Disclaimer: don't own fruits basket, dirty dancing, or the song!

I would like to dedicate this chappie to Chibi-Crysti who was my first and only reviewer so far:sniff:

OUTSIDE

"Jeez it's cold," she thought out loud. "I should have grabbed my coat before I left." She looked to her left then right and finally saw him. He was just standing there with his head down. She walked over to him and said "hey there. Are you okay?"

"What do you care?"

"Just curious." She replied

"Curiosity killed the cat you know" Shigure retorted

"But satisfaction brought him back!" She told him with big smile on her face. One that Shigure couldn't help but smile back too. She gave a shiver as a reaction to the cold breeze the sun was still in the sky yet it was cold out side but I guess that's just how winter works. "We…" she began. "We didn't mean anything by it Shigure. We were just having some fun."

"What did Haa-san talk to you about?" he asked.

"Nothing much." She said. She didn't want him to know that she knew he loved her.

"What's that mean?" He asked, really wanting to know what Hatori had told her earlier.

"Never you mind. It's a thing of the past and the past should stay there!" She exclaimed she shivered again and this time Shigure gave her his jacket throwing it over her shoulders. She hugged it close to keep warm. "thanks." They started walking back towards Ayame's when Shigure turned to her.

"The past has this funny way of catching up to you know?" He told her. She looked up at him and those beautiful brown eyes.

"More than you know." She told him and looked down.

"What do you mean?" He asked concern for her written all over his features.

"Nothing, forget I said it!" She exclaimed then started forward but was stopped by Shigure's hand on her wrist as he turned her around.

"What's wrong?" He asked, but to ask that it was like asking 'what came first the chicken or the egg?' for her. She couldn't tell him yet. She hated the way someone looked when they found out. That look on their face, the look on her parents faces when it happened. When she looked in the mirror to see a nine-year-old girl staring back with complete horror on her face carried by her mother. This was the face, the nine-year-old girl, who haunted her dreams at night. That girl she refused to call herself. The girl that was too scared to do anything to help her parents or at least her mother.

"No." She said shakily tears falling from her eyes as she remembered what happened that night. "Not yet." She whispered.

"Why not? Don't you trust me?" Shigure asked still wanting to know what made her cry.

"It's not that I don't trust you Gure-Gure. It's just that. I can't talk about right now. I don't want to. I don't like remembering what happened." She explained. "Um. Shigure?"

"Yes?" He answered.

"Please. Don't tell Tori and Aaya."

"Okay." He said soft and gently with a smile. "Well we better get going or we'll be late." He changed the subject.

"Late for what?" She asked whipping the tears away from her eyes.

"You're surprise remember!"

"Hmm? Oh yeah! Come on then, hurry up I want to see what it is!" She smiled and ran for Ayame's. Shigure followed her running towards the house. He didn't run that often, but at least this time he had a nice view. Once inside the house Ayame and Hatori prepared to leave.

"You can drive us there right Tori-san?" Ayame asked while putting his coat on, this surprised Hatori.

"I guess so." He said almost reluctantly.

"Cool!" Miru said beginning to walk out the door. "Where are we going anyway?" She asked full of excitement.

"You'll see when we get there." Shigure laughed at the way she persisted. She pouted a little but stopped when they were in the car. "Let's get this show on the road!"

Hatori backed out of the driveway and was about two minutes away from the house when… "Let's listen to some music" Miru said and changed the radio station. She didn't turn it up too loud because she didn't want Hatori to get mad and turn it off. She really didn't know what station she turned it to but she knew she liked the song that was playing. She sat back and sung along with it.

"I wanna run through the hall of my high school

I wanna scream at the top of my lungs

I just found out there's no such thing as the real world."

Shigure didn't listen to music much so he didn't know the song but he knew it was popular at his school. He looked at her and smiled. She's too cute when she smiles. He thought. Then his mind wandered back to when she was crying. What was it that she couldn't tell me? He asked himself. What could have happened that would make her cry? Make her not want to remember it? Then he thought back to what Hatori had said. 'What if every time she sees one of us it reminds her of it.' Is that? Where you beaten or abused in some sort of way? He asked no one, for she couldn't hear his thoughts. Some times he wished that she could.

"Oh wow!" She said and clasped her hands together in front of her chest. "Is this my surprise!" She looked to Shigure who was suddenly brought back to reality.

"Huh? Oh, yeah." He said a little lost but regained his composure quickly. "This is part one of your surprise." He said looking at the restaurant. It really wasn't much but it was said to have the best food in Japan. Shigure had tried it out earlier in the week and agreed.

"Only the best for our little fox." Ayame stated getting out of the car.

"You guys spoil me." She said getting out and looking at building she was about to enter.

"Non, non!" Ayame said, "were just returning a favor you've done for us!"

"What favor was that?" She asked. She didn't remember doing any favors lately.

"Your friendship!" Ayame exclaimed. "You're our first friend out of the Sohma family that Akito actually aproved of us having." He continued to explain.

"I don't understand why, you're all really great people." She said mainly to herself. "but if that's the reason then you've already repaid me!"

"Hmm? How is that?" Ayame asked.

"You're the first people that have made me smile in eight years." She said her smile growing weaker with each word. They were now inside the restaurant and the waiter was bringing them to their table.

"Why is that?" Shigure asked, he still wanted to know what happened!

"Never mind. Que sera, sera! Right?"

"What's que sera, sera mean?" Shigure questioned.

"What ever happens, happens." she answered him in a matter of fact tone as she picked up her menu and began to scan through it's continence. The waiter soon came and everyone ordered and dropped the subject. It was obvious that she didn't want to talk about it.

