Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ Green Goddess ❯ Off the Train ( Chapter 1 )

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Ch.1

Aari Shintzu stepped off the train and onto the platform. Her shiny black Mary Jane style shoes where in stark contrast to the dull gray concrete under her feet.

She sighed and made her way through the faceless gray steam shrouded crowd toward the baggage claim. After walking a ways she found herself standing in front of the never-ending, rotating baggage claim. Piles of gray, black, and ultimately dull looking bags passed before her until, like a small jewel of color in a lump of coal, her own line green backpack, holding all her possessions she cared to take into her new life, came into sight.

Aari grabbed it and looked for an exit t. Stepping out into the warming sunlight Aari, for the first in a long time, smiled and breathed deep thinking," I always wanted to go to Japan."

~~~~~~~~Flashback~~~~~~~

Aari opened the mailbox. I was once again stuffed full of her parent's friends sympathy cards and letters. She laughed gruffly," Seems like my parents have more parents when they are dead then when they lived." Today, for a change, there was something else, a big vanilla envelope addressed to her, but from Japan.

She walked inside wondering what it was. She sat down at the kitchen table and opened the envelope and pulled out a crisp white letter. It was in japans, but luckily for her she could read it clearly because her mother was from Japan and insisted that she learn to read, write, and speak it clearly. The only reason she lived in America was because her father was American and they had came back here when they wed.

Her mom had dark hair and brown eyes and her father the total opposite her father blonde hair and blue eyes.

Her parents had quite the shock, as would everyone, when she was born with grass green hair and purple eyes. Some eye brows where raised cause she looked like neither of them, but her mother was nothing less of faithful and soon Aari was just assumed a "freak " of nature. Aaris mother always loved her and didn't seem to mind her daughter's odd hair and eyes.

As Aari skimmed to letter her jaw dropped, the letter was from a Akito Sohma, who apparently was a distant, distant relative of her mother and therefore invited her to go to Japan and be under the care of him and his family seeing how she was only 16 and under the age of being considered an adult.

~~~~~~End Flashback~~~~~

So there she was, her dream of going to Japan finally came true. She headed for the line of waiting people with signs saying different names and scanned it. She assumed that whoever was picking her up knew she had green hair that came down to the back of her knees and would therefore get spited easily.

She stood there, her green backpack on her back, looking at the people coming in and going out till all that came on her train had cleared out. Finally, she just sat at one of the wooden benches staring at her shiny shoes wondering if they had forgotten her. Although she looked like a mutant (or so she thought) with green hair she had many times been forgotten, but not by her parents, or felt invisible. With the exception with those few who where her "friends" because they wanted something from her like money or homework to copy, cause she was a strait A smart girl, she had no real friends. Before she left she had resolved not to be forgotten, looked through, or used and as she sat there she thought she had already broken this.

"But Hatori.I wanted to go see Tooru today!! A young sounding and rather annoying voice echoed.

"We will Momiji, but first we have to pick up this girl." A voice she only assumed said. Hatori

Aari looked up and saw a boy, which she first thought a girl, with blonde hair and a tall man with a gild eye, the other could not be seen under his dark hair.

She stood up in all her 5ft. 6in. glory. Everyone looked at her including Hatori. She unconsciously shuttered, his eye looked so emotionless.

A total opposite was Momiji who was presently skipping around her. He was talking a mile a minute about everything from how tall her was to the color of her hair. Hatori put a hand on his shoulder and he fell silent and still.

"Are you Aari?"Hatori asked.

"Yes."Aari answered.

"Sorry we arrived late" He apologized

"OH! Its ok.. I didn't even notice. Plus it was nice to stop going for a second!"Aari said a smile spreading across her rather stunning face showing her flawless white teeth.

Momiji looked up at me and then in a wine,"Hatori can we go see Tooru now that we have her."

"We have to drop Ms. Shintzu off at the main house first."

Hatori turned and with Momiji running ahead started waling to the exit. Aari stood in a daze thinking," What a weird couple, maybe I'll fit in" Hatori turned," Are you coming?"

"OOO Yes!" and with that she ran to them and to her new life.

AU: How do you like it?….comment please I want to know!