SUMMARY: IN EVERY GENERATION OF CURSED ZODIAC'S, THERE IS ONE TWIN, THE ONE BORN UNDER GEMINI, AND THE TWIN CARRIES THE FULL CURSE. WHAT IF HATORI WAS THE ONE WITH THE TWIN, AND SHE NOW HAS TO LIVE WITH HIM.
DISCLAIMER: i own nothing from fruits basket. i do own this story, the plot, and any original characters placed in this story. I also know that in the anime and manga Hatori is a Cancer, but my story's AU anyways, so he's a gemini in this. deal with it.
CHAPTER#1 TWINS
Let me tell you a tale. Of the zodiac. I know you know most of it. But do you know what the true curse is? No. Well then, let me tell you. In every generation of the cursed sohma family, there is one of the cursed, and only one, born under the sign of gemini. This means they will have a cursed twin. Another will be born under the gemini and animal sign as them, and the other one will carry the full curse. Now, that's all I can say for now. But more will be revealed as my story goes on.
It was a rainy morning when Hatori awoke to hear the phone ringing. He glanced at his clock. 6:30A.M. who'd be calling him at this hour?
"Hello?" Hatori groggily picked up the phone.
"She comes in black at nine." A girls voice said quietly.
Hatori's eyes shot open.
"Who is this?" Hatori asked.
"She comes in black at nine, she flys closer, and expects to see you at nine." The girl said then hung up the phone.
Hatori sat there for a moment. He knew who it was. And he knew what that girl meant. He quickly got up and dressed then called Shigure.
"Tori? Isn't it a bit early?" Shigure answered.
"She's here." Hatori said trying very hard to keep his calm collected manner.
"Who's here? Hatori, are you okay? Whats going on?" Shigure asked turning serious.
"Who do you think?" Hatori yelled losing his cool.
"But...she's not supposed-" Shigure tried.
"I
know!...look. I have to talk to Akito, let him know. But you know
damned well she cannot live with me." Hatori said not trying anymore.
"Alright. I understand. You can bring her here. I'll clear a room for her." Shigure said calmly then hung up the phone.
'One thing down.' Hatori thought as he headed out to tell Akito of the sudden news.
AT SHIGURE'S HOUSE.
"Shigure? What seems to be the matter?" Yuki asked as Shigure walked into the room the three teens were eating breakfast.
"We have to clear a room and get it prepared for someone to be living with us." Shigure said in his serious manner.
"Oh. Who's going to be staying with us?" Tohru smiled.
"Kaida Sohma." Shigure answered quietly.
Kyo and Yuki dropped thier eating utensils at this and went still and wide eyed.
"Dont even joke like that." Kyo said.
"I wish it were a joke Kyokun." Shigure said and left the room.
"Ano, who is Kaida?" Tohru asked.
"Hatori's twin." Yuki answered.
"Hatori-san has a twin?" Tohru asked excitedly.
"Not that kind of twin. She's his zodiac twin." Yuki said.
"Too make a long story short Tohru, in each generation of the cursed, there is one born under the gemini sign. They have a twin, not in born together twin, a zodiac twin. The twin is born under the same sign and animal as them, and the twin carries the full curse." Kyo said seeing Tohru's confused look.
"So, whats the problem? Why's everyone so upset?" Tohru asked.
"The twins are not supposed to see each other, ever. It is said that the cursed twin will become jealous and attack the normal twin, maybe even all of the zodiac. The cursed twin is off balance you see. And being away from the noral twin brings balance, being near the normal twin can cause chaos. There have only been one set of twins that were not violent towards each other. They were dragons as well, but, when Kaida was born, Hatori was told by Akito to never go near her. And she has been in and out of asylems her whole life. Or so we've heard." Yuki said.
"Thats so sad." Tohru said.
"We only met her once, she was a happy child. But, we've heard so many things about her since then that...we just can't trust her." Kyo said.
IN HATORI'S CAR
Akito had told Hatori to pick up Kaida and bring her to him, then to take her to Shigure's house. Where she would stay until further notice. Hatori did not know what Kaida looked like. He had seen her before when she was a child, but that was years ago, Kaida was only five years younger then him. But, he stil had no idea who he was going to look for in a way.
(A.N. In this story, Hatori, Shigure, Ayame and Akito are only 22 k? so bear with me)
Hatori had no idea why, but when he reached the airport he had a wierd feeling of where he needed to go, soon he was waiting as a plane was letting it's passangers off. Many people were walking out of the terminal, but none seemed to be her. But then, he saw her. He didn't know how he knew it was her. 'Probably becuase she's the only one in all black that looks kinda like me' Hatori rationalized in his head.
She had walked right up to him, only a foot separated them. She had long blackgreen hair, same as his. But her's went down to her knees. Her bangs were cut in a similar fashion to his. The left side was longer and covered her eye, while the right side was shorter and sat on the side of her face. Her eyes were a dark green just like his. She was wearing a long black dress that was form fitting and went down to her knees and short sleeves. She wore long black finger gloves, black stalkings, and black marysueish boots.
She reached a hand up to Hatori's face and moved the hair from in front of his bad eye. He couldn't move. She saw the lighter coloring of his eye and the scar,sort of shaped like the kanji symbol for life, around his eye where he had been cut badly. She then removed her hand so that his har fell back into place and moved her own hair to show him, her lighter color green eye, and the scar on her eye that was the kanji symbol for death.
