Introduction, Summary and Disclaimer:
Hiya, welcome to my first ever Fruba fanfic, I've read the manga and I have seen little of the show so its based off what I have read in the manga, not the anime. Anyway on the summary...
Unfortunatly for the Sohma and Sadnesan clans, their families have always been cursed by vengeful animal spirits and the Sohma clan thirteen spirits only. Yet both their secrets has been rooted out by the worst people to learn such a terrible truth. These fenatics see both Sohma and Sadnesan alike as abominations against nature and naturally wish to erradicate them. Sadly at this point in the story, the Sadensan clan has all but been destroyed, the only survivor being Serki. She wants to protect and warn those who are next on the list, the Sohmas, yet she didn't survive the night of her families destruction without old wounds, both in mind and body and her strength is waining...can she help protect the Sohmas before they are destroyed or will she fall before that happens?
Disclaimer: I'll only say this once. Fruits Basket is not mine, and I do not own any characters from Fruits Basket. Thank you.
She ran through the forest as fast as her tired and wounded body would allow. Serki had to put as much distance between herself and the two burly thugs who persued her. She ran with everything she had as her mind raced in thought of this.
How did they find me? I thought leaving my clan's former home would be safer, this city, Tokyo, would be safer, I could disappear and search out the ones I needed to find. Why were they still hunting me? How'd they know I wasn't dead and that I survived that horrible night, the extermination of my Sadnesan clan? HOW? And why? Why attack us? Was being of a clan of people who transformed into a single animal they were cursed with from birth warrant to exterminate us. How could our secret have been found out and in such disasterous way. I'm the last one and they still hunt me...she thought as she demanded more of herself as she swirved through the trees...just a little deeper and then I can transform and at least knock them out, question them and then decide...
Then a root, as though some cruel deity with the world's worst sense humor had placed it there, reached up and snagged her foot, causing the chase to come to a crashing stop. She turned around on the ground in time to see the two panting thugs come to a stop, openly smirking. There would be no escape their eyes laughed.
Really? she thought in answer as she willed herself to change. As weak as she was, she'd only have one breif window of oppurtunity to disable them and flee before she turned back.
She fealt golden-brown fur ripple along her body and her entire form become suddenly much more flexible and agile and the growth of fangs and claws, well capable of killing these two idiots, if she felt so inclined. Instead as a fully grown mountain lion, she gave a full bellied roar that made water on the tree leaves tremble at her voice.
"Don't think that big cat form can save you, abomination, we have something that can make you sleep for a very long time!" The apparent leader of the two laughed after the display as he pulled a pistol out of his jacket and leveled it squarely at heart level, "You die here, scum. You animal turning freaks have no place in society or a right to live."
"Who are you to judge what is scum and whose place is what?" A deadly calm but clearly angry voice growled as a boy with violet eyes and silver-grey hair emerged from a tree from her right.
"Did you really think we'd allow someone to commit murder in our own back yard, you bastards?" another orange haired boy demanded as he emerged from the left.
"There's nothing here the world would lament loosing. Go home boys, we have a monster to exterminate and boys like you have no business with men's work like this. This creature must die." the leader spat.
"Go you two," Serki whispered so the boys could hear her, "My life isn't worth the waste of your own. But do me a favor, warn the Sohmas that they are in danger from my murders."
"I'm not leaving and I am a Sohma. Same with Kyo." the violet eyed boy replied, "I am not going anywhere. You have no business taking a life for whatever chalked up reason you have." he said so the two thugs could hear.
Serki sighed in disgust. Typical boys, just like her brothers, so stubborn, idyically brave...she choked back her tears, she wouldn't go through this again...
Instead, she leapt over the boys to land squarely behind the thugs and jumped on the back of the leader, using all the weight of her lion form to force him to the ground as the other boy, Kyo attacked his accomplice.
The man, she noticed, went down hard and was still. The leader still struggled under her weight, "You aren't getting away from me. As a mountain lion, I weigh more than you ever will. Now then, you have a few questions to answer for me. Who learned the Sadensan clan secret? Who hired the mercenaries the destroyed the Sadensan compound in Yokohama? Who hired you and your partner? Why is killing off any cursed by vengeful spirits so important to you, what have you and whoever you work for to gain?"
She was getting weaker and soon she'd shift out of this form, but not until she got some answers.
"I'm telling you nothing! Though be warned, there are more of us. We'll hunt down every last one of you till there are none of you animal shifting freaks left alive." he snorted in contempt.
It was then that the violet eyed boy decided to knock the man she'd been crouching on unconcious.
"Thank you, he was getting annoying," she laughed weakly as she stepped away from him, "If he's Sohma Kyo and you are?"
"I'm Sohma Yuki and you are?" he replied.
"I am Sadnesan Serki and now," she began, "You and Kyo must forget you ever saw me here tonight. Sohma you may be, but you don't need to be involved in this."
She was prepared to erase their memories when her body decided it was time to become human again and the thin and tight clothing she wore under her normal, now discarded clothing, was all she had against the chill of the night air. She shivered once before she fell unconcious and realized faintly before she completly spiraled away into darkness that she had felt warm...
