l: Aaaaannnndddd… I'm back in Sweet Tooths Central, here with another one of my favorite people ever for this interview – wait for it – you'll never guess –

Ayame: YOUR DEAREST AYAME-SAAAANNN!!!! *gets right up to camera* Today, you will be graced with my wonderful aurora and charmed by the wonderful, sugar-sweet side of me that everyone looooovvvveees!!!! And back to you, lolchic.

l: *trying to recover from the unexpected performance (I still get scared when I read about Ayame…)* Ah, yes, *clears throat* our Ayame-san is here today to –

Mine: *standing rigidly and hauntingly over lolchic with a mad look in her eyes* DO YOU LIKE TO DRESS UP!!!???

l: YAHHHHH!!! *runs away from Mine, who is holding a frilly horror story of a dress over her head, screaming "PUT IT ON PUT IT ON PUT IT ON!!!"

A: *miraculously ignoring the dilemma occurring in the background* ALRIGHTY, MY SWEETS, *peers at script for a second, and tosses it over his shoulder and clapping his hands together* It seems that I am supposed to express the most delectable part of me that you, all my very greatest fans, are obviously dying to know…

M: *somehow managing to bind and gag lolchic and dragging her to the nearest dressing room, and turning as she closes the door behind her* I'll be right baaacccckkkk…

A: *glances at Mine and smiles* Ah, I can tell that Mine already likes my newest friend! *turning back to camera and getting close to the camera so that his face blocked all other view* I declare – that my sweet and passionate side – is with my dearest Yuki-kun!! He is everything to me, and I will not give up in proceeding our relationship into the closest brotherly bond there has ever been on PLANET EARTH!!! Though he acts as if he hates me, and scowls when I talk, I know that all he wants is to be like his marvelous brother… ME!!! Do not worry, dear Yuki - *puts hands to his heart* I know your true, deepest secret, and I swear from the very bottom of my cherished heart that I will bring us together forever and ever and –

Yuki: *bursts into room, with a sinister expression on his face, and speaks in a scary voice: Ayame…

A: *Gets what's going to happen and runs out the door, laughing hysterically*

Y: *runs after him with a killer look on his face now* COME BACK, YOU SNAKE!!!

M: *pops head out of dressing room and sees Yuki running out* YUKIIII!!!! *brandishes a dress and runs after him* LET'S PLAY DRESSS UUUPPPPP!!!!!

l: * walks out of room in an elegant, lace-trimmed dress adorned with at least 10 pounds of pearls and opals on it. She immediately bolts door after Mine, and feebly faces the audience* Th-that's all, everyone… and… remember that I don't own Fruits Basket… or… *weakly points after Mine* THAT wouldn't have happened…

********Chapter 2 Beginning At Last*********

Still slightly shaken from the unexplainable event, Ruka blinked back into focus at the sound of the very last tardy bell. "Oh, SHOOT!" She yelled into the empty hallways. She dug into her backpack for her school map, and suddenly, she remembered – the school map was safe at home, snug between the pages of a Harry Potter novel. "Double-shoot," Ruka muttered, bounding around the school. 1-D, 1-D, 1-D. As simple as the room number was (at her old school, classes are numbered things like 386 or 984), she somehow managed to get lost in the ridiculously simple-planned school. Her hurried footsteps eerily echoed in the ghost-like skeletons of the school, and the only thing that Ruka could think of right then was getting to class as soon as possible. She remembered dreaming of countless scenarios while on the plane to Japan, when she was still trying to cheer herself from her constant dread of rejection.

She would walk to class just as the bell would ring, bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, and emit a dazzling smile as the teacher would introduce her to the classroom. The class would be in awe, and welcome her like a long-lost queen, asking what America was like, where she came from, and complimenting her hair. Then she would laugh with the best and closest friends that she had ever made as she would go to slumber parties and field trips to Tokyo and get a scholarship and–

Ruka turned into another hallway, bright with sunlight pouring into the open window. It was a rather nice scene, with a breathtaking view of the school gardens and all, but that wasn't what caught Ruka's attention. It was the three people that were standing in the center of it. Two of them, a girl and a boy, were in school uniforms, but the other person, a dark-haired beauty of a man dressed in even darker clothes. The dark-haired boy was talking to the other boy in an informal manner, like he knew him… the other boy, grey-haired and purple-eyed, obviously didn't like him. Ruka skidded to a stop; this was obviously a bad situation, but something in her heart told her to stop the forming scene.

She picked up her pace and bounded to the shortest route towards them. As she circled the group, she could see that the other boy, who was unbelievably beautiful, as she was unable to deny, had a haunted look in his eyes, and the girl was standing back, looking from one boy to the other with a worried look in her crisp blue eyes. She started to hear them talking…

"Although I have become more generous lately…" the dark one murmured in a low, calm voice, "But you doing that really breaks my heart!" (gay relationship?) He touched the other boy's face. "I'll have to re-educate you…" his voice suddenly ran cold, and his words, as harmless as they sounded, seemed to have other meanings, meanings that were so evil and dark that they seemed to chill on Ruka's heart with every syllable. "…for a whole day…" he continued even more calmly, "to teach you the meaning of-"

It was by this time that Ruka had finally flung the emergency escape door open, marching into the scene as Akito whirled around, muttering his last word like a question. "living…?"

Ruka stopped in front of the surprised group of people, who looked more shocked than she was. She looked at the group, trying to catch her breath, and suddenly realized that it might have been wiser for her to let the argument resolve itself. The three people stared at her, and she felt cornered.

Ruka looked at a tree behind Akito's left ear, scrambling for something in her mind that could resolve the situation. A brief, awkward moment of silence later, Ruka turned to the harried youth and overly-surprised little girl. "Ah," she choked. Then she pulled on a face of determination, and bowed deeply to the group. "I am very sorry, but, ah…" she gestured to the grey-haired boy and the little girl. "these two," she babbled, gulped, and then spoke more confidently. "They have to come with me."

*END OF CHAPTER 2*

YAAAAAYYYY!!! Another happy, happy chapter! For all of you who have no idea what happened here, go and read the first chapter!! (sure, it stinks, but look at this cool, action-packed piece of work!) Now… REVIEW REVIEW REVIEW!!! Mine has more frilly dresses for you if you don't!! *^____^*