Hello everyone! I have decided to post my new Fruits Basket Fanfic I hope you like it!
Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket….
The Forgotten
Chapter one: Olivia
I can run, I can fly, to somewhere, to nowhere, close far. I can climb real high, and look down. I can fall from a great height and look up. I can scream loud and not be heard, or I can not say anything and everyone will hear. I can be chased, or chasing something. It doesn't matter, because it's just a dream. Then I wake up and I'm in a nightmare. Little snippets of dreams linger on in my mind for days to come. My dearest wish is to be able to escape this hell forever, but I can't. I just can't. Yet I can, my mind is my sanctuary, one that I shall never lose. Not ever.
When I close my eyes I see what I see, a better place, a better me. New found love, things that I wish I could do, new found friends, a way to break through that barrier between here and there. All my trouble dissolves into thin air, I see what I see, a place of my own, somewhere I can go to just be alone. A magical place that no one can find, because it's safe inside my mind. Somewhere that doesn't exist, or I have yet to discover. A place I won't share or trade for another. I see what I see, my place, my home, yet not home at all but a new place I've never known. No one to see it, undisturbed, untouched, not spoken of often, but thought about much. Left alone, completely alone, somewhere I know, somewhere I can learn to call home. A place to escape, go when you're sad, when times are rough and life is bad. No one to yell or slam doors and the best part about it is that it's yours.
But still I want to run, escape, far away, anywhere but here. Darkness, the only place I feel safe is inside myself. But even there I'm lost, confused, I can't find a way out-if there is one. Every second I come one step closer to the edge, on a knife. I'm on the tip; my friends are on the base. If they left, I'd fall into nothing. Maybe it wouldn't be so bad, but it's good that my five base supporters can be counted on to stand on the base. Keep me here, in the world of the living, in the light. Somewhere I should be on my own, but I'm not. Sad, lonely, distant, unique. Here in the shadows, I'm safe, I'm free. But I cannot stay where I don't belong. I'm just a shadow. No one would notice if I disappeared. I'm only pretending. Pretending to exist.
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SaveRearth123: Hey Livee!
Lostinthestars: Hey Jada, sup?
SaveRearth123: Nm, u?
Lostinthestars: Same, I'm just trying to do this invisibility song, "Song of Non-Appearance."
SaveRearth123: Oh, well I'm writing a paper for my Arabic Studies class tomorrow, I guess that doesn't really compare huh?
Olivia laughed at Jada's comment, which was a rare thing for her, after what happened when she 17. Jada was Olivia's best friend; they'd known each other since 4th grade. Jada Lynn Evans, Jada for short. When Olivia had said invisibility song she meant a spell, activated by a string of notes sung. There was something weird about Olivia. It started in fourth grade when she found out her eyes change color according to her mood.
FLASHBACK
"Come get me Jason!" the jean clad 10 year old called, climbing the jungle gym.
"You'll never out-climb me Olivia, so don't worry I will!" he called, his sandy blonde hair falling back as he looked up at the little wolf eyed girl. Her glittering gold eyes sparkled playfully as she looked back at him before climbing higher.
"Oooh! Olivia's got a boyfriend!" a red headed classmate called from below. Olivia looked down at her and defensively said
"Do not!" the red head smirked and giggled at the blush on Jason's face.
"Jason and Livee sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!"
"Shut up Allison!" Jason snapped angrily.
"Oh, sorry I didn't mean to make your girlfriend sad." Allison said in a baby voice. Olivia had begun her descent and was just about seven feet off the ground.
"Shut up Ali!" Jason yelled again, only louder. Almost to the bottom, Olivia jumped down. Ali looked up startled. Jason was still up on the jungle gym.
"Oooh, coming to yell at me? You hear that everyone," she called, "Olivia's going to beat me up!" Almost the whole fourth grade had gathered around them.
"Shut-up Allison Winger, shut your ugly mouth!" Olivia said, quite immaturely.
"Oooh aren't you threatening?"
"Do you even now what threatening means? Because I don't think you do." Olivia challenged.
"Do you know what it means?" Ali said crossly at a loss.
"There are three definitions of threatening. One, as an adjective, threatening can be foreshadowing evil or tragic developments, two, as an adjective, threatening can mean darkened by clouds, and three, as a verb, threatening can mean to pose a threat to." Olivia answered proudly.
"Know-it-all." Ali accused. Glaring wickedly Olivia shook with rage.
"At least I know something at all." She retorted acidly.
