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Chapter one
A new ray of hope
Tohru sat in the living room of the Sohma family's house, her new home.
The Sohma's were kind enough to take her in after she was found living in a tent outside the Sohma household. She had already known one of the Sohmas, which was Yuki. Then she met Shigure and Kyo. She soon found out that they had a terrible curse. Vengeful spirits of the Chinese zodiac possessed them. Yuki, the rat, Kyo, possessed by the vengeful spirit of the cat, who was tricked into not going to the zodiac feast by the rat, and Shigure, the dog, have taken poor Tohru into their home. At first she was just staying until her grandfather finished remodeling the house, but the men of the Sohma family soon realized that they needed her. So they stole her away from her abusive family and have taken her into their cursed family.
"Tohru, I'm hungry." A little boy, who, at first glance would not look his age, or act like it, said happily.
"Alright Momiji, what would you like?" Tohru asked warmly.
"Miso soup please." Momiji said excitedly.
"Coming right up, Momiji." Tohru got straight to work on cooking. Everyone in the Sohma family loved Tohru's wonderful cooking. The smell of it made them all go crazy. Kyo on the other hand was very picky about what he ate, so Tohru would always make him an extra special dish. She would usually make him fish or she would take the onions and leeks out of the dish she made, as long as it wasn't miso.
She hummed to herself as she stirred the ingredients together in his soup.
"Tohru Tohru, I love it when you hum. It sounds so good." Momiji commented on her lovely singing voice. Tohru smiled lovingly at him and patted him on the head.
"Thank you Momiji. My mother taught me that song."
"Could you sing it for me someday?" Momiji asked innocently.
"Sure. I'll sing it to you when it's time for bed, how about that?"
"That would be great!" Momiji said excitedly. He ran around the kitchen jumping up and down singing…" Tohru is going to sing for me, Tohru is going to sing for me!"
Tohru smiled and laughed at his playfulness and got back to stirring his soup.
"There, all done." Tohru said pouring the hot soup into a bowl.
"Yay, yay, the soup is done!" Momiji yelled happily as he sat down in his chair and started sipping it.
"Careful, it's hot." Tohru warned.
Just then Kyo and Yuki walked through the door, pushing and shoving eachother to get into the house first.
"Tohru, I'm hungry, fix me something to eat will ya?" Kyo asked in his usual tone of voice. Tohru just smiled at him and nodded.
Would you like something to Yuki?" She asked kindly.
"Please, I'll have whatever that delicious smell is coming from."
"It's Miso soup. Would you like some of that?"
" Yes, that would be great." Tohru poured Yuki a bowl and then got to work on fixing Kyo his special dish.
Now don't judge Kyo by his attitude, he was one of the first ones to start missing Tohru when she was taken back to her family. Him and Yuki finally gave up trying to forget the girl and went and got her, they found her together, which is a really big deal, by using the address Tohru had given them so they could visit.
"Here you are Kyo. I made you your favorite, salmon." Tohru smiled.
Kyo looked up at her and grumbled a thank you. She nodded happily and got straight back to work.
"Hello one and all. And how is our lovely flower this morning?" Shigure asked coming in from his study.
"Good morning Shigure. I'm fine thank you. Would you like something to eat as well?"
"If it's your lovely cooking, then I'll have whatever you made." Shigure said happily with his usual grin on his face.
Tohru poured a nice hot bowl of miso soup for Shigure and sat it down in front of him.
"There, eat up Shigure." Tohru said happily in a sing song voice. Something had her really happy this morning and all the Sohmas were dying to know. It just so happened that Kyo asked first.
"What's got you so happy squirt?" He asked in a softer tone than usual.
"Me? Nothing, I just feel happy today." Tohru smiled.
The Sohmas looked at eachother and then back at Tohru.
