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" It was unfair, and unjust, but it had been done. "
One day god and the twelve animals decided that they should spend an entirety together, all but the cat who did not want to live past his lifetime. But, everyone else thought it was a good idea, so they made the promise and they forced the cat to follow. So when they died their spirits bound themselves to a family, where they would be reborn again and again...
It was said that there was once a family who had been cursed to turn into the animals of the Chinese zodiac when they were weak or hugged by those of the opposite sex, unless that person was also cursed with an animal, and god who ruled the zodiac. It was also told that this curse had been broken and the spirits of the animals and god had left the family and it was true.
But, the spirits wondered together wanting to spend an eternity together, even the cat, who had been dragged along this far. The thirteen spirits and god found themselves a new host, a new family, the Ikumi family. And they inhabited this family. The family learned to deal with this and became another victim of housing the spirits.
But, one day word escaped that there was a family with the curse of the Chinese zodiac in their veins. While most did not believe it reached word to another family in japan, the Yamada family, and they believed because they lived in similar circumstances, for sixteen of their own were possessed by spirits of the Western zodiac, nine with normal spirits, three sets of twins to house those spirits nature that appear in two, plus one who ruled over them, the head of the zodiac.
The Yamada family moved to where the Ikumi family was said to be, in hopes that the two families could work together to break the curse. But, unfortunately those who ruled over the zodiac the head and the god did not want to let go. So they have lived intertwined with the most powerful suppressing the other spirits to keep them bound to the promise they did not make.
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