Yay my first Fruits Basket story! This is based off the ANIME, not the MANGA. In the anime, neither the horse nor the bird appears… I haven't read the manga, so I don't know anything about these two members of the Zodiac. (If you know why they're not mentioned in the anime or you know a moment they actually DO come in let me know in a review!)
This story is dedicated to my sister from another mister- love ya Sibrina hope you love the story!
DISCLAIMER: I do not own Fruits Basket or any of its characters!
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"Sibrina!" I whined, flopping over to place the back of my head on Sibrina's magazine. I stared up into her irritated brown eyes.
"I'm bored!" I said and she rolled her eyes. "Then go entertain yourself." She muttered, pushing me off of her. I rolled over and hit the floor.
"Ow! Sibi you're mean!" I wailed, rubbing the back of my head with a scowl. She ignored me and I resorted to immature tactics to get her to pay attention to me.
I sat behind her and poked her in random places, until finally she whirled to glare at me, her blonde hair swirling around her in what was almost a dramatic gesture before it got in her eyes and mouth. She spat and blinked, completely ruining the intimidation.
"What do you want to do?" She muttered, closing the magazine. "IDK what do you want to do?" I bounced on the bed beside her and she rolled her eyes again. It always annoyed her when I used chat speak- but I liked making her mad.
"It's your house so you have to pick." Sibrina pointed out and I stood up. "Right! Come on, I know what we're going to do!" I grabbed her hand and dragged her off the bed and to the two chairs in front of the computer in my room.
"Anime?" Sibrina guessed as I pushed her into a chair and took the other. "Close!" I grinned, opening up a Word document.
"Fan fiction?"
"What else?" I smirked, poising my fingers over the keys. We were probably the only two people on the face of the earth who would willingly sit in front of a computer for hours, typing away, having a blast before we deleted the story when we were done.
"Where shall we go today?" I asked and she smiled. "Where else?" She said and I grinned. "Fruits Basket it is!" My fingers flew over the keyboard as I began to weave the web that was our story.
Two beautiful, radiant young girls sat in front of their computer. The most beautiful of them was Hayley, the gorgeous brunette with a perfect figure. Her blue eyes sparkled with intelligence and kindness.
Sibrina read what I wrote patiently- I always pulled crap like that when I wrote.
Beside her sat her best friend, no, sister separated from birth- Sibrina. Her chocolate brown eyes were sweeter then any candy, and her hair glowed like a blonde sun.
"Blonde sun?" Sibrina smirked and I elbowed her with a grin.
The two, lean, trim girls were writing an eloquently written story that would change their lives forever.
"Now it gets interesting." Sibrina said, leaning forward and I began to type faster.
They were simply minding their own business when, suddenly, the computer they were writing on, so innocent before, began to emit a strange purple smoke that smelled like peanut butter.
"Peanut butter?" Sibrina questioned.
"What? I'm hungry." I said defensively.
"You're allergic to peanuts."
"…you're allergic to your mom…" I said lamely.
"Wow. That had to be the worst 'your mom' joke I've ever head." Sibrina said and I laughed. My nose twitched and I rubbed it. "What?" Sibrina asked curiously as I sneezed.
"Ugh. It smells like peanut butter in here!"
"Baka. You're imagining things." I stuck my tongue out at her, when her eyes widened.
"Hayley?"
"Yeah?"
"What's that?"
We both stared at the keyboard, which, to our great surprise, was emitting a few weak puffs of… purple smoke?
"Type something else." Sibrina whispered. I nodded and typed cautiously, wary of the gross-smelling smoke.
As the girls stared in confusion at the smoke, it began to swirl around them until all they could see was the computer.
As if by magic, everything around us was obscured and I gagged at the overwhelming scent of peanut butter.
Sibrina coughed and waved a hand in front of her nose. "Make it smell like something else! Then I'll believe this is real!" She exclaimed and I typed furiously.