"I see he punished you before you left." Hatori spoke.
She nodded her head.
"Shall we get your bags?" Hatori asked.
Again, she nodded her head.
"Do you speak at all?" Hatori asked her.
She didn't repond at all.
The got her luggage, two small suitcases, and we're on thier way back to the Sohma estate. It was a silent car ride. Kaida merely sat and stared stright ahead, no expression on her face what so ever. And still she had not spoken.
"Why are you here?" Hatori asked in his usual manner.
Nothing but silence answered him. For some reason Hatori was getting aggrivated easily today. 'She's setting me off balance.' Hatori thought angrily.
He pulled the car over to the side of the road and put it in park then turned in his seat to face her.
"Why are you here?" Hatori asked again.
She only looked at him.
"Answer me!" Hatori yelled.
It was bad enough the trouble he'd be in when they returned home, but she;d be in even more for coming her. And he hated to see something happen like last time, before she left.
"Thier dead. My curse killed them." Kaida said simply showing no emotion still. Hatori knew what she meant and automatically regretted yelling at her.
"I have to take you to see Akito." Hatori voiced once they came closer to the estate.
"I understand. Where will I be staying?" Kaida asked her tone not changing in the least.
"With
Shigure...the dog." Hatori said, he realized she may not remember
everyones name, she had been gone for nearly ten years now.
AT SHIGURE'S HOUSE.
"Okay Hatori, we'll see you soon." Shigure said hanging up the phone.
"She'll be here soon I take it?" Yuki asked calmly.
"Yes, And we're to leave her to her room. She just saw Akito." Shigure said.
Yuki and Kyo both stayed with thier calm but sad expressions. They knew what that had meant. But they had to stay downstairs to at least greet her and Hatori and help bring her things to her room.
The tension was building up in the house as each minute pressed by, until finally there was a knock at the front door. Shigure, Kyo, Yuki, and Tohru stood and opened the door to greet thier guests. Kaida walked in with her head down and her black/green hair clinging to her. It was raining outside. Hatori had borught her bags to the door.
"I have to take my leave
now. Akito doesn't know, and I think it best if he did not, that I will
be back tommorrow to check on her." Hatori said quietly to Shigure.
"I understand Tori-san." Shigure said.
Hatori was about to leave but realized that Kaida had her hand gripped onto his sleeve that she held on the way up from the car. He didn't really know what to do, so he simply gently removed her hand.
"I'll be back tommorrow. You'll be fine here." Hatori said then left.
There was silence.
"It's been quite a while, hasn't it Kaida?" Shigure said in his false cheery voice.
Kaida looked up to reveal a bandage with some blood specks covering her already damaged eye. Shigure was shocked to say the least. But he wasted no time at all in telling Yuki and Kyo to show her to her room and bring her things with. It was a quiet walk upstairs, but they finally made it to her room.
"It's not very large, but it should do for now." Yuki said putting her bag in the corner and leaving.
"If
you need anything...my room is right across the hall." Kyo said before
putting her bag down next to the other one and leaving her room.
Kaida looked around her new room for a minute. It was small, but it was bigger then her last room. She walked over to the vanity and looked at her face in the mirror. Akito had done his damage. She may not be even to see what little she could have before out of that eye now. But without thinking any more on that she rolled out her bed and went to sleep without changing her clothing.
Downstairs however was not as quite. The tension was still there and building. Tohru was tryin to cheer everyone up but it just wasn't working.
"She's not supposed to be here. Whats going on Shigure?" Kyo asked loudly.
"Her family is dead. She won't give anyone any details, but we had the police report sent to us from America. Her version, is the curse killed them all. But the police report says that her mother died in a car acceident, Kaida was in the car but recived no harm, the same day, her father died falling off the three story ladder, two minutes after the car accident, and her little brother seems to have drowned himself, two minutes after his fathers death. None had time to get word about the next to the other. So it seems, the curse did kill them all." Shigure said quietly.
there was a ring of silence, even Tohru couldn't think of a way to get everyones mind off of that.
"So why;s she here and not back in an instituion?" Yuki asked.
"She's never been to an instituion, or an asylm. Akito made that up. To make sure we never spoke to her. But now we have no choice. So I am kindly asking you, to please get along with her. She may not be insane, but I don't recommend upsetting her." Shigure said and left the room for bed.
MEANWHILE AT HATORI'S
Hatori was trying to finish getting papers ready for Kaida the next day. He would need to examine her, and of coarse start her in therapy. Luckily Hatori had a degree as a doctor in both fields. (A.N. if this isn't true, then again, AU, my fic, deal with it)
"She's been through quite alot." Hatori voiced aloud as he finally settled into bed.
"Why did you have to come back now Kaida? Why couldn't the curse wait just a little longer?" Hatori sighed sadly.
"Akito will not like any of this. But he cannot see her again until her eye is healed." Hatori said sternly before falling asleep.
OK I KNOW THAT PROBABLY SUCKED MAJOR ASS, BUT IT PICKS UP NEXT CHAPTER. PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF YOU THOUGHT IT WAS SHIT. I KNOW IT WENT SORT OF FAST, BUT THERES A REASON, I HATE STARTING SLOW AND TAKING FOREVER TO GET TO THE POINT. SO I JUST THOUGHT, WHY NOT JUMP RIGHT INTO THE STORY . PLEASE REVIEW AND TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK.