Fruits Basket Fan Fiction ❯ Zodiac ❯ Chapter 1

Disclaimer: I LOVE FRUITS BASKET!!!!!!!!!! But I don't own it.

"Zodiac"

Chapter 1

"I'm home!" Shigure called, happily walking into the living room. He then stopped and looked around. "High school girls! Why do we have high school girls? More of Tohru's friends?"

"AH-CHOO!!" One of the newcomers sneezed. "Do you guys have a dog?"

Yuki, Kyo, Tohru and Shigure sweatdropped.

"Shigure, this is Kudamono Suika and Shinsenna." Tohru smiled, motioning to two identical silver haired girls with purple eyes. "They're here to work on a history project with us."

"This is our cousin, Shigure." Yuki added.

"Which is which?" He wondered aloud. "Which of you is Suika?"

"I am." Both replied.

"Shinsenna?"

"I am." Both replied.

"But I thought………never mind…I have a manuscript to finish." He turned to walk out, when one of the girls stepped forward.

"I know you. Souma Shigure, ne?" She exclaimed, sneezing again. "You write those dirty manga my baka nee-chan reads."

"I don't read them! They were Mikan's." The other defended herself. "I was throwing them out when you came in."

"Why would you be throwing out Mikan's magazines?" The first asked. "You're not the type to do something like that."

"Maybe you rubbed off on me."

"Shi-baka!"

"Don't call me that. My name is not death!"

Kyo was getting confused………which made him mad.

"SHUT UP!" He yelled. "I can't hear myself think!"

"Why don't we get something to eat?" Tohru suggested. "Follow me………I've got some miso soup I could warm up."

Shinsenna stood and started to follow when Suika got an evil idea.

"Shi-chan, wait a second."

"Nani?" Senna turned around just in time to see her sister trip Kyo. He landed on top of her, knocking her to the ground. With an orange poof there was a cat and a pile of clothes on top of her.

"Why'd you do that?" The cat spun around, yelling and cursing the other.

"Wait a minute." Senna said, sitting up. "You have a zodiac curse too?"

"What do you mean `too'?" Shigure asked, helping her up. "Do you guys have a-"

A hand shot over his mouth.

"Don't say it!" Both twins exclaimed.

"Say what?" Kyo asked. "Zodiac curse?"

There were two large misty-grey poofs as two silver lionesses stood where the girls had once been.

"We said don't say it." They growled.

"But how?" Tohru asked. "There's no year of the lion."

"We know, but in the western zodiac, there is a Leo." Suika replied. "Is there a room we can get dressed in?"

She and Senna gathered their clothes in their mouths and followed Tohru to her room. The three returned a few moments later, human and fully clothed.

"Your transformation didn't last very long." Yuki observed.

"That's the good thing." Senna replied. "When there's more then one of us, our transformation is shorter. It's sort of like it gets distributed between us."

"I wish ours did that." Shigure stated.

Suika checked her watch. "Mikan should be here to get us soon." She told her sister.

"Hai." Senna smiled.

Just then the doorbell rang.

"That must be Mikan." Senna said as Shigure went to answer it.

"It's hard to believe there's another family with a zodiac curse." Shigure thought loud as he went to the door. Senna and Suika didn't here him, but………

"Who said zodiac?" a woman on the other side of the door asked. She looked very annoyed, and was, oddly enough, holding a crab under one arm and a pile of clothes under the other.

"Girls!" Shigure called cheerfully as he reentered the room. "There's a beautiful woman and a crab here to get you."

The woman with the crab followed, looking more annoyed.

"That's no woman." Senna smiled.

"That's our manly onii-san………Mikan." Suika replied, a mean grin spreading across her face.

"Ha ha………don't rub it in." Mikan replied.

"Excuse me…I'm fixing to transform back…can I go get dressed?" The crab squeaked.

Senna took her into Tohru's room, and returned a moment later with a smaller blonde girl.

There was a poof and Mikan returned to his usual state. He was tall, and had blonde hair and blue eyes.

"How can a guy turn into a girl like that?" Kyo asked, thoroughly confused. Sometime during all of the excitement he'd snuck off, changed back, and redressed.

"Ever heard of the sign Virgo?" Mikan asked. "Of all the luck, I would be the one of the first guys born under it in the family. It's only happened three times."

"We turn into our animal." Senna clarified. "Suika and I are lions, Ume's a crab, Cancer, but Mikan………well, Virgo doesn't have an animal, but the symbol is the virgin maid, so naturally………"

"It's like a dry version of Ranma." Suika finished, laughing. (AN: Can you think of a better way to explain it??) She then sneezed again. "Okay………where's the dog?"

"That would be………me………" Shigure sweatdropped, then smiled. "How did your family wind up with a zo-with it?"

"We're not really sure how long a go it was, but an ancestor traveled the world. He promised to marry an old hag, but ran away with her beautiful younger sister instead. What neither knew was the old hag was skilled in black magic." Senna explained. "She cursed our family as a way to get back at our ancestor and her sister. Everyone in our family turns into the symbol of their western zodiac sign if any of the signs or the word Zodiac is heard."

"We're not sure how long we've been cursed." Mikan finished. "It's been a legend for centuries already."

Meanwhile, Yuki was growing increasingly nervous. He noticed Ume was staring at him intently.

"You're cute!" She squeaked, running forward and hugging him.

There was a purple poof and Ume stood holding a small purple rat.

"Please put me down." He asked. Ume obliged, and he started to where the others stood. Senna latched onto the nearest person.

"I hate rats!" she whimpered. "Mikan………do something with it."

"I can't, it's your friend from school."

"I'm being hugged by a high school girl." Shigure smiled. "Remind me to have Yuki transform more often."

Mikan glared at him, whipping the smile off his face.

"AH-CHOO!!!" Suika sneezed, glaring.

"Sorry Su-chan………" Senna said, letting go of the dog. "I forgot he transformed………"

"AH-CHOO! Right, sure you did. Shi-baka."

"We'd better be going." Mikan said, motioning for his sisters to follow him. "Some of our cousins are coming in for dinner."

"Oh joy." Suika replied.

"We'll get together again tomorrow." Senna said, trying not to looks at Yuki, still in rat form. "Maybe we'll get something done on the project."