Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket.

This is a revised and altered version of the original chapter that was uploaded. The story stays the same; I only reworded things and changed a few names. I also corrected the title because there was actually a typo.. oo;; Shame shame..

Italics flashback

Bold thoughts, chapter number/titles, or something important.

Some of the things aren't exactly like the story. By that, I mean how I mentioned in a flashback how Tohru already knew Arisa and Hanajima when she was 8, but according to the actual story, they met around middle school, I believe.

Fateful Encounter

Chapter 1

Present Life

Note: Tohru is 7 years old when this takes place.

Tohru Honda was in the tiny forest (so she won't get lost) making snow angels. Tohru stood up and giggled and said, "This is so much fun!"

Rustle rustle

Shocked by the noise, she fell down on the snow. Tohru started to cry because she was scared. In a trembling voice, she said, "Who's there? Please come out, I'm scared."

An orange head popped out of a couple of bushes and that boy threw a snowball on Tohru's forehead. "Hahahaha!! I'm the best!!" said the boy.

Tohru started crying a lot and her eyes started getting red. The boy went over to her and offered her a hand to stand up. She got up and calmed herself down. "W-who are you?"

"I am Kyo Sohma, the best of the best!"

Tohru told Kyo, "Sorry, I have to go now, bye!" Then another snowball hit her head. Then she heard Kyo say, "O.K." Tohru ran home to her mom…

Ten years later...

"It's already this late!" Tohru quickly rushed to prepare for school and to make sure she had everything ready because today was the first day of school. Today was also her first day as a third year, so she was almost done with fulfilling her mother's dream of having Tohru graduate from high school. Before she left her tent, she made sure the picture of her mom was on guard. "Okay mom, don't let anyone in while I'm gone!" With that, she smiled and took off to school.

When Tohru was almost at school, she saw her friend Hana.

Hana's POV (point of view)

I have strong waves that Tohru is close by….

-End of POV-

"HANA-CHAN!! Oh I missed you so, so much!" Tohru squealed as she hugged Hana. "I barely got to talk to you during vacation, too bad I couldn't go to Europe with you…." Suddenly Tohru looked so sad, but that was only a moment because the next second, she was beaming with delight because she got to see her friend.

Then out of nowhere, there was a bicycle speeding forward. It was Minami, the girl who took over the Prince Yuki Fan Club "MOVE OUT OF THE WAY, TOHRU HONDA IF YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOOD FOR YOU!"

"Shut up and get a life!" yelled a girl with long bleached hair. The girl threw a rock at Minami, and that got her off balance. She crashed into a group of people.

"Uo-Chan… You saved me." Tears came down from Tohru's eyes, and Arisa hugged Tohru until she stopped crying.

"It's okay now… I won't let them bully you. Next time she bothers you, you can just tell me and I'll…"

She was interrupted when Hana said, "You know, I can BEEEP her with electro-poison waves if you want me to."

"Hanajima, you'll scare Tohru if you zap someone, so don't. Remember what happened last time you zapped that fatass who was making fun of Tohru?"

Flashback

Tohru was only 8 years old when this happened. The kids where sitting in little groups, and they were doing arts and crafts.

Tohru raised her hand and when the teacher called on her, she said, "Sensei, may I go wash my hands in the restroom? My hands are sticky from the glue."

"Very well."

Tohru got out of the seat and headed to the door. Being clumsy as always, she ran into the wall. Then the boy, Aki started laughing and her and made jokes that caused Tohru to cry.

"Hey look who I am." said Aki as he ran into the wall. Everyone started to laugh except Hana and Arisa. Tohru was still sitting (because she fell after running into the wall) on the floor and continued crying.

Three minutes later…

"Students, it's time for lunch, quietly line up." announced the teacher.

Hana went to the crying Tohru and said, "Hey Tohru-kun I have a present for you."

That took Tohru by surprise. "Hic…really? You don't have to give me anything…"

"I'll be honored to give it to you." With that, a slight mischievous spread across Hana's face.

As the class was still lining up, Tohru watched Hana. Hana roughly grabbed Aki by the collar and took him out of the classroom. After about a minute, she came back with no signs of Aki.

"Okay class, started heading out the door."

Suddenly, the girl who was the first one to leave the room came back in and headed towards the teacher. "Sensei…I see Aki outside with bruises, and he's not moving. I think there was smoke coming out of him too…"

The teacher rushed outside quickly and then dialed for the ambulance.

In a calm voice, Hana said to Tohru, "Enjoy your present."

