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“Um,” Inora said. She looked around her franticly, hoping that maybe Yuki had fallen down and that this rat had fallen from a tree… or something? ‘Ok that sounds really ridiculous,’ she thought. ‘But he couldn’t have…’ there was no Yuki anywhere, only a pile of clothes at her feet. She looked back at the little rat, it looked terrified. “Yuki?” she whispered to it. It stared back for a moment then she saw its little shoulders slump.

“Yes, it’s me,” the rat said in a sad voice. She looked to the others for help, but they all seemed to be frozen with their mouths open. She looked to Hatsu.

She pointed at the rat and asked, “Was this me or him?” She just wanted to know if what triggered the transformation was in her or him. Hatsu seemed to understand.

“It’s him,” was all he seemed to be able to say.

“Good!” she said and sighed. “You are just the most adorable little rat I’ve ever seen!” she squealed. She reached out with her index finger and scratched his head for a second. She knew he probably wouldn’t appreciate that, being a teenager, but she couldn’t help herself. When she removed her finger she saw that his little face looked astonished. She could hear the others mutter something as soon as Hatsu finished translating that in a shocked voice. Shigure had started laughing, ‘Well that’s a good sign,’ she thought.

“Well, well, well,” Shigure said. “I believe some explanations are in order. Shall we go into the house?” She nodded and started towards the house still carrying Yuki. She didn’t make it very far, however, before there was another ‘poof’ noise. She wasn’t able to even register when he left her hand before he was standing in front of her. Something wasn’t quite right, ‘oh I see, well that makes sense’ she thought. He was naked. She heard a squeal and looked over to see Tohru running to the house with her hands literally waving above her head. Inora chuckled at the sight of her and very calmly stepped around Yuki and walked to the house.

Once inside they all sat down around the table again. It wasn’t very comfortable for her to sit on the floor but she would have to adjust to it eventually. They waited for Yuki who walked in about a half a minute later still brushing dirt off of his shirt. Once he sat down Shigure clapped his hands together.

(A/N): If you haven’t seen (or read) Fruits basket I’m sorry but I’m just going to give the briefest explanation I can. Also remember Hatsu is still translating. ;)

“Ok! So it goes like this,” Shigure said. “Our family is cursed, Thirteen of us to be exact. Each one of us is possessed by a spirit of one of the twelve Zodiac Animals, plus the cat. If any of us is hugged by a member of the opposite sex or our body comes under a lot of stress we will transform into that animal. Are you familiar with the zodiac?”

“I know some of the animals…but no, it’s not really big over there,” Inora said. She noticed that it sounded like he had given this explanation a lot before.

“Yeah, by the way where exactly are you from?” he asked.

“Oh yeah, I’m from America, more specifically Oregon!” she said brightly.

“Ah I see. Yes they are more into the stars there, well no problem I’ll tell you a condensed version of the story! ‘God called all of the animals to come to a banquet the next day. The rat, however, had other ideas and he went and tricked the cat into believing that the banquet would be the day after next. Well the cat believed him and the next day all of the other animals went to the party except for him. He went to bed that night excited for the party the next day that would never come.’

“So you see so even though the cat is still one that possesses us he is still exiled from actually being a member. So the animals are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog and the boar. I am the dog, Kyo’s the cat and as you know Yuki is the rat. Does that all make sense?” He finished.

“I-uh…yeah. About as much as it ever-wait,” something had just sunk in. “one of you is a dragon? That’s totally awesome!!”

“Well… his form is a little complicated…” Shigure didn’t get to finish, something else just struck her.

“And if the cat was tricked why is that his fault? That doesn’t seem right somehow… is there something I missed in the story?” Everyone stared at her. She noticed that Kyo in particular had a sort of blazing in his eyes. She didn’t think about it too much because her eyes went fuzzy again. This time Shigure was all over it. He noticed her eyes slide out of focus and her extreme blinking.

“I think you should go lay down, Yuki can go and get your things. Hatori has to come over anyway for Kyo why don’t we have him look at you as well?” he asked.

All she could think of was needles for some reason. “No, no I’ll be fine tomorrow after I sleep some more. Maybe I should have a glass of water before I go?” without a word Tohru ran into the Kitchen and was back with the water. As soon as Inora finished it she could feel it sitting wrong in her stomach, but she smiled anyway as she got up to leave. She started towards the other room where the sleeping bag was when Tohru started to speak very fast.

“Wait,” Hatsu said as Tohru and Shigure had a quick conversation. When they had finished he said, “Tohru insists that because you are going to be staying for a while you share her room.”

“Are you sure?” She asked looking at Tohru. “I really don’t mind I’ve been sleeping outside for three weeks I’m sure I can handle a living room for a while.”

“No, no while you’re sick you should have more privacy so you won’t be disturbed!” she said walking over to her. Without listening to any more reason Tohru grabbed her hand and led her upstairs to the room. When they got inside Tohru thrust her palms out in a ‘stay’ motion and ran back downstairs. When she came back she had the sleeping bag, though now that Inora really looked at it she saw that it was really a thin mattress with a single fluffy blanket on top. Inora helped her lay it out and then immediately got in it, she felt like shit. Tohru looked like she was going to object about something but Inora just waved her hand at her and rolled over. She fell asleep as soon as she closed her eyes.

When she woke up the next morning she knew right away that she was doing better. She wouldn’t be running any marathons but she thought that the dizzy spells were over. She sat up and looked out the window and saw that it was morning, she guessed around seven. She could hear people talking down stairs and saw that Tohru wasn’t in her bed. She looked around her and saw that her suitcase had been brought up for her. ‘Well that’s good,’ she thought. ‘This was starting to feel a little uncomfortable for me and for them. For different reasons I think.’ She laughed to herself as she got dressed.

When she walked downstairs she was relieved to find Hatsu sitting at the table with the others. She smiled at him and said “Great you’re here again! I don’t know if I could go back to the miming.”

He laughed, “Yes that would be rough, so Shigure asked me to stay last night so I could be here when you woke up in case you were worse. Actually you look much better, how do you feel?”

“Awesome actually! I’m still pretty weak but that’s probably because I haven’t eaten in a few days,” she laughed. Hatsu said something to Tohru who immediately ran into the kitchen. ‘What the hell? Is that her home or something?’ Inora thought. She came back a minute later with a full plate of food and set it in front of Inora. “Thank you,” she said brightly to her, and dug in. It had to be the best thing she had ever tasted, and she couldn’t even name it.

“It’s really not good to go without food for so long in your state,” Shigure scolded.

“Well I wasn’t really in any condition to go get something to eat now was I,” she said with a wink between mouthfuls. He winked back and gave her a crooked smile. ‘That’s flirting if I’ve ever seen it….well… no…FUCK!!!’ she thought. His smile had left as quickly as it had come. She knew that the frustration was all over her face but she couldn’t get it off of there. She glanced over at him; he seemed to be enjoying himself.
‘At least one of us is,’ she had no idea why this was bugging her this much but there was nothing she could do about it.

“Oh yes. I had to tell the head of our family that you know the secret,” Shigure said. “By the way I forgot to mention that. You can’t tell anyone about it.”

“Well yeah I figured that much out on my own,” she laughed.

He smiled at her and said, “Well it needed to be said anyway I’m sure you understand that. So anyway Akito wants to meet with you before he makes his decision.”

“Decision?” she said. ‘That doesn’t sound good’ she added in her head. She looked around the table and saw that everyone else was avoiding eye contact with her. Tohru looked terrified for some reason.

“Yes as to whether or not you can stay with us!” he said smiling. She could tell that wasn’t the only decision but she played along.

“Oh ok! Yeah I’ll go meet him, when is that?” she asked.

“Tomorrow morning. It will just be me, you and Hatsu. That you know anyway, Hatori might be there,” he trailed off. She looked up and saw that that knowledge seemed to upset Tohru more. She suddenly felt nervous, she didn’t know everything but she didn’t think she wanted to either. ‘I doesn’t really matter it looks like I don’t have a choice but to go,’ she thought and plastered on a smile for them.

“Well now that that’s settled I think we should be off to school don’t you think?” Yuki asked looking at Tohru and Kyo. They began to get up and gather there things. And Tohru quickly cleared the table.

“So Shigure what is it that you do?” Inora said remembering that he was around all of yesterday and was showing no signs of going out today. The robe was throwing her off though, he had worn one yesterday but it was a different one. But as soon as she thought of that she remembered that people wore those here. ‘Kimono, Is that what they’re called?’ she thought.

“Oh! I’m a novelist. I work out of the home, my study is right down the hallway there,” he pointed to a hallway she hadn’t gone down yet.

“Dude that’s so awesome! Do you have any translated to English so I could read them?” She was excited, she loved books.

He looked surprised and said “No I’m afraid. They wouldn’t be popular enough over there to justify the money that would take.”

“But you never know until you try!” she said brightly. “I would totally read your stuff!”

“Well thank you that’s very kind of you to say.” He smiled at her. She looked into his eyes and saw a sort of burning there; he didn’t look away this time. They were in the middle of a staring contest when Hatsu cleared his throat.

“I, uh, hadn’t planed on staying here last night, so I think I should go home for a bit and freshen up,” he said with a knowing smile. “Will you survive without me for a while?”

“Sure no problem, I got this!” she laughed. “How long will you be gone?”

“Well actually I have some other stuff to take care of so I’ll probably be back around three.” He got up and explained it to Shigure.

