Disclaimer: I do not own, nor shall I ever, Fruits Baskets or Twilight. Because other people thought of them first.

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"THEY'RE WHAT?!" Akito screamed, pulling Shigure to glare into his eyes by his hair.

"Vampires, Akito. They confessed!" He said, only a slight amount of pain in his voice.

"Damn it!" He swore and Shigure's hair slid through his fingers. He paced back and forth in front of Shigure, thinking. After a "We aren't going to erase their memories." He said, an evil smile coming over his face.

"What will we do instead, Akito?" Hatori asked from the back of the room. "Akito turned to him.

"It's simple, Hatori. We kill them."

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"Edward! What is she seeing??" Carlisle all but shouted at his adoptive son, who had adopted a blank look in his eyes as he watched the future with Alice who was curled into a ball on the floor, screaming. Jasper was trying to comfort her, and Bella was working on getting Edward out of his trance. Suddenly, her screaming stopped and he slumped to the floor. "What. Happened." Carlisle demanded.

"I-it h-hurts." Alice whispered.
"What hurts, Alice?" Jasper asked, soothingly.

"Ever-everyth-thing. The-the vision. I could-I feel-it was- death! T-torture. Pain." She whispered, and started to scream again. Edward bent his head, his bronze hair covering his eyes.

"What is going on??" Rosalie demanded as she marched into the house, Emmett and Esme on her heels. "We could hear screaming for miles, vampire hearing aside!" Carlisle quickly updated the three of them.

"Can vampires go into shock?" Emmett asked in the silence that followed the explanation.

"Emmett! I never thought I'd say this, but you're a genius!" Carlisle cried, and ran upstairs to look through his medical books.

"Come on, Edward" Bella whispered to him. "Come back to me."

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"No! NO!" Yuki shouted. "We can't kill them!!"

"YOU WILL DO AS I TELL YOU!" Akito screamed back, slugging him as hard as possible across the jaw. Yuki collapsed as a flurry of wild kicks and punches landed from hi. Blood pooled from his mouth as the world went fuzzy. Shigure and Hatori watched on in horror as Akito nearly killed the boy with the curse of the rat.

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"What is that screaming?" Aro asked his ashen brother, Caius.

"It sounds like Alice Cullen." Marcus, the third brother, commented.

"My my, the Cullens should keep better track of her. It sounds as if she's being mauled by a bear." Aro said snidely. Caius chuckled darkly.

"She should be so lucky."

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"How to kill a vampire?" Akito mused as he paced in his room. "SHIGURE. GET IN HERE YOU UNGRATEFUL, STUPID DOG!!" Shigure scrambled to run into the room from which he'd been cast out of a mere five minutes ago. In his haste, he slipped in the puddle of blood and slid across the floor, falling with a thunk. Akito laughed sadistically.
"Yes Akito?" Shigure looked up from his position on the floor, rubbing the back of his head.

"Has that meddlesome cat been dealt with like the vermin he is?" Akito asked with a sneer.

"Kyo has been locked away, Akito."

"The stupid boy! He's supposed to hate the rat, not save him! How is that worthless vampire lover, anyways?"

"Hatori has him stable, but he's still unconscious."

"Yay."

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Splash! Edward's eyes snapped up to meet Carlisle's.

"I'm wet." He stated. Bella choked back a sob and threw her arms around his neck. Carlisle and Esme both sighed in relief.

"Edward, I need you to tell me what happened. What's still happening." Carlisle said slowly. Edward cast his eyes down.

"Alice is…having a vision." He glanced over at Alice, who was curled in a ball in the corner. Blood red tears were falling out of her eyes, and she was gasping for air, clutching her stomach.

"Obviously!!" Rosalie snapped. Most of the vampires in the room shushed her. Edward continued hesitantly.

"The Sohma's…the Volturi…there was…a confrontation…" He trailed off for a moment. Nearly every vampire in the room as looking at him expectantly. Shocking everyone, the blood red tears dropped from Edward's eyes as he clutched his head in his hands, jerking away from Bella and falling, sprawled, across the floor.

"The pain! The PAIN! It's horrible!! AAAH!!" Edward and Alice screamed at the same time. Then they started to writhe on the floor. When Bella and Jasper attempted to still their mates, they recoiled, burned by their skin.

"Edward! Alice! What's going on!" Carlisle shouted. They responded simultaneously.

"I'M ON FIRE! IT'S THE SOHMA'S FAULT!"

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Depressing Author's Note for me not you

I'm not going to apologize for not updating. You probably don't care but I've been legitimately depressed, and I'm flunking a couple of classes, and I keep getting sick. I don't sleep, I can't stop eating, and I hate my life. I also hate this story, but I keep continuing it because of all the amazing people who read this. Every time I get an email with encouraging happy reviews I smile. It really does make my day. On the other hand, I'd probably die if I got flamed. I WILL apologize for the really short chapter, but since as I mentioned, I hate this story, I have to work at making it good. In order to get more chapters up before next year, I have to make them really short. I WILL NOT ABANDON THIS FIC. Too many people are following it for me to just give up. I'm gonna pull through it for ya'll. Speaking of flunking school, I've got homework to do. -grumble grumble lots of censored words-

Peace, Love and Fanfiction,

Jamie