A/N: This story is set when the anime ends, and the curse is still active blah, blah, blah. I do not own Fruits Basket (luckily for you) but I do own my two dear OC's.

"Hana! Hurry up!" I heard the voice of my best friend call from downstairs.

"Hold your horses, I'm coming," I yelled back like an old man. I grabbed my backpack and head out of my bedroom, and began to walk down the stairs. I hated these stairs, they were painted yellow.

"You're as slow as ever," my friend, Maria, complained. That is Maria Watkins, Mar for short. She has been my best friend since middle school, where we got to know each other more when she saw my anime themed screen saver on my phone. She has orange-red hair and her face is covered in adorable freckles and today she was wearing a faded navy-blue sweater and some sweats.

"Ah, shut up for once, would ya?" I laughed as I put on my cool Gorillaz themed converse.

"Fat chance," she smirked, throwing me my hoodie. "Let's go!"

My name is Hana Witt, just in case you cared. I am a freshman in high school, along with Maria, and I am 15 years old. My dark brown hair reaches just above my shoulders, and it is the same tone as my eyes. I was dressed really fancy today. That means a pale green hoodie, a fresh pair of skinny jeans, a plain grey tank-top, and my converse.

Today, Maria and I were planning to go to this cool little anime and manga store that we always went to, and then I was going to sleep over at her house. Well, at least that was what the plan was.

We climbed into her mother's car. "Hello Mrs. Watkins," I greeted Maria's mom. That was basically all the talking that went on during the car ride there. Maria and I had our ear buds on and were listening to our favorite music while staring off into space, and her mother had the radio on and was listening to some boring talk show.

After about 15 minutes, the car pulled up in front of the mall, and Maria and I hopped out.

"Now girls, I'll be back to pick you guys up in two hours by Starbucks, alright?" Mrs. Watkins asked.

"Yeah mom," Maria smiled. "Bye," she said and started dragging me off towards the doors.

[Time skip]

"Woah," I fangirled, "Mar, look at this!" I held up a little Kyo plushie for her to see. Kyo was my personal favorite Fruits Basket character. Mar laughed at the silly face I was making.

"Yeah, well look at this," she held up a Yuki plushie (her favorite Fruits Basket character).

"Stupid rat," I faked muttering angrily, causing her to erupt into a fit of laughter. Yeah, we got quite a few stares.

"Wait, is that-?" I never got to finish my sentence.

The room went completely black then there was a brilliant burst of light, and a whole lot of pain. The last thing I remembered was hearing two blood curdling screeches, one of them mine and the other Mar's, before I passed out.

[Time skip]

When I woke up, all I could really register was how much my pounding head hurt. But thankfully after some time, I could sense other things besides my own pain. First, I noticed that I was laying at the roots of a tree, secondly, I noticed that Maria was sprawled out next to me.

"Oi, Mar," I nudged her side with my foot. "You alive?"

"Hrmmmg," she answered. Thankfully, she didn't look too terribly bashed up, she had a few bumps and bruises, but overall she looked relatively fine.

[Time skip around ten minutes later]

Mar and I were sitting next to each other, I finally got her up, our backs against the trunk of the tree, as we tried to regain our wits.

"Hey Hana," Mar turned towards me. "Where do you-" She suddenly stopped and stared at me in a mix between shock and horror.

I looked at her all confused like. Then it hit me.

Instead of her long ginger hair, she had short, choppy black hair. And she no longer had brown eyes, but electric green ones instead. Then I looked at myself. My hair was a fiery red and down to my lower back area. I also had eyes the same color as my hair, but I didn't find that out till a bit later on (and when I had a mirror).

"W-what happened to us," I stammered, I was shaking slightly. Maria didn't look much better, she looked like she had seen a ghost, but then again, who knows what happened to us.

"I don't know," Mar confessed. "But we should probably look around a bit, and find out where we are."

"Yeah, sure," I agreed, not really knowing what else to do. Maria stood up, then turned and held out a hand for me to take. Upon taking it, I tried to stand, but fell back down with a yelp of pain.

"My ankle," I whimpered, rubbing my left foot. It seems I had sprained it, just great.

"Eh! Are you okay?!" Mar started to freak out, and I laughed.

"I'm fine," I smiled reassuringly, you see, I don't like to worry people about me. "It's just a little sprain, I wasn't prepared before, it is alright we can go."

She didn't look totally convinced, but she helped me up again anyways. I but some of my weight on my bad leg and what felt like fire flared up in my ankle. Grimacing, I started to walk a bit using Maria as a crutch.

"Okay, let's go," I smiled again, it seemed to do the trick because Mar relaxed a bit and helped me hobble through the trees. It wasn't long before we found a well-worn little path that lead in two directions, and caught us in a trap of indecision.

"Which way?" I thought out loud, glancing back and forth both ways.

"Hm…" Maria thought very hard. "I say that-a-way," she pointed to the right.

"Same here," I laughed and we began to walk down the path, to the right of course.

We had been walking for about, I don't know, twenty minutes maybe and my ankle was killing me. It seriously felt like every step I took, someone was stabbing my foot with a rock, or something.

"Hey look," Maria exclaimed out of the blue. "Hana, it's a house!"

I looked up and there stood a house, exactly like Mar had said. We looked back at each other and traded goofy grins, before going as fast as we could with my hurt ankle.

About midway there I froze. I knew that house, I swear it has to be-

"Hana, what's wrong?" Maria asked interrupting my train of thought.

"Maria, I don't want to sound crazy or anything, but… that has to be Shigure's house."

Well, well, do you like it? Did I spell something wrong? Did it suck (oh wait, I already know this one, it did!) Well, I have the next chapter done, I just need some kind of motivation to post it. How 'bout this, if you like it, tell me and I'll post the next chapter! Have a nice day!

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