My name is Christel and this is my story about how I met Yuki, Shigure, Kyo and the rest of the Sohma family. I am part of the Akashi family and we have a dreadful curse upon us. When we are hugged by someone of the opposite sex we transform into the spirit that we are curse by. When I am hugged I transform into the wolf and it is suppose to resemble the dog in the Chinese zodiac. There are 12 other people that are cursed in my family and the other animals are the guinea pig (mouse), kangaroo (bunny), fish (dragon), donkey (horse), panther (tiger), lemur (monkey), deer (ram), humming bird (roster), elephant (pig), iguana (snake), buffalo (cow) and the koala bear (cat).

It all started when I was 14. I am now living in a tent all because of that one day a few years ago, my mom, dad and I were in our new vehicle then all of a sudden this drunken loser crashed into us. My mom and dad died and but I didn't. I was taken to the Akashi mansion that has some of the cursed people staying there and I stayed there for two years. Then one day I told them I was going out for a nice long walk around the yard but I lied, I went to my room and grabbed all the things I needed for about two months and started to run as far away from the mansion as I could. When I was out of breath I was in the forest and put up the tent that my mom and dad left me and I've been living here for a few months.

On day I went down town and got a news paper and started to read it. I looked in one of the columns and it said, "Warning! Major land slide area around Sundance River!"

"Oh Shit!" I thought, "That's where my tent is!"

I started to run as fast as I could to where my tent was and when I got there I was too late. All of my stuff was covered in gravel, I started to dig but I thought it would be dark by the time I found anything.

"I need to change into my wolf form if I'm ever going to go to sleep." I started to cry then all of a sudden I heard some foot steeps. I looked up and I saw two boys, the one with the black hair looked older than the one with silver hair.

"Are you ok miss?" asked the boy with the silver hair.

"No," I said with a sniff, "my home is underneath all that dirt."

"Your Home!" freaked the boy with black hair.

"Yes," I sobbed, "I was living in a tent here because I ran away from home a few months ago, and I never knew that this was a land slide area until I read the news paper."

I heard the boys talking but I couldn't figure out what they were saying, then they turned around and started to talk, "We were thinking, you could stay with us until you find a place to stay," said the boy with silver hair.

"Oh no, I couldn't," I responded.

"But we insist," said the boy with the black hair, "you wouldn't need to pay board fee, all you would have to do is clean for us," he paused for a second, "and who would miss this chance of having this wonderful young lady staying at our house."

Then all of a sudden the other boy slapped the black haired boy across the face.

"I'm sorry miss but my cousin is a major pervert. Oh by the way my name is Yuki Sohma, and this is Shigure Sohma," said the boy with silver hair.

"My name is Christel Akashi," I paused for a moment, "so is it really okay if I stay at your house until I find a place to stay?"

"Yes," they both said in unison.

"So what are we waiting for?"

We started to walk and I told them why I was living in a tent (except for the part that I ran away from the Akashi mansion).

"Ahahahahaha!" blurted out Shigure.

And then once again Yuki slapped Shigure across the face. We kept on walking then all of a sudden Yuki asked, "Miss Akashi is that your real eye and hair color?"

I have purple eyes and dark blond hair with some purple streaks. Then I thought, "Oh no my hair and eyes along with the rest of the Akashi family have different color hair and eyes," then I finally said, "Yes it is Yuki." I was actually surprised when he did not answer, well then Yuki's hair is silver.

After about half an hour of talking and walking we finally came upon a beautiful house.

"Here we are," said Shigure.

"Wow!" I said in amazement, "this is so big and gorgeous!"

We walked into the house and took our shoes off. Then we went upstairs and Shigure showed me to their spare bed room. It was as big as a normal bed room; it had a twin sized bed with a dresser and a mirror over top of it and a book shelf filled with books.

"This where you will be staying," announced Shigure.

"This is a nice room," I answered, "oh and what's for supper if you don't mind me asking? I could easily make something."

"No we'll just have take-out… again," answered Yuki.

"Oh no I couldn't. I should really make something."

"No you can't." replied Shigure.

"Why not?" I asked.

"Here I'll show you."

So Yuki and Shigure took me down stairs and into their so called 'kitchen.'

"Oh my god," I thought, "now I know why they wanted to get take out."

The kitchen was a disaster. There was garbage bags lying around all over the place, silver ware, plates, you name it, it was all over the floor and I think I saw a Crock Pot in the middle of the kitchen.

"I'll go order the food now," said Shigure in a high pitched tone.

"Yes, one of these days you'll have to clean this up for us," said Yuki.

I still had a surprised look on my face form when we entered the 'kitchen.' We walked into the dinning room and sat down.

"So Miss Akashi, what school do you go to?" asked Yuki.

"Oh," I thought for a moment, "umm, I was home schooled for the past two years, but I use to go to Westhaven Elementary School,"

"Well," Shigure walked into the room, "you should go to the high school that Yuki will be going to at the beginning of the new semester,"

We talked for about half an hour then our food came. We sat down and started to eat. After a while I started to hear a cracking noise in the roof, then all of a sudden SNAP! Went the roof and this orange haired boy was standing in the middle of the room.

"Hey where's my food?" asked the boy with orange hair.

"Kyo, why would we get anything for you? You've been missing for two whole months." Shigure replied.

"Umm, do you know this guy?" I asked.

"Oh sorry Miss Akashi this is Kyo Sohma, he is also our cousin," answered Yuki.

"Oh wow another Sohma. The Sohmas must be a really big family, and for some odd reason they have funny hair and eye colors. Well then so does my family," I thought.

"What is this bitch doing here?" yelled Kyo.

"This is Christel Akashi," introduced Shigure, "she'll be staying here until she finds a place to stay. Oh and while you're here why don't you fix my roof?"

"Yea, yea what ever. I came here to settle our fight."

Then all of a sudden Kyo threw a punch at Yuki, but he dogged it and kicked Kyo right through the door and into the yard.

"Oh my god!" I freaked, "are you okay Kyo?"

"Yea, the only thing that is bruised is his ego," replied Yuki.

"Oh my," said Shigure, "it's almost 10:00pm, we should be getting to bed soon."

"But I don't have anything to wear," I said shyly.

"Don't worry you could wear some of my cloths," offered Yuki.

So we went up stairs and Yuki grabbed a pair of pajamas and we all said good night, even Kyo and I walked into my room. I got dressed and went into the bed. I sat there for a moment and thought, "This is going to be a new beginning for me. Thank-you for everything Shigure and Yuki."