CHAPTER ONE: Momiji's Announcement


DISCLAIMER: I do not own Fruits Basket, but you knew that. So I'll only say it once.

Tohru is singing a cheery song while folding the laundry. What a pleasant day! The sun was shining and she noticed an improvement in the Sohma boys' attitude. Of course they had their fights, and she was relieved that they did but the number of these fights were slowly trickling away. She was so glad they were making efforts for her, she just couldn't help but smile.

Suddenly, the doorbell rings.

"I'll get it!" Tohru says as she runs to the door. As soon as she opens the door, a boy about her height wrings himself around her neck and instantly transforms into a little rabbit.

"Hello Momiji!" She says, laughing. She could not be much happier.

"HI TOHRUUUU! While I was walking to your house, I saw this realllly nice flower, and it was pink, and it reminded me a lot of you," he said "so I picked it and brought it for you!" he handed her the flower in question.

"Ohhh Momiji! Thank you, I'm so happy!" Tohru was just so happy, she began to cry tears of pure joy. An instant later though, she had to turn around fast, because a cloud of smoke appeared which meant Momiji had turned into a human again. He quickly went to change. Momiji looked sad. "Tohru, did I do something bad…?" He questioned, holding her hand affectionately. This just made Tohru sob louder, for it made her thankful she had such careful, caring friends. Kyo appeared in the entrance hallway with a look of anger on his face.

" MOMIJI, WHAT DID YOU DO TO TOHRU…" He said, lifting the young rabbit by the collar of his frilly blouse.

"Oh no no! Kyo-kun, Momiji has done nothing wrong at all! He has just made me so happy… I just started crying. I'm sorry to have worried you, kyo-kun…"

Kyo was taken aback by this, he was certain Momiji had said something hurtful… Not that that was like him and it wasn't like Tohru didn't cry a lot and-

Well. Kyo dropped Momiji on the floor and turned as red as a beet for he had, once again showed too much concern for Tohru. Why was it that he felt this way for her?

" KYO-KUN, why are you so meannnnnn… Tohru, he hurt meee…" Momiji cried. Kyo then observed Tohru laugh with Momiji on the entranceway rug. Why did he feel this way? What was it that she had that other people did not?

"So erm… Momiji-kun, why have you come here?" Kyo asked, blushing at the thought of all this Tohru business.

"WELL… I'll tell you! Because it's really an interesting story. So, last Friday, I was walking down a really crowded street with Hatsuharu after school. We bought some ramen noodles for Hatsuharu's house because he likes those and he didn't have any left and ohh it was so much fun, we" Momiji was suddenly interrupted by Kyo.

"Momiji, you came all this way, on a perfectly nice Saturday that I could spend doing anything else than listen to you to tell me about some ramen noodles that you bought for Hatsuharu!" He yelled.

"… It's only because you want to hog Tohru! I know it!" Momiji replied near tears. Kyo reddened.

"No it's not!" He screamed at him. Tohru looked completely lost.

"Tohhruuuu… Tell him to let me finishhh my storyyy… He's meeaannn…" Momiji moaned. Kyo blushed as he didn't want to force anything upon Tohru and said:

"Fine. Continue your dumb story."

"It's not dumb. Anyway (he turns to Tohru) we went to see a fortune teller! It was a lot of fun. She was a realllly scary lady, and I know Hatsuharu will tell you he was not scared, but he held my hand really tightly when she told him that his fortune was not looking good at all. So after that, she said that we could have some of her raffle tickets for a drawing of some prize- she didn't know what it was, but she said the drawing was on that street- so we said 'Thank you, miss!' and we went to the raffle booth. It was really crowded, but Hatsuharu is strong so he pushed us to the front. We gave in the raffle tickets, and…" Tohru is nodding and clutching her skirt, wondering what the end of the story could be, " Both our tickets won!" He threw his arms into the air.

"So what did you win Momiji-kun?" Tohru asked, giggling.

"We won a trip for 8 to America! And I want to invite you!" Momiji said holding her hands and gazing into her eyes.

" OH MOMIJI-KUN however can I thank you? I feel like a princess!" She exclaimed.

"You can come! It's next week-end," he said, "isn't it great?"

"It will be a lot of fun, I'm sure!" Tohru replied.

Momiji now turned to Kyo. "You weren't very nice to me BUT I still will invite you to come. Will you please? Tohru will be sad if you do not come." Momiji asked. Kyo was angry because Momiji, even though he looked childish, knew just how to make Kyo accept.

"…Alright. I will." He said, blushing furiously. He retreated to the living room.

" So who else are you inviting, Momiji?" Tohru asked, confused at what had just happened.

"Weeell… You, Kyo-kun, Hatsuharu, Yuki-kun and me makes five. I don't really know who else to invite… Do you want to invite some of your friends, those two nice girls?" Momiji asked, counting on his fingers.

"Really Momiji? Could I invite Hana and Uo?" Tohru asked with excitement in her eyes. Momiji grinned.

"Of course!" He said, "So that makes seven. We still need one more person…"

"Maybe Hatsuharu-kun has other friends he would like to invite?" She asked him.

"Okay! So we'll wait." Momiji replied, bouncing up and down with excitement. Yuki then walked in the hallway.

"Yuki, guess what! GUESS WHAT GUESS WHAT!" Momiji shouted, running up to a confused looking Yuki.

"Hm?" Yuki responded, "Hello Honda-san."

"Hi Sohma-san! Momiji has some exciting news!" Tohru told Yuki.

Momiji tells Yuki the story.

"I'm sure that will be great fun. Thank you, Momiji-kun." He smiled a warm smile.


So what happens when the Sohmas go American?

(maybe they get really fat! HAHA)

Find out in chapter two!

Momiji is just the cutest...