Chapter 1

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Anyone who knows me knows i write a lot of Inuyasha fan-fictions, and at least 1 Harry Potter. But I had this story sitting in a notebook for over 2 long years. I have fallen also inlove with Fruit Basket. Don't worry fans of 'Undream' that one will be worked on. I hope everyone enjoys what I have to write peace!

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She sat there her hands to the ground waiting for him to say something. She came all this way after she found out about a lot of things about the family secrets. There was more then what anyone would of thought. It would be a nightmare about what would be revealed to the naked eyes and so she came. Waiting to be talked to, only lights were that of a candle sitting next to him and the full moon beaming down, but the clouds at times hid the moon so she couldn't see his face.

"You are sure?" He spoke coldly. She knew he hated her, everyone told her about it more then once. She didn't care, she would come anyways to make the trade.

"Yes," she calmly said.

"Tell me first how you came up on this information then Tohru Honda." he said laying there.

"Well it started........"

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"Hey Kyo you want something to eat?" it was morning time, she was carring laundery around.

"Its such a sunny day why don't cha go outside and lay around?" He said, watching her walk past her.

"Oh my, you are right Kyo, but things don't get done by themselves though." she said smiling. When she looked down and notice there wasn't much laundry to be done. Well that put a damper on things, no laundry today. She enter the kitchen and started to cook.

"My Miss Honda you seem to making something good perhaps?" It was Yuki.

"Oh Yuki, you say such nice things. I am just making breakfast thats all." she said waving at him, but he sat down at the table noticing tea already set. He shook his head, she knew when to make the tea for him.

"What do you plan on doing today?" he spoke kindly to her when she turn to give him a small plate. She sat another few plates of food waiting on the other men.

"Well I plan on doing laundry, but I don't have enough for just one load so I thought I go into the attic and clean up a bit." she said smiling.

"Oh good luck with that, knowing Shigura he dosn't throw anything out that involves the family. You may have a lot on your hands." he said closing his eyes giving his smile.

"What does Shigura do?" talking about the man he walks in.

"Oh i plan on cleaning the attic and Yuki tells me you don't throw things away?" she said.

"Oh yes, I figure this has to be something of value up there for us to remember our past by."He said walking to the drawers then to the table. He handed her a antique key. "Thats the only room that has never been touched, except when I got up there to put things up. I beleive it been over twelves years since I been up there."

"Oh? What you put up there?"

"Some old family photos, knick knacks. No one really misses around here." he said with a smile.

"Well I better get busy then shouldn't I?" she stood up with the key in her hand.

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Walking to the room was hard, she had to walk up a lot twist and turn of stair . She was glad that she had gone ahead and brought some cleaning supplies and something to drink. When she reached the door it looked so old, she slid the key into the lock and seen how perfect is still fitted after all those years. She turn it and it seem to open by itself from one little push.

She walked, "Oh my," the room looked so huge. She put the stuff down and looked around, so much to look at to learn. There were mirrors, clothes, dolls, little children toys. Paintings, but one painting stood out of them all. Whe removed the cobweb that clung to it. "She so beautiful." She said Looking closer to the painting she smiled and wore a blue velvet dress. Torhu decided then to start with this era.

Taking the painting carfully she went to the window and open it. Nothing stirred from its place. She turn to the painting and started to lightly clean it up. Her hair was that of a rich dark brown color, while her eyes were clear chrystal green. She smiled with no pain, but her eyes show saddness. Then she started on the rest of the painting two young boys stood there unhappy. One boy looked had dark blue eyes and cream color hair, while the other boy look like Yuki. "So you are the great grandmother I was told about." she whispered. But she remembered no one told her the name of the grandmother. She return the painting, but try to keep it in the sun light.

Tohru continue to clean, she got a hold of maybe twenty odd mirrors and clean them and dusted her self, each mirror had some one name on it, but always a Sohma, which belonged to most to the females in the family. She then moved them to the side. Painting were next, which was hard you must be carful not to destroy them.

She learn a lot, by looking at the names that were under them, a lot of them were Males with Children and some with females with children, but most of the females didn't have names under the paintings just as the first one she cleaned off. Very few were both male and female with children, and most of them looked as though they couldn't smile at all. Painting that she seen either show regret, sorrow, anger, or lust. But only one stood out and that was the lady with velvet blue dress with a smile.

She must of lost track of time when Yuki and Kyo voices could be heard, they were once again fighting.

"Stupid Rat I told you I could come and get her!"

"Well Cat you told me you would also help her clean and to find out you were out back practicing." He said. "Ms Honda been up here all day cleaning."

