Cursed Love
By KyouXKagura

Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket or any of our well known characters but when it comes to Haku, Suu and Kison I own them and the plot!
Chapter Ten

It was a while since then that Suu began to stay, nearly a week and of course Kohaku had ignored Kison after all that she had said about him. She didn't want to upset him but she couldn't not because he was part of the reason that she wasn't feeling so good about herself. But at least Suu was being nice to her and they were beginning to form a friendship:
"Lets go shopping today, Kison-san!" Suu was hyper again, who knows where she got this quality but it certainly wasn't from her mother. Kison sighed; she wasn't usually the type to go shopping. Most of the time she let Kagura pick out her clothes, yet again, that was always a bad idea seeing everything that her mother came home with. She laughed as she nodded to Suu, finally Kison had become to realise that being with Suu made her happy and that laughing could be contagious just like Kohaku had said once. Wait… why was she thinking of him again? She sighed and looked away, she had to stop that. "Okay, we'll go after dinner!" Suu was really hungry as it was and the tiger loved it when her aunt made her special chicken and egg stir fry as it was really tasty and the she added great flavour to the rice. Yet of course her mother's leek soup was great too!

"Okay then. I think that's a good idea." Kison said, stating the think with as much power as she could. She looked down at what she was wearing, it as an alright outfit, okay for going shopping in as it didn't embarrass her, too much. This was one of her mother's gifts but she could tell that her father helped pick it out! It was a white Chinese outfit with orange strips around the traditional Chinese collar and it was held at the chest by orange Chinese loops. A pair of white Chinese styled trousers made with the same material and white trainers were finally finished off with an orange top tied around her waist in case it got cold. Kison was brushing her hair when she first noticed it… her hair had been growing faster… it was now around her chest, the last time she had paid great attention to her hair it was just past her shoulders… was her new happy attitude causing this? She wasn't really sure but she didn't care as she grabbed a hair accessory – an orange bow – a present from her dad from when she was younger, she tied up her hair into a high ponytail and ran out the door of her bedroom and down to the kitchen, the aroma of her dinner filling the air.

"Smells great, mom!" Kagura smiled at her daughter's response, Kagura was a lot happier too now that her daughter had finally forgiven her for hiding it from her. Kyou had just returned home and was reading the paper in the living room so Kagura would take his dinner through to him. Kison pulled up a chair at the dinning room table and sat down, beside Suu who was banging her fork and knife onto the table chanting: give me food, give me food… and it wasn't long until Kison was joining her. Kagura sighed though, because Kyou always hated sitting down at the table with them. He had no idea why though. Sometimes she wished that he would so they could be like a family. Was there any reason to this… well maybe he hated company, but if Kison could change so much, maybe Kyou could one day too! Soon it wasn't long until they were all eating and Suu was stuffing her face. Yes we are all even more curious why she's so different to her parents…

"I hope you don't mind, but we're going shopping after dinner." Kison finally spoke. Kagura just reminded her daughter of the curfew and that was that. Shopping was a good thing for Kison because she never really got to do that…. With little friends it must have been hard for Kison.

Suu looked at her bag, it was an African styled bag, it was tiger stripped. She was wearing an African looking outfit. She wore a brown top which was tied around the middle and she wore army like trousers which were of a brown and yellow mixture and yellow boots. She was into this style of clothing, like Indiana Jones or The Wild Thornberry's. Soon though Suu had opened the front door and the two girls were waved off by Kagura at the door as they exited.
"I'm really happy that she's going out more." Kagura told Kyou.
"I guess so. Kagura-ai, come here." He said as he extended his arms to his wife who did as he said and sat on his knees. He wrapped his arms around her waist and she cuddled into him, who would have thought that they would have done this when they were younger? No way, they would have just laughed or well Kagura would have just wished that this would have happened, luckily it was reality and she had the perfect family. If only they knew what really happened to Akito, seeing as she disappeared. It was really annoying at times but if only they knew their children were free from her as they knew what Akito was like to them, she may hurt them even worse. Kagura was worried but she wouldn't let Kyou know this because it would upset him because of everything that he was threatened would happen to him.

Kison walked along the street alongside Suu. They weren't talking just being quiet, something they hadn't been in a while and it felt nice to be quiet because she could think, and again she thought about Haku and how nasty she had been to him, if only she had said sorry maybe he might have said hello to her once in a while or started conversation, that would have been nice too.
"Do you how much I've wished we could actually do this." Silence was broken as Suu spoke. Kison shrugged. Was Suu really so desperate to have her as a friend?
"Tell me?"
"Years – since I first met you I wished we could have been friends. I was so shy when we were younger and meeting you made me feel that I had to be outspoken and happy to get your attention and get you to talk and be friends with me. Believe me I shocked everyone when I changed my personality. They wondered about what happened to the quiet tiger – I was so much like my mother. I sometimes am… I sometimes forget that I'm supposed to be happy and be quiet, I like it when I'm alone." Really well there was the explanation that I guess everyone was looking for. So she was much happier because she was always hoping to catch Kison's attention and be her friend. That was kind of sweet Kison had to admit.
"Well we're friends now and we're going out shopping so consider your happy period over." She laughed.
"Well I might be happier, but not so pushed happier!" She laughed as she looked behind her for some reason. Suu saw him there, the horse.
"Well look who's here." Suu smiled.

Kison turned around and saw Haku, she was hoping to see him but not this soon – she pushed herself to say hello:
"Hi." That was all there was for a few seconds because it almost seemed like a staring contest between the two Sohma's. She couldn't understand why but she couldn't stay mad at him any longer, she just couldn't, her heart skipped a beat when these words came out of his mouth so smoothly:
"Hello Kison."