Hello everyone this is my first fan fiction so I hope you like it. The main character is Ales Loki and she is a …actually I'm not going to tell you that yet. But read it carefully, I keep hinting at what she is! Also, I could't get my sister to edit, so if the grammar or spelling is bad, sorry!

Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket

POV 3rd person

Saki Hanajima and Arisa Uotani watched the new girl as she was introduced to the class. "Tohru will want her to sit with us," whispered Saki.

"Yup," said the Yankee as she looked the girl over. The new kid had reddish-gold hair to her shoulder blades and gold/amber eyes. She wore jeans and her black tee shirt had a dragon/griffin-like drawing in gold on it.

"My name is Ales Loki. "Pleased to meant you. She smiled hesitantly, worrying where to go next. A girl with brown pig-tails called out from the back

"Come sit with us, Loki-san," called Tohru "My name is Tohru Honda. When Ales smiled and walked over she continued "and these are my friends, Saki and Arisa."

"Yo," said Arisa as Saki dipped her head in greeting. Ales returned the bow with a slightly deeper one. "Sit with us" Arisa said.

Kyo and Yuki, Tohru's classmates and in a way family, looked up from studying and glowering at each other to see who she was sitting with. "Do I know her?" they thought at the same time.

Loki-san was mainly unremarkable, the kind of girl people one tends to overlook. Even though she was reasonably pretty it wasn't exceptional. They both dismissed the thought and returned to their work.

POV 1st Ales's

At the lunch table I ate little, a plain bentos box. "Where do you guys live? I asked conversationally.

"I live a train ride's distance away and Arisa lives to the north," said Hanajima-san between bites of rice.

"Where do you live Loki-san" asked Honda-san brightly. She was beaming. She does everything happily doesn't she, I thought. It makes her very …motherly? Reentering the present I had little time to think of my answer.

"With my half-sister," I said, "my father died so I had nowhere else to go." I have this feeling Hanajima-san would know if I lied, so I bent the truth. It was a stretch but it worked.

POV 3rd person

Kyo and Yuki Sohma joined the four girls. Yuki was panting slightly and Kyo was smirking. "Damn ra- Yuki had to run from his Fan Club."

"Fan Club?" questioned Ales inadvertently drawing the table's attention away from the two boys to her.

"You're the new kid right" asked Kyo, still smirking, "I'm Kyo Sohma and this idiot is Yuki Sohma. Call me Kyo-kun; Sohma-kun and Kyo-san make me want to retch."

Ales nodded, and turned to Yuki who was looking both tired and irritated. "So you're Sohma-kun and he's Kyo-kun. Okay, what about this fan club?"

Despite her addressing her question to Yuki, it was Arisa who answered. "Yuki Sohma is known in this school as the Prince and he has a group of girls who worship the ground he walks on." She was laughing too, "We normal folk oughtn't to be near his Excellency."

"You guys shouldn't make fun of him," said the flustered Tohru.

As Arisa apologized Ales looked between the flushed Yuki and the laughing Kyo and tried to let go her long-held bias. "Are you two related?" She asked softly. Kyo stopped laughing and glared at Yuki.

Yuki, now cool and composed, replied shortly "Sadly." Then he turned to the other girls, "Where are Momiji and Haru?"

They haven't changed at all, thought Ales as Saki answered, "They're freshmen, and freshmen don't eat with us today."

"Are they more relatives?" asked Ales letting her voice sound slightly confused.

Yuki replied absently thinking on something else besides new girls. "Yep" he said.

Ales took the pause in the conversation to reach for her goal. "Actually Honda-san, earlier you asked where I live. My half-sister is going away for a week or two and I was wondering if you know any cheap inns where I could stay."

"Yup," said Tohru happily. "You can stay with us! . . . That is," she glanced at Yuki and Kyo's identical startled expressions, "if … Shigure-kun doesn't mind?" She asked the second part as a question, looking at Kyo and Yuki.

"He won't" said Yuki watching Ales "'Another flower will be perfect' he'll say, but where would Loki-san sleep?"

"Wha ... We're gonna have a girl in our house?!" that was Kyo-kun

"We already have one," pointed out Yuki mildly.

"If you have a roof, I can happily sleep on the floor." Ales said quietly.

"Great" said Tohru…with a smile "walk home with us today, and we'll show you to your temporary home."