Disclaimer: I do not own Fruits Basket, woooooooo! -.-' Eh heh heh

Rawr. Don't eat me. I got two progress reports. One for science because I had missed two homework assignments and the other for math cuz I stink at it. Yup. And then my parents got mad and went ka blooie in my face and now I have to do an extra credit thing for science, not like I'll need it. All I need to do is get everything else perfect to get my grade back up. I do all my science is study hall and I still get everything perfect. I don't study, either. Ha. Studying is for idiots. -laughs- I'm an idiot in math. But you can't study for that... I'm in vector math and it's killing me softly. History is boring, too. I was sleeping when we were supposed to be copying notes cuz I had already finished them, and then the annoying student teacher asked me a question. It's prolly cuz I was snoring... I have an annoying, head-hurting case of sinus drainage right now. I answered right, anyway... -.-' Owwwwwwww, my head hurts. Then again, the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny by the Lemon Demon (which I do not own) doesn't exactly help. Ha ha, I'll stop talking now. Reeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad as I figure out why Mr. Rogers was the champion of the Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny... O.o weird...

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I woke up to the early sun in my eyes. Groaning happily, I rolled over, only to be tugged on by wires that connected to probes that stuck to my chest… What was the meaning of this? Oh yeah… I was in the hospital. Wait a minute… WORK!

"Oh my God!" I screeched, buzzing the nurse button so many times that I just might have broken it, falling out of bed in the process. Thank kami I was allowed to wear underwear under the hospital gown… Immediately, a young woman clothed in an all white dress rushed in, panicking.

"Oh my, are you alright!?!" She asked, checking all the monitors. I watched her as she did from the ground, getting the weird feeling that I had with Hatori. Her orange-blonde hair swayed as her golden-brown eyes dashed from one thing to another.

"I kinda need Hatori-sama to unhook me. He said I was free to go in the morning, but I think I'm going to be late for work." Is said kindly, hoping the familiar-looking nurse would get Hatori.

"Of course, onee-chan." She said, turning away to rush out, but then, she noticed what she had done and covered her mouth with a little peep.

"WHAT!?! I HAVE A SISTER!?!" I screamed, the wires popping off of me that hadn't already as I jumped up in surprise.

"No, Tohru-chan, my mistake. You look a lot like my childhood sisterly figure. I'm sorry…" She apologized, and then hurried out. As she did, my lips moved involuntarily.

"Arigatou, Kisa-chan!" The girl spun around, staring at me in awe. I stared back, equally frightened. How did I know all these people's names all of a sudden!?!

"How did you know my name, Tohru-chan?" She asked, staring holes into my head. I began to sweat. I didn't know how, and having no explanation would make me seem like some freak or stalker.

"Erm… nametag?" I said, but looked down at Kisa's shirt where it normally would be. There was nothing there. Darn.

"I'm not wearing a nametag." She stated, and I sweat dropped, laughing nervously. She, too, laughed. "You're kinda silly, Tohru." She said, smiling.

"Well, it was worth a shot. I guess it's just a déjà vu moment here. Gomen." Kisa nodded and scurried out of the room. Not a minute later Hatori came back carrying a clipboard.

"You'll be free to go as soon you're disconnected." He looked up and saw me with all the wires off and hanging behind me. "Never mind. Just take off the probes and change. The gown goes in the trash."

"Ok!" I said, rushing into the bathroom on the side of the room. Soon, I was changed into a red Chinese button up collared sleeveless shirt with a white pleated mini skirt, black knee-length boots, and red stockings going up to mid-thigh.

Then, I ran out of the hospital and to the street. I didn't know where I was! Oh no, how was I going to get to my job!?! I couldn't leave those poor little kids not knowing their new teacher, and I sure couldn't leave poor little antisocial Nyoko there with someone she didn't feel comfortable with!

"Oh no… no, no, no!" I said, pacing around in a panic. Suddenly, I heard the spinning hospital doors I had run out of a few seconds ago rotated. Soft footsteps came up behind me and a hand tapped my shoulder. When I turned toward the person, I saw it was Kisa.

"Do you have a ride? I could offer you one!" She chirped, smiling up at me. I nodded slowly, noticing she wasn't in her nurse uniform.

"Sure, if it isn't a problem. I think I can make it up to you later…" I said, hesitant. I knew not to talk to strangers. That was what Mom always said. But I was a big girl now, and big girls had more to worry about strange males than strange females.

"Its fine, Tohru-chan! I'm just working as an understudy to Hatori-san anyway, and I have a break now." She walked towards a parking lot and motioned to me. I followed the smaller girl obediently.

She led me to a car that made my jaw drop. It was a dark orange Nissan Fairlady Z, and expensive sports car. The stylish car was striped with black like a tiger, and the very bottom was white, including the white wall tires (FYI, they call black racing tires black wall tires, and the white wall tires are pretty much the same but have white sides and a black top, which no one sees anyway).

