Hey. Sorry for not uploading on Sunday, I was too busy. I didn't get a single review! REVIEW PEOPLE, REVIEW! Sarkain's here waiting with her long pointy knife, so REVIEW! Anyway, I won't be uploading much this week, and maybe not over the weekend. I don't have my laptop as much, but I'll try to have Chapter five in. On to the story, here's Chapter four; Zodiac Sculptures. Crappy title, I know. I suck at those things.

Disclaimers: I do not, nor ever will, own Fruits Basket. I own Sarkain, the plot, and all that shit. Enjoy!
Flashback

"Yes. I want to see that son of a bitch that thinks that he owns my bloody fate. I want to make it clear that he doesn't own any bloody thing of mine, especially my fate," She told them, narrowing her eyes. After moments of thought, Hatori sighed.

"All right, I'll take you to see Akito..."

End Flashback

Normal POV

"WHAT?" Kyo and Haru both said together. Yuki looked stricken, and everyone else looked scared to death. Hatori nodded. Everyone looked surprised as hell, as they looked from Kairse, or rather, Sarkain, and back to the doctor.

"Y...y...you... You want t..t..to see Akito?" Yuki managed to stutter.

"Yeah. That bastard needs someone to beat the crap out of him," Sarkain replied, waiting for Hatori to put on his jacket, snow boots, gloves, and everything else.

"You're not... scared of him?" Shigure asked, slightly worried as the words left his mouth.

"Hell, why should I be scarred? That bastard needs to get it in his thick head of him that nobody controls me. I'm gonna beat the freakin shit out of him until there's nothing left!" she snapped back. Everyone fell silent. Some, like Hatori and Haru, admired her courage. However, the majority of them thought her words were just empty treats. 'There is no way that SHE would be a threat to Akito. However, I should go with them, just in case.' Yuki thought, shuddering at the memory of his last encounter with the head – Sohma. Apparently, everyone else had similar thoughts.

"Well, we're going with you," Shigure said out loud. Hatori stared at them like they were crazy for a while, then sighed.

"Fine, but I don't know if you guys are allowed inside with us," he replied before adding, "So who's coming?" Haru, Shigure, Yuki, Kyo and Momiji raised their hands or rather, Haru made a small hand gesture, Kyo slightly nodded, looking like the didn't care, Yuki nodded like he'd normally nod, Shigure had already stated that he was coming, and Momiji jumped up and down excitedly while waving his hand.

"Well, I'd be happy to accompany you to the main house, then I have to come back to prepare dinner," Tohru told them. Hatori nodded, then looked at Ayame.

"Are you coming?" he asked. Ayame pondered for a while, then nodded.

"However, I'm not waiting there, Akito scares the creeps out of me!" he exclaimed (A/N If this is not how Ayame acts, then deal with it, I don't feel like changing it right now)and Hatori nodded.

"All right then, everybody in the car," he said. Everyone started to get their winter clothes on, everyone besides Hatori, who was already ready, Haru who already had his coat and boots on, and Sarkain, who was bored to death waiting for everyone and wasn't going to put on a jacket, even if she had a short sleeve shirt on.

She snapped a, "Finally!" when everyone was ready, and headed toward the car. Everyone else just shrugged, then followed. When they got into Hatori's car, Hatori sat in the front, and Shigure was about to sit next to him, but Sarkain beat him to it. She sat down on the passenger's seat, and slammed the door in Shigure's face. He stayed there, dumstuck, for a few moments, before sitting in the back of the car. Since so many people wanted to come with them, and Hatori didn't have that big of a car (A/N I don't know if this is true, but let's just pretend he has a 7-passenger car right now), some people had to sit in the trunk. Haru and Kyo offered to sit there, since Kyo didn't want to sit next to that "Damn Rat" and Haru just felt like sitting there.

The car was silent while they drove. That is, if you don't count Kyo and Momiji fighting in the back.

"So, who's coming with us into the house?" Hatori asked, breaking the silence. Everyone looked at each other.

"Well, how many people are allowed to come in?" Yuki asked, even though he had no intention of being in the same room as Akito.

"Five, including the both of us," Hatori replied, indicating the girl, who acted like she hadn't heard a word.

"Well, Tohru and Ayame aren't coming, so I guess I could drive them back to the house, then come back here," Yuki suggested. Kyo scoffed.

