Fruits Basket: A New Batch

[Mari]

//ooc: Ayuu, Mari should post more oft. X3~

"Gaaah! Rue is such a killjoy!"

"Shh!—she'll kill you too if you don't shut up!"

The distraught twins watched as Rue did her thing, practically frightening the group...or perhaps, just them. With an obviously obvious pout, they stuck their tongue at her (they made sure she was gone, naturally) and rolled their eyes. Of course, they were always this sulky whenever their fun is ruined. You know, like two spoiled little kids~~

However, glancing back at Kari, their grins immediately crept back on their faces and along with it, the ever-devious twinkle in their eyes.

"Still in shock, Princess?" Axel said casually, patting her lightly on the back. Truth be told, he actually wanted her to say yes; he still couldn't get over how cute she was acting mere moments ago.

"Axel--! stop! Rue-Rue is coming back!" Alex whispered urgently as Rue made her way back to the group. Axel instantly inched away from Kari and quickly hid behind his brother as Rue spoke to her. There were only two thing the twins were afraid of: Dying from boredom and Rue with a bad temper.

 

[Miss Reyna]

Reya finally made it to the beach house. She didn't want to be cramp up in the beach house right now but she doesn't want to be alone outside eirther. Maybe she be able to get some of the Sohmas to play with her. She walked into the house and saw that her bags were missing and only her stuff rabbit was there. She ran to it and said, "Mr. Bun. Where is my stuff? I told you to watch them."

She nodded and smiled as if she was listening to the stuff rabbit. She then replyed back, "Oh. Somebody came and took them to my room. Okie. Thankies for waiting for me Mr. Bun." She then gave the rabbit a kiss.

She then skipped happily with her stuff rabbit in hand and saw a group of Sohmas together. She thought she heard one of them metioning that Rue is coming. She didn't really care if Rue comes but she did want to be part of their fun. She went towards them and said loudly, "Who coming? What is happening?"

 

[Lily]

OOC: I'll take Mari's post first, then Rue's command.. o.o Blah. Weird post. @_@



"I'm f-fine," Kari responded with a small smile, although in truth, she was far from fine. Axel's pat did little to appease her extreme anxiety, although the twin's genuine, playful concern was more than what she deserved. Her whole body felt numb with...what was it called again..confusion? It was all too realistic to be considered a dream, but the slight unrealism of it all made her think elsewise. Sheep? Lyon?

...

Sheep?

She vaguely heard Alex whisper on Rue's arrival; why were they afraid of her? Who could blame the twins? They were both so friendly with an equal glint of kindness in their eyes, and kindness was something Kari did not see often...usually.

"...and personally, I think you have little choice," Rue finished talking.

It took a while for her to digest what Rue said, but she was only too willing to comply (although still a bit uncertain). Kari, by this time, hoped and hoped she wouldn't get in trouble. If she did, she'd have to make up for the turmoil by perhaps apologizing profusely again, maybe even helping out with the housework and she'd have to say sorry to that girl, Katsura, and also Lyon, and...

"Alright, then, Ms. Rue," Kari smiled.

 

[Loki]

Rue didainfully looked toward the girl who couldn't string together a choerent number of grammatically correct words and instantly thought 'You're not allowed to come', but as long as she shut her mouth and didn't say anything peevishly wrong, then Rue had nothing to deal out with that...girl. She'd definetly be speaking to the God about her.

"It's Rue." Rue said firmly. Ms. Rue wasn't an option, and really, Dr. Rue wasn't either. It was Rue, or Dr. Sohma, which really only happened with her patients "Now if you'll follow me." She said directly to the outsider as she turned and stalked back indoors. She wasn't going to wait for the girl, but Rue wouldn't have much choice by the time she was inside. She would wait indoors.

Walking through the sliding glass doors for what felt like the billionth time, Rue waved a hand, signaling Kin out of the dining hall as she sat down at the farthest end of the table.


"Have fun." Kin said sarcastically, recieving a death glare from his sister as he shoved his hands into his pockets and trudged behind the counter to grab a book from the extensive library, just a skip and a step away from the kitchen. Of course, nobody here would be skipping...except maybe that extremely annoying bunny who was so cheerful it was offending...Kin dearly wondered whether or not that girl had gone to school or not.

But he kept his lips sealed as he wandered behind Rue's point of view, anxious to hear just how bluntly she would break it to the girl. Knowing his sister's ways, just by seeing her when Kousuke was punishing him for another wrongly done command, he knew it would probably 'We're cursed, any questions?'.