As Kisa saw me staring at her ride, she smiled and unlocked the car, plopping down into the driver's seat as soon as she opened the door. I did the same, but not before Kisa pulled a little card out of the glove compartment, squealing.

"This car is from my boyfriend, Hiro." She said, smiling. Then, she handed the card to me to read. It said: A Fairlady for my fairlady. Love always, Hiro. How sweet! "Ok, where are you going?" She asked, and I gave her the location.

Kisa automatically started the engine and the hood went down, letting the early autumn sun stray down onto out heads, adorning out hair with little halos of light. Then, the nurse with the hot ride popped a CD into the designated slot. Immediately, Change the World started blaring from the speakers, and we drove off and onto the highway. I now noticed that this hospital was one in Kyoto, the city neighboring Tokyo, which is the city I lived on the outskirts of.

"So you're a teacher at School Made for Academically Advanced Registrants in Tokyo… My cousin's daughter Nyoko-chibi is starting there!" I nodded happily. She added, "have a donut," and pointed to a Dunkin Donut box in between the seats. I reached for the

"Hai, and Nyoko-san is in my class! She's so cute!" I said, imaging the sweet little girl with coal black hair and glossy brown-black eyes. "I'll take one for myself and one for both Manzo and Kenji." Kisa nodded, her eyes on the road as she cruised past a black Jaguar XK with a brown haired, blue eyed girl in the driver's seat. (Yay, and thus I appear, in a hot car with a cool animal name, none the less! O.o I hope I'm older… cuz it's kinda illegal for thirteen year olds to drive… -.-')

"That's great, Tohru-chan! That means you know Rin-san and Haru-nii, so do you know any other Sohmas, besides me and Hatori-san, of course." She questioned, taking her eyes off the road.

"You're related to Hatori-san!?! And Rin-san!?! Hand Haru-san!?!" I asked, staring at her with mild surprise. Somehow, it wasn't that shocking. It was like I knew it deep down somewhere… I've been getting a lot of that lately, though. You know, it's starting to freak me out.

"Hai, Tohru-chan. But do you know anybody else?" She asked, quite persistently, too. I shook my head, but rethought my answer. Were those three other boys in these sudden dreams? Were Kyo, Yuki, and that blonde boy Sohmas?

"Maybe… I have two names and a picture stuck in my head. There's Kyo… and Yuki… and some cute blonde haired boy." Kisa nodded, smiling to herself.

"Yeah, Kyo and Yuki are Sohmas. The blonde one is probably Momiji. He's a Sohma, too." Kisa then took one hand off the black steering wheel and pointed ahead. "We're here." I followed her hand to see the School Made for Academically Advanced Registrants in Tokyo, or SMAART (urg, it was SOOOO hard to think that up), as it was abbreviated for the saving of breath, on my side. We had pulled up to the curb already. That was fast…

"Thank you so much, Kisa-chan! I'll get your number from Rin-san so I can pay you back!" I yelled as I got out of the car, smiling happily. Then, I ran inside, my skirt bobbing up and down around my legs.

But as I did, I could have sworn Kisa had said something like this, "You've already paid me back enough, onee-chan. You might not remember it, but you have." Then, I heard the screeching of new tires as she sped off again in her Fairlady Z.

"Ohayo, Kenji, Manzo!" I exclaimed as I dashed by the two burly men who immediately moved for me. After all, they knew the routine, I was running late. Once I had passed though the first set of Plexiglas doors, I looked back to see both the men staring at the jelly donuts, their favorite kinds, resting in their hands I had placed in them as I had run by. I was getting good at that…

Next, I rang the buzzer like before and spoke into it. "Hey Kameko, it's me, Tohru. Sorry I'm running late, I just got out of the hospital. A nice nurse drove me here." A grunt was heard and the door buzzed, letting me know the lock was disabled. Kameko was very grumpy in the mornings…

I didn't head to my classroom first, though. Instead, I skipped on over down a different hallway until I reached the teacher's lounge. Inside, it was a relaxing tan color that reminded me of what I was getting. Coffee In the back was a booth with a man in an apron. On the apron was a green Starbucks symbol. Quickly, I ordered a grande White Chocolate Mocha for me and a double shot espresso for Kameko. Trust me; she always needs it in the morning. Ha, she's too lazy to get her own coffee, because that would mean walking past her office and back again.

Without paying for it, because it was a very generous offering to the teachers of this school, one of the many preps I loved about this job, I left for Kameko's office, which, might I add, was almost as big as my own classroom. She wasn't there at the moment, probably taking a little bathroom break to let her huge, as always, cup of coffee from her house return to nature.

Sipping my mocha, I slipped into my classroom, with, of course, completing all the tests. I sat down at my desk, watching the children play in the school yard as they waited for the bell. It soon rang and I opened the sliding Plexiglas doors letting some new faces and other old ones in.

"Ohayo, students." I address the children who were lined up quietly. The children that went here were always little angels. I don't know how they got them to behave so well, but I knew it had a lot to do with Beethoven and their little white blazers, their tiny navy clip on ties, and the Kawaii little navy pleated skirts, or for the boys, navy blue dress pants.

