Chapter 5

Ok, real quick...i do not own fruits basket, but i do own the Tzusaki family and if you want to borrow them, you MUST ask me, i can't make that any clearer then that.

Shigure: I can't believe you made Hatori to be the one with Karla, it isn't fair!

Yuki: how is it not fair for Katt to do that?

Shigure: because she's...like Katt here, the three B's.

Katt: the three B's?

Shigure: Beauty, Brains and Brawn, she's perfect, just like you, so how come Hatori gets her!

Katt: cause i gave you Lore, remember

Shigure: oh yeah i forgot

Yuki: you idiot

Shigure: Oh Yuki! that's so mean!

Katt: not as mean as when Lore finds out about what you have been asking (then from a far away distance a scream was heard)

Lore:SHIGURE!

Shigure:opps, gotta go and runs out of the door

Katt: ok...that was weird

Yuki: that idiot

Katt: Ok so anyway, oh and before i forget...warning: there is some Yuri in here so be aware.

Shigure: Yuri, with who!

Lore: SHIGURE!

(shigure took off once more)

Yuki: idiot...

Katt: Ok, now on with the show!

The next morning, no one woke up, except Shigure, Ayame, Hatori, and Momiji. Woke up to some kind of soothing music, not sure what it is, but it wasn't half bad. When they were near the door to the porch they saw Karla, Ruka, Trete, and Kamiko doing some kind of martial arts. They snuck by and sat next to Tohru; who was watching.

" Morning Tohru" said Shigure. " Oh hi you guys". Then all four girls stopped after the song was over and when the next song started they started dancing and singing to what seems to be another American song. " What are they doing?" said Momiji. " They are doing their routine of martial arts and dance...They figured that if they do a calming martial arts practice first, then they'll be warmed up to be energized for when they sing and dance for the next two songs, then when the next song comes up after the two then they can do another martial arts calming practice. They do this everyday from just as the sun is rising till five a.m" " But isn't that two hours of doing that then?" said Ayame. " Yes, its a way to keep themselves calm to deal with the guys of the family and get ready and energized for the day" three of the guys looked at the girls confused on why would they want to do this everyday that early. " It's a spiritual thing, remember they are witches and they do need to have clear minds if they are doing any spells and such, that's why they do that, it helps clear their thought of the yesterdays away from thought so that they are ready for this day" said Hatori.

They look at Shigure now confused, but Tohru went on smiling and continued watching. " And how do you know this my dear friend" said Shigure. " Yes please enlighten us on how you were able to retrieve such useful information" said Ayame. For the first time in a while, Hatori smiled at them, which scared them abit. " That...is none of your buisness" said Hatori. They admit it, it was creepy to see Hatori smile, but it was worse to hear him say that and still smiling, they figured that something have had to change him like that, but what and so drastically. Then the next song came up, it was a country song, a girl singing. This time Karla sang. She sang beautiful like that, with the song she was singing, it seemed to hae fit her so perfect. " Ok so what is Karla singing?" said Momiji. " It's called Girls Lie Too" by Terri Clark from America...she's a country singer and happens to be one of Karla's favorite type of music"

( just to throw this in, no i do not own any of the songs or singers that may be brought into this chapter, including this song and singer, but i do like this song )

" Well...she sings perfectly that way" said Hatori. They looked at her, then Shigure and Ayame smiled. " Aww, looks like Hatori has a crush on her!" said Shigure " You should serranade her with a poem" said Ayame. " Yes Hatori, go be romantic to her" said Shigure. Then Hatori got up and knocked both of their heads together. " I'll crush your heads if you keep this up!" Then Karla looked over and smiled. " Oh hi you guys" said Karla. " Geez, i didn't know we had an audience, kind of nice" said Lore. " Well either way, i think we should cut this excersize short and do one more relaxation moment and then we should be done with it" said Kamiko. " You only want to cut it short so you can run to your husband and get a real quicky in" said Lore " Your such an idiot Lore" said Kamiko. " Oh Kamiko! your sooo mean, you ass!" " Yes and your a perveted idiot" a smile played across Kamiko's face in victory as Lore whinned about it. Then the last song came on and it was one Karla just had to do, with Tohru. She goes gets Tohru and tells her to follow her movements as they sing. At that moment Yuki comes over and see's Tohru and Karla singing and dancing to " Lay All of Your Love on Me" by Ateens.

(again i do not own song or singers)

It was an upbeat song to dance to and the way they were dancing, it made both Yuki and Hatori blush. They're bodies in perfect motion with the song, flowing gracefully together with the upbeat of the rhythem of the music and their singing matching perfectly together, if they didn't know them, they would of thought that Karla and Tohru were lovers the way they dance together. They stop the sterio and starts to laugh.

