I'm giving Kyo a break. He seems to be mad at me for some reason. But here it goes! I do not own the legal rights to Fruits Basket, although I wish I owned Kyo, even though he's in a bad mood.
Chapter Seven of What If...
Hatori approched the figure standing in the kitchen, knowing it was Yuki. When Yuki looked up at him, Hatori said, "You know, Tohru will be alright as long as she stays with Kyo."
"I know," Yuki responded, "I just can't help but think Kyo planned this whole thing. I know he didn't, but all these years of hating him, it's almost habit."
Hatori was about to say that he'd seen them at the door, but something in his mind wouldn't let him.
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Kyo reached for the door that said coronation. Tohru looked at Kyo to make sure he was positive. Feeling Tohru looking at him, he raised his wrist showing her his beads. She now knew what he was trying to tell her. She gulped. "Kyo, it's going to be different this time."
Kyo let go of the door handle. "What do you mean it's going to be different?" Kyo asked, as if he couldn't fully comprehend her words.
Tohru just looked at him and whispered, "You'll see." Tohru then got up stood next to Kyo, and opened the door.
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Yuki, Hatori, Shigure, Ayame, Kisa, Hiro, Ritsu, Rin, Haru, Kureno, Kagura, and Momiji passed out at exactly nine o'clock in the morning the night after Tohru and Kyo disappeared. Everyone, except Yuki, had found out earlier that morning that Hatori had been the last person to see the two. All Hatori could say to anyone was that Tohru said she knew how to break the curse. No one had seen hide nor hair of the cat and riceball since.
When the twelve animals of the zodiac woke up, they were lying in two rooms, one for men and one for women. Kisa was the first to recover.
"Kagura? Kagura! Wake up! I don't know where we are!" Kisa whispered into Kagura's ear, shaking her gently. Kisa didn't dare wake up Rin. She was afraid Rin would throw a fit.
"Where are we?" asked Kagura after she got up.
"I just told you, I don't know!" Kisa was crying. She wanted to go home. Kagura tried to comfort her.
"Who's crying?" asked Rin, sitting up from the bed she was lying on.
"Sh! Kisa's upset," Kagura repremanded the horse.
Rin walked over to the two others and tried to help comfort the crying girl. Then they heard a knock on the door. Rin got up to answer it.
"Hello Misses Sohma," said a maid who was standing at their door. "Princess Kalimine's coronation's today. She and the Cat Prince have invited the twelve of you. There should be proper garmets in the wardrobe." The maid walked over to a wardrobe on one side of the room. "Lets see. Let's start with the Tiger Princess." She pulled Kisa over to the wardrobe. "I think blue would look good on you." The made pulled out an Aelf style dress that was a light blue. The skirt went all the way to the floor and was made of a chaffan type cloth, the bodice a slightly darker shade of blue made of silk with white chaffan crisscrossing on top.
"It's beautiful!" exclaimed Kisa.
"Your dresses are all the same style," the maid told them. Then she pulled out a light yellow for Kagura and a dark green for Rin.
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Tohru and Kyo were getting ready for the inevitable. Tohru was about to become queen, but she had to go through one little thing first. It was a test for the rest of the Sohma family, but mostly for Kyo. After Tohru was dressed in a dress quite similar to Kagura, Kisa, and Rin's dresses and Kyo was dressed in a tux, Tohru lead Kyo to a courtyard in the back of the castle.Then she grabbed Kyo's wrist. Kyo hated to transform, but he knew he had to. But before Tohru could get the bracelet off of Kyo's wrist, the twelve members of the zodiac walked into the courtyard. Kisa exclaimed, "Tohru!" but Kagura, sensing the importance of the event about to happen held the 12 year old back. Then Tohru slipped her wrist into the bracelet and used her other hadn to keep it on her wrist and get it off of Kyo's.
But it wasn't Kyo who changed form.
Tohru fell to the ground, writhing in pain. Kyo tried to help her, but he couldn't. No one could. First her eyes, then her face, and slowly the rest of her body changed into that of a goblin. The ugliest goblin the earth had ever created. Blood, from biting her lip against the pain, rolled down Tohru's chin. Tohru tried to remain calm, but she started to feel caged. She felt she couldn't run, not because the Sohma's blocked the exit, but because of the high walls. Panic rose in her small body.
"Tohru?" asked Kyo, as if he were unsure it was her. The only response he get was a high pitch scream. Most of the Sohma's covered their ears. Kyo didn't. He could tell that she would never trust him again if he did. Then he heard her speak, in a high, wicked voice.
"This is the spirit of the curse, taken in the form of the hag who created it. I've only been in this form once before. Because it sits inside my family, it waits until the coronation of the heir to kill it's victim."
Finally, Kyo reached over to the spirit and took it's hand. "We can break this curse. That's why we left, because we knew we could break it." Then Kisa, dragging Hiro, ran over to Tohru. "We can all help break it. You're very dear to all of us Tohru." Then she elbowed Hiro, but he just nodded. She went over and hugged Tohru. One after another all the Sohma's came up to her, until only Kureno was left.
"What will Akito say? What will the concequences be?" he asked. Everyone stared at him.
"Kureno, do you want to stop transforming?" asked Kagura, "Do you want to end the pain and suffering that is our curse?"
"Yes, but..."
"Then help the girl who will lift our curse, lift hers. Don't be selfish for yourself because you don't want Akito to hurt you. Once this curse is over, he will have no control over you."
Finally, Kureno came over to Tohru and said, "I will trust you enough to get away from Akito's orders."
As Kureno joined the group, a bright light flashed from Tohru's body, and she seemed to explode into a million pieces, but whhen the explosion was over, Tohru, Princess Kalimine, lay at the center of the burn marks.
Everyone stared at her. She was unconsious. Kyo knelt over her shaking her awake. When she finally awoke she said, "Come on, people, we have a coronation to catch." Then she got up, grabbed Kyo's hand and ran.
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"And rule over our people as if they were your own children, forever more." The Aelf regent closed his book and nodded to the thousands of Aelves watching the spectical, "And now, friends, family, and Aelves, please greet your new queen."
Tohru stepped down the front steps of the castle, to formally say hello to the thirteen people she had dragged off to her native home by magic. She and Kagura hugged, then she hugged Kisa, and then she shook hands with Rin, because Rin wouldn't let Tohru hug her. Then she shook hands with the rest since they shouldn't transform in public. When she finally came to Kyo, who was last, she said, "We still have one more step. And it's going to be more work than just getting Akito's concent. Are you ready?" Kyo nodded, "It's a royal wedding now, it has to be more complicated than that." Tohru blushed. Then Shigure snuck up behind them and said, "Wedding? I love weddings! Drinks all around!" Everyone stared at him. (A/N: Actually he doesn't say that, that's what Captain Jack Sparrow says in Pirates of the Caribbean.)
Shigure snuck up behind Tohru and Kyo and said, "Did someone say wedding?" Then Kyo hit Shigure over the head.
A/N: I think this chapter is an okay length, but just to be sure, I'm sorry if it's short. Please R&R! Enjoy!