Post by Darcy on Apr 11, 2007 20:00:17 GMT -5
One day, Tohru comes upon a house in the woods which is the home of Shigure Sohma and Yuki Sohma (a first year at her school with an unwanted fan club) from the Sohma family. When the Sohmas discover that Tohru is, in fact, living in a tent in the woods, they are quite surprised. The entire area is Sohma property, and Tohru pleads to stay, offering to pay a rental fee for living on their land. Feeling sorry for her, and desperate to end their take-out eating habits and filthy living conditions, the Sohmas offer her their spare room in exchange for cooking and housework. When her tent is buried that night in a landslide, burying her mother's picture and school clothes, she has no option but to accept.
Tohru soon discovers the Sohma family's secret, and the reason why Yuki is so private and secertive: thirteen members of the family are possessed by the 12 animal spirits of the Chinese Zodiac ("Jyûnishi" in Japanese) and the spirit of the cat who was left out of the Zodiac according to legend. They transform into animals when hugged by the opposite gender, or when they are under a great amount of stress. When she promises to keep their secret, the Sohmas allow Tohru to keep her memories rather than hypnotically erasing them, a fate that had previously befallen anyone not on the "Inside" of the Sohma family who had discovered the secret.
The story follows the lives of Tohru and the Sohma family, as they deal with each other and a society where neither quite fits in, as well as the feared Akito Sohma, head of the Sohma family.
For a while things were great. Kyo and Tohru were raising a beautiful baby boy and expecting a girl. Everyone was happy. Everyone except Akito that is. She was worried that her daughter wouldn't be loved. She thought that if the curse was back then everyone would love her. So she prayed everynight. She prayed to god to give the curse to the second generation. After countless nights of praying god finally granted her wish. The next born child, Kyoko Sohma (Named after her grandmother) was the year of the Cat. The adults were devestated. After little Kyoko came the rest of the zodiac spirits and the two - year - old daughter of Akito, then deceased, was named the Jade Emperor.
Now, seventeen years later, the young Kyoko Sohma is a second year at Kaibara High. She's the spitting image of her dad, but her hatred for the rat is a lot less. She lived a normal life, as normal as you could get, with the loving care of her precious mother. She and her two best friends fight the everyday challenges of being a teenager. Living with the monkey's fan club asking her for inside details. Struggling to keep her secret and keep her temper under check in front of the rat. Now there's a new Zodiac! Things are going to be different this time around. Now it's
Double the Trouble
Tohru soon discovers the Sohma family's secret, and the reason why Yuki is so private and secertive: thirteen members of the family are possessed by the 12 animal spirits of the Chinese Zodiac ("Jyûnishi" in Japanese) and the spirit of the cat who was left out of the Zodiac according to legend. They transform into animals when hugged by the opposite gender, or when they are under a great amount of stress. When she promises to keep their secret, the Sohmas allow Tohru to keep her memories rather than hypnotically erasing them, a fate that had previously befallen anyone not on the "Inside" of the Sohma family who had discovered the secret.
The story follows the lives of Tohru and the Sohma family, as they deal with each other and a society where neither quite fits in, as well as the feared Akito Sohma, head of the Sohma family.
For a while things were great. Kyo and Tohru were raising a beautiful baby boy and expecting a girl. Everyone was happy. Everyone except Akito that is. She was worried that her daughter wouldn't be loved. She thought that if the curse was back then everyone would love her. So she prayed everynight. She prayed to god to give the curse to the second generation. After countless nights of praying god finally granted her wish. The next born child, Kyoko Sohma (Named after her grandmother) was the year of the Cat. The adults were devestated. After little Kyoko came the rest of the zodiac spirits and the two - year - old daughter of Akito, then deceased, was named the Jade Emperor.
Now, seventeen years later, the young Kyoko Sohma is a second year at Kaibara High. She's the spitting image of her dad, but her hatred for the rat is a lot less. She lived a normal life, as normal as you could get, with the loving care of her precious mother. She and her two best friends fight the everyday challenges of being a teenager. Living with the monkey's fan club asking her for inside details. Struggling to keep her secret and keep her temper under check in front of the rat. Now there's a new Zodiac! Things are going to be different this time around. Now it's
Double the Trouble