He covered his thin lips with the black sleeve of his right arm, trying to hide the smirk, which was a result of a stifled laugh. His smiles of course, never reached his cold gray eyes, which was plus in this situation.

 

[Insomnium]

Kat watched as Yumi walked away from her, towards the beach house. She stood alone on the beach for a little while, enjoying the sun for a few mor moments before heading in, with the new girl standing a few yards away. Until Rue came out, said a few murmured words, and left for the house with the girl walking a few paces behind her. Kat looked at the sky and sighed, it was getting kind of late, and she still had to unpack. She started for the beach house behind Rue and the new girl.

A little while later, Kat had completed unpacking and had just gotten out of the shower, when she had heard some people talking downstairs. She figured it must be Rue, explaining the curse. It would probably be a pretty blunt explanation, too, knowing her.

 

[Miss Reyna]

Reya letted out a great sneeze and then let out another one. She then smiled and said to her stuff rabbit, "Looks like somebody is thinking about me Mr. Bun."

She then sneeze again. "Excuss me and bless me." She then cover her month and wiped her month with a towel. "Yeppie. Someone is thinking about me. Is it you Mr. Bun? You should have." She then looked around and notice that there wasn't that many people around her except Rue, Kin, some girl that was taking a bath that Reya was hearing and a new girl that Reya guess wasn't a Sohma.

She then notice that Rue was looking serious. Reya didn't like when Rue get serious because she remember that Rue was the dragon which is able to remove memories. She guessing that what Rue ws goingto do. She backed out of the room because she doesn;t like to see that being done. Her smiled disappear and waked out.

She then notice Kin with a book and smiled again. She wonder if Kin wanted to talk. She rarely get any time with her family. She skipped up to him and said with a smile on her face, "Hia. Whacha doing?"

 

[Loki]

Kin looked up at the rabbit who'd just bounced up to him. He snapped the book shut without looking down, keeping his stone hard glare upon his cousin. He didn't say a single word, merely glared and swiped his hand across his throat. His way of saying, shut the h*ll up, or what do you want?

Anybody could've guessed that he'd meant both as he walked away from his original spot, or, in other words, away from the rabbit, and into the confines of his room. He doubted she would be ditzy enough to bug him there.

'Besides,' he thought as he slammed his door shut, 'I need to get my homework done, and the last person I want to see is someone as unnaturally cheerful and annoying as Reya.'

"Alright." Rue said as Kari walked into the beach house "To put it shortly, we are cursed. Cursed with the animal's of the zodiacs, 'vengeful' spirits. Everytime we hug someone of the opposite gender, we transform into our respective animals. As you have seen, the bumbling ram, is Lyon. I know you may be thinking, that you never hugged Lyon, but he did bump into you, and that counts." Rue folded her hands over one another before continuing "I think you will find that many of us hold characteritics that follow our animal forms, such as, Kin is an ox, which usually moves in a herd, but they graze solo, and do not share anything more except the same pasture. He dislikes being around too many people, and not having his own space, but he knows his animal relies on others being around. Lyon, as you saw, has the same color hair as his wool. These are just to name a few similarities. Now, you will also find, that we have our own opinions on others. I will not explain those, as those will probably become my own personal feelings. Some are more friendly then others, Some more hyper, and energetic."

Rue sighed and said as a closing statement, "You will discover these as you go along doing housework here in the Beach House, but also, you will want to leave the room after someone has transformed, as when we return to our original bodies, our clothing is absent."

'To put it bluntly, we're dead naked.' Rue thought sarcastically as she kept a passive face and unfolded her hands to push herself out of her seat "Any questions?"
OOC: A little bunnying Lily if that's okay?

 

[Miss Reyna]

Reya wasn't sure if she wanted to go after Kin. She did want to have some fun with her family. That was the main reason she wanted to come on this vacation. She looked at her stuffed bunny and said, "Mr. Bun? Do you think Mr. Kin would like our company during his tea time?"

She replied for Mr. Bun in a deeper voice, "Tea would be nice to have during this time. I would like some."

"Me would like that too." Let go to the kitchen and grabbed some. I am hungry anyways. Tristy too." she said.

Reya skips into the kitchen and boiled some hot water to be prepare for tea. She then took a strong smelling teabag and place it into the water. The water changed colors and became red. She then grabbed some cakes and put them on a plater.

Reya then took a smell of the tea and said, "Me like it. I would like to share this with Kin as soon as it is ready. Wouldn't it be nice?"

