A/N: I do not own blah blah blah disclaimer blah blah blah except my own ideas blah blah blah, on to story! :) Oh and if you criticize about like oh this person went to a all boys/girls school or something I forgot to put in here, give me a break! I haven't read the manga in like 6 years! So please don't criticize too harshly, ok? Thanks! ;)
"Hey look! It's that freak with the orange hair, lets go play somewhere else where that freak can't follow us!" The group of boys fled to some other place so the boy would be all alone. "Hey, what's your name?" He looked up to see a girl looking at him straight in the eyes. "..." Then he looks back down and starts drawing something in the sand. It said Kyo Sohma. "Kyo Sohma? What a concidence, my last name is Sohma too!" The boy looked up with hope in his eyes. "Really?" She nodded and wrote her name in the sand too. "Hoshino, that's a pretty name." Kyo said looking at her smiling. "Do you want to be my friend?" Hoshino said holding out her hand, Kyo eyes widen, "can I?" She nodded and they took each others hands. (5 years old)
A year later, "Kyaa!" A poof was heard through the backyard of Hoshino's house. "Owie...Kyo?" She looked around the backyard to see him nowhere in sight but his clothes. "eh?...Kyo where are you?" Then out of nowhere he said, "here..." "Where? I don't see...you." A cat wiggled out of Kyo's clothing and Hoshino started to scream of delight. "Kyaa! You're so cute! Where did you come from, little kitty cat?" She said and started petting the orange cat's head. "Um...Hoshino?" She looked around to see where Kyo was but there was no one around. "Down here, Hoshino." She looked down to see the cat putting one paw up as if he was saying hi. "EH? Kyo? You're a kitty cat?" "...yeah, you think I'm a freak, don't you?" She quickly shaked her head. "I think it's cool to be a cat!" Kyo's heart started to beat really fast and he turned back to normal, only he was naked. "k...kyaaaaa!" Kyo tried to change real fast but was too embarrased in the proccess.
During this time, Hoshino was amazingly allowed to know the secret and had fun talking to all the zodiac animals especially Kyo, Haru, and Kagura.
"Then it's a promise!" Hoshino who looked like about 8 years old turned around to smile at Kyo. "As long as I'm around, you can beat me all you want instead of your cousin. Because, I'm sure you can beat someone like me!" Hoshino said quite proudly although it sounded sort of low self esteem. Kyo laughed and responded. "All right, but what happens if..." "You worry too much!" She bonked him in the head. "Besides, I'm not planning to leave any time soon unless you are?" She said turning around to face home. "Nope, not even the slightest," Kyo said smiling. "Well then good, it's a promise." Hoshino took out her pinky finger, Kyo looked at her pinky and then smiled and took her pinky with his. "Yep, it's a promise." The sun was setting that day.
A few years later when they were 11, they were at the dojo. "Uryaaaaaaaaaa!" Kyo battle cried out. The opponent was done when the Kyo landed his opponent on the floor. He huffed and went outside to go drink water from the outdoor sink. "You sure have gotten stronger, Kyo." He looked up to see her. "Not enough to beat that nothing excuse of a rat!" He said litterly hitting the wall. *He forgotten our promise.* thought Hoshino, she closed her eyes and reopened them and said, "hey I know, why don't we go to my house, that'll take your mind off of-" She was getting excited and grabbed his arm but he pulled away. "...things..." Kyo turned around so he didn't have to see her face. "I need to train harder, if I don't I can't beat that rat!" Hoshino was a little disappointed but tried to hide the sadness in her voice, "oh, all right...see you later Kyo." she walked alone, a little sad that she didn't get to talk to him as much as she wanted to.
When she arrived home, her dad was waiting for her, the place smelled like wine and beer like always."...I'm home." She barely said but when she just said that, her hair was yanked. "And where have you been miss? Don't you know what time it is?" The father said throwing his daughter into the wall. "I'm sorry father, please forgive me!" Hoshino said frightened of what's going to happen next. "Not until you learned your lesson." The knife that the father was holding was gleaming and the father grinned real widely. Scared, the only thing that came out of her lips was a scream, "Iyaaaaaaaaaaaa!"
