Fruits Basket Volume 1: Chapter 3 Translated by Zeynep (zgoral@gmail.com) Found at Chiisana Inori http://fruits.prettysenshi.com/ It's the third chapter of Fruits Basket! This is the start to my little Fruits Basket manga translation project, found at my Fruits Basket site, Chiisana Inori. You can also find scans for the manga there. This translation is not to be reproduced anywhere else, under any circumstances. It was made for people who have the Japanese Fruits Basket manga (or want to buy it) but don't know Japanese. I hope you enjoy this great manga series. =D % Lines that aren't spoken $ Lines that are flashbacks [] Actions/descriptions are in brackets () My own notes on the translation are in parentheses. Enjoy! Questions and comments are welcome! E-mail me at zgoral@gmail.com. ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------ P84 YUKI Amazing.... you can make such a rotten kitchen this pretty. TOHRU I worked hard. Dinner is almost ready, too. YUKI There was a rice-cooker in this house? TOHRU I dug it out! %TOHRU %I came here to Souma-kun's house out of their kindness. P85 %TOHRU %I do all the housework and provide the meals. %For this transaction, I don't have to pay for stuff like room rental. %For this I am very grateful. I will work hard! I want to be useful!! YUKI ... Yes, it's good... TOHRU Really? The flavor isn't too light, is it? YUKI It's just right. It's been a while since I've eaten this kind of meal. %TOHRU %I'm glad. YUKI Now that I think about it, I wonder where Shigure and that stupid cat went. TOHRU That's right... they left extremely early in the morning and are late now. YUKI I don't really care, but the meal you worked so hard to make will get cold. P86 %TOHRU %Mother, it's a miracle. To think I'm eating meals while I look at Souma-kun. %To think that he also transforms into the mouse of the Juunishi. %It's like a fairy tale. TOHRU Souma-kun, you also went out a little while ago. Did you go shopping? YUKI Yeah... I went to the secret base in the back yard. TOHRU Secret base?! Wow! Sounds exciting! YUKI I think it's a bit different from what you're thinking of... If it's okay, next time I'll invite you. TOHRU Really?! Is it okay?! I'm so happy! The secret base-- P87 TOHRU When I was little, boys never allowed the girls into their secret base. Ah, I'll look forward to it! YUKI ......... SHIGURE That's why, listen to me a little bit, Kyou! KYOU Shut up!! [Door fx: SLAM] [Shigure & Kyou fx: STOMP STOMP STOMP...] KYOU Do you really enjoy manipulating people that much?! SHIGURE Wait a minute! I might not say I enjoy it, but it is quite fun. But this is for your own good!! KYOU You're not persuasive at all!! TOHRU Um, welcome back. Dinner... KYOU I don't want it!! SHIGURE Kyou!! P88 SHIGURE Don't take it out on Tohru-kun!! While you're at it, make sure to enter from the main entrance! Take your shoes off, too! YUKI Shigure, you're really not persuasive at all. TOHRU It's the first time I've seen you in a suit! It's very becoming! SHIGURE What, really?! You really think so?! YUKI You look like a host. [Note: host = male escort.] SHIGURE Dinner's ready. TOHRU U--um, about Kyou-san... SHIGURE Oh, that. Because he's mad, it's best to leave him alone. It's because I tricked him to take a transfer student entrance examination today. TOHRU Entrance exam...? SHIGURE In other words, starting tomorrow, Kyou-kun will be going to the same high school that you two are attending! P89 YUKI Don't eat. Don't come near. Get out now. [Side print: Sub-zero degree anger] SHIGURE Well, I figured you'd be angry, after all... Kyou, you see, he didn't go to the local boys' school that he got into. He disappeared for four months. Neither myself, Yuki-kun, nor anyone else knew of his whereabouts, but today he told me. He was training in the mountains. P90 TOHRU Training...? YUKI Like standing under a waterfall or duelling a bear? That kind of training? SHIGURE Hmmm, well... something like that. TOHRU Why did he train? SHIGURE Kyou wants to defeat Yuki-kun. Ever since they were kids, they've been rivals. YUKI ...what an idiot. %TOHRU %He trained in order to defeat his rival... it is because of the old legend %where he was tricked, that he has a grudge? %...But hearing that, I feel bad for Kyou-san. P91 %TOHRU %And on top of that, I feel like I'm hated by