-1Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Fruits Basket characters. I do, however, own the clip from the book mentioned in chapter 4, seeing that I made it up while writing the chapter. I'll probably add in a few extra things that will be mine later, but for now, ENJOY! Reviews are welcome.

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"I'll find out on my own. Yuki, Kyou, Hatsuharu, nor Momiji go anywhere near physically touching anyone. Why? Neither have you Shigure. I'll find out." Hana looked around and saw the store keeper had disappeared to the back of the store.

Hatori glanced nervously towards Shigure and then to the door.

Hana lounged at Hatori, her arms wrapping around his chest. They collapsed into Shigure, and Hana hugged him as well. The three of them collapsed to the floor, and for a moment there was silence.

POOF!

On to:

Chapter five

There was a brief moment of silence before Hana sat up and looked at the animals laying before her. To say that she was shocked was an understatement. This explained many of the weird waves that she felt from the Sohma family.

She stared at the small seahorse for a moment before looking over to the dog form of Shigure.

"So…SPOT….care to explain what is going on?" Shigure flinched at the coldness in her voice, especially on the name Tohru had given him the day that Hana and Uo had come by the house. He sighed before looking around to make sure the coast was clear.

"Okay, thirteen of the Sohma's are cursed with the vengeful spirits of the Chinese Zodiac. Hatori is the dragon, I am the dog. Yuki is cursed with the year of the rat, Hatsuharu is cursed with the year of the ox. Momiji is the rabbit and Kyou is the cat. Whenever any of the cursed come in physical contact with someone of the opposite sex, they transform." He paused for a moment to let the words sink in. Hana stared at the two of them in front of her.

"How do…you change back?" She asked, picking up the little seahorse in her right hand, and petting Shigure behind the ear.

"Well, after each transformation the returning time changes. But when we do change…" two pops echoed around the room and all Hana could see for a moment was smoke. Then she saw the bare chests of the men. Letting out a small eep! She turned her back to them.

"We're naked." Shigure finished, while changing into his clothes. Hatori cleared his throat and straightened his tie.

"Hana-chan, would you please return with us to my clinic? You've been injured and I need to make sure that you're healing." Hatori knelt beside Hana and offered her his hand.

"Ha'ri! You're always changing the subject! It's not that embarrassing to turn into that cute baby sea…" Shigure laughed slightly, but stopped talking when he received the glare-of-doom from Hatori.

"I'll…go…" Hana grabbed Hatori's hand and stood up with him. Shigure watched them for a moment and smiled.

"You know Ha'ri, love can blossom in the weirdest of places, but I think I'm going to head on home. No, no don't worry about me Ha'ri, I'll only freeze to death while walking in the rain all the way home." Shigure peeked a look at the two of them through his closed eyes, and noticed the blank stares they were giving him.

There was a brief moment of silence before Hatori pulled his car keys out and gave Hana a slight push to the door.

"Take the keys and start the car for me. Don't let that idiot behind the wheel." He handed his keys to Hana while glaring at Shigure. He gave a nod to Shigure before heading over to the bookshelf and grabbing a certain book off.

"Excuse me, Mayuko-chan, I'll buy this book for a friend." He paid for the book and headed outside, into the rain, to his car, without a single look back.

The car ride to Shigure's was quiet, but the moment Shigure got out of the car and they were speeding down the road, it all changed.

"Tell me what happened." He looked sharply at her, through his peripheral vision. The car came to a screeching halt in the middle of the road, right in front of the crosswalk from the cemetery.

"This is where I found you. You came out of the cemetery, and in to the road. Who was with you in there that caused a broken rib, a few fingers, and your right arm? A side from that, you have more scars than the ones recently received. Who abuses you at home? Your mother? Your father?" Hatori put the car in park and looked at her. He wasn't normally this pushy with things, but something about her and her injuries caused him to worry. To over react. To care. For the second time in his life, Hatori felt that his heart needed this. Hana stared ahead for a while before unbuckling and climbing out of the car. Hatori followed in suit, quickly diving in front of her to keep her from running away again. The wind picked up, and what had been a light drizzle, became a downpour.

