Alia: Hello! This is an idea I've had for a while..and I finnaly got to write it. Jericho: You mean you had me write most of it. Alia: Ah...This is my muse Jericho...and my co-author/beta is Lil' Kit Shippo. LKS: Hello. Alia and I do not own Fruits Basket. We just own the idea and all original Characters, oh, and Alia owns Jericho. Jericho: Hey! Please review!

Chapter 1.

Japan, Soma estate

Akito sat in his room with a pale black leather bound book in his lap, opening the book slowly and carefully he found an old tattered letter address to the family head inside. He reached down tenderly and opened the sealed envelope with caution.

Akito,

It is my last duty as family head to inform you of this families secret..and I do not refer to the cat, as you would think, I only wish this secret were that simple, but nothing is that easy. This families true secret is darker than that, beware Akito, this is to be taken very seriously. Watch for the one who is cursed by the Raven, the Raven is certain death to, us, the family heads. Read and you shall understand this warning Akito.

Akito was slightly curious and turned to the first page with a raised eyebrow. Akito was not pleased with what he book had informed him of, he reread the passage hoping that he had simply misread. His eyes were narrowed out of discontentment.

America

Tyler walked to his midnight blue car with his single strap book bag thrown over his right shoulder, "Hey Tyler! Wait!" Tyler turned and saw Zack running towards him completely out of breath, "Yeah, what do you need Zack?" "These letters came for your half-sis." Tyler took the letters with his left hand and nodded to Zack, "Thanks, oh and diner is around seven tonight." Zack nodded understanding and then took off so he could get back to the house later. Tyler then slid open the door to his convertible. He then sat down and buckled up, starting up the car at the same time. Ty then rode off in the midnight blue convertible down the road. He got home at the speed of light. Once home he opened the large garage door and entered the small townhouse he and Aaron lived in together. As he closed the door he hollered up to Aaron, "Aaron! Hey Aaron!" Sighing lightly he went to her small room and opened her large square window, "Dammit...why does she always disappear right when I need her?" A short while after returning downstairs a loud thud came from her room, followed by many muffled cures. Tyler smirked lightly at his half-sister's entrance to her room.

Ty sat on the couch in the living room/dinning room they had. He listened to his half-sis's curses and waited for them to go to a minuet. As he heard her say one last curse he stood up. He brushed dirt that wasn't there from his pants and went toward the stairs. He slowly walked up the steps. One by one. As he got to her door he heard her curse once more. Sighing lightly he knocked. Knock, knock, knock. When Air hear the knocks her cursing stopped. Hearing she had stopped he decided to speak. "You all right Air? Can I come in?" He asked an eyebrow was slightly raised. A females voice from the other side of the door replied to Ty's simple questions, "Yeah I'm fine Ty, and yeah you can come in."

Tyler cautiously opened the door. He pecked his sandy haired head in, "You promise not to kill me?" Aaron smirked lightly, Ty always did this, she was beginning to think her half-bro was crazy, "Not unless you deserve to die, brother mine...why?" Tyler held up the many letters Zack had handed him at school, "More letters from Japan.." Aaron paled, her mouth was slightly opened and she snatched them out of his hand as quick as a lion would kill its prey, "Go...please." She snapped at him. Tyler sighed as he left the room closing the door behind him, those letters always depressed and made her a little moody...and he still didn't know why. Tyler went downstairs and oped his book bag. He pulled out his math binder and throw it on to a table. He sighed as he knew what would happen next. He was about to start his homework. He waited for a loud noise.."3,2,1..." Right as he finished counting down a loud frustrated crashing sound came from the second floor, Air's room, Tyler set down his number two pencil and binder on the round coffee table. He walked up the steps once more and once again headed to his sister's room. "You all right little bird?" He asked tapping on the door lightly.

Aaron sat on the bed, which took up most of her room, with the notes crushed in her grip. Her blue orbs were wide, "Tyler..Why?" She whispered out. "Why what Air? What do they say this time little bird?" Tyler questioned as he sat on the bed by her. His just as dark orbs watched her with concern. "After all these years...after all this time! Now...NOW they take an interest in my life? NOW they want me to join the family?" She spoke in a louder tone. Air seemed pissed off at what the letters from Japan had written on them. Tyler froze, his eyes were wide.. he was shocked, she couldn't mean... THEM... could she? "Who Air? Is it them?" He had a sinking feeling in his stomach, "Mom brought you back when you were two.. because your dad couldn't keep you safe.. I won't let you return to them Aaron." Aaron sighed, she didn't want to go bak to them, she wanted to stay with her brother. Air didn't want to do anything to hurt Ty or put them in danger.

"If I don't go to them... they will come for me. Ty, they know. They know what I am." She looked over at him. Tears formed in the back of her eyes, they threatened to fall but didn't. She was not happy with the letters. They told her things she wished to never see. Tyler's orbs went wide. He felt his jaw drop, "How. How in the blood hell did they find that out?" He cursed, his eyes were narrowed. Aaron turned and faced her half-brother. She seemed a little worried., "If I knew...I'd tell you. I just want this over. I want the letters to stop, I want to be rid of them just as they got rid off and forgot about me." She sighed. Her blue orbs slowly flew shout like a raven's wings on flight.