Author's note! Ok, so I posted this story a while ago, took it down and edited it! I changed a few things regarding...well...everything! please tell me if this is stupid or poorly written or whatever so I know if I should concentrate my energy on my other stories or on this one. Pairings undecided. Please read and review! :)

Happy first day of school to me. I think sarcastically. Kaibara High school seems a lot like my old school, so I doubt I'm going to like it. Especially because I'm starting school here halfway through the year.

I'm in my second year of high school, and changing schools during high school is the worst. I head to the front office, where I'm supposed to have someone show me around the school.

"Hi, I'm Aella. I'm new and was told to come to the front office." I say confidently.

The pudgy office man doesn't look up from his computer but gestures to the chairs that line the wall. I glare at him and sit down next to a nervous looking girl. I play with my beaded bracelet, then stop, not wanting it to come off by accident, that would be disastrous.

After a few minutes of her nervous shifting and tapping her pen on her binder I ask, "What's wrong?"

Her face automatically brightens to a smile, "Oh! Nothing I'm just waiting for someone." She says, her smile so big it looks painful. "I'm going to give a student a tour…Well I guess she's not a student yet, she's new so…" She rambles on.

I smile politely, "Really? I'm actually new today! Are you Tohru Honda?"

Her face lights up again, "Yes! You must be Aella!"

She gets up and says something to the busy secretary and beckons for me to follow her into the hall.

"Ok! Welcome to Kaibara High! The secretary said we have all the same classes so you can hang out with my friends and me today! Class starts in about ten minutes so we can go find Uo and Hana if you'd like to meet them."

I nod and we walk down the hallways until we reach the class labeled 2D. I follow Tohru inside and we sit by the girls Tohru introduces as Uo and Hana.

"So you're new here, huh?" Uo says with and eyebrow raised and a teasing tone.

"Yeah, this is my ninth school since I left Elementary school."

"Dang! That's insane, why'd ya switch schools so much?" She asks.

I shrug and explain that I live with a friend of my parents, (an American named June) and she's a freelance photographer so we have to chase down whatever newspaper or magazine wants to hire her.

Hana stares at me and quietly states, "You have strange electric signals. Not fully human."

I blink and then laugh, " OK, cool! I never knew I was an alien!" I joke.

She shakes her head, "Actually more animalistic than other-worldly." I stiffen. How accurate is she, exactly?"

Hana shrugs and says, "Perhaps you were an animal in another life."

I nod, "I guess that could be true."

"Are you Aella? The new student?" A soft voice says.

I turn around and a silver-headed boy is looking at me.

Before I can reply Tohru answers, "Oh! Yuki! I forgot to introduce you to Aella!"

Yuki smiles and shakes my hand, "A pleasure to meet you miss Aella."

Suddenly Uo calls, "Hey orange-Top! Come say Hi to Aella." I'm pretty sure she just wants to annoy him.

An orange haired boy walks over grumbling, "Stupid Yankee." He looks up and glares at me. "I'm Kyo."

I cross my arms and sarcastically say, "Lovely."

He bristles and hurries out of the room, brushing past a bunch of girls who are staring obsessively at Yuki. The glare at me furiously, as though I should be afraid of them, like I've done something wrong. I glare daggers right back.

Yuki leaves and Uo, Tohru, Hana and I all talk about random things, after they explain to me that Kyo and Yuki are related and Tohru live together with the boys cousin, Shigure.

Uo and me are quickly becoming friends, mainly because she's a former Yankee who kicks butt, and I've been taking martial arts since I could walk. Hana thinks we're crazy and Tohru keeps saying something about Kyo and Yuki liking martial arts. My response way a very complex and interested, "ok" (oh how I love sarcasm!)

The teacher walks in and I sit next to Tohru and an empty seat. We start class, but it's nothing I don't know so I just daydream.

Kyo walk in late and the only seat empty is next to mine. Dang it!

Kyo grumbles as the teacher points to the seat, she smacks his head with a ruler and I swear that Kyo catches on fire, but he keeps his mouth shut.

Class now crawls by unbelievably slow and when the lunch bell rings I have to force myself not to bolt out the door. One can only take so many glares without slapping someone, between Kyo and the fan-girls I'm needing to bash someone's head in, ASAP.