"I'm not letting you leave, Hanajima. Not this time. Not again. Tell me what happened, how long has it been occurring?" Hatori grabbed her shoulders tightly for moment.

"It would not be wise to anger me….When I was younger, my dempa powers were uncontrollable…I could hear voices, feel their emotions…and then one day….it happened. They were picking on me, trying to get me to eat live things like snails and newts. They would burn me with matches and call me witch. Only one day, I almost killed him." Lightning shot through the sky above them, and the thunder clap from that one bolt boomed loudly above them.

"Who?" Hatori eased his grip on her shoulders, and finally let go.

"A boy out of my class. All I did was think about how much I hated them. Him. For being so rude. I thought about how he should die for what he did….and the next thing I knew he was laying on the ground in front of me. My parents freaked and we moved away." Hana looked down at the ground and watched the stream flow past her to the gutters. Why was she bothering this man with everything…she hadn't even told Uo or Tohru half this stuff….

"That's why it's wise to stay away from me….I did get my powers under control. I stopped hearing the voices, feeling the emotions…I could access them whenever I wanted, but they're still there….I still hurt people. I think…that's why I ran from your clinic. You're the only one who cares….and that scared me. Tohru and Uo cared, or so I had thought. It was Uo and Tohru who were with me." She paused for a quick swallow and released a ragged breath.

"I woke up sensing something wrong and went to Uo's place. I told her what I was feeling and how it seemed to concern Tohru. She grabbed us two umbrellas and we walked out here. When we got here, Tohru was laying on her mother's tombstone which is over there," Hana pointed to it and they started walking over to it.

"Uo started walking to her, to help her. I sensed that there was something going on at Shigure's and it needed to be taken care of. I fought Uo away from Tohru, and told Tohru to go back. That we couldn't help her, and she did." Hana and Hatori stood in front of Kyoko Honda's grave. Hana stared at the grave marker for a little bit before turning away and walking to where two muddy, soaking-wet umbrellas laid. The wind had carried them a ways from where they had actually been released and left at. She grabbed them both and closed them; shaking them out in the process. Knowing that they would do no good to the already soaked doctor and psychic, she buttoned them closed and hung them from her cloak buttons.

"And then what? Did Uo get upset and hit you?" Hatori asked, finally looking up from the grave to her.

"You could say that. Uo is irrational when she's upset. She does things or says things she doesn't mean and later on forgets all about it." Hana began walking towards the parked car, but was stopped by Hatori grabbing her hand.

"Who else hits you? In my clinic, when you were unconscious, you asked for your mother to not hit Megumi. Does your mother abuse the two of you?" Hatori turned her to face him.

"Sometimes, when she's drunk. Our father is always away on business a lot of the time, so mother's always upset, frustrated, or worried. She goes out for what she calls "Ladies' Night" and doesn't come home for a while and when she does, she'd say something a long the lines of how her terrible daughter ruined her life. That's when she'd release her drunken stupor on me or my brother Megumi." Hana suddenly felt hot tears burn behind her eyes, and was surprised by them. She hadn't cried in so long, and this night was full of tears. The tears she shed in the cemetery, and the tears that forced their way through her eyes now. She put her hand on her cheek, and felt the warm drops rolling down and mixing with the cold drops of rain.

Her knees grew weak, and as she slowly collapsed in on herself she felt the strong and warm arms of Hatori wrap themselves around her. There was space between them, so that he didn't transform; she hadn't felt this comforted since before the incident in her fourth grade.

She leaned her head against Hatori's chest and cried some more. Neither one knew how long they had sat like that, but when she sat up they both noticed that it was only drizzling. They looked at each other for just a moment, and without either one aware, they leaned their faces closer to the other's and their lips met softly.

It was Hana's first kiss and it was everything she could've ever imagined.