Fruits Basket chapter 26

Translated by Linnie-san

p. 38

Yuki: Honda-san? Are you ready?

Touru: Yes, I sure am.

Shigure: Are you going to the lake? Don’t fall in Kyou-kun.

Kyou: Fall in!?

Touru narration: [Right, we’re still staying at the summer house.]

p. 39

Touru: Ah! Hatori-san, we’re heading out…… okay……

Shigure: Oh? Ha-san is sleeping?

Touru: Yes…

Kyou: Huh? Hatori sleeps?

Shigure: Kyou-kun? Don’t all people sleep?

p. 40

Touru: ……

Kyou: I know that! That’s not what I meant. I mean, this guy doesn’t seem like someone who would sleep in front of people.

Shigure: Ah… yes. That’s true. It’s unusual, isn’t it. He’s worn out ……… by various things.

Touru: Um… He’ll catch a cold like that. I’ll put a blanket on him…

Shigure: You’re so kind Touru-kun. I expect you’ll grow accustomed to being a wife.

Touru: Eh!? No, that’s…

Kyou thinking: (Is he stupid…?)

Yuki thinking: (Stupid Shigure…)

Ayame: No, no. You’re wonderfully considerate!

p. 41

Ayame: You have my compliments!

p. 42

*Ha ha ha ha ha*

Ayame: What is it? Everyone is tense. Are you ill!?

Yuki and Kyou: Because you suddenly showed up!!

Kyou: What the hell! Where did you deviously leak in from!?

Ayame: Isn’t it a matter of course that I came in through the door? Kyon-kichi {Lucky Kyon} is in fact very foolish, isn’t he.

Kyou: Arghh! I don’t want you calling me that!!

Touru: Ah, um, Ayame-san, good afterno-

Yuki: Honda-san, it’s dangerous, so don’t come close.

p. 43

Ayame: Everyone! We meet again. It’s splendid that you’re choked up in tears of gratitude, but please calm down a bit. I am standing in this place thanks to a certain person’s cooperation.

Yuki and Kyou: A certain… person……? Ha!

Shigure: Eh!? Wait, you’re mistaken! It’s not me!

Ayame: You have nothing to fear, Gure-san… Even if the world becomes your enemy, that you have me as your ally will never change! Je t’aime, mon amour. Bon voyage.

Shigure: Aya… You’re the keeper of my heart! Anyon hashimunika {t.n.: a respectful greeting in Korean}.

Kyou: So what the hell did you come here for!?

p. 44

Ayame: Well now, I wonder if Kinpachi-sensei was also saying to calm down. Oh, You guys don’t know, do you. It’s a school drama about spending the dazzling springtime of life running up a riverbed.

Shigure: You’re saying something completely irrelevant as if it were relevant, Aya.

Ayame: Kinpatsu-sensei was saying…, the lines in the character for “person” support each-other………

Kyou: …?

Yuki: What……  is that?

Ayame: It’s a good saying isn’t it.

Yuki and Kyou: Were you saying it just for the sake of saying it!!?

p. 45

Kyou: It’s tiring. You’re being here is really tiring. If you have no purpose here then go home! Seriously!!

Ayame: How rude! I always have a purpose. Yuki…!! Today, will we deepen our bond as brothers…!? That’s right, that’s right. Brothers are always together.

Yuki: Sink under by yourself!!

Touru: Um…

p. 46

*bonk*

Hatori: Didn’t I tell you that you shouldn’t disturb your surroundings so much, Ayame.

Ayame: Hello, hello, Tori-san!

Touru: Hatori-san… You woke up..?

Hatori thinking: (Being around that racket is not a condition I am able to sleep under…)

Ayame: Tori-san, good morning!

Shigure: Sorry about that. We woke you up, didn’t we.

Ayame: Although I thought we were being quiet.

Hatori thinking: (ugh… so loud…)

Hatori: Well? Why are you here?

Ayame: Eh?

p. 47

Ayame: When I went to the main house, I heard from the maid (53 years old) that Tori-san went to the summer house with everyone. I immediately headed over in case you might want me to be together with you also. Of course, the car ride was supremely pleasant.

Yuki and Kyou thinking: (This jerk…!! He f***ing tells Hatori obediently without giving any trouble…!!)

