FRUITS BASKET
Welcome To The Family
In a room that was ten feet long and ten feet wide. It had no windows, only a few lights hung from the ceiling. It also had wood paneling for the walls with which scrolls, pictures, and wind chimes hung from. The room smelled like fresh paint mixed with sawdust. In this room three figures stand. One is tall with black hair that covers one eye and wears glasses. He is also wearing a long, white shirt with violet suit pants with a black tie around his neck and one hand in his pocket. His expression right now is a monotone, straight face. The second stands afar, toward the wall of the room and also has black hair but is much shorter and younger. He wears a black kimono over his sleek black shirt and pants. His expression is an angry/straight mix, his name was Akito Sohma. The final figure, who stands in front of the door at the opposite end of Akito wears a black tanktop with a spike choker around his neck, cuffs on his hands and black pants with a long strap (Kyo's pants when he turns into his second form) with zippers on the bottoms zipped up, with a scared face on. This boy is only seven years old and his name is,
"What happened, Kenji?" Akito asks with unamusement in his voice
"I...I..." Kenji stutters looking at the floor with tears falling
"Kenji," Hatori began with a mellow tone,
"Tell us why you did what you did."
"I...I'm sorry." Kenji answers with fists clenched thinking of that event
"Kenji!" Akito shouted with fire in his eyes
"He deserved it! He deserved that pain!" Kenji spouts
"What did he do?" Hatori asks
"He hurt onee-chan, Haa-san." Kenji answers,
"He hurt Kisa!" he adds picturing her face
"How?" Hatori questions
"He..."
FLASHBACK
"It was a normal day like any. I was walking with Kisa to her class like I always do then I'd run to mine so that I wouldn't be late. All went fine until lunch."
"So Kisa, what do you want today?" Kenji asks looking at her, who was wearing the females uniform. Blue hat with a blue shirt that was white near the collar and blue shorts. She just smiles.
"I don't know really, Kenji. I'll probably have what I usually do." she answers grabbing a milk from the container
"Lemme guess, a sub?" Kenji jokes around putting a few gyouza on his plate then adding a salad to it.
"Yup."
Kenji and Kisa walk together into the lunchroom which was huge. Windows along the east walls, about thirty or forty tables, and near the west walls were vending machines and the sub bar. The room maybe supported around fifty students or so. They walk over to a table near the east wall and sit. The table was circular and already at it sat five students, three boys and two girls all in their uniforms.
"Hey Kenji, Kisa." they greet together
"Hey." Kenji greets
"What's going on today?"
"I don't know, Taka." Kenji answers
"Well, what will you do when school's out for the day?" Taka asks with a squeaky voice
Kenji shrugs his shoulders then takes a big bite of gyouza
"So Kisa, you doing anything today?" one of the girls ask
"Not really, why do you ask, Sana?"
"Just wondering." she answers
"You hear about that bully, Kin?" Taka asks
Everybody shakes their heads no
"Why?" Kisa asks back
"They're saying he's going to beat some student up after lunch." he informs
"Ha!" Kenji laughs,
"Kin is nothing more than a weakling, Taka. He can't fight."
Twenty minutes go by and Kenji takes care of everyone's trays then rushes to their side as they walk out into the halls. They walk to the south hall and stand around talking when five boys walk up. All are wearing the boys uniform. One has brown hair, one with blond, anothers is black, while the forth has red hair. The final boy, who seemed to be the leader, had black hair also. All had smirks on their faces and circled Kenji and his friends.
"Hello Kenji." the leader greets
"What do you want, Kin?" Kenji replies with disgust
Kin snaps his fingers and the four boys cut Kenji and them out of the circle but leave Kisa inside.
"Kisa, Kisa, Kisa. Tsk tsk. What should we do?" Kin asks as he watches Kisa's expression turn to a scared one
"What do you want, Kin?" she asks frightened
"You know, with that hair and your eyes that color, it is really starting to scare a lot of us around here."
"Yeah. And you are ugly!"one of the boys speak
"You're disgusting!" another rings
"You aren't human!" a third says
Hearing this and then seeing Kisa fall to her knees and cry pissed Kenji off indefinately.
"You need to--"
Before Kin could finish, he is grabbed from behind and slammed into the wall.
