A/N: Hey readers (if any) i feel pretty lousy the fact that not many ppl reviewed but for the 3 wonderfull people who did XD, ill give yallz shoutouts!

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And i know that it may be confusing, but, no, Tohru is not the girl, or nothing like that, the American juunishi is me (plz no flames!) ...cough...anywayz...

Im sorry it took so long to update but ill try as hard as frikin possible whenever i have my freetime! Plus Writer's Block keeps sticking it's ugly head and poking my brain... now when i think... it hurts... alot...

Disclaimer: As annoying as it is to say this during every darn chapter: I don't own Fruits Basket. Becuase if I did, I'd write a sequel to it and make it mad bumpin!

Chapter 3

It was almost 2 WHOLE minutes before Shigure could get his eyes off of Jailene. Then with a sheepish grin he went and introduced himself, as well as kissed her hand.

"Well hello miss Jailene! a very fine pleasure to make your aquantice. I am your new guardian, Shigure Sohma."

Jailene just blushed and giggled and shook his hand, "I'm extremely delighted to meet you too!" she said. Then Tohru walked up to her (with a smile that reached both her ears)and gave her a big hug. Jailene (being kinda suprised) sweat dropped and lightly patted her back and giggled a bit. Then tohru started talking all of that 'niceness' talk as well did Jailene cuz she got real accustomed to Tohru-kun in a fast second.

Then Tohru quickly introduced Yuki to her, "Jailene this is Yuki-kun and Kyo-kun!" She dragged her over to where the 2 boys stood. Kyo stared at her for a brief moment and quikly looked away when he realized he was blushing.

Jailene as well noticed that and she looked down shyly, fiercley blushing a light scarlet, but looked back up seeing Yuki (all smooth and wut not :-P) with a hand facing her, obviously for her to shake. She looked at him and smiled. "Miss Santana-san. After hearing quite a number of times about you, I'm sertainly glad you will be spending your time living with us here.I'm Yuki Sohma. It's very nice to meet you." and being all suave and wut not he lightly kisses her hand.

Son, let me find out! he's such a gentleman! So Suave and handsome. And it seems like the ladies be falling for him! his facial features are so atractive! He looks like a damn angel! XD Thought Jailene.

"Well, I must say," She said with a kind smirk, "It's an honor to meet such a gentleman like yourself!" she smiled and felt more than happy to give him a light kiss on the cheek. Then she took her attention to the usually agravated cat.

"And you. You must be Kyo Sohma."

She walked up yo him and showed him her wrist.

So... this is pretty real... she's wearing the same... the same bracelet as me... But why... why is she so- so happy?... at least I know that they weren't lying... because... she is wearing the bracelet...

"I'm so happy to finallymeet you!"She grinned.

He blushed a deep crimsom when she Gave him a huge hug. After she broke the hug she gave him a light kiss on the cheek as well, which made him look like a chili pepper.

So i finally meet him... After Hatori told me about him I got so excited and now here I am! He's mad Banging! But I wouldn't be suprised if he had my temper.

After a few seconds of shock, Kyo had absolutely no idea of what to do or to say. He didn't want to yell at her, or do anything else that was stupid and would show her a really bad 1st impression. But then again it was Kyo after all and he didnt want to make himself look cheezy so he just walked to the car to get her things.

There! no acting stupid NOR cheezy!

Shigure smirked to himself.

Well. I must say... it's going off to a great start... I'm guessing she'll have Kyo dead over heels sooner or later...

"Well," Shigure said, "It seems like we all have a lot to talk about. So...LETS EAT! XD"

"Wow!" Jailene wispered to herself. "The table looks like a buffet!" Then Tohru took a seat right next to Jailene after setting the rice down. "Wow Honda-san! This dinner you made looks scrumpschious! I can't wait to eat it!" She complimented. Then Hatori looked at Jailene with confusion.

"I thought you said you hate sea-food?..." ... moment of silence and sweatdrops for everyone.

"Oh my goodness I'm so sorry! I should have asked if you liked sea-food or not! I'm so sorry!" Freaked Tohru then she shamefully ducked her head down with a dark/sad aura.

"It's ok really!"Jailene said half laughing.

