Disclaimer- I don't own Fruits Basket, but Amy, Jess and myself kind of own each other in our 'lover' way. (inside joke)

Authoress note- Okay, this is the last chapter for this story but there will be a part two called "Life with the Soumas" which will kind of pick up where this left off; so keep a look out. And I'm sorry it took so long for me to update this story but 1) I haven't been home all summer 2) the story got deleted from my desktop.

Chapter 6- Ayame you baka/Ritsu?

"Ayame! Why the hell did you do that?" Hatori huffed as he iced Kelly's injured ankle.

"I told you; I didn't know she was hurt." "Well you don't exactly go up to a person you don't know and start treating them like a rag doll." Shigure sighed. "Gure-san you take all the fun out of life if you say you can't do that... you're getting as bad as Hatori." the snake pouted. "No, it keeps you from getting a lawsuit slapped on you, you little pervert." Yuki said as he burst into the room. He grabbed his older brother by the collar of his shirt, "Look, I told you about just randomly grabbing girls. We went through this with Miss Honda; the same rules apply for the girls here too." Ayame was more then pleased that little brother had decided to talk to him.

"Oh little brother, you decided to come spend some time with your big brother and his friends. Maybe the gap between us isn't as bad as you think." Ayame laughed.

"Hatori, how do you put up with him?" Yuki sighed. "Many years of training, but it still doesn't always help when it comes to him." Hatori said as he rewrapped Kelly's ankle.

Out side on the porch:

The group outside could hear Ayame and Yuki having another one of their 'brotherly' conversations. "Who is he, is he really Yuki's big brother." Jess asked as she took a seat by Haru. "Unfortunately he is that damn rat's brother; he's the snake of the zodiac. He's a pervert and don't let him get close to you." Kyo scolded Jess and Amy. "Oh Kyo, he isn't that bad." Tohru said. "Why do you keep doing that, I tell you he is a pervert. That's why he has a shop like that." Kyo said sounding very stressed. "A - - a shop?" Amy said, wondering if she really wanted to know the answer. "Don't mind Kyo girls, he's always like this when it comes Aya and Hatori, it seems like he likes them the least." Haru said trying to wave the girls to a different subject. "But what did he mean by a shop?" Jess re-asked Amy's question. "Ayame has a shop for romantic fantasies, he sells costumes there." Tohru jumped in. Haru and Kyo sweat drop. "REALLY! WE HAVE TO GO. I BET THE COSTUMES ARE THE CUTE!!" both Amy and Jess said in unison. "We've lost them." Kyo and Haru mumbled in unison. Tohru just smiled, "Sure, one day we can all go, he did say that he had dresses for you. Maybe we can go after Kelly gets better."

"Tohru you aren't helping the situation." Kyo snapped. "KYO! What are you doing?" Yuki said walking out of the house. "She's getting the girls to go to the damn snakes shop!!" Kyo turned to face his enemy. "Miss Honda, I know you mean well but don't put the girls through that." Yuki said as he leaned on a supporting post. "But we want to go; I know Kelly will be more then happy too. Hey maybe we can invite Kagura too and we can have a girls day out." Jess jumped up and stated. Just then Shigure called from the house for the girls to fix dinner, so naturally they all jumped up and went inside; still thinking about Aya's shop.

Haru sighed, "Why do I have a feeling that if all the girls go to get dresses that there will be a lot of stress and tension coming from the males of the house, and not just the three of us, I mean the three in there including Hatori; hell it's a good thing Ritsu and Momiji aren't here." "I'm honestly not looking forward to this; let's hope that they don't get any dresses." Kyo said lying down. They fell into an eerie silence; I wonder what they were thinking about.

Making dinner:

Kelly was already in the kitchen when the other three came in. Shigure stopped them on the way in, "Is she always this stubborn?" "What do you mean?" Jess asked. "She won't sit down and relax, I'm scared that she's gonna get hurt again." "Well that's Kelly for ya; she's stubborn, won't let people help her, and rarely lets men compliment her. Basically hell bent to make it with out help from anyone, but she knows she needs it." Amy explained. "But I can get her to sit down and relax." Jess said.

Jess started to storm into the kitchen, "Kelly Jean!! Go sit the - - ACK!!" Jess slipped on water that had leaked out of the bag of ice Hatori used for Kelly's ankle. "Why do I see a pattern forming here?" Shigure pointed out. "Oh you haven't seen Amy's amazing ability yet." Jess looked up at Amy with an evil grin. "Amy blushed slightly and said, "I run into things." Ayame looked at the girls then laughed, "You Americans are the clumsiest people I have ever met; one of you gets injured to easily, one falls off or trips on things and the other can't see and runs into things." "HEY! I can see, I just get tied up thinking about other things." Amy said in defense, even though it didn't sound too helpful in the fight. "Either way," Shigure walked over to Kelly and leaned in close to her, almost to close for comfort, "Kelly, sweetheart, will you please sit down and stay off your ankle for one night? You've have me worrying about you the past few days." Kelly's face turned bright red, she couldn't tell if it was from Shigure saying that he worry's about her or the fact that he was so close to her face. "Um, o-okay Shigure." Kelly said shyly. "Good, you can go sit down in my office." Shigure beamed as Kelly started to limp away. "EEP!" Kelly looked over at Hatori hoping he would say that he'd go with her or that she should be in the living room, but to no avail he didn't even hear the dog.

"Shigure, you know that you're gonna give our Kelly a heart attack if you keep doing that." Jess laughed. "If I keep doing what?" Shigure chuckled. "Stringing her about like that." Amy solemnly said. Shigure let out a slight amused laugh, "That's just it, I'm not stringing her about." He looked over to see the shocked expressions on all of their faces then gave a little smile and walked out to his office. "He better not hurt her." Jess protectively said. "Don't worry; I think Shigure is being honest. He won't hurt Kelly." Tohru said. "Hai, Shigure does a lot of things but hurting a girl on purpose and being completely aware of it is one thing he can't do, he really does have a heart." the silent Hatori finally said. The girls all went back to fixing dinner, while mumbling about guys.

Shigure's office

Kelly sat with her foot propped up on a pillow, and starred at her hands. Shigure walked in to his office and saw how uncomfortable the young girl looked. "I'm not stringing you around, I do mean everything I do and say." Shigure blurted out. Kelly looked up at Shigure who was blushing himself. "W-what? What do you mean Shigure?" Kelly asked. "Nothing, don't worry about it, just smile and look happy okay." Shigure said as he sat down behind his desk. Kelly forced a smile, Shigure told her that it wasn't a real smile and that she is really cute when she smiles. That caused Kelly to give a real smile, and she looked up at the man sitting be hind the desk. "That's what I mean; see you are cute when you smile." Shigure told her. "Thanks." Kelly said shyly. Just then they heard a yell out from the street.

Out in the street

A young woman is trying to get her bag back from a dog who decided to play tug of war with it. "NO, I'm so sorry but this is my bag! I'll bring you back another one to play with but this has my stuff in it, I'm gonna be late to Shigure's house! I really need this bag back!"

Everyone came out side to see who it was. "Ah, it looks like Ritsu is here." Shigure said looking off into the road. Yuki, Kyo and Haru walked away, Tohru called over to him to get his attention, and Hatori and Shigure stood in silence. "Um, who is Ritsu?" the girls asked. "Another member of the zodiac." Hatori said. "Oh, what animal is she?" Jess happily asked. Tohru, Shigure, and Hatori all sweat dropped. "Did I say something wrong?

AHHH THE END!! Well for this story anyway, I'm just gonna pick up where this left off for "Life with the Soumas" I know this chapter was shorter then the others but I'm pressed for time, and I'm really sorry about the length of this and how long it took my to update.

To all my fans... well the fans of this story anyway, where I go back to school September 8, I'll be home more often soon so the next story should get put up soon.