I do not own Fruits Basket, Shigure or anything… darn it….

Don't get me wrong. I LOVE the Fruits Basket anime... it's just that everybody tends to be more 2-D, whereas the manga has taken the time to give the characters more complexity.

Shigure is one such example. But even then, in the anime, you can see how he tries to manipulate people for his own convenience. Suspicious... ah, how I LOVE manipulative, cunning guys!

Especially when they are hot like Shigure!


Mystery

Damn the girl –


He watched the black cloak of one troublemaker – Saki Hanajima – melt into the New Year's night.

"Have pleasant waves this year," she had said in that creepy ethereal voice of hers.

And he knew he had met his match.


Damn.

Akito's going to be pissed.

Tohru –

You're one lucky girl to have such an unpredictable schemer on your side.


As he turned and plodded onward to the Main House, Shigure stared thoughtfully ahead – mind miles away.


Well – it's not like I didn't TRY.

Sweet Tohru – how easy it is to pull your heart strings… if only your friend had something to be exploited…


The Dog wondered.


This bond between them – is strong though for ones so young – I wonder what it can be called –


Master romance novelist, Sohma Shigure, couldn't figure out the most important thing –

Love.

He knew only passion and the power to crush.

Saki thought of Tohru.

Shigure thought, as usual, about his number one priority –

Shigure.