" Oh man, that felt great!" said Karla. " Its been a while since we've danced like that" said Tohru. " Yes well either way you two still dance as if your in love with each other" said Ruka. " Oh Ruka, did you forget...Tohru is my love...she will always be my girlfriend and no one can take her away from me" said Karla as she put a arm around Tohru's shoulders, winks and sticks out her tongue, making her "yes I'm cute and being silly" face. " Yes yes...spare the details of what you and Tohru did the night you spent the night, or better yet what didn't you two do" said Lore smirking. " Now Lore, i told you that whatever me and Tohru do in bed is none of your buisness" still making that face of hers as they walk in, confusing Yuki and Momiji abit, Shigure, Ayame, and Hatori knew she was messing around. " Oh now Karla, you know it isn't nice to be messing around with a man's imagination, he might get ideas" said Shigure " Yes we can already see where yours went to Shigure" said Lore with a smile. He looked down to see if she was right, she wasn't; meaning she was just being a tease. " Now Lore, you shouldn't be a tease, its mean" " Uh...excuse me Karla, Tohru?" Yuki was blushing red and confused at everything.

" Uh you two aren't really girlfriends are you, i mean not...like that are you?" Karla smiled at her opportunity. " Aww Yuki...you don't have to worry, Yes Tohru was my first in everything, even when were just kidding around, i could never deny her of loving a man of any type, well almost anytime, but don't worry...no one can take your place in her heart...she loves you too much, so no need to worry" she smiles as tohru turns a crimson red and starts waving her arms. " Oh Karla! you've exaggerated, i mean its not like i don't like Yuki, i mean i do like him...a lot, but no wait! that came out wrong or did it" mumbling Tohru. As Tohru was about to go into another mumbling marathon Karla...kissed her on the lips. Everyone turned red as they stared. When they separated, Karla smirked and gave that face. Phew, didn't think that would stop her rambling like it used to, but i guess it did, as i said Yuki, you have nothing to worry about...I love Tohru too much to keep her away from the man she loves" she winks at Yuki and smiles at Hatori. " Just like I love you too much to keep you away from the man you deeply love" said Tohru " Its a sisterly love you could say" said Karla, they both smiled at everyone. " Yes its a very...very close sisterly love there" said Lore. " Ok I'm confused" said Momiji. " They're just messing around, when Karla and Tohru get together, they act truelly like themselves in a way; they act like living sisters" said Trete. " But...the kiss?" said Yuki. " What? you've never seen sisters kiss before? i mean its a small peck on the lips to show your affection towards your sibling...it just means that you love and care about them" said Trete. " So do you and Karla...do that?" said Momiji. " Usually when we're either coming home or coming from somewhere to see each other and saying hello or if we're leaving so somewhere else and say good bye or for good morning or good night, its not that big of a deal...its not homosexual if that's what your thinking" said Trete

Yuki felt kind of embarresed for his thought on it, but understood it when trete explained. " Oh i get it, its just a show of feeling" said Momiji " Exactly, your real smart Momiji" said Karla " I think i get it now, sorry for my behavior Karla" said Yuki. " Yes you should be sorry, poor Karla, accusing her of being that way when her heart belong to the only man she loves..." said Ayame, but then Hatori pulled his hair abit and whispered to him. " The minute you say it, the minute i cut off all of your hair". Sweatdrops formed on Ayame and smiled. " Point taken Hatori" said Ayame.

Then everyone else got up and sat at the table talking as Kamiko and Lore went to make breakfast, Trete pouting cause he wanted to help, but was forbidden by Karla after the brownie accident. Karla pulled Yuki over to the porch to talk in private.

" So what is it that you wanted to talk to me about Karla?" " Tohru...do you love her, and i want an honest answer" There was a moment of silence between them till yuki took a deep breath and spoke. " Yes...I love her, very much, that if i were to loose her somehow, i'd lose my own soul, she's means that much to me...without her...there's no existence for me" Karla smiled and put a calm hand on his shoulder. " That's what i wanted to know, but if she means that much to you, then why not tell her?" " Cause...i don't want to be a burden to her, especially not with my curse" Karla couldn't help it but smile and giggle alittle, making Yuki confused. " Sorry, but if there's one thing about Tohru that anyone can obviously tell is that she doesn't care about the curse, she doesn't see you as a person who's cursed, she see's you as a person who she cares a lot about, and your no burden to her, i know...she tells me everything, what she doesn't say or show to others she says and shows to me, cauase she knows that she can't hide it from me, she says that i have a face that she can't help but be completely honest about, even if the truth is a burden and...i know the exact feeling when it comes to feeling like a burden when your cursed, but just like with you, i was never a burden to her, though i never saw how i couldn't be, but she made me think of it differently. she said don't think of it as a curse, think of it as a gift that needs to be harnised, think about it, in a way if you didn't have that curse, do you really think you would of been this close to Tohru, cause if you were normal, you'd be living with your parents and brother and then you wouldn't have been able to be so close to Tohru"

