Fruits Basket: Cursed Love

Chapter Four (Chapter Six)

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

No no, it was completely impossible, cursed families… the zodiac… emotional powers – a boy turning into a horse, god she was supposed to believe that? No way was she supposed to be able to believe that as it wasn't a reasonable situation. Kison just sighed as she sat down on a bench with her hands in her lap, her blood red eyes at the dying cherry blossom trees around her.

"Hey what happened?" She heard some children wonder from a little far away from her. Kison turned eyes on them; there was a young girl and two older males. Two males she knew them, they were playing with the football in the school grounds before. "The blossoms are falling off the trees and they look broken." The young girl screamed.
"They're not broken, they're dying." The one male who tried to encourage her to join in the game had told his younger sibling. "Though it's too early for this to happen… way to early." She watched his brown eyes dart over to her, his sentence had dragged off. "Hey, Wallflower!" He remembered what Lorraine had said she was. "That nickname suits you." The dark skinned boy from Nagini High smiled.

"Oh… well I suppose it's better than Kison." She spoke with a weak smile. "Sohma Kison." She introduced herself to the boy.
"Well I'm Al Kenai… Ken." He told her his nickname. She raised an eyebrow gracefully before sighing.
"I think I prefer Kenai." She spoke as she looked to the little girl with the same dark skin as Kenai who was looking over at her brother; it seemed the girl had his ball from earlier.
"Well Wallflower… Kison, are you waiting for anyone? Or can I join you?" Kison patted the bench next to her. It was nice to have company – especially when they were as cheerful as Kenai and his sister. Their emotions were rubbing off on her in a yellow fragrance spray. "Thanks." He smiled cheerfully watching as her face lute up with a smile also.

"I wonder where she thinks she's going." Kagura said worried about her only child. It had just dawned on her how Kison must have been feeling. Rin placed her hand on the woman's shoulder.
"Please, Kagura-san, you mustn't blame yourself or get completely worried over her. She's a teenager and its just hormones which are making her worse." Kyo just sat over in the corner his eyes shooting daggers at Haru, not that Kison wasn't there he had suddenly came over as angry as he was when he had started that fight before.
"Not to mention the fact her emotions are on overdrive." Haku stated adding in another possibility." With the fact that Kagura knew that Kison was going to be going to the cinema with Lorraine that was the last and most probable possibility to her daughter's disappearance. "Give her time; I'm sure she'll come to understand that it's a gift and not really a curse. I know I have." Haku tried to make Kagura understand. This caused Kagura to recall memories of when she knew that being cursed by the boar wasn't a curse but a blessing because otherwise she wouldn't have been able to hug her darling Kyo.

Haku stood up and looked out the door which was still open from when Kison had went out before; he wondered if he should try to find her? If he did it could make things worse but he didn't mind taking that chance because either way he needed to make sure she was alright, he now felt this authority over her and now needed to help her understand. Though he didn't seem to like the fact that this girl could drain him of all his emotions at anytime… yet he also didn't like the fact that he did that to her when she fell into his arms. God that sounded like part of a romance novel, he could have cursed himself at that. He nodded his head and decided that he would go and see if he could find the other Sohma. Now that he had found someone with similarities like him, he wasn't going to give up trying to talk to her, no matter how anti-social she may have been.

She had lied to her mother about Lorraine, to be honest, Kison couldn't stand Lorraine she was a preppy cheerleader who was very inconsistent about everything and argued her defence – especially when she was wrong. She guessed that Lorraine even probably knew that she was wrong all along.

"So… Kison-san..." Kenai guessed it was alright to give her a suffix now that they were friends. "This morning at school, the ball… I'm sorry that I tried to get you to do something you didn't want to do." Kenai seemed really sincere with that apology that it somehow made her feel guilty too – she really should have tried to become more social… though she wouldn't have saw Haku and then she may have never been told about these powers.
"No, you were being kind, which was nothing to be sorry about… I guess I really should have joined in. I'm rather dandy with a football." She admitted from the times that she kicked a ball around with Kyo when she was younger. He always saw her as the apple of his eye. She just wished that she had spent more time with him – he always seemed to be away at times, she wished he wasn't… but then he seemed to be as anti-social as she was. Maybe that might have seemed bad but her father was his own person and if he chose to life his life that when who was she to say otherwise?

Kison looked away from Kenai for a second to see a silhouette of a man in the background of the park, covered in shadows but she could recognise him immediately, was Haku spying on her? She didn't like this – she didn't like this at all… his greyish green eyes seemed to be set to rest on her… and it was unnerving and was making her tense… she felt a feeling of difference in her tenseness and could feel the oozing feeling of the dark indigo colour of aura around her.