Mizuki?

Okay, so here it is! This is my first fan fiction. The first chapter is a bit boring, so read on and it will get better. I'll be posting a few chapters at a time, just because I'm weird like that.

Disclaimer: I, sadly, don't own Fruits Basket.

Have fun reading!

Kyo's POV

"What the hell is Momiji doing here?" I yelled.

"Hatsuharu-san wanted to have dinner with us today and Momiji-kun decided he wanted to also. I made leek soup for all of us," Tohru replied.

"So not only do I have to put up with that damn rabbit, I have to eat the most disgusting food ever? Are you trying to kill me?" I growled, annoyed that the two members of the zodiac had cut into my limited free time with Tohru- Yuki was at a late student council meeting and Shigure was having dinner with Ayame.

"Oh, I forgot, you don't like leeks! I'm so sorry! I'll make something else right away! What would you like?" She looked flustered.

"Salmon or something." I watched her search the kitchen for the fish. "Oh, whatever, just put a lot of seasoning into the leeks so they won't taste so bad."

"'Kay," she said, smiling. Honestly, the way she smiled, you'd think she won the lottery or something.

I walked back into the living room. Why were they here anyway? Momiji came over often enough for no reason, but Haru usually stayed at the main house, and Tohru had said that he was the one who had wanted to come over in the first place.

"So why'd you decide have dinner here?" I asked him.

"Cuz we wanted to eat Tohru's cooking! Duh!" Momiji replied.

"Shut up, you damn rabbit! I didn't ask you!" I punched him in the head.

"I'll tell you after dinner," Haru said, amidst cries of "Waaaah! Kyo's picking on me!"

"Dinner's ready!" Tohru exclaimed. We walked to the dining room where she had poured the soup into four bowls.

"It's good!" Momiji said, nodding his approval. "Try it Kyo! C'mon, it's good!"

"No. I hate leeks."

"Kyo, you're so mean! Tohru made all this for you and you won't even try it?" Momiji's voice grated against my nerves.

"Fine. I'll try it. But when I do, you better shut up, you damn rabbit!" I put the spoon up to my mouth. Hmm, not as bad as I thought. "It's okay. Better than I thought it would be." Momiji turned back to his own plate, clearly smug that he had been right. Haru continued to read one of Shigure's novels, just as he had been since the beginning of the dinner.

"Hey Tohru! Where are Yuki and Shigure?" Momiji asked.

"Yuki-kun had to go to a student council meeting and Shigure-san is having dinner with Ayame-san."

"How come Aaya didn't invite you and Yuki?" Momiji asked Tohru.

"He did, but when Yuki couldn't come because of the meeting and Kyo and Yuki said I wasn't allowed to go."

"Bit overprotective, aren't we, Kyo?" Haru spoke up, smirking, for the first time during the dinner.

"Shut up, it wasn't like that. Would you have left her alone with Ayame and Shigure at night?" I retorted.

"Good point." Haru sipped his tea. "You'd have been crazy to let that happen."

"No kidding, I practically had to drag them away from her."

"Why, Kyo? Is it cuz you want her all to yourself?" Momiji asked slyly.

"Shut up, you damn rabbit! You're pissing me off!" I raised my fist, ready to punch the little brat in the face-

"Kyo, are you done with dinner?" Tohru asked innocently, oblivious to Momiji's comment and the embarrassment it had caused me.

"Yeah, sure, whatever." It was best not to get in fights with Tohru around anyway. I stood up to leave.

"Oh, I'm done too." Haru handed Tohru his plate. Once we were both out of the dining room, he said, "Kyo. I have to tell you something."

"What? You better not be wasting my time."

"I'm definitely not. And I don't want Tohru or Momiji to hear either."

Huh? Why? "Fine, come up to my room." This was weird. Why did Haru want to talk to me privately? He looked agitated but said nothing until I closed the door.

"I think she came back." He said slowly.

"Who?" I was getting annoyed with his secretive attitude.

"Mizuki."

Hatsuharu's POV

I could tell he was shocked. It would have been odd for him not to be. We had both known that once she accepted, she would be gone, and we would never see her again. Even though Kyo had never felt the way I did about her, he and Mizuki had been as close as brother and sister, and he had known as well as I had that when it came down to it, she would do what she knew was the right thing, even if it meant leaving us all behind. I had missed her so much… If Kyo had told me she was back, I would have thought it was a joke.

"You're kidding, right? You and I both know that she accepted. She's gone for good." Kyo was disbelieving. I knew that he didn't want to get his hopes up. It had been almost a year since we had last seen her, and forgetting about her would have been a blessing.

"I'm not sure. She looked different. She's taller now and her hair is really long. It's also a weird color, like white, with the bottom half black. But her face looks the same." It was weird, seeing her like that, without the short red hair and green eyes she used to have.

"You must have mistaken someone else for her. You know she loved her hair. She'd never dye it or even grow it out. And besides, if she could have come back, why wouldn't she have come sooner?"

"I don't know! It may not have been her. I didn't get a good look at her. But I do know that Momiji ran into her so hard that they both fell over. He should have transformed. But he didn't." For some reason, when a member of the zodiac hugged Mizuki, she didn't transform.

Kyo looked like he was struggling for a retort. "Maybe it was just Rin with her hair dyed or something. You could have easily mistaken her for Mizuki."