Kyou-san. It's somewhat lonely... %And I had finally met Mr. Cat of the Juunishi... GIRL 1 Where?! Where is he?! GIRL 2 Look, over there. The boy with the orange hair. GIRL 3 I wonder if that hair color is natural? GIRL 4 What?! They don't look alike at all! GIRL 5 Cute~~~! GIRL 6 Hey, is it true that you're actually Souma-kun's cousin?! GIRLS TOGETHER Are you and Souma-kun close?! %TOHRU %He's tense... P92 UPPER CLASSMAN GIRL Yuki-kun! Your cousin has entered? Will you introduce him? YUKI Sorry, senpai. Though he's my cousin, we're not close. We haven't spoken before. [Side print: Smiling sweetly] [Note: senpai refers to upper classmen] GIRL 7 That's a good color, your hair! UOTANI His hair color resembles Kyoko-san's hair color a little bit, doesn't it? TOHRU Now that you mention it, it does! HANAJIMA Yes, the same... They're the same, the same. I feel the same electro-magnetic waves from him as from Souma Yuki-kun. What is this? What is this mark? It's different from other people. P93 %TOHRU %As expected, Hana-chan's electro-magnetic waves can't be underestimated!! GIRL 8 Souma-kun? Whaaat!? What? Where are you going? Will you talk a little more?! !! [Kyou fx: GRAB] GIRL 8 OW!! That hurts!!!! TOHRU Kyou-- OTHER STUDENTS Souma-kun, why?! Hey, what's wrong with you?! Tell us!! [Kyou fx: breathing heavily] P94 KYOU Leave me alone!! GIRLS Kyaaaa!! Stop, it's the second floor!!..... GIRLS Amazing!! Definitely, Souma-kun's cousin is different! But this is the second floor!! GIRL 8 Owww! I'm a girl, how cruel! UOTANI What an interesting guy. Hahaha! P95 [Kyou fx: pant pant pant] YUKI Hey. Is it possible for you to use your head a little more and behave yourself? Your acting stupid is troublesome to me. KYOU Are you serious? Somehow, this... you attend a school where girls are everywhere, afraid that every single day you might transform. Attending the all boys school that Akito decided on would be better than this. YUKI I want to leave the cage of the Souma in a small way. Personally, I can't understand why you want to enter it. P96 KYOU ...... You... What do you know?! %TOHRU %Ah, I found them. KYOU I will win! I will definitely defeat you!! And when I win, I will finally become a member of the Souma! I will no longer be the black sheep of the Souma!! %TOHRU %To become... P97 %TOHRU %A part of the Juunishi group? KYOU I will... WIN!! TOHRU N--no...!! [Kyou fx: poof!] TOHRU I'm sorry... You'll hate me even more now, but this quarrel... this quarrel is no good! A--as I thought, quarreling at school doesn't solve anything and might lead to a difficult situation... KYOU ......... P98 KYOU Shut up, you!! A difficult situation or not, until I beat Yuki it doesn't matter! Who do you think you are, interfering?! YUKI Kyou...... KYOU You're in the way!! TOHRU ..... Hatred... MAX...!! KYOU Ah-- P99 %TOHRU %I was hated. Just now, I was completely hated....!! YUKI You are truly stupid... KYOU You're not going to hit me? YUKI ..... Sometimes it hurts more this way. $TOHRU $I have made up my mind! Instead of being a dog, I will become a cat! %TOHRU %Those words were truly said sincerely. I had really cried. %In a far mountain, at the time of God and the Juunishi animals' fun party... P100 %TOHRU %While Mr. Cat was dreaming of a banquet the next day that would never happen. %If there was a fanclub to the year of the cat, I feel I would definitely join. %I'm hated so much... I'm really stupid. What should I do now? YUKI ........ HANAJIMA Tohru... Tohru-kun's electro-magnetic waves!! [Hanajima's antenna fx: Beep!] UOTANI Ah, there she is. What are you doing sitting there? Class is about to start-- [Tohru fx: BAM] P101 TOHRU Owwww... it hurts so much, I'm crying... Really, I hit my head on this corner just now... this corner... oww.... UOTANI Somehow it looked like you bumped your head on purpose. YUKI ....... SHIGURE And? It's your first day as an exchange student and you're skipping? Did you lose to Yuki-kun again? KYOU I... want to leave this house. SHIGURE It's still the third day. Think of this as training and have patience. KYOU I said something cruel to her again. P102 SHIGURE You mean Tohru-kun? Haha, you lost your temper again today and yelled at her? If you regret it afterwards, you shouldn't have done it in the first place. KYOU I'm useless. It's impossible for me to concern myself