The next day, Kyo was in a good mood, he was humming and everything on his way to school. The reason why was Shisho praised him for beating 7 kids in a row without a break. He couldn't wait to tell Hoshino, she would probably be so happy to hear it and might hug him but he wouldn't mind transforming. He saw Hoshino and was going to surprise she heard his footsteps and started to run away. "Ah!eh?" His heart hurting from her reaction he started to worry and chase after her. "Wait!" But she would'nt listen, she kept on running and running like her life depended on it. "Wait I said!" He finally grabbed her wrist, both breathing heavily. "What's wrong? Did something hap-" He looked up to see her face was badly bruised, his eyes wide, "pen? What happened to you?" Hoshino made a forced smile but her eyes told a different story. "What do you mean? I'm fine, look!" Trying to making those I'm fine poses with showing off muscles, but Kyo wasn't buying it at all. He grabbed her wrist only a bit tighter, "As if I'll believe that! I know you better than that! What's wrong?" He knew she was hurting inside and he didn't want to let her go. She slapped her hand away from him, this was the first time that she acted this way towards him so his eyes went wide. "I'm sorry, just leave me alone, please!" She dashed to the front leaving the poor little guy alone, shocked.
Afterschool came around, he started to wait for her at the front gate but it's been over 10 minutes and usually she and him are the first ones out. "...somethings definitly wrong." Then he saw her go right past him but then again he was sort of hidden. He decided to follow Hoshino back home to make sure that it wasn't bullies that was the cause of all the scars and reached the house and sighed, she opened the door and closed it shut. Kyo waited for a bit and saw a cat right next to his foot and then got an idea. He asked the cat if it heard or saw anything out of the ordinary. The cat nodded and meowed to him, "it was from that house actually, the daughter screamed, it scared the living fur out of me." Then it went to licking it's paws. "Do you know the reason why?" Kyo asked, the cat replied saying it had no idea.
Then they heard a scream coming from the house. "That's the scream!" The cat said running away. That also scared him, he knew that was the girls voice but it sounded like she was getting killed. He dashed to the front door. "Please dad, noooooo!" His eyes went wider and the door was open so he slammed it open just in time to see and hear the gunshot and see her poor body get covered in blood. Kyo's eyes went even wider. "Kyo?" She managed to say before she hit the ground, but when she did, she was 's heart started beating really fast, faster than he ever felt it go was shaking uncontrollably until he heard the gun reloading. He looked up to see the girls father aiming at Kyo.
"w...WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT TO YOUR OWN DAUGHTER?" Tears started to run down his face while he was bending near the almost dead body. "Because she never listens to me, so I thought I would teach her a lesson." The gun was gleaming, he started to aim towards Kyo. "You're next." Knowing not what to do, he put her on the back of his back like a piggy back ride. He looked at his bracelet, shaking and closed his eyes, he ripped it apart and he transformed into his other self carrying the unconscious and bloody girl on the back.
Hoshino could barely breath which meant that her time has almost officialy come. She opened her eyes and looked as far as her eyes can look cause her head was hurting a lot. "Hoshino!" She saw Kyo and she smiled. "I'm sorry, you had to see such a terrifying scene such as that." He didn't know what to say not because he wasn't worried about that right now, he's worried about Hoshino who was barely breathing almost ready to die. "Please, don't die! I don't want to be alone!" She remembered all to well, him being alone, bullied. She smiled at him and said, "Maybe Kyo, if you remember our promise, then I won't die on you." Kyo looked down knowing that when it comes to saying maybe, Hoshino would say it meaning as a no. "That's no fair! Even if I said it correctly, you would die on me right?" He looked back at her, tears coming out of his eyes. "You know me too well, Kyo." Then when she said that, she motioned Kyo to come closer and he did what he was told. She whispered to Kyo and then closed her eyes one last time for all eternity. The monitor making one long beep, yelling inside the room and Kyo feeling hopeless and useless to not even replying to his only friend he could truly trust. "I love you, Kyo Sohma." Those 5 words echoed inside his head knowing that those 5 words will always linger inside him, always.
A/N: I know this was a really dark chapter but hey, Natsuki Takaya's works usually has some darkness in almost every manga series she's done. For ex: this one (furuba/fruit basket) or Hoshi wa Utau. Anyway please comment just please don't criticize too much or too harshly ok or I will DELETE THIS FANFIC! Thank you! :)