Fairy basket chapter 3

Disclaimer: I don't own Fairy Tail or Fruits Basket

Lucy's POV:

'Wait. What's going on and why is this guy calling Gray a rat?' The boy with pink hair started running towards Gray. His onyx eyes looked murderous so I started running towards him, telling him to stop but, being the clumsy person I am, I tripped and fell onto his back.

Suddenly, there was a puff of smoke and the boy wasn't there anymore but I was holding a cute pink cat that had the same intense onyx eyes as the boy. I realised that he must have somehow turned into a cat when I fell onto him. Naturally I started to panic. "Quick, we have to get him to a doctor, no a vet-" a loose board fell from the ceiling and hit me right in the middle of my head. My vision blurred a bit and I fell forward onto Gray and Guildarts. Once my head landed on them, there was more smoke and there were now two more humans that had turned into animals. Where Gray was standing there was a black mouse and where Guildarts was standing there was a dog with brown-orange fur.

The doorbell rang so I scooped all of the animals up and ran downstairs like a mad woman. I opened the door to find a delivery man. "They're animals!" I screamed.

He looked at me as if I was weird and said. "Yeah, and they're cute at that. Now if you would just like to pay me for my services and then I'll be on my way." The dog I assumed to be Guildarts carried his wallet in his mouth and handed it to the delivery guy. He took the correct amount of money out of Guildarts' wallet and handed it back to him. "You're lucky to have such a smart dog. See you later miss." He walked out of the door and the cat and the rat immediately started arguing with each other.

"You let your guard down, you stupid cat."

"YOU GUYS CHANGED TOO, YOU CAN'T BLAME ME!"

"They can talk." I muttered to myself. "How is this even possible?" My voice slowly started to rise with each question. "Why are you all turning into animals? Why can animals talk? What the hell just happened!?" Everyone went silent.

The dog turned around and faced the other two animals. "There's no other way. Instead of trying to cover this up, why don't we just tell her the truth?" The two animals nodded their heads in agreement and all three stared up at me. "If you hadn't realised it yet, I am Guildarts and yes, I'm a dog. Gray is the rat and the cat sulking over there is Natsu. We are possessed by the twelve zodiac animals plus the cat and there are ten other people who are possessed in the family." My mouth dropped open in surprise. "From several hundred years ago, our family members have been possessed by the same zodiac animals... Although it doesn't give us any special powers, we can communicate with our zodiac animals but our bodies are weak and for some reason whenever our bodies are under a lot of stress or we are hugged by a member of the opposite sex, we will change form... After a while we will turn back but-" There was a puff of smoke and all three boys were human. "Completely naked." I turned around as fast as I could.

Once they were dressed again, Guildarts apologised and told me to not worry about finding out their secret and that I could still live in this house. 'I can't believe that I stumbled upon a family possessed by the zodiacs.' I thought. 'This is a huge secret to keep hidden for so long.'

Guildarts walked over to me. "So Lucy, you said you wanted to be in the year of the cat do you still feel the same way now that you've met the real thing?" He looked towards the guy I now know as Natsu.

'Thats right! He's the year of the cat!' I thought.

"So what's he like?" I asked Guildarts.

He laughed, "Oh he's just a big idiot. For someone who studied martial arts most of his life he's really clumsy. I mean who gets grabbed from the back that easily?" He chuckled again and I looked towards Natsu and it looked like he was about to blow up from his anger. Once I realised this I told Guildarts that I'd just go talk to him myself but Guildarts didn't listen and kept saying all of the stupid things that he'd done. "He should've at least sensed you." He turned to Natsu. "Your going to be responsible for this you know that right?" Natsu jumped up and started yelling.

"I DIDN'T NOTICE HER, WHAT THE HELL WAS I SUPPOSED TO DO!? She shouldn't even be here!" I started to tear up. My father said something along those lines the night before I ran away. Gray calmly spoke up.

"Shut up. Whether there is someone in this house or not, it's none of your business. You're nothing but an outsider anyway." That really did it. Natsu smashed his hand into the table, making it fly up and hit me on the forehead. Blood dripped down from my head and onto my clothes.

"Lucy, you're bleeding!" Guildarts and Gray said at the same time.

Natsu looked confused. "Ah. Eh. B-bleeding? Ah-" I heard an audible slap.

"W-what?" I dumbly said. I looked over and saw that Natsu's face was swelling up from where Gray had slapped him. I was a bit dizzy but I started to slowly get up to help Natsu.

Guildarts walked over to me and sat me down again. He dabbed a damp cloth on my forehead to wipe off the blood on my face while muttering "I knew he was stupid, but I didn't think he was this stupid." I looked back to Gray and Natsu. Gray started to calmly talk with an expression of pure hatred towards Natsu.

