Author's Note: okay... I AM A TERRIBLE PERSON! I know I said that chapter 2 would be as happy (and non-progressive) as the last... I Started Writing It And I Just Stopped And Made Chapter 3 Into Chapter 2!!!!! I'M JUST LIKE SHIGURE WITH HIS EDITOR!!!!! I'M SO SORRY!!!!!!!!!! (sob) Well... chapter 2(WAH) is mainly Tohru having a bad dream... With a little surprise(?) at the end. Can you recognise what it is? Read on.

Summery: It has been years after the curse was broken, all is peaceful and happy. In till Akito receives a letter from Ren who threatens to release the curse on their children. Each family goes into hiding for 12 years, thinking it's now safe, each family returns back home... As well as the curse! (Isn't copy/paste wonderful? I don't have to type the summery all out!:)

Disclaimer: I don't own fruits basket. Only this plot (and some of the characters) belong to me.

Endless Curse

Chapter 2 – Reawakened past

Even if they're the memories that I'd rather forget, if I keep them and keep trying without running away... If I keep trying, then someday... Someday I'll be strong enough that those memories can't defeat me. I believe that, I want to believe that.

Momiji Sohma

The night was cool, and quiet. The heat that had baked the earth previously... was gone. A crescent moon shone from above, a sliver of silver in the night sky. In a house not far from a Sohma karate dojo and a big resterant that needed cleaning and cooking every day, Tohru sighed happily as she laid down in bed. Both Kyo and Katsuya were already asleep, tired out after the big day.

Tohru closed her eyes, as always she was grateful for the life she had, so lucky... The day had brought many happy things. Kisa had come, and she told them exciting news... Hiro asked her to marry him! While they had been celebrating this news, a sopping wet Hatori had come in. He said that he got caught in a water fight the others were having in a stream that ran through the Sohma estate, he had left his son to play with them there. She remembered how she had clean up a wet and dirty Katsuya later; but he had fun, that's all that mattered. Kyo came home from his work at the dojo later, and then he helped Tohru make dinner and they all ate as a family.

Tohru fell asleep, face still smiling, but her peace was about to be shattered. The hours crept on, the moon slowly drifting across the starry sky. As time move on, Tohru's calm expression turning into one more troubled. She kept gripping the sheets with her fists and shivered ever so often... She was having a nightmare.

***

A familiar place... An old memory... A repeated dream.

Tohru wasn't sleeping in a house anymore, she was sleeping in a apartment. Though she was asleep, Tohru could somehow sense the area around her... Someone... was there...

'This is a dream.'

Yes... that other person always lived there, with her. Always together.

'This... This is a dream. Its not happening... Not real...!'

A familiar smell hovered over her.

"I'm off... Tohru." The familiar person said with a smile.

"Why didn't I say 'come home safe'... Its all my fault!"

'Just a dream. Just a dream. Just a...'

"No! You can't go! You'll be... in an accident!" The door closed behind her mother as she left.

Tohru tried to move... To even lift a finger. She couldn't... She couldn't move at all! Tears of helplessness poured down her face. She wanted to scream.

"Don't go! Come back!" The words wouldn't come out.

'Just a... Its just a...'

"Don't go!"

The scene around her changed... She was on a path in a forest, just like the one she used when she lived at Shigure's house. At the far end she could see Kyo... He was walking away from her. Terrified, she started to run toward him; but the path just stretched longer.

"Kyo-kun!" she called out, but he didn't seem to hear her. He kept walking. She could see beyond him, she could see a place... A place she never saw before, yet filled her with dread. The cat's room.

'No... No... Its just a dream... This isn't happening... Please... No...'

Tohru tripped and fell, not even feeling the ground she landed on. She looked up, Kyo... was gone.

"No, wait! Don't go!" She screamed, but couldn't even hear her own voice. Fog. A fog surrounded her, making it impossible to see. It filled her mouth, her head. She couldn't breathe, couldn't think of anything.

