I've decided not to reveal who Ales is until someone guesses correctly. I will try to add more hints though. I just want to say, since I couldn't deal; with taking out a character, even a minor one. All of the zodiac is there, and Ales isn't part of the real 12 members. Her zodiac is the animal I think that the Chinese culture would have added if there had been a thirteenth animal. And just as a point to other people with added zodiac members, there weren't wolves or foxes in ancient china!

Disclaimer: Guess what!? I don't own fruits basket. I wish I did. Oh well, I guess I can't by rights to the series. sighs

POV 3rd person Ritsu

Ritsu hadn't fallen asleep yet. He was still thinking about his mother. I've caused her so much pain, I wish she didn't need to apologize for me, he thought. The phone beside his bed table rang. "Hello?" He said into the receiver, after leaning over to pick it up.

"Rit-chan?" Asked a girls voice through the phone. "'m sorry to be calling this late, I'm doing a favor for Tohru."

Tohru? Thought Ritsu. "Why does Tohru need me?!" He exclained into the phone. Miles away Kagura had to hold the phone a foot from her ear, as to not hurt her eardrums. "Have I done something wrong? Kagura-chan tell me, so I can apologize to her. I'm Sorry!"

Ritsu heard the sigh from the other end of the line, and realized he had been jumping to conclusions. Ayame-nii-san would have never done something like that, he thought sadly. "No Ritsu, she just wants to know if the name Ales Loki reminds you of anything."

Ritse paused for a moment, Ales-san?

POV 1st person Kagura

I again had to hold the phone away from my ears for Ritsu's answer. "ALLY-CHAN?!" He yelled. "How could I have forgotten Ally-chan! She was our best friend, and she helped us so much! I feel awful, quick do you have her phone number I'll call her and apologize a million times over. No? You don't have it, then I will yell and hope she can hear me. I"M SORRY ALLY-CHAN! I WILL NEVER FORGET YOU AGAIN, I PROMISE! I DON'T DESERVE YOUR FRIENDSHIP, ALAS I HAVE BETRAYED ALES!"

"RITSU!" I yelled, my voice cracked from my cold though so it wasn't a loud yell. Still it quieted him for a minute. "We supposedly had our memories erased, so you couldn't help forgetting her. However it seems that most of us, the zodiac that is, have some connection to her. So, I was just checking to see if you knew. You're going to wake everyone in your house though so calm down."

"Okay, Kagura-chan" Ritsu said quietly. "Ales was the one who suggested I wear girl's clothes. I think she might have been kidding, but we took her up on it. She was our best friend, and used to always play catch with us. We were older then her, but she was never with the zodiac members her own age, accept for she was friends with Yuki. Akito was her older brother."

POV 1st person Ales.

I wondered where I was going as I ran. It would be a very bad idea to go see Nee-sama, but I was running to the main estate anyways. My feet knew where I was headed, only I didn't. Rain was coming down in sheets. My hands were numb but I was still sprinting. Ugh, I can't stand water. Hiro had once said maybe it was because my zodiac couldn't take it, but water made me feel weak, like a dying flame. Ripples scattered through puddles as my shoescam down on them, causing splashes to leap around my kegs making me feel all the worse.

No, I wouldn't see Nee-sama, not today. I was weak already, let me be at my best when she was mad at me. I couldn't go thtuogh the Sohma family's main entrance. I turned to the left, and ran to the secret hole in the wall, hidden by bushes. I had stopped running now, it was to hard to spend that much energy. I stepped through the hole and collapsed, no longer able to continue through the rain. Slowly my eyes shut, all effort spent.

POV 3rd person Yuki

Kyo had elected to stay back with Shigure incase she returned. He didn't want to get wet, and Shigure didn't want to spend the effort running through the rain. Yuki was holding Tohru's hand, as she wan't the best runner, and trying to make the whole crowd go faster. Hiro and Kisa were also holding hands, and were beginning to fall behind, as they were the youngest in the group.

Hatsuharu stopped for a moment waited for them to catch up, then picked one up in either arm and kept running. Momiji caught up toTohru and Yuki, "where did she go after that, Tohru-chan?" He panted.

She too was panting, "She was headed to the main house, but I can't say where she went. I only saw her leave." Yuki almost stopped dead, why did Ally-chan have to go to the main house? It was one of the few places where he might not follow her.

"It's okay, Yuki" calledMomiji over the patter of the rain. "I know a secret entrance, so we can go in unnoticed"

What do you think? Is it good? There going in after her. Oh, and I;m sure everyone alreadt figured out Akito was Ally's Nee-sama, but I thought I should say it aloud, just so everyone knew. Please review, I love advice on what to write nest, I making it up as I go along.