“Ok! I’ll see you later then!” Inora said and Shigure gave a similar goodbye. Hatsu walked out to the front and she heard the door close. She suddenly had an awesome idea. She looked at Shigure and rested her chin in her hand. “So Shigure,” she said. “You are really cute you know that?” she laughed. She was right that did feel awesome. She was never the type of girl to just say things like that to a man. He stared at her for a moment then smiled. He said something and waved at her then got up and walked down the hallway, she assumed to his study.

She didn’t blame him it was kind of awkward to sit with someone you can’t talk to. She still felt annoyed ‘Why the hell can’t I tell if he likes me? It shouldn’t be this hard,’ she thought. She thought back to all of the times she thought he could have been flirting with her. After thinking about it she decided that he had to have been. ‘Ugh, I’m going to go crazy if I don’t find out. But how would I do that?’ An idea occurred to her, but she usually didn’t do things like that, it could turn out very badly. She stood up and took a deep breath. ‘There’s no other way.’

Inora walked down the hallway. She wanted to know, she had to know, did he think of her like that? She was usually really good at reading people but it seemed like Shigure had a veil around him. So she had to do this the hard way. She didn’t particularly like the idea of just throwing herself out there but what was the worst that could happen? She didn’t want to think about that. She reached a doorway and stopped, she listened hard. She could hear his pen scratching at paper, so he was in there alright and there was no turning back. She took a deep breath and walked in.

"hey," she said. He looked up and smiled at her. He said something in Japanese; she figured it was something about his writing because he kept gesturing to his desk. She pointed to herself then out the door thinking maybe he wanted her to leave. But he waved his hands and shook his head quickly; he set down his pen and continued to smile at her. His desk was low like their table but instead of sitting on the floor he had a really low spinning chair. She walked forward and sat to the side of his desk. This was kind of hard; she couldn’t use words so she had to use straight up body language to get her point across. He drifted off staring into the distance, she couldn’t blame him, she was kind of boring company right now.

‘Ah what the hell am I doing?’ she thought. ‘I really don’t see how this is going to work without words.’ He seemed to be patiently waiting for something, smiling serenely like he always did. She tried desperately to gather her thoughts and her courage. It wasn’t going well. Soon she started thinking of ways she could escape, maybe implying that she didn’t want to get in the way of his work? She heard him sigh and she looked over. He was rubbing the soft spot between his neck and shoulder, he moved his head to the side to try and stretch it out. There was the window she needed, she stood and walked over to him.

She knelt down behind him and started rubbing his shoulders. He sighed and she felt the tension immediately leave him. ‘Well he isn’t trying to shake me off,’ she thought. She started to inch closer to him. Careful of course to not bump into his back, it might ruin the mood she was trying to set if he transformed right now, thought she was really curious to see his dog form. She got close enough that she could feel his body heat. Finally she bent her head slightly so her hair was brushing on his ears and shoulders. He straightened up and she heard a small, surprised "ah" escape his lips. She held her breath. This is what it all down came to.

He slowly turned to face her. Their eyes meet and in that instant she knew her hunch was right. She barley had time to register the burning in his eyes before his lips were on hers. Shivers ran down her spine closely followed by his hands. She had just enough sense to put her left hand on his chest to make sure they wouldn’t bump into each other, but that was about the last conscious thought she had. She gently flicked her tongue against his bottom lip and his sweet breath surrounded her face, their mouths instantly became a battle ground for some sort of tag. His hand ran all the way down her back and gently squeezed her ass. She gasped and began to kiss him rougher, and he responded in kind, tag was over. It was hard for her to remember to keep her hand on his chest; she moved that hand inside the collar of his robe and pressed it against his skin. She wanted to explore more, and luckily her other hand was free.

Her right hand ran down his shoulder and back to squeeze the side of his ass while he ran his up her shirt and began to play with her breast. She slowly moved her right hand around his hip and rested it for a moment on his thigh. She just decided to go for it and slowly slipped her hand into his robe. She found that he already had a slight erection. She ran her index finger from its base all the way to the tip, she felt him shutter slightly. She smiled into his lips and wrapped her hand around the base of it; she heard a catch in his breathing. She moved her hand slowly up and down the whole length of it; he had a full erection now. She moved her lips to his neck and started opening his robe. She moved her lips down his chest, while she worked on the tie around his waist she licked lightly at his nipples. By the time she pulled the tie free he was breathing hard, his robe fell completely open.

She looked up and gave him a wink and she was surprised to see that he looked almost shocked. She leaned back down and pressed her lips to the tip of his cock, Shigure moaned slightly. She spread her lips very slowly until just the very tip was in her mouth. She bobbed her head very slowly; each time she bobbed down she took more of him in her mouth. He moaned again, it was almost a whimper.