All For One and One For All
A Fruits Basket FanFic
By realixweatherfairy
Disclaimer: I own nothing beyond what I created
Chapter 1: The Beginning
Tohru Honda was on her way to school when she ran into the Sohmas. She had been living in a tent since about May, since her mother had been killed in a car accident. Her cousin, Sakura Takara, had been living with them at the time and she was forced to find a place of her own.
After telling her story of how she knew of the Chinese Zodiac story to the man she just met, a young girl with long black hair that reached down to her knees and soft light green eyes, jumped into Tohru's back while crying.
"Tohru! I found you! I was looking all over for you!" the girl said.
"Sakura Takara-chan, you don't have to worry about me!" Tohru answered.
"I'll worry if I want," Sakura Takara answered.
"So, I take it you two know each other?" the man that Tohru had been talking to asked.
"Yes, I am Sakura Takara Honda and this is Tohru, we're cousins!" Sakura Takara said.
"Well, it's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Shigure Sohma," the man said.
Tohru and Sakura Takara looked at each other and Sakura Takara asked, "As in Yuki Sohma?"
"Yes, Yuki's my cousin," Shigure answered.
"Yuki's my best friend, so it's a pleasure to meet you, Shigure-san," Sakura Takara said.
"Sakura Takara-san?" came a voice.
Tohru and Sakura Takara turned and saw the "Prince" of their high school, Yuki Sohma.
"Yuki-kun, how many times do I have to tell you?" Sakura Takara said, "You can just call me Sakura."
"Sorry but what are you doing here?" he asked.
"I was looking for my cousin, Tohru-chan," Sakura said.
"Oh, in that case. Has Shigure been causing you trouble?" Yuki asked, hitting Shigure on the head with his bag.
"No," Tohru and Sakura answered.
"Oh, okay," he said with a smile.
"Well, we better be going now, see you at school, Yuki-kun," Sakura said, pulling her cousin away by the wrist.
"Sakura-san, shall we all go together?" Yuki asked, trying to spend a little more time with his best friend.
She didn't say anything, just turned around and smiled the smile that he loved so much. While they were walking together, some girls saw them and got jealous.
When they got to school and went to their classroom, Tohru and Sakura got accosted by three girls.
"Honda-san, Sakura Takara-san, what were you two doing walking to school with Yuki-kun?" the girl in the middle asked.
"It was just a coincidence," Tohru said.
"Excuse me, is there a problem with me talking to my best friend?" Sakura asked, her temper rising.
"There isn't any reason to call the police?" the girl on the left asked, with a look of insane jealousy on her face.
"Oi! Dummy, they said that it was a coincidence! So leave them alone, or you'll have to deal with me!" said a girl with blond hair, who looked like she was ready for a fight.
"Yankee! You think you can always solve things with threats!" the girl in the middle said, frightened.
"Shall we take this outside?" a girl with long black hair that was standing by the blond haired girl said.
The three girls ran off scared.
"Uo-chan! Hana-chan! You saved us!" Tohru said.
"It's good to see you guys!" Sakura said.
"Oh! You two were being picked on, I don't like it when my friends are picked on," Uo-chan said.
Later on at lunch Arisa Uotani, aka Uo-chan, Saki Hanajima, aka Hana-chan, Tohru, and Sakura were eating together.
"You know Tohru, you don't look too good, are you okay?" Arisa said.
"Yeah, I'm fine," Tohru said with a smile.
"You're working part time after school today, aren't you, Tohru-kun?" Saki asked.
"Yes," she answered.
"Don't work too hard, I know you don't want to be a burden on your grandfather, so you promised that you'd pay your tuition your self, but that doesn't mean that you can work yourself to death," Arisa said.
"Thank you, Uo-chan," Tohru said.
Tohru's mom had been killed in a traffic accident and afterwards she could have stayed with anyone, but she chose to stay with her paternal grandfather. Later it was decided that he would stay with Tohru and Sakura's aunt's family. He had asked them if they had any friends that they could stay with, but Arisa lived in a 1 room apartment and Saki lived with a family of five, so she couldn't say anything. So they decided to set up their own homes, only Sakura didn't know that Tohru lived in a tent. Sakura had been able to find a small apartment but would have to move soon.
After school, Sakura and Tohru ran into Yuki-kun.
"Thank you for walking to school with us, Yuki-kun," Sakura said.
"It was no problem, Sakura-san," Yuki answered.
They walked out of the school together.
"Honda-san, I heard something about you wanting to be the Year of the Cat this morning," Yuki said, quietly.
"I decided that when I was little," Tohru said, "When I first heard the story of the Chinese Zodiac. I felt so sorry for the cat."
