Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ Aliens on the Inside ❯ So far ( Chapter 1 )

Holy crap I thought I had isssues.Tori and I understood what she had said but Yuki, thankfully, didn't.Although did jump like 3 feet into the air when she started E-ing.He looked kinda scared.

“Don't worry," I said," She doesn't bite."

He straightened himself and moved back to where he was sitting by Joey.

“Right well I guess I'll meet you girls after school by the north gates, ok?”Yuki explained.

Tori and Joey shook their heads.

“Righto,”I replied.

With that Yuki gathered his things and left. My `that' was an exciting lunch. Joey was trying to breath right while Tori and I clean up our stuff. Then to class we went.

The day passed quickly and the next thing I knew I was walking to gate.Yuki and the girls were already there. Joey was talking to Yuki who looked distracted.Tori looked plain bored.

“…….and that was how my day went today," Joey finished just as I walked up.

She was going to start another story or something when Tori interrupted her.

”So we're already to go?" She asked.

We all nodded. We went left through the gates. We walked on for 15 minutes.' How far does this guy live?'

"Yuki? How much longer do we have to walk?" I asked.

He looked back at me.

"About 15 more minutes.Why?"I shrugged.

"Just wondering,"

We continued down the street. Sure enough 15 minutes later Yuki stopped in front of this forest. I had a chance now to ask why we had stopped because Joey finally shut up. For the past 15 minutes she had been shamelessly flirting with Yuki, but he looked like he enjoyed her company.Whooo…. .

"Here we are,"Yuki said.

I looked into the forest. There was a fairly wide path running into it.

"What? All I see is trees and that path,"Tori spoke up.

"I guess you could say this is the drive-way," he replied smartly.

I just shrugged and held my hand out in a 'move on' gesture.

"Shall we?" I wondered." Ladies first." I muttered the last part as Yuki went in first. (I really think he looks like a girl.)

We walked on for ten minutes or so when wee cam into a small clearing. Inside the clearing was a beautiful two-story Japanese style house.

"Whoa," was all I could say.

Tori was all"Oh I hope your cousin does say yes" and

Joey was like'Oh my god, Yuki, I can't believe you live in such a beautiful house."

Yuki just nodded and walked us to the door.

Inside we took off our shoes and followed Yuki into the living room.

"Please make yourselves comfortable, I'll be right back,"Yuki said pointing chairs and a couch.

"All right," we all answered.

Yuki left the room and closed the door as I found a seat on a chair and Joey and Tori sat on the couch. From somewhere on the ground floor we heard muffled voices. One was Yuki's and the other was male, but deeper, older.Suddenly the older voice yelled,

"Yay, now we won't be alone in this crap-shack anymore!"

Joey whispered "Crap shack? This place is huge."

I yelled back to the voice,"You can never be alone in this crap shack!"

The three of us started to laugh when suddenly a man, who appeared to be in his twenties, was standing in the doorway. He had longish hair, brown eyes. It looked like he only had one arm, until the other one appeared at his chin. He looked like was studying us.Yuki pushed past him and sat next to Joey on the couch.

"My, my you've picked some cute ones, Yuki"the man joked.

Yuki stared at him angrily.

"Shut up and sit down, Shigure,"he commanded.

The man, Shigure, waved a hand.

"Fine, just kidding though,"

He sat on the chair opposite of me.

"Yuki has just told me of your problem and if we agree to say yes there will be a few things we will ask of you,"Shigure explained.

"Okay," I said as Joey and Tori nodded.

"Alright then, First is no hugging or anything close to it.Second,Shigure will have to ask the head of our family.Last,will you please act as our house keepers,"Yuki cut-in.

I though most of it sounded reasonable.

"I have a question," Joey asked," Why did you say no hugging?"

That did sound a bit weird though. Maybe their gay?

"Hmm, well you see, our family has this disease that if we are hugged by someone of the opposite gender we burst out in an itchy, contagious rash with spots and boils, really nasty stuff." Shigure answered.

