A Broken Heart Never Fails to Heal

Another Fruits Basket FanFic

By: realixweatherfairy

Disclaimer: I only own what I created.

Chapter 1: A New Friend

Tohru Honda was waiting at an airport terminal. She was waiting for her cousin's airplane to arrive. Her cousin, Tsukiko, was coming to Japan to go to high school. Tsukiko's mother had passed away at about the same time as Tohru's and her father had become a drunk, who was Tohru's dad's, Katsuya Honda, older brother, and he had started to beat her, so their grandfather filed for custody of Tsukiko and won, but her grandfather didn't have any room at his house, so Tohru asked Shigure if it was all right if Tsukiko came to live them. He said he didn't mind, but they would have to share a room.

Then it was announced that the plane from Cleveland, Ohio had arrived and landed. Tsukiko and her parents had live in Cleveland since Tsukiko was really little. She and Tohru had only met once, and they were both too little to remember at the time. Tsukiko was only a year younger then Tohru. Tohru held up a sign that had Tsukiko's name on it. When the people came off the plane, a young girl of about 15 or 16, with long black hair that came down to about the middle of her calf and big sapphire eyes like Tohru's appeared. She saw Tohru and asked, "Tohru Honda?"

"Yes. You're my cousin, Tsukiko, right?" Tohru asked, and when she nodded, "Welcome to Japan! You're going to stay with me at a friend's house." She led her cousin to the Sohmas who were standing just outside the gate waiting for them. "Yuki-kun, Kyo-kun, and Shigure-san, this is my cousin, Tsukiko Honda. Tsukiko, this is Yuki Sohma-kun, and his cousins, Kyo and Shigure Sohma."

"It's a pleasure to meet you," Tsukiko said, "I hear from my grandfather that you did my cousin a great kindness, I thank you for that."

"It was no trouble, and welcome to Japan, Tsukiko-san," Yuki said. He was taken aback that Tsukiko knew about that. It had been about a year before that Yuki and Shigure had found out the Tohru was staying in a tent and offered her a home.

At his shock, she said, "My grandfather called me on the plane and told me just about everything he knew about Tohru, so that I might recognize her when the plane got in to the airport."

"Grandpa did that?" Tohru said.

"Well, I haven't seen you since we were really young, so I wouldn't have recognized you when I got here, Tohru," Tsukiko said, and Tohru smiled, "If you don't mind, I have to go find my luggage." She then walked towards the luggage rack with Tohru.

"We'll have to be careful, you two, to make sure that she doesn't find out," Shigure said,

"We know," Yuki said, "You told us how many times now?"

"Just making sure," Shigure said.

Later, they were all at Shigure's house, helping Tsukiko take her things up to Tohru's room. She seemed really embarrassed and said, "You guys don't have to help."

"Just as humble as her cousin," Yuki said, "Tsukiko-san, we don't mind helping you."

"Thank you, Yuki-kun," Tsukiko said, smiling. He liked her, but as a friend.

The next day was Tsukiko's first day of school. As she was a year younger then Tohru and the others, she was in the freshman class.

"You're in the same class as our cousin, Hatsuharu," Yuki said.

"Really?" Tsukiko said.

"Yeah," Yuki said, smiling, "He's a good kid."

"Oh, okay," Tsukiko said, letting her teacher lead her to the classroom. When they got there, the teacher introduced her to the class.

"Children, we have a new member of our class. Her name is Tsukiko Honda, and in case you're wondering, yes, she is Tohru Honda's cousin. She just recently moved here from Cleveland, Ohio in America," the teacher said. Everyone was looking up at her with questioning eyes. All the guys had hearts in their eyes, all except one. He had white hair and dark eyes. He was mainly just staring out the window. "You may take the seat next Hatsuharu Sohma. Hatsuharu-san, please raise your hand." The boy with white hair raised his hand and Tsukiko went to the seat next to him, while he put his hand down, and sat down.

"So, you're Honda-san's cousin," he said.

"Uh, yes, I'm Tsukiko Honda, nice to meet you," she said.

"Nice to meet you, too. I'm Hatsuharu Sohma," he said. Then the boy that sat behind her poked her in the back. She turned and she said, "Hi. Tsukiko Honda. It's nice to meet you."

"Hi. I'm Momiji Sohma. I'm Haru's cousin," he said, "It's nice to meet you, too."

"There must be a lot of people in the Sohma family," Tsukiko thought. Then after school, Haru, Momiji, Tsukiko, Tohru, Kyo, and Yuki met up and walked home.

"So, Tsukiko, how do you like Japan so far?" Momiji asked.

"It's really an amazing place. There are some places that I recognize but I don't exactly remember, because I haven't been here since I was really little," Tsukiko said, "I was barely a few months old when I first met Tohru and soon after that my parents and I moved to Cleveland."

"Wow. It must have been really hard for you to move here and leave everything that you knew behind, huh?" Momiji said.

Tsukiko looked sad and said, "Not really."

"Huh? Don't you miss your parents?" Haru asked.