"Que sera, sera…" Shigure mused to himself. "I like it!" He stated and began to repeat it in different tones.

"Shigure." Hatori said as the food arrived.

"Yes?" He asked

"Shut up." Hatori spat.

"So, I really do feel the need to ask you guys why tonight?" Miru wanted to know what was so special about tonight that they couldn't do this say, on a weekend?

"Really I'm crushed you don't know fox!" Ayame pretended to be hurt. "Why this is the day that my beloved Shigure first started calling you fox!" Ayame explained to her. "And you don't even remember! After all that trouble he went through!" Shigure was sitting at the end next to Miru (of course) while Ayame was on the other side of her. Shigure kept making hand gestures for Ayame to cut it out because he didn't want her to find out that he really did go through quite a bit of trouble to plan this. "To make the res—"

"Ayame!" Shigure nearly yelled but didn't. He didn't want to embarrass Miru.

While this was going on inside, a couple of boys that went to the trio's school passed buy and just happened to look inside.

Boy 1 "yo, check it out man! It's the mabudachi trio!"

Boy 2 "yeah, but who's that chick?"

Boy 1 "beats me. She might be one of their girl friends."

Boy 2 "or all three. Look how close they are."

Boy 1 "wait a sec I've seen her before! She works at that dinner on the corner!"

Boy 2 " no way! Really!"

Boy 1 "yeah she's a waitress there, along with my sister!"

Boy 2 "why don't you ask her tomorrow when you see your sis at work."

Boy 1 "I think I might."

Hatori noticed that therewas something at the front window and glared their way. Then recognized the two boys to be classmates of theirs. The boys in question ran like mad when they saw Hatori's glare on them.

"What's the matter Haa-san?" Shigure asked with a mouth full of food. Miru then promptly smacks him upside the head. "Itai! What was that for?"

"Didn't your mother ever teach you not to talk with your mouth open?"

"No" Shigure replied and Hatori sighed. (Hey that rhymes!)

"We're in for it at school tomorrow." Hatori said, before raising his chop sticks to his mouth. After swallowing his food he stated, "I just saw two boys from our school. They more than likely saw you and that means questions."

"Oh Tori-san don't worry! We'll just say she's our friend! It's the truth right!" Ayame tried to appease his older cousin.

"Do you really think they'll believe that?" He asked.

"Well sure why wouldn't they?" Shigure asked swallowing before speaking this time.

"Let me rephrase that. Would you believe that?" He questioned.

"Well you have a point there." Shigure stated.

"Why don't you all just say I'm your girl?" Miru asked.

"You mean like a girl friend?" Ayame pondered out loud "Can three men even have the same girl friend?"

"Well sure!" She smiled brightly at all of them. "I'll be the mabudachi trio's girl!"

"The one and only!" Shigure added.

"Well now that that's settled I think it's time we called for our check." Ayame said pushing his plate up.

"Now where to?" Miru questioned as they all walked out to the car.

"How many times am I going to have to tell you, you'll see when we get there." Shigure said exasperatedly.

"As many times as it takes to find out where we're going next." She told him.

They arrived at the Movie Theater, which was something that Miru didn't expect, which wasn't the only thing she didn't expect. Ayame took out four movie tickets from his pocket and handed them out. The Movie that they were going to was…

"DIRTY DANCING!" Miru said excitedly as she began to jump again. "OH! I've been wanting to see that since I saw the preview for it!" She exclaimed, "come on hurry up I want to get good seats!" She said ushering them in. She rushed towards the place the ticket guy told them to go, Ayame and Hatori were getting popcorn, and such, that Ayame just couldn't watch a movie with out. Shigure and Miru were getting and holding the seats. Apparently they weren't the only ones that thought a Wednesday night wouldn't be too crowded. There weren't many people but enough to scatter out and make it difficult to find good seats. They found seats that, to Miru's standards, were perfect. Shigure on the other hand associated 'dirty dancing' as a "chick flick" and didn't really want to see it. The only reason he bought the tickets was because he knew she wanted to see it. Hatori basically had the same thought except he was wandering why they bought him a ticket when they didn't even know if he was coming? He had asked Ayame this and he simply replied…

"Well if you said that you couldn't go we were just going to tell Akito and/or your father that were taking Miru out and that we needed a ride. As it were they would probably ask you to take us!"

Hatori just replied with an "Oh."

(For those of you who have seen the movie you know what happens for those of you who didn't…well lets just say there's a good reason it's called 'dirty')

AFTER THE MOVIE

"Oh my god! That was sooooooo good! I don't know how I can ever repay you guys for this!" She said and sat on a bench next to the theater.

"I told you there's no need to repay us!" Ayame told her again.

"Oh but I feel I should…I now!" She said as she got up and walked towards the trio. She leaned forward and gave each boy a kiss on the cheek. Shigure tried not to, but ended up with a light blush on his features.

"Thanks, I guess." Hatori said nonchalantly.

Miru just giggled lightly smiling at her friends. Suddenly a shocked look stole the smile away from the face that Shigure thought was so beautiful. "What day is it!" She asked almost in a panic.

"It's Wednesday." Ayame answered her.

"Oh no! What time is it!"

"It's only 7:00." Shigure told her growing concerned.

"HOLY! I have to go!" She said beginning to leave but was caught by the arm.

"Where are you going?" Shigure asked worried that something might have been wrong. Something, that might have had something to do with her past.

"I just have to go! I-I…Oh, I'll never get there in time." She said tears forming in her blue eyes.

"If you need to be some where for a certain time I can take you there." Hatori offered.

"Well I guess I don't really have a choice." She said and looked at Hatori. "Could you… could you take me to the cemetery?"

Thanks Chibi-Crysti! You make me feel loved!