Friends of a Rice Ball

DG32173 & Aniasin

Sarah: here's chapter ten. In this chapter, the X-Men will explain why they suddenly showed up. We don't own Fruits Basket or X-Men. We do own the Hinori family (more will eventually show up) and this story.

Aniasin: I am not here right now. Good bye!

Sarah: (blinks) I thought I saw Aniasin. But she's gone now.

NOTE
(Authors note)
"Talking"
'Thinking'
Scene change
POV change
Memory
Scene change in memory

Chapter 10

Explanations

Sari, Tohru, and Casey (who's now in human form) come out of the kitchen, carrying trays of hot cocoa for everyone; bags of marshmallows are also on the trays, since everyone likes a different proportion of marshmallows to cocoa. "Here," Sari says as the three girls put the trays on the large coffee table in the center of the living room. Then each girl grabs a cup and packs them with marshmallows. Once everyone has their own cup of cocoa ready, Sari clears her throat to gain attention from everyone. "Now, if you don't mind, would you explain why you're here?" she asks of the strangers.

"It's a long story…," Cyclops starts.

"We've got all night," Casey retorts as she sips her hot cocoa.

"Well, we heard some rumors that the radical movement against mutants had spread to the nearest country to California…that's Japan." Cyclops starts as Jean offers him some hot cocoa, but he refuses. "There's a school that our mentor, Professor Xavier, had started to help mutants gain control over their powers. He has telepathic powers and he sent us to check the country for mutants to make sure that nobody got hurt. We've spent nearly three months out here so far and have found nothing. Then we started hearing rumors about this family with extraordinary powers. They kept calling them mutants so we decided to investigate. Then we overheard a militant group planning the attack on your house. That's when he decided to take action."

Casey growls as she slams her mug onto the table. "That's why you showed up." She snarls angrily. "We're not mutants! What part of that don't you get?! These are genetic powers passed on from generation to generation! Even people who aren't related to us yet marry into the family get these talents too! Who in their right mind has the right to call us monsters?"

Nightcrawler clears his throat, his eyes are on the floor. Casey then realizes that she made a mistake.

"Aw man." Casey sighs as she looks at the man. "I'm sorry. I didn't mean—"

"It's all right." Nightcrawler replies as he shrugs his shoulders. "I'm used to it."

"I didn't mean ya'll—" Casey whines in protest but Wolverine stops her.

"Just let it go, kid," he says in his usual rough and tumble voice. Casey raises an eyebrow. 'Kid'? She wasn't so sure about this guy.

"Sorry about my sister; she's really touchy about the family curse," Sari explains. "As she said, though, these powers even go to those who marry into the family, whether they marry a female or male Hinori. It's a curse that's been in our family for hundreds of generations. Each Hinori gets their own unique power. But a mother always passes part of her powers down to her children, and the children have a small bit of their siblings' powers. Some members of the family find the curse as more of a gift from the gods. But most of us, my sister, my cousin, and myself included, find it to be an annoying problem. As I told you earlier, I'm a psychic. When people have little or no shields around their minds, I can hear their thoughts as clearly as I can read a children's book. When I get any extreme emotions, like with my rage earlier, my powers take over me and cause havoc. I've killed when I was younger because of it. Casey-nee-chan is a shape-shifter. When she gets full of any one emotion, even happiness, she transforms into the first animal she thinks of. This also happens when she is low on energy. Nina is an elementalist, able to control fire, water, earth, and air, as well as any combination of them. When she gets extreme emotions, her power goes out of control and causes a big mess with everything. I've had to 'alter' memories many times when we were younger because of this; same as when Casey transforms in front of a lot of people." She sighs. "As you see, it's very much a curse to us, rather than a gift. We trust very few people because of this."

"Speak for yourself…," Casey mutters bitterly as she glances out the window at the snow. "I trust no one."

"You trust them," Nina says, pointing to the Sohmas and Tohru.

"Only because she does," Casey retorts, pointing towards Sari. "I know that Sari wouldn't tell her secrets to just anyone. If she trusts them enough to tell them, then I trust them. That doesn't mean I have to believe them though." She was getting so angry, so upset, she just wanting to chew something into a million teeny tiny little pieces….

Casey snarls as she lies on the chair on top of her clothes. Her wolf teeth are encased around the chair's arm rest, gnawing on it. Anger is written all over the wolf's face. Her teeth are bared, fur bristled and hackles raised. Anyone who comes near her could get attacked without warning. Sari sighs, then turns to the others. "Don't go near her unless you want to be badly maimed or killed," she warns them.

"She's ruining the chair!" Nina exclaims.

Sari nods. "I know. We'll take care of it later. Let her vent her frustrations," she says.

"Listen, we have to ask you something." Cyclops looks at the trio cautiously, especially Casey, who's completely demolishing the wicker chair. "We need you to come to the states with us," he just spits it out, gaining a questioning look from Nina and a snarl from Casey.

Sari scowls. "No," she says flatly. "Casey and I only just got back home about four months ago. We lived in the states with our mother until she died; our father had died a few months previously, so we came to take our home back before anyone had a chance of taking or ruining it. We are not going back to the states, ever." That's about as plain a 'no' as you can get.

"You'd be safer there." Cyclops protests, trying to get them to see his way of thinking. "They won't stop trying to kill you."

"Yeah, so what?!" Casey growls as she leaps off the couch and walks towards Cyclops, her eyes beginning to take on a red hue … more of a red hue than usual at least. "We'll just keep on killing them anyway! Who do you think you are?! You just can't tell us to leave! Not especially after we just got home! We're not kids! We can take care of ourselves!" she adds as she glares at Cyclops; her eyes are completely red now.

