Fight Heaven and Earth to Protect You

Kikita
(KyouxKagura – went back to my original username to pay respects to the couple)

Who would have guessed it?
There were two cursed families in Kaibara, the Sohma’s and the Shizen’s. From there being only one curse to two completely different curses. One was the Chinese zodiac and the other was the Western zodiac. How is Japan going to cope with all this? If you think the Sohma’s were complicated enough, you certainly haven’t seen anything yet!

I failed to mention in my last introduction that I do not own anything in this fan-fiction about from the characters of the western zodiac. I do not own the Sohma’s or even the idea for the curse. So don’t sue me.

Pairings from Fruits Basket: Kyo/Kagura – Hatsuharu/Isuzu – Tohru/Yuki – Hiro/Kisa

Pairings from the western zodiac: Find out as you read.

Pairings from both: Hatsuharu might have to choose between Isuzu and a mysterious western zodiac affected girl. Haven’t decided yet, we’ll see how it goes.

CHAPTER TWO:
“The Second Zodiac Curse”

“I don’t think I can take this class with him in it.”

These were the first words that came from Suziko’s lips after she decided to find her voice and speak. Rae was almost worried, but she knew that she would have found a way back to her. She always liked annoying her in class. The raven-haired beauty just sighed. She knew why, but why would it matter to Suziko? Especially when:

“He doesn’t even know who you are. So why worry?”

“Thanks, Rae. Rub it in.”

Suziko put her head on the table, as she knew class wouldn’t start for another fifteen minutes because the teacher still hadn’t shown his or her face. The timetable only stated the class would be taken by a: M. Kinomiya and no one could tell if that meant Mr or Mrs, or if it was a first name. Either way, it would be a surprise. As she looked slightly up from her bare arms, her eyes set on Takuto again.

“Stupid…”

At the other side of the classroom on the other hand, Tohru was too busy studying the new girls. She was intrigued – and being the happy-go-lucky person the young girl was, she just had to stand up and walk over to them, giving out her hand and stating her name. Her long brown hair trailed down her back as she smiled a small smile.

“Honda, Tohru. Nice to meet you.”

“Shizen, Rae. And ditto.”

The two different girls shook each other’s hands. Rae sent a glare towards Suziko, but either she was extremely bored with her head on her hands, or she had fell asleep. To help her family member out, Rae introduced her for her. Tohru was smiling all the way through the introductions. Anyone knew it was obvious that Tohru enjoyed making friends. It was just in her nature to open up and let anyone in. She was a very open person.

“What about your friends?”

“Hanajima, Saki and Uotani, Arisa.”

Hana said hello and Uo nodded her head. In return to this, Rae had performed the same head gesture. Suziko on the other hand was pissing off Rae a little. She was meant to be sociable, not have her head on her arms staring out at Takuto. She needed to get over this childhood crush she had on him. Suziko had met Takuto once before – or so Rae had found out – and now the beige haired beauty has had a crush on him ever since.

He wasn’t anything special in appearance – Rae didn’t think so anyway.

He had long brown hair – almost black, and this was in a ponytail. His skin was light. He seemed almost pale as snow. He was much different from his cousins. The one thing Suziko would have went on about was Takuto’s ice blue almost water coloured eyes. She said they were one of her favourite assets of the boy. Takuto hadn’t really spent much time with the two of them, so how Suziko thought she knew everything about him was beyond Rae’s knowledge.

“If you’re that bothered, then go talk to him. Preferably before class starts.”

In return to that she just got a sigh and a headshake. Rae just wanted to bang Suziko’s head off that table, even if it would hurt her. Tohru was there standing by the two seated girls. She was offering that they spent lunch with her, Uo and Hana. Rae agreed, but Suziko gave a muffled groan. Just what was up with her cheery friend? She was definitely going to get to the bottom of it, even if it meant a little matchmaking to do so.

What Rae couldn’t see though, were the tears that were filling up in Suziko’s eyes. Just what was she hiding? No one else knew – she held this secret within herself and wouldn’t let it out. Sometimes she wondered what she did to deserve this. She had done nothing wrong. Yet the head of the Shizen family Illyana didn’t agree… she just had to punish Suziko.

“Is she okay?”

There was a worried tone from Tohru’s voice. Rae answered in the only way she knew to, and that was to nod. If you’re asked a question that could be answered plainly with a nod so your not convinced to go on and on, in Rae’s opinion – you simply nod. Rae took her book and opened it to the first page before picking up her pen and writing her name in the hand-make jacket pocket, so that if she had lost the book she’d be able to claim it at lost and found.

“You don’t have to worry about my sister here, she’s just zoning out before class.”

“Ah, so you’re sisters!”

Tohru placed her finger in the air after finding out that the two Shizen girls were related. Tohru would never have guessed. For one thing they looked nothing alike. Although there was one thing on Tohru’s mind – were they cursed too? Why did Hana get such strange vibes from them if they were not like the Sohma family? In fact, she was determined that she was going to find out – much like she was when she was determined to meet the rest of the Sohma family that were cursed.

Kyo and Yuki, who weren’t looking, talking or thankfully: arguing, with each other had stayed seated where they had parked themselves down before Tohru began to speak, so the brunette didn’t know if she should have introduced them. When Yuki had given her a small smile, she knew she could introduce him without getting the backchat that Kyo would certainly have given her. She smiled softly before moving her hand to point out the grey haired guy a couple of seats behind them.

