An Uncommon Mix

Chapter 10

A/N: I do not own Fruits Basket, Lord of the Rings, or any of the awesome characters in the books, I hope you like this story and please read and review.

…..At Sohma Main House…..

…..Normal POV…..

"You should have known better than to try to keep this a secret from me you stupid animals," the cold voice said as it came into the room.

All the Fellowship, plus Tohru, Hatori, Kyo, Yuki, Shigure, Rin (back in human form), Aya, and Kisa sat on the floor as he walked around the group. His cold eyes glared at them in anger. He narrowed them down at Tohru.

"But it doesn't surprise me at all. I mean, you are the one who keeps telling them to not listen. To ignore me and the risks of the outside world. If it wasn't for you, you stupid girl, we wouldn't be in this mess right now." The man leaned close to Tohru so that he was right in front of her face which was still crying, but she didn't look away. "Do you enjoy taking people away from their families and traditions? …DO YOU?"

He was yelling in her face now, his own face a mask of fury.

"ANSWER ME!" he yelled one last time, but he didn't give her a chance to respond before he punched her in the face.

After she got punched Tohru fell back holding her head in her hands as she sobbed some more. Kyo and Yuki both jumped up and held back the man as best they could. Kisa and Legolas both rushed to Tohru's side.

"YOU LITTLE BITCH! YOU ARE TAKING EVERYONE AWAY AND NOW YOU BRING THEM HERE TO JUST COMPLICATE THINGS EVEN MORE! YOU WON'T BE HAPPY UNTIL EVERYONE IS MISERABLE WILL YOU?"

"AKITO! SHUT UP!" Kyo yelled as pushed Akito back into his chair. "Tohru has done nothing! You promised you wouldn't hurt her!"

"Why do you suddenly want to save her you little monster?" Akito said as he stood up and walked toward Kyo until he was standing right in front of him, "Could it be that the little monstrous cat has finally fallen in love?"

Kyo looked shocked and reddened slightly, "Of course not! I would never fall in love! You just promised when she moved in that you wouldn't hurt her!"

A puzzled look came over Yuki, Hatori, Tohru, Kisa, Shigure, and Aya because they all knew that Akito never promised such a thing when Tohru moved in with Shigure.

Akito just laughed. "Well isn't this an interesting turn of events. You know I never promised such a thing when she moved in, but I did promise that when you called me and told me all about this so called 'Fellowship'. As I recall you wanted me to get them away from all of you, especially get this Legolas away from Tohru. But then again I could be wrong. Also you should know something," he walked around Kyo, who just stood stock still looking at the ground, "I took a leaf from your book so to say. I did what the cat always does, I lied. I never intended to keep that promise."

Kyo looked at Akito, murderous anger in his eyes. Akito laughed again.

"Well no one here will ever love you back," Akito leaned closer so that his mouth was right next to Kyo's ear and dropped his voice so that it was barely above a whisper, everyone heard it anyway because it was so quite in the room his voice sounded louder than lightning, "you want to know why? Because you are a monster."

With that Akito grabbed onto Kyo's hand before anyone could do anything about it and tore off the bracelet that was on his wrist.

"NNOO!" Kyo yelled. As soon as the bracelet was off he launched toward the door but it was too late. He had turned into a giant monster. He now looked like a human sized lizard mixed with a type of unnamable insect. It also made such a smell that everyone felt the need to vomit.

The Fellowship, out of surprise, leapt up and scrambled around for their weapons which were leaning up against the wall. Legolas grabbed his bow, knocked an arrow, and stood in front of Tohru, ready to fire at a moment's notice to protect her. Aragorn, Merry, Pippin, Gandalf, Sam, Gimli, and Frodo all got their swords and daggers ready and made a wall between 'Kyo' and the others.

"You see how they react?" Akito said, laughing again, "It is because they know you are a monster. They look ready to kill just about any monster!"

Kyo looked at Akito and growled. It was a deep growl full of anger. As soon as the growl was done, Kyo leapt over the heads of everyone and landed in front of Akito. Just as he was about to attack Akito though, Tohru jumped in and latched onto Kyo as tightly as possible. In a puff of orange smoke Tohru was suddenly sitting on the floor with an orange cat in her arms.

"Tohru!" Legolas said with shock easily heard in his voice, "Are you ok?"

"Yes, although I can imagine that Kyo isn't too happy," she said as she stood up, "You can put the weapons away now, he won't hurt you."

"What happened?" Frodo asked as he lowered his sword.

"Easy, Tohru hugged Kyo and turned him into a cat. No matter what form we will always turn into animals when hugged." Yuki answered.

Surprisingly Akito was silent as all of this was said.

"Will he be alright?" Pippin asked.

"He should be." Hatori answered.

"What do we do now?" Kisa asked.

That was too much for Akito.

"YOU ALL WILL DO NOTHING! ALL OF YOU WILL BE LOCKED UP! YOU WILL MESS EVERYTHING UP AN—"

Akito was suddenly cut off by a loud scream. Everyone covered their ears and looked around for the source of it. It was a minute before they all realized it was Akito who was screaming.

"You will never hurt any of them ever again, do you understand?" said a new yet familiar voice.

Akito looked up and could only think of one thing to say, "How are you here? Y-You are in a coma!"

"Not anymore," Hana said as she continued using Uo for support, "I woke up when you punched Tohru and rushed over here. Then I shot you with electro-poison wave, which is what made you scream."