"Kyo-kun..." She tried to move forward, but a gap formed under her and she fell. Time slowed, everything was black. And she still fell, and fell, and fell.

"I want to go see him." Tohru's eyes opened wide.

'Stop... Please stop. No more... Let the dream just stop.'

"...Y'know? So Shishou won't get lonely down the line." Tohru slowly brought her hands to her head, she couldn't take it anymore.

"...Will be confined!"

'Stop. Stop. I can't... That all happened long ago... No more...'

"Get lost!"

"STOP IT! STOP! PLEASE!" And it did... the falling stopped. She felt the ground under her hand, it was smooth and icy to the touch. She slowly got up, looking around her in surprise. Everything was white... Blank... Nothing. It was like being on paper that was never written on, the edge to far away to see. It was all... Nothing.

"Hm, hee, hee, hee." Tohru looked around, puzzled. Someone was giggling, someone she knew? "Ha, ha, ha, ha..." The giggling turned to laughter, it started to become cruel... Harsh. "Ha, Ha, HA, HA, HA. HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HA, HAA!" The horrible noise started to shake her. Every fiber of her body started to scream, she collapsed to her knees. Cold laughter... Endless laughter... Laughter of a sick person.

Something brushed up against her face, her head jerked to look behind her, she was scared. String... Lots of string... Tied around thirteen children behind her. Some of them she recognised; her son, his eyes sad and lonely. Mirai, hunched over and crying. Naota, his mouth gagged but still trying to scream. Rru and Chiemi, Ritsu and Mitsuru's twin son and daughter, tied together so tight they couldn't move. Reiko, who looked just like Hatori, was fruitlessly trying to free himself. Suki, Kagura's daughter who she never met because she lived so far away, hung her head in defeat. And Belle, her silver hair tangled in the string and her glasses fallen. There were other children, but their faces were blank.

Above the strings there was another child, it's face also blank. Draped around her hand was the string everyone was caught in. Behind the child was the source of the laughter, but Tohru couldn't see who. The child's grip on the string tightened, pulling the string tighter.

"Stop!" Tohru cried, desperate. But it didn't listen, it just pulled tighter and tigher.

"Mama!" Katsuya cried out, but Tohru couldn't do anything. She was helpless to their pain.

***

Tohru sat up, too scared to say anything. She wildly looked around, she was back in her family's house, back in the bedroom. Kyo was beside her. She looked at the crib, not far from the bed. She half expected her son to be tangled in string, but he was safe asleep.

Kyo had woken up when Tohru had sat up, he was a light sleeper. Even when he was waking up and it was dark, he could see that his wife's face was white with fear.

"Nn? What's wrong?" he asked, also sitting up. He touched Tohru's shoulder and was shocked, her sweat had soaked through her pajamas and she was shaking. Tohru looked back at him.

"Just a nightmare. Just a dre..." She broke off, starting to softly cry. Kyo quietly gathered her up into his arms, murmuring reassuring words into her ear. After a while, the shaking stopped and she was asleep. Kyo held her like that for a while, then softly laid her down. The soft breathing he could hear from the crib, told Kyo that Katsuya was still asleep too. He then laid down as well, staying awake for a hour or two, keeping guard over his family in till he too, had gone to sleep.

***

Not long after that, Katsuya also woke up. And started crying, but not loud enough for his parents to hear, but soft to himself. Tears slowly trickled down his face at the dream he just had, that was both sweet and sad.

"We'll meet soon." he whispered, repeating the words from the person in his dream.

Author's Note: again... I'm sorry I changed it... As I was writing this, I thought "I want to write more with Kyo!" Sadly I only did a couple paragraphs, and I'll probably never write more of him in the story (since its about the next generation) I want to write with Yuki too... (Sighs while dreams fly out of window.) Next chapter is with EVIL REN in it. I'll update soon, unless I die from homework and Christmas rush. R&R.