FURUBA RELOAD

EPISODE 1: ABOUT PAST.

(Tohru Honda's voice)

Hello! I'm Honda Tohru, but I suppose you could call me just Tohru. I think you know a bit about our past, and I mean… not just mine but also Sohma family one.

Anyway, I think that you have no news from us since I was apparently accepted by Akito Sohma to live with Yuki, Kyo and Shigure-san. This is what happened.

(Screen: Episode 1)

(Tohru voice)

It's funny but though it seems it was yesterday; it's now two years since Akito allowed me keep on living with the Sohma at Shigure's house. So now Yuki, Kyo and I are 19 years old while Shigure, Hatori and Ayame are 29.

We still live with Shigure, and we are now at our last high school term. We all dropped it last year, though I think Yuki dropped it on purpose to be with us on the lessons.

So now we are going to begin it again. What we didn't expect was something really weird to turn Sohma's family upside down.

It was funny because neither Kyo, nor Yuki knew about the change; less me.

"C'mon!" Kyo shouted at me stopping at the school front doors with Yuki. "We will be late cause of you!"

"I… I'm sorry." I said patting.

"Tohru, are you ok?" Yuki said softly.

"Yes, we… we have to get class…" I said trying to smile.

Again we ran fast towards the classroom. We had fallen asleep and the bus took us on delay to the school bus stop. So we had to run fast.

"Gomen nasai." Yuki said apologizing for all. "Bus was late…"

"Ok, sit down please." The teacher said.

We got in class, and suddenly Kyo saw someone at his seat.

"Ah! There's someone at my place!" he said nearly jumping backwards when he realised on the red haired person sitting at his seat.

"Oh, Sohma Alex-kun." Teacher then said. "Please, sit next to Sohma Yuki-kun. He will be able to help you."

Did he say Sohma-kun?! Could it be another familiar?! I spent nearly all the lesson looking dissimulately to the new Sohma guy sitting next to Yuki who seemed to put all his effort on helping him. Despite of the fact the new one didn't seemed to talk much, he smiled warm as if they had gone friends. I had never seen him smile so easily with a foreign person before. Perhaps the new guy was also of the family.

When the P.E. lesson arrived we went to change clothes. However the Alex guy didn't seemed to get into the men changing room. He went in the men toilet and when he went out he was wearing his tracksuit.

"Hey, Alex!" I called him. "Hello!"

He looked at me but didn't do a thing other than to walk towards us.

"Have you being changed school?" I asked him.

He then nodded but didn't say a word.

"We are trying sports today." Our teacher said. "Please, I'll divide you in five person groups, group when you hear your names."

We were grouped by surnames, so Yuki, Kyo, Momihi, Haru and Alex on the same group.

I smiled as I saw Momihi trying to jump over Alex and him holding out his arms to prevent him to do while Kyo and Yuki tried to avoid it too.

"He is cute…" some girls had begun saying softly.

"I don't know which of them is cuter!" other said.

Then I smiled wider as I heard the new one would soon be adapted to the classroom.

We then were made to run around the school, and I saw how Alex and Kyo were running fast as if they were competing.

"Is he family of yours?" I asked Yuki when Momihi, Haru and he reached Uo, Hana and me.

"Ah, yes." Yuki said smiling softly. "I think he is a far relative… I have hardly seen him."

"I like Alex!" Momihi said. "I don't transform when we hug!"

"I think I would be afraid." Haru said softly. "If he has improved the fighting skills then he will be terrifying."

"So he has not lived here?" Uo said confused.

"I think that when he was about 10 he was taken away by his brother." Haru said. "So he has been raised by his brother. Cause when he was just 9 their parents died so his brother took him away."

"Eh! Orange head!" Uo called Kyo. "Stop playing around!"

"He has challenged Alex." Yuki said. "Such a brainless…"

"He seems to be on a good shape." Hana said when we ended and she came walking towards us. "But his waves… there's something wrong on them…"

"Alex!!" Momihi said running towards him. "Alex, play at my team!"

