Fruits Basket volume 6, chapter 32 English translationFruits Basket volume 6 chapter 32 By Natsuki Takaya Hana to Yume Comics publisher: Hakusensha ISBN 4-592-17166-7 390 yen p. 37 (Shigure and Kazuma are kneeling on the floor, facing each other) Shigure: (inclining his head) It's good to see you are well, Kazuma-dono. Kazuma: (smiling) It's wonderful that your writing has been progressing so well. Shigure: (laughing softly) It's been coming along fairly well. (Holding a tea tray, Touru watches the exchange silently) p. 38 Touru: This is the person the person that Kyou-kun told me about before, his teacher. Kagura: (kneeling next to Kazuma and smiling cheerfully) Teacher, it's been such a long time. Kazuma: Yes, it has been, hasn't it, Kagura. p. 39 Touru: (kneeling by the doorway) Huh? Yuki: (standing in the doorway) It's been a long time, Teacher,...... Touru: Huh? Kazuma: (looking up) You've gotten taller. You've grown quite a bit, haven't you, Yuki. p. 40 Touru: (looking confused) Huh? Huh? Shigure: Touru-kun, this is Kazuma Souma. He's Kyou's teacher, and he also taught martial arts to Yuki, Kagura, and Ha-kun [Hatsuharu]. (Translator's note: I am doing transliterations of the nicknames and various titles when they are used simply because there are too many, and because some titles (or lack of them) will become important later. Also, I know using "Teacher" sounds a little like a kung fu movie, but it was either that, or keeping the Japanese "Shishou" and "Shihan", titles which just don't translate good into English know matter what word you use.) Touru: Oh, is that so? Kazuma: May I call you Touru-san? Touru: (looking caught off guard and clutching the tea tray) Yes, certainly! How do you do, I'm Touru Ho-Honda. Kazuma: I see. So you are..... p. 41 (Kyou, sitting by the wall with his legs crossed, has a slightly tortured (dazed?) expression on his face) Kazuma: (after a slight pause) Rumor has it you know about the secret. Touru: Um, yes. Kazuma: (closing his eyes) .............. I see................ Touru: .......................? p. 42 Shigure: (gesturing to Kyou) Kyou-kun, don't just sit there, come and say hello. You haven't seen him since you went to the mountains to train last year , right? Aren't you glad to see him? Kyou: That's....(Seeing Yuki standing there, Kyou stops himself) p. 43 (Kyou gets up and walks out of the room) Touru: ! Um......Kyou-kun.......? (Kazuma says nothing) Kazuma: (getting up) Where might I find Kyou's room? Touru: Ah, um, it's on the second floor, first room on the right.......I'll show you....... Kazuma: No thank you, I'll be able to find it. Shigure: (to Kagura, laughing) That's just like him. Kagura: (laughing softly) It really is. Touru: ? What is "just like him"? Kagura: We were saying that it's just like Kyou-kun. p. 44 Kagura: (whispering into Touru's ear) Actually, Kyou-kun is really happy, but he doesn't want to show us that. Especially not in front of Yun-chan. (In Kyou's room) Kazuma: Kyou, I'm coming in. (Kyou is standing with his back to the door, silent, fists clenched) Kazuma: .......Wow, you've been reading quite a few books. (Author's note: Those are Shigure's books) Kyou: Teacher. p. 45 Kyou: I'm sorry I acted so rudely. Kazuma: (opening one of the books on the shelf, his back towards Kyou) .....You're still the same as always in front of Yuki. It's alright. I understand. (Kyou suddenly turns around) p. 46 (Kazuma calmly stops Kyou's punch to his abdomen with his right hand, while still holding the book in his left.) Kyou: (with an ecstatic smile on his face) You're back! Welcome home, Teacher!! p. 47 (Kazuma smiles) Kazuma: I'm back. Touru: So Kyou-kun's teacher isn't one of the twelve possessed by a sign? p. 48 (Touru and Kagura are cooking in the kitchen) Kagura: No, he isn't. But he is part of the "inner" clan. Touru: ? Kagura: Before Kyou-kun, Teacher said his grandfather was the one possessed by the cat sign. So that's why Teacher may be the one best able to understand Kyou-kun's position... (flashback picture of Kyou and Kazuma training in woods) Kagura: But even without that, it seems that Teacher holds Kyou-kun very dear. He's always watched over him to make sure he doesn't get hurt, as if he were Kyou's real father. p. 49 Touru: His real......father...... (Kagura smiles a little) (Back in Kyou's room, Kazuma is sitting on the floor, Kyou is by his side, legs crossed, looking eager and happy) Kyou: So does this mean the trip you went on to do more training is over? Kazuma: Well....I can't really leave the dojo closed for much longer. Kyou: (looking eager and slightly desperate) Then, then that means I can live at the dojo again, right? That's what you promised before you left. p. 50 Kazuma: (in flashback) When I come back, let's live together again. Until that day comes, farewell. Kazuma: (in the present) You should continue to live here. Kyou: What.....Are you breaking your promise? Are you scared of Akito-san too? Kazuma: No. I'm saying that because I believe this is the best and most ideal environment for you to be in now. Whether it's by coincidence, or of necessity that you have started living here with her, if it heals you-- Kyou: Teacher p. 51 Kyou: I hate being here. It's like being soaked in lukewarm water and sometimes.............sometimes I hate it so much I can't take it. I never wished to be healed......I hate it. p. 52 Kazuma: (looking at Kyou) ..............That's not what you mean, is it? It's not hate, Kyou................ (Kyou, Touru, and Yuki are in the living. Kagura walks in.) Kagura: Teacher is spending the night here tonight, right? I'm spending the night, too. Shi-chan gave me permission. p. 53 Kyou: What? Go home! Touru: (to Yuku) Where should I set out his futon? ...Perhaps Shigure-san's room would be best... (Yuki and Touru look in Shigure's room--books, paper, and stuff is thrown everywhere, the floor isn't even visible. Caption: The Rotting Forest Returns) Yuki: His room is definitely out of the question. I even think it's bad. Touru: I wonder how Shigure-san sleeps in there at night. Kagura: In this case, don't you think Kyou-kun's room would be the best place? Touru: That's true, that would be best, wouldn't it? Kyou: Huh?! What's wrong with letting him sleep in the living room? He's not a kid or anything. Kagura: I'll go and ask! Kyou: Hey! p. 54 Touru: There must be many things you want to talk about with him, right? Kyou: ...Nothing whatsoever. Touru: (with a dazzling smile)Oh, and um,.......if possible, I would love to watch a practice match between you and your teacher. Yuki: (from another room) Honda-san, what do you want to do with this? Touru: (getting up) Oh, that.... (Kyou watches her leave) p. 55 (Kazuma and Shigure are out on the veranda, there is an air of seriousness about them) Kazuma: Tonight, I'll be taking "that" off, so I would like to apologize in advance for any disturbances it might cause. Shigure: Not at all... But why have you decided to do this all of a sudden? Kazuma: Today...... Today, I saw his face, (flashback to Kyou's smile in chapter 31) and thought that this girl could open his heart, and accept him. And that the only ideal time for that is now. p. 56 (Kagura is in the hall, listening to their conversation) Shigure: So even you leave everything in her hands? But still, there's no guarantee that it will work, is there? Even if she accepts him, there's a high possibility that Kyou will reject her. And there's the possibility that this time really will break him, where he will hate even you, and never laugh or smile again. With all those possibilities, are you still willing to bet against the odds? p. 57 (Flashback to when Kyou and Kazuma were living together, they are eating dinner, Kyou is holding up a charred fish in his chopsticks) Kyou: (in flashback) What is this? What did you do to burn it this much? You really are bad at this sort of thing! Kazuma: Well, I guess it shows that I still need to train a lot more, doesn't it. (Kyou laughes) Kazuma: (in the present) Even so, even so, I want to take a chance on her. (Later, Kazuma is talking to Touru in the hallway) Kazuma: Tonight.....could you spare me a little of your time? p. 58 Touru: ? Kazuma: Only she can do it. ......Please, please......heal Kyou. (It is nighttime, Kyou and Kazuma are outside) Kyou: Teacher.....if there's something you want to tell me, you don't have to do it outside? You know how tired I always feel on days like this. Kazuma: My grandfather was the same way. His health always worsened on rainy days. Maybe because of the cat possession, or maybe because the "original form" of the spirit hated rain. p. 59 (Kyou looks away, saying nothing) Kazuma: .....If you don't start fully accepting that "original form", you'll never be able to move forward. Kyou: I am accepting it--that my life is a sorry affair that ended the moment I was born possessed by the cat. And that it's because of that mouse.....because of Yuki, he's the source of all of it! p. 60 Kazuma: You haven't changed. (Flashback to a funeral. Kyou is about 6 years old or so, someone is holding him back as he screams) Kyou: (in the flashback) It's Yuki's fault! Yuki was bad! I'll kill him and then kill myself! That'll make all of you happy, right!? If I die too, that'll make you happy, right!! Kazuma: (in the present, rain is starting to fall) ...So you intend to keep living like that? Your ears plugged and your eyes shut. Hiding everything under the cover of your hatred of Yuki. Is that the only way you can support yourself? p. 61 Kazuma: And then..... and then will you die? All alone... Just like my grandfather. ...You said before that you hate it here. But I think you're wrong... You don't hate it, you are just trying to run away from it...... p. 62 (Kazuma grabs hold of Kyou's left wrist) Kazuma: You know that the warm "thing" you called "lukewarm water" is healing you, but you don't want the "real" you--that "original" form--to be known. You're afraid of what you might lose if it becomes known. And so you are trying to run away from those ambiguous circumstances. p. 63 Kyou: No-- Kazuma: (cutting off Kyou's words)In that case, ....in that case I will grasp your hand as you try to run. Will you lose everything? Or not? (Kyou looks past Kazuma and sees Touru with an umbrella watching them) I will lead you to that final result--to see if your life, Kyou, really is just a sorry affair that ended a long time ago. p. 64 (Kyou realizes what Kazuma is planning to do, but it is too late. Kazuma knocks him on the side of his head with his left hand, while pulling the bracelet off of Kyou's left hand with his right.) Kyou hears his mother's voice: ......It's alright. Because I love you. p. 65 (Kagura watches from her bedroom window, Shigure watches from his own) Kyou's mother's voice: That's why I don't show you to anyone. Don't look at my child. Don't look. Don't look! p. 66 a young Akito: ...How disgusting. Kyou: Don't look at me......!! (Touru's umbrella is blown away by the wind) ŠNatsuki Takaya. All rights reserved. Translated by Dawn Kolk Please ask my permission before using this translation for any purpose. webmaster@ein.i-p.com