She is on Duty

Disclaimer: I don't own Fruits Basket...

Chapter 3: Hugs!

"Hello, I'm Ayame Sohma, pleased to meet you." The silver-haired man said as he looked at me. I hugged him, nothing happened! "Yeah!" he said as he jumped high. As the next person came, I sweat dropped. It was a little boy, younger than Kisa. "What's your name?" I asked in the same sweet I asked Kisa. "Don't take that tone with me, I'm not a kid." He suddenly said. "Hiro! You're so mean!" Kisa said as she came out of the line and stood in front of him. "Uhh...Kisa, come on..." Hiro started. "NO! She yelled, causing everyone to jump, including me. "Okay, okay, sorry. I'm Hiro, the sheep" He apologized. "Wait, if you're the sheep, what happened to the horse?" I asked. "He died a long time ago, same with the rooster in a freak car accident." Tohru said sadly. "Oh, I'm so sorry." I said with an apologetic look. I hugged Hiro, nothing. "OMG! NOTHING'S HAPPENING!" Kyo yelled out from the back. Nothing happened when I hugged Ritsu too. Here came the BIG challenge, I had to hug Shigure. Everybody sucked in their breaths and held it. I wrapped my arms around him and he did the same. This time Ayame and Yuki gave a little 'eep'. I let my arms dangle, this was possible because Shigure held me tightly. Nothing happened, through Shigure still hadn't let go of me. I struggled in his grasp, he had a death grip on me though. OMG, he's not letting go of me! I thought. Since he was a foot taller than me, he rested his head on top of mine and breathed in my scent. I started to suffocate, that wasn't good, because my head felt light. I was having an attack! Then I went limp in the perverted dog's arms. Everything went black, I heard shouting and yelling but, I was so weak that I couldn't even open my eyes.

Fifteen minutes later...

