My Monster

Summary: Honda Tohru finds an injured cat and kindly takes him in. Soon though, she realizes that nothing about him is normal, and he turning into a teenage boy initiates a domino effect. While forgotten memories flood their minds, a curse is reveled. AU.

Disclaimer: I don't own Furuba.

Prologue

He felt his chest tighten with fear as their footsteps approached, gaining speed with each clap of thunder. He was already feeling weaker and time felt as if it was beginning to slow all around him.

As the light from the lanterns fell onto him his breathing completely stopped, as if the shallowest of breaths could give away his location. It was dead silence as the light lingered there, and sweat formed at his brow despite the cold, pouring rain.

Just when the light was leaving the spot, the sun began to rise against him; being in the spot where the first rays of light caught him. He heard one of them shout, "Look, he's over there!" and another yelled "Kill him!! Kill him now before he gets away!" and that's when all of the speed caught up to him again.

There was a rock thrown at him, barely missing his head as his back went flat against the wall of the house. He jumped onto a low branch of a tree as he took off. The tree tops provided little protection and stabbed at his bare torso as he ran, pulling at his tattered pants and the bracelet on his wrist. Finally, it was jerked from him, and the branch dropped it to the ground.

He lunged after it.

He landed on the ground, slowly getting on his knees and finding the bracelet on the ground five feet in front of him. He crawled toward it in a daze as his vision began to blur, his body weakening as it always did before his gruesome transformation. Just as he was about to pick it up, a foot came crashing down, right on top of his hand. The person bent down and picked the bracelet up, smirking and chuckling as the boy lie on the ground, panting from lack of breath and control.

"You idiot," the soft voice came, mocking him as he lay not being able to do anything about it. "You honestly thought that you could get away. And I never even thought that you would want to, seeing as how I've given you so much already." The person laughed as they twirled the bracelet around their fingers, the early morning rain and dark hair hiding their face, though the boy still knew who it was. He could never mistake such malice as anyone else's.

He braced himself as he jolted up, grabbing the bracelet from their hand and running off, knowing that he could outrun them even in this condition. He ran harder than before, a half-baked plan in his head. He felt his body changing, but he didn't do anything to stop it.

Not this time.

He just kept running, accepting this form to give him strength even if it were to kill him. He turned a corner and stopped abruptly in front of a stream, throwing the bracelet into it as he heard them coming for him once more. He smirked, running off to where he knew they wouldn't find him.

He ran for hours it seemed, though it was only a short time. Only half-way through the run did he finally stop hearing their footfalls. And when he reached the area, in complete safety in the rain, he let out a distorted scream of pain, not afraid for them to hear. He was transforming and now nothing could stop it.

All went black, and he fell asleep.

Hello again! O: Nope, I'm not dead yet, heehee! This is my latest creation: A Fruits Basket fan fiction AU featuring the wonderful couple of Kyou and Tohru! Please read and review, okay? :D I'm just about to upload chapter one, and if I get enough reviews, I'll upload chapter two later today or tomorrow. Ja, mata ne!