Author note: I do not own Fruits Basket. Kyo is 9 in this.

Kyo sat in a tree watching the clouds. He was thinking about how horrible it was to be the cat. He had to wear a bracelet to keep from transforming into his original form. He wasn't accepted by his family. Especially not the Zodiac members. His mother committed suicide and he got blamed. Why? Because he was the cat. Kazuma, his adoptive father, got talked badly about because of him. Kagura was talked badly about for being friends with him. So he denied being close to them. He wanted to beat Yuki to prove to Akito that he wasn't useless. Why was he considered useless? Because he was the cat. Were all the insults true? Would he never be happy? Would he just keep causing pain to everyone around? Would he ever stop being a burden? He sat there wishing he could have just been born normal.