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, the girl woke up when Hatori and Shigure had determined that she had a pretty high fever. Yay! Of course, this is only after she had lots of visions in her head—but were they visions, memories, or just dreams? Kristi can't answer that either, but when Hatori finds out, he tells Kristi to go back to America. Hello to you, too, Hatori-san…

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As Hatori slid the door shut behind him, Shigure was about to go in. "Is she awake?" "Shigure, we need to talk," Hatori said as he took the back of Shigure's collar and walked towards the front room, dragging the dog behind him. "But I wanna see Tii-chan…!" "Quit whining. You'll see her soon enough."

"So, what do you have to tell me that's so important, Haa-san?" The two were sitting at the table. Hatori sighed once before explaining, "She's starting to remember everything, Shigure." Shigure's eyes widened, "Are you sure? But didn't you…?" "I did," Hatori said with a nod, "But my abilities can only go so far with one who is cursed." "Only go so far?" the dog repeated as the dragon continued to explain, "Lex called me before I came over and told me everything. Three years ago, I just suppressed any memories that involved any direct physical contact and anything with the two of you. Had Kristi been a normal person, this would have worked permanently, but since she's not, I'd have to—" Before Hatori could finished, Shigure stood up and started toward his room. "Shigure, you know I'm going to have to."

But there may not be a home…

Meanwhile, Kristi was sitting against the head board, chewing on another piece of chocolate. I can't go back now. I came here to find out what happened to my memory, the girl thought, putting another chocolate in her mouth, besides, I like it better here. Maybe I can move here and stay with Tohru-chan and everyone. That might be fun. This is more of a home to me that America is, anyway. Kristi, because she was Gemini, was always made fun of by almost everyone, even if they didn't know about the curse. Kristi had always been indecisive and almost two faced in respect to the two spirits. Although in mythology, Castor and Pollux were almost the same in every aspect, fact begged to differ. Tee hee. And then I can get married and… Red faced, Kristi giggled and lightly clapped her hands on her cheeks a few times. "Ah, Kristi, what're you thinking?" "Tii-chan?" "Huh?" A knock was heard on the door before it stood open, "How're you feeling?" "Much better! Thank you!" Kristi smiled as Shigure sat next to her on the bed, "Tori-kun gave me some chocolate 'cause my blood sugar was low. I think that's why I passed out with that fever." Kristi took the last piece of chocolate from the napkin and held it out to Shigure, "Want the last piece?" Shigure blinked a couple of times before he smiled and shook his head, "No, it's alright. You go ahead. You need it more than I do." "Alright," Kristi said as she popped it into her mouth and finished it. She paused for a few moments of silence before she looked over to Shigure.

"Look, I'm sorry for passing out like that. I didn't mean to. I guess I'm not a very good person to take out, huh? You carried me back here, right?" Shigure nodded, "don't worry about it Tii-chan. It's not like you meant to pass out or anything. Que será será, you know." Kristi chuckled, "You took French throughout high school and you still speak that phrase in Spanish. You're a strange dog." "You know, Tii-chan, even though you're a member of the Western Curse, you're still a dog yourself. You're not exactly the shining example of normality, either," Shigure said as he leaned a little closer to her before he tilted his head towards her so that their foreheads lightly met, "…well, your fever's gone down a lot. I guess that chocolate really helped." Although Kristi's cheeks were pink from the now slight fever, the color deepened a little bit. "And you still blush at the smallest things, Tii-chan," Shigure smiled, their foreheads still touching, "You really haven't changed in these three long years, have you? I still can't get passed the fact that you got green contacts, though." "So what if I still act like a high school girl, hm?" Kristi asked, trying to keep a serious face behind the still reddening blush. "You're still so cute when you try to act all serious like that," Shigure said, his left hand rising so that his fingers could trace along her jaw line to tilt her face closer to his own. Shi…Shi-kun…?

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Author's Note: UH OH, SPAGHETTI-O'S! o.O;;

PS – Let me be the first to say that the chapter title "Girl Interrupted" is not my own—it is the title of a movie made in 1999 starring Winona Ryder, Whoopi Goldberg, and Angelina Jolie, Brittany Murphy, and many more based on Susanna Kaysen's (played by Winona Ryder) 18-month stay at a mental hospital (even though the movie is far from what actually happened, though the people were real).

Actually, it's kinda funny, 'cause the song Que Será Será was played in the background during one of the scenes between characters Georgina and Susanna.