The Zodiac Curse
by KyouXKagura

Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket or any of the characters you have come to love, such as Kagura and Kyou but I do own Hârâ, Haruna and Shane – who are all mentioned in this fiction!


Chapter Eleven

When Kisa had started to live with Hârâ it seemed like she had opened up a lot more and that was a good thing, Haru really liked that and was happy that Hârâ and Kisa got on as good as they did. When he had went around to get Kisa settled in he realised that Hârâ's cousin Haruna was also a very good person so he was very happy at that too:

But that was a few days ago, and again Haru was visiting Hârâ and Kisa. Kisa was attached the Hârâ but she was always wanting Tohru to come over, Hârâ had no objections though it seemed to be too frequently for Haruna and she had to go out a lot to get some peace and quiet! Shane had arrived quite a few times, and right now he was the one being forced to make the dinner. The male Gemini of the Chiaki family had the opposite of his twin when it came to appearances, where Haruna had white hair, Shane had black hair, where Haruna had light blue eyes, Shane had fiery red and he had pale skin compared to his sister's dark.
"Will riceballs do as a snack?" The male asked as he entered the living room. Hârâ nodded alongside the other two girls though Haru never said anything. Haru was standing in the corner but soon he went to see what Kisa had been drawing. It was a house which looked like Hârâ's, she pointed out.
"That's Hârâ-nee, that's Tohru-nee, that's me and that's you." Kisa's dark eyes flashed from the light coming through the window and her smile was almost as bright and happy.

Hârâ stood up and sat on the sofa, she was sure that Tohru would be able to handle Kisa's drawing for a little while.
"Are you alright, Hârâ-chan?" He asked sitting next to her. She nodded and looked towards the door. "Do you want to go out somewhere?" He asked her. She nodded again this time more timidly.
"Will you go with me?" She asked she still didn't really know her way around Kaibara. Hârâ told Shane that the riceballs were only for Tohru, Kisa and himself as they were leaving. Shane fussed about something but they ignored him and left leaving Tohru a little worried as she never really saw them leave.
"I'm sure Hârâ-nee will come back soon and she'll like our picture." Kisa smiled, she was really happy that she now had two 'sisters'.

It wasn't the same. Kagura thought as she looked down, they loved each other and still Kyou wouldn't do that one little thing for her. He wouldn't be friends with Yuki, or at least try to be.
"NO WAY IN HELL, I'M NOT GOING TO BE-FRIEND THAT SISSY-RATBOY I'M GOING TO KILL HIM!" He yelled at her as he looked sternly at her before he noticed that it maybe wasn't right to yell at Kagura when he was obviously mostly upset with Yuki. "I'm sorry for shouting at you… BUT I'M NOTEVEN GOING TO TRY TO LIKE HIM, I HATE HIM!" He continued but still it was water off of Kagura's back and she turned around in a sing-song voice and spoke:
"We better go and get Gure-san!" She ran into Shigure's house and she had to get the ingredients for the cake. It was Valentine's Day soon and she was making a cake with Tohru to celebrate the first Valentine's Day she was spending with Kyou as a couple! Kyou really couldn't be bothered, to be honest; all he really wanted to do was sit on the roof. He wasn't feeling up to going outside, Yuki had made him really angry and he realised that he wasn't going to give up so easily on beating him. He had to train some more and he couldn't do that if he was spending every minute with Kagura. Though he had to admit it was rather nice being with Kagura and not getting beat up or them shouting at each other about everything.

Kagura looked down and wondered, she saw the expression on his face.
"Um, I'll tell you what." It shocked him when she had spoke out of no where. "You can stay and I'll go. You really don't seem to want to go, I understand, you probably need to rest and relax. I've been pushing you too much to go out with me." She looked down with a smile. "I'm sure an hour or two without you won't kill me." Kyou was shocked, and she could see this on his face, but it was true. She had accepted that he needed his space.
"Uh, okay." He replied as he watched her skip off ahead of him and he just looked completely shocked.
"You seem to have had an affect on, Gura-san." He turned to see Shigure. "Soon it won't be long before you have her in your-"
"SHUT YOUR FOUL MOUTH, SHIGURE!" Soon enough Kyou was where he wanted to be – on the roof. Kagura was actually alright when he thought about it, he didn't realise why he hadn't seen it earlier.

Hârâ and Haru had headed towards the shops, Hârâ didn't really know where she wanted to go but they went there because it was the cold hours of shopping time so no one would truly be shopping this early.

"Thank you for coming with me, Haru-kun." Hârâ spoke as she looked down towards the ground, her hands firmly on her bag-strap. He held his emotionless expression and replied:
"No problem." Haru had wanted to get out of the house himself, somehow he felt like someone was watching him. Which was true because Shane was overprotective of Hârâ he treated her like she was his sister alongside Haruna. Hârâ just looked at some of the plush toys in a window, she spotted something she wanted and entered leaving Haru outside wondering what she was getting yet didn't show this on his expression either.

It wasn't soon that Hârâ came back out with a small bag and showed him what was inside it, she had a small cow plushie, it looked exactly like Haru did when he transformed and she held to close to her.
"It's so cute." Hârâ laughed as she placed it in front of her lips and looked at Haru, "I bet you're cute when you transform." Yet it wasn't going to get any further than that because Kagura had arrived next to them.
"Kagura-nee." Haru smiled. "Are you and Kyou getting on better?" Kagura just nodded.
"Much better." Kagura replied she didn't look at Hârâ; she didn't know Hârâ too well yet and didn't want to judge her just because of her appearance. Hârâ had something else in her bag and that seemed obvious as it still had a lump at the bottom.
"Uh…Kagura-san." Hârâ spoke. Kagura turned to her with a nod. "I have something for you."
"For me?" She asked as she pointed to herself. Hârâ pulled out the orange cat plushie and shown it to Kagura who squealed and took it off of her, it was now obvious that Kagura had found a friend in Hârâ. "Thank you, it looks just like my Kyou-kun."
"I thought it might." Hârâ smiled as she took Haru's hand to get his attention. "We better get back." Haru nodded as they started to go. They just left Kagura behind hugging her cat.