I wait for Tohru and the others and I enter the lunchroom, though to my dismay, we sit with Kyo and Yuki.

Kyo and Yuki are bickering like little kids and its getting annoying.

"Stupid Cat!" "Dumb Rat!" lets just all rhyme today ok, kiddies? I feel like banging my head on the table. Eventually I get up and walk behind the old married couple and out one hand on each of their heads and…

Crash!

"OW!" Kyo yells, his face turning red. "What the heck Aella?"

Yuki just rubs his head.

I smirk and sit back down, but this time in the middle of the two Sohma's.

"I said, "What the heck?" Kyo repeats himself.

I turn slightly and glare at him, "You're constant bickering was driving me insane! You two sound like me and J—" I pause, not finishing that sentence. It's none of their business anyways. I just sit there, raging silently. I try to get up, but Kyo does too at the same time. We fall on the floor, I land on him, and the back of my shoulder hits his head and chest. I get off him faster than I fell and blushing furiously, I reach out a hand to help him up, which he refuses. Then I notice it; He's wearing a bracelet like mine. But then why is he shocked he didn't transform (if he transforms at all) if his bracelet didn't fall off. He's staring at me, shocked, so does Yuki and Tohru. Hana and Uo just start cracking up. (Thanks guys.) I finger my bracelet again. He looks at my wrist and his eyes widen. He must transform, or he wouldn't react that way.

School continues and I wonder about Kyo all day, and when the bell rings, signaling the end of school. Thank goodness.

Before I walk out of school, Tohru and the Sohma's catch up to me.

"Hey! Where ya goin'?" Kyo calls because Yuki and Tohru are probably too quiet.

I wait for them to catch up and then say, "Home"

Tohru nods happily, "Oh! Well we live over this way too! Can we walk with you?"

It'd be awkward to refuse so I nod. It's silent, other than Tohru occasionally prompting a question out of me, but conversation never starts.

We have to walk through Sohma property to get to my house, so Tohru, being sweet as always asks if I'd like to stay for dinner.

I stand there awkwardly, and eventually say, "Um, ok, If it's not too much trouble."

At least I don't have to be around June right now, we've been arguing a lot lately and I'm not in the mood to deal with her right now, so I just call her telling her I'm going to eat with some friends.

An adult comes around the corner saying, "Hello—OH! Who's this!" He says smiling a bit to wide.

Yuki hits him on the head with a book saying, "Quit being such a pervert Shigure"

Tohru heads into the kitchen and I just talk to Yuki and occasionally Shigure (until he says something perverted then I hit him with something and he scurries off) Kyo disappeared off somewhere.

Kyo walks in, looking irritated but not as much as earlier.

Tohru comes through the kitchen door with some food, Kyo tries walking into the kitchen without looking up and runs straight into Tohru. It tries to bolt past me but I scoop it up and hold it at arms length.

"HEY!" the cat yells.

The cat yells.

"Oh no." I mutter. Kyo claws at me, so I pull his tail.

Yuki, Shigure and Tohru are all trying to explain what happened and how Kyo's still on the roof and they picked up this cat off the street.

I hold the cat form of Kyo in one arm and point at him, "HEY! I know this is Kyo, and I know that you're cursed!"

Silence. So terribly awkward.

"Uh-um, how do you know about the curse?" Shigure says nervously.

I roll my eyes and set Kyo down, then sit down on a mat. "You think the Sohma's are the only ones?" I say in monotone.

More silence. Cat got your tongue?

"Well they aren't." I state, saying the obvious.

I point to my wrist. "I'm not sure how your curse works but mine is just the bracelet. If it comes off I transform."

Tohru looks curious and asks, "What Zodiac do you turn into?"

I blink, startled at the bluntness but say, "I don't turn into a Zodiac, My family turns into the sacred animals of the Greek Olympians.

"So what are you?" Shigure asks, paraphrasing Tohru.

I'm about to answer when Kyo gets impatient and clamps his teeth around my bracelet and pulls it off. Stupid cat.

I gasp and a puff of white smoke follows. The others stare in shock at the owl I transformed into.

"You're a bird!" Tohru says, "What kind?"

"I'm an owl." I say annoyed.

"What does that symbolize?" Yuki asks, clearly confused.