"Kin!" the boys yell
"You keep talking Kin and I'm gonna hurt you so bad." Kenji threatens with rage
"Leave him alone!" one of the boys yell before punching Kenji in the face
Kenji staggers back a little and wipes the blood from his lip. He then grabs the boy and nails him right in the gut with his knee. The kid doubles over and starts to cry. Kenji then grabs Kin and begins to relentlessly pound him in the face causing his nose to bleed and his nouth to bleed. It was after ten minutes when finally two adults arrive and pull him from Kin's body and drag him to the office. Kin is badly injured. Black eye, bloody lip and nose, barely breathing yet Kisa just stares with tears as her friends try to calm her down.
END FLASHBACK
"And that's what happened, Haa-san." Kenji concludes not crying anymore
"Akito, what shall we do?" Hatori asks looking at him
"Kenji, because you did that you are to continue school but at the main house only. Hatori will pick up and return your work. You will not be going to school for three months." Akito punishes
"But Akito! Kisa--"
"Enough Kenji! Kisa will be fine."
"No she won't be! She'll be teased even more!" Kenji screams before running out of the room in a mad sprint and up the three flights of stairs to his room where he slams his door and locks it before punching the wall multiple times. His room was small, maybe the size of a normal room but his bed was huge. A queen-size to be exact. Had no windows in it. A desk with books and papers on it. Two lights hung from the ceiling and wood floor with black paneling for the walls with scrolls hung to them.
"It isn't fair!" Kenji screams punching the wall,
"Akito isn't fair! Without me there Kisa will be teased and hurt even more!"
Surely enough, for the next three months Kenji stayed at the main house doing his school work up in his room and at the same time Kisa was being pushed around and teased and hurt more and more until one day she decided to stop talking and so she went mute. It wasn't for another two years that she'd talk again but only because she met Tohru Honda who was living at Shigure-san's house on the "outside". There, Kisa began to talk more and became social once more. Though she lives at the main house still, she sees to it that every other day she stays at Shigures just to see Tohru. With this, Tohru soon met Hiro Sohma who turned out to hate her but had a romantic heart and a love for Kisa. Tohru also discovered that he was the Ram.
---2 years later, New Years---
"Hurry up, stupid Cat!" Yuki calls with flustration
"Shut up you damn Rat!" Kyo screams,
"I'm not even in the Zodiac so why should I even go?" he argues
"Because Akito wills it." Shigure answers
"Shut up! Nobody asked you!" Kyo retaliates
"hm hm...Have fun, Kyo!" Tohru waves watching Yuki and him run in the direction towards the main house
"Tohru, you are going to be okay here all alone?" Shigure asks
"OH! Yes! Yes! I'll be fine, Shii-chan. I've done this before, remember?" Tohru answers
"Of course." he smiles before walking to the main house
"Now, onto the housework!" Tohru screams with joy before shutting the front door and running to the dishes
At the main house, Yuki, Kyo and Shigure arrive and are greeted by the ever-happy Aaya and the normal one, Hatori. Together they walk inside to the dining hall room.
"I hate New Years." Kyo mutters with hate
"Lighten up, Kyon-kichi!" Aaya cheers hugging him
"Let go of me!" Kyo shouts,
"And don't call me Kyon-kichi!" he adds. To Aaya's eyes it seemed as though Kyo grew an extra ten feet and his ears showed and fire surrounded his body.
"Ahhh!" Aaya shouts before hiding behind Hatori
"Haa-san, Kyo is scaring me again!" he complains
"Leave me out of this, Aaya." Hatori huffs
"Ah. Just like family." Shigure smiles delighted
Walking through the double doors, they all enter a giant room that was brightly filled with reds, yellows, whites, and silver colors and ribbon and pictures and other things.
"Kyoooo-kuuuuuunnnnnn!" a girly girl voice screams
"Oh no." Kyo whines before being slammed into the floor with a girl on top of him hugging him around the neck
"Get off me, Kagura!" he hisses
"Kyo!" she cries,
"You don't yell at girls!" she speaks with a demon touch punching him his head
"Kagura, why don't you and Kyo go out to the backyard for a bit? We'll come get you two when the festivities begin." Shigure ops
"Really?! Shii-chan you're the BEST!" she yips before dragging Kyo by the neck
"Wai--" he tries to speak
"Yes! Operation Get Rid of Her is a success again!" Shigure happily announces
"Shigure, you're very cynical." Yuki spoke
"Come on, Yuki, don't start again with that cynical stuff." Shigure shys
The sweet aroma of food runs past Shigure's nose and his stomach growls.