"W-W-W—" Akito tried to form a word but couldn't seem to know what to say.

"Don't try to understand it, now let them go or get zapped again." Hana said.

Akito was now just speechless.

"Ok everyone!" Uo yelled as she held up Hana, "Out! We go to Shigure's house! NOW!"

With that everyone left to Shigure's house with Akito still speechless on the floor.

…..At Shigure's House…..

…..Legolas's POV…..

I sat on the roof, not really doing anything but thinking, when I heard footsteps coming up the ladder. I turned towards the noise and found Kyo staring at me.

"What are you doing up here?" He asked.

"Couldn't sleep, been thinking about all that has happened today," I said as I turned my attention back to the stars above me.

"Same. I'm surprised that Akito didn't come after all of us." He said as he sat down next to me.

"Yes, but…why did we have to get all the others that are afflicted with this…curse?" I asked, referring to earlier when we were leaving the main Sohma house and had to get everyone that had this curse.

"I don't know, Hana said we had to get them. I never try to understand her anymore. Hiro didn't look too happy though."

"Yes and what about Uo? I thought that she didn't know about your curse."

"She somehow overheard us when we were explaining everything you all of you and figured it all out. Hatori then put a memory block on her but Hana did a weird mind thing and let her remember everything."

We then sat in silence for the next few minutes until I asked the question that had been on my mind ever since Akito had mentioned it.

"W-Why do you not like me?" I asked.

Kyo gave me a puzzled look, "Why do you think I wouldn't like you?"

"Because when Akito said that you called him and told him about us being here he also said that you made it a point of me not being near Tohru…that and the fact that you haven't said one word to me until tonight."

"Because…it is a long story."

"We have all night,"

"Fine. When I was very young I was living with my adopted father. He owns a dojo and teaches martial arts, because of this he could rarely pick me up from school so usually I walked home. One day I took a different route home because I was bored and ran into a strange woman named Kyoko. I didn't know it than but she was Tohru's mom. Anyway, I met her at the same spot every day and we became friends. She told me all about her life and Tohru, at the time I had never met her. One day she was really worried, when she told me why it was because she had to work really late and she couldn't get a babysitter for Tohru so she had to leave her home alone. That night I went to Kyoko's house and sat there and watched Tohru for her until got home. When she came home she saw me and thanked me and it became a deal that whenever she didn't have a babysitter I would watch over Tohru without her knowing it. One day about a month or two later I ran into Kyoko in tears. She said that Tohru was missing and she couldn't find her anywhere. I made a promise right then and there: "I promise I'll find her! I'll protect her! I promise as a man!" After that I ran all around town looking for Tohru. I couldn't find her anywhere. I decided to head back to Kyoko's house to see if Tohru had gotten back there. When I got there she was there with Kyoko in the kitchen. Kyoko saw me and came outside with a red hat. It was my hat that my adopted dad had gotten me and I lost, the next time I saw it Yuki had it and it was a time when I hated him with all my guts so I yelled at him and left him with my hat. Thinking it was a mistake that the rat had saved Tohru I asked Kyoko "Where did you get that hat?" She said that the little boy who found Tohru had it and gave it to her after he led her home. It was then that I knew that Yuki had helped her when I couldn't and I got so mad I ran away and never saw her again. As I ran away though I could hear Kyoko yelling "Don't worry kiddo! I'll put your promise on your tab!" She was referring to the promise I made of protecting Tohru."

It was here his voice dropped off for a little bit. "And then what happened?" I heard myself asking.

It was another minute before he finally started again, "I didn't see her again until last year, on the day she died. I was on my way to the dojo, and I saw her on the street. I was debating whether I should go say hi or do nothing. As I was debating this I saw a car racing down the street towards Kyoko. The driver was unconscious. I knew it would be right to save Kyoko but I also knew that if I did then I would reveal the Sohma curse to everyone on the street. I was torn between revealing the curse and saving one of my best friends. In the end I took too long with making a decision and she got hit by the car. I knew I should have saved her instead of doing nothing. I ran up to her side; she was lying on the street bleeding to death with injuries all over her body. The last words she ever said were directed at me. They were "If you don't fill in your tab, I'll never forgive you." Then she died. Ever since then I have found Tohru and always protected her, for Kyoko. If anyone else were to be able to protect her then I would feel like I wouldn't be keeping my promise to Kyoko, that I would always have that tab."

"So you don't like me because you feel that I am filling in your tab?"

"No, I do like you but it was a promise I made a year ago and I still want to keep it."

"You know…if you had people helping you with protecting her and filling in your tab it might be a little easier."

"Maybe and…maybe protecting her also means she should be happy. I know that you could help her with that." Kyo said, looking up at the sky.

"She could also be happy with you." I say, "It doesn't matter what you said to Akito, you do love her."

"She's been helping me faster than I can fill in the tab, it is impossible to not fall in love with her." He admitted.

"Ye—" I started to say but was cut off by even more footsteps coming up the ladder.

"Hey," Tohru said, popping her head up, "Hana says that she might have found a way to get you home, she wants all of us to come to the living room to explain. Are you both ok?"

"Yes, we are and we will be down in a minute," I say before she disappeared.

A/N: Hey, hope you all liked this chapter. Yes I changed some stuff about the death scene between Kyo and Kyoko, but I thought it would make more sense if Kyo knew what it was that Kyoko was actually trying to say and stuff. Anyway please read and review.