What the hell? Why was he bringing Rin into this? That baka neko knew nothing about Rin and me. And why was the bastard comparing Mizuki to Rin anyway? They were nothing alike; Kyo knew that. I felt Black Haru taking over. "I know what Rin looks like, and it wasn't her, you idiot. Are you trying to piss me off? I said it was Mizuki and I mean it. Believe me or not, I don't fucking care. I don't even know why I'm telling you. You probably don't even care that she's back."

Kyo's eyes narrowed. "Shut up! Just 'cause you went black doesn't mean you can call me an idiot, asshole. Why the hell are you so annoyed anyway? All I did was suggest you might be wrong!"

Why was I so annoyed? My temper cooled. He was just being the stupid cat. He hadn't meant anything by the remark. "Sorry." I heard a knock on the door and opened it. Tohru and Momiji stood outside the room, looking worried.

"We heard yelling. Did you guys have a fight? Momiji asked.

"Uh, no. I went black for a second but I snapped out of it."

"Oh, that's good." Tohru said. Seeing my confused look, she gasped. "Oh, no! I didn't mean that it was good that you went black! I just meant that it was good that you snapped out of it and that the two of you didn't fight! Oh, but I'm sorry it came out wrong and it sounded like I was happy that you two were yelling! Gomen nasai! I'm such an idiot!"

"Whoa, cool down. You sound like Ritsu. There's no need to apologize." I smiled. She really does remind me of Ritsu. She had so many weird little habits- apologizing, being polite to the point of hilarity, smiling at the tiniest things, and having such modesty over her appearance that I wasn't sure what she saw when she looked in a mirror.

Not that Yuki or Kyo ever seemed to mind. Though I wasn't about to take sides, I didn't want to get in their way-especially Kyo's. I smirked to myself. No wonder he had been so apprehensive about Momiji and me coming to dinner. With Shigure and Yuki out of the house… "Well, Momiji and I should probably go back to Sohma house. We wouldn't want to cut in on you two's alone time, now would we?" Predictably, this was followed by a furious "What the hell is that supposed to mean?" from Kyo and a flustered "Eh?" from Tohru.

"But Haru, I wanted to tell Tohru about the new girl in our class! You didn't get to see her because you were bad and skipped school. You shouldn't do that so often. When you miss school, you miss out." Momiji repeated the annoying saying from our elementary school.

"Fine, we can stay a little longer. But the only reason I missed school was that I woke up in a bad mood this morning and I didn't want to go black in class and beat some random person up." I didn't like lying to Momiji, but I knew he and Tohru would worry if I told them the real reason I missed school. Besides, Akito had warned me not to tell anyone about our meeting.

"Well, Tohru, there's a new girl in me and Haru's class! She's really pretty, as pretty as Yuki, but her hair is two different colors! It's white on the top half and black on the bottom half, like Haru!" Was he talking about Mizuki? If that were this new girl's name, Kyo wouldn't be able to keep denying that she was back.

"So, what's her name?" I said, stealing a glance at Kyo, who was obviously pretending to ignore the rabbit.

"Oh! Sorry, I thought I said that already. Her name's Mizuki. And guess what? I ran into her when we were going to lunch! But I didn't turn into a bunny! Isn't that weird?" So it was her. Though it may just have been a coincidence, Kyo would at least have to acknowledge that there was a person outside the Sohma family that didn't make members of the zodiac transform when they hugged her.

"Really? And she isn't a member of the zodiac?" Tohru asked. Momiji shook his head. "That is weird. Did you talk to her at all?"

"Guess you were right, Haru. She really might be back." Kyo said to me quietly.

"Yeah, I talked to her a little bit! After I bumped into her, she asked me if I was a Sohma, and I said yes, and then, she asked me if I was a member of the zodiac! I asked her if she already knew about the curse and she said yes. So since she already knew about it, I told her that I was in the zodiac and how did she know? She just said she had her ways." Seeing Kyo fuming, he said, "Don't worry Kyo. No one heard us talking because there was no one else around.

"And another thing: later, when we were getting out of school, I ran into her really hard again, on purpose, to see if I would transform this time." Ignoring the cries of "Idiot! What if you had transformed?" from Kyo, he went on. "I didn't transform! And when I apologized for knocking her down, she just said 'That's okay, little bunny!' and went off! She knew I was the bunny!"

"That's amazing! How did she know?" Tohru asked, fascinated.

"Momiji. There are bunnies all over your jacket, and one on your shorts. It's obvious how she knew." I interjected.

"Oh yeah, you're right! But she's still really interesting. I think I'm going to try to tall to her some more tomorrow."

"Maybe I will too." I would go to school tomorrow and talk to her. It would be simple to find out if it was the Mizuki that Kyo and I had known.

You might have noticed that I switched around the Point of View. I'll be doing that in some later chapters, but mostly I'll keep it the same throughout the whole chapter. Tell me if it's confusing!

Just to clear things up, things in italics are direct thoughts of the characters, and places where I, the author, say something are in bold.

Like I said earlier, this chapter is kind of boring, but I promise the next one is better, so at least read one more chapter before deciding whether to go on or not.

I would appreciate reviews, even constructive criticism (no flames though), but I'll continue to post chapters even if there aren't any.