Fruits Basket: Cursed Love
Chapter Five (Chapter Seven)
Fruits Basket
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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
As the indigo coloured swirled around it, she gained some sort of weird setting around her, she couldn't even comprehend on what was happening to her, she hated being alone and she hated the fact that Haku was looking at her like that. Kenai just looked at his sister who was looking in awe as the sakura blossoms that hadn't fallen off became a blossoming pink and pure white colour once again.
"Oooh pretty!" She echoed.
Haku walked over to where Kenai and Kison where.
"Hello Haku-chan!" Kenai smiled as he noticed his friend from school. He also noticed how Kison was staring at Haku. "I'll just be over there, Kison, okay?" He said as he went over to his sister and they began kicking the ball to one and another, though Kenai kept a look at Kison and Haku.
"What do you want?" The girl asked in her defence as she looked to the stallion. She wasn't ready to speak to him yet. "I left to get away from all this, to clear my head." Haku shrugged.
"Your mother's worried; I came to make sure you were alright." Haku replied as he sat down beside her without her approval. He just wanted to make sure she was alright; he knew what it was like to find out about a curse. He remembered when he had banged into Suu when they were younger and they both transformed. It seemed her curse made them both transform – even if they were both cursed. Suu was his cousin, his aunt and uncle where Kisa and Hiro Sohma. He could remember that day so clearly:
Suu had just walked out of the room. Her long brownish orange hair was beginning to blow in the wind as she twirled around and started to represent the ballerina that she was. Her large brown eyes staring exactly at him as she waved towards him, he had acted as if Suu was his little sister ever since she was born as he was two years older than him.
"Kohaku-chan." She smiled as she showed him her dying swan act. She was very good, it was only when she tried to get up that she tripped back down so Haku went to help lift her up.
"There you go, Suu." He smiled as she thanked him before trying to move back – though she fell right into him as she tripped over once more and they were both then covered in a thick smoke, it wasn't until that smoke cleared up that they met their second forms… because Suu didn't know about her curse at that time either.
Standing in front of Haku was a baby tiger, and standing in front of Suu was a foal. They screamed and it was Shigure Sohma who had walked out to see them in their animal forms. He had then commented on how cute they were but that only landed him a scratch from Suu and a harsh look from Haku. They demanded to know what was going on. It wasn't logical for them to turn into animals like this.
"Haku, what year was your mother born in?" Shigure had asked him. Haku had to think about it, though it wasn't until he remembered something his father had said.
"Oh, the year of the horse, right?" Then Shigure told about how they were cursed and that his mothers curse had been sent down the generations to him.
"Suu – what about your mother?" Suu just sighed and said.
"I guess the year of the tiger." Shigure asked how she knew and then she stated: "Well I am a tiger aren't I?" It was only then that they transformed back.
He still didn't understand but had to ask his parents, talking to them about it was very hard as he didn't know how he was really to ask about it, it was hard to talk about something so strange yet something so important.
"Is there something weird about me?" He had said the exact same thing as Kison asked him. He looked at her snapping out of his memory.
"Well if there is then there's something wrong with me… and Suu…" He just guessed that she knew about Suu with them being cousins too. He watched as Kison's eyes widened, that was weird, Suu was cursed too and she was never told about it.
"But I didn't know that either." She said as she put her head in her hands. Why was she kept out of so many secrets, she wished that she could just understand.
"No please, don't cry." He said as he placed his hand on her shoulders. Though she then stood up and went over to the little girl who was playing with the ball. She wiped away her tears before asking her what her name was.
"I'm Al Naru." She smiled. "It's nice to meet you." It was then that Naru hugged Kison who hugged her back, it was that, that was all she really wanted – to be hugged and it seemed easier for Naru to hug her as she wouldn't transform or feel weird about it.
Sohma Suu though was a smart girl and knew something was wrong, she knew about Kison's curse and she knew about what was happening with the world that they were in. She knew that Kison would need a friend and she was basically the best friend that Kison had, not that Kison would actually say that. Suu walked over to the door of Kagura's house and knocked on the door as it swung open and Kagura stood in the frame instantly saying – and hoping:
"Kagura… Suu-sama?" She asked as Suu nodded and was aloud in wondering what was wrong with the main inu of the zodiac.