Okay, this is my second fanfic, and It is going to come in chapter installments, about the life of Hotaru Sohma, a girl who witnessed Yuki's transformation as a child, but whose knowledge on the curse was unknown to the "inside" Sohma's. Now she has returned to Japan, ten years later, and attends the same school as the other Sohmas. The first part of this intro (in italics) is a flashback.

I've never wrote anything like this before so please read and review, all criticisms will be taken into account, and I will defiantly write more if people want to read it :)

enjoy

P.S. This is just an introduction to the story, to say how everything kinda fits in. You will find out more in the other chapters... I hope!

'The "inside" of the Sohma estate. A place full of secrets… of beauty, glory, and an intoxicating sense of mystery. My brother and I had never been there… but this new friend of his… Yuki… or something like that, had invited us to come in… and we went.

Inside was exactly how I envisioned it… a world of glamour and intriguing visions of love…and hope… And yet I still wanted to leave that place… the "heaven" that my brother's friend lived in felt like a cage… a glittered cage with golden bars…

But I didn't care… Playing with all the other children... it made me happy…

Then it happened.

One of my neighbours, Miu, crashed into someone, and there was a… a "poof" sound, and he vanished. That shy boy, Yuki, vanished and… there was a mouse in his place…

I couldn't help it… I just ran…

…never to see that lonely boy… or my old life again…'

Until now.

When the Sohma family finally caught up with us, and took us back…

…back to that land that contained the glittered cage…

But they didn't realise… no one except me and my mother…

…That I had seen the secret, and remembered it still… which was why we ran… to keep our memories alive, and real…

And they are, no matter what the "insiders" believe.

They don't realise that I know the secret; they believe they erased everyone's memories of the event… Miu's, Tamiko's, even my brother, Hayato, remembers nothing about that disastrous night… only me… and that boy isolated in his cage… lonely… so lonely… Yuki.

In the next Chapter Hotaru will have her first day in school, and see what happened to all those friends and enemies she made while she was a child.

There will also be other "secrets" that are reveiled, especially to do with Hotaru's mother and that side of her family (the non-sohma's) in the upcoming chapters.

Whether I get reviews or not, I shall add the next instalment in the upcoming week, so please feel free to say if you want me to hurry up, or if you think my writing should be improved... alot! :)

Sorry this Chapter is so short, it really is just an introduction though to the main story.