"Anyway, I have some shopping to do, would anyone want to come with me? I need to pick up a few groceries." Tohru asked turning to all of them. They all raised their hands and shouted, "I do!" even Kyo, which was a surprise to Tohru because he never really wanted to go anywhere.
"Great, you can all come and help me. This is going to be so much fun!" Tohru said excitedly while she cleaned the kitchen. She started to hum to herself again and Momiji recognized the song. It was the song she was humming earlier.
Momiji went upstairs to his room to change and after words Kyo, Yuki, and Shigure went up as well. Tohru finished cleaning and went to her own lovely room that Shigure had made for her to change as well. She put on a white sundress, grabbed a light yellow jacket and ran downstairs to meet the rest of the Sohmas, waiting for her. She slipped on the light jacket and they were out the door within minutes.
Tohru and the Sohmas walked down the street to the grocery store and went inside. She grabbed a shopping cart and started to wheel it down the isle.
"Okay everybody, split up and find what you want. The necessities are milk, bread, fish, and some spices that I can get, but the rest of you, if you find something that you want go ahead and bring it here and put it in the cart. Ready…GO!" She shouted, attracting a lot of attention from the other people in the store, and she herself went to get the necessities.
With Kyo…
"Why did I have to come anyway. It's not like I wanted to or anything." Kyo mumbled to himself as he walked down the isles.
'Of course you did. You're just saying that because you don't want to admit you like her.' Said a voice in his head. (It's his sub-conscious, Mwa ha ha ha ha ha ha)
'SHUT UP!' Kyo screamed in his head. He punched a shelf full of cereal making it fall and topple over him. Tohru was right in the other isle picking out a few special spices when she heard the food fall over. She pushed the cart as fast as she could to the other isle to help when she saw Kyo emerge from the boxes of dried food.
"Kyo! Are you alright!" Tohru asked concerned as she abandoned her cart and rushed to his side.
"I'm fine!" he yelled at her. Just then Tohru's eyes went from just being concerned to being sad and concerned.
"I mean, I'm fine." He said softly, trying to control his anger. Tohru once again put a smile on her face and nodded happily, glad that he was all right.
"Maybe you should help me and we'll find something you like together." She said holding out her hand to help him up. He nodded and took her hand as she pulled him to his feet. He looked down at her and into her beautiful porcelain face. As she continued to smile her loving smile Kyo could feel the corners of his mouth curl into a grin. Before this urge to smile grew, he turned his orange yellow eyes away before he became entranced with her chocolate colored ones.
"Alright, lets see, I need to get the milk and then you can help me pick out the fish you want." Tohru said as cheerfully as ever.
The truth with Kyo was, as long as he wasn't in a terribly bad mood, he felt he could relax more when he was around her. And he did. Whenever he was alone with Tohru he let his guard down and just…relaxed.
"Kyo?"
"Hm." He grunted.
"What made those boxes fall on you?" Tohru was peeked with curiosity as to what could have made those cereal boxes fall on him.
"Well, I…got mad and…punched them." He said.
"Oh. Okay, (sigh) I was afraid someone had pushed them on you on purpose. I'm glad you are okay though." Tohru said smiling her famous smile again.
At this Kyo couldn't help it any longer. He let a small smile grace his lips and freely shoed it. That is, until he spotted Shigure staring at them.
Shigure had a great big smile on his face as he saw Kyo let himself smile. But that was it for Kyo, he was angry now. Shigure walked over to them and set his stuff in the cart.
"That will be it for me, I guess I'll go look at the novels over there." Shigure pointed to the bookshelf and ran as fast as he could before Kyo could catch him.
"What was that about?" Tohru asked.
"I don't know?" Kyo shook his head and walked beside Tohru once again. They finally made it to the Milk and then they went for the fish.
"Okay Kyo, you can choose whatever kind of fish you want." Tohru said happily as she picked up some sushi. Kyo walked around the selection of fish and chose Salmon. Should have figured.
"Alright, all done. Let's find the others and go home." Tohru said joyously.
