| ShortSummary | - While on her way to work Tohru meets a new member of the family, Hiro Sohma. He is the Sheep of the Zodiac and is an expert at throwing verbal insults. While dealing with his antics Tohru discovers he likes Kisa and wants to protect her because he couldn't when she was getting bullied at school or by Akito.
- Kagura Sohma, the boar of the Zodiac, pays a visit, much to the chagrin of Kyo, after hearing he was living with Shigure. Tohru is surprised to discover that the seemingly "little" girl was actually a year older than the three teens. Kagura is madly in love in Kyo, and Tohru notices she has multiple personalities . Kagura can't seem to do anything right and only causes trouble for everyone. At first she and Tohru don't seem to get along, as she is jealous of Tohru's bond with Kyo, but by the end they end up becoming good friends.
- Tohru finally goes to live with her paternal grandfather, now that his house renovations are complete. However, this turns out not to be the happiest decision for either Tohru or the Sohmas. Tohru's paternal family are cruel to her and see her more as a burden than as a family After living there awhile, Tohru's grandfather urges her to tell him where she would rather be, because he wants her to be happy and free, like her mother and his son, her father. Though she is very grateful for her Grandfather's kindness and love, she confesses to missing her life with the Sohmas. Yuki and Kyo walk in to take her back home, knowing that was what she wanted after hearing Tohru`s confession. Kyo has a talk with her and she cried tears of joy. They are joined by Yuki, and Tohru walks hand-in-hand with both of them to their house, and they are all greeted by a smiling Shigure.
- Tohru is asked to pay a visit to Hatori at the main house where he warns her not to get to involved with the Sohmas. Tohru learns of Hatori's past with a human girl and why his left eye is injured. Ha`ri notices how strongly Tohru resembles Kana. Trying to save Tohru's life from falling, he turns into a seahorse and is deemed dry. Once he turns back, Shigure turns up with Momiji and hot drinks. On the way home, Tohru sees the head of the family Akito but does not officially meet him.
- Kyo turns into a monster; seeing Tohru watching him, he runs off. Tohru follows and runs into Akito, who taunts her for throwing up behind a tree. Shigure finds her there and apologizes, but Tohru gets up and continues on. Kagura convinces Yuki to follow Tohru and Kyo. Hanajima senses something is wrong and calls Arisa, who meets her at Tohru's mom's grave. They find Tohru there, but Hanajima will not let Arisa comfort the crying Tohru. Instead, she tells Tohru she must keep going on. Tohru eventually gets up and continues searching for Kyo.
- Tohru has the job of trying to convince Kyo in his true form that he is loved and cared for. Meanwhile Kazuma is anxiously awaiting him. Tohru finds him by a lake. He lashes out at her and the newly arrived Yuki, hurting them both. Tohru grabs his arm and tells him that she is scared of how he looks now, but that she is still his friend and wants to be together with him. Kyo calms down and changes back to normal as the rain stops and the sun rises, explaining his mother always claimed to love him but was terrified of his true form and always checking to make sure the beads were in place. He tells Tohru "You don't have to love everything," and then they hug, changing Kyo to his regular cat form. Tohru carries him home in her arms, with Yuki following. Kazuma and Shigure are relieved to see them return. Later on Tohru asks permission to talk to Akito. After a wild meeting, she convinces Akito that no matter what, he is still alive and cared for, which he replies with, "I don't understand."
- The Prince Yuki Fan Club is obsessed with him and to make sure he is safe the next year, they want to know if any girls are on the student council. But when they are denied the information they decide to sneak in. Motoko Minagawa, the fan club's president, walks with another member into Yuki. They make an excuse to stay but Motoko accidentally shows him a jealous side to her. In the end Yuki just wants to make sure she is okay and Motoko understands she can't love him.