"Ohh...Food--Gyouza! and, and--" Shigure quickly high-tails it off to the buffet table and fills up a pile of food then walks to a table and sits down
"Geeze." Hatori sighs,
"He does this every year."
"Really?" Yuki disbelievingly adds with wide eyes as he watches Shigure scarf down every plate full,
"Because usually he only eats one plate of food at home." he adds still shocked
"Come on, better grab some food while we still can." Hatori spoke walking over to the buffet
"Yuki."
"Hm?" Yuki turns around and sees a guy in a red kimono with a choker around his neck and white spiky hair that was black in the back staring at him
"Hello again, Haru." Yuki greets
"Is Kyo here too?" Haru asks wondering
"You mean was here, Haru. Kagura just cat-napped him and dragged him to the backyard."
"So the Cat did show this year. Amazing." Haru smirks
"Yuki." a monotoned voice called
"Yuki looks to his right and sees a boy in a black kimono with black hair
"A...Akito." Yuki stutters reminiscing the pain
"I've missed you Yuki. Come with me." Akito orders
Meanwhile, in the backyard...
"Why?!" Kagura screams
"I already told you! I don't like you and I never will!" Kyo yells looking at Kagura who was in a green kimono with yellow rings on it
"What'd I do?" she asked
"...You...you didn't do anything, Kagura. I just don't like you like that." Kyo calmly answers sitting down on a rock looking at the stars
"You like Tohru, don't you Kyo?" Kagura silently asks with meloncholy
Kyo says nothing but instead closes his eyes and blocks out all thoughts.
"That's it isn't it? Okay, I understand." she moans,
"I'll leave then and never come back!" she threatens before running off into the house crying
"Sheesh." Kyo sighs picturing Tohru's face
"You hate Kagura?" a young voice spoke. Kyo opens his eyes to see a smiling face of a boy in a blue kimono looking down at him. Kyo jumps to his feet and points at the kid.
"You! Where'd you come from and who are you!"
"First off, Kyo, I was here the whole time you yelled at Kagura and secondly, I'm a relative. My name is Kenji Sohma." the boy introduces with a bow
"Sohma?! Kenji?!"
"That's right."
"Kenji!"
"Kisa." Kenji replies hugging her,
"You look good in a purple kimono." he compliments with a smile
"You look good too." she adds
"Oh look. It's the lazy, stupid Cat." a smart-mouthed voice whisps
"Hiro." Kyo grits with anger
"Hiro." Kisa smiles hugging him
"Hello Kisa." he greets hugging her back
"Hiro! Don't you know it's rude not to wear your kimono on New Years?" Kyo scolds
"Shut up, Cat. You'd look better if you weren't wearing a kimono." Hiro smart-mouths
"Why you!"
"Hiro, leave us please." Kenji interrupts
"Whatever." he puffs before walking back into the house
"Kenji, Kyo. Isn't the night beautiful?" Kisa asks lying on the ground looking at the starry night.
"It is, Kisa." Kenji answers lying next to her
"hmph." Kyo grunts with arms crossed before walking into the house
'Nice night...ha! They wish.' Kyo whines picturing Tohru again,
'Maybe...I do like her--No! I don't like her either and I never will!'
That was the first New Years where Kyo, the Cat, showed and it was the last. After the party, Akito spoke to him alone and since then, three years later, Kyo opened up a little. Told himself he'd protect Tohru and didn't yell at Kagura much anymore but instead, decided to just smile and let it pass. Yuki opened up a little to Tohru too. He kissed her and told her he loved her and was a little more social but also spoke to Akito alone. It is now that Tohru, when she met Akito, learned far more than what she could comprehend,
'A god?! Akito is like their god?'
But she only chose to endeavor to find a way to break the curse and free Kyo and Yuki and the other animals of the zodiac. She also learned of what was to become of Kyo and Yuki. Kyo would be confined like his shishous grandfather before him and Yuki was to live at the main house till his death.