Note from the Authoress: Despite how it may seem at first, it will be a Tohru/Yuki fic in the future chapter, so there is absolutely no way it may be a Yuki/OC fic. As for whom my OC is going to be paired up with, you'll see, probably in this chapter or definitely the next. As for the way Kyo acts in this chapter…well, let's just say he dislikes her as much as he dislikes Yuki. Personally I like Kyo, so don't take this the wrong way, he's one of my favourite characters along with Haru, Hatori, Kisa, and Hiro, probably Yuki as well.
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Fruits Basket characters beside my own, and the idea for this story... hope nobody has done it before. If they have, i'm sry. I dun read a lot of fruits basket fanfictions. I just started to watch the show not long ago.
Summary: Another lost soul lived inside the Sohma complex without even a ray of hope, would Tohru be able to bring some into her life and help her like she did with the rest of her family? Can she give her the courage she needed to come true to her feelings and to do the right thing? Tohru/Yuki, OC/?
Chapter 1
Winter had approached once again without any notice; it only seemed like yesterday when the snow had first melted, with the spring breeze brushing against their skin, but now the snowflakes were falling once again from the greying sky, telling us once more, winter was here. Today was another Monday, the last day of school before the Winter Vacation. Everybody in the entire school was excited. The day quickly came to an end, as the last bell rung. As usual, Yuki and Kyou waited for Tohru after school to walk home with her. After saying goodbye to her close friends, they set off.
It was a cold day with snowflakes floating in the sky. It was in fact the first snow of the year. Everybody tightened their scarves and jackets as they stepped outside of the great hall.
"It's beautiful," exclaimed Tohru, looking at the snow as they fell on to the ground.
"It's a bit early for snow," Yuki pointed out, "must mean we are going to have a long winter."
"Winter always comes before spring. The longer it is, the more welcome spring will be," she said as they've reached the school's main gate, and exited it, soon turned left on to the street that would lead them home. On their way across the bridge they saw two people that they didn't expect to see, running across.
"Tohru," yelled the younger girl, running to hug her, "we thought we missed you guys."
"Looks like we came just in time," said the boy with out any real interest, walking closer toward the others.
"Hello, Kisa," said Tohru, letting go of her, "and you too Hiro."
"What are the two of you doing here in the middle of this snowstorm," asked Yuki, popping up next to Tohru, "I'm sure you didn't come this far to just see us."
"We came here to say hi to you guys, and to wait for Ame-chan," answered Kisa, looking as sweet as ever, "she told us to meet her here and to take us out for hot chocolates."
"I haven't seen her in a while," Yuki stated to nobody in particular, "wonder how she's doing?"
"She's… been better," responded Hiro unsurely, maybe for the first time in his life, "hasn't been in the best of moods."
"Still won't talk to anybody else?" questioned Yuki, raising an eyebrow
"No," answered Kisa, followed by a sigh, "we don't know what to do anymore."
"Not even I can cheer her up," Hiro muttered.
"I guess things are just getting worse," stated Yuki, leaning against the side of the bridge as he stored his hands in his pockets, "wish I could help, but she refuses to talk to me," said those last few words in barely a whisper.
Tohru shifted her head in confusion, not knowing what they were talking about as Yuki quickly explained, gaining his usual posture, "Sohma Kyami, not a member of the Jyuunishi herself, but knows the secret and a very respected member of the family. She's two years younger than we are, third year at the junior high school. Ame used to be my favourite cousin before I moved in with Shigure. She was always like a little sister to me, happy and cheerful, or at least use to be," he added as an after thought.
"Huh?" asked Tohru, now more curious than confused.
"She got depressed, and gloomy a couple of years back, started to refuse to talk to anybody inside the family besides for four of us," Kisa responded, her mood dropping surprisingly low.
"What happened?" Tohru asked, looking at the snow piling around them, her eyes reflecting sadness.
"It's not our place to tell you," Yuki responded, "maybe someday, you'll hear it from her yourself."
"If she ever decides to talk that is," said Kyo angrily, not meeting any of their eyes.