 

[Insomnium]

Kat yawned as she walked down the staircase to the first floor. She jumped a bit, as she heard a door slam somewhere downstairs, and sighed, it must be Reya, bothering someone again. Kat just shrugged it off and continued down to the kitchen to get something to eat, when she heard Rue's voice from the other room, "Any questions?" She heard the sound bounce off the walls around her.

'Oh well. Now that she knows, I guess I can introduce myself!' She thought, cheerfully aware that she was the cause of her finding out, and that she would have said Hi! anyway, even if she didn't know about the curse as she grabbed a piece of fruit from the basket on the table. She slowly made her way over to the dining table to wait for the girl to come out, so that she could apologize for what she had done. As she sat, she remembered the girl's name, Kari, she heard someone mention it right before she had tripped on the piece of wood on the beach. She giggled a bit, she knew the girl's name all along, and still, she had called her 'The New Girl'! Now she would have to apologize for that too!

 

[Lily]

OOC: It's perfectly alright~ I'm sorry; I didn't know how to end this. XD


Kari listened, completely raptured as Rue began weaving the threads of the Sohma's story. "Curse?" This family was cursed? It didn't sound like a curse one would normally expect. In fact, she found it quite amusing and exciting, albeit not in a cruel way, but her virtuous, lingering curiosity was too much to bear. Eyes practically shined with wonder and admiration, searching for the many possibilities the Sohma family hid (although she did manage a small blush at the last statement. She'd have to remember that for now).

"Ms. Ru- I mean," Kari stopped, clamping her mouth shut, remembering what 'Rue' preferred, "I mean..no, never mind. I apologize." In truth, she was overwhelmed with such an intriguing tale. Blatantly stated, she wanted to find out what every one's zodiac was. Saying this in front of 'Rue' would be impolite and would be gazed down upon, Kari thought. But her interest could never be extinguished. Only one was currently known: Lyon, the ram...and the other the girl fascinated her. She had a certain quality Kari was unable to rid her head of. And one could only guess on the rest of the family..oh, this was going to be splendid!

"Thank you very much; I feel rather undeserving of your kindness," she blushed a bit, executing a quick bow, "but I will certainly try my best. You have my deepest thanks, Ms. Rue!" Kari ended this with such happiness, she temporarily forgot to...not call Rue 'Ms. Rue.' Another blush grazed her face as she realized her mistake. "I-I apologize," she stammered, mentally berating herself. Stupid, stupid, stupid! "I didn't mean to. I really am sorry, Ms. R- I-I mean, Ru!, no, w-wait, Ms. Ru-" Her feet automatically stumbled backwards, trying to excuse her presence (or moresoever, stupidity). She felt her world tilting in the head, body temperature soaring high, mind completely depleted and exhausted without a care in the world where she winded up landing on.

And she would've fainted on the dining table if it weren't for Katsura blocking her fall.

 

[Wolf_Goddess]

"I see you're still not out of the room. What's eating Rue?" Mikka said calmly. She pulled up a clean pair of pants while Lyon stood in the corner of the room with his hands over his eyes. "Okay, I'm done changing, you can look at me."

"Stupid cat, couldn't you of just changed in the other room?" He sighs, and lets out another when Mikka just calmly shook her head. After a bath, Mikka was usually pleasantly calm, and Lyon surely did not wish to ruin the quietness. Usually, with Mikka around the house was loud with her yelling and her trying to fight another Sohma...usually ending up with the other victorious.

"Anyway, do you think Rue is explaining it to...Kari, or just erasing her memory?"

"Don't know, don't care...I'm going down to eat." she gives her simple pink tank a satisfactory tug before leaving the bedroom, to leave Lyon there until it was time for him to get out.

"****, this is gonna be some wild vacation..." she murmurs to herself, walking about the house barefoot as she made her way to the dining room...only to find the new girl, Kari was it? Yeah, Lyon had said her name. stumble, and another Sohma who looked familiar (she must have been on the beach) block the faint. Mikka stands there, looking at both with a disgruntled look.

"Guess we can never have any peace in this house, can we?"

 

[Insomnium]

"Ahh!" Katsura yelled as someone flew out of another room, and fell onto her with a dull thud. She struggled to regain her balance for a moment, before her knees gave way, and she found herself in a sitting position, with the girl's head resting on her lap. On closer inspection, she soon realized that it was Kari. And she was burning up with a fever! Kat looked around wildly, hoping to find someone that could help her get Kari up, off the floor, so she could go look for some ice. Then she noticed Mikka, standing near the door.