' Okay that's a bit gross'

"Ewww," exclaimed Tori,"That's disgusting!"

"I know," Shigure smiled.

Now it was time for Tori to ask a question.

"Is asking the head of your family such a big deal?"

"Yes, yes it is,"Shigure said simply.

I decided to ask about their final request. I didn't want to be left out of the questioning.

"What's with house keeping part?" I asked" This place looks pretty clean."

Yuki spoke up this time.

"I can answer that question," He said," Shigure, here, is a lazy idiot who stays home all day and doesn't clean the house and I'm usually to busy with school, studying or other things."

Auugh, men. They're always to busy with something else. I decided to ask the question us girls have been worrying about.

"So it a yes or no that we can stay?" I asked.

Shigure opened his mouth to answer, but before the words came out, the door to outside suddenly burst inwards and pieces of wood were flying everywhere. When the wood started flying everyone raised their arms up to protect their faces. Everyone except Tori and they person who just busted the door. She just sat there staring adoringly at the orange-haired boy who was now standing just beyond where the door once was, on the grass.

"Get up, you stupid rat, our fight isn't over yet," he said.

Yuki stood up from his spot on the couch and dusted himself off. He turned to the boy.

"It never is, but that may be because you never seem to get any stronger. If that is the case just try to make it worth my time."

He said it so calmly, I was in shock. How could he be so calm after some kid smashed a whole door apart and demands a fight.Yuki calmly walked over to the boy and kicked him in the stomach forcing him farther away from the house. He followed him out and their fight ensued.

 

While they were fighting outside, the rest of us just watched them.

"Who's that?" asked Tori with a dreamy look in her eyes.

"That's one of our cousins, Kyo Sohma, he and Yuki are the same age and fight every time he's here,"Shigure explained. He then added," Of course every time they do fight they break something on or in my house, they don't apologize and I die a little inside."

He laughed. I laughed with him and he gave me a look and a smile. My face redden as I looked away, back to the fight.Why is my face red he's like 12 years older than me. Coming out of my thoughts, I saw that the battle was over, with Kyo lying facedown on the floor and Yuki walking back into the house, wiping blood of his newly cut lip. Of course Joey jumped up to nurse him.Awww Poor baby T_T.

"Oh my god, Yuki are you okay?" She asked him.

He turned his attention to her.

"Yes, dumb cat just caught with a lucky shot," he replied.

Shigure then came over to them, having left to get a cloth for Yuki's lip, handing them the cloth. While Joey was tending to Yuki, Tori ran over to Kyo to see if he was okay. She knelt down beside him trying to turn him over to see if he was all right. Suddenly he jumped up and his arm swacked Tori in her already bleeding face, from the shattered door, and knocking her into the air a bit.

"Mother Fuc…."was all she got out before she passed out (a weak drunk and a weak blood loser .Tsk Tsk).

Kyo, with his *coughCATcough* like reflexes caught her as she was about to hit the ground. As she landed in his arms,Shigure's head dropped and he smacked his hand to his forehead.

Yuki started shaking his head and muttering"Damn cat," under his breath.

Kyo had a look on his face that read "Aw shit".

Suddenly there was a puff of pink smoke and a thump as Kyo disappeared and Tori hit the floor. Everyone was kind of silent as the smoke slowly blew through the hole Kyo had made. When it was all gone there was a cat sitting on the floor, in a pile of Kyo's clothes, where he was supposed to be.

"Oh my god!" yelled Joey.

"You broke him, Tori!"I joked.

Tori was still unconscious and couldn't respond. I stopped my laughter for a moment, looked closely at Kyo and screamed….

"AWWWWW, KITTY!!" while running towards him.

I scooped him up in my arms and gave him a bone crushing hug.Kyo started clawing and biting at my arm, so I slapped him on the head.

"Bad kitty," I scolded," Don't scratch."

I hugged him some more until I was interrupted.

"I think you're going to break him, Miss Flowright,"Yuki broke in.

I glanced down at Kyo and he was struggling to breath.