“This is Sohma, Yuki. He’s the class president and he’s also a very good friend of mine.”

“Sohma…”

Kyo and Yuki both looked upon Rae as she spoke the name as if it was familiar. Kyo held a look that almost stated: what the hell is it to you? Yet Yuki was being friendlier. When Rae said it was good to meet her, Rae agreed. Suziko on the other hand was still keeping herself to herself – or well pretty much. Rae just didn’t want to bother her when she seemed to have something on her mind.

“Sohma’s an interesting name.”

She finally said as if to take their minds off that she might have met them before. Yuki and Kyo seemed satisfied with that. Well, as much as she could tell. Tohru was just smiling happily to herself. Rae wouldn’t have been surprised if Tohru was an inner-blonde. Well that might be stereotypical – but the saying “I’m having a blonde moment” wouldn’t be around if it wasn’t for that stereotype of blondes being dumb. No offence to blondes reading this.

When the classroom door then swung open, Tohru moved back towards her seat to sit down. That was when the man had walked in, obviously older than them all so they decided that he was that M. Kinomiya that Suziko was thinking over not a little while ago. The teacher stood behind his desk – that alone made it obvious just who he was. Moving a piece of chalk up to the board, he wrote his name. Kinomiya Mayaka. So that was what the M. had stood for after all. They never would have guessed.

“Yet, you can just call me Sensei.”

Well of course, no student in this classroom would have been any less disrespectful. Well maybe Kyo – but perhaps no one should think of that or the wiseass cat might have something to say against it. With it being their first day, the teacher just wanted to tell them of what it is that this course of Japanese Literature would suffice of. It was just after that that they were told that they could just go for an early lunch and return back for their second hour ready to take down some notes. It was certainly going to be interesting.

When Tohru, Hana and Uo left to get their things put into their lockers. Rae and Suziko stood up. Suziko’s eyes followed that Takuto as he left to take his lunch – and that was finally when Rae hit her sibling over the back of her head. Finally getting the other girls attention – and glare. Suziko sighed as she looked away from her. How was she going to do this class without getting distracted?

“So the Sohma’s attend this school”

“Weren’t you listening to anyone before we left this morning? They’re the reason why we’re here.”

“Oh…”

“Just try and not give away our curse, Chel.”

Suziko gave her older sibling a look as if to say that she would never do anything like that. She followed Rae out towards the lockers and found the ones that they were fussing over the last chapter. That was when Suziko gave her sister a nod as if to say, don’t open it, you can use mine. So Rae did. It wasn’t going to take long for Rae to take over Suziko’s half of it as well as her own – but Suziko didn’t mind. That was why she had a bag after all. She didn’t like to leave things where they could get stolen, even if the locker had a padlock – well a lock almost like a safe.

That was when they headed for the cafeteria to meet up with Tohru, Hana and Uo. Looking around Rae was trying to find out where they were sitting and at the same time Suziko was scanning the lunch board with a lot of concentration. She had her mind set on the types of foods that she ate and was sure she could find something to satisfy her insatiable hunger.

“Mmm, fish.”

“Stupid Leos.”

Suziko glared at her cousin for making fun of her star sign, her legacy and of course – most important – that of her curse. If you knew of the Sohma curse, then you knew that the members of the Chinese zodiac cursed their family. Well – the Shizen family were cursed of what was believed as the Western zodiac. How does their curse work – much like the Sohma family’s curse? If put under an enormous amount of stress, or – more commonly – hugged by a member of the opposite sex, they are transformed into animals. For example, Suziko, if she were to be hugged by a guy not cursed, would turn into that of a lion cub.

Now the lion is a special star sign to be born under. There could only be one cursed child born to each star sign – but for the lion it was different. Two babies were born on that day, and they shared that same star sign. In fact, it was the guy that Suziko was staring at constantly, Takuto. Ever since that day it was considered that the lion was a curse in itself. The head of the family decided that Takuto was born the true member of the zodiac, and Suziko was not – she was just the other Leo. Since then she became almost Illyana’s pet.

“Not any better than you damn swans.”

Swans were also known as Gemini animals. They were elegant and graceful. That was much like being a twin apparently. When Suziko finally ordered her food, got it given to her, and paid for it, Rae put her arm under her sisters and almost dragged her towards Tohru’s table. Tohru was the first to acknowledge them and that was with her friendly smile. She moved slightly so they could both sit down – even though there was plenty of room. Tohru was just a good person. Rae had realised this. She never knew though, how did Tohru get so close to Yuki and Kyo Sohma? Was she possibly the one that was the first outsider to know about the Sohma curse?

“So what do you think of Kaibara?”

Uo asked as if she were bored of the school already and just wanted to ditch the last hour and head home. Rae shrugged as she looked around. Did she mean the school or the place because the school was pretty dull and of the moment she couldn’t say any less about the area. The only thing remotely interesting about both was the fact they were going to find out more about the Sohma’s.

“It’s okay, we haven’t been here long enough to really get to know it.”

She hoped that was an adequate answer because she didn’t know of what else to say to her. Rae looked down to the timetable that Suziko had laid before her. She didn’t notice but the lioness had already eaten all of her fish. She must have wolfed it down – oh wait, that’s the wrong species. She saw that they had a class that was different from each other. Suziko had Spanish and she had French. Well that was okay for Suziko –she spoke fluent Spanish. She would probably put into an English course, or into Rae’s french one.

“School here might be interesting.”

But she couldn’t help but wonder – what else would she find interesting about living here in Kaibara?