Hello there, Shadowers! ;D Do you like the name I gave you guys? TuT I thought it was creative... I mean, Shadowers isn't even a word! Hehe, anyways... Can I just blurt something? I LOVE THE THEME SONG TO SANKAREA. -And I LOVE the anime/manga!- Who else likes it? Hopefully I'm not the only one!

I'm so surprised how much views we have had over the past days! Arigatou for everyone's interest in this! :) It really makes me feel happy.

And me too!

Of course, Kitsumi~ Anyroad, here's the next chappie!

Finally my love comes!

Kits, hush up and let the readers read. Wanna do the disclaimer for me?

Disclaimer: Shadow doesn't own Fruits Basket, but she owns Sam & Maria.

Arigatou! Now, off you read! :3

"May I ask who are you?" Hatori said, as Maria was working in the kitchen, trying to make some tea.

"Maria Nite at your service, Mr. Hatori Sohma. I am 15-years-old, even if I act older. I have an older...sister... I suppose, named Sam Moone. She is 16 and acts like a little child."

"How much do you know about the Sohmas?"

"As much from the beginning of the story to the end."

"Interesting... So you doknow what I can do to you and your sister if Akito doesn't approve on you, yes?"

(insert that mysterious/sad music from FruBa here) Maria stopped in her tracks and looked down. Nodding her head slightly, she tried to keep her voice steady, "Yes, sir. We are aware of your capabilities of erasing our memories."

"Have you and your sister decided on when to meet Akito?"

"No, sir. Not yet."

"You should really start thinkin-"

(Music ends) "Maria, Shishi, I'm hooome!" chirped in a way-too happy voice.

Saying in a sweet tone, Maria excused herself. When she left the room, the whole house heard her yell, "AND WHY THE HELL ARE YOU BACK SO GODDAMN EARLY?"

"Awwh, look at that," Hatori heard a new voice, "she actually swore-OW. DAMMIT, OW OW OW OW!"

Running into the room, Ms. Nite was whacking a black-haired girl's head with a broom.

"She's got the broom again, Shigure! Flibbity flab, you need to hide it better!" the new girl was trying to run away from Maria as best as she could.

Hatori gave a slight cough, indicating that he was still there. Momiji, who felt that the talk was awkward, looked up from his tea set and set his gaze upon the new arrival.

"Whom may you be?" Hatori asked in his boring, yet sexy low voice.

Sam, he's an old man. Stop thinking he's sexy. That's just wrong.the girl sighed to herself before introducing, "I am Sam Moone. Age 16. Yada yada. I am Maria's best friend, or more likely, sister. You're Hatori! And that's Momo! Or Momiji. Hiya!"

"Hello!" Momiji grinned, holding onto a plastic tea cup.

"Sam, what are you doing here? What did you do? I wasn't there to cover you this time." Maria sighed.

"Well, Yuki's fan club girls were sooooooo annoying, so I managed to set them straight... a bit." Sam slurred very fast.

…

"You didn't..." the fox started up, pinching the bridge of her nose.

Beaming, the wolf sang, "Oh yes I did!"

"My daisy flower, what did you do?" Shigure popped into the room, a curious look on his face.

"You gave them all Willies, didn't you?"

"Not only that! I also gave them the stare!"

"YOU DID NOT!" Maria couldn't help but smirk a bit.

Laughing, Sam replied, "Oh yes I did! Let's just say that I got more people to believe I was a wild mental student."

"That's because you are one!"

"Oh, I know you love me for it!" Sam giggled before turning back to Hatori. She asked on what the two males were doing here.

"We were planning to visit Shigure-" Momiji started.

"Until your peculiar friend popped up along the way." Hatori glanced at Maria.

"Oh, I know that you have a bunch of questions for us, but please do leave! We are expecting some people to come home any moment! Thank you for your company. Have a nice day." Sam lied, bowing before exiting the room.

"Where the hell do you think you're going?" Maria furrowed her eyebrows.

"Back to school. Ciao!"

Everyone heard her running out the door, followed by a crash. There was some cursing before they heard her start to run again.

Shigure looked over to Maria, "Did she just-"

"Fall onto her face? Yes," tittered Maria, "Anyways, I'm sorry for her direct request, but we dohave some people coming soon. We must prepare."

"It's quite alright," Hatori stood up, "We must leave. We have errands to run."

"Aww! But I don't wanna! I thought we were just going to stay at Shigure's." Momiji pouted.

"Now, now, Momiji. You know very well that I specifically said that if you were to come with me, you would also help run errands. Now come." Hatori bowed before leaving.

"Maria-chan, you knew I was a zodiac, right?" Momiji looked over to a now blushing red-head.

"Y-yeah..."

"Great! Now I can hug you!" the bunny quickly jumped onto Maria, giving her a huge hug.

*poof, poof*

Maria was feeling over the top when Momiji hugged her, and she transformed into a fox. The two animals stared at each other for a second before Momiji broke the silence,

"You are a fox? How cute," he giggled, "I didn't know there was a fox. Are you supposed to be like the cat?"

Still frazzled about what has happened, Maria replied, smiling, "No. I'm not part of the story at all. I don't know why or how I change into a fox, actually."

