Hello guys! Thanks for...clicking! This is my first FanFic, so we'll see how this goes. I'll warn you, though-I would really, really like to read the magna, but sadly, my Mother disagrees with this, and I haven't been allowed. So-o I'm going of the TV show, and working of what I have heard from friends, internet, and just, you know. In general.

Also: This timeline is crazy, so try not to attack me, I'll do my best. This "prologue" takes place about a month or so after the last episode, but the rest will take place after the curse is broken. Also, Kyo and Tohru won't exactly be as lovey dovey after the curse is broken as in the books. (or so how I here they are in the books.)

Lastly, I'm sorry for this chapter; I don't like what has to happen either. Nothing's explained, just to let you know, I just need it to happen somehow. HOWEVER: This is probably impossible. Scientifcly, that is. So don't take my word for it or anything, this was just what I came up with!

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Fruits Basket, blah. But if anyone would like to get me it for my Birthday...

Hi! I'm Tohru Honda! My Mom used to say life was like a game, we just had to play it right. We could do that by being ourselves, and being kind to other people. When My Mom died, I didn't want to bother anyone, so I lived in a tent. I like to think I got extra points in the Game for that! Until the Somha's came and took me in, that is. Sometimes, games don't always go the way we want, but that doesn't mean we lost!

One time, I thought I had lost! You see, it all started one day, a few winters ago...

"Hmmhmhmmhm." Tohru hummed, squirting shampoo out of the generic brand bottle and attacking her hair with it. She felt bad, showering before Kyo, but he seemed rather preoccupied. Things had been going nicely at the Somha's lately. Kyo and Yuki had been getting along, Shigure was finishing his manuscripts on time, and Momiji, Kisa and Haru came and visited often.

Turning of the water, Tohru grabbed a towel and dried of, switching her tune to a sharp whistle. Her thoughts turned to Yuki and Shigure; Yuki had so many School Board meetings and whatnot, and it seemed a shame he couldn't be with the rest of them on the fine Saturday. Shigure said he had to run errands, and though she had offered to do them, or at least help, Shigure insisted she stay. Kyo had been sulking on the roof,(Why, she didn't really know.) and it didn't seem like he was coming down anytime soon.

Wrapping the towel around her self, she hummed her way down the hall, staring at the carpet, and noticing how it needed to be vacu-"OOF!"

She felt the towel drop, and her body go limp. She somersaulted down the stairs, her body twisting and turning like a soft pretzel you can buy at mall kiosks. An orange cat tumbled after her, trying desperately to cling to something and failing, cracking his head against the edge of the hardwood stairs. He landed limply, stretched out across her stomach, everything dark and starless.

~KYO POV~

Kyo was mad. That stupid, stupid, dang rat. He had to spoil everything, didn't he? Heck, Kyo would punch the next person that came near him just for the fun if it-unless that person was Tohru. He sighed, holding his carrot-topped head in his hands, and pushing back tears. Tears were for babies. And Tohru, she would never think him a man if he had dang red eyes from crying.

Heck, why did everything always come back to TOHRU? She was just a stupid girl! Wasn't she? Why did his thoughts always turn back to her? He instinctively glanced at the bead bracelet, sighing. Trying to breathe. He needed to get out of here...or at lest get something to drink. Huffing, he marched of the roof, onto the top floor, and down the hall. If that dang rat was home yet, though, he was going to-"OOF!"

He felt his body shrinking, stretching, tingling. What had he done? Bumped into Tohru? Why couldn't she watch where she was going...why couldn't he? The world whizzed around him. His first flip down was a flurry of sights, than a "CRACK!" and the world swam, and turned red. And on his last whirl down the stairs, the world went black.

~SHIGURE~

Shigure whistled his trademark tune as he came through the door with a surprise for Tohru-ingriedents to make his favorite supper! He proudly placed the groceries on the counter, feeling mighty proud and unselfish, shopping for the grocerys all by himself. "Oh Tohru, Kyo! Look what I-" he stared at the bottom at the stairs for a moment before turning his head and chuckling at the two nude children in front of him.

"You know," he said, shielding his eyes. "That sort of thing is usually done in a bed." Shigure said, waiting for them to scramble away in embarrassment, mumbling apologies and not say a word to him or each other the rest of the day. But there was no shuffling, no sorrys, not a peep.

Slightly worried, the Dog turned around. This time, he noticed a puddle of blood surrounding the bodies. Since there torso's weren't touching-though their bottom halves were-Kyo was human. Sighing, he pulled Kyo off, noticing the gash in his head. Both the teens stirred, awake enough to realize what Shigure was doing and look somewhat embarrassed before they both nodded of again. Shigure thought that Tohru had fainted, not passed out, though.

Shigure dashed up the stairs to get a few blankets and clothe for Kyo's head, in rather a panic. He noticed wet footprints and a dropped towel at the top of the stairs, as well as Kyo's clothes, seeming to allude to, maybe an accidental hug-and-fall? Dashing into the bathroom, he grabbed all the towels and bandages he could find, and then some blankets from the guest room.