"We can never have any peace in this house, can we?" She asked, giving them a disgruntled look.

Katsura shifted under Mikka's hard gaze, and the weight of Kari's head. "Can you help me get her off the floor? I have to go find some ice." She asked the angry cat timidly.

 

[Loki]

"You'd watch your clumsiness as well." Rue said coldly "And if it's that hard...call me Ms. Rue if you must, but I must stress the fact that it is utterly uneccessary as I would take a guess that I am nearly the same age as yourself, if even, the same. Now if you'd excuse me, I have to report to Kousuke."

As she passed out the front of the dining hall she passed the cat and said with a cold stare "You'd best behave yourself." Giving one fleeting look at the bracelet around the girl's wrist she left the dining room, with orders for the next person she saw.

Kin perked up from his papers and poked his head out of his room. His sister was gone already? So blunt was she it took mere minutes for her to explain it? Well, one couldn't expect much more from her.

Kin sighed as he heard someone say his name in a high cheerful voice. It didn't help that his room was nearly right next to the dining room, the kitchen to boot. Something about 'sharing'. Man, that girl couldn't mind her own beeswax could she?! Judging from her personality in general...Kin had to say that answered his question itself.

"Oh Kin." Rue said stopping as she passed by the hallway that led to his room, and a numerous amount of other rooms "Show the new girl to her room will you? It's the one next to Lyon's. You know, the guy I had you give the ntoe to earlier?" She said nothing more and continued on her way.

'What am I your servant?!' Kin though angrily as he bristled with frustration 'Or is it some kind of conspiracy to torture me for leaving Sohma house on New Years, LAST year?!' He had half a mind of not following Rue's order, but he was interested to see that new girl up close...and yet, that 'up close' would be at least an arm's width apart. The last thing he needed was to turn into a big ugly COW in the middle of this 'vacation'. That would top the cake of this wonderful day.

He slowly left his room, taking his time to leave, and took no hurry to walk down the hallway leading back into the dining room.

He assembled his best face, passive, cold, and hard...not that it took much time, as it was what he usually did everyday anyway. He turned the corner and saw an unfamiliar girl upon another unfamiliar girl and sweatdropped.

"Get up." He said hoarsely rolling his eyes.

 

[Insomnium]

Katsura turned her head in the direction of the voice, and saw Kin, standing in the doorway, his face cold and passive, like he didn't care that Kari was passed out on top of her. Which he probably didn't."I,-I can't!" She replied, shifting around so that she was facing Kin.

"She's out cold! And it seems like she has a fever, too!" She pushed Kari off her a little more, and tried to wiggle her way out again. Only this time it worked. She got up shakily, regaining her balance as she did. Hastily, she turned to Kin, and explained what happend. It didn't take too long, and by the time she was finished, she noticed Kari had begun to stir a little. Kat glanced at her, "-So, that's what happend, okay? Now, will you help me move her?" She stated, more of an order than a question.

 

[Loki]

Kin raised his silver eyebrows at the girl, his eyes not affected by this movement as he said "No."

He pulled out a chair, once underneath the table, or, halfly underneath it, and sat down, watching the boar with a cold glare "Can't you do it yourself?"

He wished at that moment his voice wasn't so hoarse. It sounded kind of lame, a cold glare and a hoarse voice.

Kin folded his arms but soon held a hand over his mouth as he coughed twice. Two slight coughs that weren't really loud, but killed his throat. It was almost as if he constantly had a sore throat. Which, really sucked.


Rue held her cell phone in her hand as she dialed Kousuke's number.

"Hello?" Came a smooth stone hard voice.

"Now what?" She asked bluntly, yet politely.

"Just play along. Make sure she gets along well with everyone. Oh, and when she finally bumps into a boy." Kousuke said tossing poker cards onto the floor in front of him "It'll be a happy day when she does. They haven't transformed in some time, or at least, I haven't heard of any transformations lately. Though I know for a fact Kin hasn't for many years. I'm sure that spirit is just dying to get out don't you?"

"Yes, I'm sure." Rue said rolling her eyes. It wasn't as though Kousuke could see through the reciever anyway. She was glad for the fact that the outsider was a girl, and not a boy. It would stink if someone made her transform "I'll do that as soon as she makes them transform."

"Good." Kousuke said flipping over the top of his cellphone. He could let Rue know he was inside the beachhouse by letting her call the number! "Dante, the girl is sick, you'll have to cook tonight's dinner."

"Yes sir." Dante said shuffling out of the tatami room to prepare the Sohma's dinner.