- Momiji and Hatsuharu Sohma begin their first year in high school. Kyo is angered when he sees Momiji wearing a girl's uniform and, when the student council president rants on about Momiji's outfit and about Hatsuharu's black and white hair, which he refuses to believe is Hatsuharu's natural hair color, Hatsuharu turns into Black Haru to get his point across. Akito comes to the high school and introduces himself to Tohru. Yuki is terrified when he sees Akito with Tohru, assuming he threatened her, or did something else. Akito confronts him about skipping New Year's, and threatened with the "special room" he had put Yuki when he was young, and physically and mentally tortured him. Tohru notes the horror in Yuki's eyes, and pushes Akito away, using the excuse that they needed to get to class. Akito accepts Tohru's lame excuse, and said he himself had to get going. Tohru thinks about what she did, and feels awful for doing it. She then invites Yuki to have fun with her and her friends after school in an attempt to cheer him up. Meanwhile, Shigure tells Hatori what Akito said about how Tohru was the ugliest thing he's ever seen while at the school. Shigure, being his usual perverted self, said she was cute.
- Momiji, Kyo, Yuki, and Tohru go to the Sohma hot springs. There they are under the care of the hostess who has a child in the Zodiac and apologizes for everything. Tohru learns she gets dizzy when in the hot springs, especially when Momiji helps her sing with him. After seeing Tohru miss the ball when playing ping pong with Kyo, Yuki leaves the room. Tohru, worried about him, follows to find him laughing in a way Tohru had never seen before. He admits he'd have been ashamed to laugh in front of Kyo and Momiji. Then, he surprises Tohru with a White Day gift, two gold hair ribbons fit for a real princess. Afterwards, Tohru finds out that though Momiji looks like he was in elementary school, he was actually going to start his first year of high school along with Hatsuharu!
- Tohru and Yuki decide to pay a visit to Ayame's shop. His assistant decides to dress up Tohru so Yuki and Ayame can have time to bond. Yuki is shocked to learn what Ayame does for a living.
- After accidentally hugging Yuki, Kyo, and Shigure, Tohru freaks out, and, as soon as the postman came, she tried to tell him that Yuki, Kyo, and Shigure were turned into animals. After the dog takes the mail and the postman leaves, Tohru discovers the Sohma family secret: thirteen members of the Sohma family are possessed by the vengeful spirits of the Zodiac animals and that they transform if hugged by the opposite gender. When they return to normal, Kyo and Yuki continue the fight that was started earlier. Tohru later speaks with Kyo as he fixes the hole he'd made in the roof of her room. He begins to apologize for earlier, but is interrupted by Shigure, who had gone to see the head of the family: Akito, who says that he will trust Tohru with the Sohma secret. After school, Shigure comes home again with an especially angry Kyo to inform them that Kyo had been registered for high school and would be staying with them.
- During Kyo's first day of school, Yuki confronted him about his earlier stunt . Kyo mentions that he will one day be a member of the family, and, before he could fight Yuki again, Tohru saves him by accidentally hugging Kyo again! When Tohru tries to apologize, Kyo tells her to stay away from him. Before he had a chance to apologize for yelling at her, Tohru walks off, and thinks he hates her. Later, Kyo comes to escort her home after work and meets her in the forest where Kyo apologizes for what he'd said earlier and Tohru realizes that Kyo was not as bad as he seemed. The next day Yuki picks her up from work and she accidentally makes him transform again! Walking home with him as a rat, they get caught in the rain, just as Yuki turns human again. Yuki is worried about the plants in his "secret base", and they go to cover up the plants until the rain stops. While holding the tarp, Yuki makes the confession that he is only known as polite and charming because that's how he wanted to be seen. Tohru then tells him some of the things her mom told her, about kindness coming in all shapes and sizes.
- Yuki's older brother, Ayame Sohma , decides to pay a visit, supposedly to see Tohru. Ayame turns out to be the sort of person nobody seems to like at all except for Shigure and Hatori, who were his childhood entourage. He tells Tohru on how he has been wanting to bond with Yuki, so she tries to help him. But Ayame just gets on Yuki's nerves with his un-Yuki attitude, so Haru calls Hatori to come take Ayame home. Ayame only listens to Hatori because he admires him.
