Welcome to my fruits basket fanfic. It is currently being refurbished and remodeled after a long time away.

Note: my OC is named Natsumi Hisoka (First, Last) Translation of her name is Natsumi = summer beauty and Hisoka = reserved.

First of all my name wasn't always "Natsumi Hisoka". It used to be Olivienne and I used to be a spy, a well trained agent. Since I could remember the orphanage, though we referred to it as the academy, had raised and trained me and others to be spies, assassins, tools for the academy to use. When I was 12 the academy was discovered by the CIA and shut down. Girls who weren't broken by the Academy yet, and were deemed psychologically undamaged were moved to foster homes. And those who were damaged, those like me, were put to use by the American government. It made me jealous and angry. I didn't want to be looked at as a weapon. I didn't want to be seen as broken, damaged, or monstrous.

Then on a job in Japan I met a strange woman. She loved her daughter very much, and she loved her daughters friends just as much. And it seemed, this strange woman loved even me. When Kyoko Honda showed me that love, I latched onto it and refused to let it go. I changed my name, made all the documents and background information just like I was taught. I made a cover, and as far as the American government knew I had failed my mission and died because of it. Then I met and began to live with Tohru, and I met her friends Hana and Uo who quickly loved me like they loved Tohru. I latched onto their love as well. I was safe, I was happy, and I was loved.

But some of that love was taken away from me when Kyoko Honda was killed in a terrible accident. One that left me and Tohru without a mother, and without a place to stay. Tohru's grandpa, on her father's side, was so kind and willing to take us in. Tohru and I were slowly but surely becoming happy again, but due to some other relatives wanting to move in with him too he needed some remodeling done. So that's how Tohru and I ended up here, living in a tent in the middle of the forest until the remodeling on the house was done.

Here we are today. Another day like any other, Tohru and I were off to school; both of us saying goodbye to a picture of Kyoko that Tohru kept close and safe. We were walking and saw a house off to the left. "Look Sumi! A house! It must be so peaceful out here. Let's go take a look," Tohru told me.

I swiftly responded with, "It's not polite to go snooping around someone's home Tohru."

She just smiled and kept going. I felt a sigh escape my lips as I followed her to keep her out of trouble. We got to the porch and saw little painted stones of the 12 zodiac animals bathing in the sunlight. "Aw! How cute! Don't you think Sumi," Tohru asked me.

I nodded my head in affirmation and said, "They are very cute. Too bad your favorite isn't here."

Tohru gave me a questioning look and asked, "What? My favorite?"

I sighed and told her, "the cat silly. It isn't here. Though the cat isn't in the zodiac so it is kind of understandable."

"My word. Do my eyes deceive me or are there two strange young girls standing on my porch?" questioned a man in a kimono with short black hair and dark eyes who had just stepped out onto the porch.

Tohru jumped back and began quickly shouting out an apology, "I'm so sorry! We were just looking! We didn't mean to barge in without permission!"

The man in front of us chuckled and told us, "it's all right. I just set them out to dry so no harm done. But I do find it hard to believe that these silly little things could attract your interest."

We shook our heads slightly in negation as I said, "they're not silly. We both really like them!"

The peculiar man chuckled once again and said, "I understand. I'm quite fond of them myself."

Tohru then questioned, "Why did you leave out the cat?"

The peculiar man seemed a bit stunned by the question leaving me time to explain to Tohru, "the cat isn't within the 12 zodiac remember? If it isn't a part of the zodiac then why include it? Though the tiger is in the cat family so technically the cat is in the zodiac in a sense."

I then began to ponder my thought of the cat technically being in the zodiac until the peculiar man snapped me out of my little world by saying, "oh so you're referring to the old folk tale? Funny. I wonder what he'll think when he hears he has fans."

That caught my attention and I asked, "what was that?"

He waved one hand in front of his face and sang, "nothing~! So you two were both born in the year of the dog? I knew there was something I liked about the two of you. I mean aside from your pretty faces-."

He was cut off as the prince of the school, Yuki Sohma, slammed his school bag on the man's head. Then Yuki spoke to us, "Please forgive my cousin Miss Honda, Miss Hisoka. He's a bit of a flirt but he's harmless. In general it's best to just ignore him."

From where I was standing I watched as Tohru had a small mental freak out while Yuki and his cousin had a small little conversation. Yuki's cousin Whined to him, "what's in your bag a dictionary?"

Yuki's response was short and curt, "actually there are two in my bag."

"Ah so you two are Yuki's classmates? Let's start over. I'm Shigure; Yuki's older and much less violent cousin," said the peculiar man, Shigure.

Tohru and I spoke in unison, "hello. It's very nice to meet you."

Yuki then decided to ask us, "What are you two doing here?"

I knew Tohru would panic to come up with an answer, so I took the liberty upon myself and answered with, "we live nearby and were just on our way to school. Oh if we don't leave now we might be late. Would you like to walk to school with us Yuki?"