"Cats are very rude," Yuki said and walked off. Sakura and Tohru just stood there for about a minute.
"Ah, Tohru, if you don't hurry, you're going to be late for work, so I'll see you later," Sakura said, shoving Tohru towards the road that lead to where she worked and Sakura went to her apartment.
Later, when Yuki and Shigure were walking and talking, they ran into Tohru at her tent. They took her back to Shigure's house to talk to her, while Shigure was laughing his head off.
After discussing things, Yuki found out that Tohru had a fever and that there had been a mud slide where the tent was. Tohru was extremely upset because the picture of her mother was in the tent. Shigure and Yuki brought Tohru back to the house, to find Sakura there waiting for them.
"Tohru! What's going on, you guys?" Sakura asked, worry plain in her voice.
"Your cousin has a fever. She has been living in a tent for a while now," Shigure said.
"What?!" Sakura yelled.
"You didn't know?" Yuki asked.
"I didn't, I've been living in an apartment on my since Oba-san died, but I'm going to have to move soon, I had no idea how Tohru was living," Sakura said with tears in her eyes.
"Honda-san's tent was crushed by a landslide," Yuki said, "She's going to stay here tonight."
"I'll stay too. I'm not letting Tohru out of my sight. She's the only family that I really have," Sakura said, "since I left America."
"Okay," Yuki said.
Meanwhile Shigure had gotten Tohru comfortable so that she could sleep. Sakura and Yuki were busy looking for medicinal herbs to help with the fever. Before she fell asleep, Tohru told Shigure about her mom and her dream of graduating high school.
"That's amazing," Yuki said. He was thinking about how he thought that he had had it bad.
"To call it amazing is to be rude to Tohru-san," Shigure said.
"I guess you're right," Yuki said, "Will you let me got out?"
"To dig it out?" Shigure said, "Shall I go with you?"
"No,"
"Yuki, you and your rat friends aren't digging that out by yourselves," said a voice. Yuki turned and saw that Sakura was the one who spoken.
"What are you talking about?" Yuki asked quickly.
"Don't kid a kidder," Sakura said, "I know about the curse that the Sohma family is under. I could sense it the moment that I met you, I just didn't say anything."
"How?" Yuki asked, amazed.
"I have certain powers of my own, the extent of which I will tell you another time," Sakura said, "I'm going with you."
"You probably won't even be able to keep up," Yuki said.
Sakura didn't say anything. Her eyes started glowing lavender and she was then hidden from view by a tornado of sakura petals. When the sakura petals faded and disappeared, Sakura was gone, standing in her place was a Siberian Tiger. Yuki could believe it, his best friend just turned herself into a tiger. She roared and ran out the door, followed by Yuki and his rats.
The next morning, when Tohru woke up, she was completely well and was surprised to see the picture of her mother sitting by the futon that she was sleeping in.
"Oka-san, how?" she said, quietly.
"Good Morning, Honda-san," Yuki's voice said.
Tohru looked up and saw Yuki carrying some of her things to the door.
"How are you feeling?" he asked.
"Good Morning, Sohma-kun, I feeling much better, thank you," Tohru said.
"Good, cause now I'm gonna kill ya!" Sakura's voice said.
Tohru saw her cousin carrying some more of her things towards the house.
"What?" Tohru said.
"Why didn't you tell me you were living in a tent, Itoko-san?" Sakura asked, "Do you realize how dangerous that was?" She then set down the things she was carrying by the rest of Tohru's things.
"I'm sorry, Sakura-chan, I just didn't want to be a burden on anyone," Tohru said, "I know you offered me the spare room in your apartment but I knew that you would be kicked out soon and I didn't want to be a bother."
"Don't matter, I was kicked out last night, that's why I was here when you guys got back," Sakura said, "I was looking for you but I couldn't find you so I came here to ask Yuki if he had seed you around."
"I'm sorry for worrying you, Sakura-san," Tohru said.
"Honda-san, Sakura-san, I know the house may be messy, and there's only guys living here, but Shigure said that until the construction on your grandpa's house is finished, that you two can share the spare bedroom upstairs," Yuki said. Shigure was going to ask them to stay anyway, so he asked Yuki to tell them.
"Tohru-san, do you like to do housework , like cooking, cleaning," Shigure asked.
"Are you kidding, Shigure-san? If there's one thing Tohru loves most, it's taking care of other people," Sakura said, "She and Oba-san have taken care of me since I was 13."
"Well, in that case, WELCOME TO THE SOHMA HOUSE!" he said.
"But wouldn't that be rude?" Tohru asked. Sakura was just looking at him amazed.