"Right," I replied letting Kyo fall to the ground.

He fell and landed with a 'thump' He glared at me and I stuck my tongue out at him and crossed my arms. Joey laughed shortly but quickly got serious.

"Ok so what the hell just happened here!" She demanded, her voice was a tad high, like she was trying not to freak out.

"Ya, why did Kyo turn into a cat," I added." Does it have to do with that disease you mentioned earlier?''

"Ehehe, Kind of," Shigure laughed, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.

"Well go on and tell them then," Yuki sighed.

Shigure nodded and Joey and I turned our attention to him. He coughed to clear his throat.

"Right, well, you see our family, the Sohmas', are possessed by the vengeful spirits of the Zodiac. There are always twelve who are possessed and right now Kyo happens to be the cat, I'm the dog and Yuki is the rat. Most of our cousins right now are possessed by then remaining ones, the snake, dragon, boar, rabbit, ram, tiger, cow, monkey, horse and the rooster." He explained.

Something didn't add up with what he said. There were only twelve Zodiac animals, but he mentioned thirteen.

"Aren't there only twelve Zodiac animals?" Joey voiced my thoughts." it says nothing about the cat."

"Kyo is considered and outsider," Yuki interjected.

Kyo glared even more and looked away.

"If you glare to much your face will get stuck like that," I told him," Plus frowning uses more muscles than smiling, so you should smile more so your face won't hurt so much."

I smiled in his direction. He humph and continued looking away.

"My face doesn't hurt!" He yelled.

I just shrugged and went back to the conversation. Shigure was telling a story of how the cat isn't included in the actual Zodiac.

"…..so then the cat grew a hatred for the rat because of what it had done," He finished. Joey was wide eyed.

"That's so sad," She cried.

"That's why I have to defeat that damned rat, so I can become part of the Zodiac," hollered Kyo.

Yuki just shook his head.

"Can't we just continue with or actual conversation," he reminded.

"Right, so do you guys have, like, superpowers or something?" I asked.

"No, but we can communicate with our respective animals," Shigure answered," We should also warn you that we transform when we're hugged by a member of the opposite gender, girls to boy and boys to girls and if we get too sick or weak ,as well." Shigure finished.

It was a lot to take in and my head was spinning a bit, but it was totally cool. I wanted to see what Yuki and Shigure looked like as animals, so I looked over at Joey and it looked like she had the same idea. We nodded and counted to three.

"One," I started.

"Two," Joey continued.

"Three," we finished.

On three Joey jumped onto Yuki, hugging him, she must have been very happy. I lunged towards Shigure and glomped him good. POOF!

Joey and I fell to the floor. I sat up and right in front of my face was a medium sized blackish dog. I glanced at Joey and saw a small grey mouse sitting in front of her.

"Awww, they're so cute," I swooned.

I couldn't tell but I'm sure the dog smiled at me and gave me a wink.

"I know I am," Shigure agreed.

"Holy crap on a stick! A talking dog!"

We turned around to see Tori finally conscious and sitting up. Took her long enough to get up.

"That's not really a talking dog, no wait yes he is, but he's actually Shigure, the cat is Kyo, and the mouse is Yuki," explained Joey.

Tori just looked confused as hell so I decided to explain things to her. It took a little less time than when Joey and I learned it all since I shortened it a tad.

"Awsome! It's like a movie or something," she exclaimed." How long have they been like this?"

"I'm pretty sure that Kyo had been cat shaped for almost ten minutes now and that Yuki and Shigure were animal shaped for about 5 minutes now," I estimated.

I turned to look at them.

"Are you guys going to stay that way forever?" I asked.

"No, it doesn't usually take this long. Then again it does vary from time to time. I never remember it taking this long before though," squeaked Yuki," If we happen to trans form soon I must warn you, we transform back…."

Suddenly there was another puff of smoke, this one was bigger because it was three combined, and before us stood on naked man and two naked teenage boys.

"Naked!" cheered Shigure.

