Fic Off Ch 2
The Fruity Zoo

Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket, or any other copyright material.

Summary: The Fruits Basket characters are loose at the zoo. Missing pants, stolen penguins and zebras, and overall mayhem!

Qualifications--

SENTENCES:: 1) "Give me my pants back!"

2) "Bodily injury may result from the misuse of this (author's choice of object)."

3) "Don't boggart the Penguin."

4) "I'm allergic to plastic."

SCENES:: 1) Someone falls into an animal cage.

2) A jousting match between people on animals.



Tohru called happily from the dining room, "Shigure! I got a flyer! We get a free trip to the zoo!"

By the time she had finished talking the dog of the Juunishi was positioned in front of her. He snatched the paper from her hand and examined it. "What's the catch?" he asked suspiciously to the flyer more than Tohru. "There's always a catch," he explained.

"I won it," she smiled. "I sent in a story to a magazine and they rewarded me with this. I can take myself and 7 people," she frowned, trying to think of who to take with her.

Kyou, who had been listening to most of the coversation, walked around the corner scowling. "I don't want to go, so don't even ask me."

"Aw, Kyun-Kyun, don't be like that," Shigure said in a 'cutesy' tone.

"I know who I'm taking," Tohru grinned happily.



Tohru Honda, Yuki Sohma, Kyou Sohma, Shigure Sohma, Hatori Sohma, Momiji Sohma, Ritsu Sohma, and Hatsuharu Sohma walked leisurely into the large land filled with caged animals.

Many of the Sohmas had to be talked and convinced into coming along. Tohru was struggling with a map, holding it sideways and upside down and spinning it around to try and figure out what way to go.

"Why do we have to go to this horrid show of animals caged, taken away from their precious freedom?" Shigure pouted immaturely.

"It'll be fun, I promise..." Tohru walked forward.



The first cage was the lions, Yuki snickered and made jokes about Kyou. The two were about to fight but Tohru stopped them. Ritsu was peering into the cage when an overweight lady walked by him, crowding him.

"I'm sorry, please let me move," he whispered, his voice inaudible to the large woman. She pushed and shoved so hard that Ritsu lost his balance and fell into the lion's cage!

"RITSU!" Tohru screamed as she saw the timid young man cower in a corner.

The ferocious lion started to corner Ritsu, growling and hissing. Ritsu curled in a ball and covered his face with his hands, "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to invade your territory, please forgive me!" The lion stopped and tilted it's head. It bounded over to Ritsu and rubbed it's fuzzy face on the monkey. It's purring could be heard rumbling from deep in it's throat.

Tohru was passed out, being fanned by Shigure who was mumbling "I knew this was a bad idea."

Ritsu shivered as the lion started kneading it's enormous claws against his side. There was a huge crowd of people yelling at Ritsu, telling him what to do. Eventually a zoo official showed up with a ladder, and helped Ritsu out of the cage. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to fall. Please," Ritsu bowed his head to the ranger," forgive me. I'm so very sorry."

Ritsu avoided any nearness to any of the future cages.



The group viewed a few more animals. Hatsuharu was glad there wasn't any cows, "Us cows are too smart to be captured."

Kyou scoffed, "No, you're just too stupid to find the trap." Hatsuharu was prepared to fight when Tohru pointed to a food court.

"YAAAAY!" squealed Momiji, "foooood!"

"Let's eat," Tohru rubbed her hands together.

Shigure ended up paying. Tohru got a hamburger, fries, and a drink. Yuki got a hamburger with lots of extra cheese, and a lemonade. Kyou got a hotdog, but he couldn't stop watching the birds that begged for fries. Shigure got a corndog, some chips, and a Dr. Pepper. Hatori didn't eat, he complained the food was too greasy and unhealthy. Momiji got a lollipop, some ice cream, fries, chips, and M&M's. Ritsu got a banana and apologized for needing food. Hatsuharu got a hamburger with extra lettuce, and only ate the lettuce.