The guy then smiled mildly.

"He is cute!" Tohru said wanting to hug him but stopping. "I can't…"

Then the Alex-guy hit her softly on her forehead with just one finger smiling as he walked towards his group.

Then they had to do sit-ups and I had some difficulties to do them. So I looked at them and saw how he did sit-ups without letting out a single sweat drop, fast but on a good way. Then he changed place with Haru and I saw how he did them well though not so fast.

He then cheered up nearly whispering to his cousins. Even Yuki who didn't used to smile did it while he heard whatever his cousin was saying.

After that we had to do some sport, so we began doing some basketball as he wanted to begin teaching us that.

First thing he did was asking us to try and score on the basket from the normal distance that was worth of a point for the group.

Funnily, it seemed that there was a person from the no high school team player ones who managed to score at first time, once and again.

"Sohma!" the teacher called. Then the five guys turned. "Alex one! Here."

Then the red haired went to his side.

"Have you ever played this before?" he nodded in silence.

"Ok, you help me." He said. "Your team but… Momihi against Himura one. Go."

He then nodded and went to his family to tell them.

It was a bit weird I could never hear his voice when he spoke, but all the Sohmas nodded and they went into their positions after Alex-kun explained them something pointing to the pitch we were going to play.

The rest of us had to sit and look while the teacher told us about the plays they all did.

I personally thought it was not fair to make Kyo, Yuki, Haru and Alex play against the four players on our classroom.

Anyway, when the mini-match began I had to change my mind. Yuki was the head of the team, I mean… the one giving instructions on high voice.

Anyway, after two minutes, Alex spoke again with his cousins and then they all smiled.

"I like the new plan!" Kyo said smiling.

"I hope that works." Yuki added.

"Alex, we trust you." Haru said passing him the ball.

He smiled and nodded.

"Oh, oh…" Momihi said a bit worried looking at them as he moved forward and backward. "Alex has gone black…"

"Black?" I asked confused. "As Black Haru?"

"Yes, but… now I hope he has just gone grey…" Momihi said. "Then it's funny!"

It was true, when just two minutes were left for the end of the mini-match; the players were tired and sweetened while "Sohma team" were smiling in fun.

"Another score and we are done!" teacher said. "Wow! That Alex-kun is amazing!"

"Go, Yuki, go!" his fan club said.

"Go, Alex!" most of people were cheering.

"Alex, Yuki, Haru, Kyo..." Momihi was cheering for all.

Then it was funny because when Alex was about scoring she was hooked by two other players and before falling down, she passed the ball to Kyo who scored.

All we could see was him under the other two players. Yuki then ran towards him and so did Haru, anyway, before they could reach him the two players over him flew away and he stood up with a acrobatic jump and we saw how the t-shirt was broken showing a half torn bandage covering his breast that was now a bit swollen.

Then Haru held him and with Kyo's help forced him to lay till he calmed up a bit.

"Sorry sir." Yuki said apologizing. "Alex gets a bit angry when he plays sports."

"Ok, just don't do it again." The teacher said.

"Hey, Alex." Kyo said. "Drop it, dude."

"Alex!" Momihi said jumping over him. "Are you ok? Not hurt?"

"Yes." He said immediately calming down. "Sorry. I was mad when they… he said covering his breast."

"Ah!!" I said going frightened when I saw how swollen he had his breast and noticing some blood coming down his elbow. "He is hurt! He has something at his breast!!"

"Tohru-kun." He said with a femalish soft voice looking normal. "I'm ok, don't worry."

"Alex is a girl." Haru told me while we had meal and Alex was at the infirmary with Yuki healing her elbows. "Yet she wears as a guy. When she goes black she is even more terrifying than me."

"I thought she had forgotten about it." Momihi said worried. "Will she be ok?"

"So she is just another sissy as the monkey." Kyo said a bit bothered on the way his cousin got all the attention for beauty and basketball.