Kyo could feel himself smile again. He felt the urge to hug her but knew that if he did, he would turn into a cat.
Maybe I forgot to mention that Tohru's favorite animal of the Chinese zodiac is the cat. When she was little, her mother, Kyoko, told her of the rat's trickery and why the cat was not part of the Chinese zodiac. Tohru cried and said that she wanted to be a cat. She was born in the year of the dog, but she wanted to be a cat.
In Tohru's eyes, her favorite will always and forever be the cat.
After they found everyone, including Shigure, they went to the check out line and paid for the food.
Kyo, Yuki, and Shigure had all insisted on carrying the groceries and Tohru and Momiji led the way to the house, unlocked the door and set down the stuff.
"Thank you so much everyone. That was so much fun." Tohru squealed.
As soon as they got home there Yuki offered to help Tohru with dinner.
"Thank you Yuki. I really appreciate it." Tohru said happily mixing the spices together.
"So what are we making today Tohru?" Yuki asked.
"I was thinking octopus, Sushi, and some miso soup. But I know Kyo doesn't like Miso so I'm making him something extra special." Tohru said while stirring in some more spices.
Yuki looked at Tohru weirdly.
'Why does she put up with him? He yells at her, and calls her names, and she still smiles at him with her lovely warm smile. A smile that he does not deserve to see, but she stays happy and cooks him something that he would like. He doesn't deserve her smile or her love for this family,' Yuki said angrily in his mind. Tohru looked up into the enraged face of Yuki and became confused.
"Um, uh, I'm sorry." Tohru said.
Yuki immediately lost his rage and looked at her confused.
"I'm sorry if I said something that made you mad. I'm really sorry."
"You didn't say anything to make me made Ms. Honda. I was just thinking. Please don't apologize, you did nothing wrong." Yuki said trying to make her stop apologizing.
"Oh, what were you thinking about?"
"Nothing really."
"Oh, could you pass me the oregano?" Tohru asked kindly.
Just then Haru entered the house.
"Haru!" Tohru said in surprise and excitement.
"Hey." He waved. Then noticing Yuki he walked over and smiled.
"Hey Yuki." Tohru remembered the conversation her and Haru had.
Flash back…
"You could say, he was my first love…" Haru said not looking at her…
End flashback…
Tohru smiled warmly at the two.
"Would you like to stay for dinner Haru?" Tohru asked kindly.
"All right." Haru said. He sat down at the table and relaxed his arm on the table.
Tohru smiled and went back to work on the soup and Kyo's fish.
Tohru went over to the cabinet and stood on tiptoes to get the plates. Yuki rushed over to her and caught the plates before they fell all over the floor.
"(Sigh) thank you so much Yuki." Tohru sighed with relief.
"I'll help set the table Tohru, why don't you get the others." Yuki said taking the plates from her and shooing her way to the hall. Tohru, the entire time was looking like she was confused.
She walked up the stairs to get Momiji and Kyo from their room.
They had to share a room, since Momiji is a boy, he couldn't possibly sleep with Tohru, and Yuki absolutely refused to share a room with him so Kyo was stuck with having him there. He didn't go down without a fight though, but as usual, Yuki won.
She walked up to the door slowly and knocked.
"Kyo, Momiji, dinners ready. Do you want to come down and eat?" Tohru asked nervously.
"Be there in a minute." She heard Momiji's voice.
"Momiji? Is Kyo-kun in there?"
"No, he's on the roof. Do you want me to get him?" Momiji called through the door.
"No that's alright, I'll get him." Tohru was worried now. She swiftly walked to the front of the house were the latter was. She climbed up it and peeked her head up over the top.
"Kyo?" Tohru looked around
Hello everyone. I hope you like this chapter. I am going to have a few plot twists and a lot of jealousy. So if you like just click and tell me if I should make them kiss. By the way, this takes place after she met Kisa. Bye-bye.