A Blue Sky on the Horizon

By Safferon

Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket! Yes I know, it is sooo sad but I will live on. Besides if I DID, why would I be writing a fanfic? I'd probably be off with Yuki-kun…

Chapter One: Doesn't have a title

When Hatori walked in, Akito was smiling. He was standing in front of a covered box.

"I don't want a check up today." He snapped. He turned his back to Hatori and giggled happily. That was the one main idea that told Hatori something was wrong. Akito giggled and he was happy. (A/N: Heh, I guess that's two reasons…)

"I figured it out Hatori. I got the one item that will break this dreaded curse." Akito cried, gesturing to the box.

What on earth is he talking about? Hatori thought, raising an eyebrow. Akito was laughing like a spoiled child. He swiped off the blanket.

It turned out the box was a cage. It was sheltering a young girl dressed in nothing but rags. She was paler that a crescent moon and her long fiery hair lay around her starling purple eyes. Her pale skin was bruised a sickly look. Akito smirked.

"This… creature… will break the curse."

"How…" asked Hatori, carefully.

"When I bought it, the man said it was magic." Akito explained, dancing around it. Hatori rose an eyebrow.

"Now, let's test it." He sneered, opening the cage up. He walked inside and grabbed the girl by her neck and tossed her out.

She stood up painfully, rubbing the fingernail marks on her neck. She glared at Akito and Hatori, her beautiful purple eyes full of hate.

"I want to see something." Akito informed them.

"Hatori… don't move, It… go hug him." He snapped.

"No." she snapped back, infuriating Akito. He snarled and raised one graceful hand. In a flash, he backhanded her, sending her flying.

Trembling, the girl got up, but made no move to hug Hatori. Akito sighed.

"Fine... Hatori go hug it." Hatori looked startled in that I-am-not-surprised-in-any-way-at-all way.

"NOW." Akito screamed at them. The girl jumped. Hatori walked slowly to her, as if not to scare her. He could see that she was scared.

Hatori wrapped his arms around her back, pulling her close. He closed his eyes and waited for the 'poof' of the change.

Nothing happened.

"Now let go, you don't want to get malaria or whatever it is carrying." Akito roughly pulled the girl away.

"Now leave, I don't need you anymore. I've got something to do." Hatori left slightly puzzled about what had happened.

"HATORI SUMMON EVERYONE HERE! NOW!" Akito screamed the next morning. Hatori obeyed.

He cautiously walked back into Akito's room. The girl was laying on the ground, one big bloody, bruised heap.

"This… thing… won't help me at all!" he screamed, outraged. Hatori didn't say anything.

MEANWHILE

"Yuki-kun, we have to go to the main house. Akito wants us." sang Shigure that morning while Tohru was serving breakfast.

"Why…?" he asked. Shigure shrugged.

"I dunno really, Ha-kun said it was important."

Yuki sighed, "Better get it over with.

BACK TO AKITO…

All twelve of the zodiac (yeah everyone) were gathered in a semi circle in Akito's room. Yuki, of course, was first. Everyone was staring at the lump at Akito's feet.

"This," Akito kicked her," will help break this blasted curse." He told them all. Akito needed the cure, too, for if he had it, he had more power over them.

Akito looked around at everyone. "Alas, this thing will not help me, so someone else has to look after it before I go insane and kill it!" he screamed at everyone. "Though, I don't know what stopped me in the first place."

Akito sighed and begun to think. Then he booted, literally, the girl over to Shigure. She sailed like a soccer ball.

"You seem to like taking in outlandish moronic freaks, you can take another one." Shigure stared at the girl, unsure what to do.

"Pick it up, you imbecile," Akito shot, "If you get sick from it, Hatori can cure you." Carefully, Shigure scooped the girl up bridal style. Everyone started at Shigure not changing.

"Yes, yes, you won't change if you hug it. Now get out of my sight!" he slammed his door.
After a few minutes, Shigure handed the girl to Hatori. (Come off it, Shigure is no doctor…)

"Take care of her first, okay? At your place." He whispered. Hatori nodded. He had just bought a small place 'outside', without Akito knowing. (A/n: Hey what Akito doesn't know won't hurt anyone). The house was close so Akito doesn't suspect something. He had finical help from Shigure and Ayame.

The girl had four broken ribs, bruised lungs, many cuts, and a sprained ankle. Hatori had just recently bandaged her up. He sighed. He would have to keep her here for awhile.

Hatori grabbed his keys. They would need a lot more groceries.

Along with the usual items, Hatori had bought a lot of sweets. He had often read that sick girls like sweet things. But when he returned home he did not find a sick girl. Instead he found a considerably tired girl, but a healthy one, cleaning.

She stopped when Hatori walked in.

"Um… who are you, if you don't mind telling me." She asked, her voice velvety and like honey, but dangerous, like a big cat.
Overall her voice was awesome to listen to.

"I'm Hatori Sohma (sp!). Now, you are…?" he asked, looking for her wounds.

"I'm Aozora." She chirped, wondering what Hatori was looking for.

"That's a pretty name. 'Blue sky' is it not." He asked, well more like stated.

Aozora nodded, "In case you're wondering, I healed myself. Save some time, ya know?" she told him.

"How…?" he asked as she handed him a foam cup of tea. It had honey in it. He had honey?

She hesitated. She looked at Hatori's eyes, around the room, than back to his eyes again. Aozora sighed.

"I used magic." She whispered.

"Not understanding…" he told her. She sighed again.

She looked around for a… a…. a something. Man, this house has nothing in it!

"You're almost blind in you left eye, right?" she asked.

Hatori started, "How di----"

"Good." Aozora pushed Hatori into a kneeling position (no dirty thoughts!). Then she kneeled in front of him.

"Stay still, you could hurt yourself." She said, placing a hand over his eye. Then it started to glow, a blue-ish white light.

Hatori felt a wave of warmness envelope his body. It was especially warm at his eye. Hatori was drifting into a trance like sleep, he was so comfortable.

On Aozora's part she now had a clear picture of his ere. She was carefully reatching nerves and healing whatever else was wrong with it. As she was doing this, her physical had became ghost-like (0.0?) and was inside his head fixing his eye.

That's when he sighed.

It was a reflex. As soon as he sighed, he leaned into her hand. This caused the biggest problem.

Her glowing hand disappeared inside his mind

Aozora screamed. Instantly her mine was filled with everything, EVERYTHING that happened to Hatori, his memories. She found out about the summerhouse, and this and that. (She basically found out about everything that was happening during Fruits Basket.).

Hatori, during all this, had a far away, throbbing pain. It wouldn't go away and it was annoying. After a few minutes, he pulled his head out.

"ORO!" cried Aozora, a white light surrounding her. Hatori waited until it was clear.

On his lap was a chibi Aozora. (A/N kind of like in WISH, what happens to angels at night and demons at day)

This was surprising. Hatori raised an eyebrow.

"Oro…?"

The girl is one year younger that Yuki, Tohru and Kyo.

A/n: Hello everybody! Please review even if it's only "good" or something. I'm an author, I live on reviews. Be gentle. This is my second fic and the fist is on FMA, it isn't finished yet. If the people are OC forgive me. This is my first Furuba. R&R please.

This chapter is a little serious but it'll get funnier. I hope you like it. Oh and Aozora does mean Blue Sky, I looked it up in my friends dictionary. The next chapter is coming soon.

Safferon