The Curses' Cold Touch

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Disclaimer: If I owned Fruits Basket, this would not be a fanfic, now would it? I didn't think so.

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Summary: It's one of the breaks during Tohru's second year of high school and she's already been through a lot with the Sohmas. What happens when an old friend returns to reveal a similar curse? A relationship between the Sohmas and the other cursed family?

In the last chapter, well, Kristi is still missing. Well, she did go home, right? But, there's something wrong. Now, Kyo, Shigure, Tohru, and Yuki are looking for her. But, to no avail. Shigure has told Hatori what happened, but Hatori had brought up something that had happened in the past, but what was it? Had he known, Akito would be furious, but who is Leigh?

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Stay with me, even after…

From the inside of a black drawstring bag, a phone chimed the tune of "Tango to Evora" elaborately. "Lemme go!" the Gemini screamed. Her hands were taped together behind the back of the wooden chain to which she was tied, "Dammit, Leigh, let me outta this chair!" A woman walked into the motel room where Kristi was being held and smiled. Despite the cigarette hanging from her mouth, she looked strikingly like an older Kristi. She was the same height and build and, although it was a few inches longer and much neater, her hair was the same volume and color. One difference, however, was that her narrow brown eyes were colder—much colder—than those of Kristi. "But Kristen," the woman said with a calm voice, "then I won't be able to know what I want to know. Don't you want to talk to me, Kristen?" "Hell no," Kristi coldly responded. "Is that so?" The woman asked before her brows furrowed and she madly smirked. She took the cigarette out of her mouth and pressed the lit end on Kristi's arm after tearing her glove off her arm. Kristi cringed as the cigarette burned her skin, "Ahh! Damn Libra!" Before she could open her eyes, Kristi felt Leigh backhand her, almost knocking her and her chair over, "That's right," Leigh said as Kristi roughly looked back over to her, "Now, tell me why you left for Japan without telling me!" "I…" Kristi muttered before she turned to an almost sinister chuckle, "Leigh, I didn't tell you that I was coming here. What makes you think I'll tell you my reason?"

It was then that three figures stood at the doorway. The tallest one Kristi recognized as her younger cousin who had just graduated out of high school. Her father was Chinese and it certainly showed in her black hair, dark eyes, and pale skin. Her name was Mao-Lin Ling and she was possessed by Demeter, the spirit of Virgo. The shortest one had fiery red hair with brown eyes. She wore a long flowing black skirt and a long sleeved white dress-shirt. Kristi knew this girl as Alexis Bahay, AKA Lex, the bearer of Antares, the spirit of Scorpio. Lastly, Kelly was the other girl and Kristi remembered her younger half sister. She represented Taurus the bull, so it was apparent that the two girls shared the same mother. "Leigh, we brought food!" Mao-Lin smiled. For once, Leigh's smile seemed just as sincere, "Ramen? Thanks for getting some. Want some Ramen, Kristi?" "Bite me," Kristi snapped as Kelly's eyes softened before Leigh calmly responded, "That won't be necessary.

Later that night, Kristi was asleep in the chair that she had been tied to, but she awoke sharply when her phone started ringing again. For a moment, she was reminded of what had happened the previous night when she had first disappeared. Leigh's narrow eyes narrowed even more as she saw the bandages on the bound girl's arm, "Kristen, what happened?" But all Kristi did was glare at her. "Kristen, what happened to your shoulder!" "I fell," Kristi told her, "and a friend bandaged me up." "A friend…a Sohma!" "So what if he is!" Kristi screamed back before Leigh fumed, "Kristen! Don't…!" It was funny how Kelly, Lex, and Mao-Lin had their ways of appearing and interrupting events right when something big or important was about to happen and that's what they did. Kristi snapped out of her flashback when her phone stopped ringing and she saw a flash of red hair before she felt someone cutting her ties free. "Eh!" Kristi looked behind her from the corner of her eye, "Lex!" "Shh."
the red-head whispered, "We put sleeping pills in Leigh's Ramen, so she should be out until around noon. You, however, managed to cut yourself free and escape. Do not answer your cell phone when you're out there for it might be Leigh." Once the girl was free, she flicked her wrists back and forth, "Hey, thanks, Lex." "Don't mention it," Alexis said as she took a couple of Kristi's bags and opened the door, "Come on. I'll drive you to the Sohmas'. After breaking into their house, it's the least I can do." "Actually, the least you can do is nothing, but…" "Would you rather stay here?" "Coming!"