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, Shigure and Kristi were looking at photo albums. w00t! The doorbell rings and when Shigure leaves, Kristi finds an album, labeled and commented in by herself, but for such an important event—the Last Dance, Senior Farewell—why can she not remember it? Her mind is stuck on one large picture, but the chapter ended before I could tell you what—or who—it was a picture of. Keep reading. You might learn something. .
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"Why can I not remember this?"
She was looking as a picture of her younger self and the younger Shigure. Like Ayame and Hatori, Shigure was wearing a black tuxedo. Kristi was wearing a dark purple and black dress that could have been mistaken for that of a princess. The dress itself was black and the ribbons and such that decorated it were dark violet, just like the long gloves that covered her arms. To surprise her even more, she had a silver tiara on her head and Shigure wore a small crown that seemed to pair with Kristi's. Above their heads was a banner that prestigiously read King and Queen: Shigure Sohma and Kristi Hall! "I was…Senior Queen…?" Wanting to get a closer look at the picture, she gently pulled it off of the page from the heart shaped stickers placed on each of the corners.
She turned the picture over to see both her and Shigure's handwriting against the white back. She was about to read it, but as she heard Shigure coming back, she jumped. After shoving the picture into the left sleeve of the black yukata she wore, Kristi put the now closed book on the bottom of the nearest pile, and turned around just in time to see the dog enter the room. "Tii-chan, that carnival that we went to so many years ago is open again this year. Wanna go?" Shigure offered, "My treat." The blush slowly fading from her face, Kristi smiled, "S-sure!"
A while later, it was something around noon, Shigure and Kristi found themselves at a small café table in front of an empty shop at the carnival from the picture that they were before laughing at. Each of them had a cup of Bubble Tea in front of them. "Of course I've read and bought your books! Well, actually, I'm missing one of them…oh, what was that one…? I think it was one of your earlier books…" "Stoic Embrace?" "That's it!" Kristi said, quickly and energetically extending her arm to point at Shigure. Of course, she blushed a cute pink when she realized that her little burst of energy had hit Shigure in the head. Literally. With a tint of red on his cheek where she had hit him, Shigure looked up at Kristi from under his bangs and Kristi laughed nervously as she pulled her arm back, holding her hands under the table and in her lap, "Heh heh. Sorry, Shi-kun. It was an accident, I swear." "Don't worry about it," Shigure chuckled, "Besides, I couldn't stay mad at you if I tried. In any case, I wrote that one not too long after you left for America." "Oh!" Kristi said, remembering to ask him something that she had put off until now, "That reminds me. How did you know that I hadn't just gone back to America? Why were you looking for me?"
A smirk found its way to Shigure's face and he pulled two small card-like pieces from his sleeve, showing it to Kristi. "Do these look familiar?" "Gah!" Kristi exclaimed as she took the two items and looked at them before putting them into her own sleeve, "my credit card and my plane ticket!" "I had your credit card from the mall," Shigure nodded, "I know that you only have one since—well—I just know you too well. And then Tohru found the ticket on her bedroom floor the morning after you were kidnapped. I knew you couldn't have bought another one." "My, my," the girl chuckled, "Aren't we quite the sleuth?" "Only until night," Shigure joked.
Kristi opened her mouth for a comeback, but a pain shot through her mind. Closing her mouth and looking down, she held a couple of fingers lightly to her temple. "Tii-chan?" She tilted her head up, but while Shigure was in front of her, it wasn't him that she saw. Instead, it was a twenty-four-year old Hatori. She then saw him hold his hand over her face before everything blurred. "Tii-chan?" Images flashed dizzily before her eyes, things that she didn't know had happened to her. In the images, she had a slight feeling that she was happy; but at the moment, gravity was taking effect and she was brought down to the paved walk as the chair made a slight screech to accompany the light thud she made when she hit the ground.
I'm going now…