"The Strangest Day"

SUMMARY:

Tohru Honda, a high school girl, has been living in a tent for a couple of months. Having had her mother recently die in an accident and having lost her father at a young age, she lives alone in a tent. While going to school, she passes by a house and notices little figures of the Chinese Zodiac are laid out on the ground. As she's admiring them, a man walks out and is surprised that she recognizes all the Chinese zodiac, and even mentions the cat, in which the man did not lay outside. 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 and discuss the zodiac, as Yuki hints a hatred of the cat. Late at night, Yuki and Shigure walk around the area and notice Tohru coming out of 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. 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 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.