with people. SHIGURE There are many people in the inner circle who say that, but in your case it's only lack of experience. For example, you're a person who can break a table with your fist. But you can also stop that fist right before you act. It's because you control the power of your fist yourself, right? It's becuse you fought with bears at the mountain as part of your training. KYOU I did not fight bears!! P103 SHIGURE It's the same with getting along with people skillfully. Except that instead of being in the middle of a mountain, you're living in the middle of a city. To mingle with people, to hurt people's feelings, to have your feelings hurt. If you don't learn from people on your own, you might be a black belt in martial arts, you'll be a white belt when it comes to people. The true meaning is, if you keep thinking yourself as an outsider, you will never become a human being. One day, to be able to cherish the person who will tell you they like you, you have to work hard in your current training. P104 KYOU There won't be anyone like that. SHIGURE If there is, what will you do? KYOU I can't even imagine it. Instantly I would ask them, "Are you insane?" SHIGURE Ah, is that so. YUKI I'm home. SHIGURE Hey, welcome back. And Tohru-kun? YUKI At her Part-time job. We just have to heat up dinner. She'll return at 11:00. Because it's close, I was thinking of picking her up. SHIGURE Ah, please do. There really are molesters around here. P105 %TOHRU %I worked a lot today again. Everyone must already be asleep. %I wonder if Kyou-san didn't eat dinner again tonight. He was mad again... %Or he might have left the house again. $KYOU $You're an interference! You're an interference! %TOHRU %Ahh, what should I do, mother? $KYOKO $Tohru is Tohru. TOHRU Yes. Yes, mother. I won't give up. [Background fx: Crunch, crunch, crunch] %TOHRU %Wha... what is this? This sound... This is... P106 %TOHRU %Could it be what I've been hearing about... a molester!! TOHRU No!!!!!! [Bag fx: SLAM] TOHRU & KYOU ......... %TOHRU %I can't say it. To say that I thought him a molester would be rude. %But I also yelled "No!" just now..... %KYOU %"No".......... was what I said so bad she's pushing me away? TOHRU Ah--ah---ah--um, wait, that reaction was... It's a nice day, is Kyou-san taking a walk? Um, umm... how do you feel about school so far... KYOU Stop. P107 KYOU Don't add the "san" at the end. It's fine to call me by my name. TOHRU "Kyou-kun"? KYOU What is it? TOHRU Ah, I was just seeing what it sounded like. KYOU If you don't have a reason to call me, don't call me!!! TOHRU YES!! KYOU Ah, no, wrong... it's okay. You can call me whenever you want. It's okay to hang around me too. If something bothers you, you can hit me like you did just now. P108 %TOHRU %Perhaps this is... is he apologizing for today? %He came here for that purpose? That other time, he was also apologizing. TOHRU Um, I'm sorry, I was wrong. I hit you with my bag because I mistook you for being a molester. KYOU Mo... molester? TOHRU It wasn't because I was angry!! Rather, I like you! I like the cat of the Juunishi! P109 KYOU Wha? TOHRU It's true! I... I... I wanted to be born in the year of the cat! That is, I mean, I... making friends... $SHIGURE $If they said it, what would you do? $The person who says they like you. KYOU .........!! P110 KYOU Stupi...... It's not a good thing, being born in the year of the cat. %TOHRU %For some reason, I've understood Kyou-kun. He's more clumsy than some people, %But underneath, he is definitely a kind person. P111 %TOHRU %I accept your apologetic feelings, you yielding person. SHIGURE You know, yesterday... Kyou-kun went to pick up Tohru-kun on his own! Kyou-kun, you lecher! KYOU What are you talking about?! Yesterday was an exception! There won't be another instance like it again!! TOHRU Yes! I'm happy that you're eating your meal. How is it? Do you like it? KYOU Wha... um... uh... P111 KYOU What is it? YUKI Nothing. KYOU Weren't you looking? YUKI I wasn't looking. KYOU Why were you staring at me without a reason, you bastard?! TOHRU Is it bad? KYOU It's bad!!! Ah. %YUKI %Somehow, I'm irritated... %TOHRU %In the end, peace was made. From now on, everyday will be enjoyable. % [Small print: Probably...] ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------ End of volume 1 chapter 3