Hatori: …… Yuki… Kyou. Weren’t you going to take Honda-kun to the lake today?

Kyou: Ah

Ayame: Eh? Is that so? If that’s the case, please go quickly. I don’t know what is keeping you, but…  If you’re going to escort a lady you need to be smarter about it.

p. 48

Yuki and Kyou: It’s you’re damn fault!

Touru: Ah! Uh, uh, um, well, that is, we’re going to the lake then. Right!

Shigure: Aya, I thought you’d definitely be “following” them.

Ayame: What are you saying Gure-san? I’m not that uncouth. The three of us, who have not seen each other for such a long time, can all leisurely gather together. It will be a long night… I won’t let you sleep… Gure-san.

Author’s note: (Bringing back up seven seconds earlier)

Shigure: What an honor… Tonight, I will be able to see the same dream as you, Aya.

p. 49

Ayame and Shigure: Great!!

Hatori: You guys never get tired of that…

Arrow: (He’s already used to it.)

Ayame: Ooh! Tori-san. If you’re having tea I’ll pour it for you. Today I’ll pour some especially for Gure-san also!

Shigure: Oh! Really? It’s been many years since I’ve drunk Aya’s tea.

Ayame: You better be grateful. There are only two people other than Tori-san who can drink tea that I have poured.

Shigure: One of those two people is Akito-san. Is the other one Yuki-kun?

Ayame: No, no! Even if I pour tea for him Yuki won’t drink it. Sad isn’t it.

p. 50

Touru: Phew… For some reason I feel really refreshed…

Yuki: I wonder…… if he wants to stay over tonight……

*wind blows*

Touru: Um, uh.

Kyou: He’s you’re brother. Do something about it.

Yuki: If it were possible I would…… I can’t stand… people who rely on others to get what they want.

*Kyou snaps*

p. 51

Kyou: Who’s the one relying on other to get what he wants, octopus! When you have Shigure carrying you on his back!

*Yuki snaps*

Yuki: That has nothing to do with you! Don’t talk as if you know all about it!

Kyou: I don’t want to know about it!! I can’t stand you lounging around before my eyes all the time, but you’re still in sight!!

Yuki: If that’s the case, it would be better if you weren’t here.

Kyou: Arghhhh!! I don’t want to be here!! Why should I have to see the lake with you!?

Touru: …

Arrow: (Yesterday, before she was happy about it, she couldn’t help trying to stop them.)

Yuki: I as well find seeing the lake with you to be endlessly agonizing.

Kyou: It’s so pointless, this place……

Touru: Ah-

p. 52

Yuki: It’s not like that, Honda-san!

Touru: Eh!?

Yuki: We’re not saying that we can’t stand the lake itself!!

Touru: Eh?

Kyou: I just can’t stand being together with this guy…

Touru: Ah-

Kyou: Don’t get the wrong idea!!

Touru; R… right… Eh…? ………?

Yuki: …… No. It’s fine… Yeah.

Kyou: As long as you don’t get the wrong idea…

Touru: !

Touru thinking: (uh……)

p. 53

Touru: …… It’s pretty isn’t it!!

Yuki: Yeah.

Touru: Should we go around the entire lake!?

Kyou: …… Sure.

-

Ayame: Here, take this.

p. 54

Hatori: What is it?

Ayame: Photographs. Of Kana-kun’s wedding ceremony. Whether you look at them or not is up to you, Tori-san.

Shigure: What? No way. You went, Aya?

Ayame: No, no! Mayu-kun gave them to me.

Shigure: …… Mayu? Aya, you’ve met Mayu?

Ayame: Indeed I have. I met the Mayu-kun who you broke up with after a month and who ended up calling you a “ripple on the water.”

Shigure: Uh…

Hatori: Oh… Kana’s friend from college, and the “Mayuko” who Shigure broke up with after a month.

Shigure: Well, that is. At the time, I was young and…

p. 55

Shigure: Well, but Ha-san didn’t end up going to the ceremony either, did he. You didn’t want to see her after all?

Hatori: Flashbacks are a risk…… I didn’t perform an overwrite on Kana.  If something by chance makes her remember… It would probably be troublesome.