Finally, the annoying scent of peanut butter faded and was replaced by the warm, delicious scent of chocolate chip cookies, fresh from the oven.
We waited a moment, then the peanut butter scent vanished and our mouths watered as our noses were flooded with the scent of cookies.
"Are we dreaming?" I breathed. I yelped and jumped in my chair when Sibrina pinched me. "Sibrina! What was that for?!" I yelled, annoyed as I rubbed the sore spot on my arm. She shrugged. "I wanted to see if we really were dreaming."
"Then why didn't you pinch yourself?" I pouted. "Because that would hurt." She replied and I rolled my eyes.
"Well, we've apparently got a magic computer on our hands- what should we do with it?" I asked. "Can you make money appear or something?" Sibrina asked curiously.
The girls were looking around in shock when suddenly a huge pile of money landed on the desk in front of them!
We waited eagerly, but nothing happened.
"I wonder why that didn't work." Sibrina wondered. "Maybe magic has rules or something." I shrugged. She nodded. "Makes sense. That probably means we can't wish for true love or anything else either." She said and I groaned.
"Then what use is a magic computer?!" I exclaimed. A slow smile spread on her face. "We could go somewhere… somewhere amazing…" I glared at her. "Quit talking like some drug dealer! I don't want to go 'somewhere amazing'; I want to have fun!" I said and she smacked the back of my head gently.
"Baka. I mean we should go to Fruits Basket!" She said and my eyes widened. "Then why didn't you just say that?!" I gasped, my fingers working furiously as I churned out the rest of the story on the computer.
The smoke overwhelmed them, consumed them, until they could see nothing, feel nothing, until solid ground was under their feet. They found themselves in an unknown world- a world they'd only seen on their computer. They had been sucked into Fruits Basket.
But when they landed, they landed on the Souma house's front porch. Shigure would know them as Hayley and Sibrina Souma, twin sisters, who were the two missing members of the Zodiac- Hayley the Horse, and Sibrina the Bird.
"Why do I have to be the Bird?" Sibrina grumbled as the smoke thickened. I grabbed her hand. "Because A, you were born under the year of the Rooster. B, I love horses like crazy and C, because I said so!"
We couldn't breathe for a moment, and I held onto Sibrina's hand with all my strength as the world around us disappeared.
We stumbled when we landed on the porch of Shigure's house.
"We made it." Sibrina whispered in awe. "We really did." I breathed. We looked around, drinking it all in.
"We'll have to see if Shigure knows how we're here and stuff- just try to act like you don't know every secret they have and stuff, OK?" I said as I knocked. She smiled and nodded as the door opened.
"Ah! There you two are we were getting worried!" Shigure exclaimed. We stared up at him in shock as he leaned down to embrace us. We stiffened, almost expecting him to transform, before we remembered- we were part of the Zodiac.
"It's so good to see you! I haven't seen you since you two were infants!" He smiled down at us. We blinked, and I smiled back. "It's great to see you too Shigure-san!" I said and he laughed. "None of that 'san' business around here! Call me Shigure-kun!" He said.
"All right… Shigure-kun." I said and he grinned. "That's better! Come, you must meet your cousins!" He dragged us into the dining room, where apparently it was lunch time.
"Yuki, Kyo, Tohru! This is Hayley and Sibrina- the ones who were kidnapped when they were just babies! They've finally returned to us!"
I stared, trying to keep my mouth shut, as Yuki, Kyo, and Tohru all greeted us. OK, so we'd been kidnapped apparently- I'd have to remember that.
Sibrina was no better then I was when it came to meeting our favorite fictional characters face to face- she merely stared at them as they shook her hand, then offered us two open seats while Tohru hurried to get us some food.
"Are you two all right? You took your time walking here from the main house- someone would have taken you here if you had asked." Yuki said, looking at us with concern. I blushed lightly when I met his gentle purple eyes.
"Um, no we're fine! We like to walk, that's all." I said quickly. Sibrina gave a tiny nod, staring at Kyo, who was beginning to look angry. I nudged her and she blinked.
