AUTHOR'S NOTE: So the moon is now cheese. Because it's another fanfiction XD. This is yet another Fruits Basket one, except this one I actually love the premise to so it has a much higher chance of survival than any of the others do (that and I have been picking at it, unlike the other, what, 3? I've made). I'm not gonna say too much here because this is just the prologue, but I hope you enjoy it!
Oh, and I don't own Fruits Basket. Please don't sue me, I'm broke.
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PROLOGUE: SPRING
It was spring when the cat finally defeated the rat.
The fight began as almost all their previous ones had: the cat angry and boastful, the rat calm and collected. At least, on the outside everything was the same. But over the winter the tide had tuned in ways unforeseen by them both. The rat had watched as slowly the flower of their household had turned away from him. It was entirely unintentional—if she had seen the pain it was causing him she would have stopped instantly and ran to his side. The problem was that she hadn't seen. Her normally uncanny insight had faltered as slowly, but surely, she had fallen in love with the cat.
The fight began as almost all their previous ones had. But it ended in a way that surprised them both.
As the rat lay on the ground looking up into the cat's wide eyes they both felt the changes stirring in the air. The cat had finally defeated the rat and earned his seat as one of the twelve of the zodiac. All of the cat's misfortunes would become the rat's and the rat would be exiled from all things Sohma.
The rat finally had what he'd always wanted and he no longer wanted it. To leave the Sohmas was to leave the flower of their household. And to leave the flower would rip a tear in the rat's soul.
But as he lay there staring up at the cat, he could feel the changes beginning—could see the cat's expression change from one of surprise to one of horror.
It was spring when the cat finally became a member of the Zodiac.
It was spring when the rat became the outcast.
NEXT: OUTCAST
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