Summary: Another Zodiac Member shows up at Shigure's House…but why is she a mute? What's Her place in The Zodiac? And why is Kyou so surprised at her arrival?

Disclaimer: I can honestly say that things wouldn't be the same if i owned the wonderful characters of fruits basket!

Parings: KyoxOc

Warnings: N/A…Although Akito is a male in this story

Finding Your Voice

:----:Chapter One: Ari Sohma?:----:

"Yes, of course, I understand, that bad huh? Well I will be waiting."

Shigure slowly placed the phone back on the reciever after he had finished exchanging words with Hatori.

The Sohma's were in fact a unique family, a unique family full of dark secrets. You may wonder just how many secrets a family can hold? However the Sohma's held one of the greatest secrets of all time, the curse of the zodiac.

The zodiac curse caused every few members in the Sohma family to become a member of the Chinese Zodiac, and one would never know this unless the person were to be hugged by the opposite sex.

Shigure was the dog, Hatori the dragon, Yuki the rat, and so on and so forth. However, unlike the true chinese zodiac, there were two who stood out to be outcasts, the cat and the emperor.

"You really want to fight me you damn rat? Well that can be arranged!" Kyou cried launching himself at Yuki.

Even though the two were cousins, it would take a miracle from the great kami himself to make them get along. Although, perhaps it had to do with the fact that they were the rat and the cat from the zodiac. Perhaps they were born with that instant conflict.

"It seems only fit for you to lose you stupid cat!" Yuki retaliated as he side stepped Kyou's attack.

Tohru just sat off to the side with fear in her eyes. She was always afraid one of them would get really hurt. Tohru would be lost if the Sohma's handn't saved her from her tent-like apartment. Okay, I guess it really was a tent, but thats not the point.

"So all that training up in the mountains really didn't help you now did it?"

"Say that to my face you bastard!" Kyou cried as Yuki smirked.

"I believe I just did."

Kyou was about to attempt another attack when a knock on the door stopped them, and at just the right time.

Hatori just walked through the door as Shigure popped his head out of his office.

"Ah, Ha-kun you made it!" He cried gleefully as Hatori kept his unemotional expression.

Shigure ran to hug the doctor, however using only one hand Hatori held him back.

"Is this how you repay me for this favor Ha-kun?"

"Favor?" Asked Tohru as Shigure nodded. "What do you mean?" Now all the teenagers attention had been turned towards the two older men.

Shigure opened his mouth to answer, however that was interrupted as a boy with blonde hair walked into the room.

"Ha-kun! She's gone!" Momij cried as Hatori's eyes widened. "And with, her wounds she'll-"

"Would somebody please tell me who in the hell is she!" Kyou barked and Yuki shook his head at his cousins' not so surprising outburst.

Hatori raised an eyebrow at Shigure who began to laugh nervously. He had forgot to tell the rest of the family who was going to be joining them, so breathing deep he stated-

"Ari."

Yuki and Kyou both stumbled back well Tohru looked around in confusion. Eyes widening Kyou bolted out the door as Yuki sent a glare towards Shigure for forgetting.

"Ha-kun, why don't you and Momiji-san go and help Kyou bring her back. Yuki, Tohru and I will wait here incase she comes back"

"Understood," Hatori stated as he and Momiji went to aid Kyou in his search for the missing Sohma.

Shigure then noticed that the glare Yuki had been sending him was still going in full force.

"I was going to tell you, I just forgot-"

"If you don't mind me asking Shigure-senpai, but is Ari a member of the zodiac?" Tohru asked as both Shigure and Yuki fell quiet. "Oh I am sorry, for asking-"

"In a way, I guess she is," Shigure stated. "However unlike Yuki, Kyou or me, Ari-chan is not an animal."

"But, if she's not an animal then-"

"Ari transforms when embraced by the opposite sex yes, however unlike the three of us, like I had stated before, her jyuunishi form is not that of an animal, but of the emperor. It is Ari's responsibility to become like Akito."

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"Ari-chan! Ari-chan!" Momiji cried. "Kyou-kun, did you find her yet?"

Kyou just let out a low growl as he hit the child on his head.

"Wah! Kyou-kun hit me!"

"Well if you weren't being such an idiot then-"

Kyou stopped himself short when something caught his eye. Someone was passed out on the trail, and this someone had extremely long blue hair and seemed to be shaking.

"Ari?" Momiji cried running towards the girl as Kyou followed to shocked to say anything.

The young girl was crying as Kyou knelt beside her ignoring Momiji's calls for Hatori.

"Who did this to you?" He asked trying extremely hard to keep his anger in check.

"Oh good you found her," Hatori stated having finally caught up to them. "Kyou would you mind carrying her to Shigure's. I need to examine her, and I suppose Shigure and I also need to explain a few things."

"That's an understatement."

'Ari, who did this to you?' Kyou thought as they made there was back home. Placing her on the bed in his room, he brushed right past a bewildered Tohru. Hatori only nodded at her before following the cat up the stairs.

"That, was Ari-san?"

Finally after a dreadful silence that lasted for twenty minutes. Kyou and Hatori both made there way towards the living room. That was when Kyou lost it.

"Who did that to her? Seriously before I left she was fine and now-"

Kyou was stopped when Yuki's fist came into contact with his cheekbone.

"You stupid cat! The day you left Akito got angry and-"

Everyone was surprised to notice the newest presence that had surfaced in the room.

"A-Ari-san!" cried a surprised Tohru.

Tohru then noticed the young girls abnormal blue hair that was now shoulder length, and darker than when she was brought in by Kyou. By the time Tohru's thoughts had been cleared of her mind she noticed that Ari had removed her hands from Yuki's mouth but was still sending him a huge glare.

"Would you like some tea?"

Ari just shook her head and walked towards Hatori punching him hard in the shoulder. However she instantly regretted that and winced from the pain.

"Hey don't take your anger out on me, if I hadn't realized you missed your appointment then you would be in even worse shape"

Ari just shook her head in irratation when she noticed someone with bright orange hair was in the room. Kyou went to touch her when she flinched away from his hand and made her way up the stairs with a sigh.

"What's with her. That stuck up brat, I oughta show her-"

Yuki through Kyou into the wall as Kyou's anger flared.

"What the hell was that for you god damn rat?"

"When you lef for the mountains, Aikito did the worst thing imaginable you bastard. He took Ari's voice!"