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Fruits Basekt chapter 101

OMG OMG OMG!

Before he was banished to his own house Shigure slept with Rin to get back at Akito for sleeping with Kureno?!?!

Dude, Akito and Rin must have been young at the time. ::smacks Shigure and Kureno:: That's just not right.

But... OMG OMG OMG!

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OMG MY ICON IS CANON.

There are just not enough "OMG"s to cover this chapter.

EDIT: So it was Ren, not Rin. ::shrug:: Misread due to enthusiasm. BUT ALL THE OMGs STILL APPLY FOR AKITO/SHIGURE! OMG! And Ren... that's just wrong. wrongwrongwrong. Apparently sleeping with people several years younger than you isn't a personality trait restricted to the male side of the Sohma family, either.

Does this mean that my theory of Shigure having slept with Akito was true then? Or was Shigure just promising her but not actually sleeping with her, and Akito got impatient and lost her virginity to Kureno?

"I do love Akito. Back then, and now, I love... I love her too much to the point that I wanted to spoil her."

Like, love love? Like the love Yuki feels for Tohru or the love that Kyo feels for Tohru?

Wow, I hadn't expected Shigure to have been in an actual relationship with Akito. Wow.

"Even though you hadn't realized it, I was waiting for that day." -- Wait, I'm confused? Shigure really was waiting for her to be old enough to love? Then why is there the image of him looking down at her naked in bed? If they'd slept together, what were they waiting for?

And damn, if that was the case then I kind of feel sorry for Shigure. Not totally, because he obviously misjudged Akito if he thought she'd wait too... but then, no, I do feel sorry for him.

So. Now we know why he's so cold. Because as a young man he fancied Akito as his true love and she burned him? And so he made himself just like her-- picking the cruelest person with which to exact his revenge. Ouch.

Now I need to listen to that Garbage song "Sex Is Not the Enemy" a few dozen times.

EDIT: Waahhhh. I just realized my mp3s of the Bleed Like Me album are all gone from my last computer crash. ::sob::

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chapter 102

::reading::

Yuki/girl-whose-name-I-can't-remember are so cute. And the best-friend=whose-name-I-can't-remember is adorable too.

Comments

[gweniveeve.livejournal.com]

Chapter 101 TOTALLY made me love Akito / Shigure. It owned my soul last year.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

Your ICON owns my soul. >D

I'm not sure I like Akito/Shigure as a positive romantic pairing (it'll take more development for me to get to that point), and I'm not entirely certain it wouldn't be safer and happier for both to keep them fiercely separated. So I can't really say I ship the pairing (though I did write a fanfic for the two of them... but it was kind of anti-Shigure/Akito, so maybe it doesn't count).

But as a story twist, the two of them are very interesting. One of the cases where I don't have to like the couple as a couple (I tend to like sappy romantic couples) to find their role in the overall story fascinating. It's been hinted for a while now so it's not really surprising; I'm just surprised that it appears Shigure genuinely feels/felt for her. That's a whopping bit of insight into Shigure's character right there, of the size we haven't gotten for him before. In one chapter we learn why he lives on his own, it's confirmed that there's some kind of relationship between him and Akito, and it's revealed that he has an equally tense relationship with Kureno! And Akito's mother. That's more revelations in a single chapter than Fruits Basket usually gives.

Though I'm still not sure exactly why he loves her. The flashbacks haven't really shown them falling in love yet, just that Shigure says he is.


Anyway, I'm babbling here. Don't comment with anything beyond chapter 102-- I'm taking my time waiting for the scanlations. :D It's a long wait, but it makes it the ocassional treat when I remember "Hey, I haven't read Furuba in a while" and find there's another chapter or two out.

[gweniveeve.livejournal.com]

Don't worry, I'm used to keeping my lips sealed. (I had to keep quiet when I first found out about them sleeping together, even though I was really excited).

I found them to be an intriguing couple, in fact, I even wrote a crazy-long comparison with Heathcliff and Cathy from Wuthering Heights, which can be found here: http://www.livejournal.com/community/altar_of_akito/77234.html. It's weird -- I like pairings either to be fun and workable, or angsty and weird. I guess this is one of the latter.

[gweniveeve.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, and my icon was made by flamika, who truly owns my soul, and is responsible for my love of Akito smut.