Hey people! It's Helen. Shirley and I were wondering if Megumi Yamamoto was a good name for our original character. We understand that by making Kyou and Touru a couple we would be depleting Yuki of a girlfriend so we decided to add an OC to make up for his loss ( (Or we could just kill our beloved Yuki off *_~) I would now like to clarify some things in the previous chapter.

The whole reason that Kyou wants to be free is that I noticed in the anime that he always seems to want to be alone (training in the mountains, sitting on the roof, etc.). Touru (in my opinion) is naïve (in a bad way) and wouldn't be able to go to a fun house without dieing of a heart attack. Shigure, despite his pervertedness and joking manner, is rather serious and intelligent. As for Yuki, his is sort of a deadpan kind of guy (like Hiei in Yu Yu Hakusho -_-) and he does act somewhat cold.

Hey this is Shirley! And believe me, I don't understand a word Helen over there is talking about. But don't worry she still has her sanity. (or I would never be her friend.) but she just doesn't make sense sometimes. And what's with the fancy words Helen? Ah, well, vocabulary.. Something I always lacked.. Well, since I have the keyboard and all, I would like to place an ad/commercial. If any of you like Cardcaptor Sakura, please check out my fic, "Doushite?! (why?!)" it's only written by me, but it's not bad. It just doesn't have all those fancy words.. Ah well.. It's good enough. Helen's not the only good writer around here. Well, that's the end of my babbling. On to business.

Important Question: Do You Want This To Be a Song Fic?

Disclaimer: I know I don't own Fruits Baskets. There's no point to remind me.

Anyways, on with the story (! Oh yeah, please give me some ideas and constructive criticism. Flames are welcome as long as they're constructive. Arigato minna-san!

Chapter 1

Swept Away

*Normal POV*

The royal court watched as the fiery young man knelt before Shigure-sama.

Shigure-sama smiled warmly and said, "Thank Kami-sama you finally arrived, Kyou-kun! I was afraid you have been devoured by youkai (demon)."

The daimyou than turned to his court and announced, "I'd like to acquaint you with my dear nephew, Kyou of the Nakagawa samurai clan. He will be training to become a samurai."

Shigure slowly faced Kyou, and said, "Do you see that silvery haired young gentleman over there? Meet your cousin, Yuki and his fiancée, Lady Touru." As the lord said their names, the said couple stood up from their cushions and waltzed to the daias and bowed deeply. As the duet drew closer, sparkling sapphire orbs met intense garnet orbs. Kyou felt as through he was being swept away by the kamikaze (divine winds). Touru thought that she was drowning in molten fire.

"Did you need our service, oh great envoy of the son of heaven," (A/N from Shirley: that whole oh great envoy crap was Helen's idea. Personally, I thought it was way corny. But, hey.. That's ok. Any ways, never knew Helen was corny! Hahahaha!) (A/N from Helen: Sorry about the corniness and cheesiness, but kinda new at writing romance. However, about the 'oh great envoy crap,' as Shirley calls it, it is a necessity so it 's there.) (A/N from Shirley: you NEVER liked romance! I convinced you to do it! And oh, ya, did you know, we have a friend named Corny and Cheesy! Hahaha! You know, since Helen mentioned "corniness and cheesiness", I thought I should tell you! Actually her name is Connie. We just call her that. Wow! Too many notes! Must continue! On with the story!) inquired Yuki politely, unaware that his bride-to-be was falling head over heels in love with his cousin.

*Kyou's POV*

Wow!!! That lady, Touru, is even more beautiful and radiant than I had thought before. (A/N from Shirley: god! Helen, how corny could you get! God!) (A/N from Helen: romance is meant to be corny!) (A/N from Shirley: *sweatdrop.* -_-;;;;) Her beauty surpasses that of the sun goddess, Amaterasu!

This is very sad, but we have a writer's block! And the plot's not coming out very well! Aaaahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!! Ah, well, we will try and do better next week.. This is Shirley speaking, by the way. Just felt like telling you. Anything you wanna add, Helen? Helen? Helen?! Get your head out of that stupid myth of the world or whatever book! And answer my question while you are at it! Helen! Helen! Ugh! Come on! Thank you, Helen, for sticking your damn head out of the book and actually answering me.

The answer to the question: "please give us constructive criticism."

And there she goes, off to read the book again.

Shirley: Helen, you are such a bookworm!

Helen: you are a bookworm, too! And I'm a scholar, not a bookworm.

Shirley: first of all, I might be a bookworm, but at least I don't go off reading the book we used to do research for this fic (myth from around the world, or whatever, we used it to find the sun goddess's name) and leave the other person to do all the typing! And scholar mocholar! Ya right!

Helen: whatever.

Shirley: still stuck in that book, aren't you? Well, I'm just trying to get some entertainment, so I won't have to feel so bad about writing such a short chapter! And it would help if you say something that is more than just one word.

Helen: whatever you say?

Shirley: so helpful! Well, that was more than one word, I guess. hmm.. I've got nothing to say. Oh ya, you know corny and cheesy? Aka connie? She has a lot more nicknames! I just forgot what they were. Helen, what were the nicknames for connie? There are tons I know, but I forgot.

Helen: canoe, canoa, corny island, corn, corny, cone, cone head, corny bunny, etc.

Shirley: cone head? Corny bunny?

Helen: I came up with those.

Shirley: I can tell. -_-;

Helen: so bye. See you later.

Shirley: not very enthusiastic, are you? Ah, well, I've always been the cheerful of the two. But Helen's right. We, or rather, I, have babbled on too long. But Helen, don't you think you, or actually, we, have something to say?

Helen: um. read and review?

Shirley: oooo! Close, but no. I was thinking more along the lines, thanks for reviewing! But, please do review!

Helen, still reading the book, and Shirley: see ya all in next chappie! Bye!