- While in the rain Tohru and Yuki meet Kisa Sohma. Haru says she has stopped talking because of bullying and for that Yuki seems close to her. Later her mother comes and talks to Kisa but she still won't talk. Tohru explains that Kisa was worried of how she would feel if she knew. Kisa's mother understands and lets Kisa stay over at Shigure's. During that time she and Tohru became very close and Kisa starts talking and goes back to school. Even Yuki is confident now and signs up to run for student council president.
- The Prince Yuki Fan Club go to Hanajima's house to find her weakness so they can get to Tohru, but wind up cursed by Hanajima's brother, Megumi.
- Tohru asks Shigure if it is alright if she can tell her two closest friends about where she is currently living. So Tohru's friends invite themselves over to the Sohma residence just to see how everyone is treating her. But Kyo, Yuki, and Shigure keep on bumping into the girls and on turning into their animal forms. They are very suspicious, and Tohru feels increasingly nervous after each close call. At the end Tohru's friends see that everyone is treating her nicely and they completely trust them. PS: When Shigure transforms into a dog again, Tohru calls him "poochie".
- While out shopping on a rainy day, Tohru learns that Kyo hates the rain as it causes him to feel weak and irritable. Kagura comes for another visit, so Shigure forces Kyo to take her out shopping to avoid the house being wrecked by her affectionate outbursts. Meanwhile, Tohru and Yuki go to visit his garden to see what is ready for picking. When they return, they discover that Kyo's adopted father and martial arts instructor, Kazuma, comes to visit to see how Kyo is doing. Having seen Kyo smiling freely with Tohru, he tells Shigure that he is going to remove Kyo's beads. That night, as the rain is pouring down, Kazuma talks to Kyo. When he sees Tohru appear behind him, he pulls off the bead bracelet Kyo always wears on his wrist. Kyo screams, "Don't look at me!" to Tohru.
- Everyone goes to the lake house for a vacation. Kyo and Yuki aren't speaking so Tohru gets worried. They explain that they're so comfortable around her they let their guard down. Yuki's brother Ayame comes to the lake as well, and because of this Kyo and Yuki fight some more.
- Due to depression and stress because of failing on the test, Tohru gets a fever and has to stay in bed. To help, Kyo decides to make leek soup to help her get better . When he gives it to her she starts to cry so he stays to listen to what she has to say.
- When walking to Shigure's house, Tohru runs into Ritsu Sohma, the Monkey of the Zodiac. Ritsu dresses like a girl though he's a boy and, like his mother, the hostess of the Sohma hot spring, apologies for everything. When he shows his presents to Shigure, Shigure yanks his chain by acting like he didn't like them and making him feel bad until he tells Ritsu he was just kidding. Before Ritsu could leave, Tohru kindly asks him to stay, but she accidentally breaks a glass, which sent Ritsu into a panic attack, thinking it was his fault. Tohru tries to stop him from stepping in the broken glass, but he turns into his Zodiac form, and Tohru gets cut from the broken glass. Feeling ashamed, clinging to the idea he was the source for Tohru getting cut, and thinking he has no reason to live, he tried to commit suicide, but Tohru manages to stop him. Coming to his senses, Ritsu doesn't commit suicide, but he nearly falls off the roof, and twists his ankle in the process. When Hatori comes over and bandages Ritsu's twisted ankle, he and Ritsu stays at Shigure's house, for what seems to be only one night, but turns into three days. While walking back from school, Tohru runs into Ritsu again, only this time he was dealing with a cat trying to get the jelly buns that are for Shigure from him. He and Tohru sit on a park bench and talk. He tells Tohru why he apologizes so much and dresses like a girl, which he claims makes him feel more comfortable. Tohru comforts him by saying that everyone has a reason to live, and maybe Ritsu just needs to keep looking for his.
- Tohru is all alone on New Year's Day since Kyo, Yuki, and Shigure have to go to the main house. But on the way Hanajima subtly convinces Kyo and Yuki to head back and spend the day with Tohru while Shigure goes to the main house alone. The three watch the sunrise together and make wishes for the New Year.