"Oh, did you hear that? Olivia's calling me dumb!" Ali teased. Olivia's whole body shook, hot with anger. That's when it happened. She and Ali were about three feet apart, when Olivia opened her eyes she saw Ali gasp and jump back.
"What the-" she started and stepped forward, but Ali held her hand out to stop her.
"Stay away!" she cried. Olivia growled, thinking it was a joke but when she saw the expression on Ali's face she stopped.
"Ali, what's wrong?" she asked, her expression softening.
"You're-you-you're eyes!" Olivia blinked. "They're red!"
"But my eyes are gold!" Olivia retorted.
"Which is weird enough! But now they're red!" Olivia was doubtful.
"I'll pretend I didn't hear that first comment Allison," she walked toward the large puddle in the soccer field. Looking down at herself, Olivia saw a pair of cherry orbs staring back at her. She jumped back and fell to the ground with a soft thud. "What? What happened to my eyes?" she was shocked. Looking up at Ali in surprise Olivia cried, "What's going on?" Ali's brown eyes widened in disbelief.
"Now they're green! They've changed again!" Ali squeaked. Olivia sat forward and peered into the puddle again. Sure enough her eyes had turned a forest green color. She began crying and Ali took this as an opportunity to win the fight.
"Well," she said, gaining her composure. "Don't worry Livee, I'm sure your boyfriend will still love you." And she left Olivia to cry alone.
END FLASHBACK
Now when Olivia is angry, her eyes turn red, the angrier she gets, the darker the shade of red. That's why her eyes had turned crimson that day. When she is concentrating on something or doesn't feel like talking, or when she is reading, her eyes turn orange. The lighter the shade of orange indicates how "un-social" she is feeling, so if her eyes were light orange it is like a 'leave me alone' signal, whereas scarlet was a 'so concentrated I'm going to ignore you' mood. When she's happy, Olivia's eyes turn yellow, the lighter the shade of yellow, the happier she's feeling. When she's sick, scared, or surprised her eyes go through different shades of green, pale being the most extreme. So the darker shades are representing surprise or shock while real light and pale greens mean she's ill.
If her eyes turn blue it means she's felling somewhat sad, lonely, lost, alone, and broken. Ice blue is an indication of being on the verge of tears or wanting to cry while navy blue edges towards a complete breakdown. Purple showed that she is feeling determined, courageous, fearless, strong, adventurous or along the lines. A dark royal purple shows she is feeling that way at the current time and a lavender shows that she is longing for an adventure or adrenaline rush of some sort.
The classic sign of love, the color pink, holds fast to it's reputation in representing Olivia's emotion of affection. Darker fuchsia, magenta, and rose colors are a friend and family love, whereas a light soft pink is a love one feels toward a spouse (usually) or a girlfriend or boyfriend. Or if Olivia were to encounter someone she found attractive, her eyes would go through different shades of pink in confusion of the actual emotion. The opposite of the love emotion is what black represents. When her eyes turn black one would know Olivia is feeling stressed, overworked, harassed, dark, and sort of depressed and suicidal. A mad-at-the-world hateful emotion.
Next would be white, this truly looks bizarre, for her to have a pupil then a clear whitish iris and another layer of white. It represents an extreme feeling, almost intoxicated like. She is either feeling depressingly sad in an over dramatic way, or sickeningly happy in a drunk way. The color gold is a feeling of vein, self absorption, she is only thinking o herself at the time, or she is realizing she has done something selfish in which case her eyes would change from gold to teal to represent embarrassment. Naturally if there's gold there's silver. Silver represents a calm, peaceful feeling. Olivia would be somewhat spacey, day dreamy; she's off in another world, out of it. It also represents creativity; she's thinking of poems or stories to write and kind of having a peace of mind.
With the exception of teal, when her eyes turn colors between two colors like grey, between black and white, she would be feeling those two emotions mixed. So extremity (white) and suicide (black), bad combination. Another example, if her eyes turned a reddish purple, it would mean that blue and red have mixed to show a feeling of hopelessness and rage. This is true for all other colors as well.
The 24 year old stood up from the computer and looked at the weathered parchment on the table by her piano. She walked across her living room and picked it up, studying it carefully. Thankfully she was alone in the house in case she needed to sing, not that there was a time when she wasn't though. Both her parents were dead now, but she has moved out after graduating from High School. Her grandparents knew how depressed Olivia was and wanted to give her freedom, so when they died three days apart, 1 month after Olivia's 15th birthday, in their will it was entailed in detail that their two story house be left to her. It was a lovely log-cabin styled home in which Olivia had made her own. The best part about it was that it was located just outside of Sydney, Australia. Ever since visiting her grandparents there at age seven, Olivia had dreamed of running away there or at least living there one day.
Olivia Lee Sohma, yes Sohma. She never thought much of her last name until she heard of the manga, Fruits Basket where a Japanese family had the same last name as her, supposedly. She had never read the manga but people she knew or met sometimes made a big deal over her last name because of it. But still it was just a coincidence. The name came from Miyoko's side, Olivia's mother, who had kept her maiden name until Olivia was born. When Olivia was seventeen years old something horrible happened. Something that affected her personal safety enough for her to have been advised to change her last name. So Olivia Lee Johnson became Olivia Lee Sohma shortly before her eighteenth birthday. Since changing her last name six years ago, Olivia felt different, somehow, but she couldn't explain it really. There were a lot of things about herself that she couldn't explain.
I'm a stranger inside myself.
Right as Olivia sat down at the piano bench her doorbell rang. Sighing she got up and walked to the door. Upon opening it she saw her neighbor Kayleb standing on the porch. Olivia's home was located right on the edge of a forest so her only neighbor for 12 miles was Kayleb, a nice Australian raised nineteen year old. Very environment he was.
"Kayleb?" Olivia was surprised to see anyone at her door at 11:59 pm on a Sunday night. "Is something wrong?" nodding vigorously the brunette ran a hand through his shoulder length hair.
"I think someone shot a wolf, hunting." He said breathlessly. Knowing him he probably ran the half mile to her house.
"Why, did you hear something?" Olivia asked confused. He nodded again, causing a strand of his chocolate brown hair to fall into his blue eyes.
"Aye mate, a gunshot and a yelp. Plus I spotted a wolf, a female, just a few nights ago, no too far from here." He answered.
"Alright let's go." Olivia grabbed her long black coat off the rack and they made their way towards the forest. Olivia usually avoided human contact due to trauma, so she never "touched" anyone to hold hands, kiss, high five, or hug. She didn't have a boyfriend and she hardly talked at her classes. She was in medical school and was a very good student but very quiet and very anti-social. So seeing someone besides Jada outside of school was a rare occurrence for her. Following Kayleb, they entered they forest and he stopped.
"Which way?" Olivia asked hastily.
"Ummmm…" Kayleb ran a hand through his hair again in thought.
"You don't remember, brilliant Kayleb." She said sarcastically. He leaned his elbow on her shoulder and smiled sheepishly.
"Sorry mate, unlike you, I don't have a photographic memory. But we'll listen for her okay? We'll find her don't worry." He assured her, slipping his arm around her shoulder to give her a friendly hug. But as he pulled her to him, the second they touched,
POOF
There was a cloud of gold smoke and Kayleb jumped back in shock. Falling backwards he looked up. Where Olivia stood, a beautiful gray wolf now stood gold eyes dazed. Kayleb's eyes widened and he stood up and steadied himself.
"Olivia?" the wolf looked up at the sound of her name. Kayleb, too afraid to do anything else, ran. Olivia watched him run in confusion. She looked at her clothes lying next to her on the ground and then up at Kayleb's receding figure. Wow, her eyesight was a lot better. The colors were more enhanced and she could see everything extremely clearly in the darkness. Things like this always happened due to her powers so Olivia wasn't too shocked. Well she had never changed species before but odd unexplainable things happened to her frequently. Like once, luckily, she had stayed home from class sick. She was reading when she sneezed and when she went to the bathroom to get a Kleenex, she passed the mirror and saw that her skin was ocean blue. Looking at her paws and her tail and judging by her eyesight and hearing ability, Olivia judged that she had somehow and for some reason, turned into a wolf.
To test her theory, Olivia threw her head back and howled. A beautiful sound emitted from deep within her stomach and soul. As the tone faltered and ended, her ears perked up for a response. When none came Olivia picked up her clothes in her mouth to take them back to the house, where she could figure out how to change back. Spotting the house a short ways off she began walking. That's when everything went black.
SaveRearth123: Livee?
SaveRearth123: OLIVIA LEE SOHMA!
SaveRearth123: Hey, just cuz you're potentially invisible doesn't mean u can ignore me!
SaveRearth123: Whatever, l8er girl.
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-The Water Sprite