Disclaimer:I do not own any of the Fruits Basket characters, that doesn't include Cara and Shay.
Lauren: Sorry for the long delay, my computer wouldn't let me on fanfic then I couldn't find enough time to type it up(I'm a slow typer). Anyway the next chapter will come out this coming Sunday or Monday(promiss). I will do it. Anyway...here is chapter 10-Thank You.
The Sparrow's Truth
Chapter 9-Thank You
"Hey," Arisa replied.
'Cara,' Kureno pleaded in his mind, 'Help!'
"How've you been?" Arisa asked shifting weight from one foot to the other.
'She's nervous, good sign.' Cara said out of the blue.
"Fine, and you?" Kureno asked before thinking, 'CARA! Please Help!'
'Ok, one minute.' Cara said before Kureno heard a loud click.
"Oh…um…I'm good. I've been kind of cold lately, but it's probably because of the weather." Uo said, flying smoothly along the words.
"Uh…ya, it has been cold lately." Kureno said not wanting an awkward silence, "So uh…how's the job… I mean jobs going?"
'Ok Kureno, all you have to do is ask her if should would like to get something to eat.' Cara said.
'I could have told myself to do that.' Kureno thought sarcastically.
"My jobs are going well. What about your job?" Uo asked.
'Tell her it's been going good but you've been getting more time off.' Cara said.
"Oh…my job…it's been going good, but I've been getting more time off." Kureno said mimicking Cara.
As soon as he said that a small girl ran into Uo's leg hard enough that Uo fell on top of Kureno. The girl keep running but looked over her shoulder right into Kureno's eyes.
'Cara?' Kureno asked himself before Uo fell on top of him and he changed.
Poof
"Oh, I'm so sorry are you…o…k…" Uo was shocked to see in place of her handsome Kureno, there lay a roster beneath his cloths, "WHAT THE…A ROSTER!"
"(Sigh), Yes a roster." Kureno said softly.
"WHAT…HOW.WHY ARE YOU…AHH! YOU TALK!" Uo screamed.
"Please don't yell. Can you grab my things so we can go someplace privet to talk?" Kureno hushed. Uo grabbed Kureno's things and then the roster. They walked for a bit in silence until Uo broke it.
"How and why did you become a roster?" Uo asked still confused. Kureno told her about everything, including how Tohru knows about the secret and how Kyo, Yuki, and Shigure are all apart of it.
"So that explains the prince and orange top," Uo said finally able to understand, "that also explains the rabbit everyone was talking about at the Culture Festival in place of the kid, uh…what's his name?"
"Momiji?" Kureno suggested.
"Ya, him. Now what about that Haru?" Uo asked.
"Yes, him too. He's the ox." Kureno said.
"Hey, what's Cara?" Uo asked.
"She's… well the sparrow." Kureno said hesitantly.
"Sparrow? There's no sparrow in the legend or in the zodiac." Uo said staring at the roster.
"You have to ask Cara for the story. Few of the people who know about the Sohma family curse know that story, I am not one of those few.' Kureno said.
"Let's go find her now so we both know about the story." Uo suggested.
"Ok, I think that Cara would be at the Sohma house." Kureno said. Then thought, 'Cara meat me at the front of the entrance of the house.'
'OK!' Cara shouted.
Sohma House
When Kureno and Uo got to the house, Cara was standing at the front gate. Kureno was still in his roster form because Uo had been carrying him (she was hugging him).
"Hey Kureno, Uo." Cara said discouraged at the sight of the roster.
"Tell us the story." Uo demanded.
"The zodiac story?" Cara questioned.
"The one with the sparrow, yes." Uo said.
"After Cara had told the story to both Kureno and Uo, Uo finally put down Kureno (thought the story Uo had been holding Kureno). story in chapter 1
"So there's 13 other people who can change?" Uo asked Cara.
"Yes." Cara replied softly.
"Hey, why doesn't everyone know that story?" Kureno asked.
