Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ Cursed Angel ❯ Cursed ( Chapter 1 )

I watched the girl as she sat on the roof with her raven black hair billowing out in the wind. Her eyes were a golden color, like wild animals. I saw coldness there, but underneath a deep sadness. Still deeper was an understanding, kindness, love, sympathy, but they had been locked in a caged.

I doubted anyone would understand her the way I did as I watched her there. I had been watching her for a while. I first saw her one night standing there like an angel with her hair blowing in the wind. An angel. I wanted her to be, so she could save me from this place. This home where parents screamed at one another and didn't have time for me, their son. This was no home; I was locked in a cage of walls. Friends, a distant memory; and school a never-ending nightmare. My loneliness was only broken as I watched her, she never appeared to be afraid of falling. I was, I was afraid that I would slip into a darkness I couldn't escape from. I was a coward. At least I could sit in my window and watch her as I try to block out the sounds of my parent's most recent fight.

 

I climbed down the fire escape ladder as I thought about where I would sleep this night. Somewhere high close up to all the stars; I looked up at the night sky making sure the stars hadn't run away. I twirled around in the middle of the alley letting my dirty worn skirt fly around me. I was a mess my raven hair was greasy and I could feel the dirt as I ran my fingers through it. My once white shirt was now a dirty gray, my shoes worn and tired looking. I felt a few drops of rain thinking how lucky I was for I needed a shower. I took off in the direction of the forest as the drops of rain steadily increased.

When I got to a clearing deep enough into the forest I striped my dirty clothes and fished out shampoo I had bought at the dollar store. The rain began to pour I thanked the gods and started rubbing the shampoo firmly into my hair. “Ow!” I yelped as shampoo suds burned my eyes. I heard leaves being crunched and then a slight gasp. When I finally got the suds out of my eyes I say two boys backs a blush creeping down their necks and a girl who also had her back turned. “I am so sorry!” the girl began apologizing, “No no,” I interrupted her, “ It was my fault, sorry.” “Oh no, you have nothing to be apologizing for. Oh and by the way my name is Tohru Honda and this is Kyo and Yuki.”

 

I sat there in the fuzzy pajamas Tohru had lent me thinking of how foolish I must have looked showering there in the rain on their property. “Here have some tea,” Tohru offered, “You'll catch cold from the rain.” “Thanks, I'm Rai,” I whispered. The two boys named Kyo and Yuki wouldn't look at me. Their eyes traveled everywhere but not once on my face. Suddenly exhausted I slipped down and fell into unconsciousness before everything went dark I heard Yuki tell Tohru to take me up to her room.

 

I awoke in a bed tired and sore; I felt in my bones that the sun was just setting. The usual cold was setting into my body and I suppressed a shiver. I had to get out of here before they found out about me and before I found out too much about them. I pushed the covers back and opened the window. It was two stories up but I jump out trusting my light form. I landed lightly and silently on the damp grass hoping no one had heard. I quickly ran into the forest hoping beyond hope I would get far enough away before it started.

 

(Kyo's prov.)

 

I watched the girl run off into the forest. I didn't want her here anyways. Tohru and Yuki will worry about it tomorrow; anyways it wasn't my problem let her leave.

 

 

I tripped and fell flat on my face deep in the forest. I prayed it would be far enough. A pain seared my back I could feel warm blood dripping down to the ground. With a sudden rip wings ripped out of my back their white form stained with red. As soon as the pain dulled I felt my mind open and widen as I felt the pain of those around me. The Sohma's pain was a tingling in my mind. Every night this happened I felt the pain of whoever was around. Living in a city almost made me insane, as I had to feel the pain of millions at once.

 

I pushed myself up and walked deep into the forest trying to find a place to lie down. It was going to be a long night and I wasn't about to get any sleep.

 

 

I cried out in pain as my drunken mother hit me on the back with her beer bottle. It shattered and ripped into my back. “Mom!” I screamed as she threw herself at me in a drunken rage. “You freak! You dirty monster! YOU ARE NOT MY CHILD!” She screamed in my face as she threw punches. “Mom,” I sobbed, “stop Please.” She was out of steam and fainted on the floor.

 

I didn't want to remember this but I couldn't stop the flow of memories. Even then when I was about five I knew I was the reason she drank. My father left her in fear of her insanity, of course leaving me.

 

 

I smelled the sickening sent of my blood as I climbed out the window and on to the fire escape. Down on the ground I felt my wings rip out but I didn't care. Who was going to walk in this broken down grimy alley? I was so dizzy so so dizzy, the ground span and I blacked out.

 

 

“No, NO” I cried. I didn't want to see this I didn't want to remember. And yet I couldn't stop the flow of memories as the came into my mind. Oh how I wish I knew then how wrong I was about no one going down that alley. If only I knew then, if only