"We're doing this on our own, Honda-san, so don't think it's being rude," Yuki said with a smile.
"Thank you, Yuki-kun, you really are the best friend a girl could ask for," Sakura said, meaning to make Yuki blush, which he did. He then started picking up Tohru's things and taking them upstairs.
"Sakura-san, why have your aunt and Honda-san taken care of you since you were 13?" Yuki said, "Didn't you tell me that your parents live in Chicago?"
"My dad and younger siblings do, but my mom died when I was 9," Sakura said sadly, "After Oka-san died shortly after naming my younger siblings, Otou-san became an alcoholic and became abusive. He used to beat me bloody, almost every single day, until on my 13th birthday, Oba Kyoko-san found out what her brother in law was doing to me. She filed for custody and won. Since then, I've lived Tohru and Oba-san until Oba-san died, which brings us to the present."
"I'm sorry, Sakura-san," Yuki said, remembering his own childhood.
"Don't worry about me," Sakura said, "I'm stronger than you think." She gave him a smile and he smiled in return. He now knew why they were friends, they understood each other.
"Well, this is it," Yuki said, "I know the house is messy but…"
"It's brilliant," Sakura said.
Yuki smiled at her when someone burst through the ceiling of the room. The someone was tall and had orange hair.
"Ready for a fight, Rat?" he asked. He then lunged at Yuki, but before he could go anywhere near him, Sakura stepped in between them and pushed the guy back, making him land on his butt on the floor.
"Isn't rude to barge into someone else's house and demand a fight?" Sakura said, "I hate rude people."
"GGRR!" the boy growled.
"Oh, look! It's a bear!" Sakura said to Yuki, who laughed.
"I'm not a bear!" the guy said.
"You're sure acting like one," Sakura replied shortly.
"I'll knock you out, Rookie," he said, lunging for her, but Sakura dodged and tripped him up using martial arts.
"Better not judge your opponent as a rookie before you fight'em," Sakura said, "Who are you?"
"I'm Kyo Sohma and I want to fight Yuki!!!" he yelled.
"Well, I can't decide for Yuki. If he wants to fight you, he'll fight you, but if he doesn't, he won't," Sakura said cockily, "Now, go away!", getting up and letting him go.
He disappeared, but then there was an earthquake that made Tohru fall into Yuki, which made him turn into a rat.
"Itoko-san, why did Sohma-kun just turn into a rat?" Tohru asked.
"I knew this was gonna happen," Sakura said.
"So, when ever you getting hugged by a member of the opposite sex or become weak, you turn into a zodiac animal," Tohru said, trying to understand.
"Yeah," Shigure said, "Sakura-san, you don't look so surprised." He hadn't heard what she said to Yuki the night before.
"I already knew. I knew from the minute I met Yuki, but I didn't care. He seemed like a nice person and I care more for the character of a person, than the fact that they're different from others," Sakura said, "So, I just didn't say anything."
Shigure just looked at her in disbelief. He had no idea that anyone "outside" knew about the curse.
"But how?" he asked.
"I have certain powers, the extent of which I will tell you another time," she said, while Tohru giggled.
"Honda-san, do you know what powers she's talking about," Yuki asked.
"Yes, but if she doesn't want to tell you just yet, then I won't either," Tohru said.
"Nice try, Yuki-kun," Sakura said.
"Hmm," was all he said.
Then there was a knock on the door. When Shigure came back from answering the door, he came back with a man who seemed rather scary.
"Hello, Hatori-san," Yuki said.
"Good day, Yuki, now, what are we dealing with?" he asked.
"These two know about the curse," Shigure said, indicating Sakura and Tohru, "We need their memories taken care of."
"Well, now, Shigure-san, we have just hit a problem," Sakura said.
"What problem? I don't see one," Hatori asked.
"Due to my own powers, my mind and any mind of my family is protected, you will be unable to erase our memories," Sakura said, coolly, "Even so, have I not kept this secret since I met Yuki, you shall have no doubt that you can trust me, and since Tohru is my cousin, you can't doubt that you can trust her too."
All three Sohmas looked shocked, but Yuki seemed really happy. He really didn't want to lose his best friend.
"If you both promise not tell, I think we can have an agreement," Hatori said.
"We promise," both girls said together.
"Then I guess, we don't have do anything to them," Hatori said, getting up and leaving.
"Welcome to the Sohma House," Yuki said, with a smile at Sakura who just smiled back. There was something about her smile that made him want to kiss her.
Author's note-
Oka-san- Mom; Mother
Oba-san- Aunt
Itoko-san- Cousin
Otou-san- Dad; Father