- Tohru's school has a cultural festival. Yuki is asked to wear a dress bought by the senior girls, much to his humiliation. Hatori and Momiji Sohma pay them a visit and Momiji turns into a rabbit after hugging Tohru. Hatori tells Yuki he missed his "check-up." When Tohru asks what for, Hatori tells her about Yuki having asthma and weak bronchial tubes, though it is getting less severe. Tohru learns that Kyo admires Yuki and compares humans and jealousy to rice balls and pickled plums. Ha'ri asks Tohru to visit him at the main house not five minutes after Yuki warns her not to find herself alone with him, and Tohru is worried that her memories may be suppressed.
- Tohru Honda, a high school girl, has been living in a tent for a little over a week. Having had her mother recently die in an accident and having lost her father at a young age, she lives alone in a tent with only a framed photograph of her mother as a reminder of her sad past. While going to school, she passes by a house and notices little figurines of the Chinese Zodiac are laid out on the ground. As she's admiring them, a man walks out and is surprised to see a teenage girl admiring his figurines. He is surprised to see that she recognizes all the Chinese Zodiac, and even mentions the cat, in which the man did not lay outside with the others. As they talk the man's cousin, Yuki Sohma, the "prince" of Tohru's school, appears. It is revealed that the strange man's name is Shigure. They walk to school together, creating much turmoil with the "Yuki Fan Club". Later on, Tohru bumps into Yuki again, and they discuss the Zodiac. Yuki hints at a hatred toward the cat before reminding Tohru that she needs to go to work or she'll be late. Late at night, Yuki and Shigure walk around the area and notice Tohru going into a tent. Shigure laughs, but they take her back to their house and she explains her situation. As they talk, a landslide occurs, and Shigure strangely senses it was near Tohru's tent. They go check it out only to find that Tohru's only home was then destroyed. They take her back to their house, and Tohru falls asleep due to a fever, while Yuki retrieves her belongings, including the prized photograph of her mom. The next day they agree that if Tohru does the chores in the house, she can have a room to stay. As they set up her new room, a strange organge-haired boy Yuki and Tohru's age breaks through the roof and challenges Yuki to a fight. In an attempt to stop the chaos, Tohru runs to stop the boy, but slips on a broken piece of wood and accidentally embraces him. To her surprise, he turns into a cat. While panicking, a fragile wooden plank above her falls on her head which causes her to crash into Yuki and Shigure, strangely turning them into a rat and dog.
- Tohru, Kyo, Yuki, Arisa and Hanajima go to visit her mother's grave. Later on at work Tohru meets Momiji and finds out that his mother doesn't remember having him because she rejected him for what he was, and had her memories erased. The two decide to remember everything so one day they can be strong enough to look back on everything and smile.
- It's Valentine's Day so Tohru decides to buy chocolates for everyone to thank them for everything they've done for her. Meanwhile Kyo has to deal with Kagura and refuses to eat her chocolate. Shigure gets a phone call from Tohru's grandfather saying that the fees for her class trip haven't been paid. Yuki, Kyo and Shigure realize that she has no money because she used her money to buy chocolates for everyone. Kyo is mad, saying how she could have used that money for herself instead of spending it on`such "worthless things" as chocolate. Momiji tells a story of a "foolish" traveler who seemed too generous and was always tricked. He compares the travler to Tohru and how she gives so that everyone can be happy even if she is not. Momiji invites Tohru to a hot spring trip for White Day and Yuki and Kyo come along.
- Yuki comes down with a fever, and although Tohru tries to convince him to stay home, he responds to a challenge from Kyo to whoever will win the endurance run at school the next day. Tohru meets Hatsuharu, a Sohma with a black and white personality, who is the cow of the Zodiac. He has come to challenge Kyo and while watching the fight Yuki collapses from a fever. Hatsuharu tells Tohru why he went from hating the rat for deeming the cow a fool, to liking Yuki himself.
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