A/N: I've decided to write another AU story for Ouran High School Host Club. This is based off of Fruits Basket, although I probably won't be making the characters in it appear in this story. They'll be some differences involving the curse and how to break it, so it won't be broken in the same way as the original.
I don't own Ouran High School Host Club or Fruits Basket
Prologue: The Zodiac Curse
Ten years ago, a little antique shop opened. It was a lonely looking shop, and stood all by itself on a rainy day in Japan. The owner, an old woman who no one could guess the age of, was seated in a corner of the shop in a rocking chair. Thirteen zodiac figurines sat on the small table next to her, unblinking, as if waiting for someone. One by one, twelve different families appeared in the shop, trying to find shelter from the storm raging outside. When one family left, another would appear to take their place. Each family had children with them, and thirteen of these children would always find themselves in front of the old woman to examine the figurines.
"Do you like them?" she would rasp.
They would all hesitantly nod.
She would always smile mysteriously and say, "You can have one for free. I have no use for them, and you seem to enjoy them. Pick whichever one you'd like."
They would all slowly pick one, and she'd always ask them, "Why did you pick that one? It seemed as if it called to you, yes?"
The children would quickly bid the woman goodbye and rush back to their parents. As soon as they all had left, the woman leaned back in her chair. "Thirteen children fated to become part of the zodiac until the curse could be broken," she looked up at the ceiling. "It has been done. I await the day you come and try to break the curse, Haruhi Fujioka..."
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A/N: As you can see, how they all get the curse is different from how they got it in Fruits Basket.
