Disclaimer: I don't own Furuba (Fruits Basket)

Title: Meant to be

PoV: Yuki

Category: General/touch of angst

Author's note: Woo, that last one sure was creepy. " But, this one is more uplifting, I think.

Meant to be

I've lived in darkness almost all of my life. Sometimes it was in a small room and all the time, in my heart.

I should be grateful they said; grateful I had such protection from those would mar –their perfection.

I've lived my life in constant fear and doubt. Even when I was sent to live outside of the room, I was always so –unsure- of things.

Where did I belong? What was my purpose? They answered my questioning. They told me I –lived- for 'God'.

I was to –live- for the one that confined me in constant darkness. Naturally, I believed them. For who else knew better than the ones who had 'raised' me? Turns out I was wrong…and it scared me like nothing else.

To go from blackened darkness to a shade of gray…from the outside in; so gray became my color, like the color of my hair.

Then, a ray of light pushed the entire grayness of my heart out.

Honda-san…she taught me that it was okay to be afraid. She taught me to step outside of my fear and become a better person.

Little by little, I became the person I was meant to bed. Not the child swathed in lonely darkness, hidden from the world. Not the grayed teenager that I had become. But most importantly, not 'God's' imaged of me.

I am who I was meant to be.