"Ohayo, Sensei." The chanted back, not knowing my name. I nodded approvingly, feeling happy that they behaved so.

"I was absent yesterday, as you know. It was just a little trip to the hospital, and now I'm here to teach." I said, smiling at the little short people. Near the end of the line was Nyoko, smiling at me. "Nyoko knows me. Can you tell the class who I am?" I ask, trying to tempt her to socialize just a little bit. She nodded quickly, her long black hair that was now up in pigtails bobbing with her head.

"Sensei's name is Tohru Honda, and she was my mama's cousin's lover. But then she forgot, and he was taken away." She said sadly, and my eyes widened. I felt my face growing hot. Lover!?! I was once some one's lover!?!

"Nyoko-chan, you silly!" I said, trying to dismiss what the little girl had said. "I- I'm sure you're mistaken, or kidding, or something…" I trailed off, looking away. Maybe I had forgotten him, this lover Nyoko says I have? Amnesia was so cruel sometimes…

"I'm sure, Tohru Sensei! Mama gave me a picture of you two. Mama never tells me about family, so I think it's real." She said back, looking at me with determination. Then, she pulled a little ragged scrap of photo paper. It looked like it was from quite a while ago, or had gotten someone mad quite a few times, for all the corners were ripped and there were so many creases that I'm sure the picture that was on it could no longer be seen with the naked human eye.

But as I took it from Nyoko's hand, I saw the picture. It had me in my high school uniform, smiling and a boy in the male high school uniform with shocking orange hair, who, I admit, was quite handsome, stood beside me with my small hand in his larger hand. On closer inspection, I noticed him to be the boy from my first memory-dream, with a light pink blush crossing the length of his face. His mouth was twisted into a striking smirk that I could have sworn had shown a tiny white kitty fang.

"I don't remember, Nyoko-chan." I handed the picture back and Nyoko put in in her pocket. I rubbed my now pounding head, trying to get the thought of my very own handsome, princely lover. That would never happen. I'm pretty sure I'll be alone forever. It's not like I'm antisocial, but I just haven't made any friends. Maybe I'm afraid I'll forget that life, too. Then, I'd have to start all over again and none of it would be worth all of my effort, like I had after the first accident.

"He just wants you to be happy, Tohru Sensei." She mumbled, deeply moving me. Nyoko was just a little child, and yet she spoke these meaningful yet simple words. Anyone could say them, but not all can mean them. "But I want him to be happy, too, because he's selfless. Make him happy, Tohru Sensei."

I nodded, smiling. The rest of the students were looking around, bored. This might be a school for the smart, and I'm sure that these children were prodigies, but I think Nyoko is the smartest. This is the most profound thing I have ever heard a student say, even more than those hard trigonometry equations or the complex foreign language sentences. No one is taught matters of this type, and some never learn them in all of their lives. But here is a toddler standing in front of me, saying it as easily as she would her name. I was impressed.

"Let's get to our first activity, painting." I nearly whispered, pointing to the area for painting. "This is our first project of the school season with art, so all you have to do is try to paint someone you look up to." This assignment was meant to let me learn a little about the kids by who they painted. "The smocks in the little box beside your easel, which you will pick for yourself, are to be worn. The paints are in the paint holder. Tell me if you need help."

Now, it was my time to kick back and relax. This was a nice job also because of the time I have in between helping students, especially during art time. So, I decided to think on what Nyoko said. But soon everything was sucked into the black void of unconsciousness.

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A swift wind of colors, emotions, and sensations rushed into my consciousness and I found myself facing a wall, staring at a tiger cub. I really felt like I knew who it was, and that there was a perfectly logical reason as to why I was so close to a crying tiger. But my mind wouldn't let me find that particular reason because it was stuck in the memory. Suddenly, there was a poof of orange smoke and the tiger was replaced with a shy looking, pale, yellow-orange haired girl holding one of my hands, which was bandaged. Suddenly, I stood up and placed my sweater over what I could tell was her bare body. She too stood up and fell into me, giving me a huge hug. As she let go, she rubbed my injured hand which was duly emitting pain. Slowly, everything faded into black.

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Urrrrrrrrrrrrrrrggggg. I couldn't find the chapter in which Kisa is first introduced to get the exact words so I just put a part with no words in that I remembered in my throbbing mind. I'm tired... and my head hurts... and I'm cold... my hair is wet... I just made a bunch of sculptures of people from Furuba. I made Kyo and Tohru and Yuki and Shigure and Aya and Ha'ri and Haru and Hanajima and Uotani in their little bubble/Zodiac forms. You know, Uo is the fish and Hanajima is the evil, pointy-toothed, man-eating potted flower and Tohru is the onigiri and Kyo is the cat and Yuki is the rat and Ha'ri is the sea horse (sea horses are very hard to make...) and Shigure is the dog and Aya is the snake. Ha, I squished them all. Yay. Grr. My head hurts. Review... yeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah