Jeh-kun- OH MY GOD! That was a dark Prologue

Me- I know right, but you don't think it was too dark was it?

Sky- Not at all

Ann- It needs to be more through

Me- Don't worry I'll try

Jeh-kun- ok hurry up and type it already!

Me- Ok! As you all know I don't own Fruits Basket! And if it wasn't for people suing for stupid things all the time I wouldn't have to keep repeating my self five ways too Sunday!

Jeh-kun- What is it with you? Why is it always the number five and Sunday?

Me- I don't know! I picked it up somewhere ok? So shut up and enjoy the story!

The real Chapter One

So it begins…the box kept shut

The girl was running in the dark. The shadows started to mock her as she kept calling out to the people who seemed to get further and further away from her. She saw the first image appear and reached out to touch it to grab a hold of it, "MOM! Come back please come back!" But the image vanished before her eyes, "NO!" She dropped on her knees as a dark voice said, "If you wanted her so badly why didn't you love her enough to say be safe then?" Tohru looked around and saw no one but answered anyway, "I over slept! I said I was sorry." She was in tears but it would seem the voice didn't care, "Yeah on her death bed! Anyway; what does it matter she didn't love you any way. The way you talked was a painful reminder of your father. She left you for a reason when you were four, now everyone is going to leave you."

"No that's not true." Tohru yelled in a scared voice trying to get up

"See for yourself." The voice said as Tohru saw images of the Sohma family fading away, "No please come back!" She started to run but as she did the family broke apart and their faces appeared before her and vanished.

"I wondered what you will do now Tohru Honda…I gave you a choice right? Along time ago when the only family you had deserted you, remember?"

Tohru was on her knees crying but she managed to say, "My Grandpa took me in."

The dark voice finally came out of the shadows. It was a demon of her. Her polar opposite, "Yeah out of pity," she spat, "And what'd he do after like a month? I'll tell you; He practically kicked you out."

The real Tohru stood up as an image of her grandfather appeared but his image didn't vanish, yet, "He did not! And his house had to be remodeled!"

"Yeah so that ass of an aunt and stupid dumb ass cousins could move in! He's not going to be around for ever! You want to see what's going to happen?"

The dark Tohru pointed to a window and the real Tohru looked. It showed a fire on her Grandfather's street and the house that was on fire spread over into the neighboring house. She watched in horror that it was as a man was being pulled out on a stretcher: It was her Grandfather. "NO!"

"He did that all because of you. Your aunt went to America along with the detective want-a-be and left him all alone. It's your fault that you didn't visit him in a while." The screen vanished as Tohru knelt down once more this time lost all will to get back up, "Your fault for abandoning him, your fault for your mom's death and murdering her, your fault for being a burden to everyone!" This time she looked up to see everyone pointing a finger at her yelling, "YOUR FAULT! YOU CAUSE PAIN TO EVERYONE! YOU'RE A BURDEN!"

Just then the scene changed into a court room setting and the dark Tohru turned into a demon, "What'd she do? Sohma family?"

"She's the reason that Akito is an even more of an ass!" They yelled

"She's the reason I was killed! She's a MURDER!" yelled her mom

"No I'm not! I swear I would never hurt anyone!" Tohru cried

"Shut up!" this time Kyo yelled, "We want you out of our lives!"

"Ouch, your one true love just told you to get out of his life response?" The demon asked. But Tohru didn't answer. She just stood there and broke down for the final time as they all shouted things at her. Finally she shouted, "I'm SORRY!"

"TOO LATE!" and the demon pulled a lever as Tohru fell into the pit of despair, "DON'T LEAVE ME!"

End dream-

"DON'T LEAVE ME!" Tohru yelled as she sat up in cold sweat. She looked around her room. Panting she got up and went to the bathroom and washed her face. She looked in the mirror and saw that her face was pale as snow. Still shaking from the dream she walked back to her room and turned on the light. The time was five in the morning still too early to get ready for school so Tohru sat down at her desk and rubbed her face.

She hadn't been sleeping well for the past fortnight. It was all because of these crazy nightmares. And because of the lack of sleep her grades started to slip a little. She tried to think back to what happened and why she was having them to begin with? But it was useless. She pulled one of the draws and took out a notebook. It was her journal. She started to keep one ever since the dreams started. She opened the book and flipped through it. Every time she read an entry she shivered at the thought of how many feelings that she had locked up inside of the little box that she kept closed.

Yes, she knew that it was her feelings are the reason that these nightmares were so terrible but she didn't know what triggered them in the first place. So with a sigh she picked up her pen and began to write. This time in a poem:

My dark inner demons

The Box kept shut

What did you call me?

An angel from heaven?

I'm I that pure on the outside?

What would you do if you knew the truth?

That I'm not what you seem that like you I have demons that haunt me from the inside of my heart

I've been through hell in my life and it never stops

I can never escape

I lock the fears, the pain, and the torment in a box

Were is it?

