The Picture on his Desk
Chapter 1: When she came In
It was about six o'clock when she was running thru the Shigure's "forest" into his house. The girl was about 15 years old but looked like she was 12. Her long dark brown hair was astray and a tangled mess, her kimono was stained with mud and her face was covered with bruises and bandages. She just escaped her last beating from Akito. She was no ordinary girl. The Sohma family was no ordinary either; they were cursed. The curse was that whenever they hug a person of the opposite sex (except when they are both a member of the zodiac) or their bodies are under a great deal of stress they turn into an animal of the Chinese Zodiac and when they turn back, they're naked. But this girl wasn't cursed and whenever she hugged them they didn't turn into animals. But when she touched them while they were transformed, they turned right back.
Meanwhile in Shigure's house the phone rang while Tohru was making dinner. Shigure answered the phone and it was Hatori, the head of the Sohma family. Akito was looking for her. Her name was Yachiru and Akito would continuously beat her for simple things. Yachiru was his whipping girl, housewife, and his fiancé (or at least her parents wanted her to be). And right at that moment she walked in. The girl came in wearing a muddy kimono (with Momiji's clothes underneath), carrying a plain brown suitcase and her eyes were grey (but they changed with her mood). So while Shigure was on the phone in his study and Tohru was making dinner, no one else was downstairs. So it was easy to sneak up the stairs to Yuki's room. Yachiru wanted to surprise him so she was sure to take it very slow up the stairs.
Yuki was sleeping in front of the picture of Yachi on his back (like a piggyback ride). You could see a small puddle of tears had formed where he laid his head. He hadn't seen her in years; she was the one he loved. He was thinking how they first met, when Akito would lock them up in a dark cold room. When it was Yachi's (that's what her friends called her) turn to go into the room Yuki had transformed because of the great deal of stress and fear he was under. So when Yachi sat down Yuki instictly bit her and when he touched her he transformed back. Yachi was so scared at first she cried. Tohru saw the picture many times but decided against saying anything to Yuki. She thought she was his sister but in reality, it was Kyo's adopted sister. But Yuki didn't know anything about this. Yachi never told him for she feared he would hate her for being so close to Kyo.
So finally, Yachi got upstairs and gently shook Yuki out of his nap. When he woke up he saw her. And he wept openly. Yachiru continuously told him to stop because she snuck up here when they were busy downstairs and Akito was looking for her and Shigure already got a call from him. Her eyes were dark, navy blue, sadness and worry.