Yuki seemed a bit shocked at first but put on a polite smile and answered with a simple, "Yes. Thank you for the offer." Tohru and I both just smiled and the three of us went on our way to school.

The walk was silent so far. I wasn't one for starting conversations, I just didn't know what to do or say really. I suck with human interaction when the people I'm interacting with aren't as strange as me. So I nudged Tohru to get her to start a conversation. If I wasn't going to do it then she at least should, she should talk to the guy she has a crush on. Never mind, I take it back. I shouldn't have nudged her. She freaked out and asked the first thing that came to her mind, "a-ah Yuki! S-so the weathers nice today huh?"

Even she hung her head in shame for not thinking of something better to say. But Yuki was Yuki so he smiled politely and said, "yes it is rather lovely today. With how much it has been raining it is good to see a nice day like this once in a while." He's so nice. No wonder Tohru seems to have a crush on the guy, along with every other girl in school. Before we could continue talking we saw the Yuki fan club and they did the whole gymnastics routine and chant.

" we love Yuki! Yuki! Yuki! L-l-l-l-l-l-love! L-l-l-l-l-l-love!"

We walked right past them acting as if we didn't know them. Then I said, "I don't know which of them I should be more impressed with. The one that acts 2 letters at the same time or the 2 who bend in irregular shapes." I saw Yuki smirk in amusement and Tohru began giggling. I gave myself a silent high five behind my back at the social interaction success and we continued to school.

Once making it to school Yuki went straight to home room. I went to go find Hana and Uo. Once I found them we were walking to were Tohru was. I was telling the story about how we walked to school with the prince since we just happened to bump into him. Uo and Hana seemed concerned for Tohru, and the three of us knowing how those rabid fan girls can be, we hurried to find Tohru faster. And what do you know, we found her surrounded by the three fan club members. Uo butted into their conversation and said, "Hey!"

Well more like shouted but the fan girls where stupid and shouted back at Uo with a "What?!"

"She said it was a coincidence so get lost! Before those big noses of yours get bruised," Uo said intimidatingly. I love this ex-Yankee friend of mine.

The 3 girls jumped back but the blonde decided to be stupidly brave and say, "Now hold it Yankee! You don't scare us with that street thug talk!" Decidedly the girl whose 2 letters at once is my favorite.

Hana immediately stepped in with, "One more word and you'll all get *beep* with electric shocks."

The girls ran away screaming from the best psychic friend in the whole wide world. Uo went over and hugged Tohru comfortingly while asking her gently, "Were those catty girls messing with you? Oh~. Hana don't actually shock anyone okay?"

I looked at Uo and stated, "Uo you have to at least let her shock them once. Otherwise they'll begin to doubt her… plus you know you would love the looks on their faces after being shocked."

She smirked at me and ruffled my hair. She asked me, "You know you're too persuasive right?"

I smiled at the compliment and turned to Hana and said, "we should take that as a yes, Hana!" she smiled at me and nodded in affirmation.

We were in home economics now and we were cooking. Well Tohru and I were at least. And while doing so Tohru was explaining this morning in much greater detail. "I was actually so nervous walking to school with Yuki this morning Sumi had to nudge me to make me talk to him. I couldn't even look at him," Tohru said sighing.

Hana had just finished slicing a fish with her knife. And as she put it back she said, "I feel strange electric signals coming from that boy."

Uo looked over at her, "here we go. Another one of Hana's electric reports."

Tohru, keeping the conversation going, asked Hana, "Strange how?"

"I don't know," Hana told us, "he's different."

Uo looked off to the side and said, "I'll admit he does have a feeling of mystery about him. There are some weird stories about him too. I heard one of the fan girls was confessing her love and tried to hug him. Apparently he just pushed her from him and left."

Hana then commented, "Like I said. That boy has strange electric signals."

I scoffed at Uo and asked, "if you had a club of boys after your heart and one asked you out and tried to hug you. Would you let them? Plus those girls are creepy, I'd hate them even having a chant about me like they do Yuki. You got to feel a bit bad for him."

Tohru wanted to change subjects and stated as much, "Um. Let's talk about something else."

Uo obliged and asked, "How are your guys' jobs coming along?"

Tohru mumbled a quick, "its fine I guess. Why?"

Uo responded, "I don't know. You've been putting in a lot of hours lately. A lot more than usual. You're having trouble saving up for tuition aren't you?"

"No that's, well kind of yeah."

Hana then dipped into the conversation and said, "That's strange. I don't remember tuition here being that much or you having to work this hard. Unless something else has happened."

Uo immediately freaked and began asking questions, "So what is it? You in some kind of trouble? You owe somebody? Your grandpa is giving you enough to eat right? He isn't taking your money is he? I know I worry too much. But seriously if you need me to ruff someone up for you, you just say the word got it?" … talk about mood swing~! Well way to be a stereotypical female Uo!

I decided to actually say something, "if that's the case then how about those Yuki fan club members? I'm sure no one would really mind or even notice." All she did was smirk at me.