It's in my heart were it always was since I was young

My youth is were it started, were it was created

The first demon came. Then it invited its friends as I grew older

Like the first I locked it away to be forgotten

But now the lock is breaking and one by one they escape

It's just like a circle that never ends

Tohru put her pen down and read over what she wrote. With another flow of tears threatening to come she closed the book and put it away.

Later that morning-

"Hello Honda residence?" a male voice said on the other line

"Grandpa? It's Tohru, how are you?" Tohru asked in a shaking voice

"Kyoko good how are you? What's wrong?" He asked

Tohru was too relived to correct the man with a sigh of relief she answered back, "Good just worried that's all. I had a nightmare and something bad happened so I was worried."

"Oh Kyoko sorry to here about that but I'm fine as always." He said in a comforting tone, "If you want why don't you come and visit me since your aunt and cousins went to America."

"Ok! I'll see you after school!" And they hung up. Tohru let out a sigh, how silly of me to get myself worked up over a dream. And she started to make breakfast.

At school-

"Hey Tohru who were you talking to this morning?" Kyo wanted to know as the trio entered home room

"My Grandpa," Tohru said, "I was worried that's all and he invited me to come over."

"Why were you worried?" Uo asked

"Yes you seem to be out of it this whole week." Hana said

"Not to mention you nearly cut yourself because you were day dreaming yesterday morning." Kyo said

"You did?" Yuki, Uo, and Hana asked together

"Yes I did but good thing Kyo was there. Um…I had a nightmare get to me when I called but yeah…"

"Mind if I join you Tohru you know if you day dream again…" Kyo asked a little bashfully

"Sure why don't you guys come also?" Tohru invited

"Can't student council stuff, sorry Tohru." Yuki replied walking to his desk

"I have work." Uo said also going to hers

"And I have to go to my grandma's house." Hana said sitting in her spot.

"Well I guess it's you and me." Kyo said

"It's a date then!" Tohru said happily.

Kyo turned away so she wouldn't see his blush. The teacher came in and started to lecture them. He couldn't keep his eyes off of Tohru. Some how she seemed different but not in a good way. The last few days it felt like she was giving off a bad vibe I guess you could call it. Every time he would look into her eyes he saw emptiness in them. And this was yesterday. Now today it was like half and half.

They were half way through the lecture when another teacher burst into the room, "Quick flip on the TV!"

The teacher gave him a curious look, "Why?"

"Because if any students live there we can't let them out not even for lunch, now take a look to see if they recognize it."

The teacher flipped the TV on and all the students gasped as the screen filled with fire raging all around as the reporter came on:

"We are live on Cherry Blossom Drive to report that a mass fire broke out not too long ago! It has moved from this house on my left, 450 to 452 on my right. Please be advised that everyone is to keep off this road-" The teacher turned off the TV just in time to hear, "Wait did that just say 452?" Tohru asked standing up.

"Yes why?"

"Grandpa!" Tohru jumped up to run to the door when Uo and Hana restrained her, "No you can't go! You'll be hurt and we're in lock down!"

"Let me go! I don't care! I lost my mom and it was my fault I'm won't lose my Grandpa either now let me go!" Tohru struggled to get away from her friends and of course Kyo and Yuki couldn't do anything but watch since they would only transform, "Don't be stupid! Now come sit back down!" Up yelled trying to hold her

"I'M NOT GOING TO SAY IT AGAIN: LET ME GO DAMN IT!" Something erupted inside of Tohru and with a jerk of her arm she got out of Uo's grasp and then she threw off Hana. Then without stopping when the teacher called her name she took off followed by Uo, Hana, Kyo, and Yuki right on her heels.

Tohru made it outside the school and briefly stopped to figure out the quickest route to her Grandfather's house. She then continued running as fast as she could. The group behind her was also following her yelling out her name but Tohru wasn't listening for the only thing in her mind was to get to the house praying that this was a bad dream.

Once she arrived on the scene she pushed through the crowed to find that the fire was almost out was put out on both houses, "I heard that they found a man trapped under a beam." Tohru heard a lady say to her friend. Tohru gasped as her friend say, "Yeah it would seem you heard right hear comes the stretcher now," Tohru looked to where they were talking about and saw that the firefighters had a man in their arms. "GRANDPA!" she yelled

They crowed looked over at her and the chief came over to the distressed girl, "Please let me see him!" She begged. He looked to the man then to her face and nodded, "Come on…" He led her to the body and Tohru knelt down and torched his burned face, "I'm sorry. By the looks of the way we found him he threw his back out and got trapped under one of the beams. There was nothing we could do." He said softly. But Tohru wasn't listening to a word the man was saying, "Can we have your name and the relationship of the deceased?" Tohru nodded and said, "Tohru Honda granddaughter." And the chief took down the name and left her to cry while he got the crowed to disperse.

By the time Kyo, Yuki, Uo, and Hana arrived they saw Tohru crying by the wreck of the houses of her Grandfather's chest.