Hey! Ready with chapter 2! I'm sorry for not putting this up sooner, but we had ayard sale and I've been kept quite busy. I will give you two chapters to make up for it, even though most have already read these chapters. You may want to re-read them though because in some they have changed a bit. Like every other fan-fic writer, please R and R!

Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket, or any of the characters in my story.

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Yuki's jaw dropped.

"Akito cursed you? Why!"

"He did it because I learned something about him that he couldn't have revealed to any of his other relatives. I don't know why it was such a secret. But for that, in three months I will die." Tohru looked looked down when she said this, and Yuki leaned back on the couch.

"I didn't know he had the power to curse people. I doubt it will be any consolation, but I too am cursed, just not to the extreme as you are."

"You are also cursed? How?" Yuki leaned forward so Tohru could see his face.

"Whenever I hug a girl, or my body is weak, I turn into a rat. Twelve other Sohmas are the same way, with the remaining Zodiac spirits haunting them, including the cat, who was excluded from the rest of the animals."

Yuki waited to hear her scream and run, but it never happened. Instead Tohru blushed a little and asked him to prove it.

Yuki stood up and faced Tohru who was giggling slightly. He leaned down an embraced her, or at least tried to.

"Wahh!"

Yuki fell face forward through Tohru, who was now full out laughing.

"You know, if someone is disappearing, you would probably think they are a ghost, wouldn't you? Silly of you not to realize this!" Yuki stood back up and dusted himself off.

"Yeah, yeah, very funny." He looked at Tohru with an amused but agitated expression.

"So how come I just went through you? I grabbed your arm awhile ago, and you were perfectly solid." He sat back down, facing Tohru again. Tohru however was looking down with a lonely smile on her face.

"At some parts of the day I am solid. Others I am like this, a ghost or a shadow, whatever you would call me. You are the second who didn't just run away screaming at first site. Thank you." Tohru looked up at him with that lonely smile, that was just the tiniest bit happy.

"See? You said that everyone had run from you at first site. I have not and someone else has not. Why did they not?"

Tohru looked at the ground again with a face Yuki would not have imagined possible for her; she wore an ironic smile.

"The only other person who has not run from me came with two others. She had a weak heart, so when she saw me, she died. Her friends cursed me as they carried her body out of here. I apologized and said it wasn't my fault, but they cursed me anyway." No hint of a smile could be traced on Tohru face as tears ran down her cheeks. Yuki knew his presence was not needed then. He stood up.

"I have to go for today. I promise I will be back tomorrow, but you had better be smiling!" He smiled at her before turning and leaving. Once outside, he leaned against the side of the house and looked upwards in the window. Tohru was visible looking down before running away. He looks so familiar... she thought, no, he couldn't be someone I know. I would remember if I did, wouldn't I?

Such a strange house, Yuki thought while walking home. And Akito, when did he learn to curse people? Poor Tohru, having to suffer through it alone. No. She will not be alone not if I can do anything about it.

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Yet again, I must ask. What did you guys think? Please R and R!