Fruits Basket: Cursed Love

Chapter Three (Chapter Five)

Fruits Basket
©
Originally By: Natsuki Takaya
(Hakusensha)
"Hana to Yume"
Planning Of The Anime By: TV Tokyo, ASATSU – DK STUDIO DEEN, Fruba Project

Reversioned By: FUNimation Productions

Kagura and Kyou raced outside and to where the scream was heard.
"Kison, honey? Where are you?" Kyou was the one who pointed upwards towards the tree where Kison was holding onto the trunk as she balanced well on one of the thicker branches. She was shaking. "What's wrong?" Kison shook her head and pointed wearily in the corner where a black stallion was standing sweat dropping.
"I have the feeling she overreacted." Haku confessed as Kison dropped onto all fours from the tree above.

"Overreacted, it felt like all my emotions were being drained away – didn't you see all the perfume-like scents floating around?" Kison's eyes glared anger towards the black horse. "And you, what happened to you? You're a… you're a horse?" She asked realising before turning to her mother. "Mother, what's going on?" Kagura tried to place her hand around her daughters' wrist but the orange haired teen pulled away hastily. "Mother, why don't you just tell me?" She truly was her father's child.

"Okay a lot of explaining to do, but lets just get you away from him before he…" Too late, Haku had been surrounded by a puff of smoke. "Cover your eyes."
"Why?" Kison asked disobeying as curiosity got the better of her. As the smoke cleared she found out why and shrieked covering her eyes.

"I wouldn't mind being told – her part in the story – father." Haku said to Haru as he reached for his clothing. After quickly redressing the adults lead the two children to the living room where Kison sat beside her father and the rest sat on the larger couch with Haku on the armrest. Kison found it hard to look Haku in the eye for now.

"Anytime, mom." Kison told Kagura as Kagura sighed, she had hoped that this wouldn't have to be told to her daughter so soon.
"Our family has been cursed by the Chinese zodiac for generations. We had it; I was by the boar and your father the cat." Kyou winched at Kison's next question: there was no cat in the zodiac, only the old fable. Kison was told about Kyou's part. "It seems this generation had one strange difference. With you been born from me and your father, who was the cat, and then you were cursed yourself. But you had nothing to do with the animals." Kison was already confused but Haku seemed to be following it. "Haku is by the year of the horse – his mother's sign from the last generation." Kagura decided to tell Kison about the boy she had earlier transformed.

"But about me?" Kison asked. It was Rin who decided to answer this.
"Well you're cursed by the cat and the boar; these cancelled each other out because the cat isn't a zodiac – so you were given a special attribute for some reason. You found out today when you calmed down Haru-ai and Kyou-kun." Rin nodded and Kison responded:
"My ability to make others have the same emotions that I'm feeling?" She asked. This could be the reason why she was able to calm down her father; she was feeling calm and was desperate to get them to calm down. Also when she found contact with Haku she felt drained of her emotions and they filled the air… she felt void and that was until she awoke from her statue state to find Haku a horse.
"I think… I think I understand…" Kison said emphasising the 'I think' part. Kison realised that she was wearing the same clothes from earlier and found that a good excuse getting away from the families. "I'm going to get changed." She replied quickly before running up the stairs leaving a trail of dust behind her.
"Anti-social, like you – huh, Kyou?" Haru asked smirking.
"Just cut it out, Haru!" Kagura and Rin shouted at the Sohma male.

"This can't be right; I know that I have this strange power… I always have, but then again, this Haku boy can change into a horse, it feels almost like a dream." Kison said pulling her t-shirt over her head and looking at the mirror trying to understand what was so different between her and some of the other girls at school, sure she wasn't pretty but she was average looking, so there wasn't anything about her appearance. She pulled a green and white long sleeved top over her head and dropped her bottom clothing before pulling up a dark green mini-skirt and placing a dark green belt with three love hearts on, this hung off her hips. Her shoes were now replaced by black leather boots and she also wore black leather gloves with Kison in green at the side. She was meant to be going out today. She decided the only way to get out was by climbing out the window so she did just that and jumped to the same tree.

Haku looked towards his mother and father.
"Why didn't you tell me that I wasn't the only cursed member of this family? You made it seem like Kison-san never even existed. Or her parents - You said that they weren't alive any more." Kyou felt like saying, at that time it felt better if I was dead. But then he had met Kagura once more and felt something there that was long gone – love and compassion, he had fell for her and her charms like she had done him long ago.
"We were worried, you two were never to meet in case you hugged or banged into each other, like today." Haru said – back in white mode.
"Well you don't have to worry about that?" Haku said looking out the window.
"Why?" It was Kyou and Kagura who spoke at the same time.
"I've upset her so much that she's running away." Haku said pointing at the girl who was running out the garden.