Back on floor one, he through the blankets over Tohru, and one over Kyo, as he bound the orangie's head in gauze, though blood was soaking through quickly. Happy with his makeshift hospital, he grabbed the phone and dialed a number. Gosh, he hoped Hatori was home.

~NORMAL POV!

"Well, they should both be fine." Hari said, glancing over his shoulder at his two sleeping patients. After the Dragon had arrived, he had checked them over for injury, and beside a minor concussion for Tohru and a bad gash and blood loss for Kyo, they seemed good.

"Just pick them up some of these medicines, and make sure they stay in bed for most of next week. I'll check on them again Wednesday, and maybe they can go to school Thursday. Shigure nodded, preoccupied with whether or not to tell Hari everything that had happened. They hadn't said anything about it when they woke up, so he had decided it was Tohru's and Kyo's decision. But still, he was very uneasy...

"Is there something else?" Hari asked, squinting at Shigure as he put his things back in his bag.

"Oh, No! Of course not! Why would you think there was?" the robed man chuckled nervously.

The Dragon stared at the Dog, looking deep in his eyes, until he pulled away with a sigh. "I probably don't want to know." he grumbled, putting on his coat and exiting the room. "I would make your guest room into a makeshift hospital, for Kyo and Tohru during the day. That way they can keep each other company, and you can administrate medicine at the same time."

"Okay!" Shigure answered cheerfully. "Good bye, Hatori!" He waved, waiting for the sound of the car before he turned to the teens. "Fess up." he stated, with a certain authority.

"What?" said a still dizzy Kyo, and Tohru simply stared.

"Oh, do I really have to prod?" Shigure said, overely dramatic as usual. "I saw you two...you know." He grinned in his creepy way.

The Tohru blushed. "Oh...that was an accident! It must have happened when we fell down...down the..." she turned a shade darker, and began to mumble apologies.

"AW, HECK! YOU THOUGH WE DID THAT ON PURPOSE?! IF I DIDN'T HAVE THIS CRAPPY BANDAGE OVER MY EYES I WOULD-" Kyo was interrupted by a chuckling Shigure.

"No, I didn't really think you two had-well, let's just say I didn't think you two would do something like that, willingly. You told Hatori you fell down the stairs...I'm assuming Kyo, you knocked into Tohru? Is that it?"

The Cat nodded.

"And Tohru...you had just came out of the shower, right? And you two "hugged" down the stairs?"

Two nods this time.

"And Kyo landed...er, conveniently on Tohru?"

The two hid their heads under the covers.

"Thought so!" Shigure said, looking quite proud of himself. "Now, I have to run and get this medicine Hatori recommended for you...be good, okay?"

He was returned by a silent Kyo and a mumble from Tohru.

"Good." Shigure grinned. He was evil, wasn't he?

~TOHRU/KYO POV~

"Want to play cards?" Tohru asked. She was sitting up in bed, finally feeling better from the fall that had happened three days before.

"No." Kyo answered, lying on his side, away from Tohru. It had been that way since the evening of the incident, after Shigure turned the guest room into a hospital, of sorts.

Tohru looked down at the bed, tracing the pattern with her fingers, tears dripping down her pink cheeks.

"Kyo...?" she sniffed, trying to keep from needing a tissue. "I'-I'm so sorry...I'm such an..an..an idiot!" the tears were flowing now, and she couldn't help the sob that rose through her throat out of her mouth. "You probably hate me...this is all my fault." Tohru continued to cry, her thoughts flying. Why did it have to happen? She had just finally gotten him to trust her, after the time he had turned into his True Form. Everything was runined...everything.

"TOHRU!" Kyo yelled. Yeesh, that girl just didn't listen. Kyo waited until her ranting stopped, than continued. "Tohru...I'm not mad at you. I'm mad at...me. I'm the one who should be apologizing. I didn't watch where I was going. I-I'm sorry." He hung his head, not wanting to look her in the eye.

"Oh Kyo!" Kyo's eyes widened as an over-estatic Tohru threw herself off her bed and onto Kyo's, grabbing his hands. She sniffed, and looked up into his eyes with her "goofy" grin. The bandage that had covered his eyes had been shortened, to one that lopsidedly covered half of his head, where the gash was. Kyo smiled back at Tohru, not his usual grin, but a gentle, sweet smile.

"Tohru." Kyo whispered. "Let's pretend...it never happened, alright?" he stared down at her hand, squeezing back ever so slightly. He glanced up, daring to look into her eyes...her shining, sparkling eyes. She nodded, and a smile escaped her lips. Kyo leaned back, dropping her hand and added "Okay then, so, if your really want me to play your stupid card game, I will, but don't expect me to play with you all the time."

"Oh, you don't have to!" Tohru said, back to her normal self. But, seeing the annoyed expression on his face, she laughed nervously. "Or...we can play." Kyo rolled his eyes and nodded as she handed out the cards.

"Sure Tohru." Kyo muttered, hiding a grin. "Let's play."

Well, there you are! I hope you enjoyed, and I'll have another chapter out next week! Comment, etc. Thanks!