 

[Insomnium]

"Well, I guess she can just lay on the floor then, because I can't lift her." Katsura said, not trying to be nasty, but rather just simply stating the truth as she watched Kin pull out a chair, glaring at her all the while. She just shrugged, and pulled out her own chair at the table, across from Kin, and next to Kari, who was still laying unconcious on the floor.

"Did Rue send you to get her?" Kat asked, gesturing towards the girl on the floor with one hand. She figured she must have, after all, it was kind of obvious, usually by now Kin would be in his room sulking, and since Rue wasn't here, she must have sent him instead. How predictable.

((Sorry it's so short, but I have to leave!))

 

[Loki]

Kin raised his eyebrows in a 'why?' kind of look.

He rolled his eyes and set his foot on the edge of the table, shoving the chair he was in, back out from underneath the table and stood up, walking over to the outsider and sighing, before picking her up, one arm underneath her knees and the other supporting her back. In other, cruel, and 'giving-the-extremely-wrong-impression', words, Bridal style.

"Yes." Kin answered the boar as he opened the door to the outsider's new room with the toe of his shoes, and laying her down on the bed, not as considerate as to put her down 'gently' but instead merely put her down and left, taking the time to slam the door shut.

Rue dialed the room number to Lyon's room, and held her dark purple cell phone up next to her ear and brushed indigo hair from her porcelin face. A pretty face, A pretty outfit, and an ugly personality, she knew this well, but it never bothered her. Nobody was the perfect man for her. Or, she hadn't found him yet anyway, and didn't really plan on finding him either way around. She was hard to be around, but that didn't bother her either. She'd ran out of luck years ago, but she didn't miss it all that much. It wasn't an essentail part of life, when it came to being a servant to a God.

 

[Miss Reyna]

((Is it ok if I control a guy? You know. Make one up?))

Reya finally took one last smell of the tea. It was a bright red and smelled like mint favor. She liked the smell alot. "It so tastly that you can just drink it at this moment."

She pour the tea into a tea pot and gather a few tea cups. She was wondering if there will be others wanting to have some of the mint smelling tea. She then placed some cakes on the tray with the teapot and cups. She had a huge smile on her face as if she was enjoying this. "For me friend Kin!!" she said as she place her stuff rabbit on her head.

She walked out of the kitchen and into the dining room to find Kin, Kat but wasn't able to see the outsider. She had a huge smile and said, "Just who I was looking for!!"

She place the tray onto the table and said, "Do you want some Kin? I brought some tea if ou tristy? Do you want some?"

Reya then notice that Kin was walking out with the stranger in his hands. Is that his girlfriend thought Reya. How cute she thought. She picked up her tray and follow Kin to the room of the new gir. She rasied the tray and posed in front of Kin. "Wantie some?"

 

[Loki]

Kin raised his eyebrows and sidestepped the bunny, and stopped after he was behind her "Once you start talking in correct english, I'll consider saying anything more to you."

How annoying! She couldn't mind her own business could she? He felt a pang, inside of him, but he quickly quelled it. This girl was starting to rile his 'Black' personality. And by the looks of it, she'd never be the same after she'd witnessed his black personality. Stupid, innocent, carefree and ditzy. Kin made a note to tell Kousuke to break her.

How come she wouldn't leave him alone? It was kind of hard not to get the picture, that though she may have been friendly, he was not.

He smoothly sat himself back down upon the chair and said "Happy?" Sarcastically to Katsura. Name's were coming back to him, as he pinpointed the fact that the annoying girl who wouldn't leave him alone was...Reya. Ah, he truly remembered Kousuke's glower at the girl as he'd felt she was too cheerful, which, he had no hesitation in confiding within Rue, and himself. But that was many years ago, before he stopped coming to New Year Celebrations. He only came during the years it was his year. The year of the ox.

Screw the other years.

 

[Miss Reyna]

Reya was a bit disappointed. She thought that he would want some of her treats. They were lovely or that what she thought. One of the cakes had a large strawberry while another had a cherry on it. She then saw the strange girl laying in her bed. Reya would play with her but the girl was asleep.

Reya place a cake on the nightstand by her bed. It had a cherry on it. Reya hoped this girl like cherries.

She then thought about Kin again and said, "Maybe I should try and offer him some cakie again. He may like some."

Reya then got out ofthe stranger's room and back to where Kin. She really liked Kin so she hoped that Kin would like some.

Reya then place the tray on the table in frount of Kin and said, "Hia again. Would you like some cake now? I have some great tea if you are tristy?"