Hello my fellow people! This should be my second fic, unless I don't release my other one first. Anyway!

Disclaimer: No, she does not own Fruits Basket, or any other copyrighted material. Now shut up and go away, you lawyers!

One Winter's Morning

Chapter 1: Dawn of a New Day

The morning had begun uneventfully for the tall, black-haired, brooding doctor that was Hatori Sohma. He had woken up to a maid's call, saying that his head of house and main patient Akito Sohma was sickly (again), weak (again), and dizzy (again). As much as he hated waking up from a rather peaceful sleep, he had to respond because he was the only doctor in the inner Sohma family.

"Hm…yes…ok," mumbled the dear doctor as he checked his ever-so-ailing patient, "Akito-san, just take this medicine for a few days."

He handed a box of cold medicine. Hatori sighed and said, "I need to but more medicine. I'll come back as soon as possible."

Akito gestured to go already. The tall, handsome man bowed, and went to get his coat and shoes. It was the season of whiteness once again, so when he went outside, it was quite chilly. He shook it off, thinking he'd probably get used to the nippy feeling by the time he got to the city. Besides, he was taking his car, so he could just turn on his heater. Hatori sighed. Why am I thinking about stupid and trivial things like this?

…

Meanwhile, in a forest near a Japanese shrine, a black blur was running around. When you thought about it, it looked more like teleporting. His mind was bored; he couldn't leave this area as the spiky-haired guy had a friend coming soon. Cutting nearby trees with his short and rather shiny sword wouldn't work, the crimson-eyed shorty tried it a couple of times and it didn't really help.

"Hey."

The black-cloaked swordsman turned to see a scarlet haired, emerald eyed fair skinned guy in about his teens. His right hand was on a hip and was leaning onto a close tree.

"What took you?"

"I had to run errands for kaa-san, sorry," he uttered, smiling to himself, "so, are you bored? Why don't we go out?"

"I don't contact with ningens, kitsune. (humans, fox)"

"Do you have anything better to do?"

"You mean I wait here for an hour just so I can get an interrogation?"

The 'fox' thought for a second. In the meantime, the short one kept cutting branches off like a blender making a smoothie.

"You do know Yukina's out, right?"

"Yes, but she should be fine. The old hag is with her, so what's the problem?"

"Well," replied the pretty-boy, smirking, "It seems that Genkai was just taking her to a certain guy's house…"

"No," interrupted the black clothed one, clenching his fist with immense pressure, "I'm not tolerating this! If that bastard does anything to her, anything…"

"I wasn't finished, dear Hiei. Yukina and Kuwabara, if I got this right, are out for the day and could be anywhere in the city."

Hiei, pumped with anger, picked up his sword and motioned to run off, but stopped himself.

"Hn. You really thought I'd believe that, didn't you?"

Kurama, the name of the scarlet haired friend, looked slightly taken aback, "What are you talking about? I really saw this," innocently declared the 'fox', "I was just walking around and happened to bump into the scene."

"Ok, I believe you," sarcastically mumbled Hiei, "I'll go to the city of (shudders) humans and look for her. You better look yourself and we'll meet in the park, the one which sells that 'hot chocolate' thing. But, I swear if this is a joke…"

"… 'I'll rip you apart!' I know, I know, but I assure you I saw this."

Kurama grinned, and, in return, Hiei rolled his eyes. Leaving, the little guy slapped himself mentally. Since when did her trust such a devious fox?

So! Did you like it? I hope you did?

Hiei, pissed off, comes into the building.

"What kind of crap is this? I'm smart enough to not trust him the first time! "

"Plot," the beautiful and most perfect author announced, "It helps with zee storyline!"

"Whatever!"

As all authors say, R/R!!