Always

Tohru began her morning bike ride with a smile. She hummed lightly as the pedals of her light blue bike span. As she passed each house in the small neighborhood, she tossed a rolled-up newspaper at each doorstep. Her aim had gotten noticeably better after the past two months of practice.

The sixteen year old was working a morning job to help with school costs along with her original janitorial job after school hours. At first the two boys whom she lived with, Yuki and Kyo, had opposed, worried about her heavy work load, but Tohru found a strange peace while pedaling in the light dusk of the morning. The boys seemed to sense that and pressed the subject no further. Despite her complaisant character, Tohru was usually pretty stubborn about doing what she felt like she needed to do, even if having to convince so was done as politely as possible. Besides, the boys could never find it in themselves to stop her from doing something that she said she enjoyed doing.

As Tohru made her last round and the final newspaper slipped through her fingers onto the last house porch, she turned to make her way back home. Kyo and Yuki would have to be woken up for school pretty soon. On her quiet way back she though about what she would make for breakfast, the same happy tune making its way from her into the air.

As she made her way to the outside of the community, shops began to open slowly, their owners groggy and tired at the day's beginning, letting Tohru know without having to glance at a clock that she was doing just fine on time. Tohru made her way out of the quiet neighborhood and onto the quiet road that would eventually lead to Shigure Sohma's house if followed correctly. However, after years of walking the path on her way to school and back, it became a natural route in her brain; there was no need to pay it any special attention.

About halfway down the dirt path, there was a small clearing. Tohru always took a moment to look over at it during her morning walks or bike rides. It was hard to believe that before Tohru had been fortunate enough to meet the family that meant so much to her now, she had been living alone in a tent!

However, this morning was different from the hundreds before. Tohru's gaze didn't fixate back to their original position in front of her. Her distraction had lasted just a moment too long in reminiscence and Tohru's front wheel hit the small rock in the middle of the path that she had always subconsciously swerved around before. Her front wheel came to a stop and the back wheel began to lift above the ground, sending Tohru flying forward. Her quiet melody stopped.

Tohru was send flying into a sudden lurch, her school uniform rising up from the blow. Suddenly the girl landed with a screech onto the rocky trail, her form skinning the next two feet of dirt and gravel. Her bike landed with a thump onto its side, its form bent and its back wheel still spinning.

Her breath suddenly became heavy as the confused girl opened her eyes to see. The surrounding trees were blurry and the rising sun blinded her eyes. Tohru turned from her side to lie on her back, her right side revealing rugged burns and scratches. Her breath became shallower as she reached for her throbbing head.

Oww...

Darkness began to eat away at the edges of her brain. In weakness, she let the black ebb away at her eyesight as she rested her lids. Black began to consume the sun that shined down on the suddenly pathetic girl.

Hello all!

I am a somewhat new writer to and an absolute new comer to writing Fruits Basket fan fiction. However, I hope that you have enjoyed this first chapter and the chapters to come (✿◠‿◠). Sorry that this chapter was written a bit narrator-y, but I can assure you that there is dialog and other characters to come in the following chapters.

I'm hoping that this story will become my new most popular one! I think that I like where this story will soon be going the most.