"Oh, well, that's alright! I heard you were 15, yes? That means you and I will be together more in high school! I can't wait!"

"Momiji, come on!" Hatori yelled from outside.

"Alright! Bye, Maria-chan!" Momiji hopped out of the door.

Maria still stood there, fox formed and wide-eyed. Slowly, her mouth spread into a huge grin.

"MOMIJI FREAKING SOHMA HUGGED ME!" she fangirled, dashing up the stairs to change into different clothes.

"I told you not to get into any trouble today! What the hell!" Kyo exhaled, frustrated.

"But, kitty! They were really bothersome! I just had to do something! I can't just stand there and let them think that they are better than me. Better than everyone! I've had enough of people judging. They judge without knowing who someone really is, and it's just annoying." Sam stood her stance, hands balled into fists.

"You were lucky this time around that the school bothered to let you in again. Anyways, if you don't want to make your 'sister' sad," Kyo gave a skeptical look, "Stop causing trouble."

"Says the damn feline who always seems to get into chaos." muttered Sam, looking down at her feet.

"What's your next class?" the orange-haired boy asked, stuffing his hands into his pockets.

"Seems like it's Acting..." Sam checked the schedule she was given.

"Well, that's one class I don't have with you. Try not to get into any trouble, okay?" the boy sighed, concerned what the girl would do.

"Yeah, yeah. No promises." the girl's browns rolled at him. Sam made her way through the crowd and accidentally nudged someone with her shoulder.

"Watch where you're going, you stupid girl!" she heard a hiss.

Turning her head, she saw a pair of green eyes glaring at her. She also noticed that the girl who stood before her had weird green hair. This girl was a good inch taller than Sam, who stood at 5'2".

Great, another trouble maker.Sam pulled up her sleeves, planning to punch the girl with an attitude, until a thought/memory bubble made its way above Sam's head.

Ignore the girl, don't cause trouble, and just go to your last class, you idiot.Kyo had his hands on his sides and his face was frowning.

Mentally popping the bubble, Sam continued walking to her class, ignoring the girl.

"Atta wolfie." Kyo smirked, leaning against the lockers, seeing Sam just walk away from the girl without a fight.

~*The Next Day*~

"High school girls, high school girls! 1, 2, 3, high school girls!" sang a happy-go-lucky Shigure.

"Are you forgetting that Sam's also a high school girl, Shigure?" Maria giggled at Shigure's song.

Gasping, Shigure said, "Are all high school girls like Sam...?"

"HEY! THAT'S OFFENSIVE!" Sam gave an angry scowl.

"Maybe." Maria smirked.

"Oh! I can't wait to see what Tohru's friends are like!" Shigure tried to ignore Maria's side comment about every teenage girl being crazy.

"A yankee and a physi."

Shigure looked like he took back what he had said.

"3." Sam looked at her nails, a bit bored.

"2." Maria replied, a bit excited to see Uo and Hana.

"And..." both girls said.

"Hi! I'm home!" Tohru stated in the entrance of the house

"Wow, look at this place. It's not bad at all as we thought. We just gotta see how they act in here." said Uo in the far distance to Hana.

Maria was troubled, all of a sudden. She thought of how it went in the anime and then just thought if they transformed. Looking with her silver eyes, she was anxious for Sam.

Oh come on, Mars. Don't make that face. I promise to behave, alright? Just try to cover me if anything accidently happen.

All right, but be careful, Sam.

It was so amazing how when both girls looked at each other, they understood what the other was saying.

Well, darling, ya better prepare yourself now. Maria nodded in what she just thought to Sam.

"That goes double for you, ya damn rat!" Kyo interrupted the girls' little thought session.

"Yes, all of us would do to be careful while they're here. B'cause I wonder, if either of these girls would find about the family curse, what would happen, you think," Shigure gave all of us an emotionless gaze.

"At the very least, I suppose that Tohru would no longer be able to stay in this house."

"Well, either way, something's bound to turn out!" Maria stole Shigure's line, grinning widely.

Sam joined, "Que sara sara!" She gave a swirl motion in the air with her left hand.

…

"There's a dog." Hana's voice spoke up.

The three men and Tohru flinched, wondering if Hana knew something was up.

"Yes! Look at that! Tohru's friend is so observant! Hehe, you get a gold star!" Maria quickly said, pointing to the dog behind the men and placing a gold star sticker onto Hana's shirt.

"Puppy go bow wow!" Sam cooed at the cute brown dog. The dog replied, a happy grin on its face.

Kyo's sweat dropped as Yuki was a bit glad that the two had come up with a back-up lie. Shigure also seemed to be a bit more relieved, also stating that, yes, it was a dog.

This will be such a long day... Maria let out a short breath.

*too busy dancing and singing to Esoragoto*

Sorry... what Shadow was meant to say was that thank you for reading this... chappie, is it, Shads?

*Still dancing*

Well, I guess so... Thank you all! The next chapter will be up soon. :) Review, favourite, uhm... yeah. Whatever! Follow this story, too! Bahah. Thanks.

~Kitsumi (And a still-dancing Shadow)