Sari sighs. "Hinori Cassandra, get back in your chair now," she growls; she's pissed. "And you lot. Don't think you can just show up on our land and tell us to leave because we'd 'be safer' elsewhere. We've dealt with worse than those creeps and survived it," she snarls, turning on the X-Men. Her eyes are crimson red. "We'll just call in a few members of the family that live in Japan. With their help, we don't need to be protected by 'outsiders'! Why should we even trust you? Just because you show up and help us out doesn't mean we have to trust you to protect us when the Hinori clan has protected itself and its friends since the very first Hinori, several hundred millennia ago. The clan had even been at war with the Japanese military, who went against the orders of the royal family, and survived. Just because some miscreants think they can go and kill off every odd thing in the world doesn't mean we'd run and hide. The Hinori clan never runs from a battle like cowards! And we aren't going to be the first ones to break that tradition! Now get the hell out of my house and off my land!"

"You've gone too far." Wolverine unsheathes his claws. He glares at Sari.

"Logan!" several of the others yell in unison.

"Let's just do what they say before someone gets hurt." Cyclops reaches out towards Logan, but it's too late. Logan snarls as he runs towards Sari.

Casey leaps up on Logan landing on his chest. The extra weight sends the man falling backwards. Casey put her jaws around Logan's neck. One well placed bite would sever his major vessels, voice box, and spine, instantly killing him.

"Give me one reason." Casey snarls as she gently nicks the man's skin with her teeth.

"THIS!!" Logan yells as he thrusts his claws into Casey's chest. The wolf instinctively bites down severing his major arteries and his voice box yet when she reaches his spine she can feel…metal? It was a gory scene; blood pored out from everywhere: Casey's chest and Logan's neck.

Casey pants as she tries to bite through this stubborn man's spine, but she can't. (The adamantium). "HINORI CASSANDRA!" Sari roars, scaring everyone in the room. Not even Casey has ever seen Sari this mad. "GET OFF HIM THIS INSTANT!" she continues. She walks up, grabs the wolf by the scruff of her neck, and uses her psychic powers to carefully pry Casey's jaws away from Logan's neck and Logan's claws out of her sister's chest while keeping the blood flow from both wolf and man to a minimum. She literally tosses Casey onto the chair she had ruined. "Shigure-kun, Yuki-kun, Kyo-kun, Tohru-chan, see to her wounds," she orders. She then grabs the man on the floor by the top of his shirt. "I should let you die for doing that in my house to my sister!" she yells at him. "YOU have no right to say what goes too far or not under my roof or on my land! But because I don't want to make any more trouble for your friends, I will heal your wounds, you bastard! And if you even consider attacking anyone on my land again without provocation, I will kill you myself! My sister was protecting me because you were attacking me! She had every right to do so, but you had no right to attack her!" she continues yelling, placing her hands gently over his neck. "Be grateful that I'll give you this one chance," she snarls, closing her eyes and concentrating on healing the wounds of the man. She carefully reattaches the arteries and veins together before getting to work on his voice box, a much more complicated thing to heal. After about twenty total minutes, Sari lifts her hands from his neck to reveal multiple scars where the wolf jaws had pierced through his neck. She glares at him as she moves away to go check on her sister. Before she leaves the room, though, she turns to the other X-Men. "I suggest you get him and get off my land before my sister is healed. She will kill him next time she sees him, and I won't be able to stop her. Make sure to keep the bastard as far from my land as possible." With that, she disappears deeper into the manor to find out how her sister is doing.

"Let me at him!" Casey growls savagely as she tries to free herself from the Tohru, Kyo, Yuki, and Shigure's grip. "Let me at him!" The wolf's constant squirming and wiggling was making it hard for them to check her wounds.

"He is leaving," Sari says as she walks into the room. "He won't be back. If he does come back, you can have at him."

Outside

"Logan, you idiot!" Cyclops growls angrily as he and the others walk across the Hinori land. They had decided to take Sari's advice and leave before someone got hurt. "What were you thinking?! You could have gotten killed!"

"Have you already forgotten my abilities?" Logan spits out as he glares at Cyclops. The group stops in front of the gates. Logan and Cyclops get into a glaring match. The others groan as they know that this will more than likely take a while and it's cold. Not that they care, cause they don't.

"That's not the point!" Cyclops yells angrily. "The point is, we were trying to make them our friends and you attack them! You just better be glad that psychic girl decided not to kill you!"

"I would of liked to have seen her try." Logan snarls lowly, gaining an angry glare from Cyclops.

"Would you two stop already?!" Storm steps in between the two men before the fight got worse. She looks at Cyclops. "You're both to blame! You pushed them and you…" She turns towards Logan. "You know that the X-men only attack if provoked!"

"She had her—"

"She would have left you alone if you would have just got up and walked in the other direction!" Storm immediately interrupts Logan. Both men sigh as they realize that she is right.

"Its more your fault …," Cyclops mutters.

"I heard that!" Logan yelps. Cyclops turns around and both men begin to fight … again. Storm sighs as she shakes her head. This is a never-ending cycle between the two of them.

Back in the Hinori manor

Casey is in human form again and has bandages wrapped around her chest to cover and protect the healing wounds. She's supposedly brooding in her room. Sari is downstairs with Nina and Tohru, cleaning up the refreshments … well, drinks, since there was no food brought out.

Aniasin: Well THAT was unexpected! Well I guess you'll have to wait till the next chapter to see what happens…

Sarah: please review if you don't mind!