Ayame: Troublesome? If she remembers about that, isn’t it possible you will fall in love one more time?

Shigure: And snatch her away from the groom? Like in  “Graduation,” right… How dramatic…

Hatori: Well… It’s not something that can be started over again anymore. It’s over between and Kana me.

p. 56

Hatori: Even when were together, I only become lonely……  ……I no longer..

Hatori thinking: (I’m not used to how she doesn’t know anything about the days we spent together. She doesn’t remember the guilt and worry. It would only spread like a stain and destroy Kana’s heart.)

p. 57

Hatori thinking: (She would only become ill.)

Hatori: …want to believe that our love has been erased. But, I don’t think I want to be near her, and I don’t want to meet with her either. Now, I just pray that she’ll be happy.

p. 58

Ayame: I’m not convinced. I’m clearly speaking with the understanding that I have a biased opinion because I am a member of the Tori-san clique, but I am not convinced. Kana-kun is unfair! Because Kana-kun found happiness after she forgot everything, and Tori-san has to feel the burden of bearing all those unpleasant things. Only Tori-san can’t refuse the feelings he’s left with that are consuming him.

Hatori: …… Really…?

Ayame: … That’s not it.

p. 59

Ayame: Hatori-san is too kind! That is one of your good traits, but you are too kind. Because of that, you only experience needless suffering. Gure-san, please say something too.

Shigure: Yes, yes… troublesome things are always being forced on you.

Hatori thinking: (That’s not a line you could say to these two…)

Arrow to Shigure and Ayame: (reckless troublemakers)

Ayame: I’m not saying to start over with Kana-kun. Instead of that, I’ll declare once-and-for-all,

*stomps his foot down*

Ayame: I want Tori-san to become 2,000 times more full of happiness than Kana-kun is!

p. 60

Shigure: 2,000 times? Why 2,000 times?

Ayame: Because 1,000 times is not enough.

Hatori: …… That is… the resolute attitude you should show to Yuki…

Ayame: Eh? Really? Hmm.

Shigure: But, well, anyway. Next time, it would be good if you were be able to meet someone new who you won’t become lonely around even when you’re together. …Being together with her

p. 61

Shigure: will make you happy. A girl who you will have a connection with.

Ayame: Clever Gure-san. You’re pure poet.

*shakes head: no, no*

Shigure: Novelist, novelist.

Hatori thinking: (someone new… That’s quite an absurd wish…… As far as the cursed Zodiac are concerned… …When I think about it, I wonder if it’s no longer enough that Kana was there even just for a little while. I wonder if I am not okay with this anymore.)

Shigure: Ah, they’re back.

p. 62

Hatori thinking: (But now, I’ll only watch over them, so that they don’t walk down the same path. So that their smiling faces..)

p. 63

Hatori thinking: (will not fall ill.)

Ayame: Hello, hello. Welcome back, Yuki and you’re companions.

Kyou: Who’s a companion!?

Ayame: By the way, Yuki.

Kyou: Hey!

Ayame: A little while ago I received some advice from Tori-san. From now on, I will deepen my bond with you with a resolute attitude. This is the best way.

Yuki thinking: (Kindly giving up would be the best way.)

Touru: Resolute… you say? In other words, what kind of……?

Ayame: That’s it!! Yuki is my younger brother, and I am Yuki’s older brother. Yuki!! Upon that fact, I will proclaim in this way,

*thunderclap*

p. 64

Ayame: I am your older brother, be obedient to me!!!

*echoes of “to me… to me… to me…”*

Yuki: …… ………

p. 65

Yuki: Die!! Idiot!

Hatori: That Ayame… He doesn’t get it, does he.

Shigure: He doesn’t get it does he.

Shigure thinking: (But, Ha-san, you also still don’t. After now probably,)

-

Female student: Mayu-chan-sensei!

p. 66

Mayuko: Hey! Don’t call out a teacher’s name so informally! Call me Mayuko-daisensei-sama.

Female student 1: Eh…?

Female student 2: Ahahaha! Mayuko-daisensei-sama, you’re coming in to work on a vacation day?

Mayuko: Yeah, I am. Are you guys here for club activities?

Female student: Yes…

-

Shigure thinking: (you’ll probably be able to meet her next time.)