All three of us spun around as the smoked started clearing. I thought I saw something, but I wasn't sure.

"Gah!" We all squealed as we turned.

When they told us to turn around again, they were, thank god, dressed again.

"Sorry about that girls, we should have mentioned before that when we transform back that we are naked," Yuki apologized.

His face was tinged red, aha, he was embarrassed (Bare assed) {AN/I know that was kinda dumb, but it got me.Teheheh}

"Now I'll defiantly have to ask Akito if they can stay here since they know our secret," Shigure said. I tilted my head a little.
"Why? Weren't you going to have to ask before?" Joey wondered.

"He has to ask for sure now because you three are the only 'outsiders' that know our secret," Yuki explained.

"Woah," I whispered.

Now I feel special, well more special than before. Everyone was quiet. Suddenly there was this weird growling sound. I looked around the room.

"What was that?" questioned Tori.

The guys looked kind of embarrassed.

"Our stomachs," grumbled Kyo.

My stomach then growled and then it was a chain as Joey and Tori's stomachs growled.

"Guess we're all hungry," I laughed," Where's the kitchen? We can cook something up for supper."

Yuki and Shigure exchanged nervous and possibly even more embarrassed glances.

"I wouldn't consider it a kitchen since the idiot doesn't use it," Kyo criticized.

Shigure looked offended as he led us out of the living room and towards the kitchen. He slid the door open and we all stood there quietly. My eyes went wide as I surveyed the scene before me.

The entire floor of the kitchen was covered and garbage bags that were stacked so high some of them reached the counters. As they guys just stood there our jaws dropped.

"Not much of a difference since I left four months ago," Kyo said casually.

"Not much of a difference!" I choked.

He must be mistaken. Never in my fifteen years of living have I seen a kitchen so dirty.This place probably could've killed cockroaches.

"You know for a room full of garbage from god knows when it really doesn't smell," Tori piped up.

We sniffed the air. She was right it didn't smell at all and if what Kyo said was true most of this is from like four months ago.

“Wow! That air freshener really works!" smiled Shigure.

"That's a lot of freshener then," I added.

He laughed a little at and smiled at me again. Once again I blushed and look away. 'That's twice in one day' I thought to myself 'something must be wrong with me. I haven't blushed this much since I had the nightmare where I went to school naked and that wasn't even real'

"Whatever, lets get this place clean so we can eat," Tori ordered. "It'll be our first act as housekeepers."

"Yay!" Joey and I cheered.

We got to work quickly. I took the floor; Tori took the counters and the table while Joey cleaned out the cupboards and the fridge. We did all this after we cleared away the mountainous garbage bags of course. We cleaned like maniacs and ended up finishing in an hour. We did end up smelling like garbage and stale air fresheners and sweat while the kitchen was clean and fresh smelling.

"We should so go pro," Joey joked.

We all laughed. We must have been loud to because Shigure was suddenly leaning against the door frame.

"Hey girls what's so...Holy crap! I have a kitchen!" he shouted.

We started laughing at his reaction.

"Ya its amazing what you can find when you actually clean," I giggled.

Shigure chuckled and poked his head out of the door.

"Kyo! Yuki! Come see what these wonderful girls have done!"He called.

We could hear their footsteps as they neared. When they came in they both looked surprised.

"Wow," mumbled Kyo.

"Indeed," agreed Yuki.

We beamed with pride that they were happy with it.

"Well we should start cooking now, right girls?" Joey wondered.

Tori and I nodded and we turned to the counters in order to prepare supper but Shigure stopped us.

"Why don't we order take out instead so you girls can take a break," He offered, "You look a bit tired."

We turned back to the guys.

"Sure why not," agreed Tori.

"Kyo go order us some pizza," Shigure ordered.

"What why me?"Kyo demanded.

“My house my rules,” the dog replied smugly, “and I say you order the pizza.”

Kyo stomped out of the room muttering angrily under his breath. I stifled a giggle.

“Um, guys, do you guys a shower we can us,” Tori asked shyly,” we kind of need one.”