"My mom died not long after Tohru's mom and my dad hasn't exactly been the nicest person on the block after she died," Tsukiko said looking down. She looked like she was going to cry.

"That's why she came here to live. Our grandfather found out what his oldest son was doing and filed for custody of his second oldest grandchild," Tohru said, putting her arm around Tsukiko's shoulders.

"Tsukiko-san, doesn't your name mean "moon child"?" Yuki asked.

"Yes, my mom, Takara Honda, named me that because I was born on a night of the full moon," Tsukiko said. She seemed to be cheering up a little. "I've never actually had a real friend before."

"Huh?" was all that came out of their mouths.

"Because of my dad. He was so controlling and wanted to control every aspect of my life," Tsukiko continued, "Before mom died, he was a really great dad. He used to play with me, talk to me like I was human, but after he started drinking and he changed. The other side of him that he hid from me and mom showed it self. I didn't want anyone to get hurt because of him."

"What do you mean "other side of him"?" Yuki asked.

"His other personality, the one that I've dubbed, "Black Dad" because his temper is really evil," Tsukiko said, "I have it too, but it only really shows itself when Dad is around."

"So, even you get really angry, huh, Tsukiko-chan," Tohru said, with a small smile.

"Yeah," she said with a small voice, "but that was in the past. I'm moving on and things are definitely getting better." She smiled brightly. Yuki, Haru, and Momiji all noticed how beautiful she was when she smiled.

"Tsukiko-chan," said a voice. Tsukiko turned and had a shocked look on her face. She saw a woman in her mid-30's, wearing jeans and a blue t-shirt. She had long red hair that came down to her waist and green eyes the color of grass. She was tall and thin.

"Ayaka-sensei," Tsukiko said.

"Tsukiko-chan, who is this? Do you know her?" Tohru asked.

"Yes, Tohru. She's the one who taught how to fight. In various ways," Tsukiko answered.

"I see you're doing well, Tsukiko-chan," Ayaka said.

"How are you doing, Sensei?" Tsukiko asked.

"Just fine. I heard that your grandfather got custody of you and that you now live in Japan, so I thought that I might see how you were doing," Ayaka said, "and to see if you had kept up in your training," pulling out a pair of silver sais and Tsukiko did the same. They started fighting and it looked like Ayaka was going to win but Tsukiko had been able to get the upper hand and disarm Ayaka.

"I see that you kept up with your training, Tsukiko-chan, I'm proud of you," Ayaka said bowing and walking away. Tsukiko just stood there and stared after her.

"Tsukiko-chan," Tohru said.

"Hmmm," she said, turning around with a smile on her face. They could all see that she looked really happy. Later after Momiji and Haru had gone back to the Main Sohma house, when Yuki, Kyo, Shigure, Tohru, and Tsukiko walked into Shigure's house, they found a scene of mayhem. Then suddenly an earthquake caused Tsukiko to fall into Yuki causing him to transform into a rat. She didn't notice because she hit her head on the edge of a table, knocking herself out. When she woke up, she saw that Yuki was still in his rat form talking to Shigure, and another guy. She almost fainted again.

"Tohru-san, what's going on?" Tsukiko asked, making Tohru and the others jump. They looked at her, shocked that she had woken.

"I guess we'll have to tell her," Shigure said, "Tsukiko-kun, the Sohma family is cursed. When ever we get hugged by a member of the opposite gender or our bodies become weak, we transform into one of the animals from the Chinese Zodiac."

"This is so much to take in at one time," Tsukiko said. She was shocked but it did explain why some things had been on. "but it does explain some things."

"I'm sorry, but your cousin, Tohru, is actually the only person on the "outside" of the family to know about our curse," Yuki said still in his rat form, "When others usually find out about the curse, we normally have to have their memories erased."

"I think not," Tsukiko said, calmly, "I don't think I want my memories erased, thank you very much."

"If you promise to keep the secret, like your cousin did, I don't think we will have a problem," the other guy said.

"I promise that my lips are sealed," Tsukiko said, doing the old lock and key on her mouth. (locking her mouth shut with a lock and throwing away the key)

"Okay, by the way, I am Hatori Sohma," he said.

"Pleased to meet you. I am Tsukiko Honda," she said with a smile.

"It's nice to meet you too. Well, Shigure, I have to go now, later," Hatori said., walking out the door. As he was walking, he thought, "She's seems so familiar. She's seems to be like her cousin, but there's something else that's familiar about her."

The next day, Yuki, Tsukiko, and Tohru met up with Haru and Momiji on their way to school. Tsukiko was still a little shocked from what she learned the night before.

"Tsukiko-san, I heard that you learned of the curse," Haru said, quietly.

"Yes, I'm still a little shocked, but that doesn't change the way I look at you guys," Tsukiko answered, "You're still my friends, no matter what," smiling.

"Good," Haru said and smiled back, and thought, "I don't know why but there's something about her that draws people to her, just like her cousin but it's something different." When they got to school, Tsukiko and Tohru found Tohru's best friends, Uo-chan also known as Arisa Uotani and Hana-chan also known as Saki Hanajima.

