The Guardians
Another Fruits Basket FanFic
By realixweatherfairy
Chapter 1: The Introduction
(This part is told by one of the main characters! The rest of the chapters will be me telling the story.)
Hello! I'm Takara Honda! It all started the night Shigure and Yuki Sohma found out that my sister, Tohru, and I were living in a tent. They immediately took us in when a landslide destroyed our tent and since Tohru had a fever, I didn't complain. I was more worried for my sister.
You see, my sister and I are twins and orphans. Our father died when we were little and our mother passed away in a car accident in May of this year. After Mom died, we went to live with our grandfather. A few months later, however, he told us that our aunt's, our father's little sister, family was going to be moving in with us, and that he was going to remodel the house before they moved in and that he was going to stay at their place during the renovation and that we would have to stay with a friend. But our two best friends, Hana-chan and Uo-chan, both had tight living arrangements, so we couldn't say anything, so we decided that we would put up our own place and we did until the Sohmas found us.
That night, a secret was revealed on my behalf. When Yuki was about to go out the door to dig up our stuff, I started to glow and my eyes became the same color as his. I then started to transform in a sailor suit like Sailor Moon's, but the skirt was lavender and the bow in the back was light blue, with a pair of black high heels. I had large gray rat ears and a tail. A tiara like Sailor Moon's was on my forehead but in the middle was the kanji for "Rat"
"Uh-oh," I thought, "These guys are in the Zodiac. I'm going to have a lot of explaining to do. Not only to them, but to the head of our family as well!"
"Takara-san, what's going on?" Yuki asked, looking stunned.
"I'm guessing that you guys know the story of the Chinese Zodiac." They nodded. "Well, each animal that attended that banquet had a guardian that made sure that they got to the banquet in one piece. Because they did such a good job, God charged the Guardians to always protect the Zodiac. At all costs, therefore granting them powers. I am one of the Guardians. Apparently, I am the Rat Guardian. You guys aren't the only family under a curse. My family's curse bonds your family to mine."
"You know about the curse," Shigure said.
"Yes. My family has been protecting yours for hundreds of years," I answered, "There are only 3 Guardians currently living,Tiger, Dragon, and Dog, and now there's me, the Rat Guardian, so that makes 4."
As time went by, I had de-transformed and Yuki had left, leaving me and Shigure to take care of Tohru until we fell asleep. Meanwhile at a house not too far away, a young man walked into a room where an older man was sitting in a chair by a window.
"My Lord, there is a new Guardian," he said.
"Yes, I know. The Rat Guardian has returned. In Takara Honda," he said with a snicker.
The next day, it was decided that Tohru and I would stay in Shigure's spare bedroom. It wasn't much later that we met another Sohma. He had burst through the ceiling in our room and demanded a fight with Yuki. Tohru tried to stop him, but ended up hugging him and turning him into an orange cat, but Tohru also started transforming. She transformed into a sailor suit like mine, except the skirt was orange and black high heels. She had orange cat ears and tail. Her tiara on her forehead had the kanji for "Cat" in the middle. Yuki and the cat just looked shocked, but no more than Tohru.
"Mmmmmeeeeee?? A Guardian?????" Tohru said.
"Yep! You're a Guardian, Tohru-chan. By the looks of it, you're the Cat Guardian," I told her.
"What the ---- is going on here?" the orange cat yelled, causing me to rub my ears. Then Tohru and I recounted the story that I had told Shigure and Yuki the night before. The cat looked very shocked.
"Oh my! I seem to have forgotten my manners," Tohru said, "My name is Tohru Honda, and this is my twin sister, Takara Honda."; and we bowed to the cat.
"I'm Kyo," the cat said.
A year has passed since then. Tohru and I still live with the Sohmas. We just couldn't bear to leave them. Well, there was that and the fact that we missed them too much. We've also met all of the Zodiac members but Yuki, Kyo, and Shigure are the only ones who know about us being Guardians. At first it seemed like Kyo hated my sister, and would only say mean things to her, but that's ceased now and they've become close.
Yuki and I are the best of friends. We talk about everything under the sun. I even help him at his secret base. I remember once that I was considering having my hair cut. My hair length and eye color are the only differences between my sister and me. My hair is the same color but it comes down to just above my knee, and my eyes are a deep shade of blue. Many people we meet say that my eyes are the color of the ocean. Yuki, however, intervened, saying that my hair was the only way he could tell my sister and I apart. I think that Yuki just may be one of my favorite friends.