"You should talk," yelled Hiro angrily, "you only made things even worse than it already were."
"How was I supposed to know!" Kyo yelled back, "Why should I even care about that spoiled-" Before Kyo could even finish, Yuki interrupted him by throwing a fist into his face, knocking him flat onto the floor, before anybody even knew what was happening.
"I may not have seen her in a long time, but she is still my friend," said Yuki, his face turned in the opposite direction of where Kyo was lying down with his bum in the snow.
"I could've done that," Hiro snorted, glaring at Kyo dangerously.
Kyo huffed, and accepting the hand Tohru offered to help him up, "are you all right, Kyo-kun?" she asked him worried
"I'm fine," he murmured angrily, using his right hand to brush where Yuki's punch landed.
"He never liked her," said female voice, from the other side of the bridge as they heard foot steps of more than one person approaching closer, "he was always jealous of the fact that she was better at martial arts than him, not to mention embarrassing him in front of the entire family." Kyo scowled in anger.
"I didn't expect you to be coming," Hiro stated, looking puzzled, "When did you get back?"
"Not long ago," said the same voice, which belonged to a woman at least 8 years older than Tohru and the others, "I'm Kameko, and you must be Honda Tohru."
"I am," she answered after overcoming her shock, "it's my pleasure to meet you,"
She bowed to the woman, as she returned the same greeting.
"No, the pleasure would be mine," she answered politely as Kisa and Hiro stared at her in confusion, "I'm sorry, my sister, Kyami's not coming today. She came down with a fever last night. Hatori is with her right now."
"How bad is it?" asked Yuki, with concerned.
"High fever of thirty-nine degrees, she really should've listened and taken the medicine last night. Maybe she wouldn't be in this shape now," she wondered out loud, turning her attention onto Hiro and Kisa, "I can take you out for the hot chocolate she promised you if you want?" she offered.
"No, it's all right," said Kisa politely, "we'd rather visit her to see if she's ok."
"Fever's dangerous," Tohru, pointed out, "maybe I should go and visit her as well. I can probably cook her something to eat like chicken noodle soup."
"She would probably like that," she said as she brushed a strand of her brown hair out of her eyes, "but are you sure you want to come to the main house? It's not exactly the homeliest of places, and Akito doesn't seem to be in the best of moods."
"I'm sure," Tohru answered, clapping her hands together happily, "I would like to meet Kyami-san."
"She may not be too friendly to you," she said unsurely, "I can't even promise you if she would even let you go near her let alone talk to you."
"No problem," said Tohru happily still, "I will be fine."
"I'll come with you then Tohru-san," Yuki stated, not wanting her to be alone without any protection at the main house, especially with Akito's rage on the line, "It's been a while since I saw Ame, it'll be a nice visit."
"How can visiting a sick person be nice?" yelled Kyo, getting the cat ears, "I don't want to know what your idea of fun is, mouse."
"Don't come then," Yuki stated simply, "nobody's making you,"
Kyo sighed, thinking for a minute before saying, "I'm going."
The trip there was cold and slippery not to mention silent. After twenty minutes of walking they've finally arrived at the complex. The heat inside the house was welcome, and a nice change away from the cold, but the place it self was not. The house gave them the feeling that its owner was dead or dying with dark drapes closed over the windows, preventing any light from entering, and the plainly decorated living room.
"The place sure had changed a lot over the years," Yuki pointed out to nobody in particular, looking around the room.
"It reflected her mood for the past two years," said Kameko sadly, showing them the way to the stairs, "I don't even know what to do anymore. She refuses to talk or listen to anybody besides for Hatori, Kisa, Hiro, and Akito when she is forced to, probably some of her friends outside of the family as well."
"I was the same way, and look at me now," said Kisa, trying to cheer her up, "Tohru will be able to cheer her up."
"I'm sure," Hiro muttered, his voice dripping with sarcasm, rolling his eyes.
"Why don't you guys go up? I better go and talk to Akito, telling him I'll be going back to Boston," she gestured toward the stairs before going back to the living room, soon followed by the distant sound of the front door closing.
