Disclaimer: I do not own 'X-men: evolution' or 'Fruits Basket'.

I've only really seen the cartoon show, and not that many times before it was taken off of the air. I dabbled a little in the comics, but the majority of info for Evo that I'm using in this fic is from the cartoon and fan sites.

If you don't know what Fruits Basket is, the basic plotline is that an orphan girl named Tohru Honda finds herself living with the mysterious Sohma family, thirteen of whom are under a curse that causes them to transform into the twelve members of the Chinese zodiac and the cat from the zodiac legend who was 'left out' because of the rat's trickery. They transform when they are hugged by a member of the opposite sex who is not a zodiac member or when they are under a lot of stress. Also cursed is the head of the family, Akito, who is apparently dying to give the Zodiac members life. Because of this, she (more commonly known as a he) is rather possessive and abusive towards them. Tohru, though, seems to have a knack for pulling the family together, and bonds are being made all over the place.

Prologue

The birds chirped, a dog barked, and a group of giggly schoolgirls in sailor outfits walked by, whispering excitedly to each other.

Katherine "Kitty" Pryde sighed. Here she was, at the start of summer vacation, NOT sleeping in, NOT relaxing on a beach in her new pink swimsuit, not even doing her summer reading. No, she was walking down a path of (admittedly cool) pink trees, halfway around the world.

…Not that she was complaining. Japan was cool, although the weeks of language classes with Mr. McCoy had been tedious. Really, Tabby was cool for inviting them. The blond had somehow won eight tickets for a trip to Kaibara, Japan in some shady carnival booth that was apparently all but invisible to the other people at the fest (that or they had just wanted to avoid it), and had extended some of the invitations to Kurt, Rogue, Jean, Scott, and Kitty. Of course after hearing about the trip (he had been eavesdropping), Bobby had run off to alert the other x-men, who had promptly complained about being left behind. Professor Xavier, of course, wasn't about to let anyone feel left out, so he had consented to allow them to go as well; in the x-jet. …With adult supervision, of course. And so nearly every x-man in Bayville had hopped over to some nowhere-city (really, couldn't she at least have gotten Tokyo?) on a foreign island for two months of culture shock.

Kitty turned into a park pathway. Really, for all that Japan was a huge industrial country, they sure had a lot of vegetation. The air was really clear, too. There weren't horrible amounts out littering, and the people were generally polite and kind. Really, she could get used to this…

She rounded a corner and a flow of steady German met her ears. One of the voices was unfamiliar and high-pitched, but the other…

"Hey, fuzzy."

Kurt Wagner turned in his seat at the bench to smile cheerfully at the brown-haired girl behind him.

"Keety!"

"Yeah. So, like, what'cha doing?"

Kurt turned back to the blond haired…girl? beside him and said, "Momiji vas telling me about a cousin of his, who is apparently rude and idiotic."

Oh. So it WAS a boy. And since when did Kurt insult people he'd never even met like that? Kitty frowned. Momiji, however, was nodding enthusiastically.

"Yeah, yeah. Kyo is a dummkopf." He bounded over to Kitty then and grabbed her hand. "Hello Kitty. I'm Momiji!"

She smiled, wondering if the boy knew that he'd just phonated a popular little girl brand. It happened all the time back home, but that was usually on purpose. Momiji actually seemed sincere.

"Hi Momiji! It's nice to meet you."

"Momiji." A new voice cut into the conversation. A man probably in his twenties stood on the pathway a little way away from the bench. He had dark hair, which flopped over one half of his face (How can he see like that? wondered Kitty), but the eye that was visible was cold and emotionless.

"Ha'ri! Come and meet my friends!"

Friends? He considers us friends already? That was fast.

The blond boy leapt up and dragged 'Ha'ri' over to them.

"This is Kitty, and this is Kurt, and guess what, Ha'ri! Kurt is German too!"

'Ha'ri' frowned at them (at least, Kitty thought it was a frown; his expression didn't really change, but she got a feeling like he didn't like them). He then turned around and started walking away, calling behind him for Momiji to follow as he went.

"Okay!" Momiji turned back to the two mutants and grinned. "I'll be seeing you sometime, ja?" he said, and hurried off to catch up with his stolid friend.

"Yeah, yeah. Kyo is a dummkopf." Momiji has said this before – "Kyo you dummkopf!" on page fourteen of Fruits Basket volume eight. Dummkopf, as far as I know, means 'stupid head'.

Ahem. Some of you may have noticed that I haven't written in a long time. This is because I have discovered what an immature prat I am and have been trying to make myself, and my writing, more mature. Plus, I'm tired of getting email saying; "You stink! You're lame! You're so self-absorbed!" Hopefully it shows here, but I have my doubts.