She continue to clean when she heard the door open and they were quiet, she turn to them and notice there reaction to the painting. They looked unhappy to see her hanging there, Yuki looked more unhappy then Kyo did. "Hi guys something wrong?"

"I thought Shigura got rid of that painting, and her things." Yuki said pointing to the female with a smile.

"Yea," Kyo agreed.

"Oh if you guys don't like it I will just take it down then." she went to stand up.

"No, as long as it stays out of my sight I don't care." Yuki said, but he changed to "Torhu I know that you been so busy Kyo and I made dinner for you. PLease join us as Shigura is already down there waiting on us."

She stood up and started walking down stairs with the young men, taking the last look at the picture of the younge women smiling with her two little boys.

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Eating Torhu couldn't help but think about that paintig on the wall of the two little boys. Kyo and Yuki didn't seem to like it, but they allowed her to keep it up, she thought of moving that picture to her room. It didn't look as depress as it did look. "Yuki, Kyo who is that women in the picture?"

They looked at each other, "Her name is Suki. Everyone in the zodiac blames her for the curse that is set on us." Shigura started. "She beautiful isn't she?"

"Oh very, her beauty could be compare to Yuki handsome face." she said with a slight blush. She notice how jealous Kyo gotten, "but her eyes remind me of Kyos fire." Then Yuki show something she never seen before.

Shigura laughed. "Well if thats just it, she was a beauty. Everyone wanted her, but she fell for one man and well no one knows who that was. Someone inside the family, thin out blood like a 5th cousin. Sad really and she and the rest were cursed when she refused to marry the man outsdie of the family."

"So? Her duty was to pay respect to the head of the family." Yuki said, sipping his tea.

"But all she did was follow her heart, whats wrong with love?"

"Like I said, no one knows for sure what had happen, just we know she the blame for all the curse that fell on us." Shigura said.

"I blame her only because she is the year of the rat!" Kyo said looking at the rat, and rat looked at the cat.

Poor Suki, "Who are the boys?"

"That we know very little of Torhu. I think one was name Lee, and the other Cio." He said smiling, "We don't know anything about the father, he seem to disappeared or banished. Either way we don't know anything about it. We respect her privacy and let her stuff stay up there. Besides there a lock on one of them we can't open, i just don't bother with it. Akito refuses to listen to anything with Suki anyway."

"Oh," she said and started to eat.

"Miss Honda, you seem so intrested into all this."

"Well if she has a secret, maybe it could lead to breaking the curse." She took a drink of her tea.

"So, you plan on ending the day then and relax?" Kyo said taking a bite.

"Oh no, I have so much to do." She hurried to finish up her food and put the dishes in the sink to clean them. She wave and continue on her way to the attic until she bump into Hatsuharu who seemed on his way to the kitchen. "Hello Hatsuharu."

"Hey Torhu, how it going?" he must of been white Hatsuharu.

"I am fine, going to clean more of the attic."

"More? Isn't Kyo or Yuki going to help?"

"Oh I do it myself, why?" thats when she notice he was turning black.

"THey need to be helping you Torhu."

"Its fine," she walked off patting Hatsuharu shoulder. She continue to walk to the attic a few more hours of cleaning wouldn't hurt nothing. She probly sleep better tonight.

When she reach the attic she started to try to move the trunks around, which were hard cause most of them were very heavy. She instead decided to go through them and air out whatever was in it, most were unlock some were locked with two or three locks, just her luck. She then started to seprate them that way, one with locks one with out locks, seem more easier. "I hope Shigura has keys to these?" If anything she started to dust the chest off.

She came to a pale pink, with blue design flowers with a name "Suki Sohma" When she thought she open the chest she notice it was locked. Her hope just fell in hope to find about something, a letter maybe to see about the curse. When she sat down in frustration she looked over and notice a dress lay crumbled. She hurried to stand up and walk over to see it was on a hanger. She walked over to what little sunlight she had and allow the dress to breath a little. She recognized the dress to be Suki's dress from the picture.

It was more beautiful then the picture could of been painted. The dress showed she was a tall woman. She touched the dress with her finger tips, blue silk, with tiny ruffles. She notice then the dress had no sleeves really, just made to cling to the women body. Someone had to have this made for her had to love her so much to order to allow such a dress she ran her finger down the dress something poked her and she jerked her finger to find blood.

She panic of the thought of getting blood on the dress that had to be so old, she searched for any blood that could of gotten on the dress, to her stress, a small drip of her blood did get on the dress. "Oh no, what am i going to do?" She remember how the Sohma reacted, like they didn't care. Especially Suki things, but she did, Suki seem so beautiful and she seem so happy.

She turn to see if she could find what pricked her, and there it dangled in the dress was the key.

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Nikki-hanyou