"She was never much of a sister," said Yuki, as Hiro led them up the stairs, "After their mother's death, she left the place and went to live with their families in the US. Hatori practically raised Ame up himself. That's why she was always very fond of him; she looked up to him like a big brother. "
"What happened to the father?" asked Tohru as they've reached the top of the stairs.
"He was the last sheep in the family. He died in a plane crash on the same day Hiro was born," Yuki muttered, keeping his voice low so only she could hear it, "maybe that's one of the reasons why she liked him so much. "
Hiro led the way as they entered the third room to the right of the stairs. When the door opened, it revealed a room painted light blue with oak coloured furniture. A young girl with pale face lied on the bed that was by the window, staring at the falling snow. Hatori sat on the chair close by taking her temperature and talking to her quietly, but stopped as he heard them enter.
"I've been expecting to see the two of you," he said to Hiro and Kisa as they came closer, "didn't expect to see the three of you here though," he added as he saw Kyo, Yuki, and Tohru.
"Tohru wanted to visit," said Kyo before anybody even suspected it was his idea, which nobody in his or her right mind would ever.
"That's pretty much what I've figured," said Hatori, taking the thermometer out of her mouth, and looked at it before putting it on the bedside table, "it's not getting any lower," he sighed in frustration, "I've tried everything."
"Let me go outside, please," she begged, staring out the window.
"There's no chance I'm going to let you out there," he said firmly, "at least not until your fever's gone, and you've gotten some food, probably some rest too."
"By the time that's done, the snow would've stopped and melted by then," she looked out the window with dread. He had no idea how much she wanted to be outside in that snow. Winter was always her favourite season.
"Get some rest later," said Hatori, pulling her blanket up to her neck with one hand as he closed the drapes with another, "I'll give you twenty minutes before I'm kicking the 5 of you out."
"Thanks," said the grateful Kisa, before he left the room, "how are you feeling Ame-chan?"
"I've been better," she answered, looking at Kisa fondly, "I'll be fine. Sorry I couldn't take the two of you out today."
"It's all right, we can always do it some other time," Hiro reassured. To Tohru's surprise, he seemed to be quite fond of the older girl, "when you get better."
"Yeah," she forced a small smiled as she pet him on the head, "I wish I could go outside. I always loved snow."
"We all know that," said Yuki for the first time since he entered the room, "It's been a while hasn't it."
She nodded in agreement; giving him the same smile she gave Hiro earlier. "This is Tohru-san," he gestured toward Tohru, as she waved a small hi, and smiled at the younger girl.
"I'm Honda Tohru, It's nice to meet you," she said politely, walking toward the bed, "I hope you get better soon."
"Can I talk to you in private please?" she asked Tohru to everybody's surprise. Yuki and Kyo looked at her unsurely until she nodded, saying silently that she will be all right. After everybody else left the room. Ame struggled to sit up from her bed as Tohru helped her.
"Thank you for making them happy," she looked at Tohru in the eyes, "you don't know how relieved I am."
She caught Tohru off guard, all she could manage was an, "ah… Um…"
"I've known them my entire life, yet I've never seem any of them this happy before, until you came into their life. I had never got the chance to thank you for your great deed," her voice reflecting sincerity.
"It's nothing…" Tohru blushed.
"No it's not," she answered, "they are my life. It's my duty to look out for them. All of them… the entire Jyuunishi family."
"Why?" she asked.
"Because it's my curse," she whispered, pulling the drapes open, gazing outside at the falling snow, "I was born with the duty to protect the Sohma family, especially Akito, who is the centre of the curse. I'm the mistress of the Sohma clan, with the burden to take care of and to marry the head of the family. Don't take me wrong, I love them, all of them, but it's just that… sometimes I just wish I was a normal person with nothing to worry about, nothing at all, like kids were meant to be, but… I can't because I'm not. "
"You wanted to be normal, like so many others," said Tohru looking at her with curiosity.
"Not necessarily normal, just somebody that's not Akito's possession," she answered, "I don't dislike him or hate him, I just want to be away from him, and live a free life, maybe with the person that I love."
