(A/N: this is my first Fruits Basket story, so go easy on me! Enjoy! swn)
"Hurry!" A young girl whispered harshly to her twin sister. They ran quickly through the deep forest. "He's going to get us!" She whispered again. It wasn't in her nature to be so un-calm.
"I'm coming! Ebbie, they're coming!" One sister hissed, worry written on her face.
"I know!" Ebony whispered harshly, no way to treat her sister in the predicament they were in. "Ari, we're going to have to…" Ebony said, jerking her head back to look at her sister, her black hair falling in her face.
"Ebbie, should we? Can we?" Arianna exclaimed, quickly looking back behind her. She gulped and then turned back to her sister.
"We have to, unless you have another idea." Ebony said and put her hands up in question.
"Fine, but let's hurry." Arianna said and looked behind her. Lights were flashing and she glared in the direction of them. 'There is no way in hell that I'm going back to that place.'
"I'm going." Ebony said and relaxed her shoulders. She exhaled and put her hands on the tree in front of them. "Put you're hand on my shoulder." She commanded softly to her sister.
She felt a hand on her shoulder and she inhaled and what the sisters could do, happened.
A few hours later the sisters were running through the thick forests once more. Branches smacking them in the face and wind whipping there arms and legs. Their breath was labored and they were very hungry and tired. Arianna's stomach lurched.
"Do you even know where we are?" Arianna breathed heavily as she pumped her arms faster and faster.
"Japan…" Ebony breathed.
"I knew that, but do you know where?" She asked irritated.
"I don't know!" Ebony hissed. "I couldn't check the last time we were there!" Ebony snapped and continued to run as fast as her legs could carry her.
"Sorry!" Arianna said and rolled her eyes. It was really dark, and Arianna liked it. "It's nice and dark." Arianna said, smiled and through her arms up in the air in praise.
"You'd think it'd be the other way around…" Ebony said monotonously.
"It can't get any worse." Arianna said happily as they continued to walk fast. Suddenly, thunder crashed in the sky and a streak of lightning illuminated the sky.
"You just had to say something, didn't you?" Ebony asked her eye twitching as they continued to move in the dark, dank and now, wet forest.
The next thing Arianna knew she was laying next to Ebony and they were inside a hollow tree. She stretched and flipped her white-blonde hair. She peeked her head out from the rooting tree and looked around. Arianna's blue eyes examined the landscape and then she could have sworn she saw someone walking.
"Ebbie." She whispered, shaking her sister. "Ebbie!" She hissed, her short-tempered self getting too easily annoyed.
"Huh?" Ebony asked, sitting up. 'She is way too easy to get up…' Arianna thought but put a finger to her lips.
"I thought I saw someone." She whispered. Ebony's green eyes peered into the deep forest.
"Let me check." Ebony whispered. She placed her hand on the ground and closed her eyes. "Yup, there is someone, up ahead."
"Wait-" Arianna started, she cocked her head to the side. "Do you hear that?"
"Hear what?" Ebony whispered.
"'Tohru, wait up!'" Arianna repeated what she heard. "They aren't them, are they?" Arianna asked, very worried.
"No, they aren't." Ebony smirked. 'Thank God.'
"Well, should we go?" Arianna asked; she always went to Ebony for answers. That's what they were like.
Ebony cast her sister a sideways glance. "Why not?"
Ebony and Arianna crept quietly through the woods. Ebony's face set in a monotonous line. Arianna's was in a scowl. 'The next time I see those bastard's I'm going to punch them so hard they won't even know what damn Yankee hit them.' Arianna thought angrily.
"Yuki, did you see that?" A high voice squeaked.
'Shit.' Ebony thought and scowled. This was not what she needed right now.
"Yes, I thought I saw something too." A male voice said. Arianna closed her eyes and waited. It was coming, she knew it, she was just waiting for the time that it would come.
"Oh!"
Arianna cracked open her eye. "Um, who are you?" A boy with violet eyes and silver-purple hair asked.
"Ebony and Arianna Wilson. I'm Ebony." Ebony said and got up. Arianna was speechless. Was Ebony giving up that easily?
"Oh, I'm Tohru Honda!" A girl with brown hair and brown eyes said and bowed politely. She had a short mini skirt on and knee highs.
"And I'm Yuki Sohma." The silver haired boy said and bowed.
"This is Arianna, she is my twin sister." Ebony said and pointed to Arianna.
"Oh, you don't look like twins." Tohru said and cocked her head to the side.
"We know." The sister's said together.
Tohru giggled and Yuki smiled. "Well, you look like you've been in the wood's for days! Please come back to my house, I would feel better if you got some clean clothes." Yuki said politely.
"That's 'cause we have." Arianna muttered.
"I'm sorry?" Yuki asked.
"Nothing." Arianna said quickly.
They soon came across a house in the middle of the forest. "Well would ya look at this!" Arianna said and put her hands on her hips.
"It's nice." Ebony said sweetly.
"Thank you, it's my cousin's. Oh, and if we see him, please ignore everything he says." Yuki said and shook his head.
"Fine, I will." Arianna said.
Tohru giggled and then shook her head. "Don't listen to him, Shigure is nice! Oh, I almost forgot how old are you?"
"15." Arianna and Ebony said together.
"Really? So are we!" Tohru said and hugged Arianna.
