Title: フルーツバスケット (Fruits Basket) Vol. 7
Artist/Author: 高屋奈月 (Natsuki Takaya)
Book Size/Pages: Small B-6, 191pp., w/furigana
Original Serialization: Hana to Yume Vol 10, '00 - Vol 15, '00
First Printing: 8/25/01
Rating: 4/4

I didn't really mind the first few and the last chapters in this volume, but I found the middle portion with Alyssa and Tohru's mom quite heartwarming.

No bonuses in this volume.

37. Kisa's brother, Hiro is pretty jealous that Kisa has been been spending most of her time with Tohru, so he goes out and abuses Tohru a bit by calling her names and running off with her wallet. Kisa finds out about this and scolds her brother, who despite being a misfit towards Tohru, listens obediently to his sister and explains that he felt terrible that he couldn't help Kisa in her time of need. Tohru finds this all cute and just has to give Hiro a hug, who turns out to be a goat.

38. Tohru talks with Kisa and Shigure with Hattori about Hiro's background. Later, Tohru, Kisa, and Hiro go to a park where Tohru and Hiro have a talk about Kisa while waiting for some crepe where Tohru praises Hiro for being a prince to his sister. In return, Hiro decides to treat Tohru to the dessert.

39. After seeing Tohru still wearing her school bathing clothes, Alyssa and Saki decide to invite Yuki and Kyo to buy Tohru a new outfit. At the store, they encounter some of the biker girls Alyssa used to be a part of. At the cafe, she starts explaining about how she met Tohru. She used to be a biker girl and her hero was Kyoko, aka Red Butterfly, the most revered in the organization. However, she finds out that she's become married and has a child. At school, she bumps into Tohru, Kyoko's daughter, and asks to see her mother. Alyssa is surprised at how motherly her hero has become.

40. The Honda mother and daughter treat her as a guest, but she refuses to accept such familial treatment. However, she seems to yearn for it in private. Later, Tohru finds Alyssa beaten and helps her escape back to her house where Tohru treats her wounds and her mother comes back with some dinner.

41. Alyssa wants to leave the gang now, but they start beating her at the meeting. Kyoko got a word of this and made her presence at the nightly meeting to rescue Alyssa. Since then, she's been good friends with Tohru and shared the same loss when Kyoko died. Meanwhile, the punks currently hanging around them try to attack Alyssa, but to no avail and in fact, Alyssa manages to have them turn a new leaf.

42. The leader of Yuki's fan club is going to graduate soon and so she makes a last attempt at trying to rein him in.

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