"But that was just who I am. I belong to Akito. Our curses were bonded together, I knew it from the 1st moment I met him. I could feel it, and there was nothing I could do about it," she continued to gaze at the calling snow as she continued talking, "I knew that, but I went and fell in love with somebody else anyways. I broke the forbidden law of our family."
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Fruits Basket characters beside my own, and the idea for this story... hope nobody has done it before. If they have, i'm sry. I dun read a lot of fruits basket fanfictions. I just started to watch the show not long ago.
Summary: Another lost soul lived inside the Sohma complex without even a ray of hope, would Tohru be able to bring some into her life and help her like she did with the rest of her family? Can she give her the courage she needed to come true to her feelings and to do the right thing? Tohru/Yuki, OC/?
Chapter 1
Winter had approached once again without any notice; it only seemed like yesterday when the snow had first melted, with the spring breeze brushing against their skin, but now the snowflakes were falling once again from the greying sky, telling us once more, winter was here. Today was another Monday, the last day of school before the Winter Vacation. Everybody in the entire school was excited. The day quickly came to an end, as the last bell rung. As usual, Yuki and Kyou waited for Tohru after school to walk home with her. After saying goodbye to her close friends, they set off.
It was a cold day with snowflakes floating in the sky. It was in fact the first snow of the year. Everybody tightened their scarves and jackets as they stepped outside of the great hall.
"It's beautiful," exclaimed Tohru, looking at the snow as they fell on to the ground.
"It's a bit early for snow," Yuki pointed out, "must mean we are going to have a long winter."
"Winter always comes before spring. The longer it is, the more welcome spring will be," she said as they've reached the school's main gate, and exited it, soon turned left on to the street that would lead them home. On their way across the bridge they saw two people that they didn't expect to see, running across.
"Tohru," yelled the younger girl, running to hug her, "we thought we missed you guys."
"Looks like we came just in time," said the boy with out any real interest, walking closer toward the others.
"Hello, Kisa," said Tohru, letting go of her, "and you too Hiro."
"What are the two of you doing here in the middle of this snowstorm," asked Yuki, popping up next to Tohru, "I'm sure you didn't come this far to just see us."
"We came here to say hi to you guys, and to wait for Ame-chan," answered Kisa, looking as sweet as ever, "she told us to meet her here and to take us out for hot chocolates."
"I haven't seen her in a while," Yuki stated to nobody in particular, "wonder how she's doing?"
"She's… been better," responded Hiro unsurely, maybe for the first time in his life, "hasn't been in the best of moods."
"Still won't talk to anybody else?" questioned Yuki, raising an eyebrow
"No," answered Kisa, followed by a sigh, "we don't know what to do anymore."
"Not even I can cheer her up," Hiro muttered.
"I guess things are just getting worse," stated Yuki, leaning against the side of the bridge as he stored his hands in his pockets, "wish I could help, but she refuses to talk to me," said those last few words in barely a whisper.
Tohru shifted her head in confusion, not knowing what they were talking about as Yuki quickly explained, gaining his usual posture, "Sohma Kyami, not a member of the Jyuunishi herself, but knows the secret and a very respected member of the family. She's two years younger than we are, third year at the junior high school. Ame used to be my favourite cousin before I moved in with Shigure. She was always like a little sister to me, happy and cheerful, or at least use to be," he added as an after thought.
"Huh?" asked Tohru, now more curious than confused.
"She got depressed, and gloomy a couple of years back, started to refuse to talk to anybody inside the family besides for four of us," Kisa responded, her mood dropping surprisingly low.
"What happened?" Tohru asked, looking at the snow piling around them, her eyes reflecting sadness.
"It's not our place to tell you," Yuki responded, "maybe someday, you'll hear it from her yourself."
"If she ever decides to talk that is," said Kyo angrily, not meeting any of their eyes.
"You should talk," yelled Hiro angrily, "you only made things even worse than it already were."
"How was I supposed to know!" Kyo yelled back, "Why should I even care about that spoiled-" Before Kyo could even finish, Yuki interrupted him by throwing a fist into his face, knocking him flat onto the floor, before anybody even knew what was happening.