Yuki thought for a minute and relized...she was right, he never thought of his curse of being the rat like that, if he didn't have this curse, he'd be living with his parents and brother...he'd probably be going to another school and would of never got a chance to know Tohru and at the end, he doesn't regret being cursed as the rat completely...

(hey i never said he wouldn't regret it at all, he has to have some regret, but atleast he mostly doesn't regret it)

" So Yuki...now that you relize that, remember if you weren't the rat you wouldn't be as strong as you are now and that just leads me to this, before you could go further with your relationship with tohru, i must challenge you to a spare...hand-to-hand martial arts fight, since Tohru is like a sister to me, i must look after her interests and...i like you...your a nice guy, otherwise i wouldn't of bothered asking you to spare, will you take the challenge and prove to me that you want Tohru anad while thinking ahead, maybe even to have her hand in marriage" Yuki smiled and looked at Karla directly in the eye. " Yes...i accept your challenge" Karla gave her game face and smiled. "Excellent, shall we begin?" They head outside for the challenge.

Twenty minute later, as Kamiko and Lore were almost done with breakfast, Tohru noticed that a couple of people were missing from the table and got up to go see. When tohru got to the porch, she saw Yuki and Karla fighting, both of them having a few bruises and scratches on them, but managing to keep going. At that moment everyone else got up and when Hatori saw them sparing, without even thinking, he threw his jacket off and jumped right into the middle of it, just as Karla was about to punch Yuki across the face. Karla had to think quickly or she'll hit Hatori, so she opened her fist, pushed herself up and over Hatori, sending her up a good extra four feet above Hatori, about ready to kick Yuki down, but thought that because Hatori got in the way, it wouldn't be fair so she just angled herself and landed right behind him and tumbled down from there onto her butt. Yuki went over to help her up.

" Looks like you won Yuki" said Karla " No, it wasn't fair, you won" said Yuki " No, seriously, I used Hatori as an advantage, if i would of completed my move, i would of nailed you and that wouldn't of been fair since it was suppose to be just us two fighting, so i say you won" said Karla " No, how about its a tie, since neither one really got the other" said Yuki " That's fine with me" said Karla " And what were you thinking Hatori? jumping into the middle of a fight" said Yuki. Hatori stood up,straightening himself up. " Sorry...i just didn't approve of you two fighting when there was no reason" " Now how would you know if there was a reason or not, for all you know we had a reason" said Karla " And that reason would be?" said Hatori. " None of your buisness" said Yuki. Then Kamiko and Lore came out. " Ok you guys, breakfast is ready, get back inside so we can eat" said Lore. They call came in, but Hatori had asked Karla to stay out for a moment with him after everyone else went on in.

" So..." started Hatori. " So...?" said Karla, " So why were you and Yuki fighting?" Karla smiled at him as she was fixing his collar on his jacket. " I was just testing him, to see if he was good enough for Tohru" " and?" said Hatori. " In my opinion, he's more then just good enough, that's all i'll say" and that's all he needed to hear, to make him smile. " So, you'll be starting school tomorrow, you think you'll be alright?" " I'll be more then alright, remember some of those classmates remember me as " The Prince" and as long as " THe Prince" club isn't there, i'll be just fine" " you sure? cause if you need anything at all, you can come to me" " i'll be just fine Hatori" she smiles as their faces get close and closer till their lips touch. When they seperated, they held hands till they got inside and went onto sit down to eat.

That afternoon, it was time for the Sohma's to head on home. As they were saying their goodbyes, Tohru had a thought. " Oh you, Chase, Ruka and one other family member start school tomorrow, do you two know what your homerooms will be?" " Oh...we got a pretty good idea, or atleast i do" said Karla. She winked at Tohru as they were walking off, waving goodbye to everyone.

The next day in homeroom at school, like usual, Tohru, Yuki, Kyo, Uyo and Hana were talking when the teacher asked them to take their seats. " Ok class, we have two new students here so make them feel welcome, so will the two new students please walk in" as the teacher said that the door slide open and there stood...

CLIFFHANGER! sorry everyone, but i thought that at this time, i'd be perfect to end it here and besides...i don't have any more ideas at this time, so please...review!