"NO! I'm really sorry! You are our new guest and should recievea meal of you're liking." Continued Tohru's ... well how do I explain how she acts... niceness...? YES! NICENESS! XD

"Don't be silly!" Jailene said, "I'm honored to be even sitting here with my new family and though I dont eat fish, it's all good! I want to get acustomed to everything you guys do and what-not! Trust me you guys. I couldn't be any happier.

"Very well then!" Shigure says, "Lets eat!"

While they ate they discussed very important issues that related to the juunishi and how she was connected to it all. (may I interupt by saying that kyo, yuki,Tohru, and momiji are still in this scene they just dont talk as much...sowee back to story!)

"So, any idea as to why you are connected with the juunishi if your from America?'' Shigure asked. Jailene whiped her mouth lightly with her napkin and spoke.

"Yes. Actually I was not born in the U.S.A but to a teritorial island in the carribeans. I don't know if you guys know Puerto Rico, but that's where I'm from."

"Hey, I know Puerto Rico!"Screamed Momiji, "Where learning that in Geography this semester! It's a beautiful caribbean, island between the Caribean Sean and the North Atlantic Ocean, east of the Dominican Republic, about 1,000 miles southeast of Miami Florida!

Everyone except Jailene looked at Momiji like 'what the?' and sweat dropped. Who knew there was brains under that cute little pice of kawaiiness!

"Except not too much now. It has your crime sences every now and then, but in my opinion, everyone notices so much of that because it's such a small island, but with so much crime. And besides... Sensei says that about every place we study!" He stated ( boy you can never shut the boy up when he talks nonsense ...but is he smart!).

"Yea!" Jailene replied, "It was truly a wonderful place. Not the worst place on earth, if i do say so myself, but it changed a lot! That's why I lived in America for 10 years, and I could've done that because Puerto Rico is a United States territory, so if you're boricua, you're american. I still go for vacations, but mainly to seek answers of questions I've searched for since...since I can remember. Questions concerning... my bracelet." Her expression turned serious towards the topic.

"After my mother warned me never to remove it from my wrist, I was forever in fear of the consequences. Though temptation would cross my mind, it would'nt be quickly replaced by stupidity. I was wise enough to listen to my mother."

She sadly looked at her wrist as she was prepared to continue.

"The day after I met Hatori almostmost ofmy questions were answered. My mother,and my dad especially,would always be extremely overprotective. She always made sure boys stayed clear. Acting like I couldnt get them off myself. I knew I had a curse put on me... I was just never told why. That day, I was shocked, excited... so many emotions that I could not even explain to my self... When I got home me and my parents talked. They knew it would be hard to let me come, but they knew it had to be done. I was extremely suprised! Believe that! my parents ain't no 'okied doke, eezy breezy' people. They care alot about me and I knew how hard it was letting me come."

Kyo looked at Jailene with unreadable eyes, but anyone smart could sense that his eyes did not read any positive emotion.

He envied her.

He didnt have parents that loved him like Jailene's. Sure his mom was overprotective when she was alive, but she didn't show all that love that Jailene described.

e kept it in, knowing that acting overlydramatic was not going to help. He was more than anxious to know everything that was needed to discuss. He would just drop it... for now.

"She told me," she continued, "That centuries ago, a young traveler from Japan sailing in a ship of sailors and the whole 9 arrived at Puerto Rico. There he met my ancestor, Franchesca Sophia Pacheco. She was a youngadolesent who had great geographic knowlege as well as foreign language skills. She learned a lot, despite the factshe was born into not an all rich family.

When she met the young traveler, she could clearly converse with him. In secret from her parents, she would sneak out to be with him. They quickly became friends, and almost just as fast...they fell in love. She got to know something about him. If she were to ever embrass him with a hug, he would transform into a cat. And he explained to her everything about the curse. He also told her about the fact that his generation was the first to be affected by it, which hadhis family despise him.

They swore to lock him up for good for not belonging in the zodiac! That his presence did not deserve to live a life free, that thanks to the cat within him, the curse came to be.

He escaped with some good sailor friends. And though they meant to go to Europe, a storm shifted their course to an unknown direction and had them land in Puerto Rico.