"I may not have seen her in a long time, but she is still my friend," said Yuki, his face turned in the opposite direction of where Kyo was lying down with his bum in the snow.
"I could've done that," Hiro snorted, glaring at Kyo dangerously.
Kyo huffed, and accepting the hand Tohru offered to help him up, "are you all right, Kyo-kun?" she asked him worried
"I'm fine," he murmured angrily, using his right hand to brush where Yuki's punch landed.
"He never liked her," said female voice, from the other side of the bridge as they heard foot steps of more than one person approaching closer, "he was always jealous of the fact that she was better at martial arts than him, not to mention embarrassing him in front of the entire family." Kyo scowled in anger.
"I didn't expect you to be coming," Hiro stated, looking puzzled, "When did you get back?"
"Not long ago," said the same voice, which belonged to a woman at least 8 years older than Tohru and the others, "I'm Kameko, and you must be Honda Tohru."
"I am," she answered after overcoming her shock, "it's my pleasure to meet you,"
She bowed to the woman, as she returned the same greeting.
"No, the pleasure would be mine," she answered politely as Kisa and Hiro stared at her in confusion, "I'm sorry, my sister, Kyami's not coming today. She came down with a fever last night. Hatori is with her right now."
"How bad is it?" asked Yuki, with concerned.
"High fever of thirty-nine degrees, she really should've listened and taken the medicine last night. Maybe she wouldn't be in this shape now," she wondered out loud, turning her attention onto Hiro and Kisa, "I can take you out for the hot chocolate she promised you if you want?" she offered.
"No, it's all right," said Kisa politely, "we'd rather visit her to see if she's ok."
"Fever's dangerous," Tohru, pointed out, "maybe I should go and visit her as well. I can probably cook her something to eat like chicken noodle soup."
"She would probably like that," she said as she brushed a strand of her brown hair out of her eyes, "but are you sure you want to come to the main house? It's not exactly the homeliest of places, and Akito doesn't seem to be in the best of moods."
"I'm sure," Tohru answered, clapping her hands together happily, "I would like to meet Kyami-san."
"She may not be too friendly to you," she said unsurely, "I can't even promise you if she would even let you go near her let alone talk to you."
"No problem," said Tohru happily still, "I will be fine."
"I'll come with you then Tohru-san," Yuki stated, not wanting her to be alone without any protection at the main house, especially with Akito's rage on the line, "It's been a while since I saw Ame, it'll be a nice visit."
"How can visiting a sick person be nice?" yelled Kyo, getting the cat ears, "I don't want to know what your idea of fun is, mouse."
"Don't come then," Yuki stated simply, "nobody's making you,"
Kyo sighed, thinking for a minute before saying, "I'm going."
The trip there was cold and slippery not to mention silent. After twenty minutes of walking they've finally arrived at the complex. The heat inside the house was welcome, and a nice change away from the cold, but the place it self was not. The house gave them the feeling that its owner was dead or dying with dark drapes closed over the windows, preventing any light from entering, and the plainly decorated living room.
"The place sure had changed a lot over the years," Yuki pointed out to nobody in particular, looking around the room.
"It reflected her mood for the past two years," said Kameko sadly, showing them the way to the stairs, "I don't even know what to do anymore. She refuses to talk or listen to anybody besides for Hatori, Kisa, Hiro, and Akito when she is forced to, probably some of her friends outside of the family as well."
"I was the same way, and look at me now," said Kisa, trying to cheer her up, "Tohru will be able to cheer her up."
"I'm sure," Hiro muttered, his voice dripping with sarcasm, rolling his eyes.
"Why don't you guys go up? I better go and talk to Akito, telling him I'll be going back to Boston," she gestured toward the stairs before going back to the living room, soon followed by the distant sound of the front door closing.
"She was never much of a sister," said Yuki, as Hiro led them up the stairs, "After their mother's death, she left the place and went to live with their families in the US. Hatori practically raised Ame up himself. That's why she was always very fond of him; she looked up to him like a big brother. "
"What happened to the father?" asked Tohru as they've reached the top of the stairs.
"He was the last sheep in the family. He died in a plane crash on the same day Hiro was born," Yuki muttered, keeping his voice low so only she could hear it, "maybe that's one of the reasons why she liked him so much. "
Hiro led the way as they entered the third room to the right of the stairs. When the door opened, it revealed a room painted light blue with oak coloured furniture. A young girl with pale face lied on the bed that was by the window, staring at the falling snow. Hatori sat on the chair close by taking her temperature and talking to her quietly, but stopped as he heard them enter.
"I've been expecting to see the two of you," he said to Hiro and Kisa as they came closer, "didn't expect to see the three of you here though," he added as he saw Kyo, Yuki, and Tohru.
"Tohru wanted to visit," said Kyo before anybody even suspected it was his idea, which nobody in his or her right mind would ever.
"That's pretty much what I've figured," said Hatori, taking the thermometer out of her mouth, and looked at it before putting it on the bedside table, "it's not getting any lower," he sighed in frustration, "I've tried everything."
"Let me go outside, please," she begged, staring out the window.
"There's no chance I'm going to let you out there," he said firmly, "at least not until your fever's gone, and you've gotten some food, probably some rest too."
"By the time that's done, the snow would've stopped and melted by then," she looked out the window with dread. He had no idea how much she wanted to be outside in that snow. Winter was always her favourite season.
"Get some rest later," said Hatori, pulling her blanket up to her neck with one hand as he closed the drapes with another, "I'll give you twenty minutes before I'm kicking the 5 of you out."
"Thanks," said the grateful Kisa, before he left the room, "how are you feeling Ame-chan?"
"I've been better," she answered, looking at Kisa fondly, "I'll be fine. Sorry I couldn't take the two of you out today."
"It's all right, we can always do it some other time," Hiro reassured. To Tohru's surprise, he seemed to be quite fond of the older girl, "when you get better."
"Yeah," she forced a small smiled as she pet him on the head, "I wish I could go outside. I always loved snow."
"We all know that," said Yuki for the first time since he entered the room, "It's been a while hasn't it."
She nodded in agreement; giving him the same smile she gave Hiro earlier. "This is Tohru-san," he gestured toward Tohru, as she waved a small hi, and smiled at the younger girl.
"I'm Honda Tohru, It's nice to meet you," she said politely, walking toward the bed, "I hope you get better soon."
"Can I talk to you in private please?" she asked Tohru to everybody's surprise. Yuki and Kyo looked at her unsurely until she nodded, saying silently that she will be all right. After everybody else left the room. Ame struggled to sit up from her bed as Tohru helped her.
"Thank you for making them happy," she looked at Tohru in the eyes, "you don't know how relieved I am."
She caught Tohru off guard, all she could manage was an, "ah… Um…"
"I've known them my entire life, yet I've never seem any of them this happy before, until you came into their life. I had never got the chance to thank you for your great deed," her voice reflecting sincerity.
"It's nothing…" Tohru blushed.
"No it's not," she answered, "they are my life. It's my duty to look out for them. All of them… the entire Jyuunishi family."
"Why?" she asked.
"Because it's my curse," she whispered, pulling the drapes open, gazing outside at the falling snow, "I was born with the duty to protect the Sohma family, especially Akito, who is the centre of the curse. I'm the mistress of the Sohma clan, with the burden to take care of and to marry the head of the family. Don't take me wrong, I love them, all of them, but it's just that… sometimes I just wish I was a normal person with nothing to worry about, nothing at all, like kids were meant to be, but… I can't because I'm not. "
"You wanted to be normal, like so many others," said Tohru looking at her with curiosity.
"Not necessarily normal, just somebody that's not Akito's possession," she answered, "I don't dislike him or hate him, I just want to be away from him, and live a free life, maybe with the person that I love."
"But that was just who I am. I belong to Akito. Our curses were bonded together, I knew it from the 1st moment I met him. I could feel it, and there was nothing I could do about it," she continued to gaze at the calling snow as she continued talking, "I knew that, but I went and fell in love with somebody else anyways. I broke the forbidden law of our family."
