds Kisa sitting at the table. She flustered, he's confused ("why tf is she here what's going on?"), and Hiro pops out of nowhere to defuse a situation that wasn't occurring. Anyway, Kyo starts to walk off before Kisa says Hello!, and he's just like, "...hi. Anyway." and I'm just saying any of this bc it was so fuckin funny to me, idk why Kisa was acting like that, that might just be how she is, I've forgotten, but yeah.

Swerving back momentarily to the main Sohma house, Hatori's asking Shigure why he's always so mean to Akito. Would it really be so bad to just be nice for once? Shigure's pretty indifferent to it, especially when he said that Hatori's niceness or Kureno's niceness are more genuine, but he just can't fake that stuff, he doesn't care. He knows he's an annoying lil shit, and he doesn't seem to want to take any steps towards fixing that. After all, it's not his job to make Akito happy. (seriously though what's up with this whiplash between here and Tohru and Co. it's kinda weird.)

Let's just switch over to the last main chunk of the book, because I don't want to repeat myself too many times. This is the one that focuses on Kakeru, and his general weirdness. So he has a girlfriend, her name is Komaki Nakao. Just,, keep that in mind, I guess, so that I'm not saying "Kakeru's girlfriend" far too many times.

Anyway, Kakeru and Yuki head to the student council room, and Yuki gives Machi a little apology gift for having to deal with Ayame and Mine at the costume shop. Kimi complains about not getting something, which Naohito is irritated by (I think he lives to be irritated). She nabs the bag, opens it, and what is inside but a little Mogeta paper weight dude, a smaller version of the Mogeta doll that Ayame had in his shop that she was interested in (see I told you it was relevant), and she likes it a lot. Yuki can somehow tell by her waving it around in the air, idk how but he knows her better than I do. (Seeing as they're all in their fictional universe and I, it turns out, am not)

We also got a mini backstory into why Kimi is the way she is. It's because one time in middle school, a group of girls went up to her and said, "You think you can just float on by just because you're pretty and popular with boys?" and Kimi heartedly agreed, and just,,, didn't change. In case you were wondering.

Moving onto the part specifically about Kakeru, he used to have a thing against Tohru, a while back. When Kyoko got hit by that car, it turns out that the driver died as well, and that driver was Komaki's dad. So when Tohru and Kakeru ran into each other at the graveyard place, he basically was like, "Don't you dare think you can be the most sad in this situation, because someone else got hurt, so that means you can't be in as much pain as they are," completely out of the blue. Of course, Tohru didn't say anything against it, she wouldn't do that normally, and at the time she was still heavily mourning the death of her mother. He told Komaki of what he said to Tohru, reasoning that, like he said, she can't be the one most sad here, someone else has died. He saw her go about school, smiling and laughing, clearly she has to be faking her misery (rather than,, idk,, coping,,, and trying to get through life as a sudden orphan,,, idk,,), but Komaki didn't take it well, saying that you can't make a competition of something like being sad, or mourning. Him going out of his way to say that to Tohru did not help. That confused Kakeru initially, because he thought they were both on the same page. He did apologize, when they ran into each other later, completely owning up to his shit, which is nice. It's nice when people are accountable for their actions.

Back to Yuki and Machi for a second, Machi didn't have a chance to thank Yuki for the tiny Mogeta after she first got it, but she did like the gift. She tried to ask for what Yuki wanted, but all he said was self-confidence and fertilizer. (Does she know that he has a garden? I don't think she knows, that would probably seem very odd out of context.)

I think I'm gonna end that there. I have four more books left, so it's ending soon, but given how infrequently I actually sit down and write these, I just hope I'll be able to finish before they have to be taken back to the library.