...Franshesca did not take the curse to a bother. She completely loved him for the way he was. Their love was so full and pure. They were crazy about each other!... Thechallengingpart was that it had to be kept a secret.

She always turned down dates, and he let his sailor friends leave the island without him.

To her he was so handsome and pure.

To him she was marvelous, and beautiful beyond reason.

They wanted to spend the rest of their lives together... so she ran away with him. Despite some hardships they suffered, their love never changed. Always wild and crazy about each other! It seemed like their love that was so inhuman, so pure, happy, and despite their hardships, nothing broke the love that connected them. She gave up her whole life for her new one with him. And she held no regrets, they never fought, they loved each other so much! It was...

Perfect.

Jailene's voice was becoming more exciting, louder, and more narrative, showing the passion she had for such love and romance. She stopped and stared at her audience, reminding herself to settle the excitement down

After a few years, everything got settled. They had they're own home, she continued school, and he had a decent job." Then her voice started to sound more daydream like, as her eyes softened and she continued. "He found a beautiful solitary field of beautiful, tropical flowers one day. On her 18th birthday, he took her to witness such a wonderful site where there they made love under the moonlight and over the flowers.

Jailene briefly stopped telling the story ,that had even her enthusiastic, to see that her audience was with wide eyes and endless attention.

"Wow!. this story is so romantic!" cried Tohru with dreamy eyes and tears of joy streaming down her eyes.

"I should make a novel out of this!"cried Shigure randomlypopping infront of the screen with the same expression Tohru had on, but blocking her out of sight with his big anime head and a notepad and a pencil!

Kyo and Yuki blushed madly hearing a girl taking about 'making love' infront of them, seeing as awkward moments for them did not occur ...ever, so Kyo turned his head quickly.

"PLEASE CONTINUE!" every one (except for kyo, cuz he's a frikin prude!) pleaded. So she did!

Years by years, as the 2 got older and grew a family together, Franshesca's 1 and only true love was slowly dying of a horable disease due to the curse. The pain that woman suffered through was unbearable.

But she knew what would happen. Some day one new generation, though not known which one, a child would be born from that family with his blood. As well as carrying the curse as well. So before his death, he handed to Franshesca this beaded prayer bracelet.

Jailene sighed and looked guiltly at her bracelette before continuing.

When i was born, no one knew about my circumstances until my fater hugged me. Fortunately, that was not in public, but in the comfort of my own home. I trasformed into a baby kitten.

Then after that, the bracelet was mine to keep for good.

Shigure realized something suddenly. "Wait, you never mentioned his name!"

Jailene was then lost.

"I don't remember ever hearing his name." He repeated.

Then Yuki whispered to himself.

''Makoto-san.''

That attracted Hatori's attention. "Huh what was that Yuki?"

Then Yuki realized.

"Makoto Sohma! The first cat juunishi who escaped from Japan and was never heard from again! That's what ended up happening to him!"

Then Shigure's and Hatori's memories refreshened.

"Oh, yes!" Said Hatori, "Now we know what happened with his life. He was the reason for Jailene being the second juunishi during the same generation!"

"So... these are pieces to the puzzle?"

Asked Tohru. "I'm pretty sure they are. But until we find more clues to what we need to know, we should just live our lives and let destiny tke it's course." Jailene stated.

After dinner it was still early out. But Jailene insisted Tohru that she'd help with the dishes. And even though Tohru was too nice to have her help Jailene still did it because she was stubborn like that.

After that it was almost 3:00 pm, Hatori and Momiji had left and no body knew what to do next. So Yuki asked Jailene if she wanted to rest up, knowing that she must have been tired from waking up so early to take such a ride, and etc.

She honestly wanted to spend more time with everybody, but it wasn't like if she was going anywhere, so she said yes.

"But I have an air mattress in one of my bags (and trust me she had A LOT of luggage!) and I could just set it up whereever it does not make a disturbance for you all untill my parents send me enough money to buy a room set." She stated polietly.

Tohru excitedly walked to her. "No! Don't worry!" Tohru exclaimed, "We have a suprise for you!" And Jailene smiled warmly at all of them but then turned her expression to serious mode.

"Yall's best not have spend too much money for me!"

Shigure thought to himself,

Don't worry my new little neko, all the money in the world would not be worth all the happiness you'll bring to this family!

As they went upstairs up to the room that theyworked hard on the last 2 or 3 nights, Shigure poened the door revealing a sight that had Jailene gasping.

She ran into the room, taking every detail of the great new room.

Her king size bed with large canopy made her want to cry of happiness. The cover was a real light baby blue color with a design oflots of large white dots appearing at the top of the bed where the pillows layand decreasing as they went to the bottom of the bed. The canopy was white with blue polka dots in the same style as the bed's but switched colors (like vise-versa). The canopy also covered the whole bed, supported by tubesat the top ofthe bed, as if they were curtains. they only opened in the end, but by the untying of the strings that held the rest of the soft fabric, it would barrie the whole thing.

Jailene was so happy and she walked around the room gazing at her new drawers made out of wood, painted white. a full length mirror covering her whole closet.

Surely she was blessed. It sort of reminded everyone of Tohru's room, it was the same but pink instead of blue.

She ran toward Shigure and squeezed him into a hug that showed pure gratitude.

"Oh my goodness you guys! I've been here for a mere few hours, I've never even met you, and I already love ya'll like family itself!"

She felt so loved! Then Tohru pointed to the bed where the oatmeal teddy bear was at. She gasped and jumped to the feather-light bed and quickly grabbed it and hugged it so ever tightly. She went back to them, thanking them, and saying that it was a coinsidence, because oatmeal fabriced bears were her faveorite.

She gave them a group hug, being ever-so-happy to finaly hug guys and not worry about transforming.

"And don't forget, you can still decorate your room to your liking, like posters etc." Said Yuki. Which was a great thing because Jailene had a lot of posters in one of her billion suitcases.

"How ridiculous." Kyo hissed to himself. "Its no big deal... just a room..." Luckily no one heard his comment.

After everyone left Kyo awkwardly stood back with Jailene. She stared at him with a cheerful smile yet raising one eyebrow clearly saying 'ok?'

Kyo took a gaze at the room trying to stall while he waited to find a way to talk to her, but fortunately Jailene started some small talk first.

She spoke as she unzipped every suitcase.

"I really appreciate how you guys are treating me. Now I won't feel all that homesick."

Kyo just looked at her, but being the dumbass front that he is he just looked at her and looked away real quick. Obviously she continued,

"Don't worry, if you think I'm hurt just because you're too rebelious and front status to say anything back, it's nothing that will affect me, I've already been there/done that... But how strange, when Hatori told me about you, I barely believed anything, especially the part about you. Now that I have met you I'm more happy." He gazed at her her slightly flushed.

"Wh- why's that?" He asked her, a little bit more relaxed now.

"Because."

She stated as a matter of factly, "Finally, someone I can relate to. Someone that I can talk to and knows exactly the reasons for my sadness. And someone that can talk to me with the outmost trust, you know you'll be able to talk to me about anything. I know I may have just met you, and I definetly know for a fact that we'll get on each other's nerves a whole lot. We'll probably fight so much it wont even be funny. But it's just who we are. And I know already by your attitide that you don't play, just like me. But all in all, I wanna let you know that you can trust me."

She smiled at him warmly,and he finally got the courage to do the same. That's when he had the chance. he reached into his pocket and took out a small, velvet, black box.

He opened it revealing a silver charm bracelet. It only had one charm though, of an orange cat's face with a cute and cheerful face. A smile pread up to her ears when she saw the sweetest present.

He shyly put it on her left arm over the prayer beads and after she jumped on him (not like that) giving him a great hug. "I'm glad we started at good points with each other."

"Do whatever you want with it. Throw it out... if you want...But if you keep it... just don't do anything with the charms." He rubbed the back of his head with uneasyness. Jailene knew that he was trying to be nice.

"Kyo, this is so sweet! Thank you so much!" Her eyes glittered with joy as she touched the kitten charm.

He smiled at her slightly and left the room so she could take a nap.

She chose not to fall asleep and began began organizing everything instead, putting ALL of her clothes in the drawers, and the 'd 2 im-p' clothing in her closet. Later, she got all of her posters and pictures and hung them in the walls. After that was over, she went to a bag and grabbed a few albums and a lot of decorated picture frames (like the ones at DEB) and put pictures of her friends and family.

On one picture frame the decorated words said "despite how much we fight" with little monkeys swinging in the frame, and she put in a picture of a really cute light skinned boy with dark brownhair and brown eyes standing there with a white yankees fitet, a tall white tee, jeans and white ups, then it was her standing in front of him sitting in a chair with a black Gangster hat whith a white strip, a black fish net long sleeve blouse with a white belly shirt under, a white miniskirt, and black high heel boots that folded at the top. He was bent down putting his arms hugging her neck with her arms grabbing his, and his chin resting on her head, both looking at the camera, him with a serious face and her with a sweet smile.

She glanced at the picture and slightly laughed a little.

Despit how much we fight... I know we love each other... I'm glad that now we're grown... Now every time we talk to each other respectively and when we hang and know that we'll always be there for each other...

I hold those very few dear memories in my heart... And thats why I keep the only picture I have of me and you actually together and looking this happy. Because I love you... baby bro.

After placing all of her photos in every buiro and desk in her room she placed an empty one yellow and pink withXD smiley faces with lots of different phrases 'Kawaii' 'So cool' 'my new homie G's''Gotta love em' 'memories'.

She took a digital camera and walked downstairs to where everyone was at

When she saw everyone together she asked the to take a pose all close to each other.

"What's this for, Jailene-san?" asked Tohru curiously.

"It's just a pictre of yall'z." Jailene answered, "I wanted a picture of my new homiez to put in my room. Now everyone say cheese...''

:snap:

The picture came out cute! Tohru in the front middlewith her hands on her knees and bend over so everone could be seen behind her andwith one of her cheery smiles, Kyo, standing with a half smile crossing his arms, Yuki stading next to Shigure with one of his famous warm smiles, and Shigure standing between the two boys grinning.

After Jailene printed the picture and put it in her frame she assembled her home theater system on top of one of the clothing buiros where no pictures were at.

Since she had no t.v she just assebled the audio and took like4 boxes of CDs (the big boxes that hold like 100 CDs). Befor she took a CD out her cell phone rang.

The called i.d read 'mami' as Jailene picked up.

"Hey mom!"

"Hey sweety! I miss yu so much!" Her mom's voice sounded sad, worried, anxious, but happy to hear her daughter's voice.

"Mami! Don't worry! I'm actually doing great! And I miss you lots too!"

"Are you sure you're ok? How's everyone there? Are they treating you good? Please! If anything bad happens call me asap and I'll be there in a heart beat!"

Jailene chuckled a bit.

"Ma! Don't worry about me! I'm ok! But where's Daddy and Junior?"

She talked to her family about her situation. She told them abou how she was having a good time and how everyone was great. Later her aunt got on the phone.

"Hola Princessa!" Her aunt told her.

"Hi titi Sandra!"

"So Jailene, what about the other cat?" Sandra asked curiously. She was part of Jailene's family who knew about the curse, she was her mom's sister.

"Wow titi! He's so cute! I mean he looks GOOD!" Jailene squealed.

"Well Jailene we have to go now... say bye to everyone!" Jailene's mom said.

Jailene blushed a deep red. She just realized that her mom had her on speaker phone. and... and everyone... including her dad... heard her...

"ehhh... BYE EVEYON LOVE YA!" Jailene said pretending to be cheerful but instead she was embarrased and sweat dropping.

She instantly hung up her cell phone. And slumber became her precent.

A/N: In case anyone hasn't noticed, I changed a lot of things. I fixed some mistakes, I renamed the title, I changed my username, and I actually updated for once! lol ..

Just because I have a feeling that you are confused... here is some trans.!

'the whole 9' : like when you say for example : "It was crazy! Everyone was there and the whole 9." That means: 'It was crazy! everyone was there and everything!" Its sort of like an 'etc.'

'Bangin': Hot (he is so bangin!--- he is so hot!)

'D 2 im-p': Dress 2 impress.

'titi' : thats spanish for 'aunt'

'Hola princessa' : translation: "Hello Princess"

Well... I hope I get reviews from this!

-sexymami