"Uo-chan and Hana-chan, this Tsukiko Honda-san, she is my cousin," Tohru said.

"It's nice to meet you," Tsukiko said.

"It's a pleasure," they said together.

After they all went to class, something went wrong. Tsukiko noticed that Haru was a little agitated about something and it seemed to eat away at him. She was about to say something to him, when he started acting really weird.

"Haru-kun?" Tsukiko said, frightened. He looked at her with anger in his eyes. This was a side of him that she had never seen before. It scared her. Then their eyes met, and they both just looked at each other. Then the teacher came and dragged her out of the room, making Haru even angrier. He started tearing up the class room.

As the teacher pulled her out of the room, she said, "Let go of me! Haru-kun needs me!"

"He's dangerous right now. If you go in there, you'll get hurt," he said.

"Fine, then, but don't expect me to just stand here and do nothing. Momiji-kun, come with me," she said, running down the hall to Yuki and Tohru's class.

"Tohru, Yuki, Kyo! It's terrible!" Momiji yelled as he got in the classroom with Tsukiko following.

"Where's Yuki?" Tsukiko asked.

"I'm right here. I was doing class officer duties," he said, appearing behind her, making her jump, "Is everything okay? Are they letting you out early?"

"No, Haru-kun is, well, I don't know how to say it, he's acting strangely violent," Tsukiko said.

"Yeah, he went Black and he's tearing the classroom apart," Momiji said. At that, Yuki, Kyo, Tohru, Momiji, and Tsukiko went back their classroom and went in.

"Haru! What are you doing?" Yuki asked.

"Tearing the place apart. What does it look like?" he said, anger apparent in his voice.

"He really tore the place up, didn't he?" Momiji said, while Tohru and Tsukiko who were hidden from view.

"Haru, you can't be so violent at school," Yuki said.

"You're such a worrier, Princess Yuki," Black Haru said, "You just don't want me to transform while I'm on the rampage."

"No, that's not all," Yuki said.

Tsukiko had had enough, she stepped out from behind Yuki, and glared at Haru and said, "Haru-kun, I don't know what made you so angry, but that is enough!"

"You wanna fight," he said, glaring at her in return.

"No, I'm just getting pissed off," she said, her eyes going totally black.

"Calm down, Tsukiko-chan," Tohru said. After Tohru said that, Tsukiko's eyes returned to normal. She then realized what had happened and looked really scared. She started to run out of the room, but Haru grabbed her arm and threw her out of the classroom window over the pavement and she was now clinging to the ledge. She screamed and was slipping. Kyo, Momiji, and Yuki ran to the window to help her up but before they got to her, she fell, screaming. Her screaming made Haru snap back out of it and run to the window himself, only to see that she was unconscious on the pavement below the window, but suddenly with a poof she turned into a white horse.

When they all got down to the ground, and went outside, she was gone. Apparently, while they were running down the stairs, she had woken up and run off. Meanwhile back at Shigure's house, Tsukiko was up in her and Tohru's room, putting on clothes. Shigure was downstairs, not knowing that she was home. She knew that she would have to go down and tell Shigure that she was home. She was wearing a sparkly lavender halter top and a white skirt like the one that she and Tohru wore in their uniform. She then heard voices downstairs and knew who they belonged to. Her cousin and friends were there and they were talking to Shigure. Then the bedroom door opened and Tohru walked in her eyes wide, with worry and fear.

"There you are, Tsukiko-chan! What happened to you? Everyone's been so worried, especially Hatsuharu-san!" Tohru said, "Come on! Everyone's waiting downstairs!"

"I don't wanna go, Tohru-chan," Tsukiko said.

"Why not?" she asked.

"I just can't face them right now," Tsukiko answered.

"Don't worry. They're not mad at you, if that's what you're worried about," Tohru said, taking her cousin's hand and leading her down the stairs and into the living room, where Haru, Yuki, Momiji, Kyo, Shigure, and Hatori were all sitting.

"Tsukiko-kun, I didn't even know that you were home," Shigure said.

"Tsukiko-san, why did you transform into a horse?" Yuki asked.

"I don't even know the answer to that question, Yuki-kun," Tsukiko answered.

"I think I might know," Hatori said.

"Huh?" Tsukiko asked.

"Isuzu Sohma, the Sohma possessed by the spirit of the Horse, passed away due to illness, a few months ago," Hatori said, "She must have somehow transferred the spirit to the one person who could do what she couldn't. I don't know how that was or what it was, but now you are the Horse of the Chinese Zodiac."

"But I thought the curse was passed down from Sohma to Sohma," Haru said.

"After Honda-kun found out about the curse, Shigure and I have doing some research on our family," Hatori answered, "and in the North Tower of the Main Sohma House, there is a magical tapestry that shows that Sohma family tree. Long ago, when the family was first formed, there were two brothers and accordingly to legend, the eldest would inherit the curse and the other would not. The uncursed Sohma brother and his family disappeared and were never heard from again, but the tapestry records members of both sides of the family when they are born and at the end of the other side of the family tree, the most recent names on it are Tsukiko and Tohru Honda."