"Lucy? Lucy? Lucy?" Someone called in a soft voice. "Yuki?" I said, puzzled. Not just Yuki, I had all 11 animals (minus horse and chicken and add cat 12-210+111) with worried faces. "Wha hapand?" I slurred. "Are you okay, Ms. Kim?" Hatori said as he checked my blood pressure. "Uhh...I ay ow, I assed ou in shures rms." (I'm okay now, I passed out in Shigure's arms) I slurred once more. "What the...?" Kyo said at my words. "Can you speak, Lucy?" Momiji asked. I cleared my throat and spoke weakly, "Ahem, testing one, two, three, testing, testing." Everyone breathed, Tohru, A girl with brown hair that had a death grip on Kyo's shirt, and Kisa said, "We were so worried about you, Lucy!" in unison. "Hello, who are you?" I said hoarsely. "Hi, I'm Kagura. Pleased to meet you." She replied. "Boar, am I correct? I see that you've taking a liking to Kyo." I asked. "Yeah! Kyo is my boyfriend!" Kagura exclaimed. "WHAT? Kagura you know that's not true!" Kyo yelled and tried to pry his shirt out of her grasp. I stood up, took a moment to steady myself and walked over to Kagura and hugged her, nothing happened. Yuki told me, "The last one left is Kyo." I went over to him, he didn't look mad, actually he looked thankful that I got Kagura off him. I went and hugged him. POOF! He transformed? "No? Why did I transform?" the cute orange kitty said. "Oh! You're so cute! Who's a good Kitty? Who's a good Kitty? Coo-chie Coo-Chie Coo!" I said. To my surprise, he purred! "Purr, purr." Said Kyo as he was in my arms. Everybody looked shocked. "What?" I asked them all. "I didn't know that Kyo could purr..." Tohru said, shocked. Kyo's eyes suddenly flew open, "Lucy, drop me!" he yelled. I dropped him and he transformed back. All of the girls, including me closed our eyes and when Yuki said, "All Clear!" we opened them. "Kagura, I totally know why you love Kyo! He's so cute when he's a widdle kitty, isn't he?" I said as I pulled her into Shigure's room. "Yeah! But..." Kagura started, "He's mine, don't get too attached, okay?" she finished. "Oh, okay..." I said, shocked at what she suddenly said. As we came back out to the living room, Kyo asked me, "Do you really think I'm cute, Lucy?" "Yeah! But you're smaller than a regular cat, and why did you transform when I hugged you? Everyone else didn't..." I replied. Kyo put on a sad face and walked into his room. I followed suit. When I reached his room, he was sitting on his bed, on the verge of tears. "You can come in, Lucy." He said to me. I was shocked that he knew I was there, but I came in. I sat next to him and said, "Kyo, you know, I think I know why you transformed." "Why?" he asked. "I think it's because I like you." I answered. He stared at me and said. "You don't really like me, you're just saying that because you're trying to cheer me up, right?" "Wrong, I really do like you, Kyo, and back there, I began to think that you liked me too when you purred." I replied. "I like you too, but you'll won't like me anymore once you see my true form." He said sadly. "True form? Kyo what are you talking about?" I questioned. "You see I have three forms, one is my human form you see right now, second is my cat form, and the third form is a monstrous demon. You see this bracelet? This is what is keeping me from transforming into my third form." He said as he pointed to the black and white bracelet on his wrist. "It's okay, I don't care. It's what's on the inside that matters." I said wisely. "Thanks, Lucy." He said to me as he leaned in. I leaned in too and we kissed. It was sweet and short. Kyo's cat ears pricked and he looked at the door. He then said, "You can all come in, everybody, I know you're there." I gasped as 11 people tumbled from the hallway into the room. "He he, don't get mad, Kyo, you know how curious a dog can be, right?" Shigure said as a sweat drop appeared on his forehead. "I forgive you all for now." Kyo replied glaring at them. "Guys, I need to tell you all something..." I said as we all started to exit Kyo's room. Everybody turned their head and glanced at me, but them they realized they were staring so they resumed to walking into the living room and taking a seat on either the couch or the floor. When everyone was settled, I spilled the beans. "I can shape shift into any animal of the Chinese Zodiac." Everybody gaped at me. "I'm not a Sohma though, I'm a Kimiko, and my birthday is on December 32and." I finished. "KIMIKO?" Shigure yelled. "YOU MEAN THE ANICIENT FAMILY, KIMIKO?" Ayame shouted. "What's wrong?" Tohru asked, confused. "You see, the Kimiko family has the ability to break the curse over the Sohmas." Hatori explained. "Then break the curse, already!" Hiro yelled at me, and I flinched. "Hiro, you should be thanking god that we are even in the presence of one of the sacred Kimiko family members! Now say you're sorry!" Yuki retorted. I never knew Yuki had it in him! "Sorry..." Hiro mumbled. "S'ok" I said. "But, I don't know how to control my powers. Just my animal." I said sadly. "You know how to control your animal, Miss Kimiko?" Yuki asked, astounded. "Yeah, like when I hugged you all, I didn't want to transform, but I don't know what happened when I hugged Kyo..." I said sadly. "Well, he didn't change before when you hugged him. You, know when you found out that Yuki didn't change." Shigure said. Hatori narrowed his eyes at me and said, "Prove that you can change." "Huh? Oh, Okay..." I said, surprised at his question. "Which animal should I change into?" I asked. "How about into a bunny, like me?" Momiji questioned. "Oh, sure." I said and transformed into a bunny, smaller than Momiji, though. "Oh, Lucy, you're so cute!" Tohru exclaimed as she picked me up. "Can you control your body when you're an animal?" Kisa asked me. "Sure, I can stay in this form as long as I want to." I answered. "Well, if this party's over, I'm going home." Hiro said as he walked toward the door. "Baa!" I said as I transformed into his animal. He spun around and looked at me. My charm had worked, his coldness melted, and Tohru hugged him. "Hey!" he yelled as the smoke cleared and he turned into a little sheep, bigger than me though. "See?" I said as I changed into the snake, rat, tiger, dog, horse, calf, boar, and monkey. "Why didn't you change into a seahorse?" Tohru asked me. "Well, I didn't want to pass out naked in front you all of you, why you want me to?" I questioned. "Uhh...no, it's not that...Uhhh..." Tohru said, at a loss of words. "He he he he..." Shigure giggled. I glared at him and walked over. I raised my hand over his cheek and slapped him across the face. Everybody, including Tohru and Ritsu, said "Ooooo." He gasped and looked at me wide-eyed. Then he walked into his room. "I think that was uncalled for." Momiji said sadly. "I think we should leave him as he is for now." Hatori said calmly. I ran to Tohru's room, leaving behind 10 animals with mixed feelings. I sat on our bed, crying silently. I knew what I had to do, give up on my work, and run, far away, I had caused too much hurt. The fan girls is an exception, but with Kyo and Shigure is one too many. I changed into the tiger and bit my clothes in my mouth and jumped out the window. This made me to get many cuts and the window to break into many pieces. I don't know if the Sohmas are gonna chase me or leave me be. I hope they just leave me. I'm a pain to everyone, my biological parents (yes, I'm adopted), and the whole entire police force. I am just running in the forest, don't know where, I just need to run far away from civilization, mankind. I don't know how long I've been running now, but the woods isn't the easiest place to run in. Now, its pitch-black dark, I'm still running. Ughh! I can't breathe! My leg! My wind pipe!

Where am I? Why am I in this beautiful silk dress, in a room I don't remember? "Princess? Princess Violet?" a maid asked me. "Huh?" I answered, completely confused. "Do you remember anything, Princess?" she said. "No, I don't remember anything at all! Who am I? Where am I? Why am I this gown?" I asked as the questions popped into my head. "Oh no, I'd better call her majesty." She said to herself as she went out of the room. A few minutes later a woman with a crown on her head, a marvelous trailing gown, and a mean look on her face came in with the maid. She scowled at me and said, "Violet, you filthy wretch, you were never meant to be a princess! Look at what you've done to yourself! My goodness! Found in the Forbidden Forest. (This story has nothing to do with Harry Potter! I just copied the name!) With nothing to wear! Thank god Amanda found you, or else we couldn't have shown our heads in public for years! Amanda, you get another raise!" She yelled at me and Amanda and stormed out of the room. "Huh?" I asked Amanda with a question on my face. "I guess I'd better get started with your memory, then. You are the princess of Whiteland, soon-to-be queen of Whiteland, 16, and your father passed away last year. When he passed away, you were so upset that you ran away. Yesterday, I found you in the woods while I was visiting my cousin." She finished. "Okay...so are you saying that the woman that was just in here is my mother? So, why is she so upset?"

This chapter is dedicated in memory of my dear Grandmother and Uncle who both passed away with Cancer.