As Ritsu was about to sit down, he stopped, "I'm allergic to plastic." He drooped his head, apologized and sat on the ground. Tohru went and sat next to him and ate lunch.

Kyou went to the bathroom and Shigure insisted he escort him. Momiji whined and did the "Pee Pee Dance" and went with them. A spastic screaming was heard from the bathroom.

"Kyou," Shigure knocked on the cat's stall, "you okay?"

"Give me my pants back!" Kyou hissed.

"What?" Shigure blinked.

"THE TOILET STOLE MY PANTS!" Kyou screamed, opening the door to show that, infact, the toilet had swallowed his pants.

Kyou borrowed Shigure's oversized pants--Shigure didn't need them because he had his kimono over it. And the mystery of how his pants got in the toilet in the first place was never solved.



Momiji was bouncing off the walls, almost literately due to his bunny jumping, from his sugar high.

Tohru surprised everyone with a special trip INSIDE the penguin cage. The zoo officials explained about the penguin's lives, habitats, and other interesting facts.

Tohru was mezmerized about the educational facts the zoo people told her. Yuki was vaguely aware of the birds or the zoo people. Shigure sat, petting one of the birds that took a liking to him. Kyou was secretly enjoying the little black and white birds. Hatori stayed away from the birds, quite certain they were disease-ridden beasts. Momiji squealed and ran around, petting all the birds he could. Ritsu was being chased by one of the birds, the monkey frantically scampered from one end of the cage to the next. Hatsuharu thought they were amusing, 'black and white rules' he thought.

Kyou stuck one of the birds in his oversized pants when no one was looking.

After they left, he extracted the bird, smiling happily as the polar animal squawked.

"You can't keep that!" Tohru stared wide eyes, shocked that Kyou had stolen the bird.

"He likes me," he smiled and hugged the bird as it flapped it's wings.

Momiji grabbed the creature and cuddled it, "It's likes me more!" Kyou tried to grab the bird back, but Momiji ran out of his reach.

"HEY! Don't boggart the penguin!" Kyou growled.

Shigure shook his head, "Let's solve this like civilized people, shall we?"



Now with two stolen zebras--how they managed that, we'll never know-- and two long sticks, Shigure assembled a jousting match. A crowd of people started to gather.

Momiji nervously got on the striped horse and Kyou got on the other.

Hatsuharu had to be shooed out of the way, he kept inspecting the zebras, convined they were striped cows.

"Disease-ridden, I tell you," Hatori grumbled.

Shigure waved a flag and the contestants kicked their feet, signaling the zebras to go.

Momiji held his stick up, closing his eyes and cowering. Kyou was growling in a pre-victory way and held his stick firmly out in front of him.

Momiji unintentionally ducked under Kyou's stick, and--again, unintentionally--knocked Kyou off his zebra.

"I WON!" the rabbit cried cheerfully.

"YAY!" cheered Tohru, who had forgotten they were competing for the stolen penguin.

Momiji ran to Shigure, who had been holding the bird, and reached up. "GIMME!" whined the impatient Momiji.

"Okay. But use him properly. Bodily injury may result in the misuse of this penguin," Shigure said, very authority-like.

Momiji happily took the penguin in his arms, hugging the bird.

A zoo official walked over, an angry look on her face, "Please, reutrn the bird and no one will get hurt." She threateningly showed a pair of handcuffs.

Tohru patted the sniffling Momiji on the head, "You can come see him again sometime."

"Okay," Momiji handed over the panguin sadly.



After the long day, everyone was exhausted and fell asleep on the bus ride home. Except Tohru, who smiled as she remembered the main events of the day.



A/N: I did this as a "Fic Off" (Lol... Fic off...) with my sister. The qualifications were a few sentences, two scenes, and it had to be done in an hour. Read my sister's under the the pen name "KonekoTsuki", it's titled "Fic Off". XP I hope you liked it, please review!!!