Then Yuki and Alex came back from the infirmary

"Sorry for the trouble…" Alex said when they sat with us bowing her head wearing back as a guy. "I…"

"At least you didn't reveal yourself in front of everyone." Yuki said. "You have improved then."

"Yes… I've been training hard with my brother." She said smiling mildly.

"What has that man done on you?!" Uo said shocked.

"Oh, nothing." She said. "I have trained on fighting skills."

"Fighting?" Uo said. "Are you a Yankee too?"

"I'm Japanese not from America." She said then making us go confuse.

"Yankee is the girl that is on a gang." Yuki told her after laughing. "She was asking you if you are part of a band… not calling you… insulting you as American."

"Ah!" Alex said then laughing at her self. "No, no. I'm not part of a band. I'm just keeping a family tradition."

"Yuki, Kyo, Haru and the rest of his family know how to do martial arts." Tohru said smiling.

"Alex…" Hana said softly. "Why don't you wear female uniform?"

"I don't find skirts useful for fighting." She said. "You can't run with them, or jump and you have to look our in case you are showing your knickers."

"Some girls here wear shorts under the skirts." Uo told her then.

Suddenly Ayame and Shigure appeared on the school.

"Alex- kun!!" Ayame said running towards her. "Ha ha ha, my dear Alex-kun!!"

Then she hid behind Yuki and Haru.

"Hide me, please." She said going red. "You have not seen me."

"He has seen you." The said embarrassed.

"Alex-kun!" Ayame said going to her. "Saw you!"

"Oh, er… hi!" Alex said smiling embarrassed. "Hey, long since I last saw you."

"Hey! You don't look as a girl like that…" he said as if he was a disappointed guy. "Let me hug you to say…!!"

He tried to hug her but she jumped away.

"Don't hug me!" she said red.

"Ayame, stop bothering ladies!" Yuki and Kyo said stepping between both.

"Geez… you guys are surely boring!" Ayame said then.

"Ayame, stop it. We are on a school." Shigure said smiling. "C'mon Alex, come here."

She then walked to him and sat down next to him.

"Hello Shigure-san." She then said shaking hands with him. "Nice to see you."

"He he." He said smiling and joking. "I got a cute lady's hand!"

"He is a pervert, isn't him?" Uo said to Tohru.

"Tohru, do you mind going with your cute friends to ask for a book set for her, please?" Ayame asked. "We have to speak about family matters."

"She is family." Both Yuki and Kyo said hitting his head.

"It's ok. I don't mind." Tohru said.

"Hey, we will also get her a girl uniform." Uo said. "Or the headmaster will go mad when he finds out you are a girl."

"Ok!" Shigure said covering Alex's mouth so as her not to reply.

Then when the girls left he was bitten the hand by Isa.

"Man!! You are a little beast!" He said as crying.

"I don't like skirts!" she said shouting.

"Here, here." Ayame said hugging her at the back.

Even when she tried to avoid it there was a big puff and the girl disappeared.

"That's not fun you stupid son of a snake!!" she shouted in the smoke.

"I wonder why she just turns out into that when is hugged by Ayame…" Haru said as he held the big black cat on his arms motherly. "Hey, don't bite!"

"Sorry Haru." She said the black hair all over her body rose. "He knows this happens and he hugs me on a normal people full place!!" she added roaring at Ayame. "Silly!!"

"But you are red on your cheeks…" Momihi said. "Alex! Are you ill?!"

Then she looked away.

"Anyway, what are you two doing here?" Yuki asked.

"I came here to see you, brother!" Ayame said trying to hug him and being hit on the chest.

"The truth is we came here cause Alex brother informed Akito of her arrival." Shigure said serious.

"I don't want to see him!" Alex said growling again.

"He doesn't want to see you now either." Shigure said. "But as your brother has to leave again he has settled you will live with us too."

"But the house is full!" Kyo said.

"He said she will sleep with any of us." Shigure said to then add smiling sexily. "So she will sleep with me!"

Then Yuki and Kyo hit him on his head.

"Don't say nonsenses!" Yuki said. "She will sleep with Tohru."

"You old pervert!" Kyo said.

Alex then began laughing when she saw Shigure and Ayame being told off by Yuki and Kyo for their irresponsible behaving.

Momihi then smiled. And then there was a puff and she turned back human wearing a neoprene swimming suit .

"My uniform, please…" she asked covering her bumped breast that was now fully visible because the bandage fell with the clothing.

"Hey, you should wear a girl uniform. You are super-cute!" Ayame said making her pink again while Kyo held him by the back of his robes to prevent him hugging her again.

(Alex voice)

"So it's ok with you to live here." Yuki asked me while I opened my bags at Tohru's room to put my robes in the wardrobe.

"Yes." I said softly. "I think it's better than living on the main house when I don't stand Akito."

Yuki as the others had heard about she having to leave with my brother when our parents were killed on the terrorist bomb explosion at the train station. I, as Yuki, was mistreated by Akito when I was little and that he nearly killed me before leaving.

When he mentioned it I stopped fully without looking at him.

"I saw it." He said. "The scars at your cat wrists."

"I don't want to remember it." I said locking the door.

"It's ok." Yuki then said. "I was also mistreated by him. I know how it is."

"You are the mouse." I told him. "You are part of them. I'm an abomination. I'm not even the cat. I turned into this when I was nervous or ill. Do you think you have gone through the same? I'm possessed by a panther spirit. Not a cat not a tiger."

"But you are brave, and I'm not." Yuki told me sitting next to me at the only bed there. "I would have never dared to run away from him as you did. He said you were able to survive because you ran away. Dripping blood and all and you ran away till Hatori found you and took you to the hospital."

That was true. I did it yet I still can't understand how. When I woke up I was at the hospital bed with brother next to me.

"As soon as you recover we will leave this country." He just told me sad looking away.

I learned not to cry when I was about four. I began learning martial arts then too. Soon I was able to focus all my rage and fear into martial arts practice. Improving it was what made me stronger and able to control my transformations.

"Alex, you are no longer alone." Yuki then said looking at me.

I looked at him with expression empty face, he was smiling. Then he put an arm around my shoulders, did a little pressure on them and smiling left.

"I will try to cook something." He said.

(Yuki voice)

I opened the fridge door to look for something to cook, today Tohru was working at the hospital so she would cook dinner when she arrive. Anyway, I was a bit hungry.

"Do you want me to cook?" Isa said putting her head shyly in the kitchen.

"Oh, yes please." I said smiling softly. "Sincerely I'm a bit bad at this."

"Ok, let me see…" she said having a look at the fridge. "I know. Do you know any occidental receipt?"

"Occidental?" I asked confused.

She then smiled as she took some vegetables and miso apart form some eggs.

"Can you put some water in a pot and then on another one?" she asked.

I nodded as I began doing as she said. When she had them she put them on the fire and put the eggs in one with a bit of salt. Then she began chopping the vegetables and putting them in a dish.

(Tohru's voice)

"Really?" I asked Kyo laughing while opening the front door to get back home.

He had came to go with me from my work as cleaning maid at the hospital back home so we had been speaking all the way home.

"Yes, and he…" he said to suddenly stop at the good smell filling the house. "Where does that smell come from?"

"Ah!!" I said. "I forgot cooking dinner for today!!"

When we went in the dinning room we saw Shigure and Yuki sitting at the table with some dishes in front of them.

"Hello." Shigure said. "You have arrived on time for dinner."

"Sorry, I… I forgot!!" I said.

"Tohru, it's ok." Yuki said smiling warmly. "Alex have cooked it for you."

"And… here comes the dinner!" she said appearing through the kitchen door and seeing us. "Oh, hello. Didn't hear you arrive."

"Ah! Let me help you!" I said noticing she was carrying a bit pot and a big dish with something looking as half spheres on it.

Anyway, Kyo and Yuki were faster and took the things to lay them on the table.

"Thank you." She said smiling as she rubbed her forehead to dry it. "I hope there's enough for everyone."

"You have cooked it?" Kyo asked trying to catch one of the sphere-like things to be hit by Yuki to ask him for manners.

When Alex sat to the table with us we began serving the miso soup with vegetables.

"Ah!" Shigure said smiling "Oriental and occidental meal together!"

"What are those?" Kyo asked pointing to the weird things.

"Stubbed eggs." She said. "I hope you like them."

"The miso is salty!" Kyo said.

"Don't complain." Yuki said hitting him on his back.

"I'm sorry!" she said as ashamed. "It's first time I cook it for so much people!"

"Don't worry." Shigure said while Kyo and Yuki argued because Yuki tried to stub the soup in Kyo's throat. "Kyo's main pastime is to complain of everything."

"It's not that bad." I said smiling. "Just a bit more salty than mine. Next time all you have to do is add less salt to the soup."

She looked at me with shinny eyes and hugged me.

"You're so cute!!" she said. "Thanks!!"

I smiled as she hugged me.

Finally Kyo stop complaining and looked down so he began eating the soup slowly and then he put his dish out to ask for the eggs things.

When we eat it all went surprised on how well it tasted.

"Yum! This is so great!" Shigure said.

"This is really good!" Kyo said.

She then smiled happy to see everyone liked it.

"What does this have?" I asked.

"Eggs, tuna and mayonnaise." She said thinking and counting it with her fingers to the smile. "I thought everyone would like them."

She then smiled. When we ended we went to wash the dishes then the guys went to bath themselves.

"I'm happy you are here." I told her. "Thanks for cooking dinner."

"It was nothing." She answered me. "Yuki wanted to cook some dinner so… I offered him help and I ended up cooking all myself."

"I liked the dinner too." I said. "And if there's anything I can help you at…"

"I… I want… nothing." She said giving up. "There's nothing you can help me at now."

"By the way, are you… are you possessed by an animal spirit too?" I asked her, then I realised I could sound a bit rude and apologized.

"It's ok." She said smiling. "I'm somehow possessed by a spirit, but… that's an abomination and…"

She was beginning to breathe fast and then she fainted on the ground. I shouted and then the three men came fast wearing the trousers.

When they saw her there Yuki held her while Shigure ran to phone Hatori.

"Yuki!" he shouted. "Hatori is on the way! Make her breathe in a paper or plastic bag! Quick!"

We all ran and look for it, I was the one finding a paper bag and handing it to Yuki who was holding her. He made her breathe in the bag.

(Alex's voice)

I slowly opened my eyes to see I was at Tohru's bed while she slept on a futon at the floor. I looked around, it was late in the night and I can't remember how I arrived there.

The last I can remember is being at the kitchen with Tohru, she asked me about my hex and me remembering Akito and how he tried killing me. I then felt as if air was lacking for me once again, as if I was drowning. Then nothing else, till now. Then I tried to stand up but I was forced down again.

Then I looked around and saw a mouse at my pillow.

"You should not move." He whispered.

"What's happened?" I asked him. "Why are you transformed on the mouse?"

"I have been at your side all the time." He told me. "Hatori came and told us you were having a hyperpnoea attack. Tohru was terrified, but we were lucky Hatori told us to make you breath inside a paper bag. You fainted all of sudden…"

"Sorry… I just cause troubles…" I muttered.

Then there was a puff and he appeared to begin getting wear again.

"It's ok." He said. "Friends take care of you when you are in need."

That made me look at him surprised, he was there, standing between Tohru and me speaking me about friendship and love.

All for sudden I felt a warm feeling inside me, as if I was being loved once again; I then smiled.

"Thanks Yuki." I said.

Then he turned again into a mouse as he seemed to go thrilled and excited. I picked him in my hands and put him at my pillow before kissing his back softly. I then tried to sleep.