Author's Note: I decided in the free time I have at school that it was time for chapter 2 of bunny love. So without further ado… here it is.

Oh, and I also forgot how much earlier Sohma children who are cursed are born, so forgive me if I get it wrong.

Disclaimer: I still do not own Fruits Basket. If I did, then, for the sake of not introducing an OC into the actual story, MomijiXHaru would be an official canon. That being said, this is fanfiction, which is why I have an OC.

Chapter 2: Learning The Secret

As I said before, the Watanabe are descended from an ancient group of ninja. I suppose it was natural instinct that gave me my killing prowess and my skills at hiding whatever I've done. However, the secret was blown now; in my emotional carelessness, I had confessed to an entire group of people, most of them of the rich Sohma family, who could probably have my sorry butt arrested for all of the crimes I've committed. Yet I still find myself at home, wondering to myself why they never reported me to the NPA. Most normal people would, so why didn't they?

Why am I still free to roam the earth as I please?

I sighed, contemplating this as I walked around the city. Today was one of those days I had gotten extremely angry. It had been a while since I spoke to the Sohmas before, revealing who I was. Walking was one way to calm down my anger… Usually I would end up killing a few people, which also helped as well. However, anytime I thought of death, my mind would wander back to Momiji's words.

"Maybe you think it's OK to kill them... Perhaps they deserve to die... But it's never OK to take someone's life. I think... even if the person you killed has hurt someone... killing them makes you no better then that person."

So, in Momiji's opinion, my ideas of justice were wrong. But did saving an innocent life at the cost of a guilty one really make me evil? Is saving some poor girl whose about to lose her life or innocence enough to make me as bad as the one about to take that life or innocence from her? I don't think Momiji's trying to trick me… I wonder if I could do so even if he tried. But then… what would possess him to tell me such a thing?

I decided not to contemplate on that for a while. My mind ran onto other thoughts… At least they almost did. But then I saw this woman pass by and one quick mental view of her face and I noticed something. I made a comparison of her face to Momiji's… and for some reason it seemed to match.

Could that be…?

I decided to follow the woman and find out if my suspicions were true. I kept to the shadows, my cloak, dark as night, keeping me hidden. Good assassins know how to use tools… Master assassins don't need any. However, my cloak counted as a tool in my mind, so I was no master. And I knew that… even if the woman I was stalking didn't see me, others would… and they might point me out to her. So far… no one did.

When we finally reached a section of the upper floors, she stopped. I stopped too, keeping my body hidden, but poking my face out to see why she did.

What I noticed was that the woman and the girl accompanying her, her daughter I assumed, were looking at Momiji and Tohru.

"Eh? Momiji-chan?" the woman asked. So far, my suspicions seemed to be proven correct. She knew him… and she looked so much like him. Could she really be…?

"Oh… Hallo," Momiji said… Once again, to my ears, it sounded almost like Halo. What language was he speaking?! This is Japan for goodness sake!

"What are you doing out here so late?" the woman asked.

"My friend came over, so I wanted to play with her a while," Momiji responded.

"This area isn't a playground, Momiji-chan… You shouldn't do things that would worry your parents in the end."

I was wrong. This woman just knew Momiji then… But I noticed Tohru. Her eyes widened as if she was shocked. What did that mean?

The woman then turned to look at Tohru. "Thank you for taking good care of Momiji-chan," she said.

Tohru, flustered as always, bowed softly. "It-It was nothing," she stuttered. The woman offered her one last smile, then made to turn. I quickly ducked my head back before she could see me and stayed hidden as she walked out. I was about to leave too, but then I heard Momiji say something about… gluck? Only it had the prefix "un" in front of it, so… ungluck. But at least the next words he spoke were pure Japanese.

"She saw me. Now Papa's going to get mad at me."

What was he going to get mad at his son for? Meeting a woman that apparently knew him out of nowhere? I decided to try and investigate further into this and apparently Tohru wanted was curious too. She looked at Momiji who looked at her. They were fully fixated on each other. I began to move to another patch of shadows as Momiji spoke.

"Yeah. Mama doesn't know about me."

Wait, that was his mother that left? So, really, what would his father get upset about? And why doesn't she know about him?

"Her memories were suppressed by Haa-san."

So a hypnotist suppressed her memories? Then we'll just have to get them back, won't we?

"She thinks I'm the son to another Sohma family. But if she sees me, she might remember I'm her son."

So… wait, he didn't want her to remember? Scratch my rescue plan, eh?

"Children who hold the curse are born two months earlier then normal children."

Curse? There's a curse involved in all of this? What curse?! Seeing as I knew a little about the occult myself, always useful in dealing with those shady bastards, I might've been able to help some. But I stayed in the shadows, ever quiet, listening to Momiji's story unfold.

