A Feudal Fairy Tale: The Zodiac Curse
A fanfic by Red-Kitsune and Kagome-Hime
An Inuyasha and Fruits Basket Crossover
Disclaimer: (SOBS) Sadly for us and fortunately for everyone else, neither Inuyasha nor Fruits Basket belong to us.
Authors' Notes:
Kit: Fruits Basket will be based on after the anime, not the manga. So, Akito will be a male and Rin and Kureno, as much as I like them, will not be included in this fanfic.
Kag: On that note, Inuyasha will take place somewhere at the end of the series, and Kagome's time will be 2005 instead of 1997… for reasons only known to us.
Both: So R and R!
Prologue: Once Upon a Time
"Kagome, tell me one of those funny stories from your time. Like the last one with the foolish girl dressed in the red yukata and the evil wolf youkai that swallowed her up."
"Eh?" A girl with long raven hair sat beside a flickering fire, the confusion clearly displayed in her features. "Red yukata…wolf youkai…? Shippou-chan, I don't remember telling you a story like that."
"Oh yes, Kagome-chan, I remember that story. Do tell us another." A slightly older girl, dressed in a traditional demon slayers uniform, said while scooting away from a monk sitting next to her, as his hand started to wander lower and lower…
"Yeah, wench. The story about that stupid little girl that went to visit her grandma or somethin'…" A voice called from above.
"Inuyasha," She paused, taking a deep breath. "After all this time that we have been traveling together you still can't seem to grasp the fact that my name is not wench, bitch, wretch or anything related to those words." The raven-haired girl named Kagome replied, apparently angry at the hanyou sitting on the high branches.
"My name is KAGOME!" She continued, her face turning a suspicious tomato red, "Do you need me to spell it out for you? Remember it! Ka-Go-Me!"
"Feh, whatever wen…er…" He stopped in the middle of his reply, realizing two things. Number one was his little mistake in his sentence and two, the look on Kagome's face.
"Gulp, um…ah… I didn't mean- ACK!"
"OSUWARI!"
He was too late…again.
Kagome had said the dreaded word and the hanyou, once again, found himself kissin' dirt.
"Kagome-chan, will you tell me another story anyway?" Shippou inquired pleadingly.
"Alright Shippou-chan" The girl -however hard she tried- couldn't resist the adorable look on the young kitsune's face.
After a moment of silence Kagome's eyes lit up with an idea. "Ah, there was an old legend that my grandpa told me a while ago. I think it happened more than 500 years in the past… Oh, but then again, in you guys' cases it probably happened about 40 years ago. Wow, this happened not too long ago then."
Taking another deep breath she started the story.
"It starts out something like this…
A long time ago there was a family called the Sohmas, they had an item that an evil youkai desired, although the reason he wanted it was unknown. But the Sohmas knew that they couldn't give this item away, and they refused.
This nameless youkai was furious, he demanded the item from the Sohmas…or else. But the Sohmas still refused to give in. And so the youkai cursed them, he tried to summon spirits of demons to possess this family. But instead, he unconsciously summoned the twelve spirits of the Chinese Zodiac. And now, whenever the members of the Sohma family are hugged by the opposite sex he or she will turn into one of the members of the zodiac. After seeing the turnout of his spell, the youkai just disappeared…
But according to my grandpa, every five hundred years this youkai seeks out the Sohma family and demands the item from the family patriarch.
Andto this day he's still waiting, for the day that he could finally acquire the thing that he desires so greatly."
"Wha, that was scary…"
"Oh, Shippou-chan I guess that was too frightening to tell at bedtime. I'll tell a nicer one for you tomorrow, 'kay?"
"Feh, that youkai was stupid, why didn't he just take the item? What was the stupid "item" anyway? Why doesn't any of your "fwai-we te-ales" make sense?"
"Oh, I knew I was forgetting something, the item had to be handed over willingly, sorry about not mentioning that. And grandpa didn't say what the item was except that it could be devastating for it to fall into the wrong hands. And the last question… I don't know; ask the people that wrote them don't ask me."
"Whatever. But that youkai reminds me strongly of that bastard Naraku…"
"Don't be silly, it was only one of grandpa's old legends, you should never believe a word he says. Besides, it's getting late. I'll answer all your questions on the way tomorrow. So g'night everyone."
"Goodnight."
"Night"
"G'night Kagome-chan"
"Snore"
But little did they know that Inuyasha's words were not as silly as they thought…
Kit and Kag's Corner:
Kag: Oooh, a half-cliffy!
Kit: Our first crossover… I'm so proud!
Kag: Yeah… proud. So, our loving fans put your mouse over the blueish-purpley button in the bottom left corner and CLICK away! Please…
Kit: Comments, criticism, and flames are all welcome.
Ja ne! And hopefully soon!