Tohru took a while to figure out what "present" was given to her, and when she finally figured it out, she went crying to Arisa. "Scared…I'm scared…scared…"

Ten minuted later you could see ambulances and doctors and stuff rushing to get Aki to the emergency room.

End of Flashback

The thought of what happened almost ten years ago made Tohru shiver. She still had nightmares about that once in a while. "I wonder what ever happened to Aki."

Hana says, "He got out of the hospital last week."

Arisa and Tohru stared at Hana with eyes wide opened.

"What?" she asked calmly.

Tohru spoke up and said, "How do you know that?"

"Wave reports."

Tohru tried to bring up another subject and said, "Um…anyways, I wonder why Minami was rushing."

"She's probably going to watch the prince charming."

The first bell rang, signaling the students to get to homeroom. "Ah! We're going to be late!"

"Calm down Tohru."

"But I promised..."

"It's okay, c'mon let's go." said Arisa.

As they continued their walk to school, Hana mentioned, "Tohru-kun…are you okay with living with your Grandpa? Are they feeding you enough? Are they taking the money you earn?"

"Yes. Yes. No. (To the three questions) I can't tell them I'm living in a tent because Uo-Chan would get real mad at my grandpa because I can't stay with them.

Flash back

After much argument, Tohru was to stay with her grandpa after the accident of Kyoko.

Tohru wasn't able to move in with her grandpa immediately though.

"Ahh.. So nice of you to live with me, but Kyoko…"

"I'm Tohru, grandpa."

"Ah yes. Now Kyoko, I'm afraid you have to find somewhere else to live for a because our other relatives would like to move in with me, but the house needs a bit of remodeling. I'm sure you can find a friend to live with or something. Do you have money?"

"I'll be fine. I have enough money as well."

"Ahh.. good. Good thing you made a good choice by saving your money, Kyoko."

Tohru just smiled.

Torhu was looking through flyers and finally found a store to buy a tent on sale. She bought a tent on sale for 1,200. Then she searched for a camping space away from people. Then she found a place in the woods.

End of Flashback

They got to school went to classes blah blah blah and the bell rang. Now school is over.

"Hey Tohru, Hanajima and I are going shopping, you coming along?"

"Oh no, I'm sorry, Uo-Chan, but I have work, and I don't want to be late.

10:00pm…

"Ahh… Finally work is over." Tohru went to the bathroom to change and gathers her stuff before she left. After a 10 minute walk, she was home (her tent). "Ugghh… and I have homework, but it's the first day of school! Oh well, I'm doing this for mom." Tohru picks up the picture and says "Don't worry mom, I'll graduate." She placed the picture down and grabbed a pot for some water from a nearby stream to wash up.

As she was going back to the tent, she noticed two figures walking. That's Sohma-kun…?

She placed the pot right outside the tent and went to get a closer look at the two figures. She overheard the conversation.

"I guess we have to order takeout again, huh Yuki?"

"Why don't you cook? I don't like takeout anymore."

"But my dear Yuki, I thought you hated my cooking, and you'd do anything to have me not cook anything."

"No, Shigure, that's only when you put pickles in curry."

Tohru accidently tripped over a broken branch and fell onto a huge bush that caused a rustle behind Shigure and Yuki.

Yuki instantly turned around and put his guards up. "Who's there?! Come out this instant."

Out of the bush came Tohru crawling because she accidentally twisted her foot, which quickly turned swollen and red.

"Honda-san?!"

Shigure said, "My, my, if it isn't a pretty high school."

"Shut up, idiot." Yuki went over to Tohru and said, "Honda-san, you all right?"

"I'm okay."

Shigure says to himself, "So you guys know each other?." Then he says to Yuki, "I'll leave you guys alone, I'll be heading back first. Shigure winked at Yuki before turning around to leave.

Yuki muttered, "Idiot…"

"Do you need any help? Where do you live?"

"No, I'm fine. I live nearby."

Yuki starts thinking. Nearby? I don't think we sold or rented the Sohma property to anyone though. His thoughts were interrupted as he saw Tohru attempt to get up.

Tohru was half way up, but because of her foot, she fell down again. Since she was already exhausted, she became dizzy and fainted.

The next morning….

Tohru finds herself sleeping in a peaceful room. Why…am I in a room?

To be continued…

-Mireillle

Wait there's more!

Preview of Chapter 2: It's You Again

Tohru started living with Yuki and things were going well and later on she discovers about the curse. Her boss gave her every weekend a day off because one day he saw her working hard and she didn't want to put her in danger (Meaning failing school. Not enough sleep. Etc.) and gave her some time to relax and study and stuff. She goes over to her friend's house and on the way there, she meets a orange head.

That's just a brief summary of the next chapter.