"To find your true love… to marry your true lover… to have a baby with your true love… and hold that baby… and have it turn into a strange animal while in your arms… what despair… a mother would feel."

I've always lived by the philosophy that a mother should care about their child no matter what. Even then, none of this was making sense.

"Parents who have children that are cursed by the vengeful Zodiac spirits usually either become very overprotective of that child… or start to neglect them completely. My mother rejected me with her entire body and soul."

So Momiji was neglected?! I felt my sight turning a little red and I began to cool myself down. Still, who would want to neglect such an innocent, sweet, and adorable boy anyway?

"She attempted to ignore me completely, but she would always be angry and it got to the point where she could barely stand living in the house as me."

Oh god, I had to calm down! If I turned into the killer now, it would be a catastrophe. I wouldn't be able to control myself. Who knew what I would do then?

"Papa began to fear she might start beating me, so he offered to take me with him, to move away. And then Akito told him that if he was leaving Mama behind, she had to have her memories suppressed. He didn't want to risk her telling anybody about me, so… Papa asked her and she agreed to the terms."

So she got her memories suppressed willingly? That woman that I followed was his mother… and didn't even remember or love her own child?

"I remember when Papa hugged me and told me everything was going to be ok. He told me he would love me enough for him and Mama. But I heard Mama before Haa-san erased her memories. He asked her if she was sure she would want to go through with it, if she wouldn't have any regrets… She said the only thing she regretted… was that she had such a horrible monster come out of her body."

The bitch was dead. She was going down onto my hit list… Of course, if I could understand why she hated him, it would justify things even more, but still… She's dead, gone, capped, iced, call it what you want, but she is going to die.

Tohru was in tears now. Momiji continued speaking. Now his words sounded different… Despite not being more of his life story, they sounded wise now… Mature, even.

"Still… I don't think it's OK to want to forget any memories. No matter how painful they are, they're what makes us unique and shapes our lives… That's why I was hoping that Mama would choose to remember everything. I guess it was my childish desire that she would… Maybe I was selfish to want it."

I don't think I need to tell you how depressed I am right now. It hurt even more when I saw him smile. I couldn't even do that when I had been depressed without looking like a maniac.

"It's a secret, ok?"

Tohru, at this point, had burst into tears. She lunged out, took Momiji into her arms, and then I almost panicked as Momiji seemed to just poof into pink smoke. But when the smoke cleared, I noticed two things different about the picture before me. One thing was the fact that Momiji's clothes were on the ground, messed up as if they had been tossed inconsiderably. The second ting was that Momiji was not in Tohru's arms, but a yellow rabbit with the same colored eyes as Momiji was.

It dawned upon me… Momiji turned into a rabbit. That curse, that Zodiac curse, which he mentioned before… This was it. This was why his mother hated him. This was the reason she had to get her memories suppressed yet she started beating him or telling people about her son, the "monster." But as far as I'm concerned, he's no monster. This must be what he meant when he told me it wasn't ok to kill people. He knew the kind of pain I must've been going through. He had been neglected and abused as well. But he… he managed to stay sunny through it all.

The full force of the sadness hit me. I had never cried once in my life, not before, during, or after my rape, not when I killed my parents or when they inflicted upon me the harm that caused me to snap and kill them in the first place… I always thought I was unable to cry. But now… I was in tears… I was crying around the same rate as Tohru, just without the noise, and I think I understood why I was crying so much.

It was because this boy, this sweet, kind, innocent boy… He was so much stronger then even I could ever hope to be. And he didn't have to kill people to prove his strength. Living was the only test he needed to pass and he was passing it with a smile on his face, the same smile that I abandoned in order to hone skills that would do nothing but bring harm to people.

It was this point that I began to admire, to care for, and yes… even to love Momiji Sohma.

And then I got caught. I think, in Shigure's book, I had run out crying, grappling onto Momiji, who had changed back into a human for some weird reason, and asking him why he did not tell me this was happening… Now two things… Would I have believed before I saw it just now and… would I have cared too much back then?

But I did now, but that's still not what got me caught.

When Momiji turned back, he was naked. Now I'm no pervert, but in that one moment, when the clouds disappeared, I got an eyeful and my nose began to bleed. I also had to sneeze. Tohru had freaked out and turned away and I was in the perfect position to get blood on her face the minute I sneezed… as well as the noise it made, after all. That's bound to get anyone's attention, right?

Solid Snake, dismiss your scholarship towards me because the alert phase will now commence… I have been busted.

End Chapter

Ehehehehehehehe, I tried to keep this a little comical… Hard, eh?