A/N: DUDE! It's been forever. Anyway I'm sick as a dog, and bored. I've been reading fruits Basket all week, I'm up to book eight, but I don't want to finish because I left book nine at a friends house, and I want to read the books in order. I've been in a big writing funk, but I want to update my FB fics today, hopefully before my parents get home. So on with the fic.

PS: I did a slight edit on the ending. And while I was thinking about AkitoxMinami, I read some uber spoilers, and I find I much like the ShigurexAkito pairing a thousand times better.

Disclaimer (Dub Naruto): Tenshi No Strange Productions does not on Fruits Basket, Yugioh, or me, Believe it!

(Yes I know that was mean on my part, but I am a One Piece fan.)

Learn To Be Lonely

Chapter 8: (Wanting) Learn to be lonely


Both Kyo and Yuki were on edge for the rest of the day. Their minds were racing with images of what could have made both Tohru and Kaiba so late. All options made their blood boil. More and more they hated Kaiba, and were extremely reluctant to leave him alone with Tohru for detention.
Kaiba glared at the stack of papers Tohru was sorting. He could have been done with those ages ago. Instead he was stuck with extra cleaning duty. He HATED cleaning.

Tohru glanced at Kaiba. Had she been cleaning she could have been out of here much sooner; and Kaiba seemed to be having trouble.

Both sighed simultaneously.

The noise from the other seemed to surprise them both out of their thoughts. Tohru Smiled at Kaiba. And before Kaiba could stop him self he smiled back.


Motoko blinked. She had been quite surprised to see that the witch and Kaiba had detention together. But it surprised her more that they smiled at one another. She was not sure to be relieved or pissed. If the witch was going after the rich boy then she might have stopped manipulating her precious prince. But what if the witch known as Tohru Honda was after both the beautiful prince Yuki Sohma, and the handsome rich boy Seto Kaiba? How dare she turn her back on their beloved prince!

Motoko growled, as she backed away from the door. That witch would pay!

"Oh, this will not do."

The Pri-Yuki president sped away. Wave girl was there.

Saki Hanajima watched Tohru and Kaiba working close by each other. She felt a chaos in him that was much like that of Kyo and Yuki, but it was different too. The fear and anger and hatred the other two felt was just as strong, but it was very ancient, but his pent up darkness was just as deep, but new like a freshly opened wound.

"This will not do at all."


Yuki sighed; he had stayed after to work on something for the student council. But in all truth he had really stayed after to wait for Tohru, he did not want her there by herself with the arrogant, rich, businessman.

He turned, hearing a sound of running feet. Before he knew what happened Motoko Minagawa had run right into him. Her arms extended in an accidental hug.


Mokoto was never one for keeping her head during strange circumstances, in the back of her mind she wondered why this time was different. Maybe it was shock, or fear, or just the pure strangeness of the situation. She had run headfirst into her beloved prince. What's more she had given him a hug, even though it was accidental. The next thing she knew there was a poof and she was kneeling down on the ground in front of Prince Yuki Sohma's clothes, and a rat.

"Y-Yuki-kun?" she asked, unsure, starring at the rat in disbelief.


Yuki starred up at the girl who had turned him into his rat form. His first thought was to flee, but it would be very hard to explain why he was wandering around without clothes once he changed back, and Motoko had yet to freak out. So he stayed still, waiting to see what would happen.

"Y-Yuki-kun? " the older girl asked hesitantly.

" Yes. " He replied. Here came the defining moment.

" Y-y-you're a rat... I turned you into a rat! " She stuttered out, she was starting to freak out, she'd just hugged him and he'd turned into a rat.

" Yes, I know... This happens, whenever a girl hugs me. " He told her, looking up with his large purple rat eyes at her. She was freaking out; she'd run away, he just knew it.

" You're so cute. " Motoko squealed picking up the rat boy, and pressing him gently to her cheek. Here was a response he had not expected.

" You're not repulsed by me? " he asked in disbelief. Sure Tohru had accepted him, but she was different, special, so very special...

" No, should I be? " she asked. To be truthful she wasn't sure why but her love for Yuki had grown even more now that she knew his secret. This was why he pushed that girl away when she'd tried to hug him, after confessing her love for him. It all just sort of made since.

" Most people would be. " He told her.

" Did Tohru Honda? " She asked, her brain connecting the dots for her.

He shook his little rat head. " No, she didn't. "

" I see... Why does this happen? " She asked, holding up the rat-boy to her eye level.

" It's a curse. Me and twelve other people in my family turn into a different animal of the Zodiac, and the cat when we are hugged by a member of the opposite sex. " He told her.

"So, Kyo-kun and Hatsuharu-kun and Momiji-kun they-?"

"Are all part of the Zodiac curse." He told her, nodding.

" How do you turn back?" she asked, starting to wonder when the cute little rat would turn back into her precious prince Yuki.

"After a certain amount of time, but-" there was a poof. "I'm naked..."

"Gah!" Motoko blushed, moving away toward the opposite wall, she starred at the wall not looking at Yuki.

Yuki sighed and got dressed quickly. He could not helped but feel a tad bit lighter, she didn't think he was weird, or scary, or disgusting. Even still he felt a pang of fear, he would have to tell Akito.


A/N: See, I updated. Please review.