"I'm not sure why, but…" Cara stated.
"But what?" both Kureno and Uo asked at the same time.
"There is a second story that gives a reason why no one knows the true story, but it's just a story." Cara concluded.
"So go on…spill it." Uo demanded"
"There had been two people who had seen what had happened to the animals. One was a women and one was a man. God told them both that they were only aloud to tell one person of the incident and no more. When the two people had there orders, they went back to their normal lives. The man schemed a plan to make money by tell the story over and over, but he changed the story so god wouldn't punish him. The woman only told one person though, she told her son. The father had gone away to war so the mother had to get a job and only saw her son at night. The mother told her son the story night after night, the story never changing.
When the man remembered that the woman had also seen what he had, he feared that she would so the same as he had. So after 3 years he went back to the town and murdered the woman. The man ran away to go back to his fortune of traveling, but the son was left alone. The father came back to care for his son but the only words that came out of the boys mouth were bits and pieces of the story.
One day though, the boy ran off to go find the cat and/or the sparrow. The boy once found the cat but the cat scratched the boy. So from that day on the boy hated the cat. When he found the sparrow, the sparrow was nice to the boy and when she asked for his name he only said his last name, Sohma.
From that day on the sparrow took the boy to play with 1 of the zodiac each day. Then every night the sparrow would come tell the boy the story just as his mother had, never changing.
Then came one night the boy followed the sparrow after his nightly story to God. God spotted the boy and went to talk to him.
"Dear little Sohma, what are you doing?" God asked the little boy.
"I wish to ask you something God." the little Sohma boy said.
"Please ask away, Sohma." God said.
"Um, well…could you make the sparrow real? Along with the other zodiacs?" Sohma asked.
God was a little taken back by this question but he still responded, "Dear Sohma, I can do that, but you would also have to wish for the cat to be human. Also the only way I could make them human is for there to be a curse."
"The cat," the boy said sourly, "I hate the cat."
"I know." God said.
"What would the curse be?" Sohma asked God.
"There is no telling, anything is possible." God said warning the boy.
"Please then God, make them human." The boy asked. Then with a flick of the wrist all of the zodiac, the sparrow and the cat were human (they were all dressed, the cloths were a gift from God). That's the story. It's kind of an explanation for why there's a curse and why the story isn't well known." Cara said happily.
"So…uh, why isn't the story well known?" Uo asked.
"Because…the only people who knew the real story were the boy, the sparrow, the cat, and the rat. The boy forbid the cat and the rat to tell it and God told the boy and sparrow that they could only tell it to 1 person with the last name Sohma. So I guess that it's stayed in the Sohma family ever since then." concluded Cara.
Poof
"Arise…look away." Cara said looking away herself.
"Why the- Ahhhh!" with that Uo turned away as Kureno got dressed and sat back down. Then as Kureno sat down Cara stood up.
"(Yawn) I'm kind of tired. I'm going back inside. See you later!" Cara said before running off.
"Ya, I better go t- " Uo said before Kureno's lips were on hers.
"I got to go too." Kureno said after the kiss. He helped her up then kissed her once more and said farewell. Kureno was over joyed that he had kissed Uo but was worried that Cara wouldn't be able to fulfill her promises.
'Please keep her safe Cara.' Kureno thought.
'I will, I'll keep both you and her safe…along with all the others.' Cara said back before Kureno heard a click.
'Thank you Cara, thank you.'
Lauren: Hope you all like chapter 10.
Kyo and Yuki: It sucked.
Tohru: Kyo...Yuki that's not nice.
Lauren: I expect that from Kyo...but Yuki? That's cold.
Kyo: What do you mean you expect it from me!
Yuki: Well it was.
Kyo:HEY!
Lauren: Damn...you are cold. Ice cold. Anyway...I hope you all give reviews if you can and email me seperate if you wish. Oh, and one last thing, I have a new story coming out when I finish this one...please state in your review if you would like me to post chater 1 as a bonus chapter. Thanks!