"Um, please GET OFF!" Arianna yelled.
"Ari…" Ebony said and shook her head. "Sorry, excuse her, she has a bad temper." Ebony said and smiled weakly.
"Oh, that's okay, it sounds like that stupid cat." Yuki muttered the last part.
"Excuse me?" Ebony asked.
"Oh, nothing…" Yuki smiled.
"YUKI, WHERE WERE YOU, YOU DAMN RAT! I WAS LOOKING ALL OVER FOR YOU AND-" An orange haired boy yelled.
"Wow!" Arianna yelled. Everyone turned to look at her. "You guys have a living carrot! Japan flippin' rocks!" Arianna yelled and fell on the ground laughing.
"ugh, Ari…" Ebony sighed and held her head.
"Who the hell are you?" the orange haired boy asked, his eye twitching
"Oh, haha, sorry, I'm Arianna Wilson."
"And you?" The orange haired kid asked, casting a look at Ebony.
"Isn't it polite to say your own name first, Grumpy?" Ebony asked and cocked an eyebrow.
He grumbled and crossed his arms over his chest. "Kyo Sohma."
"There are a lot of Sohma's aren't there?" Ebony asked.
"You have no idea." Yuki said looking at the ground.
"Ebony Wilson, that is my rude twin sister over there." Ebony said pointing to Arianna.
"I'm just speaking my mind Ebbie." Arianna flashed a cocky smile.
"Yuki, why is everyone yelling?" A tall, black haired man appeared in the doorway wearing a kimono.
"Who are you?" Arianna asked rudely.
"Why, I'm Shigure Sohma." Shigure said proudly. "And who are you?" He asked politely.
"Arianna and Ebony Wilson." Arianna said as a-matter-of-factly.
"Hm, from the United States huh?" Shigure asked.
Ebony looked at the ground. "Who wants to know!" Arianna shouted.
"Um, I did?" Shigure asked meekly.
"Oh, well, yeah." Arianna said.
"Oh, and where are your parents, you look like a mess?" Shigure said leaning on the doorpost.
Arianna looked at the ground. Ebony looked up and smiled. "We don't have any." She said and shrugged.
"Oh." He said simply.
"I'm sorry." Yuki said.
"It's okay. We're better off." Ebony said quietly.
"If it makes you feel better, I don't have a family either. I live here with the Sohma's." Tohru said and put a hand on Arianna's shoulder.
"Where are you guys staying?" Kyo said, coming into the conversation.
Arianna looked at Ebony. Ebony nodded her head solemnly. "The woods."
"I KNEW IT!" Tohru said, and then quickly shut her mouth, her eyes wide. "I'm sorry, I'm so, so sorry!" She said, embarrassed.
"It's fine." Ebony said.
Yuki cast a glance at Shigure. "Well girls, you could stay with us if you needed. We can put two other beds in Tohru's room." Shigure offered. Coming down off to the ground.
"We don't need your help!" Arianna shouted and ran off into the woods. Ebony glanced down at the ground.
"Aren't you going to go and get her?" Yuki asked.
"Don't worry. She can't go far." Ebony said. "And Shigure, it wouldn't be right for us to stay here. We don't have any money to pay you." Ebony said. "All Ari and I have are the clothes on our backs and a few US dollars."
"Nonsense. You can stay here. How good of a cook are you?" Shigure smiled.
"I'm not, but Ari is. She can make anything. I'm pretty good at gardening." Ebony said quietly.
"You are?" Yuki asked.
"Well, if you garden with Yuki, and if Arianna cooks, you girls can earn your keep." Shigure said.
Ebony smiled. "Thank you so much Shigure." Ebony smiled.
Suddenly Arianna came trudging out of the forest. New dirt and mud covered her entire body. She had a look of rage on her. "EBONY!" She shrieked.
"What?" Ebony asked innocently.
"Oh, you!" She yelled. Ebony shot her a look and Arianna's eye twitched. "You're cruel."
"What happened to you?" Tohru asked, and quickly went over to Arianna.
Arianna's eye twitched and her fists were clenched. "I fell- into a big- mud puddle, and it got me covered." Arianna said through grit teeth.
Ebony smirked in delight. "Come on, let's go." Arianna said.
"Ari, we're staying here. You cook meals, and then we can stay." Ebony said.
"Fine! But I'm not cooking leeks." Arianna said.
"Fine with me!" Kyo shouted and smiled slightly.
"Tohru, why don't you go and tell the girls where the bathroom is and get them some clean clothes." Shigure said.
"Sure!" Tohru smiled and lead the girls in the house and up the stairs.
Once the girls were out of range for hearing, Yuki went up to Shigure. "Do you really think that is a good idea that we have them here?"
"I don't know, but I'll find out tomorrow. Right now, I'm going to call your school and see if Ebony and Arianna could join."
"But I thought they said they didn't have any money?" Kyo said and looked at Shigure.
Shigure put a hand to his lips and said, "What they don't know won't hurt them. We could foot the bill for a while…" He smiled slightly then went into the house to make the phone call.
(A/N: Ok! There is the first chapter! How do you like it? Well at the end incase you didn't realize, Shigure is going to pay for them to go to school… and I think that is nice, so yea… I'm the author so that was kinda stupid… lol well anyway review!