Anywhere but Home

YAY THIS IS A NEW FANFICTION THAT MY BEST FRIEND AND I ARE WRITING. So here's how it goes, we're switching off every other chapter, so the odds are mine, and the evens are hers. Also, the point of view changes along with it because I'm Lexi and she is Tara. We worked super hard on this plotline thing and are pretty excited to really get into it, so I hope that you will kindly review this if you happen to read it (good or bad, I don't care… just REVIEW!) xD Anyways, I don't own Fruits Basket or any of the characters that I didn't make up.

Enjoy!

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Introduction. The Truth.

Hello, my name is Tara Aida. I am a seventeen-year-old girl, and although I appear normal, I'm anything but that. Growing up, I was never popular, I never talked much. Keeping my distance became a normal routine after awhile, it's what my parents always taught me.

They tried the best they could to hide me from the world, once they found out they passed it onto me. Although they tried, they knew that they wouldn't be their forever to shelter me. They obtained the core of it; after-all…their generation started it. As much as they worried for me, I think it was just their selfish way of trying to appear as normal as they could. My mother loved me…but I missed my father. He barely ever visited me, in fear his powers would do something horrible, it seems he had already found a new life. My stepfather hated me, shunned me, and wanted my little sister to not even know me. What father didn't know was, I'd always be the Star to his Moon.

After they passed away, our family had basically been wiped out, except for us. My third cousin, Lexi, was always by my side. Although we weren't blood related, we grew to be like sisters. Her parents had passed, too, so we understood each other. Plus, she was a part of the curse as well. Out of us all, she had the strongest Aura and the most positive vibe, she always was able to lift our spirits and make us feel better. She was Strength, after all.

Her younger sister, Kanna, always looks up to her. She is a very good girl and barely ever does anything someone would consider 'wrong.' She has good morals and values, sometimes to the point where I'm afraid people might walk all over her. She is only two years younger than us, which makes her the same age as my sister. She is Temperance.

Lulu-chan is my younger stepsister, younger than I am by two years. She is the Empress, and the one who always lets me confide in her when I feel down. I am glad she never judged me from the past, and although she is young, she is the mother I never had.

Lastly, I'm the Star. The star is supposed to give hope, inspiration, and guidance. I always wondered if I lived up to my name like the others do. It seems even though I'm supposed to do the guiding, I can't find out where to lead the others.

There are many others out there that we haven't met yet. We all have one thing in common, though: We don't belong, we're all cursed: whether it's because of blood or relationships, we were chosen to be the ones. We dropped out of school and are now traveling around, hoping that one day, we'll eventually find somewhere we can call home.

The Curse. Our Burden.

Universe, Judgement, Sun, Moon, Star, Temperance, Death, Justice, Hermit, Strength, Emperor, Empress, Priestess, Magician, Fool.

This is us. We know our names, because they are forever marked on us.

The world of Tarot is much like the world of the paranormal; it can never be fully explained or broken down. 21 cards, the main cards, each represent special traits, powers, and techniques meant to describe a person's present or future being. Some mistake it as witchcraft, but what it really is, you can call a "guidance, or path to reveal yourself." The Sun, Moon, and Universe are our gods, the rest of us are their follower, we were born to follow their lead and use our powers to their commands. It's not that we want to, instead that some weird force lures us to them. The Moon was the one who started it all…I can vaguely remember, on that day….

My father was telling me the story, he said that she wouldn't have much more time with me and thought I should know the truth. "Tara, the reason we are like this is because we meddled to far into the other worlds beyond our reach…" We were born like this, because my father and Ren Sohma, they were the ones who were finally able to summon the spirits of the gods. They summoned them with the cards, but what they didn't know, is that having those powers would cost them, they'd have to pay a price… They'd never fit in again…and even worse…Whenever they're feelings went contrary to what they represented, they're personalities would be reversed to an extreme until someone could make them feel better. They sold themselves to the gods of tarot and the zodiac, they traded their freedom for power. The Moon, with its cunning and illusions, tricked them into bearing the curse. They're true powers and feelings would show when they were excited or angered, which led to cast them as different and outsiders. Ren was rumored to eventually go crazy, after my father passed away.

They held the core. Ren was the Universe, my father held the worst – the curse of the Moon. He was destined to die by that, but not Ren. It was Ren's child that was destined to die, because they would be the core of the other curse. The only person I can look to now, is Akito…the leader of the other curse, Ren Sohma's child. We have to find him…we need to find him so that we can get the answers on how to break it, but so far, our traveling has remained futile. We're each so different, yet we search for the same thing, peace, reason, and a home.

"Find him, find Akito, Tara. He is the one who can help you; he is your other side, the other curse."

Tara did an amazing job with the prologue, no:D REVIEW AND I'LL POST THE FIRST CHAPTER!!! Let's set a goal. … I will update if I get… three reviews. Yes, that is appropriate. I think you can handle that. Go go!! waits