Akari: Hi minna-san! As I promised, Cat vs Rat is indeed getting the anticipated sequel that you've all been waiting for~! This sequel is (hopefully) going to be pretty long, longer than all of my other fanfictions! I'm so excited! ^^ I do not own Fruits Basket or any of its characters!

MaxwellsFanFic: OMGJDHFDFHK! I can't believe that there's a sequel! ;D I'm so happy!

Akari: Ok then, let's get straight into it then~!

Chapter 1 – The Darkness In His Heart

Kyo's Pov

Its already been 12 years since Tohru and I both had our first baby boy named Yami, (Translates into 'darkness') But something is very strange about him. For one thing, he has jet-black hair which I'm still not sure where that came from, the only sort of resemblances that he has with me and Tohru is only his red eyes, which come from me, but otherwise, its very hard to tell that he's our child. Secondly, Yami is a lot more mature for his age. He is currently 12 years old, but acts like a very mature 15 or even 20 year old. Also, whenever we go around town with Yami, people around the street always say things like, "Look at that adorable little girl, isn't she the politest little girl you've ever seen?" He also gets mistaken for a girl at school as well, even though he clearly doesn't act like a girl at all, just a very polite and well-mannered boy.

The reason that Yami actually has a girl's name is when Tohru was pregnant, Hatori told us that we were definitely going to be having a girl, it was clearly visible in the ultrasound as well. But when he was born, out pops a baby boy. So somehow, Yami just magically transformed into a boy? No, that cant be it, there has to be some sort of logical explanation behind all of this strangeness, and somehow, I'm going to figure it out...

Yami's Pov

Something strange happened at school yesterday. I'm not sure if this sort of thing is supposed to happen, but I thought that maybe if I told mum and dad, they might either be confused or just very angry. So on the long bus ride home, after thinking about it, I decided to just keep it a secret for now.

Flashback~

"Ahahahaha!" A kid quietly laughed from the seat behind me while the teacher had her back turned and wrote on the whiteboard. I closed my eyes and pretended that I was the only person in the room, and continued to focus on the teachers lecture on Math problems and whatnot. I didn't really care much about Math, it was honestly pretty boring. I'd much rather be working on my black magic, at least black magic is actually useful. Suddenly, as I was about to doze off into my daydreams, someone taps me on the shoulder. I sleepily turn around, half expecting it to be some laughing kid or something.

It turns out to be a girl with a terrified look on her face, as if she was about to get killed at any moment. She held out a small, ripped at the bottom folded note in her hand and gave it to me while her hand shook uncontrollably. I curiously took it, carefully opened the note and read the small writing written in red pen.

"Hello Yami, its good to see you again. I don't think you know me yet, but my name is Akito. I have quite a lot to tell you, but I don't think I'll be able to fit everything I want to say just on this one piece of paper, so I'll just sum it up in just one paragraph. So please refrain from blabbing to anyone about this letter once you have read this, OK?

First of all, I would like to inform you that you have possessed the curse of the zodiac, but however, you are not a normal Chinese zodiac animal, you are indeed a rare type of animal that never appeared in the old folk tale in the Chinese zodiac. Yes, indeed, you are the panda. You may be thinking, 'Wait, isn't Akito a panda as well? How can there be two panda's?' Well, the answer simply is; there can only be 1 winner. And yes, you are correct in thinking that this problem can only be solved by having the ultimate death match. That would be quite humorous, but no, you are unfortunately only a mere child so having a death match would be far too dangerous. Buuuuut...There can be an exception, we can easily arrange some sort of agreement so that there can be indeed TWO panda's, but it requires a lot of effort and hard work. I sadly cannot discuss what the hell this agreement is since I'm almost at the bottom of this half-assed ripped out page which that stupid little girl supplied me with. (I'll indeed punish her for this later...) So for now, please pay a visit to the Sohma Family Estate asap, and come alone.

-Sincerely, Akito Sohma."

As I finished reading the note, I was speechless. I couldn't believe that I was actually part of the Chinese Zodiac, no one had even told me before now. I'd heard that dad was the cat from the zodiac, but they didn't tell me about this. Maybe they already knew but didn't tell me because they didn't want to hurt my feelings? Either way, I'm still going to go and visit Akito tomorrow after school, that way mum and dad wont know that I'm going over there. I mainly want to keep it a secret because they told me never to go to the Sohma Family Estate alone. I don't even know what's so bad about that place. Every time I try to ask why, dad always just ignores me, and mum does the same.

But I have to find out what this Akito guy wants from me, and maybe he can shed some light on why nobody even bothered to tell me that I'm the Panda.

For the rest of the pointless math lesson, I daydreamed until it was over, wondering what type of guy Akito might be...

Akari: OK, sorry for cutting the chapter short but I got a really important 2-day essay for English to study for! Please review, that would be awesome! ^^