An Untold Tale
by Yolande

Chapter 1

Before I get into the complicated story of whatever had happened, let me introduce the characters that will play an important part in Kaede Rukawa, the being’s life.

Firstly there was Hanamichi Sakuragi, a former golden monkey. Yeah, Hanamichi Sakuragi and if you don’t mind, Hana-kun, please get your butt out of the screen.

Next, its Haruko Akagi, who was once a little tame squirrel. Now, just look at her smile.

Here comes Anzai. Don’t get fooled by that santa “Hohoho”s… He was previously a giant lovable lazy panda…

Of course, there are many more characters like Ayako, a mother hen. Ryota Miyagi, a proud cock. Takenori Akagi, a gorilla. Hisashi Mitsui, a wolf.

And many many many other characters.

But who cares? The main ones are introduced…not that even all of them appeared…

Yes, in case you are wondering, they were all previously animals. But yet, not transformed into human by Ru, Ka and Wa, but by the goddess of witches, Hecate.

And they lost their memory as that certain place was an enchanted palace, yet remnants of their previous species are still noticeable in their actions and such.

So... Shhhhhhhh…. Keep it a secret that they were animals before from them, alright?

Basically, the story continued as Kaede Rukawa, which we are going to call Kaede from now, was walking around naked on the streets, oblivious to the stares around until one kind lady, who happened to had an idea what had happened offered to let him stay in her house and offer him clothes. Kaede nodded without a word and followed the kind lady to her house and was offered a neat clean room.


Now… who was the old lady and why was she so nice?

Oh no… Just an old bird that got transformed and had not lost her memory like most did. And thus, she keeps Kaede under her ‘wing’.

Years past and Kaede grew up, silent and strong.

And a sleepy thing, he is.

Like the third prophecy had stated, he would be a basketball star. And it all started when he was in junior high.

And I am not about to tell you what happened. Just that he was simply marvelous and great that many high schools wanted him but he was simply too lazy to go anywhere but Shohoku, which was nearest to his house.

And thus, on the first day of high school, Shohoku…

With a dee and a dum and dum dee dum…

Kaede, our little foxy boy, happened to be sleeping in class, looking all adorable and cuddly. I mean… just take a look at the white, red and black foxy ears sprouting from the top of his head.

Then the door burst open.

Oops. Wrong scene here. The teacher comes…

But I’m not about to tell you that story…its not what I was suppose to tell.

This, is what I’m suppose to tell…

So up on the rooftop one afternoon where Kaede was happily taking a nap with a little drool on the side of his cheek, in burst a few hooligans. Unable to get any more sleep, Kaede was downright unhappy and momentarily changed into fox form and attacked all those human hooligans. Although he did get cut on the forehead by some hooligan’s fingernail.

Ouch. Everybody should get a fingernail cut once a week or so, you know, so that animals won’t get hurt.

So when he turned back into human, the cut did get bigger in size. It’s the ratio problem. And boy, it did look like a serious cut.

When Kaede stood alone staring at the bodies sprawled before him, Hanamichi Sakuragi, the once golden monkey and his gang burst through the door.

And when Hanamichi Sakuragi and he’s gang asked him who he was, he unwillingly said Kaede Rukawa as memories of the three witches were still fresh in his mind. And boy, did Hanamichi started getting ‘fiery’ and started trembling like a monkey when excited.

Gomen. He WAS a monkey.

And so, the monkey started comparing himself with Kaede due to the thinking of his naturally tiny brain without letting Kaede clear his fingernail cut. And from below…

One tame squirrel glance up with her beady eyes…

Eh?

Alright. Its… One pretty girl glance up at the rooftop with her large eyes…

We should have a little touch up here. Did I anyhow mention that this little squirrel girl was once the princess of these enchanted animals dominated palace? Which explained why she had so much suitors.

So once again, this girl saw Kaede from below with he’s head still bleeding and somehow, Hanamichi had got his hands onto Kaede’s collar. It a monkey’s habit, actually…when they search each other’s hair… its just clothing now, as there was no fur.

I told you habits still remain.

But the squirrel girl by the name of Haruko did not know of such habit and was somewhat angry at the poor monkey and started fussing over this fox.

Was Haruko angry because Hanamichi had peeked at what was beneath those clothing of Kaede?

Nobody was sure.

And she fussed and fussed and everybody got sad and angry and this particular scene end.

What? Short? Hey, the characters are tired! Just look at the naked fox sleeping deadly on the bed there!

And the next day, nothing much happened to Kaede. He was all down safe and sound and was filling up the form to join the basketball team when he heard about a match between a big gorilla, Takenori and the golden monkey, Hanamichi. Seriously saying, it was nothing much. They both belonged to the monkey family anyway…but well, it WAS basketball after all… Kaede’s beloved basketball…

Like stated, it was nothing much except that Takenori’s big butt was revealed. But it was not anything much. Kaede had seen gorilla butts… Just not…on a basketball court all these years. And it did give Kaede a new impression of Hanamichi…

And days past…

And days, and days and days…

The day he went to the toilet finally as he could not find any grass patch, the day he decided to not go around sniffling for food, and the day Kaede entered the basketball team…

Somebody should just wake that Kaede up. Its so rude to yawn when somebody is telling an account of his story.

And one day…

Hidden under that cold and expressionless exterior, Kaede had the biggest shock of his life.

Three girls had decided that Kaede was oh-so-good-looking-and-great and decided to cheer him on.

Is that what you know?

No.., Those three were actually Ru, Ka and Wa…

Hidden under the disguise of three girls. Though not exactly pretty but…

Kaede almost puked.

What exactly was Hanamichi so jealous about? There was nothing great about being cheered on by three disgusting witches who transformed you, changed your life and then fall head over heels in love with your face.

Let me repeat this. Three disgusting witches.

Life went on exactly the way it had, and the stories that happened later that almost everybody knew, I am not about to be so nice and goes on mumbling and reciting like a nun in the nunnery or something.

I’ll simply skip to a little part behind the scene almost everybody did not know, which caused a little change here and there….

2001(c) Yolande