Author's note: Okay this is my very first Fruit Basket fic. So if you think it's bad, but remember this is my first Fruit Basket fic. I did this essay in English class once, the theme was "The weird Substitute Teacher". My English teacher read it and he liked it. When I was thinking of a good character for this essay, I thought of Ritsu (Is that how you spell it) I'm sorry if some of you Ritsu fans find it offensive. I do not own Fruit Baskets. On with the fic!

The Fearful Teacher

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I'm a student in high school and I live a pretty normal life. My classes aren't so bad and so are my teachers, but one day when our English teacher was absent, a substitute teacher from Japan came to our school. She looked like any normal sub teacher.man, was I wrong.

She goes by the name 'Ritsu Sohma'. She seemed really nice, but she looked really young for a high school teacher. Ms. Ritsu had long brown hair, light fair skin, and wore a nice purple kimono. What really shocked us when Ms. Sohma wrote her name on the board, instead of a 'Ms. Sohma.' She wrote 'Mr. Sohma'. Our sub is a guy! (I'm not really sure if Ritsu would actually admit he was guy or not, so I made him say he was.) It was really strange why our principal sent a cross dresser to our school. I guess she-I mean he was the only one available.

Not only is it weird that Mr. Sohma dressed like girl, he acted really weird too. He maybe a nice person, but this guy gets a panic attack out of the blue! Like when one time I was walking down the hall, I accidentally bumped into him. I was about to apologize when he beat me to it. The way he apologized kind of scared me. He was repeatedly bowing to me and saying, "I'M SO SORRY! I DIDN'T MEAN TO BUMP INTO YOU! I'M REALLY REALLY SORRY! I SHOULD BURN FOR MY SINS!!!" He said this really loud, which caused everyone in the hallway to stare at us. I calmly told him to cool down a bit, because he was making a really big scene. And you know what he did? All he did was scream.

"I'M SO SORRY! I DIDN'T MEAN TO CAUSE A SCENE! I DON'T DESERVE TO BE A TEACHER! I WILL APOLOGIZE TO YOU AND TO THE WHOLE SCHOOL! I'M REALLY REALLY SORRY!"

It was a good thing I knew on what to do in these kind of situations, so I told Mr. Sohma to calm down and take deep breaths.

"It's all right Mr. Sohma. Please calm down and breath." Mr. Sohma did what I told him to do and he started to relax a bit.

"That's it now breath in," He breathed in. "And breath out." He breathed out. "Good, now Mr. Sohma it's all right, you don't have to apologized for anything. It was my fault, so it's okay. And please don't apologized for what I'm saying right now."

When things started to look all right and Mr. Sohma and me were going our separate ways, he bumped into a wall.and apologized to it.

Seriously, this guy has no self-confidence at all. He would practically apologize for every little thing and would scream out various suicide threats. All of the students in the class would back away from him if he screamed in their face. Like what happened yesterday when Mr. Sohma was asking questions and the students would answer. He called on one student and the student got the answer wrong. Then Mr. Sohma started to have another one of his panic attacks.

"I'M SO SORRY! I SHOULD HAVE SAID YOUR ANSWER WAS RIGHT! I DON'T DESERVE TO LIVE!"

Right after he said that, he picked up a blunt plastic butter knife from his lunch bag, attempting to slit his wrist with very little progress.

"I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! PLEASE FORGIVE ME!"

It took the whole class to try to calm him down. After wrenching the butter knife from his hand, and telling him to stop screaming, because other teachers were giving students lectures, I suggested we take him to the principal. Everyone thought that was the best thing to do. One of the students came up to me and said.

"All right then, since it was your idea, YOU take him. He's really scaring the hell out of us." She whispered on the last sentence. After walking all the way to the principal office, with me dragging the frantic teacher along, screaming numerous 'I'm sorry', I was very close to strangling the guy. But being me, that was not the right thing to do. When we got to the office, a man with short black hair, wearing a business suit was talking to the principal.

"Oh, hello there. Thank you very much for bringing Mr. Sohma." I said it was no problem. Then the principal introduced me to the man he was talking to.

"This is Shigure Sohma, a cousin of Ritsu Sohma." Shigure looked liked a good-natured man, but I could have sworn he winked at me, like some pervert. I really hate it when guys hit on me.

"I'm really sorry that my cousin has caused you some trouble, pretty miss. He can get very panicky sometimes." Shigure said apologetically.

"Ya think?" I said resisting the urge to roll my eyes.

"I'M SO SORRY! I DIDN'T MEAN TO CAUSE ANY TROUBLE! YOU SHOULD KILL ME FOR THIS! I WAS PROBABLY ONLY BORN TO CAUSE YOU PEOPLE HEADACHES!" Screamed Ritsu.

"He's got that right." I heard Shigure mummer.

"I NEVER MEANT TO BE SUCH A BURDEN! I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY! I'M SORRY!" He kept going like that for a couple of seconds, until Shigure stepped up.

"Don't worry I know just what to do when he has his panic attacks." Shigure then poked Ritsu in the side and he fainted. I felt like I was about to explode. ALL I HAD TO DO WAS POKE HIM IN THE SIDE TO SHUT HIM UP????

"Thank you." I sighed in relief. Shigure grinned and wrapped his arm around me.

"Anytime little flower. You can always count on me to help you out." If the principal wasn't there I would have slapped this guy.

"So what are you gonna do to Mr. Ritsu Sohma?" I asked. The principal said that Mr. Ritsu is going to take some therapy to help him out, though I think Ritsu is going to need lots more than therapy.

"During Mr. Sohma's absent his other cousin, Hatsuharu Sohma will be filling in for him." Said the principal. I wonder how many cousins Ritsu have? I hope he's not as bad as this one.

A/N Yes, I know this wasn't very funny, but I'll try to make it better. Next chapter will be Haru! I hope we can handle him and his other personality. By the way to make things clear, the Sohma's have moved to America for your information. And another thing, the Sohma's are a bit older in the fic. A couple of them will be appearing in this fic, but not all of them.