I decided to this story.
Here is chapter 2.
Enjoy!
Ch 2: The tale of the Serpent.
Believe it or not, not all the animals loved god.
From the very beginning, there was one animal that absolutely despised god and that one, was one of God's first creatures.
The serpent.
At the beginning, the serpent was just like the rest of the animals, they loved god with all their heart and obediently followed god orders.
However when the devil possessed it, it fell from grace and was shunned by the same god for something it could not control and even the few animals that were created, saw god behaviour towards him and shunned him too.
The serpent want from being loved to being despised and hated in one day, going straight to the bottom of the food chain with only venom to protect himself.
Naturally anyone would become bitter about this and a deep hatred of god started grow in his heart turning the once harmless serpent much more cunning then the mouse ever could and become obsessed with knowledge which only god had possession off.
It was dangerous.
It was than he heard about the fest god was preparing and had invited all the animals, naturally nobody even mentioned it to him and completely forgot about him and he was enraged.
It only grow worse when he found out that not only did god shun him but another creature had been created to replace him.
The snake.
It was weak and harmless and that's what probably appealed to everyone.
He know that if he could somehow get into that fest, he could become just like everybody else and maybe, just maybe, get his life back together, so he plotted and schemed.
The rat wasn't the first one to make it across the river.
The Serpent was and he moved quickly before anyone could see him and curled up in the darkest part of the room shielding itself from view, none of the animals seemed to have noticed the uninvited guest.
God himself only seem to notice when he was in the room fiscally and called him out of the corner and naturally the reaction he got from the other animals were hostile as he slivered out of the corner to his full height.
"Why are you here? You who have caused the first humans to go astray?" God boomed, staring at him intensely and the serpent refused to swarm under the gaze.
The serpent, bowed his head respectful and said. "My god, I wish to eat with the other animals so I can participate in the fest"
"NEVER!" God boomed, getting angry hisses and noises from the other animals as they glared at him, even the shunned cat was glaring at him. "Leave this place, I should have never made you, your evil itself" but that wasn't the final nail, the final nail was his replacement glaring dagger at him, apparently being poisoned with assumption that he was evil to the core.
The anger he hid for so long, finally broke free and god and the other animals looked on shocked that the quiet serpent gave them the fiercest glare they had ever seen, even god was giving the death glare!
"Stand down!" The rat said.
"Shut up!" The serpent glared. "It's not my fault that the devil, a being that was created by god himself and you should have kept a tight leash on became evil itself than possessed me! And now I'm being shunned for it! You should think about how this makes me feel, instead you all glare at me like I'm the second coming of the devil! Well no more! I curse you all, I curse you god! May you experience the same kind of hate I experience in all your lives and you bet I will be there to enjoy all your misery!"
Getting shocked looks in return.
"Now Serpent" God said, wondering why he had entrusted so much of his power into this creation, making what he said a reality.
"DON'T Serpent me!" the serpent snapped, his eyes began to change colour and start swirling around, they all stood transfixed on the swirls and they all had blank expression on, he smirked, he had known about his unique gift quite a while ago. "I was never here, all your memories regarding the Serpent are removed, in this life whenever you look in my direction, you will see nobody there"
They nodded even god, as all their memories where taking away from them regarding himself, satisfied he slivered away, knowing what happened here will never be in history books and allowing him to move around freely.
He was the unknown zodiac animal that would get reincarnated like the rest of them, over and over again.
"This is the true story of what happened that day" The man that he called father said.
Xisto sat patiently on the floor, wondering that story sounded familiar and forcing down the urge to start tearing up.
What happened to the Serpent was sad and thought whatever the other animals got, they dissevered it.
"For countless lives, like the zodiac animals, the serpent was also passed down, living completely separate from the rest. None of them have any memory of having another animal in that fest that day, not even god. My father was the serpent before me and now the serpent has been passed down to you" His father said, much to Xisto shock but didn't show it because one of the rules of the house was that you have to always conceal your emotions.
"You see son" His mother said. "You can transform whenever someone of the opposite sex touches you"
Now he know where he heard that from.
He was in the manga Fruit basket!
HOLY- he stop himself before he could let out a string of curse words.
"Of course, we have was to conceal the fact that you're a zodiac from the rest so that you'll be able to hug anyone of the opposite gender and you won't be radiating those weird vibes that all the members seemed to vibrate. We will help you appear to be normal" His father said.
"Father, why do I have to appear to be normal, sir" Xisto said, in a blank tone.
"You see, we are going to send you to school in Japan, the school that the other will attend. Think of it as a test, you have to get through a whole year, keeping the fact that you're a Zodiac away from the others. If you can do that, then I will gladly make you too the clean head and you can make the decision to free the others of the curse." His father said, much to his shock. "In fact, already one of them is free from the curse because he has proven his worth to the serpent, your job is to test them all and see if they are worthy of having normal lives"
He could have gapped but chose not to, to think he had the power to release them all of the curse just like that, all that heart break could be avoided if he so wished! But wouldn't the entire family hate him for having the thing that cursed them all inside of him if this got out?
He gulped, pushing out the looks of pure hatred on all the members faces all directed at him.
"Starting today, you will begin your training at becoming a worthy successor for the Serpent. We will teach you all you need to know and more to help you. It would be good to befriend one of them so that can keep a close eye on all of them" His mother said, with a hint of shame in her voice.
"Of course father and mother, please teach me well" He said, while inwardly gritting his teeth.
"Now that's start constructing a mask for you" His father said as both of them eyed their son, for the combinations of personalities that would be believable.
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It had been 14 years since then and he was transferring to new high school in Japan, his parents made him transfer instead of going at the start of the year so that he wouldn't seem suspicious in anyway, his wavy red hair was brought to the front with the back was short, his eyes were exactly like his mother's eyes except for the masculine shape of his eyes, his eyes light up with bubbly energy and because of that flare of he was very popular with the girls.
He worked with unnatural grace in his step making more than a few turn towards him with a look of either hate or heart shaped eyes and 'bumped' into someone and 'fell' down on the ground.
Tohru Honda felt something collide with her and could have crashed to the floor if not for the arms that wrapped around her giving her a cushion for the fall.
"Are you alright?" a voice said and Tohru looked up to find the prettiest 'girl' she had ever seen.
Pretty! Tohru thought with a blush on her face and started apologising frantically for the fall. "I'm so sorry, for standing in the way! I was day dreaming!" it was then she noticed the girl was quite a bit taller than her.
Xisto laughed, which was music to Tohru ears and said. "You don't have to apologies, I wasn't looking where I was going. My name is Xisto yours?" he asked.
"T-Tohru Honda, nice to meet you Xisto-chan" Tohru stutter, sounding extremely word when she tried to say his name.
Chan? Do I really look that much of a girl? Xisto thought, still smiling and that's when he noticed that she was carrying a load of shopping bags. "That all looks heavy, do you need some help" and before the girl could protest, some of the bags were already out of her hands. "Let's go to your place, this stuff is much too heavy for such a cute girl like yourself" making Tohru blush an interesting shade of red.
Seeing that he was set on helping her out, she could only sigh and walk towards the house that she had been staying in for a couple of months now, Xisto opened up a conversation about growing your own vegetables, something that clicked with Tohru and were exchanging tips in no time and every time Tohru was about to trip, Xisto would slow down a bit and they made their way to Shigure house.
"WELCOME BACK MY LOVELY TOHRU!" Shigure exclaimed, opening his fan only to freeze to see someone who was clearly not Tohru but the person next to him was. "Who are you?"
Xisto getting over his shock of such a first impression, smiled and said. "Xisto nice to meet you" before Tohru urged him inside where they could unload the groceries.
Really she was really too trusting for her own good.
Shigure just smiled but inwardly his eyes narrowed at the boy who in his house helping Tohru of all people.
Coincidence?
"Bye Tohru-chan" Xisto said, happily while Tohru scrambled to out a reply. "Thank you for the help Xisto-chan"
Xisto walked down the path before Shigure could invite him to 'stay' over for dinner and disappeared just before both Kyo and Yuki appeared to help her out with the groceries, only to find everything already pack away much to their shock and they turned to smirking Shigure.
"Don't look at me?" Shigure said, fluttering his fan. "It looks like Tohru got a boyfriend"
Both of them froze.
BOYFRIEND!?
Shigure hid a smirk.
Sometimes he couldn't resist teasing them.
They were too easy.
Something told him it won't be the last time he sees the boy, he was struck with oddest feeling.
And cut!
Next chapter, Xisto makes his debut in the school! Attract attention both good and bad from certain people.
