Alright, I'll keep this brief. I've been a fan of Fruits Basket for about a year and a half and my lil sis just finished the manga and asked if she could write a fanfic for it. I agreed to let her use my account as long as I read it and approved whatever she was writing. I approve and so here we are. This is her first fic and I'll show her any reviews you write. Also, the main character, Ochiba, is different from the one from my various Blue Exorcist fanfics. So…I present you with A Game of Cat and Mouse.

(Also, she doesn't have an account here, just letting you know!)

OC: Ochiba

Translation: fallen leaf

Gender: female

Description: black hair to shoulders, wears black and white blouse with matching skirt, necklace, green eyes, extremely cute, glasses

I was scared. It was the first day. My first day "outside". I arrived at the school to find it bursting with people. I wasn't alone though, they would never leave me alone. I was surrounded by Sohma residence who guarded me "inside". The people around me looked so free I longed to be like them. I clutched the necklace that keeps me human. I had never met anyone else. All I knew was my own little world and what he let me know. I was surprised when he told me I should go. We walked inside. I saw my teacher in class 1-A. She smiled.

"Hello miss..."she started "Ochiba Sohma."

Fallen leaf. I hated that name. It was originally leaf... Then my parents saw... The look on their faces as they looked at me in hatred.

"Hello," I merely said. One of the Sohma's turned to the teacher, "She is quiet and very precious to the head of the family. We will return for her later." Just like that I was gone and alone. I felt lost. I saw a couple boys staring at me whispering.

"You have it lucky," a girl said, "You must have boys crawling all over you."

"I don't though," I said sadly. I hardly stumbled all my way to lunch. I sat down lonely at a table.

"Hello," I heard. I looked up. Standing in front of me was a boy with short grey hair and a soft smile. Great I thought, a boy? What will the head of the family say now? Me? Close to a boy? That's extremely dangerous. Still, how could it hurt for only one day?

"So," he continued "can I sit here?" I nodded my head to answer. "Hi! I'm Ratio! What's your name?"

I didn't want to answer. Not just because of the fact that I didn't like talking and I already wanted to go back to the love/hate relationship of that room. It was dark, yet the darkness shielded me from the true darkness of people's souls. It was that he reminded me of the happy-go-lucky guy I had heard the rat was like from stories of banquets. If I ever meet that rat, I don't know what I'll do. What made that guy so happy? Oh yeah the fact that he cursed me to being a monster while he received praise for tricking the cat and getting away with it.

"Not very talkative are you?" The question shocked me. I was deep in thought! In my room "inside" I was never interrupted, after all, would you dare to awake the monster? I was only called for when I was needed. I was terrified when the head said I had three years... Of high school... Three of being "outside" then back to the quiet comfort of my home. Was it my home? I had never wondered it before. Then again before today, I couldn't remember the sun. The room had no light after all just darkness.

"Ochiba," I said.

"Huh?" He responded

"You wanted to know my name," I answered.

"Ohhhh yeah," he said

"What is it with you?" I asked

"What do you mean?" He responded

"You act like a jerk trying to force me to talk with you and be your 'friend' or something crazy like that!" By then I was standing and yelling.

"No I didn't," he said standing up.

"You've got some nerve trying to play me like a card!" I yelled. I didn't know what to do but something inside me told me to fight.

"But I didn't!" Now he was screaming. It was too late though. As angry as I was I just stormed off leaving him there.

Later…

"Hello," the head of the family said pretending to sound happy. "How was your first day?" when I was silent he looked annoyed and said "not talking as usual eh? Send her to the room," he said before her guards nodded shoving me down the hallway.

Who was that guy at lunch? Why was I so angry at him? I didn't know why but I had this feeling telling me to be angry. Maybe he was just a jerk and I over imagined it. I couldn't get him out of my head though. Even his name floated around in my head: Ratio. A much nicer name than mine I thought. Light. Could he be my light? Is his light strong enough to light the dark room? Could he lift the fallen leaf off the ground and hold me? Impossible, I thought, no one can hold me. If they knew who I was they wouldn't want to anyway.

In science class the next day we were told to experiment with butane burners and non-dairy powdered creamer. My creamer started getting smoky and making a popping sound. A girl ran over to me, "Ahhhhhh! Your burner is up way too high!"She quickly turned it down but it was too late, the creamer caught fire, "Ahhhhhhh!" She started running in circles. "Where is the fire extinguisher?!" She found it in the back of the room and ran over putting it out. "Whoa, fire out, civilians safe!" she said saluting.

"Who are you?" I asked. She turned.

"Huh? I mean I'm the president if the school defense committee! You may know us by our other name though, the student council!"

"I meant your name," I answered.

"Oh, I'm Ib!" She responded.

"Hi Ib!" I said smiling. It was the first real smile I had smiled in a long time. It felt good.

"I forgot I have to finish checking on the classes, that's what I was doing. I'm in class 1-D if you want more info. It was really nice meeting you miss..." She paused," what is your name?"

"Ochiba," I said, "and it was very nice meeting you to, I can't wait to see you around some time!"

She was nice, Ib. Why had she been so nice to me? I didn't want to be treated nicely. I didn't deserve it.

Earlier

Ib had asked to sit with me at lunch. We sat and talked like normal teens. That Ratio boy didn't come by. We talked and laughed. I discovered she was pretty bad in English class. I was good at it though and bad at science so we decided to go to her house tomorrow after school for a study period.

"See ya tomorrow!" She said waving. I felt I had a friend for once.