"It's very nice to meet you all." She said quietly and I sighed inwardly. She was so shy until you got to know her- I couldn't wait until she warmed up to the Soumas- we'd have a lot of fun together.
"Here you go!" Tohru placed two plates in front of us. We both thanked her and dug in.
"If you don't mind my asking, why do you smell like cookies?" Shigure asked, his sensitive nose twitching. I tensed and glanced at Sibrina awkwardly.
"Um…"
"We were…"
"Walking by a cookie stand!"
Sibrina glared at my stupid outburst. But apparently they had cookie stands in this world, because they all seemed satisfied with my answer. I made a mental note to go looking for one of these.
"Akito decided you're staying with us, right?" Shigure asked and I nodded quickly. "Yes! We're supposed to stay here." I said hurriedly, not missing on this valuable opportunity.
"You'll be sharing my room." Tohru said. "You don't mind, do you?" I asked, suddenly worried that we'd be disturbing her.
"No of course not! I'm very happy to be sharing my room with you! I hope we'll become good friends!" She smiled and I blinked before smiling weakly. I'd forgotten that part about Tohru- she was a pure people pleaser, and nothing fazed her.
"We'll go get settled." I said, finished with my food already. I glanced at Sibrina's half-full plate and sank back down.
"We'll get settled in a minute." I corrected and Sibrina gave me a slightly apologetic smile.
"You eat like a bird." I groaned, waiting for her to finish.
"You eat like a horse." She replied, not missing a beat. I blinked, then smiled. Apparently we resembled our Zodiac animals in this world- cool.
I couldn't wait to transform to my horse self and found out what it was like- I wondered when it would happen for the first time.
"Done." Sibrina announced, placing her chopsticks down. I grabbed her hand and dragged her upstairs to our room.
"This is so cool!" I squealed, jumping onto Tohru's bed. Sibrina nodded eagerly.
"I can't believe we just met them." She breathed and I sighed dreamily. "I'm so scared I'm going to wake up and find this was all a dream." I admitted and she grinned. "Want me to pinch you again?" She asked, taking a step closer. I leaped backwards, dodging her.
"No thanks I'm good! But this is a little too good to be true." I pointed out. She nodded. "Yeah, kinda is. How come this never happened with your computer before? Why today?" She asked, sitting down beside me. I shrugged. "I don't know. Maybe we did enough good deeds and earned a vacation or something." I suggested with a grin. She laughed. "Sounds about right. But a vacation?" She asked and I blinked. "What's wrong with a vacation?" I asked. She sighed and lay down on the bed, crossing her arms under her head as she stared up at the ceiling.
"I don't know… I was kinda hoping we'd be here forever…" She trailed off and I lay down beside her.
"I hope we can stay here forever too." I said. "I mean, I'll miss my mom and all that stuff, but I felt like I hit a dead end in that world- like I never really fit in, you know?" I said and she nodded. "That's exactly how I felt. I think we can make it here… we'll have a good life, full of adventure and romance…" Sibrina said and I laughed. "Romance? Come on Sib, you know me- romance isn't something I'm capable of." I grinned and she looked at me, suddenly serious.
"Hayley, quit telling yourself that- you'll find love here. If not we can always hack onto Shigure's computer and go somewhere else." She added with a grin and I laughed.
"But for now, let's give this world a shot- we can make it here. I know we can." She said. I nodded. "We'll be fine here."
And so concludes the first chapter! Yeah it was kinda random in places, and it doesn't fit my usual writing style, but as I said earlier this is written mainly for my best friend so I tried to incorporate our personalities in here as much as I could- I messed up in a few places but hey, nobody's perfect. Oh and by the way, "baka" means "idiot" in Japanese, for those of you who didn't know. And I'm well aware my chapters are shorter then they probably should be- but I write fast and keep my chapters short- that's just how I roll
Reviews are VERY much appreciated!
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