Chapter Three: The New Arrival

Author's Note: GOMEN NASAI! I'm soo sorry for not updating forever. I made this chappie alittle long to make up for it. THANK YOU GUYS SOOO MUCH FOR THE AWESOME REVIEWS! XD Please continue reading and writing. Now that I'm on summer vacation, I'll be able to update more quicker now! Good news, eh? Throws Confetti

KK, I promised you Kyou, so here is Kyou! Ready set, DROOL! XD

Disclaimer: I do now own Fruits Basket

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"NICE GOING, MITSUKI! Now we'll never get it down!"

"I'm sorry, nii-chan.".

As a small boy yelled at the little pig-tailed girl, the girl started crying. How on earth would they ever get their ball from the top of the tree, they thought.

CRACK

The boy and girl quickly looks to the direction of the sound. There in front of then stood a some-what tall boy who looked no older than 16. He had bright orange hair and sharp bangs with dark crimson eyes. The young girl blushed as her brother had a terrified look. The strange newcomer stared down at them. The siblings gulped in fear.

"Do you know the way to Edo?" He said with a cool, chilling voice. The sibling gulped once more and rose tremblings arms that pointed to the direction in front of them. The boy smirked and started walked off torward the direction, the children quickly stood in the sidelines.

"PFT.. What a showoff.." The brother muttered, his little sister standing beside him cuddling her doll and blushing madly.

The boy quickly haulted and clutched a sword that hung from his side. The brother stiffened quickly with sweat deliriously falling down his face. With a smirk and one swift move of his sword, the orange-haired boy sliced down the tree.

"GAH!" The brother yelled. His sister just stared up at the falling tree and froze.

BAM!

The siblings had their eyes tightly shut. Luckily, the tree fell a inch away from them. The brother whimepered in fear, the sister looking as the orange-haired boy walked out of sight.

"Just shoot me already, will ya sis?" muttered the little boy. Just then, the ball that was once stuck in the tree fell from the sky and landed right in the sister's hands.

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"Look at that handsome man over there!"

"Is he from around here?"

"Mom, I wet myself. "

"He is so hot!"

The village was in uproar as the orange-haired boy walked down the middle of the marketsquare path. Girls and mothers formed a group and gazed at him from afar. The orange-haired boy's face dropped as he tried to hide from any eye-contact while still keeping his image.

"Oh my god, such a sexy body! I MUST draw you!"

The boy gulped and quickly jolted into the red light district. The girls and mothers sighed.

The orange-haired boy walked through the path, not showing any intrest in any of the girls behind the windows whatsoever.

"Disgusting world this is coming too." he sighed, closing his eyes. When he opened them, his eyes widened and he haulted. His eyes gazed behind one of the building's windows. There sat a girl on her knees. She had long, shiny brown hair with two blue hairpins holding a strand behind one of her ears. Her eyes large and brown and filled with what seemed like monotone saddness. He studied this girl for a while, until the girl looked up at him. Her eyes quickly regained feeling again as he started into his. The boy gave her a look that made her whole body freeze, then continued walking without a word.

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"Who is that boy?" Tohru thought to herself blushing, Her whole body was frozen stiff. Her face saddened as she continued to stare out the window to the empty land.

"Ah.. It must feel nice to be able to walk in the outdoors, huh my little Tohru?" a icy voice breathed into Tohru's ear and made her shudder. A long, thin arm slowly crept on her shoulder and a thin, nicely manicured hand was touching the bars of the windows, digging into the deep wood with it's nails.

"T-The outdoors are for the free birds that can spread their wings and fly freely out of the cage. I, for one, am a corwardly bird, who's wings are stiff and am bounded by the cage, living only to serve my master.." Tohru calmly spoke in a quenched voice. Akito slowly crept her head onto Tohru's shoulder, snickering.

"Very good, my delicate bird." she calmly whispered into Tohru's ear. She wrapped her arms around Tohru slowly, clutching into her arms. "But for today, you may spread your wings and fly from the cage.."

Tohru's eyes widened as she quickly turned to Akito, who was smirking at her. She was completely spechless.

"Y-You mean it, M-Madam Akito?" Tohru stuttered, a surprised expression still on her face. Akito smirked again.

"Don't get too excited. It's only until the sun goes down, and besides, you must be grieving losing your virginity to a man whom you've never met, and I right?" Akito started cackling loudly, a huge grin on her face. Tohru's eyes started to form tears and she quickly ran out of the house, leaving Akito to cackle by herself.

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"Hari-kun, let's go get something to eat! Please? Please?". A teenager boy with blond hair and beautiful brown eyes excitedly jumped around Hatori, causing many girls to look over to him and blush madly. Hatori grunted, trying his all to keep a serious face on.

"Momiji, please keep it down, I'm on duty and trying to keep a steady impression." Hatori said calmly, walking down the marketplace path, examining the area. Momiji's face dropped and he pouted. "Awww... Your no fun, Hari-kun!". He continued to groan and complain until somthing made him stop and blush.

"H-Hari-kun.. w-who's that?" Momiji tugged onto Hatori's robe, pointing forward. Hatori looked at the direction and gasped quietly. Tohru was walking down the path, tears falling from her face. Leaving no mind to Momiji, he quickly ran to her. Momiji just stared and blinked, then cheerfully followed.

Tohru sniffed once and wiped her tears with the sleeve of her kimono. She gazed up and gasped as Hatori ran torward her. A look of deep dissapointment appeared of her face. ((Y-You didn't bother to.. You didn't even bother to..))

Hatori huffed and finally haulted infront of Tohru. His face dropped as he saw the dissapointment of her face. "T-Tohru.. I-I'm sorry...I-"

"WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME!"

Hatori gasped, shoppers looked over at her(Then returned to their buisness). Tears started flowing down Tohru's face again as she began to speak bitterly to him. "Y-You didn't bother to tell me! Why did you let me go on with it? Do you know the pain I went through last night!"

Hatori just stood their and stared.

"YOUR SUPPOSED TO BE PROTECTING THE PEOPLE OF THIS VILLAGE! HOW CAN YOU JUST LET ME GO THROUGH THAT KIND OF TOURTURE!" she continued shouting, sobbing between sentences. She was about to continue until a pair of powerful hands clutched onto her shoulders. Tohru gasped and her eyes widened in shock to see Hatori glaring at her.

"I-I didn't want to tell you.. because you wanted it so badly. I didn't want to dissapoint you, Tohru." Hatori said coldly to her, clutching deeper into her shoulders. "YOU BROUGHT THIS ON YOUSELF, SO DON'T YOU DARE BLAME ME FOR THIS, DAMNIT!". Hatori shouted in a unbelievably angered voice.

With that, all the area around them became silent. Tohru stood there shocked, whimpering. Hatori's mind clicked and a shocked look appeared on his face. His grip on her shoulders loosened, his body trembling. A moment which seemed like eternity of akward silence started.

"Hi you two! Hari-kun, I want Tohru to show me around the village, k?" Momiji popped in between them with a cheerful grin. Tohru broke out of her trance and looked over at Momiji with confusion. Momiji smiled at her, then dragged Tohru away into the now active crowd.

Hatori just stood where he was, not having moved since Momiji popped in. He started to tremble and looked down at his hands. Then, with the thought of him shouting at Tohru, he started to silently weep.

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"Umm... excuse me... but w-who are you?" Tohru asked Momiji, who was now tugging her as he ran through the marketplace. Momiji quickly haluted and turned around torward her. He grinned widely.

"Oh! I'm sorry! Hi, I'm Momiji Sohma, Hari-kun's cousin. I just moved here for the summer from the north. You must be Tohru, right?" Momiji excitedly approached her. Tohru blinked, then smiled while nodding, "Pleased to meet you, Momiji-kun. ". Her face dropped abit with the sound of Hatori's name.

(("YOU BROUGHT THIS ON YOUSELF"))

"Tohru, please don't be mad at Hari.." Momiji muttered sadly, staring at the ground. Tohru blinked and looked up at him with a sad face.

"H-He's a very kind person, and he tried his hardest to make all the people he cares about very happy. His wife, Kana, was killed in a massacre, so he's very serious because he grives over not being able to protect her. But deep down, he's a very gentle guy that puts other's lifes before his own. So please.. for him.. don't be mad..". Momiji started forming tears.

Tohru's face was then filled with both grief and guilt. She shouldn't have yelled at him.. he didn't deserve it at all, not after all the hell he had been through.

"Y-Your right... I'm won't be mad at him." Tohru looked up at Momiji with a warm smile. Momiji grinned widely.

"L-Let's go so I can apoligize." Tohru gently grabbed Momiji's hand and started to drag him torward where they came from.

"Ok, but first.." Momiji grinned widely and took a apple from a nearby stand and bit into it. Tohru looked over at him and gasped.

"M-MOMIJI-KUN! Y-You can't do that!" Tohru squeaked.

"HEY!"

Tohru and Momiji looked up to see a tall tough looking man with sharp green hair wrapped in a ponytail with a white headband. The man looked down at them with disgust and anger.

"I hope you planning on paying for that, blondie.." the man said coldly, slowly clenching his fist. He lowered down until he was eye-to-eye with Momiji. Momiji just blinked.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I don't have any money, so I won't be paying you today. Hey, has anyone ever told you that with your hair up you look like a girl? " Momiji replied with a huge grin on his face. Tohru stared at him with disbelief. The stall owner grinnted him teeth and rose a fist.

"LOOKS WHO'S TALKING YOU BLOND-HAIRED PIECE OF-"

"PLEASE STOP!"

The stall owner quickly haluted his fist and looked down with a rageful glare. Tohru had stepped in front of Momiji, spreading her arms to her sides, protecting him from the blow. "P-Please don't hit him..." Tohru whimpered. The owner just snarled and grabbed Tohru's wrist.

"And I suppose you'll be paying for him?" He shouted angrily at Tohru. Tohru looked up in horror, feeling sweat fall from her face. She gulped.

"I-umm.. I-I d-d-don't h-have a-any m-m-money.." she stuttered, now filled completely with fear. The store owner rose his hand and was about to slap her with all his might. Tohru gasped and closed her eyes tightly.

"DAMNIT, QUIT STUTTERING YOU-!"

BAM

Tohru slowly opened her eyes, surprised that she felt no pain. She looked up and gasped. The orange-haired boy was standing in front of her, glaring and jamming his sword's handle into the stall owners stomach(and I don't mean killing him, just hitting him with it really hard). Tohru just stood there in shock.

"Men shouldn't be hitting women, you lowlife!" the boy snarled and rammed the handle onto the keeper's stomach even harder. The stall owner spit out a little blood, and glared down at the orange-haired boy. With little strength, he managed to speak. "W-Who are you?". He spit out blood again.

The orange-haired boy smirked and grabbed Tohru, wrapping his arm around her. Tohru blushed madly. Momiji just stood in the background with a wide grin.

"My name is Kyo Sohma.. and I'm this girl's protector.".

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Author's Note: Finally Kyo makes the scene! I hope you all enjoyed this chapter, cause more will be up very soon. Trust me, this story will be a tearjerker. TTTT Please read and review! Thank you!