Title: Join Me In Death
Author: KyouXKagura
Summery: Verity Sohma returns to Kawaia after being in the US for 5 years and comes back with Blade. Verity happens to be Kagura Sohma's sister and she is about to find out about the curse. Whilst things start to heat up between Verity and Blade, a tragic accident happens and by watching Verity's pains and depression, Kagura learns the truth about love. Eventually a KyoXKagura love story - though seen through the Verity's story.
Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket or H.I.M as there will be many references to the songs in here, though just small quotations, I do own Blade and Verity, please don't sue me.


Chapter Three

Nineteen years old, the young woman looked down to her outfit, she had just gotten dressed, it didn't matter what age Kagura was, and she still enjoyed wearing cute outfits, even if it wasn't that style at that time. Her upper body at that time was covered in a white shirt and a pink sleeveless top over that. She wore a green skirt which had a pink belt, which was shaped especially like a school tie. She wore baggy pale yellow stockings and green shoes; she had her orange cat bag draped around her shoulder. Her hair was still all over the place, just like the last time she had a haircut but the woman also had various strands of her hair curled – her grey orbs peered straight ahead, she nodded – yep, she was ready, and she looked perfect too. She was standing outside Shigure's house and she was going to see her Kyo.

"Kyo!" Kagura smiled largely as she entered the house hearing a bang doing so. Kagura's eyes widened, all that she could think of was 'what if Kyo's hurt!' so she ran through the paper door, much to Shigure's demise. She looked frantically around, no Kyo, so she looked towards Shigure and begged, she begged to know where her darling fiancée was. Yet Shigure just smiled and pointed to the roof, the roof – of course! Kagura's face faulted though, she hated high places, and she couldn't face herself going up there in case she slipped.

There was a time before then that she had went up to a roof, she was going to see her father, their father, Verity and hers, he was putting the Christmas decorations up, the lights were so pretty, though her eyes were mostly on the Santa Claus décor, the decoration that her dad said was hers, Verity had the reindeers which were pulling the sleigh, though when her eyes looked down to the ground, off the roof, where she saw Verity and her mother, they were making a snowman, yeah it had snowed so much that week, it was also one of the most coldest weeks that she could remember. Verity was smiling as she added the carrot nose.
"Come on, Kagura!" Her father smiled with his arms wide, the sleigh was a real sleigh, so he was going to put her in it so she could pretend to be Santa's little helper. So step by step, slowly she walked closer, closer, and closer still… yet her father seemed almost too far away so she started to take quicker steps – that was a big mistake though, she stepped on some of the melting ice and she started to fall sideways, she remembered a scream, or two, and then a cold sensation and a large snapping sound which also followed with a lot of pain, she had broken her leg – and a few days before Christmas.

She had never even thought about going up on a roof after that day, it was too sore to remember, she always saw blood, from the wound in her head which she had to get stitches in, luckily that never led to any permanent damage – though one heck of a headache. That was also the start of their parents' fallout, the reason why they started to argue, because he never did anything to catch Kagura – yet it all happened so fast. Kagura gulped as she shook her head and turned towards Shigure as she sat down and decided to let Kyo come down to see her in his own time – at least that Tohru Honda wasn't up there with him. At least that, Kagura had to be happy for… but it wasn't the least of her problems, she couldn't help but want to cry because Kyo didn't want tot see her; he never wanted to see her did he.
"Was he down before I called him?" The boar of the zodiac asked her eyes downcast and her lips trembling. Shigure would lie; he didn't want to see her like this. She cared too much for Kyo, even if she did know that she couldn't heal him...
"No Kagura, he was up there before you came." Shigure stated. LIER! She thought as she knew that he wasn't as she looked towards the roof and he wasn't there.
"Oh, okay." She said as she had to hold back even more tears.

It took her a minute to realise what was going on, Kagura was nearly in tears and of course a sister could tell that: Verity was standing by the broken door:
"Kagura-nee?" She asked almost instantly towards her older sister. The black and white haired female was standing in the way of Blade; maybe she didn't want him to see Kagura in such a state. Verity shocked Kagura as she looked up to her, her tears escaping. "What are you doing here?" Both asked at the same time as they looked to each other with the same expression now. Shigure stood up and walked towards Verity looking at her with squinted eyes looking her up and down before looking back up at her with a smirk:
"Verity Sohma – look at how you have grown!" Verity's eyes twitched as she had a sudden urge to slap him… "What a pretty young lady." That's it… she had to turn his attention away from her – and hers away from his.
"Shigure-chan, Kagura-nee… this is Blade-kun!" She said slightly moving to the left letting Blade get through the door. Blade bowed as he looked to them.
"Konichiwa." He welcomed with a strange smile of sorts as he placed his arm around Verity and looked towards Kagura. "She's your big sister… are you sure of that?"