"The owl is Athena's sacred animal; owl's symbolize wisdom and strategy in battle." I say, well rehearsed.

"Really?" Kyo says dryly, still in cat form.

I tense, "Of course!"

I spread my wings and flap once, batting Kyo's face before he pounces on my tail feathers. Yuki glares at him. I fly up and sit on the bookcase so Kyo can't eat me. (Though I'd like to see him try, he couldn't catch me on my worst day!) Kyo changes back and I bury my eyes in my feathers while he gets dressed.

"It's ok, he's dressed." Yuki says to Tohru and I.

I fly down back to where my bracelet and clothes are and say, "Can someone move my clothes into the bathroom so I can transform in there?" I carefully pick up my bracelet in my beak.

Tohru puts my stuff in the bathroom as I asked and once I've flown in there she shuts the door and I slip my bracelet over my talons and get dressed.

I return to the room and there's someone knocking at the door. Tohru goes to open it and lets them in cheerily. She smiles and says, "Aella it's your mom!" I stiffen and so does June.

"She's not my mom, just my guardian." I say bluntly.

Tohru colors and apologizes several times; both June and me assure her that it's fine, keeping up our poker faces without a crack.

June turns to me and says, "Aella, you're very late."

"I called you and told you I'd be at a friends house." I say defiantly.

"It's not safe for you to be around people," she says then directs the next part to the Sohmas and Tohru, "Unfortunately Aella is not it to be around people for too long, she can get angry easily and has been known to hurt people."

I bristle visibly and grit my teeth saying, "I do not! How is it my fault they attacked me! What was I supposed to do? Just say 'ok, you can kill me, that's fine?" I say in a mocking tone.

"Young lady! We are going home now. Apologize for the inconvenience to these nice people who pity you."

I curl my hands into fists. "Leave me alone! You're not my mom! Don't tell me what to do!"

Yuki steps in, "Miss Aella was invited, she's no trouble at all."

"Yes! Aella's really nice!" Tohru inputs cheerily.

Kyo looks annoyed, "Yeah, we'd kick her out if she was trouble."

"Well we don't kick you out, Kyo, and you're plenty of trouble." Yuki mutters.

June looks a little suspicious but calmer than she was. "you know, don't you?" She says quietly.

Everyone in the room freezes.

"But you don't care, do you?" She says, more to herself than the others.

"Of course not" Yuki says the same time Kyo says, "Why would we?"

Tohru just smiles.

June looks up, a crazy little glint in her eye. "Fine. Easier on me." She turns to me. "You defied me. Pack your stuff and be out of my house by tomorrow night. Have fun on the streets you little freak."

I blink, utterly confused. Sure, June and me didn't always see eye to eye, but she was always just there for me. Why would she suddenly hate me?

"Don't look so betrayed! The only reason I ever bothered with you was because I promised your mom to help you until you didn't need me. I've always been good at acting, and every month you were "Ok" I got paid from the giant bank account your parents had." She sneers.

My head starts spinning and my eyes start to sting. What? This is moving too fast, why is she doing this NOW?

She storms out and slams the door behind her, the closet thing I though I had to family reveals she was being paid to pretend to care for me.

I blink back tears and start to walk out the door to June's to get my stuff and what money I have to pay for a hotel until I find a job.

As I slid open the door Kyo grabs my wrist, "Just wait a second, ok?"

Tohru brings out the rest of dinner and sets it on the table, "lets eat and then figure this out, ok?"

"Why are you guys helping me? I ask, confused, "You've barely known me for a day!"

Tohru shrugs, smiles and says, "They helped me after knowing me for three hours!"

I laugh and say, "Ok then"

I smile and know that I can figure this out, and I have friends to help me.

Ok! so this is my new fic, and it will be multi-chaptered and its my first one for Fruits Basket so if you find anything messed up with it tell me please! I don't own fruits basket (obviously) but Aella is an OC and I'd love to know if you guys like her or not :) Also, Aella is a greek name and means "storm wind; whirlwind" She was also an Amazon (female warrior) who was killed by Hercules when he came to get Hippolyte's Girdle. Read and review please! I have no idea if readers will like the Zodiac and greek mythology mix so feel free to tell me what you think!

-BeingWhoIWishIWas