This chapter was refurbished quite a bit, because I re-read it, and it sucked! Hopefully this version is better.

Disclaimer: I don't own Haru, Momiji, Akito, or any fruits basket characters, I do, however own Sara, Katie, and Gyna.

Thank you Neko-Koorime for Gyna's name! You rock!

Cursed Blessing

hanyou-samurai

Chapter 1

"Wait up you guys!"

"No. You're too slow." Sara said, rolling her eyes. She wasn't fond of Gyna.

"I am tying my shoe! And I'm not slow! I'm just…"

"Speed challenged?"

"Ha ha." Gyna said sarcastically.

Gyna rolled her eyes at Katie's bad joke. She had been 'tying' her shoe for the past three minutes and forty-two seconds, and her so-called 'friends' had started to get impatient.

Gyna Shitenshi sighed and finished tying her shoe. She had green eyes flecked with gold, and shoulder length brown hair. It was growing about a quarter of a centimeter everyday, and slowly turning silver.

The fifteen year old then began to tie her other shoe, hoping the girls would ditch her so she could go home. She loved amusement parks, that was true. She absolutely adored huge roller coasters, but only geeks went to amusement parks alone. And Gyna, while being many things, was not a geek.

Gyna was about ready to murder her boy crazy friends. According to them, what better way to spend an afternoon at an amusement park then searching for guys? Even Gyna had to admit, her friends were getting a lot of looks from different guys. Gyna was barely getting a glance, but she was used to that. Her friends were, happy, bubbly, model material, and she was a goth, a punk, a hardcore loner, by choice and circumstance.

"We're going on ahead, meet us in line, 'kay?"

"Sure." When will you baka's be ready to go home? Her friends were oblivious to how much she hated this. I would have enjoyed it if you guys weren't so happy. Well, it's not like you told them you didn't want to come, she thought to herself. Oh wait, you did! And they dragged you along anyway! The fools said it would be 'good for my social standing to get out of that dreary room once in a while.' What do they know? And my room isn't dreary, it's cool.

Anyway, the only reason I'm here is because Katie is too nice to not invite the weird kid who sits in the corner on an outing with her.

Gyna ran to catch up with her friends. She was craning her neck in all directions, trying to find them. While running. Not the smartest idea.

"Momiji! Momiji! Where are you, you little rabbit!" People turned to stare at the last comment. Hatsuharu Sohma didn't notice he was too busy craning his neck to find Momiji. While running. Really, neither teenagers were thinking that day. Haru flicked his white hair out of his eyes, and ran a hand haphazardly through the black roots.

THWUMP! Gyna tripped and fell onto Haru, her arms closing around his stomach. Haru closed his eyes, ready to transform, but he didn't hear the popping noise, and he didn't feel any different. Instead he heard "Owwwwwwww." He opened his eyes. He was lying flat on his back with a girl on top of him, hugging his stomach. And he hadn't transformed! He sat up.

The girl realized what she was doing, gasped, let go, and crabcrawled backwards about 2 and a half feet. They were both breathing heavily. Gyna realized that the boy was dressed in black like her. Black pants and a black sleeveless vest with the collar open into a v shape. Gyna raised an eyebrow. He was extremely attractive. Gyna spoke.

"I am so sorry!!!!! Are you ok?" Just then, they heard yelling in the distance.

"Come on!" They both looked up. It was Sara and Katie waving their arms.

"I gotta go," said Gyna, jumping up and running to her friends. Haru just sat there until his blonde, half-German cousin ran up to him.

"Watcha doing on the ground Haru?" said Momiji, popping out of nowhere.

Haru stood up. "Nothing. Let's go." As they were leaving, he couldn't help but glance back at the girl. Who was she? Why didn't he transform? These were questions he wouldn't be asking anyone, especially Akito.

The Sohma family was cursed. Thirteen of its members were born with the spirit of the Chinese Zodiac inside of them. Haru was the cow, Momiji, the rabbit. The thirteenth spirit was the cat.

Now, the cat is not a member of the Zodiac, of course. That is because when God called all the animals together for a feast, the rat told the cat that the feast was the next day. That night, while all of the animals went to the feast, the cat slept, dreaming of the false feast that was to happen the next day.

On the way to the feast, the rat ran up to the ox and told him that he was tired. The ox let him ride on its back. Once they reached the place where the feast was to be held, the rat jumped off the ox's back and God gave him the first year. The ox, angry that he had been duped, was pacified by being given the second year.

So the Sohma family was cursed. It popped up when the pervious carried had died. The problem for its members in America was the fact that Americans were a lot less religious than Japanese, with a lot less superstitions. How would they explain it if they transformed?