If "chapter two" isn't showing on this page as an option, here's a trick if you haven't figured it out already. Type &chapter=2 at the end of the present URL address, or type &chapters=2 to jumpstart the damn thing. Sometimes this site can mess with you like that.

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Disclaimer: Fruits Baskets does not belong to me, though I would really LOVE it if it did. ^_^'

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INFO TO KNOW BEFORE READING:

The Japanese school system works like this. 6 years on elementary school, 3 years of junior high school and then 3 years of high school (elementary and junior high mandatory).

At the beginning of the series of Fruits Basket, Yuki, Kyou and Tohru are 1st years in high school, and Hatsuharu and Momiji are 3rd years at a different junior high school. When Yuki, Kyou and Tohru become 2nd years, Haru and Momiji transfer schools and start their first terms as new high school students along with them.

In THIS story it is some time since the TV series ends (June of 1999), and some point between late January/late February (about 18-19 months later), where the school term will end in March, and Yuki, Kyou, Tohru and the rest will graduate to possibly move on to college. Haru will graduate to become a high school 3rd year, or a "senior."

Yuki, Kyou and Tohru are about 18-19-years-old, Haru is about 17-18-years-old.

In the time that has passed since the series ended, two New Years celebrations have taken place. Hatori and Ayame have both participated in a ceremonial dance for their designated years: 2000, the year of the dragon (Hatori), and 2001, the year of the snake, (Ayame).

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