Disclaimer: Unlike the great Natsuki Takaya-sama, I do not own Fruits Basket. The anime and manga is as close as I'm ever gonna be to owning it. But I do own any OC's that are in here.

Summary: Kyo and Tohru were married, but were forced apart by Akito. 16 years later, as Akito's death looms near, Tohru returns with a big surprise for the whole Sohma family. But that's just the beggining...

Genres: General/Romance/Drama

Authors Notes: So...Another Fruba ficcie. Why? (smacks head on the monitor) I must like being sadistic towards myself. Yeah, anyways, I wanted to write as second generation fic for Fruits Basket. So here it is. It's like a cheesy approach to lifting the Zodiac curse. Hope you like!

Fruits Basket: A New Generation
Chapter 1 (Prolouge)- Forced Apart

"She has nothing to do with the Sohma's anymore. I demand that Honda-san leave." Akito said, sitting in the corner of his dark, cold room, stroking the white bird that rested on his finger.

"I told you, it's not 'Honda' anymore! And why does she have to leave!" Kyo shouted back, pounding his fist on the floor he sat on. Akito didn't look at him.

"You should know why." Akito replied. He might not've showed it, but his patience was quickly thinning.

"Why! Is it because she accepted me! Because I love her! Becasue I married her!" Kyo shouted, starting to lose it as stood up. "Or is it because you're afraid she's stealing your family from you!"

"Sit down and be quiet!" Akito snarled, scaring his birds and making them fly away, a deadly and dangerous glare coming from his teal eyes. Kyo didn't listen.

"That is it!" Kyo shouted back, not bothering to listen. "You just want to get rid of Tohru because you think that once she's gone, everyone will come crawling back to you!"

"I said shut up!" Akito screeched as he jumped up and lunged at Kyo's throat, catching him off gurad and knocking him to the ground. "Why I want that ugly, airheaded girl away from my family is none of your business!"

"B-but it's...True, though..." Kyo gasped as Akito pinned him down.

"Shut up!" Akito commanded, tightening his hold on Kyo's neck. "Now listen! Tell Honda-san to leave this family, that she no longer is allowed to associate with the Sohma's again! If you do, you'll never have to go in the room that the Cat stays in until death, and Honda-san leaves with her memories in tact...If you don't, you get locked up, and she dies..."

"Wh-what!" Kyo said, his red eyes widening with shock at Akito's orders. "No...Y-you can't d-do...That!"

"I won't if you tell her to leave." Akito grinned evilly. "Now, Kyo...Are you going to tell her to leave this family? Or let both of you suffer?"

This was a hard choice for Kyo to make. He wanted neither of these options. Both led to great heartache and suffering for each of them. But he couldn't just pretend this meeting between Akito and himself never took place, then go home to Tohru. That would mean her life, and his as well. Life just wasn't worth living if Tohru wasn't there to live it with him. But the first option was just as bad. Kyo and Tohru would never be allowed to see each other ever again. That would be just as bad as death. He would've thought this over some more, but with Akito being impatient, he couldn't.

"So Kyo...What's it going to be?" Akito said, his grip getting tighter, only to grab Kyo's attention.

"I'll...I-I'll tell her..." Kyo replied, his eyes starting to tear up. "I'll t-tell her to l-leave..." But Akito looked as if he wanted Kyo to say something more. "A-and never...Come back..."

"Good." Akito smirked as he released his grip on Kyo's throat and got off of him. As he stood up, he smirked as he watched Kyo curl up on his side and grab his throat, coughing madly as he tried to breathe. "Now get out." Despite trying to give his body the oxygen it was deprived, Kyo had gotten up and staggered to the door. But right when he opened it, Akito had called. "And Kyo, be sure to tell Honda-san that she has to be gone by the morning." He grinned evilly. "So enjoy your last night together."

Kyo would've killed him, had be not been stuggling to breathe and, with Akito being head of the family, the things he could have done to him. So Kyo did the only thing he could do right at that moment. Cry.

And he did so as he walked all the way home.