School was over and Tohru and I were getting our shoes when we saw Yuki. I waved in a "hi" motion while Tohru said, "oh Yuki it's you! I mean um. Hi." she deflated at the end do to not being able to think of something to say.

Yuki smiled politely as always and said, "It seems we're beginning to make a habit of bumping into each other."

We were already walking and Tohru decided to start a conversation. "So it was nice meeting your cousin this morning. He was funny. And those little zodiac figurines were so cute too."

Yuki responded with, "Yes if I remember correctly I thought I heard you mention about wishing there was a year of the cat."

What? She did? I must have spaced out earlier and ended up missing the conversation. Tohru continued the conversation, "ah it was just an idea I had when I was little."

Yuki had a little hate moment and said, "Cats. They're nothing but useless foolish creatures… tell me Miss Honda. How familiar would you say you were with the history of the Chinese zodiac?"

Tohru was a bit shocked at his sharp tone at the mention of cats and said, "I know the stories my mom told me when I was little."

Yuki then decided to be a history buff and question us, "did you know it was originally nothing but a calendar? A mathematical system to mark the passage of time? Only later did people begin to use it for astrology of fortune telling."

Tohru seemed a little sad at this and said, "So I guess the story about the animals isn't true then."

Yuki responded, "No, I'm not really sure how or when the animals came to represent the years but I don't believe they were there from the beginning. What I do know is that no time in the history of the zodiac has the cat ever been included. So you see? The cat has been shunned by society for thousands of years. But as the story is told it still yearns to be accepted. Like I said a truly foolish creature."

Tohru at a loss for words, could only seem to say, "Sounds like you really don't like cats."

Yuki turned around and smiled at us. I decided now would be a good time to speak up, "I'm sorry Yuki but Tohru and I have jobs to get to and we don't want to be late. If you'll excuse us."

He replied with his usual polite tone, "Certainly. And Miss Honda I noticed earlier you were getting a bit pale. Please try to take better care of yourself. Perhaps we'll bump into each other again tomorrow." With that he continued on the way to his house.

I was now at work and all dressed in my uniform. I'm a waitress at an open late café. There were only waitresses and no waiters due to waitresses being more appealing and what not. I normally don't sleep often due to being haunted by nightmares or memories from my past. So I worked till 12 when the café closed. Then I normally cleaned up and locked up too. Everyone's normally tired so it's fine for me to keep going. The night was a typical normal tonight. Everyone was already gone and I was cleaning and locking up. Peaceful peaceful. Once I locked and double checked everything I went out the back door and locked it. I then left to go back to the tent Tohru and I shared.

It was about 2 am now and no one was really out. It was getting to the time where the drunks were already passed out but it was too early for early risers. When I had made it to the tent all I saw was dirt. I panicked and quickly began to dig everything out first and foremost making sure Tohru wasn't in there. Thank god she wasn't… but where was she? Yuki. I was so grateful. I knew that they would probably come out in the morning to dig it all up so I took everything out and I put them all in bags. I took one of Tohru's uniforms for school and one of mine to clean them at one of the 24 hour laundry mats. Everything else were in bags and I had set them by the Sohma house.

By four in the morning I had both uniforms cleaned and dried. I went back to the Sohma house and sat in a tree nearby. I leaned back in the tree and just dozed, unable and unwilling to actually sleep or dream. I just let my body and mind rest for a couple hours. Before I knew it the sun had come up, but I continued to rest until I heard Tohru.

And sure enough there started to be a bit of commotion coming from the house and I could hear Tohru's voice. When the commotion died down I put my book mark in my book and then put said book into my bag. I jumped down from the tree I was in and walked to the door. Once there I knocked twice. After about a minute of waiting Shigure had answered the door. I asked, "Hello is Tohru here?"

Shigure looked as if he just remembered something and said, "oh Natsumi! Yes please come on in. Tohru is up in hers and your new room!" I looked at him as if asking "come again please?" he then decided to explain, "since you and Tohru have no were to go until Tohru's grandfather's renovations are done we are allowing you to stay here in turn for cooking and doing the house work." Oh. So that's what happened. No wonder Tohru had made so much noise earlier, it seems she had just freaked out. We heard a loud crashing sound from upstairs and decided to go see what happened.

It would appear to me that the orange haired kid busted through the ceiling and is demanding a fight from Yuki. Okay… I can't say this is the weirdest thing I've ever experienced in my life. Tohru decided she didn't want them to fight so she jumped on the orange haired guy and… what?! The was a poof of smoke and the orange haired kid turned into a cat…. My previous words are now revoked. This is the weirdest thing that has ever happened to me. A piece of wood then fell from the hole in the ceiling and hit Tohru's head. She fell on Shigure and Yuki… there was another poof, and then there was a dog and a rat. Once again I eat my words. This is NOW the weirdest thing to ever happen to me. And for a moment I dared to think that a guy turning into a cat was weird.