A/N: Thanks (of course!) to Chips for reviewing the last chapter!! On a sidenote, 1-time-reviewers (aka the people who review once and never review again after that) make me super sadface. I mean im writing this for chu guys and if only one person reviews more than once, well that's just sad (no offense to Chips! I love your reviews! : D ) so...ja. Im just sayin. Reviews would be nice.

I'm also gonna steal something from one of my favorite authors here on . Ayasha Yumi, Sometimes she posts what she's listening to. Imma do that nao too because I find it to be interesting to see what kind of music people like.

**be listening to:: is it any wonder by keane**

Disclaimer: if I DID own fruits basket, I can tell you I wouldn't be sitten here writing fanfiction.

The Others - Chapter 9

The door of the gate surrounding the entire property of the old orphanage was locked. Tohru had tried her hardest to open it but someone had locked it. So there was no getting in through the front.

At least that will hold the students off for a bit she thought as she walked away from the front of the gated fence and followed its path to the back of the orphanage. I hope there's another way in. she sighed. Reaching the rather large back yard, Tohru found herself simply staring. Obviously, being an orphanage it would have a slightly rusty swing set and a large wooden...thing, with a slide attached to it. And in completion to the scene, were some people. The 4 zodiacs she knew and then two others she hadn't seen before.

Anthony, who was sitting on one of the two rusty swings, smiled and waved at her. Tohru waved back. He got up and walked over to her, leaving Ty sitting alone on the other swing.

"Hey, Tohru." he greeted. Then, like it wasn't something obvious, he looked down at the fence between them.

"Why are you out there?"

"I tried to come in and the gate's locked." she explained. Anthony blinked and then rolled his eyes. He reached over and grabbed Tohru by her hips, making her squeak. He picked her up like she weighed nothing and set her down next to him.

"There. Plan foiled." Tohru blinked, confused. Anthony sighed.

"I'm sure Keles was the one who locked the gate. She's just like that sometimes." he explained as he grabbed her by her elbow and dragged over to the swimming suit-clad zodiac members. Keles? Is that the cat?

"Ohhey guys! Look who's here!"

They all stopped what they were doing to look at her. Ty mumbled out a hi and Nick smiled and said hello. But the three girls standing between the two said nothing. Tohru looked at them each, trying to guess who they were. One was, well, very Pamela Anderson. Long, wavy blond hair. Large boobs busting out of a bikini top. And she was very curvy.

The second was very obviously the cat. The girl in the attic.

The final one was standing very close to the cat, almost seemingly possessive. She was taller than the girl next to her, but shorter than the barbie-blond. Her black bangs were pulled off to the side with a bow and her hair hung down just below her shoulders. The left side of her lip was pierced and she looked agitated with Tohrus arrival.

"U-um...hi."

Suddenly, the blond jumped forward, hugging Tohru. POOF Tohru gaped as in her arms she held a small rabbit. W-why did she change? I'm a girl....she is too...so..why.

"I think someone forgot to mention this to you, but," Nick came over and took the rabbit from her, "we transform not only stress but when we're hugged by anyone outside of the zodiac. Regardless of gender. See, if one of us was to hug anyone from the other zodiac, we wouldn't transform and neither would they. But if we hug anyone that isn't cursed, then we transform."

S-so they know about the Sohma family? But...then...does that mean that the Sohmas know about these guys? Even so...I shouldn't mention it. Just incase.

"So.." she looked at the rabbit in Nicks hands. "what's your name?"

"I'm Ashley." she seemed to smile at Tohru. Cool. One girl doesn't hate me. She looked at the other two.

"S-so you must be Keles?" she asked, looking at the girl who was the cat.

"Like it matters." she grunted, rolling her eyes as she tugged on the black-haired girls sleeve and the two walked towards the orphanage.

"Yeah."

Tohru blinked, turning to Anthony.

"The cat is Kele. Tys sister. The black haired girl is Christina. She's the only person who can really get along with the cat , well, other than Ty. He and Keles get along pretty good for being the cat and the rat."

Tohru took than in

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Tohru managed to get everyone up into the attic just in time as she heard yelling outside. The gate is still locked.

"Hey, how do you unlock the gate?" she asked Anthony.

"One sec." Anthony walked the two steps to Ty and reached into his back pocket.

"Eh??!" Ty tried to turn his head to look, confused.

"The key to the gate. Keles put it in your back pocket." Anthony said, pulling his hand away from Tys bum. Sure enough in his hand was a key. He handed it to Tohru.

"Just lock up before you leave ok?"

Tohru nodded and headed down to let everyone in.

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TBC...

A/N: I lost interest in writing this chapter about halfway through. So im stopping here and ill write more later. Please review :3