Third person POV
After that, Roxas asked Laurel, "Hey, Laurel-kun…"
"Yes?" Laurel looked at him.
"Do you want to go my friend's place?"
"Sure, I'm eager to see your friends."
And so, Roxas took him to Shigure's house. There they are standing at the foot of the stairs leading to Shigure's house. "Here?" Laurel asked him. His friend then nodded. "Yes, this one leads to his house."
"Okay, let's climb the stairs."
And they started climbing the stairs.
Some time later, they had arrived in front of Shigure's house. Laurel was a bit exhausted from climbing the stairs while Roxas is not. "That was so long…" Laurel commented.
"Yup, it was," Roxas replied back.
And then, he rang the doorbell, and a voice from the inside responded, "Coming!"
It was Tohru who said that, and she opened the door, only to be surprised by Roxas and Laurel's presence. "Oh, Ro-kun?"
"Hi, Tohru-chan, how are you?" Roxas greeted back happily.
Seeing that, Laurel now remembered that in their previous life, Roxas was a big fan of "Fruits Basket".
"Yeah, he loves her a lot…" he thought.
"I am fine, thank you," Tohru replied back, before looking at Laurel.
"Who are you?" she asked Laurel.
"Hello there, my name is Laurel Sakiyama," replied Laurel back positively and nicely, "I am Roxas' friend."
Tohru was a bit surprised, so she said to him and Roxas, "Oh, okay, nice to meet you, too, Laurel-kun. Come in, both of you."
Roxas and Laurel did so, and Tohru closed the door.
Inside the house, Roxas and Laurel went to the living room, where Shigure, Kyo, and Yuki are there doing their own thing. Asae, Tomoaki, and Juan are upstairs, meanwhile. "Hey, I'm back!" Roxas greeted happily. Shigure, Kyo, and Yuki then looked at him and Laurel.
"Huh? Ro-kun?"
"You're back?"
"I thought you're at home."
"Well, it's hard for me to explain…" Roxas replied back while hiding the reason why he and Laurel are there, "but I would like to say that I want to introduce my new friend to you guys."
He then referred that person to Laurel.
Tohru came in time.
"Hello, everyone, my name is Laurel Sakiyama," Laurel said to them and Tohru nicely and positively, "I am Roxas' new friend. It's nice to meet you all."
He then bowed deeply for a few seconds as a greeting.
"Wow, nice to meet you, too, Laurel-kun," Shigure responded back.
Then to Kyo and Yuki. "You two, say hi to them."
Kyo and Yuki did so, but both of them noticed Laurel's magenta eyes and cat whisker-like birthmarks on his face.
They were a bit suspicious.
"What are those things on your face?" Kyo asked.
"Oh! These?" Laurel pointed his finger at his birthmarks. "Those are my birthmarks."
Tohru and Shigure gets it, while Roxas, Kyo, and Yuki didn't.
But Roxas gets it now, and he thought, "He must have been reincarnated with those things…right, back at my previous life, he likes cats, a lot."
He then accepted it as reality.
But then, Kyo and Yuki thinks that Laurel is tough, so they asked him for a fight. This response from them causes Tohru and Roxas to freak out at this.
"Wait, you two, you can't just do that!"
While Shigure was interested, Laurel completely accepted it.
"No, Laurel-kun, you can't just accept a fight out of the blue!" Roxas tried to persuade his friend but failed.
"Woah, you guys." Shigure intervened, "no fighting here. Do it outside."
In response to that, Kyo, Yuki, and Laurel went outside to do their fight. Tohru and Roxas, who were worried about their safety, followed as well. Outside of the house, Yuki and Kyo are up against Laurel. Kyo and Yuki clenched their fists in preparation, while Laurel did some simple reflexes instead. Roxas and Tohru are there watching it while still being concerned.
"Are you sure about this, Ro-kun?"
"Not sure though, Tohru-chan."
"Let's see if you can go against us," Yuki said to Laurel.
"Yes, we are members of a martial arts dojo," Kyo added he and Yuki enjoyed their fight.
"Go on, you or you two go first," replied Laurel back.
And so, their fight begun. Kyo and Yuki lunged at him with their fists, but Laurel disappears like a shadow using his shadow ability. This stuns Kyo and Yuki, who then looked around while wondering where he went. Tohru was shocked to see that Laurel had vanished while Roxas tries to maintain his coolness, hiding the fact that Laurel has shadow ability and magic.
"W-Where did he go?" Tohru stammered in shock.
"Don't worry, he's gonna be fine," responded Roxas back.
But Tohru wasn't sure about that, so she doubts about it.
Then, Laurel appears behind Kyo and Yuki and hit them in the upper back so he could inflict as less pain as possible. Both Yuki and Kyo were struck and fell to the ground.
"Ouch…"
"What in the…"
Tohru and Roxas are a bit stunned to see Laurel's attack.
Kyo and Yuki then got up and tries to strike back, but Laurel kept on dodging their fist-and-foot attacks.
"You can't hit me!" he said to them in a little bit of taunting.
Kyo and Yuki are a bit pissed off, and their attacks became a bit more intense.
And so, the noises of their fight were heard by Asae, Tomoaki, and Juan, who then went downstairs and outside to see what was going on.
But they were stunned to see it.
"What the…?"
"Big brother?!"
Roxas and Tohru then looked at them.
"Oh, hey, guys."
"They're having a fight."
Asae was worried about Kyo's safety, but Roxas assured her that her older brother would be fine.
But eventually, back at the fight, Kyo and Yuki lost against Laurel, who didn't get a single strike from them. "Give up?" he asked them. Not wanting to continue on, Kyo and Yuki surrendered to him and ended the fight. To that, Tohru and Asae ran to Kyo and Yuki and asked them if they are okay.
"Yes, just exhausted…" Kyo responded back.
"This guy is tougher than we thought…" Yuki added.
At this point, Roxas realized that Laurel was "untouchable" due to his shadow ability.