Authoress's Notes
The characters that we've created are fraternal twins. Their mother was pregnant with them while she was still teaching with their father in Japan, and got held up and ended up having the girls while still in Japan, rather then her home country. As such, the girls have duel citizenship, they moved back to Canada when their mother recovered. When they were 5 their mother died and they moved back to Japan with their father, and attended school up their 3rd year of middle school, then they moved back to Canada for high school. They still visit their friends during Golden week, spring break and summer break. They were visiting their friends during their summer break when the story begins, it is currently August, and they should be going home to finish their 3rd year of high school.
Chapter 1, Fluffykins, Snugglyboo and sweet creamy goodness
It was a day like any other, Michiko and Micharu were sitting in front of the television set watching the Fruits Basket series. It was the episode when Momiji was explaining the mothers of zodiac children to Tohru, naturally, both girls were clutching their stuffed Momiji bunnies, bawling their eyes out.
Michiko dried her tears from her honey colored eyes on one of her Momiji bunnies ears, and hugged it tighter. "Poor Momiji, I'd love him no matter what. I mean, sure it would kinda scary as a new mom to have your baby turn into a bunny, but I could never hate my own child like that."
"I know what you mean," agreed Micharu, wiping a stray tear from her emerald eyes, "Momiji is way too
adorable to hate. I feel so bad for him, too bad we have to settle for hugging plushies."
Both girls sighed, and snuggled into their bunnies again, and reached into the bowl of popcorn between them. They sat on the floor, as close to the screen as possible, without hurting their eyes, behind them on the couch sat a menagerie of plushies. Each of the girls owned a plushie of each of the main characters from the series. Yuki, Kyo, Shigure, Momiji, Hatsuharu, Kagura, Kisa, Hiro, Ritsu, Ayame, and Hatori. Most of them were in their animal form, but a couple of them also had their human forms as well. Michiko and Micharu each had their favorites. Micharu had claimed Kyo, Hatori and Shigure as her Bishonen, and Michiko had claimed Yuki, Momiji and Hatsuharu.
The episode finished a few minutes later, both girls smiling happily as they had fulfilled their daily Fruits Basket quota. Michiko yawned and stretched her arms above her head. "That was great! We should go out for ice cream."
"Strawberry all the way!" laughed Micharu.
Michiko giggled as well, "I'm going for Mint Chocolate Chip and a double scoop of peanut butter and chocolate." She drooled at the thought.
"You're such a pig!" Micharu laughed again.
Michiko blushed, "I can't help it! I love ice cream!"
Micharu hugged her, "it's ok, I love you even if you are an ice cream eating hog."
"Gee thanks."
"You're welcome!" Micharu grinned at her sister. "Well, shall we go?"
"Sure thing, should we put the plushies away, or should we take some with us?"
"Alrighty, we'll take one each, last time we went a bit overboard and the ice cream man kept giving us
weird looks."
"He just doesn't appreciate anime the way we do. I'm taking my adorably fuzzy Yuki rat, which one are you going to bring?"
"K, I'll bring Hatori then, come on snuggly boo," she said picking up her Hatori plushie from the couch and kissing its forehead.
Michiko rolled her eyes and laughed. "Come on, even I'm not that bad, isn't that right my fluffykins?" She brought her Yuki rat into a life squishing hug, making its head bulge slightly from the pressure.
"I think you might pop it if you're not careful." Micharu giggled and started dancing around singing "Pop goes the mousie!" (ya know, like Pop goes the weasel.)
"That's just mean, Yuki doesn't mind, it's not like the plushies have feelings….. Oh my god! What am I saying, of course they do, oh Yuki please forgive me!" She sat down, hugging her Yuki rat tighter. She whipped her head around, her auburn hair flailing about to add more dramatics to her outburst.
"Ok, ok, Let's go already, the ice cream won't eat itself." Micharu said twisting her copper locks into a braid.
A few minutes later both girls were on their way to the ice cream shop. They went to it every time they watched Fruits Basket, for really no reason, just to enhance their joy really, it's a wonder they aren't the size of blimps by now.
Michiko swung her purse happily back and forth as they walked, Yuki's head sticking out slightly. "Ya know, if that rat was alive, I'm sure he'd have turned green by now."
Michiko looked at her friend, "But then he'd be my favorite color!" she squealed happily, "he might look a bit odd, but he'd still be the cutest things ever!"
"In your opinion maybe."
"I'm going to pretend I didn't hear that."
At the ice cream shop
"I'll have a scoop of strawberry ice cream, with strawberries and strawberry sauce on top, please"
The ice cream server looked at Micharu oddly, "I take it you like strawberries."
"Just a bit," she agreed with a grin.
"And for you?" asked the server, directing her gaze to Michiko.
"I'll have a double scoop please, one of mint chocolate chip and another of peanut butter and chocolate."
"Alrighty then, here you girls go, be careful of the strawberry one, it's not very stable."
"That's ok," said Micharu as her mouth enclosed over it. "Aiyeeeeeeee, BRAINFREEZE!"
"You need to learn to slow down and savor it, now you have nothing for the way home." Michiko said in between licks.
"Shows how much you know me," laughed Micharu, as she ordered another cone.
"And you say I'm a pig."
"What! I can't hold myself back when it comes to strawberries, you know that!"
"I do, so then why do you always pick on me for getting what I get?"
"Does it really matter, let's just get going before this stuff drips all over my hand." Said Micharu as she ran her tongue over the trail of strawberry juice sliding down her wrist.
On the way home
"Shall we cut through the woods on the way back?" asked Micharu.
"Sure, it'll be quicker, then we'll get to watch the episode where Ayame comes in again. Doesn't he freak you out?"
"Hell ya!"
"I mean, he's cute and all, and he's Yuki's brother so I can't hate him, but he's a little over the top for me."
"Ya really think so? When did you figure that out" she laughed slapping her sister in the forehead.
Michiko sniffled, "why do you always do that! I have a very sensitive forehead ya know!" she whined rubbing her head.
"Aww, sensitive, I'm sure that's not all from me, you're not the most graceful person alive."
"That was not my fault, I swore that door wasn't there before! Neither was the wall, or the stairs, or that screen door, or the bookshelf, or the ceiling fan."
"Ceiling fan? When did that happen?"
"Huh? Oh nevermind." Michiko blushed. "It's a long story."
"Really? Well we have time, why don't you explain it."
Just as Michiko went to open her mouth, a strange feeling, like walking through a bubble passed over her. "Did you just feel that?"
"Yeah, it was kinda like walking through one of those giant bubble walls that they had at the park that one time."
"Weird, so anyway…."
"Who's in the forest strolling? The birds and the bees sing Momiji. The frogs in the pond are calling, Momiji yes it's true."
"Do you hear that?" asked Michiko.
"Yeah, it sounds just like Momiji too, whoever is singing must have spent a lot of time trying to copy off
the episode."
"But, who would spend time on something like that besides us?"
"I don't know, we're the one Fruits Basket freaks that I know of in town."
"Let's see if we can get them to come over here."
"But, how?" Micharu couldn't really finish what she wanted to say, since Michiko interrupted her with a
rendition of Momiji's song.
"Who's in the forest strolling, the birds and the bees sing Momiji!"
"Ow! Not so loud when you're that close."
"Shhh! Listen!" whispered Michiko, slapping a hand over Micharu's mouth.
"The frogs in the pond are calling, Momiji yes it's true."
"Who's in the forest strolling!"
"The birds and the bees sing Momiji!"
"The frogs in the pond are calling!"
"Momiji yes it's true!"
"Oh my god! Micharu look! It's, it's…"