"Yeah right, you just don't want to be left with Akito," Yuki grew slightly red, but turned around before anyone could realize. However, he knew it was true. He wouldn't go near Akito, unless it was a matter of life and death. That's why he found Sarkain so strange. She willingly wanted to go see Akito, even if she had the choice to wait an other week for his meeting. If it were him, he'd wait the whole week, then try to stall for as long as he could. However, Sarkain had never met the head of the house, so maybe she wasn't scared of him for that reason. Besides, once this meeting was over, she would be wishing she never even met any of the Sohma's.

"Here we are," Hatori announced suddenly, breaking Yuki's train of thought. "So, who's coming in with us again?" ha asked.

"I'm coming," Haru told the doctor.

"Yeah, me too," Kyo agreed. They both wanted to see what happened when the girl met Akito. 'It's not like she would have that much of a chance,' Kyo thought, getting out of the car. 'I mean, she might give him a small bruise or something, but there's no way that she can beat him up! I mean, come on, she's a GIRL!' Haru was thinking almost the same thing as Kyo. However, he had slightly more confidence in her. More, however, is not much.

'She might be able to do a little damage, maybe a couple bruises, but otherwise, she's dead' was his first thought.

'Too bad. It would be a waste of natural beauty' A voice inside his head told him.

'What do you mean "Natural Beauty"? I don't like her!'

'I never said you like her, you said it, which means that you thought about liking her or not!'

'I never thought about liking her!'

'Yes you did'

'No I didn't'

'Yes you did'

'No I didn't and shut the hell up!'

'Yes you did and DON'T BE A POTTY MOUTH!'

'Ok, so maybe I did, but that doesn't mean I like her!'

'Yes you do'

'No I don't'

'Yes you do! Why else would you be accompanying her when she goes to see Akito?'

'I don't like her just because of that! Who are you anyway'

'Me? I'm your common sense'

'I have no common sense'

'Yes you do, and my name is Bob'

'Bob? You couldn't think of anything better than Bob?'

'I like Bob'

'The name Bob is gay A/N- Sorry if your name is Bob. Haru is just acting like and asshole right now because I made him. Haru- I AM NOT AN ASSHOLE! Sarkain- Yeah right, Asshole. Haru- Where did you come from? Sarkain- you mind, and my name is Bob teasingly. Haru- GRRRRRR. Kyo-He's turning Black! Sarkain- do I look like I give a shit? I'll just have to beat the crap out of him! Haru- immediately turns white Sorry. Back to he story runs away before Sarkain can kill him. Sarkain- Ass there is no way that my common sense is named Bob!

'Why not?'

'Number one, I have no common sense, number two, the name Bob is gay, especially in a Japanese story!

'But Bob is kool and smart!' (A/N- I know that kool is spelled wrong, it's not a typo)

'Whatever, just get out of my head!'

'You're a big meanie, you know that!'

"Haru, are you coming or what?" Hatori's voice startled the ox.

"Huh? Oh yeah," Haru replied, grateful for the doctor to stop him mental verbal war with 'Bob'. He followed Hatori, Kyo, and Momiji, who had decided to come, into the main Sohma house.

Sarkain's POV

Slowly, we walked up the the house. There was an eerie silence around us. Everyone was scared, I guess. What was so bad about Akito? When we reached the front doors, I stared. They were HUGE! So was the house behind them. To the back of us were elegant sculptures made out of bushes. They contained all the twelve animals of the zodiac. First was the rat, who was sculpted so that he was on his back to legs, looking forward curiously, then came the ox, who was walking slowly, looking in surprise at the rat. After the ox, came the tiger. Proud and dignified, it stood tall, shoulders back, in a slight crouch. The tiger looked alive. Like you would expect it to jump out on you any second. Alert, but calm. Then came the rabbit. He was on his hind legs, like the rat, nose in the air. After the rabbit, came the dragon. It was even more realistic than the tiger. A long snake – like dragon with beaded eyes. He had long claws on his scaly hands and feet. The precession was exact. Every single scale was in place. 'Damn. It must've taken forever to do that one' I thought. Continuing down the line of the zodiac animals were the snake, horse, then the ram. The snake was slithering toward the dragon, tongue out. It was not as precise as the dragon, but still realistic. Next was the horse. Slowly moving forward, kind of like it didn't want to be at the banquet. I wondered why. Probably, for some strange reason, however, I made a mental note to ask Haru or someone else if the horse really didn't want to attend the banquet. Next was the ram. He looked annoyed and slightly angry, 'Now why would the ram be pissed to go to the banquet?' Next was the monkey. It was slightly shy, but otherwise normal. It was standing slightly confused, and scratching his head. Next was the rooster. It was kind of weird seeing the rooster, just standing there in front of all the other animals. I hadn't really heard of the rooster, let alone known any stories about it. (A/N- Yes, I was born in the year of the rooster, if you did the math and figured it out, but Sarkain wasn't so there. And no, I won't tell you what year she was born in.) After the rooster was the dog. It was standing on his four legs, looking ahead. It reminded me slightly of Shigure. 'Maybe Shigure is the dog.' I thought to myself. Then was the boar. It was looking as though it was about to start running head first through all of the other eleven animals. Looking at the pictures, I must've gotten distracted, because next thing I knew, we were a the doors. (A/N- Finally! That was the longest chapter I've typed so far! Anyway, back to the story)

"You ok?" Momiji asked me, as Haru grabbed my arm so I wouldn't fall on an other grass sculpture. This one, however, wasn't technically one of the zodiac. It was a sculpture of the cat. He was sleeping peacefully, probably dreaming of the banquet that he thought was the next night. (A/N- I don't think that Akito really has all those sculptures, but I felt like putting that in)

"Yeah, I'm fine," I told the blonde, turning my attention to Hatori. He had just knocked on the door and a maid had just gotten it.

"Hello Master Hatori–chan," she said, bowing. Hatori just nodded, then whispered.

"I'm here to see Akito. I have some visitors for him," Noticing Momiji, Haru, and me, the maid nodded, then went inside the house. Hatori followed. "Stay right here, I'll be back in a second," We all nodded as Hatori followed the maid, closing the door behind him.

"Right this way," we heard her say in the distance. The sound of footsteps grew softer and softer, until they were gone. We waited for a while Momiji was talking all this crap about what he had done that day to Haru, who just looked like he didn't give a shit. We waited long enough. It was getting pretty dark. Haru tightened his jacket as a cold breeze came by, but I stayed the same. I didn't really feel anything, so why would it bother me. I was used to the cold. Enough not to freeze, that is.

A loud noise coming from the inside of the house distracted us. It sounded as though someone was getting thrown into the wall, which was probably what had just happened. A few moments later, Hatori came through the doors, panting slightly. He was clutching his left arm tightly.

"I don't think it would be the best idea to go see Akito right now," he told us. Haru and Momiji nodded, slightly surprised at his current state. I guessed that usually Hatori was one of the only ones who didn't get to hurt physically by Akito.

"Hell no, I want to se him now," I told the doctor darkly. He was surprised, but then sighed.

"Al right, I'll bring you to see him," he muttered. I was kind of surprised at what he said. I was looking forward to beating him up, but I'd have to do that some other time. Momiji and Haru were surprised at his reaction too. They both just stared at him, then looked at their feet.

"I'll go too," Haru muttered. Apparently, no one wanted to see a pissed Akito, but they'd just have to deal with it.

"Come on them, lead the way," I ordered Hatori. Wincing as he grabbed his sides, he turned around and led us through the twisting corridors and hallways. There were dozens and dozens of doors, it was a wonder we didn't get lost. (A/N- It's also a wonder that Haru manages to find his room every night, considering that he always gets lost) Soon, we arrived at a pair of giant doors. There was delicate paper on the doors, and elegant drawings of vines creeping up the frames. You couldn't really see through the paper, but I could manage to see two figures inside. Hatori knocked slowly and softly on the door frame. I saw everyone tense up more and more as a shadow grew larger and larger through the paper. A maid poked her head though, She wasn't the same as the other one, but looked similar enough. Her eyes were surprised when she saw us. Her voice shook slightly as she spoke nervously.

"Oh. Hello. Do come in..."

Cliffhanger! Anywho, sorry about the super long paragraph. I just felt like putting that in. I went shopping over the weekend, not like I really looked forward to it, and I saw this sweater that I wanted. It was black and said in spiky letters 'Cheer Leaders Suck'. In small print it said 'By the Anti-prep society' or something like that. Anyway, no offence if your a cheerleader, I just don't like preppy people. Luckily for you, you're probably never going to meet me! LUCKY you, I have some people in my school who would be dying to be you right now... DYING! Sorry, back to the story and REVIEW!

edit- Sorry, I was in such a rush to upload this chapter, that I forgot to re-read it a ton of times, then hand it to my friend to read it. This will probally be one of the only times I forget, sorry!