Hi people! This is my first Fruits Basket fic. Enjoy!

A/N: Fruits Basket belongs to Natsuki Takaya.


Kyo gasped. He raised his head up and cursed himself for doing so, as his vision started to blur and his ears ringing. He couldn't hear anything due to the ringing, not even the teacher's loud and not to mention, high pitched voice explaining about the human body. He brought his arms and folded them on his table, shifted to get a more comfortable position. His head started to waver, and when Kyo could not take it any longer because of the dizziness, he plopped his head downwards to his arms. He shifted his head sideways to glance at Tohru and the damn rat's blurred form and shifted it back to the way it was before, covering his face and briefly recalled the dream or nightmare he had during class and instantly fell into darkness and not being aware of his surroundings anymore.

The brown-haired boy who sat next to Kyo noticed the act. Well, he was a bit surprised by the redhead to suddenly sit up straight to adjust himself and then plopped his head. Jeez, what's wrong with Kyon? Hmm, he doesn't seem okay to me. The boy sighed. Well, what could he do except just shake the hell out of Kyon? The boy of course didn't catch a glimpse of Kyo's pallor face. So anyway, he just agreed to himself to wake Kyo up. The boy moved to further to the side of his chair and reached out his hand to Kyo's shoulder.

"Oi Kyon, wake up!" Shake.

No response.

"Oi Kyon-kyon, wake up before Miura-sensei kills you!" the boy whispered rather harshly, but still earning him no response from the short-tempered redhead.

He gave the other boy a slight push on his shoulder and Kyo's reaction was not what he expected at all. The redhead fell out of his chair, eyes casted in shadows with his bangs covering them. To the boy, the whole scenario was a slow motion but he was stuck in his seat, being paralysed.

Kyo fell with a rather loud thump. The boy was out of his stupor as soon as he heard the shocked and somehow terrified gasps of the whole class.

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He looked around the room but it was dark. Too dark for him and his cat senses. He wondered why. So he tried to come up with reasons but none of them seemed to apply to him. His body shook and he was definitely frightened. Soon, he had a panic attack and attempted to move to the corner of the room – wherever it was – but it was fruitless as he was paralysed so he just laid there. He could hear the beating of his heart beat loudly in his ears, the only noise that was present in the room and an additional of his harsh breathing. He bent his knees and hugged them. Crimson eyes clenched tight and rested his forehead on his knees. God, he was so scared. The shaking body did not help either.

The room became visible slowly, then only did he realised that he wasn't in a room but rather a forest. The forest that he was oddly familiar with but it wasn't the one he usually stayed at to cool down which was Shigure's house, the private forest. He stared up at the sun, the source of light. He wondered briefly, just a moment ago it was pitch black like there wasn't anything, not even the moon nor the muddy ground. In fact, during the dark he felt cold hard tile ground, not the mud. Am I losing my sanity? He thought. The light became dim and darkness once again falls. Then again, the sun rose up, and fell again. It was like every day passed in two seconds.

Kyo sat up, breathing heavily. What the heck was that? It frightened him to the core. He took deep breaths and closed his eyes in attempt to calm himself down. Eventually he did calm down. He opened his eyes and looked around, and straight away realised he was in the nurse's office. Crimson eyes looked down at the blanket in his lap and sighed, holding the soft material in his weak grasp.

"Are you okay now, Sohma-san?"

Kyo looked up to the source of the voice. The nurse peeked from her chair to look at him. She adjusted her glasses to the bridge of her nose and stood up and walked to him. Kyo noticed how tight her uniform was and the shape of her body was perfectly visible and how her footsteps were so loud in his ears. He looked down, to her footwear. He shook his head and removed such thoughts from his head. That is until the memory of his dream came back.

There was a huge black spot with it branches out like a spider web on the wall beside him. The branches moved and grew bigger like a spider going through its stages in life. Kyo held his breath at the sight. What are those black stuff? He thought. The branches moved around the whole room engulfing it. He turned his head to the side but the nurse was no longer there. Not that he really cared but it was terrifying enough for him. Perhaps the nurse ran away? He never knew. Beads of sweat were starting to form in his forehead. He wiped them away and cringed when his fingers made in contact with his forehead. It felt…scaly? Instantly it clicked him.

Crimson eyes widened, he tried to breathe normally, rather harsh. But how? How did it happen? He caught a glimpse of the red and white beads of his bracelet on his left wrist. It was still there. Are the beads not working anymore? Or did someone manage to steal the real one from him and put the fake one on his wrist? Or perhaps the beads were fake after all? Was Akito planning something to do with him, since he was the cat? Pain ripped his whole body as he transformed into the mutated lizard with the foul smell like rotten flesh. He wrapped his large arms around his knees. What was he going to do? And oh, there were so many questions on his not-so-functioning-very-well mind.

A figure he could not recognise was looming over him, its arms stretched as if it was about to hug him. Kyo brought his arms to cover his face.

"No! Don't look at me!"

He backed away until his back hit the cold wall. He kept muttering to himself 'no.', repeatedly. Each nos got harsher every time the unknown figure got closer. Suddenly the figure itself moved so fast that Kyo could not avoid it. He could feel its threatening fingers gripped his upper arms. The sensation felt tingly.

"Don't touch me! Don't touch me!" he cried out desperately and thrashing violently trying to get out of the figure's strong grip.

"…ma..!"

"So…a..!"

"S…an..!"

"SOHMA-SAN!"

Kyo jerked awake and looked around the room. The 'black stuff' he called was now gone and so was the big black spot. He squinted when the light entered his sensitive eyes from the ceiling; the room was back to white. He glanced briefly at the nurse's anxious face and looked down at his hands; he was back. He was human. The bracelet still attached on his left wrist. The nurse let him go; laid him down on the bed and walked to the counter and grabbed a pair of tissues. She wiped his cheeks and only after that that Kyo realised that he had been crying through the whole scenario. He had no energy to fight back or retort to the nurse.

"I've already called your guardian earlier, Shigure Sohma-san, to come over and pick you up." The nurse told him; her voice wavering slightly.

For that time Kyo just lay in his bed. And for once, he felt comfortable enough for him to fall asleep any moment. But no, he refused to fall asleep, for he was afraid of the same thing ever happening again. Today was just so weird. A lot had happened. He sighed and thought about how Tohru and Yuki were doing in the class. Tohru's probably bawling her eyes out and who cares what that damn rat was up to. He's most likely..cheh..why am I thinking about him? He shifted to the side and caught a glimpse of the clock on the wall. School wouldn't be over for the next few hours. He sat up; the blanket fell into his lap. He sense a presence..like someone was there with him in the nurse's office and he felt chills ran down his spine. He looked at her for a brief moment; the nurse did not seem to feel or detect or sense anything, she was just sitting and writing probably Kyo's medical report. He turned his gaze away from the nurse to look at the window beside his bed.

He felt it. Something in his heart or head – he was not sure – was trying to tell him…something. All he knew was that this whole situation had happened to him but he just did not remember it, which caused the throbbing pain in his head to get worse. He ran his fingers through his hair and massaged his scalp.

He sighed for the nth time.


That's it for the first chapter! I'm sorry if there are grammar errors, ehe, I think my English sucks.