"Today, just for your stupidity, I'll be especially serious and fight with you. You're not going to bore me, are you Natsu?"

"Just what I wanted to hear, droopy eyes." Natsu aimed a kick directly at Gray's stomach but he simply deflected it with his arm. Somehow, his shirt had come off in the process so he was just wearing his school pants. I knew he was renowned around the school for his stripping habits but I hadn't seen him strip since the first year I was in his class and he got multiple detentions for 'unconsciously' stripping in the middle of class. I thought he had gotten rid of that habit but apparently not. "Hey, don't strip here you stupid perverted rat." Natsu said as Gray's pants flew across the room, leaving him in his boxers and his most consistent piece of clothing, a silver necklace (A.N. According to wiki this is true. Now that I think about it, it really is. He never takes it off.)

Gray looked down and shouted "Oh crap, when did this happen!?"

Natsu looked amused. "About a minute ago."

Gray's face darkened and without warning Natsu got a foot to the face, sending him crashing through the paper doors and face first into a well manicured garden bed.

"Hey Gray you idiot why did you kick him so hard he crashed into the garden?" I questioned.

"He hurt you. As your new brother I can't let something like that slide can I?"

"I don't even care about that anymore! It's not that big of a problem and it didn't even hurt! You can't just kick someone in the face and send them flying like that just because Natsu lost his temper!"

"Fine. Sorry for trying to be a brother who looks after and cares about his sister." He muttered.

I turned to look at him as I walked towards Natsu. He looked genuinely upset so I softened my gaze. "It's okay really I've just never had anyone stand up to me but next time please don't hurt anyone ok?" He said yes so I went to help Natsu who was unconscious. 'He looks really peaceful and cute in his sleep,' I could tell I blushed a nice shade of pink as that crossed my mind. I draped one of his arms over my shoulder and started to clumsily drag him to the house- that was until he changed into a cat when I accidentally hugged him. I muttered an apology to Natsu before picking him up along with his clothes and carrying him into my room.

I gently laid Natsu down on my bed and put his clothes next to him. He looked adorable. Natsu was curled up into a ball in the middle of my bed in his cat form, his pink fur blended in with my doona and he was in what looked to be a peaceful slumber. I sneaked out of the door and decided that I would clean out the kitchen and make something for him when he woke up because he was bound to be hungry.

Natsu's POV:

'Huh? Where am I? A bed? It's pink, maybe it's, what's her name, Luigi...no Lucy?' I sat up and muttered a curse obviously directed at that stupid rat before realising I had no clothes on. I found my clothes neatly folded up on the desk beside me and quickly put them on and just in time too. Lucy smiled as she walked into the room holding a tray of rice balls and a glass of water.

"Hi Natsu, how do you feel? You were out cold for about five hours, or maybe you were just tired."

"Yeah I feel fine and I think I was actually a bit tired." I looked up at the roof and saw the hole I had made in the roof. "About your roof, I'll fix it and...thanks for carrying me up here." I blushed at the last part, knowing she probably accidentally hugged me while trying to carry me and I saw a light dusting of pink on her face, confirming my thought.

Lucy's POV:

I fidgeted under Natsu's gaze and gave a nervous laugh. "W-well I kinda accidentally hugged you and you transformed which made it easier to carry you up here... Oh yeah, here's some food for you, I thought you would be hungry so here..." I passed the tray over to Natsu and he started eating. Really messily. Like food flying everywhere messy. "Natsu, the food's not going anywhere, you don't have to eat so quickly."

He looked up at me and then to the bed sheets. "Oh man, now I owe you another favour." He said sheepishly. "Sorry Luigi?"

"My name is Lucy you idiot." I seethed.

"Sorry." He shrugged.

At that I rolled my eyes. 'Geez, right after being cute. Way to ruin a moment. Wait did I just call him cute? I probably shouldn't continue with that thought... I feel like I'm forgetting something...'

"Hey Lucy, didn't you have school today? I mean it is Wednesday today."

'That's right, school is today and I missed too much of it to go now. Mum wouldn't be very happy if she found out.' I started panicking a bit. "Oh no! School. I forgot all about it. How could I? Gah, I'm such an idiot." I punched my head, murmuring "I'm an idiot."

Natsu sat up "Geez Luce, calm down it's not that big of a deal if you miss one day."

"YES IT IS!" I shouted back at him. "I promised my mum I would go to school and graduate."

"One day won't hurt, weirdo," He pouted.

I rubbed my temples, "I guess you're right. I'm just a bit stressed at the moment. Sorry I took my anger out on you."

"Nah, it's cool." He said.