Kyo stopped a little ways from Shigure's house, where he and Tohru still currently lived. They had gotten married right after they graduated high school, which was a month and a half ago. Kyo was planning on going to college for a teaching degree in martial arts because like Kazuma, he wanted to run his own dojo. And Tohru's part time job at one of the Sohma's buildings wasn't enough for a months worth of groceries, let alone rent for an apartment. And if Kyo got a job too, balancing that and school would be very hard to do. So Shigure let them stay until Kyo graduated and had saved enough money to buy a home for Tohru and himself to move in. He was so happy when it all happened. It seemed as his life was finally going his way.

'But all of our hopes and dreams are shattered now...' Kyo thought as he started at the bedroom he and Tohru shared. 'Our hopes, dreams, and lives...' And with a heavy and saddened heart, Kyo had walked to the house and inside. Once he took his shoes off, he started searching for his young wife, only to tell her the heartbreaking news.

"Tohru?" Kyo said, sadness lining his voice. No reply from the front of the house. His next try was the kitchen. Nobody there. But he heard voices in the next room, so there he went. "Tohru?" He asked as he opened the door, only to reveal Yuki and his girlfriend, Hanajima Saki, sitting at the table, talking with one another. They both looked up when he opened the door. "Oh, it's only you two..."

"Hello, Kyo." Yuki said as he saw him. "I see you're back from the main house. What did Akito want?"

"Um, nothing..." Kyo lied. "Have any of you seen Tohru?"

"Yes, she's upstairs." Hana replied in her usually emotionless voice, looking at Kyo, slightly worried. "I'm sensing distressed waves coming from you, Kyo. Are you alright?"

"Saki's right." Yuki added. "Did Akito say or do something?"

"I'll tell you later..." Kyo replied. "Tohru's upstairs you said?" Both nodded. "Thanks..." And he walked out, leaving a concerned Yuki and Saki.

Inside her and Kyo's room, Tohru was humming as she put clothes away. She never noticed Kyo come in until he popped up behind her and wrapped his arms around her waist, standing far enough away that he wouldn't transform.

"Hello, Kyo-kun." Tohru smiled as she dropped her laundry and leaned her head back to rest on his chest. "How was the visit to the main house?"

"Tohru..." Kyo replied, his voice starting to break. "I'm sorry..."

"Sorry? For what?" Tohru asked as she pulled away far enough to look at her husbands sulking face. "Kyo-kun, what's wrong?"

"Tohru, I have something I have to tell you..." Kyo replied, barely looking her in the eye. "C'mere, sit down..." And Tohru followed as Kyo took her hand and pulled her to the bed.

"What is it, Kyo-kun?" Tohru asked as Kyo took her hands and stared down. He hesitated for a minute before his body started shaking. "Kyo-kun?"

"Tohru..." Kyo began, his voice telling her he was about to break. "You...you can't stay here anymore...You can't stay with the Sohma's...You're-you're not allowed to associate with any of us...Ever again..." Tohru was stunned.

"Wha...What are you saying, Kyo-kun?" Tohru asked. "Why am I not allowed to be with the Sohma's? I'm one of them!"

"I know..." Kyo replied, gripping her hands tighter. "I know you are...But Akito...Akito, he...He doesn't want you around the family anymore...He want's you gone by morning..."

"But why?" Tohru asked, looking hurt by all of this. Kyo looked into her bright blue eyes. He couldn't tell her that Akito saw her as a threat.

"I don't know why..." Kyo lied. "But all I know is...You have to leave..."

"Why?" Tohru asked, looking as if she was about to cry.

"Because..." He began. "It'll cost us our lives if you don't leave..." Tohru looked shocked.

"Y-you-you mean...Akito-san will...Will..." She couldn't finish, but he had a real good idea on what she was saying.

"He will..." Kyo replied as he hugged her so he wouldn't transform. "Tohru, promise me that you'll do this...I don't want to see you die..."

"Oh, Kyo-kun!" Tohru cried, letting the tears flow as she hugged him back. "I...I...I'll do it for you! I don't want to, but I can't say no!"

They didn't say anything more. They just held each other as their world fell apart.

The next morning, Kyo awoke alone. There was nobody. He sat up and started calling her name, but it she never replied. He looked around and found a note on the table next to the bed.

Kyo

Remember that I'll always love you no matter what

Sohma Tohru

As Kyo read the note, he realized one important, heartbreaking thing.

Tohru was gone.

End of chap. 1 prolouge thingy! Next chap. is when it'll start to get interesting.