“What a silly question,” Shigure teased, “Of course my house has showers. I'm not a barbarian you know.”

“Yes follow us and we'll show you where they are and how to work them,” Yuki offered.

They lead the way back towards the living room but kept going into another hallway. I gazed around. There were four doors in this hall way and the one we had stopped in front of must be the bathroom.

“This is one of the bathrooms. The other one is upstairs by the guest rooms,” Yuki explained. “The room beside it is...”

“Mine!” interrupted Shigure cheerfully. He turned and pointed to a door. “And that's the laundry room, in case you need to wash some clothes.”

We just stood quietly taking in all this information.

“Alrighty, who is going to shower first?” Shigure asked.

Joey and Tori shot their arms into the air. `Damn' I thought, `Now I have to wait'

“Kyo! Come show Tori how to work the taps in the bathroom!” hollered Shigure.

Again Kyo replied angrily.

“Why do I have to do it!”

“Because she got hurt because you kicked my door down and your arm could've broken her nose,” responded the dog.

We could hear him stomp from the kitchen, where I guess the phone was, again muttering angrily to him.

“Yuki why don't you show Joey how to work the shower upstairs then?” proposed Shigure.

Yuki nodded and Joey followed him down the hall and up the stairs. She was absolutely thrilled.

While they were taking their showers I got the `Tour De Shigure' of the house. Across from the bathroom and Shigure's room were the Laundry room, beside that was Yuki's room and beside that was Kyo's room. We moved towards the Living room and past the front door into the kitchen again. Across from the kitchen, I learned, was Shigure's study where he did his work, whatever that was. This got me intrigued.

“You have a job?” I joked in mock shock.

“Of course, silly, how else would I afford this house?”

“Robbery!” I declared.

His eyes became all shifty and he steepled his finger in a Mr. Burns imitation.

“Excellent,” he hissed.

I let out a giggle and asked if I could see upstairs.

“Of course. It's where you'll all be staying if you can stay,” he revealed.

We retraced our steps to the stairs and started to climb.

As we came onto the floor I noticed Yuki at the far end leaning against the wall with his eyes closed.

I gazed around and saw that this floor contained five doors, one at the far end by Yuki, two on my right side and two on my left.

“Is that the bathroom?” I pointed to the door beside Yuki.

“Yup, I guess Joey must still be in there,” confirmed Shigure.

Yuki opened his eyes and told us she was still in there.
“Why are you standing here?” I asked.

“Just in case she needs help,” replied the rat.

“How gallant of you Yuki,” teased Shigure, “worried for the lady.”

I heard the water stop.

“Holy, she's just getting out,” I informed them. “She's going to take forever if she puts on make-up,”

`Which she probably will' I thought.

“Girls take a really long time to put make-up on,” Shigure stated.

I raised my hands in defense.

“I don't wear the stuff. Too much time.”

Shigure looked at me with mock shock and raised his hands to cover his mouth.

“A girl who doesn't wear make-up! What is the world coming to?” He gasped.

I slapped him on the arm and we both started laughing.

Yuki just gazed at us as if we were stupid, which we probably are.

Suddenly Joey opened the door and stepped out in just a towel.

“Hey what's so funny?” she asked the rat, pointing at us.

Yuki explained that we were laughing because I didn't wear makeup.

“I know it's crazy, right” She laughed.

I changed the subject.

“Are you done yet?” I asked.

“Just need to get dressed,” she replied, un-gripping one hand from the towel she waved it around her body. (A/N Think wheel of fortune or any game show when they show off the prize) Her action caused one side of her towel to slip down past her…ahem. Yuki immeadietly blushed tomato and looked away,being the gentleman that he is.I yelped and jumped up to cover Shigure's eyes with my hands,though I think he got a peek in.Joey was confused as to what was going on.

“I wanna see more, I wanna see,” Shigure fidgted in a kiddish voice.

“No way” I answered as I struggled with the taller man.

“What is he talking about?” Joey asked cluelessly

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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